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| 20090083407 | CRISSCROSS CANCELLATION PROTOCOL - Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message 3 towards Node B and, shortly thereafter, Node B sends message X to Node A, Node A would like to know whether or not message X reflects Node B's state after receiving message 3. If Node B received message 3 prior to sending message X, then proper state may be maintained between the nodes. But if messages 3 and X crisscrossed, or if message 3 was never properly received by Node B, then the state between the nodes may be corrupt. Technologies, systems, and methods are provided to avoid such corruption. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090100436 | PARTITIONING SYSTEM INCLUDING A GENERIC PARTITIONING MANAGER FOR PARTITIONING RESOURCES - The application discloses a generic partitioning manager for partitioning resources across one or more owner nodes. In illustrated embodiments described, the partitioning manager interfaces with the one or more owner nodes through an owner library. A lookup node or application interfaces with the partitioning manager through the lookup library to lookup address or locations of the partitioned resources. In illustrated embodiments, resources are partitioned via the partitioning manager in response to lease request messages from an owner library. In illustrated embodiments, the lease grant message includes a complete list of the leases for the owner node. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100441 | RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM WITH RECOVERY NOTIFICATION - The application discloses a resource assignment system including recovery notification procedures or methods to notify an application or node of potentially lost resources. The recovery notification procedures or calls are invoked in response to a recovery notification registration function. In response to recovery notification registration, a recovery notification or call is generated to report lost resources. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090222581 | INTERNET LOCATION COORDINATE ENHANCED DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM - An exemplary architecture is for an Internet Location Coordinate enhanced Domain Name System (DNS). An exemplary method includes requesting information for a plurality of servers associated with a network domain name of a Domain Name System (DNS) where the information includes information based in part on packets transmitted by each of the plurality of servers to a plurality of network beacons; receiving the requested information from a name server associated with the Domain Name System (DNS); and, based in part on the received information, selecting an optimal server for the network domain name. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222582 | FAILOVER IN AN INTERNET LOCATION COORDINATE ENHANCED DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM - An exemplary failover module includes (a) instructions to respond to a connection problem to a host server at an IP address by selecting a different IP address from a cached list of IP addresses for a domain name associated with the host server and (b) instructions to return the selected, different IP address to future name queries where the instructions to respond, the instructions to initiate, and the instructions to return execute at an operating system level of a computing device configurable to connect to at least one of a plurality of host servers. Such a module may include instructions to optionally initiate a connection to a host server at the selected, different IP address. An exemplary failover module may optionally select an IP address based in part on Internet Location Coordinates (ILCs) where the host servers reside in an ILC enhanced Domain Name System (DNS). Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222583 | CLIENT-SIDE LOAD BALANCING - An exemplary method for load balancing includes accessing a range of values for IP addresses associated with a virtual IP address associated with a domain name; selecting, using a local statistical algorithm, a value in the range; and, based at least in part on the selected value, connecting to a remote resource at one of the IP addresses. In such a method, a client can perform local load balancing when connecting to one of many fungible resources “behind” a virtual IP address. With many such clients, the task of load balancing is distributed as opposed to being centralized at a server farm or cluster. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222584 | Client-Side Management of Domain Name Information - An exemplary method includes booting a computing device, in response to the booting, accessing a file that includes domain names and resolving at least one of the domain names by issuing a request to a server where the resolving occurs as a background process. An exemplary method includes receiving a notice to invalidate client DNS resolver cache information for a domain name, accessing a list of client subscribers to an invalidation service for the domain name and issuing an instruction to the client subscribers to invalidate their respective client DNS resolver cache information for the domain name. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to resolve a domain name, resolving the domain name and transmitting information for the resolved domain name and additional information for at least one other domain name. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090299862 | ONLINE AD SERVING - Online ad hosting (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain) is accomplished using a cross-domain frame (e.g., an inline frame (IFrame)), a secure inter-frame communications channel, and a source code interface (e.g., a set of application program interfaces (APIs)). That is, a cross-domain IFrame may be created in a host webpage, which can isolate an ad from the host webpage. An inter-frame communications channel may be utilized to communicate between the contents of the cross-domain frame and the host webpage. Further, a source code interface may be used to communicate a host's preferences for an ad's parameters and restrictions. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300496 | USER INTERFACE FOR ONLINE ADS - A user interface may be utilized to allow a user to control display properties of online ad content on a hosting webpage (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain). This may be accomplished by creating a cross-domain frame in the hosting webpage, which can contain the ad content. An instantiation of a user interface may be created on the hosting webpage that has an ability to control display properties of the cross-domain frame, thereby controlling display properties of the ad content in the cross-domain frame. Further, a task manager may be utilized as part of the user interface to facilitate a host of the hosting webpage to manage ad content. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090327869 | ONLINE AD SERVING - Online ad hosting (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain) is accomplished using an insulator cross-domain frame (e.g., an inline frame (IFrame)), into which a third party may load content, source code to detect events associated with the third party content (e.g., detecting if ad content wishes to expand), and a communicator same-domain IFrame for sending requests to the host webpage associated with detected events. That is, a cross-domain IFrame may be created in a host webpage, which can isolate an ad from the host webpage. A communicator frame may be utilized to communicate text messages between the contents of the cross-domain frame and the host webpage. Further, an API can be used to apply parameters, restrictions and allowable events to the third party content in the insulator IFrame. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100076933 | TECHNIQUES FOR RESOURCE LOCATION AND MIGRATION ACROSS DATA CENTERS - An exemplary system includes a front-end component to receive requests for resources in a data center and configured to associate each request with identifying information, to locate one or more resources for each request and to store, in a log file, the identifying information and information about the location of the one or more resources; one or more distributed computation and storage components to acquire log file information and configured to analyze log information to decide if one or more resources associated with one or more requests should be migrated to a data center in a different geographical location; and a location service component to receive decisions made by the one or more distributed computation and storage components and configured to inform the front-end component when a decision causes one or more resources to be migrated to a data center in a different geographical location to thereby allow the front-end component to re-direct future requests for the one or more migrated resources to the data center in the different geographical location. Various other devices, systems and methods are also described. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100082516 | Modifying a System in Response to Indications of User Frustration - An illustrative frustration processing system modifies the operation of a target system to improve its performance. In one case, the frustration processing system receives express indications that a user is frustrated in the course of interacting with the target system. The frustration processing system responds to these indications by modifying the operation of the target system to reduce the likelihood that the user will be frustrated in the future. The frustration processing system can modify the operation of the target system by applying a policy to the target system. The policy, in turn, is created using a prediction model. The prediction model predicts when a user is likely to be frustrated based on the user's prior indications of frustration. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100192195 | MANAGING SECURITY CONFIGURATION THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING, COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION AND ATTACK GRAPHS - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that combat identity follow-on attacks. The system can include components for receiving a plurality of security configuration changes, selecting which of the changes included in the plurality of security changes to approve or disapprove, and based on which of the changes are approved or disapproved by an administrator, generating a further plurality of security configuration changes that the administrator can once again approve or disapprove until the administrator is satisfied with the security configuration changes. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100250646 | MECHANISM FOR GEO DISTRIBUTING APPLICATION DATA - The claimed subject matter provides systems and methods that effectuates inter-datacenter resource interchange. The system can include devices that receive a resource request from a client component, forward the resource request to a management component that returns a cluster identity associated with a remote datacenter, the resource request and the cluster identity combined and dispatched to the remote datacenter via an inter-cluster gateway component for subsequent fulfillment by a remote server associated the remote datacenter. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100287299 | CRISSCROSS CANCELLATION PROTOCOL - Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287300 | CRISSCROSS CANCELLATION PROTOCOL - Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message 3 towards Node B and, shortly thereafter, Node B sends message X to Node A, Node A would like to know whether or not message X reflects Node B's state after receiving message 3. If Node B received message 3 prior to sending message X, then proper state may be maintained between the nodes. But if messages 3 and X crisscrossed, or if message 3 was never properly received by Node B, then the state between the nodes may be corrupt. Technologies, systems, and methods are provided to avoid such corruption. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100318454 | Function and Constraint Based Service Agreements - An exemplary matching module includes instructions for receipt of information about sellable resources for running web-based services; for a solver for minimizing or maximizing a function subject to constraints; and for output of cost information for purchasing or buying sellable resources for running web-based services where the cost information is based at least in part on minimizing or maximizing the function. An exemplary matching module may be configured to receive information in a domain-specific language. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318609 | BRIDGING ENTERPRISE NETWORKS INTO CLOUD - An enterprise namespace may be extended into a cloud of networked resources. A portion of the cloud may be dynamically partitioned, and the extension of the enterprise namespace established within the portion. Cloud resources thus remain as easily accessible to enterprise users as those which are physically located on the enterprise network. Thus, components such as applications, virtual machine instantiations, application states, server states, etc., may be easily migrated between the enterprise network and the cloud. | 12-16-2010 |
