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20090306999 | CONVERSATIONAL PARALLELISM FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING - A system and method for processing messages in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. A processing service generates a snapshot of a message queue, which contains a plurality of messages to be processed by the ERP system. Each message has an associated conversation, identified by a unique combination of an endpoint, channel, and subconversation identifier. For each conversation, the processing service determines whether messages of the conversation are to be processed in serial or in parallel, based on the subconversation identifier of the conversation. When the messages of the conversation are to be processed in serial, a task is created to process the messages serially. Alternatively, when the messages of the conversation are to be processed in parallel, a task is created for each of the messages. The messages of each task are processed serially by the task, while each task is executed in parallel with other tasks. | 12-10-2009 |
20090328067 | UNIFIED, CONFIGURABLE SERVICES STACK FOR INTEGRATION OF ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - A system and method for generating application code and an external interface for a service class in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. The system receives a definition of a service class from a user via a user interface tool. The definition of the service class specifies a query for the service class and operations that are to be enabled for the service class. The system automatically generates application code for the service class, which enables the service class to be used by an internal endpoint of the ERP system. The application code is customizable by the user; the user may add additional operations to the service class. In addition, the system automatically generates an external interface for the service class, which enables the service class to be used by an external endpoint of the ERP system without needing knowledge of the application code. | 12-31-2009 |
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20130055270 | PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-PROCESSOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Embodiments of the invention may improve the performance of multi-processor systems in processing information received via a network. For example, some embodiments may enable configuration of a system such that information received is distributed among multiple processors for efficient processing. A user may select from among multiple configuration options, each configuration option being associated with a particular mode of processing information received. By selecting a configuration option, the user may specify how information received is processed to capitalize on the system's characteristics, such as by aligning processors on the system with certain NICs. As such, the processor(s) aligned with a NIC may perform networking-related tasks associated with information received by that NIC. If initial alignment causes one or more processors to become over-burdened, processing tasks may be dynamically re-distributed to other processors. | 02-28-2013 |
20150304163 | Performance of Multi-Processor Computer Systems - Embodiments of the invention may improve the performance of multi-processor systems in processing information received via a network. For example, some embodiments may enable configuration of a system such that information received can be distributed among multiple processors for efficient processing. A user may select from among multiple configuration options, each configuration option being associated with a particular mode of processing information received. By selecting a configuration option, the user may specify how received information is processed to capitalize on the system's characteristics, such as by aligning processors on the system with certain NICs. As such, the processor(s) aligned with a NIC may perform networking-related tasks associated with information received by that NIC. If initial alignment causes one or more processors to become over-burdened, processing tasks may be dynamically re-distributed to other processors. | 10-22-2015 |
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20090198797 | NETWORK DEVICE PROVISIONING USING DOCUMENTS - Described is a technology by which a network device uses a document to provide its device description information to a network entity upon connection to a network. From the device description information, the device is provisioned, via a provisioning document by which the device configures itself for interaction with the network. In one example, the documents are XML-based documents each referenced via a uniform resource locator. In one implementation, a discovery agent detects a device broadcasting a discovery message on a network. The discovery agent determines whether the device has been previously provisioned on the network, (and is not being re-provisioned). If so, an assigned network server is directed to take over interaction with the device. If not, the discovery agent provides data to a provisioning agent that provisions the device by providing a device provisioning document by which the device configures itself for interaction with the network. | 08-06-2009 |
20110202689 | ASSIGNMENT OF CONTROL OF PERIPHERALS OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Techniques for enabling software-assisted assignment of control of peripherals (e.g., assigning ownership of or assigning access to the peripherals) by a computing device. In accordance with techniques described herein, assignment of control of peripherals is aided by input from software facilities that instruct a peripheral management facility regarding assignment of peripherals. Software facilities may instruct the peripheral management facility in different ways. In some cases, a software facility may instruct the peripheral management facility how to assign control of a peripheral in a particular way, while in other cases a software facility may instruct the peripheral management facility how to assign control of a group of peripherals. In other cases, a software facility may not instruct a peripheral management facility how to assign control of peripherals, but may identify one or more groups of peripherals for which control should be assigned as a group. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202750 | RULE-BASED ASSIGNMENT OF CONTROL OF PERIPHERALS OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Described herein are various techniques and principles for determining how to assign control of peripherals and assigning control of peripherals. In some embodiments, determining how to assign control of peripherals comprises reviewing connections of peripherals to the computing device and evaluating rules to determine management points in the connections. In some cases, the connections of peripherals to the computing device may be organized into a hierarchy corresponding to a hierarchy of physical connections of the peripherals, including physical connections of peripherals located remote from the computing device and possibly connected through another computing device. When management points are identified among the connections, control of peripherals associated with the management points may be assigned in the same way. For example, access rights to each of the peripherals may be assigned to a same user session. | 08-18-2011 |
20130185463 | ASSIGNMENT OF CONTROL OF PERIPHERALS OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Techniques for enabling software-assisted assignment of control of peripherals (e.g., assigning ownership of or assigning access to the peripherals) by a computing device. In accordance with techniques described herein, assignment of control of peripherals is aided by input from software facilities that instruct a peripheral management facility regarding assignment of peripherals. Software facilities may instruct the peripheral management facility in different ways. In some cases, a software facility may instruct the peripheral management facility how to assign control of a peripheral in a particular way, while in other cases a software facility may instruct the peripheral management facility how to assign control of a group of peripherals. In other cases, a software facility may not instruct a peripheral management facility how to assign control of peripherals, but may identify one or more groups of peripherals for which control should be assigned as a group. | 07-18-2013 |
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20140043325 | FACETTED BROWSING - Concepts and technologies are described herein for facetted browsing. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, data can be obtained at a computer system. The data can include data values and geographic information. The computer system can generate a geospatial visualization of the data based, at least partially, upon the data values and the geographic location information. The computer system can also generate an overlay visualization of the data based, at least partially, upon the data values. The computer system can also output the geospatial visualization and the overlay visualization. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047312 | Displaying Temporal Information in a Spreadsheet Application - Concepts and technologies are described herein for displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, spreadsheet data can be obtained at a computer system. The spreadsheet data can include data values, temporal information, and geographic information. The computer system can generate a visualization of the spreadsheet data based, at least partially, upon the data values, the temporal information, and the geographic location information. The computer system also can output the visualization. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047381 | 3D DATA ENVIRONMENT NAVIGATION TOOL - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing a 3D data environment navigation tool. In accordance with some concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the 3D data environment navigation tool provides a way for a user to manipulate a 3D data environment in which productivity data is rendered. The 3D data environment navigation tool may provide a user interacting with the 3D data environment the ability to manipulate the viewing angle of data rendered in a 3D data environment, thus allowing the user to “tour” or “move around” the data. The 3D data environment navigation tool may be configured to aggregate data at various zoom levels. | 02-13-2014 |
20140047385 | 3D Data Environment Disambiguation Tool - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing a 3D data environment disambiguation tool. In accordance with some concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 3D data environment disambiguation tool can be configured to resolve an ambiguity associated with one or more data points to be rendered in a 3D data environment. The 3D data environment disambiguation tool can present various user interfaces to receive inputs to resolve an ambiguity associated with a data point. The ambiguity can be resolved prior to, in conjunction with, or after the selected data is rendered in a 3D data environment, or various combinations thereof. | 02-13-2014 |
20150070379 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE COLOR REPRESENTATIONS FOR A DIGITAL MAP - Techniques to manage color representations for a digital map are described. A method may comprise receiving category information having multiple categories defined for a geographic area of a digital map, each of the multiple categories having a category value. The method may further comprise selecting at least one color to represent two or more categories of the multiple categories. The method may still further comprise generating, by circuitry, an annotated digital map, the annotated digital map to comprise the digital map annotated with variations of the at least one color to represent the two or more categories of the multiple categories. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 03-12-2015 |
20150346992 | 3D Data Environment Navigation Tool - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing a 3D data environment navigation tool. In accordance with some concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the 3D data environment navigation tool provides a way for a user to manipulate a 3D data environment in which productivity data is rendered. The 3D data environment navigation tool may provide a user interacting with the 3D data environment the ability to manipulate the viewing angle of data rendered in a 3D data environment, thus allowing the user to “tour” or “move around” the data. The 3D data environment navigation tool may be configured to aggregate data at various zoom levels. | 12-03-2015 |
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20110196972 | Selective Connection between Corresponding Communication Components Involved in a Teleconference - A client device selectively establishes connections between selected client communication components and corresponding server communication components. The client device receives data from the corresponding server communication components via the connections between the selected client communication components and the server communication components. The data received via different ones of the connections is associated with a different content stream of a teleconference. During the teleconference, a given connection is suspended. When the given connection is suspended, the client computing device continues to receive data via connections other than the given connection. | 08-11-2011 |
20110231518 | LATENCY REDUCTION IN COLLABORATIVE PRESENTATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for delivering a presentation created using a presentation application program are disclosed. One method includes initiating, from a presentation computing system, display of a presentation to one or more remote computing devices. The method also includes creating an initial display package based on the presentation that includes metadata describing the presentation and an image representative of the presentation, and uploading the initial display package to a presentation server. The method includes, after uploading the initial display package, creating an initial set of presentation slides from the presentation, and uploading the initial set of presentation slides to the presentation server. The method further includes, after uploading the initial set of presentation slides, uploading at least a remaining portion of the presentation to the presentation server for display at one or more of the remote computing devices. | 09-22-2011 |
20110249954 | CAPTURING PRESENTATIONS IN ONLINE CONFERENCES - Presentations during an online conference are captured for subsequent playback. An instance of a presentation viewer is deployed to capture the presentation. Annotations and timing data are captured separately. The presentation with the annotations is recorded through a video encoding codec in a desired format, while timing and similar data is stored as metadata. Multiple presentations may be recorded separately to conserve resources. The recordation and the metadata can be subsequently played back to a requesting user. | 10-13-2011 |
20130132586 | Selective Connection Between Corresponding Communication Components Involved in a Teleconference - A client device selectively establishes connections between selected client communication components and corresponding server communication components. The client device receives data from the corresponding server communication components via the connections between the selected client communication components and the server communication components. The data received via different ones of the connections is associated with a different content stream of a teleconference. During the teleconference, a given connection is suspended. When the given connection is suspended, the client computing device continues to receive data via connections other than the given connection. | 05-23-2013 |
20130339862 | LATENCY REDUCTION IN COLLABORATIVE PRESENTATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for delivering a presentation created using a presentation application program are disclosed. One method includes initiating, from a presentation computing system, display of a presentation to one or more remote computing devices. The method also includes creating an initial display package based on the presentation that includes metadata describing the presentation and an image representative of the presentation, and uploading the initial display package to a presentation server. The method includes, after uploading the initial display package, creating an initial set of presentation slides from the presentation, and uploading the initial set of presentation slides to the presentation server. The method further includes, after uploading the initial set of presentation slides, uploading at least a remaining portion of the presentation to the presentation server for display at one or more of the remote computing devices. | 12-19-2013 |
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20130239106 | OFFLINE PROVISIONING OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - An offline provisioning system provides a facility for provisioning a virtual machine without requiring that the virtual machine be launched. The system extends the configuration file or other mechanism used for storing virtual hardware configuration to store provisioning information for software state. The system uses the configuration information for pushing selective contents of the configuration information into the guest virtual machine as it is launched to perform guest provisioning. With these changes in place, a guest virtual machine can be provisioned when the virtual machine image is offline and not running. The system can even perform provisioning before an appropriate host has been identified to launch the guest virtual machine. This allows for much more rapid deployment and provisioning of virtual machines and frees administrative resources for other tasks. | 09-12-2013 |
20130262746 | ENHANCING THE LIFETIME AND PERFORMANCE OF FLASH-BASED STORAGE - A storage management system decouples application write requests from write requests to a flash-based storage device. By placing a layer of software intelligence between application requests to write data and the storage device, the system can make more effective decisions about when and where to write data that reduce wear and increase performance of the storage device. An application has a set of performance characteristics and writes data with a frequency that is appropriate for the application, but not necessarily efficient for the hardware. By analyzing how data is being used by an application, the system can strategically place data in the storage device or even avoid using the storage device altogether for some operations to minimize wear. One technique for doing this is to create an in-memory cache that acts as a buffer between the application requests and the storage hardware. | 10-03-2013 |
20140068235 | LAYOUT AND EXECUTION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS USING BPRAM - A software layout system is described herein that speeds up computer system boot time and/or application initialization time by moving constant data and executable code into byte-addressable, persistent random access memory (BPRAM). The system determines which components and aspects of the operating system or application change infrequently. From this information, the system builds a high performance BPRAM cache to provide faster access to these frequently used components, including the kernel. The result is that kernel or application code and data structures have a high performance access and execution time with regard to memory fetches. Thus, the software layout system provides a faster way to prepare operating systems and applications for normal operation and reduces the time spent on initialization. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068240 | LAYOUT AND EXECUTION OF OPERATING SYSTEMS USING BPRAM - A software layout system is described herein that speeds up computer system boot time and/or application initialization time by moving constant data and executable code into byte-addressable, persistent random access memory (BPRAM). The system determines which components and aspects of the operating system or application change infrequently. From this information, the system builds a high performance BPRAM cache to provide faster access to these frequently used components, including the kernel. The result is that kernel or application code and data structures have a high performance access and execution time with regard to memory fetches. Thus, the software layout system provides a faster way to prepare operating systems and applications for normal operation and reduces the time spent on initialization. | 03-06-2014 |
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20080243631 | SERVICES FOR PROVIDING ITEM ASSOCIATION DATA - A service is disclosed for enabling web sites and other entities to provide item recommendations and other behavior-based content to end users. The service can be implemented as a web service that is remotely accessible over the Internet. Web sites use the web service's interface to report events descriptive of item-related actions performed by end users (e.g., item views, item purchases, searches for items, etc.). The web service analyzes the reported event data on an aggregated basis to detect various types of associations between particular items, and stores resulting datasets that map items to associated items. The web service's interface also provides various API calls for enabling the web sites to request item recommendations and other behavior-based content, including but not limited to personalized recommendations that are based on the event history of the target user. Advantageously, the web sites need not host the infrastructure for providing such content. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243632 | SERVICE FOR PROVIDING ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS - A service is disclosed for enabling web sites and other entities to provide item recommendations and other behavior-based content to end users. The service can be implemented as a web service that is remotely accessible over the Internet. Web sites use the web service's interface to report events descriptive of item-related actions performed by end users (e.g., item views, item purchases, searches for items, etc.). The web service analyzes the reported event data on an aggregated basis to detect various types of associations between particular items, and stores resulting datasets that map items to associated items. The web service's interface also provides various API calls for enabling the web sites to request item recommendations and other behavior-based content, including but not limited to personalized recommendations that are based on the event history of the target user. Advantageously, the web sites need not host the infrastructure for providing such content. | 10-02-2008 |
20100049663 | SERVICE FOR PROVIDING ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS - A service is disclosed for enabling web sites and other entities to provide item recommendations and other behavior-based content to end users. The service can be implemented as a web service that is remotely accessible over the Internet. Web sites use the web service's interface to report events descriptive of item-related actions performed by end users (e.g., item views, item purchases, searches for items, etc.). The web service analyzes the reported event data on an aggregated basis to detect various types of associations between particular items, and stores resulting datasets that map items to associated items. The web service's interface also provides various API calls for enabling the web sites to request item recommendations and other behavior-based content, including but not limited to personalized recommendations that are based on the event history of the target user. | 02-25-2010 |
20110258085 | SERVICES FOR PROVIDING ITEM ASSOCIATION DATA - A service is disclosed for enabling web sites and other entities to provide item recommendations and other behavior-based content to end users. The service can be implemented as a web service that is remotely accessible over the Internet. Web sites use the web service's interface to report events descriptive of item-related actions performed by end users (e.g., item views, item purchases, searches for items, etc.). The web service analyzes the reported event data on an aggregated basis to detect various types of associations between particular items, and stores resulting datasets that map items to associated items. The web service's interface also provides various API calls for enabling the web sites to request item recommendations and other behavior-based content, including but not limited to personalized recommendations that are based on the event history of the target user. Advantageously, the web sites need not host the infrastructure for providing such content. | 10-20-2011 |
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20150081572 | AUTOMATICALLY RECOMMENDING UPDATES BASED ON STORED LIFECYCLE INFORMATION - Lifecycle information indicative of a configuration and update state of a computer system are stored. Updates to the computer system are automatically recommended based on the lifecycle information. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082291 | UPDATE INSTALLER WITH TECHNICAL IMPACT ANALYSIS - An update installer generates an update display for a user that allows a user to select updates in an identified environment. The update installer accesses the objects and layers in the identified environment and displays an impact display identifying portions of the identified environment that will be affected by the selected updates, before the updates are installed. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082292 | AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVING CONFLICTS AFTER INSTALLATION OF SELECTED UPDATES IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - An update installer generates an update display for a user that allows the user to select updates to be applied to a computer system. Conflicts that arise because of application of the updates to the computer system are automatically resolved and the results of the conflict resolution are displayed. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082293 | UPDATE INSTALLER WITH PROCESS IMPACT ANALYSIS - An update installer generates an update display for a user that displays available updates. The user can select updates, and the update installer accesses the business processes corresponding to the user's project and displays an impact analysis indicating the impact that the selected updates will have on the processes in the system. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082296 | AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION OF SELECTED UPDATES IN MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTS - An update installer generates an update display for a user that allows the user to select updates be applied to a first environment. An export display allows the user to export the selected updates so they can be saved for installation in another environment. | 03-19-2015 |
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20140278812 | DIAGNOSTICS STORAGE WITHIN A MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTER - Diagnostic data is received at a multi-tenant data center. The diagnostic data is from a data system instance and the multi-tenant data center hosts data from a plurality of organizations. The diagnostic data is stored at the multi-tenant data center and a rules engine runs on the diagnostic data and provides optimization recommendations for the instance of the data system to which the diagnostic data was collected. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279823 | LIFECYCLE PRODUCT ANALYSIS - Metadata is obtained regarding a data system instance. The metadata is sent to a server in a multi-tenant data center. Analysis results are received that indicate the results of an analysis performed on the metadata by a tool at the multi-tenant data center. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282199 | PROCESS MODELING AND INTERFACE - An instance of an existing data system has one or more processes. Each process has corresponding metadata. Metadata for a given process is accessed and a diagram of the process is automatically generated. | 09-18-2014 |
20150106152 | CONTINUOUSLY TRACING ISSUES THROUGH THE LIFECYCLE PHASES OF A PROJECT - A set of lifecycle services are employed to identify tasks and other worklist items. The worklist items are aggregated into a unified worklist that is synchronized to a product management system so the status of the worklist items can be traced throughout a project lifecycle. | 04-16-2015 |
20150135013 | USER SUPPORT EXPERIENCE WITH AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - A virtual environment service obtains automatically collected diagnostic information from a deployed instance of a computer system and automatically generates a reproduction of an environment of the instance of the computer system, based upon the collected diagnostic data. User interactions with the virtual diagnostic environment can be recorded to identify a technical issue with the deployed instance of the computer system. A fix for the issue is applied in the virtual diagnostic environment so that it can be verified by the user prior to applying it to the deployed instance. | 05-14-2015 |
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20090238358 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO CANCELLING OF FORKED CALL REQUESTS - Multiple instances of an incoming call in a unified communication system capable of communicating through multiple networks are provided to devices and/or applications associated with the called party. Upon acceptance or a global rejection of the incoming call through one of the end devices/applications, the remainder are provided a cancellation notice for the forked call request that includes information associated with which end device took the action, what type of action was taken, whether the action was based on automatic policy implementation. | 09-24-2009 |
20090279533 | EXTENSIBLE AND SECURE TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE CONVERSATION CONTEXTS - The entry and transmission of notes to recipients along the conversation chain. Notes can be created based on an incoming caller. The notes can be transmitted to the conversation recipient for viewing before, during, and after the recipient accepts the conversation. This is facilitated by a communications client that operates to allow entry of the notes, and forwarding of the call recipient via a SIP framework. Moreover, notes previously taken and/or information provided manually and/or automatically by the communications system can be provided to an agent (e.g., ACD, receptionist) receiving the conversation, at any point in the conversation chain for quick identification not only of the conversation source but of previous information already collected. | 11-12-2009 |
20120170725 | Communicating Information Pertaining to Cancelling of Forked Call Requests - Multiple instances of an incoming call in a unified communication system capable of communicating through multiple networks are provided to devices and/or applications associated with the called party. Upon acceptance or a global rejection of the incoming call through one of the end devices/applications, the remainder are provided a cancellation notice for the forked call request that includes information associated with which end device took the action, what type of action was taken, whether the action was based on automatic policy implementation. | 07-05-2012 |
20150261733 | ASSET COLLECTION SERVICE THROUGH CAPTURE OF CONTENT - An asset collection service is provided through a capture of content provided by an external source. A capture management application detects a user selection to create the capture of a portion of the content. The capture is created from the portion by inserting a reference to an asset into the capture, where the asset is located within the portion. The asset is fetched from the external resource using the reference. Additionally, the reference is replaced with the fetched asset within the capture. | 09-17-2015 |
20150331838 | DESCRIBING DATA TRANSFORMATIONS USING MARKUP LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS - Markup language inputs are received for generating a markup language description of an item to be rendered. The markup language inputs include in-line metadata describing a transformation to be performed on a data item before it is rendered. The markup language description, including the in-line metadata describing the transformation, is generated and presented for transformation and rendering. | 11-19-2015 |
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20100082825 | INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE IDENTITY AUTHORIZATION IN CONFERENCES - Disclosed herein are embodiments for validating a user joining a conferencing session. According to various embodiments, a first identifier is received. A user is identified from a plurality of users based at least in part on the first identifier. A second identifier is received that corresponds to the first identifier and the user and the user is validated based on both the first identifier and the second identifier. The user may then join the conferencing session, with the user's identity being revealed to others attending the conferencing session. | 04-01-2010 |
20100183136 | MEDIA SPECIFIC FEATURE INVOCATION SIGNALING IN ENHANCED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Subscribers of an enhanced communication system are enabled to indicate invocation or clearing of media specific features such as music-on-hold or video-on-hold. The invocation or clearing is transmitted to participating end points as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) re-INVITE message with Session Description Protocol (SDP) attribute descriptions identifying the feature, applicable media channels and whether the message is for invocation or clearing of the feature. | 07-22-2010 |
20100310062 | CONVEYING SERVICE INVOCATION INFORMATION WITHIN MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION SYSTEMS - Service invocation information including call routing, reasons for redirections, and similar information are provided to party requesting a communication session and recipients of an enhanced communication system along the call routing path as the request is routed. Some of the information is filtered based on system and/or user defined rules, user permission levels, and comparable aspects. | 12-09-2010 |
20110154222 | EXTENSIBLE MECHANISM FOR CONVEYING FEATURE CAPABILITIES IN CONVERSATION SYSTEMS - Feature capabilities of conversation clients are conveyed to participants in a conversation such that real time decisions can be made and a common set of capabilities are selected to be used in the conversation. User interfaces of participating clients are then adjusted to reflect those capabilities. Further decisions and adjustments may be performed during the conversation in response to changes in participating clients and their capabilities. | 06-23-2011 |
20110231473 | UNIFIED WEB SERVICE DISCOVERY - A uniform approach for web service discovery is provided through common auto-discovery logic for cloud-based or enterprise-based deployments for a specific web service. Appropriate credentials may be applied employing a uniform method using an appropriate authentication scheme for on-premise, fully hosted, or partially hosted auto-discovered web services. A common interface may be implemented even if the protocols for discovery differ from service to service or between cloud-based deployment and enterprise-based deployment for the same service. Web service locations auto-discovered through different protocols may be cached for subsequent use. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231921 | PLUGGABLE TOKEN PROVIDER MODEL TO IMPLEMENT AUTHENTICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE WEB SERVICES - A pluggable token provider model for message level authentication across multiple web services is provided. Web service and token provider implementations within a client application are separated from an actual component that operates the business logic to formulate and understand a web request. The web service components may request web services to be executed and supply the body for the web service message while a common framework maintains the web services metadata, which includes definitions associated with respective tokens. The framework may further maintain token provider implementations that actually fetch authentication tokens and perform the web requests. | 09-22-2011 |
20120209913 | INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE IDENTITY AUTHORIZATION IN CONFERENCES - Disclosed herein are embodiments for validating a user joining a conferencing session. According to various embodiments, a first identifier is received. A user is identified from a plurality of users based at least in part on the first identifier. A second identifier is received that corresponds to the first identifier and the user and the user is validated based on both the first identifier and the second identifier. The user may then join the conferencing session, with the user's identity being revealed to others attending the conferencing session. | 08-16-2012 |
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20130339420 | MOVING SHARED FILES - A client device accesses a shared data system and begins moving data from one location to another. The client device generates a tombstone object that indicates that includes metadata indicating that the data has been moved. When another client accesses the data at the old location, it encounters the tombstone and begins accessing the data at the new location. If the data has not already been completely moved to the new location, the second client to access the data assists in transferring the data to the new location. | 12-19-2013 |
20140025628 | IMITATION OF FILE EMBEDDING IN A DOCUMENT - A container document can include a file node indicating a file and pointing to a location for the file that is separate from the container document on a server. An embedded relationship between the file and the container document can be imitated. The imitation can include responding to user input by performing the update on the file node, and by requesting that the server perform an update on the file that reflects the update performed on the file node. A request for an update to be performed on the file node can be received from a client at the server. In response to the request, the update can be performed on the file node at the server. A corresponding update, which reflects the update performed on the file node, can also be performed on the file at the server. | 01-23-2014 |
20140344658 | ENHANCED LINKS IN CURATION AND COLLABORATION APPLICATIONS - A uniform resource locator (URL) link inserted into a note or document can be enhanced through a capture service for curation and collaboration applications, including notebook applications. A local notebook application can call the capture service by sending a request for a webpage representation with a URL indicated for insertion into the note. The local notebook application can receive the representation of the content referenced by the URL in a format customized for the local client. The representation can be displayed as part of a preview window and user interface for inserting a clipping, URL or other content into a note. The capture service can take the URL sent by the local application and take a screenshot of a separately rendered webpage referenced by the URL. | 11-20-2014 |
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20140310390 | ASYMMETRIC PACKET FLOW IN A DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER - A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple ingress servers. For unknown packet flows, an ingress server cooperates with primary and secondary flow trackers to establish connections to server nodes. For known packet flows, the ingress server sends the packets to target server nodes. The server nodes randomly select egress servers for outgoing packets of the packet flows. The ingress servers, flow trackers, and egress servers are implemented by multiple load balancer nodes in a load balancer node layer. The ingress and egress servers for a given packet flow may be on different load balancer nodes. The load balancer nodes may use a consistent hash function to compute a consistent hash ring for the nodes according to packet flow client/public endpoint pairs so that nodes associated with given packet flows can be located. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310417 | CONNECTION PUBLISHING IN A DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER - A connection publishing method for a distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer (LB) nodes, which in turn distribute the packet flows among multiple server nodes. A load balancer (LB) module on each server node determines and publishes a list of active connections between client(s) and the server (a connection publishing packet) back to the LB nodes. The LB module may randomly select a LB node to receive the packet. Upon receiving the packet, the LB node processes the connection information in the packet, distributing the connection information among appropriate LB nodes. Receiving the connection publishing information from the server nodes refreshes leases for the connections on the LB nodes. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310418 | DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER - A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer (LB) nodes according to a per-flow hashed multipath routing technique. For a given packet flow, the LB nodes randomly select a server node as a target for the packet flow from among multiple server nodes and send a connection request to the server node. A load balancer module on the server node makes the decision on whether to accept or reject the connection based on one or more metrics indicating a respective server's current load. If the module accepts the connection request, a connection is established between the server and the client. Otherwise, the load balancer nodes may select another server node and try again. The connections established between clients and servers pass through the load balancer nodes, but are not terminated at the load balancer nodes. | 10-16-2014 |