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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120011217 | MASTER/SLAVE DECISION DEVICE AND MASTER/SLAVE DECISION METHOD APPLIED TO NETWORK DEVICE A master/slave decision device applied to a first network device is provided, where the first network device is coupled to a second network device, and the master/slave decision device includes a seed distance detection unit and a decision unit. The seed distance decisi... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110161455 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORKING A method of wirelessly networking a system of at least first and second communication nodes includes obtaining a common power source for the at least first and second communication nodes, switching on the common power source, and establishing a power-up time. Each of th... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161405 | INTELLIGENT NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR IKVM SERVERS An IP-based KVM (IKVM) switch system includes a plurality of control centers connected by a network via respective routers. A group of IKVM switches is connected to each router. Each IKVM switch is connected to a plurality of remote computers. Each control center stores... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110029931 | SYNCHRONOUS CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-COMPUTER A synchronous control method for multi-computer is provided. The multi-computer is connected with each other through a network. The method includes the following steps: maintaining a running information list on each computer in the network, where the identifier informat... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029633 | SERVER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOTE CONTROLLING THE SAME A server device and a method for remote controlling the server device and the server device are provided. The server device includes a plurality of nodes which are electrically connected to each other. In the method for remote controlling the server device, each of the ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100312849 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM A communication method includes: a first transmission step of transmitting first setting information and first network organization information regarding one information processing apparatus of a second network via a first communication path; a first determination step ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100299401 | AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION OF DEVICE COMMUNICATION SETTINGS Automatically configurable master and slave devices in a master/slave multi-drop serial network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the devices and network utilize the Modbus serial communications protocol over a serial multi-drop network, such as an RS-232 or RS-485 (als... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100296519 | Ethernet Physical Layer Repeater An Ethernet repeater system has a plurality of identical repeaters which add substantially no delay. Each repeater has at least a first port and a second port connected to a medium, and a third port connected to a slave processor or a master processor. The master proces... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100229028 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR A computer unit includes computer components each having a processor and a computer component controller for controlling the operations of the computer components by communicating a control signal with the computer components through a radio transmission path. Another c... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100106736 | Method and device for monitoring and analyzing signals A method and system for monitoring and analyzing at least one signal are disclosed. An abstract of at least one reference signal is generated and stored in a reference database. An abstract of a query signal to be analyzed is then generated so that the abstract of the q... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100049836 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION INFORMATION GENERATION FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT A method and system for configuring information for a distributed computing environment is provided. The method and system comprises providing a job containing a list of tasks to a controller, the tasks including a bootstrap tool and configuration information related to... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042668 | HIERARCHICALLY CLUSTERED P2P STREAMING SYSTEM A HCPS (hierarchically clustered P2P streaming system) comprising peers grouped into clusters and hierarchies. The HCPS actively balances the uploading capabilities among clusters and executes an optimal scheduling algorithm within each cluster to ensure that system res... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100023768 | Method and system for security key agreement A method and system for security key agreement is disclosed. The method may include broadcasting a first connectivity association discovery message and receiving a message from a second node on the network; if the second node is not a member of a connectivity associatio... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090300133 | NETWORK AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A PLURALITY OF DEVICES IN SUCH A NETWORK A network and a method for updating a plurality of devices in a network are described. A primary master device provides update information for slave devices. One or more first predetermined slave devices are enabled to operate in a temporary master mode. The primary mas... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090287791 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING AN APPLICATION Systems and methods for performing automated load and usability testing via an application delivery appliance can include methods where a browser having a unique identifier is detected and a script is injected into the HTML response generated by the page displayed withi... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090198787 | DATA STREAMING TO MULTIPLE BROWSER WINDOWS A client computer has a master window and at least one slave window. The client computer receives streaming data at the master window. The master window includes a list of slave windows and the data includes an envelope that has a destination window identifier. The mast... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090150718 | LARGE-SCALE CLUSTER MONITORING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY BUILDING/RESTORING THE SAME Provided are a large-scale cluster monitoring system and a method for automatically building/restoring the same, which can automatically build a large-scale monitoring system and can automatically build a monitoring environment when a failure occurs in nodes. The large-... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090083390 | AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING FOR SELF-ORGANIZING GRIDS Computational grids have traditionally not scaled effectively due to administrative hurdles to resource and user participation. Most production grids are essentially multi-site supercomputer centers, rather than truly open and heterogeneous sets of resources that can jo... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090077193 | Enhanced Single-Node Protocol for Data, Address and Control Operations An integrated circuit digital device, acting as a master, communicates with at least one peripheral device, acting as a slave, using an enhanced single-node protocol for data, address and control operation. The peripheral device may be selected from any number of differ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090049152 | Method and Apparatus for Collecting Performance Management Data in Communication Networks Nodes such as base stations in a mobile communication network are divided and grouped into management clusters. One of the nodes in each management cluster is selected to be a master node. The master node aggregates performance data for each of the nodes in its assigned... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090037553 | Configuring or Reconfiguring a Multi-Master Information Sharing Environment Configuring an n-way multi-master information sharing topology. Adding a new node (e.g., database server) to the information sharing topology can be implemented as follows. Initially, the new node is added as a slave of a particular co-master in the information sharing ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090019130 | NETWORK RELAY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF The network relay device of the invention makes a pair with at least a specific network device to relay data in a network. The network relay device includes: a control module that sends and receives a control frame signal to and from the specific network device, selects... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080301253 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND CIRCUIT MODULE A communication method in a communication system which includes a master apparatus and plural slave apparatuses including at least first, second and third slave apparatuses, that are connected to communication medium and are associated with plural cyclic slots including... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080288607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGING HEARTBEAT MESSAGES AND CONFIGURATION INFORMATION BETWEEN NODES OPERATING IN A MASTER-SLAVE CONFIGURATION A node (101, FIG. 1), within a networked computer system (100), is capable of supporting communications with other nodes relating to operating multiple application instances in a master-slave configuration. Each node periodically generates and sends... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080281938 | Selecting a master node in a multi-node computer system Selecting a master node in a multi-node computer system is described. Each node of the multi-node computer system selects a timeout value (e.g., randomly). Each node starts a timer, which is set to expire at the selected timeout value of its corresponding node. The node... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080244029 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM A transmission cancellation section is provided on a bus connecting a master and a slave. During a reset of the master, the transmission cancellation section blocks the bus so that an invalid command flowing on the bus does not reach the slave and executes, instead of t... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080133687 | APPARATUS AND METHODS OF A ZERO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE LOAD BALANCER Apparatus and methods in a load balancer computing apparatus include, in aspects, determining if a master is functioning, and if the master is not functioning, then attempting to become the master by setting a master network identification in a master database table to ... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080126501 | SERVICE TAKE-OVER METHOD BASED ON APPARATUS DISASTER RECOVERY, SERVICE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND BACKUP MACHINE A service take-over method based on apparatus disaster recovery, the method includes: transferring, by a service transfer apparatus, a service control message originally sent to a production machine to a backup machine which configures disaster recovery ability for the ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080114852 | SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL A method and system of establishing communications between at least two independent software modules is provided. The design comprises providing a media connection between software modules, wherein the software modules employ a communications protocol and participate in... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070288585 | Cluster system In a cluster that is composed of two computer nodes and has no common storage, mutual aliveness is monitored over networks. However, this is insufficient because a party node may be wrongly determined as inactive. If failover is performed according to wrong determinatio... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070124406 | Using a mobile phone to remotely control a computer via an overlay network Systems and methods are described for using a mobile phone to remotely control a computing device. In one implementation, a communication channel between the mobile phone and the computing device uses an overlay network, such as an instant messaging (IM) service, to exc... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070050465 | PACKET CAPTURE AGENT FOR USE IN FIELD ASSETS EMPLOYING SHARED BUS ARCHITECTURE A field asset suitable for use in a machine to machine environment includes a machine controller configured to function as a master of a shared bus (e.g. an MDB bus) and one or more slave peripheral devices connected to the bus. The field asset includes a snoop agent to... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20060224686 | System and method for managing documents with multiple network applications A method and system for managing documents, where the system includes a document manager server connected to image processing devices and to applications via a network. The document manager server receives identification information from the image processing devices and... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060218239 | Electronic musical apparatus For performing a session in which performance data are mutually exchanged with other terminals via a communication network, a terminal searches for a master device managing the session, and when the master device is found, transmits a join notification to the master dev... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060206577 | Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (GPS) based advertising information to, automobiles In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a ve... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060206576 | Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (GPS) based advertising information to, automobiles In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail”, messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a v... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060184636 | Fault tolerant communication apparatus A fault tolerant communication apparatus provides redundant links between at least two computers. The apparatus includes a first set of links connected to a first computer, a second set of links connected to at least one second computer, and a communication controller b... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060122713 | Control system A control system for a load (10), the system comprising a first microprocessor (16) having an output to drive one side of a load (10), a second microprocessor (18) having an output to drive the other side of the load (10), the system b... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060047771 | RDMA server (OSI) global TCE tables In remote direct memory access (RDMA) transfers in a multinode data processing system in which the nodes communicate with one another through communication adapters coupled to a switch or network, there is a need for the system to ensure efficient memory protection mech... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20050246426 | Unique identification method for remote diagnostics, maintenance and control system over SNMP The present invention relates to determining the unique identification of an interfacing device. The interfacing device is first queried utilizing the hierarchical relationship of the interfacing devices communication means to acquire the unique identification. If this ... | 11/03/2005 |
