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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SUBSCRIBED RESOURCE LIMITS IN CLOUD NETWORK USING VARIABLE OR INSTANTANEOUS CONSUMPTION TRACKING PERIODS Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing subscribed resource limits in a cloud network using variable or instantaneous consumption tracking periods. A set of aggregate usage history data can record consumption of processor, memory, software, or other resou... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING INFORMATION USING LIMITED BANDWIDTH A system and method detects an amount of data attributed to a device including reports sent to the device, and reduces the amount of data being used to provide reports to the device if the amount of data attributed to the device exceeds an amount assigned to the device.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVING CONFLICTING DEVICES ON A NETWORK A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically detecting and resolving conflicts between devices on a security network by comparing the IP addresses of all devices on the network. When one or more conflicts are detected, the user is presented with the option of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131196 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD The present invention manages response performance of a virtual volume. A performance monitoring server 10 monitors performance of a virtual volume 400, which a storage apparatus 40 provides to a host 30. When response performance of a virtua... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MIGRATING SOFTWARE MODULES INTO ONE OR MORE CLOUDS Embodiments relate to systems and methods for migrating software modules into one or more target clouds. The systems and methods can analyze system data to determine software modules supported by the system, and target cloud data to determine which target clouds have a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131192 | REQUEST ROUTING PROCESSING Generally described, the present disclosure is directed to managing request routing functionality corresponding to resource requests for one or more resources associated with a content provider. The processing of the DNS requests by the service provider can include the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131195 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING MARGINAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFSETS IN SET OF MULTIPLE HOST CLOUDS Embodiments relate to systems and methods for aggregating marginal subscription offsets in a set of multiple host clouds. A set of aggregate usage history data can record consumption of processor, memory, operating system, or other resources subscribed to by a user acro... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SERVICE DEPENDENCIES IN A CLOUD DEPLOYMENT Embodiments relate to systems and methods for identifying service dependencies in a cloud deployment. In particular, a deployment module can receive usage data from a host cloud comprising data related to end user operation of a set of services in the host cloud as well... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131198 | System And Method For Processing Computational Elements Allocation A unit (16), computer readable medium and method for automatically providing processing elements allocation in a network (14) for a droplet of a user (10) based on a request (30) of the user (10). The method includes receiving at the u... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131191 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SERVER, AND METHOD OF FACILITATING RESOURCE RESERVATIONS To facilitate resource reservation, a server can preemptively determine resource availability. Indeed, upon receiving an availability request for a desired attendee for a calendar event, the request specifying a date and time, the server can transmit a search request to... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131201 | Virtual Hot Inserting Functions in a Shared I/O Environment A blade server system and method for virtually hot plugging and virtually hot removing functions in a shared I/O environment. A management node physically hot inserts and hot removes an I/O node in the server system without a compute node being aware of the hot insert a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131199 | Systems and Methods for Layered Resource Management Systems and methods for encapsulating computing resources in one or more layers are provided. In some embodiments, a set of computing resources are encapsulated in a layer. The layer is mobile from a first storage to a second storage. A request for a specific computing ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110188 | Networking in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure A cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. Upon receiving authorization, a plurality of virtual machines may be communicated to provide at least one virtual network to service to the plurality of virtual machines. Each of the plura... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110185 | Distributed Hierarchical Rendering and Provisioning of Cloud Services Techniques are provided herein for distributed and hierarchical rendering and provisioning of cloud services. At a device in a cloud computing system comprising a plurality of hierarchical levels, a cloud service request is received for rendering and provisioning of a v... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110184 | PHYSICAL LAYER PHOTONIC PROTOCOL SWITCH A physical layer photonic protocol switch (PLPPS) that is protocol independent and switches at the optical signal level. Computing subsystem resources are linked to the PLPPS and are grouped into one or more logical system topologies. If needed, additional computing sub... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110181 | NETWORK ADDRESS RETRIEVAL FOR LIVE MIGRATION OF A GUEST IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM A method and system for managing network addresses of a guest during live migration in a virtual machine system. A computer system hosts a guest that is to migrate from a source hypervisor in the computer system to a target hypervisor during operation of the computer sy... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110182 | DYNAMIC PROCESSING UNIT RELOCATION IN A MULTI-NODAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON INCOMING PHYSICAL DATA A relocation mechanism in a multi-nodal computer environment dynamically routes processing units in a distributed computer system based on incoming physical data into the processing unit. The relocation mechanism makes an initial location decision to place a processing ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110190 | Mechanisms For Obtaining Access to Shared Resources Using a Single Timestamp Technique Providing access to a shared resource in a computing environment involves maintaining a timestamp for each shared resource, the timestamp representing the time the resource was last accessed. Then, detecting if the resource is reserved before obtaining access to the res... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110186 | Disaster Recovery and Automatic Relocation of Cloud Services Techniques are provided to move the services performed on one device to another device in a cloud computing system for a variety of reasons including failure, maintenance or upgrade of the device. A notification is received that services performed by an impacted device ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110187 | SWITCHING STATES BETWEEN TWO COMPUTING DEVICES A method for switching use between a first computing device and a second computing device is provided. The method may be performed by the first computing device. An event is detected while a first application is operated on the first computing device. In response to det... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110189 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SECURITY PROVISIONING OF COMPUTING RESOURCES The present invention facilitates the dynamic provisioning of computing and data assets in a commodity computing environment. The invention provides a system and method for dynamically provisioning and de-provisioning computing resources based on multi-dimensional decis... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110651 | Granting Access to a Cloud Computing Environment Using Names in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure Access to resources in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. A group of users is defined within the cloud computing environment. A first name is assigned to the group. At least one subgroup of users is defined from within the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109852 | REACTIVE LOAD BALANCING FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS The subject disclosure relates to load balancing systems and methods. In one embodiment, a reactive load balancer can receive feedback from a first database node, and allocate resources to the first database node based, at least, on the feedback. The feedback is dynamic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110183 | DISTRIBUTED PROPAGATION OF DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK A technique for distributed propagation of data in a wireless communication network includes providing 600 a unique host identifier for each peer network entity in the wireless communication network, each host identifier having a length of B bits. A next step inc... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING NETWORK STORAGE AND COMPUTING RESOURCE Under a community environment, a system and a method for sharing network storage and computing resource are disclosed. In particular, the method employs some available-to-shared computer resources of a group member to share with others. The member may decide a specific ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084443 | VIRTUAL PROVISIONING WITH IMPLEMENTATION RESOURCE BOUNDARY AWARENESS Virtual resources may be provisioned in a manner that is aware of, and respects, underlying implementation resource boundaries. A customer of the virtual resource provider may specify that particular virtual resources are to be implemented with implementation resources ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084445 | AUTOMATIC REPLICATION AND MIGRATION OF LIVE VIRTUAL MACHINES Systems and methods are disclosed herein to automatically replicate and migrate live virtual machine image (VM) files from a primary VM computing device to secondary VM computing devices. The operating parameters (e.g., cost of operation, power consumption, etc.) of a n... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084775 | Techniques for Streaming Virtual Machines from a Server to a Host Techniques for configuring a commodity server to host virtual hard disks are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtual hard disk file can be split into a plurality of differencing VHD files and one or more of the files can be downloaded to a virtualization... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081209 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTING RESOURCES ACCESSIBLE TO A MOBILE DEVICE SERVER A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium operating in a mobile device server having computer instructions to execute a web server application at the mobile device server. T... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084444 | REAL-TIME LICENSE METERING OF A PROVISIONED APPLICATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONEMENT Provided is a method for the costing of a license based on real-time usage of software on a hardware resource instead of upfront PVU based purchase of licenses. Service provider need not pay for the license charge till the end of life of that application and need not pa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081557 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USER ACTIVATED POLICY ENHANCEMENT According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for subscriber activated policy enhancement. The method may include receiving a policy enhancement code from a user device at a policy enhancement server (PES). The method may further include... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072595 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING PRINTER LOCATION INFORMATION FIELD A system and method are provided for updating location information associated with a printer resource stored in a printer resource registry in a network resource access system. Updating the location information for the printer resource may involve obtaining a unique ide... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072529 | CONVERSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A method of managing content format conversion for transmission of converted content to a mobile device includes retrieving initial content, which includes video content, having a first format over a data communications network. The retrieved initial content is analysed... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072596 | Directory Leasing Described are embodiments for allowing clients that access a distributed file system to locally cache directory metadata. The client may request a read lease which allows the client to cache the directory metadata locally and service requests received from the same appl... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072599 | THIN CLIENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, CLIENT ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM The thin client system is capable of automatically providing an appropriate client environment according to the performance of each terminal. The thin client system includes at least one terminal, a client environment server where a client environment used by the termin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072600 | MANAGING CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing CDN service providers are provided. A network storage provider storing one or more resources on behalf of a content provider obtains client computing device requests for content. The network storage provider pr... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072597 | USING TEMPLATES TO CONFIGURE CLOUD RESOURCES The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using templates to configure cloud resources. Embodiments of the invention include encapsulating cloud configuration information in an importable/exportable node template. Node template... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072318 | Mechanisms for Executing a Process in a Cloud Computing Environment Deterioration of service quality due to shortage of resources and/or increased cost of support due to excessive resources is minimized in the case where the amount of requested services may change in cloud computing. Provided are mechanisms for executing a process speci... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072598 | USE OF GENERIC UNIVERSAL RESOURCE INDICATORS Various arrangements for creating and using generic universal resource indicators are presented. To create a generic universal resource indicator, one or more parameters of a universal resource indicator may be identified. An interface that permits a parameter of the on... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054309 | SELECTING A RESOURCE MANAGER TO SATISFY A SERVICE REQUEST Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for selecting a resource manager to satisfy a service request. A catalog indicating a plurality of resource managers and at least one service offered by the resource managers is provided. Further provided is reso... | 03/01/2012 |
