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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110055622 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND NETWORK RELAY APPARATUS The network system is provided. The network system includes: a first processing apparatus configured to provide a specific service; a second processing apparatus configured to provide the specific service, the first processing apparatus and the second processing apparat... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055621 | DATA REPLICATION BASED ON CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION A system and associated method for replicating data based on capacity optimization. A local node receives the data associated with a key. The local node within a local domain communicates with nodes of remote domains in a system through a communication network. Each dom... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055375 | METHODS FOR MONITORING OPERATING STATUS OF REMOTE HOSTS Methods for monitoring operating statuses of hosts are described herein. Operating statuses for one or more hosts are monitored by a management server over a network using a network management protocol. In response to a failure to obtain an operating status of a first h... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110047406 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENDING, RECEIVING AND MANAGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES Systems and methods for electronic message may include receiving information from a sending device. The information may include a prioritization determination, initial receiving device destinations, alternate receiving device destinations, and a determination of a plura... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047405 | System and Method for Implementing an Intelligent Backup Technique for Cluster Resources Method and system for implementing a backup in a cluster comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, at least one of the nodes comprising a cluster resource manager (CRM), and at least one of the nodes comprising a policy engine (PE), the PE maintaining at least one... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041002 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MULTIDIRECTIONAL PATHWAY SELECTION The present invention is directed at determining a network pathway between two end points within the network. The network pathway to be used can be determined based on parameters monitored or measured at either or both of the two end points. The present invention is als... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035620 | Virtual Machine Infrastructure With Storage Domain Monitoring A computing device monitors multiple hosts. A first host that does not have access to a data store is identified. A determination is made as to whether other hosts have access to the data store. When the other hosts do have access to the data store, it is determined tha... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110022883 | Method for Voting with Secret Shares in a Distributed System A replicated decentralized storage system comprises a plurality of servers that locally store disk images for locally running virtual machines as well as disk images, for failover purposes, for remotely running virtual machines. To ensure that disk images stored for fai... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022724 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL THAT PERFORMS DATA TRANSMISSION USING SIP, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A communication terminal which is capable of preventing a user of a terminal that receives data from being confused when a redirect setting is made after occurrence of an error during data transmission and before resuming the data transmission. A communication terminal ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022882 | Dynamic Updating of Failover Policies for Increased Application Availability Mechanisms are provided for performing a failover operation of an application from a faulty node of a high availability cluster to a selected target node. The mechanisms receive a notification of an imminent failure of the faulty node. The mechanisms further receive hea... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022689 | MANAGING LINEAR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DELIVERY Users are assigned to virtual groups. Virtual groups are associated with server assets. Achieving load-balancing during the delivery of linear multimedia content, for example, may be achieved through reassigning users to different virtual groups. Server assets can inclu... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110016349 | REPLICATION IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT A method for server replication in a network environment is provided. The primary server provides a first service to a client. If the first service involves interaction with a non-deterministic data source, the primary server performs the interaction and provides inform... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110010579 | Method for detecting errors and supporting reconfiguration decisions in mobile radio networks comprising reconfigurable terminals, and corresponding network elements and components A respective agent platform in network elements and producer-specific agents that are installed directly on platform or by way of agent proxies of agent providers. The agents then receive raw information on arising operating errors by way of a defined interface of the a... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010560 | Failover Procedure for Server System A failover procedure for a computer system includes steps for routing traffic from a routing device to a first server, storing in the routing device data representing a fingerprint of the first server, receiving periodically at the routing device a status message from t... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010578 | CONSISTENT AND FAULT TOLERANT DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE (DHT) OVERLAY NETWORK A peer-to-peer (P2P) system is described herein which has a distributed hash table (DHT) overlay network containing multiple DHT nodes each of which has a complete distributed DHT hash table which contains information identifying a specific range of hashes for each of t... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004781 | PROVISIONING AND REDUNDANCY FOR RFID MIDDLEWARE SERVERS The present invention provides for the provisioning and redundancy of RFID middleware servers. Middleware servers can be automatically provisioned and RFID device/middleware server associations can be automatically updated. Some implementations of the invention provide ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110004782 | FAULT-TOLERANT COMMUNICATIONS IN ROUTED NETWORKS A method for providing fault-tolerant network communications between a plurality of nodes for an application, including providing a plurality of initial communications pathways over a plurality of networks coupled between the plurality of nodes, receiving a data packet ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110004783 | FAULT-TOLERANT COMMUNICATIONS IN ROUTED NETWORKS A method for providing fault-tolerant network communications between a plurality of nodes for an application, including providing a plurality of initial communications pathways over a plurality of networks coupled between the plurality of nodes, receiving a data packet ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332556 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING A SERVER AND PREVENTING ACCESS BLOCKING AND MINIMIZING NETWORK TRAFFIC A communications system and method includes a database for storing problem magnitudes relating to failed attempts at accessing servers using connection engines. An intelligent routing engine could be a server operative with the database, which queries the database and d... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325473 | REDUCING RECOVERY TIME FOR BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS IN CASE OF DISASTERS An aspect of the present invention reduces the recovery time for business organizations in case of disasters. In one embodiment, a disaster recovery system containing a primary site and a backup site (implemented as a cluster) is maintained. Application instances are ex... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAILOVER BETWEEN MULTI-CORE APPLIANCES The present disclosure presents systems and methods for maintaining operation of a first multi-core appliance 200 by a second multi-core appliance upon failover of the first multi-core appliance. A secondary appliance may receive information about configuration s... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325190 | USING DISTRIBUTED QUEUES IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using distributed queues in an overlay network. Embodiments of the invention can be used to replicate queue state (e.g., inserted and/or deleted messages) within an overlay network and ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325475 | Digital Network Quality Control System Utilizing Feedback Controlled Flexible Waveform Shape for the Carrier Signal A digital network quality control system and method utilizing feedback controlled flexible waveform shape for the carrier signal is provided. The system and method provides self-analysis and feedback to a variable waveform to increase network reliability and speed by mo... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTED OBJECT STORE An improved system and method for flexible object placement and soft-state indexing of objects in a distributed object store is provided. A distributed object store may be provided by a large number of system nodes operably coupled to a network. A system node provided m... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318835 | BISECTIONAL FAULT DETECTION SYSTEM An apparatus, program product and method logically divide a group of nodes and causes node pairs comprising a node from each section to communicate. Results from the communications may be analyzed to determine performance characteristics, such as bandwidth and proper co... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318836 | MONITORING AND HEALING A COMPUTING SYSTEM A method, system, and media for monitoring and healing a computing system. Monitoring agents are deployed to a computing system to be monitored. The monitoring agents collect performance and non-performance counter data of computing devices in the computing system. The ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318838 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR FAILOVER In a computer system wherein plural servers are connected with an external disk device via a network, each server incorporates therein a logic partition module for configuring at least one logic partition in the server, and the operating system stored in the logic parti... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318837 | Failure-Model-Driven Repair and Backup A predictive failure model is used to generate a failure prediction associated with a node. A repair or backup action may also be determined to perform on the node based on the failure prediction.... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313064 | DIFFERENTIATING CONNECTIVITY ISSUES FROM SERVER FAILURES A status of connectivity between servers of different sites (locations) is used to infer whether a network or a server failure has occurred such that data between the servers can be routed more efficiently reducing unnecessary network traffic due to duplicate messages. ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100313063 | MITIGATING REDUCTION IN AVAILABILITY LEVEL DURING MAINTENANCE OF NODES IN A CLUSTER An aspect of the present invention mitigates reduction in availability level during maintenance of nodes in a cluster. In one embodiment, on receiving an indication that a maintenance activity is to be performed on the cluster, a scaling out of the cluster is first perf... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306573 | FENCING MANAGEMENT IN CLUSTERS Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to detect a failure in a failed one of a plurality of nodes included in a cluster, and to fence a portion of the plurality of nodes, including the failed one. Membership in the portion may be determined according to an aggrega... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100306574 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE, AND PROGRAM The processing load of a path control message on a node due to a link fault is reduced, a normal routing operation is assured, and the stable continuity of a network is realized. The node having received the path control message transmits the path control message to the... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100306572 | Apparatus and method to facilitate high availability in secure network transport Embodiments described herein are effective to detect, repair and recover automatically IPSec tunnels due to failures of transport gear (L2/L3 switches) as well as the IPsec gateway components. Load balance is also an integral part of the approach. When a failure is repa... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299553 | Cache data processing using cache cluster with configurable modes Processing cache data includes sending a cache processing request to a master cache service node in a cache cluster that includes a plurality of cache service nodes, the cache cluster being configurable in an active cluster configuration mode wherein the plurality of ca... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299552 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR MANAGED ADAPTIVE BIT RATE FOR BANDWIDTH RECLAMATION A method, apparatus and computer program product for managing content sessions within a network is presented. The systems disclosed herein are able to detect a requirement to modify bandwidth usage within the network either proactively or reactively. In response, exampl... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299551 | MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND IP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON THE SIP PROTOCOL The present invention provides a message processing method, apparatus based on the SIP Protocol and an IP communication system, wherein the method comprises: a step for processing messages from a core network, for using a SIP proxy server as a uniform access interface f... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293043 | VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVER REDUNDANCY AND FAILOVER TO ENABLE SEAMLESS MOBILITY IN THE MOBILITY DOMAIN A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) server redundancy is presented. A mobility switch (MS) advertises to at least one peer mobility switch, VLANs configured as server capable, the advertising including providi... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293272 | TOLERANT DEVICE LICENSING IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT Methods, apparatus and a computer program product provide for a Tolerant License Manager that defines a cluster of a plurality of network controllers, wherein each respective network controller contributes at least one license to a current total amount of licenses in a ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293408 | LINK AGGREGATION PROTECTION A method includes detecting, by a first network device, a configuration problem at a second network device, where the first and second network devices are associated with a link aggregation group (LAG) coupling the first and second network devices. The method also inclu... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293409 | REDUNDANT CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD Upon receipt of an availability requirement of a computer system under management, a redundant configuration management system determines placement of processing programs in physical servers equipped in the computer system to satisfy the availability requirement with re... | 11/18/2010 |
