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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100042715 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUNDANT SERVER AUTOMATIC FAILOVER A method and systems for a redundant server automatic fail-over system is provided. The system includes a plurality of client devices communicatively coupled to a network wherein the plurality of client devices each includes an active server identification location. The... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042869 | UPGRADING NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT DEVICES WHILE MAINTAINING AVAILABILITY A method, system, machine-readable storage medium, and apparatus are directed towards upgrading a cluster by bifurcating the cluster into two virtual clusters, an “old” virtual cluster (old active cluster) and a “new” virtual cluster (new standby cluster), and i... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100037087 | SELF-HEALING CAPABILITIES IN A DIRECTORY SERVER A novel manner of handling an error or exception caused by the unavailability of a slot or crypto hardware or communication network between server and hardware. As per this scheme, in the event of the unavailability of a particular slot in the hardware, the server may d... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100037088 | Intelligent Mobile Device Management Client Embodiments of an intelligent agent for an OMA DM enabled mobile client device are described. The intelligent agent includes modules for storing management property values in one or more nodes of an OMA DM management tree of the mobile client device. At least some of th... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100031079 | Restoration of a remotely located server Methods and apparatus restore data on servers in remote or branch offices utilizing virtual distribution components, such as virtual machines. A failed remotely located server is restored to its previous running state using any server with hardware compatible with the h... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100031078 | System and Method For Redirecting A Website Upon The Occurrence Of A Disaster Or Emergency Event A system and method to deflect DNS inquires to a new IP address for a website prior to or after the occurrence of a natural disaster that damages the computer infrastructure of an organization, thereby interrupting the organization's ability to continue to offer its web... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100017648 | COMPLETE DUAL SYSTEM AND SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD A DB server included in an old operation node corrects a recovery log stored in a recovery log storage unit by using a difference log stored in a difference log storage unit. A duplication control device and a DBMS compare a difference log file stored in the difference ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017645 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD A communication apparatus includes: a transmitting unit, a receiving unit and a control unit. The transmitting unit transmits video data to an external apparatus via a first transmission line. The receiving unit receives a command from the external apparatus via a secon... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017646 | CLUSTER SYSTEM AND NODE SWITCHING METHOD When a first server node fails in a cluster system, a client node device transmits failure detection information to a second server node device. Upon receipt of the failure detection information, the second server node device transmits a survival confirmation request to... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017644 | BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANT DYNAMIC QUORUM USING A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The computer executable code is operable to dynamically adjust quorum requirements for a voting set V of a server cluster, including a plur... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100017647 | MATCH SERVER FOR A FINANCIAL EXCHANGE HAVING FAULT TOLERANT OPERATION Fault tolerant operation is disclosed for a primary match server of a financial exchange using an active copy-cat instance, a.k.a. backup match server, that mirrors operations in the primary match server, but only after those operations have successfully completed in th... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100005337 | Data Transfer and Recovery Process A backup image generator can create a primary image and periodic delta images of all or part of a primary server. The images can be sent to a network attached storage device and a remote storage server. In the event of a failure of the primary server, the failure can be... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100005336 | Method and Device for Exchanging Data on the Basis of the Opc Communications Protocol Between Redundant Process Automation Components The invention relates to a method and a device for exchanging data on the basis of the OPC communications protocol, wherein at least one OPC-ready server is connected parallel to a master OPC server. an OPC client is connected to the master OPC server over a first commu... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090327798 | Cluster Shared Volumes Described is a technology by which a storage volume is shared by cluster nodes of a server cluster. In one implementation, each node includes a redirector that provides shared access to the volume from that node. The redirector routes file system metadata requests from ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327799 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, SERVER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE A management server is equipped with a manager comprising software including a server management program. A managed server has a built-in system disk capable of being booted, on which an agent is installed that is software for communicating with the manager of the manag... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090319824 | DATA RECOVERY IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS USING PEER'S COOPERATIVE NETWORKING A method and apparatus for recovering data, comprising establishing a secondary recovery network with a device, detecting data loss and recovering via the secondary recovery network the lost data from the device, the device having correctly received the data, are descri... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090320138 | NETWORK SECURITY SYSTEM HAVING A DEVICE PROFILER COMMUNICATIVELY COUPLED TO A TRAFFIC MONITOR A system and method for providing distributed security of a network. Several device profilers are placed at different locations of a network to assess vulnerabilities from different perspectives. The device profiler identifies the hosts on the network, and characteristi... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316606 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS WITH IMPROVED ZONE MERGE OPERATION BY CACHING PRIOR MERGE OPERATION RESULTS Methods, devices and systems for improved zone merge operations are disclosed. Two connected switches are arbitrated as an initiator and a receiver. The merge operation is initiated only by the initiator on an initiator/receiver inter-switch link. The initiator may init... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090315766 | SOURCE SWITCHING FOR DEVICES SUPPORTING DYNAMIC DIRECTION INFORMATION With the addition of directional information in the environment, a variety of service(s) can be provided on top of user identification or interaction with specific object(s) of interest by pointing at the objects. Sometimes either the device user and/or the publishers o... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090300407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOAD BALANCING VIA A PLURALITY OF VIRTUAL SERVERS UPON FAILOVER USING METRICS FROM A BACKUP VIRTUAL SERVER The present invention provides methods and systems for performing load balancing via a plurality of virtual servers upon a failover using metrics from a backup virtual server. The methods and systems described herein provide systems and methods for an appliance detectin... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090292942 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED LOCAL REPAIR PATHS Techniques for finding an optimized local repair path that may be used to signal a local repair connection for a protected connection. The optimized local repair path starts at a node in the path associated with the protected connection and ends at a merge point node in... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090292943 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING LOCAL REPAIR CONNECTIONS Techniques for configuring a local repair connection for a protected connection including determining a path for the local repair connection. The path traversed by a local repair connection starts at a node in the path associated with the protected connection and ends a... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090287955 | REDUNDANT FAILOVER SYSTEM, REDUNDANCY MANAGING APPARATUS AND APPLICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS In a communication system using an IP tunnel for communication between application processing apparatuses (hereinafter, processing apparatuses), an application can be moved to an arbitrary processing apparatus, update of tunnel tables included in the respective processi... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287500 | DISTRIBUTED INTEGRATED IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A system and method for increasing integration within and between medical sites with medical information systems, optionally using a single device which is suitable for multiple sites. In some embodiments, the device forms a network where devices can exchange data acros... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING A STORAGE SERVER IN A DISTRIBUTED COLUMN CHUNK DATA STORE An improved system and method for removing a storage server in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a dat... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287954 | SLOT INTERFACE ACCESS UNIT, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM THEREOF, AS WELL AS REDUNDANCY CONFIGURATION OF MAIN UNIT, AND REPLACING METHOD OF THE SAME A single main unit manages information on hardware resources and the like of all main units connected to a network in an integrated fashion. A slot management module, a slot control module, and a physical slot/managed slot comparison table are provided between an input/... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090282284 | RECOVERY SERVER FOR RECOVERING MANAGED SERVER When the boot monitoring unit receives, from a management server, a first boot response for a first boot request from a NIC1 of a managed server, a boot monitoring unit stores a receiving time of the first boot response. When the boot monitoring unit receives a s... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090282283 | MANAGEMENT SERVER IN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CLUSTER MANAGEMENT METHOD An information processing system includes I/O devices, I/O switches each of which is coupled to the I/O devices, multiple server apparatuses which are coupled to the I/O switch and with which a cluster can be constructed, and a management server. In the system, a manage... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090276658 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A computing system is configured to deploy a JAVA application for execution in a distributed manner. The computing system includes a plurality of computing nodes including a domain manager node, the plurality of computing nodes forming a computing domain configured as a... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090276657 | MANAGING CLUSTER SPLIT-BRAIN IN DATACENTER SERVICE SITE FAILOVER A central controlling service for datacenter activation/deactivation control in a cluster deployment to assist in preventing a split-brain scenario. The central controlling service provides a central point of control in the datacenter for application servers to periodic... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090271654 | CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM An object of the present invention is to ensure, in an information processing system including a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, reliability and availability thereof when failover is executed. In an information processing system, which includes a... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271655 | FAILOVER METHOD, PROGRAM, FAILOVER APPARATUS AND FAILOVER SYSTEM The invention is to provide a failover method for improving overall reliability of a system including a large number of servers. Priorities set based on operating statuses of respective servers and shared devices capable of communicating with the respective servers in a... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090265553 | Multipoint Server for Providing Secure, Scaleable Connections Between a Plurality of Network Devices A method and system for implementing secure communications between a plurality of devices are provided. The method and system generally include the provision of at least one common encryption parameter to each of the plurality of devices, as well as an identification of... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090259881 | FAILSAFE RECOVERY FACILITY IN A COORDINATED TIMING NETWORK A failsafe recovery capability for a Coordinated Timing Network. The recovery capability facilitates recovery when communication is lost between two servers of the coordinated timing network. The capability includes checking another system's status in order to determine... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259552 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS FROM MULTIPLE AD SERVERS USING A FAILOVER MECHANISM A system and method for providing ad content may include a processor configured to, for rendering ad content during a rendering of a user-requested content: receive from a first provider a first link to a second provider; access the second provider via the first link; i... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090254775 | METHOD FOR ENABLING FASTER RECOVERY OF CLIENT APPLICATIONS IN THE EVENT OF SERVER FAILURE A system and method are provided for improving recovery times in fallover conditions in a multinode data processing system by sending notification of the failure of a server node, which is acting as server for a client application running on a client node, to the client... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090249114 | COMPUTER SYSTEM The computer system is capable of improving performance, reliability and redundancy. The computer system comprises: a plurality of server computers having different functions, the server computers being mutually connected by communication lines; a standby server compute... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090249115 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC LINK FAILOVER MANAGEMENT The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing redundancy and resiliency features to network devices, such as switches and routers, that do not have built-in redundancy and resiliency features. Health-check messages are periodically transmitted o... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090240974 | Data replication method Provided is a data replication method capable of reducing the number of communication times when a processing result of an active system is replicated to a standby system. The data replication method, in which a first computer receives a first message containing a first... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090235111 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR A data transmission device, configured to be connected with a plurality of terminal devices via a network, includes a data transmission unit transmitting data sequentially to the terminal devices, a determining unit determining a transmission method for transmitting the... | 09/17/2009 |
