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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190741 | Customizing a namespace in a decentralized storage environment Systems and methods to customize a namespace using a synthetic namespace. A NAS switch provides file migrations in a NAS storage network that are transparent to the clients. The NAS switch file handles are used to customize a namespace. More specifically, a syntheti... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190743 | Most eligible server in a common work queue environment A system and method for managing servers. The system comprises a plurality of servers for processing messages, at least one client for transmitting messages to and receiving messages from the servers, and processor means for maintaining a list indicating whether at ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190745 | Methods and apparatuses for adjusting bandwidth allocation during a collaboration session In one embodiment, a participant device joins a collaboration session among a plurality of participant devices. The content shared within the collaboration session includes lower-priority data and higher-priority data. An initial available bandwidth for use with the... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190742 | Distributed differential store with non-distributed objects and compression-enhancing data-object routing One embodiment of the present invention provides a distributed, differential electronic-data storage system that includes client computers, component data-storage systems, and a routing component. Client computers direct data objects to component data-storage system... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190744 | Data center batch job quality of service control A machine-controlled method can include determining an extended interval quality of service (QoS) specification for a batch job and determining a remaining data center resource requirement for the batch job based on the extended interval QoS specification. The machi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185632 | Discovery of a generic device in a non-linear discovery framework In one embodiment, a method includes discovering a resource using a first discovery module, the first discovery module being for identifying resources having identifying information known to the first discovery module. The method also includes discovering the resour... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185631 | Controlling service failover in clustered storage apparatus networks A controller for use at a node of a clustered computer apparatus includes an exception detection component for detecting an exception raised by a service component at the node; a quiesce component responsive to the exception detection component for quiescing lease-g... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185634 | Managing resource consolidation configurations Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance information associated with processing a ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185633 | Method and apparatus for offloading network processes in a computer storage system A system and method for offloading network processes from main processors of a storage system and performing them on parallel processing modules. Embodiments of the present invention improve performance of a clustered storage system by performing certain network pro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180896 | Global load balancing on a content delivery network The invention relates to systems and methods of global load balancing in a content delivery network having a plurality of edge servers which may be distributed across multiple geographic locations. According to one aspect of the invention, a global load balancing sy... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176181 | Layer-2 management entity messaging framework in a network A communications system and method comprises the steps of performing at least one Layer 2 transaction comprising a plurality of wave cycles, each Layer 2 transaction including performing a first wave cycle, concatenating the received first responses from each of the... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176180 | Dynamically matching data service capabilities to data service level objectives A method, system, and computer program product are provided for matching a storage dependent device to a storage subsystem. Storage requirements are identified for a storage dependent device that is coupled to a network. Additionally, a set of storage subsystems tha... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176179 | Method and system for data-structure management Embodiments of the present invention are directed to computationally efficient methods and systems for managing connection-associated and exchange-associated resources within network proxies. In one embodiment of the present invention, a circular connection-switch q... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171141 | Provisioning system including stack manager Systems and methods of executing and/or provisioning an application in an application specific runtime environment are disclosed. The application specific runtime environment is defined by an application environment specification to include a minimal or reduced set ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171142 | Data center inventory management using smart racks A system for managing physical and virtual inventory in a data center is disclosed. The system includes a resource management system for managing computing resources of the data center, an inventory management system for tracking physical locations of the plurality ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171140 | Resource allocation in computers A method and tangible medium embodying code for allocating resource units of an allocatable resource among a plurality of clients in a computer is described. In the method, resource units are initially distributed among the clients by assigning to each of the client... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166169 | Method of allocating resources among client work machines A method for allocating resources among a plurality of client work machines includes representing at least one client work machine as a resource object, representing at least one manufacturing process executable at a client work machine as a process, defining at lea... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166170 | Distributed multiplexing The present invention is directed to a method of delivering a video stream. The method operates by determining a group of video streams to be provided to a particular destination over a particular communication link. Next, the band width of the link is allocated to ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166171 | Provision of resource allocation information A system is provided for disseminating resource allocation information from system resources to state-information observers comprising resource users and typically also at least one system resource manager. Each resource maintains state information about its identit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166166 | Apparatus system and method for distributing configuration parameter An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for distributing configuration parameters. The present invention includes one or more storage devices configured to store data, a first DHCP server configured to process DHCP messages and redirect communications regardi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166168 | System and method for disambiguating non-unique identifiers using information obtained from disparate communication channels The disclosure describes systems and methods for disambiguating a non-unique identifiers of real world entities (RWEs) detected by a computing network by dynamically identifying relationships between RWEs known to the network. The relationships are determined based ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166167 | System and method for providing customized rendering of content Content data is programmatically received or retrieved programmatically from one or more network locations. The content data may be provided in part by a source entity, such as a carrier of a cellular network. A content is rendered from the content data on one or mo... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166172 | Remote terminal, processor-readable medium, and method for remote adjustment of a user profile A method includes receiving at least one performance parameters from a customer premises equipment at a controller. The method includes storing the at least one performance parameter for the customer premises equipment in a line table. The method includes determinin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161159 | Network configuration with smart edge servers A collaboration network is defined by creating a virtual meeting room on a central server. The central server negotiates with one or more edge servers for remote management of selected collaboration parameters, which control such things as shared objects, group conn... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161160 | XML-based web feed for web access of remote resources Techniques for XML (Extensible Markup Language) web feeds for web access of remote resources are described. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information regarding one or more available resources from one or more resource hosts, rendering the informatio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161161 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus A certain process included in a first execution space requests a local resource manager to allocate a resource. The local resource manager obtains the authentication ID of the process issuing the request and determines whether or not the resource can be allocated. I... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161158 | Method in a communication system, a communication system and a communication device The present invention relates to a method and a communication system for transmission of multimedia streams. Multimedia streams are transmitted in the communication system from a sending communication device to a receiving communication device at least partly via a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156225 | Method for accepting QoS request, and apparatus and computer readable recording medium providing the same Disclosed is a method of accepting a QoS request for utilizing resources of a network in a predetermined quality. The method receives from a terminal connected to the network a resource unnecessity notification indicating that resource allocated to the terminal has ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156226 | Ordering provisioning request execution based on service level agreement and customer entitlement A solution provided here comprises receiving requests for a service from a plurality of customers, responding to the requests for a service, utilizing a shared infrastructure, and configuring the shared infrastructure, based on stored customer information. Another e... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156227 | System and method for managing multiple domain names for a website in a website indexing system When a website has a number of equivalent domain names including a preferred domain name, the locator for a document in the website can be rewritten using the preferred domain name before indexing the document, according to certain embodiments. According to certain ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150970 | Work load distribution among server processes Technologies relating to work load distribution. A request is received for access to one of n server processes, where n is an integer greater than one. A mixing function is applied to an identifier associated with the request to generate a reproducible output repres... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150971 | Mechanism for migration of client-side virtual machine system resources In one embodiment, a mechanism for migration of client-side virtual machine system resources is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving notification that a virtual machine (VM) is to be live migrated from a first server to a second server, connecti... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150972 | System and method of providing reservation masks within a compute environment A system, method and computer-readable media for providing a reservation mask for compute resources such as a cluster or a grid. The method aspect comprises identifying a need type and a group of available resources, creating a reservation mask over the identified g... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145759 | Dynamically configurable resource pool A dynamically configurable resource pool may provide a pool of computing resource for use in a computing system or application, such as a connection pool or a thread pool for server systems such as application and web server systems. In one embodiment, a server may ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145760 | Methods and systems for automatic inference and adaptation of virtualized computing environments Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and method for automatic inference and adaptation of a virtualized computer environment. Certain embodiments of a system include a virtual topology and traffic inference framework tool adapted to monitor t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145764 | Network sharing method without conflict A network sharing method includes steps of generating a random waiting time, assigning a first virtual IP address to the first computer after the random waiting time has elapsed, and discriminating whether a second virtual IP address is detected. If the second virtu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145761 | Load skewing for power-aware server provisioning The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method facilitates energy-aware connection distribution among a plurality of servers in a cluster. A set of busy servers in the cluster can be provided that each handle a high number of connections. In addition, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145762 | Collecting information regarding consumer click-through traffic A method and system for providing the centralized collection of click-through traffic information. The method includes receiving a DNS query for a domain name at a third party auditing service from a requesting computing resource. The domain name is configured to in... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145763 | System and method for controlling resource revocation in a multi-guest computer system At least one guest system, for example, a virtual machine, is connected to a host system, which includes a system resource such as system machine memory. Each guest system includes a guest operating system (OS). A resource requesting mechanism, preferably a driver, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145765 | Distributed on-demand computing system A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is sel... | 03/27/2012 |
