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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190716 | Method and system for managing bluetooth communication using software or firmware filtering Aspects of method and system for managing secure Bluetooth communication using software or firmware filtering are provided. In this regard, the IT or system administration may select one or more Bluetooth profiles for Bluetooth devices and inform the host software o... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190714 | System and method for computer cluster virtualization using dynamic boot images and virtual disk A method for computer cluster virtualization includes selecting a distributed application. A policy associated with the distributed application is retrieved. One of a plurality of nodes is dynamically selected. Then, a boot image of the selected node is reset based,... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190718 | Model driven command language translator An embodiment includes a method that includes identifying a first functional effect that would be produced in an apparatus by executing in the apparatus one or more source commands. The embodiment includes determining whether the first functional effect is producibl... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190715 | System and methods for remote agent installation A storage area network push install performs SAN agent installation on a plurality of hosts according to a host install list. The target hosts may employ different operating systems, or platforms, and the installer selectively copies an install kit corresponding to ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190717 | Method of booting an operating system For use in a system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device, a method is provided for a server to boot an operating system from the external disk device. The method includes the steps of searching for the port of a network switch to whi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185613 | Host accountability using unreliable identifiers An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a directly observable identifier of host network traffic in the Internet and a host's IP address can dynamically change. Analysis of traffic (e.g., network activity or application request) logs may be performed and a host trackin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185614 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying accessible dispersed digital storage vaults utilizing a centralized registry A centralized depository for storing information regarding a collection of servers and other hardware used to implement a plurality of virtual dispersed data storage containers is disclosed. The centralized depository describes each virtual dispersed data storage co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180860 | Wireless device configuration management A method for providing wireless device management. The method comprises receiving a first request for wireless devices comprising specified software. The specified software is loaded on each of the wireless devices in response to the first request. The wireless devi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180861 | System and method for providing a communications client on a host device A system and a method (100, 500) for integrating an uncertified client (104) with a certified host device (102) are provided. The integration system (100) is configured to integrate the uncertified client (104), which has a plurali... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180863 | Electronic apparatus and system capable of assigning appropriate address In order to prevent unnecessary APIPA process from being executed in a LAN environment which does not adopt APIPA, an ICMP echo request for a predetermined IP address is broadcast. Whether there are more than N apparatuses using APIPA is checked based on the replies... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180862 | Arrangements for auto-merging processing components In some embodiments, a method for auto-configuring a network is disclosed. The method can include communicating with at least one node in a processing complex, receiving node connection data from the at least one node querying a node to verify at least a portion of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176148 | Method and system for wireless network configuration Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for identifying information associated with a remote user system and/or a wireless system, determining the compatibility of the remote user system and a wireless system, formulating one or more configuration plans fo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176149 | Ejection of storage drives in a computing network A method for managing a storage system comprises ejecting a first drive in the storage system having a plurality of drives, in response to determining a fault associated with the first drive, wherein the ejecting takes place in response to a command issued by a mana... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176151 | Runtime versioning of information processing systems An information processing system includes a runtime versioning facility which allows for managing its configuration so that modifications made during runtime are propagated and take affect without restarting the system or a portion thereof. This allows the potential... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176150 | Automated services procurement through multi-stage process A system which enables a secure network boot to address customer services offerings. The customer service offerings can include on-demand diagnostics to system reinstallation as well as automatic entitlement validation and service installation. Such a system enables... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171119 | Program deployment apparatus and method With a management server that is connected via a network to at least one physical server including a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client and deploys a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, and... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171116 | Configuring processing entities according to their roles in a data processing system with a distributed architecture A mechanism is provided for configuring different computers of a network. Each computer plays a specific physic role (defined by an architecture of the network) and/or a specific logic role (defined by the applications running in the network). A reference model and ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171115 | Resource equalization for inter- and intra- data center operations An exemplary component for managing requests for resources in a data center includes a service request module for receiving requests for resources from a plurality of services and a resource module to monitor resources in a data center and to match received requests... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171117 | Workflow manager for a distributed system A workflow manager handles the communication between a workflow-enabled provider and a workflow-enabled client. The workflow manager maintains a directory of clients, translates a transaction from a provider into multiple transactions suitable for the client, and ha... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171118 | Application streaming over HTTP Disclosed are systems and methods for application streaming over HTTP. A virtual application running on a host computing device may detect the need for a page of memory that is not present on the host computing device. Accordingly, the virtual application may send a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166138 | Network evaluation grid techniques Network evaluation grid techniques are presented. Local specifications for traffic patterns are evaluated for local traffic on local grids of a grid computing environment and reported out. The local traffic reported out is then evaluated in response to global traffi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166137 | Control of network plug-and-play compliant device When the network protocol controller 302 of the network device 200 receives a message sent from a client, it interprets the message header in accordance with network plug-and-play protocol without interpreting the content of the message body; and sends... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161138 | Replication system having the capability to accept commands at a standby-system site before completion of updating thereof A replication system rapidly switches from a normal-system site to a standby-system site in the event of a problem and reliably maintains functions, and moreover, reduces drops in performance. A first site provides system functions that accompany writing and reading... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161139 | Method and apparatus for intelligent management of a network element A network element (NE) includes an intelligent interface (II) with its own operating environment rendering it active during the NE boot process, and with separate intelligence allowing it to take actions on the NE prior to, during, and after the boot process. The co... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161137 | Environment delivery network A method for environmental delivery network prioritizes groups of data for transmission based on a various factors such as synchronization requirements, endpoint configuration, and the fidelity of sensory stimuli reproduction. A device detects data missing from a gr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161134 | Smart zoning to enforce interoperability matrix in a storage area network The present invention describes various mechanisms which may be used for improving SAN device interoperability enforcement techniques implemented in SAN or Fiber Channel networks. In one implementation, the technique of the present invention allows a SAN to automati... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161136 | Method and system for optimizing performance and availability of a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) service A method and system for monitoring and optimizing performance and availability of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service provided by one or a plurality of DHCP servers (602) in an Internet Protocol (IP) network comprising one or a plurality of I... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161140 | Interfacing between a command line interface-based application program and a remote network device In one embodiment, a method for interfacing between a command-line-interface (CLI)-based application program (CLI-AP) residing in a client network device, and remote network devices. The method includes predefining at least one CLI-based program routine (CLI-PR) com... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161135 | Device identification number based name service A method for addressing a client device, wherein a unique identification code, such as a serial number or an International Mobile Equipment Identity code of a mobile device, is attached to the device name. The unique identification code can be used as a part of the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156206 | Contextual data communication platform Systems and methods for a contextual data platform are provided. According to one embodiment, an Internet-enabled mobile device is provided, including a storage device having embodied thereon instructions and one or more processors operable to execute the instructio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156205 | System, method and computer program product for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service can en... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150945 | Host arbitrated user interface resource sharing A system and method for managing a user interface resource. Various aspects of the present invention comprise establishing a wireless communication link between a user interface resource and a first system. The user interface resource may, for example, be utilized t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150947 | Techniques for performing operating system installation on a headless device Techniques are provided for performing software installation on a headless device. A first device is used to interactively obtain answers in connection with installation processing performed on the first device regarding the software installation for the headless de... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150948 | Complex software deployment Systems and methods of deploying one or more software components to a target computer infrastructure are disclosed. A descriptor file that declares a desired state of one or more target computing devices of a target computer infrastructure is parsed. A live state of... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150946 | Proximity-based memory allocation in a distributed memory system A system and method for allocating the nearest available physical memory in a distributed, shared memory system. In various embodiments, a processor node may broadcast a memory request to a first subset of nodes connected to it via a communication network. In some e... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145733 | Identification of computers located behind an address translation server In one embodiment, a Network Address Translation (NAT) server performs address translation services for client computers in a private computer network. A traffic monitor computer outside the private computer network may receive network data processed by the NAT serv... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145735 | Configuring network settings using portable storage media A portable computer-readable media device and method of use enable automatic configuration of a computing device, such as a conventional network device or a thin client device, for operation in a network. Configuration information, including network settings and sec... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145731 | System and method for determining how many servers of at least one server configuration to be included at a service provider's site for supporting an expected workload A method comprises receiving, into a capacity planning system, workload information representing an expected workload of client accesses of streaming media files from a site. The method further comprises the capacity planning system determining, for at least one ser... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145732 | Live network configuration within a link based computing system A method is described in which, in response to notice of a configuration event yet to happen within a network that is part of a link-based computing system, a component within said link based computing system: a) identifies networking configuration information chang... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140650 | Use of configurations in device with multiple configurations The invention relates to a method for arranging use of configurations in a device with multiple configuration data sets manageable by one or more external managing entities. The device comprises access control information originated and/or controlled by an external ... | 03/20/2012 |
