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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117290 | Simple home networking A network management system is provided for managing a computer network. The management system is configured to represent the computer network as having one of a plurality of defined network states. Once the state of the network has been identified, the management s... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108497 | Selective enablement of runtime-based application behaviors A system and method for deploying software from a central location to a plurality of remote install sites. The system includes a network-accessible server system and a plurality of computing devices. Based on delivery of a general application deliverable from the se... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108496 | Method and apparatus for selecting forwarding modes A method is provided for automatically determining in which data forwarding mode a network device should operate. Also, other settings for operation of the device may be automatically determined. These modes and settings may be selected based on one or more attribut... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103749 | Method and apparatus for managing communications The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for managing communications arriving from or to a node connected to a specified portion of a network. Some embodiments relate to an apparatus for managing communications arriving from or to a node connected to... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103751 | Architecture and protocol for extensible and scalable communication A system performs information technology (IT) tasks using a computer. Examples of IT tasks include installing or configuring software, displaying alerts, executing programs or scripts on the endpoint, or logging activities. In an embodiment of the system, a connecti... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103750 | System of distributing content data over a computer network and method of arranging nodes for distribution of data over a computer network Described is a method for improving both the bandwidth efficiency and bit rate of data streams flowing through binary tree networks. In an embodiment, the invention provides a method for efficiently utilizing end-consumer computers possessing a variety of upstream b... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103748 | Rule-based method and system for managing heterogenous computer clusters A system and method for managing heterogenous clusters asynchronously accesses operating information received from the clusters by invoking services on the clusters to send the necessary information, which is then evaluated against rules supplied by the clusters. Th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095628 | Consolidated notifications to NFS clients A computer implemented method and apparatus for rebooting a host having a plurality of network interfaces. A server reboots the host by stopping an NFS server process on the host. The server sends at least one consolidated notification to a plurality of clients iden... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095629 | Managing user accounts and groups in multiple forests Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for managing contact proxies and security proxies in networks that are organized as forests. For instance, contact proxies may be generated to represent user accounts and groups in forests other than the h... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095627 | Information processing device, communication system, management device, method, and program An information processing device comprises: a communication unit which communicates with each device on a network, determines whether to accept data received from a device on the network or not based on a prescribed criterion, and transfers the received data to the ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090806 | Two-stage network device configuration process A method and apparatus for modifying the configuration of a network device, such as a router, using a two-stage configuration model is provided. A first request for a change in configuration of a network device is received. Configuration data that describes the chan... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090805 | System and method for performing cascaded lookups to forward packets Cascading a lookup over multiple lookup tables when performing multicast forwarding involves accessing a first lookup table based on at least part of a multicast destination address included in a packet header. The first lookup table identifies the portion (e.g., on... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086706 | System and method for self configuration of reconfigurable systems The invention is a system and method for reconfigurable computers. The invention involves a plurality of reconfigurable component clusters (RCCs), each of which can change their respective configuration upon receiving a configuration command. The invention uses a re... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086705 | Peer-to-peer module configuration redundancy and recovery management A method for peer-to-peer management module configuration redundancy and recovery can be provided. The method can include fragmenting configuration data for a specified management module configured to manage systems components in a blade environment. The method also... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078704 | Provisioning of a service environment using web services To perform service provisioning in an infrastructure, a provisioning system receives a request to provision a service environment for an application. In response to the request, the provisioning system employs web services to configure resources of the infrastructur... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073936 | Providing support for responding to location protocol queries within a network node Various systems and methods are disclosed for providing support for responding to location protocol queries within a network node. One such method involves associating a location with a network identity by associating a network port with a network identity and also ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073938 | Information processing apparatus and method of operating the same Using a service server list containing addresses of servers within a service system and an application list containing names of active applications within the service system, addresses of servers on which the active applications are running, and communication source... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073935 | Pluggable semantic verification and validation of configuration data A pluggable semantic verification and syntactic validation mechanism for server configuration information. In one embodiment, the data verification and validation mechanism may be implemented as modules that may be plugged into a framework. In one embodiment, the me... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073937 | Data downloading initiated by portable communicating objects during a campaign Content data available in a server is downloaded to portable communicating objects via a radio communication network during a data downloading campaign initiated by a portable communicating object upon transmission of a request of content availability to the server ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069231 | Computer program product for determining a group of network configuration settings that provide optimal network performance A computer program product is provided for optimizing network configuration settings for a user's client machine. A plurality of groups of network configuration settings are held in storage to be used by the user's client machine. A network connection is established... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069229 | Topology static zones Systems and techniques are provided for Topology-Static (TS) architecture within a computer system, and more particularly to the management of a Topology-Static architecture incorporating a storage area network (SAN). A SAN management system for monitoring and contr... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069230 | System and method of configuring a network Methods and systems for configuring a network are provided. A method may include monitoring properties of a connection between a computing device and a network. The method may also include detecting a change in the properties of the connection. The method may also i... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065399 | Automated network infrastructure test and diagnostic system and method therefor A testing system provides automated testing of one or more network infrastructures. The testing system may automatically reconfigure one or more devices within a network infrastructure and then conduct testing on the newly configured network infrastructure. Test res... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060585 | Self service distribution configuration framework A self-service distribution configuration framework integrates with a directory services and Systems Management Server (SMS) of an enterprise computing system for web based self service configuration changes on a server owner defined schedule. The framework will cro... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055740 | Wireless sensor network system and cluster management method thereof A wireless sensor network system and a cluster management method thereof. The wireless sensor network system includes at least one cluster having at least one sensor node for collecting sensing data, and a cluster head for aggregating the sensing data from the at le... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055739 | Sharing performance data between different information technology product/ solution deployments Mechanisms for dynamically sharing performance information among multiple computing nodes are provided. One implementation involves dynamically obtaining performance information from deployments of an information technology (IT) product/solution at the computing nod... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051151 | System and method for communicating with a network node behind a subscriber station with an IP convergence sub-layer A system and method for providing service in a network having a wireless component is disclosed. The system and method comprise receiving a request for a dynamic address from a user node connected to a subscriber station having a convergence sub-layer, providing the... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051152 | Isolated application server Dynamically isolating application servers, wherein only active application servers are indicated to client applications to prevent access to inactive application servers by the client applications. A central server of a distributed system determines a state of appli... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041792 | Client processor device for building application files from file fragments for different versions of an application A client processor including a communications receiver for receiving file fragments for the device, a micro-controller system including a microcontroller and a programmable non-volatile memory system, for building and storing application and data files from the frag... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032618 | Asynchronous update of virtualized applications A determination is made as to whether an updated image for an outdated virtualized application is available on a server. If it is determined that the updated image is available, then a background download operation configured to retrieve the updated image from the s... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032617 | Application settings migration using virtualization Application setting virtualization for a user. Application settings from a source computer are copied to a user-specific location on a destination computer and layered under corresponding application settings associated with one or more applications installed on the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028048 | Method and apparatus for policy-based provisioning in a virtualized service delivery environment In a distributed computing network having computers interconnected with each other, a method and apparatus of providing policy based provisioning of middleware components to provide a solution for a service. With this invention, the middleware components that are ne... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024434 | Method and system for improving the efficiency of state information transfer over a wireless communications network The present invention is directed to a system and method for managing state information related to an interactive application to accommodate one or more users participating in an interactive application session, wherein the state information comprises local state in... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8024433 | Managing application resources Methods of managing application resources in a computer system. The methods may comprise the steps of determining a configuration of the computer system and receiving a request to access an application resource. The methods may also comprise the step of directing th... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019838 | Autonomous operation of networking devices A system, method, and information processing system for managing a configuration of a network device. A current state associated with at least one network device (104) is determined (206). A set of commands (118) available for the current state ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019640 | Method, apparatus, and program for implementing an automation computing evaluation scale to generate recommendations An automation assessment tool is provided that defines autonomic technology, processes, organization, and skill sets that apply to autonomic computing. The automation assessment tool provides educational material about autonomic computing and a scale of maturity lev... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019839 | Enhanced network adapter framework An enhanced network adapter framework, in which parameters are stored in a configuration table, the parameters being customized for a network and an application. A network adapter customized for the network and the application is instantiated based on invoking a gen... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015270 | Redundant appliance configuration repository in standard hierarchical format A configuration of a first storage resource is written to a first instance of a single file in a standard hierarchical format that is stored locally in nonvolatile memory and updatable by the first resource. A configuration of a second storage resource is written to... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010639 | Parallel random proxy usage for large scale web access A system and method efficiently and anonymously retrieves large scale Web data through a restricted query interface. A number of proxy servers are utilized to permit parallel access to a target Web server for processing multiple queries simultaneously. Latency in th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010638 | Method and apparatus for updating firmware for interface unit connecting portable audio/video player with another audio/video player A method and apparatus updates software data for an interface unit that interfaces a portable audio/video player with another audio/video system. When the portable audio/video players are updated by adding new features, etc., the method and apparatus enables the use... | 08/30/2011 |
