Abstract: Example systems, methods, and logic are provided herein for detecting a numerical identifier of an endpoint. In one example, a connectivity manager establishes a wireless communication session with a fixed endpoint using a wireless communication protocol. The connectivity manager module then generates a Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP) request to download a phone number associated with the fixed endpoint. The connectivity manager module receives, via the wireless communication session, a PBAP response comprising a phone number identifying the fixed endpoint and inputs the phone number identifying the fixed endpoint into a field used for initiating a call to the fixed endpoint.

Abstract: An authentication request is generated when a user of a client device attempts to initiate a user session with an application managed by a service provider. An authentication response is generated based on credentials received from the user. The authentication response includes an assertion on behalf of the user. A delivery resource locator for the assertion is rewritten to a resource locator of a proxy in order to redirect the assertion to the proxy. The authentication response is sent to the client device together with the resource locator of the proxy in order to cause the client device to send the assertion to the proxy that decodes the re-written resource locator and sends the assertion to the service provider.

Abstract: An inner packet configured with a multicast address and configured to perform a traceroute operation through a network is encapsulated to form an encapsulated packet. The encapsulated packet is sent into a network, the encapsulated packet being forwarded along a multicast tree of the network for the multicast address. A plurality of responses are received from a plurality of network nodes comprising the multicast tree, wherein each response comprises an indication of a node of the plurality of nodes that sends the response and an indication of a node from which the node sending the response received the encapsulated packet.

Abstract: Messages sent from an initiating device to a called device to establish a telephonic communication session between the initiating device and the called device are received at a network device. One of a first network or a second network is selected to establish a first communication path of the telephonic communication session. The first network comprises an Internet Protocol network to which the initiating device and the called device are connected, and the second network comprises a public switched telephone network. Messages are sent to the called device via the one of the first network or the second network to establish the first communication path. A second communication path is established between the initiating device and the called device through another of the first network or the second network. At least a subset of data also being sent over the first communication path is sent via the second communication path.

Abstract: According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a body and a toggle-interlock assembly. The body has an opening defined therein. The toggle-interlock assembly is coupled to the body, and includes a toggle portion and an interlock portion. The toggle-interlock assembly has a first configuration and a second configuration. When the toggle-interlock assembly is in a first configuration, the toggle portion physically blocks at least part of the opening while the interlock portion is stowed. When the toggle-interlock assembly is in a second configuration, the toggle portion does not physically block access to the opening while the interlock portion is in a deployed position that is arranged to prevent the apparatus from being inserted into a chassis.

Abstract: A method including: receiving, at a conference unit, a command to establish a conference call between the conference unit and another conference unit, the conference unit being connected to at least one access point and the access point being accessible by a terminal; utilizing, by the conference unit, an internet telephony protocol to setup at least one media line between the conference unit and the other conference unit; establishing at least one data channel that transmits LAN traffic between the conference unit and the other conference unit utilizing the internet telephony protocol; establishing, by the conference unit, a connection with the terminal, the terminal being part of a combined local area network; and receiving, at the conference unit, an input from the terminal via the connection to access the combined local area network.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a device that is protected against a power outage event in a network receives metrics used by a first node in the network to select a routing link to a second node in the network. The device stores the metrics used by the first node to select the routing link to the second node. The device selects a set of one or more of the metrics to provide to the first node during network formation after a power outage event in the network. The device provides the selected set of one or more of the metrics to the first node, wherein the first node uses the provided set to reestablish connectivity to the network.

Abstract: The present technology may determine an anomaly in a portion of a distributed business application. Data can automatically be captured and analyzed for the portion of the application associated with the anomaly. By automatically capturing data for just the portion associated with the anomaly, the present technology reduces the resource and time requirements associated with other code-based solutions for monitoring transactions. A method for performing a diagnostic session for a request may begin with initiating collection of diagnostic data associated with a request. An application thread on each of two or more servers may be sampled. The application threads may be associated with the same business transaction and the business transaction may be associated with the request. The diagnostic data may be stored.

Abstract: A controller for the conference session generates a speaker signal for speakers in a conference room. The controller correlates the speaker signal with network timing information and generates speaker timing information. The controller transmits the correlated speaker signal and timing information to a mobile device participating in the conference session. The mobile device generates an echo cancelled microphone signal from a microphone of the mobile device, and transmits the echo cancelled signal back to the controller. The controller also receives array microphone signals associated with an array of microphones at known positions in the room. The controller estimates a relative location of the mobile device within the conference room. The controller dynamically selects as audio output corresponding to the mobile device location either the echo cancelled microphone signal from the mobile device or an echo cancelled array microphone signal associated with the relative location of the mobile device.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, a virtual conference is established with a server and a plurality of endpoint devices. One endpoint device, acting as a sender, may transfer a file to N other endpoint devices, acting as receivers. The sender divides the file in at least N segments and delivers one segment to each receiver. Receivers then request the next desired segment from one or more devices containing that segment. If devices hold the segment, the segment may be divided into parts, and one part may be requested from each device.

Abstract: A wireless device accesses a shared spectrum equitably in a self-organizing manner by determining success indices and adjusting courtesy parameters. The wireless device transmits wireless transmissions in a frame subframe structure over a shared spectrum, each of the subframes bounded by subframe boundaries at predetermined time intervals. The success index represents a measure of success in transmitting wireless transmissions in the shared spectrum. The wireless device performs a clear channel assessment to determine whether the shared spectrum is available at the end of the clear channel assessment time interval. The wireless device determines a gap interval between the end of the clear channel assessment time interval and the next subframe boundary and transmits the success index during the gap interval.

Abstract: According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a first printed circuit board (PCB), the first PCB including a first interface, and a corrosion sensor assembly. The corrosion sensor assembly including a second interface arranged to be coupled to the first interface, the corrosion sensor assembly further including a signal trace field and a plurality of components, wherein the signal trace field and the plurality of components are arranged to provide an indication of whether the apparatus is in an environment that is corrosive.

Abstract: A method for applying network services to data traffic forwarded between virtual private network (VPN) sites includes: receiving a data packet addressed to a target site associated with the VPN, determining services to be applied to the data packet according to a service chain, where the determining is a function of at least one of the VPN, the origin site or the target site, adding an indication of a VPN forwarding context onto the data packet, encapsulating the data packet with Network Service Header encapsulation, where a header for the encapsulated data packet indicates at least the service chain; forwarding the encapsulated data packet in accordance with the service chain, receiving the encapsulated data packet at the end of the service chain, terminating the service chain, removing the encapsulation, and forwarding the data packet to a target destination per the indication of a VPN forwarding context.

Abstract: Quorum based anomaly detection utilizes multiple entities to detect and attempt to configure a repair task for an anomaly. Once the repair task is generated, a system is used to assign the task to a worker entity while recording the responsibility of that task with the worker in a persistent storage. If the worker entity crashes, the degraded worker status will eventually be detected, and all tasks associated with that worker will be re-assigned. Once a worker finishes a task, the assignment information for the task is transitioned to a completed state.

Abstract: In one implementation, a cloud service server supplements one or more call centers or data centers. The cloud service server receives a customer identification value from a call center, which may include a phone number or an address for the customer. The cloud service server generates a profile request for one or more social networking services for profile information based on the customer identification value and sends the profile information to the call center. The call center returns customer context data from the call center associated with the customer. The cloud service server stores the customer context data and the profile information in associated with the customer identification value.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for optimizing tracking areas for user equipments (UEs) is implemented in a mobile network and includes: defining network slices as a function of UE types, where UEs in the mobile network are associated with the network slices according to the UE types, defining network slice specific tracking areas as groups of one or more mobile base stations according to the network slices; receiving a signal from a given UE from among the UEs at a receiving mobile base station from among the one or more mobile base stations, and paging the given UE in a network slice specific tracking area from among the network slice specific tracking areas, where the receiving mobile base station is in the network slice specific tracking area, and the given UE is associated with the network slice specific tracking area according to an associated UE type from among the UE types.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, an HLS transcoder inserts a plurality of encoder boundary points (EBPs) into an HLS formatted content item, a processor places hints about locations of the inserted EBPs, and an inputter inputs the HLS formatted content item into an on-demand encapsulation process. Related systems, apparatus and methods are also described.

Abstract: An example method for radio frequency (RF) signal fault signature isolation in cable network environments is provided and includes searching in phase domain for an echo in a channel response characterizing a channel in a cable network, the channel facilitating communication of a multi-tone signal in the cable network; identifying a phase in which the echo is found; calculating a tap amplitude corresponding to the identified phase, the calculated tap amplitude being indicative of group delay in the channel; correcting for the group delay in the multi-tone signal, for example, by subtracting the calculated tap amplitude from the multi-tone signal; and identifying a fault signature when amplitude of the corrected signal is greater than a threshold and the identified fault signature triggers operational maintenance of the cable network.

Abstract: Embodiments generally provide techniques for data framing and error correction for communications on a link. Embodiments include receiving a stream of bits within a metaframe. Upon determining that a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for a portion of the stream of bits is valid, the portion of the stream of bits is forwarded without performing forward error correction (FEC) decoding for the first portion. Upon determining that a CRC for the portion of the stream of bits is invalid, FEC decoding is performed for the portion before forwarding the portion of the stream of bits. Embodiments also include generating a metaframe for transmission over a link, and upon determining that a current measure of network throughput is less than a predefined threshold amount of network throughput, inserting one or more checkpoints into the metaframe to create different segments of the metaframe. The metaframe is then transmitted over the link.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a plurality of paths in a network from a source device to a destination device is identified. A predicted performance for packet delivery along a primary path from the plurality of paths is determined. The predicted performance for packet delivery along the primary path is then compared to a performance threshold. Traffic sent along the primary path may be duplicated onto a backup path selected from the plurality of paths based on a determination that the predicted performance along the primary path is below the performance threshold.