Abstract: A system for providing local and remote access to an I/O device includes a hardware device having a microprocessor, an I/O interface, a LAN interface, and a WAN interface. The microprocessor is configured to coordinate the I/O interface, the LAN interface, and the WAN interface. The hardware device is configured to provide plug-and-play functionality with respect to an I/O device in communication with the hardware device via the I/O interface. A cloud server is in electronic communication with the hardware via the LAN interface. A first client device is in electronic communication with the cloud server and configured to access the hardware device therethrough. A second client device is in electronic communication with the hardware device via the WAN interface. A user of the system can access, control, and/or monitor the I/O device via the hardware device upon accessing the hardware device using the first or second client device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for prototyping Internet-enabled devices. One of the methods includes receiving a prototype program defining functionality of a proposed Internet-enabled device having a plurality of sensors and one or more actuators. A sensor hub receives a registration request through a prototyping API for each of the connected sensors and the one or more actuators. The sensor hub initializes each of the connected sensors and the one or more connected actuators, obtains a status of each registered connected sensor, provides the obtained status of each connected sensor to the prototyping system through the prototyping API, receives requested actions corresponding to functionality specified in the prototype program, and executes each of the requested actions on a corresponding connected actuator.

Abstract: Multipath load balancing methods and apparatus that may be implemented on or by load balancers in load balanced systems. The multipath load balancing method may leverage a multipath network protocol to establish multiple paths for at least some connections between client hosts and server hosts in load balanced systems, each connection corresponding to a particular data flow between a respective client host and server host. Using the multipath load balancing method, a load balancer may operate to establish a bi-directional connection directly between a client host and a server host after first establishing a connection between the client host and server host that passes through the load balancer. Most or all of the traffic that would move between the client host and the server host via the load balancer can then be diverted onto the second, more direct connection between the client host and the server host.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating traffic statistics for a datacenter. Distributed, parallel processing may be used to generate traffic statistics from data sets about traffic in a datacenter. To reduce data sets from which such statistics are derived to manageable sizes and relevant processing times for distributed, parallel processing, traffic agents may be provided at end hosts in the datacenter. The traffic agents may summarize data traffic over large numbers of packets in terms of the various sockets over which they are transmitted. Reports on the various sockets may be sent by the various flow agents that monitor them to an analytic controller. The analytic controller may aggregate, provide flow-path information for, further reduce, and/or provision the resultant data for distributed parallel processing.