Abstract: A method and system for generating an automated Internet connection is provided. The method includes receiving from a first communication hardware device of a first user, a first telephone number and a first Internet protocol (IP) address. A second telephone number and a second Internet protocol (IP) address are received from a second communication hardware device of a second user. A request for connecting the first communication hardware device to the second communication hardware device via an Internet connection is received and it is determined that the second communication hardware device is currently connected the first communication hardware device. The request is transmitted to the second communication hardware device. Based on the second user approving the request, the second IP address is automatically transmitted to the first communication device and a secure private Internet link between the first communication hardware device and the second communication hardware device is generated.

Abstract: Provided herein are methodologies, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable media for interacting between a service provider system and an enterprise incident management system, that include a gateway device programmed to receive a provider method including processor-executable instructions to perform a task relating to an incident at an enterprise back-end and convert the provider method to be compatible with the incident management system. The conversion is based on a structured framework to convert a method executable in the service provider system to a method executable in the incident management system. The gateway device is also programmed to transmit the converted provider method to a server of the incident management system. The system may include a server programmed to execute the converted provider method to generate a response method and transmit the response method to the gateway device, where the response method includes data relating to performance of the task.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can present optimized data migration. Embodiments can provide improved data migration processes using a data migration assistant that executes on a source system to facilitate the migration of documents and data to a destination system. The migration assistant can communicate with a migration controller server to authenticate and identify the migration assistant and migration project that the migration assistant is to be used for. The migration controller server can use the identifier to determine commands corresponding to the migration project to send to the migration assistant to collect data and make changes to the source system.

Abstract: Remote computing resource service providers allow customers to execute virtual computer systems in a virtual environment on hardware provided by the computing resource service provider. The virtual computer systems may be suspended for an indeterminate amount of time and saved as images in one or more storage systems of the service provider. Periodically, updates for the virtual computer systems are required. In order to update virtual computer systems that are stored in a suspended state, an offline patch and indirection map is generated and used to update the virtual computer systems.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a cluster manager partitions media data into multiple media data partitions, each of which is to be processed by a computing node of a computing system. A platform module in a computing node receives a number of media files included in a media data partition. The platform module encodes each media file from an original format into a predefined format. The platform module then combines or serializes each encoded media file into a single stream of serialized data, and transmits it to a user module in the computing node. The user module separates from each other the received encoded media files. The user module then decodes each separated, encoded media file from the predefined format into the original format, and performs a specific media processing operation on each decoded file. Examples of the media processing operation include classification, image transformation, and feature extraction.

Abstract: There is provided a method of recipient management with electronic messages having time defined actions, comprising: defining for an electronic message to a recipient, according to data inputted by a user at a user client terminal, one or more actions for the recipient to perform and a time frame for performance of the one or more actions; sending the electronic message to a recipient client terminal of a recipient to trigger a monitoring of performance of the one or more actions by the recipient at the client terminal during the time frame; receiving an indication of the performance of the one or more actions based on the monitoring from the recipient client terminal; and presenting on the user client terminal a notification in response to the indication.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to identifying content accessed on a computing device that is likely actionable on another computing device. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for identifying a computing device of a user, identifying content accessed on another computing device by the user, determining content that is actionable on the computing device, determining a confidence level that the actionable content is of interest to the user, and providing the actionable content for use on the computing device if the confidence level satisfies a threshold. The confidence level may be based on an indication of time passage between the user accessing the content on the other computing device and the identified use of the computing device.

Abstract: A system and method for reducing communications overhead in a distributed transaction processing environment such as an XA environment. In accordance with an embodiment communication overhead is reduced in a transaction by deferring a transaction end communication. The deferred transaction end communication is determined from a subsequent XA transaction communication thereby reducing the number of networks calls required for each transaction and enhancing system performance.

Abstract: A method for managing a virtual infrastructure is described. The method includes: generating a configuration information model representing a virtual infrastructure based on known virtual machines and network settings thereon; querying one or more sources of truth other than the known virtual machines, wherein the one or more sources of truth includes a data storage that stores at least one data object that answers a particular question; and comparing the data from the one or more sources of truth with a store of configuration model information, wherein the configuration model information comprises a time stamp and a source identifier; based on the comparing, generates a set of rules; and based on the set of rules, updates the configuration information model.

Abstract: An embodiment may involve a server device transmitting, over a wide area network, a first playlist with a first duration to a client device. Possibly while the client device is playing out a current audio file of a first plurality of audio files in the playlist, the server device may receive an instruction from the client device and generate a second playlist. The second playlist may include references to a second plurality of audio files, where playout of the second plurality of audio files may have a duration that is less than the duration of the playout of the first plurality of audio files. The server device may transmit, over the wide area network, the second playlist to the client device. Reception of the second playlist at the client device may cause the audio player application to retrieve and play out the second plurality of audio files.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to processing metadata requests using a cache. For example, a metadata object, such as a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object, may be processed into two or more portions. The two or more portions or data generated based on the two or more portions may be stored into a cache. After receiving a request for the metadata object from a computing device, the metadata object may be generated based on the data stored in the cache and the generated metadata object may be transmitted as a response to the request for the metadata object. Further aspects relate to personalizing the metadata object at the cache prior to transmitting the response to the request for the metadata object. Further aspects relate to updating a portion of the metadata object, such as a portion that includes dynamic data, prior to transmitting the response to the request.

Abstract: A virtual storage system and a method of sharing electronic documents within a virtual storage system that includes at least one processor that processes a plurality of electronic documents received from an external system, receives from the user computing device, a request for sharing an electronic document of the plurality of electronic documents, and input information including download information and expiration information corresponding to the electronic document, as input by a user, and creates at least one share link corresponding to the electronic document based on the input information, for sharing the electronic document with a recipient. The virtual storage system further includes a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the at least one processor each storing the electronic documents and the at least one share link created.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are disclosed for collaborative project modification. One apparatus includes an enabling module that enables a first group of users to modify a first portion of a project in a collaborative environment. The apparatus includes a blocking module that blocks a second portion of the project from being modified by the first group of users. The apparatus includes an updating module that, for the first group of users, conducts immediate updates to the first portion of the project after a user of the first group of users modifies the first portion of the project and conducts deferred updates to the second portion of the project after a user of a second group of users modifies the second portion of the project.

Abstract: A method receives start commands for starting end-to-end testing of a live multi-tenant system that hosts shared services for multiple tenants; executes multiple test scripts for generating controller commands in response to the start commands, the executing the test scripts generating respectively synthetic transaction inputs; provides the synthetic transaction inputs to the live multi-tenant system, the live multi-tenant system configured to use the synthetic transaction inputs to perform respectively multiple synthetic transactions involving multiple destinations in the live multi-tenant system, the live multi-tenant system configured to generate respectively multiple test results in response to the multiple synthetic transactions; receives and evaluates the test results generated by the live multi-tenant system to test end-to-end performance conditions of the multi-tenant system; and generates one or more alerts upon recognizing an alert trigger condition based upon the evaluating of the test results.

Abstract: An exemplary device renders, within a field of view of an immersive virtual reality world (“world”) presented on a display screen, content of the world based on a stream of a first content file comprising a first content sector of the world. The device predicts that a user will provide user input representative of a request to shift additional content included in a second content sector of the world but not the first content sector into the field of view. Based on the prediction, the device requests and begins receiving a stream of a second content file comprising the second content sector. The device then detects the predicted user input from the user and, in response, switches from rendering the content included in the first content sector based on the first content file to rendering the additional content included in the second content sector based on the second content file.

Abstract: A computing infrastructure management system includes a processing system and a memory for storing a configuration management client, which is executed by the processing system to receive a manifest file associated with a computing infrastructure comprising a plurality of computing devices each having one or more resources. Using the received manifest file, the client translates the manifest file by arranging one or more directives of the manifest file according to one or more dependencies of each resource relative to the resources of the other computing devices, and provisions the resources of each computing device using the translated manifest file.

Abstract: A method for handling e-mail communication by an e-mail server is provided. The method includes receiving an e-mail by the e-mail server, parsing the e-mail to identify a large content item within the e-mail, generating a modified e-mail by replacing the large content item within the e-mail with an identifier, storing the large content item and the large content item forms a basis for a weblog associated with the identifier, sending the modified e-mail, and receiving a reply e-mail to the modified e-mail and the content of the reply e-mail builds an extension to the weblog.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes approaches for generating an information model of a business process. One example is a method comprising receiving an input of an identifier, wherein the identifier corresponds to a node in a network; recursively tracing data packets in the network, wherein the identifier is utilized as a seed for the tracing; and generating an information model of the business process based on the data packets. In further examples, the recursively tracing data packets in the network comprises: identifying, based on the identifier, data packets transferred between the node and one or more nodes; retrieving, from the data packets, one or more identifiers corresponding to the one or more nodes; and identifying, based on the one or more identifiers, additional data packets transferred between the one or more nodes and one or more additional nodes.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein are directed to permit roaming of applications across devices consistently and dynamically. Other aspects include roaming of application idiosyncrasies, data or content specific to each application, user preferences specific to each application or content, such as pinning or unpinning, and user history specific to each application in a consistent and complete fashion across diverse devices to provide seamless integration with the native device user interface. Application idiosyncrasies may include different options supported by the applications, groups of tasks or content, dynamically changing user interface, and tasks or content based on application state or user actions. In another aspect, the systems and methods described herein seamlessly integrate roaming with the user interface of the native device, such as a tablet or a smart phone.

Abstract: Methods of operating an electronic device are provided. A method of operating a first electronic device includes listening for a wireless transmission by a second electronic device on a wireless communications channel. The method includes determining whether a packet is a particular type of packet. The method includes assigning a randomized time delay value that defines a randomized delay period, in response to determining that the packet is the particular type of packet. The method includes beginning the randomized delay period in response to determining that the wireless communications channel is clear. Moreover, the method includes transmitting the packet via the wireless communications channel based on expiration of the randomized delay period. Related electronic devices and computer program products are also provided.