Abstract: A method for enabling automated upsell text messaging within shipping notification text messages using a software application includes: accepting a purchase transaction from a consumer via an electronic device; retrieving a mobile telephone number for the consumer in connection with the purchase transaction; sending a first text message via the software application to the consumer at the mobile telephone number to confirm shipping information; sending a second text message via the software application to the consumer to present an offer to the consumer for an additional item; and if the consumer replies to the offer in the affirmative, adding the additional item to the purchase transaction.

Abstract: Local management of data stream throttling in data movement operations, such as secondary-copy operations in a storage management system, is disclosed. A local throttling manager may interoperate with co-resident data agents and/or a media agent executing on any given local computing device, whether a client computing device or a secondary storage computing device. The local throttling manager may allocate and manage the available bandwidth for various jobs and their constituent data streams—across the data agents and/or media agent. Bandwidth is allocated and re-allocated to data streams used by ongoing jobs, in response to new jobs starting and old jobs completing, without having to pause and restart ongoing jobs to accommodate bandwidth adjustments. The illustrative embodiment also provides local users with a measure of control over data streams—to suspend, pause, and/or resume them—independently from the centralized storage manager that manages the overall storage system.

Abstract: Intelligent data throttling in data movement operations, such as secondary-copy operations in a storage management system. A local throttling manager may intelligently interoperate with co-resident data agents and/or a media agent executing on any given local computing device, whether a client computing device or a secondary storage computing device. The local throttling manager may allocate and manage the available bandwidth for various jobs and their constituent data streams—across the data agents and/or media agent. Effective bandwidth for the secondary-copy operation may be adjusted based on available bandwidth from the computing device due to increased demand for the bandwidth from other operations.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for software defined networking system to provide network service and bandwidth prioritization in a customer's network. The user equipment devices can be connected to a gateway device on a premise network. The gateway device or a server communicably coupled to the gateway device can include an intelligence agent that can prioritize bandwidth, network services, user equipment devices based on a variety of contexts. The intelligence agent can also dynamically increase or decrease the bandwidth available to the gateway device in some embodiments. In an embodiment, the software defined networking system can also instantiate virtual network functions on either the local gateway device or the cloud server in order to provide functionality for one or more network services used by the user equipment device on site.

Abstract: A social networking system provides a user interface for a sending user to send messages to a recipient user in association with a content item posted by the recipient user in the social networking system. The sending user views a content item posted by the recipient user, such as a photograph. The sending user posts a direct message to the recipient user related to the content item. The direct message is displayed to the sending user superimposed over the content item. Subsequent direct messages in the conversation are also displayed superimposed over the content item.

Abstract: A system and method for providing online games on client devices based on capabilities of the client devices are disclosed. Device capability information may be obtained from the client devices during the online game. Values of one or more capability parameters may be determined based on the device capability information obtained. Device profiles may be assigned to the client devices based on the determined values of the capability parameters. One or more game features may be adjusted in accordance with the assigned device profile for implementing the online game on the client devices. The adjustable game features may include frame rate, level of detail of rendering, level of 3D graphics, level of collision effects, animation type, gameplay available for user interaction, gameplay content for user interaction, communication mode, physics effects available for display, level of artificial intelligence, and/or any other features of the online game.

Abstract: An imaging platform may determine whether an image file stored on a client device is a current version of the image file, and may identify, based on determining that the image file on the client device is not the current version of the image file, the current version of the image file in an image file store. The imaging platform may determine, based on identifying the current version of the image file and based on one or more properties associated with a network connection of the client device, a bandwidth allocation for transmitting the current version of the image file to the client device. The imaging platform may transmit, to the client device, a mapping table associated with the current version of the image file, and may transmit, based on the bandwidth allocation and based on the mapping table, the current version of the image file to the client device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting and/or synchronizing browsing session navigation between one or more browsers are described herein. A browser window associated with a browser application executing at a server device may be displayed at a client device. An instance of a local browser window may execute at the client device, and a page comprising content may be displayed via the instance of the local browser window. Commands to navigate to a different page may be issued to either browser, and the commands may be synchronized between the browsers.

Abstract: Mechanisms for out-of-band (OOB) management of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) bitstreams and associated methods, apparatus, systems and firmware. Under a first OOB mechanism, a management component, such as a baseband management controller (BMC) is coupled to a processor including an agent in a compute node that includes an FGPA. An FPGA bitstream file is provided to the BMC, and the agent reads the file from the BMC and streams the FPGA bitstream contents in the file to the FPGA to program it. Under second and third OOB mechanisms, a pointer to an FPGA bitstream file that identifies the location of the file that is accessible via a network or fabric is provided to the BMC or other management entity. The BMC/management entity forwards the pointer to BIOS running on the compute node or an agent on the processor. The BIOS or agent then uses the pointer to retrieve the FPGA bitstream file via the network or fabric, as applicable, and streams the FPGA bitstream to the FPGA to program it.

Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling users of a cloud provider network to launch compute instances with the option to dedicate networking paths between the compute instances in an otherwise shared networking environment. A user can send, for example, a request to launch two or more compute instances, where the request further indicates a request for a dedicated networking path between the instances. A hardware virtualization service launches the requested compute instances and further sends signals to the computing devices at which the instances are launched indicating the request for a dedicated networking path. A computing device, upon receiving such a signal for a hosted instance, configures routing information at the computing device to dedicate, to the identified instance, an available network link accessible to the computing device and further propagates the signal to additional networking devices as needed to form a dedicated networking path between the associated compute instances.

Abstract: Machines, systems and methods for managing quality of service (QoS) in a multi-tenant virtualized computing environment, the method comprising: collecting transmission rate statistics associated with data communicated in a virtual network, wherein at least one virtual switch monitors communications initiated by at least a virtual machine (VM) executed on a host machine serviced by the virtual switch; determining, by way of the virtual switch, profile parameters associated with a first communication initiated by the VM belonging to at least a first group, wherein a connection request is submitted by the virtual switch to a traffic controller to assist in establishing the first communication; classifying the connection request for establishing the first communication according to the profile parameters associated with the first communication; determining a first aggregated transmission rate associated with the VM that initiated the first communication based on the classifying.

Abstract: A method of accessing data includes storing a table that includes a plurality of tablets corresponding to distinct non-overlapping table portions. Respective pluralities of tablet access objects and application objects are stored in a plurality of servers. A distinct application object and distinct tablet are associated with each tablet access object. Each application object corresponds to a distinct instantiation of an application associated with the table. The tablet access objects and associated application objects are redistributed among the servers in accordance with a first load-balancing criterion. A first request directed to a respective tablet is received from a client. In response, the tablet access object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform a data access operation on the respective tablet, and the application object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform an additional computational operation to produce a result to be returned to the client.

Abstract: A data sequence including pieces of data having one attribute is transmitted with a data sequence including pieces of data having another attribute. An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of data pieces having attributes differing from each other. An addition unit, when connected with the server apparatus establishes, adds, to each piece of data included in each of a plurality of data sequences including different pieces of data of the plurality of data pieces acquired, an identifier identifies a data group wherein the data piece belongs, of a plurality of data groups, and is associated with the connection. A transmission unit transmits the plurality of data sequences where the identifier is added, to the server apparatus via the connection, by inserting, between data pieces included in one data sequence of the plurality of data sequences, a piece of data included in another data sequence of the plurality of data sequences.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines comprises at least one public-cloud virtual machine (VM) that performs network address translation; and a plurality of second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines comprises one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the public-cloud VM is configured to receive, via a network tunnel from the private-cloud VM, one or more first packets to be sent to a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of a public network host, translate, using a NAT mapping, a source address of each first packet from a private IP address of the private-cloud VM to an IP address of the public-cloud VM, and send the first packet to the IP address of the public-cloud VM.

Abstract: Techniques for utilizing virtual edge switches of cloud computing networks to send, receive, and store in respective virtual memory, associations between virtual resource and virtual edge switches for better convergence in virtual application centric infrastructure networks. Each virtual memory acts as a virtual endpoint database and contains a number of records indicating associations between each virtual endpoint and the virtual edge switch attached to the virtual endpoint. Each virtual edge switch is hosted by a physical server and is configured to forward communications received from separate physical servers in the cloud computing network to the virtual endpoints attached to the virtual edge switch. The advertisement messages are configured to be sent upon a new virtual resource or a migrated virtual resource spinning-up on a physical server. The advertisement message may be configured to store additional network routing information associated with the virtual machine hosting the virtual endpoint.

Abstract: A server apparatus 10 is communicably connected to a terminal apparatus 20 that collects sensor data from an odor sensor 40. The server apparatus 10 includes an analyzer holding unit 11 that holds a plurality of analyzers for analyzing specific odor analysis targets, based on sensor data, an analyzer management unit 12 that selects an analyzer, determines preprocessing to be performed on the sensor data, according to the selected analyzer, and causes the terminal apparatus 20 to execute the preprocessing, an analysis execution unit 13 that executes analysis processing of the designated odor analysis target, by applying the selected analyzer to the preprocessed sensor data from the terminal apparatus, and an analysis result transmission unit 14 that transmits information indicating a result of the analysis processing to the terminal apparatus 20.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain user's surroundings at a usage location where the user uses a service accompanied by communication with another location, determine, based on the obtained surroundings, a security level at the usage location for transmission of a video from the other location to the usage location or a security level at the usage location for transmission of an audio from the other location to the usage location, and determine, based on a determined level, whether to perform video or audio transmission between the usage location and the other location.

Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems that assist with managing hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests using extended SYN cookie includes establishing a network connection with a client without allocating a plurality of computing resources to the established network connection, in response to aa request to establish a connection from a client. Presence of a digital signature in a first data packet comprising a request for a webpage is determined. The digital signature is compared to a plurality of stored signatures to determine when the client is a nefarious computing device when the determination indicates that the received request includes the signature. The established network connection is terminated with the client without allocating the plurality of computing resources when the comparison indicates the client is the nefarious computing device.

Abstract: A data processing system arranged for receiving over a network, according to a data transfer protocol, data directed to any of a plurality of destination identities, the data processing system comprising: data storage for storing data received over the network; and a first processing arrangement for performing processing in accordance with the data transfer protocol on received data in the data storage, for making the received data available to respective destination identities; and a response former arranged for: receiving a message requesting a response indicating the availability of received data to each of a group of destination identities; and forming such a response; wherein the system is arranged to, in dependence on receiving the said message.

Abstract: Disclosed are mechanisms for sharing managed content through external systems. A sharing module publishes content in a share and metadata associated therewith to an external system. The share represents a folder or directory in a repository managed by an information system such as an enterprise content management system. The publication is made possible through application programming interface (API) calls handled by a first sharing module API, a repository API, a second sharing module API, and an external system API. These APIs together provide a one-to-one mapping of communications protocols used by the managed repository and the external system. The share in the managed repository and the share published to the external system are synced and any conflict between the two is detected and resolved. The shared content can be repatriated back to the managed repository and the shared version deleted from the external system.