Abstract: A computer implemented method for distributing, collecting and monitoring assignments by a content management system. The method includes receiving a request for a file request from a teacher to distribute an assignment to one or more students. In response to receiving the request, the teacher is prompted for information associated with the assignment. The information can include a name for the assignment, an assignment file and a collection identifier. In response to receiving the information, one or more metadata tags are generated based on the received information. The file request is distributed along with the one or more metadata tags to the one or more student.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for managing open issues. An example method includes obtaining a dashboard access request for a portion of open issues managed by the issue management system, the issue management system storing variables associated with each open issue of the open issues; obtaining a dashboard data package based on scores for the portion of open issues, the scores indicating a severity level of the open issues of the portion of open issues and being based on the variables that are stored in the issue management system; and performing an action set using the dashboard data package to manage the portion of open issues.

Abstract: An illustrative method includes receiving a request to create a storage volume; identifying, based on the request and on a configuration file propagated among a plurality of storage nodes in a cluster, status indicators of the storage nodes; identifying, based on the request, a size of the storage volume; identifying, based on the request, a replication factor representing a number of storage nodes that are to be replicated within a cluster for the storage volume; identifying, based on one or more characteristics associated with the storage volume, a traffic priority for the storage volume, the traffic priority representing a hierarchy that determines and prioritizes which traffic is allocated to available hardware and network resources in a particular order; creating, based on the status indicators, the size, the replication factor, and the traffic priority, the storage volume on one or more of the plurality of storage nodes.

Abstract: A communication redundancy system for an autonomous vehicle includes: a vehicle network domain including a bus configured to transmit a signal, terminal end resistors disposed at both ends of the bus, and a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) connected to the bus; a plurality of gateways connected to the vehicle network domain; and a high-level ECU connected to the plurality of gateways and configured to control the plurality of ECUs to implement autonomous driving of a vehicle. Each of the plurality of gateways detects disconnection of the bus in the vehicle network domain and, when the disconnection of the bus is detected, the plurality of gateways transmit pieces of data of the plurality of ECUs to the high-level ECU.

Abstract: Techniques and systems for optimizing and cleaning rules for network-based authentication transactions are provided herein. A network-based authentication system may determine a plurality of rules that were previously used to evaluate a plurality of transactions. The network-based authentication system may also generate a false positive rate for one or more of the plurality of rules, A cleaning coefficient for a first rule of the plurality of rules may be generated by the network-based authentication system. Based on the cleaning coefficient and the false positive rate, the network-based authentication system may identify one or more rules from the plurality of rules to eliminate from the plurality of rules. The network-based authentication system may eliminate the one or more rules to generate a modified set of rules. Using the modified set of rules, the network-based authentication system may authenticate a network transaction.

Abstract: In various examples there is a session border controller, SBC, connected between two communications networks. The SBC comprises a store holding statistics of events in the networks. The SBC also has an ingress receiving messages from the first communications network, the ingress having a memory storing an ingress message manipulation function MMF comprising a plurality of rules. The SBC has a session border controller processing unit connected to the ingress and receiving the messages from the ingress. The SBC has an egress connected to the session border controller processing unit, the egress receiving the messages from the session border controller processing unit and forwarding the messages, to the second communications network, the egress having a memory storing an egress message manipulation function MMF comprising a plurality of rules. At least some of the rules of the ingress MMF or egress MMF are for computing and storing the statistics.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, devices, and computer-implemented methods that facilitate the modification of network configuration data within a client network to improve a Quality of Experience (QoE) metric associated with the execution of a user application on a client device. More specifically, a diagnostic controller may retrieve diagnostic data associated with the execution of a user application on a client device, determine a QoE metric associated with the execution of the user application, and generate network configuration data for delivery to the client device that improves the QoE metric, based on the diagnostic data and the QoE metric.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses include evaluating a possibility of having more than a threshold number of connections with an access point of a network at a same time by multiple IoT devices that access the server through the network. In response to the evaluation, a determination of schedules for IoT devices is performed such that when the IoT devices operate according to the schedules the connections with the access point by the IoT devices that occur at the same time do not exceed the threshold number of connections. Configuration parameters are transmitted to the IoT devices causing the IoT devices to operate according to the schedules.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for performing a rapid failover in a cloud-based service with reduced interruption of ongoing communications. According to embodiments described herein, independent arbitration between servers can be used to indicate to a load balancer which of two or more servers should be considered the active one. This independent arbitration makes better state of health assessments than simple server failure. The load balancer can be explicitly controlled in this case. The health of individual containers, the completeness of the shadowed state as well as server health itself can be factored into the decision to make one server active over the other.

Abstract: Techniques are described for generating an end-to-end distributed network trace involving cloud edge networks. In one example, a cloud or datacenter environment obtains, from an edge node in a cloud edge network, one or more network communications that include a correlation identifier associated with the one or more network communications and an identifier of the edge node. Based on the identifier of the edge node, the cloud or datacenter environment provides a network probe to the edge node. The cloud or datacenter environment obtains, from the edge node, telemetry data that is generated responsive to the network probe. The cloud or datacenter environment provides the telemetry data and the correlation identifier to an aggregation server that is configured to, based on the correlation identifier, aggregate the telemetry data with further telemetry data to generate an end-to-end distributed network trace associated with the one or more network communications.

Abstract: Techniques are described for generating an end-to-end distributed trace in connection with a cloud or datacenter environment. In one example, a server obtains target application telemetry data and external telemetry data associated with one or more correlation identifiers included in one or more network communications provided to a target application in the cloud or datacenter environment. The server aggregates the target application telemetry data and the external telemetry data based on the one or more correlation identifiers to generate an end-to-end distributed trace associated with the one or more network communications.

Abstract: A control method for a home system includes obtaining the power curve of a household appliance to be run; obtaining power curves of all the currently running household appliances; and, if the power curve of the household appliance to be run and that of at least one currently running household appliance meet an off-peak running condition, making the household appliance to be run and the currently running household appliance run within an off-peak period of time. Without affecting the running states of all the currently running household appliances, the method can connect the household appliance to be run to a circuit, meets the demand of a user for making the household appliance to be run and the currently running household appliances simultaneously work, and does not exceed the load of the circuit, thereby improving the overall working efficiency of the home system.

Abstract: In various examples, description data may be used by an engine to correlate a subset of alarms representing a network incident. A machine learning model may then be used to predict a likelihood that one or more of the alarms within the subset is a root cause of the network incident. This root cause may then be displayed on a graphical user interface. As a result, alarm fatigue experienced by network administrators may be reduced.

Abstract: A disclosed example includes configuring a virtual network and a physical network for at least twenty-four hosts and a top-of-rack switch in less than one minute by: generating, by executing an instruction with one or more processors, network topologies of the hosts based on physical network connection information indicative of physical network connections between the hosts and the top-of-rack switch; determining, by executing an instruction with the one or more processors, whether implementing the network topologies of the hosts concurrently is valid based on an evaluation of the network topologies relative to a network topology validation rule; and configuring, by executing an instruction with the one or more processors, the top-of-rack switch based on one or more of the network topologies.

Abstract: Systems and methods for creating multiple renditions of a social media composition may include (1) providing a composition screen configured to be used to create user compositions for use with different consumption channels of a social media application, (2) collecting, via the composition screen, a set of one or more user inputs selecting user-selected content, to be included within a user composition, that includes photographs and text, (3) creating a first rendering of the user composition, to be viewed from a first consumption channel, that includes a slideshow of the photographs with a cover card that includes the text, and (4) creating a second rendering of the user composition, to be viewed from a second consumption channel, that includes a collage of the photographs with a caption that includes the text. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for optimizing internet traffic from a plurality of local area networks (LANs) to an internet based server connected to internet includes instructions for analyzing an internet data by a gateway computer located in a first LAN of the plurality of LANs to determine a data that is latency sensitive and a data that is not latency sensitive; instructions for sending network steering data, by the gateway computer, to a Central Processing Matrix (CPM); instructions for sending data, by a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) located in a second plurality of LANs in the plurality of LANs to the CPM through a listener/reporter located outside of the plurality of LANs; instructions for receiving the network steering data by the listener/reporter from the CPM; and instructions for routing the data that is latency sensitive outside of the second plurality of LANs to the internet based server.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for detecting outages in a cloud environment. Internal web agents installed at corresponding network segments of a first cloud platform and external web agents installed at an external second cloud platform are configured to perform network calls between themselves and the other web agents. Data from the internal web agents is automatically collected to generate structured data defining network connectivity status corresponding to the network segments of the first cloud platform based on the performed network calls between the internal and external web agents. In response to evaluating the structured data, a health status of network connectivity of the first cloud platform is determined. The health status can be provided to platform services provided by the first cloud platform and/or applications running on the first cloud platform to support managing of lifecycles of entities running on the first cloud platform.

Abstract: A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names. CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.

Abstract: A computing device may include a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to run a browser configured to generate a user interface to display a virtual session from a host computing device, and an application configured to establish a connection with the host computing device. The processor may further run code configured to cause the browser to connect with the host computing device using the connection established by the application to display the virtual session within the user interface.

Abstract: An embodiment includes determining, based on historical data associated with a specific task, a baseline bandwidth recommendation for completing the specific task. The embodiment assigns, for a first time period, the specific task to a first computing device on a network. The embodiment allocates, for the first time period based on the baseline bandwidth recommendation, a first baseline bandwidth to the first computing device. The embodiment allocates, for the first time period, a portion of a shared buffer bandwidth as a first buffer bandwidth to the first computing device based on a weight value assigned to the specific task. The first buffer bandwidth combines with the first baseline bandwidth as a first total bandwidth for the specific task. The embodiment throttles, during the first time period, data packets associated with the specific task based on the first total bandwidth for the specific task.