Abstract: In a method for displaying an image of a scene in front of a vehicle, recorded by a video camera, in which the scene in front of the vehicle contains a roadway which is illuminated by the vehicle's headlights, the gray values of the pixels of the image data generated by the video camera are weighted using a reduction factor, which is a function of the respective pixel within the image and of the brightness of objects in the near range in front of the vehicle, in such a way that the contrast between the display of the near range in front of the vehicle and the display of other parts of the image is reduced.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for automatically defining on a computer data for execution of systems management tasks on endpoints by a systems manager management said endpoints. The mechanism reads connection/disconnection information related to the endpoints collected by the systems management server during a same period of time for all the endpoints, computes the availability trends with the connection/disconnection information for said same period of time classifying endpoints according to the predefined classes of availability trends for endpoints and the computer availability trends, applies rules to create data defining execution of systems management tasks on endpoints according to the result of the classifying step, and makes these data available to the systems management server.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for calling a party using a hosted calling service is disclosed. The method includes receiving at a calling module, using a standardized interface, a call request from a remote client, the standardized interface enabling interoperability between the calling module and heterogeneous remote clients, generating a call to a party specified by the call request, and transmitting a response received from the party to the remote client for client-specific processing.

Abstract: Disclosed are processes for the centralised monitoring of territories to recognize forest and surface fires. A swiveling and tiltable camera installed at a monitoring site supplies images of overlapping observation sectors. In each observation sector a sequence of images includes a plurality of images is taken, at an interval which corresponds to fire and smoke dynamics. An on-site image-processing software supplies event warnings with indication of the position of the event site in the analysed image. A total image and an image sequence with image sections of the event site are then transmitted to a central station and reproduced at the central station as a continuous sequence in quick-motion mode. Event warnings with relevant data are blended into electronic maps at the central station. Cross-bearing is made possible by blending event warnings from adjacent monitoring sites. False alarms are minimized by marking known false alarm sources as exclusion zones.

Abstract: A system and method for the user of a computing device, a Peer, to make a portion of its local storage available to others. A Group is composed of two or more Peers with a Group Manager whose allocated storage forms a Group Bank. A Farm is composed of two or more Groups with a Farm Manager whose allocated storage forms a Farm Bank. The Grid has a Grid Manager and is the overall combination of Peers, Groups, and Farms. A file is stored by splitting it into chunks, storing each chunk on a Peer that is a member of the appropriate Bank, and forwarding the file parameters to an Information Service with a File Index. A file is retrieved by requesting the file parameters from the Information Service, retrieving the chunks from the appropriate Peers, and assembling them into a complete file.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting attribute information of an information processing apparatus to be monitored in a system for monitoring the information processing apparatus via a network includes an attribute-information obtaining unit that regularly obtains first attribute information from the information processing apparatus to be monitored, and when obtaining the first attribute-information, collectively obtains second attribute information that was obtained subsequent to the first attribute information in past times.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating synchronized, two-way communications between a server application and one or more client applications. In one embodiment, the server application and client applications are provided with instant messaging (IM) clients that are supported by an IM server in a networked computing environment. A method disclosed includes registering at least one client application IM client in an IM registry, generating an event in the server application, and converting the event into an operation command that is independent of the states of the server or client applications. The method can also include transmitting the command to each client application IM client. The method can also include, at the client application, receiving the command, reconstituting an event from the command, and processing the event.

Abstract: A schema for a rule transport engine to be applied to an email having multiple recipients. The schema defines a rule which executes one or more specific actions for a particular recipient or a particular group of recipients receiving a message instance of a bifurcated message when the message meets certain conditions.

Abstract: A multi-perspective context sensitive behavior assessment system includes an adaptive behavior model builder establishing a real-time reference model that captures intention of motion behavior. It operates by modeling outputs of multiple user defined scoring functions with respect to multiple references of application specific target areas of interest. The target areas have criticality values representing a user's preference regarding the target areas with respect to one another. The outputs of the scoring functions are multiplied by the critically values to form high level sequences of representation that are communicated to the user.

Abstract: An on-vehicle emergency call apparatus includes: a camera capturing an image of an interior of a vehicle; a capturing controller controlling the camera; and a transmitter transmitting an image capturing result obtained by the capturing camera to an emergency information center. The capturing controller controls the camera so as to capture images while switching alternately between an instant capturing shutter speed for capturing an instant image of a subject and a translocation capturing shutter speed for capturing a translocation image of the subject, in which instant capturing shutter speed and the translocation capturing shutter speed are different from each other. An image superimposer can superimpose the instant image and the translocation image to produce the image capturing result.

Abstract: Techniques to allow applications to propagate information to the other instances of the applications running on downstream servers are provided. An indicator, such as a token, tag, etc., is placed within or added to a message that is flowing through the distributed environment to signify that a process has been performed on the message. For example, when an instance of an application running on a server receives a message, the application instance can examine the indicator contained in the message and take appropriate action. If the application instance decides to process the message, the application instance can include an indicator in the message to signify that the application instance processed the message. The presence of the indicator signifies that the message has been processed by an upstream instance of the same application.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described that vertically integrate telecommunications network management across multiple transport domains and network layers to support E2E network management. Embodiments vertically integrate telecommunications network management across multiple transport layers such as physical layers (optical), data link layers (Ethernet), and upper layers (VLAN), and establish an inventory database for the plurality of transport layers in a network management OSS to integrate and correlate network alarms and other business applications. Embodiments provide a single platform for an E2E network management solution across and for multiple transport domains.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for performing collective operations. In hardware of a parent processor in a first processor book, a number of other processors are determined in a same or different processor book of the data processing system that is needed to execute the collective operation, thereby establishing a plurality of processors comprising the parent processor and the other processors. In hardware of the parent processor, the plurality of processors are logically arranged as a plurality of nodes in a hierarchical structure. The collective operation is transmitted to the plurality of processors based on the hierarchical structure. In hardware of the parent processor, results are received from the execution of the collective operation from the other processors, a final result is generated of the collective operation based on the received results, and the final result is output.

Abstract: A presence aggregation system provides a presence server that allows users to publish information regarding their availability with the presence server. The presence server maintains a record of each user's published information. When an endpoint publishes information regarding a user's availability at that endpoint with the presence server, the presence server provides all of the user's published information, including the information just published, to each of the user's endpoints, including the endpoint which published the information. This allows each of the user's endpoints to generate an aggregated availability of the user. The presence server may also provide all of the user's published information, including the information just published, to each of the subscribing users' endpoints. This allows the subscribing users to also generate a view of the user's aggregated availability.

Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates providing a service to an industrial environment. A selection component can identify a portion of data hosted by a remote server. A build component can construct at least one of a portion of a customized application or a portion of a customized service based at least in part upon the portion of data, wherein at least one of the portion of customized application or the portion of customized service is utilized within the industrial environment.

Abstract: A method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device for dynamically adjusting a maximum limit of concurrent service requests directed to a shared storage resource that can be issued by a plurality of host devices is disclosed. The method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device operate based on a rotating turn, in which a host device has a chance to be able to increase its currently available maximum number of concurrent service requests.

Abstract: Message communications of particular message types between compute nodes using DMA shadow buffers includes: receiving a buffer identifier specifying an application buffer having a message of a particular type for transmission to a target compute node through a network; selecting one of a plurality of shadow buffers for a DMA engine on the compute node for storing the message, each shadow buffer corresponding to a slot of an injection FIFO buffer maintained by the DMA engine; storing the message in the selected shadow buffer; creating a data descriptor for the message stored in the selected shadow buffer; injecting the data descriptor into the slot of the injection FIFO buffer corresponding to the selected shadow buffer; selecting the data descriptor from the injection FIFO buffer; and transmitting the message specified by the selected data descriptor through the data communications network to the target compute node.

Abstract: A network device comprises a service card (e.g., a lawful intercept (LI) service card) executing a communication protocol to receive, from one or more sources (e.g., law enforcement agents), intercept information specifying at least one destination and criteria for matching one or more packet flows. The network device further includes a network interface card to receive a packet from a network, and a control unit to provide the packet from the interface card to the LI service card. The LI service card executes a flow match detection module that, when the packet matches the criteria of the intercept information, forwards the packet to the destination specified by the intercept information. The network device may provide real-time intercept and relaying of specified network-based communications. Moreover, the techniques described herein allow LEAs to tap packet flows with little delay after specifying intercept information, e.g., within 50 milliseconds, even under high-volume networks.

Abstract: An A/V stream-forwarding system forwarding A/V streams of a data network to an IEEE 1394 network and a method therefor. The A/V stream-forwarding system has a media server having an interface with the data network and providing the A/V streams; a transcoder receiving the A/V streams provided by the media server through the data-network interface, and transcoding the A/V streams into A/V streams in a predetermined format supported by an IEEE 1394 network; and; a display device receiving and reproducing the A/V streams of the transcoder in the predetermined format that is supported by the IEEE 1394 network. Accordingly, the A/V streams of the data network are converted into A/V streams in a predetermined format that is supported by the IEEE 1394 network, regardless of diverse A/V stream formats, codecs, transmission protocols, transmission control protocols, and so on, of the data network.

Abstract: When it is detected that a user connects a device to a client but there is no device driver of the device in an information processing server, the device driver existing in the client is transmitted to the information processing server and is automatically installed. Further, in order to cope with even the case where it is necessary to restore the information processing server to the environment existing before utilization thereof after utilization of the information processing server is ended even if the information processing server is shared with a plurality of users, the introduction state of the device driver in the information processing server is restored.