Abstract: To control access to a source storage device shared by a plurality of host systems, methods and systems include confirming a presence of an application on each host system of the plurality of host systems accessing the storage device. After confirming the presence of the application on each host system accessing the storage device, the application is run allowing each host system to access the storage device. A request is received from a new host system to access the storage device. A presence of the application is verified on the new host system. If the presence of the application is verified on the new host system, the new host system is provided with access to the storage device. If the presence of the application is not verified on the new host system, the new host system is denied access to the storage device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for the generation and management of content requests generated by client computing devices are provided. A client computing device initiates a browse session with a content provider by establishing a remote browse session between the client computing device and a network computing provider. The network computing provider can utilize profile information corresponding to the content provider to determine a number of concurrent network connections to establish with a content provider. The network computing provider and the client computing device exchange browse session state data and client interaction data.

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request corresponding to two or more embedded resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine an allocation of one or more domains to be associated with the two or more embedded resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent requests for the two or more embedded resources using each of a variety of alternative allocations of domains associated with the two or more embedded resources. The processing device may also consider a number of factors, including domain selection criteria obtained from an original content provider.

Abstract: A cluster system based on a parallel computing framework is provided, and the cluster system includes a host node configured to execute a host program for a parallel computing framework and a computing node configured to be connected to the host node and execute a kernel program for the parallel computing frame work.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to broker and control media resources. In particular, solutions are described which broker and control a media request sent from an application server. The media request is received at a device capable of brokering and controlling the media request such that a media server capable of providing the request may be selected. A screening functionality is also presented such that an optimal media server may be selected based on a comparison between information contained in an incoming media request and information contained in a previously provisioned Service Level Agreement; such information may relate to media service and capacity information. Further, solutions are presented to support providing media services in heterogeneous environments where an application server and a media server may communication using different media control protocols.

Abstract: A network media device is described that pulls multimedia data from one or more sources (e.g., a multimedia website or a multimedia server computer) at a first time, stores it to long-term storage within the device and transmits the stored multimedia data to one or more designated multimedia playback devices at a second time.

Abstract: A transaction monitoring and tracing system which combines transactional performance monitoring aspects with infrastructure performance and utilization measures, like e.g. used memory or CPU load of transaction executing computing infrastructure. The system uses two types of agents deployed to the monitored system, a transaction and process agent, which is deployed to a process executing monitored transactions, and a host agent, which is deployed to a computer system executing processes monitored by a transaction and process agent. The transaction and process agent provides transaction tracing and process infrastructure measurements, the host agent provides host or operating system infrastructure measurements. All three types of measurements are tagged by the corresponding agent in a way that allows a later correlation of corresponding tracing and measurement data by an external monitoring node.

Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided for delivering media content. The system includes at least one recipient that may be associated with at least one recipient rule. The system also includes a sending entity capable of transmitting a multimedia message addressed to the recipients. The sending entity can also specify delivery rules in the message. In this regard, the multimedia message includes media content. The system further includes a network entity capable of receiving the multimedia message and identifying any recipient rules, sending entity rules and/or network rules associated with the multimedia message. The network entity can then deliver the media content to the recipients based upon respective rules. The network entity can also be capable of processing the media content based upon the rules before delivering the media content, such as by transcoding or truncating at least a portion of the media content prior to delivery.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer program product for creating a configuration template for a set of devices includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code including computer readable program code configured for determining command information for a plurality of devices, computer readable program code configured for identifying a command structure from the command information which is common to a set of devices from the plurality of devices, and computer readable program code configured for associating the set of devices to a common configuration template. In another embodiment, a method for creating a configuration template for a set of devices includes determining command information for a plurality of devices, identifying a command structure from the command information which is common to a set of devices from the plurality of devices, and associating the set of devices to a common configuration template.

Abstract: A system (100) for associating a data collector (FIG. 2, 340-2) with a network account comprises a first computing device (FIG. 1, 115) to collect data associated with the use of a number of object devices (110-1, 110-2, 110-n) on a network, in which the first computing device creates a network account associated with a second computing device (FIG. 1, 105), and in which the system (100) assigns a filename (FIG. 12, 1205) to a data collector data packet (FIG. 2, 340-2), the filename (FIG. 12, 1205) comprising information related to the network account associated with the second computing device (FIG. 1, 105).

Abstract: The present invention sets forth a method and apparatus for controlling terminal's access to a wireless network. When PCC rules in PCRF or account expense information in OCS have been updated, the PCRF or OCS will notify a MDM server; the server determines access status of application(s) based on information in the notification and notifies the terminal; the terminal will update locally stored access status of the application based on access status of the application contained in the received notification message; when an application on the terminal initiates a request to access the wireless network, the terminal determines whether it is rejected or allowed to access the wireless network based on the locally stored access status of the application.

Abstract: An embodiment may include circuitry that may write a message from a system memory in a host to a memory space in an input/output (I/O) controller in the host. A host operating system may reside, at least in part, in the system memory. The message may include both data and at least one descriptor associated with the data. The data may be included in the at least one descriptor. The circuitry also may signal the I/O controller that the writing has occurred.

Abstract: The present invention provides a network management method and a network management system (30). The network management system comprising: a manipulating organ and a peer-to-peer network, with the peer-to-peer network consisting of a plurality of function units, wherein, the manipulating organ is configured to generate a management task according to an operation of a management role and to send the management task to the peer-to-peer network; and the function units in the peer-to-peer network are configured to perform the management task for a managed network or store relevant data. With the present invention, equipment cost can be reduced and normal running of the network management is guaranteed.

Abstract: A network management apparatus according to an example may configure virtual Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for virtual machines (VMs). A virtual MAC addresses may include a Uniqueness identifier (ID), a DC ID, a Device ID and a Host ID. A number of bytes of the virtual MAC address may be equal to a number of bytes of an actual MAC address of the VM. VMs accessing the same access layer device in the same data center may have the same Uniqueness ID, DC ID, and Device ID and have different Host IDs. VMs accessing different access layer devices and in the same data center may have the same Uniqueness ID and DC ID and have different Device IDs.

Abstract: A targeted-content-message-related profile for use with wireless access terminals (W-ATs) may be generated by one or more usage-related rules on the W-AT itself. The usage generate rules may be used by the W-AT to generate a user profile, with the usage-related rule providing a dynamic property to the user profile. All or part of the user profile may then be used as a targeted-content-message-related profile for targeting content messages.

Abstract: If an execution target application is an application with a high load for a client terminal, a mode switching unit switches an execution system from a simplex processing mode to a distributed processing mode. On the other hand, upon receiving a switching notification for switching the execution system to the simplex processing mode from a server, the mode switching unit causes a distributed display processing unit to stop display processing for the application and sets the execution system of the application to the simplex processing mode.

Abstract: A system and method for maintaining associations within a social network for a user are provided. A device proximate a user device is identified. It is determined whether the identified device is associated with an entity having a pre-established association with a user of the user device within the social network. The user is associated with the entity within the social network if the identified device is not associated with an entity having a pre-established association with the user. The user-entity association is maintained within the social network based upon whether the entity and the user device remain proximate.

Abstract: A method of transmitting a data stream previously coded according to an adaptable coding between a first terminal and a second terminal through the intermediary of a session established according to an HTTP-based transport protocol is disclosed. In one aspect, collection is by the first terminal of a set of context information relating to the session, to the first terminal and to the second terminal. Then, formation is of an adaptation scheme as a function of the set of context information. Next, adaptation is of the data stream by the first terminal as a function of the adaptation scheme. Lastly, transmission is of the adapted data stream by the first terminal to the second terminal.

Abstract: There is provided a monitoring apparatus which acquires evaluation results of evaluation which is performed on each of a plurality of monitoring targets with first and second indications, and divides a region (plot region) including data plotted on a graph of which one axis is set as the first indication and the other axis is set as the second indication, into a plurality of subregions, and calculates the number of the monitoring targets which are positioned in each of the plurality of subregions when each of the plurality of monitoring targets is plotted in the plot region on the basis of the evaluation results. In addition, the monitoring apparatus displays the graph having X and Y axes, and identifiably displays at least one of the plurality of subregions on the plot region so as to display information, which indicates the number of the monitoring targets positioned in the subregion, on the identifiably displayed subregion.