Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing media bandwidth usage are disclosed. One disclosed method includes determining a network connection state of a computing device, receiving a request that requests media content, altering the request to request a synthetic representation of the media content instead of the media content in response to the network connection state being one of a set of predefined network connection states and the media content violating one or more restrictions of the network connection state, and requesting the media content in response to a user selecting the synthetic representation.

Abstract: A method implemented by a first content network element (NE) in an information centric network (ICN), the method comprising receiving, by a receiver, an interest packet through a first interface, wherein a header of the interest packet comprises a path filter, the path filter being associated with one or more segments on a path from a consumer to a producer, modifying, by a processor coupled to the receiver, the path filter based on information identifying one or more previous content NEs or one or more next content NEs on the path to produce a modified path filter, and transmitting, by a transmitter coupled to the receiver, the interest packet with the modified path filter to the next content NE.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining metadata from media content and consumed by network subscribers; determining for each network subscriber a consumer context associated with the media content; and determining a media consumption pattern for each network subscriber based on the metadata and the consumer context, thereby generating a plurality of media consumption patterns. The method further includes aggregating the media consumption patterns; determining, based on the aggregated media consumption patterns, a media consumption trend for the network subscribers; and correlating the media consumption trend with a profile including a current activity for a network subscriber of the plurality of network subscribers, thereby generating a recommendation for the network subscriber regarding new media content not previously consumed by the network subscriber. The method also includes communicating the recommendation to the network subscriber.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for deploying a plurality of data conversion flow between a first application in a first system to a second application in a second system, without restarting the plurality of data conversation flow, is provided. The computer-implemented method may further include providing a plurality of modifiable data conversation that identifies a plurality of input parameters, a plurality of data formats, a plurality of data description, a plurality of conversation routines, a plurality of paths of the conversion routines, and a plurality of output information that determines routes of converted data for the first application. The computer-implemented method may further include converting the plurality of modifiable data conversion to form a data input from the first application to the second application.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is presented for caching content. The method includes storing content received from a data stream, employing a cache array and a retrieval data structure to process the content, determining, by the processor, if the content is popular content which appears frequently, a position in the cache array holding a strong reference to the content, determining, by the processor, if the content is unpopular content which appears infrequently, an arbitrary position in the cache array holding a strong reference to the unpopular content, the retrieval data structure holding a weak reference to the content, and issuing cached content to a cache data storage device accessed by a user interface of a computing device communicating with the data processing system.

Abstract: This present disclosure describes a system and methods for integrated multistreaming of media with graphical overlays. At least one method includes a multistream service and graphical overlays hosted by a server infrastructure; a user configuring both the multistream service and graphical overlays on the server infrastructure; a user playing video games on a computer, using broadcasting software to authenticate with the server infrastructure; the broadcasting software capturing video of the user's computer session; the software retrieving the user's custom graphical overlay from the server infrastructure, encoding the video signal and graphical overlay; the software using the same aforementioned authentication to upload the encoded video to a multistream service, and the multistream service streaming the user's encoded video simultaneously to multiple streaming services.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a device and a computer program product for controlling a game. The method comprises: in response to receiving an input of a user for a game at a terminal device, sending a message indicating the input to a network device; receiving a candidate game frame from a network device, where the candidate game frame is a game frame in the game that is possible to occur subsequent to a target game frame corresponding to the input, and the candidate game frame is determined by the network device based on a message indicating the input; and storing the candidate game frame in a game frame buffer. In such a manner, the embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce the delay of responding to an input of a user for a game.

Abstract: A communication device that includes processing circuitry that receives an input to switch an operation mode between a first operation mode in which access to the communication device or a connected device connected to the communication device is restricted and a second operation mode in which access is not restricted; controls the access from devices that transmitted access requests in accordance with the first operation mode or the second operation mode, which is designated by the received input; and permits a no-permission device that has no permission for the access to access the communication device or the connected device based on an access request from the no-permission device by registering the no-permission device as a permission device, in a case where the operation mode is the second operation mode.

Abstract: Performing automated building control in a building. A method includes identifying a target maximum polling time defining an amount of time in which all building devices in a plurality of devices should be polled. Each of the devices in the plurality of devices is identified. For each device in the plurality of devices, queries are sent to the device. For each device in the plurality of devices, responses are received from the device. Based on the queries and the responses, a functional query frequency range is determined identifying a range of query frequencies at which queries can be made to each device such that each device functions within a predetermined criteria. Based on the target maximum polling time and the functional query frequency ranges, a device polling scheme is identified. The devices in the plurality of devices are polled according to the identified polling scheme.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to queuing data communications in a data communications network. According to a specific example, a user-data communication addressed to a client among a plurality of remotely-situated client entities, may be placed in a queue. The client entities may be configured and arranged to interface with a data communications server providing data communications services on a subscription basis. A virtual assistant session may be initiated, in which a dynamic series of inquiries may be presented to address the user-data communication while the position is maintained in the queue. The user-data communication may be terminated and removed from the queue in response to an indication that the user-data communication was addressed during the virtual assistant session, or routed via the data communications server in response to an indication that the user-data communication was not addressed during the virtual assistant session.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first computing device, a data access request from a client device, where the first computing device is aware of geographical locations of other computing devices, and where the data access request includes a client geographical location header and a redirection count header. When the redirection count header is higher than a redirection count threshold, the method includes processing the data access request. When the redirection count header is lower than the redirection count threshold, the method includes determining an optimal computing device to process the data access request. When the optimal computing device is geographically closer to the first computing device than the client device, the method includes, proxying the data access request to the optimal computing device. When the optimal computing device is geographically closer to the client device, the method includes sending a redirect response to the client device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing network cost in a hyper-converged infrastructure are disclosed. The network cost of workload pairs can be assessed. Migration of the workloads can be considered to reduce the network cost and improve the network efficiency of the hyper-converged infrastructure.

Abstract: A network traffic hub receives network traffic from a user device running an application. The network traffic hub aggregates the network traffic into augmented netflows. Based on netflow parameters extracted by the network traffic hub, one or more augmented netflows are associated with the application. The network traffic hub determines whether an augmented netflow is a result of the application being in an active state or a passive state based on, for example, the quantity of data within the netflow. If the quantity of data within the augmented netflow is larger than a data threshold, the augmented netflow can be classified as an active usage, and if the data is less than the data threshold, the augmented netflow can be classified as a passive usage. Thus, by classifying network traffic of an application as active or passive, a record of a user's active usage of the application can be recorded.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a first node of a plurality of nodes in a distributed architecture, a request for at least one of a device and a service based upon, at least in part, an attribute of at least one of the device and the service. A query to resolve the request may be forwarded to a plurality of nodes in the distributed architecture. A probability of at least a portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes to resolve the query may be determined based upon, at least in part, a search routing mechanism. The request may be forwarded to a second node of at least the portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes based upon, at least in part, the second node having a higher probability to resolve the query than a third node of at least the portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for verifying compatibility of NOS image versions during startup of one or more hardware modules of a distributed router system. A client-server transaction protocol is executed between a communication server and a communication client configured according to the protocol to run on hardware modules of a distributed router system. A communication client discovers a communication server through a handshake transaction and sends a software image signature of an NOS image version. The communication server forwards the software image signature to an NOS verification server to determine whether the software image signature is compatible.

Abstract: Method and systems of providing remote access to an application in a tiered remote access framework that includes a server tier and a client tier. In the server tier, an application that is remotely accessed and a server remote access application execute on a server. In the client tier, a client remote access application executes on a client device. A server SDK may be associated with the application in the server tier, where the server SDK being adapted to communicate display information to the client tier. A client SDK may be associated with a client application executing on the client device, where the client SDK receives the display information from the server tier. The client device connects to the server at an enumerated Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to initiate the reception of the display information.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a network analysis process initiates network path analysis for a transaction application operating over a logical transaction path having a first segment from a first set of transaction servers to a load balancer and a second segment then to a second set of transaction servers. The network path analysis, when for the second segment, comprises: selecting a receiving transaction server of the second set of transaction servers; identifying a TCP session associated with the transaction application already in progress to the receiving transaction server; initiating a TCP traceroute using ACK packets, whose signature matches the in-progress TCP session, from the receiving transaction server to the load balancer; and determining, in reverse, a network path of layer-3 segments and associated network metrics between the receiving transaction server and the load balancer.

Abstract: A method for processing a consensus request in a computer network comprises: determining a pending request set, the pending request set including one or more pending consensus requests; determining a number of subsets that are in a consensus stage, wherein the subsets comprise the pending consensus requests that are obtained from the pending request set; and when the number of subsets that are in the consensus stage is less than a preset concurrent number of the computer network, issuing a consensus proposal for a new subset to the computer network to cause the new subset to enter the consensus stage to process the pending consensus requests, wherein the preset concurrent number is an upper limit of the number of subsets that are permitted to be simultaneously in the consensus stage in the computer network.

Abstract: A rendering resources management component can maintain information that tracks rendering resources that have been assigned (or leased) to individual user devices. The rendering resources management component can further maintain information related thresholds for the number of available rendering resources in the rendering resource pools, including minimums, maximums or ranges. The rendering resources management component can further maintain information related to performance metrics associated with the assigned rendering resources. Based on one or more of the above information (or additional information), the rendering resources management component can then cause the instantiation or termination of rendering resources to manage the rendering resource pool.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions which are executed by the at least one processor and configure the processor to implement a proxy server for hybrid geo-dispersed erasure coding (EC). Responsive to receiving from an application server a request to write an object, the proxy server in a first storage site splits the object into a plurality of EC slices. The proxy server stores a first EC slice in a first storage device via a storage server local to the proxy server. The proxy server stores a plurality of remaining EC slices in a cache storage local to the proxy server. Responsive to determining that network access is available to disperse the plurality of slices among a plurality of geographically distributed storage sites, the proxy server copies the plurality of remaining EC slices to the plurality of geographically distributed storage sites using geo-dispersed erasure coding.