Abstract: A home-networking gateway may automatically provide a function based on data identified on a device on a home network. The home-networking gateway may perform the function using another device that is capable of performing the function and is accessible to the home-networking gateway.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of managing aliases on a server, including deleting unused aliases, while minimizing required administrator interaction. The server may include expirable alias records, containing an expiration value and an inactivity timer. An alias manager component may process the expirable records. If the alias manager component determines a particular record has expired, the alias manager component may delete that record.

Abstract: Data is automatically shared over one or more contact networks which are interrelated by a trust relationship. The data can be shared using a network-based communication service and is stored as a data record in a local data store. The communication service may be implemented as an instant messaging, electronic mail, mobile phone or some other type of communication service. The data record can include data created by a user, a relevance value, a maximum share count and/or other data. The number of times that data may be shared may be configured by the user that generates the data. The relevance of the data may be updated each time the data is shared.

Abstract: A management system for virtual applications may deploy sets of virtual applications to many client devices, dynamically allocate virtual application servers to individual clients, manage updates to the virtual applications, and provide other high level management to deployments of virtual applications. A client device may include a virtual application management client that may communicate with a management server. The management client may add or remove virtual applications to the client device based on a policy received from the management server, and may query the management server to determine a currently available virtual application distribution server when a virtual application is requested. The management server may distribute and manage versions of applications across one or more virtual application distribution servers.

Abstract: A communication server, including a partial parser module, a storage module and a lookup module, is provided. The partial parser module parses some, but not all, strings of a message and generates partial parsed data. The storage module stores pre-parsed data which represents a complete parsing of a message. The lookup module looks for the corresponding pre-parsed data from the storage module, using the partial parsed data. The server sends the message according to at least the corresponding pre-parsed data.

Abstract: Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks via political and natural events are provided. Geographical locations for cloud processing environments are combined with attributes and usage metrics to form associations between each cloud processing environment's geographical location and that cloud's corresponding attributes and usage metrics. Some associations and attributes relate to political and natural events. The political and natural events are used to update a proper selection of a particular cloud processing environment to handle targeted services.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and device are provided for a user profile service. One embodiment includes a method for user profile service. The method includes collecting user profile data from different network sources in a localized database. Business rules are provided to an application server to manage access to the collected user profile data in the database. The method further includes allowing different network service applications to access the collected user profile data as determined by the business rules.

Abstract: A wireless communication terminal and a communication system selection method are capable of selecting a communication system having high battery usage efficiency by keeping battery remaining time long and satisfying throughput required by the application depending on scenes. The wireless communication terminal 100 capable of selecting plural communication systems comprises an application information acquisition unit 170 for acquiring a type of used application; an evaluation amount calculation unit 166 for changing a communication system selection criterion in response to the type of application thus acquired and calculating an evaluation amount with respect to time adding predetermined time to communication system switching time; and a system selection unit 167 for comparing the evaluation amounts thus calculated and selecting any one of communication systems.

Abstract: An object tracking method for a non-overlapping-sensor network works in a sensor network. The method may comprise a training phase and a detection phase. In the training phase, a plurality of sensor information measured by the sensors in the sensor network is used as training samples. At least an entrance/exit is marked out within the measurement range of each sensor. At least three characteristic functions including sensor spatial relation among the sensors in the sensor network, difference of movement time and similarity in appearance, are estimated by an automatically learning method. The at least three characteristic functions are used as the principles for object tracking and relationship linking in the detection phase.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of a client device includes accessing an application through an application template. The application template resides on server device. The method also includes accessing application based on a response to request of a user interface. In addition, the method includes processing the application through a processor such that the application accesses the application template such that the client device permits an access of the application through the application template. The method further includes executing the application through the application template such that an execution of the application through the application template emulates the execution of the application installed on an operating system of the client device. The method also includes executing a function of the application template based on a demand of a user through the response to the request of the user such that the file is accessed when required by the application.

Abstract: A data communications system includes a controller device and multiple client devices communicating with the controller device through a shared data communications link. The controller device is configured to determine data usage for each of the client devices and then compare the determined data usage for the client devices with a first usage threshold and with a second usage threshold. Based on the threshold comparisons, the usage-based multiplier values are either increased or decreased by a set amount.

Abstract: A shared storage distributed file system is presented that provides users and applications with transparent access to shared data stored on network attached storage devices by utilizing layering techniques to inherit file management functionality from existing file systems. The present invention stores meta-data for the shared data as real-data in a standard, non-modified, client-server distributed file system, such as NFS. In effect, the standard client-server file system acts as a meta-data server. The name space consisting of inode files stored as real-data on the meta-data server acts as the name space for the shared data. Similarly, file attributes of the inode files are utilized as the file attributes of the shared data. By utilizing an existing client-server system as the meta-data server, development time and complexity are greatly reduced, while speed advances in the underlying client-server system may be incorporated without alteration of the present invention.

Abstract: The secure transfer of data files between secure environments (202, 211) is disclosed. At a source environment (202) a user issues a request via a first local terminal (205J) to transmit one or more selected data files (101) to a specified recipient (211) by identifying the data files and the recipient's email address. The transmission of the data file is approved, possibly by a supervisor (208) and a copy of the selected data file is made to an encrypted storage device. An email is issued to the recipient (211) identifying the location of the selected file and a first password. The selected data file is transferred to the recipient in response to the recipient identifying the location and providing the first password. Preferably, a second one-time password is provided via an alternative mode of communication.

Abstract: A method and system for collecting and distributing sense-on-demand data is provided. The sense-on-demand data system uses a network of centralized computers and remote units. The centralized computers may be operated by or on behalf of the operator of the sense-on-demand data system, and the remote units may be operated by users of the network. The remote units may consist of a variety of mobile and fixed-location devices, such as cellular telephones, personal data assistants, laptop computers, desktop computers, and stand-alone data sensor units. The system receives requests for information, identifies remote units that are proximate to the location, forwards the requests to the identified remote units, receives responses from the remote units, and provides responses to the requester.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for mass configuring technical systems includes receiving a call that is associated with a configuration manager and generated from a first of multiple systems. Each of the multiple systems has at least one instance of the configuration manager, and each system includes multiple technical systems configured using a corresponding instance of the configuration manager. The method includes retrieving, from the corresponding instance and in response to the call, identifiers for at least a subset of the technical systems in the first system. The method includes retrieving, from the corresponding instance and from the subset of the technical systems, configurations for the subset of the technical systems. The method includes forwarding an execute configuration communication to the corresponding instance including at least one parameter that has been changed from the retrieved configurations.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described for exploring a corpus of content items stored in one or more information repositories within a distributed communications system.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system, in which: a server (2) transmits processing result identification information to a client (3), and records the transmitted processing result identification information as transmitted identification information; the client (3) receives the processing result identification information from the server (2), records the processing result identification information, executes predetermined processing in a state where the received processing result identification information is recorded, irrespective of a state of a communicative connection with the server (2), records processing result information indicating an execution result of the predetermined processing, and transmits the recorded processing result information to the server (2), along with the processing result identification information; and the server (2) performs acceptance processing for the processing result information received in a case where the received processing result identification information correspo

Abstract: Presented is a method and system for using the Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP, to manage a hierarchical information base comprising a plurality of entries each defining one or more object attributes. The method comprises mapping each of a plurality of objects of an SNMP Management Information Base, MIB, to a unique attribute of the information base.

Abstract: A program causing a computer to perform processing for executing a specific command under predetermined conditions independently of input information when automatic control information is set in association with a computer terminal and calculations are performed based on data of the computer terminal.

Abstract: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product link information associated with a virtual world with information associated with a social collaboration platform. A virtual world user identifier and a social collaboration platform user identifier are stored. The virtual world identifier is associated with a set of virtual world contacts for the respective user. The social collaboration platform user identifier is associated with a set of social collaboration contacts for the user. The virtual world user identifier is linked to the social collaboration platform user identifier. An association is determined between at least one of the set of social collaboration contacts and the virtual world identifier set of virtual world contacts and the social collaboration platform user identifier, respectively, for the respective user.