Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a network device including a first network port, a second network port, and an internal endpoint port. The IC device further includes a first processing unit including an internal end station. The first processing unit is configured to communicate with the network device using the internal endpoint port. The IC device further includes a second processing unit including a bridge management layer. The second processing unit is configured to communicate with the network device using the internal endpoint port. In various embodiments, the first processing unit and the second processing unit are configured to communicate with each other using a first internal channel.

Abstract: A method includes sending, from a portable computing device to a media device, first data indicating media content provided to a display device when a particular local area network was not accessible to the portable computing device. The media device generates or updates a user profile based on the first data and causes a first media content item to be recorded based on the user profile. The method includes receiving, from the media device via the particular local area network, a notification identifying the first media content item and a storage size associated with the first media content item. The method also includes, in response to determining that a pre-cache memory does not have available capacity to store the first media content item based on the storage size, deleting a second media content item from the pre-cache memory and storing the first media content item at the pre-cache memory.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that can perform the following operations: receiving a connection request from a first user device; creating an authentication container for the first user device; authenticating the first user device using the authentication container; in response to authentication for the first user device being successful, creating a first user request processing container for the first user device; and processing user requests received from the first user device using the first user request processing container.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for adjusting model threshold levels are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; and processor circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to: generate an adjusted count of users by applying an adjustment factor based on volume estimates and an updated total volume target to an absolute count of users; and adjust the model threshold based on the adjusted count of users by: determining a decreased model threshold, the decreased model threshold being less than the model threshold; determining a decreased model total based on lookback model score data, the decreased model total corresponding to a number of users that studies the decreased model threshold; and when a first difference between (A) the decreased model total and (B) adjusted absolute count of users is smaller than a second difference, replacing the model threshold with the decreased model threshold.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an electronic device. The method stores user data associated with a web-based third party service based on user interaction with a web domain for the third party service through a web browser. The method receives a request from a service-specific application to utilize the user data stored for the third party service. The method provides the user data to the application only when the application is verified by the web domain for receiving user data associated with the third party service.

Abstract: Automatically providing CLI commands for configuring devices is provided. A set of CLI commands for configuring a device on a network is retrieved from a database using an artificial intelligence component based on model and operating system version of the device. The set of CLI commands for configuring the device is displayed within a summary window of a cognitive CLI. The set of CLI commands entered by a user while configuring the device is verified in real time on a CLI of the cognitive CLI using the artificial intelligence component.

Abstract: A location multi-factor verification method may comprise initiating a boot process of a client device via firmware of the client device, receiving, via a network interface device, an access point (AP) beacon frame identifying a nearby AP, transmitting the AP beacon frame to a location determination service via the network interface device, receiving a geographic location estimation from the location determination service, based on the AP beacon frame, transmitting the geographic location estimation to the nearby AP, and granting a user of the client device access to an operating system of the client device if a boot process authorization instruction is received at the client device via the network interface device.

Abstract: Techniques for routing data packets through service chains within and between public cloud networks of multi-cloud fabrics. A router in a network, e.g., a public cloud network, receives data packets from nodes in the network through segments of the network. Based at least in part on (i) a source address of the data packet, (ii) a destination address of the data packet, and (iii) an identity of the segments of the network from which the data packets are received, the router determines a next node in the network to which the data packet is to be forwarded. The router may then forward the data packet through another segment of the network to the next node and then receive the data packet from the next node through the another segment.

Abstract: An embodiment includes a computational instance managing a managed network of computing devices, some communicating by proprietary protocol, and comprising a database storing representations of the computing devices and one or more sets of program logic configured to support the proprietary protocol, as well as one or more server devices configured to: receive, from an edge gateway software application, a request identifying a particular computing device on the managed network that communicates by the proprietary protocol; based on this request, select a set of the program logic configured to support the proprietary protocol; transmit a representation of the program logic, receipt of which is configured to cause the edge gateway software application to execute the set of program logic and obtain thereby configuration and state information from the particular computing device; receive, from the edge gateway software application, the configuration and state information; and store the configuration and state inf

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method of performing health monitoring for resources associated with a global server load balancing (GSLB) system. This system is implemented by several domain name system (DNS) servers that perform DNS services for resources located at several geographically separate sites. The method identifies several different groupings of the resources. It then assigns the health monitoring of the different resource groups to different DNS servers. The method then configures each particular DNS server (1) to send health monitoring messages to the particular group of resources assigned to the particular DNS server, (2) to generate data by analyzing responses to the sent health monitoring messages, and (3) to distribute the generated data to the other DNS servers. The method in some embodiments is performed by a set of one or more controllers.

Abstract: In some implementations, an interface indicating a set of software objects used in a first server environment may be provided. Data indicating a selection of testing parameters including a load level and one or more software objects selected from among the set of software objects may be received. A server environment test configured to generate concurrently running tasks at the indicated load level using the selected software objects may be generated. The server environment test may be performed on the first server environment to generate first results indicating at least server resource usage levels and response times of the first server environment during the server environment test. The server environment test may be performed on a second server environment to generate second results. An output data set indicating performance of the second server environment relative to performance of the first server environment may be provided.

Abstract: An electronic device that generates an electronic-device-specific application is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive a request to create the electronic-device-specific application, where the electronic-device-specific application is associated with a services manager in a system hierarchy. In response to the request, the electronic device may provide instructions for a user interface, wherein the user interface is configured to present predefined configuration alternatives for configuration parameters for the electronic-device-specific application and/or to receive inputs for the configuration parameters for the electronic-device-specific application.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for collecting data in a network communication are provided. The method includes receiving a request from a local application for a connection to a remote application using a first address which is assigned for Inter Process Communication (IPC) process corresponding to the local application, wherein the IPC process is performed on a Distributed IPC Facility (DIF) layer, storing a routing table that maps the first address of the local application in the DIF layer and an address of the remote application in a network layer, generating a connection between the local application and the remote application using the routing table to conceal a network layer address of the local application, and storing a communication data between the local application and the remote application using the first address of the local application.

Abstract: Concepts for automatically generating a summary of a resource are presented. One example comprises analyzing at least a portion of electronic content comprising a reference to a resource to determine a context identifier for the electronic content, the context identifier describing subject-matter of the electronic content. Content of the resource is also analyzed to determine one or more content identifiers for the resource, the one or more content identifiers describing subject-matter of the resource. A summary of the resource is then generated based on the context identifier and the one or more content identifiers.

Abstract: An example method of user identity tracking is performed by an application server. The Application server receives first telemetry data and second telemetry data. The first telemetry data indicates at least a first usage of a first user device. The second telemetry data indicates at least a second usage of a second user device. The Application server stores the first telemetry data and the second telemetry data to one or more databases and analyzes the telemetry data. Analyzing the telemetry data includes determining one or more usage patterns clustered by identity of a user. The Application server receives a request to query the one or more usage patterns for an identity of one or more users associated with the one or more usage patterns, where the application server provides the identity of the user in response to the request.

Abstract: A method for operating a web server implemented on a computer, wherein in a launch phase, a web server process ignores requests from clients and a further process having elevated permissions of the web server process is started by the web server process, where the further process serves to execute actions with access to a predefined operating system area, following the launch phase, the web server process transitions to normal operation such that when the web server process then receives a request requiring an action with access to the predefined operating system area, the permissibility of the received request is checked by the web server process and in the event of a permissible request, the web server process and the further process communicate, which prompts the further process to execute the action with the required access to the predefined operating system area.

Abstract: Various embodiments set forth a method for automatically configuring a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MLAG), including receiving first system information associated with the MLAG, receiving a first discovery packet via a first uplink port associated with a first switch that is included in the MLAG, where the first discovery packet includes second system information associated with the MLAG, determining whether the first system information matches the second system information, where if the first system information matches the second system information, then concluding that the first uplink port is included in an inter peer link connecting the first switch to a second switch that also is included in the MLAG, and if the first system information does not match the second system information, then concluding that the first uplink port is not included in the inter peer link. Advantageously, the method avoids requiring a user to enter hundreds of commands manually.

Abstract: A method in an analysis tool for dynamically analyzing client-side performance during the rendering of web content is provided. The method comprises automatically capturing data while a client application executes executable code written in a scripting language to render a web page wherein the data identifies components that are created, the execution time for creating each component, the execution start time for each component, and the components that are initially visible when the web page is rendered by the client application. The method further comprises analyzing the captured data as the data is captured to determine a plurality of factors that include the scripting language cycle duration, the identification of redundant code executions, and the prioritization and ordering of code module execution. The method further comprises generating a metric using the factors that characterizes the performance of the client application during web page rendering and displaying the metric.

Abstract: A first time series of traffic volume and a first time series of communication quality that are observed in a first communication line in which traffic demand is equal to or greater than a line bandwidth and a second time series of traffic volume and a second time series of communication quality that are observed in a second communication line in which traffic demand is less than a line bandwidth are input to a state space model to estimate values of a parameter group of the state space model, the traffic demand is calculated based on the values of the parameter group, and the state space model is a state space model in which the first time series of traffic volume and the second time series of traffic volume are generated from a third time series indicating cyclicity of traffic common to the first communication line and the second communication line under influence of the first time series of communication quality and the second time series of communication quality on the traffic demand, thereby supporting a

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate generally to efficient data encoding and transmission. An encoding system determines an encoding interval at which to encode different groups of related data in a data structure. The encoding interval for each group encoded together optimizes the amount of newly received information that is encoded and transmitted in a continuous, repeating loop.