Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for detecting masking of deceptive indicia in communications content may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving one or more signals associated with communications content provided by a first participant in a communications interaction; and detecting at least one indicia of a modification of the communications content associated with at least one indicia of deception by the first participant.

Abstract: Arrangements for enforcing a nonconforming web service policy document are presented. A request for a web service policy document may be received by a web service. A conforming web service policy document may be generated using the nonconforming web service policy document. The nonconforming web service policy document may comprise one or more functions unsupported by the web service description language. The conforming web service policy document may be transmitted to the web service client. The nonconforming web service policy document may be enforced by the web service, wherein the functions that are unsupported by the web service description language standard modifies enforcement of the web service policy document by the web service computer system. The conforming web service policy document may comprise sufficient information for the web service client computer system to comply with the nonconforming web service policy document.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing out-of-band network traffic monitoring such as intrusion detection to clients on a provider network. A client can configure new or existing components and specify that traffic monitoring be added on or at the components in the client's configuration on the provider network. Traffic monitoring is provided for the client's configuration via replication technology on the provider network. In response to the client specifying that traffic monitoring is to be added on or at a component, traffic to the client's configuration is routed to replication technology, which may be implemented at a network substrate level, that passes one copy to the client's configuration and sends another copy to a destination that handles traffic monitoring such as an intrusion detection handler. The destination may be anywhere on the provider network or on an external network.

Abstract: Metrics may be recomputed using available computing resources according to elastic service level agreements (SLAs). The available computing resources may have a predetermined capacity, such as a fixed number of servers, computation time, and/or computation cost. The SLA may define an accuracy, confidence level, or goal that is used when determining a frequency to recompute metrics. The elastic SLA may vary and/or may be adjusted based on a relative difficulty of the computational task, an expected or requested accuracy of the computation task, or other predetermined design constraints.

Abstract: A method of extending an ID to a computer system comprises detecting, by a mobile communication device operating an ID, a computer system, wherein the IDs comprise an auto-installation routine and at least one of an application, a media file, and a widget; establishing a communication link between the mobile communication device and the computer system; and loading and activating the ID on the computer system.

Abstract: According to embodiments described in the specification, an electronic communication device and method for processing messages are provided. The method comprises receiving message data at a processor of the computing device, the message data comprising one or more of an address, a subject and a body; receiving a state indicator at the processor, the state indicator being an indication of a state of the message data; storing the message data and the state indicator in a memory of the computing device, the state indicator being stored in association with the message data; determining, at the processor of the computing device, if the state indicator indicates that the message data is in a draft state; and when the determination is affirmative, preventing transmission of the message data.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for provisioning computing units. A spread request is received. The spread request relates to a class of assigned computing units residing within a plurality of networked computing units. The spread request is associated with a spread criteria. In response to the request, a plurality of networked computing units is provisioned based on failure correlation data and in accordance with the spread criteria, to produce a final spread score. Success is indicated in response to the request if the final spread score meets the spread criteria.

Abstract: A communication device may include a text messaging routing application. In response to a user-request to send a text message to a designated recipient over an Internet messaging system, the text messaging routing application may cause a query to be sent to the Internet messaging system asking whether the designated recipient of the text message is registered with the Internet messaging system or with an affiliate thereof. If the response to the query is in the negative, the text messaging routing application may cause the text message to be sent to the designated recipient over a cellular telephone network. If the response to the query is in the affirmative, the text messaging routing application may cause the text message to be sent to the designated recipient over the Internet using the Internet messaging system.

Abstract: A request message containing a first description defining a portion to be extracted from multimedia data and a second description defining a scheme for extracting the portion is received from a data reception apparatus. The portion defined by the first description is extracted as partial data from the multimedia data. A coefficient corresponding to the scheme defined by the second description is acquired. Whether a value corresponding to the acquired coefficient is larger than a threshold is determined. If the value is larger than the threshold, the partial data is compressed, and compressed data obtained by the compression is transmitted to the data reception apparatus. If the value is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the partial data is transmitted to the data reception apparatus.

Abstract: Tracking initiation of network content requests is achieved by receiving at a network device requests from clients for network content, and tracking initiation of network content requests based upon initiator information, wherein the initiator information comprises information relating to each type of application hosted by a client that initiates the client request for network content from the network device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an appliance control device for controlling the operation of a variety of appliances are provided. The appliance control device may acquire a list identifying one or more functions executable by an appliance. The list may further identify a corresponding protocol corresponding to each function included in the list. The appliance control device may transmit a request to the appliance for execution of a desired function selected from the list using a specified protocol selected based on the corresponding protocol corresponding to the desired function. In turn, the appliance may transmit the list to the appliance control device upon request. Further, the appliance may also receive the request to execute the desired function in accordance with the selected specified protocol, and execute the desired function in response to the request.

Abstract: A method is devoted to the transmission, via a wave-based transmission infrastructure (RC) using an access method relying on multiplexing that is at least time division multiplexing, of content from at least one channel, each piece of content being arranged into one base data layer and at least one enhancement data layer, respectively associated with different transmission time slices, and broken down into portions transmitted during the time slices respectively associated with their layers.

Abstract: The subject matter discloses a method and apparatus for associating requests and responses in a multi-tier computerized environment, comprising for each tier, detecting incoming and outgoing data flow; sending the detected data to a processing module; for each two neighboring tiers, comparing incoming data of one tier and outgoing data of the other tier; associating incoming requests of one tier to outgoing requests of the other tier. The association may use an ad-hoc ID. The subject matter also discloses a computerized apparatus detecting data and sending the data to a central storage outside the multi-tier environment when the data is used to match requests and responses. Another object of the subject matter is a method for associating an incoming request and outgoing response or outgoing requests in a multi-threaded computerized environment.

Abstract: A method and technique for allocation and balancing of storage resources includes: determining, for each of a plurality of storage controllers, an input/output (I/O) latency value based on an I/O latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective storage controller; determining network bandwidth utilization and network latency values corresponding to each storage controller; responsive to receiving a request to allocate a new storage volume, selecting a storage controller having a desired I/O latency value; determining whether the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected storage controller are below respective network bandwidth utilization and network latency value thresholds; and responsive to determining that the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected storage controller are below the respective thresholds, allocating the new storage volume to the selected storage controller.

Abstract: A system and technique for allocating and balancing storage resources includes: a plurality of storage controllers each controlling one or more storage volumes, and a processor unit operable to execute a management application to: determine, for each controller, an input/output (I/O) latency value based on an I/O latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective controller; determine network bandwidth utilization and network latency values corresponding to each controller; responsive to a request to allocate a new storage volume, select a controller having a desired I/O latency value; determine whether the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected controller are below respective network bandwidth utilization and network latency value thresholds; and responsive to determining that the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected controller are below respective thresholds, allocate the new storage volume to the selected controller

Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for detecting resource consumption events over sliding intervals in cloud-based network. A set of aggregate usage history data can record consumption of processor, software, or other resources subscribed to by a set of users, in one cloud or across multiple clouds. An entitlement engine can analyze the usage history data to identify a subscription margin for the subscribed resources, reflecting collective under-consumption of resources by the set of users on a collective basis, over different and/or dynamically updated subscription periods.

Abstract: A mobile station and a radio access network (RAN) use a single-channel forward link and a single-channel reverse link for a communication session. If the quality of the communication session degrades, the single-channel forward link is replaced with a multi-channel forward link and/or the single-channel reverse link is replaced with a multi-channel reverse link. The multi-channel forward link may include a first forward link channel and a second forward link channel, each with a higher coding gain than that of the single-channel forward link, to provide an aggregate data rate that is substantially the same as that of the single-channel forward link. The multi-channel reverse link may include a first reverse link channel and a second reverse link channel, each with a higher coding gain than that of the single-channel reverse link, to provide an aggregate data rate that is substantially the same as that of the single-channel reverse link.

Abstract: A full duplex radio bridge using two transceivers coupled to a first packet network, one for transmitting data toward another radio bridge coupled to a second packet network, and the other for receiving data transmitted from the first packet network toward said second packet network by a transceiver of the other radio bridge. Each radio bridge is coupled to its packet network through one network port whose transmit data path is coupled to one of the transceivers, and whose receive data path is coupled to receive data from the other transceiver. An inner loop and outer loop is used. Management packets are routed to the various transceivers using the inner loop and outer loop by routing and filtering functions. Payload packets are transmitted from one packet network to the other using only the outer loop.

Abstract: A wireless LAN system, device, and method, and a medium having a wireless LAN program is provided. Wireless LAN devices are able to wirelessly communicate with each other by using a plurality of channels. A wireless LAN device is provided, including a requesting section and a post-request restoring section. The requesting section transmits a probe request by using a second channel selected from among a plurality of channels that the wireless LAN device can use, the probe request being assigned channel information indicating a first channel that the wireless LAN device currently uses. The post-request restoring section, when the second channel is not identical to the first channel, restores the channel used by the wireless LAN device from the second channel to the first channel within a first predetermined period from start of use of the second channel, after the transmission of the probe request.

Abstract: Methods and arrangements are provided where signaling of the modulation type by means of rotation of the training sequence is provided. For each modulation type, a set of rotation angles is chosen. These sets have no element in common. New training sequences are generated by rotating one original training sequence. The rotation angle that minimizes the PAPR of the transmit signal can be chosen. At the receiver side, knowing the original training sequence, the receiver estimates blindly the rotation angle among the known possible rotation angles. The estimated rotation angle in the receiver maps to a unique modulation type.