Abstract: To solve problems of congestion of processing caused by the simultaneous occurrence of a very large number of alarms, the alarms are processed off-line or at least as not particularly urgent tasks. In practice, assessing the severity of an alarm is not treated in itself as an urgent event, even if the assessed severity indicates that the alarm is associated with a very serious event. It is shown that by operating in this way it is possible to retain control over a system for managing a transmission network and to avoid being unable to react if the network is subject to a major disruption, in particular if a very high rate link fails.

Abstract: A method for detecting a presence of a device on a network, and determining if an address exists for the device within the network. If it is determined that the address exists, recall the existing address of the device. Additionally, if it is determined an address does not exist for the device, generate and store an address for the device.

Abstract: A software application for executing on a computing system that monitors a user's behavior and adapts the power management policies to the user's preferences in an automated manner. The software application records a time of day whenever the computing system transitions from a current power state to a new power state as a result of an action initiated by a user, such as when the user activates the computing system. The software application includes a pattern-detection software module to detect a usage pattern within the recorded times and predicts when the user is likely to activate the computing system. Based on this prediction, the software application automatically transitions the computing system to a higher power state prior to the predicted startup time, thereby allowing the computing system to be “instantly” available for use when accessed by the user.

Abstract: A packet accounting machine has a packet detector that detects a packet read source and destination addresses, a port number and the number of bytes included in the packet and transfers them to a flow processing unit. A flow processing unit acquires a flow identifier, sending and receiving accounting coefficients and sends them together with the number of bytes in the packet to a flow counter control unit. The flow counter control unit adds the number of bytes to the number of bytes included in packets stored in a flow counter and instructs the flow counter to store the sending and receiving accounting coefficients. An accounting calculator reads the number of bytes in the packets, the sending and receiving accounting coefficients from the flow counter, calculates accounting on the sending and receiving sides and records them in the accounting recorder.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for controlling power consumption of the PC, which is provided with base loads comprising a plurality of components, as well as a CPU including operation modes of “throttling” and “clock-down”. Actual power consumption 103 of the CPU in a certain operation mode varies heavily or widely within a range of maximum power consumption of the CPU. A variation of actual power consumption 101 of the base loads is relatively gentle or mild. Predicted maximum power consumption (Pmax) of the PC is obtained from actual power consumption of the base loads and maximum power consumption in the current operation mode of the CPU. Reference power vales 121, 123, 125 are set up such that they are compared with the Pmax for changing an operation mode to another operation mode. When the Pmax exceeds a reference power vale, the operation mode of the CPU is changed for controlling actual power consumption of the PC.

Abstract: For triggering actions synchronous with a system clock in an electronic system comprising a management processor, a program memory and peripheral units, the sequencer comprises: an instruction register including a date field for containing an instruction execution date, an instruction code field and a data field, means for loading the instruction register from the program memory via a DMA channel, a comparator receiving a current date obtained from the system clock and the execution date contained in the date field of the instruction register, and a control logic unit for decoding the contents of the instruction code and data fields of the instruction register and triggering actions deduced from such decoding at the time the comparator shows that the current date has reached the execution date in the peripheral units and without intervention by the management processor.

Abstract: A system, method, and software program for a fastpath redeployment of an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB). When an EJB is deployed, a copy of it is cached on the server. Thereafter, if the EJB is redeployed, it is compared to the cached copy to determine if the deployment descriptors or remote interfaces have changed. If there has been no change, then the previously deployed EJB is installed on the server, without the need to regenerate and recompile the EJB code.