Abstract: A digital assistant supported across devices such as smartphones, tablets, personal computers (PCs), wearable computing devices, game consoles, and the like is configured to interact with one or more music and/or search services so that various user experiences, content, or features that enhance a user's involvement with music and other media content can be integrated with the digital assistant and rendered as a native digital assistant user experience. The digital assistant is configured to behave like the user's personal radio host or disc jockey (DJ), for example, by determining the user's intent and preferences, maintaining awareness of history and context, performing tasks and actions to curate personalized playlists and offer them at contextually-relevant times and places, providing information, recommendations, content, and commentary relating to the user's music, and proactively interacting with the user to make existing music easy to find and new music easy to discover.

Abstract: A method for communicating between a first Fibre Channel (FC) enabled device and a second FC enabled device, where the communication occurs across a fabric that operates in accordance with a first protocol different from a FC protocol of the first and second FC enabled devices. The method includes receiving, from the first FC enabled device, at a first gateway receiver a sequence of bytes including at least one control character in accordance with the FC protocol. The method then includes replacing the at least one control character with at least one data character. The method also includes generating an encapsulation header and an encapsulation footer for encapsulating the sequence of bytes in which at least one control character was replaced with at least one data character. The method then includes setting a control character indicator in the encapsulation header if a first byte in the sequence of bytes received at the gateway receiver is a control character.

Abstract: A method for communicating between a first device and a second device, wherein the communication occurs across a fabric and the first device is coupled to the fabric by a first gateway and the second device is coupled to the fabric by a second gateway. The method includes adjusting, at the first gateway, upon receipt of a first device readiness signal a first device readiness indicator to indicate an increase in a number of frames the first device is ready to accept, and sending, from the first gateway to the second gateway, a first gateway readiness signal, the first gateway readiness signal indicative of an increase in a number of frames the first gateway is ready to accept.

Abstract: A method for communicating between a first device and a second device, wherein the communication occurs across a fabric and the first device is coupled to the fabric by a first gateway and the second device is coupled to the fabric by a second gateway. The method includes adjusting, at the first gateway, upon receipt of a first device readiness signal a first device readiness indicator to indicate an increase in a number of frames the first device is ready to accept, and sending, from the first gateway to the second gateway, a first gateway readiness signal, the first gateway readiness signal indicative of an increase in a number of frames the first gateway is ready to accept.

Abstract: A method for communicating between a first Fibre Channel (FC) enabled device and a second FC enabled device, where the communication occurs across a fabric that operates in accordance with a first protocol different from a FC protocol of the first and second FC enabled devices. The method includes receiving, from the first FC enabled device, at a first gateway receiver a sequence of bytes including at least one control character in accordance with the FC protocol. The method then includes replacing the at least one control character with at least one data character. The method also includes generating an encapsulation header and an encapsulation footer for encapsulating the sequence of bytes in which at least one control character was replaced with at least one data character. The method then includes setting a control character indicator in the encapsulation header if a first byte in the sequence of bytes received at the gateway receiver is a control character.