Abstract: A disclosed method includes: determining whether a value of a load caused by a transfer processing to transmit data received from first processing apparatuses to second processing apparatuses in response to a request from the second processing apparatuses exceeds a threshold; upon determining that the value of the load exceeds the threshold, counting, for each first processing apparatus, the number of second processing apparatuses that request data transmitted by the first processing apparatus; identifying a first processing apparatus that is a transmission source of data transferred in the transfer processing to be allocated to another transfer apparatus of plural transfer apparatuses, based on the counted number; and transmitting a change request requesting that the transfer processing of data transmitted by the identified first processing apparatus is to be allocated to the another transfer apparatus, to a management apparatus managing allocation of the transfer processing for the plural transfer apparatus

Abstract: A light divider includes a light guide having first and second surfaces that reflect light incident on the guide and cause the light to propagate through a portion between the first and second surfaces. A first light dividing layer on the second surface reflects part of the light having propagated through the guide and transmits part thereof so that the light is divided into light fluxes. A first transparent piece on the second surface in a position where the light that the first light dividing layer has transmitted is incident, the first transparent piece having a first reflection surface that reflects the incident light, a second transparent piece that is provided on the second surface in a position where the light reflected off the first light dividing layer and reflected off the first surface is incident, the second transparent piece has a second reflection surface that reflects the incident light.

Abstract: A content distribution method executed by a computer includes referring to a result of comparing information identifying content data stored in a storage unit with information identifying content data stored in one or more other storage units included in one or more other computers; and collecting representative image data of content data not stored in the storage unit from the one or more other storage units included in the one or more other computers storing the content data not stored in the storage unit, starting from one of the one or more other computers having a greatest number of pieces of the content data.

Abstract: A load balancing apparatus stores a transfer rule in which a path control identifier for identifying a path for a message sent from a client device is associated with relay device information for specifying a relay device that creates the path control identifier. When receiving a message from the client device, the load balancing apparatus determines whether the message contains the path control identifier. If the load balancing apparatus determines that the path control identifier is contained, the load balancing apparatus specifies, from the transfer rule, relay device information with which the path control identifier is associated and then sends the message to a relay device that is specified by the specified relay device information. In contrast, if the load balancing apparatus determines that the path control identifier is not contained, the load balancing apparatus sends the message to the relay device specified in accordance with a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An OS on a virtual computer at the (n+m)-th stage (n and m represent natural numbers) is caused to recognize a device driver that runs on an OS on the n-th stage virtual computer. Specifically, a shared region is generated in a memory, and the OS at the second stage is caused to recognize, in a pass-through manner, the device driver that runs on the OS at the second stage.

Abstract: As regards a hardware fault which has occurred in a computer, a hypervisor notifies an LPAR which can continue execution, of a fault occurrence as a hardware fault for which execution can be continued. Upon receiving the notice, the LPAR notifies the hypervisor that it has executed processing to cope with a fault. The hypervisor provides an interface for acquiring a situation of a notice situation. It is made possible to register and acquire a situation of coping with a hardware fault allowing continuation of execution through the interface, and it is made possible to make a decision as to the situation of coping with a fault in the computers as a whole.

Abstract: A proxy assignment apparatus includes a processor or wired logic hardware configured to detect a first data request issued from a terminal apparatus for requesting first data. The processor or wired logic hardware is configured to determine whether a first proxy server that satisfies a condition exists, wherein the first proxy server corresponds to a media access control address of the terminal apparatus. The processor or wired logic hardware is configured to report a first internet protocol address of the first proxy server to the terminal apparatus when it is determined that the first proxy server exists.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes transferring communication data, transmitted from a first apparatus, which includes data and a first attribute regarding the data, to a second apparatus, receiving a notification that includes a second attribute regarding the data and a transfer destination of the communication data inclusive of the second attribute, transferring the communication data inclusive of the second attribute to a third apparatus of the transfer destination included in the notification; and transferring the notification to other transfer apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a task area unit as an area that executes a predetermined process, a power control unit that reads a task area to execute the process from the process and supplies power from a power source to the read task area, and a control unit that executes the process in the task area unit to which the power is supplied by the power control unit.

Abstract: In response to a service request designating a service identifier, a proxy server reads out at least two processing system identifiers corresponding to the designated service identifier from a first storage unit, and transmits an acquisition request containing the read-out at least two processing identifiers to a management server. The management server acquires respective authentication information items corresponding to the at least two processing identifiers contained in the received acquisition request from a second storage unit, and transmits the acquired authentication information items to the proxy server. The proxy server transmits user authentication requests for respective processing systems containing the received authentication information items to the at least two processing systems, respectively.

Abstract: A conversion device receives service data including first connection destination data and the authentication information about an authenticated user, generates second connection destination data for designation of the first connection destination data, then associates the authentication information, the first and second connection destination data with one another, transmits them to a relay device, and transmits to a client the service data in which the first connection destination data is replaced with the second connection destination data; the client transmits the second connection destination data selected by the user to the relay device; the relay device transmits the authentication information to a server indicated by the first connection destination data using the authentication information and the first connection destination data corresponding to the second connection destination data, and transmits the address of the server to the client; and the client communicates with the server using the address

Abstract: A method of content delivery executed by a computer is provided. The computer specifies an identifier of a content associated with an user identifier, an identifier of a device at a delivery destination of the content, and time until data of the content is delivered to the device at the delivery destination, when event data including the user identifier read by a sensor is received. The computer calculates, from the specified time, a clock time to start content sending to the device at the delivery destination of the content or a clock time to start data sending to a device that carries out the content sending, and stores these data, and sends the stored data to the device of the delivery destination, at a clock time that is stored in the data storage unit.

Abstract: An access control device causes an information processing device to execute access control between a client device and two or more server devices. The device receives an open request for causing the information processing device to open the port of a port number that is a port number to be transmitted to the client device according to completion of one process of a plurality of processes to be executed on a first server device which is one of the two or more server devices. The device generates information for data transfer for opening the port of the port number based on information for identifying the first server device which transmitted the open request, which is included in the received open request. The device transmits the generated information for data transfer to the information processing device.

Abstract: A relay server receives from a mobile terminal a delivery request to a delivery server device that provides an application to the mobile terminal. The relay server obtains position information of the mobile terminal from a representative device connected to a position managing server that holds the position information of the mobile terminal. The relay server transmits the position information of the mobile terminal obtained from the representative device to a relay device that relays a communication to inquire about the position information of the mobile terminal to the representative device. The relay server updates the position information obtained from the representative device with the position information received from the relay device when the position information of the mobile terminal is received from the relay device. The relay server transfers the received delivery request to the delivery server device identified based on the updated position information.

Abstract: When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a failure occurs in an LPAR generated on a physical computer under an SAN environment, configuration information including a unique ID (WWN) of the LPAR where the failure occurs is read, a destination LPAR is generated on another physical computer, and the read configuration information of the LPAR is set to the destination LPAR, thereby enabling migrating of the LPAR when the failure occurs, under the control of a management server.

Abstract: An information processing method includes calculating a reception estimated time when the data are received based on a last reception time of the data and a reception time interval of the data for transfer source devices; calculating a shift completion estimated time based on a shift time period necessary to shift an assignment of a data transfer process of a transfer source device of the plurality of the transfer source devices from the transfer processing device to another transfer processing device; and transferring the assignment of the data transfer process from the transfer processing device to the another transfer processing device, the assignment of the data transfer process being relevant to a transfer source device having the calculated reception estimated time later than the shift completion estimated time and closer to the shift completion estimated time than any other transfer source devices.

Abstract: A magnetic field measurement apparatus includes an irradiation portion, a gas cell, a measurement unit (polarization separation unit, light receiving portion, signal processing circuit), and a magnetic shield. The magnetic shield is formed in a elongated hollow shape having openings at both sides thereof. The gas cell, in which gaseous atoms are sealed, is disposed in a hollow area of the magnetic shield. The irradiation portion irradiates irradiation light including linearly polarized light adjusted so that the vibration direction of an electric field coincides with the axis direction of the magnetic shield onto the gaseous atoms sealed in the gas cell along a direction perpendicular to the axis of the magnetic shield. The measurement unit measures a rotational angle of a polarization plane of the irradiation light that has been irradiated by the irradiation portion and passed through the gaseous atoms.

Abstract: A method of realizing uniqueness assurance includes: selecting a server to which a first message is to be transferred from multiple servers and transferring the first message to the selected server when the first message is received from a terminal apparatus by a load sharing apparatus; storing a second message that should be transferred to the same server as that of the first server when the second message is received from the terminal apparatus by the load sharing apparatus after the first message is transferred; generating uniqueness assurance information corresponding to the communication protocols corresponding to a session generated by the server to which the first message is transferred, the uniqueness assurance information indicating the correspondence between the session and the message corresponding to the session; and transferring the second message in accordance with the generated uniqueness assurance information if the stored second message exits.

Abstract: A relay apparatus for transferring message data received from a client to one of a plurality of servers includes a status management data storage, a transfer rule handling section, and an acknowledgment transmitting section. The status management data storage holds data of an acknowledgment necessity table. The acknowledgment necessity table includes first identification information of a first apparatus to which the relay apparatus acknowledges when the relay apparatus has received first transfer rule notification data from the first apparatus. The transfer rule handling section determines whether the acknowledgment necessity table includes the first identification information identical to second identification information of a second apparatus upon receiving second transfer rule notification data from the second apparatus.

Abstract: When a failure occurs in an LPAR on a physical computer under an SAN environment, a destination LPAR is set in another physical computer to enable migrating of the LPAR and setting change of a security function on the RAID apparatus side is not necessary. When a failure occurs in an LPAR generated on a physical computer under an SAN environment, configuration information including a unique ID (WWN) of the LPAR where the failure occurs is read, a destination LPAR is generated on another physical computer, and the read configuration information of the LPAR is set to the destination LPAR, thereby enabling migrating of the LPAR when the failure occurs, under the control of a management server.