Abstract: A system for providing a name space to a computer program, including a document representing a file system for services available on a computer system. The document defines a name space for the services, and is organized as a tree structure having multiple nodes, such as XML nodes. The nodes include at least one directory node representing a system directory, and at least one file node. A system area within the document defines type attributes corresponding the file nodes and the directory nodes, and which distinguish between the file nodes and the directory nodes. The system area further includes access control attributes for the file nodes in the document, and a physical file attribute corresponding to each the file nodes. The physical file attributes define locations of physical files corresponding to the file type nodes, while the access control attributes specify actions permitted using the physical files.

Abstract: A distributed system and method for performing network monitoring including an infrastructure management appliance located within a customer premises. The infrastructure management appliance collects and aggregates relevant information regarding the status and performance of one or more of the customer's information technology resources. The infrastructure management appliance may support some number of integrated management and reporting applications. A secure virtual connection between the infrastructure management appliance and a remote data center may be used to convey management information from the infrastructure management appliance to the data center, and also to pass information defining the customer specific configuration and functional operation of the infrastructure management appliance from the remote data center to the infrastructure management appliance.

Abstract: The invention provides camouflage in both the visual spectrum and the infrared spectrum by emulating the infrared radiation of an object's background and the visible radiation of an object's background, effectively cloaking the object from detection. Initially, the temperature and color of the background against which an object appears is determined. The external surface of the object, or alternatively a shield around the object, is then heated or cooled using thermoelectric modules that convert electrical energy into a temperature gradient. The ability of the modules to be either cooled or heated permits the output of the modules to be altered to match the temperature of an object's background. In combination with these thermocouples, the invention utilizes choleric liquid crystals to alter the visible color of an object.