Abstract: A system for the effective resource scheduling of composite multimedia objects involves a sequence packing formulation of the composite object scheduling problem and associated efficient algorithms using techniques from pattern matching and multiprocessor scheduling. An associated method of scheduling the provision of composite multimedia objects, each comprising one or more continuous media streams of audio data, video data and other data, where the continuous media streams are of varying bandwidth requirement and duration comprise the steps of; generating composite multimedia objects from the continuous media streams and determining a run-length compressed form for each of the generated composite multimedia objects.

Abstract: A system for, and method of compressing a data table using models and a database management system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a table modeller that discovers data mining models with guaranteed error bounds of at least one attribute in the data table in terms of other attributes in the data table and (2) a model selector, associated with the table modeller, that selects a subset of the at least one model to form a basis upon which to compress the data table.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for sequential pattern mining with a given constraint. A Regular Expression (RE) is used for identifying the family of interesting frequent patterns. A family of methods that enforce the RE constraint to different degrees within the generating and pruning of candidate patterns during the mining process is utilized. This is accomplished by employing different relaxations of the RE constraint in the mining loop. Those sequences which satisfy the given constraint are thus identified most expeditiously.

Abstract: Systems and method for selecting open shortest path first (OSPF) aggregates and aggregate weights for a particular area. In one embodiment, an aggregate selecting system includes: (1) a database for containing data pertaining to candidate OSPF aggregates and corresponding weights and (2) an aggregate selector, associated with the database, that selects at least a subset of the OSPF aggregates such that the shortest path length between the particular source and destination subnets resulting from advertisement of a set of weighted aggregates approaches the shortest path length between the particular source and destination subnets irrespective of the advertisement.

Abstract: In a server system having a predetermined total bandwidth providing data files to a plurality of clients in response to requests received from the clients, a method for providing admission control comprises the steps of allocating a plurality of channel partitions to a plurality of channel groups such that each channel group includes one or more of the channel partitions. The system then obtains a channel group number based on the length of the data file requested by one of the clients and transmits the requested data file when a channel group corresponding to the obtained channel group number contains a vacant channel partition.

Abstract: Various systems and methods of scheduling media segments of varying display rate, length and/or periodicity on at least one clustered, vertically-striped or horizontally-striped continuous media database volume. With respect to the at least one horizontally-striped database volume, one method includes the steps of: (1) associating a display value with each of the media segments, (2) sorting the media segments in a non-increasing order of value density to obtain an ordered list thereof and (3) building a scheduling tree of the media segments, the scheduling tree having a structure that increases a total display value of the media segments.