Abstract: Obfuscating a human or other subject in digital media preserves privacy. A user of a smartphone, for example, may enable a flag for obscuring her face in digital photos or movies. When any device captures digital media, the user's smartphone transmits the flag for receipt. The device capturing the digital media is thus informed of the user's desire to obscure her face or even entire image. The device capturing the digital media may thus perform an obscuration in response to the flag.

Abstract: A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.

Abstract: A system may dynamically provision an underlying storage implementation for cloud storage, such as cloud block storage services. They system allows for deferral of the storage provisioning process to the time at which a tenant actually requests a storage space.

Abstract: A system may dynamically provision an underlying storage implementation for cloud storage, such as cloud block storage services. They system allows for deferral of the storage provisioning process to the time at which a tenant actually requests a storage space.

Abstract: A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.

Abstract: A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.

Abstract: A reconstruction may be divided into a set of partial operations and scheduled in parallel using a distributed protocol which overlays a reduction tree to aggregate the results. In addition, a scheduling algorithm called multiple partial parallel repair is introduced for handling concurrent failures. Multiple reconstructions may be coordinated in parallel while working to minimize the conflict for shared resources.

Abstract: Obfuscating a human or other subject in digital media preserves privacy. A user of a smartphone, for example, may enable a flag for obscuring her face in digital photos or movies. When any device captures digital media, the user's smartphone transmits the flag for receipt. The device capturing the digital media is thus informed of the user's desire to obscure her face or even entire image. The device capturing the digital media may thus perform an obscuration in response to the flag.

Abstract: A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.

Abstract: A system may dynamically provision an underlying storage implementation for cloud storage, such as cloud block storage services. They system allows for deferral of the storage provisioning process to the time at which a tenant actually requests a storage space.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including detecting attention by a user to a presentation displayed at an audiovisual presentation device. A real-time image of the user is obtained and stored local to the audiovisual presentation device. The image is analyzed to determine a presence in the image of a facial feature of the user; the device determines, based on the presence of the facial feature, whether the user is attentive to the presentation. When the user is not attentive to the presentation, a procedure is initiated at the audiovisual presentation device to reduce resource consumption by the device; the procedure can include continuing the presentation at a video quality level lower than at the beginning of the presentation, reducing a brightness of the display, continuing the presentation with only the audio portion, and discontinuing the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Obfuscating a human or other subject in digital media preserves privacy. A user of a smartphone, for example, may enable a flag for obscuring her face in digital photos or movies. When any device captures digital media, the user's smartphone transmits the flag for receipt. The device capturing the digital media is thus informed of the user's desire to obscure her face or even entire image. The device capturing the digital media may thus perform an obscuration in response to the flag.

Abstract: A system may dynamically provision an underlying storage implementation for cloud storage, such as cloud block storage services. They system allows for deferral of the storage provisioning process to the time at which a tenant actually requests a storage space.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including detecting attention by a user to a presentation displayed at an audiovisual presentation device. A real-time image of the user is obtained and stored local to the audiovisual presentation device. The image is analyzed to determine a presence in the image of a facial feature of the user; the device determines, based on the presence of the facial feature, whether the user is attentive to the presentation. When the user is not attentive to the presentation, a procedure is initiated at the audiovisual presentation device to reduce resource consumption by the device; the procedure can include continuing the presentation at a video quality level lower than at the beginning of the presentation, reducing a brightness of the display, continuing the presentation with only the audio portion, and discontinuing the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A traffic management mechanism can employ a two-tiered approach for managing background traffic based on prioritizing tasks by remaining time flexibility then scheduling prioritized tasks using linear programming.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including detecting attention by a user to a presentation displayed at an audiovisual presentation device. A real-time image of the user is obtained and stored local to the audiovisual presentation device. The image is analyzed to determine a presence in the image of a facial feature of the user; the device determines, based on the presence of the facial feature, whether the user is attentive to the presentation. When the user is not attentive to the presentation, a procedure is initiated at the audiovisual presentation device to reduce resource consumption by the device; the procedure can include continuing the presentation at a video quality level lower than at the beginning of the presentation, reducing a brightness of the display, continuing the presentation with only the audio portion, and discontinuing the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A reconstruction may be divided into a set of partial operations and scheduled in parallel using a distributed protocol which overlays a reduction tree to aggregate the results. In addition, a scheduling algorithm called multiple partial parallel repair is introduced for handling concurrent failures. Multiple reconstructions may be coordinated in parallel while working to minimize the conflict for shared resources.

Abstract: A traffic management mechanism can employ a two-tiered approach for managing background traffic based on prioritizing tasks by remaining time flexibility then scheduling prioritized tasks using linear programming.

Abstract: A system may dynamically provision an underlying storage implementation for cloud storage, such as cloud block storage services. They system allows for deferral of the storage provisioning process to the time at which a tenant actually requests a storage space.

Abstract: Obfuscating a human or other subject in digital media preserves privacy. A user of a smartphone, for example, may enable a flag for obscuring her face in digital photos or movies. When any device captures digital media, the user's smartphone transmits the flag for receipt. The device capturing the digital media is thus informed of the user's desire to obscure her face or even entire image. The device capturing the digital media may thus perform an obscuration in response to the flag.