Abstract: A network device is described that load-balances network traffic among a set of network servers based on electrical power consumption of the network servers. The network device may measure electrical power consumption in a variety of ways, and may generate and maintain a power consumption profile for each of the network server. The power consumption profile may describe the respective server power consumption in increasing granularity. For instance, each power consumption profile may specify electrical power consumption according to watts consumed by a server per average transaction, watts consumed per transaction for a specific type of software application, watts consumed per transaction for a software application for individual network resources, and so on. Furthermore, the profiles may be maintained for individual servers or aggregated for groups or sequences of servers.

Abstract: Presented is a method and system for improving the efficiency of network security protections communication protocols such as Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) using enhanced Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (“RSA”) encryption and decryption techniques. During the establishment of the initial handshake of SSL communications, where a client is coupled to a server, the server generates a RSA public/private key pair. The public key is formed using two distinct prime numbers. By reducing the size of these prime numbers and arriving at the decrypted message using the Chinese Remainder Theorem, the efficiency of establishing a secure communications session is increased. Likewise if during generation of the public key, the prime numbers possess a mathematical relationship to the public key such that the prime numbers are on the order of a third of the size of the public key then the efficiency of establishing the initial handshake is again improved.

Abstract: A method and system for efficiently conducting secure communications in a commuter network are provided. Secure communications in a network are typically of the Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) and Transport Layer Security (“TLS”) formats. These formats require the server to decrypt numerous encrypted messages at the cost of efficiency and speed. By combining the encrypted messages into a batch and utilizing a Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (“RSA”) batch decryption algorithm, the efficiency of the decryption is improved. Methods for improving this process include replacing the required number of divisions and inversion with more efficient multiplication operations. Further computation savings are realized by reducing the number of exponentiations and structuring the batches of encrypted messages to contain balanced exponents.

Abstract: A computer system for displaying an image of a hypertext document in an animated marquee. The computer system includes a hypertext document viewer that receives an identification of a hypertext document and generates an image of the hypertext document: The computer system also includes a marquee object that receives an identification of an hypertext document, that invokes the hypertext document viewer to generate an image of the hypertext document, and that displays the image of the generated hypertext document. The computer system also includes a browser that receives an identification of an hypertext document that contains an indication of the marquee object along with a reference to another hypertext document and that invokes the hypertext document viewer sending the identification of the hypertext document.