Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Techniques for prioritized client-server communications based on server health are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes multiple clients, and a server communicatively coupled to the multiple clients. The server may include a quality of service (QoS) aware server agent to divide the clients into client groups, assign a priority level to each of the client groups, monitor a health of the server, and determine heartbeat status messages to be sent to the client groups based on the assigned priority level and the health of the server. Each heartbeat message may indicate a state of the server. Further, the QoS aware server agent may send the heartbeat status messages to corresponding ones of the client groups and instruct clients corresponding to one or more of the client groups to send data based on the corresponding heartbeat status messages.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Techniques for prioritized client-server communications based on server health are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes multiple clients, and a server communicatively coupled to the multiple clients. The server may include a quality of service (QoS) aware server agent to divide the clients into client groups, assign a priority level to each of the client groups, monitor a health of the server, and determine heartbeat status messages to be sent to the client groups based on the assigned priority level and the health of the server. Each heartbeat message may indicate a state of the server. Further, the QoS aware server agent may send the heartbeat status messages to corresponding ones of the client groups and instruct clients corresponding to one or more of the client groups to send data based on the corresponding heartbeat status messages.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage a dynamic deployment environment including one or more virtual machines.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage monitoring agents. A disclosed example involves determining if a virtual machine has a first service installed that corresponds to a service rule, the service rule to specify a service identifier and a configuration for a monitoring agent. The method also involves determining if the virtual machine has the monitoring agent corresponding to the first service. The method also involves, in response to determining if the first service matches the service identifier specified by the service rule and that the monitoring agent is not installed on the virtual machine, initiating installation of the monitoring agent on the virtual machine.

Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically creating a movie of computer selected video scenes accompanied by music are disclosed. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may synchronize the video scene changes with the onsets of beats in the music. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may also offer a user of the computer program product a choice of video styles by which the movie may be characterized when viewed by the user.

Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically creating a movie of computer selected video scenes accompanied by music are disclosed. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may synchronize the video scene changes with the onsets of beats in the music. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may also offer a user of the computer program product a choice of video styles by which the movie may be characterized when viewed by the user.