Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to method and system for predicting shelf life of perishable food items. In supply chain management, current technology provides limited capability in providing relation between visual image of food item and a quality parameter value at different storage conditions. The system includes a quality parameter prediction module and a shelf life prediction module. The method obtains input data from user comprising a visual data and a storage data of each food item. The quality parameter prediction module determines a current quality parameter value of the food item from a look-up table. The shelf life prediction module predicts the shelf life of food item based on the current quality parameter value, a critical quality parameter value and the storage data. The look-up table comprising a plurality of weather zones are generated based on relationship dynamics between the visual image of food item and the quality parameter value.

Abstract: Efficiently processing messages at a proxy without intermediary copying increases a proxy's capabilities since fewer resources are expended on operations, such as intermediary copying. A proxy determines which data of a message received into memory will be maintained. The proxy indicates, in an ordered encoding, locations of the determined data and of update data. The update data may be a new message segment, session identifier, etc. The ordered encoding, which indicates the data in order as they will occur in the forwarded message, is used to forward the message with the maintained data and the update data.

Abstract: Determining server capabilities during a discrete time period, or interval, allows for more efficient processing of client requests. Updating a proportional server capability load balancing information encoding at intervals allows a load balancer to handle client requests without the overhead of determining current server capabilities. Decision-making can be reduced to quick selection of one of a group of servers without considering the server's capability, since the server's capability has previously been considered when collecting the load balancing information.

Abstract: Context-based network security is provided for streamlined access control over a computer network and components on the computer network. More particularly, methods, instructions on computer-readable media and systems are provided for collecting network context information about a client computer system connecting to the computer network, making the network context information available to various components on the computer network, and using the network context information to control the client computer system's (or a client application executing thereon) access to one or more network resources.