Abstract: Plan of action and milestones (POA&M) automated generation engine (PAGE) systems are provided along with related methods. A number of distributed tamper protected configuration scanning systems configured to scan computer files in selected target systems across a network and generate target system configuration scan results files. The PAGE system also includes a number of POA&M configuration selection user interfaces and visualization systems enabling users to select, inform, and customize POA&M outputs based on POA&M configuration files that include POA&M library files that are associated with different types of plans or actions (e.g., cyber security configuration for networked computers). An expert system is also provided for receiving a plurality of configuration file inputs (e.g., configuration scan results file and various baseline files, e.g.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information retrieval apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to identify at least one first similar process similar to a process of interest corresponding to a certain design phase in design of a new plant, among processes of existing plants, based on a design document of the process of interest and design documents of individual processes of each of existing plants, identify at least one first subsequent process, a process after the first similar process, based on a design flow indicating a sequence of processes in an existing plant including the first similar process and retrieve a case corresponding to the first similar process and a case corresponding to the first subsequent process from a case database storing cases of troubles.

Abstract: An image forming system including an image forming apparatus and portable terminals is provided. The image forming apparatus comprises a unit that detects an error as a cause of an interrupt of image formation and transmits an error occurrence notification to each terminal, and a unit that, upon receiving a recovery operation start notification from a terminal and determining that a recovery operation for the error is started, transmits the recovery operation start notification to each terminal. Each terminal comprises a user interface that, upon receiving the error occurrence notification, displays an error notification screen, transmits the recovery operation start notification to the image forming apparatus in accordance with an operation by a user, and upon receiving the recovery operation start notification from the image forming apparatus, displays a recovery operation start screen on the user interface unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide for a bifocal timescales graph for viewing a network health history at a single glance.

Abstract: Methods, root cause analysis (RCA) engines, and monitoring systems for controlling monitoring systems based on RCA are provided. An RCA engine of a hardware computer receives an alarm on an entity. The RCA engine fetches correlation domains based on the correlation domains each having been associated with the entity and in which the alarm is part of a policy applied to the correlation domains. The RCA engine determines if the alarm is for a root cause of failure for an entity in one of the correlation domains and responsive to the alarm being for the root cause of failure: transmits a message to monitoring systems, the message comprising instructions for the registered monitoring systems to stop monitoring symptom conditions associated with the root cause of failure, and transmits, through the network, an indication of a failure of the one of the entities that is the root cause of failure.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distributed state exchanging model for assets of an organization or entity for an identified task in a domain of interest. The model provides a context aware autonomous Internet of things (IoT) based cognitive edge network, wherein each node is aware of the state of the other nodes based on a subscription. The state information is seamlessly updated and maintained by a certifying node of each group. The nodes are grouped based on associated capability definitions such that at least some of the groups form a hierarchy within the cognitive edge network for completing the identified task. Since the network is context aware, a new sub-task towards completing the identified task is autonomously selected by either groups or by the nodes based on the context thereby obviating a need for centralized scheduling.

Abstract: An influence range identification apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire information indicating a first device in which a failure occurs. The processor searches for second devices starting from the first device based on a connection relationship among a plurality of devices. The second devices exist in a first influence range. The processor determines whether a third device exists among the second devices. The third device has abnormality due to the failure. The processor determines whether each of the second devices other than the third device exits in a second influence range starting from the third device based on the connection relationship among the second devices. The processor determines a rank of a degree of a possibility of being affected by the failure with respect to each of the second devices other than the third device.

Abstract: Application data is received from a plurality of monitored applications. The application data is parsed into a plurality of features describing an operation of the plurality of monitored applications. A counter associated with at least one of the plurality of features is incremented. A system health is derived for the plurality of monitored applications from the counter.

Abstract: A system defining fault management actions for a network based on historical reference implemented by at least one computer. The system comprises the alarm process application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the alarm process application classifies the plurality of alarms that are stored in the alarm summary table based on which part of the network an alarm is from, scores a priority of each of the plurality of alarms based on the classification and a geographical location of an alarm, and determines a signature for some of the subset of the plurality of alarms to be stored in the matches table, wherein a signature is a set of column and value pairs that occur in alarm fields with an occurrence rate above a predefined threshold.

Abstract: A variety of different graphical user interfaces are generated that when displayed provide a visual and interactive representation of one or more performance metrics associated with the operation of a computer network. The graphical user interfaces may be used to monitor the underlay computer network for a virtualization infrastructure, as one example. Aspects include grouping the servers of a computer network into a plurality of aggregates, each aggregate comprising one or more servers. A set of probes are configured that are issued by an agent of a server in one aggregate and sent through the computer network to one or more agents in the server(s) of a different aggregate. Responses and other measurements taken based on the issuance of the probes is gathered and analyzed to generate metrics that are then used to generate, at least in part, the information provided in the graphical user interfaces.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to software testing. In one embodiment, a plurality of builds are generated from a plurality of branches of software code, where the plurality of builds are executable versions of the plurality of branches. Software tests are applied to the plurality of builds based on associated test filters to produce test results. Different builds may have different associated test filters to control which of the plurality of software tests are applied to an associated build. In one embodiment, software tests that did not pass for a particular build are recorded in the associated test filter for the particular build based on an association between the software test that did not pass and a particular runtime feature under test.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may provide low power state entry signals to multiple devices of an information handling system. After providing the low power state entry signals to the multiple devices, the one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may receive a first status signal from a first device of the multiple devices within an amount of time; may determine that the first status signal from the first device was received within the amount of time; may determine that a second status signal from a second device of the multiple devices was not received within the amount of time; may log that the first status signal from the first device was received within the amount of time; and may log that the second status signal from the second device was not received within the amount of time.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a system and a method for resolving error in an open stack operating system (OS). An error code relating to an error in an open stack OS associated with the error resolution system may be retrieved. One or more services associated with the error code may be determined and at least one of one or more log files from the open stack OS and a resolver may be retrieved. The one or more services are enabled in the error resolution system for the retrieving. Further, a predefined action plan based on the one or more log files and the resolver may be determined. The error in the open stack OS is resolved based on the determined predefined action plan.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a service converts a stream of network telemetry data into sketches. The stream of network telemetry data comprises a plurality of characteristics of traffic observed in a network. The service forms a time series of the sketches. The service performs anomaly detection on the time series of the sketches in part by calculating a joint distribution of ranks and frequencies of a portion of the characteristics at different points in time of the time series. The service sends an anomaly detection alert, when an anomaly is detected from the time series of the sketches.

Abstract: A method for dynamically adapting to increased system load at a selective forwarding unit (SFU) is disclosed. In an embodiment, an SFU sends a plurality of video streams to a plurality of participant computing devices. The SFU monitors a system load value on the SFU according to any of a plurality of metrics. When the SFU determines that the monitored system load value exceeds a stored load threshold value, the SFU selects one or more of the streams being sent to participant computing devices and disables them.

Abstract: A functional behaviour test system for a target computer program includes data defining user interface functionality encoded in a data repository. The test functional behaviour system includes a definition system arranged to receive, for the target computer program, a selection of a functional behaviour test definition, the definition system further being arranged to receive an input on one or more parameters for the selected behaviour test definition to define a functional behaviour test for the target computer program, a validation system arranged to validate the functional behaviour test in dependence on the data defining user interface functionality, a data repository to store the validated functional behaviour test, and a test interface system to provide access by a substantially automated execution environment to the validated functional behaviour test in the data repository for testing of the validated functional behaviour test against the target computer program.

Abstract: A computing system may be configured to obtain operating data for a manufacturing network that comprises a plurality of edge nodes, a plurality of intermediate nodes, and a root node. Based on the operating data, the computing system may determine a respective critical state indicator for each node in at least a given segment of the manufacturing network. Based on the respective critical state indicator for each node in the given segment, the computing system may recursively determine a respective health score for each node in the given segment of the manufacturing network. Based on the respective health score for each node in the given segment of the manufacturing network, the computing system may identify one or more nodes in the given segment that are anomalous and cause a client station to present a report of the one or more nodes that are identified to be anomalous.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a read mode signal generation circuit and a read alignment circuit. The read mode signal generation circuit compares a read command with at least one of internal clock signal to generate a read mode signal. The read alignment circuit is synchronized with the at least one internal clock signal to generate read data in response to internal data. The read alignment circuit controls an alignment sequence of the internal data in response to the read mode signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to dynamically control log level in a datacenter. An example machine-readable medium may store instructions executable by a processing resource to receive a stream of log data from a plurality of end devices via associated logging interfaces in the virtual datacenter. Further, the received stream of log data is dynamically analyzed. Furthermore, the log level of any one or more of the plurality of end devices is then controlled based on the analysis. The log data associated with the controlled log level of any one of the one or more of plurality of end devices is then received, which can then assist in debugging and troubleshooting.

Abstract: A premises networking device includes hardware components including speakers, microphone, infrared sensor, spectrum analyzer and wireless interfaces. A touch screen display presents a user interface that provides information about network conditions and configuration settings and a menu for setting and changing configuration settings. Different versions of the user interface are displayed based on whether a user is in proximity to the device. The user interface includes shapes representing user devices, the visual characteristics of which change based on the current network conditions. A health score, which is an evaluation of network performance based on measurements of aspects of the conditions of the network, is displayed in real time. A network management system includes a network management platform for storing network conditions and configuration information and pushing the information to premises networking devices.

Abstract: Methods are presented suitable for clustering computational event logs (2) including a method for calculating a metric distance between characters of different event messages (4) by comparing both characters to a comparative set of characters. Methods are presented for calculating a metric distance between two event messages (4) comprising determining character metric distances between characters in the compared words and word metric distances between the words in the compared events (4), Methods are presented for creating an area (8) in metric space corresponding to a new cluster (6) when a further event message (26) is found in an overlap region (24) of existing clusters (6, 8). Methods are presented in populating and constructing an event table.

Abstract: A medical signal processing device receives an image signal in accordance with a result of examining inside of a subject and processes the image signal. The medical signal processing device includes a signal processing unit configured to generate a plurality of transmission image signals from the image signal. The transmission image signals each include a plurality of distributed image signals obtained by distributing the image signal, at least any of the transmission image signals includes, as auxiliary data, data of at least part of distributed image signals different from the distributed image signals included in the transmission image signal, and the transmission image signals are transmitted to an external medical control device through a plurality of respective signal transmission paths.

Abstract: Role based assessment for an IT management system, includes maintaining a plurality of roles, each role attributable to a user type within an IT management system. Mappings are defined between the plurality of user roles and assets of the IT management system. An assessment for the IT management system is then assembled from the perspective of a selected one of the plurality of roles based on mappings between the selected user role and the assets.

Abstract: A system correlates items of customer feedback to anomalous events that gave rise to the items of customer feedback and stores the correlation information in one or more databases. The correlation information it then later used to determine the probable causes of items of customer feedback received at a later time.

Abstract: In some implementations, a system performs proactive performance tests for an appliance before a time for an operational change in usage of the appliance. Usage data for an appliance associated with a property may be obtained. The obtained usage data indicates past activity of the appliance and present operational status of the appliance. Weather forecast data associated with a location of the property can be obtained. A time for an operational change in usage of the appliance can be predicted based at least on the obtained usage data for the appliance and the obtained weather forecast data. An operation directed to conducting one or more performance tests on the appliance can be performed before the predicted time for the operational change in usage of the appliance. One or more communications related to the one or more performance tests of the appliance can be provided to a client device.

Abstract: An information processing method for monitoring errors that occur in an information processing apparatus includes: (A) capturing an image to be outputted to a console, sequentially; (B) determining whether the captured image satisfies a condition regarding a preset error display screen; and (C) upon determining that the captured image satisfies the condition, saving in a saving area of a memory unit, data of images that were captured within a predetermined time period, which includes a time when the image that satisfies the condition was captured, or data of a predetermined number of images, which include the image that satisfies the condition.

Abstract: A message processing system with improved maintainability, while ensuring availability, is provided. A filtering section 131 determines a degree of importance of an error message transmitted from a monitoring target server 110 and performs a process of filtering. A queue 121 receives the error message after the process of filtering by the filtering section 131 and transmits the error message to all summarizing sections 132. The summarizing section 132 then performs a process of summarizing for summarizing error messages of the same type as to the error messages after the process of filtering by the filtering section 131. A topic 122 receives the error message after the process of summarizing from one summarizing section 132.

Abstract: Monitoring a computer system or framework via a bot integrated into a messaging application is provided herein. A bot is made available as a contact within a messaging application to receive queries on a computer system/framework via messages from users. The bot is communicated with one or more systems or machines in a monitored computing system/framework to execute those queries and return a response to the user via the messaging application or another selected application.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), base station and a corresponding method for receiving historical data from a diagnostic server, receiving location data of the UE, determining a probability of a failed handover during a call based on the historical data and the location data, comparing the probability of the failed handover to a threshold value and initiating a call handover to a wireless local area network when the probability of the failed handover exceeds the threshold value. Also, a UE, base station and corresponding method for determining if one or more UEs have an active voice over WiFi call or if the UEs are registered with a Internet protocol (“IP”) multimedia subsystem (“IMS”) over WiFi and biasing a cell reselection procedure of the UE to select a cell of a packet switched network such as LTE.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting the root cause in use-after-free (UAF) memory corruption errors. A method includes an operation for tracking access to memory by a program to detect access to memory not allocated by the program. The method further includes operations for tracking allocations and deallocations of memory by the program, and for storing, in response to detecting a deallocation of memory by the program, at least part of a state of a program stack at a time of the deallocation of memory. Further, the method includes an operation for detecting, after the deallocation, access by the program to the memory associated with the deallocation of memory. In response to the detecting, the state of the program stack is saved in permanent storage at the time of the deallocation.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a device for handling an exception event in a telecommunication cloud to shorten the notification path and increase the reliability. The method of the present invention includes: detecting a resource state; transmitting a detected resource state exception event to the application layer agent process via a failure notification channel between an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) agent process and an application layer agent process as pre-established inside a host machine Host, and/or transmitting a detected resource state exception event to the application layer management process via a failure notification channel between the IaaS agent process and an application layer management process as pre-established inside the host machine Host. By means of the present invention, the notification path is shortened and the reliability is increased.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, a change to at least one record of a plurality of records in a multi-record update. At least one problem condition associated with the change to the at least one record is determined, wherein the at least one problem condition is determined via at least one problem definition object before the change is saved. The at least one problem condition is organized on a display. An action is executed on the at least one problem condition displayed.

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting malware, such as a virus or spyware. The method looks for deviations expected operating parameters instead of focusing solely on conventional malware signatures. The method includes monitoring current operating parameters for a computing system running one or more application, obtaining baseline operating parameters for the computing system running the one or more application in the absence of malware, identifying a deviation between the current operating parameters and the baseline operating parameters, and determining whether the identified deviation matches a deviation associated with a predetermined malware definition.

Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon program instructions to facilitate the display of multiple errors is provided. The program instructions, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to at least initiate display of a graphical view of an industrial automation environment. The program instructions also direct the computing system to detect a plurality of error conditions related to machine operations within the industrial automation environment, and to determine a plurality of locations within the graphical view associated with the plurality of error conditions. The program instructions further direct the computing system to identify at least one group of error conditions from the plurality of error conditions based on the plurality of locations, and to initiate display of a graphical representation of the at least one group of the error conditions.

Abstract: An information processing device including a recording module to record a program having cleared a watchdog timer; a determination module to refer, when the watchdog timer expires, to the recording module to determine an application to be executed from among a plurality of applications, and to determine an operating system to be executed from among a plurality of operating systems; an execution module to execute the operating system determined by the determination module; and a communication module to notify the operating system to be executed of the application to be executed.

Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to distributed input/output (I/O) virtualization. A number of embodiments include an apparatus comprising a host computing device, a distributed virtualization controller (DVC) disposed on the host computing device, and a virtualized input/output (I/O) device in communication with the DVC.

Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.

Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a change deployment in order to communicate some or all the information to a plurality of users includes providing an interface to users at workstations accessible by the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a change deployment session, initiating display of at least one of the messages to the users via the interface, initiating display of task data to the users via the interface, the task data corresponding to at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the change deployment conference session, the event data comprising task status data indicating the status of the at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.

Abstract: A method for managing information relating to a change deployment in order to communicate some or all the information to a plurality of users includes providing an interface to users at workstations accessible by the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a change deployment session, initiating display of at least one of the messages to the users via the interface, initiating display of task data to the users via the interface, the task data corresponding to at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the change deployment conference session, the event data comprising task status data indicating the status of the at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.

Abstract: A multifunction machine of a status management system includes an apparatus-side status change communication unit that transmits a status change notification to a management server when status information that is managed by the multifunction machine is changed by operating the multifunction machine, and an apparatus-side information communication unit that transmits a response to the request notification to the management server when a request notification is received from the management server. The management server of the status management system includes a server-side status change communication unit that receives a status change notification from the multifunction machine, and a server-side information communication unit that transmits a request notification to the multifunction machine and receives a response to the request notification from the multifunction machine when the server-side status change communication unit receives the status change notification.

Abstract: A method of minimizing rebuild times within a large-scale data storage system, such as a RAID array by: maintaining a spare disk for a plurality of disks within a disk array; monitoring the plurality of disks for occurrence of one or more pre-failure indicators; maintaining, for each disk, a count of the occurrences of the pre-failure indicators; comparing the count for each disk to a defined threshold value; and copying the first disk and mirroring write operations to the first disk to the spare disk if the count for the first disk exceeds the threshold. The method switches the copying to the spare disk from the first disk to a second disk if the count for the second disk exceeds the count for the first disk. In this manner, certain predictive information can be used to use the spare disk to reduce RAID rebuild times to near instantaneous periods.

Abstract: Context-based provision of screenshot modification is provided herein. A screenshot image is obtained and analyzed to determine an acquisition context of the screenshot image, the acquisition context being a context in which the screenshot image was acquired. A display context in which the screenshot image is to be displayed is determined, and the screenshot image is prepared for display in the display context, the preparing including applying one or more modifications to one or more visual elements of the screenshot image based on the acquisition context and on the display context.

Abstract: A display driver integrated circuit including a logic circuit configured to receive image data from a host and an image cyclic redundancy check (CRC) unit configured to perform a CRC operation on output data of the logic circuit and transmit the performed result to the host may be provided. Additionally, a timing controller including a logic circuit configured to receive image data from a host and an image CRC unit configured to perform a CRC operation on output data associated with the logic circuit and configured to transmit the performed result to the host may also be provided. Further, a display device including a display panel, a display driver integrated circuit configured to drive the display panel and an image CRC unit configured to perform a CRC operation on output data of the logic circuit and transmit the performed result may be provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for repairing a fault of a terminal which includes: acquiring, by a terminal, an error log according to fault repairing instructions, and extracting identification information of a corresponding application from the error log; when the application is a local application, according to the identification information of the local application and a preset top level domain name corresponding to an after sales server of the local application, determining an IP address of the after sales server; sending the error log to the corresponding after sales server; determining, by the after sales server, a solution according to the error log, and feeding back the solution to the terminal; and performing, by the terminal, operation of repairing the fault of the terminal according to the solution. Also disclosed is a system for repairing a fault of a terminal.

Abstract: An improved method provides fault handling in a distributed IT environment. The distributed IT environment executes a workflow application interacting with at least one application by using interface information about the at least one application. In response to receiving a first instance of a fault response, a fault handler performing a first lookup of a fault handling policy corresponding to the fault response within a fault handling descriptions catalog. The fault handler loads a first one or more fault handling descriptions that are pointed to by the fault handling policy in order to continue execution of the workflow application. After a second instance of the fault response, the fault handler performs a second lookup of the fault handling policy which now points to a second one or more fault handling descriptions which are loaded in order to continue execution of the workflow application.

Abstract: An electronic device and a circuit module thereof are provided. The circuit module includes a main body, a light-emitting portion and a PCI-E insert row, the main body has a substrate and a first coating layer, the substrate has a light-transmittable portion and a first face, the first coating layer is coated on the first face, the first coating layer has an emergent light-transmittable portion corresponding to the light-transmittable portion. The light-emitting portion is buried in the substrate. The PCI-E insert row is disposed on the substrate. The electronic device includes the circuit module mentioned above and further includes a shell portion. The shell portion is covered on two opposite lateral faces of the circuit module, and the shell portion further has a second light-transmittable portion corresponding to the emergent light-transmittable portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an error troubleshooting application. Error data is obtained from a client device. A correlated knowledge base is referenced to determine if a solution is associated with the error data. If a solution is associated with the error data, a notification embodying the solution is communicated to the client device. If a solution is not associated with the error data, a notification indicating the solution is unknown is communicated to the client device.

Abstract: A mobile station automatically stores location information and, optionally, time stamps as metadata associated with objects created or accessed by the mobile station. The location information indicates the location of the mobile station when the object is created. The objects stored on the mobile station may then be searched based on the stored location information or on a combination of the stored location information and stored timestamp metadata.

Abstract: A portable device may perform a method that includes detecting that the portable device is coupled to a host device via a host interface of the portable device. The method includes generating a visual indication at a visual indicator of the portable device. The visual indication is indicative of a data transfer capacity of the host interface.