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A couple of weeks ago we received a very mysteries box from a company that we didn't recognize (Performance Designed Products). Being the overworked idiots that we were, mainly because we couldn't put PDP together from that name, we opened the large, heavy box to pull out a gigantic metal case.
Inside that metal case was a glowing heaven of 'Christmas-light' wonder. It contained an assortment of gaming controllers that were wonderfully glowing in our faces. Were we wowed? Hell yes we were. Is this the best presentation we've ever gotten via FedEx? Yes, it was.
More importantly, was this just a cheap stunt to make us love the product instantly? You could argue that question, but regardless it was one of the coolest boxes we've opened this year.
Controllers have always had to be perfect, or damn near it, when it comes to liking them as a gamer. The sensitivity of gamers' taste when it comes to picking the perfect controller is essential. I remember when the first Playstation arrived on the scene, people were already complaining about how the analog sticks were too close to each other. Another example is how everyone simply detested the way the Nintendo 64 controller's analog stick was one of the more uncomfortable experiences of their life. All of these examples are how picky people can get when they don't get the 'near perfect' design they're looking for. One of the best controllers made, which werel probably the best design to date in gaming, was the Gamecube controller. It helped that Miyamoto had some input into it.
Anyway, not to digress here, PDP sent some controllers and we had the chance to test them out and compare them to controllers of the present and past. We found some good things out in the process.
Afterglow AP.1 for Playstation 3
The Afterglow AP.1 is one of the more impressive controllers in the bunch. First, know that it has dual shock inside of it. You can see inside the controller and see the suckers spinning furiously, especially if you tested it out with God of War III like yours truly did. Everything about this controller says 'nice'. On each grip of the controller you have a place that you can rest your middle fingers (laugh now), which is surprisingly comfortable for long-term gaming. I played God of War III from beginning to almost end (stopped at the fight with Zeus -- roughly about 6-7 hours) and didn't have one moment of uncomfortable gaming.
What's weird is that my palms didn't get sweaty, much. I'm not sure if it was my awesome, unwavering confidence with the game or the glow of the light inside that kept drying my God of War worries away, but they pretty much stay dried the entire time.
Now, the best part of the controller was how the analog sticks were placed. Call me crazy, but this design was very close to the positioning of the 'c' button on the Gamecube controller. This design, again, was one of the better designs in gaming history and it was nearly the same feeling with the Afterglow AP.1. Very comfortable, more so than the PS3 controller from Sony. Amazing, if you think about it.
Good can't come without some bad (says the cynical reviewer), and there are a couple of knocks on the controller.
The first knock is that it isn't wireless. I'm assuming that is to cut down on cost, but if you're the gamer that has to be 50 feet away from the television then you need to start scooting your seat closer. For some people this might be a deal breaker, but for me it was just a small hindrance. I'll buy a controller cheaper ($24.99) if it means sacrificing my laziness.
The second, and final, knock on the Afterglow AP.1 is the home button. Literally it's a home icon on the button and it controls everything the PS button would control. The only thing it lacks is the ability to turn the system on. Yes, I'm lazy and yes I want it, but I understand that it isn't powered by batteries (rather by system) and it requires the system to be on to work. Still, I want the ability to turn it on from that button and I think there has to be a way to do it.
Afterglow AX.1 for Xbox 360
This is a Microsoft licensed controller and is eerily similar to the official controller. You have pretty much all the buttons in their original places (analog sticks are where they should be, the directional pad is about the same size, etc.). The biggest differences in this come down to two things:
- Start/Select button placement
- Lack of battery pack
Now, the start/select button placement actually makes sense. They're now angled (like two perked up rabbit ears) around the Xbox button in the middle, which is perfect for your thumbs when you need to use those buttons (pick up your 360 remote and place your thumbs out, see where they land).
One of the mixed blessings about the Afterglow AX.1 is the lack of battery pack. Having the extra weight shed from the controller is great. No offense, but MS needs to get with the program (as does Nintendo's folks) and implement the built in battery method like Sony. I'm not sure why they need that there, but it helps tremendously when the battery pack is nixed from the design.
Of course, on the flipside of that coin is that you have to plug up the controller via USB to the Xbox 360 system. Much like the Afterglow AP.1 you get no 'power on' ability with the Xbox button, but you do get the other commands that you're use to using. And just like the Afterglow AP.1 you're wired to a system, so you have to decide how you are going to game connected. Again, like the Afterglow AP.1 you get a controller that is only half the cost ($29.99) of the official controller, so sacrifices must be made.
Afterglow AW.1 and Afterglow AW.2 for Wii
Now the only wireless (in a sense) pair out of the Afterglow bunch is the Afterglow AW.1 and Afterglow AW.2 for the Nintendo Wii. Much like the Afterglow AX.1, there isn't much difference from the official controllers.
The Afterglow AW.1 does have two differences, as the 1/2 buttons are no longer vertical, as they are diagonal and the +/- buttons have changed places.
For the 1/2 buttons, the placement is a bit odd. Though it does work well when you're playing some Virtual Console games, it is slightly jarring to use it when you're so use to the original positioning. Logically, the placement makes sense; it's just difficult to get use to.
As for the +/- buttons, it's an improvement! They are now placed to the left and right of the 'A' button, which makes complete sense when you're trying to use them. It does hurt a bit when you need to use them in classic mode, but when using them for the Wii purposes it's completely perfect.
Shifting gears to the Afterglow AW.2, which is essentially the nunchuk, has some questionable design. While it's really the same sort of design, it does bring a nice rubber pad to the analog stick. That was the worst part of the original Nintendo Nunchuk and a welcomed improvement.
The questionable design falls around the actual wire connection running from the AW.2 to the AW.1. The wire feels incredibly fragile. My reviewer part of me wants to yank on that thing to see if it will rip, but my gamer side wants to spare its life. Regardless, it's very flimsy and seems like it could break easily. Related to that is the ability to retract that wire back into the AW.2. There is a tiny (I mean very tiny) button located on the back of the AW.2 that will retract the cord once you press it. Neat idea, but it's a pain to use, plus in the heat of gaming I would hate to accidentally press that button in some miraculous way; it would really screw up things for you.
Still, can't really beat the price as the Afterglow AW.1 is $29.99 and the Afterglow AW.2 is $14.99. Not bad for what you get.
Outside of usability, the glow each controller emits is pretty cool. It's a neat gimmick that works well. It gives the controllers personality and I'm not opposed to that at all. I think it's much better than off-white and black, or just white. Having the ability to switch between colors is also quite welcoming.


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What are the best SNMP libraries to use with .NET? Specifically for listening for traps or sending set or get requests.
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I am using the Sharp SNMP Suite (#SNMP) : LGPL, Mono compatible, developed in C# 3.0, has very good API. |
Hi as the author of #SNMP, I try my best to be unbiased here :) I have a blog post here which is a simple evaluation report. http://www.lextm.com/index.php/2007/12/product-review-snmp-libraries-for-net-evaluation-report/ In my opinion, PowerSNMP is the leading one which has both complete feature set and simple/natural API. There are many commercial and open source products you can evaluate yourself to see which one meets your special needs. Which one is the best? This bases on which subset of SNMP features you need and how big your budget is. :) |
here's a library and a few examples http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/malcolmcrowe/SnmpLib11232005011613AM/SnmpLib.aspx |
I've personally used Adventnet's .NET SNMP API for snmp work. It's now been renamed to WebNMS. I have code running based on this API several places, that has just worked and keeps on working 24/7. Recommended for lots of examples and stability. Also it's fast. Seems though that there are several other .NET SNMP libraries that have come since I used SNMP last that might be worth checking out. ex: #SNMP, which has been referenced to in other replies. |

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25th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 64 | ||
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090157784 | DETERMINING A MESSAGE RESIDUE - A description of techniques of determining a modular remainder with respect to a polynomial of a message comprised of a series of segments. An implementation can include repeatedly accessing a strict subset of the segments and transforming the strict subset of segments to into a smaller set of segments that are equivalent to the strict subset of the segments with respect to the modular remainder. The implementation can also include determining the modular remainder based on a set of segments output by the repeatedly accessing and transforming and storing the determined modular remainder. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157785 | FAST ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATION OF 5-POINT DCT-II, DCT-IV, AND DST-IV, AND ARCHITECTURES - A more efficient encoder/decoder is provided in which an N-point MDCT transform is mapped into smaller sized N/2-point DCT-IV, DST-IV and/or DCT-II transforms. The MDCT may be systematically decimated by factor of 2 by utilizing a uniformly scaled 5-point DCT-II core function as opposed to the DCT-IV or FFT cores used in many existing MDCT designs in audio codecs. Various transform factorizations of the 5-point transforms may be implemented to more efficiently implement a transform. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A FAIL SAFE FOURIER TRANSFORM MATRIX - A base station transmitter for maintaining data rate transmission between a set of Fourier Transform matrices, having a digital Fourier Transform Matrix (FTM), and analog FTM, and a plurality of transmit paths therebetween. During the occurrence of a power amplifier failure, the method includes detecting the failure of a power amplifier (PA); and reconfiguring the digital FTM and analog FTM to a pass-thru mode. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157787 | ROW-VECTOR NORM COMPARISON METHOD AND ROW-VECTOR NORM COMPARISON APPARATUS FOR INVERSE MATRIX - Disclosed are a row-vector norm comparison method and a row-vector norm comparison apparatus for an inverse matrix. A row-vector norm comparison apparatus includes: an input matrix processing module that receives and combines constituent elements of a matrix; a cofactor operation module that multiplexes the combination result of the constituent elements to calculate factors constituting an adjoint matrix; a square calculation module that squares the calculated factors; a summation module that selects a predetermined number of factors among the squared factors and sums the selected factors to calculate the norms of row vectors in an inverse matrix; and a norm comparison module that outputs a comparison result of the calculated norms of the row vectors. A row-vector norm comparison method includes: combining constituent elements of a matrix to generates a plurality of combination results of the constituent elements; multiplexing the combination results to calculate factors constituting an adjoint matrix of the matrix; squaring the calculated factors and selectively summing the squared factors; and calculating the norms of row vectors in an inverse matrix and comparing the calculated norms of the row vectors. With this configuration, row-vector norm comparison for an inverse matrix can be performed with a design structure. Therefore, it is not necessary to use an existing complex operation method. In addition, low power consumption of the multiple antenna system can be achieved, and efficiency of the design structure can be improved. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157788 | MODULAR SQUARING IN BINARY FIELD ARITHMETIC - After squaring an element of a binary field, the squaring result may be reduced modulo the field-defining polynomial g bits at a time. To this end, a lookup table may be employed, where the lookup table stores entries corresponding to reducing g-bit-long polynomials modulo the field-defining polynomial. Such a reducing strategy may be shown to be more efficient than a bit-by-bit reducing strategy. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157789 | Multiplicative Group Counter - Systems and methods are provided for efficiently counting detected events via a multiplicative group counter. An equivalent class polynomial congruent with a first of a plurality of elements comprising a multiplicative group is represented as a series of binary values. The represented polynomial is subjected to a state transition function as each event is detected, such that the series of binary values is altered to represent a new equivalent class polynomial congruent with a second of the plurality of elements of a multiplicative group. The series of binary values is decoded to determine a number of detected events recorded by the counter. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLYING POLYNOMIALS WITH A PRIME NUMBER OF TERMS - An efficient method and apparatus to compute a product of polynomials of degree n−1 where n is an arbitrary prime is provided. The total number of multiply operations and Arithmetic Logical Unit (ALU) operations to compute the product is minimized through the judicious use of polynomial evaluations at few points to decrease the number of multiplications while using only simple ALU operations. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157791 | FLEXIBLE ACCUMULATOR FOR RATIONAL DIVISION - A system and method are provided for rational division. The method accepts accepting a binary numerator and a binary denominator. A binary first sum is created of the numerator and a binary first count from a previous cycle. A binary first difference is created between the first sum and the denominator. In response to comparing the first sum with the denominator, and first carry bit is generated and added to a first binary sequence. The first binary sequence is used to generate a k-bit quotient. Typically, the denominator value is larger than the numerator value. In one aspect, the numerator and denominator form a rational number. Alternately, the numerator may be an n-bit bit value formed as either a repeating or non-repeating sequence, and the denominator is an (n+1)-bit number with a decimal value of 2 | 2009-06-18 |
20090157792 | Content delivery to a mobile device from a content service - Systems and methods for delivering digital content to a mobile device from a digital content provider are disclosed. Digital content is selected using a selection interface on the mobile device. The selected content is then transferred to a computing device by the digital content provider and subsequently transferred to the mobile device by the computing device. In some embodiments, the digital content is reformatted before being transferred to the mobile device. The digital content may be streamed from the computer system to the mobile device. A service provider of a network through which the mobile device connects to the digital content provider may bill a user of the mobile device on behalf of the digital content provider. The digital content provider may bill the user of the mobile device using a Premium SMS service. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157793 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EXECUTING MONOLITHIC APPLICATION PROGRAMS ON GRID COMPUTING SYSTEMS - An apparatus, system and method of executing a monolithic application program successfully on a grid computing system are provided. Before the program is executed on the grid computing system, the program is executed on a computer on which the program has previously been successfully executed. During its execution, the program is monitored to collect its runtime information. The runtime information is provided to the grid computing system. With this information the grid computing system is able to successfully execute the program. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157794 | Multiple Application Activation - A technique for multiple application activation is disclosed. The technique includes a client device receiving from a server an indication of applications available to purchase and a user selecting at least two of the indicated applications to be purchased. Then at least one of the applications is automatically received on the networked computer in response to the applications being selected. A second of the applications is automatically received after the first application has been received. While the second application is being received, the first of the applications is automatically installed and activated. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157795 | IDENTIFYING HIGHLY VALUED RECOMMENDATIONS OF USERS IN A MEDIA RECOMMENDATION NETWORK - A system and method are provided for discovering new friends using recommendation paths in a media recommendation network. In general, media items are recommended among users in a media recommendation network. Use of media items by the users is monitored. If the use of a media item by a user exceeds a threshold, a determination is made as to whether the media item was recommended to the user. If so, that recommendation is identified as a highly valued recommendation for that user. Thereafter, when the user desires to identify new friends from which to receive recommendations and to which to send recommendations, a recommendation path for the highly valued recommendation is identified. Users in the recommendation path that are not already friends of the user are identified as potential new friends for the user. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157796 | CELL-BASED COMPUTING PLATFORM WHERE SERVICES AND AGENTS INTERFACE WITHIN CELL STRUCTURES TO PERFORM COMPUTING TASKS - System and method for using cells as a type of managed container to control the operation of mobile software agents and the run-time invocation and use of services within distributed computing environments. The cell process initially starts out empty containing nether agents nor services. The cell discovers and loads published services at run-time through a look up into a distributed service registry. After loading the service, the cell then publishes availability of the service for use by agents. If an application using agents or an agent desires to make use of a service published and provided by a cell, the application or agent makes a request to the cell to fetch an agent that will invoke the service. Prior to migrating to its new cell, the agent creates a proxy agent that provides a communication channel between the agent running within the cell and the originating agent system. Service status and results are returned through the proxy channel. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157797 | DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A data processing system for distributing a package of data from a source to a plurality of data processing machines arranged in a plurality of sites. The data is transmitted from the source to the plurality of data processing machines by means of a multicast. At each site, a local data processing machine is designated as a site master; the other local data processing machines report missing data portions to the site master; and the site master consolidates reports of missing data portions, and requests missing data portions from the source. The source then transmits the missing data portions to the plurality of data processing machines by means of a further multicast. If the site master receives a report of missing data that the site master has stored locally, the site master provides that missing data to the local machines by means of a site multicast. Reports of missing data received by the source from site masters at different sites are consolidated at the source before the source transmits the missing data to the plurality of sites by means of the further multicast. If a local machine is missing data from the multicast from the source, and is not aware that a site master has been designated, that local machine broadcasts to machines at that site information indicating that a site master is required. If a site master is already designated, that site master notifies that local machine that it is the site master; but if no site master is already designated, an election process is instigated to designate one of the machines at that site as site master. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157798 | MANAGEMENT OF DYNAMIC GROUPS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system in which a communication service client unit specifies a criterion, with further communication service client units which meet the criterion being able to be participants in a communication service which is provided. A server unit is configured to produce a list of the further communication service client units which meet the criterion and to transmit the list to a communication service server unit which provides the communication service. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157799 | METHOD FOR SHARING SERVICE IDENTITY AMONG MULTIPLE CLIENT DEVICES IN A REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Methods for sharing service identity between client devices in a real-time communications network are presented including: registering a first client device with a server on the real-time communications network, the first client device registering with a shared service identity, where the first client device becomes an active client device; and when a second client device enters a physical proximity of the first client device; establishing a personal area network connection between the first client device and the second client device; registering the second client device with the server, the second client device registering with the shared service identity, where the second client device becomes the active client device and the first client device becomes a waiting device, where the waiting device discontinues communication with the server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157800 | Dynamically Generating a Proxy Object in a Client for Dynamically Created Object on the Server Using Retrieved Class Metadata of the Object - A method, apparatus and program product retrieve, in the client, class metadata of an object that is used by the computer program from a remote service, including retrieving object type data of the object, and dynamically generate on the client a proxy object for the object on the server. The object is dynamically created and resides on a server, and the type of the object is unknown to the computer program prior to retrieval of the class metadata. Furthermore, casting a type of the proxy object to a type that is specific to an interface known to the computer program without receiving any class cast exception. By doing so, the dynamically created proxy object may be utilized for remote method invocation in a distributed environment utilizing objects dynamically created on the server, often avoiding a costly deployment process and independent of any protocols. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157801 | System and method for integrating external system data in a visual mapping system - The present invention provides an improved system and method for integrating external system data into a visual map. The visual mapping system of the present invention is based on a client-server architecture. A server in the visual mapping system communicates with one or more external systems to import data from such external systems. The server organizes the data into topics for a visual map and stores the topics individually in a database. The server provides the topics to a client visual mapping application to enable users to view external system data through a visual map. The client visual mapping application need not be running for the server to obtain the external system data, and, thus, the present invention provides "backend" integration of external system data. The server can also export data in topics to external systems. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157802 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION, AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data synchronization method, system and apparatuses thereof. The data synchronization method includes the following processes: sending, by a client, a data characteristic verification message carrying one or multiple data characteristics for data in a client database, to a server; comparing, by the server, the one or multiple data characteristics carried in the data characteristic verification message with the data characteristics for the data in a server database; determining, by the server, the data to be synchronized based on a result of the comparing and sending the client a data characteristic verification response carrying information indicating the determined data to be synchronized; and determining, by the client, the data to be synchronized according to the information in the data characteristic verification response, and synchronizing the determined data to be synchronized with the server. The method, system and apparatus thereof provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce the amount of data to be transmitted in data synchronization, and improve the efficiency of data synchronization. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157803 | Method for capture, aggregation, storage, and transfer of internet content for time-shifted playback on a portable multimedia device - A method for capture, aggregation, storage and transfer of Internet content for time-shifted playback on a portable multimedia device utilizing a content time-shifter system which is programmed and maintained via a web-based maintenance server, and schedules capture of content via on-line schedule listing and media listing services. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157804 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A CONTEXT AWARE MECHANISM IN AN INTEGRATED OR DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION - A context aware platform including a context aware server, the context aware server including: aspects, the aspects being application level abstractions related to a context; policies associated with a context at a point in an application lifecycle, the policies specifying behavior or treatment of aspects; and rules and triggers providing a sequence of steps or logic required to compute aspects; and at least one client, said client being in an execution environment and communicating with said context aware server, wherein the context aware platform replaces aspects, triggers, or both aspects and triggers in the at least one client. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157805 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING, APPLYING AND EXTENDING APPLICATION RELATED ASPECTS THROUGH POLICIES, RULES AND/OR TRIGGERS - A method and system for the creation of aspects from a service or application, the method defining related service aspects; inserting or encapsulating service aspects as named aspects into an abstraction layer in an execution environment; and associating the named aspects with logic in the abstraction layer to support application or service function points. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157806 | Method and System for Delivering Information with Caching Based on Interest and Significance | 2009-06-18 |
20090157807 | System and/or method for generating a script relating to a medical task involving motion with a device - A system for controlling a motion device. A motion control system comprises a motion control device, and a first user is associated with the motion control system. An output system is arranged to generate motion signals that may be perceived by the first user. A motion server system comprises a plurality of motion scripts associated with messages to be transmitted to the first user and a motion program web page. A processing system comprises a browser program compatible with the motion program web page. A communications system transfers data between the various systems. A second user controls the server system to form a motion message corresponding to a desired motion signal based on the at least one motion script stored by the server system. The motion control system causes the output system to generate the desired motion signal based on the motion message. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157808 | PERSONAL ACCESS AND CONTROL OF MEDIA PERIPHERALS ON A MEDIA EXCHANGE NETWORK - Methods are disclosed for indirectly monitoring and controlling at least one media peripheral device in a media exchange network by accessing a media management system (MMS) via a first media peripheral (MP) device (e.g., a TV screen) using a user control device (e.g., a remote control). An operation corresponding to a second media peripheral (MP) device (e.g., a digital camera) may be selected via the MMS using the first MP device and the user control device. The operation is then carried out (i.e., performed) by the second MP device. A status of the second MP device may be selected via the MMS using the first MP device and the user control device. The selected status is then displayed on the first MP device. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157809 | COMMUNICATING MESSAGES BETWEEN COMPONENTS IN A CLIENT/SERVER ENVIRONMENT USING AN OBJECT BROKER - In one embodiment, a method for communicating messages between components in a client/server environment comprises initiating, in response to a request from an application on a server system, a process for receiving messages from one or more first components associated with a client system, the process initiated using a generalized architecture for communicating messages between components in a client/server application. The method includes registering with the process one or more second components associated with the application, receiving at the process associated with the application a message intended for a second component on the server system, the message initiated by a first component on a client system. The method includes unpacking at least a portion of the received message, determining the second component associated with the server system for which the message is intended, and initiating the second component for which the message is intended in response to the message. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157810 | RELEVANCE-BASED EXPIRATION OF DATA - Technologies are described herein for relevance-based expiration of data. An initial expiration time for the data is computed based upon an expiration duration associated with the data. The expiration time for the data is periodically re-computed in order to extend the expiration time. A relevance value for the meeting data is computed and the expiration time is set as a function of the computed relevance value. The relevance value may be computed as a product of a user-settable relevance value for the meeting data and a dynamic relevance point for the meeting data. When the computed expiration time for meeting data has been reached, the meeting data is expired, such as through the deletion of the meeting data. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157811 | Collaborative Authoring Modes - A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment may be configured into a public mode of operation, in which content and metadata are synchronized automatically, or into a private mode of operation, in which metadata is synchronized automatically and content is synchronized only at the request of the user. The authoring application may edit documents offline in public or private mode. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157812 | Managing Structured and Unstructured Data within Electronic Communications - This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing structured and unstructured data within electronic communications. In one implementation, software identifies an electronic communication associated with a user in an enterprise application; creates a link between an unstructured data element associated with the electronic communication and a structured data element associated with the enterprise application, where the link created at least partially based on one or more attributes of the electronic communication and an active process of the enterprise application; and stores the link in a link repository. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157813 | Methods and systems for identifying an avatar-linked population cohort - Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out presenting to at least one member of a population at least one avatar associated with at least one instance of media content; measuring at least one physiologic activity of the at least one member of the population, the at least one physiologic activity proximate to the at least one presented avatar associated with the at least one instance of media content; associating the at least one physiologic activity with at least one mental state; and identifying at least one population cohort based on the at least one mental state. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157814 | Method and apparatus for providing social networking service based on peer-to-peer network - A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based social networking service method for providing a social networking service, includes transmitting a request to a peer group and performing a group-based social networking service; transmitting news or a question to peers in the peer group, and then receiving a response to the question; and storing the received information in a storage medium, and uploading specific information among the stored to a rendezvous peer. The method further includes delivering the uploaded specific information to another rendezvous peer in a network. A P2P based social networking service system includes a P2P middleware unit for providing services of communicating between and grouping the peers; a P2P service application program interface layer for providing a network element function; and a P2P application service layer for calling the network element function, if required, to thereby provide a user with a P2P based network service. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157815 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BLOG SERVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BLOG SERVICE USING THE SAME - A mobile device for providing a blog service and a method and system for providing the blog service. The mobile device that operates as a blog providing server includes: a unit for obtaining raw data; a storage unit storing the raw data and blog information; and a blog editor generating/editing a blog page by using the raw data and the blog information. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT MESSAGE TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Provided is a system for delivering an instant message in which instant messaging systems of different types interwork. The system includes a transmitter mobile communication terminal and an interworking server. The transmitter mobile communication terminal connected to a first instant messaging system transmits a request for an instant message receipt report to a receiver mobile communication terminal connected to a second instant messaging system. The interworking server converts the delivery format of the instant message into another suitable for the second instant messaging system and transmits the instant message to the receiver mobile commnunication terminal. The interworking server also converts the delivery format of the instant message receipt report generated accorrding to the receipt result of the instant message by the receiver mobile communication terminal after completion of the delivery of the instant message to the receiver mobile communication terminal into another suitable for the delivery format of the first instant messaging system to which the transmitter mobile communication terminal is connected, and transmits the instant message receipt report to the transmitter mobile communication terminal. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157817 | USING AN UNSYNCHRONIZED EVENT POOL TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF AN EVENT DRIVEN IM GATEWAY - The present invention discloses a solution for using an unsynchronized event pool in an IM gateway. In the solution, a set of object pools can be established, each including a set of event objects ordered relative to each other in a circular fashion. The IM gateway can detect an incoming message. A CPU processing thread for handling the incoming message can be determined. One of the unsynchronized event object pools associated with the thread can be ascertained. A current one of the ordered event objects within the pool can then be determined. The current one can be an object ordered after a last event object used from the pool. The thread can utilize the determined event object to handle a task for the incoming message, which negates a need and a time to create a new event object for the thread. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157818 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY AND DISPLAY CONTRIBUTIONS BY AUTHOR IN AN E-MAIL COMPRISING MULTIPLE AUTHORS - A method, system and computer program product for displaying authorship and time stamp data within an electronic mail (e-mail) message comprising multiple contributors. The recipient of a multiple author e-mail may view an e-mail inclusive or exclusive of an author's comments. The e-mail client is capable of identifying the author and insertion date of content included within an e-mail message by hovering on or near the word(s)/or phrase utilizing a pointing device. E-mail content may be viewed in chronological order of contribution(s) as selected by the recipient. Contributed content may be displayed chronologically, or color coordinated to avoid displacing key information. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157819 | LIVE CONNECTION OF EMAIL THREADS TO DISCUSSION FORUM - A method, apparatus and program product are provided for making a live connection between an email thread and a discussion forum thread. An email plug-in receives a nomination of an email thread for conversion to a discussion forum thread. The plug-in copies the emails in the email thread as a discussion forum thread with a set of replies as discussion forum messages, where the thread and messages comprising details from the emails. The plug-in then sends the discussion forum thread and messages to a discussion forum server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157820 | EMAIL CHANGE TRACKING - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for email change tracking. In an illustrative embodiment the computer implemented method comprises receiving an email having an annotation defining an annotated portion within the email to form a received email. The received email is parsed with a first parser, the first parser capable of ignoring the annotated portion to form a parsed first portion and a second parser capable of parsing the annotated portion to form a parsed annotated portion. The first parsed portion and parsed annotated portion are each processed to form a respective result which is combined and displayed, indicating changes to a user. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157821 | SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DETERMINE A RECIPIENT FOR AMBIGUOUSLY ADDRESSED MAIL - According to some embodiments a system and a method are provided to determine a correct mail recipient are disclosed. The method comprises receiving an incorrectly addressed mail piece from a sender, scanning the mail piece, analyzing the scanned mail piece to produce analysis results, determining a correct address for the mail piece based at least in part on the analysis results, printing a correctly addressed label based on the determination, adhering the correctly addressed label to the mail piece, sending the mail piece comprising the correctly addressed label to a mail recipient, and transmitting a notification of the correct address to the sender. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY TUNNELLING FOR AGILE MEETINGS - A method and system provides sub-electronic meetings by: providing the main electronic meeting for a group of attendees over a first channel in a network, the main electronic meeting managed by a moderator; sending a request from the moderator to an electronic meeting service to create sub-electronic meetings for a subgroup of attendees; and providing the sub-electronic meeting over a separate second channel in the network for the subgroup, the sub-electronic meeting occurring simultaneously within the main electronic meeting without disconnecting the subgroup from the main electronic meeting. A first graphic user interface (GUI) for the main electronic meeting is provided to each of the group of attendees. A second GUI for the sub-electronic meeting is provided to each of the subgroup of attendees. The subgroup of attendees is able to communicate privately in the sub-electronic meeting while maintaining their view of the main electronic meeting in progress. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157823 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SECURE EMAIL SERVICES USING MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify when a security policy cannot be applied by a supported secure email machine to a received email message and thus the email message is routed to an auxiliary secure email machine. Secure email policies are applied to the email message at the auxiliary secure email machine. The email message is then routed from the auxiliary secure email machine to the supported secure email machine. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157824 | AGGREGATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH INTELLIGENT SOURCING - Selecting a source account for an outgoing communication content of a user is described. A collection of source accounts is associated with the user. Each source account has an individual content storage storing communication content associated with the corresponding source account. A user's authentication is validated for using the collection of source accounts. One source account in the collection is designated as a primary source account. The source accounts in the collection are aggregated to a primary content storage. The user is authenticated to sign in to the primary source account. Instructions are received from the user for generating a communication content from the primary source account and the primary content storage. Instructions are received from the user for selecting one of the source accounts in the collection as the source account for the generated communication content, and the user is signed in to the primary source account. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157825 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROVIDING A COLLAPSIBLE SECTION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGE DIALOGUE - A technique for displaying instant messages includes creating a collapsible section in an instant message dialogue. Information is incorporated into the collapsible section of the instant message dialogue. The information is then selectably displayed in the instant message dialogue. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157826 | MANAGING UNUSED MEDIA STREAMS - A content processing device is configured to selectively receive a media signal via a network. The content processing device is further configured to receive a bandwidth check request. The content processing device is further configured to receive a first status indicator, and determine if the streaming media signal is likely to be in use based on the first status indicator. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157827 | System and method for generating response email templates - Disclosed is a method and system for generating a response email template from previously transmitted response emails for use in responding more efficiently to a client email. The response email template is generated by identifying text strings common to the transmitted response emails and creating the template from at least some of the text strings. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157828 | TECHNIQUES FOR SPECIFYING RECIPIENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) SYSTEM - Techniques for specifying recipients in an electronic email (email) system are presented. A sender of an email includes a rule in a sender field of the email, rather than a recipient address, an alias address book identifier, or a distribution list identifier. The rule is evaluated to dynamically identify multiple recipient email addresses for the email. The multiple recipient email addresses then replace the rule included within the sender field and the email is sent over a network to recipients associated with the multiple recipient email addresses. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157829 | Peer-to-peer service system and method using e-mail service - A peer-to-peer service method and system are provided. The peer-to-peer service method include advertising E-mail address information and service and sharing resource information through a peer-to-peer network at peers, determining whether a peer requesting a service and a peer providing the service are in online state or in offline state on the peer-to-peer network, and providing a peer-to-peer service through an E-mail server when the peer requesting the service or the peer providing the service is in offline state. The peer-to-peer service system and method using an E-mail service are capable of providing a variety of P2P services (e.g., a message exchange, a file exchange, a remote control, etc.) to peers, which are in online state or temporarily in offline state, by using the E-mail in the P2P network environment which manages the connection information of the peers joined to the corresponding service or the indexes of the sharing resources. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157830 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF GENERATING A MULTIMEDIA EMAIL - An apparatus for and method of synthesizing multimedia email including an audio file and a video file, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute the method. The apparatus for synthesizing multimedia email includes an email analysis unit to analyze the content of an email, an audio file synthesis unit to synthesize an audio file by using the analysis result by the email analysis unit, a video file synthesis unit synthesizing a video file by using the analysis result by the email analysis unit, and an audio/video file combining module to combine the audio file and video file. The multimedia email synthesized by the method and apparatus can provide more user-friendly and more various types of information than conventional technology, and increases utilization of an apparatus. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157831 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EMAILS THROUGH DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - The present invention discloses a method, a system, and an apparatus for processing emails through data synchronization. The email synchronization server receives an email or email status sent by the email server and synchronizes it to the email synchronization client; alternatively, the email synchronization server is adapted to receive an email from the email synchronization client and forward it to the email server for sending the email out, or receive an email status from the email synchronization client and forward it to the email server for updating. The email synchronization client is adapted to send an email or email status to the email synchronization server; or synchronously receive emails or email status from the email synchronization server, or obtain emails and email status from the email synchronization server after receiving an email notification. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157832 | HOW TO ENABLE "OUT OF BOX" MESSAGES TRACKING IN MESSAGING SYSTEM - A tracking system includes a business system using a plurality of application modules each including a computer for processing a transaction including a plurality of steps. A messaging system includes a messaging computer program embodied in a computer readable medium in each of the computers for communicating between the computers. The messaging system generates queues of messages being communicated between the computers. The messaging system can be configured by an administrator to generate tracking data about the messages being communicated between the computers. A tracking module is included in one of the computers, and has the messaging computer program and a tracking computer program embodied in the computer readable medium for specifying status data for retrieval from the messaging queues, receiving the status data from the messaging queues into a tracking queue, and storing the status data in a data storage system. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING EMAILS - A method for sending email is provided. The method receives an email to be sent from a sender computer that is connected to an application server, sends a search instruction to email communication servers for obtaining a total number of emails to be sent in each of the email communication servers. The method further selects an email communication server which has the least total number of the emails, sends the obtained email to be sent to the selected email communication server, and receives a result generated by the selected email communication server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157834 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for updating memory content in a mobile client are disclosed. For example, an exemplary method includes maintaining a list of first attributes relating to a set of first messages on the mobile client, wherein each of the set of first messages resides on the mobile client, maintaining a list of second attributes relating to set of second messages on the mobile client, wherein each of the set of second messages does not reside on the mobile client, identifying target attributes associated with a message request by the mobile client, selecting by the mobile client a selected message from one of the set of first messages and the set of second messages by applying a set of selection rules to the target attributes, and in the situation where a second message is selected, requesting the selected second message from a remote server using a wireless link. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157835 | Presence Enabled Instance Messaging for Distributed Energy Management Solutions - A method and system is described for real time communication in a network of distributed energy resource management devices (EMDs). Presence-based real time communications are established between at least one distributed energy resource management device (EMD) connected to an electric utility grid and a network operations center (NOC) application. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157836 | Messaging Proxy System - A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running on mobile or non-mobile computers. The system includes a message proxy computer program with at least one pluggable transport protocol adapter. The proxy contains a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the mobile clients. The system further includes a thin messaging middleware client to run on mobile devices. The thin messaging middleware client includes at least one pluggable protocol adapter. The client also comprises a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the proxy. The proxy also contains a communication subsystem for sending and receiving messages via a state of the art message oriented middleware. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157837 | NDMA SOCKET TRANSPORT PROTOCOL - Data transferred between devices | 2009-06-18 |
20090157838 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM USING FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION PROCEDURE - A safe electronic mail system for electronic mail communication, realizing connection between mail servers using a dial-up line not through the Internet. The transmitting party is provided with a transmission mail server, a transmission client for generation electronic mail information, and a transmission agent, which is a client for transmitting via a dial-up line. The receiving party is provided with a reception mail server, a reception client which can be the final destination of electronic mail information, and a reception agent, which is a client for receiving via a dial-up line. The transmission agent transmits electronic mail whose final destination is a designated reception client to the reception agent via the dial-up line as a facsimile image, and the reception agent transfers a received electronic mail to the reception mail server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157839 | NETWORKED SERIES OF SENSORS HAVING DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL FOR USE IN A HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT - The invention is a networked system of devices positioned in a hazardous environment to monitor/control process conditions. The devices include sensors and controls such as valves. The sensors detect process conditions/control device settings and are monitored by a slave devices having, generally microprocessor controlled and having associated memory to receive and record the sensor/control device data. The network includes master devices, each master device may be associated with one or more slaved devices and associated sensors, where the master device communicates to is associated slave devices through a digital communication bus. The master device can automatically detect its associated slave devices and detect the communication and data characteristics of the slave devices. The master may also set parameters for detected slave devices, such as needed for computations performed by the master (using its own microprocessor) using data received form the slave device(s). The master device receives slave device data by requesting or polling the data from the slave device over a digital communication bus. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157840 | Controlling Shared Access Of A Media Tray - Methods, apparatus, and products for controlling shared access of a media tray are disclosed that include monitoring communications between a virtualized media tray and a computing device currently connected to the virtualized media tray; receiving an access request from a requesting computing device not currently connected to the virtualized media tray; determining, in dependence upon the monitored communications between the virtualized media tray and the computing device currently connected to the virtualized media tray, to switch connection of the virtualized media tray from the computing device currently connected to the virtualized media tray to the requesting computing device; and switching connection of the virtualized media tray from the computing device currently connected to the virtualized media tray to the requesting computing device. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157841 | ENCAPSULATION OF ONLINE STORAGE PROVIDERS - A media publisher manager generates a plug-in for each of a plurality of providers. Each provider hosts a web space including a media object and implements a plurality of services related to the media object. Executing the plug-in causes at least one of the plurality of services related to the media object to be performed on at least one of plurality of providers. The media publisher manager request is receives from a client. The request includes a function related to a media object and a moniker of the media object. The moniker is generated from a media object identifier and a provider identifier. A plug-in is selected based on the provider identifier of the moniker. Executing the selected plug-in causes a service related to the media object to be preformed on the provider, said service related to the requested function. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157842 | System and Method for Using an Aggregation Server with Client Devices - In one embodiment, a system includes one or more client devices and a server. The client devices store media files and communicate selection information to the server. The server receives the selection information from the one or more client devices, selects media files for a playlist using the selection information, and generates a playlist of the selected media files. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157843 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS - The claimed invention enables digital asset management that is responsive to a user's interactions with digital assets. Based on the user's interaction, the invention generates a ranking of the digital assets that is intended to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in part on the access frequency and recency, and the number and types of uses of the digital assets. An access hierarchy is derived from the ranking that stores the digital assets so that the higher ranked digital assets are more easily accessed than the lower ranked digital assets. The digital assets can include any of digital images, audio files, and Uniform Resource Locators. The invention can also distinguish between different types of uses so that some types of uses imbue an asset with greater value than others. The types of uses include passive viewing or playback, file sharing, transport, and editing. The invention also allows the user to assign subjective values to each digital asset that can be factored into the ranking independently of usage patterns. A volatility-dampening attribute is provided to moderate volatility in the access hierarchy. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157844 | NETWORK AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY METHOD AND SYSTEM - The network automatic discovery protocol and device enables discovery of the state status information of network community members and detects when other community members enter or leave the community. The protocol maintains a sequence number at each node system that indicates a change in state to other nodes in the community. The protocol also uses a seed list that provides both an initial list of community members to advertise its presence at startup and as a mechanism for recovery when communication is interrupted. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157845 | SHARING OF MULTIMEDIA AND RELEVANCE MEASURE BASED ON HOP DISTANCE IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, system, and apparatus are directed to sharing information over a network. A request to share a multimedia object may be received. A relevance measure may be retrieved based on an identity of the multimedia object. Sharing the network of the multimedia object between an originating sharing member and a plurality of members of a social network may be enabled. A combination of the relevance measure and a hop distance for the shared multimedia object may be provided. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157846 | Storage system comprising function for migrating virtual communication port added to physical communication port - A switch unit, which is connected to one or more computers and one or more storage systems, comprises an update function for updating transfer management information (a routing table, for example). The storage system has a function for adding a virtual port to a physical port. The storage system migrates the virtual port addition destination from a first physical port to a second physical port and transmits a request of a predetermined type which includes identification information on the virtual port of the migration target to the switch unit. The transfer management information is updated by the update function of the switch unit so that the transfer destination which corresponds with the migration target virtual port is the switch port connected to the second physical port. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157847 | PICTURE DISPLAY METHOD AND PICTURE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A picture display method and a picture display apparatus can display a picture that can be customized by each user without any significant load that need to be borne by the server and the communication line and with a short waiting time for each user. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157848 | APPLICATION SERVER PROCESSING TCP/IP REQUESTS FROM A CLIENT BY INVOKING AN ASYNCHRONOUS FUNCTION - An application server is disclosed for communicating with a plurality of clients. The application server executes code segments stored on a computer readable storage medium, such as on a disk storage medium, FLASH memory, etc. The application server initiates a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) object for processing a request received from one of the clients, wherein the request comprises input data. The application server invokes an asynchronous function with the TCP/IP object as an input parameter to process the request, and when the asynchronous function is finished processing the request, returns output data to the client. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157849 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTO MANAGEMENT - A photo management system is described herein consisting of a server, a mobile device, and the internet; furthermore systems and software located on the server and the mobile device provide connectivity and functionality for the exchange of photos. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157850 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A content delivery system for providing content from a content delivery network to end users may include a plurality of delivery servers that host one or more content items and an inventory server having an inventory of content. The inventory of content can indicate which of the delivery servers host the content items. The inventory server may receive a request for a content item from an end user system and may access the inventory of content to determine one or more delivery servers that host the content item. In response to this determination, the inventory server may redirect the request for the content item to a selected one of the delivery servers. The selected delivery server can then serve the content item to the end user system. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157851 | Migrating Port-Specific Operating Parameters During Blade Server Failover - Migrating port-specific operating parameters during blade server failover including querying, by a system management server of a data center, a switch for port-specific operating parameters of a first port, the data center comprising blade servers coupled for data communications to one another and to the system management server by a network, the system management server comprising a computer subsystem that automates server management processes in the data center, the switch comprising a data communications component of the network, the switch comprising ports, the ports comprising physical points of connection between the switch and blade servers, each port having associated port-specific operating parameters, the switch connected at the first port to a failing blade server; and assigning, by the system management server, the port-specific operating parameters to a second port in a same switch or another switch connected at the second port to a replacement blade server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157852 | FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC SUBSCRIBER SERVICES CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus is described for configuring a network element for providing services for subscribers by dynamically generating a set of one or more internal network attributes based on a set of relatively simple attributes passed from a server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157853 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CAPACITY ON-DEMAND SERVER MECHANISM FOR SEAMLESS 3D VIRTUAL WORLDS - Systems, methods and computer program products for a capacity on-demand server mechanism for seamless 3D virtual worlds. Exemplary embodiments include a method including, partitioning the 3D world into the domains, associating each of the domains with a server relating each of the partitioned domains to nodes of a graph, storing a list of edges adjacent the domain, storing each list of edges associated with each of the servers in a central management server, performing a node split, performing an edge contraction, transferring data among the domains, determining an effect in the one or more of the domains in response to the interaction of an object with the domains, determining a location of the object in the domains by analyzing a pointer associated with each of the edges and updating each of the servers associated with the domains through which the object has interacted. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157854 | ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT PROTOCOL - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising receiving, at a node, an address assignment message, allocating, by the node, a predetermined address interval of an available address space to a respective port of the node which predetermined address interval is defined in the address assignment message, and assigning at least one address for performing communication via a respective port starting with a center address of the predetermined address interval of the available address space allocated for the port concerned. Further, exemplary embodiments of the present invention also relate to respective devices and system. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157855 | DECENTRALIZED APPLICATION PLACEMENT FOR WEB APPLICATION MIDDLEWARE - A decentralized process to ensure the dynamic placement of applications on servers under two types of simultaneous resource requirements, those that are dependent on the loads placed on the applications and those that are independent. The demand (load) for applications changes over time and the goal is to satisfy all the demand while changing the solution (assignment of applications to servers) as little as possible. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157856 | Storage Device System and Storage Device System Activating Method - A storage device system has a plurality of storage devices for storing information; a storage device control section that controls storage of information in the storage devices; and a connection unit connected to the storage device control section. Furthermore, the storage device system has a first communication control section that includes a first processor which is connected to the storage device control section via the connection unit and also connected on a first network external to the storage device system, which converts information of a first form received over the first external network into information of a second form, and which issues a request for access to the storage devices; and a second processor which accesses the storage devices via the connection unit and the storage device control section in response to the access request issued from the first processor, and which controls activation of the first processor. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157857 | Data Management Method and Data Management System Using an External Recording Medium Writing Device - A data management system enables data on a network such as an internal LAN to be managed and is able to reliably prevent the data from leakage. The data management system has a network to which a management server for data management, a plurality of client PCs having a data processing function, and an optical disk publisher that issues a CD or a DVD into which the data is recorded are connected. The optical disk publisher issues the CD to only an authorized user. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157858 | Managing Virtual Addresses Of Blade Servers In A Data Center - Methods, apparatus, and products for managing virtual addresses of blade servers in a data center are disclosed that include storing, by a blade server management module ('BSMM') in non-volatile memory of a blade server, a parameter block, the parameter block including one or more virtual addresses for communications adapters of the blade server and one or more action identifiers; detecting, by a BIOS module of the blade server upon powering on the blade server, the parameter block; disabling, by the BIOS module, in dependence upon the one or more action identifiers of the parameter block, an original address of at least one communications adapter of the blade server; and setting, by the BIOS module, an address of the communications adapter to a virtual address included in the parameter block. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157859 | Methods And Systems For Accessing A Resource Based On URN Scheme Modifiers - Methods, systems and computer program products are described for accessing a resource identified in a URN based on URN scheme modifiers. In one aspect, a URI is received having a format that includes a URN scheme identifier for identifying a URN scheme, a scheme-dependent part for identifying a resource, and a URN scheme modifier. The URN scheme modifier includes information for determining a URL for accessing the identified resource. The URN scheme modifier is detected in the received URI, and based on the detected URN scheme modifier, the URL for accessing the resource is determined. Methods, systems and computer program products are described for providing a resource including a URI configured for accessing another resource. A generated first resource includes a determined URI formatted to include a URN scheme modifier including a resolving URL for determining a URL for accessing a second resource. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157860 | DISAGGREGATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for disaggregated management of a network fabric are presented. Network elements composing the network fabric can operate as a fabric manager with respect to one or more management functions while also continuing to operate as a communication conduit among hosts using the fabric. The roles or responsibilities of a fabric manager can migrate from one network element to another to preserve management coherency as well as to secure management of the network. Additionally, fabric managers communicate with the network fabric through one or more management channels. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157861 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information communication method includes: accepting first presence information transmitted from a first terminal device which is connected so as to be communicable through a network; specifying a second terminal device as a notification destination to which the first presence information is destined; mapping the notification destination to a transmission source of the first presence information; deciding whether or not an alteration of the notification destination is required according to a state of the notification destination as indicated by second presence information accepted from the second terminal device; selecting, if alteration is required, a third terminal device to succeed the second terminal device; and notifying the first presence information to the third terminal device corresponding to the altered notification destination. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157862 | Storage System - In a storage system that manages update prohibition (WORM) information, when time management is not performed with precision, there arises a possibility that an update prohibition (WORM) attribute may be erased before a preservation period expires. This invention provides a storage system coupled to at least one of time servers through a network, including: a first time information holding unit that holds first time information to be used to manage an update prohibition attribute of data; a second time information holding unit that holds second time information to be used to establish time synchronization with a device coupled to the network; and a time update unit that manages the first time information and the second time information, in which the time update unit receives third time information from the at least one of the time servers and judges whether the third time information satisfies a predetermined condition, and updates the first time information based on the third time information when the third time information satisfies the predetermined condition. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157863 | System and Method of Enforcing Hierarchical Management Policy - A system and method for using hierarchical policy levels for distribution of software in a computer network. In one embodiment, computers of the network are arranged into a hierarchy. A management policy server with access to the network queries the hierarchy to identify computers at or below its own level within the hierarchy. Once a set of computers is identified, software programs, updates or policies are distributed, bypassing human intervention. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157864 | GRID COMPUTING CONTROL METHOD FOR TESTING APPLICATION PROGRAM CAPACITY OF SERVER AND SERVICE METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a grid computing control method for testing the application program capacity of a server and a method for providing a service based on the same. The grid computing control method includes the steps of providing a number of user clients with a capacity measurement program by a capacity measurement server; selecting user clients capable of capacity measurement from the user clients, the capacity measurement program having been installed in the user clients, by the capacity measurement server; transmitting a capacity measurement script to the selected user clients by the capacity measurement server; executing the capacity measurement script so as to create capacity measurement data by the selected user clients; transmitting the created capacity measurement data to the capacity measurement server by the selected user clients; and collecting the transmitted capacity measurement data and composing a capacity measurement result report by the capacity measurement server. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING NETWORK CONNECTIONS USING A LINK POLICY - A system and method of managing network connections using a link policy is disclosed. In one form, a network link management system can include a link control logic module operable to alter a first link data rate of a first link operable to communicate network traffic. The network link management system can also include a link manager coupled to the link control logic module. In one form, the link manager can be configured to initiate altering the first link data rate to a second link data rate value in response to a first link rate policy entry of the first link. The network link management system can also include a link rate policy accessible to the link manager and operable to store the link rate policy entry of the first link. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157866 | TRANSPARENT AUTO-DISCOVERY OF NETWORK DEVICES LOGICALLY LOCATED BETWEEN A CLIENT AND SERVER - Discovery of intermediate network devices is performed using a technique that piggybacks upon the existing standard TCP (Transport Control Protocol) "SACK" (Selective Acknowledgment) option in a SYN/ACK packet so that discovery information may be shared between pair-wise-deployed peer intermediate devices when a TCP/IP connection (Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is first established between network endpoints using a conventional three-way handshake. Use of the SACK option is combined with another technique which comprises modifying the original 16-bit value of the TCP receive window size to a special arbitrary value to mark a SYN packet as being generated by a first peer device. The marked SYN when received by the second peer device triggers that device's discovery information to be piggybacked in the SACK option of the SYN/ACK packet. The first device then piggybacks its discovery information in the SACK option of the ACK packet which completes the three-way handshake. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME GRAPHIC MONITORING OF DIFFERING GRAPHICS RESOLUTIONS USING A SINGLE GRAPHICS BUFFER - A system and method automatically scale the resolution of video output of a selected workstation blade so that an administrator can view the video output by the selected workstation blade in the same format as it is displayed at the user terminal associated with the selected workstation blade. The video is automatically scaled to the administrator's VGA resolution while maintaining the same end-user DVI resolution and displaying the video so that the administrator may see the video output regardless of display format at the end user. This system and method allows the administrator to see the entire display. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157868 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE HEALTH OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN A SUPPLEMENTAL SERVICE PROVIDER AND A USER DEVICE OF A PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER - A system and method for communicating between a secondary content provider and a user device includes a user device locator module and a primary service provider providing primary service content to the user device. The user device communicates a user device identifier, an IP address and a port number to the user device locator module. A secondary service content provider in communication with the user device locator module provider has a healthcheck module receiving the IP address and the port number from the user device locator module. The healthcheck module communicates a healthcheck signal to the user device using the port number and the IP address of the user device through a network. The secondary service content provider communicates secondary content to the user device through the network. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157869 | Tracking Content in Communication Networks - The present invention relates to methods of, and systems for, tracking content in communication networks by collecting content transmission information from the network. The collected content transmission is examined to identify discrete content items, and these are compared to predetermined content items. The result of the comparison is stored on a database, and if an identified discrete content item is the same as or substantially similar to a predetermined content item and/or if an identified discrete content item has been previously sent to or received by a subscriber or application, an event signal is triggered. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157870 | RESOURCE-AMOUNT CALCULATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A response-time-difference calculation/request-number converting means ( | 2009-06-18 |
20090157871 | Information Processing Apparatus and Wireless Connection Service Availability Notification Method - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display device, an operation button, a wireless modem, and a control module. The control module determines, when the operation button is operated, wireless connection service availability in accordance with whether or not the wireless modem allows communication with a base station which forms a wireless connection service area and accommodates a mobile station within the wireless connection service area in a network, and displays the determination result on the display device. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157872 | Model-based composite application platform - Embodiments provide an architecture to enable composite, autonomous composite applications and services to be built and deployed. In addition, an infrastructure is provided to enable communication between and amongst distributed applications and services. In one or more embodiments, an example architecture includes or otherwise leverages five logical modules including connectivity services, process services, identity services, lifecycle services and tools. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157873 | Verifiable online usage monitoring - In the present invention, observed online CPD or CE activities must be within a designated envelope of acceptable behaviour for accredited activity to be recorded in a session log for that user. When a watcher program detects one or more loss of user focus on the activity, it alerts the user and gives them a short opportunity to rectify the situation, otherwise a session timer is stopped and no further credits are added or verified to the user's session log. When a session is ended by a user or the watcher program, only the verified activity that can be accredited to CPD is itemised and catalogued cumulatively in the user's session log. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157874 | MONITORING AND REPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A monitoring and reporting system for use with an embedded computer of a hosted system and method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the monitoring and reporting system includes a device driver configured to monitor a status of a user subsystem of the embedded computer and generate a status signal therefrom. The monitoring and reporting system also includes a modem configured to send a short message to an external device as a function of the status signal. The modem employs a low amount of overhead to send the short message expeditiously. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157875 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASYMMETRIC INTERNET TRAFFIC MONITORING BY THIRD PARTIES USING MONITORING IMPLEMENTS - Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, copied packets that are based on original packets sent from a user client are monitored for a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request meeting the selection criteria, a replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet, wherein the replacement packet has a redirection with a fabricated web content request to a monitoring web page including at least one monitoring implement. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157876 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Readable Media For Managing User Access To An Electronic Media Sharing Environment - Managing user access to an electronic media sharing environment is described. An account balance representing a data volume authorized for download via the electronic client is maintained for a user of an electronic client,. The account balance is increased/decreased by a predetermined amount as the electronic client uploads/downloads electronic data to/from a common datastore sharing accessibility of the electronic data among a plurality of users. The predetermined amount is based on at least one of a data quantity and a data quality of the electronic data being uploaded or downloaded. When the account balance is less than a predetermined amount associated with a requested download, an alternate version of the electronic data having at least one of lesser data quantity and a lesser data quality than the electronic data requested to be downloaded in the user request is provided for the electronic client to download. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157877 | Sensing Information Management Apparatus and Method of Sensor Based Home Network System - An apparatus of managing sensing information for a sensor based home network and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes a sensor network to collect sensing information from multifunctional sensor nodes, a sensing information processing and managing unit for deciding the optimized context information through controlling and managing the collected sensing information according to all of the context information and providing services suitable to user's intention and environment. Therefore, the apparatus prevents collision and minimizes the interference generated between sensing information. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157878 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING LOWER NODES TO ONE ANOTHER TO INCREASE SCALABILITY IN ZIGBEE NETWORK - Disclosed are a method and system for connecting lower nodes to one another to increase scalability in a ZigBee network. The method includes approving a participation request to excess lower nodes requesting participation in higher nodes where network addresses set with respect to the higher nodes are allocated to all of the lower nodes; when a transmission message is received from the excess lower nodes, analyzing the received transmission message and determining a node for transmitting the transmission message; and transmitting the transmitted transmission message to the determined node. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157879 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB SERVICES WITH LOAD BALANCING - A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture web services provides web services with load balancing of image processing in a document processing environment. A Load Balancing Web Service hosted on a network connected server receives web services processing requests from application programs using a web services interface. The load balancing web service forwards these processing requests to data processing web services running on a plurality of web servers using a priority scheme that attempts to assign requests based upon differences in the processing time needed by these servers to process pending requests, and based on round robin cycling when there are no differences in the processing time needed by these servers to process requests. The load balancing web service receives responses from the data processing web services running on a plurality of web servers and forwards the responses to the application programs. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157880 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE IN HOME NETWORK - There is provided a QoS (quality of service) management system in a home network. When a QoS service is provided in the home network consisting of hosts and bridges, a user provides a user identifier and authentication information and the QoS management system verifies the user identifier and authentication information when managing a user policy and providing a service, to provide a consistent and stable policy within the home network, to prevent a collision among different policies, and to prevent the home network resources from being used by an illegal user. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157881 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROUPING STORAGE SYSTEM COMPONENTS - Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group which is automatically associated with each component in the group. The storage preferences define how storage operations are to be performed on the storage system components. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157882 | NETWORK CONNECTION FAILOVER DURING APPLICATION SERVICE INTERRUPTION - A system, method and computer program product for implementing network connection failover during application service interruption. While the application is quiesced, a network socket that terminates a network connection to a network peer is maintained on behalf of the application. The socket's network connection state information is sustained by providing acknowledgements of incoming network traffic to the network peer that prevent the peer from terminating the connection. Upon restart, the application is brought up with a blocked socket. The state of the blocked socket is conformed to a current network connection state of the original socket and the blocked socket is unblocked. | 2009-06-18 |
20090157883 | Messaging Proxy System - A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running on mobile or non-mobile computers. The system includes a message proxy computer program with at least one pluggable transport protocol adapter. The proxy contains a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the mobile clients. The system further includes a thin messaging middleware client to run on mobile devices. The thin messaging middleware client includes at least one pluggable protocol adapter. The client also comprises a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the proxy. The proxy also contains a communication subsystem for sending and receiving messages via a state of the art message oriented middleware. | 2009-06-18 |


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Maintainance plane Job was failed for one database... Need to check how much time the job is running? Actually that is in restricted growth and we increased the maxsize to that file but Need to know why that job failed and what are the steps we have what happend to that database?So far you have asked 9 questions on this forum and have had 13 answers but have not marked any of them as having helped you. This wont encourage people to keep offering solutions to questions you pose. Would you be able to find some time to review the answers that you have had on other questions and mark appropriate one as helpful by clicking the tick beside them please? It isnt much to ask for all the assistance that is offered across this site. Thanks
Nov 22 '11 at 01:59 AM
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@Naren, You must consider Mr. Fatherjack's suggestion. Hope you do that. After the anticipation, can you please clarify this statement in your question "we increased the maxsize to that file but". Your question is quite ambiguous and you should add more details. As far as job running time is concerned, it is very easy, you can find it out in msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory table. I am not giving it as an answer, because I think your question is something else which you were not able to portray.
Nov 22 '11 at 02:11 AM
Usman Butt
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You can check the status of the failed job in View History option from the job's list . Same way in Maintenence Plan you can heck the view history option .
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There are two possible places for errors, the SQL Server error log may have information about the failure. This is found under the Server Objects folder in Object Explorer. You also may see errors in the SQL Agent error log. This is found under the SQL Agent folder in the Object Explorer. Also, you can modify your jobs to provide an output file. This will contain a lot more detail if things go wrong to help you understand what happened. This is available on the Advanced paged of each Job Step.
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