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Resource usage data is automatically collected for an individual, house-hold, family, organization, or other entity. The collected data is transmitted to a central repository, where it is stored and compared with real-time and/or historical usage data by that same entity and/or with data from other sources. Graphical, interactive displays and reports of resource usage data are then made available. These displays can include comparisons with data representing any or all of community averages, specific entities, historical use, representative similarly-situated entities, and the like. Resource usage data can be made available within a social networking context, published, and/or selectively shared with other entities.

A method for providing security groups based on the use of tunneling is disclosed. The method includes assigning a security group identifier (SGI) to a packet and classifying the packet based on the packet's SGI.

The present invention discloses a method and system for snapshot-based online backup operations permitting reduced requirements to storage capacity and computational overhead for snapshot function.

At the beginning of an online backup operation, the backup software system creates a snapshot of source data storage. The snapshot includes a watch-list used for identifying blocks of a source storage which are watched by snapshot management means for update. If a block included into the watch-list was requested for update, the snapshot management means preserve original contents of that block in a retention container for the purpose of temporary store. The retention container includes a set of temporal stores dedicated for transient storing of blocks until they are backed up.

The essence of the invention is enabling to exclude blocks from the watch-list and the retention container at any moment within the period of snapshot operation. Therefore it is possible to exclude unnecessary blocks from the scope of blocks managed by the snapshot management means, for the purpose of preserving point-in-time data.

Backed up blocks can be operatively excluded from the snapshot so that unchanged blocks are excluded from the watch-list and updated blocks are removed from the retention container. In the latter case temporal stores are shrunk as well. This technique allows to reduce progressively storage expenses and computational overheads required for maintenance of a snapshot being used in the online backup routine.

When a volume-level online backup is performed the snapshot is switched to the read-once mode at the beginning of the data copying stage. A backup utility performs sequential read of blocks from the snapshot. The snapshot management means automatically exclude requested blocks from the scope of managed blocks.

A network includes a smart coupler having a processor, a memory with software, and a power source to energize the processor and the memory, and an appliance configured to perform an operation on a physical article. The appliance is one that consumes at least some of a resource in performing the operation. The network also includes a source of information about the resource. The smart coupler is in communication with the appliance and the source, and the processor and memory operate to request a change to the operation of the appliance in response to a resource parameter or a request communicated by the source.

A monitoring system for virtual application environments comprising: at least one physical machine executing a first operating system; at least one virtual machine operating on at least one of the at least one physical machines, each such virtual machine operating a second operating system; and an agent program operating on each of the at least one physical machines, where, each agent program is operable to obtain a first set of metrics from the first operating system, such first set of metrics including metrics in respect of each virtual machine as viewed by the first operating system, and operable to connect to the second operating system of each virtual machine hosted on the physical machine the agent program operates on and obtain a second set of metrics in respect of the virtual machine from the second operating system, the agent program further operable to communicate the first and second sets of metrics to a manager program.

The invention provides a virtualization energy-saving system in Cloud computing, comprising a Cloud computing resource management prototype system and a backstage data processing system; the backstage data processing system comprises a physical resource pool, a virtual machine layer, a local module, a user's application layer and a global resource manager; the Cloud computing resource management prototype system comprises a physical machine management module, a virtual machine management module, a virtual machine dispatching strategy module, a monitoring module, a mirror image management module and a Web module; the resources are integrated to the least physical machine nodes by transferring the resources of the virtual machine, and the idle resources are closed, so that the consumption of the resources is reduced. The virtualization energy conservation in the Cloud computing is designed and realized in the system by using a VM (Virtual Machine) transfer cost model and an SLA (Service Level Agreement) measurement model as the energy consumption estimation models of a data center.

The invention discloses a method for preparing monopotassium phosphate by using wet-process phosphoric acid. The method comprises the following steps: reacting carbonyl diamide and wet-process phosphoric acid to obtain an intermediate; reacting the intermediate and potassium hydroxide to prepare a monopotassium phosphate product. The method has the advantages of short process route, low energy consumption, stable product quality, low production cost, convenience in operation and safety in production. A side product, namely, slurry can be recycled completely, an entire production process is environment-friendly, clean and free from pollution, and no waste gas, waste water or waste residues are discharged. A response is made to the policy calling of energy saving, emission reduction and clean production, the problems of complex process, instable product quality, high energy consumption and environmental pollution existing in the prior art are solved, and the purity of the obtained monopotassium phosphate product is more than or equal to 98 percent.

A method (and system) of storing information, includes storing main memory compressed information onto a memory compressed disk, where pages are stored and retrieved individually, without decompressing the main memory compressed information.

Techniques for servicing requests for database services include maintaining at a database server an available set of one or more database session data structures. Each database session data structure holds information to support one session of one or more requests for database services over a communication connection that persists for one or more communications from one client. A database session data structure in the available set is not associated with any client currently connected to the database server. These techniques allow a database server to more efficiently service more numerous requests for database services, such as generated by communications using a stateless protocol like HTTP.

A computer system of the present invention includes a controller which sets a flow entry to each of a plurality of switches before a packet is forwarded from a plurality of nodes, and each of switches which transfers a reception packet which contains a destination address defined in the flow entry, to a destination node defined in the flow entry regardless of a transmission source address of the reception packet.

The invention discloses a construction method of a wall putty of a plaster-free concrete structure. The construction method comprises the following steps: construction preparation, base course treatment, concave-convex line construction, a first full application of wall putty, flattening, a second full application of wall putty and flattening. The construction method has the advantages of less workload, short construction time, little resource consumption, no hollow drum and crack of the floated coat, no crack at the joint of the primary structure and the secondary structure.

A system and method for converting code associated with synchronous method calls to code that can be employed to perform asynchronous method calls and for supporting such asynchronous method calls is provided. The system includes a pattern generator that can break code for a synchronous method call into one or more constituent parts including a begin asynchronous operation method, an end asynchronous operation method, an asynchronous call state object and an asynchronous call result object. The system includes a pattern data store that holds data associated with converting a synchronous method call to an asynchronous method call, which facilitates employing the system consistently across environments like file input/output, stream input/output, socket input/output, networking, remoting channels, proxies, web forms, web services and messaging message queues.

The invention relates to a data synchronization method and system among heterogeneous databases, by which the two purposes of historical data synchronization and incremental data synchronization are achieved. According to the method, heterogeneous synchronization among various types of main databases is supported, other tools and scripts are not needed, the historical data synchronization and the incremental data synchronization can be easily configured and are automatically linked, and the complexity is reduced. The system is simple and easy to understand, backstage scrip writing and database command input are not needed, and a whole data synchronization service can be configured even by a person who has no experience in database application. The method and the system are applicable for a synchronization scenario of various types of data.

The invention discloses general purpose Portland cement based ultra-light physical foamed concrete which is characterized by being prepared by mixing, forming and maintaining the following components in percentage by weight: 20-70% of general purpose Portland cement, 0-40% of a type A admixture or/and 0-40% of a type B admixture, 0.5-4% of a type C additive, 0.3-2% of a foaming agent, 0-1% of a water reducing agent, 0-4% of fibers and 25-60% of water. The general purpose Portland cement based ultra-light physical foamed concrete disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of ultra-low dry density, low thermal conductivity, relatively high strength, wide raw material source, low cost, simple preparation process, easy maintenance process selection and the like, is suitable to serve as an earthquake-proof and energy-absorbing material, a lightweight cushion course and a catalyst carrier material in a thermal insulation project, a floor heating project and a back filling project, and is particularly suitable for a building exterior wall external thermal insulation system, a roof thermal insulation system, a composite thermal insulation wall body and a buffer energy absorbing system.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for pre-performing operations for accessing protected content. Cryptographic user key pairs can be pre-generated and distributed in response to a variety of different events prior to provisioning client machine for accessing protected content. Usage licenses can be pre-generated and allocated prior to requests for usage licenses. Usage licenses can be pre-obtained for client machines prior to client machines access protected content. Pre-performed operations can be performed in response to detected events, such as, for example, reduced resource consumption in a Digital Rights Management system.

A translation server system of the present invention provides a function of translating a document without feeling any stress irrespective of a performance of a user's own terminal device. A relay device for relaying request data from a terminal device to a server device and response data from the server device to the terminal device in response to the request data, includes a control unit for performing communications with a translation server for translating text information contained in the response data. The translation server translates the text information contained in the response data received from the server device, and a result of this translation is transmitted as response data to the terminal device.

The invention provides a method for freezing/thawing procedures. The method comprises the following steps that a root jurisdiction acquiring module acquires root jurisdiction of a mobile terminal; a seeking module enters a bottom layer of a system and acquires a procedure list which can be frozen/thawed; type options selected by a user are formed by a selecting module according to procedure package names in the procedure list; types of procedures are waited to be selected by the user; the selecting module feeds back a selected result of the user to a freezing/thawing module; and the freezing/thawing module transmits a freezing/thawing command to the bottom layer of the system, and the procedures selected by the user are frozen/thawed by the bottom layer of the system. On the one hand, the user can quickly and simply freeze unnecessary procedures, resource consumption during running of the system is reduced, and the purpose of saving electricity and improving the running efficiency of the system is achieved; and on the other hand, required procedures can be thawed by the user according to self needs, and individual needs of the user are met. The invention also provides a system for freezing/thawing procedures.

The invention relates to a PC screen content sharing/interaction control method, specifically, relates to improvement of an existing method of PC screen content sharing. The PC screen content sharing/interaction control method comprises the following steps that: S1, a remote PC host assigns a window of which the content is required to be shared; S2, screen RGB data are obtained in a shared memory data buffer; S3, a software encoder is utilized to perform encoding and compression on data a YUV420 format so as to obtain H.264 video streams; S4, the screen content video streams which have been subjected to encoding and compression are uploaded to a stream media server through an RTMP protocol; S5, a user logs into a Webpage client address which releases media streams of the remote PC host through a browser; S6, control information is transmitted to the remote PC host through a TCP protocol; S7, the remote PC host parses received control information of a user end and displays the received control information on a PC screen; and S8, screen response effect is presented on a Webpage client which the client logs into. With the PC screen content sharing/interaction control method adopted, a user can directly browse the content of the screen through a Webpage browser, and remote interaction control protocols can be customized, and a lightweight system used for PC screen content sharing/interaction can be realized.