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A method and system for controlling access, by an authentication server, to protected computer resources provided via an Internet Protocol network that includes storing (i) a digital identification associated with at least one client computer device, and (ii) data associated with the protected computer resources in at least one database associated with the authentication server; authenticating, by the authentication server, the digital identification forwarded by at least one access server; authorizing, by the authentication server, the at least one client computer device to receive at least a portion of the protected computer resources requested by the at least one client computer device, based on the stored data associated with the requested protected computer resources; and permitting access, by the authentication server, to the at least the portion of the protected computer resources upon successfully authenticating the digital identification and upon successfully authorizing the at least once client computer device.

Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a streamlined computer device and a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Various views of digital media content permits users to easily and efficiently access various digital media content. Different views are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to maintain and manage digital media content libraries. According to some embodiments, the libraries comprise user digital media content and references digital media content. Functionality provided to a user can be tailored to the type of content displayed, accessed and / or managed. According to various aspects, methods and systems are provided for accessing and managing digital media libraries on a streamlined computing device with a plurality selectable I / O profiles. According to some embodiments, the methods may include displaying a GUI on a device, wherein the GUI comprises at least a plurality of views of digital media content, providing for transition between the plurality of views in response to selection of an I / O profile and in response to activation of a view selector component by a user, executing an association with the at least one of the plurality of visual representations with digital media content in response to selection, transitioning a display on the computing device to a view of the digital media content, and providing for display of user digital media content and referenced digital media content in the view of the digital media content.

Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for improving the performance of file transfer to a client from a distributed storage system which provides single name space to clients. In one embodiment, a system for providing access to files in a distributed storage system comprises a plurality of storage nodes and at least one computer device connected via a network. Each storage node is configured, upon receiving a file access request for a file from one of the at least one computer device as a receiver storage node, to determine whether or not to inform the computer device making the file access request to redirect the file access request to an owner storage node of the file according to a preset policy. The preset policy defines conditions for whether to redirect the file access request based on at least one of file type or file size of the file.

The invention provides a blockchain-based cross-chain interconnection method, a blockchain-based cross-chain interconnection system, computer equipment and a computer readable storage medium, and relates to the technical field of information processing. The system comprises a cross-chain gateway node and a plurality of service chains, each service chain comprises an authority management node, a gateway node and a plurality of verification nodes, and the gateway node in the plurality of service chains and the cross-chain gateway node form a cross-chain gateway; and the cross-chain gateway is used for realizing message format standardization and a cross-chain conversion protocol among the plurality of service chains so as to promote adaptation and forwarding of cross-chain messages, support error processing of request message timeout during cross-chain interconnection and finally realize mutual access and intercommunication of cross-chain data. Mutual access among the alliance chains of a plurality of different block chain technologies is achieved by introducing the bridging gateway chain, the problem of information island among a plurality of block chain systems is solved, and application and popularization of the block chain technology can be accelerated.

An audio information delivery system collects electronic data via Internet or other conveyance, and responsive to customer inquiries, selectively retrieves data from local stores in areas of interest to the inquiring customers, formats the data, and transmits the data in audio form to the customers via their telephones. Initially, an information delivery agency makes advance arrangements with remotely located content providers to repeatedly obtain information of prescribed character. Agency computers continually gather digitally stored audio and text information from the predefined content providers and assemble the gathered information into a universal database. Separately, the agency enrolls a number of individual customers, which includes obtaining each customer's preferences regarding information content and playback order. Responsive to a telephone call from a registered customer, agency's computers retrieve the caller's pre-stored preferences and proceed to identify information in the universal database that pertains to the caller's subject matter preferences. After preparing vocalizations of the text information, agency computer equipment audibly presents the audio information and vocalizations to the caller in predetermined order via the caller's telephone connection. This is achieved, for example, by using an intermediate telephone network such as a wireless carrier network.

A computer device has user interface configured to display user actuatable game elements and to detect user input when a user engages with a game element; and a processor configured to receive a detected user input and on detecting a match game condition to control the user interface to remove at least three game elements from the display and to provide on the user interface replacement user actuatable game elements, wherein the manner of providing each replacement game element has a graphical representation governed by a tile associated with each game element, wherein each tile has a selectable physics which controls at least one of (i) the direction in which it moves to replenish a vacancy left by the removed user game elements; and (ii) the speed at which it moves to replenish the vacancy.

A system for cooling computer equipment in a data center. The system includes a raised floor defining a pressurized under-floor plenum; a computer room air conditioning unit disposed on the raised floor and having a hot air inlet and a cold air outlet, wherein the cold air outlet is in fluid communication with pressurized under-floor plenum; and a server cabinet housing server equipment and including a pressurized vertical plenum in fluid communication with under-floor plenum via an inlet duct. The server cabinet is configured to receive a cold air stream from the under-floor plenum via the inlet duct into the vertical plenum and draw the cold air across the server equipment to provide cooling without the use of external fans. The system may also include an inflatable airfoil damper assembly disposed within the inlet duct and configured to provide failsafe variable airflow to the vertical plenum within the server cabinet.

A query processor caches data retrieved from executing prepared statements, and uses the cached data for subsequent accesses to the data, if certain conditions for using the cached data are met. The preferred embodiments also include a data staleness handler that takes care of issues that arise from data that may have changed in the database but is not reflected in the cache. One way to handle data staleness in the cache is to specifically enable or disable caching in a query. If caching is disabled, the query processor will access the data in the database. Another way to handle data staleness in the cache is to provide a timer that causes the cache to be invalidated when the timer times out. Yet another way to handle data staleness in the cache is to provide specified conditions that must be met for caching to occur, such as time or date limitations. Still another way to handle data staleness in the cache is to provide an update trigger for the data in the database that corresponds to the cached data. When the data in the database is updated, the update trigger fires, causing the cache to be invalidated. Note that invalidating the cache could also be followed by automatically updating the cache. By caching the results of processing a prepared statement, other queries that use the same prepared statement may be able to access data in the cache instead of going to the database.

Systems and method for installing computer equipment and power distribution equipment in facilities is provided. In one aspect, the present invention provides a power distribution rack, and uninterruptible power supply rack and a plurality of equipment racks. A plurality of power cables are run from the power distribution rack to each of the plurality of equipment racks using power cable tracks located on the roofs of the equipment racks. A plurality of data cables run between the plurality of equipment racks using data cable tracks located on the roofs of the equipment racks. The power cable tracks and data cable tracks are designed to be installed on the roofs of the equipment racks without the need for tools.

The invention utilizes computer apparatus to automatically generate a display or report containing the result for a plurality of investment advisor methodologies (FIG. 2) for one specific security at a time (FIG. 18a). The user is not required to input any more information than the security identification because the information required for the calculations is readily available in the data storage means (FIG. 3, box 54). In addition to the result, a descriptive analysis (FIG. 7) can be provided which illustrates the reasoning (FIG. 7, box 144) of the particular advisor (FIG. 7, box 140) in support of the result (FIG. 7, box 146). Also a report can be provided for individual ratios (FIG. 8) applied to one specific security (FIG. 8, box 166) at a time for a plurality of investment advisor methodologies (FIG. 8, box 168). Another type of display or report the system could generate is an analysis by a plurality of advisors (FIG. 26, box 262), of a particular element selected from a list of elements (FIG. 23), within a related subject matter.

Techniques for cooling in a data center are provided. In one aspect a computer equipment rack is provided comprising one or more air inlets; one or more exhaust outlets, and one or more of: an air inlet duct mounted to the computer equipment rack surrounding at least a portion of the air inlets, the air inlet duct having a lateral dimension that approximates a lateral dimension of the computer equipment rack and a length that is less than a length of the computer equipment rack, and an air exhaust duct mounted to the computer equipment rack surrounding at least a portion of the exhaust outlets, the air exhaust duct having a lateral dimension that approximates the lateral dimension of the computer equipment rack and a length that is less than the length of the computer equipment rack.

The present invention relates to scribble matching methods, ie. methods for searching samples of electronic ink without having first to translate the ink into ASCII text. The methods of the present invention find application in pen-based computer devices. The invention entails the identification and encoding of velocity minima in the input scribble. Three scribble matching algorithms are described-a syntactic matcher, a word matcher and an elastic matcher. The syntactic matcher encodes the input scribble according to the shape of the scribble in the region of the velocity minima. The word matcher encodes the input scribble according to the heights of the velocity minima from a reference line, using a continuous height encoding scheme. The elastic matcher encodes the input scribble according to a classification of the velocity minima and intermediate points. The use of velocity minima in the encoding of scribble input provides a stable set of points and leads to improved performance in comparison with known scribble matching methods.