64 results about "Network aware" patented technology

A method for clustering together network clients for guiding of placement of network servers is disclosed. A number of routing table prefix / netmask entries are aggregated and unified into a tubular format. The routing table entries may be converted into a singular format. A network server log is used to extract a number of client IP addresses which are compared to the entries within the unified routing table. A common prefix shared by a number of the client IP addresses and an entry in the unified routing table is determined and used to cluster the clients together in a client cluster. Network servers, such as proxy server, cache servers, content distribution servers and mirror server may be placed in the network according to the client clusters.

A method, information processing system, and computer program product manage virtual machine migration. A virtual machine is selected from a set of virtual machines. Each physical machine in a plurality of physical machines is analyzed with respect to a first set of migration constraints associated with the virtual machine that has been selected. A set of physical machines in the plurality of physical machines that satisfy the first set of migration constraints is identified. A migration impact factor is determined for each physical machine in the set of physical machines that has been identified based on a second set of migration constraints associated with the virtual machine that has been selected. A physical machine is selected from the set of physical machines with at least a lowest migration impact factor on which to migrate the virtual machine that has been selected in response to determining the migration impact factor.

The invention is method and apparatus for network conscious edge-to-cloud data aggregation, connectivity, analytics and actuation operate for the detection and actuation of events based on sensed data, with the assistance of edge computing software-defined fog engine with interconnect with other network elements via programmable internet exchange points to ensure end-to-end virtualization with cloud data centers and hence, resource reservations for guaranteed quality of service in event detection.

The present invention provides a method and system to provide network aware applications on a mobile device that can communicate using existing SMS communication channels without resorting to other IP based communication channels that are costlier and are not available on many of the networks.

A method for delivering applications over a network where the application's logic runs on the backend server and the application's user interface is rendered on a client-device, according to its display capabilities, thought a network connection with the backend server. The application's GUI API and event processing API are implemented to be network-aware, transmitting application's presentation layer information, event processing registries, and other related information a between client and server. The transmission is a high, object level format, which minimizes network traffic. Client-side events are transmitted to the server for processing via a predetermined protocol, the server treating such events and inputs as if locally generated. The appropriate response to the input is generated and transmitted to the client device using the format to refresh the GUI on the client.

Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for managing content updates for web-based applications. In one set of embodiments, a configurable proxy cache is provided that executes rule-based content updates of web content on the behalf of an application (e.g., web browser) while the application is not running. This allows for better management of intermittent connection quality, memory / power savings for mobile devices, and caching of information that can be shared with the application and other network-aware applications / services. In various embodiments, the proxy cache is controlled by the application via standard web language constructs such as HTTP headers, thereby enabling interoperability with web-based applications that implement common asynchronous data-loading technologies.

In a method of transmitting video data over a packet network, an input video stream is fed to a compressor that generates a compressed output stream. The compressor determines a target bit rate for the output stream based on desired picture quality. A traffic management unit a determines the available bit rate for the compressed data stream based on network condition. The output is adjusted if the target bit rate exceeds the granted bit rate.

Methods and systems for providing voice over IP traffic engineering and path resilience using a network-aware media gateway are provided. In a media gateway, voice over IP hosts are assigned a first set of IP addresses. Network interfaces in the media gateway are assigned a second set of IP addresses that differ from the first set of IP addresses. Per-interface routers advertise reachability information from at least one of the voice over IP hosts via multiple interfaces and participate in network routing protocols to generate per interface routing tables. Voice over IP path lists may be generated based on the per interface routing tables. Internal costs may be assigned to the associations between the voice over IP hosts and the interfaces based on traffic engineering criteria.

Methods and systems for providing voice over IP traffic engineering and path resilience using a network-aware media gateway are provided. In a media gateway, voice over IP hosts are assigned a first set of IP addresses. Network interfaces in the media gateway are assigned a second set of IP addresses that differ from the first set of IP addresses. Per-interface routers advertise reachability information from at least one of the voice over IP hosts via multiple interfaces and participate in network routing protocols to generate per interface routing tables. Voice over IP path lists may be generated based on the per interface routing tables. Internal costs may be assigned to the associations between the voice over IP hosts and the interfaces based on traffic engineering criteria.

A method, information processing system, and computer program product manage virtual machine migration. A virtual machine is selected from a set of virtual machines. Each physical machine in a plurality of physical machines is analyzed with respect to a first set of migration constraints associated with the virtual machine that has been selected. A set of physical machines in the plurality of physical machines that satisfy the first set of migration constraints is identified. A migration impact factor is determined for each physical machine in the set of physical machines that has been identified based on a second set of migration constraints associated with the virtual machine that has been selected. A physical machine is selected from the set of physical machines with at least a lowest migration impact factor on which to migrate the virtual machine that has been selected in response to determining the migration impact factor.

A network-fabric used for testing with an external or internal tester is shown for a Structured ASIC. In one embodiment, the Structured ASIC uses a microprocessor, network-aware IO routing fabric comprising network agents in a scalable novel configuration, with the network-aware IO having a plurality of blocks connected in series in a plurality of paths in the fabric leading to and from the microprocessor and memory and / or logic, the blocks acting as intelligent network agents under processor control to determine what state they can assume, whether to pass a data signal or not along these paths, comprising open loops and closed loops running to and from the microprocessor and memory and / or logic, primarily for testing and determining the state of the memory and logic. In another embodiment a JTAG controller may receive JTAG test commands from an external testing apparatus and set up to communicate along the fabric.

An enhanced radio link protocol (RLP) in a wireless access network that is network aware is disclosed. The RLP increases radio link quality by various ARQ mechanisms. The RLP framing structure is included that supports and enables at least network layer packet boundary detection, dynamic and adaptive ARO schemes for QoS support on a per-packet basis, and a flexible RLP frame structure for fast adaptation to physical layer channel rate / RLP frame sizes. Optional uses include supporting negative acknowledgment (NAK) based ARQ.

Apparatus and methods managing the power profile of a network of interconnected devices. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided for managing the power consumed by a network of devices. The apparatus includes power management logic that is disposed within a plurality of the devices in the network. The power management logic provides for network-aware power management of the network of devices. The power management logic has descriptor data and management data. The descriptor data identifies a power source for a corresponding device in the network. The management data identifies a function for remote execution by one or more other devices in the network.

A method for clustering together network IP addresses is disclosed. A number of IP addresses are received and processed to determine which IP addresses share a longest prefix matching. The longest prefix matching process is performed according to radix encoded trie which facilitates on-line clustering of the IP addresses. Client and / or server IP addresses may be clustered in accordance with the teachings herein.

In a system for streaming data over a network, the type and rate of streaming are automatically varied based on available network bandwidth. Video media is transcoded into different bit rate encodings that are divided into segment files. Segments are sent from a network-aware adaptive streaming (NAAS) server and reassembled and presented to a media player at a client device. The system may download additional segment files ahead of time from multiple NAAS servers to increase throughput. A playback status (“bookmark”) may be maintained to keep track of what the user has viewed and to allow the user to continue playing from where the user left off. The user may continue watching from the bookmark point on the same device or on a different device.

A virtual machine running on an endpoint device may encode a mark comprising routing parameters within one or more packets of a packet stream to indicate services and / or costs to be utilized in processing and / or communicating the packet stream. The virtual machine may communicate the packet stream to another network device. The routing parameters within the marks may indicate device capabilities, service class, quality measurements, latency and / or power usage. The routing parameters may comprise costs that may indicate capacity, efficiency and / or performance of power usage, bandwidth, absolute and / or relative latency, frame-drop eligibility, memory and processing. The packet stream is received and inspected to identify the marks and / or routing parameters. A virtual machine may be initialized and / or configured to process and / or communicate the packet stream based on the routing parameters. Routing may utilize based SPB, TRILL, and / or AVB.

The present invention is a method for improving delivery of content to a client communicating with a server on the Web. Groups or clusters of clients are formed by processing the IP addresses of the clients according to a network-aware, radix-encoded trie classification process. The groups of clients are categorized based on information about one or more clients in each group that can be determined by the server. That information is used to help drive tailored actions on the part of Web servers. Users with poor connectivity may choose not to spend much time at a Web site if it takes a long time to receive a page, even if the Web server at the site is not the bottleneck. Retaining such clients may be of interest to a Web site. Better-connected clients may be able to receive enhanced representations of Web pages such as with higher quality images.

A method for clustering together network IP addresses is disclosed. A number of IP addresses are received and processed to determine which IP addresses share a longest prefix matching. The longest prefix matching process is performed according to radix encoded trie which facilitates on-line clustering of the IP addresses. Client and / or server IP addresses may be clustered in accordance with the teachings herein.

The embodiment of the invention provides an edge buffer management method, a personal cloud system and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining user-perceived big data, service-perceived big data and network-perceived big data; predicting the movement trajectories of users with different time scales and different spatial granularities based on the user perceived big data, mining, predicting and associating the user behavior patterns and the potential business requirements based on the service perceived big data; predicting a user's future spatio-temporal two-dimensional service demand based on the movement trajectory of the user with different time scales and different spatial granularities and the user's behavior mode and service potential demand; edge caching is set based on the user's future spatio-temporal two-dimensional service requirements and the network-aware big data.

A network (e.g., LAN / WLAN) contains individual private networks, each with an access point assistant (APA) containing an access point, web server, and other components, such as support voice interaction therewith. APAs are separated by device isolation over the LAN, but devices on each individual private network are accessible to each other directly, including cell phones, laptop computers, tablets, iPods, or other network aware devices literally owned or controlled by a guest assigned the APA at a hospitality property. The access management system assigns to an APA a bandwidth limit, which it then administers and accounts for, avoiding the classic problem of “bandwidth hogs” swamping the LAN with no accountability or control.

A virtual ad hoc network testbed provides the capability to instrument a testbed in order to support the execution of network-aware applications “as is.” Network aware applications are a special class of applications that interact with a network not only by using the network for communication purposes, but also configure or read the status of network devices. Local stack management provides the means to automatically construct standard APIs for accessing the information residing in a simulated or emulated network, and instantiate these APIs. The testbed is designed to bridge a standard management module (such as SNMP) and a simulation or emulation model, starting from a MIB module. The testbed uses CORBA as a communication means. The process is divided into two parts, agent side and model side.

SIP (session initiation protocol) requests are processed by a networked server having a processor which has a dedicated packet handling circuit (or network-aware co-processor), without passing said requests through an IP stack to an application layer. The co-processor receives SIP requests in the form of IP packets. The co-processor then parses the packets, and thereby identifies a SIP destination address in the datagram of the packet. A memory area accessible by the co-processor has a stored list of SIP addresses and of associated forwarding addresses to which packets containing the listed SIP destination addresses are to be directed. The co-processor directly modifies the packets to include the stored further address, which may be an IP address or a SIP address, associated with the original destination SIP address and then forwards the packets via the network.

Federating master data management systems may include a network-aware adapter configured with a host master data management node. The network-aware adapter may establish one or more links with other master data management systems to allow the system to work together and leverage each other's data.

Federating master data management systems may include a network-aware adapter configured with a host master data management node. The network-aware adapter may establish one or more links with other master data management systems to allow the system to work together and leverage each other's data.

The invention discloses and provides a network-aware virtual machine mirroring storage system. The network-aware virtual machine mirroring storage system comprises a private cache management module, a public cache management module, a network monitoring module, a decision module and a dynamic addressing module; the private cache management module, the public cache management module, the network monitoring module and the dynamic addressing module are arranged at a computational node; the decision module is arranged at a management node. The invention also discloses a network-aware virtual machine mirroring storage system based read-write request handling method to enable nodes with lighter network loads to process more mirroring access requests and nodes with heavier network loads to process less mirroring access requests and accordingly I / O hotspots are avoided, and overall network load is balanced; appropriate purpose nodes can be selected for every virtual machine in a self-adaptive mode according to communication modes and the network utilization conditions of a current virtual machine, the network load of a data center can be balanced, and a bottleneck problem in read and write of the virtual machine caused by network congestion is solved.

An apparatus and a method for providing an adaptive multimedia service in a mobile communication system are provided. The method of providing a multimedia service includes collecting user-preference-aware information, device-capability-aware information, and network-aware information, generating a packet according to a correlation among the user-preference-aware information, the device-capability-aware information, and the network-aware information, and providing a multimedia service according to the generated packet.

Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a QoS policy setting for the given data stream. The selected QoS policy setting may then be signaled to a media access control layer to take advantage of the QoS function of the embedded underlying active media type that is active and optimal (both from technical and business perspective) to carry out the communication for the application.

The invention provides a method and device for automatically selecting a network for a mobile terminal, which are used for network selection switching of the mobile terminal between a first network and a second network. The mobile terminal resides in the first network; and the method comprises the following steps of: A, acquiring a locus function for operation of the mobile terminal according to position information of the mobile terminal; B, calculating a network selection switching function of the mobile terminal according to the locus function for the operation of the mobile terminal; C, establishing a network switching region of the mobile terminal according to the network selection switching function and regions covered by the first network and the second network; and D, performing network selection switching in a corresponding network switching mode according to the network switching region where the mobile terminal is positioned and / or the signal intensity of the second network. The method and device for automatically selecting the network for the mobile terminal can switch the mobile terminal rapidly to a home network, and improves the network aware effect of a user.

The invention concerns a method (300) and communication device (100) for network-aware applications. The method can include the steps of—in the communications device—switching (314) to a communications network (110, 120, 130), determining (316) an identity of the communications network and in response to determining the identity of the communications network, altering (320) one or more applications (200) in the communications device such that the altered applications correspond to the communications network.

Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to detect a device connecting to a network, determine the identity of the network, and publish a status indication to at least one of a list of active contacts or a list of inactive contacts. The list of active contacts may be selected from an original list of contacts, based on the identity of the network and a personal rule set associated with a user of the device. The list of inactive contacts may be included in the original list and not included in the list of active contacts. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.