358 results about "Service allocation" patented technology

A service management system for devices with embedded processor systems manages use of memory by programs implementing the services by assigning services to classes and limiting the number of services per class that can be loaded into memory. Classes enable achieving predictable and stable system behavior, defining the services and service classes in a manifest that is downloaded to embedded devices operating on a network, such as a cable or satellite television network, telephone or computer network, and permit a system operator, administrator, or manager to manage the operation of the embedded devices while deploying new services implemented with applications downloaded from the network when the service is requested by a user.

An order is received indicating a network service model. A context of the order is identified. A deployment plan is generated using the network service model, the deployment plan facilitating an instantiation of a contextually-motivated network service instance as a set of normalized lifecycle management (LCM) operations performed against each of a plurality of associated service entities. The deployment plan is deployed, the deploying including binding each of the normalized LCM operations, based on the context of the order, to one or more respective micro-capabilities, each of the respective micro-capabilities having previously been onboarded to the system as one or more corresponding modeled objects capable of being declaratively composed, each of the corresponding modeled objects including a mapping of object properties, object behaviors, and standard LCM operations to one or more existing micro-capabilities of the system. The deploying also including managing execution of the one or more respective micro-capabilities and associated resources, associated storage, and associated network and service allocation and configuration, to instantiate the contextually-motivated network service instance.

A middlebox and method of operating the middlebox to provide an interface between first and second IP networks. An entity within the first IP network allocates IP addresses to one or more entities in the second IP network. The middlebox routes IP traffic within and between the networks based on the IP addresses, implements at least one IP address dependent service other than routing, and dynamically informs each service of the IP addresses allocated to the network entities and of changes to these addresses.

A method, system, and computer program product for providing dynamic group subscriptions for M2M device communication provides a more flexible and efficient technology for allocating registrations and resources. A method for allocating a plurality of subscriptions to wireless services in a network among a plurality of wireless devices in the network comprises creating a group including a plurality of wireless devices, making an initial allocation of the subscriptions to the group, the initial allocation including allocating one subscription to each of some of the plurality of wireless devices, modifying the allocation of the subscriptions to the group, including at least one of deallocating a subscription from one of the plurality of wireless devices and allocating a subscription to one of the plurality of wireless devices.

A trading and auction system (10), and a method for the authentication of buyers and sellers and for the transmission of trading instructions in a trading and auction system (10) is disclosed. To register with the trading and auction system (10), a user must provide a unique identifier of a messaging-capable wireless device (22) belonging to the user. After assigning a password to the user, the trading and auction system (10) communicates the password to the user and receives a confirmation of said password from said user, with at least one of the steps of communicating the password and receiving a confirmation of the password being performed using the wireless device's messaging capability (22). The user's account or trading instruction is activated if the password is correct. The trading and auction system (10) assigns a unique identification number to each product or service for sale or auction. Messages are sent to a buyer's wireless device (22) concerning offers or bids made by that buyer in relation to a product or service, with the unique identification number of the product or service included in a ‘Sender’ field of each message. The buyer can send further trading instructions for the product by simply replying to the received message and entering a trading instruction. The trading and auction system (10) processes messages concerning a buyer's trading instructions on a product or service from that buyer's wireless device (22) by: determining the product or service by extracting and recognizing the unique identification number of the product or service from a ‘Recipient’ field of received messages; identifying the buyer by extracting and recognizing the unique identifier of the wireless device from the ‘Sender’ field of each message and parsing a text body of each message to determine the buyer's trading instructions for that product or service.

An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique which is time division multiplexed to reduce the overall effect on individual services from conditions such as selective fading. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, all available subcarriers in a channel are assigned to fewer than all of the requesting services, e.g., to just one particular service for a period of time. The period of time is preferably independent of the length of a conventional data frame. Thereafter, a second service is assigned access to the use of all available subcarriers for a period of time corresponding to its required bandwidth, and so on until all requesting services are allotted a portion of time for access to all available subcarriers. Any one service may utilize any number of the available subcarriers in a particular superframe containing one cycle of transmissions for all services.

An apparatus that automatically adjusts authorized bandwidth allocated to a user communicating through an Ethernet network. The apparatus includes a usage monitor in communication with a network gateway or network management system to monitor bandwidth consumed by the user, an evaluator responsive to bandwidth usage that automatically determines bandwidth needs based on historical usage or a demand threshold, and a controller responsive to the evaluator to initiate an examination of surplus bandwidth available at various junctions between the user and a destination. The controller may optionally obtain user verification prior to effecting an automatic increase or decrease in allocated or authorized bandwidth. Allocated bandwidth authorization may also be decreased according to network loading and/or a class of service assignment. A corresponding method is also disclosed.

A method that allows subscribed content to be available to all users of an account on all devices that are capable of carrying the content. An administrator may tap into the features of the centralized data store to assign personalized usage guidelines and restrictions for all IPTV services available. This includes all devices and users within an administrator's account (including spouse, children, employees. etc.) Thus, an administrator may configure all devices under their control from a convenient centralized location without the need to locally configure each device or user profile. The administrator may enable access controls on the devices in their profiles (or subordinate profiles) from a Web-based system (that is also access controlled). The Web-based system allows the administrator to set content access controls that pertain to any or all devices (such as content blocking˜no “adult” material on any device at any time). The invention also allows the administrator to select filtering based on individual IDs (username, pins) or by device (child's cell phone, playroom DVR unit). The invention allows for content, channel, time, and other types of filtering for each ID or device.

A record medium on which a load distribution program capable of dynamically determining a service providing server which can provide a service of high quality according to a place where a client is installed is recorded. A delay time determination section analyzes a request sent from a client, identifies a position on a network of the client, and determines processing delay time the client takes to receive a response from each data center on the basis of a communication path between the position of the client and a position on the network of each data center. An allocation determination section preferentially selects a data center which can provide a service to the client after shortest processing delay time as a recommended data center on the basis of the processing delay time determined by the delay time determination section. A service allocation section makes a server in the recommended data center provide the service to the client which outputted the request.

The invention relates to a method for executing at least one program pertaining to at least one service included in a device having at least one memory space intended to be allocated for executing at least one of the services, and at least two access points for accessing services accessible from a network external to the device. The device associates a centralizing service with at least two access points and allocates a memory space to a service for receiving a request to connect to one of the services. The centralizing service is executed, making it possible to await reception of a connection request. In the absence thereof, only the centralizing service has the use of an allocated memory space. The invention also relates to a corresponding electronic device and system.

A service distribution device and method for balancing load distribution among servers without placing the servers in a high load or overloaded state. Models of the servers and services are generated from the record of monitored packets. Simulations are performed to predict the server load, and based on the results of the predictions, settings are determined to distribute the services among the servers so that load is balanced.

Automated management of partition service assignment to a virtual input/output (VIO) adapter is provided. Responsive to creation of a new partition service in a data processing system, a partition priority number is determined for the new partition service, and, for each VIO adapter, the partition priority numbers of the partition services currently assigned to that VIO adapter are summed. For a VIO adapter with a lowest sum of partition priority numbers, logic determines whether assigning the new partition service to that VIO adapter results in its summed partition priority number being above a predefined threshold, and the new partition service is assigned to a VIO adapter based, at least in part, on whether assigning the new partition service to the VIO adapter with the lowest sum of partition priority numbers results in that VIO adapter's summed partition priority number exceeding the predefined threshold.

In a computer system which achieves a cluster system using two or more computers, a cluster control section has an optimal service allocation section which assigns a service to an optimal computer in accordance with policy information, and a service relocating section which executes relocation of a service according to a change of a load state of the each computer.

The invention discloses a method and a device for dynamically distributing cluster services. The method comprises the following steps of: monitoring the loading condition of each node in a cluster; predicting the future loading condition of each node according to the historical monitoring data and current monitoring data of each node; and developing a service distribution scheme for each node in the cluster according to the predicted future loading condition of each node and a preset service balancing strategy, and regulating service distribution for each node in the cluster according to the developed service distribution scheme. By monitoring the load of the nodes and pre-optimizing the service distribution according to the monitored load, the method can balance the load, enhance concurrent services and reduce the probability of down caused by the overload of the nodes.

A method of providing goods and services to individuals or entities via media entails assigning at least one good or service to a medium and assigning a unique identifier to the medium. Recording information in a database relative to the medium and linking the one or more goods or services assigned to the medium with the identifier of the medium. Thereafter, the medium is distributed to an individual or entity and the individual or entity presents the medium to a provider of goods or services assigned to the medium. Upon presentment the provider delivers one or more of the assigned goods to the individual or entity making presentment. At an appropriate point in the process, a communication is directed to the database recording the results of the transaction between the provider and the individual or entity presenting the medium.

The present invention provides systems and methods for processing receivables data, such as medical receivables, to provide the receivables as an asset with a qualified financial value for a financial services domain. The medical receivables data may include an identifier of a health care related service for which a claim for payment is requested. The present invention describes systems and methods for assigning a predictive financial value for the service identified by the claim to create an asset with a qualified financial value and to create an agreement or financial instrument to pay the qualified financial value by a payer.

The invention discloses a wavelength allocation method of a WDM-PON system, which comprises the following steps: extending an OAM frame, adding wavelength management information and defining a special wavelength for sending control messages; carrying out the interaction of the control messages through wavelength management units in an OLT and an ONU and allocating upstream wavelengths and downstream wavelengths used for service allocation communication; and realizing data communication between the OLT and the ONU according to the successfully allocated upstream wavelengths and the downstream wavelengths used for the service communication. The method adds the wavelength management information into an Organization specific information TLV field by an INFO message in a discovery process of IEEE 802.3ah OAM, and other fields in the message are not modified, thus the method has clear and simple processing and flexible configuration. Hardware units in a system donot need to be modified, and processing is carried out completely depending on a software unit, thus the cost is lower. The speed and the accuracy of the data transmission of the system are greatly improved, and meanwhile, the complexity of the network operation and maintenance of the system is also reduced.

The present invention relates to a system comprising a core network access packet data node (10i), a core network access edge node (20i), means holding subscriber data (50i), and means holding policy related data (30i), and a number of admission control means. The core network access packet data node (10i) and/or the core network access edge node (20i) is/are adapted to hold or receive access priority related information comprising a subscriber related access allocation priority parameter relating to a subscriber requesting a network resource, preliminary access decision means (2Ai, 2Bi) being provided for deciding if a network resource request, e.g. a bearer request, is to be handled i.e. given preliminary access, or rejected. Service allocation priority holding means (3i) are provided holding service priority related information comprising parameters relating to service importance and/or user/subscriber category. Further final decision means (6Ai, 6Bi) are provided for making a final decision relating to grant/rejection of a request to be handled, i.e. given preliminary access, at least some of said final decision means being comprised by or communicating with respective admission control means.

Disclosed is a method for performing a handover in a communication system, comprising causing the MS to receive a ranging code including the information on a handover bandwidth request ranging code from a serving BS, the handover bandwidth request ranging code being used for the MS to get an uplink bandwidth required for the handover allocated by the serving BS in a contention-free scheme, and causing the MS to request the serving BS to allocate the uplink bandwidth for the handover by using the handover bandwidth request ranging code.

A service assignment apparatus sets an appropriate service in a service-request-incompatible apparatus as a network element so as to guarantee the service in the entire network. A service-request-compatible apparatus processes a received network-service request, and provides a service. A network-information collection unit in the service assignment apparatus collects information on a service-provision state of the service-request-compatible apparatus. A target-apparatus determination unit determines a service-request-incompatible apparatus based on the collected information on the service-provision state. A service mapping unit determines a service which the service-request-incompatible apparatus can provide, based on the information on the service-provision state and information on the determined service-request-incompatible apparatus. A service setting unit sets the service in the service-request-incompatible apparatus.

In an access network linked to the core network that provides a service to a user equipment device, there is provided a QoS control system in which a QoS policy is decided based on the access type between user equipment device and the access network. The QoS control system for controlling allocation of the service comprises a QoS policy decision server deciding the policy of QoS to the requested service from the user equipment, an access gateway for connecting the access network and the core network. The QoS policy decision server decides the policy of QoS based on the type of access between the access network and the user equipment.

In a UMTS network, each packet data service user requires a dedicated channel (DCH) to transmit at high data rates. However, the number of DCHs available is small due to code and power limitations. Thus many users will have to be allocated the same DCH on a time sharing basis. Such sharing will not impact the quality of service for users whose applications are not delay sensitive and whose traffic generation pattern toggles between transmit and idle states. Such applications include web browsing, FTP sessions and E-mail. The present invention discloses four algorithms that can be used to dynamically allocate DCH channels to a contending user based on the user's need according to its traffic generation. One embodiment of the invention discloses a methodology of allocating user channels for packet data services in a wireless communications network, a first type channel having a given data rate and a second type channel having a lower data rate, including the steps of determining an estimated bandwidth requirement for the packet data services, switching a user to the second channel type from said first channel type if said estimated bandwidth requirement is below a first threshold, and switching a user to the first channel type from said second channel type if the estimated bandwidth requirement is greater than a second threshold. Another embodiment discloses methodology of allocating user channels for packet data services in a wireless communications network, a first type channel having a given data rate and a second type channel having a lower data rate, comprising the steps of providing an inactivity timer per user, and switching from the first channel type to said second channel type depending on a state of said inactivity timer.

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for dynamically allocating memory using one or more lock-free FIFOs. One or more lock-free FIFOs are populated with FIFO nodes, where each FIFO node represents a memory allocation of a predetermined size. Each particular lock-free FIFO includes memory allocations of a single size. Different lock-free FIFOs may include memory allocations for different sizes to service allocation requests for different size memory allocations. A lock-free mechanism is used to pop FIFO nodes from the FIFO. The use of the lock-free FIFO allows multiple consumers to simultaneously attempt to pop the head FIFO node without first obtaining a lock to ensure exclusive access of the FIFO.