92 results about "Virtual directory" patented technology

A hierarchical/relational translation system is provided for enabling information from unrelated heterogeneous relational computing systems to be accessed, navigated, searched, browsed, and shared over a hierarchical computing system. In one embodiment, the hierarchical/relational translation system includes a virtual directory server for capturing information in the nature of relational database schema and metadata. The captured schema and metadata are then translated into virtual directories that are universally compatible with standard communication protocols used with hierarchical computing systems. A virtual directory of information organizes an index of data records and a standard addressing schema is provided to enable customizable access to relevant views of relational computing systems. Several embodiments for presenting the virtual directory information tree are included. In one embodiment, the virtual directory is displayed using browser format. In another embodiment, the virtual directory is presented in electronic mail format. Still, in another embodiment the virtual directory is presented over a wireless medium and through portable devices.

An electronic shopping server formats and sends an electronic page, having an integrated shopping basket with drag and drop functionality, from a virtual catalog to a plurality of clients. The server includes an e-sessions controller that manages and tracks each session with the clients, profile generator that identifies and authorizes each consumer to engage in the sessions, catalog selector responsive to on-demand requests for the contents and supporting data of each catalog page, and order processor that supports purchase requests. The e-sessions controller manages the sessions by causing each client to launch an electronic sessions application. The resident application includes a local sessions controller that brokers all client communications with the server and implements the instructions from the e-sessions controller. The resident application also includes an image generator for displaying an image of each item from the catalog page, descriptive data generator for displaying supporting data for each item, and an order panel generator for displaying a shopping basket that remains on the same page with the image at all times. An order initiator can be included to send a request for the server to create a facsimile of the shopping basket. An item adder and item remover cause items to be added/removed from the client's basket and, if included, server's basket upon executing a web page function. An order executor synchronizes the two shopping baskets and/or sends a request to purchase the items listed in the shopping basket. The shopping basket can be configured to travel with the consumer to receive input from various servers hosting different web sites.

An identity management tool provides identity management across multiple domains, providing a single access point not only for information for runtime, network, and service layer information, but also for systems such as business support systems (BSS), operational support systems (OSS), and third party systems. The identity management tool creates a unified user profile that maps customer identities across the various domains, and presents the information in a virtual directory wherein the information appears to come from a single source, creating a central data hub for the various systems. This aggregation provides for the same experience and service across various access networks and using various channels. Such an architecture allows billing and service information to be shared with subscription and customer information, even though the data is substantially unrelated data from disparate data sources, without the need to combine schemas or aggregate the data into a single data store.

The invention relates to a distributed file system virtual catalog and the implementation of a naming space. A primary server creates a uniform virtual catalog in the whole storage network, takes the concrete information of each file in store, and makes a mapping for the actual storage position of the file and the address in the virtual catalog, as well as shields the difference among hardware, an operation system and a file storage structure; in view of a client, the client does not know where the file is stored, the file in the whole system is seen to be stored in a uniform way without any difference from a common file system, namely, the system is a virtual file system; a secondary server stores the relevant information of the file stored on the secondary server, thereby forming an own file system. The invention has the advantages that the operation of the user is convenient through the system virtual catalog, and the file storage is transparent for the user. The consistency when a plurality of users access the file together is ensured through the chain-type operation of the naming space, thereby solving the problem of name collision, and obtaining good effect.

An application network appliance with a built-in virtual directory interface is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a virtual directory interface (VDI) coupled to multiple directory servers, and an authentication and authorization unit coupled to the VDI. In response to a packet of a network transaction received from a client over a first network for accessing a server of a datacenter over a second network, the authentication and authorization unit obtains user attributes from the directory servers via the VDI and performs authentication and authorization using the user attributes to determine whether a user of the client is eligible to access the server of the datacenter, where the network element operates as a security gateway to the datacenter. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

The present invention relates to a method for organizing a plurality of documents and an apparatus for displaying a plurality of documents. Said plurality of documents are clustered, and the resulted clusters of different levels are displayed as virtual directories, thus helping the user to navigate to the target document quickly. The navigation may be performed with the aid of topics and abstracts. Furthermore, the user's operations may be reduced through controlling the displayed contents to be within the size of the screen.

A method for enabling direct addressing of specific wsdl and/or xsd files within a web services application containing multipart files with relative imports. A virtual addressing scheme allows the files to be identified within a virtual/wsdl/directory that is appended to the endpoint URL. The desired filename is then placed after the virtual directory. When the web container of the web service application receives the endpoint request with the virtual directory, the container recognizes it as a file request and locates the requested file within the endpoint path (or sub-directory within the path). The file is then returned to the requestor along with the SOAP address.

The invention belongs to the field of file systems and relates to a method for prolonging service life of nonvolatile storage with a reconfigurable file system directory tree. The method is characterized in that a memory virtual directory tree is included, update of metadata of the file system directory tree is recorded into a memory without being written back to a persistent directory tree, and a tree structure of the file system directory tree is provided by means of an embedded link method, namely, a manner of embedding index link information in indexed pages; the content of the file system directory tree provided by a persistent metadata log type written-in method is upgraded, namely a manner of compressing a plurality of metadata pages and writing in the compressed pages in the form of logs; after failure recovery, the file system directory tree is rapidly constructed. According to the method for prolonging service life of nonvolatile storage with the reconfigurable file system directory tree, the influence of metadata written-back operation on performances and service life of a storage system can be effectively relieved, and high-speed access to the metadata of the file system directory tree and fast reconstruction after failure recovery are provided.

The invention discloses a remote storage system and a method for remote storage thereof. The remote storage system manages files by means of virtual directories, organizes the files and the directories according to the structural way, records remote storage configuration by utilizing nodes as units, and organizes different remote files for local service by means of virtual directories. The remote storage system comprises a client side program and a server side program and realizes the cloud storage of mass data while quickly calling frequently-used data simultaneously by the aid of data exchange of a cache storage space between a private storage space and a cloud storage space.

A virtual directory name (TRAVEL) having a form not specified in the DCF Standard is employed as a recording name in a directory (101TOSHI) recorded in a file management structure complying with the DCF Standard, whereas a virtual directory management file which corresponds to the virtual directory name (TRAVEL) and the name (101TOSHI) of a directory of the DCF Standard corresponding thereto is created to record in a recording medium.

The invention discloses a Linux kernel module relation extracting method based on compiling options. The method includes the steps of 1), dividing kernel source codes according to the functions and logic relations of the same to form virtual directories; 2), performing syntactic analysis on each Kconfig file under Linux real directories to identify all the compiling options; analyzing the source code file required by each compiling option from the compiling file under the same directory; 3), according to the virtual directories, using the source code files as intermediary agents, dividing the compiling options into corresponding virtual directories; 4), performing regular analysis on each source code file to obtain the function and variable defined in the source code file; 5), analyzing the specific realizing source code of each function and variable to extract the calling relations among functions and variables; 6), constructing a kernel framework according to the relations. The method has the advantages the method does not rely on one kernel version, and the relations among kernel modules can be obtained clearly.

Systems and methods are disclosed for tagging and translating database objects and relationships into sentences. The successive composition of these sentences form hierarchies which encode contextual information about the objects. A virtual directory/context server functions using a common abstraction layer to access data from databases, applications, directories, Web Services, and other data sources within the enterprise. The virtual directory/context server includes a sentence/context builder module that enables the translation or relationships between data and from the plurality of data sources into a human-readable form, for example, an English language sentence. Thus, applications can view, access, and/or modify the data from the data sources of the enterprise through the virtual directory/context server, for example, using the sentences representative of the relationships between the data. The sentences are indexed, which allows for searches that bring information not only about objects, but also about the context in which those objects appear.

The invention discloses a file servicing method based on ContextFS context file system, which comprises the following steps: utilizing each kind of portable calculating equipment and sensor in the space or user to acquire the context information in the space for user; affirming the ID; affirming the preference context of user according to the historic operation or historic data of self-defined preference; constructing virtual catalog and virtual file according to the file element data and context information in the file system; recording the user and context information by file system to store and transmit to the context file system when the user accesses the virtual catalog and virtual file. The invention is characterized by positive service, which reorganizes to generate virtual catalog and virtual file.

A method for hierarchically processing LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) operations against a SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) directory is provided. The method includes providing an LDAP Directory Information Tree (DIT) including a plurality of LDAP DIT entries that describe LDAP containers, users and groups, providing a SCIM directory including a plurality of SCIM resource entries that describe SCIM users and groups, migrating the plurality of LDAP DIT entries to the SCIM directory, receiving, from an LDAP-based application over a network, an LDAP operation request, processing the LDAP operation request, and returning an LDAP operation response to the LDAP-based application over the network.

Te invention relates to the search technology, and provides an index file creation synchronized method and a search system aiming at the disadvantages that the existing index construction program occupies more system resources; the index file creation synchronized method comprises the following steps: an index creation command is received, service identification is extracted, and a source service document is read under the corresponding source directory; when the source service document and a target service document are judged to be different, the target service document is updated according to the source service document; a source index file is generated for the updated target service document, and a target index file is updated according to the source index file; an index server leads the updated target index file to be copied to a local virtual directory of an index file storage directory, which is attached to a search server by SSHFS progress, so as to lead the target index file to be transferred to the index file storage directory. The invention further provides a search system; the index creation and synchronization efficiency can be effectively improved and the operating complexity is reduced.

The invention relates to an efficient dynamic path analytic method based on a ContextFS context file system, comprising the following steps: firstly, a user access preference and a file access behavioral pattern are determined through analysis of historical context information; secondly, a virtual directory path is selected from out-of-order virtual directories according to the file access behavioral pattern and the current user context information; thirdly, the importance degree of files is divided according to a user custom, the user access preference and the file access behavioral pattern; buffer file paths or the files are classified respectively on a mainframe (UH) on which the user is positioned, a metadata server (MS) and a file server (FS); the efficiency of path analysis is improved through a multistage buffer mechanism. The efficient dynamic path analytic method has the advantages that: the virtual directory path is determined by utilization of the file access behavioral pattern and the current context trend, and the multistage buffer mechanism is adopted on the file paths or the files for improving the efficiency of path analysis according to the user custom, the user access preference and the file assess behavioral pattern, thereby the file access performance of the ContextFS file system is improved.

A method for providing an on-premises virtual directory system for an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) proxy service is provided. The method includes providing an LDAP Directory Information Tree (DIT) including LDAP DIT entries, providing a SCIM directory including SCIM resource entries, migrating the LDAP DIT entries to the SCIM directory, creating a virtual LDAP hierarchy based on LDAP DIT hierarchical information stored in the SCIM directory, and displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) for a directory services application that includes a data tree pane that depicts the virtual LDAP hierarchy. Creating the virtual LDAP hierarchy includes storing the LDAP DIT hierarchical information in the SCIM directory by mapping LDAP containers to SCIM user or SCIM group attributes, mapping LDAP containers to special marker SCIM groups, mapping LDAP user DNs to SCIM user externalIDs, or mapping LDAP group DNs to SCIM group externalIDs.