484 results about "Multi server" patented technology

Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system and data and information servers. Further provides power and energy consumption and workload management and control systems and architectures for high-density and modular multi-server computer systems that maintain performance while conserving energy and method for power management and workload management. Dynamic server power management and optional dynamic workload management for multi-server environments is provided by aspects of the invention. Modular network devices and integrated server system, including modular servers, management units, switches and switching fabrics, modular power supplies and modular fans and a special backplane architecture are provided as well as dynamically reconfigurable multi-purpose modules and servers. Backplane architecture, structure, and method that has no active components and separate power supply lines and protection to provide high reliability in server environment.

An interactive television system that renders on-demand interactive multimedia services for a community of users. The interactive multimedia is delivered to each user on a TV or on a LAN-node (Local-Area-Network) computer through an "interactive TV channel" created and controlled by a Channel-processor, which can be implemented as either a PC or a high-end workstation. The system employs a direct-access on-demand workgroup server. It is equipped with the primary on-demand multimedia data base stored on a hard disk subsystem that is connected directly to the Channel-processors through an internal workgroup link. Using a no-overhead server technology, the connected workgrouped Channel-processors can all concurrently retrieve and process the data directly from the hard disk subsystem without resorting to a stand-alone server system for data retrieving and downloading. The system also employs peer-to-peer workgroup connectivity, so that all of the workgrouped Channel-processors that are connected to the workgroup server through the internal workgroup link, can communicate with one another.

A system for managing licenses for protected software on a communication network is disclosed. The system comprises at least one client computer and a pool of license servers coupled to the communication network. The client computers request authorization to use the protected software, and the license servers manage a distribution of allocations to use the protected software. The pool of license servers includes a selected current leader server for managing the distribution of allocations for all license servers in the pool. The first license server to be started is selected as the current leader server. However, if no license server is started first, the license server with the highest priority according to a leader priority list is selected as the current leader server. In addition, client computers seeking authorization to use the protected software may receive information from the server pool and select a particular license server from which to request authorization to use the protected software based on the received information.

Integrated intelligent system adapted for any operating system and/or multi-OS computing environment seamlessly having sensory input/data acquisition cum recording server group and/or analytics server group enabling fail-safe integration and/or optimized utilization of various sensory inputs for various utility applications. Also disclosed as added advancements include intelligent method/system for cost-effective and efficient band adaptive transferring/recording sensory data from single or multiple data sources to network accessible storage devices, fail safe and self sufficient server group based method for sensory input recording and live streaming in a multi-server environment, intelligent and unified method of colour coherent object analysis, face detection in video images and the like, resource allocation for analytical processing involving multi channel environment, multi channel join-split mechanism adapted for low and/or variable bandwidth network link, enhanced multi-colour and/or mono-colour object tracking and also an intelligent automated traffic enforcement system.

Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system and data and information servers. Further provides power and energy consumption and workload management and control systems and architectures for high-density and modular multi-server computer systems that maintain performance while conserving energy and method for power management and workload management. Dynamic server power management and optional dynamic workload management for multi-server environments is provided by aspects of the invention. Modular network devices and integrated server system, including modular servers, management units, switches and switching fabrics, modular power supplies and modular fans and a special backplane architecture are provided as well as dynamically reconfigurable multi-purpose modules and servers. Backplane architecture, structure, and method that has no active components and separate power supply lines and protection to provide high reliability in server environment.

A scalable, cluster-based VoD system implemented with a multi-server, multi-storage architecture to serve large scale real-time ingest and streaming requests for content assets is provided. The scalable, cluster-based VoD system implements sophisticated load balancing algorithms for distributing the load among the servers in the cluster to achieve a cost-effective and high streaming and storage capacity solution capable of serving multiple usage patterns and large scale real-time service demands. The VoD system is designed with a highly-scalable and failure-resistant architecture for streaming content assets in real-time in various network configurations.

Method and system for detecting a dead server in a multi-server environment. A virtual ring structure is used in which each server in a server pool is only required to monitor the status of two other servers in the server pool. Thus, a server need only transmit ping signals to two other servers (its buddies) in the server pool at any given time. Because each server maintains the status of only two other servers at any given time, the size of the server pool is not limited by the ability of each server to send and process ping signals. The two servers which are monitored by any given server in the server pool are referred to as the “buddy A” server and the “buddy B” server. When the monitoring server determines that one of its buddy servers is down, the monitoring server reports the status of the down server to a SQL server that maintains a server table. The server table maintains a list of each “live” server and the buddy servers assigned to that server. Down servers are removed from the server table. When a server determines that one of its buddies is down, the report to the SQL server results in a buddy reassignment. The buddies of the down server are made buddies of one another and the virtual server ring is once more intact. The SQL server then knows not to route any client to the down server.

A data service system includes web servers, each servicing any access request received by the data service system. Duplicate application servers are also provided, each processing any request directed from any one of the web servers. A session state information managing system is provided to allow different application servers to process requests belonging to a single session without requiring the requests to carry their entire session state information. The managing system includes a session state information manager that, when called by an application server in processing a request, (1) provides the session state information of the request to the application server, and (2) generate a state reference for a new session state information for the request after the application server has processed the request and generated the new session state information. The managing system also includes a store that stores all session state information.

A method, schema, and computer-readable medium provide various means for load balancing computing devices in a multi-server environment. The method, schema, and computer-readable medium for load balancing computing devices in a multi-server environment may be utilized in a networked server environment, implementing a spreadsheet application for manipulating a workbook, for example. The method, schema, and computer-readable medium operate to load balance computing devices in a multi-server environment including determining whether a file, such as a spreadsheet application workbook, resides in the cache of a particular server, such as a calculation server. Upon meeting certain conditions, the user request may be directed to the particular server.

The invention discloses a resource allocation and base station service deployment method based on mobile edge computing, and the method comprises the following steps: when a computing task is detectedin a mobile terminal, sending a computing migration request to a smart base station; when a cache unit in the base station is short of computing data needed for the task request, sending the needed task data requirement to a network side; receiving the needed task data returned by the network side; computing a time delay gain and an energy consumption gain according to the received needed task data; obtaining a computing migration decision matrix according to an experienced utility function; and performing computing migration according to the computing migration decision matrix. The base station deployment scheme comprises a cache unit, a computing unit, an acquisition processing unit and a sending unit, and can provide computing ability and data caching ability. Thus, the MEC based resource scheduling method and base station service deployment scheme can realize the computing migration in which terminals have multiple tasks, the base stations are multifunctional and targets are diversified.

The invention is directed to techniques for coupling a first network and a second network including a method for processing messages to be transferred from a first network to a second network. The method comprising the steps of receiving a message to be transferred between a client device coupled to the first network and a server device coupled to the second network. A first data communications device determines that the message is associated with a connection that is related to a second data communications device also coupling the first network and the second network, wherein the first data communications device and the second data communications device share a network address on the first network. The first data communications device processes the message to maintain the connection to the client device on the first network and to at least one server device on the second network.

In a multiple-server or multiple-process environment where each server has a local cache, data in one cache may become obsolete because of changes to a data store performed by another server or entity. The present invention provides techniques for efficiently notifying servers as to cache expiry indications that indicate that their local cache data is out of date and should not be used. A cache expiry manager receives cache expiry indications from servers, and sends cache expiry indications to servers in conjunction with client requests or in response to certain trigger events. The need for broadcasting cache expiry notifications to all servers is eliminated, as servers can be informed of cache expiry indications the next time a server is being given a client request that relates to the cache in question. Extraneous and duplicative cache expiry notifications are reduced or eliminated.

The invention relates to a system for realizing video-on-demand by using a peer-to-peer network technology and a method thereof, wherein, a central media server and a central directory server of the system are connected with a router of a metropolitan area/wide area network; an edge media server is connected with an edge router which is linked up with the metropolitan area/wide area network and an access network so as to form a content delivery network based on P2P; an edge directory server is connected with the edge router with which the edge media server is connected and a home media terminal is connected with the edge router with which the edge media server is connected through the access network, which forms a video-on-demand network based on the P2P. The method of the system for realizing the video-on-demand by using the peer-to-peer network technology and the method thereof comprises the steps: the home media terminal firstly requests and downloads data in a way of the P2P from an edge P2P area, when the requested data is not in the edge P2P area, corresponding data is downloaded and supplied to the home media terminal by the edge media server in a central P2P area. The system for realizing the video-on-demand by using the peer-to-peer network technology and the method thereof have the advantages of low cost and strong expandability; with the increase of the users, the pressure bore by the server is decreased.

The invention discloses method, system and trunk equipment for assigning multiple server addresses. The method comprises the following steps of: forwarding received discovery messages sent by a client to servers by the trunk equipment; when the trunk equipment receives the discovery response messages returned by the servers, resolving out carried network addresses from address choice fields of the discovery response messages and judging whether the resolved network addresses conflict with the stored and assigned network addresses or not; if so, returning the conflicting messages to the servers to require the servers to renewedly assign network addresses; and if not, forwarding the discovery response messages to the client, and requiring the servers to assign the network addresses carried in the discovery response messages by the client. The method effectively avoids the assigning conflicts of multiple server network addresses, reduces the time delay in the address assigning process and improves the system performance.