METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GREEN COMPUTING INTERCHANGE SWITCHING FUNCTION
    71.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GREEN COMPUTING INTERCHANGE SWITCHING FUNCTION 有权
    绿色计算交换切换功能的方法与系统

    公开(公告)号:US20100050180A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-02-25

    申请号:US12196498

    申请日:2008-08-22

    IPC分类号: G06F9/46

    摘要: Systems, methods, devices and program products are provided for enabling users of a computing system to measure and compare the green efficiency of a set of resources used in a computing task. With the use of this information, the user can select a desired set of resources to be employed in the computing task to minimize the environmental impact of computing tasks in relation to requirements. In some embodiments, the invention creates metrics for measuring the greenness of a computing task. The metrics are calculated through analysis of the resource computation, energy consumption, consequence of computation, and dimensional characteristics of a computing task. The metrics could be beneficial or other metrics that permit the user or a processing system to make scheduling and execution decisions.

    摘要翻译: 提供了系统,方法,设备和程序产品,使计算系统的用户能够测量和比较计算任务中使用的一组资源的绿色效率。 通过使用该信息,用户可以选择要在计算任务中使用的期望的一组资源,以最小化与需求相关的计算任务的环境影响。 在一些实施例中,本发明创建用于测量计算任务的绿色度量。 通过资源计算,能量消耗,计算结果和计算任务的维度特征的分析计算度量。 这些指标可能是有益的或允许用户或处理系统进行调度和执行决策的其他指标。

    METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PRODUCT FOR EFFICIENT PRINT OPERATIONS
    72.
    发明申请
    METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PRODUCT FOR EFFICIENT PRINT OPERATIONS 失效
    方法,设备和有效打印操作的产品

    公开(公告)号:US20100027051A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-02-04

    申请号:US12182302

    申请日:2008-07-30

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: A method, apparatus, and product for reducing resource footprints for printer operation outputs, comprising: specifying a print job rendering criteria; receiving a request to print a print job having a page number amount; and automatically selecting and printing a portion of the print job as a function of the print job rendering criteria, wherein the portion has a page number amount smaller than the print job page number amount. The print job rendering criteria may comprise a set maximum number of pages to print during one printing session, where the portion to print is less than or equal to the maximum number of pages. Where the print job comprises a plurality of document components, automatically selecting and printing a portion of the document may comprise selecting a subset of the plurality of components as a function of the identified component relevance to each selected component and printing the representation.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于减少打印机操作输出的资源足迹的方法,装置和产品,包括:指定打印作业呈现标准; 接收打印具有页数量的打印作业的请求; 并且根据打印作业呈现标准自动选择和打印打印作业的一部分,其中该部分具有小于打印作业页数量的页数量。 打印作业呈现标准可以包括在一个打印会话期间要打印的设置的最大页数,其中要打印的部分小于或等于最大页数。 在打印作业包括多个文档组件的情况下,自动选择和打印文档的一部分可以包括根据所识别的组件与每个所选组件的相关性并打印表示来选择多个组件的子集。

    USER IMPOSED POWER CONSTRAINTS ON WEB SERVER BASED ON USER PREFERENCES
    73.
    发明申请
    USER IMPOSED POWER CONSTRAINTS ON WEB SERVER BASED ON USER PREFERENCES 失效
    用户根据用户偏好在WEB服务器上实现功率约束

    公开(公告)号:US20090327775A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-12-31

    申请号:US12147932

    申请日:2008-06-27

    IPC分类号: G06F1/32 G06F3/16

    CPC分类号: G06F1/3203

    摘要: Web application users are able to specify power constraints for remote web servers. These may be based on individual performance needs and energy-conservation desires. They enable the user to exercise control over the amount of energy that the web server expends in serving the needs of the user. The invention may employ such features as vertical scaling using power capacity on demand (CUoD) type functionality. The method includes providing a user-interactive interface to enable the user to indicate a preference for power restrictions with respect to its web requests. The user then instructs the web site provider to reduce power consumption in response to the user's request. The user specifies a reduction in overall power consumption for the user's needs, such as instructing the web service provider to use an energy-conserving server to handle the user's web requests, or specifying a acceptable delay or fulfilling the user's web requests.

    摘要翻译: Web应用程序用户能够为远程Web服务器指定电源约束。 这些可能是基于个人的业绩需求和节能愿望。 它们使得用户能够控制web服务器在满足用户的需求时花费的能量。 本发明可以使用这样的特征,例如使用功率容量按需(CUoD)类型功能的垂直缩放。 该方法包括提供用户交互界面以使得用户能够指示关于其web请求的功率限制的偏好。 然后,用户响应于用户的请求,指示网站提供商降低功耗。 用户指定用户需求的总体功耗的降低,例如指示web服务提供商使用节能服务器来处理用户的web请求,或指定可接受的延迟或满足用户的web请求。

    PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF A REAL-WORLD EVENT TO A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE USER
    75.
    发明申请
    PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF A REAL-WORLD EVENT TO A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE USER 失效
    向虚拟用户提供真实世界事件的通知

    公开(公告)号:US20090287640A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-19

    申请号:US12122438

    申请日:2008-05-16

    IPC分类号: G06F9/46 G06F7/02 G06F17/30

    CPC分类号: G06F9/542 G06F9/541 G06Q90/00

    摘要: An approach that provides transmission and notification of a real-world event to a virtual universe user is described. In one embodiment, there is a method for notifying a resident that is on-line in a virtual universe of an occurrence of a real-world event. The method includes receiving an indication of the occurrence of the real-world event, mapping the indication of the real-world event into one of a plurality of communication representations, and notifying the resident in the virtual universe in accordance with the mapped communication representation.

    摘要翻译: 描述了向虚拟宇宙用户提供真实世界事件的传输和通知的方法。 在一个实施例中,存在用于通知在真实世界事件的发生的虚拟宇宙中的驻留在线的方法。 该方法包括接收现实世界事件的发生的指示,将现实世界事件的指示映射到多个通信表示中的一个,以及根据映射的通信表示通知虚拟宇宙中的驻留。

    FIREWALL METHODOLOGIES FOR USE WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
    76.
    发明申请
    FIREWALL METHODOLOGIES FOR USE WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS 审中-公开
    在虚拟环境中使用的防火方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090265755A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-22

    申请号:US12106050

    申请日:2008-04-18

    IPC分类号: G06F21/00

    摘要: In some embodiments a method comprises receiving a virtual universe request, and determining properties of the virtual universe request. The method can also comprise determining a virtual universe firewall security policy, wherein the virtual universe firewall security policy identifies allowable properties associated with the virtual universe request. The method can also include comparing the properties of the virtual universe request to the properties of the virtual universe firewall security policy, and blocking the virtual universe request based on the comparison of the virtual universe request's properties to the virtual universe firewall security policy's allowable properties.

    摘要翻译: 在一些实施例中,一种方法包括接收虚拟宇宙请求,以及确定虚拟宇宙请求的属性。 该方法还可以包括确定虚拟Universe防火墙安全策略,其中虚拟Universe防火墙安全策略识别与虚拟Universe请求相关联的允许属性。 该方法还可以包括将虚拟Universe请求的属性与虚拟Universe防火墙安全策略的属性进行比较,并根据虚拟Universe请求的属性与虚拟Universe防火墙安全策略的允许属性进行比较来阻止虚拟Universe请求。

    Implementing computer interaction response tests
    79.
    发明授权
    Implementing computer interaction response tests 有权
    实施计算机交互响应测试

    公开(公告)号:US09105034B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-11

    申请号:US13070065

    申请日:2011-03-23

    IPC分类号: G06Q30/02

    摘要: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for enhancing computer interaction challenge-response tests (e.g., Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, or CAPTCHA). Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for introducing advertising in such challenge-response tests, such that users are presented with opportunities to learn about or reinforce brands. In a typical embodiment, when a user attempts to access content (e.g., web content), the user will be presented with a CAPTCHA test. The CAPTCHA test typically includes an advertisement (e.g., logo, label, etc.) and an associated question for the user to answer. Along these lines, the advertisement is generally selected based on the user's demographics (e.g., interests, gender, age, etc.). If the user successfully responds to the question and/or responds within a certain amount of time, a reward can be determined (e.g., access to the content, preferred placement in a queue for computing resources, etc.). In one embodiment, a cumulative points total can be maintained for the user based on cumulative responses to CAPTCHA tests. In this embodiment, the CAPTCHA tests presented to the user can have increasing levels of difficulty with corresponding rewards.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的实施例提供了一种用于增强计算机交互挑战 - 响应测试(例如,完全自动公众图灵测试以告知计算机和人类之外或CAPTCHA)的方法。 此外,本发明的实施例提供了一种在这样的挑战 - 响应测试中引入广告的方法,使得用户被呈现机会来了解或加强品牌。 在典型的实施例中,当用户尝试访问内容(例如,web内容)时,将向用户呈现CAPTCHA测试。 CAPTCHA测试通常包括广告(例如,标志,标签等)和用户回答的相关问题。 沿着这些方式,广告通常基于用户的人口统计(例如,兴趣,性别,年龄等)来选择。 如果用户在一定时间内成功地回答了问题和/或响应,则可以确定奖励(例如,对内容的访问,用于计算资源的队列中的首选位置等)。 在一个实施例中,可以基于对CAPTCHA测试的累积响应来为用户维持累积点总数。 在该实施例中,呈现给用户的CAPTCHA测试可以具有相应奖励的难度增加。

    Providing alternative representations of virtual content in a virtual universe
    80.
    发明授权
    Providing alternative representations of virtual content in a virtual universe 有权
    在虚拟世界中提供虚拟内容的替代表示

    公开(公告)号:US08972870B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-03

    申请号:US12548463

    申请日:2009-08-27

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00 G06F3/0481

    摘要: An invention for automatically reducing a load on a server functioning with a virtual universe is provided. In one embodiment, there is an alternative representation tool, including a detection component configured to detect a load on a server, and a determination component configured to determine whether the load on the server exceeds a predefined threshold. The alternative representation tool further comprises a rendering component configured to provide an alternative representation of a virtual content renderable in the virtual universe to reduce the load on the server in the case that the load on the server exceeds the predefined threshold.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于自动减少在虚拟宇宙中运行的服务器上的负载的发明。 在一个实施例中,存在替代表示工具,其包括被配置为检测服务器上的负载的检测组件以及被配置为确定服务器上的负载是否超过预定阈值的确定组件。 替代表示工具还包括呈现组件,其被配置为提供虚拟内容中可呈现的虚拟内容的替代表示,以在服务器上的负载超过预定阈值的情况下减少服务器上的负载。