Dynamic customized web tours
    1.
    发明授权
    Dynamic customized web tours 失效
    动态定制网络旅游

    公开(公告)号:US06572662B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-06-03

    申请号:US09079661

    申请日:1998-05-15

    IPC分类号: G06F1500

    CPC分类号: G06F17/30873 G06F2216/07

    摘要: An interactive and dynamically customizable guided tour of some portion of the World Wide Web monitors and dynamically adapts in response to like-minded users as well as provides recommendations during the traversal. The invention includes features for: electronic commerce; side trips; true visiting of Web sites; maps; pre-fetching of Web objects; insertion of interactive decision points; customized insertion of advertisements; simultaneous traversal of multiple hyperpaths; collection of and dynamic modification of a tour based on collected route information and/or touring statistics.

    摘要翻译: 互动和动态可定制的万维网监视器部分的导览,并根据志同道合的用户进行动态调整,并在遍历期间提供建议。 本发明包括:电子商务; 侧行 真实访问网站; 地图; 预取Web对象; 插入交互式决策点; 定制插入广告; 同时遍历多个超路径; 基于收集到的路线信息和/或旅游统计信息,对旅游的收集和动态修改。

    Self-regulated resource management of distributed computer resources
    2.
    发明授权
    Self-regulated resource management of distributed computer resources 有权
    分布式计算机资源的自我管理资源管理

    公开(公告)号:US06516350B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-02-04

    申请号:US09335261

    申请日:1999-06-17

    IPC分类号: G06F15173

    摘要: A distributed system for the management of distributed resources interconnected by a computer network and comprised of a plurality of limited supply resources (such as those associated with multimedia content servers, e.g., bandwidth, CPU, storage, etc.,). The system comprises a plurality of server resources, preferably with target multimedia content, real time processing engines, etc., and a plurality of intermediary system resources (such as directories and resource monitors). The resources in any particular server are classified or partitioned as global or local, where the ratio of global to local is specified and controlled by the system. The system assigns clients across local and global resources and coordinates the placement of replicas of target content across global resources. The placement is dynamic and performed when necessary based on the analysis of utilization patterns of target content and replicas by pluralities of clients.

    摘要翻译: 用于管理由计算机网络互连并由多个有限供应资源(例如与多媒体内容服务器(例如带宽,CPU,存储等)相关联的资源)组成的分布式资源的分布式系统。 该系统包括多个服务器资源,优选地具有目标多媒体内容,实时处理引擎等,以及多个中间系统资源(诸如目录和资源监视器)。 任何特定服务器中的资源被分类或分区为全局或本地,其中全局与局部的比率由系统指定和控制。 系统为客户端分配本地和全球资源,并协调跨全球资源的目标内容副本的位置。 展示位置是动态的,必要时可以根据目标内容的利用模式和多个客户端的副本进行分析。

    System and method for integrated load distribution and resource management on internet environment
    3.
    发明授权
    System and method for integrated load distribution and resource management on internet environment 有权
    互联网环境综合负荷分配与资源管理系统与方法

    公开(公告)号:US06463454B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-08

    申请号:US09335272

    申请日:1999-06-17

    IPC分类号: G06F1314

    摘要: A system providing access to web objects that matches predicted demand for web objects to available capacity on web servers. The system implements methods to dynamically shape both demand and capacity based on certain criteria. The system provides methods to dynamically shape demand for an object based on criteria such as arrival time, incoming geography, and costs requirements. In particular, the present invention characterizes future demand for an object based on aggregation and forecasting of past demand for such object. The system effectively permits control and customization of capacity across one or more media servers based on characteristics associated with the demand across one or more of them, and particularly, based on the dominating geographical traits of past demand. Moreover, the system dynamically shapes capacity by: (a) controlling the number of replicas associated with an object; and, (b) controlling the placement of these replicas across servers in a distributed network. In particular, the system drives capacity shaping measures over a particular object based on its predicted demand. Consequently, the number and location of replicas associated with an object is made to be variable over time and driven by predicted demand for a web object.

    摘要翻译: 提供访问Web对象的系统,将Web对象的预测需求与Web服务器上的可用容量相匹配。 该系统实现了基于某些标准来动态地形成需求和容量的方法。 该系统提供了基于诸如到达时间,进入地理和成本要求等标准动态地形成对象需求的方法。 特别地,本发明基于对这样的对象的过去需求的聚合和预测来表征对对象的未来需求。 该系统有效地允许基于与一个或多个媒体服务器上的需求相关联的特征,特别是基于过去需求的主导地理特征来控制和定制一个或多个媒体服务器的容量。 此外,系统通过以下方式动态地形成容量:(a)控制与对象相关联的副本的数量; 和(b)控制这些副本在分布式网络中的服务器上的位置。 特别地,该系统基于其预测的需求来驱动特定对象上的容量整形度量。 因此,与对象相关联的副本的数量和位置随着时间而变化,并且由对web对象的预测需求驱动。

    System for seamless streaming of data stored on a network of distributed primary and target servers using segmentation information exchanged among all servers during streaming
    4.
    发明授权
    System for seamless streaming of data stored on a network of distributed primary and target servers using segmentation information exchanged among all servers during streaming 有权
    使用在流媒体期间在所有服务器之间交换的分段信息来分布存储在分布式主服务器和目标服务器网络上的数据的系统

    公开(公告)号:US06377996B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-23

    申请号:US09252274

    申请日:1999-02-18

    IPC分类号: G06F1516

    摘要: The present invention switches a source of a streaming session between a primary server and its client, from the primary server to another server at arbitrary points during the progress of the streaming session. The switching of the source is accomplished through the use of a virtual socket capable of simultaneously phasing in a new streaming connection while phasing out an old streaming connection during a streaming session that preserves the temporal progress of the session. The virtual socket acts as a client-based intermediary between the client and one or more streaming servers, thus enabling a client application to establish a streaming connection with respect to content and not to the end-party, i.e., server.

    摘要翻译: 本发明在流媒体会话的进行期间,在主服务器和其客户端之间的任意点将主要服务器之间的流会话的源切换到另一服务器。 源的切换是通过使用能够在流媒体会话期间逐步淘汰旧流传输连接的同时定期进行新的流连接的虚拟插座来实现的,从而保持会话的时间进度。 虚拟套接字充当客户机和一个或多个流服务器之间的基于客户机的中介,从而使客户端应用能够建立与内容相关的流式连接,而不是向终端方,即服务器建立流式连接。

    Policy-based multivariate application-level QoS negotiation for multimedia services
    5.
    发明授权
    Policy-based multivariate application-level QoS negotiation for multimedia services 失效
    多媒体业务的基于策略的多变量应用级QoS协商

    公开(公告)号:US06529950B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-03-04

    申请号:US09335275

    申请日:1999-06-17

    IPC分类号: G06F1314

    摘要: A Resource Management Framework (RMF) comprises an extensible, distributed, policy-based, object-oriented system and method for resource discovery and negotiation during the setup and control of a media session between one or more media servers and end users. The scope of the RMF framework is the management of multimedia resources used during simple, non-interactive as well as composite, complex, interactive multimedia sessions. The RMF enables iterative negotiated mapping over the requirements of an RMF-compliant application onto the offerings of one or more RMF-compliant media servers. It is an open-services architecture providing the ability to insert and apply services to enhance the suitability of offerings to requirements and vice versa, during a negotiated mapping session. Moreover, the RMF negotiated mapping algorithm itself is customizable via the use of policies (herein referred to as per-flow policies). The policies used to drive management decisions and service selections during these negotiated mapping are ‘pluggable’. New or updated policies may be added, to augment or replace an existing policy so as to realize new behavior or refine existing behavior.

    摘要翻译: 资源管理框架(RMF)包括在一个或多个媒体服务器和最终用户之间的媒体会话的建立和控制期间用于资源发现和协商的可扩展的,分布式的,基于策略的面向对象的系统和方法。 RMF框架的范围是在简单,非交互以及复合,复杂,交互式多媒体会话期间使用的多媒体资源的管理。 RMF支持将符合RMF的应用程序的要求进行迭代协商映射到一个或多个兼容RMF的媒体服务器的产品上。 在协商的映射会话期间,它是一种开放式服务体系结构,能够插入和应用服务,以提高产品对要求的适用性,反之亦然。 此外,RMF协商映射算法本身可以通过使用策略(这里称为每流策略)进行定制。 在这些协商映射期间用于驱动管理决策和服务选择的策略是“可插拔的”,可以添加新的或更新的策略,以增加或替换现有策略,以实现新行为或改进现有行为。

    System and method for capacity shaping in an internet environment
    6.
    发明授权
    System and method for capacity shaping in an internet environment 有权
    互联网环境容量塑造的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06466980B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-15

    申请号:US09335273

    申请日:1999-06-17

    IPC分类号: G06F1300

    摘要: A system and method for dynamically shaping available capacity of multi-media objects based on aggregated demand across distributed media/world-wide-web servers. Demand statistics (e.g., volume and density) for a given web object are used to characterize aggregated behavior with respect to request arrival time. The system dynamically shapes capacity by controlling, over time, the number of replicas of objects made available to such requests as well as the placement of such replicas. The system also enables on-demand replication of web objects across web servers by providing: (a) a ranking criteria to prioritize among web objects according to past demand; and, (b) a trigger criteria to determine when to apply the capacity shaping mechanism. The system effectively allows one or more media servers to share the streaming resources provided by a globally shared media server in such a way that the capacity of each media server is temporarily, and transparently augmented as needed to match predicted demand for its objects.

    摘要翻译: 一种基于分布式媒体/全球万维网服务器上的聚合需求来动态地整形多媒体对象的可用容量的系统和方法。 用于给定web对象的需求统计(例如,卷和密度)用于表征关于请求到达时间的聚合行为。 系统通过随时间控制可用于此类请求的对象的副本数量以及这些副本的放置来动态地形成容量。 该系统还通过提供以下方面来实现Web服务器上的Web对象的按需复制:(a)按照过去需求对Web对象进行优先排序的排序标准; 和(b)确定何时应用能力整形机制的触发标准。 该系统有效地允许一个或多个媒体服务器以这样的方式共享由全局共享的媒体服务器提供的流媒体资源,使得每个媒体服务器的容量被暂时地根据需要透明地增加以匹配其对象的预测需求。

    Management of service-oriented resources across heterogeneous media servers using homogenous service units and service signatures to configure the media servers
    7.
    发明授权
    Management of service-oriented resources across heterogeneous media servers using homogenous service units and service signatures to configure the media servers 有权
    使用同质服务单元和服务签名来管理跨异构媒体服务器的面向服务的资源,以配置媒体服务器

    公开(公告)号:US06460082B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-01

    申请号:US09335274

    申请日:1999-06-17

    IPC分类号: G06F15173

    摘要: A system and method for configuring service-oriented resources suitable for the resource management in a media server and more particularly, for resource configuration across distributed media servers. Heterogeneous media serves are configured in terms of homogeneous service-oriented resource units each used to represent a resource allocation commitment from a participating server for provisioning a particular media service on demand. A service unit associated with each different service supported by a media server represents an envelope of resource requirements as needed for provisioning a service. The method includes generating a resource envelope, and additionally compensating, at a media server, for differences between true resource utilization and resource envelope projected by a service unit. Each service unit also comprises a signature representing metadata used to control access to a service unit by defining rights, privileges, and characteristics of services that may use that particular server unit.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于配置适合媒体服务器中的资源管理的面向服务的资源的系统和方法,更具体地,涉及跨分布式媒体服务器的资源配置。 异构媒体服务被配置为同质的面向服务的资源单元,每个资源单元用于表示来自参与服务器的资源分配承诺,用于根据需要提供特定的媒体服务。 与由媒体服务器支持的每个不同服务相关联的服务单元表示为配置服务所需的资源需求的包络。 该方法包括生成资源包络,以及另外在媒体服务器处补偿由真实资源利用与由服务单元投影的资源包之间的差异。 每个服务单元还包括表示用于通过定义可以使用该特定服务器单元的服务的权限,特权和特征来控制对服务单元的访问的元数据的签名。