Stream processor with compiled programs
Granted: May 19, 2015
Patent Number:
9038041
A stream processing platform that provides fast execution of stream processing applications within a safe runtime environment. The platform includes a stream compiler that converts a representation of a stream processing application into executable program modules for a safe environment. The platform allows users to specify aspects of the program that contribute to generation of modules that execute as intended. A user may specify aspects to control a type of implementation for loops,…
Joining of machines in a connected instance group of a networked computing environment
Granted: March 31, 2015
Patent Number:
8996609
A system for building and maintaining a connected instance group of machines includes protocols for instance group creation; master machine creation, operation, and recovery; and peer machine creation, operation, and recovery. These protocols allow each machine to connect with a data source and to build a local hosts file containing the name and IP addresses of the machines in the instance group and, thus, provides network connectivity among the machines in the instance group.
Systems and methods for automating certification authority practices
Granted: March 17, 2015
Patent Number:
8984280
Systems and methods for efficiently verifying identities and for generating and signing digital certificates associated with those identities are disclosed. Generation of a digital certificate of an entity may begin by receiving a certificate signing request from the entity at a certification authority, the certificate signing request including verification information. The certificate signing request may be transmitted to a registration authority and the information of the certificate…
Intelligent console for content-based interactivity
Granted: February 24, 2015
Patent Number:
8966368
The intelligent console method and apparatus of the present invention includes a powerful, intuitive, yet highly flexible means for accessing a multi-media system having multiple multi-media data types. The present intelligent console provides an interactive display of linked multi-media events based on a user's personal taste. The intelligent console includes a graph/data display that can provide several graphical representations of the events that satisfy user queries. The user can…
Capability model for deploying componentized applications
Granted: January 6, 2015
Patent Number:
8930942
Disclosed are systems and methods deploying a componentized application using a deployment tool to analyze an application to be deployed, where the application depends on at least two or more deployed capabilities that are interrelated, and the deployed capabilities each provide independent functionality. The deployment tool may automatically identify two or more deployed capability providers that provide the two or more deployed capabilities.
Capability model for deploying componentized applications
Granted: January 6, 2015
Patent Number:
8930941
Disclosed are systems and methods for deploying a componentized application in a deployment environment using a deployment tool to receive a description of how to deploy the component onto a logical description of the deployment environment, and map the logical description of the deployment environment to the deployment environment based on the mapping data. The deployment tool may receive a component to be deployed in the deployment environment, and automatically deploy the component to…
System and method for parsing, summarizing and reporting log data
Granted: December 2, 2014
Patent Number:
8903836
A system and method is disclosed which enables network administrators and the like to quickly analyze the data produced by log-producing devices such as network firewalls and routers. Unlike systems of the prior art, the system disclosed herein automatically parses and summarizes log data before inserting it into one or more databases. This greatly reduces the volume of data stored in the database and permits database queries to be run and reports generated while many types of attempted…
System and method for loading objects for object-relational mapping
Granted: December 2, 2014
Patent Number:
8903797
Disclosed are systems and methods for creating data objects, which includes querying a database to locate a first table associated with a first data type to be created, loading a plurality of rows from the first table during the query associated with the first table, creating a first set of data objects associated with the first data type, wherein each data object of the first set is created from data stored in each of the rows loaded from the first table. The systems and methods also…
Locking and signaling for implementing messaging transports with shared memory
Granted: November 25, 2014
Patent Number:
8898399
Disclosed are systems and methods for transporting data using shared memory comprising allocating, by one of a plurality of sender application, one or more pages, wherein the one or more pages are stored in a shared memory, wherein the shared memory is partitioned into one or more pages, and writing data, by the sender application, to the allocated one or more pages, wherein a page is either available for use or allocated to the sender applications, wherein the one or more pages become…
Collaborative, contextual enterprise networking systems and methods
Granted: November 18, 2014
Patent Number:
8892670
Described is an enterprise-based, contextual network system and method to keep employees connected with one another, as well as to external resources. Current media offers a great way to stay in touch with others but is not cohesive and contextual for businesses or generally productive for businesses. The enterprise media disclosed in this application presents a way for businesses to keep all of their employees and outside resources connected, but in a professional and efficient manner…
Database query optimization and cost estimation
Granted: November 4, 2014
Patent Number:
8880511
Described are systems and methods relating to database query optimization and query cost estimation. The approach is described in the context of searching balanced and semi-balanced tree indexes such as B-trees, B+ trees, and R-B trees. The described approach may be used for both simple and composite queries, and the described approach may be used for relational queries, i.e., where a variable is less than or greater than a certain value and the database is being used to find the set of…
Managing static data structures of legacy software in dynamic class loader environments
Granted: July 22, 2014
Patent Number:
8789010
A method for managing static data structures of a legacy data modeling software product in a dynamic class loader environment comprises constructing a bundle-specific registry for each software bundle in the dynamic class loader environment and instructing the legacy data modeling software product to use the bundle-specific registry rather than its default registry when creating in-memory representations of data model classes associated with a particular software bundle. Constructing a…
Data parallelism and parallel operations in stream processing
Granted: July 1, 2014
Patent Number:
8769485
A stream processing platform that provides fast execution of stream processing applications within a safe runtime environment. The platform includes a stream compiler that converts a representation of a stream processing application into executable program modules for a safe environment. The platform allows users to specify aspects of the program that contribute to generation of modules that execute as intended. A user may specify aspects to control a type of implementation for loops,…
Hierarchical bitmasks for indicating the presence or absence of serialized data fields
Granted: June 10, 2014
Patent Number:
8751671
Disclosed are systems and methods for communicating with a sender machine and a receiver machine, and analyzing a bitmask associated with a message to be sent from the sender machine to the receiver machine, such that the bitmask comprises one or more presence bits and one or more absence bits, such that the presence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are included in the message and the absence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are omitted in the…
Suffix array candidate selection and index data structure
Granted: June 3, 2014
Patent Number:
8745061
A method and system for identifying a candidate subset of a data set comprises comparing suffixes of query field values to data field values of records in the data set. Sufficiently similar records are included in the candidate subset. Query field value suffixes may range in length from the query field value itself down to a minimum suffix length. The longest suffix may be processed first, and then successively shorter suffixes may be processed until a satisfactory number of candidates…
Fast content-based routing
Granted: May 20, 2014
Patent Number:
8732320
Systems and methods for fast, efficient content-based routing that allow a router to perform true content-based routing without having to de-serialize the data and apply a full content-based filter by determining the exact set of consumers to forward the data onto based on packet headers. A system for fast content-based routing may receive a subscription from a receiver machine and may assign a unique ID associated with the subscription in a router table. The system may then place a ID…
Fast matching for content-based addressing
Granted: April 8, 2014
Patent Number:
8694536
Disclosed are systems and methods for efficient matching for content-based addressing wherein the systems and methods may: accept, at a receiver machine, a query; generate, at the receiver machine, a tree structure ordered by one or more fields of the query; analyze, at the receiver machine, a message from the sender machine; search, by the receiver machine, the tree structure using content from one or more fields of the message; determine, by the receiver machine, if the content values…
Java virtual machine having integrated transaction management system
Granted: December 10, 2013
Patent Number:
8606877
A computing system comprises a plurality of computing nodes and is configured such that each computing node includes a processor configured to execute JAVA computer program instructions. The computing nodes cooperate to form a cluster, wherein the JAVA computer program instructions being executed by the plurality of computing nodes collectively accomplish a fully transactional application. Each application data object partition is associated with one of the computing nodes as a primary…
Method and system to communicate messages in a computer network
Granted: December 10, 2013
Patent Number:
8606859
A method includes communicating in a computer network a first message in a publish-subscribe arrangement or a queuing arrangement, and communicating a second message in a publish-subscribe arrangement or a queuing arrangement. The second message may be derived from the first message. The publish-subscribe arrangement may include a topic to which at least one of the first and second messages is sent, and the queuing arrangement may include a queue to which at least one of the first and…
Distillation and reconstruction of provisioning components
Granted: October 15, 2013
Patent Number:
8560895
Disclosed is a method for archiving provisioning errors that may occur during provisioning of a computing environment having configurable components. The method may comprise distilling a provisioning request, wherein the distilling the provisioning request includes recording, in a provisioning archive, a provisioning request component, and filtering the provisioning request component. The provisioning request component may comprise a component requested to be added to, removed from,…