Abstract:
A first aspect addresses a method and device for making a media file accessible via a web page. First, a web design tool receives a media file to be made accessible via a web page. Then, said media file is sent to a streaming service provider. Subsequently, a key generated by said streaming service provider allowing to unambiguously identifying said sent media file is received and an identifier derived from said key is placed into the web page through which the media file should be accessed. A second aspect addresses a method and device installed at the streaming service provider's side for serving a user's request for hosting a media file to be streamed to a visitor's computer on its request.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a new management system and a new method for managing distributed resources (61-66), comprising a workflow engine (88) that can execute management workflows in order to actively control the distributed resources (61-66). The new management system is characterized in that autonomic Correlation Services (74-76) are introduced that manage different functional parts of the managed system in cooperation with workflow engine (88), whereby each Correlation Service (74-76) employs a Correlation Engine (174,175) and a set of rules (184,185,186) that describe how underlying resources (61-66) shall be managed, whereby a controller (44) communicates with the Correlation Services (74-76).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system in which a plurality of third-party service providers (TPSP) provide one or more on-demand services (called TPSP service) as a possible contribution to client-requested service. SOLUTION: In order to simplify the selection of a TPSP service for being provided by the SP, the following steps are proposed: calling (710) a Meta Service Selector (MSS) to select the best TPSP service, sending (730) an enquiring request enquiring respective request properties of a TPSP service to a TPSP, evaluating (775) the property information of the service enquired from the plurality of TPSPs according to a prescribed rating (780) scheme, and selecting (785) a particular TPSP service for providing it via an electronic network to a service requesting client of the SP. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system where a plurality of third-party service providers (TPSP) are involved for providing one or more on-demand services (called TPSP service) as a possible contribution to the client-requested service. SOLUTION: There are provided a step (710) for selecting the best TPSP service by calling a meta service selector (MSS) for facilitating selection of TPSP services provided by a service provider (SP), a step (730) for transmitting an inquiry request for inquiring each request property of the TPSP services to the TPSP, a step (775) for evaluating property information of services inquired by a plurality of TPSPs according to a predetermined rating (780) system, and a step (785) for selecting a certain specified TPSP service and providing the service to a client required by the SP through an electronic network. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
Media Distribution within the Internet is done with the help of Application-Servers, Content-Servers and distributed Edge-Servers where the clients are connected to Media Distribution Services. A computer system is provided comprising client 1 , having a Web browser with a media player 2 , Web application server 3 , content server, edge servers ES 1 to ES 4 and media request broker 11 . After the client 1 has selected a media for streaming the media request broker 11 makes a determination concerning an appropriate edge server to perform the streaming operation. This determination is made based on an extension of the client's http request made by the edge server and passed from the application server to the media request broker.
Abstract:
Method and System for automatically transforming a provider offering into a customer specific service environment definition executable by Resource management systems. The idea of the present invention is to provide a method for automatically transforming a provider offering describing a customer specific service environment in business terms into a machine readable form which can be automatically processed by resource management systems. The inp ut for the transformation is the provider's offering in business terms as well information from the resource catalog. The result of the transformation is a customer specific service environment topology that states all the necessary resource types, their configurations and their dependencies. Based on that customer specific service environment topology and information from the resource management catalog, a customer specific service environment definition (SED) is automatically generated which contains all the configuration information and definitions of the resource management actions in order to instantiate and drive the operation of the service environment. The SED can be deployed into a resource management system that automatically executes the resource management actions without the error prone configurati on steps otherwise needed.
Abstract:
A service, requested by a server system 205, 206, is defined as nodes in a service model 211 in a management engine system 201. Each node defines the type of resource required for that node as an abstract method. The management engine 209 find resource manager systems 202, 203, which implement the resource, by searching a service provider catalogue 210. The management engine requests the resource manager to provide its application programming interface (API). The management engine overrides the abstract interface in the node with the interface of the selected resource manager to provide the specific resource. The resources may be data storage, application programs, computing resources, networking components or middleware.
Abstract:
A computer- implemented method (400) is provided for updating network security- policy rules when network resources are provisioned in a service landscape instance. The method includes categorizing network resources in a service landscape instance based on a service landscape model (404). The method further includes responding to the provisioning of a network resource by automatically generating one or more security policy rules for a newly- provisioned network resource (406). Additionally, the method includes updating security policy rules of pre-existing network resources in the service landscape instance that are determined to be eligible to communicate with the newly-provisioned network resource so as to include the newly-provisioned network resource as a remote resource based on the service landscape model (408).
Abstract:
A method and system for automatically cloning IT resource structure in stateful web services environments by employing a new approach for configuration management. The present new approach models the configurational state of each resource as a stateful web service. Configuration data are provided by this service's resource properties. Relationships between configurations of different resources are modeled as “stateful web services relationships” between web service instances. These relationships can be navigated, which allows exploring the configuration of a whole system in a standards-based way. Additionally a new web service interface is provided by the stateful web service encapsulating the resource. This interface provides two new operations: “getConfiguration” allows an exploiter to take a snapshot of a resource's and related resources' configurational state and “setConfiguration” allows for setting the configurational state of a resource to a previously saved state. An invocation of “getConfiguration” results in the creation of a new stateful web service instance that stores the configurational state of each resource. This new web service interface is implemented on a per-resource type basis. Any back-end technology may be used to implement this new web service interface.
Abstract:
Media Distribution within the Internet is done with the help of Application-Servers, Content-Servers and distributed Edge-Servers where the clients are connected to Media Distribution Services. A computer system is provided comprising client 1 , having a Web browser with a media player 2 , Web application server 3 , content server, edge servers ES 1 to ES 4 and media request broker 11 . After the client 1 has selected a media for streaming the media request broker 11 makes a determination concerning an appropriate edge server to perform the streaming operation. This determination is made based on an extension of the client's http request made by the edge server and passed from the application server to the media request broker.