Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Bruno Richard

Jean-Francois Larvoire

Eric Owhadi

Denis Chalon

A method for identifying a device such as a computer in a network includes providing a storage containing a plurality of entries, each entry corresponding to a device connected to the network and comprising a plurality of stored attributes for the device, receiving from the device a set of current attributes associated to the device, for each among a plurality of entries in the storage, generating a similarity metric between current attributes of the received set and respective stored attributes comprised in the entry, the similarity metric taking into account both matches between respective attributes and mismatches between respective attributes. A candidate entry is determined for which the higher similarity metric is obtained. If the similarity metric is higher than a given recognition threshold, identifying the device as the one to which the candidate entry corresponds.

Method and system for identifying network connected devices such as personal computers

Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method for saving data stored within a portion of a memory associated with a first process executable by a data processing system; the method comprising the steps of: executing, substantially concurrently or substantially in parallel under control of a scheduler, a first process, with a respective execution priority, to perform a data processing task using a current portion of the memory and a backup process, having a respective execution priority, to create a back-up copy of data stored within the memory during the performance of that data processing task; the backup process being executable in response to a predeterminable event associated with the first process; and creating a back-up copy of the data in response to the predeterminable event associated with the first process.

Data processing system and method

A computer system includes a mass storage unit, the mass storage unit comprising:

Method and system for selectively booting one of a plurality of operating systems contained on a mass storage device

An impaired software image associated with a first networked computer is restored by generating a software image request that identifies the software image and the first computer. The software image request is passed to plural other computers on the network. If one of the other computers has the image, the other computer supplies the image to the first computer to restore the impaired image.

Method of and computer network arrangement for restoring an impaired software image

A process for displaying a composite object in a markup language page, which comprises at least two cells with a first cell containing an image and a second cell containing a textual information. The at least two cells are arranged in a table for the purpose of building a composite image wherein said textual information can be separately modified. Each cell is associated with different files in order to produce a composite image having different states in accordance with the position of the cursor relative to said object. A first state&#x2014;the normal state&#x2014;corresponds to a first file. A second state corresponds to a second file for a state where the cursor is moving over the object. At last a third file is used for a third state which corresponds to the selection of the object by the cursor.

Process for automatically displaying graphical objects such as buttons in a web page

A backup procedure which performs a systematic analysis of the different elements of the configuration, for the purpose of transforming them into a corresponding set of backup objects. Backup objects include files, directories, volume names or labels, security attributes (Access Control Lists in Windows NT), as well as OS-specific markers which are dependent on a specific file, such as, for instance an entry in the FAT for MS-DOS. Each backup object is being systematically analysed and sent to a remote server with its identification, attributes, signature and content the backup process takes advantage of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and each backup object is being encapsulated within a HTTP or HTTPS POST or PUT request which is transmitted to a remote server. The backup procedure is associated with a process for automatically creating a bootable CDROM having a bootable partition comprising a set of files systems driver for controlling different file system types, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, i-NODE, but also CDFS, and an executable file for carrying out the automatic re-establishment of the backup objects corresponding to a user's configuration.

Automatic backup/recovery process

Process for control and management of an Intranet network by means of a Web browser, comprising the steps of: Preferably, the set of instructions is used for controlling a remote installation of a software package within the devices in accordance with selections made by the IT administrator.

Process for controlling devices of an intranet network through the web

A backup procedure which performs a systematic analysis of the different elements of the configuration, for the purpose of transforming them into a corresponding set of backup objects. Backup objects include files, directories, volume names or labels, security attributes (Access Control Lists in Windows NT), as well as OS-specific markers which are dependent on a specific file, such as, for instance an entry in the FAT for MS-DOS. Each backup object is being systematically analysed and sent to a remote server with its identification, attributes, signature and content. the backup process takes advantage of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and each backup object is being encapsulated within a HTTP or HTTPS POST or PUT request which is transmitted to a remote server. The backup procedure is associated with a process for automatically creating a bootable CDROM having a bootable partition comprising a set of files systems driver for controlling different file system types, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, i-NODE, but also CDFS, and an executable file for carrying out the automatic re-establishment of the backup objects corresponding to a user's configuration.

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