International Business Machines Corporation

Charles Joseph Sannipoli

Francis Edward Noel, Jr

Norman Clark Strole

Thomas Alan Millard

Charles Steven Lingafelt

William Gavin Holland

Charles Edward Kuhlmann

Daniel Edward McConnell

A method and system is provided for tracking mobile devices combining packet processing technology with Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. A central network system comprising a packet processing subsystem receives transmitted GPS location data from a mobile device transmitting GPS location data, wherein the packet processing subsystem uses a table access scheme to process the GPS location data and produce responsive mapping data, and the central network processing system compares the mapping data to a map and identifies a corresponding map location. Embodiments may also correlate device identification data, tracking table entries, and/or billing zone charges. In some embodiments a look-up key is built responsive to the GPS location data and used to identify map locations. The table access scheme may be a key hashing scheme and, in particular, a longest prefix match type scheme.

Application for automatic tracking of mobile devices for computer network processor systems

Method and application for automatic tracking of mobile devices for computer network processor systems

A multimedia presentation apparatus and method by which a presenter is freed from the requirement of having or providing or transporting a supporting computer system such as the notebook or laptop system by the incorporation of computing capability and an accessible data port into the housing of the apparatus through which an executable data file may be delivered to cause generation of the desired presentation.

Multimedia presentation apparatus and method

A server farm formed by a plurality of computer systems joined together by a network processor which transfers data exchanged with an external network supported by the server farm at a data rate substantially the same as the data flow rate of the network and related method

Server cluster interconnection using network processor

A system comprising a network resource server or a server farm formed by a plurality of computer systems and a network processor which transfers data exchanged with an external network supported by the server farm at a data rate substantially the same as the data flow rate of the network and related method. The network processor protects the network resource server against attacks such as a denial of service attack by monitoring data flow, computing a derivative of the data flow over time to determine the rate of change of data flow, and modifying instructions for the discarding of packets in response to rates of change which are outside predetermined boundaries.

Apparatus and method for using a network processor to guard against a 'denial-of-service' attack on a server or server cluster

A computer system in which a network processor disposed between a central processing unit and supporting peripheral subsystems and among the peripheral subsystems handles addressing of memory space.

Computer system and method with internal use of networking switching

An option card, the combination of the option card with a computer system, and a method by which the central processing unit of a computer system can be relieved of the burden of processing protocol bits in a bit stream passing through a digital signal network.

Server acceleration using network processor

A server farm formed by a plurality of computer systems joined together by a network processor which transfers data exchanged with an external network supported by the server farm at a data rate substantially the same as the data flow rate of the network and related method.

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Charles Joseph Sannipoli