International Business Machines Corporation

Christian Lee Hunt

Gregory Covert Smith

Denilson Nastacio

Balan Subramanian

Kenneth L Greenlee

Anne I Ryan

Roger Michael Meli

Steven Michael Miller

William Alexander Reichert, Iii

Vincent Mitchel Padua

Robin Radez

Oriana Jeannette Williams

Jake Palmer

James Peter Branigan

Ethan Kary Merrill

John Kenneth Senegal

Charles Le Vay

Included are a method to manage subscriptions over a network, where the network may comprise intermediaries, clients, and service providers, and the method may include, receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and having application level header information. The method may further include reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.

Inband data gathering with dynamic intermediary route selections

Managing subscriptions over a network, where the network comprises intermediaries, clients, and service providers. Certain embodiments provide for receiving a subscription at a network intermediary, the subscription having management application data and application level header information, reviewing the application level header information of the received subscription, and redirecting the subscription over the network using the reviewed application level header information.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to content layout in a pervasive device display and provide a method, system and computer program product for the dynamic selection of a content layout for content in a pervasive device display. In one embodiment of the invention, a dynamic content layout method for pervasive devices can include obtaining display characteristics for a host pervasive device, locating a layout mode corresponding to the obtained display characteristics, and arranging panels of a graphical user interface for an application in the host pervasive device according to the located layout mode.

Method and algorithm for content layout across diverse and dynamic displays

The present invention discloses an active data tag device () which includes an expiration event generator (), and a memory () which has tag data () stored therein. Upon the occurrence () of and expiration event, the tag disables access to the tag data.

Method and apparatus for triggering expiration of a data tag device

Methods and computer program products for locating devices having a given state by locating a device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds to queries from an RFID tag reader independently of the state of the device, and determining the state of the device using an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device. A system for locating devices having a given state comprises an RFID tag reader for locating a device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds independently of the state of the device, and an RFID tag reader for determining the state of the device by reading an RFID tag associated with the device that responds selectively in dependence upon the state of the device.

Locating a device in a given state

A system for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include a computing device configured to submit a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service. An application operating on the computing device may determine which ones of the plurality of intermediaries to rely upon for monitoring the service based at least in part on a probability value associated with each intermediary. The probability value is a function of at least a frequency of messages associated with the service processed by the intermediary and a time period since a last message associated with the service was processed by the intermediary. The system may also include an output device to present the monitored data in response to the monitored data being received by the computing device from the determined ones of the plurality of intermediaries.

Non-intrusive monitoring of services in a services-oriented architecture

Devices, systems, processes, and articles of manufacture are provided herein. These may include an RFID transponder having a microprocessor, nonvolatile memory, a battery, and an antenna, wherein the microprocessor is configured to operate in a passive mode and a battery operated mode, and wherein, when in the passive mode only a portion of the microprocessor may be powered by energy received from an RFID reader interrogating the RFID transponder. The RFID transponder may further include MEMS sensors coupled to the microprocessor and the microprocessor may be further configured to add physical data, instructions, or a unique identifier of the RFID transponder to the nonvolatile memory.

Active/passive RFID transponder control function

The present invention discloses a data tag device () which initially operates in either an active mode or a semi-active mode (). The data tag device includes tag circuitry including a interface element (), a controller element (), and a memory () in which tag data () is stored. A battery is provided which is initially coupled to the tag circuitry. A decoupling feature () is used to destructively decouple the battery from the tag circuitry when it is desired to disable the data tag device and reduce the ability of third parties to obtain the tag data. The data tag device is configured to detect the destructive decoupling (), and disable the data tag in response.

Method and apparatus for disabling a data tag device

The invention provides a system and program product for attenuating a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader. In one embodiment, the system includes optimizing a coverage area of an RFID reader.

System and program product for automatic RFID attenuation and recovery

A method for monitoring a service provided in a service-oriented architecture may include submitting a subscription request to a plurality of intermediaries in the service-oriented architecture from which to receive monitored data related to the service and determining which ones of the plurality of intermediaries to rely upon for monitoring the service. The method may also include receiving the monitored data from the determined ones of the plurality of intermediaries and presenting the monitored data for monitoring the service.

Non-intrusive monitoring of services in a service-oriented architecture

In a wireless tag identification and processing architecture and infrastructure, a method and system that eliminates redundant reporting and processing of the same event observed by different reader/sensors. Reader/sensors and their respective connected controllers are configured as peers when they observe or cover the same spatial region. When an event is observed within the spatial region, the first controller to receive the event data reports the electronic tag data and event data to the next higher processing domain and to its peer controllers. Then when the same electronic tag data or other event data indicating that a subsequent event is actually the same event as observed earlier is received by another peer controller, the another peer controller does not report nor process the electronic tag data and other event data to the next higher processing domain or to its peer controllers.

Communication and filtering of events among peer controllers in the same spatial region of a sensor network

A method, system and program product for monitoring resources servicing a business transaction is provided. The method includes providing a transaction manager that monitors a business transaction serviced by one or more resources, with each of the resources and the transaction manager having a protocol stack configured to send and receive load-monitoring headers in protocol messages. The method further includes specifying, in a protocol request header in a protocol request message, collection of performance metrics for a resource, collecting, by the resources, the performance metrics specified in the protocol request message and sending the performance metrics collected to the transaction manager, in a protocol response header in a protocol response message. Further, the method includes pre-configuring with policies the protocol stack on a subset of the resources, such that the pre-configured resources can act as monitoring agents on behalf of peer resources and send alerts to a resource manager.

Method, system and program product for monitoring resources servicing a business transaction

The present invention discloses a data tag device () which initially operates in a passive mode where the tag responds to queries (). While operating passively, an expiration event occurs () which causes the tag to disable a battery (), preventing subsequent operation in the passive mode, resulting in the tag disabling access to the tag data.

Method and apparatus for self-expiration of a passive data tag device

The present invention discloses a data tag device () which initially operates in an active mode where the tag occasionally transmits an unsolicited beacon (). While operating, an expiration event occurs () which causes the tag to disable a battery (), preventing subsequent operation in an active mode, but may continue operating in a passive mode.

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