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David Edwin Levin

Erik B Christensen

Christopher G Kaler

David Wortendyke

Steven E Lucco

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Bradford H Lovering

John Peter Shewchuk

Alfred Lee

Luis Felipe Cabrera

Stephen James Millet

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Saurab Nog

Donald F Box

Andrew Layman

Robert S Wahbe

Darius Snapkauskas

Brett A Bentsen

Jeffrey R Aamodt

Scott Christopher Seely

Kenneth David Wolf

James Ernest Johnson

Tirunelveli R Vishwanath

Lance Olson

Richard Douglas Hill

Jeffrey C Schlimmer

Umesh Madan

Stefan R Batres

Michael James Coulson

John David Doty

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Craig Andrew Critchley

Uday Sooryakant Hegde

Michael Marucheck

Vijay Gajjala

Elliot Lee Waingold

Krishnan Srinivasan

Geary L Eppley

Tomasz Janczuk

Matthew Thomas Tavis

Stephen T Swartz

Michael Steven Vernal

Shy Cohen

Max A Feingold

Richard Dievendorff

George Prentice Copeland

Natasha Harish Jethanandani

Douglas M Purdy

David Owen Driver

Dhananjay Madhusudan Mahajan

Aaron Stern

Siddhartha Puri

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Anastasios Kasiolas

Douglas A Walter

Kapil Gupta

Vipul A Modi

Ryan Thomas Sturgell

Alexander Martin DeJarnatt

Mohammad Makarechian

Sowmyanarayanan K Srinivasan

Jonathan T Wheeler

Evgeny Osovetsky

Chaitanya Dutt Upadhyay

Michael Thomas Dice

Yaniv Pessach

Mauro Ottaviani

Daniel W Roth

Erin Honeycutt

Eugene Shvets

Alfred M Lee, Iv

Yasser Shohoud

Anand Rjagopalan

Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan

Serge Sverdlov

Vaithialingam B Balayogan

Sara Wong

Displaying graphical indicators, instead of data, based on user-defined conditions. The user can specify conditions for displaying graphical indicators instead of actual data by specifying a test, values, and an image. The graphical indicators can be pre-assigned images that are dynamically applied based on the underlying text or numeric data values. Graphical indicators allow the user to visually represent data types or categories with graphics, based on the user's conditions. Different conditions can be specified for a given data field and each condition can be associated with a particular graphical indicator. Prioritized processing of data conditions allow for complex control of which indicator will be displayed to visually represent the data. When the underlying data in a field changes, the criteria can be reapplied and the field dynamically updated to the appropriate indicator.

Method and system for displaying an image instead of data

Methods and systems for providing a virtual network are disclosed. At least one layer of abstraction is created between network service applications and conventional network protocols by inserting an adaptive dispatcher between applications and network transport services on each machine in a network. The message protocol in the virtual network is extensible, allowing application programs to create new headers within any message as needed. The adaptive dispatcher contains handlers that route and dispatch messages within the virtual network based on arbitrary content within each message, including any combination of headers and/or data content. Each device on the virtual network has a virtual address to which messages are directed, allowing devices to move within the network without reconfiguring routing tables. Handlers may be automatically created when an event meeting predefined criteria occurs, including the non-occurrence of a condition, making the virtual network self-healing and adaptive to reconfiguration.

Virtual network with adaptive dispatcher

Methods, systems, and data structures for communicating object metadata are provided. A generic metadata container is presented that allows object metadata to be described in an extensible manner using protocol-neutral and platform-independent methodologies. A metadata scope refers to a dynamic universe of targets to which the included metadata statements correspond. Metadata properties provide a mechanism to describe the metadata itself, and metadata security can be used to ensure authentic metadata is sent and received. Mechanisms are also provided to allow refinement and replacement of metadata statements. The metadata container may be used to convey referral data to update routing tables in network nodes, and may also be used register referral statements and query a node for referral information.

Scoped referral statements

A method includes advertising a policy characterizing communication properties supported by a node. The policy may be distributed to another node in response to a request for the policy. Policy expressions in the policy include one or more assertions that may be grouped and related to each other in a plurality of ways. A system includes a policy generator for generating at least one policy characterizing properties of a node. A policy retriever retrieves a policy from another node and a message generator generates a message to the other node, wherein the message conforms to the policy from the other node.

Dynamic protocol construction

Implementations are described and claimed herein to detect an invalid policy that may reside in a cache at a client. An expired policy is removed from cache and a current policy is requested. Otherwise the cached policy may be used. The client indicates which policy it is using by generating a policy digest, including, in compressed form, one or more assertions. If the host determines the policy digest is invalid, the host issues an invalid digest fault. If the policy digest is valid, but the assertions included in the policy digest are invalid, the host issues an invalid policy fault. In either case, the client is notified that the cached policy is no longer valid and that a current policy should be requested.

Invalid policy detection

An apparatus and method is provided for resolving virtual network names using one or more name routers. A conventional Uniform Resource Locator (URL) naming scheme is extended by allowing any component to be mapped to an address. The resolution process occurs recursively through a plurality of name routers. Resolution can be contextual, such that the same virtual network name may be resolved differently depending on the identity of the client or other parameters.

Resolving virtual network names

Mechanisms in which upon receiving a message, the message is passed through one or more receiving path components that are positioned in the receiving path of the message prior to being passed to a dispatching component. One or more of the receiving path components may modify the message to include information that may be helpful to the dispatching component in order to perform the dispatch. The dispatching component receives modified message, and uses information from the modified message (including potentially the modification itself) to perform the dispatch. Since the message is modified to include additional information helpful to the dispatching component, the dispatching component may be more flexible in identifying the processing that should occur with the message. Accordingly, specialized and flexible processing may be enabled that is ideally suited for the message.

Adaptive dispatch of received messages to code using inter-positioned message modification

A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.

Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services

A method includes retrieving an intermediate node policy characterizing communication properties supported by an intermediate node, the intermediate node being between a source node and a destination node in a communication path. The method includes forming a first policy-compliant message in accordance with the intermediate node policy, the first policy-compliant message including a request for a destination node policy characterizing communication properties supported by the destination node. A system includes a policy retriever comparing a source policy to one to an intermediate policy to determine whether the source policy is compatible with the intermediate policy. A message generator generates a policy request message by applying the intermediate policy to a request for a policy related to a destination node.

Policy application across multiple nodes

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David Edwin Levin