Novell, Inc.

Ukiah Software, Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Gregory Rakoshitz

Aseem Vaid

Sanjeev Rao Putta

Atul Pandit

Darryl J Mocek

Donald J Pilcher

Martin T Robins

Erin A Liman

A method and system ( ) for monitoring or profiling quality of service within one or more information sources in a network of computers. The method includes a step of providing a network of computers, each being coupled to each other to form a local area network. The network of computers has a firewall server ( ) coupled to the network of computers and a distributed traffic management tool coupled to the firewall server. The method also includes implementing traffic monitoring or profiling of incoming and outgoing information from one of the information sources.

Directory enabled policy management tool for intelligent traffic management

A method and system ( ) for monitoring or profiling quality of service within a network of computers. The method includes a step of providing a network of computers, each being coupled to each other to form a local area network. The network of computers has a firewall server ( ) coupled to the network of computers and a traffic management tool coupled to the firewall server. The method also includes implementing traffic monitoring or profiling of incoming and outgoing information.

Traffic monitoring tool for bandwidth management

A method and system (,) for monitoring or profiling quality of service within a network of computers. The method includes a step of providing a network of computers, each being coupled to each other to form a local area network. The network of computers has a firewall server (,) coupled to the network of computers and a traffic management tool coupled to the firewall server. The method also includes implementing traffic monitoring or profiling of incoming and outgoing information.

Linear rule based method for bandwidth management

A method and system (100) for monitoring quality of service within a network of computers. The method includes a step of providing a network of computers, each being coupled to each other to form a local area network. The network of computers has a firewall server (110) coupled to the network of computers and a traffic management tool coupled to the firewall server. The method also includes implementing traffic control for incoming and outgoing information using one or more rules.

Control tool for bandwidth management

A Navigator window is displayed in conjunction with an application program window on a monitor attached to a computer, wherein the Navigator window comprises a collapse-expand tree control for traversing one or more applications created by the application program, each of the applications is comprised of one or more objects, and the application program window displays an application or object selected in the Navigator window.

Navigating applications and objects in a graphical user interface

A method and system (100) for controlling quality of service within a network of computers. The method includes a step of providing a network of computers, each being coupled to each other to form a local area network. The network of computers has a firewall server (110) coupled to the network of computers and a traffic management tool coupled to the firewall server. The method also includes implementing traffic control for incoming and outgoing information using a combination of flow control and queuing techniques.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Gregory Rakoshitz