Verizon Business Global LLC

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Mci, Inc.

Smith International, Inc.

James A Robertson

William Sprott Greene

Alan Bernard Johnston

Kiwan Edward Bae

Wade R Alt

Matthew C Pierret

Chris Stillwell

David P Moran

Ray A Sears

Justin Wallace Vandiver

Andrew N Wille

A device can receive a plurality of input event objects that correspond to publications in a publication-subscription deployment, where the plurality of input event objects are associated with respective originating accounts and respective originating signatures. The device can identify, using a query, a set of input event objects, of the plurality of input event objects, based on which of one or more operations are to be invoked, where the query is based on the respective originating accounts and the respective originating signatures, and where the query returns respective output signatures corresponding to the set of input event objects. The device can generate one or more output event objects that include or identify the respective output signatures corresponding to the set of input event objects, and provide, to an event bus, the one or more output event objects to cause the one or more operations to be invoked.

Publish/subscribe system broker

An approach is provided for healthcare information management and providing remote healthcare examination. A platform receives position data corresponding to a mark to be projected onto a human subject by a user equipment. The mark specifies placement of a medical sensor onto the subject. The platform collects measurement data from the medical sensor coupled to the subject at the mark.

Method and system for providing remote healthcare services

A method, apparatus, and system for improved approaches for allowing new links of a mesh network to be formed during an attack of the network are described. The method includes selectively initiating a plurality of communication session establishment procedures to share connection information over a plurality of respective paths with a node of a mesh network, at least one of the paths being separated from the mesh network, wherein the connection information is used to establish one link of the mesh network.

Method and apparatus for attack resistant mesh networks

An approach for facilitating a one-time password (OTP) authentication procedure is described. A dedicated validation appliance receives a one-time password authentication request via an application programming interface, which is a single point of access to the dedicated validation appliance. The dedicated validation appliance then determines a validity of the request based on the correlating of a submitted OTP against OTP values independently generated by the dedicated validation appliance based on a large secret key exclusive to a client device that initiated the request. The single point of access to the dedicated validation appliance as well as exclusive sharing of the secret key with only another dedicated validation appliance or one-time with the client device reduces the likelihood of attackers discovering the secret keys.

Method and system for enabling secure one-time password authentication

A Global Information Bus (GIB) architecture is an infrastructure for deploying and managing individual services on a global scale. The GIB is a series of services that may change from one execution to another, finding and collaborating with other services dynamically. This series of collaborating services may start to resemble an ecosystem, and GIB architecture may maintain the interconnectedness and stability of this ecosystem as it continually changes. To that end, the GIB includes an enterprise repository service for storing related information related to services running in the enterprise where the enterprise consists of a group of network domains.

Method and system for implementing a global information bus in a global ecosystem of interrelated services

An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A request for establishing a voice call is received from a source endpoint behind a first network address translator of a first domain, wherein the request specifies a directory number of a destination endpoint within a second domain. A network address is determined for communicating with the destination endpoint based on the directory number. Additionally, existence of a second network address translator within the second domain is determined. If the network address can be determined, a media path is established between the source endpoint and the destination endpoint based on the network address to support the voice call.

Method and system for providing interdomain traversal in support of packetized voice transmissions

This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for a cloud computing spot market platform (hereinafter, 'Platform'). Fluctuations in demand for computing resources may engender idle processing capacity within the framework of a cloud computing system. Embodiments of the Platform provide infrastructure for redistributing idle capacity to grid-style batch computing processes, such as may be based on the same processing resources as those used by the cloud computing system. In this manner, Platform embodiments may increase the utilization of idle resources and reduce revenue losses associated with demand variability for cloud computing system administrators. In one embodiment, market-oriented floating prices for grid-style batch computing utilizing idle resources may be implemented based on monitored and analyzed levels of computing resource supply and demand.

Methods, systems and computer program products for a cloud computing spot market platform

In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a global enterprise lookup (enterprise repository) is disclosed for providing a client with a mechanism for locating a needed service without knowing where that service is currently running in the enterprise. Whenever a service is launched in a container, that service registers itself with its domain registrar in order to make itself visible to the client in its own local domain but is visible only in the domain in which the service is running. A service must be registered with an enterprise level registry, the global enterprise lookup, to be visible throughout the enterprise. Clients needing a particular service that is not listed in the local registrar as running locally are directed to a global enterprise lookup (which may be implemented as a service for finding an enterprise repository) for the location of a global enterprise lookup within the enterprise. Additionally, the global enterprise lookup also manages VM container leases. When a service is launched, it acquires an enterprise lease with a local registrar. It must periodically renew the enterprise lease with the registrar to maintain its listing in the global enterprise lookup. If a service does not renew its lease within the time period of the lease, it is de-listed from the global enterprise lookup. If renewals are handled by the local domain registrars through replication and the like, the registrar may notify the global enterprise lookup of an enterprise lease renewal. Alternatively, specialized enterprise leasing services may be employed for tracking individual leases for services and notify the global enterprise lookup whenever an enterprise lease expires. Still alternatively, the enterprise employs a series of enterprise registrar services that trawl local registrars for registrations of services and registers the service with the enterprise repository.

Method and system for implementing a global lookup in a global ecosystem of interrelated services

In a computing environment, a method for forming an association between a first data object and a second data object includes forming a first association fragment, where the first association fragment includes information relevant to accessing the first data object. The method also includes forming a second association fragment. The second association fragment may include information relevant to accessing the second data object. The first association fragment and the second association fragment cause an association to be effectively formed between the first data object and the second data object.

Method and system for managing partitioned data resources

In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a DataBus data management architecture is presented for the NewWave service platform. It presents an architecture for creating a consistent, enterprise-wide data persistence layer which allows clients to access shared enterprise data. The DataBus achieves this enterprise-wide look by decoupling shared enterprise data from specific applications (breaking down the stovepipes) and opening up the data layer to across-the-enterprise access (given proper authorization). The DataBus architecture is designed from the ground up for global scalability and accommodation of evolving business data models in a highly-distributed physical deployment. Scaling is realized predominantly through the partitioning, while individual partitions are mapped to logical data domains that are defined along more relevant dimensions than entity-type dimensions (e.g., geography, line of business, etc.) and cut across traditional entity boundaries. Central to the DataBus data model is the notion that a data layer represents a shared asset of the corporation that is decoupled from the separate production applications requiring access to this data. The DataBus data architecture combines several main features or facets, such as partitioning, multi-hop finder strategies, externalized associations, object layer mediating access to underlying data storage, support for logical domains and transaction management.

Method and system for implementing a databus in a global ecosystem of interrelated services

A service container provides a runtime operating environment for services managed remotely, configured remotely, load their code remotely, and found and communicated with remotely. The container scheme is the concept of a generic service container into which arbitrary software services may be homed to a host server at runtime. Each virtual machine runs a small set of code which identifies it as a service container and registers it with registries for making the service container visible and allows for remote communication.

Method and system for implementing improved containers in a global ecosystem of interrelated services

The present invention is directed to a system, method and software product for balancing resource services are always available to match the desired work to be done through the use of 'sticky services.'. Sticky services are defined as services that you know you want to have available as resources and as such they need to be present in the environment of cooperative applications; it may be that you want these always present or it may be that you want them present whenever certain conditions occur (see NewWave policy service). The general assumption of distributed systems is to not count on the environment you want being present, or put another way assume failure will occur. Therefore distributed environments like Jini assume all services are transient and will be garbage collected when not in active use. For the inside out approach to work, a mechanism should exist that, when desired, counters the transit design assumptions. This implies that two things are needed: (1) a mechanism for providing services as needed; (2) a mechanism for insuring the correct balance of resource services are always available to match the desired work to be done.

System and method for creating and managing survivable, service hosting networks

In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, association forming entities are: a) maintained as objects in a like manner to the data objects being associated; and b) are themselves partitioned objects comprising two or more association fragments, each association fragment being mostly concerned with the interfaces to a particular data object participating in the association. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, each association fragment affiliated with a particular data object is stored in a location that enhances the ease of interaction between the association fragment and the data object. For example, where a first data object and second data object are maintained in data stores at some distance from one another, physically or logically, then a first association fragment will be located with or near to the first data object, and a second association fragment will be located with or near the second data object, at least within the same partition. This arrangement may be preferable because the volume of interaction between a data object and its respective association fragment may far outweigh the interaction needed between the two association fragments. This arrangement may also be preferable as the volume of interaction between a client application and both the data object and respective association fragment may exceed the interaction needed between the two association fragments. Some interactions will employ only one of the association fragments with the net result being a reduction in communications requirements and an improvement in performance. The present invention further provides for defining logical domains which are arbitrary and entirely orthogonal to partitions.

The present invention is directed to a method and management service platform for implementing a global ecosystem of interrelated services. The service platform is comprised of three distinct layers: a physical machine layer; a virtual machine layer and a layer of interrelated services. The physical machine layer may be deployed on large numbers of small generic servers in many geographic locations distributed for enterprise use. Associated with one or more servers are particular resources managed by that particular server. Any server in any geographic location can process any service needed by any client in any other geographic area. The operating system of each physical server is not used directly in the operating environment, but instead, each server runs a platform-independent programming language virtual machine on top of the operating system&#x2014;this is the virtual machine layer. Services are location independent processing entities that are managed dynamically, configured dynamically, load their code remotely, and found and communicated with dynamically. A generic service container is a CPU process into which arbitrary software services may be homed to a host server at runtime. Thus, a virtual machine layer is an interface layer of service which supports the layer of interrelated srvices rather than the operating system of the physical machines.

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James A Robertson