Twisted Pair Solutions, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Avalara, Inc.

Mark D Bertoglio

Shaun Botha

Kenneth D Ray

Joseph M Joy

William Michael Zintel

Stanley William Adermann

Louis J Giliberto

Husni Roukbi

Doron J Holan

Derick J Clack

Bryan D Vergato

Yuri Kiryanov

Siamak Poursabahian

Thomas Richard Bogart

Michael A Passinsky

Edward E Buchwalter

Guillaume F Rava

Arvind M Murching

Naveen Kumar Agrawal

Marshal Kushniruk

Aaron David Wilson

Phillip Tsui

Doran J Holan

Daniel Allen Forsch

Indira Perdomo Cabrera

Some embodiments of the present disclosure may relate generally to a dynamic graphical user interface (GUI) architecture that helps provide a user-friendly and flexible capability for software users to create and manage software application rules. These rules may help with processing by a software service or software platform. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

Dynamic graphical user interface (GUI) for custom software rule creation and management

A system and method are provided wherein information is disseminated using a reliable IP multicast network implementation coupled with dynamically assigned proxy nodes serving as zonal aggregation points. These nodes share information with each other over the reliable IP multicast network, augmenting this function with a reliable point-to-point communication infrastructure between proxy nodes in those instances where IP multicast is not available or prone to error.

Method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for reliable low-bandwidth information delivery across mixed-mode unicast and multicast networks

Distributed convergence nodes referred to as 'Supernodes', embodied as a functional technology component within an end user application, automatically determine whether said component should become 'active' and assume the responsibility of forwarding IP multicast data present on a LAN (which supports IP multicast communication) to a &#x201c;Routing Supernode&#x201d; via a WAN (which does not support IP multicast communication). The Routing Supernode, in turn, is responsible for forwarding that traffic to other Supernodes present on other LANs. The traffic sent to and from the Routing Supernode is sent via unicast communication. All Supernodes are responsible for forwarding traffic on their respective LAN across the WAN to a Routing Supernode, and for forwarding traffic received over the WAN from the Routing Supernode onto their own respective LANs. An election process determines which device in a LAN is to operate as a SuperNode.

Method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for providing distributed convergence nodes in a communication network environment

A system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and method provides one or more distributed convergence nodes referred to as 'Supernodes', each of which is embodied as a functional technology component within an application that automatically determines whether said component should become 'active' and assume the responsibility of forwarding IP multicast data present on a LAN (which supports IP multicast communication) to a &#x201c;Routing Supernode&#x201d; via a WAN (which does not support IP multicast communication). The Routing Supernode, in turn, is responsible for forwarding that traffic to other Supernodes present on other LANs. The traffic sent to and from the Routing Supernode is sent via unicast communication. All Supernodes are responsible not only for forwarding traffic present on their respective LAN across the WAN to a Routing Supernode, but they are also responsible for forwarding traffic received over the WAN from the Routing Supernode onto their own respective LANs. An election process determines which device in a LAN is to operate as a SuperNode.

A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide applications and application developers with generic access from user mode to the L2CAP layer of Bluetooth by exposing the L2CAP layer to user mode via a socket interface. In particular, a kernel mode primary component and user mode helper component cooperate to expose a Winsock interface to user mode components, and to manage various Bluetooth-specific functions and operations, allowing a user mode user application to access Bluetooth functionality without providing Bluetooth-specific commands or actions, and without being required to use RFCOMM.

Bluetooth TDI and winsock interface

A method for providing an interface to a Bluetooth compliant device can emulate a modem such that computer software programs can communicate through the Bluetooth compliant device in the same manner in which they would communicate through a standard modem to access a dial-up, wide area network. The method also supports an interface to a Bluetooth compliant device which can emulate a network socket such that computer software programs can communicate through the Bluetooth compliant device seemingly in the same manner in which they would communicate through a standard network interface card to access a local area network. The method also allows for the interface to a Bluetooth compliant device to be dependent on the nature of the Bluetooth compliant device.

Exposing bluetooth compliant wireless device connection as modems or sockets

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Mark D Bertoglio