Cisco Technology, Inc.

Maximilian Spring

Shmuel Shaffer

Steven L Christenson

Eric Cozzi

Iqlas Maheen Ottamalika

In one embodiment, an apparatus can include: a status detector configured to determine a status associated with an input stream; a parameter controller configured to adjust a parameter in response to a change in the status; and a rendering controller configured to receive the input stream, and to provide a rendered stream in response to the input stream and the parameter.

Communication system with state dependent parameters

A method for launching an interface with a remotely located electronic device. Specifically, a loader that is locally installed is launched. The loader is associated with an embedded application stored on a remote device. Communication is established with the remote device to access a first checksum value that is stored on the remote device. Thereafter, the first checksum value is compared against a second checksum value of a locally stored version of the embedded application. The locally stored version of the embedded application is launched when the first check value matches the second checksum value.

Method and system for accessing and launching a java based applet as a locally installed application

A method and system for accessing HTML/HTTP based information for Java-based embedded applications. Specifically, in one embodiment, a method is disclosed for accessing HTTP/HTML based information from a client workstation. The embodiment of the method begins by establishing communication with a device that is associated with an embedded application through a first browser window that is Java-enabled. The method then continues by retrieving a Java applet from the device for implementing the embedded application. Then, the embodiment continues by running a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server inside the Java applet on the client workstation. Thereafter, the embodiment continues by generating hypertext markup language/hypertext transfer protocol (HTML/HTTP) based files with the HTTP server, wherein the HTML/HTTP based files are associated with the embedded application.

Method and system for footprint minimized, HTML/HTTP-based systems for Java-based embedded device management applications

Techniques for maintaining version compatibility between a first module and one or more interacting modules that interact with the first module through an interface. Stored mapping maps instances of a data structure describing the interface at corresponding release times with corresponding version numbers for the first module. A second version number is automatically developed for a second module of the interacting modules based on the mapping. Compatibility is determined based on a first version number for the first module and the second version number for the second module. These techniques allow the developer of the central module to provide the developers of the interacting modules with a tool to automatically assign version numbers to the interacting module being developed. Automatic assignment of version numbers avoids the tedium and errors associated with manual methods. Furthermore, the automated methods not only ensure compatibility but also discover compatibility with the earliest core module.

Techniques for maintaining compatibility of a software core module and an interacting module

A method and apparatus are disclosed for creating and storing information that defines one or more network devices for use with a network management system. In one aspect, a network device having one or more logical slots, each of which may contain one of a plurality of sub-components, may be defined in terms of a logical expression that is evaluated by the network management system at runtime. A containment tree representing physical hardware and software elements of the network device is created and stored in memory. The logical expression is evaluated, based in part on a value that is obtained in real time from the network device using a dynamic discovery operation. A node representing the actual sub-component present in the slot of the device at runtime is created and stored in the tree based on the result of evaluating the expression.

Network management using abstract device descriptions

A method and apparatus are disclosed for creating and storing information that defines one or more network devices for use with a network management system. In one aspect, a network device having one or more logical slots, each of which may contain one of a plurality of sub-components, may be defined in terms of a logical expression that is evaluated by the network management system at runtime. A containment tree representing physical hardware and software elements of the network device is created and stored in memory. The logical expression is evaluated, based in part on a value that is obtained in real time from the network device using a dynamic discovery operation. A node representing the actual sub-component present in the slot of the device at runtime is created and stored in the tree based on the result of evaluating the expression. In another aspect, multiple references in the device description to MIB objects stored by the device are consolidated. Accordingly, multiple SNMP requests are avoided.

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