Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

Pankaj K Garg

Vijay Machiraju

Klaus Wurster

Umeshwar Dayal

Ming C Hao

Thomas Gschwind

Kave Eshghi

Ming-Chien Shan

Fabio Casati

Jerremy Holland

Alex Xin Zhang

Hsiu-Khuern Tang

Cipriano A Santos

Mohamed E Dekhil

Daniel Cotting

Peter J Wright

Martin L Griss

Brian W Beach

Anand Deshpande

Audrey K Ishizaki

Wendy L Fong

Thuan Q Pham

Stephany Kalil

Betty Cant

A method for generating a pixel-oriented graph provides visual boundaries for representing aggregate information. The present method for generating a pixel-oriented graph includes determining a visual boundary for representing an aggregate of a set of information depicted in the pixel-oriented graph and constructing a set of pixel blocks that represent the information such that the pixel blocks are visually distinguished by the visual boundary. A method according to the present techniques employs a visual weight to classify labels and high weight information is shown and other information is made invisible and hidden in the property of a graph.

Visual boundaries for aggregate information in pixel-oriented graphs

A method for instrumenting a compiled software application that includes distributed object technology. The method includes deriving an interface and class of an object of the compiled software application. Additionally, the interface is reconstructed to enable a client to communicate with the object once the object includes an instrumented function to measure the performance of the object. Furthermore, the object is implemented with the instrumented function. The compiled software application is enabled to utilize the object that includes the instrumented function.

Instrumenting a software application that includes distributed object technology

A method and system for tracking hits of a requested network file includes embedding an instruction within the file that directs the requesting device to transmit an indicator to a processor for counting subsequent to the requesting device receiving the requested file. The request for the network file is made by a requesting device (e.g., client of an end-user) and may be made over the Internet. The instruction is executed by a Web browser at the requesting device. The instruction is embedded within the Internet file, so that if the file is cached by a proxy server, the instruction is also cached. Thus, the instruction will reach the end-user regardless of whether the file is downloaded from the proxy server or from an originating server. When the file reaches the end-user, the instruction triggers the transmission of the indicator that is send to the processor for counting.

Tracking hits for network files using transmitted counter instructions

Method and apparatus for allocating resources to a plurality of applications. In various embodiments instrumentation data may be gathered for work requests processed by the applications. An associated workload level may be determined for work requests processed by the applications. For each application an application resource requirement may be determined as a function of the workload levels and a service level metric associated with the application. For each application an assigned subset of resources may be determined as a function of the application resource requirement, a minimization of communication delays between resources, and a bandwidth capacity requirement of the application. The resources may be automatically reconfigured consistent with the assigned subset of resources for each application.

Resource allocation for multiple applications

A web transaction visualization system may include at least one web transaction visualization (WTV) processor adapted to automatically extract massive amounts of web transaction data from at least one data source for visual classification based on at least one aggregate transaction metric and to display the classified web transaction data interactively in three dimensions without overlapping.

System for visualizing massive web transaction data sets without overlapping

An auto-discovery system discovers related components of a service operating on a distributed network. This auto-discovery system involves (1) selecting a model of the configuration of the service; (2) determining, from the model, &ldquo;scope hints&rdquo; that limit the possible locations of related components; (3) determining a root component of the service; (4) using scope hints to limit the search, to rapidly find related instances of components contained in the root service component; (5) determining whether a quorum of components comprising a distributed service has been discovered; (6) determining the parent service component of each discovered service component by instance matching; and (7) using the instance match information to determine the discovery tree of components that have the structure of the service map, share a common root component, and define a service group. This auto-discovery system efficiently discovers the components of a wide range of services within a distributed environment. The system limits the scope of searches for components related to previously discovered components. The system determines the relationships between the discovered service components, and matches them into groups of related services. This enables an operational manager of a distributed service to better determine service configurations, expand resource bottlenecks, and improve an end-users' experience.

Method and apparatus auto-discovering components of distributed services

A visual display system providing an operator simultaneous descriptions of the states of many cooperating sub-processes working on a task and residing in various instruments in a distributed system. A server process is connected to receive and translate status signals from the sub-processes into a standardized language. The translated signals are interpreted by a screen manipulation program. A monitor, connected to the server process, displays the interpreted signals to show the states of the sub-processes. The visual indication on the monitor includes a plurality of representations of indicator lights. Each indicator light indicates the state of one of the sub-processes. Next to each indicator light is an identifier which identifies the sub-process represented by the indicator light. The visual indication also includes two types of meters. One type of meter indicates the speed of one of the sub-processes and the other indicates the amount of data used at any given time by one of the sub-processes. Finally, a picture of each of the operators using the system is also included in the indication. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented to monitor a rule-based programming environment using the X Window System.

Methods of indicating states of software processes cooperating on a

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Pankaj K Garg