Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Yahoo Holdings, Inc.

Prashant Ramarao

Kallol Mandal

Manish Verma

Caveh Jalali

Sherman S Pun

Arunkumar Balasubramanian

Among other things, one or more client devices, techniques, and/or systems are provided for presenting weather conditions. A grid size of a first geohash cell (e.g., space subdivided into a grid), corresponding to a location of a user, is determined based upon supplemental factors (e.g., population density, elevation, topography, etc.). A first weather station, located in the first geohash cell, and a second weather station, located in a second geohash cell neighboring the first geohash cell, are identified. A first distance from the first weather station to the location is determined, and a second distance from the second weather station to the location is determined. Responsive to the first distance being less than the second distance, information from the first weather station is presented to the user. Responsive to the second distance being less than the first distance, information from the second weather station is presented to the user.

Weather presentation

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a mechanism for implementing transfer of arbitrary length messages between one or more machines in a computing environment comprised of a plurality of machines. With this mechanism, it is possible to send and receive messages of arbitrary length across memory-based or other interconnects using a single operation. In one embodiment, the machines are interconnected by a memory-mapped link. The memory-mapped link includes processes for mapping an image of a buffer allocated in the storage of the receiving machine into the addressing space of the sending machine. The sending machine may transfer the message to the memory of the receiving machine using a single write operation to the memory mapped image in the sending machine's own address space.

Transfer of arbitrary size messages over memory based interconnects

A database that can store static and dynamic entries, wherein a static entry contains conventional static data, and a dynamic entry contains information specifying dynamic behavior to control devices on a network. In this database, the act of storing a dynamic entry in the database triggers control over devices on the network. More specifically, one embodiment of a database system according to the present invention includes a data storage medium for storing entries as well as an indexing structure for locating entries on the data storage medium. It also includes a storage mechanism for performing operations to store entries on the data storage medium. Encoded on the data storage medium are dynamic entries containing descriptions of dynamic behavior for the devices on the network. The database additionally includes an execution mechanism that, in response to a dynamic entry being stored on the data storage medium, commands the devices on the network to perform the dynamic behavior specified in the dynamic entry. In a variation on the above embodiment, the execution mechanism is configured to periodically monitor and control the devices on the network.

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