Baynote, Inc.

Interwoven, Inc.

Silicon Graphics, Incorporated

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Robert David Bradshaw

Scott Brenner Brave

Jack Jia

Christopher Minson

Ira Pramanick

Raghu Mallena

Ajit Dandapani

Manish Verma

Luca Castellano

Jack S Jia

Britt H Park

John Sully

Padmanabhan Sreenivasan

Michael Nishimoto

Sharad Srivastava

A system for implementing a failover policy includes a cluster infrastructure for managing a plurality of nodes, a high availability infrastructure for providing group and cluster membership services, and a high availability script execution component operative to receive a failover script and at least one failover attribute and operative to produce a failover domain. In addition, a method for determining a target node for a failover comprises executing a failover script that produces a failover domain, the failover domain having an ordered list of nodes, receiving a failover attribute and based on the failover attribute and failover domain, selecting a node upon which to locate a resource.

Flexible failover policies in high availability computing systems

The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes: Subject Authority, Work Patterns, Content Freshness, and Group Know-how. The invention produces useful, timely, cross-application, expertise-based search and navigation results. In contrast, traditional Information Retrieval technologies such as inverted index, NLP, or taxonomy tackle the same problem with an opposite set of attributes than what the enterprise needs: Content Population, Word Patterns, Content Existence, and Statistical Trends. Overall, the invention encompasses Baynote Search&#x2014;a enhancement over existing IR searches, Baynote Guide&#x2014;a set of community-driven navigations, and Baynote Insights&#x2014;aggregated views of visitor interests and trends and content gaps.

Method and apparatus for identifying, extracting, capturing, and leveraging expertise and knowledge

The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes: Subject Authority, Work Patterns, Content Freshness, and Group Know-how. The invention produces useful, timely, cross-application, expertise-based search and navigation results. In contrast, traditional Information Retrieval technologies such as inverted index, NLP, or taxonomy tackle the same problem with an opposite set of attributes than what the enterprise needs: Content Population, Word Patterns, Content Existence, and Statistical Trends. Overall, the invention emcompasses Baynote Search&#x2014;a enhancement over existing IR searches, Baynote Guide&#x2014;a set of community-driven navigations, and Baynote Insights&#x2014;aggregated views of visitor interests and trends and content gaps.

Method and apparatus for determining usefulness of a digital asset

The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes: Subject Authority, Work Patterns, Content Freshness, and Group Know-how. The invention produces useful, timely, cross-application, expertise-based search and navigation results. In contrast, traditional Information Retrieval technologies such as inverted index, NLP, or taxonomy tackle the same problem with an opposite set of attributes than what the enterprise needs: Content Population, Word Patterns, Content Existence, and Statistical Trends. Overall, the invention emcompasses Baynote Search&#x2014;a enhancement over existing IR searches, Baynote Guide &#x2014;a set of community-driven navigations, and Baynote Insights&#x2014;aggregated views of visitor interests and trends and content gaps.

Method and apparatus for suggesting/disambiguation query terms based upon usage patterns observed

Method and apparatus for determining peer groups based upon observed usage patterns

A high availability computing system includes a plurality of computer nodes (for example, a server system) connected by a first and a second network, wherein the computer nodes communicate with each other to detect server failure and transfer applications to other computer nodes on detecting server failure. The system incorporates methods of maintaining high availability in a server cluster having a plurality of nodes. A group communications service, a membership service and a system resource manager are instantiated on each node and the group communications service, the membership service and the system resource manager on each node communicate with other nodes to detect node failures and to transfer applications to other nodes on detecting node failure.

Maintaining process group membership for node clusters in high availability computing systems

Method and apparatus for predicting destinations in a navigation context based upon observed usage patterns

Method and apparatus for determining expertise based upon observed usage patterns

Provided are a method and apparatus configured to enable the preservation and recovery of in-progress developments and changes as they are made in a system for development of content in the event of a process or system failure. The in-progress data developments and changes may be preserved while they are created, and may then be retrieved and recovered after the system or process is recovered. The in-progress data developments and changes may be preserved while they are created, and may then be retrieved and recovered after the system or process is recovered. In one embodiment, the cache memory contents are mirrored into a memory-mapped file, providing a redundant location for cache data. In the event of a failure, the mirrored cache information is available for recovery from a file. This extra cache location can be filled and flushed as needed by the system as the cache data is stored to disk or other memory location, obviating its preservation. The invention further includes a method of and apparatus for recovering and restarting the actual process or system after such a failure. Utilizing one or both features, an application utilizing the invention may reduce the amount of data and process time lost as a result of a process or system failure.

Method of and apparatus for recovery of in-progress changes made in a software application

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Robert David Bradshaw