International Business Machines Corporation

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Trend Micro Inc.

Steve Richard White

David Michael Chess

Ian N Whalley

John Frederick Morar

William Carlisle Arnold

Jeffrey Owen Kephart

Liam David Comerford

Alla Segal

James Edwin Hanson

Gregory Bret Sorkin

Akhileshwari N Chandra

Hidayatullah Habeebullah Shaikh

Jeffrey Alan Frey

Rajarshi Das

Michael D Williams

Jeffery J Van Heuklon

Jian Yin

John Elliott Arwe

Edward John Pring

Morton Gregory Swimmer

Peter Kenneth Malkin

Philip Shi-lung Yu

Ramani Ranjan Routray

Dakshi Agrawal

Kaladhar Voruganti

Murthy V Devarakonda

Myron Dale Flickner

Kang-Won Lee

Seraphin Bernard Calo

Donald B Johnson

Sandeep Gopisetty

Stephen M Matyas

Jehoshua Bruck

Chatschik Bisdikian

Heiko Hary Ludwig

Norbert George Vogl

Daniel Manuel Dias

Asit Dan

Tamar Eilam

John Arthur Pershing, Jr

Michael H Kalantar

Chung-hao Tan

Charles Edwin Cox

Giovanni Pacifici

Hoi Yeung Chan

David Alson George

Alexander V Konstantinou

Brent Tzion Hailpern

An V Le

John D Wilkins

Robert J Schloss

Richard B Segal

Dennis G Abraham

Thomas Y Kwok

Sophia Krasikov

Konstantinos Magoutis

Rostislaw Prymak

Peter G Ledermann

Sean Leo Dague

Ronald T Goering

Charles Campbell Palmer

Hendrik Wagner

Gauri Sudhir Shah

Aditya Agrawal

Ramesh K Karne

Edwin Richie Lassettre

Lawrence I Levy

Ashileshwari N Chandra

A chainsaw limb gripping attachment system comprising a chainsaw comprising a motor with a handle configured for holding by a user, and a blade configured to extend away from the motor, the blade comprising a guide bar and a plurality of cutting teeth positioned around a periphery of the guide bar and configured to rotate; and a gripper bar comprising a center section removably attached to the guide bar, an upper section extending upwardly from the center section, and a lower section extending downwardly from the center section. The gripper bar comprises a first gripping section on a proximal edge of the upper section, the first gripping section comprising a first plurality of teeth. The gripper bar further comprises a second gripping section disposed on a distal edge of the lower section, the second gripping section comprising a second plurality of teeth.

Chainsaw limb gripping attachment system

An air drag reduction apparatus attaches to the rear of vehicles having a generally rectangular rear end, such as tractor trailers, busses, and recreational vehicles. A left side roller is mounted in a generally vertical orientation to the rear of the vehicle and a right side roller is mounted in a generally vertical orientation to the rear of the vehicle, where the left side roller and the right side roller are each rotatable about a vertical axis. The left side roller and the right side roller may be mounted with attachment mechanisms which allow the rollers to each be moved out of the way as the rear door or doors of the vehicle are opened.

Drag reduction device and method for wheeled vehicles

Techniques for automatically designing an application-requirement based configuration for a distributed computing system are provided. One or more application-level templates are obtained, wherein the one or more templates are representative of one or more requirements associated with one or more applications. Using the one or more application-level templates, one or more logical flows are created. The one or more logical flows are then used to generate one or more system-level configuration plans of the distributed computing system.

Application-requirement based configuration designer for distributed computing systems

A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing virtual machine imaging. The method includes receiving a request for an imaging operation associated with at least one virtual machine. A notification is sent to at least one operating system associated with the at least one virtual machine of the request for the imaging operation. The operating system is determined to be in a state for the virtual machine to be imaged. The request for the imaging operation is granting in response to determining.

Hypervisor with cloning-awareness notifications

Upgrading a multi-tiered application is provided. In response to receiving a request to upgrade a multi-tiered application, wherein components of the multi-tiered application are deployed across a plurality of virtual machines, an appropriate integrated patch is selected for the upgrade. The selected integrated patch includes an integrated set of patches for the components of the multi-tiered application, state update data, and order constraints. The components of the multi-tiered application specified in the selected integrated patch are upgraded by using the integrated set of patches and order constraints. In addition, the state of the components of the multi-tiered application are updated by using the state update data. Then, the updated state of the multi-tiered application is saved to storage.

Upgrading virtual resources

A computer-executable method for allocating resource discovery and identification processes among a plurality of management tools and resources in a distributed and heterogeneous IT management system includes providing at least one authoritative manageable resource having minimal or no responsibility for reporting its identity, minimal or no responsibility for advertising any lifecycle-related creation event for the resource, and minimal or no responsibility for advertising any lifecycle-related destruction event for the resource; using a service oriented architecture (SOA) to define one or more services needed to manage the resource within the management system; and using a component model to define one or more interfaces and one or more interactions to be implemented by the manageable resource within the management system.

Discovering and identifying manageable information technology resources

Allocating resource discovery and identification processes among a plurality of management tools and resources in a distributed and heterogeneous information technology (IT) management system by providing at least one authoritative manageable resource having minimal or no responsibility for reporting its identity, minimal or no responsibility for advertising any lifecycle-related creation event for the resource, and minimal or no responsibility for advertising any lifecycle-related destruction event for the resource. A service oriented architecture (SOA) defines one or more services needed to manage the resource within the management system. A component model defines one or more interfaces and one or more interactions to be implemented by the manageable resource within the management system.

A method and system for the automatic determination of the behavioral profile of a program suspected of having worm-like characteristics includes analyzing data processing system resources required by the program and, if the required resources are not indicative of the program having worm-like characteristics, running the program in a controlled non-network environment while monitoring and logging accesses to system resources to determine the behavior of the program in the non-network environment. A logged record of the observed behavior is analyzed to determine if the behavior is indicative of the program having worm-like characteristics. The non-network environment may simulate the appearance of a network to the program, without emulating the operation of the network.

Method and apparatus for the automatic determination of potentially worm-like behavior of a program

A statistical approach implementing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to a policy-based management system for autonomic and on-demand computing applications. The statistical approach empowers a class of applications that require policies to handle ambiguous conditions and allow the system to 'evolve' in response to changing operation and environment conditions. In the system and method providing the statistical approach, observed event-policy associated data, which is represented by an event-policy matrix, is treated as a statistical problem with the assumption that there are some underlying or implicit higher order correlations among events and policies. The SVD approach enables such correlations to be modeled, extracted and modified. From these correlations, recommended policies can be selected or created without exact match of policy conditions. With a feedback mechanism, new knowledge can be acquired as new situations occur and the corresponding policies to manage them are recorded and used to generate new event and policy correlations. Consequently, based on these new correlations, new recommended policies can be derived.

Policy-based management system with automatic policy selection and creation capabilities by using singular value decomposition technique

A system and method for automated design deployment for distributed applications includes providing a node with at least one requirement attribute in an application description. A repository for infrastructure elements is searched for candidate infrastructure elements for that satisfy the at least one requirement attribute. A candidate infrastructure element that best satisfies the at least one requirement attribute in the application description is substituted in place of the node with the at least one requirement attribute.

Automated design for deployment of a distributed application using constraint propagation

A system and method automatically maps computer center rooms and locates data center components within computer centers. Radio triangulation is used to determine the locations and, optionally, orientation, of machines within a computer center.

Method for mapping machine rooms and locating machines within machine rooms

Disclosed is a method, a computer system and a computer readable media product that contains a set of computer executable software instructions for directing the computer system to execute a process for determining a non-replicative behavior of a program that is suspected of containing an undesirable software entity. The process causes execution of the program in at least one known environment and automatically examines the at least one known environment to detect if a change has occurred in the environment as a result of the execution of the program. If a change is detected, the process automatically analyzes the detected change (i.e., the process performs a side effects analysis) to determine if the change resulted from execution of the program or from execution of the undesirable software entity. The process then uses the result of the analysis at least for undoing a detected change that results from execution of the undesirable software entity. The result of the analysis can also be used for informing a user of an anti-virus system of the non-replicative changes made to the environment.

Method and apparatus for determination of the non-replicative behavior of a malicious program

A portable, evaporative cooling apparatus includes a cabinet for storing cooling water, a water pump, a fan, and a spraying system. The fan is mountable on the cabinet lid and is removable from the cabinet lid for storage within the cabinet. The cabinet has wheels that allow it to be rolled along a surface and a handle for pulling the cabinet along the surface. The apparatus may be retrofit to a standard food cooler.

Collapsible misting fan apparatus

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