International Business Machines Corporation

Salesforce, Inc.

Sundar Veliah

William Russell Belknap

Cataldo Mega

Shannon Matthew Farrington

Todd Robert Bender

Cary Lane Rohwer

Lucy Anita Taylor

Saranyadevi Ganesan

Kusum Kanwar

Nabarun Sengupta

A first data management system, which may be associated with a content management system (CMS), may receive an identifier for a content item. A content item may be an example of a picture, a blog post, an article, a video, an audio segment (e.g., a podcast) or other type of text or multimedia content. The first data management system may be configured to generate an object corresponding to the content item. The content object may be transmitted to a model corresponding to a second data management system. The model may be configured to identify relationships between data stored at the second data management system. The model may identify one or more data objects that are associated with the received content object, and return the data objects to the first data management system.

Identifying associated data objects

Further provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes. Performance information is determined with respect to performing an operation at a node and transmitted to remote nodes over a network. Performance information is received from the remote nodes with respect to the remote nodes performing the operation. The determined and received performance information is used to determine whether to perform the operation at one of the remote nodes or the node. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Determining, transmitting, and receiving performance information with respect to an operation performed locally and at remote nodes

Provided are a method, system and program for determining whether to compress data transmitted over a network. A determination is made of compression performance for a compression algorithm to use to compress data to transmit to a target node over a network and of network performance of the network. The determined compression performance and the network performance are used to determine whether to compress the data. The data is compressed in response to determining to compress the data and the compressed data is transmitted to the target node over the network in response to compressing the data. The data is transmitted to the target node uncompressed in response to determining not to compress the data.

Determining whether to compress data transmitted over a network

A process is provided for managing operations including encoding operations in a network system including an administrator terminal, at least one server communicatively coupled to the administrator terminal via a computer network, and at least one multimedia device operative to generate media data and being communicatively coupled with a corresponding one of the servers. Each of the servers is operative to selectively activate the corresponding multimedia device, and is also operative to encode media data received from the corresponding multimedia device, and is further operative to access a corresponding memory device for storing media data. The process includes the steps of: displaying a graphical user interface including a server select interface component enabling a user of the administrator terminal to select one of the servers, and a mode select interface component enabling the user to select between a manual encoding mode of operation enabling the user to manually start and stop a manual encoding process performed by a selected server, and a scheduled encoding mode of operation enabling the user to define a schedule for automatically starting and stopping a scheduled encoding process to be performed by a selected server. User input is received, the input including server identification information indicative of a selected server, mode information indicative of a selected mode of operation, and encoding operation information defined based on the selected mode of operation. Commands and associated parameters, generated based on the encoding operation information, are transmitted to the selected server via the network.

Graphical user interface for creating assets

A process of managing media data in a network is provided, the system including an administrator terminal, at least one media server communicatively coupled to the administrator terminal via a network, and a plurality of end user terminals, each of the media servers being operative to store media data, and to transfer portions of media data to selected locations via the network, at least one of the media servers also being operative to stream media data to selected ones of the end user terminals. The process provides a centralized user interface for scheduling and coordinating the execution of operations performed by the media servers. The process begins with a step of displaying a graphical user interface including a plurality of interface components on a display unit of the administrator terminal, the components enabling a user of the administrator terminal to define and schedule operations to be performed by selected ones of the media servers on corresponding portions of media data. User input includes: server identification information indicative of a selected media server; operation information specifying an operation to be performed by the selected media server on a selected portion of media data, and schedule information specifying a schedule for performing the specified operation. Commands and associated parameters are generated based on the operation information and schedule information, the commands and associated parameters for instructing the selected media server to execute the specified operation in accordance with the specified schedule.

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Sundar Veliah