Unisys Corporation

Unisys Corpoation

Thomas P Sherren

James R McBreen

Mitch M Maurer

Laura M Nissen

Patrick W Cummings

Anne M Steiner

James P Kramer

Michael R Burch

Chen Qingyan

A user interface is described that displays a hierarchical structure of a computer system. The hierarchical structure of a system configuration for a computer system is formed by the upward and downward connections between various levels of symbolic and real hardware components. In particular, the user interface displays a graphical model of the hierarchical tree-like structure of the configuration in a single computer window. An individual hardware component may have multiple upward connections to separate parent hardware components. An individual hardware component may be represented by more than one node within the model, yet a single data structure is maintained for each of the hardware components. In this manner, users may interact with the user interface to more easily view, comprehend, and manage configuration data for a computer system.

User interface for displaying a hierarchical structure of a computer system

Streaming media servers are used to provide data streams of streaming media data to network devices across a communications network. In order to allow the servers to scale its processing as the number of data streams increases, these servers use a delay timer determination module for determining when a given CPU is to transfer its streaming media data corresponding to its group of data streams, a CPU wake up module for initiating an acceleration process for each CPU upon receipt of a signal from the delay timer determination module, and a plurality of CPU processing modules for transferring streaming media data corresponding to its group of data streams. The delay timer determination module uses a stagger and interval parameter where these parameters are calculated from a set of system parameters, including a number of processors available to support data streams, CPU, a size for the smallest data buffer within all of the network devices, Mem, and the maximum bit data transfer rate, BR, supported.

System and method for providing an enhanced enterprise streaming media server capacity and performance

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Andover, MN, United States of America

Thomas P Sherren