Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Dell Products Inc.

Emc IP Holdinq Company LLC

Zhenzhen Lin

Si Ruo Chen

Pengfei Wu

Ruixue Zhang

Anzhou Hou

Bin He

Assaf Natanzon

Qiang Chen

Si Chen

Stephen J Todd

Zhen Jia

Zijia Wang

Jinpeng Liu

Arun Murti

Danqing Sha

Mengze Liao

Lihui Su

Chenxi Hu

Joel Evans Christner

YuHong Nie

Xiaolei Hu

Roger Hongyi Che

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for verifying a virtual avatar. The method includes: determining, based on the virtual avatar and a plurality of reference images in an image library, a first similarity set comprising a plurality of similarities between the virtual avatar and the plurality of reference images; and selecting a plurality of candidate images from the plurality of reference images based on the first similarity set and a predetermined number. The method further includes: determining a second similarity set comprising a plurality of similarities between the virtual avatar and the plurality of candidate images; and determining a verification result for the virtual avatar based on a subset in the first similarity set that is associated with the plurality of candidate images, and the second similarity set.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for verifying virtual avatar

The present disclosure relates to a method, a server, and a computer program product for identity authentication. The method includes searching, in response to receiving an identity authentication request from a user at an edge server, an identity authentication database of the edge server for identity authentication information associated with the user. The method further includes sending, in response to the identity authentication information associated with the user not being found in the identity authentication database, the identity authentication request to a cloud server, the cloud server including an agent for interfacing with a plurality of identity authentication providers. In addition, the method further includes receiving the identity authentication information associated with the user from the cloud server, storing the identity authentication information to the identity authentication database, and using the identity authentication information to authenticate the user.

Method, server, and computer program product for identity authentication

A method includes: receiving, by a repository server, requests for pulling images from a plurality of nodes, wherein an image requested to be pulled by a first node is a first image; detecting, by the repository server, that layers of a plurality of images requested to be pulled by the plurality of nodes all include a common layer; generating, by the repository server, a transmission path of data of the common layer, wherein the transmission path includes that the repository server transmits the data of the common layer to a second node, and the second node distributes the data of the common layer to other nodes; sending, by the repository server, setting information to the first node according to the transmission path; sending, by the repository server, the data of the common layer to the second node; and acquiring, by the first node, the data of the common layer from a third node according to the setting information.

Method, server, and system for image deployment

A method, a device, and a computer program product for data management are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. A method for data management comprises: acquiring, from a storage system, a torrent file associated with downloading of a target file, the target file being stored in the storage system, and the torrent file comprising at least a plurality of data digests of a plurality of data blocks of the target file; generating metadata for the plurality of data blocks based on the torrent file, the metadata being in a format supported by a unified management system, and the unified management system being configured for data access across the storage system and at least one other storage system; and storing the metadata for data-block-level access to the plurality of data blocks through the unified management system.

Method, device, and computer program product for data management

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for cross-regional data searching. The method includes acquiring a data identifier of target data in response to receiving a searching request for the target data at a first node. The method includes determining, based on the data identifier, a second node storing metadata of the target data, wherein both the first node and the second node are located in a first region, and the metadata includes the data identifier. The method further includes determining, based on the metadata, a third node storing the target data, wherein the third node is located in a second region different from the first region.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for cross-regional data searching

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a caching method, device, and computer program product for an edge server. The method includes acquiring a historical distribution of a set of variables associated with a network environment of the edge server, and generating one or more time series of the set of variables based on the historical distribution. The method further includes determining a caching strategy associated with the edge server based on the one or more time series of the set of variables. With the solution of the present disclosure, in an edge computing scenario, unnecessary overhead caused by ineffective caching can be reduced while ensuring smooth user experience.

Caching method, device, and computer program product for edge server

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for storing and accessing data. A method for storing data includes: dividing, in response to receiving a request for storing data from a client, the data into a plurality of data blocks; storing the plurality of data blocks in a plurality of servers respectively; generating metadata of the data to record corresponding addresses for storing the plurality of data blocks in the plurality of servers; and storing the generated metadata in a metadata repository. The embodiments of the present disclosure can effectively improve data transmission efficiency, data availability, and data security in a cloud storage system.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for storing and accessing data across multiple servers utilizing metadata of a distributed hash table

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for data storage. The method includes determining, based on attribute information of each of a set of nodes in a distributed storage system, a hash value of each of the set of nodes; determining a node identifier of each of the set of nodes based on geographic location information of each of the set of nodes and the hash value, with the node identifier being used to indicate a logical location of a node in the distributed storage system; and determining, in response to a processing request from a first node in the set of nodes for first data, a target node in the set of nodes based on the node identifier of each of the set of nodes. The target node is used to process the processing request for the first data.

Method, device, and computer program product for data storage

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for looking up data. This method includes: acquiring, at a first node, a data identifier for data to be looked up, wherein the first node is located in a system having a layered structure, and the data identifier comprises layer information related to a layer in the layered structure. The method further includes: determining a distance between the data identifier and a node identifier for the first node. The method further includes: determining, based on the distance, a second node that can be used to acquire metadata for the data for acquiring the metadata, wherein the distance is related to positions of the first node and the second node in the layered structure. The method further includes: determining, based on the metadata, a third node storing the data for acquiring the data.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for looking up data

A computing device of a data register includes persistent storage and a data register manager. The persistent storage stores: an instance of a primary chain that specifies an organizational structure of computing devices of the data register and a secondary chain for registering data with a first portion of the computing devices. The data register manager monitors sizes of each of the portions of the computing devices specified by the organizational structure; makes a determination, based on the monitoring, that the organizational structure fails to meet at least one criteria; and in response to the determination: reorganizes the organizational structure to meet the at least one criteria by, at least in part, modifying the secondary chain.

System and method for data registration

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for data transmission. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a plurality of types of data at a first device from a plurality of data sources, each type of data having a corresponding data transmission configuration; determining a first predicted network bandwidth for transmitting data from the first device to a second device in a first time window period in the future; determining a first piece of configuration information for transmitting the plurality of types of data in the first time window period based on the first predicted network bandwidth and a plurality of data transmission configurations corresponding to the plurality of types of data; and transmitting the received plurality of types of data to the second device in the first time window period based on the first piece of configuration information.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for data transmission

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for adjusting a computing load. The method in an illustrative embodiment includes: determining a total computing power demand of at least one user device that will be switched, due to movement, to being provided a computing service by a computing node; determining an available computing power of the computing node; and if the available computing power is unable to meet the total computing power demand, by adjusting a computing load of the computing node, adjusting the available computing power before the at least one user device is switched to being provided the computing service by the computing node, so as to meet the total computing power demand.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for proactively adjusting available computing power of a computing node based on movement of at least one user device

The present disclosure provides a method for storing data, including: storing data in a first node, the first node being selected from a first node set including a first edge node and child nodes thereof; selecting, from a second node set including a second edge node and child nodes thereof, a second node for storing the data, the first edge node being a child node of the second edge node; and storing the data in the second node. The present disclosure further provides a method for searching for data. The present disclosure can reduce the time for searching for data in a distributed storage system.

Method, electronic device, and computer program product for storing and searching for data

A data management method comprises: receiving, at a first node of a plurality of nodes for collaboratively data processing, a request to perform a target operation at the first node from a second node of the plurality of nodes; obtaining a privilege of the second node from a third node of the plurality of nodes; determining a threshold privilege for performing the target operation based on a type of the target operation; and performing the target operation in accordance with a determination that the privilege of the second node is higher than the threshold privilege. In this manner, the security of data may be improved.

Method, electronic device and computer program product for data management

Techniques for improved storage in a multi-cloud computing environment are provided. For example, a system manager for a storage system comprises a client interface layer configured to provide one or more application programing interfaces for one or more clients accessing the storage system, and a client interface layer handler configured to manage the one or more application programing interfaces of the client interface layer. Further, the system manager comprises a unified storage resource interface layer configured to provide a set of application programming interfaces to enable access for the one or more clients to a storage resource layer operatively coupled to the unified storage resource interface layer. The storage resource layer comprising one or more public cloud platform-based storage resources and a blockchain manager that coordinates access to one or more enterprise-level storage resources and one or more individually-owned storage resources.

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