A method including: receiving, from a first terminal, a request for establishing a chat group without receiving an identifier of an existing social network contact; monitoring incoming requests for additional users to join the first chat group; while monitoring, detecting a request from a second terminal to obtain information of other terminals located around the second terminal; in accordance with the request from the second terminal and in accordance with a determination that the second terminal and the first terminal are located within a preset distance, requesting authentication information corresponding to the first chat group; receiving the authentication information from the second terminal, wherein the authentication information is obtained by the second user independently of the server of the social network platform; and in accordance with a determination that the authentication information is correct, establishing the first chat group including the first user and the second user.

Methods and systems for user communication in an online community and/or website are provided. User profile data may be accessed to from a memory. An analysis system compares the user profile data for the user with a time-dependent goal to determine a result. The time-dependent goal may be determined based on an analysis of a set of (successful) users. A user interface system generates a representation of the result for prompting the user to initiate a communication to a different user based on the time-dependent goal. The representation may comprise a metered representation indicating an amount of progress, by the user, toward the time-dependent goal.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate communication between devices that are configured according to different wireless network infrastructures. A subscriber access device may include a proxy having a virtual station and a virtual P2P client, and the subscriber access device may be conductively connected to an access point and a P2P group owner. The P2P group owner may establish a P2P group including one or more P2P clients that are within range of the subscriber access device. The proxy may bridge traffic between a legacy network and a P2P group. For example, the proxy may forward messages received over a legacy network to one or more P2P clients included within a P2P group, and the proxy may forward messages received from a P2P client of the P2P group to one or more devices configured to communicate with the subscriber access device over the legacy network.

Methods, devices, and storage mediums select an edge network site over other candidate edge network sites, to resolve hostnames, from end devices, to Internet protocol addresses based on various network path information, over other factors, such as a proximity of the end device to the selected edge network site relative to the proximity to the other candidate edge network sites.

This disclosure describes techniques for providing multiple namespace support to application(s) in containers under Kubernetes without breaking containment boundaries or escalating privileges of the application(s). A namespace service executing on a physical server may communicate with contained processes executing on the physical server by utilizing a Unix Domain Socket (UDS) endpoint in the filesystem of each of the containers. the namespace service may execute on the physical server with escalated privileges, allowing the namespace service to create a socket in a namespace and provide access and rights to utilize the socket to process(es) in a separate namespace.

An electronic system capable of detecting a number of hot-plug insertion/extraction cycles including a host device, at least one peripheral device, and at least one storage device is provided. The host device includes a controller and at least one connection socket. The controller has at least one detection pin. Each connection socket is coupled to a corresponding detection pin. The peripheral device includes at least one connector. The connector is hot-pluggably and electrically connected to the connection socket of the host device. The storage device stores the number of hot-plug insertion/extraction cycles of the connector in the peripheral device. When the connector of the peripheral device is connected to the connection socket of the host device, the controller reads the number of hot-plug insertion/extraction cycles from the storage device and increases the number of hot-plug insertion/extraction cycles of the connector in the peripheral device.

A database server may identify mentioned names in a body of a message and extract the names using name identification heuristics and algorithms. The service retrieves or utilizes a distributed connection graph to identify contacts associated with the parties to the conversation that may match or be similar to the mentioned name. Contacts may be scored based on similarities between the extracted name the names associated with nodes of the graph, as well as other factors. The highest scoring contact may be surfaced or displayed to one or more of the parties to the communication message.

A method includes: (a) setting up a service orchestration rule set between a home operator and a sponsor service provider, managing a service domain for obtaining a data structure for a service definition object; (b) receiving a list of available services from the sponsor service provider; (c) receiving a subscriber selection of at least one service from the list; (d) adding a first set of data including subscriber specific data to the service definition object; (e) sending a service creation request to the sponsor service provider for subscribing to the selected service; and (f) receiving a response from the sponsor service provider including the service definition object complemented with a second set of data to allow the selected service to be executed.

A virtual network system for a computer network is provided. The system includes a first host executing a virtual network function manager. The system also includes a second host executing a management virtual machine. The management virtual machine is in communication with the virtual network function manager and with one or more virtual network function component instantiations. The management virtual machine is programmed to route messages between the one or more virtual network function component instantiations and the virtual network function manager.

A method for electronic device virtualization and management includes transmitting a signal to a server from a client. The signal is initiated by a user of a user interface of the client. The user interface of the client presents at least two devices to the user, which the user may interact with. The signal may include a power cycling instruction directed to at least one of the devices. When the server receives a communication back from the at least one device, it may send the information to the client, where the user interface may be updated in response to the communication. The devices may be controlled with other instructions, such as scheduling instructions, firmware update instructions, and configuration backup instructions. If a power device is virtualized, it may be controlled on a port-by-port basis.