Systems and methods for establishing a connection with an edge application server are provided. A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network establishes a connection with an edge application server to offload the data processing of an application executing on the UE to the edge application server. The UE communicates key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with the application to the edge data network. The KPIs indicate the resources that application uses to process the data. In response, the UE receives edge application server parameters from multiple servers in the edge data network that meet or exceed the KPIs. The parameters include compute, graphical compute, memory and storage parameters with various levels of specificity. The UE selects one of the edge application servers to process the data on behalf of the application based on the parameters.

Systems and methods are described herein for streaming during unavailability of a content server. Upon determining that there are conditions indicating buffering issues during delivery of a media asset, a server determines a first group of devices suitable for receiving the media asset from the server and sharing the media asset on a peer-to-peer network. Then, the server determines a second group of devices suitable for receiving the media asset on a peer-to-peer network from a first group device. The server then determines groupings within which to share and receive the media asset. Next, the server transmits instructions to the devices in the first group to maintain in buffer and share certain portions of the media asset with the second group devices within their grouping. Finally, the server updates information detailing the media asset portions the devices are maintaining in buffer and sharing.

A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.

A method for offloading services of a sewer application in a network system. The method includes receiving, by a first in-network computation offload instance, a first request packet from a client application, wherein the first request packet includes a first application payload for processing by the server application; generating, by the first instance, a modified request packet that includes the first application payload and first offload information that describes the first instance for use by the server application in coordinating offloading processing to one or more in-network computation offload instances; and transmitting, by the first instance, the modified request packet to the next device in the traffic flow between the client application and the server application, wherein the next device is either (1) a second in-network computation offload instance in the traffic flow between the client application and the server application or (2) the sewer application.

A method of managing an intermittent network includes, with a local network manager executed by a processor of a local server, managing at least one local client device to use the local server as a proxy server. The method includes, with an internet connection manager executed by the processor of the local server, transferring data between an internet and the local server based on a quality and speed of a connection to the internet, and, with an update manager, sending data downloaded from the internet by the local server to the local client device. The method includes, with an analytics manager, retrieving analytics data from the local client device. The local server restricts the local client device from accessing the internet through the local server.

A network load balancer, a request message distribution method, a program product, and a system provided by the present disclosure relate to cloud computing technology. The network load balancer includes: a network port and N intermediate chips; the N intermediate chips are connected in sequence; the network port is connected to a first intermediate chip among the N intermediate chips; N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; the network port is configured to receive a request message and forward the request message to the first intermediate chip; each of the intermediate chips is configured to forward the request message to a next intermediate chip connected to a current intermediate chip if connection information matching the request message is not found; and transmit the request message to a background server according to the connection information if the connection information matching the request message is found.

The present disclosure provides a system and method of sending and receiving messages from a first device or sender to a second device or receiver through the internet messaging application in the absence of internet connectivity is the first-of-its-kind feature that ensures ‘delivery of messages’ at all times. When the user is temporarily disconnected from the internet, still they can send the message by selecting the ‘SMS’ option and the message will be delivered instantly to the recipient's message folder. Once the internet is resumed, the same message will he automatically sent also to the recipient's Internet message folder. This device independent application allows the users to access this feature from a smart mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer and a desktop computer etc. Incorporating the feature of sending internet messages without the net connectivity by using the internet messaging application in the absence of internet connectivity ensures a smooth flow of communication.

A method and system of task management in an internet of things (IoT)-edge network may be provided. The method may include assigning at least one deep neural network (DNN) task from an IoT device to a first edge device; determining whether the first edge device satisfies one of a first predetermined criteria and a second predetermined criteria during execution of the at least one DNN task; triggering an alarm to the IoT device based on the determination; identifying a second edge device subsequent to the triggering of the alarm; determining whether to transfer the at least one DNN task to the second edge device or to execute the at least one DNN task on the first edge device, based on determining that the first device satisfies the second predetermined criteria; and transferring the at least one DNN task to the second edge device, based on determining that the first device satisfies the first predetermined criteria.

A scheduler manages execution of a plurality of data-collection jobs, assigns individual jobs to specific forwarders in a set of forwarders, and generates and transmits tokens (e.g., pairs of data—collection tasks and target sources) to assigned forwarders. The forwarder uses the tokens, along with stored information applicable across jobs, to collect data from the target source and forward it onto an indexer for processing. For example, the indexer can then break a data stream into discrete events, extract a timestamp from each event and index (e.g., store) the event based on the timestamp. The scheduler can monitor forwarders' job performance, such that it can use the performance to influence subsequent job assignments. Thus, data-collection jobs can be efficiently assigned to and executed by a group of forwarders, where the group can potentially be diverse and dynamic in size.

A scheduler manages execution of a plurality of data-collection jobs, assigns individual jobs to specific forwarders in a set of forwarders, and generates and transmits tokens (e.g., pairs of data—collection tasks and target sources) to assigned forwarders. The forwarder uses the tokens, along with stored information applicable across jobs, to collect data from the target source and forward it onto an indexer for processing. For example, the indexer can then break a data stream into discrete events, extract a timestamp from each event and index (e.g., store) the event based on the timestamp. The scheduler can monitor forwarders' job performance, such that it can use the performance to influence subsequent job assignments. Thus, data-collection jobs can be efficiently assigned to and executed by a group of forwarders, where the group can potentially be diverse and dynamic in size.