A distributed storage system includes multiple resource nodes each having associated storage media. The resource nodes are configured to operate a first protocol between the resource nodes that exchanges availability and performance information for storage elements in the associated storage media. The resource nodes also operate a second protocol that dynamically distributes and redistributes data between the different resource nodes based on the availability and performance information for the storage elements. Relative distances may be identified between the different resource nodes and the second protocol may weight the availability and performance information based on the relative distances. The second protocol also may identify types of unshared use, shared use, and concurrent use for different portions of the data and distribute the portions of the data to other resource nodes based on the identified types of use.

A technique relates to flash-optimized data layout of a dataset for queries. Selection columns are stored in flash memory according to a selection optimized layout, where the selection optimized layout is configured to optimize predicate matching and data skipping. The selection optimized layout, for each selection column, is formed by storing a selection column dictionary filled with unique data values in a given selection column, where the unique data values are stored in sorted order in the selection column dictionary. Row position designations are stored corresponding to each row position that the unique data values are present within the given selection column, without duplicating storage of any of the unique data values that occur more than once in the given selection column.

Techniques for provisioning a smart navigation service are presented. The provisioning can be performed by a name owner, by the smart navigation service itself, or by a third-party keyword service. The provisioned information can include an entity name, a keyword, and possibly other data correlated to at least one network locator. The navigation service electronically stores in navigation service persistent memory a rule correlating the entity name, the keyword, and, if used, the other data, to the at least one network locator, such that when the navigation service receives, from a client computer communicatively coupled to the navigation service, command data that includes the entity name, the keyword, and possibly other data, the navigation service responds to the client computer with the at least one network locator.

A method, executed by an electronic apparatus, includes retrieving, in response to input of a character string by a user, conversion candidates associated with the input character string, each conversion candidate having a first rank. The method also includes displaying, when a plurality of the conversion candidates are present, the plurality of conversion candidates within a corresponding plurality of regions on a map wherein conversion candidates that have a higher first rank occupy larger regions on the map. A corresponding computer program product and corresponding computer systems are also disclosed herein.

Enterprises express the concepts of their electronic business-to-business (B2B) communication in differently structured ontology-like schemas. Collaborations benefit from merging the common concepts into semantically unique Business Entities (BEs) in a merged schema. Methods and systems for labeling the merged schema with descriptive, yet short and unique names, are described. A heuristically ranked list of descriptive candidate phrases for each BE is derived locally from the names and descriptions of the underlying concepts. A semantically unique candidate phrase is assigned to each BE that discriminates it from the other BEs by employing a constraint satisfaction problem solver.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing content via links. These mechanisms and methods for sharing content via links can enable customizable features associated with the operations related to those links. These features may include generating customized reports on usage of the links, and/or exposing one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) enabling applications to access the links and/or logic associated with operations related to those links.

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that replicates data and provides instantaneous access to data includes receiving in a destination volume one or more named data extents and one or more references to the one or more named data extents associated with a file in parallel from a source volume. A determination is made to check whether the one or more references arrive before the one or more named data extents arrive. Each of the received one or more references which are determined to have arrived prior to the one or more data extents is allocated as absent by the storage management computing device. An instantaneous access to the file is provided during the allocation.

In some embodiments, systems are provided to enable a consumer to search the inventory of an enable a consumer to search the inventory of a plurality of unaffiliated brick-and-mortar retail entities to facilitate purchase opportunities. The system may include electronic user devices comprising a search interface stored thereon. Databases can be communicatively coupled to a plurality of unaffiliated brick-and-mortar retail entities and configured to store inventory transaction data points received from unaffiliated brick-and-mortar retail entities. Each inventory transaction data point can correspond to descriptive characteristics of a first inventory item. Search requests for second inventory items can be received from search interfaces. Inventory transaction data points that correspond to first inventory items that each share a threshold number of descriptive characteristics with some second inventory items. One or more notifications can be generated when the threshold number of descriptive characteristics are confirmed, the notification can include descriptive characteristics.

A media content placement system is provided. The system may determine a first parameter corresponding to a media object of a plurality of media objects displayed according to a presentation sequence, the first parameter based on a predetermined quantity of times a media object is displayed. The system may determine a second parameter corresponding to the media object, the second placement parameter may be based on of a positive feedback for the media object. The system may determine a third parameter corresponding to the media object, the third parameter may be based on a negative feedback for the media object. The system may determine a presentation index corresponding to a media object. The presentation index may reference a position in a presentation sequence used to display media objects. The system may determine the presentation index based on the first parameter, the second parameter and the third parameter.

A webpage update method and apparatus includes setting a dynamic area according to a visible area of a browser, then using an area, corresponding to the dynamic area, in a target webpage as an area to be rendered, storing webpage update content generated in the area to be rendered in a first preset storage area, so as to read, at one time, the webpage update content in the first preset storage area, to complete rendering of the area to be rendered, thereby ensuring that the content currently displayed in the visible area is updated content. Meanwhile, webpage update content generated in an area other than the area to be rendered is stored in a second preset storage area, and rendering of the corresponding area is temporarily not performed, so that a working amount of a rendering operation can be reduced.