Author: claimsbot

1. A system for moving a camera in space comprising:
a track having two spaced-parallel rails each rail having two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips; and
a dolly holding the camera and riding upon both rails of the track, the dolly having wheels that contact only, and that ride upon, the upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of the rails.
2. The system according to claim 1 wherein each rail of the track comprises:
a substantially planar elongate element shaped in the substantial contour of an external surface of one-half of an elongate prism, with opposite side edges of the element transverse to its elongate axis constituting the upward-extending spaced-parallel lips.
3. The system according to claim 2 wherein the track’s rail’s element comprises:
one-half of a tube, said tube being a substantially planar elongate sheet shaped in the substantial contour of the external surface of one-half of an elongate cylinder.
4. The system according to claim 3 wherein the track’s element comprises:
a split aluminum tube.
5. The system according to claim 3 wherein the dolly’s wheels comprise:
wheels of elastomeric compound spanning, and riding upon, opposite side edges of the element.
6. The system according to claim 1 wherein the track comprises:
track segments pieced together so that two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of one segment abut tightly and contiguously to two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of another segment, there being no appreciable crack nor any discontinuity in line and in level between abutting lips of successive segments.
7. The system according to claim 6 wherein the track further comprises:
connection members extending between, piecing together, and connecting adjacent track segments at, and between, a downward-extending region of each segment and of the track, these connection members not extending into the region of the upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of the segments and of the track.
8. The system according to claim 6 wherein at least one spaced-parallel pair of the track segments is straight.
9. The system according to claim 6 wherein at least one spaced-parallel pair of the track segments is curved.
10. The system according to claim 6 wherein successive track segments collectively form an arc of a circle.
11. The system according to claim 1 wherein the track is supportable for use so low as six inches above the earth or greater.
12. The system according to claim 1
wherein a center of gravity of the camera is within six inches of an imaginary plane between the lips of the two rails of the track;
wherein any sway in elevation angle of the camera during spatial movement of the camera along the track is reduced in accordance that a moment arm of the camera about either rail of the track is short.
13. The system according to claim 12 wherein the dolly comprises:
a stanchion upon which is variably mounted and secured the camera so that a center of gravity of the camera is situated midway between the two spaced-parallel rails of the track.
14. The system according to claim 12 wherein the dolly comprises:
a motor for driving the dolly along the track.
15. A system for moving a camera in space along a straight line at fixedly predetermined elevational and azimuthal angles relative to this straight line, the system during all conditions of use to spatially move the camera comprising:
a track having two rails extending along an imaginary X axis direction which rails are straight to better than plus or minus one degree;
a plurality of members between the rails of the track along an imaginary Y axis which members hold the straight rails (i) at less than one percent deviation in distance of separation in the Y axis direction everywhere so that, at this distance of separation, (ii) the rails are everywhere spaced-parallel to within one degree;
a mechanism for adjusting the height above the surface of the earth of the track and its rails along an imaginary Z axis so that a plane of the rails is everywhere level to within one degree;
a dolly, having wheels both (i) fixed in separation at better than one percent accuracy wheel-to-wheel measured along the imaginary Y axis direction transversely across the track and (ii) of the same height to better than one percent, of both wheel-to-wheel separation and height so as to ride level within one degree of angle upon its equal-height wheels upon the evenly-spaced-parallel rails of the level track, the dolly mounting a camera at a fixedly predetermined position having less than one percent deviation in each of positions relative to the dolly along the imaginary X and Y axis directions, and having an elevation constant to within one percent along the imaginary Z axis direction, and having less than one degree variation in azimuthal and in elevational angles relative to the dolly;
wherein the dolly so mounts the camera at a moment arm in elevation relative to the track which moment arm is so short so that any variations relative to level of the dolly, which variations are themselves relative to any variation in level of the plane of the rails, produce less than one degree variation in both elevational and azimuthal angles of the camera relative to the straight line of the track.
16. The system according to claim 15 wherein the track comprises:
two spaced-parallel rails each rail having two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips; and
wherein the wheels of the dolly contact, and ride upon, only upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of the rails.
17. The system according to claim 16 wherein the track comprises:
a substantially planar elongate element shaped in the substantial contour of an external surface of one-half of an elongate prism, opposite side edges of the element transverse to its elongate axis constituting the upward-extending spaced-parallel lips.
18. The system according to claim 17 wherein the track’s element comprises:
one-half of a tube, being a substantially planar elongate sheet shaped in the substantial contour of the external surface of one-half of an elongate cylinder.
19. The system according to claim 18 wherein the track’s element comprises:
split aluminum tube.
20. The system according to claim 16 wherein the dolly’s wheels comprise:
wheels of elastomeric compound spanning, and riding upon, opposite side edges of the element.
21. The system according to claim 16 wherein the dolly comprises:
a motor driving the dolly’s wheels to propel the dolly along the track.
22. The system according to claim 16 wherein the track comprises:
track segments pieced together so that there is no appreciable crack nor any discontinuity in line and in level between abutting lips of successive segments.
23. A method of moving a camera in space comprising:
adjusting level above the surface of the earth a track having two spaced-parallel rails each rail having two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips; and
mounting a camera to a dolly riding upon both rails of the track, the dolly having wheels that contact only, and that ride upon, the upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of the rails.
24. The method according to claim 23 further comprising:
segmenting the track into track segments for transport and storage; while
piecing together the track segments during use for moving the camera in space so that two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of one segment abut tightly and continuously to two upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of another segment, there being no appreciable crack nor any discontinuity in line and in level between abutting lips of successive segments.
25. The method according to claim 24 wherein the piecing together of the track segments comprises:
connecting track segments with and by members extending between, and connecting, adjacent track segments at, and between, a downward-extending region of each segment and of the track so that these connection members do not extend into the region of the upward-extending spaced-parallel lips of the segments and of the track.
26. The method according to claim 23 further comprising:
locating a center of gravity of the camera is within six inches of a plane between the lips of the two rails of the track;
wherein any sway in elevation angle of the camera during spatial movement of the camera along the track is reduced in accordance that a moment arm of the camera about either rail of the track is short.
27. The method according to claim 23 wherein the adjusting level of the track above the surface of the earth comprises:
adjusting the extension of a multiplicity of variably extending stanchions upon which supported the track above the surface of the earth.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method for classifying activity performed on a computer system, comprising:
monitoring the activity performed on the computer system using at least one electronic device coupled to the computer system, wherein the monitored activity includes a plurality of actions performed on the computer system and a plurality of objects accessed in the plurality of actions performed on the computer system;
determining, by the at least one electronic device, a chronological timeline for the plurality of actions performed on the computer system;
inferring, by the at least one electronic device, one or more relationships between the plurality of objects and the plurality of actions in the chronological timeline;
classifying, by the at least one electronic device, each of the plurality of objects and each of the plurality of actions in one or more of a plurality of categories based on the one or more inferred relationships; and
displaying the one or more inferred relationships on a display device.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising defining the plurality of categories in response to the electronic device receiving an input that establishes the plurality of categories.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein defining the plurality of categories includes nesting a first one of the plurality of categories within a second one of the plurality of categories in response to the input that establishes the plurality of categories.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising searching, by the at least one electronic device, the activity performed on the computer system for one or more of the plurality of actions that are classified in one or more of the plurality of categories.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, by the at least one electronic device, a strength for each of the one or more relationships, wherein the one or more relationships are inferred in response to determining that the strength for each of the one or more relationships exceed a threshold value.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein at least one of the relationships are not inferred in response to determining that the strength for the at least one relationship does not exceed the threshold value.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of actions include one or more of actions that the computer system performs or actions that a user performs on the computer system.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the chronological timeline for the plurality of actions comprises a first chronological timeline for a first computer system, and wherein the method further comprises:
monitoring, by the at least one electronic device, activity performed on a second computer system, wherein the monitored activity performed on the second computer system includes one or more actions performed on the second computer system and one or more objects accessed in the one or more actions performed on the second computer system;
determining, by the at least one electronic device, a second chronological timeline for the one or more actions performed on the second computer system, wherein .the one or more actions performed on the second computer system each occur at a respective chronological position in the second chronological timeline; and
displaying an aggregate timeline for the first computer system and the second computer system on the display device, wherein the aggregate timeline includes the plurality of actions performed on the first computer system and the one or more actions performed on the second computer system.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of actions include each occur at a respective chronological position in the chronological timeline.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more inferred relationships are derived from the chronological positions for the plurality of actions in the chronological timeline.
11. A system for classifying activity performed on a computer system, wherein the system comprises at least one electronic device having one or more hardware components configured to:
monitor the activity performed on the computer system, wherein the monitored activity includes a plurality of actions performed on the computer system and a plurality of objects accessed in the plurality of actions performed on the computer system;
determine a chronological timeline for the plurality of actions performed on the computer system;
infer one or more relationships between the plurality of objects and the plurality of actions in the chronological timeline;
classify each of the plurality of objects and each of the plurality of actions in one or more of the plurality of categories based on the one or more inferred relationships; and
display the one or more inferred relationships on a display device.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more hardware components associated with the at least one electronic device are further configured to define the plurality of categories in response to receiving an input that establishes the plurality of categories.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein to define the plurality of categories, the one or more hardware components associated with the at least one electronic device are further configured to nest a first one of the plurality of categories within a second one of the plurality of categories in response to the input that establishes the plurality of categories.
14. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more hardware components associated with the at least one electronic device are further configured to search the activity performed on the computer system for one or more of the plurality of actions that are classified in one or more of the plurality of categories.
15. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more hardware components associated with the at least one electronic device are further configured to determine a strength for each of the one or more relationships, wherein the one or more relationships are inferred in response to determining that the strength for each of the one or more relationships exceed a threshold value.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein at least one of the relationships are not inferred in response to determining that the strength for the at least one relationship does not exceed the threshold value.
17. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of actions include one or more of actions that the computer system performs or actions that a user performs on the computer system.
18. The system of claim 11, wherein the chronological timeline for the plurality of actions comprises a first chronological timeline for a first computer system, and wherein the one or more hardware components associated with the at least one electronic device are further configured to:
monitor activity performed on a second computer system, wherein the monitored activity performed on the second computer system includes one or more actions performed on the second computer system and one or more objects accessed in the one or more actions performed on the second computer system;
determine a second chronological timeline for the one or more actions performed on the second computer system, wherein the one or more actions performed on the second computer system each occur at a respective chronological position in the second chronological timeline; and
display an aggregate timeline for the first computer system and the second computer system on the display device, wherein the aggregate timeline includes the plurality of actions performed on the first computer system and the one or more actions performed on the second computer system.
19. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of actions include each occur at a respective chronological position in the chronological timeline.
20. The system of claim 19, wherein the one or more hardware components associated with the at least one electronic device derives the one or more inferred relationships from the chronological positions for the plurality of actions in the chronological timeline.

What is claimed is:

1. A system for enabling processing over a heterogeneous computer network, said system comprising a financial resolution center adapted to receive a source identification data packet over the network from a network client, wherein the source identification data packet describes a task for which process execution is requested by the client, and the financial resolution center is adapted to provide a task identity to the client before presenting a payload from the network client, wherein the task identity is indicative of the suitability of the task for process execution.
2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous network comprises a network of computational devices.
3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous network is absent information sent thereacross for maintaining secure access thereto.
4. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein the network of computational devices comprises a network of multiple operating platforms.
5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the system further comprises the network client.
6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the source identification data packet comprises:
an identification data set relating to the identity of the network client; and
a request data set relating to the task.
7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the identification data set comprises:
a client identification data set; and
a requester identification data set, wherein the requestor is a user of the client.
8. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the request data set comprises:
a credit request data set relating to an estimated budget for the task; and
a resource request data set related to the estimated resources for the task.
9. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the request data set further comprises a criteria data set relating to the task
10. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein a task identity comprises a financial charging authorization identity, wherein the financial charging authorization identity is uniquely identified with a resource request data set related to the estimated resources for the task.
11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the task identity corresponds to an authentication key, wherein the authentication key is uniquely identified with the resource request data set.
12. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the financial charging authorization identity comprises:
a credit limit data set related to the credit available to the task; and
a client credit data set related to the credit history of the client.
13. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the authentication key is void upon the termination of the task.
14. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the authentication key comprises a PKI key pair.
15. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the financial resolution center comprises a computational device.
16. The system as recited in claim 14, wherein the financial resolution center comprises a processor, a storage device, an evaluation program, and a task identity creation program.
17. The system as recited in claim 16, wherein the evaluation program is adapted to analyze the contents of the source ID packet.
18. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the network further comprises a network host adapted to process a task defined by the request data set.
19. The system as recited in claim 18, wherein the network further comprises a network server adapted to enable the network client and the network host to negotiate a price for the process execution related to the task, wherein the client and host remain anonymous to one another.
20. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the client credit data set comprises:
a client credit index related to the client’s payment history; and
a credit authentication key to allow access to purchasing data associated with the client.
21. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the client associated with the task identity is known only to the financial resolution center and the client.
22. A method of enabling processing over a heterogeneous computer network, said method comprising:
receiving a source identification data packet from a network client wherein the source identification data packet describes a task for which process execution is requested by the client
evaluating the source identification data packet; and
providing a task identity to the network client prior to the network client forwarding data over the network to a network server, wherein the task identity is adapted to indicate suitability of the task for process execution over the network
23. The method as recited in claim 22, further comprising maintaining confidentiality as to the identity of the network client associated with the task identifier.
24. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein receiving a source identification data packet comprises:
receiving a client identification data set;
receiving a credit request data set relating to an estimated budget for the task; and
receiving a resource request data set related to the estimated resources for the task.
25. The method as recited in claim 24, wherein evaluating the source identification data packet comprises:
validating a client identified by the client identification data set included in the source identification data packet; and
verifying the availability of the credit requested by the credit request data set included in the source identification data packet.
26. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein providing a task identity to the network client comprises:
providing a financial charging authorization identity, wherein the financial charging authorization identity is uniquely identified with the task described by the source identification packet; and
providing a task authentication key wherein the authentication key is uniquely identified with the task described by the source identification packet.
27. The method as recited in claim 26, wherein providing the financial charging authorization identity comprises:
providing a credit limit data set related to the credit available to the task; and
providing a client credit data set related to the credit history of the client.
28. The method as recited in claim 27, wherein providing the client credit data set comprises:
providing a client credit index related to the client’s payment history;
providing a client credit authentication key to allow access to purchasing data associated with the client.
29. A computer-usable carrier medium, comprising:
first programming instructions executable on a computational device for receiving a source identification data packet from a network client;
second programming instructions executable on the computational device for evaluating the source identification data packet;
third programming instructions executable on the computational device for providing a task identity to the network client.
30. The computer-usable carrier medium as recited in claim 29, wherein the task identity comprises a unique task authentication key.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method, comprising:
multicasting a discovery packet in an overlay network, which includes a Layer 2 scheme over a Layer 3 network; and
identifying endpoints based on their respective responses to the discovery packet, wherein the endpoints are coupled across a multicast backbone.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
identifying disconnected endpoints in the overlay network based on a lack of responses from the disconnected endpoints.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the endpoints are Virtual Ethernet Modules (VEMs) configured to support one or more virtual machines (VMs).
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the discovery packet is provided in a type-length-value (TLV) format and includes an identifier that identifies a segment of the overlay network.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the overlay network is a selected one of a group of networks, the group consisting of:
a) a Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN);
b) a Network Virtualization Generic Routing Encapsulation (NV-GRE) network; and
c) a media access control (MAC)-in-MAC network.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the overlay network is a multi-tenant VXLAN comprising one or more segments that are identified by a corresponding VXLAN segment identifier (VNI).
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
aggregating the responses into multipoint information; and
displaying the multipoint information.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the discovery packet is a selected one of a Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packet and a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packet.
9. Logic encoded in non-transitory media that includes instructions for execution and when executed by a processor operable to perform operations, comprising: multicasting a discovery packet in an overlay network, which includes a Layer 2 scheme over a Layer 3 network; and
identifying endpoints based on their respective responses to the discovery packet, wherein the endpoints are coupled across a multicast backbone.
10. The logic of claim 9, the operations further comprising:
identifying disconnected endpoints in the overlay network based on a lack of responses from the disconnected endpoints.
11. The logic of claim 9, wherein the endpoints are Virtual Ethernet Modules (VEMs) configured to support one or more virtual machines (VMs).
12. The logic of claim 9, wherein the discovery packet is provided in a type-length-value (TLV) format and includes an identifier that identifies a segment of the overlay network.
13. The logic of claim 9, wherein the overlay network is a selected one of a group of networks, the group consisting of:
d) a Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN);
e) a Network Virtualization Generic Routing Encapsulation (NV-GRE) network; and
f) a media access control (MAC)-in-MAC network.
14. The logic of claim 9, wherein the overlay network is a multi-tenant VXLAN comprising one or more segments that are identified by a corresponding VXLAN segment identifier (VNI).
15. The logic of claim 9, the operations further comprising:
aggregating the responses into multipoint information; and
displaying the multipoint information.
16. The logic of claim 9, wherein the discovery packet is a selected one of a Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packet and a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packet.
17. An apparatus, comprising:
a debug engine;
a memory for storing instructions; and
a processor operable to execute the instructions such that the apparatus is configured for:
multicasting a discovery packet in an overlay network, which includes a Layer 2 scheme over a Layer 3 network; and

identifying endpoints based on their respective responses to the discovery packet, wherein the endpoints are coupled across a multicast backbone.
18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the apparatus is further configured for:
identifying disconnected endpoints in the overlay network based on a lack of responses from the disconnected endpoints.
19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the apparatus is further configured for:
aggregating the responses into multipoint information; and
displaying the multipoint information
20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the discovery packet is provided in a type-length-value (TLV) format and includes an identifier that identifies a segment of the overlay network.