SOASTA Awarded Patent for Visual User Interface of its CloudTest Platform

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) March 8, 2011

SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based performance testing, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,844,036 entitled, "Visual Test Automation Tool for Message-Based Applications, Web Applications and SOA Systems." The patent covers a visual or graphical user interface (GUI) design that expresses a complete programming language for Web and mobile application performance test creation. Analogous to creating a song or video using digital multi-media editing products, this visual interface enables testers and performance engineers to quickly build and maintain complex performance tests using SOASTA CloudTest's task-specific editors.

"SOASTA's unique, patented design delivers a familiar and easy-to-use 'GarageBand-style' visual test creation process that enables users to build complex performance tests in a fraction of the time it takes using older, script-based methodologies," said Ken Gardner, founder and executive chairman at SOASTA. "SOASTA has broken new ground in performance test creation, automation, and scalability. These visual interface editors are a key innovation that can help organizations create and perform quick changes in critical performance tests in a world of rapidly changing Web and mobile applications."

SOASTA CloudTest's visual testing environment is based on a visual mixing board metaphor found in today's popular digital media creation tools. It uses building blocks that allow a user to compose test scenarios by dragging and dropping recorded messages in the form of icons onto different test tracks. Test tracks can represent alternate user scenarios or geographic locations within a larger test composition. The process of editing or assembling test scenarios to generate complex, parallel message streams targeted at websites or mobile applications may be considered analogous to assembling a song, movie, or multi-media presentation in digital media presentation tools. A user may also access the underlying message contents to adjust consumer wait times, eliminate testing third-party components such as CDNs, or meet other specific testing requirements.

Comprehensive performance testing has traditionally required the user to have extensive programming knowledge. In traditional testing software, users must write complex procedural C, or C-like code, or build a long series of messages - typically using Extensible Mark-Up Language (XML) - to simulate real-world traffic. These XML messages are often assembled by hand or using a programming language such as Perl or JAVA. This testing process is prone to errors because even the smallest mistake can invalidate the entire test. Maintaining the scripts and updating them to reflect system changes is also a difficult process.

"The extended time and specific expertise necessary to conduct performance tests using traditional software has prevented many organizations from testing at all, putting their business-critical websites at significant risk. SOASTA CloudTest eliminates these obstacles, empowering organizations to easily and quickly develop tests and run them at scale, using our market-proven visual interface and robust platform that delivers the full power of cloud computing," continued Gardner.

SOASTA CloudTest Platform

Last month, SOASTA launched the latest addition to its CloudTest product line, CloudTest Pro. CloudTest Pro is a new appliance that delivers the world's largest platform for testing the performance of Web and mobile applications. With CloudTest Pro, testing teams have full control to build, execute and analyze performance tests, with the flexibility to launch tests on a single platform that integrates data center infrastructure and private clouds with external resources including public clouds. CloudTest Pro represents the first commercial software solution that seamlessly integrates heterogeneous clouds and other resources to create a truly global test platform.

SOASTA will be demonstrating the CloudTest platform and its patented visual interface on March 8 and 9 at the Cloud Connect show, booth #515. To see a demo online, please go to http://bit.ly/faFEsD.

For more information about SOASTA CloudTest products, visit the SOASTA website at http://www.soasta.com, contact SOASTA at info(at)soasta(dot)com or call 866-344-8766.

About SOASTA

SOASTA is the leader in cloud testing. The company's CloudTest products and services leverage the power of cloud computing to quickly and affordably test consumer-facing Web and mobile applications at scale, providing customers with the confidence that their business-critical Web applications will be reliable and scalable, even under extreme loads. SOASTA's customers include many of today's most successful brands, including American Girl, Chegg, Gilt Groupe, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information about SOASTA, please visit http://www.soasta.com.

Dreamcloud Sleep Mask Inventor Sues Sleep Master for $1 Million Patent Infringement

Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) August 16, 2011

The million dollar lawsuit was filed by the Law Office of Intellectual Property Attorney Robert G. Klein, located at 555 W. 5th Street in Downtown Los Angeles. RG and his legal team (The Hi Fives) are known in the LA legal community for their tenacity and successful prosecutions. From his office perched high above the gritty center of 'LA Noir', Klein has a crusading Batman-like reputation for bringing down patent scofflaws and securing justice for his clients.

The lawsuit was filed July 25th, 2011, in Los Angeles, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California - Case #LACV11-6114.

De Cordova says the heart of the lawsuit is the difference between a design patent and a utility patent, like his. A design patent, like the Gordons', basically gives the holder a license to make an item with a certain look or configuration, and only costs a few hundred dollars from the patent office. The utility patent provides added product protection, but requires a thorough patent search, technical drawings, and prototypes. They are also relatively expensive - usually costing thousands of dollars, as well as maintenance payments at regular intervals. As de Cordova explained, Unfortunately, this lawsuit is necessary to answer the question: 'Which is the real revolutionary, patented sound blocking sleep mask?' - a title Gordon claims for his Sleep Master. De Cordova illustrated the disagreement with two quotes from Gordons websites:

After extensive research, the inventor of SLEEP MASTER(an insomnia sufferer) couldn't find a sleep mask that combined the conditions necessary for deep sleep: light elimination and sound reduction.....Thus was born Sleep Master ..."

With its unique all-in-one, patented design (US Patent No D465, 234S), Sleep Master is the only adjustable sleep mask combining total light elimination and built-in sound muffling, the two conditions necessary for deep restful sleep.

Says de Cordova, "Blocking sound input is very difficult. To make any noticeable difference, it is necessary to have some sort of effective sound barrier material located directly over, or inside, the ears - preferably in both places." De Cordova says his Dreamcloud (also called the Dreamhelmet) is hand-assembled from 23 pieces of material, including two that block sound. As extra sound-blocking insurance, he includes free foam earplugs in the Dreamcloud's secret 'HiPockets'.

Regarding the lawsuit claims against Sleep Master: patent infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition, de Cordova was philosophical: Some say getting a patent is a waste of time and money - that youre better off to just get out there and start selling whatever you want and make as much money as possible. If lawsuits come up, then just use some of the profits to pay for them, as part of the cost of doing business. Call me old fashioned, because I still have faith in patents and the justice system. But, as they say in Vegas, 'Going to court is like rolling the dice.'; so after we have our day in court, I might need to adjust my thinking.

De Cordova originally created his Dreamcloud for adventure travelers. As a combination travelers sleep tool it was an instant hit with travel experts, such as KC Summers of The Washington Post, and Arthur Frommer of Frommer's Budget Travel Guide, who both published glowing articles. Frommer called the mask " ..an ingenious new invention", and The Post said it was ..worth its weight in psychotropic drugs. It has appeared on television numerous times, including Good Morning America, and was even submitted to the Armed Forces for consideration as a tool to help American soldiers sleep in the barracks and battlefield locations. The Dreamcloud website has for years offered free camouflage Dreamhelmets to soldiers on active duty, with any order.

The Dreamhelmet (American flag model, Stars & Stripes) was offered to the US Soccer Team on their way to the 2010 FIFA Finals in South Africa as a way, in de Cordova's words, "..to help them sleep their way to victory." (They didn't take the Dreamhelmets - and they didn't take the World Cup). "Maybe just a coincidence." joked de Cordova.

The versatile Dreamcloud is a combination sleep mask and sound muffling pillow. It also has secret patented HiPockets for storing credit cards, money, and jewelry. One pocket was recently enlarged to hold cell phones and iPods, which can be inserted in the pocket and set for a personal wake-up call. The Dreamcloud is clothed in several attractive fabrics, but only 100% cotton touches the face on the inside. Dreamclouds also convert to simple rectangular pillows or hand warming muffs. Some Dreamcloud models are: Cloud Nine, Teddybear, Adventurer, Rainforest, and Blue Heaven. The newest model, Dreamcatcher, in dark blue suede-like material, is sold on both eBay and Amazon. All styles can be purchased by calling (888) 918-5630, or on company websites at http://www.dreamhelmet.com and http://www.sleepmaskpillow.com - the price is $ 29.95 plus shipping.

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