06th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120036458 | AUTOMATIC CONTEXT PASSING DURING MANAGEMENT APPLICATION NAVIGATION - Various embodiments of systems and methods for automatic context passing during management application navigation are described herein. When management applications work with different managed entities, the managed context is preserved by following the relations between the managed entities. These relations are followed from a mediator framework during the navigation between the management applications. In this manner, a managed application passes context information for one entity type, and second managed application retrieves from the framework context information for different entity type, but the user context information will be preserved as the framework follows the relations between the passed entity and the requested entity types. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036459 | Apparatuses and Methods for Arranging and Manipulating Menu Items - An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit configures a touch screen to display a first set of the menu items in a first row on the touch screen, and to display a second set of the menu items in a second row on the touch screen. Particularly, the first row is lower than the second row, and the menu items in the second set are smaller than the menu items in the first set. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036460 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Creating a New Folder - An electronic device concurrently displays a plurality of user interface objects and a list of folder icons. The list of folder icons includes a first new folder icon. The device detects a first input by a user using a first user input device, selects a folder icon in the list of folder icons in accordance with the first input, and indicates selection of the folder icon in the list of folder icons. The device also detects a second input by the user using a second user input device on one or more of the displayed user interface objects, moves the one or more user interface objects into a folder that corresponds to the selected folder icon, and when the selected folder icon is the first new folder icon, displays a second new folder icon in the list of folders icons. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036461 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR EMERGENCY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - A communications system for emergency services personnel can include portable devices to be carried by emergency services personnel while at an emergency site. The portable devices each may have at least a first transceiver configured to communicate over a first network and the portable devices are configured to communicate with one another. The system may also include a portable gateway apparatus. The portable gateway apparatus may have a portable computer having a graphical user interface (GUI) and a PCMCIA or smaller card that itself includes at least a first radio. The first radio is configured to communicate over the first network to obtain status information from the portable devices carried by the emergency services personnel. The GUI is configured to communicate with the PCMCIA card to display a node map indicating communication links between the portable devices carried by the emergency services personnel. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036462 | MECHANISM TO COMMUNICATE AND VISUALIZE DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF FLOWS IN SOFTWARE - In various embodiments, techniques for communicating and visualizing dependencies between a large number of flows are provided. One or more user interfaces can be generated that enable users to interact with information needed to complete each tasks in an ordered or unordered listing of tasks. In some aspects, elements of these user interfaces can including functionality enabling users to interact with each tasks, navigate to information needed to complete each task. In another aspect, one or more styles of presenting information is provided that facilitates navigation to dependency information for each task in a more useful manner. In further aspects, elements of these user interfaces can visually communicate the above functionality and dependency information as well as additional information about each tasks, such as status information, ownership information, or providing an audit trail. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036463 | METRIC NAVIGATOR - Embodiments of the invention provide a software framework for hierarchically organizing individuals or other objects. For example, the software framework may be configured to hierarchically organize employees at a company. One embodiment provides a technique to aggregate one or more metrics associated with the individuals or objects and display the results in a user-friendly manner. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036464 | POWER GRID VISUALIZATION - A method in a power transmission or distribution system, an operator terminal in such a system as well as to a computer program product from such an operator terminal, wherein the operator terminal presents graphical objects representing electrical power transmission control stations together with graphical objects representing power lines on a display, and changes the degree of abstraction of the presentation based on an operator selection or an own selection. A change from a lower to a higher degree involves moving a group of graphical objects including control stations closer to a condensation center point on a power line that is common for this group, and a change from a higher to a lower condensation degree involves moving the group away from the condensation center point. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036465 | SUPERVISORY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A TECHNICAL SYSTEM, A METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS - A control system and methods for controlling a technical system includes one or more display units constituting a display working environment. The control system further includes an arrangement thumbnail, in turn including graphical representation of the display working environment, the arrangement thumbnail being provided on one of the display units. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE DATA SET NAVIGATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Example systems and methods provide navigation and review of images within a large data set via a handheld or other mobile device. A computer-implemented method includes providing a clinical data set divided into a plurality of portions. Each portion is associated with a graphical representation and includes a plurality of sub-portions. The graphical representation for each portion is displayed to a user such that the plurality of portions can be viewed on a user interface of the device. User navigation is facilitated at various levels of granularity among the plurality of portions via the user interface. User access is allowed to one or more sub-portions within a portion to locate an item of clinical data within a sub-portion. User selection of an item of clinical data within a sub-portion is enabled for viewing via the user interface. A selected item of clinical data is loaded for viewing via the user interface. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TOUR - Systems and methods are provided for producing tours. The system includes, but is not limited to a data storage device that is configured to store a plurality of POI inputs and/or routes. A server is operatively coupled to the data storage device and is configured to host a website accessible via a worldwide computer network, obtain a search criterion from a user accessing the website, retrieve a subset of the POI inputs and/or routes corresponding to the search criterion from the data storage device, arrange the POI inputs and/or routes of the subset in a manner corresponding to the search criterion to form the tour, at least temporarily store the tour in an electronic file compatible with a mobile device, and electronically deliver the electronic file to the user. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036468 | USER INPUT REMAPPING - An apparatus and method for receiving an input at a first location on an input-sensing surface, the first location being mapped to the activation of a first user interface component; receiving a correction of the activation to the activation of a second user interface component; and based at least in part on the correction, remapping subsequent inputs within a locus to the activation of the second user interface component. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036469 | REDUCED KEYBOARD WITH PREDICTION SOLUTIONS WHEN INPUT IS A PARTIAL SLIDING TRAJECTORY - A reduced virtual keyboard system for text input on electronic devices is disclosed. Text input is performed by creating a tracing trajectory. Dynamic prediction solutions are created during the tracing process, thus avoiding the need for a user to complete the entire word trajectory. The system also allows a mixture of tapping actions and sliding motions for the same word. The system may comprise a Long Words Dictionary database having first letters corresponding to predetermined keys of the keyboard. Alternatively, the system uses a Dictionary and a database management tool to find long words. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036470 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a tab browser that can hold a plurality of pieces of screen information provided by a Web server in different windows and that can switch any of the windows into an active state by a user selecting a tab relating to that window. In the information processing apparatus, a determination unit, if a request for screen information from the user is accepted, determines whether there is any window that is not active among the windows held by the tab browser. If it is determined that a window that is not active exists among the windows held by the tab browser, a control unit closes the window that is not active. After the window that is not active was closed, a request unit requests the screen information requested by the user from the Web server. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036471 | TOOL BARS ALONG LATERAL EDGES OF A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE DISPLAY - Tool bars are provided along lateral edges of a display of a handheld computing device. The tool bars include icons that represent application features. The user may interact with the application by touching the icons on the display. Since mobile computing devices are commonly held at the lateral sides of the device, navigation and activation buttons are in close proximity to a natural location of a user's thumbs. The proximity of the tool bars to the thumbs increases efficiency and accuracy when interacting with the application. The tool bars may be displayed in an expanded state such that a text label may be displayed to identify the application feature that each icon represents. The tool bars may also include functionality that displays additional information for any of the application features represented by the icons without navigating the application away from the current screen. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036472 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AN INTERACTIVE OBJECT ON A DISPLAY FRAME BY A NUMERIC CONTROLLER - A display control apparatus is applied to generate an interactive object mark on a display apparatus to enable a user to select the interactive object in a display frame via a numeric controller. The display control apparatus includes a content receiving module, for receiving a display control data; a display content processing module, for generating a display frame and display frame position information according to the display contend data; an interactive object selecting module, for determining a target interactive object according to the position information and an interactive object selecting rule; an on-screen display (OSD) module, for generating an interactive object mark corresponding to the target interactive block; and a frame output control module, for combining the display frame and the interactive object mark to output a combined frame to the display apparatus. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CONTROL THE DISPLAY OF INFORMATION - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a system for displaying information. The system may include an input device, a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain an input from the input device and redraw a plurality of objects in a different location on the display in response to the input from the input device. The plurality of objects may extend beyond the display and the processor may be configured to indicate a logical break in the plurality of objects on the display. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036474 | Table Management - The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer system, and computer program product to manage a display of objects. A processor unit displays a graphical control configured to receive a user input of a value to control the display of a set of objects relative to a group of properties for the set of objects in a table. A processor unit changes the display of the set of objects to a ratio in a plurality of ratios in the table for the set of objects relative to the group of properties for the set of objects in the table based on the value. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036475 | MENU DISPLAY APPARATUS, MENU DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a menu display apparatus that displays a menu of a plurality of applications, including an acquisition unit that acquires display data of content information representing content to be displayed in the menu of the content managed by each application from each application and a display controller that controls a display of the content information in each area according to setting conditions for the area provided for each of the applications in the menu and the display information of the content information acquired from each application. Accordingly, the display of the content information to be displayed in the menu in each area is controlled according to setting conditions for the area provided for each application in the menu and display data of the content information acquired from each application. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036476 | MULTIDIRECTIONAL EXPANSION CURSOR AND METHOD FOR FORMING A MULTIDIRECTIONAL EXPANSION CURSOR - A multidirectional expansion cursor and method of implementing the same are provided. The multidirectional expansion cursor displayed on a display screen and moved under input control of a user includes selection keys, wherein the selection keys are displayed on the display screen such that the selection keys correspond to one or more object selectable on the display screen, and, when an intended object among the one or more objects is selected by input control of a user, the intended object is executed. The method includes generating an expansion cursor displayed on a display screen to be moved under input control of a user, and partitioned by selection keys, making one or more objects selectable on the display screen correspond to the selection keys and displaying them on the display screen, selecting the selection key corresponding to an intended object to execute the intended object among the one or more objects. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036477 | Mini Toolbar User Interface - A toolbar in a client application such as a web browser may be miniaturized. The miniature toolbar annexes itself to a part of the chrome region of the client application, modifying the functionality of the annexed part. The annexed part may be a search box. At least a subset of the features of the toolbar is accessible from the miniature toolbar, but some toolbar features may not be accessible from the miniature toolbar. Some features of the miniature toolbar may replace some features of the annexed search box. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036478 | SEMANTICALLY AWARE, DYNAMIC, MULTI-MODAL CONCORDANCE FOR UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION ANALYSIS - An apparatus includes a data processing system for generating and displaying a semantic type concordance. The data processing system includes memory storing a computer program, a display to display data of a concordance generated by the program, and a processor configured to execute the computer program. The computer program includes instructions for displaying a user interface configured to enable a user to select semantic types and specify at least one text document, generating a concordance of the at least one document based on the semantic types, and displaying data of the generated concordance on the display. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036479 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides an electronic device, the device including, processor, a display, and an interface configured to, detect non-contact proximity of an operation member, determine whether the member is within a first selection region corresponding to a first selection object; and display a second selection object adjacent to the first selection object when it is determined that the member is within the first selection region. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036480 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SLIDER CONTROL - Some embodiments provide a computer program that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling an application. The GUI includes a contiguous two-dimensional sliding region for defining several values. The GUI also includes several sliders for moving within the sliding region. Each slider selects one or more values from the several values based on a position of the slider within the sliding region. The selected values are parameters for controlling one or more operations of the application. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036481 | Method of and System for Browsing and Displaying Items from a Collection - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of browsing and displaying items from a collection is provided. Information about each of plurality of items is stored in machine-readable storage media. A group of the items is selected for display. One of a plurality of image sizes is assigned to each of the items of the group. Images that are representative of each of the items of the group are displayed on a display screen using the assigned image sizes. A particular position on the display screen that is occupied by a particular one of the items of the group can be selected randomly. The image size assigned to each item can be representative of the corresponding item's rank according to at least one sorting criterion. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036482 | Method of and System for Browsing and Displaying Items from a Collection - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of browsing and displaying items from a collection is provided. Information about each of plurality of items in a collection is stored. A plurality of user-entered tags is obtained. Each tag comprises a term associated with one or more of the items in the collection. The tags are stored in machine-readable storage media. An image that is representative of an item is displayed on a display screen along with images that are representative of each of a plurality of associated tags. In response to a user selecting a particular one of the displayed tags, an image representing the selected tag is displayed along with a plurality of images that are representative of items associated with the selected tag. In response to the user selecting a particular one of the displayed items, an image that is representative of the selected item can be displayed along with a plurality of images that are representative of tags associated with the selected item. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036483 | DEVICE, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A CHANGE FROM A FIRST PICTURE TO A SECOND PICTURE ON A DISPLAY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A device is described having a memory storing data specifying a change animation between pictures to be displayed successively on the display, a setting circuit configured to store a setting specifying that a change animation between pictures to be displayed successively on the display is to be carried out in accordance with the specification of the change animation given by the data, a display controller configured to control a display to display a first picture, a detector configured to detect an event which triggers that a second picture is to be displayed on the display, a determination circuit configured to read the setting and to determine, based on the setting, a change animation between the first picture and the second picture, wherein the display controller is configured to control the display to display the change animation, and, after the change animation, to display the second picture. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036484 | RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZATION AND GRAPHICAL INTERACTION MODEL IN IT CLIENT MANAGEMENT - Displaying a hierarchy. A method includes identifying a set of nodes representing sites in a hierarchy. The set of nodes share one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy. The method further includes determining that the set of nodes, as a set, meet a predetermined condition. As a result of the nodes sharing the one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy and as a result of the set meeting the predetermined condition, the method further includes aggregating at least a portion of the set of nodes. The method further includes displaying in a graphical user interface a representation of the hierarchy including displaying the aggregated portion as a single entity in the hierarchy. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036485 | Motion Driven User Interface - A motion driven user interface for a mobile device is described which provides a user with the ability to cause execution of user interface input commands by physically moving the mobile device in space. The mobile device uses embedded sensors to identify its motion which causes execution of a corresponding user interface input command. Further, the command to be executed can vary depending upon the operating context of the mobile device. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036486 | METHOD FOR RESIZING PATTERN TO BE WRITTEN BY LITHOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE, AND CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING METHOD - A method for resizing a pattern to be written by using lithography technique includes calculating a first dimension correction amount of a pattern for correcting a dimension error caused by a loading effect, for each small region made by virtually dividing a writing region of a target workpiece into meshes of a predetermined size, based on an area density of the each small region, calculating a second dimension correction amount in accordance with a line width dimension of the pattern to be written in the each small region, correcting the first dimension correction amount by using the second dimension correction amount, and resizing the line width dimension of the pattern by using a corrected first dimension correction amount, and outputting a result of the resizing. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036487 | FRACTURING CONTINUOUS PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY MASKS - A method, system, and computer usable program product for fracturing a continuous mask usable in photolithography are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first origin point is selected from a set of points on an edge in the continuous mask. A first end point is identified on the edge such that a separation metric between the first origin point and the first end point is at least equal to a threshold value. Several alternatives are determined for fracturing using the first origin point and the first end point. A cost associated with each of the several alternatives is computed and one of the alternatives is selected as a preferred fracturing. Several pairs of origin points and end points are formed from the set of points. Each pair has a cost of a preferred fracturing between the pair. The continuous mask is fractured using a subset of the several pairs. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036488 | Method and Apparatus for Automatic Relative Placement Rule Generation - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that automatically generate relative placement rules. Constructs at the register transfer language-level result in relative placement rules specified at the register transfer language-level. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036489 | DESIGN AND VERIFICATION OF 3D INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - A method of designing and verifying 3D integrated circuits (3D IC) including providing a first layout corresponding to a first device of a 3D IC. The first layout includes a first interface layer. A second layout corresponding to a second device of the 3D IC is also provided. The second layout includes a second interface layer. A verification of the 3D is performed by verifying the first and second interface layers. The verification includes performing at least one of a design rule check (DRC) or a layout-versus-schematic (LVS) on the first and/or second interface layers. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036490 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DESIGN SUPPORTING METHOD - An information processing device comprises, a physical property value generation unit to generate a plurality of physical property values for changing signal propagation time of a target path including a plurality of circuit elements within a predetermined fluctuation range, an element delay calculation unit to calculate delay time of each of signals passing through the circuit element in accordance with each of the generated physical property values and a propagation time calculation unit to calculate the signal propagation time of the target path on the basis of the delay time of the signals. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036491 | Constraint Programming Based Method for Bus-Aware Macro-Block Pin Placement in a Hierarchical Integrated Circuit Layout - Assigning pins to macro-blocks of an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip is described. The macro-block pin assignments are automatically placed using Constraint Programming (CP) techniques to position the pins on the periphery of a macro-block. Bus-ordering and pin-spacing constraints are performed considering all the nets forming the IC design simultaneously. The CP formulation includes modeling detailed and discrete constraints required to achieve an optimal pin-assignment. A stochastic CSP solver is used to define the cost function on search points giving full assignments to all the variables. The macro-block pins are ultimately moved to computed locations. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036492 | AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF CODE DEVELOPER'S PROFILE - The automated analysis of a code developer's profile comprises gathering data relating to code repository updates by a developer, analyzing the gathered data to determine profile attributes of the developer to provide a behavior analysis of the developer and analyzing, using a microprocessor, the profile attributes of the developer with respect to role descriptions. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A USER PROGRAM FOR A SAFETY CONTROLLER - A method for creating a user program for a safety controller designed to control an automated installation having a plurality of sensors and a plurality of actuators involves several programming steps. The user program comprises a first program portion, in which safety-related program variables are processed in failsafe fashion, and comprises at least one second program portion, in which non-safety-related program variables are processed, wherein failsafe processing is not necessary for the non-safety-related program variables within the second program portion. The method steps involve a step of defining a number of safety-related program variables, a step of defining a number of non-safety-related program variables, a step of selecting a safety-related program variable from the number of safety-related program variables, a step of selecting a first non-safety-related program variable from the number of non-safety-related program variables, wherein the first non-safety-related program variable is repeatedly assigned an instantaneous value when the user program is executed, a step of defining at least one assignment condition which is processed when the user program is executed, a step of defining an association which associates the selected first non-safety-related program variable with the selected safety-related program variable, wherein the instantaneous value of the selected first non-safety-related program variable is assigned to the selected safety-related program variable depending on the assignment condition, when the user program is executed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036494 | WEB-BASED CROSS-PLATFORM WIRELESS DEVICE APPLICATION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, AND METHODS THEREFOR - The smart phone and tablet applications are akin to news and media websites available on the Internet in that the applications provide the latest content, richest media experience and an evolving community around the brand. The disclosure provides an efficient and inexpensive process and system for creating and managing of software applications for multiple smart phone and tablet platforms via an online platform. The systems and processes facilitate creation of applications, which communicate with a workflow implemented and powered by an online server. The systems also provides a feed server system that continuously fetches content from various feed sources, aggregates content, and maps into a local data model that can be defined dynamically. The applications are containers that request content from the served based on a token that is preinstalled into the application. The containers are built with the mechanism to bind data to layouts dynamically using the scripting code downloaded from an online server. The data, layouts and code can all be changed by the app creator on the fly. Based on the specifications of the device making the request, the token content is preprocessed and served to the application in the correct format for the receiving device. The apps combined with the online app server also provide mechanism to gather analytics about content consumptions habits, location analytics, and application usage patterns all of which could be used to curate content to be served back to the app users. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036495 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING POLYMORPHIC ELEMENTS AT RUN-TIME IN PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES - Various methods, apparatuses and systems for supporting polymorphic elements at run-time in portable computing devices are provided. One embodiment includes a development tool that can be incorporated into an integrated development environment. (IDE) The development tool is configured to detect when a programming instruction corresponding to a polymorphic element is received. Upon such detection, the developer operating the IDE is prompted to provide specific mapping information such that an application that is finally generated using the IDE avoids or reduces the use of polymorphic elements and thereby reduce computing resource stresses on the device on which such an application is ultimately deployed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036496 | PLUG-IN BASED HIGH AVAILABILITY APPLICATION MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (AMF) - A high availability method enabling addition and removal of an application plug-in comprises launching the high availability system using a processor, said high availability system having an application framework (AMF), requesting data obtainable by the application plug-in from the application framework, and when the application plug-in does not exist in the application framework, registering the application plug-in in the application framework. AMF can comprise a list of additional application plug-ins. The list can comprises a unique id, a name, and a path to dynamic load libraries for each application plug-in. AMF can add the application plug-in by adding the application plug-in dynamic load library files to the installation folder and adding application plug-in information to the configuration file. AMF can remove the application plug-in by deleting the application plug-in dynamic load library files from the installation folder and deleting the application plug-in information from the configuration file. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036497 | INTEGRITY CHECK WHILE COMMITTING CHANGES FROM AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT TO A SOURCE CODE CONTROL SYSTEM - Integrity check is performed on selected items that are to be committed to storage from an integrated development environment. Integrity check utilizes dependency relationship table to determine implicit changes in items occurring due to explicit changes made to the related items. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036498 | MOBILE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - In one embodiment, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed cause a processor to receive, at a mobile device, a first signal including a performance datum associated with a first mobile application resident at the mobile device. The code can further represent instructions that when executed cause the processor to receive, at the mobile device, a second signal including a performance datum associated with a second mobile application resident at the mobile device. The code can further represent instructions that when executed cause the processor to send, based on the first signal and the second signal, a third signal including at least one performance metric based at least in part on the performance datum associated with the first mobile application and the performance datum associated with the second mobile application. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY TESTING A PROGRAM FOR SAFETY-RELATED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS - A method and system are provided for automatically testing a program for automation systems (e.g., programmable logic controllers) with regard to maintaining programming guidelines for program design for automation systems. A copy of at least part of a safety-related program is obtained from a development system for automation systems as a copy to be tested. The program copy to be tested is loaded into a test device for testing programs. The test device has access to programming guidelines for program testing. The test device automatically performs the program test with regard to maintaining programming guidelines, and outputs the test result. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036500 | CHANGE MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that facilitate electronic audit recording and tracking of interactions in an industrial control system via employing a differentiation engine that supplies an object-oriented presentation of an audit trail—and further present a view of a desired segment associated with a PLC program (e.g., a particular run of the PLC program), for an object that an audit is requested for. A user (e.g., a customer of the industrial process) can initially identify an object and subsequently view typically all changes to such identified object. Accordingly, a general requirement for checking every version to determine a change to the object is mitigated. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036501 | Method and System for Capturing System and User Events Using Hardware Trace Devices - A method including creating a storage buffer in a portion of memory of a computing device; inserting an instrumentation point in software of a further computing device, the instrumentation point corresponding to an event monitored by a hardware trace device, data corresponding to the event being stored in the storage buffer; executing the software; and processing the data, wherein the data is processed after a completion of the execution of the code. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036502 | CONSISTENCY CHECKING FOR TRANSLATED INTRUCTIONS - In one embodiment, after translating a plurality of target instructions from a target memory location into a plurality of host instructions, a write operation to a target memory portion which includes said target memory location is detected. In response to the detecting, a copy of the target instructions is stored in a host memory. In response to an attempt to execute the host instructions, the copy is compared with a plurality of current target instructions presently stored in the target memory location. Further, in response to a mismatch based on the comparison, the host instructions are disabled. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036503 | Integrating a new subsystem with an existing computing architecture - Apparatus for integrating a new subsystem with an existing computing architecture, the apparatus includes a first physical interface for receiving data from the existing computing apparatus, a second physical interface for outputting data to the new subsystem; a processing means, and memory having stored thereon a first software module, a plurality of other software modules, and a first stored configuration, wherein the first software module, when executed by the processing means, is configured to read the first stored configuration and to cause the processing means to load a combination of ones of the plurality of other software modules, the combination of ones of the plurality of other software modules and a first subset of the combination of ones of the plurality of other software modules being defined by the first stored configuration, the first subset of the combination being operable, when executed by the processing means, to transform data received at the first physical interface into a form that is compatible with the new subsystem and to output the transformed data to the new subsystem, via the second physical interface. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036504 | Mechanism for Customized Aggregation of System-Specific Information for Post-Installation Suggestions - A mechanism for customized aggregation of system-specific information for Post-Installation Suggestions is disclosed. A method of embodiments includes determining identifying information of a computer system of an end user computing device communicably coupled to an update service computing device, aggregating a plurality of updates, suggestions, and information specific to the computer system of the end user computing device into a customized result list, the plurality of updates, suggestions, and information received from a repository of historical system results and a plurality of third-party vendors and associated with various components of the computer system including the hardware of the computer system and the software of the computer system, and providing the customized result list to the end user computing device. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036505 | Information Processing Apparatus that Automatically and Sequentially Displays Graphical User Interface Images and Recording Medium Storing Program - An information processing apparatus includes a display device; a storage device storing a program that includes a main program and N subsequent programs, and a subsequent processing code; and a processor displaying a GUI screen on the display device in accordance with the programs and writing program termination information in the storage device. The processor (a) terminates the main program after displaying a first GUI screen in accordance with the main program and executing the subsequent processing code, (b) displays a second GUI screen in accordance with a first subsequent program that is specified by the subsequent processing code on the basis of the program termination information and that is executed after the main program, and (c) sequentially displays third and subsequent GUI screens, in accordance with N-1 subsequent programs subsequent to the second subsequent program that is executed after the first subsequent program, until a termination condition is satisfied. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036506 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR LOADING FIRMWARE - In a process for loading firmware via a hub into a group of interconnected control devices, a set of communication frames is transmitted by the hub and addressed to at least one of the control devices in the group for reaching all of the interconnected control devices therein. First and second inquiries regarding validity and invalidity respectively of the set of frames are sent collectively to the group, and based on replies from any of the control devices that have received at least one of the inquiries, the set of frames is re-transmitted or a successive set of frames is transmitted or loading of the firmware is aborted, the process being repeating all portions of the firmware are loaded. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036507 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS ON A DEVICE - The invention provides a system, a method and a computer program product that facilitate access to one or more applications by a computing device. The invention includes determining one or more contexts associated with at least one of the computing device and a user of the computing device, such that the one or more contexts describe at least one of an environment and an activity of the at least one of the user and the computing device. Thereafter at least one contextual tag corresponding to the one or more contexts is generated. Subsequently, the one or more applications associated with the at least one contextual tag are identified and the computing device is enabled to access the one or more applications. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036508 | FRAMEWORK FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC RUN-TIME ENVIRONMENT ACCELERATION USING VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY - In some embodiments, the invention involves a framework for using virtualization technology to efficiently support a domain-specific run-time environment. In at least one embodiment, a framework is utilized to take advantage of virtualization technology (VT) to partition performance critical and non-performance critical tasks of the same domain-specific application. An embodiment of the invention utilizes a general-purpose operating system to execute non-performance critical aspects of a domain, and uses a privileged VT-root mode to execute performance critical aspects of the domain. Another embodiment uses one or more guest VMs to execute the performance critical aspects of the domain-specific run-time environment. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036509 | APPARATUS AND METHODS TO CONCURRENTLY PERFORM PER-THREAD AS WELL AS PER-TAG MEMORY ACCESS SCHEDULING WITHIN A THREAD AND ACROSS TWO OR MORE THREADS - A method, apparatus, and system in which an integrated circuit comprises an initiator Intellectual Property (IP) core, a target IP core, an interconnect, and a tag and thread logic. The target IP core may include a memory coupled to the initiator IP core. Additionally, the interconnect can allow the integrated circuit to communicate transactions between one or more initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and one or more target IP cores coupled to the interconnect. A tag and thread logic can be configured to concurrently perform per-thread and per-tag memory access scheduling within a thread and across multiple threads such that the tag and thread logic manages tags and threads to allow for per-tag and per-thread scheduling of memory accesses requests from the initiator IP core out of order from an initial issue order of the memory accesses requests from the initiator IP core. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036510 | Method for Analysing the Real-Time Capability of a System - The invention provides a method for analysing the real-time capability of a system, in particular a computer system, where various tasks are provided, wherein the tasks are repeatedly performed and wherein an execution of a task is triggered by an activation of the task and this represents an event of the task, wherein a plurality of descriptive elements are provided to describe the time correlation of the events as event stream, wherein the event streams may detect the maximum time densities of the events and/or the minimum time densities of the events, and wherein at least a further descriptive element to which an amount of event streams is assigned and which describes the time correlation of an entirety of events which are captured by at least two event streams. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036511 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR DIE-SINKING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINE - A program analyzing unit that extracts electrode numbers included in a plurality of processing programs, determines duplication of the electrode numbers among the processing programs to display a result of determination, and that stores correspondence between a revision electrode number that is specified by a user and an in-use electrode number that is used in the processing program for each of the processing programs and a program executing unit that executes each of the processing programs by reading the revision electrode number instead of the in-use electrode number used in each of the processing programs based on the stored correspondence at the time of execution of the processing programs are included, and duplication of the electrode numbers used among the programs is easily and certainly resolved. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036512 | ENHANCED SHORTEST-JOB-FIRST MEMORY REQUEST SCHEDULING - In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method includes scheduling a memory request associated with a thread executing on a processing system. The scheduling is based on a job length of the thread and a priority step function of job length. The thread is one of a plurality of threads executing on the processing system. In at least one embodiment of the method, the priority step function is a function of ┌x/2n┐ for x<=m and P(x)=m/2 | 2012-02-09 |
20120036513 | METHOD TO ASSIGN TRAFFIC PRIORITY OR BANDWIDTH FOR APPLICATION AT THE END USERS-DEVICE - A resource reservation method in a network, where the allocation of network bandwidth to each application connected to the network is determined by the end user is provided herewith. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036514 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A COMPILER AND RELATED COMPONENTS FOR STREAM-BASED COMPUTATIONS FOR A GENERAL-PURPOSE, MULTIPLE-CORE SYSTEM - A method and system of compiling and linking source stream programs for efficient use of multi-node devices. The system includes a compiler, a linker, a loader and a runtime component. The process converts a source code stream program to a compiled object code that is used with a programmable node based computing device having a plurality of processing nodes coupled to each other. The programming modules include stream statements for input values and output values in the form of sources and destinations for at least one of the plurality of processing nodes and stream statements that determine the streaming flow of values for the at least one of the plurality of processing nodes. The compiler converts the source code stream based program to object modules, object module instances and executables. The linker matches the object module instances to at least one of the multiple cores. The loader loads the tasks required by the object modules in the nodes and configure the nodes matched with the object module instances. The runtime component runs the converted program. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036515 | Mechanism for System-Wide Target Host Optimization in Load Balancing Virtualization Systems - A mechanism for system-wide target host optimization in load balancing virtualization systems is disclosed. A method of the invention includes detecting a condition triggering a load balancing operation, identifying a plurality of candidate target host machines to receive one or more operating virtual machines (VMs) to be migrated, determining a load per resource on each identified candidate target host machine, and scheduling all operating VMs among all of the identified candidate target host machines in view of an expected load per resource on each candidate target host. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036516 | INTEGRATED EXTENSION FRAMEWORK - Provided are techniques for extending functionality of an application. A request to create an application object is received. In response to receiving the request, the application object is created, and an extension proxy object is created. The extension proxy object is wrapped around the application object. An invocation of a function of the extension proxy object is received from the application object. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036517 | EVENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for user notification involves modifying a title associated with a process to include information about an event that calls for user notification. A method according to the technique may include running a process, processing an event, generating a string of characters that includes information associated with the event, and displaying the string of characters as a title associated with the process. A system constructed according to the technique may include a client, a title array, an event processing engine, and a title provisioning engine. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036518 | EVENT-BASED BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION MODE SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system, apparatus, and method for allocation mode switching on an event-driven basis are described herein. The allocation mode switching method includes detecting an event, selecting a bandwidth allocation mode associated with the detected event, and allocating a plurality of execution cycles of an instruction execution period of a processor core among a plurality of instruction execution threads based at least in part on the selected bandwidth allocation mode. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036519 | CALLING OF LATE BOUND FUNCTIONS FROM AN EXTERNAL PROGRAM ENVIRONMENT - The present invention is directed toward automatically integrating a late bound program language into an external environment. The external environment may be an early bound environment, a late bound environment or some combination thereof. Associated with the late bound program environment is a modular execution engine and an interface mechanism, wherein the interface mechanism is capable of expressing late bound semantics in a format compatible with the external environment. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036520 | Slot-In Optical Disc Drive - A slot-in optical disc drive is provided to comprise a driving element moveably disposed in the optical disc and capable of moving toward a disc loading direction and a disc unloading direction, wherein the driving element has a loading drive groove; a disc loading element pivoted in the optical disc drive, wherein the disc loading element has a loading driven pin for operating with the loading drive groove; a disc unloading element pivoted in the optical disc drive; and an elastic element used for providing an elastic force on the disc unloading element. When the driving element moves toward the disc unloading direction, the loading driven pin relatively moves in the loading drive groove and drives the disc loading element to rotate and push a disc into the optical disc drive. When the driving element moves toward the disc loading direction, the elastic force provided from the elastic element drives the disc unloading element to rotate and push the disc out of the optical disc. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036521 | OPTICAL DISC CLAMPING DEVICE - An optical disc clamping device is provided. A driving bar is moved away from a center hole to synchronously drive a first linking bar and a second linking bar. A first pivotal rod and a second pivotal rod are respectively driven by the first slider and the second slider to move towards the center hole to drive a carrier which carries a chucking disk disposed thereon to contact a spindle motor. A suppresser is fixed at the rim of the center hole to press on the chucking disk to clamp the disc stably. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036522 | TV Shopping System and Method Thereof - A TV shopping system has a shopping service platform gathering and classifying channel information and consumption information for a network device connected with the shopping service platform to download through the Internet and transmit to a TV remote control. The network device can receive shopping information uploaded from the TV remote control and entered by a user and transmit the shopping information to the shopping service platform. The TV remote control has an input module for users to select a command transmitted to the network device. Given the TV shopping system, the shopping service platform can interact with the TV remote control through the network device. Users transmits the shopping information through the TV remote control, the network device to the shopping service platform, and purchases merchandise exhibited on a TV commercial or directly promoted by a shopping channel through the shopping service platform. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036523 | Adaptive Blending of Recommendation Engines - A computer implemented data processing system for adaptively blending a plurality of content recommendation engines. The system comprising: a computer implemented blending module; a plurality of computer implemented recommendation engines in operative association with the blending module; a user terminal in communication with the blending module, wherein the plurality of recommendation engines are in operative association with a content repository; and wherein the user terminal is operable to detect a particular user profile of a particular user associated therewith and deliver the particular user profile to the blending module; and wherein each recommendation engine is associated with specific predefined recommendation rules and operable to select particular content from the content repository in accordance with a particular user profile and predefined recommendation rules; and wherein the blending module is operable to adaptively assign weights to the plurality of recommendation engines for each particular user, responsive to the particular user profile thereof. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING USING AN INTERNET TELEVISION - A system and method for social networking using an Internet television (TV) associated with an Internet TV set-top box are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user is allowed to register in a social network by creating a user profile using the Internet TV set-top box by a content sharing platform. Further, the user profile of the registered user is stored in a profile database by the content sharing platform. Furthermore, the user profile of the registered user is connected with user profiles of other users based on registered user's preferences by the content sharing platform. In addition, the registered user is allowed to organize and store content into different categories based on the registered user's preferences via the Internet TV set-top box by the content sharing platform. Also, the registered user and the other users are allowed to view the organized content by the content sharing platform. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036525 | UNIFIED USER INTERFACE FOR VIEWING DESIRED MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT ON AN INTERNET TELEVISION - A unified user interface for viewing desired multi-media content received from one or more digital media devices and one or more Internet devices on an Internet television (TV) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a raw uncompressed media data is generated from multi-media streams received from the Internet devices. Further, decrypted digital media content is substantially simultaneously generated from received encrypted digital media content received from the digital media devices. Furthermore, mixed multi-media content is generated by processing the raw uncompressed media data and the decrypted digital media content. In addition, any one of the raw uncompressed media data, the decrypted digital media content and the mixed multi-media content is encrypted and transmitted to the Internet TV through a digital media receiver interface. The raw uncompressed media data and decrypted digital media content in the mixed multi-media content are displayed on different portions of a display of the Internet TV. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036526 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN TV PROGRAMS WITH PRODUCT PLACEMENTS - A method embeds product information in TV programs with product placements using an electronic device. The electronic device encloses presented products of the TV program in a graphic box, and defines advertising information related to the presented products. During the TV program broadcasts, the electronic device receives a selection operation on a product displayed on a display device, exports the advertising information of the selected product, and embeds the advertising information of the selected product to the TV program. The advertising information is displayed on the display device concurrently with the TV program. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036527 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN TV PROGRAMS WITH PRODUCT PLACEMENTS - A method embeds product information in TV programs with product placements using an electronic device. The electronic device defines keywords and advertising information of products presented on a TV program, and further defines appearance times of the keywords according to product presented times. During the TV program broadcasts, the electronic device currently displays the keywords and the presented products on a display device according to the appearance times, receives a selection operation on a product presented on the display device, exports the advertising information of the selected product. The advertising information is displayed on the display device. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036528 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING NOTIFICATION ABOUT BROADCAST SERVICE IN A MOBILE BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a notification about broadcasting services in a broadcasting system are provided. The method includes detecting a notification event related to a broadcasting service; generating a notification message about the notification event; determining which channel is used for a transmission of the notification message; and transmitting the notification message to a terminal or a group of terminals over the determined channel. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller operable to monitor for emergency messages over a broadcast network and over the Internet, obtain an emergency message based on the monitoring where the emergency message comprises text data, audio data, schedule data and location data and where the text and audio data correspond to a plurality of languages, generate an alert message comprising the schedule data, the location data and at least a portion of the plurality of languages of the text and audio data, and multicast the alert message over an Internet Protocol Television network to a plurality of set top boxes, wherein each of the set top boxes presents a text alert that is synchronized with an audio alert based on the multicast alert message when the location data corresponds with a location of the set top box. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036530 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS - A digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes: an emergency warning information obtaining unit for receiving a digital broadcast signal and extracting and obtaining emergency warning information from the received digital broadcast signal; a network communication unit for obtaining information on a site related to the emergency by network communication when the emergency warning information obtained by the emergency warning information obtaining unit indicates the occurrence of an emergency; and a display signal generation unit for generating a display signal based on the information on the site obtained by the network communication unit and outputting the display signal to a display unit. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATIC MEDIA PROGRAMMING THROUGH VIEWER PASSIVE PROFILE - The system described herein works by eliminating the need for a viewer to actively select media. Instead, this new method creates a viewer passive profile by analyzing viewer and media metadata and then provides such media directly to the viewer through the system whenever the system is activated or whenever the user wants to watch it (time preference). Active selection of media by the viewer is no longer necessary. Instead, the viewer automatically receives his or her media profile preferences in a timely fashion. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036532 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE WITH REMOTE ACCESS - An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access to program guide functions. An interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided. The system provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive television program guides. Program guide setting include features related to setting program reminders, profiles, program recording features, messaging features, favorites features, parental control features, program guide set up features (e.g., audio and video and language settings), etc. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036533 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE WITH REMOTE ACCESS - An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access to program guide functions. An interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided. The system provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive television program guides. Program guide setting include features related to setting program reminders, profiles, program recording features, messaging features, favorites features, parental control features, program guide set up features (e.g., audio and video and language settings), etc. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036534 | SYSTEM, METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING PUSH-TO-TALK CHAT IN INTERACTIVE MOBILE TV - An apparatus for providing an interactive service during a broadcast service includes a transmitting element and a processing element. The transmitting element is capable of communicating broadcast content of the broadcast service to a plurality of receiving terminals. The processing element is configured to at least partially control the transmitting element. The processing element is configured to communicate with a network device in order to request a program specific group for communication of the interactive service to a receiving terminal that is a member of the program specific group. The interactive service is communicated to the receiving terminal that is a member of the program specific group with reception of the broadcast service. The content associated with the interactive service originates from the receiving terminals. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036535 | SET TOP BOX APPARATUS HAVING A RADIO FREQUENCY ANTENNA AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD - Systems, methods, and devices are provided for receiving media content comprising a plurality of media channels; transmitting information related to the media content to at least one remote control; receiving, responsive to the transmitted information, user input related to different media channels of the plurality of media channels; concurrently tuning, based on the user input, the media content to the different media channels; converting the media content in the different media channels into transmission signals; and selectively transmit the transmission signals to different network devices. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036536 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING INFORMATION IN REAL TIME FOR USE IN A MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Systems and methods are provided for updating a media guidance application with real-time media information for enhancing recording features. In particular, real-time schedule changes, actual and estimated, are provided for updating instructions for a media guidance application operation. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036537 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING INFORMATION IN REAL TIME FOR USE IN A MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION - Systems and methods are provided for updating a media guidance application with real-time media information for enhancing recording features. In particular, real-time schedule changes, actual and estimated, are provided for updating instructions for a media guidance application operation. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036538 | Method for sharing data and synchronizing broadcast data with additional information - A method for sharing data and synchronizing broadcast data with additional information, the broadcast data and the additional information being provided by at least two distinct sources to a multimedia device. The method comprises steps of:
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20120036539 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN TV PROGRAMS WITH PRODUCT PLACEMENTS - A method searches product information in TV programs with product placements using an electronic device. The electronic device encloses presented products of the TV program in a graphic box, and defines keywords related to the presented products. During the TV program broadcasts, the electronic device receives a selection operation on a product displayed on a display device, and uses a search engine to search for related information of the selected product according to keywords. The searched information is displayed on the display device for users to browse. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036540 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING PRODUCT INFORMATION IN TV PROGRAMS WITH PRODUCT PLACEMENTS - A method searches product information in TV programs with product placements using an electronic device. The electronic device defines keywords and appearance times of products presented on a TV program. During the TV program broadcasts, the electronic device displays the keywords of the presented products on a display device according to the predetermined appearance times. A product is selected from the presented products after any of the keyword presented on the TV program is tapped. The electronic device uses a search engine to search for related information of the selected product according to the tapped keyword, and displays the searched information on the display device for users to browse. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036541 | VIDEO CONTENT DELIVERY OVER WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) GUARANTEES - A device receives, from a content provider, traffic parameters associated with a video content request received from a fixed user device connected to a wireless access network, and determines, based on the traffic parameters, a trigger for creating a dedicated bearer for the fixed user device in the wireless access network. The device also provides the trigger to the wireless access network, where the wireless access network creates the dedicated bearer for the fixed user device based on the trigger, and the wireless access network assigns quality of service (QoS) parameters, based on the traffic parameters, to video content delivered to the fixed user device. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036542 | HANDHELD MULTIMEDIA RECEIVING AND SENDING DEVICES - A handheld multimedia device connect to the internet to obtain internet content and transmits formatted content, including internet content, to a display, such as a television. Thus, users of the multimedia device have a platform for watching internet television or movies, listening to internet music, and otherwise experiencing internet content without the need to connect a conventional computer to the television. Moreover, in some embodiments, multimedia device allows for seamless interaction with the internet by using the devices as a pointing device—users point the device where they desire a cursor to be on the screen. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A SET-TOP BOX BASED ON DEVICE EVENTS - An approach is provided for controlling a set-top box based on a device event. A set-top box detects a wireless device. A communication channel is established with the wireless device configured to initiate a voice call. A command message is received, by the set-top box, over the communication channel. The command corresponds to a device event experienced by the wireless device. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036544 | Signaling Attributes for Network-Streamed Video Data - In one example, an apparatus for signaling information for video data includes a processor configured to receive video data for two or more views of a scene, form a representation comprising a subset of the two or more views, and send, to a client device, as a part of a manifest of the representation, information indicative of a maximum number of views in the representation that can be targeted for output. An apparatus for receiving information for video data may receive the manifest including the information indicating the maximum number of views and request at least a portion of the video data of the representation based at least in part on a maximum number of views that can be output by the apparatus and the information indicative of the maximum number of views in the representation that can be targeted for output. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING ADDRESS OF VIDEO TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SERVER - A method, a system and an apparatus for obtaining an address of a video transmission management server are disclosed. The method includes: sending a request for obtaining location information of the video transmission management server to a host parameter configuration server, where the video transmission management server is an ARQ server, a FCC server or a FEC server, or any combination thereof, and the host parameter configuration server is a DHCP server or a PPP server; and receiving a response returned by the host parameter configuration server, and obtaining the location information of the video transmission management server. In this way, the interaction procedure is simplified and the user experience is improved. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036546 | Apparatuses and methods for translating multiple television control protocols at the television side - An apparatus includes a memory, a communications buss coupled to the memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the communications bus and the processor is programmed to: receive a user command signal, the user command signal is initiated by a user of a television set; pass the user command signal to an external control unit (ECU); receive a television command signal from the ECU in response to the user command signal; translate the television command signal into an IM TV protocol command, wherein a translation protocol is selected for the ECU from n possible translation protocols which are stored in the memory; and transmit the IM TV protocol command to the television. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036547 | Moving image distribution system and moving image distribution server - A moving image distribution server for distributing to a reproducing apparatus moving image data including video data and audio data and capable of prescribing decoding times and reproducing times for the video data and the audio data, the moving image distribution server including a data storage unit for storing in advance the moving image data including information as to the decoding times and the reproducing times for the video data and the audio data, a phase adjustment variable storage unit for storing a predetermined phase adjustment variable, and a first rewriter for reading the moving image data stored in the data storage unit, and changing the information included therein as to the decoding times or the reproducing times based on the predetermined phase adjustment variable to adjust the phase relationship between the video data and the audio data. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036548 | Method for handling of audio/video signals and corresponding device - The present invention generally relates to a method and device for handling of audio/video signals originating from a mix of analog and digital sources of audio/video signals. In particular, the present invention relates to optimization of hardware resources and of wiring needed for the interconnection of various analog and digital sources of audio/video signals. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH A SET-TOP BOX BASED ON SENSOR EVENTS FROM A USER DEVICE - An approach is provided for controlling a set-top box based on sensor triggered events on a user device. A set-top box receives a control message from a user device, wherein the control message specifies an event corresponding to one or more sensors of the user device. The set-top box maps the event to an activity associated with an application that is executed by the set-top box. Also, the set-top box presents media content provided by the application according to the mapped activity. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036550 | System and Method to Measure and Track Trust - In some embodiments, a method of determining an overall level of trust of a system comprises receiving a level of trust for each of a plurality of elements of the system. A weight for each of the plurality of elements is received, each weight indicating an influence of each of the plurality of elements on the trust of the system. A contribution for each element to the overall level of trust of the system is determined based on the level of trust for each element and the weight for each element. The overall level of trust of the system is determined based on the determined contribution for each element. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036551 | Uniform modular framework for a host computer system - A security framework for a host computer system which allows a host to control access to a compliant security token by ensuring enforcement of established security policies administered by a middleware application. Processing between the host computer system and the security token is performed using one or more modular security application agents. The modular security application agents are counterpart applications to security applications installed in the security token and may be retrieved and installed upon to ensure compatibility between counterpart token and host security applications. The security policies are a composite of host security policies and token security policies which are logically combined by the middleware application at the beginning of a session. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036552 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DEVICES AND METHOD OF OPERATION OF SAME - A managed services platform and method of operation of same are described herein. The platform can include a device management service (DMS) server in which the DMS server can act as a gateway for communications with one or more computing devices, and the computing devices are associated with a first entity. The platform can also include an application service (AS) server in which the AS server is communicatively coupled with the DMS server. When a first computing device contacts the DMS server, the DMS server is operable to provide a bundle to the first computing device. As an example, the bundle contains content that at least includes one or more configuration messages and an application set that contains one or more predefined applications. The content of the bundle can be determined at least in part by the first entity. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036553 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING TRUSTED NETWORK CONNECT FRAMEWORK OF TRI-ELEMENT PEER AUTHENTICATION - The present invention provides a method for establishing the trusted network connect framework of tri-element peer authentication. The method includes: the implement of trusted network transport interface (IF-TNT); the implement of authentication policy service interface (IF-APS); the implement of trusted network connect (TNC) client-TNC access point interface (IF-TNCCAP); the implement of evaluation policy service interface (IF-EPS); the implement of integrity measurement collector interface (IF-IMC); the implement of integrity measurement verifier interface (IF-IMV); and the implement of integrity measurement (IF-IM). The embodiments of the present invention can establish the trust of the terminals, implement the trusted network connect of the terminals, implement the trusted authentication among the terminals, implement the trusted management of the terminals, and establish the TNC framework based on tri-element peer authentication (TePA) by defining the interfaces. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036554 | ACCESS AUTHORIZATION HAVING EMBEDDED POLICIES - A facility for receiving an embedded policy is provided. The facility checks an application program image for the presence of an embedded policy. If an embedded policy is detected, the facility extracts the policy from within the application program image. The facility may then apply the extracted policy to the application program image before the application program image is loaded and/or executed. Moreover, the facility may check the application program image's integrity prior to extracting the embedded policy. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036555 | INFORMATION SHARING DEVICE, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - The load of setting and managing the access rule for access control is large. Provided is an information sharing system comprising an information gathering means, a transportable storage device for storing at least first information and second information, a certified acquisition request generation means, and a certified acquisition request processing means, sheering the information gathering means gathers the first information and the second information from the transportable storage device, the certified acquisition request generation means transmits a certified acquisition request including certification information comprising at least part of the second information, and the certified acquisition request processing means determines, on the basis of the result of checking whether or not the certification information included in the received certified acquisition request matches any part of the first information, whether or not to transmit the first information to a device equipped with the certified acquisition request generation means that is a transmission source of the certified acquisition request. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036556 | Input to Locked Computing Device - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving at a computing device that is in a locked state, one or more user inputs to unlock the device and to execute at least one command that is different from a command for unlocking the device. The method further includes executing in response to the user inputs to unlock the device an unlocking operation by the device to convert the device from a locked state to an unlocked state. The method further includes executing the at least one command in response to receiving the user inputs to execute the at least one command. The at least one command executes so that results of executing the at least one command are first displayed on the device to a user automatically after the device changes from the locked state to the unlocked state. | 2012-02-09 |
20120036557 | WI-FI ACCESS METHOD, ACCESS POINT AND WI-FI ACCESS SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a Wi-Fi access method, access point and a Wi-Fi access system. It is related to the field of communication technology and is devised for realizing the security access of a Wi-Fi device with relatively low costs. The Wi-Fi access method comprises: receiving an access request initiated by a wireless client terminal; sending an access prompt to an access point user based on the access request; receiving an access control instruction returned by the access point user; when the received access control instruction is a permitting access instruction sent by the access point user, performing access processing and establishing a Wi-Fi connection between the wireless connection terminal and the access point based on the permitting access instruction; or denying the access of the wireless client terminal based on a denying access control when the received access control instruction is the denying access instruction sent by the access point user. The present invention may cause a Wi-Fi device to access an access point (AP). | 2012-02-09 |