21st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110126010 | SERVER, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IDENTITY - Disclosed herein is a system and method for managing identity. The system includes a mobile terminal, a web server, and a service terminal. The mobile terminal includes a smart card on which a management server for managing user identity is mounted. The web server generates the user identity and provides the generated identity to the management server over a wired/wireless network. The service terminal receives a required identity from the mobile terminal using Near Field Communication (NFC). | 2011-05-26 |
20110126011 | METHOD OF USER-AUTHENTICATED QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION - A method of user-authenticated quantum key distribution according to the present invention shares a position having the same basis without making public basis information using previously shared secret keys and authenticates a quantum channel by confirming whether there is the same measured outcome at that position, in order to secure unconditional security of BB84 quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE DATA COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION - A data provider generates a data encryption key and an identifier, uses the data encryption key to encrypt data, sends the encrypted data and the identifier to a data requestor, and sends the data encryption key and the identifier to a crypto information server. The data requestor sends the identifier to the crypto information server to request the encryption key. The crypto information server authenticates the data requestor and, contingent on that authentication, sends the data encryption key to the data requestor. If a plurality of data instances are captured, then for each instance, a respective data encryption key and identifier are generated. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126013 | Systems and Methods to Securely Generate Shared Keys - A method for secure bidirectional communication between two systems is described. A first key pair and a second key pair are generated, the latter including a second public key that is generated based upon a shared secret. First and second public keys are sent to a second system, and third and fourth public keys are received from the second system. The fourth public key is generated based upon the shared secret. A master key for encrypting messages is calculated based upon a first private key, a second private key, the third public key and the fourth public key. For re-keying, a new second key pair having a new second public key and a new second private key is generated, and a new fourth public key is received. A new master key is calculated using elliptic curve calculations using the new second private key and the new fourth public key. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126014 | Event Triggered Pairing of Wireless Communication Devices Based on Time Measurements - An event-triggered pairing mechanism allows pairing wireless devices having short range interfaces (e.g., Bluetooth devices) by bumping the wireless devices together. A wireless device being paired with a connecting device detects a bump event, determines time information about the bump event, and then generates a private session key based on the time information. Once the devices are paired and the private session key is generated, user content can be securely exchanged between the devices. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126015 | SINK AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system is provided for authentication between a mobile device (MD) and a sink using a mobile communication network. If a sink authentication request for the sink is received from the MD, a base station (BS) sends a sink authentication response including sink authentication information for the sink, to the MD. The MD forwards the sink authentication request for the sink to the BS, and if a sink authentication response is received from the BS, authenticates the sink using the received sink authentication information. The sink performs authentication with the MD. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE WIRELESS MULTI-HOP NETWORK FORMATION - The present invention provides methods and devices for a security architecture for use in wireless multi-hop networks. A method for implementing pair-wise encryption key establishment, network node authentication and determining tunnel encryption keys is provided in a following manner. In a multi-hop wireless network including a plurality of network nodes, pair-wise security is established between pairs of neighbouring network nodes of the plurality of network nodes. For example, pair-wise security is established in the form of temporal pair-wise encryption keys. Following establishment of pair-wise security between pairs of neighbouring network nodes, for a pair of network nodes that are not neighbours, tunnel security is established between the pair of network nodes using tunnel encryption keys derived by the pair of network nodes on an ad hoc basis. The tunnel encryption keys are used to form the connection between non-neighbouring network nodes so as to avoid the hop-by-hop encryption/decryption used in conventional multi-hop wireless systems. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126017 | Methods, Nodes, System, Computer Programs and Computer Program Products for Secure User Subscription or Registration - The invention relates to secure user subscription or registration to a service at least partly enabled in a network. The network comprises user equipment adapted to perform generic bootstrapping. A network application function provides the service. A bootstrapping server function generates a bootstrapping transaction identifier. A home subscriber system stores a user profile, comprising information relating to the user and at least one service provided by the network application function. Corresponding communication network nodes and methods of their operation are also disclosed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126018 | Methods and systems for transaction digital watermarking in content delivery network - Methods and systems for applying a transaction digital watermark to content being downloaded over a content delivery network. The digital watermark carries information about the transaction pursuant to which the content was downloaded, which can be useful in establishing a “chain of custody” that facilitates piracy detection and/or other tracking and monitoring applications. Moreover, the digital watermark is applied by an edge caching server, which enables downstream entities in the content delivery chain, such as Internet service providers, to influence the information carried in the digital watermark and enables transaction details that become known after the content leaves the content provider network to be carried in the digital watermark, but without opening up a security hole at the end user premises. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126019 | ALTERING FUNCTIONALITY FOR CHILD-FRIENDLY CONTROL DEVICES - A method of interacting with a digital content device is described. The method includes defining a collection of digital content available via the digital content device. A specific control device is associated with the collection of digital content. A control signal is received from the control device. The digital content device allows the control device to access digital content included in the collection. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126020 | CONTENT DISCLOSURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUARANTEEING DISCLOSED CONTENTS IN THE SYSTEM - Means for confirming the validity of the contents of a change made to a disclosed content is provided for use in a content disclosure system in which a signed content may be modified and the validity of the modified signed content may be verified using a verification key corresponding to a signature on the content before the modification. When a signed changed-content is created based on a request to change a signed content, a signed content change device connected to the content disclosure system generates restoration validity proving data for restoring the signed changed-content to a state before the change and proving the validity of the restored Contents. A verification key of the signed content, the signed changed-content, and the restoration validity proving data are provided to allow a third party to confirm the validity of the content. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SECURE AND NON-SECURE DATA - A communications system, and a method suitable for use therein, are described which are suitable for transmitting and receiving both secure and non-secure data. The system comprises: means for transmitting data comprising both ciphered secure data and unciphered non-secure data; means for receiving transmitted data; means for deciphering the received data to produce deciphered data; and means for: validating the deciphered data to produce a first validation result and outputting the deciphered data depending upon the first validation result; or validating the received data to produce a second validation result and outputting the received data depending upon the second validation result; or validating the deciphered data to produce a first validation result and outputting the deciphered data depending upon the first validation result, and also validating the received data to produce a second validation result and outputting the received data depending upon the second validation result. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126022 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ADVANCED ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE FOR AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A process for the generation of an advanced electronic signature of an electronic document ( | 2011-05-26 |
20110126023 | Systems And Methods For Data Security - A system comprises a basic-input-output-system (“BIOS”), a disk drive, and a security system configured to prevent unauthenticated access to the disk drive. For each of at least two users out of a plurality of users, the BIOS authenticates the user based on the user's token. The BIOS also accesses secured data based on the authentication, and provides the secured data to the security system without input from the user. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126024 | Method and system for combining a PIN and a biometric sample to provide template encryption and a trusted stand-alone computing device - Biometric data, suitably transformed are obtained from a biometric input device contained within a stand-alone computing device and used in conjunction with a PIN to authenticate the user to the device. The biometric template and other data residing on the device are encrypted using hardware elements of the device, the PIN and Password hash. A stored obfuscated password is de-obfuscated and released to the device authentication mechanism in response to a successfully decrypted template and matching biometric sample and PIN. The de-obfuscated password is used to authenticate the user to device, the user to a remote computer, and to encrypt device data at rest on the device and in transit to and from the remote computer. This creates a trusted relationship between the stand-alone device and the remote computer. The system also eliminates the need for the user to remember and enter complex passwords on the device. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126025 | Active Intelligent Content - Active intelligent content is aware of its own timeline, lifecycle, capabilities, limitations, and related information. The active intelligent content is aware of its surroundings and can convert automatically into a format or file type more conducive to the device or environment it is stored in. If the active intelligent content does not have the required tools to make such a transformation, it is self-aware enough to seek out the tools and/or information to make that transformation. Such active intelligent content can be used for enhanced file portability, target advertising, personalization of media, and selective encryption, enhancement, and restriction. The content can also be used to collaborate with other content and provide users with enhanced information based on user preferences, ratings, costs, genres, file types, and the like. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126026 | EFFICIENT STORAGE OF ENCRYPTED DATA IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins with a processing module obtaining data to store and determining whether substantially similar data to the data is stored. When the substantially similar data is not stored, the method continues with the processing module generating a first encryption key based on the data, encoding the first encryption key into encoded data slices in accordance with an error coding dispersal storage function, and storing the encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory. The method continues with the processing module encrypting the data using an encryption key of the substantially similar data in accordance with an encryption function to produce encrypted data, compressing the encrypted data in accordance with a compression function to produce compressed data, storing the compressed data when the substantially similar data is stored. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126027 | SECURE SEED MEDIA - Accessing a data set with secret and non-secret data. A method includes accessing a data set image. The data set image comprises secret data. The data set image is derived from an authorized data set associated with a master key that authorizes access to the secret data. The master key is not provided with the data set image. The method further comprises restoring the data set image to a computing system to create a degraded data set. Data in the degraded data set other than the secret data is accessed without restoring the master key. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126028 | Fast Turn-On/Off for Energy Efficient Ethernet - In described embodiments, turn-on time for active portions of an Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) device is improved by storing energy in a corresponding capacitor bank through a bidirectional device from a certain node in the device during an active state, continuing to store the energy when the device enters a Low Power Idle (LPI) state, and then allowing the energy to return to the node through the bidirectional device when the device returns to an active state. During active mode, the bidirectional device controls the capacitor bank so as to charge relatively slowly to store energy, and when the device transitions to LPI, the charge is maintained in the capacitor bank. When the device returns to the active state, the bidirectional device allows the capacitor bank to discharge relatively rapidly to the node, thereby improving the turn-on time of the circuit elements coupled to the node. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126029 | DISPLAY PANEL POWER PREDICTION - Power consumption data for a first group of brightness settings is stored in a memory. At least a portion of the power consumption data is used to predict power consumption data for a second group of brightness settings. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126030 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device comprising: a wiring substrate having a first power-supply wiring to which a first power-supply potential is applied and a second power-supply wiring to which a second power-supply potential lower than the first power-supply potential is applied; a microcomputer having first and second power-supply terminals in which the first power-supply terminal is connected to the first power-supply wiring and the second power-supply terminal is connected to the second power-supply wiring; and a connector connected to the first and second power-supply wirings, wherein an inductor element for correcting an impedance error of the first and second wirings is connected in series to either one of the first and second power-supply wirings. According to such configuration, unnecessary electromagnetic radiation posed by a common current can be suppressed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126031 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF POWERING THE SAME - The present invention is related to a vehicle-mounted multimedia apparatus | 2011-05-26 |
20110126032 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR POWER-OVER-ETHERNET-CAPABLE SWITCH - A system and method is described that allows a PoE-capable switch to selectively provide power to one or more remote devices in an instance where power being supplied to the switch itself is limited or failing. In one embodiment, the switch receives a notification from an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) and, in response to receiving the notification, selectively provides power to one or more devices powered by the switch. Selectively providing power to one or more of the devices may include providing power to only a subset of the devices, providing a different amount of power to different ones of the devices, or providing power for different durations to different ones of the devices. In an alternate embodiment, in response to receiving the notification, the switch communicates with a remote device and causes the remote device to activate at least one power saving feature. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE POWER MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the invention implement one or more power management policies on one or more devices in order intelligently to manage the finite amount of battery power available while maximizing synchronization between connected devices. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126034 | POWER MANAGEMENT UTILIZING PROXIMITY OR LINK STATUS DETERMINATION - Methods and apparatuses for power management are disclosed. In one example, proximity of link status of a wireless communication device is used to determine whether a power conservation mode is implemented. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126035 | ENERGY CONSERVATION CONTROL METHOD FOR NETWORK SYSTEM - In an electric power consumption control method of a plurality of network connection devices connected to a network, the plurality of network connection devices are grouped, and on the basis of the traffic amount of the grouped network connection devices, the grouped network connection devices are controlled by a group unit. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126036 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first control unit configured to control an operation of an image forming unit, and a second control unit configured to be capable of communicating with the first control unit and transmitting information associated with forming an image to the first control unit. The image forming apparatus has a normal operation mode in which an image forming operation is performed, a first power-saving operation mode in which an operation of the first control unit is stopped, and a second power-saving operation mode in which supplying of electric power to the second control unit is stopped. In the first power-saving operation mode, the second control unit determines whether to switch into the normal operation mode from the first power-saving operation mode. In the second power-saving operation mode, the first control unit determines whether to switch into the normal operation mode from the second power-saving operation mode. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126037 | POWER SAVING METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Provided is The present invention provides a method to dynamically control the sleep window or the listening window of a sleep mode in order to minimize power consumption of a mobile terminal. The power saving method relates to a method for a transmitter of a communication system that controls data transmission to a listening window and a sleep window to control the sleep window, wherein if the data transmission is generated during the listening window, the transmitter gradually decreases a sleep window subsequent thereto by a predetermined ratio, and to the contrary, if the data transmission is not generated during the listening window, the transmitter gradually increases a sleep window subsequent thereto by a predetermined ratio. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126038 | TIME DELAY COMPENSATION IN POWER SYSTEM CONTROL - A method and controller are provided for the compensation of time delays in remote feedback signals in power system control. The method includes converting the time delay into a phase shift and calculating four compensation angles from the phase shift. The optimal compensation angle is determined and applied to the remote feedback signals. A technique of equipping a controller with a global clock is also disclosed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126039 | MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION, MEMORY DEVICE, AND MEMORY SYSTEM - A memory device comprising: at least one bank of memory cells that receives a first clock for clocking commands and a second clock for clocking data, wherein the second clock is activated based on a first command and deactivated based on a second command. The memory device further including a clock activation circuit configured to generate an enable signal based on the first command and a disable signal based on the second command, and a clock generator configured to generate the second clock based on a reference clock upon receipt of the enable signal. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126040 | IDENTIFYING SYNTAXES OF DISPARATE COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER MESSAGE - A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying syntaxes of disparately syntaxed components of a message file are presented. A computer displays a message file that comprises disparately syntaxed components. A processor detects a selection of a selected component from the disparately syntaxed components, and displays a description of a syntax used by the selected component on a user interface. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126041 | TRANSPORT CONTROL SERVER, NETWORK SYSTEM AND TRASNPORT CONTROL METHOD - The time required for a path recalculation and a path switching upon occurrence of a failure is shortened. A path generation unit of a transport control server (TCS) S- | 2011-05-26 |
20110126042 | WRITE THRESHOLD UTILIZATION IN A DISPERSED STORAGE SYSTEM - A method begins with a processing module sending a plurality of dispersed storage write commands to plurality of dispersed storage (DS) units for storing a plurality of encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module receiving, within a time period, acknowledgements from at least some of the plurality of DS units to produce received acknowledgements. The method continues with the processing module determining whether a number of received acknowledgements compares favorably to a write threshold. The method continues with the processing module changing at least one of the write threshold and at least one of the plurality of DS units when the number of received acknowledgements does not compare favorably to the write threshold. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126043 | Operating System-Firmware Interface Update Recovery - Operating system (‘OS’)-firmware interface update recovery including determining, for each of a plurality of available OS-firmware interface images for booting a computer, whether each available OS-firmware interface image is corrupted or uncorrupted; setting, for each corrupted OS-firmware interface image, a predictive failure analysis (‘PFA’) bit in nonvolatile memory available to the OS-firmware interface update recovery module; selecting an uncorrupted OS-firmware interface image; initiating a boot for the computer with the selected OS-firmware interface image; determining whether a previous update to one of the available OS-firmware interface images was interrupted; and notifying a user that the previous update was interrupted if the previous update to one of the available OS-firmware interface images interrupted. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126044 | METHOD FOR SYSTEM RECOVERY AND APPARATUS SUPPORTING THE SAME - A system recovery method and an apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. A software image is downloaded, and a system is loaded with the downloaded software image, and the system is recovered by a software image used before the updating, if the system loading fails. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126045 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE STRIPING OF RAID GROUPS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A data memory system is described, where there may be an asymmetry in the time needed to write or erase data and the time needed to read data. The data may be stored using a RAID data storage arrangement and the reading, writing and erasing operations on the modules arranged such that the erasing and writing operations may be performed without significant latency for performing a read operation. Where a failure of a memory module in the memory system occurs, methods for recovering the data of the failed module are disclosed which may selected in accordance with policies that may relate to the minimizing the possibility of irretrievable data loss, or degradation of latency performance. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126046 | SAVING INFORMATION TO FLASH MEMORY DURING POWER FAILURE - An embodiment is a method and apparatus to save data during power failure. A power supply generator generates operating voltages to a circuit from a generator supply source. A power monitor monitors a normal supply voltage and a backup supply voltage to provide a normal supply voltage to the generator supply source in a normal mode and to provide a backup supply voltage to the generator supply source in a power failure mode. A data transfer circuit transfers data from a volatile memory in the circuit to a non-volatile memory during the power failure mode. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126047 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODELS IN AN INTELLIGENT WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The system and method described herein for managing information technology models in an intelligent workload management system may include a computing environment having a model-driven, service-oriented architecture for creating collaborative threads to manage workloads. In particular, the management threads may converge information for managing planned changes and recovery processes for version-controlled snapshots of the information technology models. For example, a discovery engine may enrich models of an infrastructure with identity information obtained from an identity vault and the infrastructure itself, and a management infrastructure may then manage planned changes to the infrastructure model. In particular, the management infrastructure may construct implementation plans that coordinate interaction between managed entities to implement the planned changes, and may further detect drifts between operational states and planned states for the infrastructure models. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126048 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING BASIC INPUT OUTPUT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER DEVICE THEREOF - A method for recovering a basic input output system (BIOS) and a computer device thereof are disclosed. The computer device includes a motherboard, a power button, a BIOS storage unit, and an embedded controller. The BIOS storage unit is disposed on the motherboard, and it stores a first boot block code and a second boot block code. When the computer device is connected with a power supply to supply standby power to the motherboard, and the power button is not pressed, the embedded controller detects whether the first boot block code is damaged. If the first boot block code is damaged, the embedded controller recovers the first boot block code via the second boot block code. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126049 | ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR HARDWARE-ASSISTED PROCESSOR CHECKPOINTING AND ROLLBACK - A method to enable an adaptive fault tolerance in a data system is provided. The method includes communicatively coupling a radiation hardened hardware element to at least one interrupt service routine application in a respective at least one processing element, triggering an interrupt service routine by an interrupt signal received from the radiation hardened hardware element at the interrupt service routine application after an execution of a code block by the at least one processing element, and inspecting the internal state of the at least one processing element to determine if an error occurred. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126050 | METHOD FOR QUICKLY RECOVERING FROM TASK INTERRUPTION - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for assisting a user in recovering from a task interruption. During operation, the system records the user's activity while the user is performing a task, and detects an interruption to the task. Upon the detection of the interruption, the system transfers to a storage the recorded user activities during a predetermined time period before the interruption. The system presents a visual representation of the recorded activities to the user, thereby assisting the user in recovering from the task interruption. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126051 | Error recover within processing stages of an integrated circuit - An integrated circuit includes a plurality of processing stages each including processing logic | 2011-05-26 |
20110126052 | Generation of Test Information for Testing a Circuit - System and method for generating test information for a physical circuit. A virtual circuit may be generated. First user input specifying one or more test conditions and/or instrument settings for the virtual circuit may be received. In response to the first user input, first test information may be generated. The first test information may be configured for use in performing one or more virtual tests on the virtual circuit. Second user input requesting that second test information be generated based on the first test information may be received. The second test information may be automatically generated based on the first test information in response to the second user input, without user input specifying the one or more test conditions and/or instrument settings. The second test information may be configured for use in performing one or more physical tests on a physical circuit corresponding to the virtual circuit. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126053 | Revenue Assurances Proactive Testing Method and System - A computer readable storage medium stores a set of instructions executable by a processor. The set of instructions is operable to receive an image of a switch in a communications network, the image being a representation of an internal logic of the switch; simulate a plurality of communication sessions using the image; generate a plurality of simulated communication session records corresponding to the plurality of simulated communication sessions; and evaluate a performance of the switch by comparing the plurality of simulated communication session records to a set of expected communication session records, the expected set of communication set of records corresponding to the set of simulated communication sessions. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126054 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING INTELLIGENCE FROM FORMAT CHANGE REQUESTS - Data indicating a problem in a network is derived by collecting reformatting requests from devices in the network. The reformatting requests are generated by the devices in response to problems the devices experience in communicating using the network. The reformatting requests are correlated to determine a pattern in the reformatting requests over a period of time, and data indicating a problem in the network is derived based on the pattern. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126055 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DIAGNOSIS - An information processing apparatus includes: an information collecting unit that collects information including a diagnosis history regarding a component of the information processing apparatus in application processing by the information processing apparatus; a diagnosis operation determination unit that determines a priority level setting for offline diagnosis of the information processing apparatus based on the information collected by the information collecting unit; and an application-terminated-period diagnosis unit that performs diagnosis of a component at the time of the offline diagnosis based on the priority level setting determined by the diagnosis operation determination unit. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126056 | PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention performance enhancement and reliability maintenance system and method pushes a processor to its maximized performance capabilities when performing processing intensive tasks (e.g., 3D graphics, etc). For example, a clock speed and voltage are increased until an unacceptable error rate begins to appear in the processing results and then the clock speed and voltage are backed off to the last setting at which excessive errors did not occur, enabling a processor at its full performance potential. The present invention also includes the ability to throttle back settings which facilitates the maintenance of desired reliability standards. The present invention is readily expandable to provide adjustment for a variety of characteristics in response to task performance requirements. For example, a variable speed fan that is software controlled can be adjusted to alter the temperature of the processor in addition to clock frequency and voltage. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126057 | AUTOMATIC TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JUDGING WHETHER UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE IS CONFIGURED TO COMPUTER - An automatic testing system and method for judging whether a universal serial bus device is configured to a computer are provided. The automatic testing system includes a computer and a testing device for testing the universal serial bus device. By judging whether the universal serial bus device is configured to the computer, the automatic testing system could determine the timing of performing an automatic testing procedure on the universal serial bus device. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126058 | STORAGE CONTROLLER AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - This storage controller includes a port unit and multiple processing units for inputting and outputting data to and from a storage apparatus. The port unit sorts the data I/O requests given from a host system to the corresponding processing units according to a table pre-defining the storage apparatus or a storage area in the storage apparatus to perform data I/O processing allocated to each of the processing units. The processing unit inputs data in the corresponding storage apparatus or the corresponding storage area according to the data I/O request sorted to itself from the port unit and, upon detecting a blockage of the other processing unit due to a failure, updates the table retained in each of the port units so as to sort the storage apparatuses or the storage areas allocated to the other processing unit to the remaining unblocked processing units. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126059 | System Monitoring - Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a method that includes monitoring one or more service providing components implemented using at least one processor-based device, the one or more service providing components being connected to an interfacing system configured to control requests for service received from client units that require servicing from at least one of the one or more service providing components. The interfacing system is also configured to assign the requests to the one or more service providing components. The monitoring is initiated by equipment associated with one or more of the interfacing system and at least one of the one or more service providing components. The method also includes generating information regarding the operability of at least one of the one or more service providing components based on data generated in response to monitoring the one or more service providing components. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126060 | LARGE SCALE SUBSCRIPTION BASED DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins with a processing module identifying data for storage and sending a subscription request message regarding the data for storage. The method continues with the processing module receiving a subscription response message. The method continues with the processing module obtaining error coding dispersal storage function parameters when a dispersal method of the subscription response message indicates direct dispersal. The method continues with the processing module encoding at least a portion of the data in accordance with the error coding dispersal storage function parameters to produce a set of encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module determining a plurality of storage locations and performing a dispersed storage write function to store the set of encoded data slices in the plurality of storage locations. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126061 | COMPREHENSIVE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR HANDLING LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER - Some embodiments of a system and a method to provide comprehensive application programming interfaces to a logical volume manager have been presented. For instance, a processing device running on a server may provide a library having a set of application programming interfaces to interface an application and a logical volume manager (LVM). In response to an error occurring while running the application in operation with the LVM, the processing device may return an error string in a natural language, a piece of programming code associated with the error, and an error code associated with the error using one or more of the set of application programming interfaces. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126062 | Method for Adjusting Memory Signal Phase - A method for adjusting a memory signal phase is applied to data access between a memory controller and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) of an electronic apparatus. The method includes writing a test data into the DRAM by the memory controller in response to a predetermined status of the electronic apparatus; generating a first data strobe signal; offsetting a phase of the first data strobe signal to access and verify the test data to generate a verification result; generating a target offset value in response to the verification result; and offsetting the phase of the first data strobe signal by the target offset value for subsequent operations. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126063 | METHOD FOR INSERTING TEST POINTS FOR LOGIC CIRCUITS AND LOGIC CIRCUIT TESTING APPARATUS - This invention is intended to insert test points in a logic circuit under test in an effective manner. The logic circuit testing apparatus includes a fault estimation unit that estimates fault likelihoods for each of signal lines in a logic circuit in accordance with wiring conditions obtained from design data for the logic circuit. The logic circuit testing apparatus also includes an insertion unit that inserts test points, based on the fault likelihoods. The logic circuit testing apparatus executes testing the logic circuit in which the test points were inserted by the insertion unit. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126064 | ENHANCED DIAGNOSIS WITH LIMITED FAILURE CYCLES - Chain or logic diagnosis resolution can be enhanced in the presence of limited failure cycles using embodiments of the various methods, systems, and apparatus described herein. For example, pattern sets can be ordered according to a diagnosis coverage figure, which can be used to measure chain or logic diagnosability of the pattern set. Per-pin based diagnosis techniques can also be used to analyze limited failure data. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126065 | MICROPROCESSOR COMPRISING SIGNATURE MEANS FOR DETECTING AN ATTACK BY ERROR INJECTION - A method for monitoring the execution of a sequence of instruction codes in an integrated circuit comprising a central processing unit provided for executing such instruction codes. Current cumulative signatures are produced using deterministic address, control or data logic signals involved in the execution of the sequence and taken off at various points of the integrated circuit. A final cumulative signature is compared with an expected signature and an error signal is produced if the two signatures are not identical. Particularly useful to secure integrated circuits for smart cards. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126066 | MULTI-CHIP MEMORY SYSTEM AND RELATED DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A multi-chip memory system comprises source and target memory devices, a memory controller configured to control operations of the source and target memory devices, and a data bus configured for data transfer of the memory controller and the source and target memory devices. The memory controller controls the source memory device to perform a read operation to output data to the data bus. Concurrently, the memory controller controls the target memory device to store the data from the data bus. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126067 | System and Method for Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) Communications - A system and method for MIMO communications is provided. A method includes receiving a data block of P matrices from a transmitter, and determining if operating conditions are met. The method also includes if operating conditions are not met, computing a test position, selecting a codeword based on the test position, and computing a metric. The metric may then be compared with an error radius to determine a validity of the codeword. If the codeword is invalid, another codeword is selected. If the codeword is valid, then the codeword is stored if all matrices have been evaluated, else another matrix is selected for evaluation. If matrices earlier in the data block have untested codewords while all codewords for a matrix being evaluated have been tested, backtracking may be performed. After the codewords for the data block have been found, the stored data may be outputted and processed. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126068 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD USING MULTIPLE HARQ - A method is described for transmitting signals in a mobile communication system which splits an information block into a plurality of split-information blocks and performs a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process upon each of the split-information blocks. A method is also described for reducing control information overhead by transmitting control information only through one control channel when splitting an information block and transmitting split-information blocks through a plurality of subframes or a plurality of resource blocks. The segmentation of the information block is performed in a physical layer to reduce medium access control (MAC) overhead and to simplify implementation. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126069 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING RETRANSMISSION - In a retransmission control method, a HARQ process is performed by transmitting a HARQ burst to a receiving side. When the HARQ process for the HARQ burst is terminated with unsuccessful transmission of the HARQ burst, transmission of an ARQ block corresponding to the HARQ burst is initiated. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126070 | Resending Control Circuit, Sending Device, Resending Control Method and Resending Control Program - A resending control circuit for controlling resending of data to be sent to a sending destination, includes: a writing unit for writing resending information generated corresponding to each of data to be resent and including the resending point-in-time of the data in memory; a reading unit for reading out the resending information from the memory; and a control unit for comparing resending point-in-time included in the oldest resending information of resending information stored in the memory with current point-in-time, and executing resending processing of data corresponding to the resending information according to the comparison result. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSMITTING INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus of transmitting information in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting first information based on a first resource index through a first antenna and transmitting second information based on a second resource index through a second antenna. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126072 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEPTION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes: a reception unit which receives a signal including an initial transmission signal and a retransmission signal for any one signal; a detection order determination unit which determines an order of detection of the initial transmission signal and the retransmission signal from the signal received by the reception unit, according to retransmission repetition numbers of the initial transmission signal and the retransmission signal; and a signal detection unit which detects signals including detected signals for the initial transmission signal and the retransmission signal from the signal received by the reception unit using signals detected by the communication device according to the order determined by the detection order determination unit. The signal detection unit includes a combining unit which combines the detected retransmission signal and a signal detected from a previously received signal including at least one related signal received earlier than the retransmission signal. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126073 | Error Correction in an Electronic Circuit - An electronic circuit has a data producing circuit ( | 2011-05-26 |
20110126074 | TRANSPORT NETWORK SYSTEM WITH TRANSPARENT TRANSPORT AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of manufacture a transport network system includes: receiving input data having an input encoding; generating encoded data, having a transcode encoding, from the input data; generating an error correction redundancy for the encoded data; and sending an output frame, having the encoded data and the error correction redundancy, for increasing a net coding gain of the output frame based on the transcode encoding and the error correction redundancy. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126075 | ROM LIST-DECODING OF NEAR CODEWORDS - Certain embodiments of the present invention are methods for the organization of trapping-set profiles in ROM and for the searching of those profiles during (LDPC) list decoding. Profiles are ranked by dominance, i.e., by their impact on the error-floor characteristics of a decoder. More-dominant trapping-set profiles contain information about both unsatisfied check nodes (USCs) and mis-satisfied check nodes (MSCs), while less-dominant trapping-set profiles contain information about only USCs. Trapping-set profile information is organized into a number of linked, hierarchical data tables which allow for the rapid location and retrieval of most-dominant matching trapping-set profiles using a pointer-chase search. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126076 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM UTILIZING LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES - An approach for reliably communicating over a satellite in support of a communication service including, for example, as direct broadcast satellite and data service, is disclosed. An input message is encoded, yielding a structured Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coded message. The coded message is modulated according to a high order modulation scheme that has a signal constellation representing more than two symbols per signaling point—e.g., 8-PSK (Phase Shift Keying) and 16-QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation). The system includes a transmitter configured to propagate the modulated signal over the satellite. The above approach is particularly applicable to bandwidth constrained communication systems requiring high data rates. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126077 | COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A cooperative transmission method includes: a first operation of coding, by a source node, a message desired to be transmitted according to a first encoding scheme to generate a first codeword and transmitting the first codeword to a relay node and a destination node; a second operation of decoding, by the relay node, the first codeword which has been received from the source node, coding the decoded message according to a second coding scheme to generate a second codeword, coding a part corresponding to parity of the second codeword according to the first coding scheme to generate a third codeword, and transmitting the third codeword to the destination node; and a third operation of decoding, by the destination node, the first codeword which has been received from the source node and the third codeword which has been received from the relay node, combining the message generated by decoding the first codeword and the parity part of the second codeword generated by decoding the third codeword to generate a fourth codeword according to the second coding scheme, and decoding the fourth codeword to estimate the message desired to be transmitted. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126078 | DECODER AND DECODING METHOD FOR LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES CONSTRUCTED BASED ON REED-SOLOMON CODES - Configurable permutators in an LDPC decoder are provided. A partially-parallel architecture combined with the proposed permutators is used to mitigate the increase in implementation complexity for the multi-mode function. To overcome the difficulty in efficient implementation of a high-throughput decoder, the variable nodes are partitioned into several groups, and each group is processed sequentially in order to shorten the critical-path delay and, hence, increase the maximum operating frequency. In addition, shuffled message-passing decoding can be adopted in decoders according to the invention to increase the convergence speed, which reduces the number of iterations required to achieve a given bit-error-rate performance. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126079 | MULTI-CHANNEL MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A multi-channel memory apparatus is provided. The multi-channel memory apparatus includes a host interface, storage channels, an error correcting module, and a multiple memory access module. The host interface is arranged to receive and transmit data from and to a host device. Each storage channel is coupled to a memory device for storing the data. The error correcting module is shared by the storage channels, includes an error correction code engine and a data buffer, and is arranged to perform error correction code encoding on the data to be stored into the memory devices and perform error correction code decoding on the data read out from the memory devices. The multiple memory access module is coupled between the storage channels and the error correcting module and arranged to perform multiple access control of the storage channels for the error correcting module. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126080 | DATA CODING FOR IMPROVED ECC EFFICIENCY - Non-volatile storage devices and techniques for operating non-volatile storage are described herein. One embodiment includes accessing “n” pages of data to be programmed into a group of non-volatile storage elements. The “n” pages are mapped to a data state for each of the non-volatile storage elements based on a coding scheme that evenly distributes read errors across the “n” pages of data. Each of the non-volatile storage elements in the group are programmed to a threshold voltage range based on the data states to which the plurality of pages have been mapped. The programming may include programming the “n” pages simultaneously. In one embodiment, mapping the plurality of pages is based on a coding scheme that distributes a significant failure mode (for example, program disturb errors) to a first of the pages and a significant failure mode (for example, data retention errors) to a second of the pages. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126081 | REQUEST-COMMAND ENCODING FOR REDUCED-DATA-RATE TESTING - Embodiments of a memory device are described. This memory device includes a signal connector which is electrically coupled to a command/address (CA) link, and an interface circuit, which is electrically coupled to the signal connector, and which receives CA packets via the CA link. A given CA packet includes an address field having address information corresponding to one or more storage locations in the memory device. Moreover, the memory device includes control logic having two operating modes, where, during a first operating mode, the control logic decodes address information in the CA packets using full-field sampling, and, during the second operating mode, the control logic decodes a portion of the address information in the CA packets using sub-field sampling. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126082 | MICRO CONTROLLER UNIT INCLUDING AN ERROR INDICATOR MODULE - A micro controller unit including an error indicator hardware module, the error indicator module being arranged to respond to event signals representative of internal and external fault and error events perturbing the micro controller unit function by registering in non-volatile memory a record of the nature of each of the events, wherein the record of the events is inaccessible to alteration. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126083 | FAST DATA RECOVERY FROM HDD FAILURE - A storage system comprises a first storage device having a first plurality of hard disk drives and a first controller. The first controller stores data in the first plurality of hard disk drives by stripes. Each stripe includes M data and N parity data allocated to M+N hard disk drives of the first plurality of hard disk drives. A first hard disk drive includes data or parity data of both a first stripe of the stripes and a second stripe of the stripes, while a second hard disk drive includes data or parity data of only one of the first stripe or the second stripe. During data recovery involving failure of one of the first plurality of hard disk drives, the data in the failed hard disk drive is recovered for each stripe by calculation using data and parity data in other hard disk drives for each stripe. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126084 | Systems and Methods for Authenticating and Protecting the Integrity of Data Streams and Other Data - Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a recipient of a cryptographically-signed electronic communication to verify the authenticity of the communication on-the-fly using a signed chain of check values, the chain being constructed from the original content of the communication, and each check value in the chain being at least partially dependent on the signed root of the chain and a portion of the communication. Fault tolerance can be provided by including error-check values in the communication that enable a decoding device to maintain the chain's security in the face of communication errors. In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for enabling secure quasi-random access to a content file by constructing a hierarchy of hash values from the file, the hierarchy deriving its security in a manner similar to that used by the above-described chain. The hierarchy culminates with a signed hash that can be used to verify the integrity of other hash values in the hierarchy, and these other hash values can, in turn, be used to efficiently verify the authenticity of arbitrary portions of the content file. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126085 | METHOD OF SIGNATURE VERIFICATION - A method of detecting a fault including generating at least one blinded data value based on at least one input value and at least one blinding parameter selected from a plurality of blinding parameters generating a first signature based on said at least one blinded data value; selecting, from a memory storing a plurality of reference signatures, one or more reference signatures and comparing said first signature with said one or more reference signatures in order to detect a fault. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126086 | METHODS FOR PLAYING BACK PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED CONTENT - Previously published content is played back by identifying a previous time in which the previously published content was previously published and automatically adding an indication of the previous time in which the content was previously published, while playing back the previously published content. The indication may include a timestamp of the previous time, ambience and/or historical context of the previous time, an electronic program guide for the previous time, a current events guide for the previous time and/or archived content for the previous time that is related to the user of the content. Related systems, methods, computer program products and content playback devices are described. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126087 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR NON MOUSE-BASED ACTIVATION OF LINKS - A method for browsing electronic media with hyperlinks is provided. A media document including a plurality of hyperlinks organized into sub-regions is provided. At least one first control element is provided configured to at least activate each individual sub-region. A second control element can be provided configured to activate each individual hyperlink in an activated sub-region. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126088 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING COMBINATION FIELDS TO SHAREPOINT (TM) - Provided is a system, computer-readable medium controller, and methods for operating Microsoft Windows SHAREPOINT Services and its supportive operating system, network interface and related software and extending the SHAREPOINT Services to comprise combination fields. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126089 | Electronic device and method of browsing web albums thereon - An electronic device browses Web albums. The electronic device includes a connecting module, a download module, a parser module, and a display. The connecting module connects to a Website. The download module downloads a first Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) Web file of the Website associated with Web albums. The parser module parses the first HTML Web file to get Web album information. The display displays Web albums according to the Web album information. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126090 | COMPONENT COOPERATION DEVICE, A COMPONENT COOPERATION METHOD, A METHOD OF UPDATING COMPONENTS OF A WEB PAGE AND A PROGRAM THEREOF - A component cooperation device communicates with a terminal through a network and provides a web page to the terminal in response to a request to display the web page. The device updates components of the web page by identifying a standard parameter in content of a first component for the web page, in which the standard parameter has a name and a value. A second component of the web page is identified that has content that includes the standard parameter name that is also in the content of the first component. The content of the second component is updated by changing the standard parameter in the content of the second component to have the standard parameter value of the standard parameter in the content of the first component. The device creates creating the web page from the content of the first component and the update content of the second component. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126091 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that generates print data for variable-data printing by applying internal data to a variable-data printing document, the information processing apparatus comprises a markup language data structure display means configured to read markup language data structure information, and displays a structure that markup language data has; a record level element designation acceptance means configured to accept, from a user, designation of a record level element used as a record level that indicates a record unit in the structure of the markup language data displayed by the markup language data structure display means; and a markup language data structure conversion means configured, in order to apply the markup language data based on the markup language data structure information, as the internal data, to the variable-data printing document, to convert the record level element so as to have a structure of the internal data. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126092 | Smart Paste - Information in a document is automatically parsed to determine its context. That context forms a score for the document, and that's score is later used to determine if or to determine something about other documents. Portions can be automatically pasted based on that information. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126093 | CLIPBOARD AUGMENTATION WITH REFERENCES - Systems, methods, data structures and/or the like are provided for placing copy data, supplemental, and/or additional data on a clipboard, for example. The copy data may comprise a reference to supplemental data, such as HTML data (e.g., a social media data from an HTML social media webpage). The supplemental data may be retrieved using the reference, and placed within the clipboard. In this way, the copy data and the supplemental data may be available within the clipboard. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126094 | METHOD OF MODIFYING COMMANDS ON A TOUCH SCREEN USER INTERFACE - A method of modifying commands is disclosed and may include detecting an initial command gesture and determining whether a first subsequent command gesture is detected. Further, the method may include executing a base command when a first subsequent command gesture is not detected and executing a first modified command when a first subsequent command gesture is detected. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126095 | Router Management via Touch-Sensitive Display - A router having a touch-sensitive display and user interface configured to provide a plurality of category screens corresponding to a plurality of categories and a plurality of navigation keys is described herein. Actuation of one or more of the plurality of navigation keys allows for navigation between the plurality of categories and within screens associated with one of the categories. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126096 | Remote control apparatus, remote control system, information processing method of remote control apparatus, and program - A remote control apparatus includes a display panel, an operation detector detecting an operation of touching the display panel, a remote controller remotely controlling an electronic apparatus in accordance with the touch operation, an item selection unit allowing a user to select a selection item in the display panel, a touch operation determination unit comparing a duration time of an operation of touching the selection item with a predetermined threshold value, a detailed information obtaining unit obtaining detailed information on the selection item from the electronic apparatus when the duration time is smaller than the threshold value, a related information obtaining unit obtaining related information on the selection item using the selection item as a searching condition from an external service apparatus when the duration time is equal to or larger than the threshold value, and a display controller controlling display of the detailed information or the related information. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126097 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, AND OBJECT MOVEMENT METHOD - An information processing apparatus has a display unit operable to display an object, a contact detection unit operable to detect a plurality of contact points on the display unit, and a control unit operable to control the object displayed on the display unit so as to be movable with use of the contact detection unit. When the control unit detects contact with a display range of the object displayed on the display unit with use of the contact detection unit, detects contact with an active range of a display screen other than the display range of the object, and further detects a movement instruction to the object, then the control unit controls the object so as to be movable within the active range. Thus, use of a contact detection unit capable of a plurality of contact points permits a user's intuitive operation. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126098 | CONTEXTUAL, FOCUS-BASED TRANSLATION FOR BROADCAST AUTOMATION SOFTWARE - Contextual, focus-based language translation within a broadcast radio automation software application allows the user interface to enable interaction with users having various written or graphical language requirements. The software does not require special training or learning to enable the translation of text within the application. When the user enters a translation mode and selects a text string in the original language, the program displays a corresponding text string in a second language based on the specific display area, e.g., child window. The translated text string can be displayed proximate to original first text string within the specific display area, and can further be displayed as an entry in a table of a translation window which also displays additional text strings in the second language corresponding to additional text string fields for the specific display area. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROCESSES IN AN INTELLIGENT WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The system and method described herein for recording collaborative information technology processes in an intelligent workload management system may include a computing environment having a model-driven, service-oriented architecture for creating collaborative threads to manage workloads. In particular, the management threads may include one or more data structures that converge information describing interaction between managed entities and content that may relate to such interaction in time-ordered series of events. The time-ordered event stream may then be replayed in a real-time stream to remediate, roll back, or otherwise analyze the collaborative information technology processes. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126100 | METHOD OF PROVIDING GUI FOR GUIDING START POSITION OF USER OPERATION AND DIGITAL DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of providing a GUI and a digital device includes determining whether a user has approached a start position of an operation of a user input unit for operating the GUI that is displayed on a display; and displaying a guide on the GUI that is displayed on the display if it is determined that the user has approached the start position of an operation. Accordingly, a user can confirm that his/her finger has approached the start position of an operation through the guide, and thus can input a desired command as seeing only the display. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126101 | System and Method for Interactive Internet Protocol Television Help - A set-top box device includes an interactive help module configured to receive a request for a list of interactive help applications for a service in an Internet Protocol television network, retrieve a first interactive help application from a server in the Internet Protocol television network, and output first text associated with a first step in the first interactive help application to a display. The interactive help module is also configured to receive a first input for the first step, compare the first input with a first correct input, output second text associated with a second step to the display if the first input matches the first correct input, and otherwise output to the display third text associated with a wrong input received and the first text associated with the first step. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126102 | PAUSE-BASED ADVERTISING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - An exemplary method includes monitoring an interaction of a user with a media content access subsystem, receiving a command input by the user to pause a media content instance being presented by the media content access subsystem, and dynamically selecting at least one advertisement in accordance with the monitored interaction for presentation to the user by the media content access subsystem while the media content instance is paused. Corresponding methods and systems are also described. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126103 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A "KARAOKE COLLAGE" - The present invention provides a computerized method and system for creating a karaoke collage performance. The invention allows a user to allocate segments of a selected song to various singers separated by distance, and to automatically combine all recordings performed of these segments to form a single karaoke performance termed a “karaoke collage”. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126104 | USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING DIFFERENT FORMATS FOR MEDIA FILES AND MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICES - Described herein is a media manager user interface (UI) application/engine for managing different formats for media files and playback devices in a media system. The media system may include a source device, at least one playback device, and the media manager UI, coupled through a communication system. A source device may store a plurality of media files for various media forms. Each media file and playback device may have a playback format that is specified by values of one or more format parameters. The media manager UI allows users to select media files stored on the source device for downloading onto selected playback devices through the communication system. The media manager UI may automatically determine and store compatibility data indicating format compatibility between different media files and playback devices, the compatibility data being used to automatically convert media files to the formats of the playback devices. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126105 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BOOKMARK SETTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126106 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN INTERACTIVE OR NON-INTERACTIVE BRANCHING MOVIE SEGMENT BY SEGMENT AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH - A system and method for generating an interactive or non-interactive filmed branching narrative, the method comprising receiving a plurality of narrative segments, receiving and storing ordered links between individual ones of the plurality of narrative segments and generating a graphic display of at least some of the plurality of narrative segments and of at least some of the ordered links Additionally or alternatively, a system or method for generating a branched film, the method comprising generating an association between video segments and respectively script segments thereby to define film segments; and receiving a user's definition of at least one CTP defining at least one branching point from which a user-defined subset of said film segments are to branch off, and generating a digital representation of the branching point associating the user defined subset of the film segments with the CTP, thereby to generate a branched film element. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126107 | CLOSED CAPTION TAGGING SYSTEM - A closed caption tagging system provides a mechanism for inserting tags into an audio or video television broadcast stream prior to or at the time of transmission. The tags contain command and control information that the receiver translates and acts upon. The receiver receives the broadcast stream and detects and processes the tags within the broadcast stream which is stored on a storage device that resides on the receiver. Program material from the broadcast stream is played back to the viewer from the storage device. Tags indicate the start and end points of a program segment. Program segments such as commercials are automatically replaced by the receiver with new program segments that are selected based on various criteria. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126108 | Overlay View Method and System for Representing Network Topology - A method and system for a telecommunication network management tool to represent a telecommunication network layout including a plurality of distinct network entities related to one another by a variety of attributes. A user interface can be used for altering a display of a network representation model to help a system manager to systematically navigate the distinct network entities and associated attributes of the selected network. An overlay view selector is used for affecting the display content of the representation on the user interface. The view selector contains a plurality of presentation modes for altering the presentation of desired elements selected from the network layout. Presentation of the selected network includes an information subset displayed over a reference view, which helps the user to maintain the information subset in context of the network layout. The management tool can be used to select and highlight specific network entities in context to help increase network manager efficiency in network layout and maintenance. | 2011-05-26 |
20110126109 | Presence and Geographic Location Notification Based on a Delegation Model - A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user system, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. A delegation model is used to control whether a user is permitted to make modifications to the notification information. | 2011-05-26 |