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20100125556 | RESTORING APPLICATION UPGRADES USING AN APPLICATION RESTORE POINT - Techniques are disclosed for creating an application restore point when an application is installed or updated and for restoring the application and other elements of a computing system modified by the installation and update processes to a state as they exist at the application restore point. The application restore point captures information about which files are modified, created, or deleted by the installation and update processes. In one embodiment, a user invokes an installer process to install or update the application. When the installer process modifies or creates a file, an original copy of the file, or a reference to the file is placed into the application restore point. To restore the application, files of the computing system having original copies in the application restore point are replaced with the original copies while all new files referred to in the application restore point are deleted. | 05-20-2010 |
20100125841 | APPLICATION RESTORE POINTS - Techniques are disclosed for creating an application restore point when an application is installed or updated and for restoring the application and other elements of a computing system modified by the installation and update processes to a state as they exist at the application restore point. The application restore point captures information about which files are modified, created, or deleted by the installation and update processes. In one embodiment, a user invokes an installer process to install or update the application. When the installer process modifies or creates a file, an original copy of the file, or a reference to the file is placed into the application restore point. To restore the application, files of the computing system having original copies in the application restore point are replaced with the original copies while all new files referred to in the application restore point are deleted. | 05-20-2010 |
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20090319635 | CENTRALLY MANAGED INVENTORY AND ENTITLEMENT DATA - A method, apparatus and program product manages application entitlement data by storing entitlement data received from a plurality of application providers. Inventory data associated with a networked computing device or an application executable on the networked computing device is monitored. Delivery of the entitlement data to the networked computing device is enabled according to the inventory data. | 12-24-2009 |
20100306378 | AUTOMATIC PORT CONFLICT RESOLUTION DURING APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identifying and resolving port conflicts during application deployment. The port conflicts may be identified based on application documentation and active port information. The port conflicts may be resolved by identifying an available port and providing information about the available port to a conflicting application. The port conflicts may also be resolved by identifying an available IP address and providing a port on the available IP address to a conflicting application. Further, if conflicting applications allow port sharing, the port conflicts may be resolved by providing port sharing information to the conflicting applications. | 12-02-2010 |
20110087760 | AUTOMATED RAPID REGISTRATION OF APPLICATIONS - A method and apparatus for managing distribution and use of software applications. An application manager at an administrator computer may be configured to receive requests for registering an application from a client computer. The application manager may determine whether the request should be approved based on historical responses to similar registration requests. A response to the request may accordingly be sent automatically to the requesting client computer. | 04-14-2011 |
20120123898 | GENERATING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS FOR A COMPUTING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a configuration server, requirements data identifying computing requirements of a customer. The computer-implemented method includes receiving, at the configuration server, inventory information descriptive of a computing inventory of the customer. The computer-implemented method also includes accessing compatibility rules that specify hardware and software to enable particular computing requirements. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a plurality of configuration options to implement the computing requirements of the customer based on at least one of the requirements data, the computing inventory, and the compatibility rules. The plurality of configuration options include at least one customer premises equipment (CPE)-based configuration, at least one cloud computing-based configuration, and at least one hybrid CPE-cloud computing-based configuration. The computer-implemented method includes comparing the plurality of configuration options based on customer preferences. The computer-implemented method also includes providing at least one configuration recommendation based on comparing the plurality of configuration options. | 05-17-2012 |
20120185843 | RECONFIGURATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEM TO ALLOW APPLICATION INSTALLATION - A method and apparatus for installing an application on a computer are disclosed. Following receipt of a request to install an application, a software state, comprising the new application and several of the applications installed on the computer, is derived. Then, the method determines whether the software state can be implemented on the computer. If the software state cannot be implemented on the computer, then the method derives another software state. This is repeated until the derived software state can be implemented on the computer system, or until determining that no software state exists which can be implemented on the computer system. | 07-19-2012 |
20130174142 | RECONFIGURATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEM TO ALLOW APPLICATION INSTALLATION - A method and apparatus for installing an application on a computer are disclosed. Following receipt of a request to install an application, a software state, comprising the new application and several of the applications installed on the computer, is derived. Then, the method determines whether the software state can be implemented on the computer. If the software state cannot be implemented on the computer, then the method derives another software state. This is repeated until the derived software state can be implemented on the computer system, or until determining that no software state exists which can be implemented on the computer system. | 07-04-2013 |
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20080298597 | Spatial Sound Zooming - Aspects of the invention provide methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for digital processing of acoustic signals to create a reproduction of a natural or an artificial spatial sound environment. An aspect of the invention supports spatial audio processing such as extracting a center channel in up-mixing stereo sound for multi-channel loudspeaker setup or headphone virtualization. An aspect of the invention also supports directional listening in which sound sources in a desired direction may be amplified or attenuated. Direction and diffuseness parameters for regions of input channels are determined and an extracted channel is extracted from the input channels according to the direction and diffuseness parameters. A gain estimate is estimated for each signal component being fed into the extracted channel and an extracted channel may be synthesized from a base signal and the gain estimate. The input channels may be partitioned into a plurality of time-frequency regions. | 12-04-2008 |
20090116652 | Focusing on a Portion of an Audio Scene for an Audio Signal - Aspects of the invention provide methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for spatially manipulating sound that is played back to a listener over a set of output transducers, e.g., headphones. The listener can direct spatial attention to focus on a portion of an audio scene, analogous to a magnifying glass being used to pick out details in a picture. An input multi-channel audio signal that is generated by audio sources is obtained, and directional information is determined for each of the audio sources. The user provides a desired direction of spatial attention so that audio processing can focus on the desired direction and render a corresponding multi-channel audio signal to the user. A region of an audio scene is expanded around the desired direction while the audio scene is compressed in another portion of the audio scene. | 05-07-2009 |
20100010651 | Dynamic range control and equalization of digital audio using warped processing - This invention describes a method for adjusting the loudness and the spectral content of digital audio signals in a real-time using warped spectral filtering. A warped processing module modifies a spectral content of a digital audio signal with a set of gains for a plurality of non-linearly-scaled frequency bands determined by a warping factor λ of a warped delay line. Warped delay line signals, generated by the warped delay line, are processed by a warped filter block containing multiple warped finite impulse response filters, e.g., Mth band filters, using individual warped spectral filtering in said plurality of the non-linearly-scaled frequency bands, which is followed by a conventional processing by a dynamic range control/equalization block. The present invention describes another innovation, that is embedding the warped processing module in a two-channel quadrature mirror filter (QMF) bank for improving processing efficiency at high sample rates. | 01-14-2010 |
20100145705 | AUDIO WITH SOUND EFFECT GENERATION FOR TEXT-ONLY APPLICATIONS - A method of generating audio for a text-only application comprises the steps of adding tag to an input text, said tag is usable for adding sound effect to the generated audio; processing the tag to form instructions for generating the audio; generating audio with said effect based on the instructions, while the text being presented. The present invention adds entertainment value to text applications and provides very compact format compared to conventional multimedia as well as uses entertainment sound to make text-only applications such as SMS and email more fun and entertaining. | 06-10-2010 |
20120207310 | Multi-Way Analysis for Audio Processing - It is disclosed to determine, for a direction being at least associated with a value of a first direction component and with a value of a second direction component, at least one weighting factor for each basis function of a set of basis functions, each of the basis functions being associated with an audio transfer characteristic, wherein said determining is at least based on a first set of gain factors, associated with the first direction component, and on a second set of gain factors, associated with the second direction component | 08-16-2012 |
20120303319 | PEDOMETER DEVICE AND STEP DETECTION METHOD - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: generating a first processed accelerometer sample signal from a first accelerometer sample signal; determining a step event from the first processed accelerometer sample signal; and controlling processing of a second accelerometer sample signal for a first time period. | 11-29-2012 |
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20130003998 | Modifying Spatial Image of a Plurality of Audio Signals - A method comprising: modifying a sound stage produced by an input audio signal comprising two or more audio channels such that spatial room is relieved for one or more additional sound sources; and inserting said one or more additional sound sources in the relieved spatial room of the modified sound stage of the input audio signal without introducing spatial interference with the modified sound stage of the input audio signal. | 01-03-2013 |
20130080571 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EMBEDDING OF LOCAL IDENTIFIERS - An approach is provided for providing embedding of local identifiers. The incorporation platform causes, at least in part, a detection, at a device, of presence of one or more other devices. Next, the incorporation platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of wireless signal information, from the one or more other devices, to determine one or more identifiers associated with the one or more other devices. Then, the incorporation platform causes, at least in part, an incorporation of at least one of the one or more identifiers in one or more captured content items | 03-28-2013 |
20130223188 | PROXIMITY DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON AUDIO SIGNALS - Apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code, the at least one memory and the computer code configured to with the at least one processor cause the apparatus to at least perform: determining at least one impulse response model pulse train from at least one audio signal; and determining an presence of an object from the at least one impulse model pulse train. | 08-29-2013 |
20150039632 | Media Tagging - The invention relates to media tagging of a media content. At least one media tag is determined on the basis of obtained context recognition data formed prior to and after a time point of capturing of the media content. Determined at least one media tag is associated with said media content. | 02-05-2015 |
20150338517 | Proximity Detecting Apparatus And Method Based On Audio Signals - An apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code. The at least one memory and the computer code are configured to with the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to determine at least one impulse response model pulse train from at least one audio signal, and to determine a presence of an object from the at least one impulse model pulse train.
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