| 05th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
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| 20160034355 | RECOVERING USABILITY OF CLOUD BASED SERVICE FROM SYSTEM FAILURE - Usability of a cloud based service is recovered from a system failure. A customer transaction associated with the customer experience is executed to simulate the customer experience in the cloud based service. A failure associated with a subsystem the cloud based service is detected from an output of the customer transaction. A recovery action is determined to be associated with the failure. The recovery action is executed on the subsystem and monitored to determine a success status. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034356 | BACKUP OPERATIONS IN A TREE-BASED DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM - Techniques for cloning, writing to, and reading from file system metadata. Cloning involves identifying a first set of pointers included in a first root node in a file system metadata tree structure that stores file system metadata in leaf nodes of the tree structure, creating a first copy of the first root node that includes the first set of pointers, creating a second copy of the first root node that includes the first set of pointers, associating the first copy with a first view, and associating the second copy with a second view. Reading generally involves traversing the tree structure towards a target leaf node that contains data to be read. Writing generally involves traversing the tree structure in the same manner, but also creating copies of any nodes to be modified if those nodes are deemed to have a different treelD than a particular root node. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034357 | MANAGING BACKUP OPERATIONS FROM A CLIENT SYSTEM TO A PRIMARY SERVER AND SECONDARY SERVER - Provided are techniques for managing backup operations from a client system to a primary server and secondary server. A determination is made at the client system of whether a state of the data on the secondary server permits a backup operation in response to determining that the primary server is unavailable when a force failover parameter is not set. The client system reattempts to connect to the primary server to perform the backup operation at the primary server in response to determining that the state of the data on the secondary server does not permit the backup operation. The client system performs the backup operation at the secondary server in response to determining that the state of the secondary server permits the backup operation. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034358 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CACHE OF STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus is connected to a host apparatus and a secondary storage apparatus and includes a memory, a storage device, and a processor. The memory includes a save memory area and a cache memory area that temporarily stores data received from the host apparatus. The storage device stores data that is received from the host apparatus. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034359 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED SELF-HEALING VIRTUAL ASSETS - A method and system for performing self-monitoring and self-healing operations from a virtual asset include receiving a first operating policy from an asset management computing environment, according to one embodiment. The method and system includes receiving a library of repairs from the asset management computing environment, according to one embodiment. The method and system includes detecting events, with the virtual asset, at least partially based on operational characteristics of the virtual asset exceeding at least one of the thresholds, according to one embodiment. The method and system includes repairing the virtual asset, with the virtual asset, using the library of repairs to return the virtual asset to the pre-determined state of operation. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034360 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER USED TO CONSTRUCT BACKUP CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATION DATA - According to the present invention, it is possible to construct a backup configuration of a particular application data, without influencing data of another application. A management computer is coupled to a host computer on which an application operates, and to a storage apparatus that includes a plurality of volume groups each having one or more logical volumes. At least one of the logical volumes is allocated to the application. The management computer includes a volume group overlapping use determination part and a backup policy determination part. When the backup of the volume group to which one logical volume belongs is configured, the volume group overlapping use determination part determines whether there is another application that uses the volume group. The backup policy determination part determines whether there is set, for another volume group, backup policy information same as that set for the application. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034361 | DISTRIBUTED EVENT CORRELATION SYSTEM - According to an example, a master node is to divide an event field in events into partitions including ordered contiguous blocks of values for the event field. Each partition may be assigned to a pair of cluster nodes. A partition map is determined from the partitions and may identify for each partition, the block of the event field values for the partition, a primary cluster node, and a failover cluster node for the primary cluster node. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034362 | Proactive Failure Recovery Model for Distributed Computing - This disclosure generally describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer-program products, and computer systems, for providing a proactive failure recovery model for distributed computing. One computer-implemented method includes building a virtual tree-like computing structure of a plurality of computing nodes, for each computing node of the virtual tree-like computing structure, performing, by a hardware processor, a node failure prediction model to calculate a mean time between failure (MTBF) associated with the computing node, determining whether to perform a checkpoint of the computing node based on a comparison between the calculated MTBF and a maximum and minimum threshold, migrating a process from the computing node to a different computing node acting as a recovery node, and resuming execution of the process on the different computing node. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034363 | METHOD FOR HANDLING FAULTS IN A CENTRAL CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL DEVICE - The invention relates to a method for handling faults in a central control device, wherein the control device comprises a distributed computer system ( | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034364 | CONTROLLING ACCESS OF CLIENTS TO SERVICE IN CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT - First, second, and third sets of addresses are created. The first set includes addresses registered in a name server; both the second and third sets include addresses not registered in the name server and that are disjoint. A first address of a first server that has failed and to which access is to be prohibited is moved from the first to the third set, is removed from the first server, assigned to a second server, and removed from the name server. Usage parameter values of the first address are monitored to determine whether at least one is below a value. If so, the first address is removed from the second server and moved from the third to the second set. Upon access to the first server no longer being prohibited, a second address of the second set is assigned to the first server and added to the name server. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034365 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REDUNDANCY PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In an information processing system including I/O cards provided with redundancy, the disclosed system and method realize a fail-over that enables improvement of the availability of the information processing apparatus. An information processing system constituting the information processing apparatus includes first and second I/O cards; a BIOS that performs a detection of a correctable failure of the first I/O card; a predictive monitoring unit that performs a predictive detection of a sign of an occurrence of a hardware failure of the first I/O card when a result of the detection of the correctable failure indicates an occurrence of the correctable failure; and an OS that disconnects the first I/O card and performs switching from the first I/O card to the second I/O card when a result of the predictive detection indicates an existence of the sign of the occurrence of the hardware failure of the first I/O card. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034366 | MANAGING BACKUP OPERATIONS FROM A CLIENT SYSTEM TO A PRIMARY SERVER AND SECONDARY SERVER - Provided are techniques for managing backup operations from a client system to a primary server and secondary server. A determination is made at the client system of whether a state of the data on the secondary server permits a backup operation in response to determining that the primary server is unavailable when a force failover parameter is not set. The client system reattempts to connect to the primary server to perform the backup operation at the primary server in response to determining that the state of the data on the secondary server does not permit the backup operation. The client system performs the backup operation at the secondary server in response to determining that the state of the secondary server permits the backup operation. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034367 | METHOD FOR LIMITING THE RISK OF ERRORS IN A REDUNDANT, SAFETY-RELATED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention relates to a method and a device for limiting the risk of faults in a control system, in particular a safety-relevant control system, wherein a preferably intelligent actuator controller (AST), by means of the application of a weighted mean value algorithm, calculates a new control value from the two control values determined by means of diverse redundancy by two independent fault-containment units (FCUs), which new control value, in spite of the occurrence of a fault in one of the two FCUs, causes an object to be controlled by the control system to be guided into a safe state, preferably quickly. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034368 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Conventional semiconductor devices are problematic in that an operation cannot be continued in the event of a failure of one of CPU cores performing a lock step operation and, as a result, reliability cannot be improved. The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a computing unit including a first CPU core and a second CPU core that perform a lock step operation, wherein the first CPU core | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034369 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DISK ARRAY APPARATUS - A more space-saving capacity is realized by: preventing performance deterioration when a controller failure occurs; and reserving and releasing an usage area of the storage medium used on that occasion by internally measuring an operation load and a processing capability possessed by the apparatus and calculating a capacity required for maintaining a write cache periodically. In a disk array apparatus, the controller comprising: a host control unit to control reception of data from a host; a memory control unit to control a first memory and a second memory, the second memory for duplicating data with the first memory at a time of a controller failure, to set a free space of the second memory by making a free space of the first memory be increased and decreased in a predetermined time interval; and an HDD control unit to control sending and receiving of data to and from the disk array. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034370 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING INFORMATION THAT FACILITATES THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AT LEAST SOME OF THE CONTENTS OF A STORAGE UNIT ON A STORAGE SYSTEM - The failure of a storage unit in a storage array of a storage system may render the storage unit unresponsive to any requests. Any writes to the storage system that occur during the failure of the storage unit will not be reflected on the failed unit, rendering some of the failed unit's data stale. Assuming the failed unit's data is not corrupted but is just stale, a partial rebuild may be performed on the failed unit, selectively reconstructing only data that is needed to replace the stale data. Described herein are techniques for storing information that identifies the data that needs to be rebuilt. When the storage unit fails, the segment identifier associated with the last data segment written to the storage system may be stored. Upon the storage unit recovering, the storage system can rebuild only those data segments whose identifier is greater than the stored segment identifier. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034371 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of cell cores which include a first cell core corresponding to a first channel that is a normal channel and a second cell core corresponding to a second channel that is a failed channel; and an access circuit configured to perform address remapping by converting a first address of at least a first failed cell in the first cell core into a second address of at least a second cell in the second cell core, and to transmit data of at least the second cell through the first channel. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034372 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SCALING A WORKLOAD - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for scaling a workload are disclosed. According to one exemplary method, the method occurs at a network equipment test device. The method includes generating a first workload comprising a plurality of messages associated with one or more transactions. The method also includes determining one or more workload segments in the first workload, wherein each of the one or more workload segments represents one or more messages associated with a particular transaction and generating a second workload using the one or more workload segments, wherein the second workload includes a number of the workload segments based on a workload scale attribute. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034373 | MONITORING DEVICE USAGE - Monitoring a level of utilization is provided. A threshold is determined based, at least in part, on a count of service channels of a device. An upper boundary value of a numerical range is determined based, at least in part, on the count of service channels. A lower boundary value of the numerical range is determined based, at least in part, on the threshold. Whether a count of outstanding requests of the device is contained within the numerical range is determined. An estimated level of utilization of the device is determined based, at least in part, on the upper boundary value, the lower boundary value, the count of service channels, and the count of outstanding requests. The estimated level of utilization is reported. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034374 | PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING A REMOTE USB DEVICE AUTOMATICALLY - A processing system and method for connecting to a remote USB device automatically. The processing system and method provide a user computer to be connected to or disconnected from a USB device via a network system and a USB server connected to the USB device. In the beginning, the user computer finds a USB device for the user computer from the USB server via the network system; when detecting that the user computer issues request messages, the USB server connects the user computer with the USB device, and the USB device executes corresponding services according to the request messages issued by the user computer; in the last, after detecting that the USB device has finished the corresponding services according to the request messages issued by the user computer, the USB server is enabled to disconnect the user computer from the USB device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034375 | DETERMINING TEST CASE PRIORITIES BASED ON TAGGED EXECUTION PATHS - Test case priorities are automatically determined based on the execution path of a software application that includes priority tags. By embedding the priority tags in the source code of the software application, the consistency and reliability of the test case priorities is improved compared to conventional, primarily manual approaches to determining test case priorities. Further, efficiency is increased by providing run-time feedback regarding test cases that facilitates identification of the highest priority test cases and corresponding test suite optimizations. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034376 | METHOD FOR TESTING A BROWSER-BASED APPLICATION - A method for testing multiple language versions of a browser-based application. A host language Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request issued by a host language browser is received. The host language HTTP request is configured to be sent to a host server address. The host language HTTP request comprises parameter strings in a host language. A target language HTTP request is generated by replacing each host parameter string of at least one host parameter string of the parameter strings in the received HTTP request with a respective target parameter string associated with a target language that differs from the host language. The generated target language HTTP request is configured to be sent to a target server address associated with and different from the host server address. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034377 | SYSTEM FOR TESTING A BROWSER-BASED APPLICATION - A system for testing multiple language versions of a browser-based application. A host language Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request issued by a host language browser is received. The host language HTTP request is configured to be sent to a host server address. The host language HTTP request comprises parameter strings in a host language. A target language HTTP request is generated by replacing each host parameter string of at least one host parameter string of the parameter strings in the received HTTP request with a respective target parameter string associated with a target language that differs from the host language. The generated target language HTTP request is configured to be sent to a target server address associated with and different from the host server address. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING PAGE LINK ADDRESSES - Testing page link addresses is disclosed including searching in a page to locate a link having an empty link address based on empty link attribute features, performing simulated triggering on the located link having the empty link address, determining whether the empty link address within the located link opens a new page upon the simulated triggering to obtain a determination result, and determining whether the located link having the empty link address was erroneously set as an empty link based on the determination result. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034379 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TESTING AND TESTING DATA MANAGEMENT - A testing and extract, transform and load (TETL) system is operable to interface with test platforms testing hardware or software components of information technology systems. The TETL system can execute extract, transform and load operations to load test data into a data warehouse and facilitates evaluating the test data across projects, entities and domains. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034380 | MONITOR USABLE WITH CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT - A monitor that monitors an application is provided herein. The monitor provides a monitor function that monitors an application. The monitor embeds the monitor function in meta data of a code base of the application. The monitor function embedded in the code base is activated. The monitor function is used to monitor data associated therewith during deployment of the application. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034381 | IDENTIFYING TRANSPORT-LEVEL ENCODED PAYLOADS - Identifying transport-level encoded payloads includes identifying transport-level encoded payloads from a recorded script in a display, determining multiple decoding option for at least one of the transport-level encoded payloads where the multiple decoding options includes a recommended chain, and displaying multiple decoding options with at least one of the transport-level encoded payloads. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034382 | AUTOMATED REGRESSION TEST CASE SELECTOR AND BLACK BOX TEST COVERAGE TOOL FOR PRODUCT TESTING - A method for testing a computer application includes identifying components of a version of the application, said components including one or more components that are one of new and modified, generating a keyword matrix of the identified application components. A search is performed in a test script repository with respect to components listed as at least one of the first and second dimensions of the matrix. The keyword matrix is populated with test case identification numbers in the search result. Based on the populated keyword matrix, one or more of (a) gaps in test case coverage for the version of the application, and (b) one or more test cases covering the version of the application are identified. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034383 | APPLICATION TEST ACROSS PLATFORMS - A method and a system for testing an application across platforms. Application testing for checking functionality of an application is carried out to insure that same applications have the same behavior on different platforms. Such platforms include function, user interface (UI), and generated data. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for cross-platform application testing. A first response to an action is determined on a first platform. The action is triggered on a second platform, the second platform being different from the first platform. Then, a second response is determined to the action on the second platform. Finally, the first response and the second response are compared to test consistency of the application on the first platform and the second platform. A corresponding system for testing an application across platforms is also provided. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALTERING FUNCTIONALITY OF AN APPLICATION - Disclosed are systems and methods for altering functionality of an application. An example method comprises updating the application, wherein the application includes one or more functional modules; detecting events occurring on the computer after the updating, wherein types of the detected events belong to a set of detectable events; determining which of the one or more functional modules of the application caused the detected events; and altering the one or more detected functional modules, wherein the altering of the functional modules and which functional modules are altered depend on the detected events and on which functional modules caused the detected events. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034385 | DATA OBJECT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND DATA OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A data object management method and a data object management system are provided. The data object management method includes the following steps. Generate a space allocation list according to an operation parameter of a space consuming device. The space allocation list records information about a plurality of storage spaces. Update the space allocation list and a target storage space. The target storage space is one of the storage spaces. Send a playlist corresponding to the space allocation list when a reading request corresponding to the space consuming device is received. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034386 | CONTROLLING WEAR AMONG FLASH MEMORY DEVICES BASED ON REMAINING WARRANTY - A computer readable storage medium embodies program instructions executable by a processor to perform a method including identifying a product warranty for each of a plurality of flash memory devices within a system, wherein the product warranty includes a maximum number of writes and a maximum age, and tracking the number of writes and the age of each flash memory device. The method further includes determining, for each flash memory device, a number of pro rata writes remaining in the product warranty, which is determined as a number of writes remaining until the flash memory device reaches the maximum number of writes divided by an amount of time remaining until the flash memory reaches the maximum age. The method then causes data to be written to the flash memory device having the greatest number of pro rata writes remaining in the product warranty. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034387 | CONTROLLING WEAR AMONG FLASH MEMORY DEVICES BASED ON REMAINING WARRANTY - A method includes identifying a product warranty for each of a plurality of flash memory devices within a system, wherein the product warranty includes a maximum number of writes and a maximum age, and tracking the number of writes made to each flash memory device and the age of each flash memory device. The method further includes determining, for each flash memory device, a number of pro rata writes remaining in the product warranty, which is determined as a number of writes remaining until the flash memory device reaches the maximum number of writes identified in the product warranty divided by an amount of time remaining until the flash memory reaches the maximum age identified in the product warranty. The method then causes data to be written to the flash memory device having the greatest number of pro rata writes remaining in the product warranty. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034388 | DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT AND MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS - A data management method is provided, and the method includes: receiving first data and identifying a first address. The method also includes: determining whether the first data is incompressible; and, if the first data is incompressible, determining whether the first address is meeting a requirement of start address. The method further includes: if the first address is not meeting the requirement of start address, storing the padding data starting from the first address, and storing the first data starting from a following address, wherein the following address is meeting the requirement of start address. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034389 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A data storage device includes a memory including a plurality of memory blocks each of which includes a plurality of pages suitable for storing data transmitted from a host, and a controller suitable for storing data storage information on the data stored in the memory, wherein the data storage information is updated based on valid pages where the data are stored among the plurality of the pages. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034390 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES HAVING THE MEMORY CONTROLLER - A method for operating a memory controller is provided. The method includes generating a pseudo random number by using a seed included in a stored seed group corresponding to a page to be currently programmed, wherein the stored seed group is stored among a plurality of seed groups. Data to be programmed into the current page is randomizing by using the pseudo random number and the memory controller outputs the randomized data. A solid state drive (SSD) or other memory storage device such as a memory card includes the memory controller and includes a read only memory (ROM) storing the plurality of seed groups. The memory controller includes a micro-processor and a read only memory (ROM) storing executable code for causing the micro-processor to access the plurality of stored seed groups and to select a seed therefrom corresponding to a page to be currently programmed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034391 | MANAGING A COLLECTION OF DATA - A measurement sampling facility takes snapshots of the central processing unit (CPU) on which it is executing at specified sampling intervals to collect data relating to tasks executing on the CPU. The collected data is stored in a buffer, and at selected times, an interrupt is provided to remove data from the buffer to enable reuse thereof. The interrupt is not taken after each sample, but in sufficient time to remove the data and minimize data loss. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034392 | SHARED MEMORY SYSTEM - A method for sending data from a local memory device in a first computing device to an external memory device in a second computing device is described herein. In one example, a method includes configuring the local memory device to store data for the external memory device and detecting a request for data from the external memory device. The method also includes translating a memory address that corresponds to the requested data from an external memory address to a local memory address. Additionally, the method includes retrieving the requested data based on the local memory address and sending the requested data to the second computing device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034393 | Slice-Based Random Access Buffer for Data Interleaving - The disclosure is directed to a system and method for interleaving data utilizing a random access buffer that includes a plurality of independently accessible memory slots. The random access buffer is configured to store slices of incoming data sectors in free memory slots, where a free memory slot is identified by a status flag associated with a logical address of the free memory slot. Meanwhile, a label buffer is configured to store labels associated with the slices of the incoming data sectors in a sequence based upon an interleaving scheme. Media sectors including the interleaved data slices are read out from the memory slots of the random access buffer in order of the sequence of labels stored by the label buffer. As the media sectors are read out of the random access buffer, the corresponding memory slots are freed up for incoming slices of the next super-sector. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034394 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING PREDICTIVE CACHE STATISTICS IN A STORAGE SYSTEM - Method and systems for a storage system are provided. Simulated cache blocks of a cache system are tracked using cache metadata while performing a workload having a plurality of storage operations. The cache metadata is segmented, each segment corresponding to a cache size. Predictive statistics are determined for each cache size using a corresponding segment of the cache metadata. The predictive statistics are used to determine an amount of data that is written for each cache size within certain duration. The process then determines if each cache size provides an endurance level after executing a certain number of write operations, where the endurance level indicates a desired life-cycle for each cache size. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034395 | Method and Apparatus for Ensuring Data Cache Coherency - A multithreaded processor can concurrently execute a plurality of threads in a processor core. The threads can access a shared main memory through a memory interface; the threads can generate read and write transactions that cause shared main memory access. An incoherency detection module prevents incoherency by maintaining a record of outstanding global writes, and detecting a conflicting global read. A barrier is sequenced with the conflicting global write. The conflicting global read is allowed to proceed after the sequence of the conflicting global write and the barrier are cleared. The sequence can be maintained by a separate queue for each thread of the plurality. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034396 | Programmable Address-Based Write-Through Cache Control - This invention is a cache system with a memory attribute register having plural entries. Each entry stores a write-through or a write-back indication for a corresponding memory address range. On a write to cached data the cache the cache consults the memory attribute register for the corresponding address range. Writes to addresses in regions marked as write-through always update all levels of the memory hierarchy. Writes to addresses in regions marked as write-back update only the first cache level that can service the write. The memory attribute register is preferably a memory mapped control register writable by the central processing unit. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034397 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Data and Computer System - A method and an apparatus for processing data and a computer system are provided. The method includes copying a shared virtual memory page to which a first process requests access into off-chip memory of a computing node, and using the shared virtual memory page copied into the off-chip memory as a working page of the first process; and before the first process performs a write operation on the working page, creating, in on-chip memory of the computing node, a backup page of the working page, so as to back up original data of the working page. Before a write operation is performed on a working page, page data is backed up in the on-chip memory, so as to ensure data consistency when multiple processes perform an operation on a shared virtual memory page while accessing off-chip memory as less as possible and improving a speed of a program. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034398 | CACHE-COHERENT MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETECTING FAILURES IN A CACHE-COHERENT MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM - A cache-coherent multiprocessor system comprising processing units, a shared memory resource accessible by the processing units, the shared memory resource being divided into at least one shared region, at least one first region, and at least one second region, a first cache, a second cache, a coherency unit, and a monitor unit, wherein the monitor unit is adapted to generate an error signal, when the coherency unit affects the at least one first region due to a memory access from the second processing unit and/or when the coherency unit affects the at least one second region due to a memory access from the first processing unit, and a method for detecting failures in a such a cache-coherent multiprocessor system. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034399 | BUS-BASED CACHE ARCHITECTURE - Digital signal processors often operate on two operands per instruction, and it is desirable to retrieve both operands in one cycle. Some data caches connect to the processor over two busses and internally uses two or more memory banks to store cache lines. The allocation of cache lines to specific banks is based on the address that the cache line is associated. When two memory accesses map to the same memory bank, fetching the operands incurs extra latency because the accesses are serialized. An improved bank organization for providing conflict-free dual-data cache access—a bus-based data cache system having two data buses and two memory banks—is disclosed. Each memory bank works as a default memory bank for the corresponding data bus. As long as the two values of data being accessed belong to two separate data sets assigned to the two respective data buses, memory bank conflicts are avoided. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034400 | DATA PREFETCH RAMP IMPLEMENATION BASED ON MEMORY UTILIZATION - A technique for data prefetching for a multi-core chip includes determining memory utilization of the multi-core chip. In response to the memory utilization of the multi-core chip exceeding a first level, data prefetching for the multi-core chip is modified from a first data prefetching arrangement to a second data prefetching arrangement to minimize unused prefetched cache lines. In response to the memory utilization of the multi-core chip not exceeding the first level, the first data prefetching arrangement is maintained. The first and second data prefetching arrangements are different. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034401 | Instruction Cache Management Based on Temporal Locality - The present disclosure relates to managing an instruction cache based on temporal locality of cached instructions. One example method includes receiving a request for a first instruction included in a software application; storing the first instruction in a cache structure; receiving a request for a second instruction included in the software application; determining that a cache entry must be removed from the cache structure to create space to store the second instruction; determining that the first instruction should be removed from the cache structure based on temporal locality attributes associated with at least one of the first instruction or the second instruction, the temporal locality attributes representing a likelihood that additional requests will be received for an associated instruction while the instruction is stored in the cache structure; removing the first instruction from the cache structure; and storing the second instruction in the cache structure. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034402 | STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR EXCHANGING DATA WITH SECONDARY STORAGE SECTION THROUGH CACHE - An information processing device includes a main control circuit including a central arithmetic processor that executes first processing through a first program, a sub-control circuit that executes second processing independently of the first processing, a primary storage circuit, and a secondary storage circuit. The secondary storage circuit has a slower access speed than the primary storage circuit. The secondary storage circuit stores a second program used for third processing executed once the first processing and the second processing are both complete. The main control circuit further includes a cache memory having a faster access speed than the secondary storage circuit and a cache controller. In a situation in which the second processing is not yet complete at a completion time of the first processing, the cache controller executes pre-reading of the second program from the secondary storage circuit and stores the second program into the cache memory. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034403 | ACCESS SUPPRESSION IN A MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device and a method of operating the memory device are provided. The memory device comprises a plurality of storage units and access control circuitry. The access control is configured to receive an access request and in response to the access request to initiate an access procedure in each of the plurality of storage units. The access control circuitry is configured to receive an access kill signal after the access procedure has been initiated and, in response to the access kill signal, to initiate an access suppression to suppress the access procedure in at least one of the plurality of storage units. Hence, by initiating the access procedures in all storage units in response to the access request, e.g. without waiting for a further indication of a specific storage unit in which to carry out the access procedure, the overall access time for the memory device kept low, but by enabling at least one of the access procedures later to be suppressed in response to the access kill signal dynamic power consumption of the memory device can be reduced. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034404 | MANAGING ACCESS TO STORAGE - A method, system, and computer program product for managing data in a storage facility is disclosed. A data set is selected for management based on a usage factor and a value factor. In a control block for the data set, a permissible address-range for access to a unit of storage space is established. A requested address-range of an access request configured for the unit of storage space is identified. By comparing the permissible address-range and the requested address-range, a determination is made whether to process the access request. An event response is initiated in response to determining to disallow processing of the access request. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034405 | HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY SYSTEM AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD IN THE SAME - Provided are a heterogeneous memory system and a data communication method in the same. The heterogeneous memory system includes a plurality of different kinds of memory cells, and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to communicate with each of the plurality of memory cells using a high-speed serial link technique. The CPU includes a CPU protocol engine that generates and packetizes command data to be transmitted to at least one of the plurality of memory cells, and each of the plurality of memory cells include a memory protocol engine configured to analyze the command data received from the CPU, and a memory controller configured to perform the corresponding operation according to the analysis result in the memory protocol engine. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034406 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MEMORY DEVICE TO PROCESS ACCESS REQUESTS ISSUED BY AT LEAST ONE MASTER DEVICE - A memory controller and method are provided for controlling a memory device to process access requests issued by at least one master device, the memory device having a plurality of access regions. The memory controller has a pending access requests storage that buffers access requests that have been issued by a master device prior to those access requests being processed by the memory device. Access control circuitry then issues control commands to the plurality of access regions in order to control the memory device to process access requests retrieved from the pending access requests storage. A query structure is also provided that is configured to maintain, for each access region, information about the buffered access requests in the pending access requests storage, and the access control circuitry references the query structure when determining the control commands to be issued to the plurality of access regions. Such an approach enables significant performance and energy savings to be realized in control of the memory device, without requiring the contents of the pending access requests storage to be directly monitored by the access control circuitry. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034407 | TECHNIQUE FOR SYNCHRONIZING IOMMU MEMORY DE-REGISTRATION AND INCOMING I/O DATA - A technique synchronizes de-registration of registered memory and incoming input/output (I/O) data received from an I/0 device for storage in a memory of a computer system. Registration and de-registration of the memory with an I/O memory management unit (IOMMU) are illustratively performed by an I/O device driver of the computer system in anticipation of (or in response to) an I/O request to store the incoming I/O data in buffers of the memory. The synchronization technique ensures that storage of the I/O data in the buffers and de-registration of the buffers occur in a coordinated, reliable manner to obviate data corruption or other error conditions that may manifest in response to a race condition between such data storage and memory de-registration. Notably, I/O data which may be in-flight (i.e., inbound) from a sender to the I/O device may be received without error even when active buffers are deregistered. That is, the technique avoids handshaking with the sender before de-registering the active buffers. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034408 | MEMORY MODULE WITH DISTRIBUTED DATA BUFFERS AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A memory module is operatable in a memory system with a memory controller. The memory module comprises a module control device to receive command signals from the memory controller and to output module command signals and module control signals. The module command signals are provided to memory devices organized in groups, each group including at least one memory device, while the module control signals are provided to a plurality of buffer circuits to control data paths in the buffer circuits. The plurality of buffer circuits are associated with respective groups of memory devices and are distributed across a surface of the memory module such that each module control signal arrives at the plurality of buffer circuits at different points in time. The plurality of buffer circuits are configured to align read data signals received from the memory devices such that the read data signals are transmitted to the memory controller from the memory module substantially aligned with each other and in accordance with a read latency parameter of the memory system. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034409 | SYSTEM-ON-CHIP AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A system-on-chip (SoC) may include a master, a slave, and an asynchronous interface having a first first-in first-out (FIFO) memory connected to the master and the slave. A write operation of the FIFO memory is controlled based upon a comparison of a write pointer and an expected write pointer of the FIFO memory, and a read operation of the FIFO memory is controlled based upon a comparison of a read pointer and an expected read pointer of the FIFO. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034410 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING TRIGGER BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND JACK ACCESSORY SUPPORTING THE SAME - A trigger operation method of an electronic device is provided. The trigger operation method includes when a trigger jack device is connected to a jack interface, configuring trigger execution information on the basis of at least one of sharing configuration information related to a task in progress, configuration change information, and communication connection configuration information, and recording the trigger execution information in the trigger jack device connected to the jack interface. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034411 | Subsystem Peripheral Ownership Scheduling and Reconfiguration for Highly Integrated System on Chips - Herein disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for dynamic switching of bus ownership, and in particular, for dynamic switching of peripheral bus ownership as well as all subsystems and/or peripherals on the bus. A peripheral bus access manager is distributed across multiple subsystems and controls access to a peripheral bus controller. The peripheral bus access manager also determines which subsystem should own the bus and then arbitrates access to the peripheral bus controller in order to indirectly make a desired subsystem the peripheral bus owner. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034412 | PCI EXPRESS CLUSTER - PCI Express Cluster dedicated for system expansion through installation of up to four high-performance PCI Express boards (example: graphics processing units—GPU). | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034413 | OPERATING METHOD OF CONTROLLER FOR SETTING LINK BETWEEN INTERFACES OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING CONTROLLER - An operating method includes sensing a connection of the first electronic device to an interface circuit of the second electronic device; receiving an identification code from the first electronic device; and setting a state of the interface circuit as an express linkup state corresponding to the received identification code. The identification code has a value different from values defined and reserved in an interface protocol which defines an operating procedure of the interface circuit. The value of the identification code varies with an attribute of the first electronic device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034414 | Systems And Methods For Assigning Addresses to Serially Arranged Circuit Nodes - In order to control individual circuit nodes coupled to a common serial line, each of the different circuit nodes must be assigned a locally unique address. However, mass manufactured electronics are manufactured as identical electronic devices. Thus, several techniques are presented for assigning unique addresses to identical electronic devices coupled to a common serial line. One set of techniques uses a local sensor that is stimulated in order to specify a single device on the serial line. Another set of techniques measures a pulse presented onto the common serial by a circuit node to determine its relative position on the serial line. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM MAINTAINING QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) OF HOST COMMANDS IN MULTI-PORT, MULTI-FUNCTION PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS (PCIE) DEVICES - A method maintaining a fixed QoS for a PCIe device accessed by multiple hosts includes; receiving commands from the hosts in PCIe function queues of the PCIe device, fetching the commands from the PCIe function command queues, queuing the commands according to a command arbitration policy established for the PCIe device, storing the queued commands in an internal memory of the PCIe device, retrieving the queued commands from the internal memory in a sequence determined by applying a calculated QoS to at least one of the queued commands, and allocating PCIe device resources based on payload information corresponding to each one of the retrieved commands. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034416 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE DIAGNOSTICS AND CONTROL OVER A TWO-WIRE COMMUNICATION BUS - Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for peripheral device diagnostics and control over a two-wire communication bus. For example, in some embodiments, a slave device may include circuitry to receive a synchronization control frame from an upstream device, receive audio data from the upstream device subsequent to receipt of the synchronization control frame, provide a synchronization response frame toward the upstream device, and provide first data representative of an operational characteristic of an audio device coupled to the slave device subsequent to provision of the synchronization response frame; circuitry to derive timing information from the synchronization control frame; and circuitry to provide the audio data to the audio device, and receive, from a sensor coupled to the slave device, second data representative of the operational characteristic of the audio device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034417 | DISTRIBUTED AUDIO COORDINATION OVER A TWO-WIRE COMMUNICATION BUS - Disclosed herein are systems and technique for distributed audio coordination over a two-wire communication bus. For example, in some embodiments, a first slave device may include circuitry to receive, over a two-wire bus a synchronization control frame, audio data, and a dynamics processor (DP) parameter for a second audio device coupled to a second slave device. The first slave device may include circuitry to derive timing information from the synchronization control frame, and circuitry to provide the audio data and a DP parameter (based on the DP parameter for the second audio device) to a first audio device coupled to the first slave device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034418 | SCALABLE DATA USING RDMA AND MMIO - To improve upon some of the characteristics of current storage systems in general and block data storage systems in particular, exemplary embodiments combine state-of-the art networking techniques with state-of-the-art data storage elements in a novel way. To accomplish this combination in a highly effective way, it is proposed to combine networking remote direct memory access (RDMA) technique and storage-oriented memory mapped input output (MMIO) technique in a system to provide direct access from a remote storage client to a remote storage system with little to no central processing unit (CPU) intervention of the remote storage server. In some embodiments, this technique may reduce the required CPU intervention on the client side. These reductions of CPU intervention potentially reduce latency while providing performance improvements, and/or providing more data transfer bandwidth and/or throughput and/or more operations per second compared to other systems with equivalent hardware. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT ACCESS FOR REMOTE STORAGE DEVICES - A network interface controller (NIC) for use in a server controlling a plurality of storage devices provides remote access to a plurality of clients each accessing one or more storage devices of the plurality of storage devices. The NIC is configured to receive from at least a client device an input/output (I/O) request for a storage device of the plurality of storage devices and store the I/O request in a secondary memory thereof. The I/O request is sent to the storage device and a response respective of the I/O request intended for the primary processing unit of the server is received by the NIC. The client device is sent an indication that the I/O request is completed. In some exemplary embodiments, the NIC determines if the client device has appropriate I/O permissions to access a specific data block. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034420 | MEMORY MAPPING IN A PROCESSOR HAVING MULTIPLE PROGRAMMABLE UNITS - The disclosure includes, in general, among other aspects, an apparatus having multiple programmable units integrated within a processor. The apparatus has circuitry to map addresses in a single address space to resources within the multiple programmable units where the single address space includes addresses for different ones of the resources in different ones of the multiple programmable units and where there is a one-to-one correspondence between respective addresses in the single address space and resources within the multiple programmable units. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034421 | DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION AND POST-DISTORTION BASED ON SEGMENTWISE PIECEWISE POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION - A nonlinear distorter is configured to mitigate nonlinearity from a nonlinear component of a nonlinear system. The nonlinear distorter operates to model the nonlinearity as a function of a piecewise polynomial approximation applied to segments of a nonlinear function of the nonlinearity. The nonlinear distorter generates a model output that decreases the nonlinearity of the nonlinear component. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034422 | Technique for Non-Destructive Testing - A technique for analyzing a time series obtained or obtainable by Non-Destructive Testing of a sample. The Non-Destructive Testing includes inducing an excitation in the sample and receiving a response to the excitation from the sample. As to a device aspect of the technique, a determining unit determines a trajectory in a state space having dimension n, wherein n is equal to or greater than 2. The trajectory includes a sequence of points in the state space, each point being derived from a subset of the time series. A comparing unit compares the determined trajectory with one or more reference trajectories. An assessing unit assesses a property of the sample based on the comparison. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034423 | Algorithm for Optimization and Sampling - In some examples, techniques and architectures for solving combinatorial optimization or statistical sampling problems use a hierarchical approach. Such a hierarchical approach may be applied to a system or process in a patch-like fashion. A set of elements of the system correspond to a first tier. An objective function associates the set of elements with one another. The set of elements are partitioned into patches corresponding to a second tier. The patches individually include second tier elements that are subsets of the set of elements, and the individual patches have an energy configuration. The second tier elements of the patches are randomly initialized. Based, at least in part, on the objective function, a combinatorial optimization operation is performed on the second tier elements of the individual patches to modify the second tier elements of the individual patches. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034424 | Adaptive Notifications on a Screen - Various embodiments provide notifications with respect to various communications that are received by a computing device. The notifications can be prioritized based on a user's context and, in addition, visually prioritized to present important notifications in a more visually prominent location than other perhaps lesser important notifications. Further, notification update frequency can be modified based on a user's or device's context. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034425 | PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC PRESENTATIONS BASED ON CONTEXTUAL AND BEHAVIORAL DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed that recommend one or more electronic presentations to a user based on one or more factors. These factors may include contextual information, behavioral information, profile information, or combinations of the foregoing. Contextual information may include content and/or features extracted from a given electronic presentation. Behavioral information may include user behavioral data, such as the number of times a user has viewed a presentation, the amount of the presentation viewed by the user, presentations previously viewed by the user, and other such behavioral data. Profile information may include user professional profile information, such as skills the user has identified as possessing, employment history information, and other such user professional profile information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034426 | Creating Cohesive Documents From Social Media Messages - A technique to construct a cohesive document is described including accessing a communication system having a plurality of social media message units accessible; collecting a plurality of related social media message units among users over a predetermined period of time; outputting to a single file the plurality of related social media message units when the file reaches a predetermined size to construct a cohesive document; and outputting to a single file a plurality of related social media message units after a maximum predetermined period of time to construct a different cohesive document. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034427 | PERSONALIZED DOCUMENT CONTENT AGGREGATION AND DOCUMENT ASSOCIATION IMPLEMENTED IN A DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Methods for managing contents of multiple digital documents for individual users, to generate aggregated documents from multiple documents and/or create associations among multiple documents, based on the user's interactions with multiple digital documents. A document content aggregation method can, on a personalized basis, aggregate contents from multiple digital documents into an aggregated document based on a user's past interactions with the documents. The aggregation is based on a content importance score calculated from the user interaction pattern. A document association method can, on a personalized basis, create associations among multiple digital documents based on the user's past interactions with the documents. Two documents are deemed related if there is a user interaction pattern where the user interacts with both documents with a predetermined time interval from each other. When displaying one document, link icons are displayed to allow the user to directly navigate to the related documents. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034428 | PREVIEWING INLINE AUTHORING OF WEB CONTENT - In a method for managing modifications to elements of a website, receiving one or more modifications to an element of a first webpage, wherein the first webpage is a member of a website. The method further includes determining one or more webpages that include one or more instances of the modified element of the first webpage, wherein the determined one or more webpages are members of the website. The method further includes mapping a location for each of the one or more instances of the modified element within a respective webpage of the determined one or more webpages. The method further includes rendering at least a portion of the determined one or more webpages, wherein the rendered portion of the determined one or more webpages includes the location of the corresponding instance of the modified element. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034429 | PACED PAGE AUTOMATIC TURNS - A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable. A processor is provided within the housing to display content pertaining to a first page state for an e-book, and to initiate a countdown timer based on a first timer value. Upon expiration of the countdown timer, the processor automatically transitions the displayed content to correspond with a second page state of the e-book. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034430 | SUMMARY VIEWS FOR EBOOKS - An ebook is represented as a plurality of ebook pages associated with a plurality of segments. A summary view command is received, the summary view command requesting a particular type of summary view of a plurality of available summary views. One or more ebook pages are identified, for a summary view based in part on the requested type of summary view, and page thumbnails are generated for each of the identified one or more ebook pages. The generated page thumbnails are grouped by segment, using the plurality of segments. A summary view graphical user interface (GUI) is generated for the requested type of summary view using the grouped page thumbnails, the summary view GUI vertically listing one or more segments, of the plurality of segments, and horizontally listing page thumbnails associated with the one or more segments, and the summary view GUI is displayed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING A CONTENT ITEM AS A LINK TARGET TO A MANAGED OBJECT - A smart link selection invention for assigning a content item as a link target to a managed object in a web content project of a web content management system. The web content project comprises at least one content page having content item(s). The method comprises accessing, in response to a user request, at least part of a managed object; generating a preview of the at least one content page; adding metadata to the generated preview; adding at least one selection means to the generated preview, the at least one selection means enabling selection of at least one content item; displaying the preview with the at least one selection means; selecting, in response to a user request, at least one content item from the generated preview; determining an identifier of the selected content item based on the metadata; and storing the identifier as the link target with the managed object. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034432 | ACCESSIBLE PROCESSING METHOD OF WEBPAGE CONTENTS AND ACCESSIBLE WEBPAGE DEVICE - An accessible processing method of webpage contents and accessible webpage device are provided. The foregoing accessible processing method may include the follows. A document outline list tag is added to a webpage. After the document outline list tag obtains a focus, the following is further included. All title tags of a specified level in current webpage may be traversed. An anchor point may be added to each title tag of the specified level. Text information of each title tag of the specified level may be respectively copied to a corresponding link newly established. The link newly established may be enabled to point to an anchor point of a corresponding title label. Each link newly established may be taken as a list item. The list item may be added to the document outline list tag. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034433 | DIGITAL DOCUMENT CHANGE CONFLICT RESOLUTION - A first set of changes to a first version of a digital document, as compared to a baseline version of the document, can be detected. The first set of changes can include a first change to a page of the document in the first version of the document, as compared to the baseline version of the document. Also, a second set of changes to a second version of a document, as compared to the baseline version of the document, can be detected. The second set of changes can include a second change to the page of the document in the second version of the document, as compared to the baseline version of the document. A conflict between the first change and the second change can be detected, and the conflict can be resolved by receiving user input or applying conflict resolution rule(s) to choose between the first and second changes. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034434 | CONTEXTUAL PAGE GENERATION WITH STRUCTURED CONTENT INDEPENDENT OF RESPONSIVE DISPLAY DEVICES - Methods and systems provide contextual page generation with structured content independent of responsive display devices. A request is first received from a user computing device for structured content. The request may include a user role, a presentation context, and a structured content identifier. Content items associated with the structured content identifier are then retrieved from a content database. One or more content items are selected from the retrieved content items based at least on the user role and the presentation context, and a page is constructed that includes the selected content items. Finally, the constructed page is transmitted to the user computing device for rendering and display. In one example, lesson plans prepared by an author are stored as structured content in the content database and contextual pages are generated from the structured content. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034435 | MANAGING PORTABLE DOCUMENT-BASED WORKSPACES - In various embodiments, methods and systems for managing portable document-based workspaces is provided. An indication to save a document-based workspace for a document is received on a computing device. The computing device can include a software application for editing the document and a client application for communicating with a cloud service component that is configured to store the document and the document-based workspace. Based on receiving the indication to save the document-based workspace, transient data associated with the document is identified. The transient data can be identified based on a data structure that defines document-specific data that are preserved as part of the document-based workspace. The document-based workspace is saved and communicated to the cloud service component such that the transient data associated with the document is accessible when the document is accessed from a second computing device that sends an indication to access the document and the document-based workspace. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034436 | SIMPLIFIED TEXT CORRECTION ON A TOUCH SCREEN - An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a processor, an indication of an input including a word; providing, on a touch screen, an enlarged view of the input indicated, wherein the enlarged view is off set from an input entry field on the touch screen; and accepting, using a processor, editing input that modifies the word. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034437 | MOBILE SOCIAL CONTENT-CREATION APPLICATION AND INTEGRATED WEBSITE - A mobile device software application and interrelated mobile device-optimized website social user gallery is described. The application and website introduce 1) a new visual layout for images, text, and banners organized by topic, and optionally by date and relative order, 2) new mobile software user interfaces for viewing, creating, emailing, publicly displaying in a mobile website user gallery, partner linking, notifying via alarms, topic updating, and structurally organizing via text definition files and a local, on-device client database, these new visual layouts to empower users to create new content, or repurpose existing content from different topics, 3) new mobile software application client-side software framework marketing mechanisms, configurations, and specifications, 4) interrelated new mobile-optimized website social user gallery to display the publicly shared content sent by registered users from the mobile device software application. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034438 | ALIGNING CONTENT IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text can be snapped into alignment with an existing island of text. Invisible guidelines that emanate from textual features in a document object can page. In response to placing a content insertion point (“IP”) on an electronic page with an existing document object, the IP can be automatically aligned to the content of the existing document object. A page with several arbitrarily positioned document objects can be automatically rearranged so that the contents of the document objects are each aligned to one another. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034439 | Optimizing the Placement of Clustered Textural Annotations - A processor receives a command to optimize the placement of a plurality of annotations along a polyline displayed on a graphical user interface. The plurality of annotations has a plurality of font sizes and each font size has a height. A plurality of annotation slot size candidates is selected for logical annotation slots along the polyline. An annotation slot size is selected from among the plurality of annotation slot size candidates, wherein the chosen annotation slot size is smaller than largest of the font sizes. The polyline is divided into logical annotation slots having the chosen annotation slot size. The plurality of annotations is distributed among the logical annotation slots. The polyline and the distributed plurality of annotations is displayed on the graphical user interface. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034440 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREFOR - An apparatus for controlling a mobile terminal allowing a user to easily and quickly select and transmit desired information and a method thereof are provided. The method for controlling a mobile terminal includes detecting information used in at least one application program, displaying a character input window on a display unit, and displaying information selected from the detected information in the character input window. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034441 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A USER INTERFACE - Systems, apparatuses and methods for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) conforming to a graphical representation employ computer vision, optical character recognition, and other techniques to generate a structure of the GUI as a view hierarchy. A development project with source code and resource files is created to generate an application having the GUI. The application and GUI are applicable to mobile and other platforms using various operating systems, such as Android, iOS, and others. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034442 | Mapping Between User Interface Fields and Protocol Information - A gateway device for implementing data security is described herein. The gateway device is coupled between a client device and a server device, and generates a mapping between portions of data received from a client device and interface fields or data elements of the client device. Upon receiving subsequent data from the client device, the gateway device can access the generated mapping to identify portions of the subsequent data corresponding to particular interface fields or data elements of the client device using the mapping, and can encode the identified portions of the subsequent data, for instance based on data protection techniques defined by a security policy. The encoded data can then be outputted by the gateway device to the server device. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DATA GRIDS - A system and method for facilitating displaying data in a table via a web-based data grid. The example method includes rendering a first table and then rendering a second table via a layer overlaid on the first table. The second table replicates a user selected portion of the first table. In a specific embodiment, the example method further includes providing a first user option to horizontally scroll the first table. One or more columns of the second table remain static in response to horizontal scrolling of the first table. A second user option enables vertical scrolling of the first table. Vertical scrolling of the first table causes concurrent vertical scrolling of the second table. A third user option enables repositioning of the second table relative to the first table. The first table and overlaid second table, called the frozen section, may be implemented via client-side scripting. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034444 | PHRASE-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A client device, such as a digital video recorder, provides a phrase-based communication system in which users are presented with a dynamic messaging interface of selectable phrases and other elements. At least some of the phrases may be selected using algorithms that identify phrases that are likely to be useful to the particular user and/or the context in which the user is creating a message. In this manner, a user is able to generate useful messages quickly, without being limited to stale and fixed canned messages. Popular phrases may be identified by, for example, a server that relays based on messages exchanged between users. These popular phrases may then be harvested for use in the dynamic messaging interface. Moreover, context-sensitive metadata elements may be added to the dynamic messaging interface based on, for example, content that the user is currently viewing or about which the user is currently accessing information. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034445 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY - Disclosed is an approach for allowing an entity to perform semantic analysis upon private data possessed by an enterprise, and to automatically perform categorization of that data for processing within the enterprise. A semantic API can be provided to allow the enterprise to provide the private data to a sematic analysis system, even when the semantic analysis system is configured as a multi-tenant system that handles other items of public or private data. A rules-based routing architecture may be provided to facilitate analysis and routing of analyzed messages to the appropriate destination within the organization. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034446 | ESTIMATION OF TARGET CHARACTER TRAIN - A desired character train included in a predefined reference character train, such as lyrics, is set as a target character train, and a user designates a target phoneme train that is indirectly representative of the target character train by use of a limited plurality of kinds of particular phonemes, such as vowels and a particular consonants. A reference phoneme train indirectly representative of the reference character train by use of the particular phonemes is prepared in advance. Based on a comparison between the target phoneme train and the reference phoneme train, a sequence of the particular phonemes in the reference phoneme train that matches the target phoneme train is identified, and a character sequence in the reference character train that corresponds to the identified sequence of the particular phonemes is identified. The thus-identified character sequence estimates the target character train. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034447 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRANSLATED CONTENT - An apparatus configured to provide translated content to a receiver includes a storage configured to store address book information including identification information identifying a user of the receiver; a user inputter configured to receive input including the identification information and content to be transmitted to the receiver; a controller configured to determine a language corresponding to the user of the receiver identified by the receiver identification information based on the address book information and the identification information; and a communicator configured to transmit a request to translate the content into the determined language. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034448 | ASSISTIVE AGENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing automated assistance for a user by receiving a user request for assistance; translating the request to a language and determining semantics of the user request and identifying at least one domain, at least one task, and at least one parameter for the user request; searching a semantic database on the Internet for the at least one matching domain, task, and parameter; and accessing semantic data and services having one or more triples including subject, predicate, and object available over the Internet; and responding to the user request. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034449 | Message Translations - Systems for translating text messages in an instant messaging system comprise a translation engine for translating text messages into a preferred language of a recipient of the text messages. The systems are preferably configured to send and receive the text messages and to determine whether the text messages that are received in a source language are in the preferred language of the recipients so that the text messages are displayed in the preferred language of the recipients of the text messages. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034450 | COMPARISON OF CONTENT PRESENTED BY CLIENT DEVICES OPERATING IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR CONSISTENT CONTENT PRESENTATION - Information describing content presented in a source language and in a target language is captured and communicated to a review server. For example, the review server receives screen captures of content presented in the source language and of the content presented in the target language. The review server concurrently presents information describing the content presented in the source language with information describing the content presented in the target language to a reviewing user. From the presented information, the reviewing user identifies differences between the content presented in the source language and the content presented in the target language to the review server. For example, the reviewing user identifies linguistic differences between content presented in the source language and in the target language as well as functional problems impairing presentation of content in the target language. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034451 | DIGITAL ASSET DOCK (DAD) - A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer program product provide the ability to ingest a media content file. The media content file to be uploaded and managed in an enterprise media framework (EMF) is selected. Media content file(s) to be tagged are also selected. A mask matcher identifies a mask (having multiple parts) that identifies a file structure of information associated with the media content file. For each of the multiple parts and based on the information associated with the media content file, metadata is calculated and applied to the media content file. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034452 | Media Fingerprinting and Identification System - The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described. In this system, a fingerprint for a piece of multimedia content is composed of a number of compact signatures, along with traversal hash signatures and associated metadata. Numerical descriptors are generated for features found in a multimedia clip, signatures are generated from these descriptors, and a reference signature database is constructed from these signatures. Query signatures are also generated for a query multimedia clip. These query signatures are searched against the reference database using a fast similarity search procedure, to produce a candidate list of matching signatures. This candidate list is further analyzed to find the most likely reference matches. Signature correlation is performed between the likely reference matches and the query clip to improve detection accuracy. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034453 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SEARCH PARAMETERS - A method and apparatus for processing a search parameter is disclosed. The method comprises displaying a selection menu comprising a plurality of parameters; receiving a first selection of a first one of the plurality of the parameters; displaying a container responsive to the first selection; displaying a first portion of the container associated with the selected first parameter responsive to the first selection; and assigning a first weight of the selected first parameter, the first weight representing a ratio of a first area occupied by the first portion and an entire area of the container. | 2016-02-04 |
| 20160034454 | CROWDSOURCED PAIR-BASED MEDIA RECOMMENDATION - A method of generating media pair similarity ratings comprises presenting a user with a first media item, and querying the user regarding additional media items that are most similar to the first media item. Input is received from the user indicating the additional media items that are most similar to the first media item; and a pair similarity rating is set for the first media item and at least one of the additional media items based at least in part on the input indicating the additional media items most similar to the first media item. | 2016-02-04 |
