| 10th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 80 |
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| 20090063906 | Method, Apparatus and Program Storage Device for Extending Dispersion Frame Technique Behavior Using Dynamic Rule Sets - A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing control of statistical processing of error data over a multitude of sources using a dynamically modifiable DFT rule set is disclosed. The dispersion frame technique is extended in the present invention to provide dispersion frame rules with user-defined parameters thereby creating a dynamically modifiable rule set. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063907 | DEBUGGING SYSTEM, DEBUGGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A debugging system which can efficiently obtain debugging information and which has excellent debugging efficiency is a debugging system which stops execution of a program executed in a program executing apparatus, at a break point, and assists debugging of the program, and which includes: a dump control unit configured to dump information indicating an operating state of the program executing apparatus, at plural points in time prior to the stopping of the execution of the program; and a dump information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the information indicating the operating state of the program executing apparatus dumped by said dump control unit. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063908 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Verifying Integrity of Web-Server Served Content - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for verifying the integrity of web server content. Communication with a server is initiated and content is retrieved that is specified by a Uniform Resource Locator. The content is parsed and searched for an error message. When the content contains linked content, then the linked content is parsed and also searched for the error message. The error message is logged to indicate an existence of a partial page error. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063909 | VARIABLE OSCILLATOR FOR GENERATING DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES IN A CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK - A device suitable for use as a module in a Controller Area Network (CAN) system with a bus or connection includes relatively simple and inexpensive components, including an oscillator that generates a number of different frequencies in response to directions from a microcomputer. A CAN Controller receiving the frequencies is connected to the bus via a transceiver. The device has utility for verification and validation work in association with a CAN system. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063910 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A TRANSCEIVER MODULE - A method of controlling a transceiver module which includes a physical-layer integrated circuit having a physical-layer register unit, and a control integrated circuit having a control-side register unit. In the method, the physical-layer register unit is emulated by the control-side register unit and the physical-layer integrated circuit is prohibited from generating a first error signal giving notice of detection of a specific error directly to a higher-layer device. A second error signal is output from the physical-layer integrated circuit to the control integrated circuit, giving notice of a high-speed error associated with communication processing and that is detected by the physical-layer integrated circuit. The high-speed error is specified in response to the outputting of the second error signal. A bit is set in the control-side register unit in response to the specifying of a high speed error and the control integrated circuit delivers to the higher-layer device the second error signal. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063911 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - In digital broadcast receiver ( | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063912 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing SRAM Cell Write Performance Evaluation - A method and apparatus for implementing static random access memory (SRAM) cell write performance evaluation, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. ASRAM core includes each wordline connected to only one bit column. A ring oscillator circuit is used to generate wordline pulses. A state machine controls operations for the SRAM cell write performance evaluation circuit including the ring oscillator circuit and the SRAM core. A control signal is applied to the state machine to select a first write operation, where the circuit simultaneously writes all the cells to a known state with wide wordlines to ensure all cells are written. Then a second write operation is selected, and all the wordlines are launched simultaneously to write the cells to the opposite state. From these write operations, a required wordline pulse width to write the cell is identified. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063913 | Semiconductor integrated circuit - Test functions are expanded by adopting a test part, and an increase in circuit scale is reduced by adding the test part. A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a memory that includes plural memory banks and is accessed by specifying a bank address, an X address, and a Y address, and a self-test part that tests the memory in response to commands. The self-test part has an address counter covering plural addressing modes that are different in how to update X addresses, Y addresses, and bank addresses. A variety of addressing modes provided for testing contribute to the expansion of BIST-based test functions. Since the self-test part has plural test sequencers corresponding to plural test modes, the area of the semiconductor integrated circuit can be easily reduced in comparison with program-controlled general-purpose sequencers requiring memory for storing programs. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063914 | Content-Addressable Memories and State Machines for Performing Three-Byte Matches and Secondary Matches, and for Providing Error Protection - A method and system for detecting matching strings in a string of characters utilizing content addressable memory using primary and secondary matches is disclosed. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063915 | MANAGING PURGEABLE MEMORY OBJECTS USING PURGE GROUPS - Memory objects associated with a portion of a cache (e.g., data blocks of a media file) are assigned a value based on their importance to an application that is consuming memory objects. The values are used to assign the data blocks to purge groups. The purge groups are a labeling mechanism for determining a purge order. A memory object associated with a first data block assigned to a first purge group may be purged before a memory object associated with a second data block assigned to a second purge group. As new data blocks are received by the application (e.g., from disk or a network connection), the blocks are assigned a value and added to a purge group. In some cases, the data blocks arrive out of order (e.g., order of consumption). Memory objects can be reassigned to a different purge group when new data blocks are added or reclaimed. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063916 | METHOD FOR SELF-TEST AND SELF-REPAIR IN A MULTI-CHIP PACKAGE ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for operating a component including a memory device. The method includes receiving a plurality of commands and determining if a set of the plurality of commands matches a predefined pattern of commands configured to place the memory device into a test mode. Upon determining that the set of the plurality of commands matches the predefined plurality of commands, the memory device is placed in the test mode. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063917 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a memory collars including: a memory cell; a fetch register that is configured to fetch data as a first fetch data; a comparing unit that is configured to compare the first fetch data with an expected value; a failure detecting signal output unit that is configured to receive the compared result and output a failure detecting signal; and a BIST circuit including: a BIST control unit that is configured to output an instruction and output a BIST status; a shift controller that is configured to receive a first clock signal, the BIST status signal, and the failure detecting signal and output sift enable signal; a shift counter that counts the number of clock pulses on the first clock signal; a first storage register that is configured to receive the first clock signal and the shift enable signal, and a second storage register that is configured to receive a second clock signal. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063918 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING WORD LINE LEAKAGE IN MEMORY DEVICES - A method for detecting word line leakage in a memory device includes coupling a first plurality of word lines in the memory device to a voltage source while grounding a second plurality of word lines. Each of the second plurality of word lines is adjacent to a corresponding one of the first plurality of word lines. The method includes waiting for a period of time to allow the word lines to reach a predetermined read voltage level. The method also includes decoupling the first plurality of word lines from the voltage source and waiting for a second predetermined period of time to allow the first plurality of word lines to discharge. The method further includes sensing a current associated with the word lines, and comparing the current with a predetermined reference current which is selected for identifying a word line leakage condition associated with the first plurality of word lines. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063919 | PARALLEL SCAN DISTRIBUTORS AND COLLECTORS AND PROCESS OF TESTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - An integrated circuit ( | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063920 | PARALLEL SCAN DISTRIBUTORS AND COLLECTORS AND PROCESS OF TESTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - An integrated circuit ( | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063921 | Staggered LBIST Clock Sequence for Noise (di/dt) Amelioration - A method, device and system for performing on-chip testing are presented. In particular, the present invention provides a method, device and system for reducing noise due to large changes in current that occur during logical built-in self testing (LBIST) operations in integrated circuits. The method includes executing a first logical built-in self test sequence for a first logic region within an integrated circuit, subsequently executing a second logical built-in self test sequence for a second logic region within the integrated circuit, wherein the second test sequence is offset from the first test sequence by one or more clock cycles. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063922 | System for Performing Error Correction Operations in a Memory Hub Device of a Memory Module - A memory system is provided for performing error correction operations in a memory module. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in the memory module and a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises a link interface integrated into the memory hub device that provides a communication pathway between an external memory controller and the set of memory devices. The memory hub device also comprises error correction logic integrated in the memory hub device and coupled to the link interface. The error correction logic performs error correction operations on data transferred between the link interface and the set of memory devices. The memory hub device transmits and receives data via a memory channel between the external memory controller and the link interface without any error correction code. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063923 | System and Method for Performing Error Correction at a Memory Device Level that is Transparent to a Memory Channel - A memory system is provided that performs error correction at a memory device level that is transparent to a memory channel. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in the memory module and a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises first error correction logic provided in write logic integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises second error correction logic provided in read logic integrated in the memory hub device. The first error correction logic and the second error correction logic performs error correction operations on data transferred between a link interface and the set of memory devices. The memory hub device transmits and receives data via a memory channel between the external memory controller and the link interface without any error correction code. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063924 | HYBRID ARQ RETRANSMISSION WITH REORDERING SCHEME EMPLOYING MULTIPLE REDUNDANCY VERSIONS AND RECEIVER/TRANSMITTER THEREFOR - A hybrid ARQ retransmission method in a communication system, wherein data packets consisting of symbols encoded with a forward error correction (FEC) technique prior to transmission are retransmitted based on an automatic repeat request and subsequently combined with previously received data packets the symbols of said data packets being modulated by a mapping unit employing a predetermined signal constellation. The retransmitted data packets being retransmitted in form of a selected one of a plurality of different redundancy versions. According to the invention the transmitted bits of the modulated symbols are reordered over the retransmissions in accordance with the selected redundancy version. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063925 | LCPC DECODING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A flexible and relatively hardware efficient LDPC decoder is described. The decoder can be implemented with a level of parallelism which is less than the full parallelism of the code structure used to control the decoding process. Each command of a relatively simple control code used to describe the code structure can be stored and executed multiple times to complete the decoding of a codeword. Different codeword lengths are supported using the same set of control code instructions but with the code being implemented a different number of times depending on the codeword length. The decoder can switch between decoding codewords of different lengths, without the need to change the stored code description information, by simply changing a code lifting factor that is indicative of codeword length and is used to control the decoding process. When decoding codewords shorter than the maximum supported codeword length some block storage locations may go unused. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063926 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECODING USING CHANNEL CODE - An apparatus and method for decoding a channel code is disclosed. The method for decoding a channel code includes the steps of receiving a low density parity check (LDPC) encoded signal from a transmitting party, generating a parity check matrix by adjusting the order of rows or columns of the parity check matrix, the parity check matrix including a plurality of groups consisting of a plurality of columns, at least one of the groups including at least one row of which every element is zero (0), and iteratively decoding the received signal for each group by using the generated parity check matrix. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063927 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A decoding section for decoding inputted first data; a first memory for being adapted to store second data obtained by decoding the first data; a second memory for being adapted to store error information on an error in decoding of the first data; and an output section for outputting the second data, wherein when the output section reads and outputs the second data from the first memory, the output section reads and outputs, as data corresponding to an error of the first data, second data stored in the second memory and serving as a decoding result of the other part of the first data based on the error information stored in the second memory. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063928 | FEC TRANSMISSION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided with an FEC transmission processing apparatus including: a media packet acquiring unit configured to successively acquire media packets from a media packet generator; a media packet transmission unit configured to transmit the media packets acquired to a media packet reception processing apparatus; an FEC packet generation unit configured to generate a plurality of FEC packets for the media packet reception processing apparatus to recover a lost media packet by carrying out FEC calculation processing using media packets acquired within a predetermined FEC period from acquisition of a first acquired media packet after media packets subjected to the FEC calculation processing immediately before; and an FEC packet transmission unit configured to transmit the FEC packets to the media packet reception processing apparatus within the predetermined FEC period after a lapse of the predetermined FEC period from the acquisition of the first acquired media packet. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063929 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system using low density parity check codes - An apparatus for transmitting data in a communication system using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) matrix is provided. The apparatus includes an interleaver for interleaving a descending bit-ordered codeword having a predetermined size and in accordance with a predetermined modulation scheme; and a bit mapper for mapping codeword bits constituting the interleaved codeword in accordance with a predetermined mapping scheme that takes into account degrees of the codeword bits and reliability characteristics of modulation symbol-constituting bits based on the predetermined modulation scheme. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063930 | CHECK MATRIX GENERATING METHOD, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, ENCODER, AND DECODER - A regular quasi-cyclic matrix is generated with cyclic permutation matrices and specific regularity given to the cyclic permutation matrices. A mask matrix for making the regular quasi-cyclic matrix into an irregular quasi-cyclic matrix is generated. An irregular masked quasi-cyclic matrix is generated by converting a specific cyclic permutation matrix in the regular quasi-cyclic matrix into a zero-matrix using a mask matrix supporting a specific encoding rate. An irregular parity check matrix with an LDGM structure is generated with a masked quasi-cyclic matrix and a matrix in which the cyclic permutation matrices are arranged in a staircase manner. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063931 | Methods and architectures for layered decoding of LDPC codes with minimum latency - An embodiment of a decoder for decoding a Low-Density Parity-Check encoded input data includes a serial processing unit operating in clock cycles to perform serial update of the layers in the code. Operations of the serial processing unit to produce output data for a current layer are pipelined with acquisition of input data for a next layer, whereby the current layer and the next layer may attempt to use soft output information common to both layers. The serial processing unit is configured for delaying acquisition of input data for the next layer over a number of idle clock cycles. Latency due to the idle clock cycles is minimized by selectively modifying the sequence of layers through the decoding process and the sequence of messages processed by a certain layer. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063932 | Information processing device and method - In an information processing device, error detection information is generated from additional information and a header is generated from error detection information. An encoded header is then generated by appending a header-error correction code to the header and encoded additional information is generated by appending an information-error correction code to the additional information. Finally, an information-appended image is generated by integratedly appending the encoded header and the encoded additional information to the target image. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063933 | LCPC DECODING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A flexible and relatively hardware efficient LDPC decoder is described. The decoder can be implemented with a level of parallelism which is less than the full parallelism of the code structure used to control the decoding process. Each command of a relatively simple control code used to describe the code structure can be stored and executed multiple times to complete the decoding of a codeword. Different codeword lengths are supported using the same set of control code instructions but with the code being implemented a different number of times depending on the codeword length. The decoder can switch between decoding codewords of different lengths, without the need to change the stored code description information, by simply changing a code lifting factor that is indicative of codeword length and is used to control the decoding process. When decoding codewords shorter than the maximum supported codeword length some block storage locations may go unused. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063934 | MULTI-CHANNEL MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING ERROR CORRECTION DECODER ARCHITECTURE WITH EFFICIENT AREA UTILIZATION - A memory system includes: a memory controller including an error correction decoder. The error correction decoder includes: a demultiplexer adapted to receive data and demultiplex the data into a first set of data and a second set of data; first and second buffer memories for storing the first and second sets of data, respectively; an error detector; an error corrector; and a multiplexer adapted to multiplex the first set of data and the second set of data and to provide the multiplexed data to the error corrector. While the error corrector corrects errors in the first set of data, the error detector detects errors in the second set of data stored in the second buffer memory. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063935 | Method and system for wireless communication of uncompressed video information - A method and system for communication uncompressed video over a wireless communication medium is provided. Pixels in an uncompressed video frame are grouped into groups of pixels for wireless transmission from a transmitter to a receiver, wherein the neighboring pixels in each group possess (have) high spatial correlation. Upon receiving the pixel groups, the receiving station reconstructs the video frame from the received pixel groups, wherein upon detecting an erroneous pixel in a group, information from one or more neighboring pixels in that pixel group are used in place of the erroneous pixel. Further, FEC encoding is utilized recovering bit-errors. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063936 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD IN SAID APPARATUS, CODEC, DECODER, COMMUNICATION MODULE, COMMUNICATION UNIT AND DECODING METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a plurality of descramblers for subjecting a second header portion of a received frame to descrambling processing using pseudo-random sequences that differ from one another; a plurality of syndrome arithmetic units for performing a syndrome calculation, which is in accordance with a cyclic redundancy check code, with respect to headers descrambled by respective ones of the plurality of descramblers, and an error correction unit for selecting a header that has been descrambled by one descrambler among the plurality of descramblers as a receive header, in accordance with syndrome values calculated by respective ones of the plurality of syndrome arithmetic units. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063937 | ARCHITECTURE AND CONTROL OF REED-SOLOMON ERROR-CORRECTION DECODING - Systems and methods are provided for implementing various aspects of a Reed-Solomon (RS) error-correction system. A detector can provide a decision-codeword from a channel and can also provide soft-information for the decision-codeword. If the decision-codeword corresponds to an inner code and an RS code is the outer code, a soft-information map can process the soft-information for the decision-codeword to produce soft-information for a RS decision-codeword. A RS decoder can employ the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm (BMA), list decoding, and a Chien search, and can include a pipelined architecture. A threshold-based control circuit can be used to predict whether list decoding will be needed and can suspend the list decoding operation if it predicts that list decoding is not needed. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063938 | Decoding Error Correction Codes Using A Modular Single Recursion Implementation - Systems and methods are provided for performing error correction decoding. The coefficients of the error locator polynomial are iteratively determined for each codeword using a modular implementation of a single recursion key-equation solver algorithm. According to this implementation, modules are used to calculate the current and previous coefficients of the error locator polynomial. One module is used for each correctable error. The modular single recursion implementation is programmable, because the number of modules can be easily changed to correct any number of correctable errors. Galois field tower arithmetic can be used to calculate the inverse of an error term. Galois field tower arithmetic greatly reduces the size of the inversion unit. The latency time can be reduced by placing the computations of the inverse error term outside the critical path of the error locator polynomial algorithm. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063939 | ACS (ADD COMPARE SELECT) IMPLEMENTATION FOR RADIX-4 SOVA (SOFT-OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHM) - ACS (Add Compare Select) implementation for radix-4 SOVA (Soft-Output Viterbi Algorithm). A means is presented by which two trellis stages can be processes simultaneously and in parallel with one another (e.g., during a single clock cycle) thereby significantly increasing data throughput. During each processing iteration, the ACS module generates a hard decision for each of two trellis stages, as well as a corresponding reliability for each of the two hard decisions. Also, the ACS module is operable to generate the updated state metric for the state at the current trellis stage as well. Multiple operations are performed simultaneously and in parallel, and control logic circuitry and/or operations employed to select which of the multiple simultaneously-generated resultants is to be employed for each of the hard decisions, reliabilities, and next state metric for the current trellis stage. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063940 | REGISTER EXCHANGE NETWORK FOR RADIX-4 SOVA (SOFT-OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHM) - A means is presented by which two trellis stages can be processes simultaneously and in parallel with one another (e.g., during a single clock cycle) thereby significantly increasing data throughput. Any one or more modules within a REX module can be implemented using a radix-4 architecture to increase data throughput. For example, any or more of a SMU (Survivor Memory Unit), a PED (Path Equivalency Detector), and a RMU (Reliability Measure Unit) can be implemented in accordance with the principles of radix-4 decoding processing. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING REDUNDANCY TO EXCHANGE DATA IN A MULTICAST OR ONE WAY ENVIRONMENT - A system for use in one-way communications takes data from a source and parses it into work units. The work units may have a fixed size. The data of the work units is given to a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) library. The RAID library applies parity to the data and produces a number of output streams. Each stream includes data from the work units and redundant data from the parity application. The streams are combined and sent over a network. The inverse parity is applied on the receiving side to recreate the data. The redundant data is used in place of any data having an error condition, such as being lost or corrupted. The data is reconstructed on the receiving end without the need to resend data. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING A REPORT WITH A CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATE - A system and method for associating a report with a customizable template is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a first data source that stores a plurality of customizable templates, a second data source that stores a plurality of reports, and logic coupled to the first and second data sources and configured to associate at least one of the plurality of reports with at least one of the plurality of customizable templates. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063943 | Use of Dynamic Anchors to Transmit Content - A section of a document is visually altered, by a sending computer, to create an altered document. An anchor is dynamically created for the section of the document that was altered. This anchor is appended to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for the original document, and the appended URI is then sent from the sending computer to a receiving computer. When the appended URI is rendered by the receiving computer, the same altered document that was created by the sending computer is now displayed on the receiving computer. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063944 | Differential Dynamic Content Delivery With Indications Of Interest From Non-Participants - Session document for a presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element having an associated indication of interest from a user not participating in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to a user participant; and notifying the user not participating of the presentation of the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include recording for the user not participating the associated indication of interest in the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include notifying the user not participating of the identity of at least one user participant. Typical embodiments also include allowing the user not participating to participate in the presentation. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063945 | Synchronization of Media Presentation Software - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for synchronizing a media presentation. A locally stored electronic copy of the media presentation is displayed on a presenter's presentation device and a locally stored copy of the media presentation is displayed on each of one or more participants' presentation devices. The presenter's presentation device and each participant's presentation device is operable to communicate with each other through a communications network. In response to the presenter performing an action on the electronic copy of the media presentation on the presenter's presentation device during the media presentation, data pertaining to the action is transmitted through the communications network to each participant's presentation device. The appearance of the media presentation on each participant's presentation device is changed in accordance with the data transmitted from the presenter. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063946 | ANCHOR STORE FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE DYNAMIC ANCHORS - One or more sections of a document are visually altered, by a sending computer, to create an altered document. An anchor is dynamically created for each section of the document that was altered. Each anchor is appended to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for the original document. An anchor store, which includes multiple anchors for different selected regions of the altered document, is created and sent from the sending computer to a receiving computer. When the anchor store is received by the receiving computer, a receiving user can select one or more of the anchors to view the visually modified resource. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063947 | Calendar and spreadsheet user interfaces - Displaying a calendar user interface is disclosed. An indication that a time period associated with a calendar bar in the calendar user interface has been edited is received. It is determined whether a date display element corresponding to a date in the time period in the calendar user interface is full. In the event that the date display element is full, all calendar bars associated with the date are modified. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063948 | Scale Information for Drawing Annotations - The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for using, storing and retrieving scale information. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063949 | DELTA-SAVING IN XML-BASED DOCUMENTS - Techniques for incrementally saving documents are provided. A document processor reads a document that is represented by a tree of nodes. The document processor, in response to an instruction to make a change to the tree, determines a set of nodes from the tree that are affected by the change. The document processor sends an instruction to transfer and store only the set of nodes without causing nodes outside of the set to be stored. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063950 | METHOD FOR VALIDATING UNIQUE PARTICLE ATTRIBUTION CONSTRAINTS IN EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE SCHEMAS - A method for validating unique particle attribution (UPA) in extensible markup language (XML) schemas includes receiving an input argument including a particle of an XML schema, verifying particle occurrence information of the XML schema, verifying particle sequence model group information of the XML schema, verifying particle choice model group information of the XML schema, verifying particle all model group information of the XML schema, and recursively calling additional instances of the method for validating UPA such that all particles recursively defined in the particle of the input argument are subject to verification of UPA constraints. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063951 | FINE-GRAINED, LABEL-BASED, XML ACCESS CONTROL MODEL - A method for controlling access to an XML document includes referencing a schema definition comprising a path security label definition associated with a sibling-to-sibling path of an XML document. An XML document may then be validated by comparing it with the schema definition. This validation may include verifying that the XML document has a path security label associated with a sibling-to-sibling path that is at least as restrictive as that specified by the path security label definition. An access security label may be assigned to a user seeking to access the sibling-to-sibling path. The path security label and the access security label may then be compared, using pre-determined access rules, to determine whether the user is authorized to access the sibling-to-sibling path. Access to the sibling-to-sibling path may then be granted or denied according to the access rules. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063952 | SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING A DOCUMENT CONFORMING TO A FIRST SCHEMA WITH RESPECT TO A SECOND SCHEMA - An improved system for determining compliance between a source document structure in accordance with a source schema and a target schema includes: data storage; and a processor for executing software code. The software code causes the processor to: create a source schema description and a target schema description; receive the source document which includes an ordered tree structure with labeled elements and including a subtree; identify all corresponding element types in the source and target schemas for grouping the corresponding element types into element type pairs; classify each element type pair; and confirm compliance of the source document. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063953 | Collaborative Web Page Authoring - Collaborative web pages are enabled which allow every page on a website to be editable by an author and by others the author lets access the site. Web pages can send and receive email messages. Users can attach files to pages. Structure queries and page-building are enabled by use of various forms and form elements. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063954 | STRUCTURED DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STRUCTURED DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - An XML document is parsed using one of a text XML parser ( | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063955 | Depth indicator for a link in a document - A storage medium and computer that determine a tree representing links embedded in documents, create a depth indicator having a size proportional to the size of the tree, and display the depth indicator with a root link in a root document. The tree is determined by repeatedly probing the links to retrieve the documents. In various embodiments, the size of the tree may be the number of levels in the tree or the number of links in the tree. The depth indicator may include representations of the links and represents a possible future context of the root document. In various embodiments, a graphical representation of the tree may be displayed, hover help that includes the tree size may be displayed, and an indication of a condition reported by a document may be displayed. In various embodiments, the condition may include a message, updated content, new content, or an error. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063956 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED BIDIRECTIONAL FORMAT TRANSFORM - An apparatus and system are disclosed for receiving a data set from a data-exchange server, generating methods for accessing and performing operations on data in the data set from metadata defining the data set, using the access methods to generate a method for transforming the bidirectional format of the text data between the format of the server and a format defined in the metadata of the data set, and automatically employing the transformation method to transform the bidirectional format of text data in the data set, prior to performing an operation on the data, to the format appropriate to the particular operation. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063957 | DOCUMENT CONVERSION APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT CONVERSION METHOD - A template element, among template elements constituting a template, which corresponds to a document element constituting an original document is set as a corresponding template element and a content of format conversion processing for the document element is determined on the basis of the corresponding template element. Format conversion processing based on the determined content is performed. A result of format conversion processing is output as a result of conversion of the format of the original document. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063958 | ON-DEMAND BURSTING IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - When creating or editing a document in a content management system and specific content is needed, documents in the repository are searched for an element that has the desired content. If an element is found in a document in the repository that has the desired content, the element is bursted on-demand by extracting the element from the parent document where it was found and creating a document in the repository for the element. A link that points to the bursted document in the repository is then inserted into the document that needed the element. If the parent document from which the element was extracted is mutable, then the element in the parent document is replaced with a link to the bursted document. If the parent document is immutable, a copy of the content is created as a document in the repository, and a version policy corresponding to the parent document is stored so that if the parent document becomes mutable, the parent document will include information in the version policy to allow linking to the bursted document. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063959 | DOCUMENT CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A document creation support system provides information regarding occurrence frequency of a user phrase and a related phrase for selected one or more of a plurality of document collections. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063960 | USER INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATING AND VIEWING DIGITAL DOCUMENTS - Systems, including handheld computing devices that include system code stored within the memory and adapted to be executed by the processor. The system code can process an input byte stream that is representative of contents to be displayed on the touch sensitive display and can generate a content document file representative of an internal representation of the content. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063961 | TYPE-AHEAD HINTS WITH DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE USER PREFERENCES - An improved solution for dynamically configurable user preferences in a type-ahead hint system is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing type-ahead hints includes: receiving an input string; providing a configurable preference interface; obtaining a preference from the interface; and generating at least one type-ahead hint, based upon the input string and the preference. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063962 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Disambiguation of an Ambiguous Input and Selectively Providing Prediction of Future Characters - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software and prediction software. In response to an ambiguous input, the system provides one or more disambiguated interpretations of the ambiguous input. In some circumstances, the system can additionally provide one or more completions, i.e., predictions of future characters. However, in other circumstances the outputting of completions of an ambiguous input can be suppressed in order to avoid distracting the user and to provide more meaningful results to the user. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063963 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Enabling the Generation of a Proposed Character Interpretation of a Phonetic Text Input in a Text Disambiguation Environment - An improved handheld electronic device and associated method enable the phonetic inputting of text using a reduced keyboard and transformation algorithm. The handheld electronic device and method advantageously enable the inputting of languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and the like without limitation. The transformation algorithm subjects each of a number of linguistic element permutations to an algorithm such as the Maximum Matching Algorithm or other algorithm to generate a string of words. The transformation algorithm then selects one string of words as a default textual output based on at least one of its minimal number of words and its relatively high attributed frequency value. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063964 | Font preloading - There is provided a method for preloading the glyphs required to display the content of a system. In accordance with an embodiment of the present technique, only those glyphs which are present in the system upon startup or synchronization of an electronic device are preloaded. The glyphs present upon startup or synchronization of the electronic device may be determined by scanning the system. In an illustrated embodiment, scanning the system may include analyzing models and views to determine the glyphs present in the system. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063965 | PREPARING A DISPLAY DOCUMENT FOR ANALYSIS - A method for preparing a display document for analysis includes: extracting character data from the display document; determining a first order associated with processing of the character data and a second order associated with a logical order of the character data; determining whether the first order is different from the second order; and reversing at least a portion of the character data in response to the determination that the first order is different from the second order. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MERGED BROWSING OF NETWORK CONTENTS - Client devices capable of merged browsing, and a server for assisting merged browsing, are described herein. In various embodiments, client devices may receive suggestions of network content fragments to be merge browsed with network content being browsed by the user. The client device may then receive a user selection of fragment(s) and facilitate merged browsing of the fragment(s) with the network content. In some embodiments, the client device may facilitate a user in browsing first network content and in selecting a portion of the first network content. The client device may then facilitate the user in browsing second network content and in merged browsing the selected portion with the second network content. In various embodiments, the server may accept registrations of network content fragments, receive indications from client devices of network content being browsed, and assist in merged browsing the network content with one or more network content fragments. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063967 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING APPLICATIONS THROUGH AN IDLE SCREEN THEREOF - A mobile terminal having a touch screen and a method for executing applications through an idle screen thereof are disclosed. When a smart screen is called through an idle screen, it is displayed on the idle screen so as to overlap the idle screen. The smart screen displayed on the idle screen includes one of a plurality of application executing screens and a scroll bar to change the application executing screen displayed on the idle screen. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063968 | REPLAYING CAPTURED NETWORK INTERACTIONS - A user interface event monitor captures user interface events executed by a client during a network session. A network session monitor captures network data exchanged between the client and a web application during the network session. A replay device identifies control events in the network session that require execution before replaying associated user interface events. Replay of the user interface events are delayed by the replay device until the associated control events have been fully executed. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063969 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SET TOP BOX ASSISTANCE - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for a tutorial request from a set top box coupled to a monitor display where the tutorial request is associated with use of the set top box, determine a tutorial type based on the tutorial request, and establish real time communication using a first webcam coupled to the set top box and a second webcam coupled to a communication device at a support center when the tutorial type is a video conference. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063970 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BETWEEN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT TO A NON-VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a method for exchanging information, the method including: receiving content destined to a virtual representation of a recipient; sending the content to a recipient communication device that is being utilized by the recipient for non-virtual communication by utilizing an association between a virtual representation of the recipient and an identity of the recipient while concealing the association. Also provided is a method for participating in a virtual environment, the method including: receiving instructions from a limited device not capable of interfacing with the virtual environment; converting the instructions to a virtual environment-compliant format; sending the converted instructions to a virtual environment computer; receiving content from the virtual environment; converting the content to a limited device-compliant content; and sending the converted content to the limited device. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063971 | MEDIA DISCOVERY INTERFACE - Systems and methods for presenting media information to users that fosters discovery of new media and a media discovery interface are disclosed. Media objects such as songs are analyzed to determine a set of three or more objective characteristics that describe the media object. Icons representing the media objects are then presented to a user in display illustrating a three-dimensional space in which each dimension corresponds to a different characteristic and the icons are located within the three-dimensional space based on their characteristics. In this way, media objects having similar characteristics are located near each other within the three-dimensional space allowing the user to see and access similar media objects quickly and easily. Because the display does not rely on previously-generated metadata, the user may be shown media objects that have never been classified by users or which are relatively unknown to the general population of users. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063972 | Multi-Pane Graphical User Interface for Mobile Electronic Device - Improved approaches to display information on a portable computing device having a display with limited display area are disclosed. The information displayed can, for example, assist a user in navigating a hierarchical menu system operable on the portable computing device to browse, search or play media items. In one embodiment, the information displayed can be presented in a multi-pane display screen (or graphical user interface). One pane can present a list of selectable items, such as a list of selectable media items. The list can represent one menu in the hierarchical menu system. Another pane can present other information that can be related to the list being displayed. For example, the other information can be data contextually related to the list. In one embodiment, the size of the panes of a multi-pane display screen can adapt dependent on user interaction and/or characteristics of the data being display. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063973 | Degree of separation for media artifact discovery - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for degree of separation for media artifact discovery. A method includes visually highlighting a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user's media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media, and generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063974 | NAVIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Media players and associated methods are described that may allow a user to navigate content or other media assets. A media player or portable media device, can include features for generating and utilizing navigation information for navigating content, such as audio books. An audio book may be analyzed to determine one or more locations within the audio book that represent chapters, paragraphs, sentences, or the like. Navigation information may be generated indicative of the one or more locations that may be used by a media player or portable media device to play content in the audio book. The navigation information may include audio clips extracted from the audio book to represent the chapters and the like. In addition, a user may navigate content in response to predetermined user motions. A media player may scroll through content based on the predetermined user motions. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063975 | ADVANCED PLAYLIST CREATION - Media players and associated methods are described that may allow a user to initiate playback of content or other media assets based on information associated with content. A media player may receive information associated with content from a user selection of a song, movie, photo, or the like. Based on the information, the media player may procure other additional content to be added to a playlist. The media player may automatically add to a playlist or modify a playlist with content that matches a user's preferences for artists, albums, genres, or the like. The user may interact with the media player to determine what content is added and how a playlist should be mixed. The user may specify how much of any content procured by the media player should be present in the playlist without the need to specify each individual item that constitutes a playlist. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063976 | Generating a playlist using metadata tags - Systems and methods are provided for on-the-fly playlist shuffling. There can be multiple ways to perform the shuffling. In one instance, the electronic device can organize a new playlist by sorting the media files based on a parameter. In another instance, the electronic device can organize a new playlist by shuffling the media files. In yet another instance, the electronic device can first sort the media files into groups of media files based on a parameter. The electronic device can then shuffle the media files within each group. In this manner, the media files can be randomized but only within each group. In all instances, the current media file can continue to play without any interruption. Finally, the electronic device can sort the media files based on the context of the media file that is currently playing. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063977 | BODY REGION INDICATION - The invention is directed toward two-dimensional dynamic body image templates, and associated techniques, that allow a user to indicate regions of the human body. The body region indications may correspond to locations of injury, pain, treatment, discoloration, paresthesia, or the like. A user is presented with the body image templates and asked to indicate regions on the body templates that correspond to affected regions of a patient's body. The body image templates represent views of an external surface of a human body rotated about at least one axis. In exemplary embodiments, a user controls display of overlapping templates, which may allow the user to perceive rotation of a three-dimensional body surface. The user indicated regions from each of the displayed body image templates are stored in a body surface coordinate system, such that regions indicated via one template may be appropriately displayed on other templates. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063978 | NETWORK STATUS ICON IN NAVIGABLE TOOLBAR - A navigable graphic user interface (GUI) is presented on a TV screen and can be navigated by a user manipulating a remote control to select audio-video content for display on the TV. A network status icon is provided on the navigable GUI to indicate whether the Internet can be accessed from the TV to obtain audio-video content. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063979 | Banner interface video function navigation - In an example embodiment, computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and systems to navigate extensible video functions are provided. These may operate to receive a first request for a banner interface region. In response, the banner interface region is rendered with video content. The banner interface region includes a graphical user interface that maps to a variety of extensible video functions. A second request to access one of the video functions may be received, and the selected extensible video function is then executed. Additional methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063980 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYBACK OF MULTI-PART MEDIA CONTENT - The individual parts of a media presentation are associated with one another, and in addition to maintaining pointers in individual parts which indicate the last point at which playback was stopped, a pointer is maintained for the “container” created by the association. This pointer indicates the last part in the “container” that was played. When the presentation is played back, the user can select a particular part or can select “resume.” If “resume” is selected, the pointer is retrieved and used to select the part to be played. Within the part, a further pointer may indicate where in the part to begin playback, based on where playback was last stopped. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063981 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control apparatus for displaying an image included in an array of images on a display unit, includes: a display control unit adapted to display a scroll area corresponding to an order of images in the array on the display unit; an accepting unit adapted to accept selection of a first image included in the array in response to a user's scroll operation; and an acquisition unit adapted to acquire a plurality of second images from images in at least one of ranges before and after the first image, wherein the display control unit displays the first image and the plurality of second images on the display unit, and the acquisition unit switches an acquisition method of the second images based on a characteristic of the scroll operation. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063982 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus which has a display unit includes: a communication unit which communicates with an external source supplying a image signal including a plurality of still images; an image processor which processes the image signal; and a controller which controls the image processor to perform a slide show function sequentially displaying the supplied still images on the display unit in every predetermined display cycle if the still images are supplied from the external source. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING CONTENT, USER PRESENCE AND INTERACTION WITHIN VIRTUAL WORLD ADVERTISING ENVIRONMENTS - A control system renders a shared virtual environment to one or more users and obtains metadata associated with content accessed by the users. Representations based on the gathered metadata are provided to a viewing user, and may include visual elements serving as host, content and/or presence representations. Applicable representations are identified from a plurality of defined possible content representations based on the metadata associated with and obtained for a hosting user. The representations may be descriptive of a variety of parameters, including but not limited to the type, timing, nature or other parameters associated with content currently being accessed by a hosting user, content available from the hosting user, a future schedule for content access, time remaining for the hosting user to remain within a shared virtual environment, the hosting user's social network status relative to the viewing user. Presence representations may be displayed to provide information on a hosting user's presence availability within a shared virtual environment elative to one or more determined time slots. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063984 | Customized today module - A method and apparatus for customizing content presented to individual users or user segments is provided. There may be three components, a web portal and toolbar component, a modeling component, and a scoring component. The web portal and toolbar component presents content items and collects data. The web portal and toolbar component generates user event data based on the user actions. The user event data is forwarded to the modeling component. The modeling component generates content scoring functions based on user event data and attributes of content items. Content scoring functions may be unique to individual user segments. The content scoring functions based on content features generate probability a content item will be viewed. The scoring component decides which content items are placed in a portal. The scoring component uses the scoring functions generated by the modeling component to rank content items in real time. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MANAGING LABEL CONTENT - A system and method for creating and managing content for a plurality of labels, includes a database containing images of the labels and a server accessible to a plurality of customers over a network. A traffic manager module provides a user interface to a customer for review and approval of the labels following changes of the labels. An asset manager module provides a user interface for accessing the images and a current inventory status of each of the plurality of labels. The database further includes a plurality of label fields having a family level, a product level and a SKU level of data that have hierarchical relationships such that plurality of label fields use the family level of data unless exception data is present at the product or SKU levels of data. A content manager module allows simple family level and product level changes to the label content. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A system for verifying an electronic document, including a first device comprising a first display, a first interface and a first displaying program for displaying the electronic document on the first display, a second device comprising a second display, a second interface and a second displaying program, a communication channel between the first interface and the second interface, wherein the first and the second device are operable to exchange the electronic document and wherein the system comprises a selection function, the selection function for selecting a part of the electronic document and generating position information of the selected part of the electronic document, and wherein the second displaying program is operable to lock the electronic document after the exchange with the first device and display the selected part of the electronic document on the second display. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063987 | Manually operable input devices - A manually operable input device ( | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063988 | USER INTERFACE CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM - A system comprising an application data retriever configured to request application data; a mapping data handler configured to request a set of mapping data which is associated with at least a selected user interface (UI) view; a customizing data handler configured to request a set of customizing data associated with the selected UI view; a UI data aggregator configured to combine, at least, the mapping data and the customizing data into a UI view generation data set; and a UI generator configured to generate a UI view utilizing, at least in part, the UI generation data set from the UI data aggregator and the application data. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063989 | Methods and Devices for Reconstructing Visual Stimuli Observed Through Browser-Based Interfaces Over Time - In one embodiment, the invention allows an operator to identify a specific article of online-content to be reconstructed and displayed, and specify a duration of time to be used when graphically representing what areas of the visual stimuli were actually visible to the user. First, the operator selects an article of online-content based on its original network address, or from a substitute name from a database that contains a record of all online-content visited by the original user. Next, the operator enters a specific duration of time to reconstruct, preferably by using slider-bar, a timeline equal to duration, preferably the maximum duration, that the online content was visible to the original user. Next, the user selects from various compositions that can be used to represent the visual stimuli as it was originally displayed to the user. Finally, the original visual stimuli displayed to the user is recreated based on the article of online content and period of time specified, using the selected form of composition. In yet another embodiment, the invention is a method for retrieving multiple instances of an article of online content from a database of previously recorded content. In yet a further embodiment, the invention is a method for reconstructing visual stimuli as originally displayed to a user as one form of composition. Still another embodiment of the invention is a method for reconstructing a field of visual stimuli that could be observed by a user as one form of composition. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063990 | COLLABORATIVE SEARCH INTERFACE - Systems and methods that enable collaboration among users on a process for information seeking and review. A collaborative search user interface can enable division of tasks among users to mitigate undesired duplication efforts (e.g., parallelize the tasks). Moreover, attribution information associated with the search process/result for each user can be tracked, and users can opine on the search process. Accordingly, both the process and the product of the search can be performed in a collaborative manner. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063991 | Virtual Discussion Forum - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for enabling real-time synchronous group interactions among participants in a virtual discussion forum. The virtual discussion forum may be a web seminar, an online conference session, an online debate, an online learning session, etc. A virtual interaction platform comprising a synchronous media layer, an interaction layer, and a reporting, archiving, and analysis layer is provided to the participants. The virtual interaction platform enables synchronous group interactions among the participants by introducing discussion issues for the virtual discussion forum. Media content related to the discussion issues is synchronously rendered to the participants. The virtual interaction platform enables the participants to interact with each other and respond to questions, polls, etc. posted in the virtual discussion forum. The virtual interaction platform determines group behavior by analyzing participants' responses and interactions and displays participants' group behavior by visually representing individual and group traits. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063992 | System and Method to Utilize Mood Sensors in an Electronic Messaging Environment - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for determining the behavioral mood of an electronic messaging system user. User input is provided through one or more input receptors of an electronic device. The user input is collected by the mood identification system. The collected input is processed to generate behavioral biometrics, which are in turn correlated to predetermined behavioral moods, each of which has a corresponding behavioral mood indicator. The behavioral mood of the recipient user is indicated by applying text attributes applied to the user's identifier (ID) or by displaying an icon proximate to the user's ID. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW TO ALLOW MEETING INVITEES TO SUBSCRIBE AS DEPENDENTS OF OTHER INVITEES - The present invention provides a system and method for managing a meeting notice. The system includes a dependency set module that enables a participant to define at least one dependent participant and optionally specify an automatic response to the meeting invitation based on the targeted participant's response, and a determination module that determines if the person scheduling a meeting will allow a participant to subscribe as a dependent of” at least one other participant of the meeting. The determination module, to prevent mutual dependence between two participants, will not allow the participant to subscribe as a dependent if the targeted participant is indicated as a dependent of the requesting participant. The system includes a delivery module that delivers a dependency notice to the participant and, to the at least one targeted participant if the person scheduling a meeting has chosen to allow dependencies by default, and delivers a FYI notice to the person scheduling the meeting if dependencies are allowed by default and delivers a response to the meeting invite if the dependent participant has specified an automatic response based on the targeted participant's response. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063994 | Providing a Content Mark - A content mark may be provided. First, an invitation input may be received from a first user. The invitation input may comprise a recommendation to a second user to take an action regarding content to be delivered over a content delivery system. In addition, the invitation input may include a pointer corresponding to a predetermined point in the content to be delivered. Next, the invitation input may be transmitted to the second user. Then an acceptance of the invitation input may be received from the second user. In response to the received acceptance, the content may be transmitted to the second user. The content may be configured to start at the predetermined point determined, for example, by the first user. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063995 | Real Time Online Interaction Platform - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for real time online interaction and social consumption of media by multiple users. A virtual interaction platform is provided for use by the users for the real time online interaction. A synchronous media layer is provided on the virtual interaction platform. An interaction layer comprising multiple interaction modes for enabling the users to engage in group interactions is provided on the virtual interaction platform. A reporting, archiving, and analysis layer is provided on the virtual interaction platform. Multimedia content is simulcasted for synchronous viewing by the users using the synchronous media layer. Group interactions among the users are enabled by the interaction layer using multiple interaction modes. A marketing layer is provided on the virtual interaction platform for targeting in-platform advertisements to the users. The simulcasted multimedia content is therefore consumed by the users while interacting using the interaction modes. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063996 | METHODOLOGY AND PROCESS FOR SUPPRESSING DE-FOCUSING ACTIVITIES DURING SELECTIVE SCHEDULED MEETINGS - Within exemplary embodiments of the present invention repeating calendar event scheduling application options are implemented to support the implementation of a distraction-free meeting event. This aspect is accomplished by the calendar event invitation specifically stating that the meeting is expected to be distraction free, and as such, the acceptance of a meeting invitation would require that the meeting invitee submit to the computing system suspension requirements that are necessitated to initiate a distraction-free meeting. This meeting policy is enforced by the calendar event scheduling application being configured to effectively suspend the local activity of a computing system or incoming and outgoing communication requests that are received at the computing system. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063997 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETAINING LINKING PAGES THROUGH A BROWSER SESSION - A method of retaining linking pages through a browser session. A browser window presents a first web page that includes one or more links. A user marks the first web page in as a “thumbtacked” web page. A thumbtack utility iteratively determines whether or not a graphical cursor is in proximity to a link among one of the one or more links included in the first web page. When the cursor is in close proximity to one of the links, the thumbtack utility displays a hidden pane in a first portion of the browser window. The hidden pane includes data from a second web page corresponding to the link. The browser also displays the first web page concurrently in a second portion of the browser window. When the cursor is not in close proximity to one of the links, the thumbtack utility removes the hidden pane from view. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063998 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COLLABORATIVE DIAGRAM EDITING - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for collaboratively editing a diagram. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090063999 | GRAPHICAL AUTHORING AND EDITING OF MARK-UP LANGUAGE SEQUENCES - A graphical mark-up language authoring system using drag and drop placement of symbols representing mark-up language elements on a computer screen drawing and connecting the blocks by lines representing data and control flow to create a mark-up language sequence design. The symbols are instances of a mark-up language element that include the properties and attributes of that element. The system also includes a mark-up language view of the elements and their attributes and properties. The system permits effective authoring of mark-up language sequences by users not expert in mark-up language sequence design. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090064000 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS TO AUTOMATICALLY COMPLETE a GUI TASK - Automatically completing a GUI task. Exemplary embodiments a method including providing a user configurable auto-completion application operating in the background of a computer operating system and executing on a computing device, the auto-completion application monitoring and archiving user activities, wherein certain actions by the user are parsed and indexed, analyzing the parsed and indexed actions of the user to determine at least one of relationships, user interactions, user statistics, various states of the user's actions over time, and images or video of the user's interaction to create an index of the user's typical interactions with the system and providing a fast-forward functionality based on the index such that a tree structure is presented to the user on a display device of the computing device, the tree structure indicating the user's current state in the system and one or more future states the user typically takes based on a past act. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090064001 | Personalizing Default Settings on a GUI - A user is afforded the ability to set permanent default settings on a Graphical User Interface (GUI). When the user holds down a selector for a GUI setting for a predetermined period of time, or for a predetermined number of times, that selected GUI setting is set as the default setting for that user. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090064002 | Image Forming Apparatus, Display Screen Customizing Method and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of programs to be utilized via corresponding display screens, a screen structure information managing part to manage screen structure information of the display screens, and a customizing information managing part to manage customizing information which records customizing contents with respect to the display screens. The image forming apparatus further includes a screen generating part to generate each display screen corresponding to the plurality of programs, based on the screen structure information and the customizing information related to each display screen. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090064003 | Method and System for Creating Theme, Topic, and Story-Based Cover Pages - A method creates cover pages for news themes, topics, and stories, with elements to allow viewing more information from the theme, topic, or story. A database of stories is provided, comprising text, images, and possibly other web-accessible content. For a theme-based cover page, a theme is selected, and topics relevant to that theme are chosen. Search strings generated from the topics are used to search the database for matching stories. Representative images for the matching stories are then chosen from the database, and headlines are created based on the story content. For a topic-based cover page, a topic is selected and is used to search the database for matching stories. The cover page, comprising the image and information about the theme, topic, or story, is then created and displayed, with clickable elements to view more information about the theme, topic, or story. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090064004 | Dynamically configurable portlet - An improved solution for portlets is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of automatically configuring a portlet includes: receiving a portlet; searching content of the portlet for a contextual aspect; and automatically applying attribute information to a portlet window object based on a discovered contextual aspect. | 2009-03-05 |
| 20090064005 | IN-PLACE UPLOAD AND EDITING APPLICATION FOR EDITING MEDIA ASSETS - System and methods for editing media assets are provided. In one example, apparatus for editing media assets includes logic (e.g., software) for causing the display of a media asset editor embedded within a web page, the editor operable to display a media asset and cause an edit of the media asset in response to user input. In one example, the media asset editor comprises a widget embedded within the web page; for example, a flash based widget. The editor may be further operable to upload media assets to remote storage, e.g., local or remote media assets or user-generated media assets. An edit to the media asset may include an edit instruction associated with the displayed media asset. In one example, the edit to the media asset may include an annotation of the displayed media asset, e.g., a text, audio, or video annotations of the displayed media asset. | 2009-03-05 |
