10th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110061004 | Use of Communicator Application to Establish Communication with Experts - A system is provided for using a communicator application to identify experts and to establish communication with experts. A computing device in the system causes a display device to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of the communicator application to a first user. The communicator application is an application that initiates communication sessions between users. Subsequently, the computing device receives search input via the GUI. The search input indicates a type of expertise. After the computing device receives the search input, the computing device causes the display device to display a user identifier within the GUI, the user identifier identifying a second user. The second user possesses the type of expertise indicated by the search input. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061005 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC WHITEBOARD IN AUDIO/VIDEO CONFERENCE - A method, a device, and a system for implementing an electronic whiteboard in an audio/video conference are provided. The method includes the following steps. An electronic whiteboard is created. A first extended message is sent to a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) audio/video conference, so as to instruct the first UE and the second UE to initialize the electronic whiteboard. A second extended message containing an operation instruction of the electronic whiteboard sent by the first UE is received. The second extended SIP INFO message is sent to the second UE. Thus, a function of the electronic whiteboard is integrated in an SIP audio/video conference. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061006 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and display controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes storing user registration information registered at each of one or more websites, receiving an input of a command signal for providing the user registration information, and displaying a registration information indicator corresponding to each of the one or more websites. Displaying the registration information indicator includes displaying the stored user registration information registered at the corresponding website within the registration information indicator. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061007 | Execution Contexts For A Graphical Program - System and method for creating a graphical program (GP) having portions that execute on different targets. A GP including a plurality of interconnected nodes visually indicating functionality of the program is created in response to user input, including a first graphical code portion with a first execution context specifying execution of the first graphical code portion on a first target. A second execution context indicating a second target for execution of a second graphical code portion of the GP is established in response to user input, e.g., by displaying a context structure indicating the second execution context and associating the second graphical code portion with the context structure in response to user input. During execution of the GP, the first graphical code portion executes on the first target using the first execution context, and the second graphical code portion executes on the second target using the second execution context. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061008 | SINGLE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONAS - A single device that receives communications, resources, data, and/or other information intended for a user having multiple contact addresses is provided. The single device can receive various information intended for multiple telephone numbers, email aliases, screen names, aliases, other means of contact, or combinations thereof. The device can selectively forward the information to the user based on a current user role, user preferences, contact information, or based on other criteria. If information is to be forwarded to the user at substantially the same time as receipt, automatic means of notifying the user of the role for which the communication is intended are provided. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061009 | FLEXIBLE USER INTERFACE FOR IMAGE MANIPULATION FOR AN IAMGE PRODUCT - A computer-assisted method for automatically creating a picture strip at a user interface includes the steps of displaying a template for a picture strip having one or more image receiving areas in a user interface on a display device, placing an image in one of the image receiving areas in the template in the user interface, displaying a circle around the image by the display device, displaying a handle in association with the circle by the display device, and allowing a user drag the handle to rotate and scale the image in the one of the image receiving areas. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061010 | Management of Application Programs on a Portable Electronic Device - A method, system, and graphical user interface (GUI) for management of application programs on a portable electronic device (PED) is discussed. A management application program operating on a computing device can provide management of the application programs on the PED by presenting a GUI. The user can interact with the GUI to (i) manage (e.g., position applications, arrange applications, add applications, and the like) the application programs, and (ii) arrange application icons on the PED. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061011 | Three-Dimensional Shopping Lists - A method performed using a processing device includes rendering, on a display associated with the processing device, a diagram of a plan for a layout. The diagram includes one or more element locations. An indication is received, via the processing device, of a selection of a first element from a list of elements associated with the diagram. The first element is added to a list of elements. An association is identified, via the processing device, between the first element and one or more of the element locations. The diagram is updated to include a graphical representation of the first element within the diagram at one or more of the element locations. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061012 | MOBILE TERMINAL TO DISPLAY COMPOSITE MENU INFORMATION - A mobile terminal to display composite menu information generated by grouping a plurality of menu items includes a display unit to display menu information; a memory unit to store composite menu information generated by grouping a plurality of menu items; and a control unit to control composite menu item corresponding to a plurality of menu items selected by a user's instruction to be displayed on the display unit. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061013 | OPERATIONS DASHBOARD - An operations dashboard may be used to present recommended solutions to various challenges faced by a retail store that is part of an enterprise. In some implementations, a metrics engine may be used to track and diagnose challenges related to various performance metrics, such as inventory, pricing, customer satisfaction, and the like at one or more of the enterprise's retail store locations. The operations dashboard may, in certain embodiments, display one or more of the retail stores along with their corresponding diagnosed business challenges. A knowledge engine may be used to identify one or more solutions to the diagnosed business challenges, and the solutions may also be displayed on the dashboard. In some implementations, each of these solutions may have a corresponding recommendation score relating to the expected efficacy of the solution to solve the challenge. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061014 | INTERFACING TO RESOURCE CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT DEVICES - The subject disclosure provides a communications architecture for managing/relaying utility information, such as energy, water or gas information. In one aspect, the system includes a hub having a first communications interface for receiving consumption data of a predetermined energy load and a second communications interface for communicating with a metering device. The second communications interface is configured to transmit the consumption data to the metering device and to receive control signals from the metering device where the consumption data is communicated using a first protocol and wherein the control signals are communicated using a second protocol. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061015 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STATISTICAL CONTROL AND FAULT DETECTION IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A building management strategy includes using exponentially weighted moving averages with statistical models to detect changes in the behavior of the building management system. Detected changes in the behavior of the system may indicate a detected fault, a change in a predicted behavior, or a need for the statistical models to be updated. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061016 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE SAME - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to transmit and receive signals to and from a network or Internet site; and a controller operatively connected to the wireless communication unit and configured to set an automatic login region or time period within the mobile terminal for automatically logging into the network or Internet site, to determine whether or not the mobile terminal has entered or exited the automatic login region or time period and generate a corresponding determination result, and to automatically log into the network or Internet site if the determination result indicates that the mobile terminal has entered the automatic login region or time period. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061017 | Systems and Methods for Haptically-Enhanced Text Interfaces - When units of serialized input are analyzed by an engine or algorithm that provides a plurality of entry suggestions for competing or replacing a unit of the serialized input, one or more haptic effects can be identified and provided in conjunction with display, selection, or use of one or more of the entry suggestions to aid in the use of the engine or algorithm. The haptic effects can represent a confidence level with respect to one or more of the entry suggestions or may otherwise indicate the relative success of the engine/algorithm. For example, the serialized input may comprise characters input to a mobile or other device. The engine or algorithm may suggest words or phrases with varying degrees of confidence, with the confidence with respect to some or all of the suggestions communicated by use of haptic effects. Additional embodiments include dynamic text input interfaces, haptically-enhanced serial presentation of content, and interfaces that provide haptic effects at a first device based on remote text entry, display, reading, or other activity at a different device. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME MAP-BASED LOST & FOUND - A system and method for lost and found includes enabling information about found objects to be stored in real time. The method further includes enabling adjustment of a field of view of an interactive map. The method further includes receiving a search input for search of a lost object. The method further includes performing a search for the lost object based on at least the stored information about the found objects, the search input, and the field of view of the interactive map. The method further includes enabling results of the search to be overlaid on the interactive map. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061019 | Portable Electronic Device for Providing a Visual Representation of a Widget - There is disclosed a portable electronic device comprising a display providing a visual representation of a widget. For one embodiment, the visual representation comprises a first window including a textual content and a second window including a graphical content. The first and second windows are situated within a periphery of the visual representation such that the first window overlaps part of the second window and a portion of the graphical content of the second window is obscured by the first window. For other embodiments, the visual representation comprises first window including a peripheral boundary surrounding a textual content and a second window including a textual heading or graphical content, and a graphical icon overlaying a part of the graphical content. A portion of the peripheral border of the first window includes an outwardly protruding section directed towards the graphical icon of the second window. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061020 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - An image processing apparatus and a controlling method of the same are provided. The method includes displaying a first screen corresponding to a first application; displaying a second screen corresponding to a second application above the first screen such that the second screen overlaps at least a portion of the first screen; and displaying at least a portion of the second screen that overlaps the portion of the first screen, while controlling the first application. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061021 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a touchscreen configured to display at least one or more data link items, the touchscreen receiving an input for a preview of a first data link item from the at least one or more data link items, and a controller configured to control the touchscreen to display a first display window for displaying a first data associated with the first data link item on a predetermined region of the touchscreen after receiving the input for the preview of the first data link item, and further configured to adjust a size for the first display window after receiving an input associated with a size adjusting signal. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061022 | Date-Day Checker - A system, method, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for validating weekday and date combinations in electronic text. A target electronic text is processed to identify weekday-date combinations. If a weekday-date combination is identified, then its format is determined and its individual data elements are parsed and then processed to determine whether the weekday-date combination is valid. If not, then a plurality of valid weekday-date combinations are generated from the parsed weekday-date data elements and then displayed to the user within a user interface. The user selects a valid weekday-date combination to replace the invalid weekday-date combination. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061023 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAYING METHOD OF THE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a touch panel that displays an image and detects a touch manipulation to a surface of the touch panel, and a controller that controls the touch panel to change the image displayed by the touch panel according to a characteristic of the touch manipulation detected by the touch panel. A displaying method of the electronic apparatus includes detecting a touch manipulation to a surface of the touch panel, generating a position signal indicating a position where the touch manipulation detected in the detecting operation is performed, generating a characteristic signal indicating the characteristic of the touch manipulation, and changing an image displayed on the touch panel according to the characteristic signal. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061024 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING WEATHER INFORMATION - An electronic device can access weather information via a network. The electronic device includes a graphical user interface (GUI) module, a weather service management module, a download module and a display. The GUI module can process and transmit input of letters. The weather service management module can build and modify a city result list from an available city list according to the input from the GUI module, when the input letters reach a predetermined number. The selected city is selected from the city result list by user input to the GUI module, and the download module can get weather content of a selected city. The display can display the weather content for the selected city. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061025 | Auto Scroll In Combination With Multi Finger Input Device Gesture - A gesture based method for scrolling through a document. More specifically, the gesture based method for scrolling through a document includes an automatic scroll gesture so that a user does not need to perform multiple scroll gestures when scrolling through a document. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING WEB SITES - Presented is a method and system for navigating web sites. The method includes organizing web sites accessed by a user into a plurality of groups and generating a radio-like interface for selecting at least one web site from the web sites organized into the plurality of groups. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061027 | Semantic note enriching system - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, embodiments of the invention are directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and enriching the data with search results for rules and/or linked data provided by computer or network services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061028 | Digital Media Asset Browsing with Audio Cues - Methods, systems and apparatus for image-based browsing through a plurality of digital media assets assisted by media cues are disclosed. The media cues can be provided by playback of short audio segments, referred to as snippets, of the digital media assets being browsed. The digital media assets can be grouped into collections of digital media assets. In one embodiment, as a user browses through digital media assets using visual representations of the collections of digital media assets, media cues can be provided. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061029 | GESTURE DETECTING METHOD FOR TOUCH PANEL - A gesture detecting method for a touch panel is provided. Firstly, a command mode of the touch panel is established based on a hop touch with fingers sequentially touching the touch panel. Then, a gesture is determined according to an eventually detected touch result of a single touch or multipoint touch, i.e., a detected moving track of the touch points, so as to generate and transmit a gesture instruction. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061030 | PHOTOMASK DESIGN VERIFICATION - Solutions for verifying photomask designs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of verifying a photomask design includes: simulating an initial semiconductor manufacturing process using a plurality of mask shapes and variation models for the initial semiconductor manufacturing process, to generate a plurality of contours for the initial semiconductor manufacturing process; simulating a subsequent semiconductor manufacturing process using the contours for the initial semiconductor manufacturing process and variation models for the subsequent semiconductor manufacturing process, to generate a plurality of contours for the subsequent semiconductor manufacturing process; repeatedly simulating at least one further subsequent semiconductor manufacturing process using a plurality of contours for the subsequent semiconductor manufacturing process and variation models for the further subsequent semiconductor manufacturing process; and generating and storing a verification result for the photomask design on a computer readable storage medium. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061031 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAYOUT OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES - A method for producing a layout of a device in an integrated circuit before actually fabricated is provided. The method includes inputting at least one fixed parameter for the device for fabrication. And then, a first part of a set of variable parameters of a layout of the device is input. The complete set of the variable parameters is generated. It is checked whether or not the layout with the parameters is satisfying a requirement, wherein an end step is reached if the layout is accepted by the requirement, and a new part of the set of variable parameters as the first part being looping in the foregoing steps if the layout is not accepted by the requirement. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061032 | HIGH-LEVEL SYNTHESIS APPARATUS, HIGH-LEVEL SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM COMPRISING HIGH-LEVEL SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - A high-level synthesis apparatus includes an input unit inputting a behavioral description indicating a behavior of a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a plurality of functional units, an internal representation generator generating an internal representation based on the behavioral description, the internal representation showing a data flow in the behavioral description and an order in which operations are to be performed in the behavioral description, a scheduler performing scheduling for the operations in the internal representation generated in such a manner that non-operating cycles of the functional units continue, a binder performing binding for determining a configuration of the semiconductor integrated circuit operates scheduled operations on the internal representation generated, a circuit description generator generating a circuit description based on a scheduled result and a bound result, and an output unit outputting the internal representation and the circuit description. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061033 | REDUNDANT LOGIC CIRCUIT DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A redundant logic circuit detection method includes storing unit-logic-circuit information, waveform data and a limiting condition in a storage section. The unit-logic-circuit information indicates a plurality of unit-logic-circuits synthesized based on logic design information. The waveform data indicates a logic simulation result with respect to the plurality of unit-logic-circuits. The limiting condition defines a comparison condition of the waveform data. The method selects a first unit-logic-circuit from the plurality of unit-logic-circuits. The method detects a second unit-logic-circuit having a substantially identical sequence of the waveform data to the first unit-logic-circuit based on the limiting condition. The method outputs the first unit-logic-circuit and the second unit-logic-circuit as redundant circuit information. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING GRAPHICALLY EDITABLE PARAMETERIZED CELLS - Disclosed is an improved mechanism and method for implementing electronic designs. According to some approaches, a method, mechanism, and compute program product is disclosed for implementing electronic designs that allows visual editing of complex objects with advanced editing features, which also provides for automated correspondence of the editing results to parametric values for a programmable object in the design. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061035 | VERFICATION APPARATUS AND DESIGN VERFICATION PROGRAM - In a design verification apparatus, a priority resolver selects one or more verification datasets for verifying a procedure described in a design specification of a target product, in response to a verification request for that procedure. The priority resolver determines a priority score of each parameter that the selected verification datasets specify as a constraint on the procedure. A verification order resolver determines a verification order of the selected verification datasets, based on the priority scores determined by the priority resolver. An output processor produces data identifying the verification datasets, together with indication of the determined verification order. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061036 | TIMING LIBRARY TEST APPARATUS, METHOD FOR TESTING TIMING LIBRARY, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM COMPRISING TIMING LIBRARY TEST PROGRAM - A timing library test apparatus includes a difference calculator looks into a look-up table in a timing library, the look-up table having timing constraint values registered in association with combinations between reference transient times of a signal at a reference terminal and constraint transient times of a signal at a constraint terminal, and groups neighboring two timing constraint values in the look-up table as one pair, respectively, to calculate differences between neighboring two timing constraint values of pairs, a determination part determines whether the differences calculated by the difference calculator has a characteristic feature of increase inclination or decrease inclination, and a decision part decides that the timing library has a singular point when the determination part determines that the differences doesn't have the characteristic feature, and to decide that the timing library doesn't have the singular point when the determination part determines that the differences has the characteristic feature. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061037 | Generating Net Routing Constraints For Place And Route - A method of generating net routing constraints for nets of an IC design includes generating a file with hashes organized by nets. Each hash has attributes of a net, e.g. net name, length, fanout, total actual route (AR) resistance, a corresponding virtual route (VR) resistance, and a number of vias. A wire only AR resistance for each net can be calculated. Wire scaling factors can be calculated using the wire only AR resistances and their corresponding VR resistances. Wire scaling factors can be binned by one or more net characteristics. An average wire scaling factor can be calculated for each bin. Code used by a place and route tool can then be generated, wherein the code applies the average wire scaling factors to nets of the design to improve pre-route and post-route correlation. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061038 | Pre-Route And Post-Route Net Correlation With Defined Patterns - A method of improving pre-route and post-route correlation can include performing an initial placement, virtual routing, and lower-effort actual routing for the design. The results of the virtual routing and lower-effort actual routing can be compared to identify nets having miscorrelation. Based on the nets having at least a predetermined miscorrelation, one or more patterns can be defined. At this point, net routing constraints and/or scaling factors can be assigned to nets matching the defined patterns. These net routing constraints and scaling factors can be applied to the nets of the design that match the patterns. Optimized placement and a higher-effort actual routing of the design can be performed using the nets with the applied net routing constraints and scaling factors. An optimized, routed design can be generated as output. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061039 | CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AID APPARATUS, CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AID METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORTING CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN AID PROGRAM - The present disclosure includes a basic shield pattern element generation section configured to generate a basic shield pattern element based on a geometry of the pattern element and a preset pattern generation condition; a prohibition region generation section configured to generate a prohibition region based on a geometry of an element for which a clearance check is to be performed located around the wiring pattern and a clearance condition between the element for performing a clearance check and the wiring pattern; and a shield pattern geometry generation section configured to generate the shield pattern by excluding the geometry of the prohibition region from a geometry of the basic shield pattern element, thereby improving the design efficiency and design quality by efficiently generating shield patterns even when an element for which a clearance check is to be performed is present in the vicinity of the wiring pattern. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061040 | Association rule mining to predict co-varying software metrics - The present invention relates in general to the field of database analysis from software metrics database. In one aspect the present invention relates to the method for finding association rules contained in database records and in another it relates to software engineering to enhance the ability of source code to change and keep the components of code from failing. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061041 | RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY MODELING OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - Reliability and availability modeling of a software application is provided. A reliability and availability model is generated in the form of a white-box model of a software application. An existing model of the software application's structure and behaviour is inspected and/or the software application is inspected. The accuracy of the reliability and availability model is determined and reliability and availability metrics for the software application are calculated. Additional input parameters relating to the software application's performance may be determined and the additional input parameters may be added to the reliability and availability model. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061042 | SYNCHRONIZED JAVA DEBUGGER - A synchronized Java debugger includes a fetching module configured to fetch a corresponding Java source file for a Java stored procedure from a database when the synchronized Java debugger is to be run. The synchronized Java debugger also includes a storage module configured to store the Java source file in a current working directory to be used by the synchronized Java debugger when the synchronized Java debugger is run and an execution module configured to run the synchronized Java debugger. The synchronized Java debugger further includes a display module configured to display execution control based on the Java source file during debugging. The synchronized Java debugger is configured to use the Java source file to maintain synchronization between the Java source file in the current working directory of the synchronized Java debugger and a corresponding Java class file stored in the database. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061043 | Devices, Methods And Computer Program Products For Reverse Execution Of A Simulation - Devices, methods, and software program products for reverse execution of a simulation and/or tracing a value are provided. A state of a preceding checkpoint may be restored and a simulation may be run forward. Break points or watch points may be noted and the state of the last occurring breakpoint or watch point preceding the current simulation position may be restored. If no breakpoint or watch point occurred, an earlier checkpoint may be loaded and the previous steps may be repeated. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061044 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A system is provided and includes a first computing device operable to execute an application, and a second computing device, remotely and continuously communicable with the first device, by which a non-distractive description of updated information of the application is automatically issuable to a user substantially immediately following an occurrence of the update, wherein a form of the non-distractive description is defined in accordance with an activity currently performed by the user. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061045 | Operating Systems in a Layerd Virtual Workspace - A virtual workspace can include an active instance of a layered virtual file system namespace. A layered virtual file system namespace is referred to by the virtual workspace and includes a collection of system data (e.g. layered virtual file system base layer), user data (e.g. layered virtual file system user layer), and virtualized applications (e.g. virtual app layer), metadata and policies (e.g. layered virtual file system layer scope). Because a virtual workspace can include software such as an operating system and one or more applications in addition to user data, a virtual workspace can be aligned with a namespace so that an operating system of the virtual workspace may be located at a “base layer”, one or more applications executing on the operating system may be located at an upper “virtual app” layer, and user data in a virtual workspace may be found at any layer at or above the user layer. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061046 | Installing Software Applications in a Layered Virtual Workspace - A virtual workspace can include an active instance of a layered virtual file system namespace. A layered virtual file system namespace is referred to by the virtual workspace and includes a collection of system data (e.g. layered virtual file system base layer), user data (e.g. layered virtual file system user layer), and virtualized applications (e.g. virtual app layer), metadata and policies (e.g. layered virtual file system layer scope). Because a virtual workspace can include software such as an operating system and one or more applications in addition to user data, a virtual workspace can be aligned with a namespace so that an operating system of the virtual workspace may be located at a “base layer”, one or more applications executing on the operating system may be located at an upper “virtual app” layer, and user data in a virtual workspace may be found at any layer at or above the user layer. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061047 | Licensing Software and Licensing Propagation Mechanism for Embedded Systems in Chassis and Stacked Environments - A method of validating a license for a software application installed on a switch includes receiving a license file generated to provide a license for the software application, in which the license file contains a license key and license information for the switch, installing the license file on the switch to activate the license, validating the license internally on the switch using the license key within the license file and storing the license information associated with the license on the switch. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061048 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, INSTALLING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming device includes an information acquisition unit which acquires information of an execution environment of the image forming device. A program identifying unit identifies a first program which is executable in the execution environment of the image forming device, based on the acquired information of the execution environment. A copy unit copies the identified first program and a second program of a program package to a storage unit of the image forming device. The information acquisition unit, the program identifying unit, and the copy unit are installed in the image forming device by executing a program for installation of the program package. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061049 | Storage system, and remote copy control method therefor - A storage system includes an information apparatus in which a virtualization mechanism is implemented to build a virtual machine, a storage apparatus which is coupled to the information apparatus, which includes a first logical volume proving a storage area to be used by the virtual machine, and which includes a virtual disk area and a virtual disk management area on the first logical volume, the virtual disk area used by the virtual machine to store data, the virtual disk management area storing management data for managing the virtual disk area; and a management computer which is coupled to the information apparatus and the storage apparatus, and which includes a remote copy controller configured to copy the virtual disk area and the virtual disk management area on the first logical volume of the storage apparatus to a storage area on a second logical volume included in a second storage device coupled to the storage apparatus. The remote copy controller determines whether, on the second logical volume, there is the virtual disk management area used by the virtual machine. When determining that there is not, the remote copy controller transmits, to the storage apparatus, an instruction to copy the virtual disk management area and the virtual disk area to the second logical volume. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061050 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE PLATFORM EXTENSIONS FOR TRUSTED VIRTUAL MACHINES - Methods and systems to authenticate a privileged virtual machine (VM), such as a monitoring VM, at a computing platform. Once authenticated, the privileged VM may access privileged resources, including data from the computing platform, via a VM manager or via defined instructions. Such data may include state information of other VMs. The state information may include performance counters of the other VMs. Such instructions may include ones that are not available to non-privileged VMs. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061051 | Dynamic Recommendation Framework for Information Technology Management - A method, system, and article are provided for managing performance of a computer system. Both implicit and explicit recommendations for processing of tasks are provided. System performance is tracked and evaluated based upon the actions associated with the task. Future recommendations of the same or other tasks are provided based upon implicit feedback pertaining to system performance, and explicit feedback solicited from a system administrator. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USING A TEMPORARY OBJECT HANDLE - A method and system are provided for using a temporary object handle. A method at a resource manager includes: receiving an open temporary handle request from an application for a resource object, wherein a temporary handle can by asynchronously invalidated by the resource manager at any time; and creating a handle control block at the resource manager for the object, including an indication that the handle is a temporary handle. The method then includes: responsive to receiving a request from an application to use a handle, which has been invalidated by the resource manager, sending a response to the application that the handle is invalidated. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061053 | MANAGING PREEMPTION IN A PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM - This present invention provides a portable user space application release/reacquire of adapter resources for a given job on a node using information in a network resource table. The information in the network resource table is obtained when a user space application is loaded by some resource manager. The present invention provides a portable solution that will work for any interconnect where adapter resources need to be freed and reacquired without having to write a specific function in the device driver. In the present invention, the preemption request is done on a job basis using a key or “job key” that was previously loaded when the user space application or job originally requested the adapter resources. This is done for each OS instance where the job is run. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061054 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING EVENT STREAMS - Apparatus and method for scheduling event streams. The apparatus includes (i) an interface for receiving event streams which are placed in queues and (ii) a scheduler which selects at least one event stream for dispatch depending on sketched content information data of the received event streams. The scheduler includes a sketching engine for sketching the received event streams to determine content information data and a selection engine for selecting at least one received event stream for dispatch depending on the determined content information data of the received event streams. The method includes the steps of (i) determining content information data about the content of event streams and (ii) selecting at least one event stream from the event streams for dispatch depending on the content information data. A computer program, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the steps of the above method. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPUTING SYSTEM JOB FLOWCHARTS - A system and method for automatically generating flowcharts based on jobs within a mainframe job scheduling system is disclosed. The system may be interfaced through a web browser over a network (e.g., Internet) in order to configure a job flowchart request. The system includes a job flow utility employing rules and logic to execute a Job Control Language (JCL) script thereby invoking the creation of a job schedule based from a scheduling library and generates a delimited set of data that is stored within a database or saved as a delimited text file. The system also enables a user to view a job flowchart online or download the text-delimited file to open within existing charting applications. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061056 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SHORTCUTS IN THE PORTABLE DEVICE - A method and a portable device provide shortcuts in an operating system of the portable device. The method displays the shortcuts in a user interface of the operating system on a display unit of the portable device when a first process is operating in the portable device. An application menu corresponding to the shortcut is displayed when the shortcut is activated, where the application menu comprises a list of a plurality of applications. The first process is executed as a background process when one of the applications is selected on the user interface as a second process, and the second process is executed as a foreground process. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061057 | Resource Optimization for Parallel Data Integration - For optimizing resources for a parallel data integration job, a job request is received, which specifies a parallel data integration job to deploy in a grid. Grid resource utilizations are predicted for hypothetical runs of the specified job on respective hypothetical grid resource configurations. This includes automatically predicting grid resource utilizations by a resource optimizer module responsive to a model based on a plurality of actual runs of previous jobs. A grid resource configuration is selected for running the parallel data integration job, which includes the optimizer module automatically selecting a grid resource configuration responsive to the predicted grid resource utilizations and an optimization criterion. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061058 | TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND MULTI-CORE SYSTEM - A task scheduling method and multi-core system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: in scheduling for selecting a task that is set in an execution state with a microprocessor allocated thereto out of tasks in an executable state, it is determined whether at least one of the tasks in a young generation, for which the number of times of refill performed until a point of scheduling after transitioning from the execution state to a standby state according to release of the microprocessor is smaller than a predetermined number of times, is present and, when at least one of the tasks in the young generation is present, microprocessor is allocated to the task selected from at least one of the tasks of the young generation. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061059 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an information processing apparatus stores, save data shared among first-third applications is stored in a memory for saved data by bringing it into correspondence with the first-third applications as first-third data. A computer integrates the first-third data stored in the memory for saved data within a main memory when the first application is activated, for example, and updates the integration data in accordance with execution of the first application and overwrites the first data and second data stored in the memory for saved data with the updated integration data in response to an automatic saving instruction or a saving instruction by a user at the same time. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061060 | Determining Operator Partitioning Constraint Feasibility - Techniques for determining feasibility of a set of one or more operator partitioning constraints are provided. The techniques include receiving one or more sets of operator partitioning constraints, wherein each set of one or more constraints define one or more desired conditions for grouping together of operators into partitions and placing partitions on hosts, wherein each operator is embodied as software that performs a particular function, processing each set of one or more operator partitioning constraints to determine feasibility of each set of one or more operator partitioning constraints, creating and outputting one or more candidate partitions and one or more host placements for each set of feasible partitioning constraints, and creating and outputting a certificate of infeasibility for each set of infeasible partitioning constraints, wherein the certificate of infeasibility outlines one or more reasons for infeasibility. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061061 | METHOD AND NETWORK ELEMENTS OF END-TO-END OVERLOAD CONTROL FOR DIAMETER APPLICATIONS - A method for overload control between a first application and a second application based on Diameter protocol, comprising: when the first application is overloaded, overload control information is set and sent to the second application; and the second application takes an action according to the overload control information. The invention also provides a Diameter protocol based network element comprising an overload control initiating device configured to: set overload control information to be sent to an opposite network element communicating with the network element when overload happens. In addition, the invention further provides a Diameter protocol based network element comprising an overload control response device configured to: when receiving overload control information sent by the opposite side, take an action according to the overload control information. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061062 | COMMUNICATION AMONG EXECUTION THREADS OF AT LEAST ONE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of communication in at least one electronic device is presented. In the method, a first execution thread and a second execution thread are created in the at least one electronic device. Also created is a message service for receiving messages for the first thread. A message to be transferred from the second thread to the message service of the first thread is generated. Outside of control by either the first or second threads, one of multiple data transfer mechanisms is selected for transferring the message from the second thread to the message service of the first thread based on a relationship between the first and second threads. This relationship may be one in which the first and second threads are executing within a single process, within different processes of the same device, or within different devices. The message is transferred to the message service of the first thread using the selected data transfer mechanism and processed in the first thread. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061063 | Data Completion for Managed Objects - A method of carrying out a self-configuration process in respect of a network element in a cellular wireless network including the steps of: generating first configuration parameters at a domain manager level; determining required second configuration parameters which are not to be generated at the domain manager level; notifying a network manager level of the first configuration parameters and the second configuration parameters to cause this level to generate and provide the second configuration parameters and to provide them to the domain manager level; and using the first configuration parameters and the second configuration parameters at the domain manager level to configure the network element. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061064 | INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE REPOSITORY EVENTS INTO BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL AND NOTATION PROCESSES - A system and method for integrating enterprise services repository (ESR) events into business process model and notation (BPMN) processes are disclosed. An instance of a message event definition is created based on an ESR event imported into a modeling infrastructure and which can be used as an event of a BPMN process modeled using the modeling infrastructure. The instance of the message event definition is provided as a trigger of the event of the BPMN process for a business process application. The instance of the message event definition is associated with an instance of the event of the BPMN process to link the enterprise service repository event to the BPMN process. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061065 | Interactive Media System and Method for Dimensioning Interaction Servers in an Interactive Media System - Interaction servers for an interactive television system may be dimensioned dynamically depending on the predicted likelihood of user interactions. In one exemplary embodiment, a dimensioning system ( | 2011-03-10 |
20110061066 | INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An integration and management apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus in which one or plural pieces of software operates, which one or plural pieces of software has a program interface opened to the outside and realizes a function, and includes an obtaining part that obtains, from the software, a linkage software component including setting information and an extended program for a linkage of the function realized by the one or plural pieces of software; an analyzing part that analyzes the linkage software component obtained by the obtaining part, and obtains an analyzing result; and an executing part that executes, in response to a function providing request, the extended program, and carries out the linkage of the function by using the program interface provided by the software, based on the analyzing result obtained by the analyzing part. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061067 | DISC DRIVE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061068 | TAGGING MEDIA WITH CATEGORIES - The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for tagging media. In some implementations a method includes receiving information identifying media requested by a user devices. a plurality of different tags assigned to the requested media are identified. The plurality of tags are transmitted to the user device for presenting the plurality of tags in connection with presenting the media. Each of the plurality of tags are associated with an element in the media and configured to retrieve secondary information in response to at least the user selecting the tag. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061069 | VIDEO ON DEMAND (VOD) RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER VIEWING HISTORY - A system collects a user's television (TV) program viewing activity and uses the collected TV program viewing activity to make video on demand (VOD) recommendations to other users via a VOD recommendation service. The system receives an indication that the user wishes to turn on a VOD recommendation service and deletes previously collected TV program viewing activity for the user based on the received indication. The system collects the user's recent TV program viewing activity, which occurs subsequent to the received indication and the deletion of the previously collected TV program viewing activity, and uses the user's collected recent TV program activity to make other VOD program recommendations to the user via the VOD recommendation service. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061070 | PARTICIPANT TERMINAL DEVICE, WIRED AND WIRELESS COUPLED SERVER FOR SUPPORTING BROADCASTING PARTICIPATION, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PARTICIPATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE - Provided are a participant terminal device, a wired and wireless coupled server for supporting broadcasting participation, and a method of providing a participational broadcasting service. The wired and wireless coupled server may include: an information obtainment unit to obtain channel information associated with a broadcast provided to at least one participant terminal device among a plurality of terminal devices in response to a participation request from the at least one participant terminal device; and an information processor to enable the at least one participant terminal device to access a participation control server associated with the broadcasting participation using participation address information corresponding to the obtained channel information by identifying the participation address information and transmitting the identified participation address information to the at least one participant terminal device. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNET ACCESS TO A PERSONAL TELEVISION SERVICE - A communication system and a family of methods for remote access to personal television service are disclosed. According to this invention, a remote personal TV service center provides centralized program guide information. A user may access to the personal TV service center through a digital video recorder which is connected to the personal TV service center via telephone modem or a network server. A user may access to the personal TV service center through a remote computer terminal or a personal digital assistant which is connected to a computer network. The user selects program events and programs the digital video recorder by using a graphical user interface installed in the front panel of the digital video recorder in case of local programming, or using a similar GUI which is incorporated into the Web pages presented to remote users by a Web server in case of remote programming. The media stream stored in one digital video recorder may be transferred to another digital video recorder. For data security protection during data transfer, all communication are authenticated and encrypted. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061072 | TIME DEPENDENT REPLACEMENT OF STORED BROADCAST CONTENT - A method for time dependent replacement of stored broadcast content, wherein such method replaces a time period of broadcast as a function of how many minutes, hours, days, weeks or months have elapsed since the initial broadcast, whether a predetermined date has passed, or according to playback date, the playback day of the week, playback hour or time, or playback proximity to a date, day, hour or time or event of interest. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTIVE ADVERTISING ON A TV CHANNEL - A method and system for providing selective advertising on a television channel is accomplished by downloading appropriate advertisements from an advertising server to a subscriber's set top box over an out-of-band channel. The set top box monitors for events. When an event occurs, the set top box signals the head-end to download ads to the set top box. The ads may be selected using demographic or common channel preference pattern information associated with the set top box. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061074 | System and Method for Biometric Identification Using Portable Interface Device for content Presentation System - Systems and/or methods are disclosed herein to identify a user interacting with a content presentation system, adaptively learn, in a passive manner, a user's pattern of accessing content over time, and globally store the user's identifying and use information. Specifically, the systems and/or methods may be user to identify a viewer of a content presentation system having a portable device with an actuator, operating the actuator by the viewer, obtaining biometric information via the actuator, and providing the biometric information to a content provider. The systems and/or methods may further include determining at the content provider an identification of the viewer based on the biometric information. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061075 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A method and apparatus are provided for updating thumbnail images in a thumbnail list. A plurality of thumbnail images may be generated based on television channels. A thumbnail list including a portion or all of the plurality of the generated thumbnail images may be provided for output to a display. The thumbnail list may be updated such that an image of at least one thumbnail image is changed. A frequency of change in the image of the at least one thumbnail image is greater than other thumbnail images in the thumbnail list during a prescribed time period. The updated thumbnail list may be provided for output to a display. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061076 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF RECOMMENDING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating system. The predictive algorithms are adaptive, improving in accuracy as more programs are rated. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061077 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEIGHBORHOOD OPTIMIZATION FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - A cost function is stochastically optimized using, e.g., simulated annealing to render a neighborhood of entities based on which content recommendations can be provided to a user of a home entertainment system. The cost function represents a normalized sum of rating similarity scores from entities of the neighborhood that are related to content items viewed by the user. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061078 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An apparatus, a system and a method for controlling an operation of an electronic device is disclosed. The apparatus, system and method obviates the need of a user of a plurality of electronic devices, e.g., a television, digital video disc (DVD) player, VCR, etc, to keep track of and maintain a corresponding plurality of remote control devices. The apparatus, system and method provide a user with a graphic representation of the remote control device for each electronic appliance on a display controllable by a single, easy-to-use, intuitive transmitter. In addition, a memory for storing a widget is positioned within the electronic device or the apparatus. A microprocessor of the apparatus activates the widget and outputs the widget to a display. The widget and associated data is updatable and downloadable from a remote server without the need for the remote control device in which the widget is stored. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061079 | Broadcast Receiver and Broadcast Receiving Method - A broadcast receiver including: a storage configured to store pieces of program information of digital broadcast programs; a user interface configured to receive input of characters relating to digital broadcast programs when a search relating to digital broadcast programs is to be performed using broadcast waves or the Internet; a selecting module configured to select a keyword that is stored in the storage and considered to match the input characters; and a search module configured to perform a program-related search using the selected keyword. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS USING LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATION - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box (STB) having a controller to communicate with a location server on an interactive TV network used by the STB to find a mobile communication device of a targeted party, receive information from the location server that monitors a communication network to find a location of the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device approaches or traverses a predetermined boundary or approaches a targeted location where the targeted party carries the mobile communication device operating on the communication network that has location determining functionality, and presents the location of the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061081 | REFLECTOR APPARATUS FOR VIDEO HOME NETWORKS - A reflector apparatus improves signal quality within video home networks. According to an exemplary embodiment, the reflector apparatus includes a first terminal (A) for receiving a broadcast signal from a signal source, and a second terminal (B) for outputting the broadcast signal to a plurality of external devices coupled to the reflector apparatus via a signal splitter. The reflector apparatus further includes circuitry for receiving a network signal from a first one of the plurality of external devices and controlling a gain of said network signal responsive to a control signal from a second one of the plurality of external devices to thereby generate a reflected network signal. The reflected network signal is output to the second one of said plurality of external devices. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061082 | METHOD FOR PARTLY UPDATING SOFTWARE IN NETWORK TELEVISION - A method of updating dedicated firmwares of a plurality of content providers in a network TV system is provided. A user interface allows easy and intuitive control of the update so that the firmwares according to the content providers can be updated in accordance with a user's desired order and type on the network. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061083 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VOICE MAIL SERVICES - Methods and apparatus for retrieving and providing voice mail messages from a server are described. In accordance with the invention voice mail messages may be retrieved via requests made via a set top box. Voice mail messages are retrieved in response to the request from a voice mail server which is also accessible via the telephone network. Retrieved voice mail is transcoded and included in a video on demand (VOD) file. Text, call ID information and/or other information as, e.g., an automatically generated transcript of the voice mail message, may be included in the VOD file. The VOD file is supplied to a VOD server which provides the file including the message to the set top box for display. A user can view the messages and switch from viewing one message to the next by using video play back commands. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CHANNEL CHANGE RESPONSE TIMES FOR IPTV - The invention includes a method and apparatus for improving a channel change response time. A method includes propagating a plurality of media streams toward at least one user terminal using a respective plurality of multicast groups and propagating a meta channel toward the at least one user terminal for conveying information adapted for use in selecting one of the media streams in a manner tending to improve the channel change response time. The media streams include an original media stream conveying media content and at least one auxiliary media stream, generated from the original media stream, where each of the at least one auxiliary media stream conveys the media content of the original media stream, where each of the at least one auxiliary media stream is offset in time with respect to the original media stream. The information conveyed by the meta channel is associated with the media streams. A user device may receive the meta channel information and select one of the media streams using the meta channel information in response to a channel change request from the user terminal, or a network device may select one of the media streams for a user terminal in response to a channel change request from the user terminal. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061085 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to join a multicast group having an associated multicast address, wherein the multicast address is associated with a first content type of a plurality of content types, access encoded content associated with the first content type from the multicast address, wherein the encoded content is transmitted by at least one source associated with the multicast group to the multicast address, decode the accessed encoded content, and display the decoded content on a channel mapped to the multicast address. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061086 | Apparatus and Method for Multimedia Data Reception, Processing, Routing, Storage, and Access Using a Web / Cloud-Computing Synchronization of Personal Multimedia Data - An apparatus and a method for multimedia data handling to a web or cloud-computing service are disclosed. A set-top box can generate a pre-encoded stream of digitized data after receiving a raw incoming multimedia signal or after receiving a pre-processed, decoded, decompressed, and/or decrypted incoming multimedia signal from a service provider-specific signal receiver. The set-top box can also generate streams of encoded multimedia data from the pre-encoded stream of digitized data and segmentize the streams of encoded multimedia data into individually-viewable segments for uploading to the web or cloud-computing service, wherein a size of each segment varies based on a current connection bandwidth availability and/or a workload on the set-top box. By automatically segmentizing the streams of encoded multimedia data into individually-viewable segments for the web or cloud-computing service, a user can start viewing the currently-uploading multimedia data faster than a conventional single stream upload. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061087 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMBINED DATA SET RELATING TO PROGRAM INFORMATION - The present invention relates to an electronic device for providing a combined application data set relating to program information. A communication unit communicates with at least one further electronic device within a network and receives from the at least one further electronic device an application data set comprising information on broadcast programs. A central processing unit combines at least the received data sets to a combined data set and an output unit outputs the combined data set. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061088 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE STATE OF A SWITCHED DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A system and method for dynamically configuring a switched digital video (SDV) system. An SDV server is configured to generate logs, including logs of program information, stream information and client information. A listener is configured to monitor the logs generated by the SDV server, generate state data indicative of a desired state of the SDV system, and generate state data indicative of an actual state of the SDV system. The listener compares the desired state data to the actual state data and determines whether the actual state data in view of the desired state data are indicative of an aberrant state of the SDV system. When the actual state data are indicative of an aberrant state of the SDV system, the listener determines a remedial action to change the operation of the SDV system and configures the SDV server to implement the remedial action. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061089 | DIFFERENTIAL SECURITY POLICIES IN EMAIL SYSTEMS - A differential message security policy includes receiving information regarding activities of a user, determining a security risk for the user based on the activities of the user, and setting a security policy for the user based on the security risk. The security policy of the user may be modified based on a change in the security risk of the user or the security risk of the user exceeding a predetermined level. The security risk may be determined based on an aggregated scoring system that uses security variables related to the activities of the user. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061090 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK ADDRESS CHANGE FOR MOBILE DEVICES - In one aspect, a system capable of performing network address changes is provided. The system comprises a network interconnecting a plurality of hosts, a mobile device connected to the network, the mobile device associated with a first network address corresponding to a first network location of the mobile device on the network, a first host connected to the network, and a mobile handler capable of communicating with the mobile device and the host over the network. Wherein the mobile handler is configured to receive a change of address request from the mobile device, the change of address request including a second network address corresponding to a second network location of the mobile device on the network, the mobile handler configured to notify the first host of the change of address request, the notification including the second network address, and wherein the first host is adapted to receive the notification and to initiate a connection with the mobile device at the second network address, wherein a communication path of the connection does not include the mobile handler. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061091 | Method and System for Intermediating Content Provider Website and Mobile Device - In one embodiment, a method of facilitating communication between a first content provider website and a mobile device includes obtaining first information from the content provider website via a first network at a web server, the first information not including any email message, where the obtaining includes pulling by way of a back end portion of the web server the first information from the content provider website. The method also includes processing in at least one of the back end portion and a front end portion of the web server the first information so as to provide processed first information, and transmitting a notice of new content in the first information from the front end portion of the web server onto a push channel established on either the first network or a second network for receipt by the mobile device. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061092 | METHOD FOR APPLYING A PHYSICAL SEAL AUTHORIZATION TO DOCUMENTS IN ELECTRONIC WORKFLOWS - A system and method for applying a pre-existing physical seal authorization to documents provides for authentication of electronic documents using physical seals and without interrupting the electronic workflow. The system of the present invention includes a seal capture device coupled to a computer, and the computer coupled by a network to a paper-like document server. The seal capture device detects depression of a seal thereon and outputs the image of the seal and other metadata to the computer. The computer stores the metadata in its local log using a logging module. The computer also adds the image of the seal and other metadata to the electronic document being displayed. Finally, the computer sends the metadata for storage in the global log of the paper-like document server, and the authorized document to the next step in the electronic workflow. The paper-like document server stores the metadata in other servers or entangles the global log with the logs of other servers for additional security. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061093 | TIME DEPENDENT ACCESS PERMISSIONS - A network object access permission management system useful with a computer network including at least one server and a multiplicity of clients, the system including an access permissions subsystem which governs access permissions of users to network objects in the computer network in real time and a future condition based permissions instruction subsystem providing instructions to the access permission subsystem to grant or revoke access permissions of the users to network objects in real time in response to future fulfillment of conditions which are established by an operator in advance. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061094 | Domain Isolation Through Virtual Network Machines - A method and device for communicating information resources between subscriber end stations and nodes belonging to different network domains is described. The device instantiates different virtual network machines for different network domains using separate independently administrable network databases. Each of the administrable chores of the separate independently administrable network databases includes the assignment of access control and the configuration of the policies for those network databases. The policies include traffic filtering policies to indicate what kind of information payloads can be carried, traffic and route filtering policies to indicate what paths through the network will be used for each payload carried. Each of the network domains includes one of the different virtual network machines and each of the different network domains is virtually isolated from other network domains. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061095 | Secure Web Based Transactions - Methods of securely performing online transactions are described which involve two independently controlled web servers. In order to complete a transaction, a user interacts concurrently with each of the two web servers and authentication may occur between the user and each web server and between web servers. Each of the two web servers provide data which is used to complete the transaction and the data provided by the first web server is communicated directly to the second web server for use in the transaction. In an embodiment, the first web server provides a web page which enables a user to specify a variable which is used in the transaction. This is communicated to the second web server which processes the transaction along with an identifier for the message. The identifier may be used in validating the variable before it is used in processing the transaction. Following completion of a transaction this may be reported in real time to the first web server. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061096 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DIGITAL CONTENT - Method for utilizing digital content is provided. The method includes controlling a throughput rate for utilizing the digital content by an accessing system, where the throughput rate is associated with information related to the digital content and is stored as a file. The throughput rate is controlled by a storage system that is operationally coupled to the accessing system. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061097 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO PROTECTED COMPUTER RESOURCES PROVIDED VIA AN INTERNET PROTOCOL NETWORK - A method and system for controlling access, by an authentication server, to protected computer resources provided via an Internet Protocol network that includes storing (i) a digital identification associated with at least one client computer device, and (ii) data associated with the protected computer resources in at least one database associated with the authentication server; authenticating, by the authentication server, the digital identification forwarded by at least one access server; authorizing, by the authentication server, the at least one client computer device to receive at least a portion of the protected computer resources requested by the at least one client computer device, based on the stored data associated with the requested protected computer resources; and permitting access, by the authentication server, to the at least the portion of the protected computer resources upon successfully authenticating the digital identification and upon successfully authorizing the at least once client computer device. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061098 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - For enabling single sign-on among applications, a linkage ID indicating connection between the authentication apparatus | 2011-03-10 |
20110061099 | UPLOAD SECURITY SCHEME - The need for upload security arises during content sharing between users in communication link with each other and a server. In one embodiment, providing the upload security involves the server identifying a mobile device that sends an upload message destined to a user. Providing the upload security further involves the server accessing opt-in parameters predetermined by the user, determining if the identity of the sending mobile device is included in the opt-in parameters, and, if so, allowing the upload to the user's account, otherwise blocking the upload. The opt-in parameters include the identity of mobile devices that are authorized by the user to upload data to the user's account. In one embodiment, the communication link includes a wireless carrier network with capability for security screening of the upload message before it reaches the server based on the identity of the wireless carrier network. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS - An approach is provided for controlling access based at least in part on augmented reality. Images and/or signals representing motion by a user in a physical environment are received. An electronic determination is made whether the motion corresponds to a predetermined motion. Access is granted to a resource based at least in part upon the determination. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061101 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A computer system including that restricts access of an unauthorized. The computer system preferably includes: a system unit; an identification information storage unit storing user identification information about a user of the computer system; a communication unit communicating with a service server storing user authentication information about the user of the computer system; and a controller receiving the user authentication information corresponding to the user identification information through the communication unit and controlling the system unit to perform a selective operation on the basis of the user authentication information. | 2011-03-10 |
20110061102 | License management server, license management method, and computer program product - A license management server connected to an MFP includes an activating unit that, upon receiving an application activation request from the MFP, accesses a license management DB, and, when the number of licenses associated with a product key of the application in the license management DB is one or greater, grants a license for the application to the MFP and cancels the license for the application granted to the MFP upon receiving a deactivation request, and a license managing unit | 2011-03-10 |
20110061103 | Domain Isolation Through Virtual Network Machines - A method and device for communicating information resources between subscriber end stations and nodes belonging to different network domains is described. The device instantiates different virtual network machines for different network domains using separate independently administrable network databases. Each of the administrable chores of the separate independently administrable network databases includes the assignment of access control and the configuration of the policies for those network databases. The policies include traffic filtering policies to indicate what kind of information payloads can be carried, traffic and route filtering policies to indicate what paths through the network will be used for each payload carried. Each of the network domains includes one of the different virtual network machines and each of the different network domains is virtually isolated from other network domains. | 2011-03-10 |