12th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110072074 | METHOD FOR DOCUMENT DELIVERY TO A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A process for viewing a selected portion of a document on a mobile communication device without having to request multiple pages of the document contents containing document global properties applied to the selected part of the document, comprising marking pages of the document within a server, based on size required by the mobile device, associating properties and attributes of the selected portion with the pages, and transmitting the pages with the properties and attributes for display by the mobile device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072075 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A MAP OF CONTENT AVAILABLE AT MULTIPLE RECEIVERS - The present invention concerns a content server device and a content receiver device, and a method at said devices for sending content in a robust mode. In particular the invention concerns a method at a peer to peer client to receive content from a server, the method comprising the steps of receiving content from a server in a multicast mode, indicating to the server the content that has been correctly received, receiving from the server in a multicast mode a content availability map indicating the content available at each peer and requesting the missing content from the peer indicated in the content availability map. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072076 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE COLLECTION, FORMATTING, DISSEMINATION, AND DISPLAY OF INFORMATION ON LOW-COST DISPLAY DEVICES - A display data management unit that receives and formats data and sends the formatted data to one or more low-cost display units for display to at least one of passengers and customers is disclosed and may include a communication interface that facilitates the sending and receiving of travel data, and a display content management unit that receives travel data through the communication interface that contains travel-related content from one or more data sources, determines which travel-related content is to be displayed on each particular low-cost display unit, determines in what format the travel-related content is to be displayed on each particular low-cost display unit, formats the travel-related content for display, and sends the formatted travel-related content to one or more low-cost display units through the communication interface for display to one of passengers and customers. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072077 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - In order to provide third party verification of the content and delivery of an electronic message such as an e-snail, a server receives the e-mail intended to be sent or forwarded to a specified addressee, and “tags” the message to indicate that it is “registered” with the provider of the service. The server then establishes a direct telnet connection with the addressee's Mail User Agent (MUA), and transmits the tagged email to the addressee's MUA, as well as to the MUA's of any other addressees. After receiving responses from the receiving MUA's that the message was successfully received, the server then creates and forwards to the message originator an electronic receipt. The receipt includes one or more, and preferably all of, the following: the original message including any original attachments; a delivery success/failure table listing which addressee's MUA's successfully received the message and at what time, and for which MUA's there was a delivery failure; and a digital signature corresponding to the message and attachments. By receiving the receipt at a later date and verifying that the digital signature matches the message and related information, the operators of the system can provide independent third party verification that the receipt is a genuine product of their system and that the information pertaining to content and delivery of the message is accurate, without the need to archive either the original message or the receipt. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072078 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems for generating and sharing media clips are described. Consistent with some embodiments, while a selection of digital media content (e.g., a movie, television program, audio track, and so on) is being presented at a media player, a user creates one or more sets of waypoints (e.g., time markers) that define the boundaries (e.g., beginning and end) of one or more media clips. These waypoints are communicated from one media player device to another, enabling the receiving media player device to retrieve and play back the media clips from a source other than the media player device where the waypoints were generated. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072079 | LOCAL SERVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A local server | 2011-03-24 |
20110072080 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHANGING I/O CONFIGURATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: first and second I/O interfaces that are associated with a server; and an I/O management unit that connects the server with the first and second I/O interfaces. The I/O management unit includes: an I/O buffer; an I/O mapping unit that stores an access request of the server to the first I/O interface in the I/O buffer in response to a change start request of the first I/O interface associated with the server to the second I/O interface; an I/O changing unit that associates the second I/O interface with the server; and an I/O synchronizing unit that converts the access request stored in the I/O buffer into an access request to the second I/O interface, in response to the completion of the association by the I/O changing unit, and executes the converted access request. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072081 | COMPOSITION OF LOCAL MEDIA PLAYBACK WITH REMOTELY GENERATED USER INTERFACE - A media server in a home entertainment network coordinates with a media player connected with the network to provide a media presentation with a combined user interface (UI) on an attached display device. Media content is sourced locally on a networked media player. The media player extracts metadata related to the media content and transmits the metadata to the media server. The media server creates the UI to include components related to the media content rendered by the media player. The media server then transmits the UI to the media player for combination with the rendered media content for a composite output to a presentation device. The media server may further develop and transmit compositing instructions and additional media content to the media player for inclusion in the composite output. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072082 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an information processing system, a client terminal includes a client process executing section issuing a request; a client execution control section generating a distribution rule based on an instruction from the server apparatus and operation environment data of the client terminal; a distributing section determining whether or not the request should be processed by the client terminal or by the server apparatus, based on the distribution rule, distributing the request to the server apparatus when it is determined that the request should be processed by the server apparatus, and returning a received processing result to the client process executing section; and a client side server process executing section executing the request when it is determined when the request should be processed by the client terminal, and notifying a processing result to the distributing section. A server apparatus includes a server side server process executing section executing the request received from the client terminal through the network and notifying a processing result to the distributing section; and a system execution control section issuing the instruction to the client execution control section based on operation environment data of the server apparatus. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072083 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL COMMUNICATING VIA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - In response to an input unit inputting a request for communication, a room ID generation generates a room ID in accordance with presence information detected of a mobile phone, and transmits to a server device a request including the generated room ID for establishing a room. When a presence monitoring unit detects that the status of the mobile phone has changed from that obtained when the input unit input the request for communication, a room deletion request unit transmits to the server device a request including the generated room ID for deleting a room. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072084 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION COMMUNICATION PROGRAM STORED THEREON - An information communication system for exchanging a plurality of contents between a plurality of node devices, includes a plurality of internal networks connected to an external network. The internal networks include: the plurality of node devices connecting the same internal network; and a support device, which connects the internal networks, and which supports acquisition of contents by the node devices. An overlay network allows for exchanging of contents between the node devices and the support devices. The node devices include a first acquisition unit that acquires contents by selecting a first device group in preference to a second device group. The first device group includes: a support device and a node device connecting the internal network of an access destination that is a contents acquisition destination. The second device group includes a support device and a node device that do not connect the internal network of the access destination. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072085 | EVENT RECONCILIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method of and system for matching a first and a second different independently-created descriptions of a shared event involving at least two persons is described. The method comprises: receiving each of the first and second descriptions of the shared event respectively from each of a first and a second user's communications device; generating a first set of descriptive variables from the first received description and a second set of descriptive variables from the second received description, the first and second set of variables including the location of the event, the time/date of the event and at least one variable describing the appearance of at least one of the at least two persons; determining a matching value for each variable common to both the first and second sets; using the matching values of the first and second sets to establish the likelihood of whether the first and second descriptions describe the same event; and sending the results of the using step to each of the first user's communication device and the second user's communications device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072086 | ADAPTIVE RENDERING FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A page to be delivered to a user device is stored as page components. Based on characteristics of the user device, a page profile, an ad-banner profile and a thumbnail profile are selected. The page components are rendered based on the selected profiles. Further customization may be provided from information stored in a registration profile of a sending user and/or a registration profile of a receiving user. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072087 | VERY LARGE CONFERENCE SPANNING MULTIPLE MEDIA SERVERS IN CASCADING ARRANGEMENT - A communication method for transferring communication data between a plurality of participants is provided. The participants include at least one active participant that generates the communication data and at least one passive participant that does not generate the communication data. The communication method includes receiving, by a primary server, the communication data generated by the active participant and transmitting, by the primary server, the communication data received from the active participant to at least one secondary server that does not receive any communication data from any of the active participant and the at least one passive participant. The secondary server receives the communication data transmitted from the primary server and transmits the received communication data to the passive participant. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072088 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION COMMUNICATION PROGRAM STORED THEREON - An information communication system for exchanging a plurality of contents between a plurality of node devices, includes a plurality of internal networks connected to an external network. The internal networks include: node devices that connects the same internal network; and a support device, which connects the internal network, and which supports acquisition of contents by the node devices. An internal overlay network is constructed for each of the internal networks. An external overlay network is constructed on the external network. Each of the node devices includes a first acquisition unit that acquires contents from a first internal overlay network, which is an access destination of the first acquisition unit. If it is unable to acquire the contents from the first internal overlay network, the first acquisition unit acquires contents from one of the support devices through a first support device, which is a support device connecting the first internal network. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072089 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING SOFTWARE MODULE HOSTS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus that receives, over a network from a computing device being used by a user, a request to configure a first software module host with respect to a software module, the first software module host associated with the user. The apparatus transmits over the network to the computing device instructions to configure, for display by the computing device, the first software module host in accordance with the request. The apparatus computer transmits over the network to the computing device instructions to apply the same configuration with respect to the software module to a second software module host, the second software module host also associated with the user. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072090 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING EMAIL - A method and computer program product for providing an email navigation tool includes receiving, on an email server, an email thread including a sequence of email messages. A sender of each email message in the sequence of email messages is identified. At least one sender file associated with at least one identified sender of the email messages in the sequence of email messages is identified. The sender file is configured to provide a visual identification of the identified sender. A sequence of sender files is generated from the at least one sender file. The sequence of sender files has an order corresponding to an order of the sequence of email messages. The sequence of sender files is displayed on a computer display. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072091 | AUTOMATED CALENDAR-BASED INSTANT MESSAGING CONTROLS - An instant message addressed to a recipient associated with an instant messaging device is received at the instant messaging device. A configured calendar event for the recipient associated with a time period during which the instant message is received is determined. Authorization information associated with a sender of the instant message is received. The instant message is processed based upon the configured calendar event for the recipient and the authorization information associated with the sender of the instant message. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072092 | Message Mapping Management for Online Service Applications - The semantic message maintenance system provides a tool for a system with a backend and set of intermediate systems to maintain semantics of a message such that the end user can receive the information provided by the backend system in a manner that is comprehendible to the end user who has no specific knowledge of the functioning of the backend system. A message mapping system uses a series of mapping definitions and standardized identification fields. Both variable data textual data can be preserved. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072093 | FORWARDING SELECTED DOCUMENT PASSAGES FROM AN ELECTRONIC READER - A process for forwarding selected passages from an electronic document being presented on a portable electronic reader, where the electronic document has been previously downloaded into a memory of the electronic reader. The process permits a user of the electronic reader to electronically identify and select the passages from an electronic document being presented on the portable electronic reader. The process also includes the automatic association of metadata with a selected passage, where the metadata includes citation information identifying the presented electronic document as the source document. The selected passages and associated metadata are stored in the portable electronic reader, for subsequent transmission over the communications network to a designated recipient. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072094 | System and method for variable time scale for multi-player games - There is provided a system and method for facilitating variations in a time scale for a shared environment. There is provided a method for use by a processor of a server for facilitating variations in a time scale for a shared environment, the method comprising receiving a message generated by a first client of a plurality of clients in response to a variation in the time scale, for rendering the shared environment, caused by a user of the first client, and sending a second message to a second client of the plurality of clients in response to receiving the first message to communicate the variation in the time scale caused by the first client, so as to cause the second client to render the shared environment approximately synchronously in accordance with the variation in the time scale. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072095 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK UTILIZING EMAIL OR WEB ADDRESSES THAT DESCRIBE A PHYSICAL LOCATION - A communication network utilizing email or web addresses that describe a physical location includes a network for communicating a message to a user, the message having an electronic address that identifies a physical location; a module to send the message to the user utilizing the electronic address; a module for the user to read the message utilizing the electronic address; and a module to identify the user utilizing the physical location. The electronic address may be an email address or a website address, and the description of the physical location may be a nine-digit zip code or a latitude and longitude. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072096 | PROGRESSIVE REGISTRATION FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A media sharing system accommodates passively registered users, who receive information from the system but do not provide content media to the system, and actively registered users, who provide content to the system and then share it with others. The system collects and stores information about a user as the information is needed to accomplish a function, shielding the user from burdensome data entry. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072097 | EMAIL ATTACHMENT MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - An e-mail management system that includes an e-mail browser having a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of e-mail messages that have been received over time. The time variance interface of the e-mail browser also provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of the e-mail messages corresponding to a user specified date. The retrieved e-mail messages each include an indication of the presence of an accompanying attachment(s) in the e-mail message. An affirmative indication provides the user with an option of retrieving content of the attachment(s) from the storage media such that the content of the attachment(s) is retrieved by the e-mail browser only when specifically requested by the user. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072098 | PERSISTING A GROUP IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or more entities that are desired to be members of the persistent messaging group. The system further includes a group creator component that creates the persistent messaging group based at least in part upon the received group creation request, wherein the persistent messaging group is persisted over multiple instant messaging sessions. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072099 | MESSAGE DELIVERY MECHANISM - When a messaging service network entity, such as an IP server, fails to deliver the message via a primary messaging service, such as an Internet Protocol based messaging service, the user device sends the message directly to the recipient user via a backup messaging service, such as a short message service, SMS. Thus message is delivered and the originating user bear the cost of the use of the backup messaging service. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072100 | Method for Communicating at Least One Targeted Message from a Service Provider to a User of a Portable Terminal - A method for communicating at least one targeted message from a service provider to a user of a portable terminal is provided. The terminal integrates a secure element including at least one information storage register and a system for enabling contactless communication of the secure element with a reader of the service provider. The method includes the creation of a user profile and the recording of same in the register of the secure element. The profile comprises personal data relating to the user with an associated confidentiality level. The method further includes, after identification of the user by contactless communication between his/her terminal and the reader, activation of the confidentiality level that the user accords to the service provider and the communication to the provider of the personal data corresponding to the activated confidentiality level. The personal data is processed to generate at least one targeted message which is communicated to the user. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072101 | NETWORK DISCOVERY AND SELECTION - Network discovery comprises discovering networks being available for a device and automatically providing communication settings for at least one of discovered networks to the device. The network discovery may be device initiated or network-initiated. The communication settings provision may be effected by network discovery functionality or another functionality such as device management functionality. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072102 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING DATA - A method for exchanging data between a first and at least one second user of a network, the data being exchanged via frames in which during execution of a request by the first user to the at least one second user for a number of k payload data, a read instruction for an nth payload datum is transmitted in at least one nth frame to the at least one second user, and in which all available bits of an immediately subsequent (n+1)th frame are used for directly transmitting the nth payload datum in a response of the at least one second user to the first user. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072103 | LOCAL SERVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A local server | 2011-03-24 |
20110072104 | Pull data replication model - A data storage system, device, and method are provided for replicating data between different data storage systems or appliances. More specifically, the present invention allows an initiating data storage device to pull data from a target data storage device. Thus, the storage device that is supplying the data can act as a target and does not require the additional software inherent in being an initiator. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072105 | VARIANT STREAMS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING TO PROVIDE FAILOVER PROTECTION - Methods and apparatuses provide real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes providing multiple redundant locations that provide media content to client devices using alternative streams. To implement failover protection, a first server device or first content distribution service creates a stream, or multiple alternate bandwidth streams and generates playlist file(s). A second server device or second content distribution service creates a parallel stream, or set of streams. A client attempts to download the playlist file(s) from a first uniform resource locator (URL) using a first stream associated with the first server device or the first content distribution service. If a client is unable to download the playlist file(s) from the first URL, the client attempts to switch to an alternate stream associated with another URL. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072106 | HYBRID TRANSCODING FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A source file representing media such as video, photographs or graphics, is uploaded and stored. During a pre-transcoding process, the source file is converted to a predetermined number of different formats, and the converted files are stored. When the source file is requested, the best file format for the requesting device is determined. If the best file format is one of the pre-transcoded formats, a pre-transcoded file is provided to fulfill the request. If the best file format is not one of the pre-transcoded formats, then the source file is transcoded to generate an on-demand transcoded file in the best file format and the on-demand transcoded file is provided to fulfill the request. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072107 | RECEIVING CONTENT FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A media sharing system is able to deliver media content, including video, audio, photographs and graphics, to a wide variety of devices, using a file format appropriate to the delivery device and using a delivery method appropriate to the delivery device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072108 | SCALABLE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE AND DELIVERY - Embodiments describe scalable distributed storage delivery method that can utilize commodity storage devices, thus there is little, if any, modification of the existing storage hardware or storage clients. According to an aspect is a system that can include a plurality of primary servers and application servers to deliver data to the storage client. The client can request information from the primary server, which can in some embodiments, authenticate the client. The primary server can determine a set of application servers that can deliver the information. The information data can be served to the client transparently from the application servers. The application servers can read the information content from a local cache or directly from storage devices. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072109 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING DATA OVER A NETWORK BASED ON NETWORK USER CHOICES AND COLLECTING REAL-TIME DATA RELATED TO SAID CHOICES - A character having a plurality of attributes is created by a network user while within a character-enabled network site. Each attribute is defined by at least one of either audio data and/or visual image data and is selected by the user from a plurality of attributes presented to the user through a user interface. The combination of attributes defines a persona for the character. At least one of either an audio presentation and/or a visual image presentation is provided to the user interface. The presentations presented are selected from a plurality of presentations based on the character's persona. Data related to character attributes are stored in a database. One or more of the presentations presented to the user may be interactive, in that it allows for the user to make choices. In response to a user's interaction with the interactive presentation, additional audio presentation and/or a visual image presentation is provided to the user interface. Data indicative of user interaction with the interactive presentations is also stored in a database. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072110 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072111 | Audio Message Driven Customer Interaction Queuing System - This application is for an audio message-driven customer interaction queuing system for any public web page to allow web page visitors to utter questions into a browser-resident recorder application. The questions queue along with originating web page information and are distributed to customer service agents. These agents research the question, using web page as reference, and respond with an audio message, played upon the recorder application by the user after some brief service interval. The invention includes client, server and agent elements. The Client resides in a standard browser on a PC and consists of a Macromedia Flash interface driving an ActiveX control and JavaScript using audio encoding/decoding codecs. The Server consists of Java Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans, a web and application server and generic database technology. The Agent consists of a browser partitioned into areas to accommodate customer URL viewing, Connection Management, and a Client for message playback/record/send functions. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072112 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE DATA-APPLICATION CONNECTOR SYSTEM - EV-DACS renders more efficient the transfer of data between one or more programs of an application software system by one manufacturer with one or more electric vehicle assets by another manufacturer to efficiently facilitate monitoring or control for one or more purposes according to any standard. Further, such transfer and control is made entirely possible if the software and physical assets are otherwise incompatible. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072113 | LOCAL SERVER AND CONTENT TRANSMISSION METHOD - A local server | 2011-03-24 |
20110072114 | SUBSCRIBING TO MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A user is able to subscribe to an object by sending a mobile message or through a website. The object can be a file or a channel. The subscription message can use hierarchical mobile keywords. The user can adjust their registration information to control how much information is received from the subscription, when, and to what device the subscription is delivered. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072115 | BLOCK BASED ACCESS TO A DISPERSED DATA STORAGE NETWORK - A computer includes a data transform algorithm, a data dispersal algorithm, and a network port. The data transform algorithm performs a data transformation on a data block to produce a transformed data block. The data dispersal algorithm performs a data dispersal function on the transformed data block to produce a plurality of data slices, wherein each of the plurality of data slices includes less than all data contained in the transformed data block. The network port is operable to transmit a plurality of write commands to a plurality of slice servers, wherein each of the plurality of write commands includes a corresponding one of the plurality of data slices. The network port is further operable to receive verification of storage of at least some of the plurality of data slices from at least some of the plurality of slice servers. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072116 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING XML-BASED ASYNCHRONOUS AND INTERACTIVE FEEDS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS - A system for providing XML-based asynchronous and interactive feeds for Web applications that provides a highly efficient and extensible XML Javascript framework allowing easy insertion of a comment/news feed control into any Web page. The framework allows for reading of any XML format and provides a new and easy way for modifying the look-and-feel of the control via HTML templates with familiar XPath bindings. The rendering performed through the system supports both flat and indented (“threaded”) views for a comment thread. The system improves the parsing speed of incoming XML, and supports a flexible event model for others to develop plug-ins and mashups in the spirit of Web 2.0. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072117 | Generating a Synthetic Table of Contents for a Volume by Using Statistical Analysis - A method and a system are provided for generating a synthetic table of contents for a volume. The synthetic table of contents may be used to identify a volume efficiently despite natural variations found in different occurrences of a volume. In one example, the system receives unprocessed durations for each chapter of the volume. The volume includes chapters. The system identifies acceptable durations for each chapter by applying a first statistical analysis to the unprocessed durations for each chapter. The system calculates a representative duration for each chapter by applying a second statistical analysis to the acceptable durations for each chapter. The calculating generates representative durations for the chapters. The system then generates a synthetic table of contents for the volume by organizing the representative durations for the chapters of the volume. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072118 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING A STREAMED OPERATING SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED PERIPHERAL INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method for configuring an operating system to associate a peripheral is described. The method includes loading the operating system on a client computer based on an operating system image, determining an identifier of the client computer, retrieving peripheral information to identify a peripheral associated with the client computer, and writing a configuration setting of the client computer to a storage medium of the client computer based on the peripheral information. The identifier identifies the client computer. The peripheral information is associated with the client computer based on an association between the peripheral information and the identifier. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072119 | Accelerated Cable Modem Restart Service - A system for the accelerated re-provisioning of data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) configuration files between a DOCSIS provisioning server and a plurality of network nodes that are configured according to the DOCSIS configuration files is provided. The system includes: a memory; and a caching entity configured to monitor transmissions from the provisioning server of the configuration files to the network nodes so as to both store the configurations files in the memory and to pass-through the configuration files to the network nodes; the caching entity being further configured to monitor requests to the provisioning server for respective ones of the DOCSIS configuration files from the network nodes, the caching entity being further configured to determine for each of the requests whether the requested configuration file has been previously requested node such that if the caching entity determines that the requested configuration file has been previously requested the caching entity retrieves the previously requested configuration file from the memory and returns the retrieved-from-memory configuration file to the network node. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072120 | ROUTER AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING IP ADDRESSES OF THE ROUTER - A method for configuring IP addresses of a router broadcasts a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) discover packet over a network for receiving a DHCP offer packet sent from the modem. The DHCP offer packet comprises the private IP address of the modem. The method further obtains the private IP address of the modem from the DHCP offer packet, and configures IP addresses of a WAN port and a LAN port of the router according to the private IP address of the modem, so as to allow the private IP address of the modem to be in the same network segment with the IP address of the WAN port but in different network segments with the IP address of the LAN port. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072121 | Terminal Identification Method, Authentication Method, Authentication System, Server, Terminal, Wireless Base Station, Program, and Recording Medium - A terminal identification method is provided which enables two-way communications between terminals and a network while identifying terminal IDs and protecting privacy. Also, authentication method and system are provided which require no complicated calculating process, less steps and smaller amount for wireless communications, and less power consumption. A server and terminal share a hash function and an initial value determined for each terminal, calculate the same temporary ID by hashing the initial value the same number of times with the hash function, and identify the terminal using the calculated temporary ID. The server and the terminal also hold a common hash function and authentication information, acquire an authenticating communication parameter from communication parameters temporarily common during communication, and generate an authentication key using the authentication information, the authenticating communication parameter, and the hash function. Then at least one of the server and terminal performs authentication using the generated authentication key. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072122 | Methods for improved server redundancy in dynamic networks - In one embodiment, a server is assigned a candidate secondary server role such that the dynamic network employs a “make-before-break” redundancy where redundant nodes proactively synchronize replicated data and state information with a standby secondary server prior to releasing the responsibilities of active primary and/or secondary server(s). The “make-before-break” redundancy ensures relatively high availability of dynamic networks and realized services. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072123 | AUTO-METER SYSTEM WITH CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK BUS - An auto-meter system includes a CAN-Bus for transmitting a CAN-Bus signal, and a first CAN module coupled to the CAN-Bus. The first CAN module is for receiving the CAN-Bus signal transmitted from the CAN-Bus and for transforming the CAN-Bus signal to a message signal. The auto-meter system further includes a display and a processor coupled to the CAN module and the display. The processor is for receiving the message signal and for controlling the display to show information corresponding to the message signal. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECTION OF COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC - An Internet traffic redirection architecture is disclosed that allows for directing of trash traffic to specified sites. The system or method allows a controller, such as an ISP, to benefit from mistyped Internet addresses so that participating partners of the ISP are presented to the customer when the requests a web site that is not found or does not exist. The system decreases lost traffic by means of capturing unresolved “trash” traffic on the Internet and redirecting said traffic to a search engine partner and/or other partners. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072125 | EMPLOYING MATCHING OF EVENT CHARACTERISTICS TO SUGGEST ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC OF AN EVENT - A device, system, and method are directed towards determining a suggested characteristic for an event. At least two events are determined. In one embodiment, at least one characteristic is determined for one of the event. A plurality of other characteristics is determined for the other event. The characteristics of the two events may be determined implicitly from communications during the events or from user input. Based on a relationship between the determined characteristics, the suggested characteristic for the event is then determined. In one embodiment, the relationship is defined as a match of characteristics. The event may then be modified based on the suggested characteristic. For example, a suggested member may be invited to join the event, or the event's time, location, or name may be changed. If the other event is current or pending, the event and the other event may be combined. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072126 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING A DHT-BASED GLOBAL NAMESPACE - A DHT-based global namespace (GNS) is constructed for a network system that includes network attached storage (NAS) devices, including at least one DHT-NAS device (a NAS device having DHT Functionalities) and at least one Existing-NAS device (a NAS device lacking DHT Functionalities). In a DHT Overlay Construction Phase, the DHT-NAS devices construct a DHT overlay. In an Initial Phase, the GNS is created above share folders in the Existing-NAS devices, with mapping of the share folders in the Existing-NAS devices to GNS paths distributed to a key lookup table in the DHT-NAS devices. Each mapping in the key lookup table includes a key, a GNS path, NAS type, IP address of the NAS, and the path within the NAS Share. There is no central GNS mapping table. In a Discovery Phase, the DHT-NAS devices discover the Existing-NAS devices to construct the GNS under the share folders. In a Working Phase, the DHT-NAS devices service GNS requests. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072127 | Network Aware Application Management - A method of managing a network application includes identifying a network path for the network application, obtaining network performance measurements along the network path, obtaining application performance information for the network application, and extracting infrastructure specific information for the infrastructure supporting the network application. The method further includes correlating the application performance information, network performance measurements, and the infrastructure specific information to identify a performance issue affecting the network application, and modifying the application behavior, the network behavior, or any combination thereof in response to the performance issue. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072128 | AUTOMATED PRESENCE RANKING FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Messaging interactions among a set of network user access accounts is monitored at a presence server. The messaging interactions between the set of network user access accounts are ranked based upon a characteristic of the messaging interactions. A presence filtering profile is automatically configured that defines distribution controls for presence information for the set of network user access accounts based upon the determined ranking. Distribution of the presence information for the set of network user access accounts is controlled based upon the configured presence filtering profile. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072129 | ICMP PROXY DEVICE - Provided are an ICMP proxy device, system and method of proxying. The ICMP proxy device includes a receive module, a protection determination module and a response module. The receive module is configured to receive a direct availability request addressed to a server from a host. The protection determination module is configured to determine whether the server is available. The response module configured to respond to the host with an availability response based the determination, such that the availability response is addressed from the server to the host. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072130 | Extracting Overlay Invariants Network for Capacity Planning and Resource Optimization - A method and system determines capacity needs of components in a distributed computer system. In the method and system, a pair-wise invariant network is determined from collected flow intensity measurements. The network includes at least two separate and unconnected pair-wise invariant subnetworks, each of the subnetworks including two of the flow intensity measurements connected by a pairwise invariant, each of the pair-wise invariants characterizing a constant relationship between their two connected flow intensity measurements. At least one overlay invariant is determined from the pair-wise invariant network and from the collected flow intensity measurements using a minimal redundancy least regression process. The capacity needs of the components are determined using the pair-wise and overlay invariants. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING ADVERTISEMENT ASSIGNMENT - A method is disclosed which emulates accessing web sites by a simulated web visitor. The characteristics of the web user may be controlled as may be the timing and number of visits and the nature of the web sites visited. During the emulated visits cookies of the web visitor are modified. The emulated visits may be directed to a sub-group of web sites which are engaged in agreements granting them reward for the provision of data indicative of the nature of past web visits, and to a sub-group of web sites which are not engaged in such agreements. Comparison of the exposure of the emulated web visitor to advertisements in each of the sub groups may be analyzed to indicate whether the agreements are properly executed and the reward is properly given. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072132 | Retail Product Tracking System, Method, and Apparatus - According to some example embodiments, systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided for monitoring articles, such as in a commercial environment. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072133 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC - Communication traffic monitoring and controlling systems and methods are disclosed that allow for controlling communication traffic over the Internet based on the identity of particular users using potentially volatile information, such as a dynamically assigned IP Addresses. The system and method allow a controller to personalize services for users without the need for the user to supply personal information, such as name, address, and the like, and without the need to have computer programs or code installed on the user's computer. Methods of doing business with a computer are provided based on the systems and methods of communication traffic monitoring and controlling. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072134 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072135 | Generalized Policy Server - A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter use a local copy of an access control database to determine whether an access request made by a user. Changes made by administrators in the local copies are propagated to all of the other local copies. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to of access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The rights of administrators are similarly determined by administrative policies. Access is further permitted only if the trust levels of a mode of identification of the user and of the path in the network by which the access is made are sufficient for the sensitivity level of the information resource. If necessary, the access filter automatically encrypts the request with an encryption method whose trust level is sufficient. The first access filter in the path performs the access check and encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. A policy server component of the access filter has been separated from the access filter and the policies have been generalized to permit administrators of the policy server to define new types of actions and new types of entities for which policies can be made. Policies may now further have specifications for time intervals during which the policies are in force and the entities may be associated with attributes that specify how the entity is to be used when the policy applies. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072136 | METHOD OF MANAGING LIFE STORIES - System, method, and apparatus for users in an online computer system to write and keep in perpetuity their life Stories, Legacies, and Memorials and tie them together with relationships within social networks. A computer system collects data in the form of text or uploaded files entered by an individual who in turn can indicate other individuals to whom they have a relationship and include them in networks. The individual may cross reference chronological chapters with categories for referencing. The individual may select Guardians to control their data after they are deceased or otherwise incapacitated. A separate Foundation ensures storing the data in to ensure there is enough money to store the data in perpetuity. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072137 | INTEGRATED APPLICATION ACCESS - An integration portal provides a user with access to application entities of a plurality of remote applications. An authorization layer included in the integration portal includes a permission map indicating an association between the user and at least one of the application entities of the plurality of remote applications that the user is permitted to access. The authorization layer in the integration portal is synchronized with an authorization layer included in an application portal that provides the user with access to a subset of the remote applications, whereby the permission map is updated with information about at least one of the application entities that the user is permitted to access through the integration portal. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072138 | VIRTUAL MACHINE DEMAND ESTIMATION - A method for use in a system in which computational entities are distributed across physical computing resources to place the entities on the resources includes estimating actual resource demand for each entity on each resource based on application resource usage data collected from a data source external from the entity, computing a best allocation of the resources to the entities from the estimated actual resource demand for each entity and distributing the resources to the entities in accordance with the computed best allocation. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for allocating resources, such as computer controlled resources, in a networked system are described. In an example embodiment, a plurality of requests to select one or more resources are received from distributed computer systems over a network at a receiving computer system. The receiving computer system allocates resource selection time windows to at least a portion of the requests based on one or more allocation criteria, and transmits information regarding the allocated resource selection time windows to corresponding requesting computer systems. A load balancer balances request loads among a plurality of servers. A web proxy processor is configured to selectively block or route an inbound user browser request. A cache cluster system is configured to cache data and states for access by other system components, | 2011-03-24 |
20110072140 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072141 | Providing Enterprise Services in a Service Provisioning Network - A method and a system for providing enterprise services in a service provisioning network is described wherein service provisioning network is connected through at least one trunk to at least one enterprise network. The method comprises the steps of: providing a service request associated with an enterprise network; associating trunk information to said service request; routing said service request to an application server comprising one or more enterprise services associated with said enterprise network; and, said application server executing at least one enterprise service using said trunk information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072142 | USE OF PROXY SERVERS AND PSEUDONYMOUS TRANSACTIONS TO MAINTAIN INDIVIDUAL'S PRIVACY IN THE COMPETITIVE BUSINESS OF MAINTAINING PERSONAL HISTORY DATABASES - A system is provided that preserves data privacy for the Individual—I and Private Data Owner (PDO) while granting data access to the User—U and Accessor who need such data to perform their usual and customary business functions. The method and system completely control the User's access to the Private Data Owner's Private Data by replacing Identifying Information for the User—U, Individual—I, Accessor and PDO with pseudonyms. This assures the overall privacy of individuals, throughout the course of collecting, storing, accessing, analyzing and sharing detailed private records among different organizations engaged in providing and/or consuming services and/or products. Access Control Rule Sets (“ACRS”) consist of instructions which prescribe the terms and conditions for permitting Users to access the PDO's Pseudonymized and Actual Private data in accordance with the rules governing their authorization to access such data. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072143 | SCHEDULING METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER DATA TRANSMISSION AND NODE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A scheduling method for peer-to-peer data transmission suitable for a peer-to-peer system is described. The peer-to-peer system comprises a plurality of nodes, and the nodes comprise an i | 2011-03-24 |
20110072144 | TECHNIQUE FOR PERFORMING SIGNALING CONVERSION BETWEEN HTTP AND SIP DOMAINS - A technique for performing signaling conversion between an HTTP stateful session and an SIP dialog is described. In a method realization of this technique, an HTTP request message including HTTP state information is received from an HTTP enabled entity. In response to receipt of the HTTP request message, an SIP message belonging to an SIP dialog is created. In further steps, the first SIP message is sent to an SIP enabled entity, and a mapping between the HTTP state information and the SIP dialog is established. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072145 | NETWORK DEVICE PERFORMING CONNECTION CHECK, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND FRAME TRANSFER METHOD - A network device that transfers frames by repeating, in a constant cycle, a reserved transfer interval that is a time band, in which a frame is transferred with a reservation, and a free transfer interval that is a time band, in which a frame is freely transferred, includes: a BPDU generation unit that generates a first BPDU; and a BPDU transmission instruction unit that instructs to arrange the first BPDU in the reserved transfer interval and transmit the first BPDU to a first other network device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072146 | METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF SOFTWARE UPGRADE NOTIFICATION TO DEVICES IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing software upgrade notifications to user devices that utilize unicast and multicast communication techniques in a wireless communication environment. Bandwidth and power consumption is minimized by permitting determination to be made regarding whether a given software update is relevant to the user device prior to attempting a download or receiving a notification thereof Additionally, evaluation of version number and software identity facilitates determining whether to employ a unicast software check-up protocol or a multicast software check-up protocol. Software upgrade information may also be transmitted over a multicast channel for a predetermined time period, after which a user device may initiate a unicast check-up protocol to receive software upgrade information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072147 | Transmitting a Prioritized Audio Stream Along with Multimedia Content - Systems and methods for transmitting a prioritized audio stream along with multimedia content are disclosed. A particular method includes receiving a designation at a server of a prioritized audio stream to be transmitted with multimedia content. The designation is received at a server prior to transmission of the multimedia content. The multimedia content is retrieved from a first content source and the prioritized audio stream is retrieved from a second content source that is different than the first content source, where the first content source and the second content source are external to the server. The prioritized audio stream is added to a least a portion of the multimedia content to form a composite content stream. The method includes transmitting the composite content stream to a destination device via a network. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072148 | Distributed Coordination of Network Elements for Packet Encapsulation - In one embodiment, each of a plurality of encapsulator devices receives a source stream of encoded packets in a first transport format to be converted to packets of an output stream in a second transport format for communication over a data network. Each encapsulator device generates a one or more fundamental identifying characteristics for the output stream based on information contained in one or more fields of a packet in the source stream so that the packets in the output stream generated by each of the encapsulator devices from the source stream are coordinated with respect to each other. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072149 | STREAMING MEDIA ENCODER WITH FRONT PANEL CONTROL INTERFACE - A streaming media encoder for encoding and delivering media content is disclosed. The streaming media encoder has a media input interface for receiving a media stream, a media encoder for receiving the media stream from the input interface and encoding the media stream, thereby producing an encoded media stream. The media encoder has a first confidence monitor for displaying a video image from the received media stream, a second confidence monitor for displaying a video image from the encoded media stream, and a network interface for providing the encoded media stream to a network. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072150 | System and Methods for Synchronizing Performances of Geographically-Disparate Performers - A system and method for synchronizing performances of geographically disparate performers is provided. The system and method includes setting one or more beat clocks, each beat clock corresponding to a remotes site configured to convey streaming audio over a data communications network to a remotely-located master site. Each beat clock, according to the method, is time-shifted based upon delay and throughput latencies relative to a current-beat time set at the master site. The system and method further includes receiving at the master site audio renderings of performances by the one or more performers located each remote site. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072151 | Omni-protocol engine for reconfigurable bit-stream processing in high-speed networks - A reconfigurable, protocol indifferent bit stream-processing engine, and related systems and data communication methodologies, are adapted to achieve the goal of providing inter-fabric interoperability among high-speed networks operating a speeds of at least 10 gigabits per second. The bit-stream processing engine operates as an omni-protocol, multi-stage processor that can be configured with appropriate switches and related network elements to create a seamless network fabric that permits interoperability not only among existing communication protocols, but also with the ability to accommodate future communication protocols. The method and systems of the present invention are applicable to networks that include storage networks, communication networks and processor networks. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072152 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA - An apparatus and method for receiving data over a network are provided. The data reception apparatus may include a receiver, a congestion decision unit and a suspension session selector. The receiver is configured to receive segments of data, using sessions corresponding to data transmissions apparatuses. The congestion detection unit is configured to determine whether a network to be utilized by a corresponding segment is congested, based on a status of each of the sessions. The suspension selector is configured to select a suspension session from the sessions where the network is determined to be congested. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072153 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DEVICE LEVEL ENABLEMENT OF A COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for device level enablement of a communications protocol. An adapter compatibility module determines an adapter compatibility status for a plurality of host adapters. A positive adapter compatibility status indicates that each host adapter in the plurality of host adapters is compatible with a communications protocol. A processor compatibility module determines a processor compatibility status for one or more processors. The one or more processors coordinate data transfers to and from the plurality of host adapters. A positive processor compatibility status indicates that each of the one or more processors is compatible with the communications protocol. A compatibility summary module determines a compatibility summary for the plurality of host adapters and the one or more processors. The compatibility summary indicates a positive compatibility relative to the communications protocol in response to a positive processor compatibility status and a positive adapter compatibility status. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072154 | ENHANCED PRESENCE DETECTION FOR ROUTING DECISIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus for routing user communication data to a user associated with at least a first user device and a second user device operable in a communication system, including proxying a data message between the first user device and a presence server, extracting, from the data message, information indicative of an availability of the user, and routing user communication data to at least one of the first user device and the second user device based at least in part on the extracted information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072155 | SECURE ANONYMITY IN A MEDIA EXCHANGE NETWORK - A method for communicating of information in a communication network is disclosed and includes receiving media containing a security code from a first communication device at a third communication device. The security code is acquired by the first communication device from a second communication device. The received media may be routed to the second communication device based on an IP address of the second communication device. The IP address of the second communication device may correspond to the security code. The security code may be translated to the IP address of the second communication device. The security code may be a pin code. A duration for which the security code is valid may be limited to at least one of time and a number of uses. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK ROUTING - Systems and methods are provided for routing data through a network. In one system, a first node is enabled to overhear packet transmissions from a second node. The cost of transmitting packets from the first node to the second node is updated based on each overheard packet transmission. In another system, when the cost of transmitting packets from a source to an overhearing node to a destination is less than the cost of transmitting packets from the source to the destination, an advertisement is sent to the source causing the packet transmissions to be routed from the source to the destination through the overhearing node. In yet another system, using a safe-sequence tag that is attached to any packet transmitted by any node and updated when it is received by another node, along with stored histories of best metric advertisements, predetermined rules are applied to maintain loop freedom. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072157 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR MANAGING QUERYING MAPPING INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method, a device, and a communications system for managing and querying mapping information. The method for managing mapping information includes: signing a mapping information pair by using a private key of a certificate corresponding to a prefix in the mapping information pair to generate a signed mapping pair; submitting the signed mapping pair to a registration agent (RA) in a transit network; and sharing, by the RA, the signed mapping pair with other RAs through data synchronization. With the mapping information management method, data transmission method, devices and communications system provided by the present invention, the security of mapping information in registration, query, and synchronization operations is guaranteed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072158 | QUERIER ELECTION METHOD, ROUTER, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A querier election method, a router, and a network system are disclosed. The method includes: a querier starts a sticky-querier-timer; the querier enters the sticky-querier state if the sticky-querier-timer expires; and the querier starts a sticky-query-timer, where the sticky-query-timer is configured to periodically trigger the querier to send a sticky-query message to network devices. With the present invention, the stability of the querier and the network stability can be guaranteed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072159 | USER TERMINAL SYSTEM, DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING THE USER TERMINAL SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MANAGING DIGITAL RIGHTS - Provided is a digital rights management system, in which a process of combining digital content created by the original author with first metadata indicated with rights information of the original author and a process of combining revised digital content with second metadata indicated with rights information of a secondary author, are respectively and separately performed at the server and terminal sides. Thus, the digital rights management system can reduce the load generated at the server side compared to a system in which the server side performs both of the above processes. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072160 | Data relay device, data receiving device and communication system - A data relay device has a reception processing unit for dividing transmitted data into data blocks to store in a storage unit together with labels for managing the data blocks, a manipulation processing unit for manipulating the data blocks stored in the storage unit and a transmission processing unit for transmitting the data blocks of which manipulation is completed to a destination. Since the reception processing unit divides the transmitted data while receiving the same, the reception processing unit, the manipulation processing unit and the transmission processing unit may operated in parallel, thereby realizing reduction of time required to relay the transmitted data. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072161 | Techniques and Systems for Electronic Submission of Media for Network-based Distribution - Methods and systems for submitting media to a media distribution site are disclosed. The submission of media to the media distribution site is able to be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted media can then be encoded in a largely automated manner at the media distribution site into a suitable digital form and then made available for online purchase and distribution. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072162 | Serial Line Protocol for Embedded Devices - Described embodiments provide a transceiver for transferring data between a media controller and a host device through a communication link. The transceiver includes a first interrupt generator configured to i) generate a first interrupt when a command is received from the host device and ii) provide the received command to a receive buffer. A command processing module i) retrieves the received command from the receive buffer, ii) processes the received command, and iii) provides data request data in response to the received command to a transmit buffer. A datagram generator is configured to provide datagram data to the transmit buffer and a second interrupt generator is configured to generate a second interrupt when data in the transmit buffer is ready for transmission. The transmit buffer interleaves i) the data request data in response to the received command and ii) the datagram data, when provided to the communication link. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072163 | USB DEVICE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Some embodiments include methods and apparatus to decode a functional request embedded in a portion of a standard device request, and execute the functional request by a universal serial bus (USB) device. The standard device request can include a Get_Descriptor request. Other embodiments are described. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072164 | PCI EXPRESS ENHANCEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS - A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072165 | DEVICE-CONFIGURATION-INFORMATION OPTIMUM ARRANGEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE-CONFIGURATION-INFORMATION OPTIMUM ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM - A device-configuration-information integrated management system includes a device-configuration-information managing unit that manages device configuration information containing configuration items of a target device for management and contains relationships between the configuration items; and a device-configuration-information integrated managing unit for integratedly managing the device configuration information obtained from a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units. The system also includes a device-configuration-information optimum arrangement processing unit that performs optimum management by aggregating device configuration information that contains related configuration items, from among the device configuration information managed by a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units, in a single device-configuration-information managing unit from among a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072166 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A storage device and a driving method thereof which enables a stored media file to be played in any media player are described. The storage device includes a storage unit which stores a media file of a media player. The storage device includes a connector which is connected to the media player. A converter converts the media file stored in the storage unit based on an attribute of the media file. A controller controls the converter to convert the media file to be played by the media player, based on the attribute, and transmits the converted media file to the media player. This allows a media file which stored in a storage device to be played on any media player. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072167 | PORTABLE MEMORY DRIVE WITH PORTABLE APPLICATIONS AND CROSS-COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT APPLICATION - A system and method for transporting the look, feel, and function of one's personalized computer preferences across multiple host computers, including the appearance, settings, programs, and user data. This system and method uses a portable memory device and a data management system that maintains a consistent interface and data file structure on multiple host computers, including a common visual desktop interface. The portable memory solution also provides mobile access to the user's applications and personal data files. The memory device is capable of being connected to multiple host computers via a standard interface such as a USB port. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072168 | DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM WITH DIFFERENT OPERATING MODES - An electronic system includes an input/output (I/O) interface and a controller coupled to the I/O interface and a storage medium. The controller can select an operating mode from multiple operating modes based on a type of the storage medium. At least two of the operating modes have different data transfer rates. The controller can operate in the selected operating mode to transfer data between the I/O interface and the storage medium according to a data transfer rate of the selected operating mode. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072169 | PRINTER INTERFACE DETECTION DEVICE - A printer interface detection device includes a printer interface connected to a printer interface of a computer to be detected, a microcontroller, and an indicator. The printer interface includes a number of input/output (I/O) pins and a data signal pin connected to the corresponding pins of the microcontroller. The microcontroller outputs a plurality of printing status signals to the computer according to instructions from the computer. The computer compares whether the number of printing statuses are consistent with printing statuses stored in the computer, to determine whether a printing function of the printer interface of the computer is normal. When the printing function of the printer interface of the computer is normal, the indicator is lit. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072170 | Systems and Methods for Transferring Data to Maintain Preferred Slot Positions in a Bi-endian Processor - A bi-endian multiprocessor system having multiple processing elements, each of which includes a processor core, a local memory and a memory flow controller. The memory flow controller transfers data between the local memory and data sources external to the processing element. If the processing element and the data source implement data representations having the same endian-ness, each multi-word line of data is stored in the local memory in the same word order as in the data source. If the processing element and the data source implement data representations having different endian-ness, the words of each multi-word line of data are transposed when data is transferred between local memory and the data source. The processing element may incorporate circuitry to add doublewords, wherein the circuitry can alternately carry bits from a first word to a second word or vice versa, depending upon whether the words in lines of data are transposed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072171 | DMA AND GRAPHICS INTERVACE EMULATION - An emulator schedules emulation threads for DMA emulation and other emulation functions in a time-multiplexed manner. Emulation threads are selected for execution according to a load balancing scheme. Non-DMA emulation threads are executed until their execution time period expires or they stall. DMA emulation thread execution is allowed to execute indefinitely until the DMA emulation thread stalls. The DMA emulation thread prefetches additional adjacent data in response to target computer system DMA requests. Upon receiving a target computer system DMA request, the DMA emulation thread first checks to the prefetched data to see if this data matches the request. If so, the request is fulfilled using the prefetched data. If the prefetched data does not match the target computer system DMA request, the DMA emulation thread fetches and stores the requested data and additional adjacent data for potential future use. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072172 | INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE INCLUDING A MECHANISM FOR TRANSACTION LAYER PACKET PROCESSING IN MULTIPLE PROCESSOR SYSTEMS - An I/O device includes a host interface coupled to a plurality of hardware resources. The host interface includes a transaction layer packet (TLP) processing unit that may receive and process a plurality of transaction layer packets sent by a plurality of processing units. Each processing unit may correspond to a respective root complex. The TLP processing unit may identify a transaction type and a processing unit corresponding to each transaction layer packet and store each transaction layer packet within a storage according to the transaction type and the processing unit. The TLP processing unit may select one or more transaction layer packets from the storage for process scheduling based upon a set of fairness criteria using an arbitration scheme. The TLP processing unit may further select and dispatch transaction layer packets for processing by downstream application hardware based upon additional criteria. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072173 | Processing Host Transfer Requests for Direct Block Access Storage Devices - Described embodiments provide a host subsystem that generates a host context corresponding to a received host data transfer request. A programmable sequencer generates one or more sequencer contexts based on the host context. Each of the sequencer contexts corresponds to at least part of the host data transfer request. The sequencer contexts are provided to a buffer subsystem of the media controller. For host read requests, the buffer subsystem retrieves the data associated with the sequencer contexts of the read request from a corresponding buffer or a storage media and transmits the data associated with the sequencer contexts to the host device. For host write requests, the buffer subsystem receives the data associated with the host context from the host device and stores the data associated with the sequencer contexts of the write request to a corresponding buffer or the storage media. | 2011-03-24 |