15th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 42 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110087902 | MULTI-FUNCTION INTEGRATED DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A multi-function integrated device and an operating method thereof are provided. The multi-function integrated device includes a data reading module, a network access module, and a power control module. The network access module includes a first network component corresponding to a LAN and a second network component corresponding to a WLAN. The power control module turns on the function of the data reading module and/or the network access module according to a control signal received from a host. When the function of the network access module is determined to be turned on, the power control module supplies power to the first network component or the second network component according to the control signal. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087903 | CONTROLLING A POWER STATE OF A DEVICE - A method for controlling a power state of a host device, the method comprising operating a processor of a power control module integral to the host to perform operations comprising determining a current power state of the host from a plurality of possible states, receiving a remote request to alter the power state of the host device, and on the basis of the request, altering the power state of the host device from the current state to one other of the plurality of states of the host. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087904 | SMART POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a smart power management system, comprising a power management apparatus and at least one electric socket device. The plurality of electric socket devices produce a second wireless signal according to power consumption, and the power management apparatus receives the second wireless signal and computes relevant cost or the carbon footprint information shown on a display unit for reference. In addition, the power management apparatus also compares a setup signal inputted by a user to the second wireless signal, the electricity cost or the carbon footprint information to produce a first wireless signal, thereby controlling the plurality of electric socket devices for providing power supply or stopping power supply. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087905 | Changing Operating State of a Network Device on a Network Based on a Number of Users of the Network - Object To control a network printer such that, when the number of active user computers in the vicinity of the network printer is large, the network printer is set in a standby state and, when that number is small, the network printer is powered off to achieve reduced office power consumption. Solution A method for managing a first unit and one or more other units connected to the first unit over a network is provided. The method includes (i) detecting, by a management unit, an operating state of the other units positioned within a specific range from the first unit on the basis of a location of each of the first and other units over the network, the operating state including at least an operating state at which a service request is capable of being transmitted to the first unit. The method further includes (ii) transmitting, by the management unit, to the first unit, an instruction to change an operating state of the first unit depending on a number of the other units being in the detected operating state at which the service request is capable of being transmitted. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087906 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A network management/apparatus connected to a plurality of packet relay apparatuses constituting a group through a network includes an energy saving level calculation unit for calculating an energy saving level of each of the packet relay apparatuses on the basis of a CPU usage ratio of the packet relay apparatus managed or a difference between the present energy saving level and the energy saving level of minimum guarantee of the packet relay apparatus, and an energy saving function setting unit for setting an energy saving function of the packet relay apparatuses on the basis of the energy saving level calculated by the energy saving level calculation unit. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087907 | POWER SAVING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and an apparatus for enabling battery power saving in an associated device is disclosed. Said battery saving is enabled by receiving electromagnetic energy carried by a wireless signal, obtaining operating power from the received electromagnetic energy, receiving a data unit over a wireless link, storing the data unit in a memory, and providing the data unit from the memory in response to a memory read request received via an input/output controller. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087908 | Advanced Energy Profiler - An energy profiling apparatus for profiling power consumption characteristics of code being executed at an integrated circuit being powered by a power source and having a measurement module, a data processing module and a display module is disclosed. The energy profiling apparatus comprises first, second and third interfaces as well as a profile module. The first interface is configured to receive a first data set from the measurement module. The second interface is configured to receive a second data set from the data processing module. The third interface is configured to transmit a third data set to the display module. The profile module is configured to generate an energy profile of the code executed at the data processing module based on a correlation between the first data set and the second data set. Furthermore, the profile module is configured to transmit the energy profile as part of the third data set to the display module. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087909 | Power Consumption Reduction In A Multiprocessor System - Methods and apparatus provide for reducing power consumption by decreasing operating frequencies of waiting processors in a multiprocessor system. Power consumption may be reduced by having a processor enter a low frequency mode when the processor is in a loop waiting for data that have been locked by another processor. The frequency of operation of the waiting processor may be reduced to a fraction (one half, one quarter, etc.) of the normal, initial clock frequency. The multiprocessor system may monitor a number of times (loop count) that a waiting processor takes the wait loop and compare the number to a threshold. When the loop count is greater than or equal to the threshold, the clock frequency of the waiting processor is reduced. When the waiting processor ceases to wait and does not take the wait loop branch (e.g., because the other processor has released the lock on the data), the loop count is reset to zero and the frequency of operation of waiting processor is increased to an increased frequency, such as the normal, initial level. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087910 | Auxiliary Power Shutdown - An auxiliary power control system for enabling a software command that a management controller sends to the power supply to shut down auxiliary power. Such a power control system enables an AC cycle without needing to physically remove an AC power cord and provides additional power savings when a system is not in use. In certain embodiments, the auxiliary power control system includes a paradigm of a main power state, an auxiliary power state and a sub-auxiliary state. In this system many of the power states and wake vents apply to the auxiliary power state in addition to the main power state. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087911 | DYNAMIC TUNING OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Some embodiments of a system and a method to dynamically tune a computing system have been presented. In one embodiment, a processing device running in a computing system monitors usage of one or more hardware components of the computing system to determine a load on each hardware component. The processing device may tune each hardware component based on the load of a respective hardware component determined, and a respective weight associated with the respective hardware component. The hardware components may be tuned to reduce power consumption or to improve performance of the computing system. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087912 | POWER SAVING ARCHIVE SYSTEM - A power saving archive system includes a front storage system accessible by clients and one or more back storage systems connected to the front storage system. A client file received by the front storage system is written to one of the back storage systems, while the front storage system stores a reference to the file and deletes the file from the front storage system after a certain time period. Each back storage system enters an inactive state (e.g. a powered off state) after a period of unuse, and can become active again in response to a wakeup command (e.g. a Wake-on-LAN signal) from the front storage system. Upon receiving a file read request from a client, the front storage system wakes up the appropriate back storage system, restores the file from the back storage system, and provides the file to the client. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087913 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING LOWER POWER STATES FOR DATA LINKS - Techniques for managing lower power states for data links are described. An apparatus may comprise a memory unit to store a device connection manager for a controller of a bi-directional serial link connected to a device. The apparatus may comprise a processor operative to execute the device connection manager, the device connection manager operative to read a register of the controller storing information indicating an interface of the controller for the bi-directional serial link is operating in a lower power management state, send a control directive on a periodic basis for the interface to transition to a temporary active state, and receive an interrupt from the interface indicating the device is disconnected from the bi-directional serial link during a temporary active state. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087914 | I2C BUFFER CLOCK DELAY DETECTION METHOD - Systems and methods are disclosed that promote communication in an I2C Bus. These systems and methods include establishing a connection between at least two units within coupled together in a I2C bus, transmitting a message from a master to a slave, transitioning the slave to below a threshold during communications, and delaying additional messages from the master to the slave. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087915 | HYBRID RELIABLE STREAMING PROTOCOL FOR PEER-TO-PEER MULTICASTING - Peer-to-peer multicasting of streaming data in a node in a peer-to-peer computer environment. A transmission of packets is received at the node, wherein the packets are data packets pushed from a parent node and comprises data of a sub stream of the streaming data. A buffer map of the node is created at the node, wherein the buffer map lists the packets that have been received and an available bandwidth of the node. The node is connected with at least one neighboring node. The buffer map of the node is exchanged with a buffer map of the at least one neighboring node. Provided a determination is made that at least one packet in the sub stream of the streaming data was not received at the node, the at least one packet is pulled from the at least one neighboring. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT - An advertisement providing method and system may allow improving the frequency of advertising exposure. In a method for providing an advertisement, a client sends a request message to a server. The request message requests an action of the server. The server determines whether an error occurs when performing the action. If the error occurs, the server extracts advertisement data based on information in the request message. The server creates a response message by combining the extracted advertisement data with error occurrence information, and sends the response message to the client. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087917 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing a Predetermined Operation in Device Management - A method for implementing a predetermined operation in device management, being based on a DM system defined by OMA, includes: sending by the device management system a second predetermined operation based on a trigger condition to a terminal device and storing by the terminal device the received second predetermined operation; and obtaining by the terminal device from itself the second predetermined operation and executing the second predetermined operation when the trigger condition is satisfied. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for implementing a predetermined operation in device management. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087918 | DISASTER RECOVERY - File system disaster recovery techniques provide automated monitoring, failure detection and multi-step failover from a primary designated target to one of a designated group of secondary designated targets. Secondary designated targets may be prioritized so that failover occurs in a prescribed sequence. Replication of information between the primary designated target and the secondary designated targets allows failover in a manner that maximizes continuity of operation. In addition, user-specified actions may be initiated on failure detection and/or on failover operations and/or on failback operations. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087919 | MANAGING AVAILABILITY OF A COMPONENT HAVING A CLOSED ADDRESS SPACE - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for managing availability of a component executing in a distributed system. The component may have an address space closed to the distributed system. In one embodiment, the component may be initiated. A state of the component may be analyzed to determine the availability of the component. The determined availability may be transmitted to the distributed system. The component may also be restarted responsive to a request from the distributed system to restart the component. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087920 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH RECOVERY MODE - Methods and apparatus for implementing a recovery mode procedure for a computing device are disclosed. An example method includes determining, by a computing device, that a recovery mode procedure is to be executed on the computing device. The example method further includes, determining whether a trusted recovery image is accessible to the computing device and, in the event the trusted recovery image is accessible to the computing device, executing the recovery mode procedure to repair or replace a current image of the computing device using the trusted recovery image. In the event the trusted recovery image is not accessible to the computing device, the example method includes, providing instructions for obtaining the trusted recovery image, determining the obtained trusted recovery image is accessible to the computing device and executing the recovery mode procedure to repair or replace the current image of the computing device using the obtained trusted recovery image. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087921 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing apparatus | 2011-04-14 |
20110087922 | TEST METHOD AND TOOL FOR MASTER-SLAVE SYSTEMS ON MULTICORE PROCESSORS - A test method for a master-slave concurrent system running on a multicore processor includes the steps of establishing a PFA, otherwise called probabilistic finite automata, or probabilistic finite state machine, for a given regular expression; generating test patterns by running the PFA; splitting and merging the test patterns to generate an interleaved test pattern; and performing test on the master-slave system according to the interleaved test pattern. In an embodiment, the method further includes a step of debugging failures of the multicore processor during testing. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087923 | ONLINE FORMAL VERIFICATION OF EXECUTABLE MODELS - A system and method for automatic formal verification of an executable model includes an assertion monitor configured to verify a system against an assertion in a specification. The assertion monitor includes a parser configured to generate a propositional formula representing the assertion in the specification using Boolean propositions, a filter configured to generate a run of the system using truth assignments for the propositional symbols, and a trace verifier configured to verify the assertion using the run of the system using truth assignments for the propositional symbols and the propositional formula. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087924 | Diagnosing Abnormalities Without Application-Specific Knowledge - Methods, articles, and systems for determining a probable cause of a component's abnormal behavior are described. To determine the probable cause, a computing device computes, for one or more pairs of components having dependency relationships, a likelihood that behavior of one component of a pair is impacting behavior of the other component of the pair. This computing is based on joint historical behavior of the pair of components. The computing device then determines that one of a plurality of components is a probable cause of the abnormal behavior based on the computed likelihoods. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087925 | GPON ROGUE-ONU DETECTION BASED ON ERROR COUNTS - A system, for identifying faults in a GPON that includes an OLT and a plurality of ONUs, including: a global error-counter, coupled to the OLT, for counting FEC-correctable errors, for each ONU, from a data stream from the GPON; and a CPU for extracting an ONU status, indicative of a faulty ONU, contingent on the errors from the global error-counter. A system, for identifying faults in a GPON that includes an OLT and a plurality of ONUs, including: a grant-start error-counter, coupled to the OLT, for counting grant-start errors, for each ONU, from a data stream from the GPON; a grant-end error-counter, coupled to the OLT, for counting grant-end errors for each ONU; and a CPU for extracting an ONU status, indicative of a faulty ONU, contingent on a parameter selected from the group consisting of the grant-start errors, the grant-end errors, and a combination thereof. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087926 | HEAP ASSERTIONS - A programming language support for debugging heap related errors includes one or more queries for determining one or more global properties associated with use of the area by the program. The one or more queries may be executed in parallel or concurrently and dynamically utilize available number of cores. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087927 | DETECTING DEFECTS IN DEPLOYED SYSTEMS - Detecting defects in deployed systems, in one aspect, identify one or more monitoring agents used in a computer program. Total execution metric of the computer program and execution metric associated with the one or more monitoring agents are measured and the measure execution metric is compared with a specified overhead criteria. The execution of the one or more monitoring agents is adjusted based on the comparing step while the computer program is executing to meet the specified overhead criteria. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING STALLED STORAGE DEVICES - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing stalled storage devices of a storage system. In one embodiment, a method for managing access to storage devices includes determining that a first storage device, which stores a first resource, is stalled and transitioning the first storage device to a stalled state. The method also includes receiving an access request for at least a portion of the first resource while the first storage device is in the stalled state and attempting to provide access to a representation of the portion of the first resource from at least a second storage device that is not in a stalled state. In another embodiment, a method of managing access requests by a thread for a resource stored on a storage device includes initializing a thread access level for an access request by a thread for the resource. The method also includes determining whether the storage device, which has a device access level, is accessible based at least in part on the thread access level and the device access level and selecting a thread operation based at least in part on the determination of whether the storage device is accessible. The thread operation may be selected from attempting the thread access request if the device is accessible and determining whether to restart the thread access request if the device is not accessible. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087929 | PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A first information processing apparatus of multiple information processing apparatuses includes a second configuration information storage section storing second configuration information; a first configuration information modification section modifying first configuration information in the storage apparatus; a notification section notifying, a second information processing apparatus, of modified part information indicating a modified part in the first configuration information; a modified part information storage section storing the modified part information from the second information processing apparatus; and an updating section updating, before modifying the first configuration information in the storage apparatus, the modified part in the second configuration information indicated by the modified part information stored in the modified part information storage section, based on the first configuration information. Thus, when modifying setting on the storage apparatus from multiple information processing apparatuses, the integrity of the configurations is maintained, and the system can be deployed and operated at lower costs. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087930 | SELF-CLEANING MECHANISM FOR ERROR RECOVERY - A system manages a buffer having a group of entries. The system receives information relating to a read request for a memory. The system determines whether an entry in the buffer contains valid information. If the entry is determined to contain valid information, the system transmits the information in the entry in an error message. The system may then store the received information in the entry. In another implementation, the system stores data in one of the entries of the buffer, removes an address corresponding to the one entry from an address list, and starts a timer associated with the one entry. The system also determines whether the timer has exceeded a predetermined value, transferring the data from the one entry when the timer has exceeded the predetermined value, and adds the address back to the address list. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087931 | TEST APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE - Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a test unit that sends and receives signals to and from the device under test; and a control apparatus that controls the test unit. The control apparatus includes a first buffer and a second buffer that buffer access requests to the test unit; a data output section that buffers, in the first buffer, access requests to be sent from the control apparatus to the test unit and, when an error occurs, buffers the access requests in the second buffer instead of the first buffer; and a transmitting section that sequentially transmits the access requests in the first buffer to the test unit and, when an error occurs, sequentially transmits the access requests in the second buffer to the test unit. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087932 | Method and System for Detecting a Failure In an Error Correcting Unit - In order to detect a faulty error correcting unit ( | 2011-04-14 |
20110087933 | POWER CONSUMPTION IN LDPC DECODER FOR LOW-POWER APPLICATIONS - This disclosure relates generally to low power data decoding, and more particularly to low power iterative decoders for data encoded with a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoder. Systems and methods are disclosed in which a low-power syndrome check may be performed in the first iteration or part of the first iteration during the process of decoding a LDPC code in an LDPC decoder. Systems and methods are also disclosed in which a control over the precision of messages sent or received and/or a change in the scaling of these messages may be implemented in the LDPC decoder. The low-power techniques described herein may reduce power consumption without a substantial decrease in performance of the applications that make use of LDPC codes or the devices that make use of low-power LDPC decoders. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087934 | TEST APPARATUS AND TEST METHOD - A test apparatus testing a device under test includes a main pattern generating section that generates a main pattern, a plurality of sub-pattern generating sections each of which generates a sub-pattern corresponding to a different one of segment cycles based on a main pattern, the segment cycles formed by dividing a test cycle period, a test signal supplying section that supplies, to the device under test, a multiplexed test pattern formed by switching sub-patterns generated by the plurality of sub-pattern generating sections at each of the segment cycles, and a plurality of delay selecting sections each of which selects one of a main pattern that is from the main pattern generating section and a delayed main pattern that is formed by delaying the main pattern from the main pattern generating section by a test cycle, to supply the selected one to the corresponding sub-pattern generating section. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087935 | DRAM TESTING METHOD - A method for testing a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes copying a test program from the DRAM to a random access memory (RAM). Start and end physical addresses of the DRAM are respectively stored in first and second registers. First test data is written to the start physical address, and second test data is read from the start physical address. The method further includes determining whether the second test data is the same as the first test data. A fixed value is added to the start physical address to obtain a next start physical address if the second test data is the same as the first test data. The method further includes determining whether the next start physical address is less than the end physical address. A test success result is returned if the next start physical address is not less than the end physical address. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087936 | SELECTABLE JTAG OR TRACE ACCESS WITH DATA STORE AND OUTPUT - An addressable interface selectively enables JTAG TAP domain operations or Trace domain operations within an IC. After being enabled, the TAP receives TMS and TDI input from a single data pin. After being enabled, the Trace domain acquires data from a functioning circuit within the IC in response to a first clock and outputs the acquired data from the IC in response to a second clock. An addressable two pin interface loads and updates instructions and data to a TAP domain within the IC. The instruction or data update operations in multiple ICs occur simultaneously. A process transmits data from an addressed target device to a controller using data frames, each data frame comprising a header bit and data bits. The logic level of the header bit is used to start, continue, and stop the data transmission to the controller. A data and clock signal interface between a controller and multiple target devices provides for each target device to be individually addressed and commanded to perform a JTAG or Trace operation. Trace circuitry within an IC can operate autonomously to store and output functional data occurring in the IC. The store and output operations of the trace circuitry are transparent to the functional operation of the IC. An auto-addressing RAM memory stores input data at an input address generated in response to an input clock, and outputs stored data from an output address generated in response to an output clock. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087937 | CORE CIRCUIT TEST ARCHITECTURE - A scan test architecture facilitates low power testing of semiconductor circuits by selectively dividing the serial scan paths into shorter sections. Multiplexers between the sections control connecting the sections into longer or shorted paths. Select and enable signals control the operation of the scan path sections. The output of each scan path passes through a multiplexer to compare circuits on the semiconductor substrate. The compare circuits also receive expected data and mask data. The compare circuits provide a fail flag output from the semiconductor substrate. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087938 | REDUCED SIGNALING INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS - This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087939 | DUAL MODE TEST ACCESS PORT METHOD AND APPARATUS - Two common varieties of test interfaces exist for ICs and/or cores, the IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Port (TAP) interface and internal scan test ports. The TAP serves as a serial communication port for accessing a variety of circuitry including; IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan circuitry, built in self test circuitry, internal scan circuitry, IEEE 1149.4 mixed signal test circuitry, IEEE P5001 in-circuit emulation/debug circuitry, and IEEE P1532 in-system programming circuitry. Internal scan test ports serve as a serial communication port for primarily accessing internal scan circuitry within ICs and cores. Today, the TAP and internal scan test ports are typically viewed as being separate test interfaces, each utilizing different IC pins and/or core terminals. The need for different IC pins and/or core terminals is overcome by an interface in accordance with the disclosure that allows the TAP and internal scan test ports to be merged so they both can co-exist and operate from the same set of IC pins and/or core terminals. Further, this interface allows merged TAP and scan test port interfaces to be selected individually or in groups. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087940 | JTAG BUS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure describes using the JTAG Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminals as general purpose serial Input/Output (I/O) Manchester coded communication terminals. The Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminal can be used as a serial I/O communication channel between; (1) an IC and an external controller, (2) between a first and second IC, or (3) between a first and second core circuit within an IC. The use of the TMS and/or TCK terminal as serial I/O channels, as described, does not effect the standardized operation of the JTAG Tap, since the TMS and/or TCK I/O operations occur while the Tap is placed in a non-active steady state. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087941 | IEEE 1149.1 AND P1500 TEST INTERFACES COMBINED CIRCUITS AND PROCESSES - In a first embodiment a TAP of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based architectures are merged together such that the sharing of the previously described architectural elements are possible, and (2) the TAP and WSP test interfaces are merged into a single optimized test interface that is operable to perform all operations of each separate test interface. One approach provides for the TAP to maintain access and control of the TAP instruction register, but provides for a selected data register to be accessed and controlled by either the TAP+ATC or by the discrete CaptureDR, UpdateDR, TransferDR, ShiftDR, and ClockDR WSP data register control signals. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087942 | Programmable Protocol Generator - A semiconductor device tester includes programmable hardware configured to test a semiconductor device under test. The programmable hardware is programmed with two or more pattern generators to control a flow of data to and from the semiconductor device under test. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087943 | RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS IN ON-CHIP NETWORKS - Techniques for reliable communication in an on-chip network of a multi-core processor are provided. Packets are tagged with tags that define reliability requirements for the packets. The packets are routed in accordance with the reliability requirements. The reliability requirements and routing using them can ensure reliable communication in the on-chip network. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087944 | Retransmission techniques in wireless networks - Retransmission techniques are disclosed. These techniques may be used in networks employing contention-based access schemes, such as CSMA. For instance, a device may receive a corrupted packet from a transmitting device, and determine a cause of the corruption. When the determined cause of the corruption is an in-network packet collision, the device allows the transmitting device to send a retransmission of the packet in accordance with a contention-based access scheme. However, when the determined cause of the corruption is other than an in-network packet collision, the device provides retransmission assistance to the transmitting device. This retransmission assistance may include a channel reservation for a retransmission, and/or one or more link adaptation suggestions for the transmitting device. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING FEEDBACK SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for encoding feedback signals is provided. The method includes: encoding feedback signals of three carriers to output a bit sequence; and transmitting the bit sequence on a High Speed-Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH). The step of encoding the feedback signals of the three carriers may specifically include: mapping the feedback signals of the three carriers into a codeword, in which the codeword can be selected from a codebook, and codewords in the codebook satisfy a particular code distance relationship. The method for jointly encoding feedback signals of three carriers in a Ternary Cell (TC) mode is provided. Feedback signals are transmitted over a single code channel. Therefore, power overhead is reduced, and system performance is improved. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087946 | LOW COMPLEXITY FINITE PRECISION DECODERS AND APPARATUS FOR LDPC CODES - In this invention, a new class of finite precision multilevel decoders for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented. These decoders are much lower in complexity compared to the standard belief propagation (BP) decoder. Messages utilized by these decoders are quantized to certain levels based on the number of bits allowed for representation in hardware. A message update function specifically defined as part of the invention, is used to determine the outgoing message at the variable node, and the simple min operation along with modulo 2 sum of signs is used at the check node. A general methodology is provided to obtain the multilevel decoders, which is based on reducing failures due to trapping sets and improving the guaranteed error-correction capability of a code. Hence these decoders improve the iterative decoding process on finite length graphs and have the potential to outperform the standard floating-point BP decoder in the error floor region. The description and apparatus of 3-bit decoders for column-weight three LDPC codes is also presented. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087947 | Regenerative Relay System and Regenerative Relay Apparatus - A regenerative relay method includes the steps of: i) calculating an error rate of a transmission path between the first half apparatus and a main apparatus; ii) calculating an error rate of a transmission path between the main apparatus and the latter apparatus; iii) adding the error rates; iv) selecting the error correction code and data before the error is corrected in the main apparatus so as to be supplied to the latter apparatus if the added error rates are lower than a designated error correction threshold; and v) selecting data after the error is corrected in the main apparatus and the other error correction code generated from the data so as to be supplied to the latter apparatus if the added error rates are higher than the designated error correction threshold. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087948 | LOSS CORRECTION ENCODING DEVICE AND LOSS CORRECTION ENCODING METHOD - A loss correction encoding device having an improved capability of loss correction using LDPC-CC is disclosed. In the loss correction encoding device ( | 2011-04-14 |
20110087949 | RECONFIGURABLE TURBO INTERLEAVERS FOR MULTIPLE STANDARDS - A data processing system, a turbo decoding system, an address generator and a method of reconfiguring a turbo decoding method is provided. The data processing system ( | 2011-04-14 |
20110087950 | DATA WRITING METHOD FOR A FLASH MEMORY, AND CONTROLLER AND STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A data writing method for writing data from a host system into a flash memory chip is provided, and the flash memory chip have a plurality of physical blocks. The method includes receiving a host writing command and write data thereof, and executing the host writing command. The method also includes giving a data program command for writing the write data into one of the physical blocks to the flash memory chip, and giving a command for determining whether data stored in the physical block has any error bit. Accordingly, the method can effectively ensure the correctness of data to be written into the flash memory chip. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087951 | Detector for Multi-Level Modulated Signal and Detection Method Using the Same, and Iterative Receiver for Multi-Level Modulated Signal and Iteratively Receiving Method Using the Same - Provided are a detector for a multi-level modulated signal and a detection method using the same, and an iterative receiver for a multi-level modulated signal and an iteratively receiving method using the same. The detector includes: a channel estimator estimating a channel response of each of a plurality of bits included in at least one received signal based on multi-level modulation; a hard decision unit, for each bit, selecting at least one of a plurality of bits remaining by excluding the bit and performing a hard decision based on a pre-probability of the selected bit; and a reliability calculator calculating reliability of each of all the bits in the received signal based on the received signal from which the hard-decided bit component is cancelled and the estimated channel response. Accordingly, the computation amount according to detection can be reduced without the degradation of performance. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087952 | RECOVERY OF TRANSMISSION ERRORS - A method for recovering transmission errors, comprising: receiving a data packet ( | 2011-04-14 |
20110087953 | Automated embeddable searchable static rendering of a webpage generator - A computer program that creates a static rendering of a web page as an image and as text representing the page, by rendering an image of the web page from a web browser, storing the image on a server, extracting only the readable text from the source of the web page, and creating embeddable code that displays the stored image via HTML IMG tag and plain text parsed from the web page source, preferably separating each word by single spaces. Thus, allowing the programs user to input the URL of a web page, and as a function, return to the user code that can be placed within multiple internet e-commerce communities, that is both visually representative of the page and fully searchable using the technology of today's full text search, while preserving the security implemented within these controlled environments. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087954 | DATA ANALYSIS EXPRESSIONS - Methods and systems are disclosed for receiving and processing data analysis expressions. A particular method includes receiving a data analysis expression at a pivot table of a spreadsheet. The data analysis expression is executed for a particular cell of the pivot table by determining a context associated with the particular cell, calculating a value of the data analysis expression based on the context, and outputting the calculated value at the particular cell. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087955 | Computer-aided methods and systems for e-books - One embodiment includes a portable e-book reading device for reading a paginated e-book, where each page includes one or more sections, with at least one section including a piece of text linked to an illustration. The device includes a controller, a display and a screen layout module coupled to the controller and the display. The module can be configured to layout the at least one section of the e-book at least by keeping the piece of text with the illustration to be displayed in one screen of the display, and to maintain the pagination if a page is in more than one screen of the display. Another embodiment includes a paginated e-book with a text sub file, an illustration sub file and a logic sub file. The text sub file can store at least one piece of text and an attribute regarding the text. The illustration sub file can store at least an illustration and an attribute regarding the illustration. Either the text sub file or the illustration sub file includes position information linking the illustration to a corresponding piece of text in the text sub file. The logic sub file can include a rule to instruct an e-book reading device on how a section of the e-book should be displayed on a screen of a display at the device. Yet another embodiment includes an e-book with a logic sub file that can analyze an attribute of and provide a response to the reader. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087956 | READING AND INFORMATION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A written document (hereinafter referred to as a “work,” on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending upon reader access information or characteristics (e.g., age, grade, proficiency, or position within the work or any other identifiable reader characteristic or access limitation), any request for reference material, definitions, explanations, translations, or other material provided in the associated software capability is automatically limited by system acknowledgement of the reader access information or characteristics. As the reader's access information or characteristics change, the quality and/or quantity and/or format of requested information with respect to a work changes. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UNIFORM PRESENTATION OF DOCUMENTS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communication device, comprising a display, a persistent store, at least one input device, and a processor for executing (i) an invoking application for generating a request for document data responsive to an input via the input device, (ii) an attachment viewer for receiving the request and generating a command for chunks of document data, and (iii) a listener interface for receiving a response to the command and passing the chunks to the attachment viewer for displaying respective chunks of said document data via the display. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087958 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING DOCUMENT DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES FOR DISPLAY ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method operable on a mobile communication device, comprising opening a browser session and issuing an HTTP request for document data, wherein the request includes an XML descriptor added to headers of the HTTP request for identifying the request and the document data being requested, and receiving an HTTP response including the XML descriptor along with document binary data representing respective chunks of the document data for display on the mobile communication device | 2011-04-14 |
20110087959 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING THE STRUCTURE OF A LAYOUT FILE - Disclosed are a method and a device for processing the structure of a layout file, comprising: obtaining document content structure information and/or document layout exhibition information of the layout file; dividing document contents of the layout file into content blocks according to the document content structure information and/or the document layout exhibition information; and creating document flow information of the layout file according to the divided content blocks. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087960 | Power Metering and Control in Cloud Based Computer - According to one general aspect, a method of regulating the system resource consumption of an apparatus may include monitoring one or more system resources of the apparatus. The method may also include receiving a request to display, via the apparatus, a requested multi-element document. The method may include retrieving by the apparatus, at least in part, the requested multi-element document. The method may include dynamically editing the requested multi-element document based, at least in part, upon the monitored system resources. The method may also include displaying the dynamically edited multi-element document. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087961 | Method and System for Assisting in Typing - The invention relates to a computerized system for predicting completions to input text which is typed by a user to a text-oriented active application within a client computer, which comprises: (a) an off-line server that gathers texts from textual repositories, analyzes and processes the same to produce entries for an off-line database, said off-line server updates periodically a real time database of a real time server; (b) a real-time prediction server for receiving from an agent at said client computer serial requests for predictions, extracting in response to each of said requests one or more text predictions from tables within said real time database, and for conveying said one or more text predictions to said agent, wherein each of said text predictions comprises one or more words; (c) said real time database which comprises one or more tables containing word combination entries of various sizes, wherein each of said entries is associated with a weight which is used to estimate the probability for this combination to complete the typed text as included in the respective request for prediction; and (d) said agent which extracts in real time each present user typing to said text-oriented application, produces requests for prediction for new typing, sends the same to said prediction server, receives in response said one or more text predictions, and presents to said user said one or more text predictions for selection. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE AUTOMATIC PREDICTIVE SELECTION OF INPUT METHODS FOR WEB BROWSERS - A method and apparatus for predictively selecting an input method at a web browser. Once a user has entered information identifying a web page, contextual information at the web page is examined in order to automatically, predictively select an appropriate input method for the web page. Once the input method has been selected, a corresponding predictive typing program may be applied. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087963 | User Interface Control with Edge Finger and Motion Sensing - Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to controlling the interface of a communications device using edge sensors that detect finger placement and movements. The invention combines edge sensors and outputs with left/right hand detection and an associated soft key adaptation. This combination allows a user to make handset inputs, such as display control functions, on the interface using finger placement combinations and motions. The approach may be applied to communications devices such as cellular telephones, PDAs, Tablet PCs, etc. as well as other handheld devices including, but not limited to, those used for GPS, package tracking and musical instruments. The combination user interface approach may be applied to any soft keys, on either side or edge of the device, for any function. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087964 | METHOD FOR INDICATING A VOLUME OF AN AUDIO SINK OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method includes rendering data for display on a display screen of a portable electronic device and rendering an overlay for display on the display screen, the overlay being superimposed over the data and including a volume indicator and an audio sink indicator. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087965 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP A LIST OF AUDIO FILES FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for setting up a list of audio files for a mobile device, and a mobile device utilizing the method for setting up the list of audio files are described. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087966 | INTERNET CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for structuring web content including a structuring web server. The structuring web server includes a data collection server, a data analyzer, and a structured content server. The data collection server is configured to collect usage data associated with at least one user. The data analyzer is configured to generate improvement data based on the usage data. The structured content server is configured to send the improvement data to a browser associated with the at least one user. The browser uses the improvement data to alter a webpage displayed to the at least one user. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087967 | SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A NON-PERSONALIZED ENVIRONMENT - A social networking website allows users to interact socially without revealing any information about themselves. The only information they reveal is about their virtual pets in the virtual website world. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087968 | MANAGING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN REAL WORLD AND VIRTUAL WORLD COMMUNITIES - A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product manage connections between a virtual world and a social network. A set of virtual world information and a set of social network information are analyzed. A graph including a plurality of vertices is generated. Each vertex represents one of virtual world information and social network information. Each vertex is coupled to at least one other vertex by a respective edge. At least one edge of the graph couples a first vertex representing virtual world information and a second vertex representing social network information. At least one vertex is determined to be an articulation point having a respective edge. The removal of the respective edge of the articulation point causes a disconnection of the virtual world information from the social network information within the graph. A user is notified via a graphical user interface that the graph comprises the articulation point. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087969 | Systems and Methods to Automatically Generate a Signature Block - Systems and methods for automated signature generation. In one aspect, a method implemented in a computer includes: storing information relating to a plurality of persons on a computer readable medium; and generating a signature block applied to a message composed in a user interface, based on one or more addresses in an address field of the user interface used to compose the message and the information relating to the plurality of persons. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087970 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR FACILITATING INTEGRATED MESSAGING, CONTACTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A SELECTED ENTITY - Systems, apparatus and methods are provided. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented method can include executing, using at least one processor, computer-readable instructions for performing various acts. The acts can include executing at least two applications, wherein at least one of the two applications is for providing social media information. The acts can also include receiving a signal in response to a detected input gesture indicative of a selection of an entity. The selection of the entity can be performed via another one of the two applications. The acts can also include integrating the two applications such that social media information is generated about the entity. The integration can be in response to receiving the signal, and the social media information can include information from one or more social networking websites. The acts can also include displaying the social media information about the entity. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087971 | Music/video messaging - Device(s) and computer program products for creating custom music/video messages to facilitate and/or improve social interaction. The created music/video messages include at least portions of: music, video, pictures, slideshows, and/or text. The music/video messages enable feelings or emotions to be communicated by the user of the device to one or more recipient device(s). | 2011-04-14 |
20110087972 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FACILITATING HETEROGENEOUS MESSAGING FOR A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for threading calls and messages are provided. A method can include: receiving messaging content; and displaying the messaging content in a single thread, wherein the messaging content is threaded and a thread of the messaging content comprises at least one text message and at least one call. The method can further include threading the messaging content, wherein the threading comprises ordering the messaging content based, at least, on a time at which received ones of the messaging content are received at a communication device. In various embodiments, the messaging content can include one or more of voice information, MMS or SMS text messages, voicemail information, system messages, email messages, instant messages, pictorial information, video information or audio information, data traffic information, user-opted notifications, traffic reports, news alerts, weather information, stock reports, social networking chats, social networking posts or social networking status updates. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087973 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE USERS AND WORKSPACES - A distributed system for managing users and workspaces comprises a network cloud comprising at least one server configured to store and run at least one application and at least one meeting appliance configured to communicate with the network cloud, to run the at least one application on the network cloud, and to display output of the at least application on the meeting appliance. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087974 | USER INTERFACE CONTROLS INCLUDING CAPTURING USER MOOD IN RESPONSE TO A USER CUE - Embodiments provide a method for operating a control in a graphical user interface (GUI) concurrently or in association with receiving a user indication of the user's state of mind. For example, a GUI control may include navigation controls in a web browser (page forward, page back, open or close a window or tab, etc.); video transport control (play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, scrub, etc.); hyperlink on a web page; a control in a software application, computer operating system or other function provided in a processing system interface. In a particular embodiment, when the user operates the control, such as a window close button, then depending on a concurrent or closely associated user “cue” such as a touch or swipe on the display screen, gesture, sound or utterance, button click, etc., an indication of the user's state of mind can be, conveyed to appropriate system or application hardware or software. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087975 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A DATA - The invention relates to user equipment for recording data within the user equipment is provided. The user equipment includes a receiving unit to receive application data from a database within the user equipment, which application data is associated with at least one application. The user equipment further includes a monitoring unit arranged to monitor system data of the user equipment, which system data relates to an operation of the user equipment. The user equipment includes a recording unit arranged to record data in a source application of the user equipment, which recorded data includes the system data associated with the received application data. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087976 | Application-Based Backup-Restore Of Electronic Information - Systems and methods for storing and restoring backup data. One method includes receiving, while a current view of an application is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting a history view associated with the current view of the application. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including at least a first visual representation of an earlier version of the current view of the application, the earlier version including a first element. A second user input is received while the history view is displayed. The second user input requesting that the current view of the application be modified according to the earlier version, at least with regard to the first element. The current view of the application is modified in response to the second user input according to the earlier version, at least with regard to the first element. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087977 | Method for Selecting Shapes in a Graphical Display - A selector shape may serve as the background to a configurable composite shape and may include one or more expressions that are evaluated to select between several composite shape definitions via links to the definition. Each selector shape includes an animation expression and a lookup table converter to select an identifier of the composite definition to be loaded and displayed. When the value of the animation expression changes, the value may be matched to the name of a new composite definition using the lookup table, and the new definition may be displayed. The previously-used composite definition may then be marked for removal by a caching system, and removed. These selector shapes also enable the same graphic element to be used in displays designed for different types of display devices, such as display devices having large display screens, standard computer screens and very small display screens. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087978 | Usage Based Process For Selecting Hardware And Software In A Build To Order Environment - A usage based process for selecting hardware and software in a build to order environment. During the configuration of an information handling system, the usage based process presents a survey to a customer and uses information derived from the survey to automatically populate an information handling system configuration. In certain embodiments, the process of auto-populating the information handling system configuration includes a configuration accuracy analysis to assure that the various components identified for the auto-population provide a completed and accurately configured information handling system. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087979 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR STACKING NETWORK CAPTURED TRAFFIC DISTRIBUTION DEVICES - A network captured traffic distribution device including a plurality of bi-directional ports, an egress port, a stacking port, and a processor is disclosed. The stacking port may be configured to enable the stacking of the network captured traffic distribution device with at least one additional network captured traffic distribution device in a stacked topology. The stacking may include, for example, an exchange of configuration information between the network captured traffic distribution device and an additional network captured traffic distribution device included in the stacked topology. Methods, systems, and apparatus for enabling the stacking of a network captured traffic distribution device to an additional network captured traffic distribution device in a stacked topology are also provided. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087980 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - A method of providing content through a content providing system is provided. The method includes dividing content into objects and associating the divided objects with corresponding codes; storing the objects associated with the codes in a database; accepting a connection of a specific medium among the plurality of media; receiving a request for specific content from the connected specific medium; extracting play environment information including terminal feature information for the connected specific medium; calling a specific object code corresponding to the connected specific medium from a database in consideration of the extracted play environment information; extracting an object corresponding to the called specific object code; creating the specific content by combining the extracted objects; converting the specific content into an image; stacking an interaction layer on the image; and providing the image with the interaction layer stacked thereon to the connected specific medium. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087981 | METHOD FOR REMOVING ICON IN MOBILE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A method for removing an icon in a mobile terminal is presented. The method includes, displaying an icon display area and a menu area on a display screen of the mobile terminal, wherein the icon is displayed in the icon display area and a predetermined executing icon menu is displayed in the menu area, selecting the icon, modifying the menu displayed in the menu area to a removing menu when a preliminary removing signal is input on the selected icon, and removing the selected icon in response to the movement of the selected icon to a predetermined area of the removing area | 2011-04-14 |
20110087982 | WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT TOOL - A method for providing a workspace management tool includes presenting a workspace overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area. The first area includes visual indicators of favorite applications of a user, and the second area includes multiple regions, each region representing a different work space. The method further includes receiving, via the workspace overview GUI, a user request to open a new window for one of the favorite applications in a first work space, adding the new window to the first work space, and presenting the new window in a reduced form in a region representing the first work space without overlapping other open windows of the first work space. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087983 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL HAVING TOUCH INTERFACE AND TOUCH INTERFACE METHOD - A mobile communication terminal having a touch interface and a touch interface method provide a touch selection process for the purpose of menu selection. The mobile communication terminal includes a touch unit to generate a touch signal in response to a received touch, a touch signal determination unit to receive the touch signal from the touch unit, and to determine whether the touch is maintained or released, and an execution menu processing unit to generate an execution menu list with respect to data corresponding to the touch signal if the touch is determined to be maintained, to sequentially activate respective execution menus of the execution menu list in accordance with a menu change time, and to transmit an execution command with respect to the activated execution menu to execute the activated execution menu to a control unit if the touch is determined to be released. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087984 | MOVABLE INFORMATION PANELS - Various techniques, methods and apparatus are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a movable information panel may be moved to be displayed as a tabbed web page, moved to a different application window, or docked to a horizontal or vertical panel bar. Other example embodiments are also disclosed. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087985 | GRAPH VIEWER - Embodiments of the invention provide apparatuses and methods for providing a graphical user interface on the display device, where the graphical user interface includes a graph viewing tool for charting data. The graph viewing tool includes: (a) a first display area displaying a first axis and a second axis of a graph, the first axis representing a first parameter of the data over a first range of values; (b) a second display area displaying a third axis representing the first parameter over a second range of values; and (c) a first tool and a second tool displayed in the second display area proximate the third axis, wherein the first tool and the second tool are configured such that they can be moved relative to each other and relative to the third axis to increase or decrease the first range of values displayed along the first axis in the first display area. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF BUSINESS DOCUMENTS AND EFFECTIVITY - A system and method to graphically represent historical product structures. When a computer extracts all change states for a data set corresponding to a first product structure having a plurality of items. The change states associated with each item are concatenated. The concatenated change states relative to each item and to the parametric constraint effective for the data set are displayed on an electronic display. In this way it is possible to visualize the historical product structure. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087987 | APPLIANCE INTERFACE SYSTEM - An appliance includes a user interface and a controller. The user interface comprises a plurality of selector buttons. Each selector button respectively comprises a display and a touch sensitive input area. The display can render an image thereupon for the selector button. Further, the display of the selector button can be separate from disparate displays of disparate selector buttons of the user interface. Moreover, the touch sensitive input area can be operable to receive an input selection that corresponds to the image rendered by the display of the selector button. The input selection received by the touch sensitive input area can cause the display of the selector button to change the image rendered thereupon and/or the disparate displays to change corresponding respective images rendered thereupon. The controller can respectively choose images rendered upon a plurality of displays and control operation of the appliance in response to the input selection. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087988 | GRAPHICAL CONTROL ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A building management system includes graphical control elements for viewing and interacting with the building management system. Graphical control elements conduct analysis of information received from the building management system and may be used to control building equipment, monitor operational statuses, diagnose faults, or conduct other building management system tasks. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087989 | ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT TOOL - A method for providing an activity management tool includes receiving a user request for an activity overview, identifying currently running applications, applications that are likely to be run in the future, and open windows of the currently running applications. The method further includes presenting an activity overview graphical user interface (GUI) having a first area and a second area. The first area includes visual indicators of the currently running applications and the applications likely to be run in the future. The second area includes the open windows of the currently running applications, where the open windows are resized and positioned in such a way as to be simultaneously viewable by the user. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087990 | USER INTERFACE FOR A TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY - A device, which may have a touchscreen display, and methods for its operation are provided using a graphical user interface and an overlay user input interface such as a virtual keyboard. The graphical user interface may include one or more user interface elements displayed in a first region of the display that are actuatable to invoke a corresponding function. When the virtual keyboard is invoked for display in the same region, the underlying graphical user interface is redrawn with a further user interface element corresponding to at least one of the user interface elements previously displayed in the first region, so that the further user interface element is actuatable to invoke a command to carry out the corresponding function. In another embodiment, the virtual keyboard may be modified instead to provide an action key corresponding to a function related to an application executing on the device. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087991 | Methods and Apparatus for Reliable Entry and Enhanced Presentation of IPv6 Addresses - A technique for establishing an IPv6 address for a network device involves displaying a prefix field for accessing a list of IPv6 address prefixes, an interface identifier field for accessing a list of interface identifiers, and a fillable address field for entering an IPv6 address. An IPv6 address is constructed in the address field from an IPv6 address prefix selected from the prefix field and an interface identifier selected from the interface identifier field. The IPv6 address can be modified by manually entering characters via a user interface. A technique for displaying IPv6 addresses involves combining a mnemonic, which replaces the digits of the IPv6 address prefix portion of the address, together with the digits of the interface identifier of the IPv6 address. IPv6 addresses not associated with a mnemonic are readily identifiable. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087992 | THUMBNAIL IMAGE SUBSTITUTION - Thumbnail image substitution is described. In embodiments, a navigation input is received that is effective to move from a first view of a media content page to a second view of the media content page. The second view includes a region of the media content page that is not included in the first view of the media content page. A thumbnail image is displayed in the region of the media content page that is not included in the first view and that will display the media content. The thumbnail image is replaced to display the media content in the region of the media content page that corresponds to the second view of the media content page. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087993 | DISPLAYING MESSAGES ON HANDHELD DEVICES - A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date. The date separators have “sticky” operation, meaning that the device ensures a date separator always appears within the viewport, even when the viewport has been scrolled to the middle of a long list of messages all associated with the same date. The device may ensure that the top field of the viewport always contains a date separator associated with the message immediately below. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087994 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FACILITATING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media are provided. In some embodiments, a method can include: detecting a selection of an item, the item being displayed via user interface (UI); searching for information associated with the item for which selection is detected, wherein the searching is performed automatically based, at least, upon the detecting the selection of the item; and displaying search results, via the UI, wherein the displaying the search results is performed automatically during the selection of the item. In some embodiments, the search results comprise at least one of: a voicemail, a number of voicemails, messaging details, a portion of text, contacts information or social media information associated with the item for which selection is detected. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087995 | METHOD FOR SIMPLIFYING THE INPUT, BY A USER, OF A VERY LONG NUMERICAL SEQUENCE, AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method is provided for simplifying the input, by a user, of a very long numerical sequence, via an input module of a communications terminal. The method includes: inputting, via the input module, at least one word forming alphanumerical sequences, the word or words being previously associated with the numerical sequence; transferring the word or words to a conversion module; and receiving, by the input module, the numerical sequence, provided by the conversion module, after the words have been processed. The words are determined and provided to the user by the conversion module, in a prior initialization phase, by a conversion algorithm that associates the word or words in a unique way with a very long numerical sequence. The word or words are chosen from a pre-selected dictionary consisting of words that are of significance to the user. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087996 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED HELP FACILITY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - An improved handheld electronic device and associated method in accordance with the invention provide an improved help facility that displays a list of hot key assignments. The help facility is context-specific, meaning that it displays the hot key assignments that are activatable in the context of the specific portion of the specific application that is active on the handheld electronic device. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087997 | LIST SCROLLING METHOD AND DEVICE ADAPTED TO THE SAME - A list scrolling control method, system, and device are provided. When scrolling is controlled, the change in data is not displayed on the list area but scrolling information is provided via an information region additionally provided by the scroll bar, thereby quickly performing a list scrolling process. The list scrolling method includes detecting interaction for scroll control on a list screen, and displaying a scroll bar range, varied according to the detected interaction, on an area of a scroll bar. | 2011-04-14 |
20110087998 | Thumbnail Based Image Quality Inspection - An input image ( | 2011-04-14 |
20110087999 | Set definition in data processing systems - The invention defines sets of items in a data processing system where the items can be visually represented in a graphical user interface by respective graphical elements which are individually selectable via the graphical user interface to permit indication by a user of items on which actions are to be performed in the system. A graphical device, which identifies the graphical elements corresponding to items in the set, is generated. The device is independent of the selection state of the elements, which remain individually selectable, and the set of items is independently selectable to permit actions to be performed on the set of items in the system. Set data defining the set of items is stored. The methods and apparatus allow the same item to be a member concurrently of more than one set for which the respective graphical devices concurrently identifies the graphical element corresponding to that item. | 2011-04-14 |
20110088000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A HIERARCHICAL SET OF BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INFORMATION - A computing system for displaying hierarchical set of building management system information is shown and described. The computing system includes a processing circuit configured to render a shape for each software defined building object and to render the shapes for lower level software defined building objects as nested within the shapes for the higher level software defined building objects. | 2011-04-14 |
20110088001 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING GOALS - A goal management system stores at least first and second goals. The goal management system also stores a relationship between the first goal and the second goal. In one aspect, the goal management system detects modification of the first goal and, in response, causes the second goal to be automatically highlighted for alignment verification. In another aspect, the second goal is a parent goal to the first goal, and the relationship is stored as a parent link associating the first goal with the parent goal. The goal management system also stores an owner for the first goal. In response to detecting modification of the parent goal, the goal management system causes the first goal to be automatically highlighted for alignment verification in a display associated with the owner of the first goal, based on the parent link. Additional aspects relate to additional technological solutions which facilitate goal management through, for example, goal alignment. | 2011-04-14 |