| 22nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 68 |
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| 20100138788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ACTIVITIES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller adapted to present a task toolbar by way of a display of the communication device, create an entry in the task toolbar, identify a party responsible for one or more tasks associated with the entry, associate the party with the entry and update the task toolbar to show by way of the display the association of the party to the entry, create one or more tasks, associate the one or more tasks with the entry of the party in the task toolbar, and synchronize one or more communication resources of the party according to the entry associated with the party and the associated one or more tasks. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138789 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A control method and display apparatus are provided. The control method includes displaying a content, and if a preset input is performed, displaying a user interface menu associated with the corresponding setup options of the displayed content. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138790 | Electronic Programming Guide With Selectable Categories - An electronic content guide may organize content such as television programs into categories and subcategories. The categories and subcategories may be topical as well as time-based. As a result, the user can select a given time-based criteria and within that time-based criteria select topical subcategories. As a result, the number of programs that may be displayed in any given graphical user interface may be reduced to a manageable level. This may be done without requiring a great deal of scrolling to view selected categories, subcategories and particular programs. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138791 | Content Exchange System - The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for providing more content choices to a user ( | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138792 | NAVIGATING CONTENT - One embodiment of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which information obtained from a uniform resource locator is converted into at least one texture. The texture is mapped onto a surface of a three-dimensional object located in the virtual three-dimensional space thereby forming a three-dimensional navigation mechanism. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138793 | DISCRETE OBJECTS FOR BUILDING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - Described is a virtual environment built by drawing stacks of three-dimensional objects (e.g., discrete blocks) as manipulated by a user. A user manipulates one or more objects, resulting in stack heights being changed, e.g., by adding, removing or moving objects to/from stacks. The stack heights are maintained as sample points, e.g., each point indexed by its associated horizontal location. A graphics processor expands height-related information into visible objects or stacks of objects by computing the vertices for each stack to draw that stack's top surface, front surface and/or side surface based upon the height-related information for that stack. Height information for neighboring stacks may be associated with the sample point, whereby a stack is only drawn to where it is occluded by a neighboring stack, that is, by computing the lower vertices for a surface according to the height of a neighboring stack where appropriate. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138794 | WIRELESS INTERFACE FOR ACCESS CONNECTIONS - A process of pairing a wireless PAN (personal area network) device with a system can be facilitated first by assuming default PIN codes that are traditionally used with wireless PAN devices and then by attempting such presumed default codes before querying the user for input. Accordingly, a cumbersome task conventionally required of the user is most often removed. Also, the devices that are paired and connected are preferably graphically conveyed on a display or graphical user interface (GUI) in a manner that solidly implies that each PAN device is connected only to its system, and not (directly) to other PAN devices. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138795 | MANAGING ADVISORIES FOR COMPLEX MODEL NODES IN A GRAPHICAL MODELING APPLICATION - A system for managing advisories for complex model nodes that can include a complex model, a graphical modeling application, and an advisory manager. The complex model can be configured to graphically represent a user-defined system as multiple nodes and relationships. The graphical modeling application can be configured to execute operations upon the complex model. The graphical modeling application can store data defining the graphical characteristics of the complex model as a notation model and data defining the semantic characteristics of the complex model as a semantic model. The notation model and the semantic model can be stored as separate data entities. The advisory manager can be configured to aggregate notifications and potential resolutions for the nodes of the complex model. The notifications and potential resolutions can be visually presented within the graphical modeling application. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138796 | INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICALLY PRESENTED MAP - The present invention provides computerized systems and methods for providing electronically presented interactive area representation, such as a map, and information associated therewith. A user can select text, imagery, or other information presented on the map and associated with one or more items or locations, causing presentation of information relating to the associated one or more items or locations, such as appropriate contact information or a hyperlink to an appropriate Web site. Additionally or alternatively, a user can input or select, based on a query or otherwise, information relating to one or more items or locations associated with text, imagery, or other information presented on the map, causing presentation of an indication of one or more locations of the associated text, imagery, or other information on the map. A magnifier feature allowing internal navigation within the map can be provided. Additionally, animated images can appear to move over the map. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138797 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SPLIT VISION CONTENT SHARING CONTROL AND METHOD - A portable electronic device, such as a mobile phone, has a main camera and a video call camera that are receive optical input representative of motion of a user's hand(s) or hand gestures. The motion or gestures are decoded and used as a remote control input to control the displaying of content by a display device, such as a television or a projector, which receives the content for display from the mobile phone. A method of displaying content from a portable electronic device on a separate display or projector and of controlling such displaying by remote control based on hand movement or gestures. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138798 | System and method for executing a game process - A 3-D imaging system for recognition and interpretation of gestures to control a computer. The system includes a 3-D imaging system that performs gesture recognition and interpretation based on a previous mapping of a plurality of hand poses and orientations to user commands for a given user. When the user is identified to the system, the imaging system images gestures presented by the user, performs a lookup for the user command associated with the captured image(s), and executes the user command(s) to effect control of the computer, programs, and connected devices. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138799 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An analysis apparatus for a printed circuit board includes a converting portion that rewrites physical property data of a wiring layer in contact with a mounting surface having the part corresponding to an extracted electronic part data to a value based on the physical property data of an electronic part, and converts the physical property data of a region having the electronic part corresponding to the electronic part data extracted by the extracting portion to the physical property data of an insulating layer. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138800 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ANALYZING SYSTEM, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGNING ASSISTING SYSTEM, THEIR METHODS, AND PROGRAM - A printed circuit board analyzing system for analyzing the whole circuit of a multilayer printed circuit board to perform circuit analysis of noise propagation in the printed circuit board having structure in which the shapes of stacked conductor planes are different or planes are provided side by side in the same layer by quickly providing an adjacent interference part equivalent circuit model representing noise interference parts causing interference between adjacent opposed planes and by coupling the plane pairs to the adjacent interference part equivalent circuit. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138801 | System and Method for Detecting a Defect - A system and a method for detecting a defect, capable of extracting a defect occurring depending on finishing accuracy required for circuit operation are provided. The system includes a timing analyzer for extracting a critical path in which a high accuracy is required for a signal transmission operation as compared with other portions based on circuit design data, a critical path extractor for comparing the circuit design data with layout design data on a pattern and for extracting graphical data including the critical path extracted by the timing analyzer, an inspection recipe creator for deciding a portion to be inspected, based on coordinate information on the graphical data including the critical path extracted by the critical path extractor, and an SEM defect review apparatus for acquiring an image of the decided portion to be inspected on a wafer according to an inspection recipe created by the inspection recipe creator. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138802 | PRINTED BOARD DESIGN SYSTEM AND PRINTED BOARD DESIGN METHOD - A decoupling capacitor pin position information obtain unit calculates based on board design data of a printed board, position information indicating positions of decoupling capacitors on the printed board. A power supply plane position/shape information obtain unit calculates based on the board design data, position/shape information indicating a position and shape of a power supply plane of the printed board. A restriction condition input unit collects restriction conditions from an input device. A decoupling capacitor examination unit judges based on the position information, the position/shape information and the restriction conditions, whether or not arrangement of the decoupling capacitors is adequate. Therefore, a designer, while designing arrangement/wiring of the printed board, can check in real time whether or not the arrangement of the decoupling capacitors is adequate, and thus can design at higher speed a printed board in which arrangement of decoupling capacitors is adequate. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING DESIGN OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A method of supporting design of a semiconductor integrated circuit, is achieved by generating a data indicating a basic cell and a data indicating a cell group different in logic from the basic cell; and by storing the basic cell indicating data and the cell group indicating data in a library of a storage unit. An outer shape and a position of a wiring pattern of the cell group are same as those of the basic cell. The wiring pattern of the basic cell and the wiring pattern of the cell group contain a wiring obstruction section indicating an area in which a passage wiring is inhibited. When a design change is carried out, the basic cell is replaced by a change cell of the cell group corresponding to the design change. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138804 | Methods and Apparatuses for Automated Circuit Design - Methods and apparatuses to automatically synthesize circuits. In one aspect of an embodiment, a logic function feeding a carry chain is implemented through extending the carry chain and through using the extended portion of the carry chain. In one aspect of an embodiment, control/non-control loads are separated from each other through replicating the driver elements of the mixed control/non-control loads. In one aspect of an embodiment, a read only memory (ROM) is implemented using a random access memory (RAM). In one embodiment, a register at the input side of the ROM is generated through inserting a register that is clocked at an inverted clock signal or through retiming a register from the output side of the ROM. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138805 | Method and System for Building Binary Decision Diagrams Efficiently in a Structural Network Representation of a Digital Circuit - A method, system and computer program product for building decision diagrams efficiently in a structural network representation of a digital circuit using a dynamic resource constrained and interleaved depth-first-search and modified breadth-first-search schedule is disclosed. The method includes setting a first size limit for a first set of one or more m-ary decision representations describing a logic function and setting a second size limit for a second set of one or more m-ary decision representations describing a logic function. The first set of m-ary decision representations of the logic function is then built with one of the set of a depth-first technique or a breadth-first technique until the first size limit is reached, and a second set of m-ary decision representations of the logic function is built with the other technique until the second size limit is reached. In response to determining that a union of first set and the second set of m-ary decision representations do not describe the logic function, the first and second size limits are increased, and the steps of building the first and second set are repeated. In response to determining that the union of the first set of m-ary decision representations and the second set of m-ary decision representations describe the logic function, the union is reported. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138806 | RESOLUTION ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY USING PHASE ASSIGNMENT BRIDGES - In one embodiment, a spacing is determined for each edge of a number of features in a photolithographic design. The edges have at least a partially predictable layout. Based on the spacing and the predictable layout, a bridge structure is generated. Each bridge of the bridge structure connects one of the edges to an edge of a neighboring feature. Then, the features and the bridge structure are provided for a phase assignment. The phase assignment assigns features at opposite ends of each bridge in the bridge structure to opposite phases. In another embodiment, a sub-resolution assist feature (SRAF) is introduced for an edge of a feature and a bridge is generated from the feature to the SRAF. Then, the feature and the SRAF are assigned to opposite phases based on the relationship defined by the bridge. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138807 | Method and System for Benefits Calculator for Information Technology Projects - Described herein are systems and methods for providing a generic benefits calculator for IT projects. An exemplary method includes receiving user input corresponding to parameters of an information technology project, retrieving information corresponding to the information technology project, calculating, based on the parameters, updated information corresponding to the information technology project, and creating a summary of the updated information corresponding to the information technology project. An exemplary system includes an input module receiving user input corresponding to parameters of an information technology project, a core input module receiving information corresponding to the information technology project, a core analysis module calculating, based on the parameters, updated information corresponding to the information technology project, and a user output module creating a summary of the updated information corresponding to the information technology project. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138808 | EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN DEVICE AND A METHOD THEREOF USING A TARGET INDEPENDENT MODEL - The present invention provides an embedded system design device and a method thereof using a target independent model comprises: a target independent model expressed in UML diagram type as a resource; a target independent model definition language for expressing the target independent model in language type; a profile where specific data for substantially controlling a particular embedded system is stored; a middle language configured by inserting contents of the profile into the target independent model definition language; a conversion language configured in the same linguistic type as the middle language, and for adding new data which does not exist in the middle language, or for changing particular contents; a target dependent model definition language generated by applying the conversion language to the middle language; and a modeling tool for performing a series of processing procedures of writing a diagram by using a UML (Unified Modeling Language), providing an interface tag which suggests resource items for extracting/generating the target independent model, and generating the target independent model to convert the independent model into the target dependent model. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138809 | SYSTEM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING UML TOOLS FOR DEFINING WEB SERVICE BOUND COMPONENT APPLICATIONS - An application development system for developing an application with application components is described. The system application development includes a modeling tool. The modeling tool imports the application components in a comparable component definition format, and defines a data relation between data, screens, and operations embodied in the application components in an application model. The application model has a static structural characteristic, a dynamic behavioral characteristic and an implementation characteristic. The static structural characteristic defines parts of the application. The dynamic behavioral characteristic defines responsiveness of the application to events or actions, and the implementation characteristic describes elements required for deploying the application. The modeling tool updates the cross-component mapping. The modeling tool further includes a mapping analyzer for analyzing message components and data components in the application components, and generating a cross-component mapping. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138810 | PARALLELING PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Paralleling processing system and method. When clusters are formed based on strongly connected components, a single cluster (fat cluster) having at least a predetermined number of blocks, or an expected processing time exceeding a predetermined threshold, is formed. The fat cluster is subjected to an unrolling process to make multiple copies of the processing of the fat cluster and to assign the copies to individual processors. Processing of the fat cluster is executed by the multiple processor devices in a pipelined manner. If a fat cluster to be iteratively executed cannot be executed in the pipelined manner because a processing result of an n | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138811 | Dynamic Performance Profiling - A dynamic performance profiler is operable to receive, in substantially real-time, raw performance data from a testing platform. A software-based image is executing on a target hardware platform (e.g., either simulated or actual) on the testing platform, and the testing platform monitors such execution to generate corresponding raw performance data, which is communicated, in substantially real-time, as it is generated during execution of the software-based image to a dynamic profiler. The dynamic profiler may be configured to archive select portions of the received raw performance data to data storage. As the raw performance data is received, the dynamic profiler analyzes the data to determine whether the performance of the software-based image on the target hardware platform violates a predefined performance constraint. When the performance constraint is violated, the dynamic profiler archives a portion of the received raw performance. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138812 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING PERFORMANCE OF A SOFTWARE TESTING SYSTEM - A system and method for analyzing performance of a software testing system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of analyzing performance of a software testing system associated with a software system having multiple modules includes performing a computer-based complexity analysis of the software system, performing a computer-based impact analysis of information related to an impact of a defect on a module of the software system, and generating a computer-based distribution of effort across an impacted module of the software system based on the complexity analysis and the impact analysis to enhance the software testing system performance. The information may include reported defects from a working environment associated with the software system. The method may also include utilizing output data associated with the complexity analysis as input data to the impact analysis. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138813 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING ONLINE PERFORMANCE ON CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE - An apparatus for testing online performance on a client/server architecture, includes: a client group connected to a server group; and a server group for providing the online service to the client group and capturing packet information based on communication with the client group. Further, the apparatus for testing online performance on a client/server architecture includes a central management unit for carrying out analysis, edition, and scripting for the captured packet information to overall manage an online performance test between the client group and the server group; and a load generation unit for generating a virtual client in accordance with the scripting result of the central management unit to regenerate a load in the server group. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LONG NAMES IN AN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE - Software managing long names in an application programming interface receives a request to perform a requested operation on one or more fields, the application comprising a first operation operable to perform the requested operation on at least one field type. The software determines whether the field type of any of the fields is incompatible with the first operation. If the field types of the one or more fields are compatible with the first operation, then the software performs the requested operation on the one or more fields using the first operation. If the software determines that the field type of at least one of the fields is incompatible with the first operation, then it converts the request into a call for a second operation operable to perform the requested operation on the one or more fields and performs the requested operation using the second operation. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138815 | IMPLEMENTING ASPECTS WITH CALLBACKS IN VIRTUAL MACHINES - Implementing aspects via callback in a virtual machine, where an aspect weaver weaves the aspect with a module to provide primary and crosscutting functionality in the runtime execution of the module. The virtual machine has multiple modules that are part of an application implementing separation of concerns. Each of the multiple modules has a distinct functionality portion and a common functionality portion, common to all modules. The common functionality is referenced by the virtual machine via callback for the multiple modules. Aspect code is loaded as a callback that is applied to the multiple modules by the virtual machine. Loading the aspect code as a callback can implement the aspect at any point in the modules, including conditional statements, calls to methods of objects or classes, loops, any point in an exception handler, or to monitor changes in variables. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138816 | MULTIMEDIA SERVICE COMPOSITION FACTORY - Systems and methods for the creation and deployment of services on a converged network are described herein. These services can be initially created from visual constructs and have their life cycle performed and monitored by a multimedia service composition factory. Functions for design, implementation, installation, verification and coordination can be provided to compose services after pre-compiled code segments are received from a user interface. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138817 | IN-PLACE FUNCTION MODIFICATION - Modifying computer program code can be performed at or immediately prior to runtime of the computer code in a runtime environment of a common language infrastructure of a language-neutral framework for developing and executing computer applications. A function in a computer program can be modified at runtime by injecting arbitrary code, while mitigating an alteration of a program's call stack. A just-in-time compilation service is used to compile and execute intermediate language code of the program, and the runtime environment sends callback functions to an event-based profiling agent (profiler) attached to the runtime environment. The profiler can trap desired functions, as determined by configuration data, and inject modification code from stub methods in a stub assembly file. The modified code can be sent back to the runtime environment to be executed by the just-in-time compilation service. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138818 | Computer System and Method for Resolving Dependencies in a Computer System - A computer system and a method are disclosed for use in automatically deploying an application program to execute with one or more library resources. The computer system includes a deployment unit which deploys the application program into a runtime execution environment. When a predetermined trigger condition is detected, the deployment unit clones a first library resource to create a clone, transforms the application to depend upon the clone and resolves the dependencies of the application using the clone. In one embodiment, the trigger condition relates to a pinning situation, whereby a library upon which the application program depends cannot be wired to the application program to resolve the dependency. Here, the clone now satisfies that dependency. In another embodiment, the trigger condition is a mandatory cloning property that requires the library to be cloned. The mandatory cloning property may also be user-specified through a user interface. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138819 | TYPE MERGING TECHNIQUE TO REDUCE CLASS LOADING DURING JAVA VERFICATION - An apparatus, process, and computer program product to merge types in an object-oriented program is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a process may include analyzing a method within an object-oriented program to identify merge candidates. These merge candidates may then be recorded in a merge candidate list. The process may further include identifying at least two code paths in the method that merge into a single code path and that operate on different types. The types in these code paths may then be merged to a nearest common superclass listed in the merge candidate list. In selected embodiments, the types may be merged to the java.lang.Object class in the event the merge candidate list is empty. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138820 | Framework for Control Flow-Aware Processes - An improved system and method are disclosed for processing Java program code. Java source code is annotated with a Module or a ControlFlow annotation. The Java source code is then compiled to produce Java bytecode, which in turn is compiled by a just-in-time compiler to produce native code, which retains the annotations. The native code with annotations is then executed. If a bug is identified during the execution of the native code, an associated Module is selected for debugging, followed by determining associated Java source code segments within the responsible control flow path. Debugging operations are then performed on the associated Java source code segments. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138821 | Adaptive Switch Installer - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for upgrading software. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include copying a source application server to form a shadow application server, the copying including copying a repository table and a customizing table to form a shadow repository table and a shadow customizing table. Moreover, the upgrade may be implemented at the shadow application server. The upgrade may be applied to a first synonym of the shadow repository table and a second synonym of the shadow customizing table. The first synonym may enable the shadow application server to connect to the shadow repository table, when the upgrade is being implemented. The second synonym may enable the shadow application server to connect to the shadow customizing table, when the upgrade is being implemented. The method may also include switching to the upgrade by renaming the shadow repository table and the shadow customizing table to identifiers corresponding to the repository table and customizing table of the source application server. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138822 | PATCH APPLICATION APPARATUS AND PATCH APPLICATION METHOD - A patch application apparatus for applying plural software patches to a computer system includes a relation checker that determines dependencies among the plural software patches, and a patch applier that applies first software patches among the plural software patches in parallel to the computer system, each of the first software patches being determined to have no dependency on any other software patch of the plural software patches by the relation checker, and that applies second software patches among the plural software patches in order according to the dependencies of the second software patches to the computer system, the second software patches being determined to have the dependencies thereamong by the relation checker. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138823 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOFTWARE VIRTUALIZATION DIRECTLY FROM AN INSTALLATION PACKAGE - A method and system for providing a virtual system environment directly from an installation package is disclosed. An installation package containing one or more installer applications is received and an installer application providing an instance of an operating system is copied from the installation package to a virtual container created in a test machine. A virtualization package is created for the selected installed application, and the virtual system environment is provided in the test machine. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138824 | SDR TERMINAL AND RECONFIGURATION METHOD - A Software Communications Architecture (SCA)-based software-defined radio (SDR) terminal and a reconfiguration method thereof are provided. The SDR terminal includes a software module including first and second hardware modules that are programmable and a memory storing at least one wireless access application; and a software module including a reconfiguration core framework that perform a service mode switch using the wireless access application, wherein, if a service mode switch from a first service mode to a second service mode occurs, the SDR terminal installs a wireless access application corresponding to the second service mode in one of the first and second hardware modules. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138825 | Computer System and Method for Configuring an Application Program in a Computer System - A computer system which configures an application program to execute with one or more resources is disclosed. The computer system includes a configuration unit to configure the application program for deployment into a runtime execution environment. The application program is divided into a plurality of bundles and the configuration unit examines the bundles individually to determine a bundle environment for each bundle based on dependencies of that bundle on the one or more resources. The configuration unit selects one or more conventions, which provide templates of configuration for a relevant resource, according to the determined bundle environment, and the configuration unit automatically generates a system configuration from the selected conventions and adds the generated system configuration to the application program, whereby the dependencies of the application program upon the resources are configured based on at least the automatically generated system configuration. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138826 | Changable Deployment Conditions - Methods and apparatuses receive a plurality of files including a software package having code to execute a program on a system with specific attributes, the software package to contain a list identifying specific system attributes required to execute the program. An installation process for the software package is initialized on a system with at least one system attribute that is compatible with the program but not identified by the list of system attributes in the software package, the installation process to identify the system attributes and configured to fail if the system attributes differ from the list in the software package. The installation process identifies an external list of system attributes from the plurality of files separate from the software package wherein the external list of attributes identifies the compatible attribute. The installation process is then executed based on the external list of system attributes. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138827 | HASHING STORAGE IMAGES OF A VIRTUAL MACHINE - Virtual machine images are transferred from a source storage location to a target storage location over a network. In one embodiment, a host at the source storage location computes signature values of a plurality of disk blocks that contain a plurality of virtual machine images. Each computed signature value corresponds to one of the disk blocks. A subset of the disk blocks, all of which have different signature values, is then transferred from the source storage location to the target storage location. Only one copy of duplicate disk blocks is transferred. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138828 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Virtualization of a Heterogeneous Processor Pool - A system for facilitating virtualization of a heterogeneous processor pool includes a processor allocation component and a hypervisor, each executing on a host computer. The processor allocation component identifies a plurality of physical processors available for computing and determines a set of flags, each of the set of flags identifying a type of functionality provided by each of a subset of the plurality of physical processors. The hypervisor, in communication with the processor allocation component, allocates, to at least one virtual machine, access to one of the subset of the plurality of physical processors. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138829 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Configuration of a Virtual Machine Running At Least One Process - A system for optimizing configuration of a virtual machine running at least one process includes at least one virtual resource in a virtual machine executing on a computing device, an agent executing within the virtual machine, and a hypervisor. The at least one virtual resource has a configuration parameter. The agent identifies a name of at least one process currently executing on the virtual machine. The hypervisor alters, in response to receiving the identified name from the agent, a value of the configuration parameter. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138830 | MULTITENANT HOSTED VIRTUAL MACHINE INFRASTRUCTURE - A multi-tenant virtual machine infrastructure (MTVMI) allows multiple tenants to independently access and use a plurality of virtual computing resources via the Internet. Within the MTVMI, different tenants may define unique configurations of virtual computing resources and unique rules to govern the use of the virtual computing resources. The MTVMI may be configured to provide valuable services for tenants and users associated with the tenants. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138831 | VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM, HYPERVISOR IN VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM, AND SCHEDULING METHOD IN VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM - Attempts are made to reduce the system overhead generated at the time of context save/restore processing to perform process switching in a virtual machine system. In a CPU occupancy mode that a physical CPU is exclusively allocated to virtual machines, a logical CPU process running on the physical CPU is static, so that it is not necessary to save/restore the context every time the processes are switched. When a switching source process is a logical CPU process in a CPU occupancy mode, a context save is temporarily suspended. When switching to the same logical CPU process is made again continuously, save/restore is skipped. When the logical CPU process of a VMM control VM runs in that period, the logical CPU process whose save is delayed is recorded and saved late. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138832 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICES USING A VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and method for providing services using a virtual operating system (OS). The apparatus classifies virtual resources into a plurality of mutually exclusive regions and manages the virtual resources based on the provides services regions. The plurality of provides services regions include a virtual region whose resources are stored in and used on an external storage, and an overlay region whose resources refer to host resources. The apparatus uses the region information for virtual resources and a list of resources accessed for each application process to manage the virtual resources. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138833 | RESOURCE COVERAGE AND ANALYSIS - User interfaces called by a target application can be quickly and efficiently identified and stored for future resource coverage analysis. User interfaces of the target application that are accessed by users executing the target application on their computing device can be automatically tracked during execution of the target application. Information gathered on user interfaces of a target application and accessed user interfaces of the target application can be employed to generate one or more reports. Generated reports on user interface usage can be used to, e.g., identify the application resources to localize, prioritize the application resources to localize, discern application resource trends for, e.g., maintenance and upgrade activities, detect unused application resources, and select appropriate application resources for test scenarios. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138834 | APPLICATION SWITCHING IN A SINGLE THREADED ARCHITECTURE FOR DEVICES - A method and system for launching multiple applications simultaneously on a device under the control of application switching framework so that the operating system is only running one task for all the applications is provided. A single task is run under the control of an operating system. An application manager is run within the task. One or more applications are launched within the task under the control of the application manager. One of the applications is made the current application by switching, under user control, among the launched applications. A list of application descriptors is maintained for all the launched applications, and when switching, the application descriptor of one of the applications is used for displaying the application to a user on a screen. Each application descriptor contains forms of the launched applications. Each of the application descriptors contains a tree of forms with one root or parent form. A form represents an image to be displayed to the user. The image consists of text, pictures, bitmaps, or menus. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138835 | Workflow information generation unit, method of generating workflow information, image processing apparatus, control program, and storage medium - A workflow information generation unit is used for constructing a workflow configured with a plurality of processes. Information of the processes is storable in a workflow information storage. The workflow information generation unit includes a process-designation information obtaining unit, an advance notice output unit, an implementation-determination information obtaining unit, a process information output unit, a result information output unit. The process-designation information obtaining unit obtains information designating a process to be included in the workflow. The advance notice output unit outputs advance notice information to notify that information of the designated process is to be stored in the workflow information storage. The implementation-determination information obtaining unit obtains implementation-determination information indicating whether the designated process is allowed to be included in the workflow. The process information output unit stores information of the designated process to the workflow information storage. The result information output unit outputs result information for the designated process. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138836 | System and Method for Reducing Serialization in Transactional Memory Using Gang Release of Blocked Threads - Transactional Lock Elision (TLE) may allow multiple threads to concurrently execute critical sections as speculative transactions. Transactions may abort due to various reasons. To avoid starvation, transactions may revert to execution using mutual exclusion when transactional execution fails. Because threads may revert to mutual exclusion in response to the mutual exclusion of other threads, a positive feedback loop may form in times of high congestion, causing a “lemming effect”. To regain the benefits of concurrent transactional execution, the system may allow one or more threads awaiting a given lock to be released from the wait queue and instead attempt transactional execution. A gang release may allow a subset of waiting threads to be released simultaneously. The subset may be chosen dependent on the number of waiting threads, historical abort relationships between threads, analysis of transactions of each thread, sensitivity of each thread to abort, and/or other thread-local or global criteria. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138837 | ENERGY BASED TIME SCHEDULER FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM - A system, computer readable medium and method for reducing an energy consumption in a parallel computing system that includes plural resources. The method includes receiving a computing job to be performed by the parallel computing system, determining a number of resources of the plural resources to be used for performing the computing job by searching a preset table stored in the parallel computing system, wherein the preset table is populated prior to determining the number of resources, and distributing the computing job to the determined number of resources. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138838 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING SCHEDULED TASK - A scheduled task executing method is used in a computer system and a peripheral device. The computer system has a time generator for generating time information and a memory. When the computer system is in a working state, a user input interface is provided, a scheduled time is set via the user input interface, and the scheduled time is automatically stored in the memory. When the computer system is in a power off state, electricity is continuously supplied to the time generator and the memory. If the time information and the scheduled time comply with a specified relation, a power control signal is generated. In response to the power control signal, the computer is switched from the power off state to the working state. When the computer system is in the working status, the peripheral device is activated to execute a scheduled task item corresponding to the scheduled time. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138839 | MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A multiprocessing system executes a plurality of processes concurrently. A process execution circuit ( | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING INPUT/OUTPUT ACCESS OPERATION ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE - A system and method for accelerating input/output (IO) access operation on a virtual machine, The method comprises providing a smart IO device that includes an unrestricted command queue (CQ) and a plurality of restricted CQs and allowing a guest domain to directly configure and control IO resources through a respective restricted CQ, the IO resources allocated to the guest domain. In preferred embodiments, the allocation of IO resources to each guest domain is performed by a privileged virtual switching element. In some embodiments, the smart IO device is a HCA and the privileged virtual switching element is a Hypervisor. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138841 | System and Method for Managing Contention in Transactional Memory Using Global Execution Data - Transactional Lock Elision (TLE) may allow threads in a multi-threaded system to concurrently execute critical sections as speculative transactions. Such speculative transactions may abort due to contention among threads. Systems and methods for managing contention among threads may increase overall performance by considering both local and global execution data in reducing, resolving, and/or mitigating such contention. Global data may include aggregated and/or derived data representing thread-local data of remote thread(s), including transactional abort history, abort causal history, resource consumption history, performance history, synchronization history, and/or transactional delay history. Local and/or global data may be used in determining the mode by which critical sections are executed, including TLE and mutual exclusion, and/or to inform concurrency throttling mechanisms. Local and/or global data may also be used in determining concurrency throttling parameters (e.g., delay intervals) used in delaying a thread when attempting to execute a transaction and/or when retrying a previously aborted transaction. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138842 | Multithreading And Concurrency Control For A Rule-Based Transaction Engine - The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products for rules-based processing. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include, for example, evaluating rules to determine whether to enable or disable one or more actions in a ready set of actions. Moreover, the method may include scheduling the ready set of actions, each of which is scheduled for execution and executed, the execution of each of the ready set of actions using a separate, concurrent thread, the concurrency of the actions controlled using a control mechanism. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138843 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING AN EVENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Stack-based system for handling an event in a computer system which has a kernel mode and a user-mode, concurrently by one or more user-mode applications. The systems comprise at least one computing device. The computing device is configured to suspend an occurrence of the event in the kernel-mode of an operating system running thereon. The computing device is also configured to cause the event to occur in the user-mode of the operating system. The computing device is further configured to determine if an occurrence of the event in the kernel-mode will compromise the computer system by analyzing the occurrence of the event in the user-mode. If it is determined that the occurrence of the event in the kernel-mode will compromise the computer system, then the computing device executes at least one security measure. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138844 | FLEXIBLE HIERARCHICAL SETTINGS REGISTRY FOR OPERATING SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include methods and systems provide a distributed settings registry with access protection definable by application developers. Distributed settings registry may be implemented across different technologies with customizable privileges and the dynamic ability to plug different nodes into the registry tree. The settings registry may exist under a registry interface so the applications invoking the registry need not be concerned with where or how the settings data is stored. Each node in the tree of the registry may define its own privilege requirements and storage technology. Nodes may be “native” (i.e., fully supported within the setting registry system software) or “non-native” (i.e., defined by developers for specific applications). | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138845 | STORAGE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A storage device includes a first loading tray to comprise a loading surface on which to abut a non-recording surface of said portable recording medium, a second loading tray to comprise a loading surface, parallel with the loading surface of said first loading tray, on which to abut a recording surface of said portable recording medium loaded in the way of being turned in the same direction as that of the recording surface of said portable recording medium loaded into said first loading tray, and an access unit disposed on the side of the recording surface to access the recording surface of said portable recording medium even in such a case that said portable recording medium is loaded into any one of said first loading tray and said second loading tray. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138846 | DISK DEVICE - A lifting frame has a lifting pin that fits into a lifting cam groove of a follower slider, and swings up and down about a rod near a disk slot. A holding member is swingably attached to front end of the lifting frame. This holding member supports a turntable unit for holding a disk. The holding member has a cam follower pin that fits into a swinging cam groove of a loading slider to raise and lower the holding member. When the lifting frame swings down from a read/write position to a lowered position, the holding member inclines from the lifting frame so as to place the turntable unit substantially parallel to a disk carrying direction. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138847 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk, and a disk conveying device which conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. The disk conveying device includes at least first through third disk conveying arm members which are pivotably mounted on the apparatus body and which can hold a periphery of the disk to convey the disk. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138848 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk, and a clamper supporting device for supporting a clamper which clamps the disk to the traverse unit. A disk conveying device conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. The disk conveying device includes a pair of first and second disk conveying arms which are pivotably attached to the apparatus body and holding a periphery of the disk to convey the disk. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138849 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes at least an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk, and a disk conveying device which conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. The control device includes a single control member for controlling conveyance of the disk by the disk conveying means, for centering of the disk relative to the traverse unit, and for clamping or unclamping the disk relative to a turn table of the traverse unit. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138850 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes a disk conveying device for conveying a disk between a disk loading/unloading slot of an apparatus body and a centering position of a traverse unit. The disk conveying device includes a pair of first and second disk guide arms which are pivotably disposed on the apparatus body and which can hold the periphery of the disk to convey the disk. Therefore, the disk storage medium processing apparatus can easily and flexibly conduct the control for conveyance of the disk no matter whether the disk has a small diameter or a large diameter, with keeping protection of the recording surface of the disk and can be formed more compactly. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138851 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes at least an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk, and a clamper supporting device for supporting a clamper which clamps the disk to the traverse unit. A disk conveying device conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from the state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE PRESENTATION OF INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING QUIZZES - A system and method for generating and presenting an interactive advertising quiz in conjunction with video media. The system generates an interactive advertising quiz having video content with one or more redacted elements. A redacted element may be, for example, a brand, logo, product, actor, or other identifier that is normally present in the video content. The system presents the interactive advertising quiz to a user and quizzes the user as to the identity of the missing element in the video content. The system receives the user's guess regarding the redacted element in the video content, and determines if the user's guess was correct. Correct guesses may result in incentives being awarded to the user. The interactive advertising content is shown in a post-roll position following online video content that has been shown to the user. The user may also challenge other users to play the interactive advertising quiz. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138853 | Receiving apparatus capable of receiving digital contents and commercial messages - A receiving apparatus comprises a recorder of the received digital contents and commercial messages. Commercial message retrieved from the recorder is interposed into a digital content or between a pair of digital contents in accordance with the type of commercial message. Interposition of commercial message is controlled by internal information, such as history of actually displaying the same commercial message, or history of skipping the same commercial message. The receiving apparatus controls the repetition time of displaying the same commercial message, or decision whether or not actually displaying a specific commercial message, or the order of displaying commercial messages. Skip of commercial message is prevented unless display has been repeated over a minimum requirement, or user agrees with a compensation for the skip. Repetition of the same commercial message ceases with skip repeated over a limit. Notice of interposing commercial message or of compensation for skip is made in advance. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138854 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RESTRICTION ON VIEWING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS - There are provided a method and a system for controlling restriction on viewing multimedia contents. In the control of viewing multimedia contents through a terminal, contents transmitted to the terminal are restricted on a network according to a predetermined restriction condition to provide contents based on the user of the terminal. When it is required to change the restriction condition, the restriction condition can be remotely set and changed using a network for a specific user. Accordingly, restriction on viewing contents according to the user can be effectively controlled and the restriction condition can be effectively administrated to provide additional services. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138855 | Video Service Blackout Events - A method is disclosed that includes receiving a command to blackout a full screen version of content at a component of a multimedia content distribution system. The method includes updating a first entry within a control matrix to reflect that the full screen version of the content is to be blacked out. The method also includes automatically updating a second entry within the control matrix to reflect that a picture-in-picture (PIP) version of the content is to be blacked out. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138856 | Content Exchange System - The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for providing more content choices to a user ( | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING DATA PACKETS - Integrated circuits ( | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138858 | DELAYING EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM MESSAGES - Methods and systems for delaying or dismissing emergency alert system (EAS) messages displayed within multimedia content, wherein user input is provided to temporarily delay for a user selectable or predetermined time period or to permanently dismiss EAS messages. Further user input may determine a snooze period during which the display of EAS messages is temporarily suspended. In some embodiments, EAS messages are automatically delayed until a commercial is displayed. In some embodiments, EAS messages are forwarded from a customer premises equipment device (e.g., a set-top box) to a user specified communication device (e.g., a mobile telephone or remote control device) while the presentation of a multimedia program continues. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138859 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed are an image processing apparatus which easily plays contents, a server and a control method of the same. The image processing apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with a server; a signal processor; and a controller which determines whether a received content is processed by the signal processor and controls the communication unit to transmit the received content to the server and receive a converted content from the server if it is determined that the received content is not processed by the signal processor. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138860 | Method and system for displaying a series of recordable events - A method and system for displaying identifiers for one or more series of recordable events is described. A system, such as the system of a digital video recorder, may receive a set of recordable events data, such as a listing of all television shows to be broadcast over a two-week period. The system analyzes the set of recordable events data for determining one or more sets of recordable events, where each set includes recordable events having the same title. The system analyzes each set of recordable events to determine sub-sets of recordable events based on relationships between the recordable events of each sub-set. The system displays an identifier for each sub-set of a given set of recordable events when the given set of recordable events is selected for display. A user may select to record a sub-set of recordable events by selecting the identifier that represents the sub-set. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138861 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PURCHASING BROADCAST PRODUCT THEREIN - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to receive broadcast content information, a display unit configured to display the received broadcast content information, an input unit configured to generate a selection signal indicating a selection of a broadcast product included in the displayed broadcast content information, a memory unit configured to store user-specific personal information, and a controller configured to extract broadcast product subscription information about the selected broadcast product from the broadcast content information, to extract user-specific personal purchase information for purchasing the broadcast product from the user-specific personal information stored in the memory unit of the mobile terminal, to create a message including the extracted broadcast product subscription information and the extracted user-specific personal information, and to control the wireless communication unit to transmit the created message using a messaging service to a server so as to make a request for a purchase of the selected broadcast product. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138862 | CHANNEL SELECTION METHOD, SYNTHESIS CODING DEVICE AND IPTV STB - A channel selection method for an interactive network television is provided in the present invention. The method comprises: simultaneously displaying images of each channel in a channel set on a screen according to the received media stream; each channel is presented in different areas of the screen in thumbnails; receiving a signal from a controller; if the signal is used for switching between pages, switching the channel set; if the signal is used for selecting a particular image in this channel set, switching to the channel represented by the image. An encoding method, a synthesis coding device and a set top box for the interactive network television are also provided in the present invention. The solution mentioned above helps accelerate switching in the conventional art. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138863 | CONVERTING, NAVIGATING AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CONTENT UPLOADED FROM THE INTERNET TO A DIGITAL TV VIDEO-ON-DEMAND PLATFORM - Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many, new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138864 | ENHANCED CHANNEL SURFING - When a viewer initiates channel surfing, a surfing guide is presented to the viewer. The surfing guide provides multiple channel regions, where each channel region is associated with a different channel that is available to the viewer. Each channel region will include a channel window in which an image or video content from the corresponding channel is displayed. When the surfing guide is being displayed to the viewer, the channel window in at least one of the channel regions will include video content, which is derived from a low bandwidth video stream for the associated channel. Each channel region may also have a channel information area in which textual information about the corresponding channel is provided to the viewer. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138865 | PRESENTING CONTENT - A method of presenting content to a viewer is described. The method includes: receiving a schedule of content at a client operable by the viewer, the schedule of content including a directed graph, the directed graph including a plurality of nodes, wherein each node in the plurality of nodes is connected to one or more other nodes in the plurality of nodes by one or more paths, wherein each path represents content presentable to the viewer; traversing the directed graph by following a route between nodes and along paths of the directed graph, wherein at each node the client determines a path to follow according to state information accessible by the client; and presenting content to the viewer as each path is followed. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138866 | METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING CONTENT INFORMATION AND DISPLAY SYSTEM ENABLING THE METHOD - A method for outputting content information and a display apparatus enabling the same are disclosed. The method for outputting contents information of a display apparatus includes identifying whether predetermined contents are series or single, generating a content information display object according to the result of the identification, and outputting the content information display object in a display screen, wherein a content information display object corresponding to the series contents is different from a content information display object corresponding to the single contents. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138867 | AUDIOVISUAL USER INTERFACE BASED ON LEARNED USER PREFERENCES - A method and apparatus for providing an audiovisual user interface based on learned user preferences is described. In one implementation, the method involves collecting a set of user preferences for a user; providing a metadata stream associated with an audiovisual input; comparing elements within the metadata stream with the set of user preferences to form a comparison; and outputting a message to the user if the comparison indicates that the metadata stream matches one or more elements of the set of user preferences. The message may be output either acoustically or visually, and may relate to the audiovisual input, which may be audio, video, or both audio and video. The audiovisual input may be blocked based on a restricted message, and may be accessed upon a successful password query. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138868 | CROSS-CHANNEL INTERSTITIAL PROGRAM PROMOTION - According to the invention, a method for generating a personalized menu promoting other video programs available from a video content delivery system is disclosed. The video content delivery system provides a plurality of channels of video content simultaneously. In one step, it is determined that a triggering event has occurred with a video content delivery conduit. First information about one or more users is gathered. The one or more users are associated with an account with the video content delivery system. Alternative video programs are determined and personalized for the one or more users based, at least in part, upon the first information. The context for the triggering event is analyzed to produce second information. A configuration of the personalized menu is determined based, at least in part, upon the second information. The personalized menu is formulated for presentment to the one or more users. The personalized menu comprises links to the alternative video programs | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138869 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC SERVICE GUIDE - A method for generating Electronic Service Guide, comprising steps of: obtaining user information from a user in a digital video broadcasting network; generating a first Electronic Service Guide as a function of the user information, wherein the first Electronic Service Guide lists services provided by the digital video broadcasting network and associated with the user information; and sending the first Electronic Service Guide to the user. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138870 | BROADCAST CLIP SCHEDULER - A scheduler schedules multimedia content files for transmission over a broadcast network. Multimedia content files can be any sort of audio/video clips like, sports video, music video, news clip, movie sound track etc. In particular, the scheduler determines a transmission order for content files as a function of a dynamic priority value, which is determined in accordance with at least a dissimilarity measure between the content files; wherein the dissimilarity measure of the media content files is further determined as a function of the clip meta data associated with each clip. Schedule timing information and meta data information is transmitted over a broadcast network along with the clips so that receivers can do selective reception of their preferred clips, saving battery power and storage. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138871 | BROADCAST CLIP SCHEDULER - A scheduler schedules multimedia content files for transmission over a broadcast network. Multimedia content files can be any sort of audio/video clips like, sports video, music video, news clip, movie sound track etc. In particular, the scheduler determines a transmission order for content files and generates an electronic service guide having a static part and a dynamic part such that content scheduled in the dynamic part may have a different transmission order in different versions of the electronic service guide. Schedule timing information and meta data information is transmitted over a broadcast network along with the clips so that receivers can do selective reception of their preferred clips, saving battery power and storage. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138872 | SERVICE GUIDE TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST SERVICE - Service guide transmission/reception methods and apparatuses for providing users with a service guide supporting multiplay service are provided. Service guide delivery information is received at a terminal. Device class grouping information is extracted from the Service guide delivery information. A Service Guide Data Unit (SGDU) having service guide information required for composing a service guide matched to the terminal is received. The service guide composed using the service guide information received by means of the SGDU is displayed. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138873 | RECEIVING DEVICE, SERVER, TELEVISION RECEIVER, MOBILE TERMINAL, SYSTEM, RECEIVING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A receiving device receives broadcast, information, etc. in response to a user selection by manipulation, in order to present the broadcast, information, etc. to the user. The device includes a channel set managing section ( | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138874 | Apparatus and system for interactive seat selection - Applicant has developed a novel apparatus and system allowing users to view seating configurations at performance and other venues (e.g., arenas, theaters, stadiums, etc) by presenting a video segment that shows the view of the stage from the selected seat or section, a view of the seat or section from the stage, and by providing a dynamic sense of the distance of the seat or section from the stage and in relation to others seats or sections. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROCESSING - A method and system for providing an electronic shopping environment including a server and one or more set-top boxes in communication with the server. In an exemplary embodiment, the server stores product information relating to a plurality of products classified in a first category and to a plurality of products classified in a second category. As soon the server receives transaction data relating to an electronic transaction, the server updates the product information to reflect the transaction data changes. If the updated data relates to one of the plurality of products classified in the first category, the server transmits product display information towards one or more set-top boxes in real-time. Alternatively, if the updated data relates to one of the plurality of products classified in the second category, the server transmits product display information towards one or more set-top boxes on a scheduled periodic basis. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138876 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO TRANSMIT MEDIA CONTENT - A system is disclosed that includes a receiving module to receive a request for media content from a mobile electronic device. The system also includes a broadcast module to transmit the requested media content to the mobile electronic device via a broadcast transmission over a first wireless network. The system also includes a unicast module to transmit the requested media content to the mobile electronic device via a unicast transmission over a second wireless network. The second wireless network is different from the first wireless network. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138877 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN A MOBILE/HANDHELD COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An ATSC DTV mobile transmitter synchronizes their transmission with other associated stations. An ATSC DTV mobile receiver checks if it is in an area of poor reception and, if so, checks an associated station list for determining if the same programming can be received from an associated station. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138878 | RECEIVER CIRCUIT OF SATELLITE DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCAST SYSTEM - A receiver circuit of a satellite digital video broadcast system includes: a multiplication unit outputting a synchronized reception symbol by multiplying a reception symbol by frequency error information as a feedback; a common autocorrelation unit acquiring autocorrelation values for each symbol by multiplying the synchronized reception symbol by an autocorrelation coefficient; a frame synchronization unit detecting a SOF (Start Of Frame), which is a synchronization word indicating start of a frame, from the autocorrelation values for each symbol; a frequency synchronization unit estimating the frequency error information based on the autocorrelation values for each reception symbol and the SOF; and an SNR estimation unit estimating an SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) based on the autocorrelation values for each symbol and the SOF. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138879 | Entertainment Systems Utilizing Field Replaceable Storage Units - Vehicular entertainment systems where devices in the systems can each utilize a common type of storage units are presented. A vehicular entertainment system can include a media server head unit in communication over a network with a plurality of media players that are installed about the cabin of a vehicle. Media content can be stored on a plurality of field replaceable storage units where each of the storage units can be installed in any one of the players or the server. Each of the storage units can store a substantially identical content set including passenger content, player content, server content, crew content, or other types of content. The server or players can be restricted from accessing content to which they lack rights, possibly based on a location identifier that indicates roles or responsibilities of the players at their installed location. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138880 | ETHERNET OVER COAXIAL COUPLING SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS - A device that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to provide low loss connectivity to a plurality of coaxial ports over a broadband range of frequencies in a coaxial network providing Ethernet networking, detune secondary coaxial splitters in the coaxial network that reduces an output-to-output isolation loss among secondary coaxial splitter output ports, and enable re-distribution of modulated radio frequency video signals from a point on the coaxial network to any alternative point on the coaxial network. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138881 | SMMD HOME SERVER AND METHOD FOR REALISTIC MEDIA REPRODUCTION - A single-media multi-devices (SMMD) home server includes a plurality of media decoding units decoding multi-channel AV media data divided from a realistic media content and reproducing the decoded multi-channel AV media data; a home server processor unit dividing the realistic media content into the multi-channel AV media data and effects data, feeding the divided multi-channel AV media data to the media decoding units, and generating effects control data corresponding to the divided effects data; and a gateway/Ethernet switch receiving the realistic media content through a network and forwarding the received realistic media content to the home server processor unit, and receiving the divided multi-channel AV media data from the home server processor unit and feeding the received multi-channel AV media data to the media decoding units through a switching function. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138882 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT - On-demand systems and methods are provided to manage locally-stored on-demand content. A user's equipment controls the deletion of and/or access to on-demand content from a local storage device based on constraining criteria that may include rental conditions, dynamic factors, and keys. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING CORRUPTED DIGITAL VIDEO TRANSPORT STREAMS - A digital video system, method, and computer program product for correcting corrupted digital video transport streams is described. The digital video system may include a digital cable, digital broadcast satellite (DBS), high definition television (HDTV), or video-on demand (VOD) system. In a VOD system, a VOD client at each receiver is capable of subscribing to one or more VOD sessions. The headend includes a video server and a control server that is coupled to the video server. The video server transmits one or more VOD sessions to one or more receivers over a transport stream. The control server can also cause the video server to transmit one or more dummy sessions to maintain a predetermined minimum bandwidth of content over the transport stream. Alternatively, the headend can transmit one or more null packets having a randomized payload, as necessary, to maintain a constant bit rate over the transport stream. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138884 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA CONTENT DELIVERY USING ENHANCED WIRELESS BACKCHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for granting access rights to specific media processing equipment. Such access rights may be provided to specific media processing equipment using an interactive wireless device as a backchannel. The interactive wireless device may be operative to retrieve, from an entitlement key source, an entitlement key corresponding to programming of interest and provide that entitlement key to the media processing equipment, thereby enabling the media processing equipment to access the programming of interest. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138885 | Prioritized Retransmission of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) Packets - A method and system for improved error resiliency in Internet protocol Television (IPTV) are provided. Received media stream is encoded in a real-time protocol. The RTP media stream is then reordered in a homogeneous arrangement (e.g., video packets together, audio packets together) such that each RTP packet, which contains video contains data from a single video frame. Furthermore, each RTP packet contains a RTP header extension, which specifies the priority of the data. Audio frame and intra-coded frames (I-frames) are marked as highest priority frames, predictably coded frames (P-frames) are marked as high priority frames, bidirectionally coded frames (B-frames) are marked as lower priority frames with anything else occupying the lowest priority. The media stream is forwarded to the plurality of users, in accordance with the priority of each packet. A subscriber's device requests retransmission of any missing packets. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING THE ZAPPING TIME - The present invention concerns a system and a method for zapping in a video receiver and in a video server. The zapping method comprises, in a video receiver, the reception steps of a zapping command to a new program, registration for the reception of a first stream comprising the new programme and a second stream comprising the same programme as the first stream, the second stream being suitable to be processed more rapidly than the first stream by the receiver, reception of the first stream and of the second stream, the second stream being received delayed in respect of the first stream memorization of the first stream during a longer period than the memorization of the second stream, display of the second stream, then display of the first stream in the continuity of the second stream. | 2010-06-03 |
| 20100138887 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - On a reception side, display processing and the like is easily performed in synchronization with content data. A cam coder transmits reproduction content data to a television set through a TMDS line of an HDMI cable. The cam coder transmits processing information used to perform the display processing in synchronization with the reproduction content data to the television set through a bidirectional communication path included in the cable before the reproduction content data is transmitted. Index information is added to the processing information for each unit of processing. Index information corresponding to the index information added to the processing information is added to the reproduction content data at a timing when the processing information of each unit of processing is processed. The television set superposes information on a shooting location, a date and time, and the like on an image in accordance with the processing information corresponding to the index information at a timing when the index information is added to the received content data. | 2010-06-03 |
