28th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120179986 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE A WIZARD APPLICATION - Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to generate a wizard application are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes storing a graphical user interface input by a user for the wizard application in a file, storing a definition of an action input by the user to be performed by the wizard application in the file, and transferring the file and an engine to a user's computer, the file to be used by the engine to execute the wizard application, and the engine to, in response to an input from a user of the engine, convert the graphical user interface to at least one of a command line interface, a webpage interface, or an interface that reads user input from a file. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179987 | Computationally Efficient System for Developing Configurable, Extensible Gul for Database Centric Enterprise Business Applications - The present invention provides a computationally efficient system and method for developing extensible and configurable Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for Database-centric Business application Product Lines using model driven techniques and also reduce the cost as well as time for creating new GUIs for Database-centric Business application Product Lines that enables effective maintenance and smooth evolution using model driven technique. The invention provides modeling of commonality and variability of GUI thus leading to a single GUI for Database-centric Business application Product Lines. The invention enables a model-based solution to address extensibility and configurability of both structural and behavioral aspects in a GUI of Database-centric Business application Product Lines and it also support to realize variations at runtime in the presentation layer by using the variable fields which can check the configuration data from a configuration database and decide whether to render itself or not. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING ICON THROUGH GROUPING - A method for selecting an icon through grouping, according to an exemplary embodiment, includes grouping a plurality of displayed icons into a plurality of groups according to a user's selection, allocating a different key of a plurality of keys on a remote controller to each one of the plurality of groups according to the user's selection, receiving a user's key selection signal corresponding to one of the plurality of keys which corresponds to one of the plurality of groups, moving a selection area from a current icon to a focus icon of a group including an icon desired by the user according to the user's key selection signal, moving the selection area from the focus icon to the desired icon according to an input of at least one direction key on the remote controller and selecting the desired icon. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179989 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INDOOR ENVIRONMENT CONDITION INFORMATION AND DEVICE THEREOF - It is provided a method for displaying indoor environment condition information including: receiving a request from a user; and displaying, in response to the request, in a first window a graphical user interface which is adapted to present action areas and display areas; wherein the action areas are adapted to set control conditions of the indoor environment condition information in response to a command from the user, and the display areas are adapted to display the indoor environment condition information corresponding to the control conditions. A device for displaying indoor environment condition information is also provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179990 | Capturing and Visualizing Data Lineage in Content Management System - Techniques are disclosed for capturing and visualizing data lineage in content management systems. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A plurality of data sets is received. Each of the data sets is associated with a party and comprises a plurality of information. A set of lineage data about one or more of the data sets is received. The lineage data comprises information about the history of a particular data set. A user interface is presented that conveys a representation of one or more of the plurality of received data sets and at least a portion of the lineage data about the history of one or more of the data sets. A command is received at the user interface to merge or unmerge two data sets in the plurality of data sets. Two or more data sets in the plurality of data sets are merged or unmerged based on the received command. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179991 | PROJECTING PROJECT OUTCOME - Apparatus has at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored thereon which when executed controls the at least one processor to perform a method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI); allowing a user to define, through the GUI, a project at least in terms of plural initiative components, plural outcome components, and interrelationships between the initiative components and the outcome components; allowing the user to define, through the GUI, two or more quality components for each initiative component, each quality component comprising a performance level and resource costs associated with achieving the performance level; allowing the user to define, through the GUI, plural parameters associated with the project, the parameters including performance levels and resource costs for each of at least two quality components; allowing the user to allocate, through the GUI, resources to each of the initiative components; providing a projected measure of project outcome based on the allocated resources; allowing the user to alter, through the GUI, the resources allocated to the initiative components; and providing revised projected measure of project outcome based on the altered resource allocations. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179992 | Chromeless User Interface - Techniques are described to implement a user interface for a display of a mobile device. In an implementation, the user interface may include a chromeless menu configured to be displayed when menu-based user input to the mobile device is available; a system tray configured to be displayed on the display when a notice containing status information affecting operability of the mobile device is available; and a task switcher module operable to cause a chromeless overlay be displayed over an active application being executed by the mobile device to allow selection of one or more applications of the mobile device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179993 | User Interface for Displaying a Gallery of Formatting Options Applicable to a Selected Object - An improved user interface is provided for displaying a gallery of images showing different formatting options combinations that may be applied to a selected object. When a particular image is selected an associated formatting options combination is automatically applied to the selected object. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179994 | METHOD FOR MANIPULATING A TOOLBAR ON AN INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM EXECUTING THE METHOD - A method comprises receiving input; and when said input is associated with a command to transpose a graphical user interface (GUI) element comprising a plurality of sub-elements that is positioned on a display surface, transposing at least one of said sub-elements. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179995 | IMAGE LAYOUT ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A computer implemented method of making an image product comprising the steps of providing a graphic user interface for digitally displaying an image product containing two or more digital images, selecting one of the two or more digital images in the displayed image product via the graphic user interface, selectively digitally increasing or decreasing a size of the selected one of the digital images with respect to at least one other of the digital images using a single user action. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179996 | Flower Look Interface - A user interface includes menu items arranged in a flower-like configuration. A number of menu items are peripherally arranged around a central item and mapped to selectable elements of an input device. Then, a display image including the menu is transmitted to a display. Subsequently, in response to a received selection, a corresponding action may be performed such as execution of a task, modification of the display image, and so on. In certain implementations, the menu items may be selected utilizing a cursor. The menu items may include a smaller portion located closer to the central item and a larger portion located further away. In still other implementations, the menu may also include a number of menu items that are not peripherally arranged around the central item. In response to a received selection, the menu items which are peripherally arranged around the central item may be altered. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179997 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a display control unit, including a processor, configured to control a display to display a plurality of objects and receive a selection of one of the plurality of objects by a user as a selected object. The display control unit is configured to control the display to move the selected object when a move command is received from the user. The display control unit is configured to control the display to group additionally selected objects with the selected object when additional objects are selected by the user and a group command is received from the user. The display control unit is configured to control the display to independently move the additionally selected objects with respect to the selected object until the additionally selected objects are grouped with the selected object. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179998 | TOUCH SCREEN USER INTERFACES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying touch screen user interfaces. In one aspect, an electronic device includes one or more data processing devices and a touch screen coupled to the one or more data processing devices to display a user interface under the direction thereof. The user interface includes a first icon representing a relatively broad aspect of the functionality provided by the device, and a collection of three or more icons each representing a different, relatively narrower aspect of the functionality provided by the device. The aspects represented by the three or more icons in the collection are encompassed within the aspect represented by the first icon, the three or more icons arranged generally around the first icon on the touch screen. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179999 | TOUCH SCREEN USER INTERFACES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying touch screen user interfaces. In one aspect, an electronic device includes one or more data processing devices and a touch screen coupled to the one or more data processing devices to display a user interface under the direction thereof. The user interface includes a first icon representing a relatively broad aspect of the functionality provided by the device, and a collection of three or more icons each representing a different, relatively narrower aspect of the functionality provided by the device. The aspects represented by the three or more icons in the collection are encompassed within the aspect represented by the first icon, the three or more icons arranged generally around the first icon on the touch screen. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OPERATING INTERFACE - A method and a system for simulating a three-dimensional (3D) operating interface are provided. The method includes defining a partition line to partition a display frame of a screen into a first area and a second area, and defining a size of a unit grid to establish a first grid plane and a second grid plane in the first area and the second area respectively, the first grid plane and the second grid plane forming a simulated 3D grid space. The method also includes taking the unit grid as a unit to define an object size and an initial grid coordinate of an object. The initial grid coordinate is on one of the first and the second grid planes. The method further includes mapping out a simulated 3D space in the simulated 3D grid space for displaying the object according to the initial grid coordinate and the object size. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180001 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A method includes detecting a gesture associated with an edge of a display, determining an element associated with the edge, and opening the element. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180002 | NATURAL INPUT FOR SPREADSHEET ACTIONS - Different gestures and actions are used to interact with spreadsheets. The gestures are used in manipulating the spreadsheet and performing other actions in the spreadsheet. For example, gestures may be used to move within the spreadsheet, select data, filter, sort, drill down/up, zoom, split rows/columns, perform undo/redo actions, and the like. Sensors that are associated with a device may also be used in interacting with spreadsheets. For example, an accelerometer may be used for moving and performing operations within the spreadsheet. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180003 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TERMINAL DEVICE EACH HAVING TOUCH PANEL - MFP as an image forming apparatus includes a touch panel, a controller connected to the touch panel, a memory for storing a data file, and a communication device for communicating with another device. Continuously after two contacts are made on the touch panel, when a gesture of moving the two contacts in a direction that a spacing therebetween is decreased and then releasing the two contacts after being moved is detected, the controller identifies a file presented by an icon displayed in an area defined by the two contacts at least either of before and after being moved, as a file to be transferred, and transfers the file to be transferred to the other device in response to a request to transfer a file from the other device received by the communication device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180004 | Circuit Design Methods for Quantum Separator (QS) and Systems to Use Its Output - The underlying dynamics (∂ | 2012-07-12 |
20120180005 | LAYOUT METHOD FOR SOFT-ERROR HARD ELECTRONICS, AND RADIATION HARDENED LOGIC CELL - This invention comprises a layout method to effectively protect logic circuits against soft errors (non-destructive errors) and circuit cells, with layout, which are protected against soft errors. In particular, the method protects against cases where multiple nodes in circuit are affected by a single event. These events lead to multiple errors in the circuit, and while several methods exist to deal with single node errors, multiple node errors are very hard to deal with using any currently existing protection methods. The method is particularly useful for CMOS based logic circuits in modem technologies (.ltoreq.90 nm), where the occurrence of multiple node pulses becomes high (due to the high integration level). It uses a unique layout configuration, which makes the circuits protected against single event generated soft-errors. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180006 | GENERATING CUT MASK FOR DOUBLE-PATTERNING PROCESS - Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method of designing a photomask. In one embodiment, the method comprises: simulating a first photomask patterning process using a first photomask design to create simulated contours; comparing the simulated contours to a desired design; identifying regions not common to the simulated contours and the desired design; creating desired target shapes for a second photomask patterning process subsequent to the first photomask patterning process based upon the identified regions; and providing the desired target shapes for forming of a second photomask design based upon the desired target shapes. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180007 | REPLACING SINGLE-CUT VIA INTO MULTI-CUT VIA IN SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN - According an aspect of the invention, there is provided a design support system of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first unit configured to determine a wiring path by calculating wiring resource consuming information for carrying out a connection through a multi-cut via in case that the connection is carried out through the multi-cut via in a wiring region having a plurality of layers; and a second unit configured to replacing a single-cut via into the multi-cut via. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180008 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PROTECTION POWER SUPPLY CLAMP CIRCUIT - Electronic component protection power supply clamp circuits comprising a plurality of p-type channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) and n-type channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistors are described. These clamp circuits use a feedback latching circuit to retain an electrostatic discharge (ESD)-triggered state and efficiently conduct ESD current that has been diverted into the power supply, in order to dissipate ESD energy. The feedback latching circuit also maintains a clamp transistor in its off state if the clamp circuit powers up untriggered, thus enhancing the clamp circuit's immunity to noise during normal operation. Passive resistance initialization of key nodes to an untriggered state, as well as passive resistance gate input loading of a large ESD clamping transistor, further enhances the clamp circuit's immunity to false triggering. This also lengthens the time that the clamp circuit remains in the ESD-triggered state during human body model (HBM) or other long duration detected ESD events. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180009 | Automated Pad Ring Generation for Programmable Logic Device Implementation of Integrated Circuit Design - In an embodiment, a method to automatically generate a pad ring for a programmable logic device implementation of an integrated circuit is contemplated. The pad ring that will be used in the integrated circuit itself may include pad logic (e.g. to support boundary scan and other forms of testing), custom driver/receiver circuitry, etc. The pad ring in the programmable logic device, on the other hand, may be predetermined as part of the production of the programmable logic device. The generation may include removing the pad logic and other pad-related circuitry from one or more design files that represent the integrated circuit, as well as mapping the input, output, and input/output signals of the integrated circuit to the available programmable logic device pads. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180010 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A DEVICE USING LOW TEMPERATURE ANNEAL PROCESSES, A DEVICE AND DESIGN STRUCTURE - A method of fabricating a device using a sequence of annealing processes is provided. More particularly, a logic NFET device fabricated using a low temperature anneal to eliminate dislocation defects, method of fabricating the NFET device and design structure is shown and described. The method includes forming a stress liner over a gate structure and subjecting the gate structure and stress liner to a low temperature anneal process to form a stacking force in single crystalline silicon near the gate structure as a way to memorized the stress effort. The method further includes stripping the stress liner from the gate structure and performing an activation anneal at high temperature on device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180011 | Register Transfer Level Design Compilation Advisor - Techniques and tool for selecting compilation parameter values for compiling a first description of a circuit design, such as a register transfer language description, into a second description of the design, such as a model description for implementation with an emulator are provided. According to various examples of the invention, a compilation tool “elaborates” a first description of a circuit design into a third description for a circuit design. Typically, the third description or “elaboration” will cross one or more hierarchical boundaries represented in the first description of the design, so that the elaboration will represent at least a portion of two or more hierarchical modules in the first description design according to a non-hierarchical or “flat” manner. Also, with some implementations of the invention, the elaboration may include only a simple representation of the corresponding portion of the circuit design. For example, if the first description will be implemented on an emulator, then the elaboration may describe the primitive components that will be used for the emulation model, along with the interconnections between the primitive components. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180012 | RESET MECHANISM CONVERSION - Methods, circuits, and systems for converting reset mechanisms in a synchronous circuit design into a corresponding asynchronous representation are described. These may operate to convert synchronous state holding blocks that include reset signals to corresponding asynchronous dataflow logic blocks. A replicated reset token at a fraction of the operational frequency of the reset signal may be distributed to the locations of the asynchronous dataflow logic blocks. Additional methods, circuits, and systems are disclosed. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180013 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FOR A CIRCUIT DESIGN - The present disclosure is directed to a method for extracting information for a circuit design. The method includes establishing a reflexive relationship between a plurality of design shapes corresponding to a plurality of circuit components in the circuit design. The method includes receiving a design change for at least one design shape of the plurality of design shapes. The method includes identifying a set of changed shapes, a set of affected shapes, and a set of involved shapes. The method includes extracting at least one of a capacitance, an inductance or a resistance for the updated circuit design based on at least one of the set of changed shapes, the set of affected shapes and the set of involved shapes. The method includes updating the plurality of circuit components in the circuit design based on at least one of the set of changed shapes and the set of affected shapes. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180014 | METHOD OF CONTEXT-SENSITIVE, TRANS-REFLEXIVE INCREMENTAL DESIGN RULE CHECKING AND ITS APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method to perform context-sensitive incremental design rule checking (DRC) for an integrated circuit (IC). An incremental DRC engine checks design rule violations between a set of environment shapes and a set of active shapes. If no design rule violations are found, the set of active shapes will be added into the set of environment shapes. Furthermore, the incremental DRC engine can be embedded into placement tools, routing tools, or interactive layout editing tools to check design rule violations and help generate DRC error free layouts. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METASTABILITY VERIFICATION OF CIRCUITS OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A method and system for metastability verification of an integrated circuit design are provided. An IC design is received and the source-to-destination paths of the IC design are determined. For each of the determined source-to-destination paths, it is determined whether the corresponding source is synchronized. For each source its respective synchronized or unsynchronized result is stored and a report is generated for each source describing whether it is synchronized or unsynchronized. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180016 | Standard Cell Architecture Using Double Poly Patterning for Multi VT Devices - An apparatus fabricated using a standard cell architecture including devices having different voltage thresholds may include a first set of polylines associated with a first channel length, where each polyline within the first set of polylines is separated by a substantially constant pitch. The apparatus may further include a second set of polylines associated with a second channel length and aligned with the first set of polylines, where each polyline within the second set of polylines is laterally separated by the substantially constant pitch. The apparatus may further include a first active region below the first set of polylines, and a second active region below the second set of polylines, where the first active region and the second active region are separated by a distance of less than 170 nm. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180017 | ROUTING G-BASED PIN PLACEMENT - A method for routing-based pin placement is provided and includes receiving a logical description of a macro of a partitioned circuit with connectivity information and a physical outline, generating an abstracted shape as an abstraction of a generic shape of a pin for providing a connection to the macro in accordance with the connectivity information as a shape conforming to dimensions of the macro, providing a routing tool with freedom to route a net for connection to the pin toward any part of the abstracted shape of the pin to create a routed net and identifying a location where the routed net crosses the physical outline as a chosen location for the pin. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180018 | Increasing Dielectric Strength by Optimizing Dummy Metal Distribution - A method includes providing a wafer representation including a metal layer and a plurality of bump pads over the metal layer, wherein the metal layer includes directly-under-bump-pad regions. A solid metal pattern is inserted into the metal layer, wherein the solid metal pattern includes first parts in the directly-under-bump-pad regions and second parts outside the directly-under-bump-pad regions. Portions of the second parts of the solid metal pattern are removed, wherein substantially no portions of the first parts of the solid metal pattern are removed. The remaining portions of the solid metal pattern not removed during the step of removing form dummy metal patterns. The dummy metal patterns and the plurality of bump pads are implemented in a semiconductor wafer. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING, USING AND EVALUATING MANUFACTURING DATA - A computer implemented method for evaluating quality control data of a product manufactured by a partially automated manufacturing process. In the method, a database is generated which includes design specifications for the product. Manufacturing data generated from inspection of the product at each stage of the partially automated process is then received. The manufacturing data is then compared with the design specifications to determine whether the manufacturing data meets the design specifications. In one embodiment, the product is an induction coil used in electric motors. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180020 | PWB Voltage and/or Current Calculation and Verification - Disclosed is a layout tool that verifies the operability of a printed circuit board design. Electrical parameters may be calculated for wire traces that are laid out for a given design. Based on the voltage drop calculations and the voltage and current requirement of the various system components, the layout tool may determine if a given system component will remain within its required operating range. The layout tool may additionally be operable to verify proper spacing between traces that make up a differential signal and to verify that certain pins of integrated circuit are properly connected. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180021 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THROTTLING CALLS TO A SERVICE APPLICATION THROUGH AN OPEN API - A method and system for throttling a volume of request messages to a service application stored within a service provider (SP) computer system through an open application programming interface (API) platform is provided. The SP computer system is in communication with a memory device. The method includes storing a throttling profile for a developer application within the memory device wherein the throttling profile includes at least a throttling amount threshold and a throttling time period, receiving at the API platform a request message initiated by the developer application wherein the request message is included within a volume of request messages initiated by the developer application, identifying the request message as being associated with the developer application, retrieving the throttling profile for the developer application, and validating the volume of request messages as complying with the throttling profile. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180022 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN API REQUEST MESSAGE - A method and system for generating an API request message for an API service application is provided. The API service application is stored within a service owner (SO) computer device and includes a memory device for storing data and a service provider (SP) computer system that includes a processor and an open application programming interface (API) platform. The SP computer system in communication with the memory device and the SO computer device. The SP computer system is programmed to receive from a developer a plurality of selections of parameters defining an API service request, generate an API request message for a specific API service using the received parameter selections, the API request message including the received parameter selections in a predetermined format required by the specific API service, generate a response to the generated API request message, and display the generated API request message and response on a single webpage. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180023 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes plural module creating units, plural wrapper creating units, an extracting unit, a calling unit, and an argument processing unit. The module creating units create processing modules that are obtained by instantiating different types of image processing classes by using functions. The wrapper creating units create wrappers that call the module creating units and that pass arguments specified in a pointer form to the module creating units. The extracting unit extracts, from image processing information, class names of the image processing classes corresponding to the individual processing modules and the arguments unique to the image processing classes. The calling unit converts the extracted class names and calls the wrapper creating units to which the converted class names are given. The argument processing unit stores the extracted arguments in an array, specifies an initial address of the array, and passes the initial address to the created wrappers. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180024 | SYNCHRONIZING DEVELOPMENT CODE AND DEPLOYED EXECUTABLE VERSIONING WITHIN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - The disclosure provides a solution for associating deployed executables with source code. In the solution, source code of a development environment can be mapped to a deployed executable of a runtime environment. The mapping can ensure that a version of source code from which the deployed executable was produced is always known. The mapping can occur within digitally encoded data stored in a non-transient storage medium. The development environment and the runtime environment can be two distinct and separate computing environments that are isolated from each other. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180025 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING STATICALLY-TYPED PROXIES FOR DYNAMICALLY-TYPED FUNCTIONS - Embodiments of the present application may simplify an integration of statically typed and dynamically typed languages by automatically generating an implementation of a statically typed native interface for a given set of dynamically typed functions. In an embodiment, functions in a dynamically typed language are automatically interconnected with functions in a statically typed language. Code that bridges and/or connects a statically typed interface and a dynamically typed interface embodied in the dynamically typed source code may be automatically generated. The statically typed interface may be provided by a user. Further, an extensible set of runtime rules that determine how to convert between statically typed and dynamically typed data may be provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING INITIALIZATION PARAMETERS FOR APPLICATION SOFTWARE FROM WITHIN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - A computer implemented method for updating initialization parameters for application software from within a software development environment. The method involves changing a value of at least one initialization parameter contained in a configuration file of a developer computer system. The method also involves starting application software deployed on an application server in response to the value change. Thereafter, the configuration file including the changed value of the initialization parameter is communicated from the developer computer system to the application server. Once the configuration file is received at the application server, the application software is initialized using the configuration file. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180027 | SOFTWARE VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR USE WITH THE METHOD - It is described a software verification system and a method for determining anew, upon detection that key characteristics fail an acceptance criteria test, key characteristics and acceptance criteria thereof required for an ensuing verification procedure, so as to perform a spiral verification procedure. Thus, the system and method overcome drawbacks of conventional verification solutions, improve consistency in requirements for budgets and schedules of a verification project, optimize use of resources, maintain the quality of software verification services, enhance the quality of key-controlled services and products, and increase the chance of performing the project successfully. A computer-readable medium for use with the method is further provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180028 | SETTING PROGRAM, WORKFLOW CREATING METHOD, AND WORK FLOW CREATING APPARATUS - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a procedure, the procedure includes acquiring a state from each of a plurality of components of a first server device group before and after execution of an execution control process in which the first server device group is caused to execute processes, the components being hardware or software and whose dependencies are previously defined, and storing, in a storage unit, information in which a component whose state is different before and after the execution of the execution control process is associated with the execution control process. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180029 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROGRAMMED APPLICATIONS IN AN OPEN API ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for an open API dashboard system for monitoring and managing one or more developer programmed applications configured to use one or more services provided by a service owner are provided. The system includes an application area associated with a corresponding programmed application, each application area including a call metrics group configured to display summarized metrics, a services used group configured to display a listing of each service called by the programmed application and metrics associated with each service, and a key management group configured to prompt a developer of the programmed application to request or revoke a key, wherein the key includes a developer identification, a programmed application identification, and signed certificates relating to services used by the programmed application. The system also includes a side bar area configured to prompt a developer to request information or help relating to the application area. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY CHOOSING A PROCESSING ELEMENT FOR A COMPUTE KERNEL - A runtime system implemented in accordance with the present invention provides an application platform for parallel-processing computer systems. Such a runtime system enables users to leverage the computational power of parallel-processing computer systems to accelerate/optimize numeric and array-intensive computations in their application programs. This enables greatly increased performance of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180031 | Data Parallel Function Call for Determining if Called Routine is Data Parallel - Mechanisms for performing data parallel function calls in code during runtime are provided. These mechanisms may operate to execute, in the processor, a portion of code having a data parallel function call to a target portion of code. The mechanisms may further operate to determine, at runtime by the processor, whether the target portion of code is a data parallel portion of code or a scalar portion of code and determine whether the calling code is data parallel code or scalar code. Moreover, the mechanisms may operate to execute the target portion of code based on the determination of whether the target portion of code is a data parallel portion of code or a scalar portion of code, and the determination of whether the calling code is data parallel code or scalar code. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180032 | Implementing Portable Content Protection to Secure Secrets - A source-level compiler may randomly select compilation conventions to implement portable content protection, securing, the secrets embedded in a program by shuffling associated data. The program may be developed using a source language that is applicative on the associated data. To obscure the embedded secrets, in one embodiment, pre-compiler software may be deployed for compiling the program in a random-execution-order based on a random seed indication that randomly selects compilation conventions and a shuffling algorithm that moves the associated data across the program during execution. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180033 | System and Methodology for Autonomous, Value-Centric, Architectural, Software Programming - A system and methodology that allows the lay public to create, edit, and execute complex software programs by implementing a fundamentally new definition of a software program and creating a programming environment that that leverages the existing knowledge of information manipulation that the vast majority of publicly-educated persons possess. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180034 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Prior to performing download play, it is checked whether or not it is necessary to update firmware of a slave apparatus. When it is necessary to update the firmware of the slave apparatus, a firmware update program is transmitted from a master apparatus to the slave apparatus, and the firmware of the slave apparatus is updated in accordance with the firmware update program. Thus, it is possible to update basic software by a novel method. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180035 | Porting Virtual Images Between Platforms - In an embodiment, an approach is provided that differences a source topology model associated with a source platform and a target topology model associated with a target platform. This differencing is performed by a processor and results in a topology difference. An operation in a workflow model is obtained from an asset library, the operation being associated with the topology difference. At least a portion of the asset library is stored in a persistent storage medium. The operation to deploy a portion of a solution is transmitted for deployment. The deployed portion of the solution includes a target image compatible with the target platform. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180036 | CUSTOMIZATION OF MOBILE-APPLICATION DELIVERY - A technique for facilitating customization of a software application is described. During this customization technique, an indicator, which indicates that a software application for an electronic device has been discovered by a user, is provided to a publisher of the software application. In response to the indicator, the publisher provides a token to the user. This token identifies a customized application-delivery service for the software application and/or a user-specific customization of the software application. Note that the customized application-delivery service and the user-specific customization are based on information about the user associated with the user's pre-existing or just-established relationship with the publisher. Next, the token is provided to an application-delivery service, and the application-delivery service provides the customized software application to the electronic device or a computer, for example, using the customized application-delivery service. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180037 | INTELLIGENT PATCH CHECKER - A client computer sends application information about a software application to a server system. The server system performs a comparison between the application information about the software application and the most-updated upgrade package for the software application. The most-updated upgrade package for the software application is stored in a part database. The most-updated upgrade package for the software application is received by the client system automatically when the comparison indicates that the most-updated upgrade package has not been installed on the client system. A client database stores a plurality of configuration files for a plurality of client systems. A first configuration file provides the sever system with the knowledge of the software applications installed on the client system. The application information about the software application comprises version information of the software applications and is stored in a database in the client system. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180038 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPGRADING FIRMWARE OF A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a microcontroller and a plurality of firmware. The microcontroller determines which firmware to be upgraded according an update code of an update request received by a radio frequency device of the PCB. If the microcontroller is in an update mode, the server sends an update file of the determined firmware to the microcontroller. The microcontroller upgrades the determined firmware according to the update file. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180039 | Automated Deployment of Applications with Tenant-Isolation Requirements - An embodiment of the invention provides a method for multi-tenant enabling a service, where the service includes a plurality of service components. Rules are received from a provider of the service, wherein the rules include rules for isolating the service components and rules for sharing the service components. The service components are matched with virtualization environments and/or physical environments based on the rules. The virtualization environments include at least one isolation container and/or at least one shared container. The service components are stored in the virtualization environments and/or the physical environments based on the matching. The service components are mapped to the at least one isolation container of the virtualization environments, the at least one shared container of the virtualization environments, and/or the physical environments based on the storing of the service components. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180040 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONALIZING FEED CONTENT IN VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A technique for personalizing feed content in virtualized computing environments includes accessing, using a data processing system, metadata associated with a virtual machine instance that is stored in a database. The technique also includes prioritizing, using the data processing system, feed content delivered to a client associated with the virtual machine instance based on the metadata. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180041 | TECHNIQUES FOR DYNAMICALLY DISCOVERING AND ADAPTING RESOURCE AND RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION IN VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A technique for dynamically discovering and adapting resource and relationship information in virtualized computing environments including receiving, by a discovery manager, a discovery request for a virtual machine image that was created within a virtualized computing environment. The technique also includes using the discovery manager to discover resource and relationship information for the virtual machine image in response to the discovery request. The technique also includes invalidating, using the discovery manager, the resource and relationship information in response to receipt of an invalidate request for the virtual machine image. The resource and relationship information is then stored in a database using the discovery manager. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180042 | Mechanism for Memory State Restoration of Virtual Machine (VM)-Controlled Peripherals at a Destination Host Machine During Migration of the VM - A mechanism for memory change tracking during migration of a virtual machine (VM) with VM-controlled assigned peripherals is disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a state of a VM-controlled peripheral device running on a destination host machine from an origin host machine, wherein the VM is executed by a hypervisor of the destination host machine, providing the received state of the peripheral device to at least one of the VM, a memory of the VM, or the peripheral device in order to cause the peripheral device to be restored to that state on the destination host machine, and interacting with the VM in order to cause the VM to start the peripheral device in the restored state. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180043 | Mechanism for Memory State Transfer of Virtual Machine-Controlled Peripherals During Migration of the Virtual Machine - A mechanism for memory change tracking during migration of a virtual machine (VM) with VM-controlled assigned peripherals is disclosed. A method of the invention includes interacting with a VM executed by a hypervisor of a origin host machine in order to cause the VM to prevent a state of a peripheral device controlled by the VM from changing, receiving the state of the peripheral device from at least one of the VM, a memory of the VM, or the peripheral device, and transferring the obtained state of the peripheral device to a destination host machine as part of a migration process of the VM. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180044 | Communications Between Virtual Machines That Have Been Migrated - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing communications between a plurality of applications are presented. A determination is made as to whether an address in a message is a prior address for a second application in the plurality of applications in response to receiving a message from a first application in the plurality of applications. The message is sent onto a virtual network configured to handle prior addresses for the plurality of applications in response to the address in the message being the prior address for the second application being located on another virtual machine from the first application. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180045 | DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR RUNNING AN IMAGE - Aspects of the present invention provide an approach that evaluates a locally running image (e.g., such as that for a virtual machine (VM)) and determines if that image could run more efficiently and/or more effectively in an alternate computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). Specifically, embodiments of the present invention evaluate the local (existing/target) image's actual and perceived performance, as well as the anticipated/potential performance if the image were to be migrated to an alternate environment. The anticipated/potential performance can be measured based on another image that is similar to the existing/target image but where that image is running in a different computing environment. Regardless, the system would display a recommendation to the end user if it were determined that the image could perform better in the alternate environment (or vice versa). It is understood that performance is just one illustrative metric for which the system would perform a comparison. Other metrics such as cost, reliability, availability, etc. could also be used. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180046 | ADJUNCT PARTITION WORK SCHEDULING WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE ATTRIBUTES - Operating system-directed workload scheduling of an adjunct partition in a logically partitioned computer is selectively overridden to handle platform work requiring a Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. Firmware may track outstanding requests for platform work for an adjunct partition, and in response to a request for platform work that requires a QoS guarantee, the firmware may assume or take over scheduling decisions for the adjunct partition from the operating system of an associated logical partition and schedule execution of the adjunct partition to ensure that the adjunct partition will be allocated sufficient execution resources to perform the platform work independent of the scheduling desires of the operating system. As a result, any platform work that potentially impacts the platform work of other adjunct partitions will not be held up as a result of an unwillingness or inability of the operating system to schedule execution of the adjunct partition. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180047 | PRESERVING TRAFFIC CLASS PRIORITY QoS WITH SELF-VIRTUALIZING INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE - Frame wrapping such as Q-in-Q frame wrapping is used to enforce QoS prioritization with a converged or multi-function self-virtualizing IO resource such as a converged SRIOV network adapter. Frame wrapping may be used to avoid conflicting priorities from frames associated with virtual functions for which ACLs are not enforced, and thereby preserve QoS prioritization for lossless traffic classes. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180048 | ALLOCATING RESOURCES TO VIRTUAL FUNCTIONS - A method of assigning resources to an input/output adapter having multiple ports may include determining a first port of the input/output adapter that includes a first bandwidth availability. A first number of resources assigned to the first port may be modified. The method may further include comparing a total count of resources assigned the ports to a maximum number of resources, where the total count includes the modified first number of resources. At least a portion of the modified first number of resources to the first port may be allocated to the first port. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180049 | LAUNCHING SOFTWARE APPLICATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - In a virtual environment, a virtual machine (VM) host creates and displays one or more application shortcuts in the VM host. An application shortcut correlates to a software application that is installed in a VM guest. When the VM host receives an execution command for the application shortcut from the VM host, the VM host establishes a connection channel between the VM host and the VM guest and transmits a launch request to the VM guest via the connection channel. The VM guest launches the software application in response to the launch request. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180050 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING HYPERVISOR SCHEDULING - A method for executing an application on multiple nodes includes synchronizing a first clock of a first node and a second clock of a second node, configuring a first hypervisor on the first node to execute a first application domain and a first privileged domain, and configuring a second hypervisor on the second node to execute a second application domain and a second privileged domain. Configuring the hypervisor includes allocating a first number of cycles of the first clock to the first privileged domain. Configuring the second hypervisor includes allocating the first number of cycles of the first clock to the second privileged domain. The method further includes executing the application in the first application domain and the second application domain. The first application domain and the second application domain execute semi-synchronously and the first privileged domain and the second privileged domain execute semi-synchronously. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180051 | VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION MANAGING METHOD, COMPUTER USING THE METHOD, VIRTUALIZER USING THE METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM USING THE METHOD - In a system including a plurality of physical machines to execute virtual machines (VM | 2012-07-12 |
20120180052 | Application Performance with Support for Re-Initiating Unconfirmed Software-Initiated Threads in Hardware - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing prefetch streams in a virtual machine environment. Compiled application code in a first core, which comprises a Special Purpose Register (SPR) and a plurality of first prefetch engines, initiates a prefetch stream request. If the prefetch stream request cannot be initiated due to unavailability of a first prefetch engine, then an indicator bit indicating a Prefetch Stream Dispatch Fault is set in the SPR, causing a Hypervisor to interrupt the execution of the prefetch stream request. The Hypervisor then calls its associated operating system (OS), which determines prefetch engine availability for a second core comprising a plurality of second prefetch engines. If a second prefetch engine is available, then the OS migrates the prefetch stream request from the first core to the second core, where it is initiated on an available second prefetch engine. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180053 | CALL STACK AGGREGATION AND DISPLAY - A call stack aggregation mechanism aggregates call stacks from multiple threads of execution and displays the aggregated call stack to a user in a manner that visually distinguishes between the different call stacks in the aggregated call stack. The multiple threads of execution may be on the same computer system or on separate computer systems. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180054 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELEGATING WORK OBJECTS ACROSS A MIXED COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT - A method of delegating work of a computer program across a mixed computing environment is provided. The method includes: performing on one or more processors: allocating a container structure on a first context; delegating a new operation to a second context based on the container; receiving the results of the new operation; and storing the results in the container. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180055 | OPTIMIZING ENERGY USE IN A DATA CENTER BY WORKLOAD SCHEDULING AND MANAGEMENT - Techniques are described for scheduling received tasks in a data center in a manner that accounts for operating costs of the data center. Embodiments of the invention generally include comparing cost-saving methods of scheduling a task to the operating parameters of completing a task—e.g., a maximum amount of time allotted to complete a task. If the task can be scheduled to reduce operating costs (e.g., rescheduled to a time when power is cheaper) and still be performed within the operating parameters, then that cost-saving method is used to create a workload plan to implement the task. In another embodiment, several cost-saving methods are compared to determine the most profitable. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180056 | Heterogeneous Enqueuinig and Dequeuing Mechanism for Task Scheduling - Methods, systems and computer-readable mediums for task scheduling on an accelerated processing device (APD) are provided. In an embodiment, a method comprises: enqueuing one or more tasks in a memory storage module based on the APD; using a software-based enqueuing module; and dequeuing the one or more tasks from the memory storage module using a hardware-based command processor, wherein the command processor forwards the one or more tasks to the shader cote. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180057 | Activity Recording System for a Concurrent Software Environment - An activity recording system for a concurrent software environment executing software threads in a computer system, the activity recording system comprising: a thread state indicator for recording an indication of a synchronization state of a software thread, the indication being associated with an identification of the software thread; a time profiler for polling values of a program counter for a processor of the computer system at regular intervals, the time profiler being adapted to identify and record one or more synchronization states of the software thread based on the polled program counter value and the recorded indication of state. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180058 | Configuring An Application For Execution On A Parallel Computer - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for configuring an application for execution on a parallel computer that include: booting up a first subset of a plurality of nodes in a serial processing mode; booting up a second subset of the plurality of nodes in a parallel processing mode; profiling, prior to application deployment on the parallel computer, the application to identify the serial segments and the parallel segments of the application; and deploying the application for execution on the parallel computer in dependence upon the profile of the application and proximity within the data communications network of the nodes in the first subset relative to the nodes in the second subset. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180059 | TIME-VALUE CURVES TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC QoS FOR TIME SENSITIVE FILE TRANSFERS - A method and apparatus has been shown and described which allows Quality of Service to be controlled at a temporal granularity. Time-value curves, generated for each task, ensure that mission resources are utilized in a manner which optimizes mission performance. It should be noted, however, that although the present invention has shown and described the use of time-value curves as applied to mission workflow tasks, the present invention is not limited to this application; rather, it can be readily appreciated by one of skill in the art that time-value curves may be used to optimize the delivery of any resource to any consumer by taking into account the dynamic environment of the consumer and resource. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180060 | PREDICTION BASED PRIORITY SCHEDULING - Systems and methods are provided that schedule task requests within a computing system based upon the history of task requests. The history of task requests can be represented by a historical log that monitors the receipt of high priority task request submissions over time. This historical log in combination with other user defined scheduling rules is used to schedule the task requests. Task requests in the computer system are maintained in a list that can be divided into a hierarchy of queues differentiated by the level of priority associated with the task requests contained within that queue. The user-defined scheduling rules give scheduling priority to the higher priority task requests, and the historical log is used to predict subsequent submissions of high priority task requests so that lower priority task requests that would interfere with the higher priority task requests will be delayed or will not be scheduled for processing. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180061 | Organizing Task Placement Based On Workload Characterizations - Task placement is influenced within a multiple processor computer. Tasks are classified as either memory bound or CPU bound by observing certain performance counters over the task execution. During a first pass of task load balance, tasks are balanced across various CPUs to achieve a fairness goal, where tasks are allocated CPU resources in accordance to their established fairness priority value. During a second pass of task load balance, tasks are rebalanced across CPUs to reduce CPU resource contention, such that the rebalance of tasks in the second pass does not violate fairness goals established in the first pass. In one embodiment, the second pass could involve re-balancing memory bound tasks across different cache domains, where CPUs in a cache domain share a same last mile CPU cache such as an L3 cache. In another embodiment, the second pass could involve re-balancing CPU bound tasks across different CPU domains of a cache domain, where CPUs in a CPU domain could be sharing some or all of CPU execution unit resources. The two passes could be executed at different frequencies. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180062 | System and Method for Controlling Excessive Parallelism in Multiprocessor Systems - Execution of a computer program on a multiprocessor system is monitored to detect possible excess parallelism causing resource contention and the like and, in response, to controllably limit the number of processors applied to parallelize program components. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180063 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Management of Parallel Library Implementation - A method for providing management of parallel library implementations relative to available resources may include receiving an indication of a registration of a parallel library and determining processor utilization information based on current load conditions. The processor utilization information may be indicative of a number of processors to be made available to the parallel library for a process associated with the parallel library. The method may further include causing provision of the processor utilization information to the parallel library. A corresponding apparatus is also provided. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180064 | CENTRALIZED PLANNING FOR REAL-TIME SELF TUNING OF PLANNED ACTIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT - Automatic programming, scheduling, and control of planned activities at “worker nodes” in a distributed environment are provided by a “real-time self tuner” (RTST). The RTST provides self-tuning of controlled interoperation among an interconnected set of distributed components (i.e., worker nodes) including, for example, home appliances, security systems, lighting, sensor networks, medical electronic devices, wearable computers, robotics, industrial controls, wireless communication systems, audio nets, distributed computers, toys, games, etc. The RTST acts as a centralized “planner” that is either one of the nodes or a dedicated computing device. A set of protocols allow applications to communicate with the nodes, and allow one or more nodes to communicate with each other. Self-tuning of the interoperation and scheduling of tasks to be performed at each node uses an on-line sampling driven statistical model and predefined node “behavior patterns” to predict and manage resource requirements needed by each node for completing assigned tasks. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180065 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DEADLOCK IN MULTITHREADING PROGRAMS - A method of detecting deadlock in a multithreading program is provided. An invocation graph is constructed having a single root and a plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more functions written in code of the multithreading program. A resource graph is computed in accordance with one or more resource sets in effect at each node of the invocation graph. It is determined whether cycles exist between two or more nodes of the resource graph. A cycle is an indication of deadlock in the multithreading program. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180066 | VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY CLUSTER - Various embodiments for managing a virtual tape library cluster are provided. A virtual tape library system is enhanced by representing virtual tape resources in cluster nodes with a unique serial number. A least utilized cluster node is determined. One of the virtual tape resources represented within the least utilized cluster node is selected. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180067 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, based on task border information, and first-type dependency relationship information containing N number of nodes corresponding to data accesses to one set of data, containing edges representing dependency relationship between the nodes, and having at least one node with an access reliability flag indicating reliability/unreliability of corresponding data access; task border edges, of edges extending over task borders, are identified that have an unreliable access node linked to at least one end, and presentation information containing unreliable access nodes is generated. According to dependency existence information input corresponding to the set of data, conversion information indicating absence of data access to the unreliable access nodes is output. According to the conversion information, the first-type dependency relationship information is converted into second-type dependency relationship information containing M number of nodes (0≦M≦N) corresponding to data accesses to the set of data and containing edges representing inter-node dependency relationship. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180068 | SCHEDULING AND COMMUNICATION IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS - The present invention provides a particular efficient system of scheduling of tasks for parallel processing, and data communication between tasks running in parallel in a computer system. A particular field of application of the present invention is the platform-independent simulation of decomposition/partitioning of an application, in order to obtain an optimal implementation for parallel processing. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180069 | Scheduling Start-Up and Shut-Down of Mainframe Applications using Topographical Relationships - The illustrative embodiments provide for a computer-implemented method for representing actions in a data processing system. A table is generated. The table comprises a plurality of rows and columns. Ones of the columns represent corresponding ones of computer applications that can start or stop in parallel with each other in a data processing system. Ones of the rows represent corresponding ones of sequences of actions within a corresponding column. Additionally, the table represents a definition of relationships among memory address spaces, wherein the table represents when each particular address space is started or stopped during one of a start-up process, a recovery process, and a shut-down process. The resulting table is stored. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180070 | SINGLE POINT, SCALABLE DATA SYNCHRONIZATION FOR MANAGEMENT OF A VIRTUAL INPUT/OUTPUT SERVER CLUSTER - A method, data processing system and computer program product provide scalable data synchronization for a virtual input/output server (VIOS) cluster and one or more registered callers. A first VIOS is commits as a primary node of the VIOS cluster and performs the functions of: registering one or more callers to receive notification from the first VIOS of specific events occurring within the cluster; receiving notification of an occurrence of one of the specific events; and in response to receiving notification of the specific events, a deamon of the first VIOS retrieving a message payload file from a message payload file directory within the shared VIOS DB and passing the message payload file to the API, which forwards/posts the relevant event notification information from the message payload file to the TCP socket of each registered caller. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180071 | COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESS FOR APPLICATION PROCESSING ENGINE - An application processing engine computer system is configured to process an application for at least one of a product and service using a plurality of coordinated, configurable services. The application processing engine includes an application data management service, an application process flow management service, a decisioning service, an application processing host service, an application activity monitoring service, a queue management service and/or a system maintenance service. Various embodiments are described, including a computer implemented method for processing an application using an application processing engine component and/or module. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180072 | Optimizing Communication of System Call Requests - Provided herein is a method for optimizing communication for system calls. The method includes storing a system call for each work item in a wavefront and transmitting said stored system calls to a processor for execution. The method also includes receiving a result to each work item in the wavefront responsive to said transmitting. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180073 | Mobile Device Application Framework - A mobile-application framework facilitates construction of interactive data display and manipulation applications without imperative programming by providing URI matching and substitution functions, wherein a substituted URI can refer to a resource contained as a hierarchically-organized item within a monolithic data stream or file. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180074 | CONSERVING MEMORY BY USING OBJECTS THAT ARE SELECTABLY MUTABLE DURING RUNTIME - Techniques are disclosed for providing support for objects that are selectably mutable during runtime. In one embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is provided that includes procedures for sealing and unsealing an object during runtime. Applications may use the API to prevent the object from being inadvertently modified, without having to create defensive copies of the object. Accordingly, processing and/or memory costs associated with executing the application may be reduced. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180075 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING TEMPORARY PROCESSING AGENTS - A method and system for managing temporary processing agents. Second executable code is selectively loaded into an empty routine which converts the empty routine to a populated routine in a first space. A super agent includes first agent code that includes first executable code, third agent code that includes third executable code and is located contiguous to the first agent code within a contiguous space within the super agent, and the empty routine consisting of non-executable code in the first space within the super agent external to the contiguous space. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180076 | System and Method to Abstract Hardware Routing via a Correlatable Identifier - An information handling system includes a firmware management infrastructure. The firmware management infrastructure includes a database that identifies a correspondence between members of a set of device paths and members of a set of correlatable identifier strings. A device path represents a platform-specific reference to an object at the information handling system and a correlatable identifier string represents a platform independent reference to the object. Programs can access the database using an application programming interface. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180077 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE DEVICE - An optical disk drive device includes: a tray provided with an outer disk tray on which an optical disk is mounted; an electrode provided on the outer disk tray; an electrostatic capacitance sensor unit configured to sense electrostatic capacitance between the electrode and an optical disk mounted in proximity to the electrode; a storage unit configured to store a table that identifies electrostatic capacitance between each of different types of optical disks and the electrode occurring when the optical disk is mounted in proximity to the electrode; and a determination unit configured to determine the type of the optical disk mounted on the tray, based on a sensor result obtained by the electrostatic capacitance sensor unit and the table. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180078 | DISC CHUCKING APPARATUS, MOTOR AND DISC DRIVING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH MOTOR - The present invention relates to a disc chucking apparatus having claws that horizontally move and provide elasticity to improve performance in centering and chucking a disc. The disc chucking apparatus includes: a centering base to which an inner circumferential surface of a disc is fixed; a plurality of chuck chips arranged at regular intervals along an outer circumferential surface of the centering base; and a plurality of elastic support parts disposed to be opposite to the chuck chips on the centering base, rotating horizontally when the disc is mounted, and pressing the inner circumferential surface of the disc in an outer diameter direction thereof. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180079 | OPTICAL DISK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical disk having a recording layer on a substrate, a bonding layer which is made of an ultraviolet cured resin bonding the recording layer, a transparent layer which is bonded to the bonding layer, and an overcoating layer which is formed on the transparent sheet and is made of the ultraviolet cured resin further has a mixed layer which is formed by mixing the ultraviolet cured resins of the bonding layer and the overcoating layer. Consequently, the bonding layer, the overcoating layer, and the mixed layer are integrally cured, so that the substrate is entirely covered with the ultraviolet cured resin having transparency, which allows a light transmitting layer A to be protected with sufficient strength. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK BANDWIDTH CONSERVATION - Methods and apparatus for conserving bandwidth within a network based on two or more different service levels. In an exemplary embodiment, programming that is simulcast on two or more program channels is mapped to one physical channel during periods when the programming is scheduled at only one service level (e.g., standard definition), thereby conserving bandwidth on the network that would otherwise be consumed by the simultaneous broadcast on the two or more channels. When the programming service level becomes heterogeneous across the channels (e.g., SD and HD simulcast), physical channel(s) supporting the HD content are provided within a local service area only “on-demand” using, for example, a switched digital channel allocation. Accordingly, no HD broadcast occurs within a given area until at least one user requests it, thereby further conserving network bandwidth. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180081 | Image Recognition of Content - Techniques are described to employ image recognition techniques to content. In an implementation, one or more images are identified in content using a signature derived from the one or more images. Metadata associated with the content is then supplemented based on the identified one or more images. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SESSION BASED ENCRYPTION FROM A VIDEO PUMP - A system includes a session and resource manager and a video pump. The session and resource manager negotiates encryption keys from a headend controller and provides the encryption keys to a video pump. The video pump uses the encryption keys form the session and resource manager to encrypt content. Thus, the video pump uses encryption keys to encrypt the content so that it is encrypted right from the video pump prior to transmission over the entire transport system. A generic modulation device may thus be used to modulate the encrypted content over the delivery network. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180083 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATION, DISTRIBUTION, ASSEMBLY AND VERIFICATION OF MEDIA - A method and apparatus for creation, distribution, assembly and verification of media, including one embodiment, media is transmitted to a receiver where the receiver assembles the media into programming. In another embodiment, media is transmitted to the receiver from a plurality of sources. In a further embodiment, a source of media performs a tagging operation to associate sets of tags with elements of the stream of media. In various embodiments, different combinations of look-and-feel, content and other tags are associated with the media stream. In an additional embodiment, tagging of the media stream is performed at the receiver. A user at the receiver may also provide data about the user to the receiver. In yet another embodiment, the receiver uses the tags to assemble the media into a program. In still further embodiments of the invention, various Royalty Only Aggregate Revenues or “ROAR” models and apparatus are disclosed. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180084 | Method and Apparatus for Video Insertion - An embodiment of a system and method that inserts a virtual image into a sequence of video frames. The method includes capturing geometric characteristics of the sequence of video frames, employing the captured geometric characteristics to define an area of the video frames for insertion of a virtual image, registering a video camera to the captured geometric characteristics, identifying features in the sequence of video frames to identify the defined area of video frames for insertion of the virtual image, and inserting the virtual image in the defined area. Vanishing points are estimated to determine the geometric characteristics, and the virtual image is blended with the area of video frames prior to inserting the virtual image in the defined area. | 2012-07-12 |
20120180085 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY INSERTING CONTENT INFORMATION INTO A MOBILE TV APPLICATION - A method operates a mobile communication device configured for outputting a television application and displaying selected content within a television environment of the mobile communication device. The method includes initiating a TV application using a user interface coupled to the mobile communication device. The method also includes capturing a television signal using a tuning device provided in the mobile communication device. The television signal is one of a plurality of television signals from respective television channels. The method further includes outputting a TV program associated with the television signal for the captured television channel on a display of the mobile communication device. Additionally, the method includes retrieving a configurable content object from a database provided within the mobile communication device. The configurable content object is one of a plurality of configurable content objects numbered from 1 through N, where N is an integer greater than 1. | 2012-07-12 |