29th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120185689 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF A HOME MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM - A multiprocessor system used in home environment includes multiple processors that run different real-time applications. A dynamic configuration system runs on the multiple processors and includes a device manager, configuration manager, and data manager. The device manager automatically detects and adds new devices to the multiprocessor system, and the configuration manager automatically reconfigures the real-time applications. The data manager identifies the type of data generated by the new devices and identifies which devices in the multiprocessor system are able to process the data. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185690 | DATE AND TIME SIMULATION FOR TIME-SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS - A process for providing a simulated date and/or time to a time-sensitive application is disclosed herein. Such a process may include detecting the invocation of a time handler method configured to retrieve system time. Upon detecting the invocation, the contents of a call stack may be captured and analyzed to determine which requestor method initiated the invocation. The process may then determine whether the requestor method should receive a real or simulated system time. A real system time may be returned to the requestor method in the event it should receive the real system time. A simulated system time may be returned to the requestor method in the event it should receive the simulated system time. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185691 | GENERAL PURPOSE DISTRIBUTED ENCRYPTED FILE SYSTEM - A general purpose distributed encrypted file system generates a block key on a client machine. The client machine encrypts a file using the block key. Then, the client encrypts the block key on the first client machine with a public key of a keystore associated with a user and associates the encrypted block key with the encrypted data block as crypto metadata. The client machine caches the encrypted data block and the crypto metadata and sends the encrypted data block and the crypto metadata to a network file system server. When the client machine receives a return code from the network file system server indicating successful writes of the encrypted data block and the crypto metadata, the client machine clears the cached encrypted data block and the crypto metadata. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185692 | Secure cloud computing system - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for securing electronic systems, including computers, information appliances and communication devices. The invention in question addresses the problem of preventing compromise by severe attacks directed at the protected systems. A severe attack could mean any of the following: low level debugging, use of in-circuit emulators or logic analyzers, removal of silicon dice and inspection including by lapping and micro-photography, and other well-known methods of attack such as distributed denial of service. In order to protect systems and data from such severe attacks, a mechanism is required whose operation is irreparably altered by the attempt to understand its operation through such attacks. Moreover, the mechanism must cease operation instantly upon detection of any intrusion associated with an attack, whether by software or by hardware based means. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185693 | SECURE PROGRESSIVE DOWNLOAD FOR MEDIA CONTENT PLAYBACK - In embodiments of secure progressive download for media content playback, a client device ( | 2012-07-19 |
20120185694 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, A SERVER APPARATUS, A METHOD OF AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, A METHOD OF A SERVER APPARATUS, AND AN APPARATUS EXECUTABLE PROGRAM - To provide an information processing apparatus, a server apparatus, a method of an information processing apparatus, a method of a server apparatus, and an apparatus executable program. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185695 | Methods and Systems for Scalable Distribution of Protected Content - A computerized device can implement a content player to access a content stream using a network interface, the content stream comprising encrypted content and an embedded license comprising a content key encrypted according to a global key accessible by the content player. The content player determines whether a token meeting an authorization condition is present and uses the global key to decrypt the content key only if such a token is present. The authorization condition may be evaluated at least in part based on data included in the content stream. The authorization condition can include presence of a token having a content ID matching a corresponding ID in the license; presence of a token with a correct device ID; presence of a token signed according to a digital signature identified in the licenses; and/or presence of a token that is unexpired, with expiration evaluated based on a time-to-live indicator in the token. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185696 | DEVICE INTRODUCTION AND ACCESS CONTROL FRAMEWORK - In an embodiment, a method includes registering applications and network services for notification of an out-of-band introduction, and using the out-of-band introduction to bootstrap secure in-band provisioning of credentials and policies that are used to control subsequent access and resource sharing on an in-band channel. In another embodiment, an apparatus implements the method. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185697 | Universal Authentication Token - A universal authentication token is configured to securely acquire security credentials from other authentication tokens and/or devices. In this manner, a single universal authentication token can store the authentication credentials required to access a variety of resources, services and applications for a user. The universal authentication token includes a user interface, memory for storing a plurality of authentication records for a user, and a secure processor. The secure processor provides the required cryptographic operations to encrypt, decrypt, and/or authenticate data that is sent or received by universal token. For example, secure processor may be used to generate authentication data from seed information stored in memory. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185698 | Protecting Codes, Keys and User Credentials with Identity and Patterns - Computer security applications use cryptography keys, cryptography codes—such as one-time passcodes—and other user credentials to protect the secrecy, authenticity and integrity of applications such as financial information, financial transactions and infrastructure (e.g. the electrical grid, power plants, and defense systems). The prior art attempted to generate (e.g. derive) an invariant from a biometric template, biometric print or non-biometric pattern that is used as a security key or code. Biometric variability has been a difficult obstacle for the prior art. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185699 | SPACE-EFFICIENT ENCRYPTION WITH MULTI-BLOCK BINDING - Exemplary embodiments include an encryption method in a computer system having a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor, the method including receiving a cleartext key in the memory, the encryption key having a plurality of segments including segment K | 2012-07-19 |
20120185700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING JIT IN A SECURE SYSTEM WITH RANDOMLY ALLOCATED MEMORY RANGES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing just-in-time code at a device that enforces a code signing requirement. The disclosure includes receiving computer code, where a portion of the code includes executable just-in-time code, at a device that enforces a code signing requirement; identifying the unsigned just-in-time executable portion of code; allocating a randomly selected memory region on the device for at least some of the unsigned just-in-time executable portion; and executing the unsigned just-in-time executable portion of code in the randomly selected memory region as if the unsigned just-in-time executable portion of code was signed computer code. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185701 | DOCUMENT SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for document security are described. The method decrypts a key-map file located a composite document with embedded access control, decrypts a content part from the composite document with embedded access control, wherein the key-map file provides a key to access the content part, loads the content part in decrypted form into a document serialization maintained in a transient memory where the content part in decrypted form is maintained exclusively in the transient memory, and erases the content part in decrypted form upon termination of a program to access the decrypted content part from the document serialization. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185702 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS TO WHICH THIN PROVISIONING IS APPLIED - A storage control apparatus stores a device attribute that indicates whether a physical storage device that is made to be a basis of a pool of a creation target is an encryption device (a physical storage device that is provided with an encryption function) or an unencryption device (a physical storage device that is not provided with an encryption function) as a pool attribute for the pool. In the case in which a pool attribute that has been stored for a pool with which a virtual volume that is a virtual logical volume of a creation target is associated indicates both of an encryption and an unencryption, the storage control apparatus associates the virtual volume of a creation target with a physical storage device that conforms to an attribute that has been specified as a volume attribute of the virtual volume of a creation target among an encryption device and an unencryption device that are a basis of a pool of the associated destination. The storage control apparatus stores a volume attribute of the virtual volume of a creation target. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185703 | Coordinating Performance Parameters in Multiple Circuits - Systems and methods for coordinating performance parameters in multiple domains are described. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to change a state of an electronic circuit, where the circuit includes a first domain and a second domain, causing a first parameter of a first circuit serving the first domain to be modified to a first modified parameter based on the request, and causing a second parameter of a second circuit serving the second domain to be modified to a second modified parameter based on the request. In some cases, a parameter may include a clock frequency. In other cases, a parameter may include a voltage. In some embodiments, a system may be implemented as a logic circuit and/or as a system-on-a-chip (SoC). Devices suitable for using these systems include, for example, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, network appliances, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, e-book readers, televisions, and game consoles. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185704 | SELF-ORGANIZED POWER AND ENERGY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods self-organize a multifunctional power and energy control and management system by integrating multiple backplane based modules through module descriptions. Dynamic data table structures may be configured based on information provides with the module descriptions and provide for improved data accessing, storing, and updating. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185705 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT FOR A CPU - A power supply circuit for a CPU (central processing unit) includes a CPU, a power supply, a plurality of voltage adjustment modules, a pulse width modulator, a plurality of resistivity selection modules, and a module management unit. The resistivity selection module includes an electronic switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, and a fourth resistor. When the CPU operates abnormally, the power supply circuit utilizes the resistors in the resistivity selection module as voltage dividers, thereby restricting MOSFET or other components to operate in a normal voltage range. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185706 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION INCLUDING DYNAMIC CONTROL OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN POWER DOMAINS - An apparatus, method and system is described herein for dynamic power control of a power domain. A power limit over a time window is provided. And over a control loop period a power interface determines energy consumption of the power domain, intelligently budgets power among devices within the power domain based on the energy consumption, converts those budgets to performance maximums for the power domain, and limits performance of devices in the power domain to the performance maximums utilizing a running average power limit. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185707 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POWER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF ADVANCED TELECOM COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM - An Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture system and a method for power management and control of the system are disclosed. The system includes a Front Board (FRB) and a Rear Transition Module (RTM)/Front Transition Module (FTM). The FRB includes a first power conversion/control module that supplies power to the FRB and RTM/FTM. The system further includes a control circuit that outputs control signal, and a second power conversion/control module that supplies power to the RTM/FTM according to the control signal. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185708 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD - A power sever, client and method cooperate to selectably supply power from a power server to a client in a format that is acceptable to the client. The client device is able to distinguish the power server from other power servers based on an identification of the power server transmitted to the client device. The client device is then able to specify, or select, from the specific power server the format of the energy to be conveyed to the client device for ultimate consumption by the client device. The conveyance of energy is provided over conductors or wirelessly. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185709 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION INCLUDING THREAD CONSOLIDATION - An apparatus, method and system is described herein for thread consolidation. Current processor utilization is determined. And consolidation opportunities are identified from the processor utilization and other exaction parameters, such as estimating a new utilization after consolidation, determining if power savings would occur based on the new utilization, and performing migration/consolidation of threads to a subset of active processing elements. Once the consolidation is performed, the non-subset processing elements that are now idle are powered down to save energy and provide an energy efficient execution environment. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185710 | DETERMINING AND OPTIMIZING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Management of energy consumption within a computing environment. Energy consumption of different hardware components are measured in the computing environment. Measurement includes voltage and current versus time used by the hardware components. The different measured values of energy consumption are collected, followed by tracking the hardware component used in time during an execution of an individual execution context within the computing environment. The energy consumption of the individual execution context is calculated by associating the corresponding collected measured energy consumption to the hardware component used. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185711 | FAN CONTROL DURING LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS TO REDUCE PLATFORM POWER - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes running a cooling fan within a computer at low speed while the computer is in low temperature operations (e.g., idle). The operation of the cooling fan may reduce CPU temperature enough to decrease CPU leakage power, offsetting the power consumption of the fan, and possibly resulting in a net system power reduction. The benefit at the platform level increases further when considering the low efficiency of voltage regulation (VR) in this lower power regime, and potentially reductions in other components (e.g., graphics processor). The optimal fan speed is the speed at which the overall system power is reduced the most (e.g., CPU power savings is greater than fan power utilized). The optimal temperature may be determined dynamically during operation or may be determined in manufacturing and applied statically during operation. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185712 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR POWER MANAGEMENT IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods and systems for managing power consumption in data processing systems are described. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a general purpose processing unit, a graphics processing unit (GPU), at least one peripheral interface controller, at least one bus coupled to the general purpose processing unit, and a power controller coupled to at least the general purpose processing unit and the GPU. The power controller is configured to turn power off for the general purpose processing unit in response to a first state of an instruction queue of the general purpose processing unit and is configured to turn power off for the GPU in response to a second state of an instruction queue of the GPU. The first state and the second state represent an instruction queue having either no instructions or instructions for only future events or actions. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185713 | SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SLEEP AND WAKEUP FUNCTION OF THE SERVER - In a method for controlling a sleep and wakeup function of a server, the server includes a baseboard management controller (BMC) and an operating system (OS). The method receives a sleep control command input by a user through the BMC, and controls the server to work in a sleep state according to the sleep control command. The method further receives a wakeup control command input by the user through the BMC, and controls the server to work in a wakeup state according to the wakeup control command | 2012-07-19 |
20120185714 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION INCLUDING CODE RECIRCULATION TECHNIQUES - An apparatus, method and system is described herein for enabling intelligent recirculation of hot code sections. A hot code section is determined and marked with a begin and end instruction. When the begin instruction is decoded, recirculation logic in a back-end of a processor enters a detection mode and loads decoded loop instructions. When the end instruction is decoded, the recirculation logic enters a recirculation mode. And during the recirculation mode, the loop instructions are dispatched directly from the recirculation logic to execution stages for execution. Since the loop is being directly serviced out of the back-end, the front-end may be powered down into a standby state to save power and increase energy efficiency. Upon finishing the loop, the front-end is powered back on and continues normal operation, which potentially includes propagating next instructions after the loop that were prefetched before the front-end entered the standby mode. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185715 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DEVICE HIBERNATION - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enables a computing device to save additional power by entering a “hibernation mode,” wherein the active state of the computing device is preserved in non-volatile storage while power to volatile storage is turned off. During operation, the system reanimates a computing device from a hibernation image by restoring reanimation code from the hibernation image and then executing the reanimation code. While executing this reanimation code, the system restores the rest of the hibernation image by, reading compressed data containing the rest of the hibernation image, and decompressing the compressed data using computational circuitry within the computing device. During this process, the decompression operations are overlapped with the reading operations to improve performance. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185716 | CONSERVING POWER BY REDUCING VOLTAGE SUPPLIED TO AN INSTRUCTION-PROCESSING PORTION OF A PROCESSOR - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates reducing static power consumption of a processor. During operation, the system receives a signal indicating that instruction execution within the processor is to be temporarily halted. In response to this signal, the system halts an instruction-processing portion of the processor, and reduces the voltage supplied to the instruction-processing portion of the processor. Full voltage is maintained to a remaining portion of the processor, so that the remaining portion of the processor can continue to operate while the instruction-processing portion of the processor is in reduced power mode. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185717 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption of a portable terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and method for reducing power consumption generated in an idle state in order to solve a power consumption problem in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a state determination unit which is configured independently from an application processor for controlling applications and which wakes up when entering an idle mode to allow the application processor to sleep, and thereafter determines a state of the portable terminal, and if it is determined that the portable terminal escapes from the idle mode, allows the application processor to wake up. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185718 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPRATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There are provided a power management system, a power management apparatus, a program, and a power management method that perform power management of terminal apparatuses connected to a network, while ensuring user convenience. A power management system | 2012-07-19 |
20120185719 | POWER MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit can include a processor system configured to execute program code, wherein the processor system is hard-wired. The IC also can include programmable circuitry configurable to implement different physical circuits. The programmable circuitry can be coupled to the processor system and can be configured to implement a power off procedure under the control of the processor system. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185720 | POWER SUPPLY START-UP MECHANISM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVATION OF POWER SUPPLY CIRCUITS - A power supply start-up sequencing mechanism for controlling activation of a plurality of power supply circuits with a predetermined timing is disclosed. The mechanism comprises a time value generator arranged to provide a time value signal; and for each of the power supply circuits, a logic circuit arranged to receive the time value signal and from the received signal provide an activation signal to the respective power supply circuit, wherein the respective logic circuit is associated with a start timing value for the respective power supply circuit such that the activation signal is provided when the associated start timing value coincides with the received time value signal. An apparatus comprising such a mechanism, and a method for controlling activation of a plurality of power supply circuits are also disclosed. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185721 | MULTI-RATE SAMPLING FOR NETWORK RECEIVING NODES USING DISTRIBUTED CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION - Various embodiments relate to a network receiver using distributed clock synchronization. The network receiver may include a first timing engine that samples bits received by the receiver with a first clock having a first clock frequency (f | 2012-07-19 |
20120185722 | MASTER SLAVE INTERFACE - Implementations related to systems, devices, and methods that make use of a master slave arrangement are described. In one implementation, a method of reducing overall power consumption in a master-slave system includes generating a clock signal in a master device having a first power consumption rate, transmitting the clock signal from the master device to a slave device having a second power consumption rate, the first power consumption rate is lower than the second power consumption rate, sampling data receive by the slave device, the data being provided by the master device, generating phase error information of the clock signal in the slave device, transmitting the phase error information from the slave device to the master device, and adjusting the clock signal in response to the phase error information. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185723 | EFTB UNIT, USB DEVICE WITH THE EFTB UNIT AND METHOD FOR RESETTING AND REENUMERATING THE USB DEVICE - A method for resetting and reenumerating a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device, an Electrical Fast Transient/Burst (EFTB) unit of a USB device for resetting and reenumerating the USB device and a USB device are described. In one embodiment, a method for resetting and reenumerating a USB device involves detecting a USB reset command from a host device at a USB device, setting a reset flag in the USB device in response to the detecting of the USB reset command, determining if the USB device is in a corrupted state in response to the reset flag, and causing a Single Ended Zero (SE0) signal to be issued to reset the USB device out of the corrupted state and reenumerate the USB device back to the host device if the USB device is determined to be in the corrupted state. Other embodiments are also described. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185724 | PARITY-BASED VITAL PRODUCT DATA BACKUP - A method for maintaining vital product data (VPD) of each field replaceable unit (FRUs) in a computer system, the computer system including a first FRU and a second FRU operatively coupled with the first FRU. The method includes calculating a parity for the VPD of the second FRU, and upon detecting a failure of the second FRU, regenerating the VPD for the failed second FRU using the parity. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185725 | COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES USING SHARED STORAGE - A method includes providing a persistent common view of a virtual shared storage system. The virtual shared storage system includes a first shared storage system and a second shared storage system, and the persistent common view includes information associated with data and instructions stored at the first shared storage system and the second shared storage system. The method includes automatically updating the persistent common view to include third information associated with other data and other instructions stored at a third shared storage system in response to adding the third shared storage system to the virtual shared storage system. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185726 | Saving Power in Computing Systems with Redundant Service Processors - A mechanism is provided for saving power in redundant service processors of the data processing system. A redundant service processor places a plurality of components into a low power state in response to receiving a primary control signal from a primary service processor within a first predetermined time period. The redundant service processor monitors for a signal within a second predetermined time period from the primary service processor. The redundant service processor determines whether the signal is a heartbeat signal or an activate signal in response to receiving the signal from the primary service processor within the second predetermined time period. Responsive to receiving the activate signal, the redundant service processor wakes-up the plurality of components that are in the low-power state in order for the redundant service processor to collect data and recover the data processing system in an event of a failure. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185727 | COMPUTING SYSTEM RELIABILITY - Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for computing system reliability. A method for computing system reliability can include storing, on one of a plurality of devices, a checkpoint of a current state associated with the one of the plurality of devices. The method may further include storing the checkpoint in an erasure-code group across the plurality of devices. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND/OR DIAGNOSING FAULTS IN MULTI-VARIABLE SYSTEMS - A method for detecting faulty operation of a multi-variable system is described. The method includes receiving operational data from a plurality of components of the multi-variable system and processing the operational data in accordance with a plurality of dynamic machine learning fault detection models to generate a plurality of fault detection results. Each fault detection model uses a plurality of variables to model one or more components of the multi-variable system and is adapted to detect normal or faulty operation of an associated component or set of components of the multi-variable system. The plurality of fault detection results are output. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185729 | TYPE AND RANGE PROPAGATION THROUGH DATA-FLOW MODELS - Systems and methods for type and range propagation through data flow models are provided. In one embodiment, a test generating system for processing data flow diagrams, the system comprises: a processor programmed to perform a test generation process; and at least one memory device coupled to the processor, the at least one memory device including a data flow diagram. The test generation process computes range information and data type information for outputs of one or more functional blocks defined by the data flow diagram by applying transformations to input range information for inputs of each of the one or more functional blocks. The transformations are at least in part performed by applying specific mathematical and functional effects that are pre-defined for each of the one or more functional blocks based on block type. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185730 | DISTRIBUTED DEBUG SYSTEM - A distributed debug system including processing elements connected to perform a plurality of processing functions on a received data unit, a debug trap unit, a debug trace dump logic unit, and a debug initiator unit is provided. At least two of the processing elements include a debug trap unit that has a first debug enable input and output, and a first debug thread. The first debug thread holds at least a first debug trap circuit having a match signal output connected to the first debug enable output. The first debug trap circuit filters a part of the data unit, compares a filtering result with a debug value, and provides a match signal to the match signal output. The debug trace dump logic unit dumps debug trace data to a buffer associated with the data unit on reception of a match event. The debug initiator unit includes a debug initiator output connected to the first debug enable input of the debug trap unit of one processing element, and a debug initiator input connected to the first debug enable output of the debug trap unit of another processing element. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185731 | PRECISE FAULT LOCALIZATION - Systems and methods for identifying expressions that are potential causes of program bugs are disclosed. A program and at least one input resulting in at least one passing test of the program can be received. Further, at least one plausible repair candidate expression in the program can be identified. In addition, the methods and systems can determine whether replacement of the at least one identified expression with at least one value, which is different from a value provided by the at least one identified expression, maintains the passage of the at least one passing test. Moreover, the at least one identified expression can be output when the replacement maintains the passage of the at least one passing test to enable a determination of a modification of the program that repairs a bug in the program. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185732 | METHOD OF MEASURING AND DIAGNOSING MISBEHAVIORS OF SOFTWARE COMPONENTS AND RESOURCES - Systems and methods are described for diagnosing behavior of software components in an application server. The application server can comprise a plurality of components that process incoming requests. A diagnostics advisor can be deployed with the application server and can determine an efficiency and/or inefficiency of each of the components of the application server or other middleware system. The efficiency determined by computing a ratio of a number of requests that completed execution in the component during a particular sampling time period to the number of requests that were received by the component during the sampling time period. The inefficiency is the inverse of efficiency, i.e. it is a ratio of the number of requests that are still being executed by the one or more components at the end of the sampling time period to the number of requests that were received by the one or more components during the sampling time period. The diagnostics advisor employs the determined efficiency and/or inefficiency to diagnose a misbehavior or other problem of the components in the application server. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185733 | APPLICATION RELIABILITY AND FAULT TOLERANT CHIP CONFIGURATIONS - An application can specify reliability values via a communication path between the application and the registers. Application reliability could increase if the application itself could specify the timeout and retry values. For instance, some errors might be prevented if the timeout value is lengthened by a short amount. A longer timeout value would result in slower performance because the memory component could not be accessed during the timeout period. However, resolving errors in memory devices would prevent unrecoverable error indicators from being returned to the application, which would in turn limit application and system crashes. Creating a communication path between the application and the hardware registers would allow the application to modify the reliability of memory operations | 2012-07-19 |
20120185734 | Tracing of a data processing apparatus - A trace unit, diagnostic apparatus and data processing apparatus are provided for tracing of conditional instructions. The data processing apparatus generates instruction observed indicators indicating execution of conditional instructions and result output indicators indicating output by the data processing apparatus of results of executing respective conditional instructions. The instruction observed indicators and result output indicators are received by a trace unit that is configured to output conditional instruction trace data items and independently output conditional result trace data items enabling separate trace analysis of conditional instructions and corresponding conditional results by a diagnostic apparatus. The instruction observed indicator is received at the trace unit in a first processing cycle of the data processing apparatus whilst result output indicator is received at in a second different processing cycle. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185735 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CAUSES OF PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS WITHIN MIDDLEWARE SYSTEMS - A method of determining a root cause of a performance problem is provided. The method comprises analyzing a plurality of performance indicators/metrics in a first time period and determining that at least one performance indicators/metric is exhibiting abnormal behavior. The method further comprises analyzing the plurality of performance indicators/metrics over a second time period, the second time period is longer than the first time period, and determining trend information for each performance indicators/metric over the second time period. The method further comprises correlating the trend information for each performance indicators/metric with performance problem information stored in a knowledge base, identifying a potential cause of the abnormal behavior based on the correlation, and alerting a user of the potential cause. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING DEPENDENCY IN A DYNAMIC MODEL TO RELATE PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS IN A COMPLEX MIDDLEWARE ENVIRONMENT - A method of isolating relevant components associated with a performance problem. The method comprises creating a static model of a system under test, including determining relationships between components in a middleware system. The method also comprises creating a dynamic problem tree by applying the static model to the system at runtime. The method further comprises identifying a link probability for each relationship in the dynamic problem tree; and traversing the dynamic problem tree to detect redundant components. A component is redundant if it has a link probability with its downstream component greater than a pre-determined threshold value. The method also comprises removing redundant components from the dynamic problem tree; and returning a set of components which are potential components to be analyzed further to determine the root causes of the performance problem. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185737 | FAULT DETECTION APPARATUS, A FAULT DETECTION METHOD AND A PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A fault which is possible to occur for detected correlation destruction is estimated. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185738 | DETERMINING LOCATION OF ERROR DETECTION DATA - Methods, devices, and systems for determining location of error detection data are described. One method for operating a memory unit having a bad group of memory cells includes determining a location of where to store error detection data for data to be stored across a plurality of memory units, including the memory unit having the bad group, based at least partially on a location of the bad group and storing the error detection data in the determined location. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185739 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR ESTIMATING A BIT ERROR RATE OF DATA COMMUNICATED IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Apparatus, and an associated method, for estimating a bit error rate of data communicated to a receiving station of a digital communications system, such as a GSM/EDGE cellular communication system. Soft decision values, indicative of confidence levels that decided values have been correctly decided are compared with threshold values by a comparator. A count is accumulated by a counter to whose counted value is representative of decided data values having associated therewith low levels of confidence that the decided values are correct. The count value is used in the formulation of the BER estimation. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185740 | DATA WRITING METHOD FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY MODULE AND MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A data writing method for a re-writable non-volatile memory module and a memory controller and a memory storage apparatus using the same are provided, wherein the re-writable non-volatile memory module has a plurality of physical writing units, and each of the physical writing units has a plurality of physical writing segments. The data writing method includes identifying at least one non-used segment among the physical writing segments of each of the physical writing units and writing a plurality of segment data streams into the physical writing units, wherein the non-used segments of the physical writing units are not used for writing the segment data. Accordingly, the data writing method can effectively use normal physical writing segments in the physical writing units. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185741 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MEMORY ACCESS ERROR - Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting a memory access error in a computer system. The apparatus and method may intercept a sub-system that processes a request for access to a memory, and may be applied to various computer systems without causing any performance deterioration. The apparatus includes a sub-system configured to process a request for access to a memory, and an interception module configured to detect a memory access address by intercepting the sub-system. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185742 | TEST ACCESS PORT WITH ADDRESS AND COMMAND CAPABILITY - The disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses to devices to select the device TAP for access. Further, the disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses for selecting device TAPs and for inputting commands for commanding circuitry within the device. The inputting of addresses or the inputting of addresses and commands is initiated by a control bit input on TDI that is recognized during the Run Test/Idle, Pause-DR or Pause-IR TAP states. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA SECURITY AND AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST IMPLEMENTATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for implementing data security and automatic repeat request (ARQ) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Cipher entities are included in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and an access gateway (aGW), and outer ARQ, (or radio link control (RLC)), entities are included in the WTRU and an evolved Node-B (eNode-B). Each cipher entity is located on top of an outer ARQ entity. The cipher entities cipher and decipher a data block by using a generic sequence number (SN) assigned to the data block. The outer ARQ entities may segment the ciphered data block to multiple packet data units (PDUs), may concatenate multiple ciphered data blocks to a PDU, or may generate one PDU from one data block. The outer ARQ entities may segment or re-segment the PDU when a transmission failure occurs. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185744 | LDPC MULTI-DECODER ARCHITECTURES - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with LDPC decoder architectures are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a super-parity-check matrix that corresponds to at least a portion of a low density parity check (LDPC) code matrix. The super-parity-check matrix is coupled to a high throughput LDPC decoder and a low throughput LDPC decoder, The super-parity-check matrix includes n parity check matrices, each including x rows corresponding to x check node processing elements and y columns corresponding to y bit node processing elements. Thus, the super-parity-check matrix comprises nx rows and ny columns. The numbers n, x, and y are selected so that ny codeword can be processed in single time unit by the high throughput decoder and y codeword bits can be processed in a single time unit by the low throughput decoder. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185745 | MULTI-CSI (Cyclic Shifted Identity) SUB-MATRIX BASED LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) CODES - Multi-CSI (Cyclic Shifted Identity) sub-matrix based LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes. A CSI parameter set, that includes at least one dual-valued entry and may also include at least one single-valued entry, and/or at least one all-zero-valued entry, is employed to generate an LDPC matrix. One of the single-valued entries may be 0 (being used to generate a CSI matrix with cyclic shift value of 0, corresponding to an identity sub-matrix such that all entries along the diagonal have elements values of 1, and all other elements therein are 0). Once the LDPC matrix is generated, it is employed to decode an LDPC coded signal to make an estimate of an information bit encoded therein. Also, the LDPC matrix may itself be used as an LDPC generator matrix (or the LDPC generator matrix may alternatively be generated by processing the LDPC matrix) for use in encoding an information bit. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185746 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING AND DECODING DATA USING LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of encoding data using low density parity check (LDPC) code defined by a m×n parity check matrix is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes encoding input source data using the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check matrix comprises a plurality of z×z sub-matrices of which row weights and column weights are ‘0’ or ‘1’. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185747 | METHODS OF ENCODING/DECODING FOR ERROR CORRECTION CODE UTILIZING INTERDEPENDENT PORTIONS OF CODEWORDS AND RELATED CIRCUITS - A method of encoding/decoding data for storage in and retrieval from a flash memory device, can be provided by generating a first error correction code on a combination of first user data to be stored in a first logical unit of storage in the flash memory device and padding data that is derived from second user data and an associated second error correction code stored in a second logical unit of storage in the flash memory device that is directly adjacent to the first logical unit of storage. The first user data and the first error correction code can be stored in the first logical unit of storage. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185748 | Method and Apparatus for Applying Forward Error Correction in 66B Systems - A method and apparatus for applying Forward Error Correction (FEC) in 66b systems. For a user data, the apparatus uses a method comprising the steps of generating one or more data blocks using a 66b code format and the user data; generating one or more FEC parity blocks using the 66b code format, wherein the parity is calculated over the data blocks; and generating an FEC codeword using the data blocks and the FEC parity blocks. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185749 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND RESPONSE TIME CONTROL METHOD - A storage apparatus and response time control method capable of preventing response performance deterioration effectively are suggested. Since a response time control unit which delays a response of a corresponding storage device to a command and transfers it to a controller for a storage apparatus is located between the controller and part of or all storage devices in order to equalize response time for the plurality of storage devices to respond to a command issued from the controller, it is possible to equalize the response time of the plurality of storage devices and thereby effectively prevent deterioration of the response performance of the storage apparatus. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185750 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD FOR DECODING DATA ENCODED BY LDPC - A min-sum processing unit executes, on input data, check node processing for each row of a check matrix and variable node processing for each column of the check matrix. When the decoded result involves an error, a detection unit detects a bit of a low degree of reliability from the decoded result. An identifying unit identifies a row and a column of a low degree of reliability in the check matrix on the basis of the bit of the low degree of reliability detected. The min-sum processing unit executes, on the decoded result, check node processing on the row identified as well as variable node processing on the column identified. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185751 | SERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, PARALLEL PROCESSING METHOD OF BIT RATE MATCHING AND DEVICE THEREOF - A serial processing method and a parallel processing method of bit rate matching and apparatuses thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The serial processing method includes: receiving a system bit data stream, a check | 2012-07-19 |
20120185752 | DRAM ADDRESS PROTECTION - In one embodiment, a system includes a memory, and a memory controller coupled to the memory via an address bus, a data bus, and an error code bus. The memory stores data at an address and stores an error code at the address. The error code is generated based on a function of the corresponding data and address. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185753 | Structure of ECC Spare Bits in 3D Memory - A structure of 3D memory comprises a plurality of stacking layers and a plurality of cells. The stacking layers are arranged in a three-dimensional array and disposed parallel to each other on a substrate, and the stacking layers comprises a plurality of stacking memory layers. The cells comprises a first group of cells (such as m of cells) for storing information data and a second group of cells (such as n of cells) for storing ECC (error checking and correcting) spare bits. All of the first group and the second group of cells are read out at the same time for performing an ECC function. The ECC spare bits in the 3D memory according to the present disclosure can be constructed at the same physical layer or at the different physical layers. The embodiments can be implemented, but not limited, by a vertical-gate (VG) structure or a finger VG structure. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185754 | FLASH MEMORY ARCHITECTURE WITH SEPARATE STORAGE OF OVERHEAD AND USER DATA - A memory device has a plurality of dedicated data blocks for storing only user data and a plurality of dedicated overhead blocks for storing only overhead data that comprises ECC data that is used for error checking with respect to the user data in the dedicated data blocks. The dedicated data blocks can be erased without erasing the ECC data that is used for error checking with respect to the user data in the dedicated data blocks. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185755 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING SOFT DECISION DECODING OF EUCLIDEAN SPACE REED-MULLER CODES - Soft decision decoding of a codeword of a Reed-Muller (RM) code by | 2012-07-19 |
20120185756 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA USING A CTC (CONVOLUTIONAL TURBO CODE) ENCODER IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data using a Convolutional Turbo Code (CTC) encoder by a transmitting end in a mobile communication system includes providing first encoded bits by encoding input data bits inputted to two input ports of the CTC encoder, interleaving the input data bits using 4 CTC interleaver parameters (P | 2012-07-19 |
20120185757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN COMMUNICATION/BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication is provided. The method includes determining a number of zero-padding bits, determining a number (N | 2012-07-19 |
20120185758 | INFORMATION BROWSING METHOD FOR PARTITIONING CONTENTS OF PAGE AND ASSIGNING IDENTIFIERS TO DATA PARTITIONS AND RELATED MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - An information browsing method includes: partitioning contents of a page into a plurality of first data partitions by analyzing the contents of the page; assigning a plurality of first identifiers to the first data partitions, respectively; driving a display screen according to at least the first data partitions; and when receiving a partition selection input, determining a selected first data partition according to a first identifier corresponding to the partition selection input, wherein the selected first data partition is assigned with the first identifier. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVELY EDITING A COMPOSITE DOCUMENT - A method and system for collaboratively editing a composite document having a plurality of original document parts. For each of one or more original document parts, a non-editable version of the original document part may be stored. Edits to the original document part may be stored in a plurality of edit parts. Each of the plurality of edit parts may be editable by a single associated one of a plurality of users and may be non-editable by all other users of the plurality of users. The plurality of edit parts may be individually encrypted and the edit parts may be stored separately from the original document parts. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185760 | DATA-PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA-PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A data-processing device includes: a display control means that causes a display means to display multiple input fields that receive input of data; an acquisition means that acquires multiple items of data constituting a data group; a recording means that records into a storage means a first item of data, which is one of the multiple items of data acquired by the acquisition means, while associating the first item of data with a first input field predetermined, and records into the storage means a second item of data, which is one of the multiple items of data acquired by the acquisition means and inputted later than the first item of data, while associating the second item of data with a second input field(s) that is included in the multiple input fields and is different from the first input field; and a specifying means. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185761 | SELECTIVE RESIZING OF DATA INPUT CELLS - A system and method to increase the size of a displayed data input cell in order to more effectively use a touch screen to enter data. A user selects an input cell to expand by a touching of or dragging an expansion icon. The user is then able to use that expanded area as a drawing area for handwritten input containing text, numbers, or sketches. After drawing in the expanded area, the user can select reducing the size of the input cell. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185762 | Saveless Documents - Saveless documents are disclosed. According to some implementations, a method can include displaying a current version of a document in a first user interface of a computing device, receiving an indication to display previously saved versions of the document, and, in response to receiving the indication, displaying a second user interface having the current version displayed in a first portion of the second user interface and a particular previous version of the document displayed in a sequence of previous versions of the document in a second portion of the second user interface. Methods can include automatically saving documents and creating versions of documents. A method can include automatically restoring the layout of documents on a display. A computer-readable medium and system for performing the methods are also disclosed. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185763 | CONSISTENT WEB APPLICATION PRESENTATION - A request for a web page is received from a client device at a web server. At least a source web application and a target web application relating to the requested web page is identified. An output from the source web application and an output from the target web application are requested. A source style of the source web application is requested. The source style is combined with the output of the source web application and the output of the target web application into the requested web page. The requested web page is sent to the client device. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT - Both a relative positioned resource and an absolute positioned resource may be generated using a single editor having a single syntax for both the relative and absolute positioned elements. A layout module generates an intermediate data structure based on element information. The element information includes content of at least one element, Cartesian coordinates of the at least one element, and dimensional information of the at least one element. A unified processing module generates a first resource having absolute positioned elements by processing the intermediate data structure, and generates a second resource having relative positioned elements by processing the same intermediate data structure. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185765 | Selecting Document Content - For a document with content that has been structured into a set primitive areas, a novel method for performing contiguous selection of document content across different primitive areas in the document is disclosed. The method defines a contiguous section in the ordered list by identifying the first and last primitive elements of the contiguous selection. The first primitive element is identified as the primitive element that is closest in reading flow to a start selection point on the page, while the last primitive element is identified as the primitive element that is closest in reading flow to an end selection point on the page. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185766 | Ordering Document Content - For a page that has been decomposed into a set of primitive areas, a novel method for organizing the set of primitive areas into an ordered list is disclosed. The primitive areas in the ordered list are initially sorted using start point order relation ordering, which compares the start points of the primitive areas in the coordinate system of the page. The ordering of the primitive areas in the ordered list are then refined by using contextual order relation ordering, which compares primitive areas against each other according to coordinate systems local to the primitive areas being compared. A new ordered list is then created by transposing primitive areas that are incorrectly ordered according to contextual order relation ordering. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185767 | MODIFYING APPLICATION BEHAVIOR - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modifying application behavior. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application, a command to present an element of a graphical user interface. One or more previously received commands is received from the application. An operation that should be performed on a document is identified. The operation is performed instead of presenting the element of the graphical user interface. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185768 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods Providing User Interface Features for Editing Multi-Layer Images - One exemplary embodiment involves, on a computer device, displaying a graphical user interface for editing electronic content and displaying representations of a fixed number of layers available for use in the electronic content. Representation of ones of the layers that are not used are graphically distinguished from representations of ones of the layers that are used. In response to receiving input at the computer device, an editing feature for editing a layer of the electronic content is provided. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185769 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLABLE SOUND REGIONS IN A MEDIA ROOM - Systems and methods are operable to present audio content of a received media content stream in a plurality of user controllable spot focused sound regions. An exemplary embodiment receives an audio content stream comprising at least a first audio channel and a second audio channel; multiplies the first audio channel into a plurality of first audio channels, multiplies the second audio channel into a plurality of second audio channels; communicates a first one of the multiplied plurality of first audio channels and a first one of the multiplied plurality of second audio channels to a first audio sound region controller; and communicates a second one of the multiplied plurality of first audio channels and a second one of the multiplied plurality of second audio channels to a second audio sound region controller. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185770 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PLAYLIST, REMOTE CONTROLLER APPLYING THE SAME, AND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - A method for providing a playlist, a remote controller applying the same, and a multimedia system are provided. The method for providing a playlist includes displaying a plurality of content lists of a plurality of kinds of contents in which contents of a same kind are arranged together, the plurality of content lists being displayed on a first area of a screen, if at least two different kinds of contents are selected from the plurality of content lists in a selecting, collecting the selected contents of the at least two different kinds of contents, and generating and displaying a playlist including play information regarding the collected contents of the at least two different kinds of contents. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185771 | MEDIA PLAYBACK QUEUING FOR PLAYBACK MANAGEMENT - Management or coordination of playback of digital media assets by an electronic device (e.g., a computing device), that supports media playback is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the electronic device can be controlled such that a user is able to schedule playback of distinct digital media assets. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO GENERATION - A method, computer program product, and system for producing video presentations is provided. The method may include providing, using one or more computing devices, a template configured to enable the generation of a video presentation. The method may further include receiving, using the one or more computing devices, an input parameter associated with the template from a user. The method may also include generating instructions, using the one or more computing devices, the instructions configured to enable the video presentation based upon, at least in part, the input parameter associated with the template. The method may additionally include transmitting, using the one or more computing devices, the instructions associated with the video presentation to a video player configured to translate the video presentation to a web browser. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185773 | Method and System for Dynamically Displaying a Control Bar of a Multimedia Player - The present invention relates generally to a method for dynamically displaying a control bar of a multimedia player, wherein one subjective thereof is to prevent overlap occurred to the menu image provided by a multimedia source. The method is preferably used for a digital versatile disc with high storage capacity, for example, the Blu-ray disc. According to the embodiment of the present invention, the method includes a first step of retrieving an Interactive Graphic (IG) stream from a disc, in which the IG stream defines an interactive graphic to be displayed. The method next goes to detect a trigger event of displaying a control bar in response to a user's operation. Further, an available region of the screen and a displaying mode are determined after analyzing the IG stream. Finally, the control bar, as the displaying mode describes, is show on the screen. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185774 | Symphonic Video Generation - A symphonic video clip generator implementable on a programmable mobile device, the generator includes a soundboard, a recorder and a generator. The soundboard is displayed on a screen of the programmable mobile device and displays multiple individually selectable video segments, each occupying a portion of the screen and each having a single associated audio track. The recorder records user activation and deactivation of the selectable video segments with the segments playing once activated and any activated segments playing concurrently. The generator creates a symphonic video clip from output of the recorder. The generator generates a collage of the concurrently activated video segments and a mix of concurrently activated audio tracks according to the timing of the user activation and deactivation for each activated video segment. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185775 | VISUALIZATION OF PERFORMANCE DATA OVER A NETWORK PATH - A system and technique for visualizing performance data over a network path are disclosed. More specifically, a network management system generates and displays an object that represents data for one or more performance characteristics related to a plurality of network nodes in the network path. In one embodiment, a graph having an x-axis and a y-axis is displayed, the x-axis being associated with two or more network nodes in the network path and the y-axis being associated with a first performance characteristic. Data corresponding to the first performance characteristic is plotted as data points corresponding to the network nodes associated with the x-axis. Data corresponding to a second performance characteristic may be represented via the size or the color of the data points. Alternatively, a characterization of the data corresponding to the first performance characteristic may be represented by the size or color of the data points. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185776 | ANALYZING RESOURCE CONSUMPTION OF SOFTWARE EXECUTING DURING A USAGE SCENARIO - Described herein are various principles for assisting in the identification of a configuration of computing device and reconfiguration of the computing device. More particularly, some of the principles relate to identifying one or more software processes configured to be executed during operation of the computing device in a usage scenario. Following operation of the computing device in the usage scenario, amounts of one or more resources consumed by each of the software processes throughout the usage scenario may also be identified. In some embodiments, once the software processes and amounts of the resource(s) consumed by the software processes have been identified, the processes and the amounts can be displayed to a user and the user may then reconfigure the computing device, such as by preventing some software processes from executing during the usage scenario or by delaying an execution of some software processes. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185777 | Method and apparatus for facilitating personality profiling - Described are methods and apparatus for facilitating reviewing of a person's personality using a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface comprises a plurality of adjustable graphical elements. Each of the adjustable graphical elements represents a plurality of personality characteristics, and each of the adjustable graphical elements is adjustable to one of a plurality of different positions. Each of the positions corresponds to a value of the respective plurality of personality characteristics. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185778 | DISPLAY AND INSTALLATION OF PORTLETS ON A CLIENT PLATFORM - A client computer system, method and software tool for displaying portlet content are provided. The system comprises a user interface, a portlet server and a portlet view tool. The user interface allows the display of a page including one or more view window(s), each displaying content provided by a component of the computer system. The portlet server processes requests for portlet content, and has one or more portlet(s) installed thereon. The portlet view tool is associated with a portlet installed on the portlet server, and controls the associated portlet. A web browser is used to display content from the associated portlet in a view window on the display. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185779 | Computer System and Method of Audience-Suggested Content Creation in Social Media - A computer based system and method of audience-based suggestion for content creation in social media is disclosed. The content suggestor system and method receive user requests including title of content that the requester would be interested in viewing/reading. The system routes the request to any number of target users that would be likely to responsively create/upload such content, including both users the requester has deemed appropriate as well as any the system deems appropriate. A user interface displays topic requests to the target users (users the request was routed to). Upon content being uploaded in the global computer network in response to the request, the system notifies each requesting user. The content responsively created and uploaded may be in media different from the medium of the initial request. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING MENU OPTIONS OF MESSAGE APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for integrating menu options of message applications of an electronic device, a user interface (UI) that includes an icon displaying area and an option displaying area are created. An icon is created for each of the message applications, and all of the created icons are placed into the icon displaying area. The UI is displayed on a display screen of the electronic device when the UI is activated, and operating options of a message application are displayed in the option displaying area when one of the created icons corresponding to the message application is selected. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185781 | EMAIL USER INTERFACE - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a reply or forward command for a selected email message in an email user interface and display a composition window in response to the command, wherein the displaying includes a sequence of images to create the illusion of the composition window popping out of the selected email message, the sequence of images including an initial image that is a copy of the selected email message, a final image of the composition window including an editable body, and at least one image between the initial image and the final image that has characteristics of both the initial and final images. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185782 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF REMOTE OBSERVATIONAL DATA FOR BUSINESS - Wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers and other entities can use a network gateway as a common point of access to information regarding the presentation of their products to consumers. Such a gateway could be used by representatives for uploading information gathered at retail locations using specially designed mobile applications which would include functionality for facilitating later search and retrieval of the information, such as by tagging. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ZERO LATENCY BROWSING - A system replicates Internet websites on a large number of user computers having browsers. The system includes a gateway platform having a gateway server and a cache. In the broadcast mode, the gateway server periodically or continuously images broadcast data (e.g., popular websites), compresses the website images, and stores the compressed website images in the gateway cache. The gateway server then broadcasts all of the compressed broadcast data to all (millions) of the user computers over a broadcast device (such as a satellite), for subsequent display by the user in the browser. In the unicast mode, the user requests unicast data (e.g., less-popular websites or websites having highly user-customized information) at the browser. The gateway server images that one web page, compresses the unicast data, and transmits the compressed unicast data over the broadcast device substantially in real time to the one requesting user computer. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185784 | Method Of Providing Co-browsing Functionality Within A Standard Browser - A system and method for interactive internet co-browsing comprising an internet web browser, web browser pages, and web server all connected by an internet connection. The co-browsing system provides a way for an individual or multiple individuals to lead an internet web co-browsing session while an individual or multiple individuals follow the internet web co-browsing session, and vice versa. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185785 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ZERO LATENCY BROWSING - A system replicates Internet websites on a large number of user computers having browsers. The system includes a gateway platform having a gateway server and a cache. In the broadcast mode, the gateway server periodically or continuously images broadcast data (e.g., popular websites), compresses the website images, and stores the compressed website images in the gateway cache. The gateway server then broadcasts all of the compressed broadcast data to all (millions) of the user computers over a broadcast device (such as a satellite), for subsequent display by the user in the browser. In the unicast mode, the user requests unicast data (e.g., less-popular websites or websites having highly user-customized information) at the browser. The gateway server images that one web page, compresses the unicast data, and transmits the compressed unicast data over the broadcast device substantially in real time to the one requesting user computer. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185786 | MEDICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method of managing medical information is disclosed. Medical image data is received, at a real-time transfer engine, at the same time that the patient is being scanned by a medical imaging device. The medical image data is then converted to a browser-compatible image format at a converter engine connected to receive the medical image data from the real-time transfer engine. The converter engine comprises a decoder engine for extracting image pixel data from the medical image data and an encoding engine for converting the image pixel data to a browser-compatible format connected to receive the image pixel data. The image pixel data may be converted to a browser compatible format without loss of diagnostic data. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185787 | USER INTERFACE INTERACTION BEHAVIOR BASED ON INSERTION POINT - Automatic manipulation of document user interface behavior is provided based on an insertion point. Upon placement of an insertion point within a displayed document, the behavior of the user interface is adjusted based on a next action of the user. If the user begins a drag action near the insertion point, he/she is enabled to interact with the content of the document (e.g. select a portion of text or object(s)). If the user begins a drag action at a location away from the insertion point, on the other hand, he/she is enabled to interact with the page (e.g. panning) Thus, the interaction behavior is automatically adjusted without additional action by the user or limitations on user action. | 2012-07-19 |
20120185788 | USER INTERFACE WITH VERTICAL TEXT ELEMENTS FOR AN EAST-ASIAN DEFINED LAYOUT - A method and system are disclosed for displaying a user interface text element in an East-Asian mode so that system-based text can be displayed vertically on a user interface. In one embodiment, a device can dynamically switch between a Latin-based layout (horizontally displayed text elements) and an East-Asian based layout (vertically displayed text elements) based on global device settings, such as a language setting or a locale setting. Such settings can be dynamically modified by the user to change the display modes. | 2012-07-19 |