| 31st week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
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| 20120198042 | POLICY MANAGEMENT FOR CONTENT STORAGE IN CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS - A method for processing content objects with a content delivery network (CDN) having a plurality of geographically distributed points of presence is disclosed. Selection of a policy is received from a plurality of policies, where the plurality of policies define processes to perform on content objects stored at the CDN. Each policy includes an applicability criteria and a storage disposition. Metadata is received at the CDN, the metadata characterizing a content object, a requester of the content object and/or a provider of the content object. The content object is received for storage at the CDN. A policy and other policies are determined to be applicable to the content object through analysis of the metadata and/or the applicability criteria. Overlap is resolved between the policy and the other policies found applicable to the content object. The processing of the policy is performed on the content object. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198043 | CUSTOMIZED DOMAIN NAMES IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (CDN) - A computer-implemented method, operable in a content delivery network (CDN) including a plurality of cache servers and domain name servers. At a cache server in the CDN, a first domain name is obtained, the first domain name being associated with a client request for a resource from the cache server. One or more values associated with the client request are determined and a second domain name is generated, including information from the first domain name and information relating to the one or more values associated with the client request. The second domain name is provided to the client. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198044 | REMOTE COMPUTER MANAGEMENT USING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL THAT ENABLES COMMUNICATION THROUGH A FIREWALL AND/OR GATEWAY - The invention facilitates remote management of a computer via a network. Remote computer management in which communication between a managed computer and a remote computer management server is initiated by the managed computer is implemented so that the communication is formatted in accordance with a network communications protocol that can be used to format communication that is allowed to pass through a firewall and/or gateway that mediates communication with the managed computer. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198045 | GLOBAL LOAD BALANCING ON A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - The invention relates to systems and methods of global load balancing in a content delivery network having a plurality of edge servers which may be distributed across multiple geographic locations. According to one aspect of the invention, a global load balancing system includes a first load balancing server for receiving a packet requesting content to be delivered to a client, selecting one of the plurality of edge servers to deliver the requested content to the client, and forwarding the packet across a network connection to a second load balancing server, which forwards the packet to the selected edge server. The selected edge server, in response to receiving the packet, sends across a network connection the requested content with an address for direct delivery to the client, thereby allowing the requested content to be delivered to the client while bypassing a return path through the first load balancing server. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198046 | MOBILE DEVICE BANDWIDTH THROTTLING - System and methods for managing communications related to telecommunications-based devices are provided. Gateway computing devices corresponding to a radio communication network can modify the policies associated with telecommunications-based devices as a function of the usage of the radio communication network. The modification of the policies corresponds to monitoring of telecommunications-based device data usage and comparing the monitored data usage with data usage thresholds. The modification of the policies can also correspond to monitoring telecommunications-based device data usage and adjusting data usage quotas. The resulting modification can limit the throughput of data, prevent additional data requests, or modify different aspect of the data communications via the radio communication network. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198047 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING RESPONSE TIME OF A SERVER - A method for determining a response time of a server may include monitoring communications to and from the server to detect a client request to the server. The method may also include detecting in the monitored communications at least one trigger signal associated with the client request. The method may further include determining a response time of the server to be the time difference between a time at which said at least one trigger signal was fully received and a beginning time of transmission of a final server response from the server, disregarding transmission periods and periods during which the client request is not processed by the server. A computer readable medium and system for determining a response time of a server are also disclosed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198048 | IDENTIFYING REMOTE MACHINE OPERATING SYSTEM - A method for discovering an operating system of a remote machine includes monitoring network communications to detect a plurality of data packets that were generated by the remote machine. The contents of each detected data packet are read so as to extract a packet signature of each detected data packet. Each packet signature is compared with at least one signature of a database of signatures in order to determine a similarity between each packet signature and the signature from the database. A confidence level for at least one candidate operating system is calculated based on the determined similarities. A candidate operating system is selected based on the confidence level for that operating system. Relating computer program product and data processing system are also disclosed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198049 | System and Method for Stateless, Fault Tolerance and Load Balanced Data Collection Using Overlay Namespaces - Systems, methods and computer readable media that provide stateless fault tolerance and load balanced data collection using overlay namespaces are described. A cluster is used. Each node of the cluster may be a monitoring system. A data provider process may run on each node in the cluster. Each node has an overlay namespace which comprises one or more links to namespaces on other nodes, and local viewpoints of those linked namespaces. When a node detects a resource waiting to be monitored, it queries other nodes to determine whether object creation for that resource is allowed. It creates an object only if no other node is creating or has created an object for that resource. A node may stop monitoring more resources if the load on the node reaches a specified threshold. The node may also stop monitoring a resource if it determines the load level on another node is at a predefined low level compared with its own load level. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA COLLECTION AND HEURISTIC REFINEMENT IN A NETWORK INTERMEDIARY DEVICE - Data useful in analyzing the effectiveness of policies for handling transactions involving client communications is automatically collected at network intermediary devices and delivered to an analysis server as part of feedback communications from the network intermediary devices. The data may be collected according to data collection directives distributed to the network intermediary devices along with updates to policies for handling transactions, those updates being configured to alter actions of the network intermediary devices, for example to accommodate changes in behaviors of content servers from which the network intermediary devices obtain content in connection with the client communications. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198051 | Adaptive Service Discovery in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks and Method - An overlay network, node and method for adaptive service discovery. The method uses an adaptive service discovery in the overlay network for finding a peer that provides a desired service; generates a tree structure for current peers that provide the desired service; assign the current peers that provide the desired service to different levels of the tree structure; estimate, when a peer intends to register for the desired service with the adaptive service discovery, a number S of actual peers that provide the desired service; and calculates, based on the estimated number of actual peers providing the desired service, an optimal starting level for the peer to register for the desired service. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198052 | Method for Retrieving the Implemented Data Model from a Device - Presented is an apparatus and methods for collecting the implemented data model and version information from an end user device. The apparatus is communicatively connected to the end user device and uses, for example, the Broadband Forum TR-069 protocol or another protocol for communications. The method interrogates the end user device to determine all parameters and their data types by traversing the end user device's data model level by level and instantiating any objects discovered that are instantiable but not yet instantiated. The method archives the data model and end user device version information for later use with like devices. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198053 | Web Based Client/Server Notification Engine - Various technologies and techniques improve the updating of client content in a client/server arrangement. A client notification engine of a user interface subscribes to receive notifications from a central server side notification engine. The client notification engine polls the server side notification engine at a specified interval. The server side notification engine receives and aggregates notifications about and/or from one or more sources and aggregates them into a collection of relevant notifications. These notifications are sent to the client where the different subscriptions originated and are then used by the user interface in the client to update part of the content being displayed as appropriate. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198054 | Method and apparatus for determining gateway and method and system for sending message - The present disclosure discloses a method for determining a multimedia message gateway, comprising: receiving a message of querying a multimedia message gateway sent by a value-added service server after the value-added service server generates a multimedia message; acquiring the service processing situation or resource occupation situation of each multimedia message gateway, determining the multimedia message gateway with the strongest service processing capacity currently according to the service processing situation, or determining the multimedia message gateway with the most residual resource according to the resource occupation situation; and using the determined multimedia message gateway as the multimedia message gateway for sending the multimedia message. The disclosure further discloses a method for sending a multimedia message, an apparatus for determining a multimedia message gateway and a system for sending a multimedia message. The disclosure can solve the problem of traffic imbalance of each multimedia message gateway caused by presetting multimedia message gateways in the prior art. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE WITH A DATA GRID CLUSTER TO SUPPORT DEATH DETECTION - A system and method is described for use with a data grid cluster to support death detection. A network ring is formed by connecting a plurality of process nodes in the data grid, wherein each node in the network ring watches another node. A death of a first process node in the network ring can be detected by a second process node, when the second process node notices that its connection to the first process node has closed. The first process node then informs other process cluster nodes in the network ring that the first node is dead. In accordance with an embodiment, machine level death detection can also be supported in the data grid cluster by using an Internet Protocol (IP) monitor. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198056 | Techniques for Analyzing Website Content - A scheme for analyzing businesses and generating business leads is disclosed. A list of company websites can be gathered from a plurality of data sources and combined to produce an aggregated list of companies. Content from the websites of the companies in the list is extracted and stored. Contact information may automatically be ascertained from the website content, if available. The stored content extracted from the websites may then be analyzed to detect the presence of particular features. The listing of companies may then be filtered to produce a subset of businesses that represent potential business leads. The business leads may be provided to a company seeking such leads, and may optionally be provided to an automated marketing system, which is configured to generate and transmit commercial advertisements to the businesses identified as leads. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198057 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING THE IMPACT OF CHANGES IN COMPUTER NETWORKS - The impact of device configuration changes on operational issues and policy compliance in a computer network can be discerned from a visual data presentation that jointly shows representations of changes, issues, and policy compliance in a common view for a group of network devices. Configuration information is collected from devices in the computer network and processed to determine whether a change has occurred in a configuration of any of the devices, whether any operational issues exist for each of the devices, and whether any of the devices are not in compliance with any applicable operational policies. A display device displays the visual data presentation to allow an operator to see trends and relationships between device configuration changes and operational issues and incidents of policy non-compliance. The visual data presentation can be depicted as a graphical timeline view, a network topology view, or a table view of the information. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198058 | Computer Network Service Providing System Including Self Adjusting Volume Enforcement Functionality - A Computer Network Service Providing System including Self Adjusting Volume enforcement functionality and methods for diminishing or minimizing volume leakage. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198059 | WEB PAGE PERFORMANCE SCORING - A browser-based tool is provided that loads a Webpage, accesses the document object model (DOM) of the page, collects information about the page structure and parses the page, determines through the use of heuristics such factors as how much text is found on the page and the like, produces statistical breakdown of the page, and calculates a score based on performance of the page. Key to the operation of the invention is the ability to observe operation of the Webpage as it actually loads in real time, scoring the page for several of various performance factors, and producing a combined score for the various factors. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198060 | NETWORK DELAY ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND A NETWORK DELAY ESTIMATION METHOD - A network delay estimation apparatus capable of creating a metric tree with high accuracy and in a short time. Network delay estimation apparatus ( | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198061 | User Interest and Identity Control on Internet - The present invention relates to a solution for handling customer activity when connecting to a wireless communication network and in particular for statistics of customer activity using the network. This is provided in a number of aspects such as methods, node, and system for reporting user profile statistics from deep packet inspection of data packets in a packet data network ( | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198062 | METHOD FOR MONITORING TRAFFIC IN A NETWORK AND A NETWORK - For providing a simple monitoring mechanism with reduced resource and performance requirements a method for monitoring traffic in a network is claimed, wherein a monitoring activity of at least two monitoring probes of the network is coordinated by a coordinating element, wherein at least two nodes of the network are able to operate as coordinating elements and wherein the responsibility for coordinating the monitoring activity of the monitoring probes is split between the nodes according to a compressed representation of flow parameter keys. Further, an according network is described, preferably for carrying out the above mentioned method. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198063 | VIRTUAL SERVER SYSTEM, AUTONOMOUS CONTROL SERVER THEREOF, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - An autonomous control server ( | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198064 | USING CONTEXT LABELS TO SCALE MAC TABLES ON COMPUTER NETWORK EDGE DEVICES - In one embodiment, an access component of a local network edge device receives traffic, and generates a frame for the traffic that includes a remote context label that identifies an access component of the remote network edge device to which the traffic is to be forwarded upon arrival at the remote network edge device, and a virtual circuit label corresponding to a particular virtual service of the traffic. The local network edge device forwards the frame towards the remote network edge device. In another embodiment, the frame may be received at a core component of the remote network edge device, an in response to the remote context label identifying an access component of the remote network edge device, forwarded to the access component, which determines the particular virtual service, and forwards the traffic from the frame out the access component towards an endpoint for the traffic. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198065 | Method of Accessing a Cloud Service and Related Device - A cloud service is accessed by an access module. The access module receives a simple control code from an electronic device that is electrically connected to the access module, and the access module utilizes high-level protocols and software stacks to send/receive data to/from the cloud service according to the simple control code. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198066 | UTILIZING A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK ACCESS TOKEN MODULE TO ACQUIRE DIGITAL CONTENT FROM A DIGITAL CONTENT PROVIDER - A method begins with a computing device receiving a request to acquire digital content from a digital content provider and forwarding the request to a dispersed storage network (DSN) pre-paid module. The method continues with the DSN pre-paid module validating the request, generating a plurality of sets of at least a threshold number of digital content read requests, and sending the plurality of sets of the at least a threshold number of digital content read requests to the digital content provider via the computing device when the request to acquire the digital content is validated. The method continues with at least one of the DSN pre-paid module and the computing device receiving a plurality of sets of at least a decoded threshold number of encoded data slices and decoding the plurality of sets of the at least a decoded threshold number of encoded data slices to produce the digital content. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198067 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING INTEGRATION OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND NON-CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SERVICES VIA AN INTEGRATED SERVICES MECHANISM - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for facilitating integration of customer relationship management (CRM) services and non-CRM services into a single integrated services mechanism. A method of embodiments includes integrating CRM modules to provide access to CRM services with non-CRM modules to provide access to non-CRM services into a single integrated mechanism. The integrated mechanism may be employed at a first computing system. The method may further include processing a user request for one or more services. The one or more services include one or more CRM services or one or more non-CRM services. The method may further include providing access to the one or more services via the integrated mechanism at the first computing system. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198068 | IMS media codec negotiation method and system - The present disclosure provides an IMS media codec negotiation method, which is used in an IMS network. The method comprises: when forwarding a media resource request, a first signaling media network element carries a media address of a second media gateway and a codec supported by the second media gateway into the media resource request, wherein the second media gateway is controlled by the first signaling media network element and is used for code transition; when receiving a media resource response, the first signaling media network element takes the second media gateway as a node of a media path in the case that the media resource response information related to the second media gateway. An IMS media codec negotiation system is also provided by the present disclosure. The method and system mentioned in the present disclosure can realize media codec negotiation via interaction of the media resource request and response for only one time, therefore, the signaling overhead is reduced, and the user experience is improved. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198069 | CONTENT PROCESSING BETWEEN LOCATIONS WORKFLOW IN CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS - A method for processing content objects within a content delivery network (CDN) having a plurality of points of presence (POPs) in different defined geographies is disclosed. A content object is gathered from one of the plurality of POPs in a first defined geography. It is determined that a processing function is to be performed on the content object. Geographical restrictions on the processing function are analyzed. A second defined geography for performing the processing function is determined. The content object is sent to a resource that performs the processing function in the second defined geography. The processing function is performed with the resource at the second defined geography to produce a processed content object. From a plurality of content stores in the plurality of POPs, a content store is found to hold the processed content object. The processed content object is stored on the content store. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198070 | Content Replication Workflow in Content Delivery Networks - A method for populating edge servers within a content delivery network (CDN) having a plurality of points of presence (POPs) is disclosed. A first function is performed that gathers popularity information for a content object. Popularity trends for the popularity information are determined through analysis with historical popularity information. A number of copies of the content object for each of the plurality of POPs is determined. The number is passed as a variable to a second function. The second function is performed that adds or deletes copies of the content object for each of the plurality of POPs as a function of the popularity trend and the number. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198071 | Distributed Landing Pad and Brick Topology for Content Storage in Content Delivery Networks - A method for ingest of content for a content delivery network (CDN) having a plurality of geographically distinct points of presence (POPs) A first landing-pad application program interface (API) is hosted and accessible from a first POP. A second landing-pad API is hosted and accessible from a second POP. First and second content objects are received at the first and second land-pad APIs, respectively. A first tag is analyzed to find it applicable to the first content object. A second tag is analyzed to be applicable to the second content object. First and second storage media are selected based upon the respective analyses of the tags. The content object objects are stored with the respective storage media. The first and second content objects are stored in a consistent file structure. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198072 | Method and Apparatus for Redirection of Server External Hyper-Link References - A message is provided to a tracking server system in response to a client system referencing a predetermined resource locator that corresponds to a resource external to the tracking server system. The tracking server system indirectly provides for the client system to have an informational element selectable by the client system, where the informational element is graphically identified on the client system with informational content obtainable from a content server system through use of a content resource locator. The informational element includes a tracking resource locator, referencing the tracking server system, and data identifying the informational element. The selection of the informational element causes the client system to use the tracking resource locator to provide the data to the tracking server system and to use the content resource locator to obtain the informational content from the content server system. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198073 | DYNAMICALLY ORGANIZING CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCES TO FACILITATE DISCOVERY - Pieces of hardware on which pieces of software are executed are configured to organize computing resources from different computing resource providers so as to facilitate their discovery. A catalog, which stores instances of cloud computing resources and their providers, and a knowledge base, which stores types of computing resources including rules which reveal their discovery, are formed by the software. A curating method is performed to enable semantic search including searching for cloud computing resources that in combination cooperate to satisfy a workload or a task in addition to having a simple computational function. Semantic indexing is performed to facilitate the semantic search. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198074 | LOAD BALANCING METHOD - This invention provides a load balancing method employing a load balancing device for performing a load balancing for servers, which includes the steps of: calculating a maximum amount of load balancing of the first round and performing load balancing of the first round; and determining whether an actual amount of each server of the first round reaches the maximum amount of load balancing of the first round. The maximum amount of the load balancing at each round is less than or equal to the maximum amount of the load balancing at a previous round, and a sum of the maximum amount of the load balancing at the each round is less than or equal to the full capacity of each server. Thereby, the load balancing can be performed according to the maximum amount of the load balancing at each round to reach a load balancing among the servers. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198075 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK WITH DEEP CACHING INFRASTRUCTURE - Embodiments herein include methods and systems for use in delivering resources to a client device over a local network. An exemplary system comprises a plurality of caching devices operable to cache resources on behalf of a plurality of content providers, and a local caching device communicatively situated between an access network and the client device, wherein the access network is communicably situated between the plurality of caching devices and the local caching device. The local caching device is operable to retrieve a requested resource from at least one of the plurality of caching devices, deliver the requested resource to the client device over the local network, and store the requested resource for future requests by other client devices. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198076 | Migrating Logical Partitions - Methods for migrating logical partitions. The method may include dynamically discovering a destination system for migration; remotely creating an environment on the destination system for accepting the runtime migration; and migrating a running logical partition from a source system to the destination system. The source system may be managed by a source management system and the destination system may be managed by a destination management system. Dynamically discovering the destination system for migration may comprise establishing a communications channel between the source management system and the destination management system; obtaining a list of candidate systems from the destination management system; and validating resources of at least one candidate system. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198077 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND DEVICE IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A resource allocation method and device in a communication network. The method includes: determining the carrier aggregation (CA) mode of the communication network; and selecting a resource allocating mode for the communication network according to the CA mode of the communication network. The method can select different resource scheduling modes according to different CA scenarios, thereby providing system frequency diversity gain and multi-user diversity gain. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198078 | ADAPTIVE NETWORK COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES - Adaptive network communication techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a determination is made by a client device that a request, which is to be communicated to a content provider via a network, is for content that is accessible via the content provider upon authentication of credentials transmitted to the content provider from the client device. Responsive to the determination, an initial communication is formed by the client device for receipt by the content provider that includes the credentials without waiting for the content provider to request the credentials from the client device. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198079 | PARALLEL TRANSMISSIONS OVER HTTP CONNECTIONS - One example embodiment includes a system for transmitting data from a source system to a target system over an HTTP network. The system includes a user client, where the user client receives data to transmit from a source system to a target system. The system also includes a source tunnel. The source tunnel is configured to receive the data from the client and break the data into pieces for individual transmission. The source tunnel is also configured to establish a plurality of connections with a target system and transmit the pieces of the plurality on connections. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198080 | Method of Performing Multiple Connection and Related Communication Device - A method of performing multiple connections for a vehicle head unit in a telematic system is disclosed. The method comprises assigning at least one internet protocol (IP) address to at least one mobile device (MD); and connecting to the least one MD. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198081 | COEXISTENCE OF USER EQUIPMENT INITIATED AND NETWORK INITIATED QUALITY OF SERVICE FLOWS - Systems, methods and apparatus for quality of service (QoS) flows in a communication system are provided. In one aspect a method is providing for establishing a QoS flow for an application in a user equipment device. The method includes receiving QoS information from one of an application and a network. The method further includes establishing a QoS communication flow for the application based on the received information. The method also includes receiving QoS information from the other of the application and the network and modifying the established QoS communication flow based on the additional information. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198082 | Automatic Fallback Communication Mechanism - A method disclosed. The method includes attempting to communicate with a printer in a network via a first network communications protocol, determining if the communication with the printer is successful via the first network communications protocol and automatically communicating with the printer via a second network communications protocol if communication via the first network communications protocol the printer is unsuccessful. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198083 | CLIENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FINDING AND BINDING TO A HOME CONNECTION - In an embodiment, a client device scans to detect available remote connections using a network protocol. Upon detecting one or more available remote connections, the client device presents or transmits client credentials that are unique to the client device to the remote connections or devices until the client device finds a remote connection that accepts the credentials. The remote connection that accepts the credentials is stored as the home connection by client device, and the client device connects to the home connection. Once the home connection is set, the client device will no longer seek other connections, and will only attempt to re-connect with the home connection if the connection is lost. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS FOR BROWSER-BASED APPLICATIONS - An approach is presented for facilitating communications for browser-based applications. A data communication platform determines to associate a communication identifier with a browser session. The browser session hosts, at least in part, a web application. The communication identifier facilitates addressing of the browser session, the web application, or a combination thereof via a process that is not specific to the browser session, the web application, or a combination thereof. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198085 | System and Method for CSCF Entity Disaster Tolerance and Load Balancing - The present invention discloses a system and method for CSCF entity disaster tolerance and load balancing the system comprises P-CSCF entities, I-CSCF entities and S-CSCF entities, and further comprises a DNS Server. The present invention uses a DNS UPDATE message to report the load equivalent weight of the CSCF entity at regular time, so that the DNS Server can use the load equivalent weight when executing the load balancing strategy. It makes the disaster tolerance and load balancing in the IMS network be much easier to use and extend, thus reducing the load of the IMS network. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: an record information obtaining mechanism which obtains record information representing a provision destination of one predetermined electronic information property by a terminal device relating to a provider of the electronic information property; a weighting mechanism which extracts the provision destination included in the obtained actual achievement information and performs weighting on the extracted provision destination based on a reference predetermined in accordance with the attribute of the provision destination; and an evaluation value calculating mechanism which calculates an evaluation value of the provider based on the weighted value. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198087 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT NETWORKS USING DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS - A system and method for providing message connectivity between a first network using a first protocol and a second network using a second protocol is described. If a message is received from the first network, the message is processed using one or more digital signal processors, a destination in the second network is determined, the processed message is logged and translated into the second protocol, and the translated message is sent to the destination in the second network. If the message is received from the second network, the message is translated into the first protocol, a destination in the first network is determined, the translated message is logged and processed using one or more digital signal processors, and the processed message is sent to the destination in the first network. One example method can be implemented as a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198088 | INSERTION POINTS FOR STREAMING VIDEO AUTOPLAY - Techniques are described for presenting streaming media content to users in an engaging manner. A streaming media player may provide an interface that allows users to browse though a collection of available titles sorted into different categories (e.g., science fiction titles, television shows, westerns, etc.). The interface may be configured to automatically begin playback of one of the media titles at a designated insertion point, providing a user with a preview of the title. The insertion point itself may be selected as an interesting point in a given title, and therefore, likely to engage a user in that title. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198089 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOM SEGMENTATION FOR STREAMING VIDEO - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for segmenting video. A system configured to practice the method determines a total duration of a video asset. The system identifies an optimal streaming chunk duration and a minimum streaming chunk duration. Then the system segments the video asset into a set of chunks, wherein at least one of a final chunk and a penultimate chunk is less than the optimal streaming chunk duration and greater than the minimum streaming chunk duration, and wherein each remaining chunk is of the optimal streaming chunk duration. The system can segment the video asset based on keyframes or codecs. The system can optionally compile a video manifest file, such as an m3u8 file, containing pointers to each chunk in the set of chunks. Then the system can optionally stream the video asset to a video playback device based on the video manifest file. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198090 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device may comprise a sending buffer having a first storage capacity, and a receiving buffer having a second storage capacity which is different from the first storage capacity. The communication device may determine a sending maximum data size in accordance with the first storage capacity, and determine a receiving maximum data size in accordance with the second storage capacity. The sending maximum data size and the receiving maximum data size may have different values. The communication device may perform a sending process for a sending frame of a sending target by utilizing the sending maximum data size, and perform a receiving process for a receiving frame of a receiving target by utilizing the receiving maximum data size. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198091 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS AND NETWORK APPARATUS - It is provided a network system comprising a plurality of computers and a control apparatus coupled to the plurality of computers via a plurality of network apparatuses. The control apparatus holds a plurality of first addresses and conversion rules for converting each of the plurality of first addresses into a second address, extracts one of the plurality of first addresses and one of the conversion rules when requested by one of the plurality of computers, and transmits the extracted one of the plurality of first addresses and the extracted one of the conversion rules to the one of the plurality of computers that has issued the request. The one of the plurality of computers that has issued the request converts the one of the plurality of first addresses into the second address by using received conversion rule, and holds the converted second address. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198092 | Network Topologies for Energy Efficient Networks - One embodiment receives at a first node in at least a portion of a network a routing table, the portion of the network comprising the first node and one or more second nodes, the routing table specifying the immediate neighbor that provides each of the best paths in the portion of the network based on a total cost; using the routing table, determines at the first node every second node that is necessary for the first node to reach all edges of the network, the second nodes that are necessary for the first node to reach all edges of the network comprising an active set for the first node; and sends a message from the first node to every second node to facilitate determining whether to shut down the second node. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198093 | Interconnection Fabric Connection - Link used variables are defined for links related to an interconnection fabric. The links used variables are representative of whether or not a link is used for handling flows between a plurality of hosts and devices. Constraints for links, and hop counts or port counts are also defined. An objective function is used by an integer programming solver to determine connections as a function of the definitions. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LINK COMMUNICATION IN HOME NETWORK - A client in a home entertainment network can communicate with other components, including the server, over both a wired and a wireless link, with the particular path being selected based a component preference, and/or a bandwidth capability, and/or an occupancy ratio. Both links may be simultaneously used. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198095 | Using Unique Local Unicast Addresses in a Global Domain Name Server by Providing a Centralized Registry - Mechanisms are provided for assigning addresses for use in communications between computing devices. With these mechanisms, a centralized domain name registrar server assigns a unique global identifier to a domain of a site such that the unique global identifier uniquely identifies the domain. The unique global identifier is received in a data processing system from the centralized domain name registrar server. The site is divided into a plurality of sub-domains and a unique sub-domain identifier is assigned to each sub-domain in the site such that the unique sub-domain identifier uniquely identifies a corresponding sub-domain in the site. The global identifier for the domain of the site and the sub-domain identifiers of the sub-domains in the plurality of sub-domains are provided by the data processing system to routers of the site for use in associating addresses with devices of the site. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198096 | Method, Apparatus, System for Address Management - The present invention discloses a method for address management, at least one backup group exists between a broadband remote access server (BRAS) and a backup device, and the method includes: when the BRAS receives an access request of a user, detecting whether there is an idle address in a backup group accessed by the user; if there is no idle address in the backup group accessed by the user, then the BRAS assigning a new logical segment to the backup group, wherein the logical segment contains at least one address; and the BRAS selecting an address from the new logical segment and assigning the address to the user. The present invention also discloses an apparatus and system for address management. The method, apparatus and system of the present invention realize the flexible management of the sharing address pool, and solve the problem of a waste of resources. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198097 | Safely Sharing USB Devices During a Switch in State - System and methods for safely sharing universal serial bus (USB) devices are provided. A request is received to switch from a state in which user mode drivers are not enabled to a state in which user mode drivers are enabled. For each kernel mode USB driver in the system, an I/O control (IOCTL) is called in each kernel mode USB driver. The IOCTL requests that the kernel mode USB driver yield devices on which it has a claim. Also, for each kernel mode USB driver in the system, it is determined if the kernel mode USB driver will yield one or more devices on which it has a claim. For each kernel mode USB driver that will yield and for each device claimed by the kernel mode USB driver for which the kernel mode USB driver respects a request to unclaim the device, a process is executed as if there had been a hot unplug event on the device. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198098 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIDIRECTIONAL PAIRING BETWEEN DEVICES - An apparatus and a method support bidirectional pairing between devices. A connectable peripheral device is discovered. A list of discovered connectable peripheral devices is displayed. When a peripheral device is selected from the displayed list of the discovered connectable peripheral devices, an indicator operation request message for operating an indicator of the selected peripheral device is generated and transmitted to the selected device. The selected peripheral device operates the indicator according to the indicator operation request message to indicate a connection request from the device. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198099 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION AUTO-INSTALL FUNCTION IN DIGITAL DEVICE - An apparatus and method install an application in a digital device. An apparatus for providing a connection program to a desired peripheral device in a digital device includes a communication unit for receiving system information from a peripheral device and transmitting a connection program list, a program detecting unit for analyzing the received system information and creating the connection program list executable in the peripheral device, and a control unit for transmitting the created connection program list to the peripheral device. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198100 | System and Method for Surveillance - A plug-and-play surveillance system that can be set up by even computer-illiterates is disclosed herein. The system comprises an external storage device connected to a computing device and a monitoring device. A registration and matching service receives at least one unique identification code from the external storage device and the monitoring device and uses it to establish a unique pairing between the external storage device and the monitoring device. Subsequent communication between them can be directly established without the need of re-registration. The present invention provides a convenient surveillance system without complex setting and configuration. The present invention also provides higher privacy level and flexibility that additional features can be added to the system based on the user's need. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198101 | MOBILE DEVICE PERIPHERAL DETECTION WITH INDEPENDENT STATE MACHINES - This document discusses, among other things, methods and apparatus for detecting an attached state of a port of a device. In an example, a method can include monitoring a supply bus pin of a USB port for a valid voltage using a first state machine, monitoring an ID pin of the USB port for a non-floating voltage using a second state machine, and simultaneously and independently executing the first state machine and the second state machine, wherein the first state machine is different than the second state machine. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198102 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD IN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - This invention is directed to reducing power consumption even when there is a great amount of power consumed by a root complex in a printing apparatus that employs a PCI Express architecture. To accomplish this, a printing apparatus that includes a controller capable of switching between a root complex and an endpoint and an accelerator controller serving as a root complex performs the following processing. More specifically, in the power saving mode, the power source of the accelerator controller is turned off and the controller is set as a root complex. Power consumption in the power saving mode can be greatly reduced, and a return sequence from the power saving mode can be executed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198103 | EMBEDDED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - A modular development platform is described which enables creation of reliable, compact, physically robust and power efficient embedded device prototypes. The platform consists of a base module which holds a processor and one or more peripheral modules each having an interface element. The base module and the peripheral modules may be electrically and/or physically connected together. The base module communicates with peripheral modules using packets of data with an addressing portion which identifies the peripheral module that is the intended recipient of the data packet. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING NETWORK ACCESS TO MASS STORAGE DEVICES CONNECTED TO MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICES - A system for enabling at least one mass storage device connected to at least one multi-function device to be accessible over a network, includes at least one processor; and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the at least one processor, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for receiving a plurality of requests from one or more electronic devices permitted to access the at least one multi-function device and allowing the one or more electronic devices to selectively access and modify electronic information located on the at least one mass storage device connected to the at least one multi-function device and accessible over the network. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198105 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING DATA ACTIVITY LEVELS - methods and systems for monitoring data activity may include various operations, including, but not limited to: modifying a value of at least one counter in response to one or more input/output requests directed to at least one data storage region during a first time interval; storing a first cumulative value of the counter modified in response to one or more input/output requests directed to at least one data storage region during the first time interval following the expiration of the first time interval; modifying a value of at least one counter in response to one or more requests directed to the at least one data storage region during a second time interval; storing a second cumulative value of the counter modified in response to one or more requests directed to the at least one data storage region during the second time interval following the expiration of the second time interval; and computing at least one activity index for the at least one data storage region from at least the first cumulative value and the second cumulative value. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198106 | Method Of Processing Requests For Hardware And Multi-Core System - In a method of processing requests for hardware in a multi-core system including a first processor core and a second processor core according to example embodiments, the first processor core receives a plurality of hardware input/output requests from a plurality of applications, manages the plurality of hardware input/output requests using a hardware input/output list, and responds to the plurality of hardware input/output requests in a non-blocking manner. The second processor core sequentially processes the plurality of hardware input/output requests included in the hardware input/output list. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198107 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MIGRATING DATA BETWEEN STORAGE TIERS - Methods and systems for migrating data between storage tiers may include various operations, including, but not limited to: determining at least one activity index of at least one data storage region; receiving an input/output request addressing at least one data segment included in the at least one data storage region; qualifying a data segment addressed by the input/output request for migration to at least one higher-performing storage device; and adding a data segment reference associated with a qualified data segment to a priority queue according to the at least one activity index. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198108 | Administering The Polling Of A Number Of Devices For Device Status - Administering the polling of a number of devices for device status including determining whether a task identification for polling the device is in the delayed polling queue; if the task identification for polling the device is not in the delayed polling queue, determining whether the task identification for polling the device is in the immediate polling queue; if the task identification for polling the device is in the immediate polling queue; calculating a new time interval for polling the device in dependence upon a predetermined base period and a random selection of a time offset, wherein the time offset is within a predetermined range; calculating a next polling time for polling the device in dependence upon the current time and the new time interval; inserting the task identification in the delayed polling queue in dependence upon the next polling time. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198109 | ELECTRONIC MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONVERTING SERIAL DATA TO PARALLEL DATA FOR STORAGE USING THE SAME - An electronic measuring device includes a detection channel module, a sampling module, a control unit, a data path selector and a memory device. A user will be able to selectively enable the desired detection channels and store only data collected from enabled channels. The data collected from the detection channels are in serial data form. The device utilizes a serial-parallel shifter in its sampling module to convert the serial data to parallel data bytes. Two indicators in the storage unit of the memory device allow users to effectively store the parallel data bytes in designated locations. The innovative data conversion and storage methods of this invention will significantly conserve memory space that otherwise will be occupied by data from the disabled channels and allow accurate and efficient reading of the stored data. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198110 | MAIN BOARD AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING PCIE PORTS THEREOF - A main board and a method for dynamically configuring PCIE ports thereof. The main board comprises a PCIE slot, a detecting circuit, an ROM, a chipset and a modifying circuit. The chipset comprises a Management Engine controller and several PCIE ports. The chipset has a Management Engine function or a similar function. The detecting circuit detects the PCIE slot to generate a current state parameter. The ROM stores a default configuration data. The modifying circuit coupled between the chipset and the ROM determines whether the default configuration data needs to be modified according to the current state parameter. When the default configuration data needs to be modified, the modifying circuit modifies the default configuration data according to the current state parameter, so that the Management Engine controller initially configures the PCIE ports according to the modified default configuration data. Thus, the dynamical configuration of the chipset PCIE ports is realized. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198111 | MANAGING A RESOURCE LOCK - Controlling access to a resource by a plurality of resource requesters is disclosed. The resource lock operates in a contention efficient (heavyweight) operating mode, and in response to a request from a resource requester to acquire the resource lock, a count of a total number of acquisitions of the resource lock in the contention efficient operating mode is incremented. In response to access to the resource not being contended by more than one resource requester, a count of a number of uncontended acquisitions of the resource lock in the contention efficient operating mode is incremented, and a contention rate is calculated as the number of uncontended acquisitions in the contention efficient operating mode divided by the total number of acquisitions in the contention efficient operating mode. In response to the contention rate meeting a threshold contention rate, the resource lock is changed to a non-contention efficient (lightweight) operating mode. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198112 | Adapting Legacy/Third Party IPs to Advanced Power Management Protocol - An apparatus adapts a pre-designed circuit module not supporting a power management protocol to a power management protocol. The apparatus disconnects a bus interface, disables interrupt and stops a clock to the pre-designed circuit module on a external idle request signal. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198113 | Time measurement of power button signal activation - Embodiments herein relate to measuring a continuous time period a power button signal is in an active state. In an embodiment, a controller is to measure the continuous time period the power button signal is in an active state, where the power button signal enters the active state when a power button is physically activated by a user to initiate a power down of a system. Further, the controller is to generate and send an interrupt to the system if the continuous time period is greater than a controller time, the interrupt having higher priority than an operating system of the system. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198114 | CONVERTING A MESSAGE SIGNALED INTERRUPTION INTO AN I/O ADAPTER EVENT NOTIFICATION TO A GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM - One or more message signaled interruption requests from one or more input/output (I/O) adapters are converted to I/O adapter event notifications while retaining the message vector indication. An I/O adapter event notification may be routed and presented to a host or to a guest that the host is executing. To present the notification to the correct host or to the correct guest, various data structures in host and/or guest memory are used. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198115 | RAID-BASED STORAGE CONTROL BOARD - Embodiments of the invention relate to a (e.g., hybrid) redundant array of independent disks (RAID)-based storage control board. Specifically, the present invention relates to a storage control board having a RAID controller with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCI-e) interface. In one embodiment, the RAID controller is coupled to an input/output (I/O) hub and a set (at least one) of PCI-e slots, which themselves can receive cards such as a fibre channel (FC) add-on card, a serial attached small component system interface (SAS) add-on card, or a PCI-e bridge add-on card. The I/O hub can be coupled to a set (at least one) of processors, each of which can be coupled to a main memory module or the like. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198116 | RAID-BASED STORAGE CONTROL BOARD HAVING FIBRE CHANNEL INTERFACE CONTROLLER - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a (e.g., hybrid) redundant array of independent disks (RAID)-based storage control board having a fibre channel interface controller. Specifically, the present invention relates to a storage control board having a RAID controller with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCI-e) interface and a fibre channel interface controller. In one embodiment, the RAID controller is coupled to an input/output (I/O) hub and a set (at least one) of PCI-e slots, which themselves can receive cards such as a fibre channel (FC) add-on card, a serial attached small component system interface (SAS) add-on card, or a PCI-e bridge add-on card. The I/O hub can be coupled to a set of processors, each of which can be coupled to a main memory module or the like. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198117 | System and Method for Improving Throughput of Data Transfers Using a Shared Non-Deterministic Bus - System and method for facilitating data transfer between logic systems and a memory according to various conditions. Embodiments include systems and methods for facilitating and improving throughput of data transfers using a shared non-deterministic bus, a system and method for managing a memory as a circular buffer, and a system and method for facilitating data transfer between a first clock domain and a second clock domain. Embodiments may be implemented individually or in combination. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198118 | USING DMA FOR COPYING PERFORMANCE COUNTER DATA TO MEMORY - A device for copying performance counter data includes hardware path that connects a direct memory access (DMA) unit to a plurality of hardware performance counters and a memory device. Software prepares an injection packet for the DMA unit to perform copying, while the software can perform other tasks. In one aspect, the software that prepares the injection packet runs on a processing core other than the core that gathers the hardware performance counter data. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198119 | High Current Multi-Port USB Hub - A high-current Multi-Port USB hub has a microcontroller that selectively switches the hub between low current synchronizing state and high current charging state. During charging state in excess of two Amps of current can be provided to each device connected to the hub. Each USB port circuit includes a power FET to selectively provide current to the USB port according to the state of the hub. Current sensors on each of the USB ports detects an amount of current being drawn by a device connected to the USB port. Each USB port is provided with indicators to indicate the charged state of the device connected to that port. The charge state of the device is also provided to the microcontroller which provides a summary status indication of the set of devices connected to the USB hub. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198120 | EXPANDED PROTOCOL ADAPTER FOR IN-VEHICLE NETWORKS - A protocol adapter for transferring diagnostic signals between a vehicle network and a computer including a vehicle connector, a common connector plate, and a common electronics package. The vehicle connector is interfaced with the vehicle network. The common connector plate is interfaced with the vehicle connector. The common electronics package is interfaced with the common connector plate, and wirelessly transmits the diagnostic signals from the vehicle network to the computer. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMIZING CACHE CONFLICT MISSES - A method for minimizing cache conflict misses is disclosed. A translation table capable of facilitating the translation of a virtual address to a real address during a cache access is provided. The translation table includes multiple entries, and each entry of the translation table includes a page number field and a hash value field. A hash value is generated from a first group of bits within a virtual address, and the hash value is stored in the hash value field of an entry within the translation table. In response to a match on the entry within the translation table during a cache access, the hash value of the matched entry is retrieved from the translation table, and the hash value is concatenated with a second group of bits within the virtual address to form a set of indexing bits to index into a cache set. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198122 | GUEST TO NATIVE BLOCK ADDRESS MAPPINGS AND MANAGEMENT OF NATIVE CODE STORAGE - A method for managing mappings of storage on a code cache for a processor. The method includes storing a plurality of guest address to native address mappings as entries in a conversion look aside buffer, wherein the entries indicate guest addresses that have corresponding converted native addresses stored within a code cache memory, and receiving a subsequent request for a guest address at the conversion look aside buffer. The conversion look aside buffer is indexed to determine whether there exists an entry that corresponds to the index, wherein the index comprises a tag and an offset that is used to identify the entry that corresponds to the index. Upon a hit on the tag, the corresponding entry is accessed to retrieve a pointer to the code cache memory corresponding block of converted native instructions. The corresponding block of converted native instructions are fetched from the code cache memory for execution. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198123 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUNDANTLY STORING METADATA FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - Systems and methods are provided for storing data to or reading data from a non-volatile memory (“NVM”), such as flash memory, using a metadata redundancy scheme. In some embodiments, an electronic device, which includes an NVM, may also include a memory interface for controlling access to the NVM. The memory interface may receive requests to write user data to the NVM. The user data from each request may be associated with metadata, such as a logical address, a directional flag, or other data. In response to a write request, the NVM interface may store the user data and its associated metadata in a first memory location (e.g., page), and may store a redundant copy of the metadata in a second memory location. The directional flag indicates the geometric relationship between the first memory location and the second memory location. Thus, if the first memory location becomes inaccessible, the memory interface can still recover the metadata from the backup copy stored in the second memory location. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198124 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING READ OPERATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - Systems and methods are disclosed for increasing efficiency of read operations by selectively re-ordering a sequence in which logical block addresses (“LBAs”) are read out of multi-level cell (“MLC”) non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, the LBAs can correspond to upper and lower pages. Because data stored in lower pages can be retrieved from NVM faster than data stored in upper pages, embodiments disclosed herein can selectively re-order the LBAs such that the first LBA to be read corresponds to a lower page. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198125 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT PAGE READS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - Systems and methods are disclosed for increasing efficiency of read operations by selectively adding pages from a pagelist to a batch, such that when the batch is executed as a read operation, each page in the batch can be concurrently accessed. The pagelist can include all the pages associated a read command received, for example, from a file system. Although the pages associated with the read command may have an original read order sequence, embodiments according to this invention re-order this original read order sequence by selectively adding pages to a batch. A page is added to the batch if it does not collide with any other page already added to the batch. A page collides with another page if neither page can be accessed simultaneously. One or more batches can be constructed in this manner until the pagelist is empty. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198126 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING SELECTIVE BLOCK SWITCHING TO PERFORM READ OPERATIONS IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - Systems and methods are disclosed for increasing efficiency of read operations by minimizing the number of block switching events necessary to read each page associated with a read command. According to embodiments of this invention, for any given block containing one or more pages that need to be read for a read command, each of those one or more pages is read before switching to another block, thereby eliminating potential time penalties in switching between blocks. A block switching module according to embodiments of the invention instructs a NVM controller to read all relevant pages out of a given block even if an original read order sequence of the pages to be read would otherwise normally cause NVM controller to switch to another block. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198127 | COMPOSITE SOLID STATE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM - A composite solid state drive control system, composed of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) formed by SD Cards, and multi-channel Flash Memory. Wherein, at least a RAID control unit combines a plurality of relatively inexpensive SD Cards into a set of redundant arrays of independent disks (RAIDs), so that its storage capacity can reach or even surpass a costly and huge capacity SD Card. Through controlling data transmission and accessing between at least a flash memory control unit and at least a SD Card control unit, data read and write speeds can be increased, and back-up redundant data can be made, hereby achieving stable operations of an electronic computing device by means of highly stable Flash Memory. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198128 | CONTROL ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING BLOCK ORIENTED NONVOLATILE MEMORY - A read/write arrangement is described for use in accessing at least one nonvolatile memory device in read/write operations with the memory device being made up of a plurality of memory cells which memory cells are organized as a set of pages that are physically and sequentially addressable with each page having a page length such that a page boundary is defined between successive ones of the pages in the set. The read/write arrangement includes a control arrangement that is configured to store and access a group of data blocks that is associated with a given write operation in a successive series of pages of the memory such that at least an initial page in the series is filled and each block includes a block length that is different than the page length. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198129 | AT LEAST SEMI-AUTONOMOUS MODULES IN A MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHODS - A memory system for digital data communication with a host device is described to provide data storage capacity. The system can include a controller and a plurality of modules, each module including a nonvolatile memory device wherein the module is configured to perform a management function with respect to the module at least partially based on a parameter. The parameter is provided by the controller and/or the module. The system and modules, in one feature, can support multiple forms of concurrency with respect to data accesses involving the modules. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198130 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A package controller of a flash package, upon receiving an update data write request with respect to a first logical storage area corresponding to a first LU that is treated as a backup target, manages a first physical storage area as a backup storage area in a state where pre-update data is maintained, newly allocates a second physical storage area to the first logical storage area, and writes the update data to the second physical storage area. The package controller, upon receiving an update data write request with respect to a second logical storage area corresponding to a second LU that is treated as a non-backup target, manages a third physical storage area allocated to the second logical storage area as an invalid storage area, and writes the update data to a fourth physical storage area newly allocated to the second logical storage area. The package controller performs control so as to use the first physical storage area to provide backup data for the first LU, and delete pre-update data stored in the third physical storage area. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198131 | DATA WRITING METHOD FOR REWRITABLE NON-VOLATILE MEMORY, AND MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A data writing method for writing data into physical blocks of a memory storage apparatus, and a memory controller and a memory storage apparatus using the same are provided, the physical blocks are grouped into a plurality of physical units. The method includes switching the speed mode of the memory storage apparatus into a first speed mode or a second speed mode according to a command and a work frequency received from a host system. The method also includes selecting a first writing mode to write the data into the physical units when the speed mode is the first speed mode. The method further includes selecting a second writing mode to write the data into the physical units when the speed mode is the second speed mode. Accordingly, the method can effectively shorten the time of executing a write command from the host system. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198132 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF - A non-volatile memory system includes a memory area including one or more non-volatile memory apparatuses, and a controller includes a buffer for storing program data, and is configured to transmit a program command and the program data to the memory area and delete the program data stored in the buffer as a program operation is started in the memory area. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198133 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH EXPANDABLE MEMORY CAPACITY AND AN EXPANSION METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a processor, an internal memory for storing system information and installing programs, and a memory expansion interface for connecting an expansion memory. The expansion memory is partitioned into at least one region to expand the internal memory. The internal memory is partitioned into a system region and a user region; the system region is used to store system information while the user region can be controlled and used by a user. The processor further includes a detection unit and a memory management unit. The detection unit detects the connection of the expansion memory to the memory expansion interface, and the memory management unit determines whether the expansion memory has been previously configured to expand the internal memory, and if not, the memory management unit associates the expansion memory with the internal memory to expand the internal memory. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198134 | MEMORY CONTROL APPARATUS THAT CONTROLS DATA WRITING INTO STORAGE, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A memory control apparatus capable of preventing the performance from being lowered at the time of data deletion. The memory control apparatus includes a CPU and a storage controller of a main controller and includes a memory controller of an SSD of the main controller. The memory controller selectively performs first write processing to write data into a flash memory of the SSD or second write processing to write data into the flash memory after unnecessary data recorded in the flash memory is deleted. In a case where a deletion mode to delete unnecessary data is set, the CPU causes the memory controller to perform the second write processing, if the capacity of data to be written exceeds a predetermined data capacity. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198135 | Mapping Data to Non-Volatile Memory - The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to non-volatile memory. A described system, for example, includes a non-volatile memory structure having a plurality of multi-level memory cells, a processing device, and a controller. The controller is configured to map a first portion of a first set of consecutive bits of a data segment to a first page associated with the plurality of multi-level memory cells, and map a second portion of the first set of consecutive bits of the data segment to a second page associated with the plurality of multi-level memory cells. The first page is associated with bits of a first significance, and the second page is associated with bits of a second significance. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198136 | FLASH BACKED DRAM MODULE INCLUDING LOGIC FOR ISOLATING THE DRAM - A memory device for use with a primary power source including: non-volatile memory; volatile memory; an interface for connecting to a backup power source; isolation logic for controlling access to the volatile memory by a host processor, said isolation logic having a first mode during which the isolation logic provides the host processor with access to the volatile memory for storing or reading data and a second mode during which the isolation logic isolates the volatile memory from access by the host processor; and a controller controlling the isolation logic, said controller programmed to place the isolation logic in the first mode when the volatile memory is being powered by the primary power source and, when power to the volatile memory from the primary power source is interrupted, to place the isolation logic in the second mode and transfer data from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198137 | Logical-to-Physical Address Translation for a Removable Data Storage Device - A method for making memory more reliable involves accessing data stored in a removable storage device by translating a logical memory address provided by a host digital device to a physical memory address in the device. A logical memory address is received from the host digital device. The logical memory address corresponds to a location of data stored on the removable storage device. A physical memory address corresponding to the local address is determined by accessing a lookup table corresponding to the logical zone. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198138 | Managing Memory Systems Containing Components with Asymmetric Characteristics - A memory controller (MC) is associated with a remapping table to enable access to content in a memory system that includes asymmetric memory. The MC receives a request for a memory read or an Input/Output (I/O) write from a central processing unit (CPU) for a physical address specified by the system's memory management unit (MMU). The CPU uses the MMU to manage memory operations for the CPU, by translating the virtual addresses associated with CPU instructions into physical addresses representing system memory or I/O locations. The MC for asymmetric memories is configured to process the MMU-specified physical addresses as an additional type of virtual addresses, creating a layer of abstraction between the physical address specified by the MMU and the physical memory address with which that address is associated by the MC. The MC shields the CPU from the computational complexities required to implement a memory system with asymmetric components. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198139 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DEDUPLICATION METHOD - This storage device performs deduplication of eliminating duplicated data by storing a logical address of one or more corresponding logical unit memory areas in a prescribed management information storage area of a physical unit memory area defined in the storage area provided by the flash memory chip, and executes a reclamation process of managing a use degree as the total number of the logical addresses used stored in the management information storage area and a duplication degree as the number of valid logical addresses corresponding to the physical unit memory area for each of the physical unit memory areas, and returning the physical unit memory area to an unused status when the difference of the use degree and the duplication degree exceeds a default value in the physical unit memory area. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198140 | ASYMMETRIC MEMORY MIGRATION IN HYBRID MAIN MEMORY - Main memory is managed by receiving a command from an application to read data associated with a virtual address that is mapped to the main memory. A memory controller determines that the virtual address is mapped to one of the symmetric memory components of the main memory, and accesses memory use characteristics indicating how the data associated with the virtual address has been accessed, The memory controller determines that the data associated with the virtual address has access characteristics suited to an asymmetric memory component of the main memory and loads the data associated with the virtual address to the asymmetric memory component of the main memory. After the loading and using the memory management unit, a command is received from the application to read the data associated with the virtual address, and the data associated with the virtual address is retrieved from the asymmetric memory component. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120198141 | INTEGRATING DATA FROM SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC MEMORY - Data stored within symmetric and asymmetric memory components of main memory is integrated by identifying a first data as having access characteristics suitable for storing in an asymmetric memory component. The first data is included among a collection of data to be written to the asymmetric memory component. An amount of data is identified within the collection of data to be written to the asymmetric memory component. The amount of data is compared within the collection of data to a volume threshold to determine whether a block write to the asymmetric memory component is justified by the amount of data. If justified, the collection of data is loaded to the asymmetric memory component. | 2012-08-02 |
