35th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100223509 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF NOTIFICATION OF A FAULT OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND FAULT NOTIFICATION PROGRAM - An information processing system includes an electronic device and an information processing unit. The electronic device includes a fault detection unit; a data generating unit for generating, as data, the content of the detected fault; a data dividing unit for dividing the generated data into plural division data in the case where the data exceeds a predetermined capacity; a data compression unit for compressing each of the plural division data; an identification information adding unit for adding identification information to each of the plural compressed division data; and a data transmission unit for transmitting the plural compressed division data with the identification information. The information processing unit includes a data receiving unit for receiving the plural compressed division data, and a data restoration unit for restoring the plural compressed division data into original data based on the identification information. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223510 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, NONVOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM, AND DEFECT MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A life parameter generator generates life parameters related to the life of a nonvolatile memory device by using parameters related to allowable capacity for memory defect and occurrence capacity for memory defect. The life parameters are stored in a life parameter storing block of a nonvolatile memory. An access device reads and displays the stored life parameters. Thus, the user can precisely know the life of the nonvolatile memory device or the moment when a device having a built in nonvolatile memory such as a portable audio becomes unusable. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223511 | AT-SPEED BITMAPPING IN A MEMORY BUILT-IN SELF-TEST BY LOCKING AN N-TH FAILURE - In a sophisticated semiconductor device including a large memory portion, a built-in self-test circuitry comprises a failure capturing logic that allows the capturing of a bitmap at a given instant in time without being limited to specific operating conditions in view of interfacing with external test equipment. Thus, although pipeline processing may be required due to the high speed operation during the self-test, reliable capturing of the bitmap may be achieved while maintaining high fault coverage of the test algorithm under consideration. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223512 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MEMORY BUILT IN SELF TESTING USING MICROCODE SEQUENCERS - Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for performing Built-In Self Tests (BIST) on memories. One such BIST includes loading microcode instructions into a main microcode sequencer and loading subroutine instructions into a subroutine microcode sequencer on the memory. The microcode instructions generate subroutine calls to the subroutine microcode sequencer. The subroutine instructions generate memory operation codes, address codes, and data codes for testing the memory device. BIST addresses are generated in response to the memory operation codes and the address codes. BIST data are generated in response to the memory operation codes and the data codes. Conventional memory commands are created by generating command signals, address signals, and data signals for the memory in response to the memory operation codes, the BIST data, and the BIST addresses. Test results output data may be stored in a data checker in the form of information stored in data registers or checksum registers. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223513 | LATENCY DETECTION IN A MEMORY BUILT-IN SELF-TEST BY USING A PING SIGNAL - In a complex semiconductor device including embedded memories, the round trip latency may be determined during a memory self-test by applying a ping signal having the same latency as control and failure signals used during the self-test. The ping signal may be used for controlling an operation counter in order to obtain a reliable correspondence between the counter value and a memory operation causing a specified memory failure. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223514 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a determination circuit that generates a determination signal by determining an error of read data read out from a memory cell array, and an I/O circuit that outputs the read data or the determination signal to outside via a data input/output terminal. The I/O circuit outputs the read data to outside at a first timing in a normal: operation mode, and in a test mode, outputs the determination signal to outside at a second timing later than the first timing. A difference between the first timing and the second timing is an integer times of a cycle of a clock signal. In this way, the determination signal can be correctly output in the test mode, because an output timing of the determination signal is controlled to be delayed from an output timing of the read data within the device. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223515 | TESTING OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THAT CONTAINS SECRET INFORMATION - An integrated circuit ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100223516 | Dynamically Reconfigurable Shared Scan-In Test Architecture - A low overhead dynamically reconfigurable shared scan-in test architecture is provided. This test architecture advantageously allows for changing scan inputs during the scan operation on a per shift basis. The flexibility of reconfiguring the scan input to scan chain mapping every shift cycle can advantageously reduce both test data volume and test application time. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223517 | ADAPTING SCAN-BIST ARCHITECTURES FOR LOW POWER OPERATION - A Scan-BIST architecture is adapted into a low power Scan-BIST architecture. A generator | 2010-09-02 |
20100223518 | Diagnostic mode switching - A system is described having a JTAG diagnostic unit and a serial wire diagnostic unit. A watcher unit is connected to a data connection shared between the diagnostic units. Special patterns detected upon the shared data connection serve to switch between diagnostic modes with respective ones of the diagnostic units becoming active. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223519 | COMPACT JTAG ADAPTER - A system and method for sharing a communications link between multiple protocols is described. A system includes a communications interface configured to exchange information with other systems using at least one of a plurality of protocols; a protocol select register that stores a value that selects a protocol from among the plurality of protocols to become an active protocol; and a state machine accessible to the communications interface, the state machine used to control the exchange of information through the communications interface according to the active protocol. The active protocol is used by the communications interface to exchange information while the remaining protocols of the plurality of protocols remain inactive. The state machine sequences through a series of states that cause the communications interface to operate according to the active protocol, and that are designated as inert sequences under the remaining protocols. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223520 | Error Detection in an Integrated Circuit - An electronic device includes an integrated circuit operating on the basis of an operating clock signal, an error detection circuit and a control circuit coupled to the error detection circuit. The control circuit is configured to increase the frequency of the operating clock signal starting from a nominal operating frequency of the integrated circuit, to evaluate a frequency increment at which an error is detected by the error detection circuit, and to reset the frequency of the operating clock signal to said nominal frequency. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223521 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving broadcast data in a mobile communication system - A method and apparatus for transmitting a broadcast physical layer packet in a mobile communication system supporting multi-slot transmission and hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ) are provided. The method comprises initially transmitting the broadcast physical layer packet according to a fixed transmission format for at least one first slot interval and retransmitting the broadcast physical layer packet for at least one second slot interval using a variable transmission format different from the transmission format used in the first slot interval. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223522 | STATE DEPENDENT ADVANCED RECEIVER PROCESSING IN A WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICE - A method for receiver processing in a 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) receiver processing chain in a wireless mobile device is provided. LTE initial sub-frame transmitted from a base station is received on a LTE signalling channel. The sub-frame is received using a basic receiver. An integrity check is performed to determine if the sub-frame was demodulated and decoded correctly by the basic receiver. An advanced receiver is enabled prior to receiving an expected retransmission sub-frame based upon the integrity check failing and a hybrid-acknowledgement request (HARQ) negative acknowledgement (NAK) being sent by the wireless mobile device. The retransmission sub-frame is received using the advanced receiver. The basic receiver is enabled when the integrity check of the retransmission sub-frame passes and a acknowledgement (ACK) is by the wireless mobile device or a new data indicator (NDI) is set in a control channel indicating that the transmission is an initial transmission. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223523 | COMMUNICATION RETRANSMISSION BASED ON TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE RELATIVE TO EXPECTED QUALITY OF SERVICE - A method of communication retransmission based on performance relative to an expected quality of service is presented. In the method, data packets associated with the expected quality of service are transmitted. The transmission performance associated with the transmission of the data packets is determined in relation to the expected quality of service. A maximum number of retransmissions for one of the data packets to be transmitted is selected based on the transmission performance. The one of the data packets is transmitted using the communication retransmission scheme limited by the selected maximum number of retransmissions. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223524 | Forward Error Correction Decoding Avoidance Based on Predicted Code Block Reliability - A method and device for performing forward error (FEC) correction avoidance based upon predicted block code reliability in a communications device is provided. An avoidance unit comprising a metric computation unit and a decision unit generates a reliability metric based upon a received code block. The reliability metric is compared to a reliability threshold, and the forward error correction decoder in the communications device is disabled if the metric is below or equal to the threshold. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223525 | ERROR DETECTION DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - A first error detection for a first data word is performed using a first error correction code associated with the first data word. In response to the first error detection indicating a first uncorrectable error at the first data word based upon the first error correction code, a second error detection for a plurality of data words including the first data word and a second data word is performed using a second error correction code based upon the first and second data words. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL CODING AND MODULATION FOR UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION IN TRANSMITTING UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO OVER WIDEBAND HIGH FREQUENCY WIRELESS SYSTEM - An Unequal Error Protection (UEP) transmission apparatus comprises a bit separator unit configured to, when video data are received, separate pixels of the video data into Most Significant Bits (MSBs) and Least Significant Bits (LSBs) according to a degree of importance on a pixel-component basis; a header generation unit configured to create an MSB sub-frame and a LSB sub-frame based on the respective MSBs and LSBs and create an MSB Medium Access Control (MAC) sub-frame and a LSB MAC sub-frame to which respective headers are added; and a channel coding unit configured to create a channel-encoded MSB data and a channel-encoded LSB data by performing error correction encodings corresponding to the respective MSB MAC sub-frame and LSB MAC sub-frame and add padding bits, corresponding to the respective channel-encoded MSB data and channel-encoded LSB data, to the channel-encoded MSB data and channel-encoded LSB data. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223527 | DATA PROTECTION CIRCUIT, DATA PROTECTION METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A generation unit in a data protection circuit acquires input data from one position on a path that outputs the input data as output data, and generates a second error detecting code. A check unit acquires the input data from another position on the path that is closer to an output side than the acquiring position in the generation unit, and checks the input data using a first error detecting code. Further, a connection unit connects the acquiring position in the generation unit and the acquiring position in the check unit so that the input data is acquired by the check unit subsequent to acquirement by the generation unit. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223528 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST DATA - A DTV transmitting system includes an encoder, a randomizer, a block processor, a group formatter, a deinterleaver, and a packet formatter. The encoder codes enhanced data for error correction, permutes the coded data, and further codes the permuted data for error detection. The randomizer randomizes the coded enhanced data, and the block processor codes the randomized data at an effective coding rate of 1/H. The group formatter forms a group of enhanced data having data regions, and inserts the coded enhanced data into at least one of the data regions. The deinterleaver deinterleaves the group of enhanced data, and the packet formatter formats the deinterleaved data into corresponding data bytes. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223529 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM USING TWO OR MORE CODING SCHEMES - A communication method includes causing a transmitter to apply error correcting or detecting code systems to multiple frames or packets and to transmit the multiple frames or packets in succession, causing a receiver to receive the transmitted frames or packets and to decode each of the frames or packets received, and causing the receiver to send an acknowledgment signal to the transmitter on the basis of the results of decoding of the frames or packets. The transmitter applies two or more error correcting or detecting code systems to the frames or packets. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223530 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a semiconductor memory device and a data processing method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory stores data a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller rearranges data by various operations such as a modulation code operation and processes the data according to an ECC operation to reduce the interference between the memory cells. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223531 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE - A semiconductor storage includes a receiver configured to receive a write request from a host device; a storage unit configured to hold redundancy data generation/non-generation information; a writing unit configured to write data in a semiconductor memory array and write redundancy data generation/non-generation information of the written data in the storage unit; a first data extracting unit configured to extract data whose redundancy data is not generated from among the data held by the semiconductor memory array; a first redundancy data generating unit configured to generate redundancy data; a first redundancy data writing unit configured to write the generated redundancy data in the semiconductor memory array; and a first redundancy data generation/non-generation information updating unit configured to update the redundancy data generation/non-generation information of the data whose redundancy data held by the storage unit is generated. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223532 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS USING REDUNDANT ERROR CORRECTION CODE BIT STORAGE - A device, e.g., a semiconductor memory device, includes a plurality of memory cells, each configured to store at least one data bit and a plurality of error correction code (ECC) cells configured to redundantly store ECC bits for the memory cells. According to some embodiments, the plurality of ECC cells includes a plurality of pairs of ECC cells configured to store an ECC bit and a complement thereof. According to further embodiments, the plurality of ECC cells includes a plurality of groups of at least three ECC cells configured to store identical copies of an ECC bit. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223533 | MOBILE RECEPTION OF DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING-TERRESTRIAL SERVICES - A method of protecting data with application layer forward error correction in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes first devices with legacy receivers and second devices with FEC-enabled receivers, operation of the legacy receivers is not affected by the application layer forward error correction, and the method includes: determining a duration period; assembling packets of source data into source blocks corresponding to the duration period, each source block comprising a number of packets of source data; encoding the source blocks to generate encoded blocks, each encoded block comprising a number of packets of repair data; and transmitting the packets of repair data. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223534 | Code Block Reordering Prior to Forward Error Correction Decoding Based On Predicted Code Block Reliability - Method and a receiver in a communication system for receiving a transport block. The transport block comprises code blocks, each of the code blocks includes an error detection code and an error correction code. Reliability metrics are determined using an input generated during processing of the code blocks after the transport block is received. Each of the reliability metrics corresponds to each of the code blocks. A code block reorderer reorders the code blocks in an order based on the reliability metrics and a selection criterion. A decoder decodes each of the code blocks using the error correction code in the order. A verifier verifies each of the decoded code blocks using the error detection code. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DATA - The embodiments of the present invention provide a data coding method. In this data coding method, a synchronization header is added to the data that has undergone line coding and FEC coding, and then the data is framed and sent out. The embodiments of the present invention also provide the corresponding data decoding method, data coding apparatus, and data decoding apparatus. Because the redundant information for synchronization is added, the synchronization performance of the transmission system is ensured effectively even if the algorithm selected in the line coding provides low redundancy; moreover, the added synchronization header does not participate in the FEC coding calculation, thus preventing impact on the FEC coding gain. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223536 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - A DTV transmitting system includes two pre-processors. The first pre-processor codes high-priority enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expands the FEC-coded data. The second pre-processor codes low-priority enhanced data for FEC and expands the FEC-coded low-priority enhanced data. The DTV transmitting system further includes a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the pre-processed data, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, an RS encoder RS-coding the multiplexed data packets, a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded data packets, and a block processor which codes each block of enhanced data in the interleaved enhanced data packets and bypasses the interleaved main data packets. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223537 | Method and System for Decoding Video, Voice, and Speech Data Using Redundancy - A method and system for decoding video, voice, and/or speech data using redundancy and physical constraints are presented. Video, voice, and/or speech bit sequences may be decoded in a multilayer process based on a decoding algorithm and at least one physical constraint. For voice applications, the decoding algorithm may be based on the Viterbi algorithm. At least one estimated bit sequence may be selected by performing searches that start from trellis junctions determined during by the decoding algorithm. The estimated bit sequences may be selected based on corresponding redundancy verification parameters. At least one physical constraint test may be performed on the selected estimated bit sequences to select a decoded output bit sequence. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223538 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DECODING CODED DATA - A memory card including a word line control portion configured to perform control of applying intermediate voltages made up of a first intermediate voltage lower than a center voltage of four threshold voltage distributions and a second intermediate voltage higher than the center voltage to the memory cell, a logarithmic likelihood ratio table memory portion configured to store 9-level logarithmic likelihood ratios based on read voltages, and a decoder configured to perform decoding processing on the data read using the logarithmic likelihood ratio stored in the logarithmic likelihood ratio table memory portion. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223539 | HIGH EFFICIENCY, HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FOR WRITING DATA FROM APPLICATIONS TO A SAFE FILE SYSTEM - Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of data storage processes for high performance, high core number computing systems. In one embodiment, the systems of the present invention perform sequential I/O whenever possible. To achieve a high degree of sequentiality, the block allocation scheme is determined by the next available block on the next available disk. This simple, non-deterministic data placement method is extremely effective for providing sequential data streams to the spindle by minimizing costly seeks. The sequentiality of the allocation scheme is not affected by the number of clients, the degree of randomization within the incoming data streams, the logical byte addresses of incoming request's file extents, or the RAID attributes (i.e., parity position) of the block. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING UPPER LAYER PROTOCOL MESSAGE BOUNDARIES - Systems and methods that identify the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) message boundaries are provided. In one example, a method that identifies ULP message boundaries is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: attaching a framing header of a frame to a data payload to form a packet, the framing header being placed immediately after the byte stream transport protocol header, the framing header comprising a length field comprising a length of a framing protocol data unit (PDU); and inserting a marker in the packet, the marker pointing backwards to the framing header and being inserted at a preset interval. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223541 | AUTOMATED AND USER CUSTOMIZABLE CONTENT RETRIEVAL FROM A COLLECTION OF LINKED DOCUMENTS TO A SINGLE TARGET DOCUMENT - A user initiated unification command can be received from a user interface. The unification command can be associated with a selected portion of a fragmented document. The fragmented document can include more than one discrete documents interconnected by at least one reference. Each reference can be a linkage to content of a document other than the one containing the reference. The selected portion can be associated with one of the discrete documents referred to as a root document. Responsive to the unification command, content represented by the reference can be acquired from the associated discrete documents without presenting the discrete document within a user interface window. The acquired content can be added to the root document. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223542 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PINNED BOOKMARKS - A method, apparatus and system for producing pinned bookmarks is provided. Hardware components of a computing device are enabled to process a browser application for retrieving browser data from a remote computing device and control a display device to display at least a first representation of the browser data. Positional data indicative of a selection of a portion of the first representation of the browser data displayed at the display device is received. The positional data is stored in the memory device in association with at least one identifier of the browser data and at least a subset of the portion. Independent of the status of the browser application, the data stored in the memory device can be retrieved and the display device can be controlled to provide a pinned bookmark representation of the at least one identifier and at least a segment of the at least the subset, such that the at least a subset can be identified and selected, and that upon selection of the at least a subset, the browser data can be requested and received via the at least one identifier, and the display device can be controlled, using the positional data, to provide a second representation of the browser data, the second representation including the portion. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223543 | Automating Interrogative Population of Electronic Forms Using a Real-Time Communication Platform - A computer-implemented method of obtaining form data can include selecting a control from within an electronic form, determining a textual representation of the control, and sending the textual representation of the control as part of a message to a client messaging system through a real-time communication system. A response message from the client messaging system can be received through the real-time communication system. Form data specified by the response message can be stored within memory when the form data is valid, as specified according to the electronic form. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223544 | REMOTELY CONTROLLING A BROWSER PROGRAM - In a method for remotely controlling a browser program executed on a source computer from a target computer, wherein the browser program generates a browser window ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100223545 | IP Multimedia Subsystem Service Configuration - A method of controlling the presentation of user changeable IP Multimedia Subsystem service conditions at a user terminal, where service conditions are defined within an XML document maintained within the IP Multimedia Subsystem network. The method comprises including within the XML document one or more informational elements identifying those conditions that the user can change and, upon receipt of the XML document or a fragment thereof at the user terminal, interpreting said informational element(s) and presenting to the subscriber only those conditions that can be changed. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223546 | OPTIMIZED SEARCH RESULT COLUMNS ON SEARCH RESULTS PAGES - Computer-implemented system and methods are disclosed for optimizing the relative positions of sponsored and organic search results on a search results page displayed to a user, including calculating, by a search engine, a degree of commerciality of a search query; receiving the search query from a user by the search engine; and delivering, by the search engine to a browser of a user, a plurality of sponsored search results in at least two columns and a plurality of organic search results in at least a third column of one or more search results pages, wherein a layout of the at least three columns depends on the degree of commerciality of the search query. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED ADDRESS ENTRY - An improved system and method for address entry are provided for a user to enter a plurality of addresses into a recipient field of an electronic communication composition application. According to embodiments described herein, an auto-complete list is generated based on an input indicative of at least a portion of a current recipient address and is additionally based on a previously entered recipient address, and the auto-complete list is then displayed. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223548 | METHOD FOR INTRODUCING INTERACTION PATTERN AND APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITIES - The invention describes a method for introducing interaction pattern and/or functionalities of a plurality of cations ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100223549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES USING A DISPLAY - A method is disclosed for controlling an electronic device, the method including but not limited to electronically identifying a first remote control device for a first electronic device at a multimedia processor end user device; accessing specification data for the first remote control device for determining functions available on the first remote control device; displaying an image of a second remote control on the display for the multimedia processor end user device; mapping a set of remote control functions available on the first remote control device to a set of function keys on the second remote control display; and highlighting a function key on the image of the second remote control to which a function performed by a selected function key on the first remote control is mapped. A system and computer program product are disclosed for performing the method. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223550 | APPRATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER IN UNDERSTANDING CONTENT - An assisting apparatus, method and computer program that assists a user in understanding content. The assisting apparatus includes a history storing unit that stores a history of assistance settings set up by the user for each of a plurality of pieces of content already accessed by the user, a retrieval unit that, when the user accesses content, retrieves the history of assistance settings stored in the history storing unit in association with the accessed content, and a setting-up unit that sets up one of assisting functions that assists the user in understanding the accessed content, on the basis of the history of assistance settings retrieved by the retrieval unit. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223551 | PROVIDING COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE DATA WITH MAP DATA - Disclosed are methods and systems for downloading map data. A database of layers of map data is maintained. The map data may be representative of at least one map image of a geographic area. Each layer may provide progressively more detailed display information. Map data is downloaded to a client computer, and the may data may be sufficient to allow a user to navigate within a geographic area without requiring new map data to be downloaded. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223552 | Playback Device For Generating Sound Events - A system configured to capture and/or produce a sound event generated by a plurality of sound sources. In particular, the system may be configured such that the capture, processing, and/or output for sound production of sound objects associated with separate ones of the sound sources may be controlled on an individual based. This discretized control over the sound objects may enhance various aspects of productions of the sound event by systems that do not capture, process and/or output sounds from different sound sources in a manner that maintains the discrete nature of the sound sources. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223553 | Multi-Media Center for Computing Systems - Various “media-components” are provided in a “multi-media center.” In modular architecture, a module-controller communicates with media-modules provided for various media-components. A media-module can include or obtain data pertaining to a particular media-component, identify media-player(s), and access information related to their media. However, the media-modules are isolated from each other, and the module-controller effectively controls output generated in response to user input. A user interface library is provided for the media-modules. Media-modules can obtain a template or other tools from the library and construct their user interface (e.g., menus). Media-modules can also identify a media-player that can be initiated in response to user input. Subsequently, the media-controller forwards user input to the media-player. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223554 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS - Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223555 | Environment Independent User Preference Communication - Included are embodiments of a method for communicating user preferences to at least one environment. At least one embodiment includes receiving a request from an environment for preference information related to a user and receiving a user identifier from the environment, the user identifier obtained via a portable user device. Other embodiments include determining at least one user preference related to the user, determining capabilities related to the environment, and communicating at least one user preference to the environment. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223556 | OPERATIONAL STATUS DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING APPARATUS - In an analyzing system including a plurality of analyzing apparatuses and an operational status collector for collecting the analyzing apparatus' operational status by way of a data communication network, each status of the plurality of analyzing apparatuses is conventionally displayed in the form of a list. This causes a problem that there is no knowing the installation position of an actual analyzing apparatus from a client for analysis which is installed separately from the analyzing apparatus. In the operational status display system for an analyzing apparatus according to the present invention, an analyzing apparatus arrangement image is displayed in which the arrangement positions of the analyzing apparatuses are illustrated with apparatus images. The user can easily grasp the actual arrangement position of an analyzing apparatus. Alternatively, each analyzing apparatus' operational status may be displayed on the apparatus image. With this configuration, it is possible to know each analyzing apparatus' operational status. Furthermore, a click of an apparatus image may display a detail setting window, which can smooth the control operation. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223557 | Method and system for workflow integration - A system including a central server and a database for performing Intellectual Property (IP) management workflow processes is provided for creating, defining, and performing IP related workflow process. IP workflow routines present via a graphical user interface workflow screens to facilitate the exchange of data and instructions. An administration module is used to create authorized user accounts and assign roles and privileges involved in execution of IP workflow routines. A workflow creation module generates a user interface to facilitate creation of a user-defined IP workflow routine having user-defined workflow tasks to process IP related data received via user interface workflow screens. An IP management application may access, process and modify IP related data stored at the database while the IP workflow routines access and process IP related data stored at the database simultaneously with execution of the IP management application. Task modifiers associated with user-defined workflow tasks further define workflow routine operation. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223558 | REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTION TO ANY PRIVATE DESKTOP TO TAM E-SSO ACCESS AGENT - A method for enabling a client computer to remotely connect to any existing user desktop hosted under a window session in a host computer is provided. The method includes receiving user credentials in a first user interface of an access managing application; and inserting master credentials into a second user interface of an authentication system in response to the first user interface receiving the user credentials enabling the session to switch from the host computer to the client computer without deleting any existing user desktops in the host computer. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223559 | TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING STRUCTURED ACCOUNTING DATA WITH UNSTRUCTURED DATA - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for integrating structured accounting data with unstructured data. From an application that manages structured accounting data related to an entity, a user selection is received to create a document container for a collaboration tool. The document container is used for storing unstructured data related to the entity. In response to the selection of the create option, a site creation service is launched for automatically creating the document container using settings previously specified by an administrator on a configuration screen of the application. Once the document container is created, unstructured data related to the entity is stored in the document container. The user can view and navigate between the structured accounting data and unstructured data without having to leave the application. Unstructured data is automatically published to the document container for the entity as users interact with the application. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION FOR COMPONENT APPLICATIONS - An application gateway server is provided for managing communication between an application executing in a runtime environment on a device and at least one backend server. The application gateway server comprises a message listener, a connector subsystem, and a messaging subsystem. The message listener receives messages from the component applications. The connector subsystem comprises a plurality of connectors, each of the plurality of connectors for communicating with one or more associated backend servers. The messaging subsystem comprises a message broker for processing messages received from the message listener and transmitting them to an associated one of the plurality of connectors and a communication mapping for identifying which of the plurality of connectors is to be used for each message in accordance with an origin of the message. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223561 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SIMPLIFY MESSAGE COMPOSITION - A method and device to simplify message reply composition on a communications device, using a partially transparent overlay to allow a user to freely scroll and move around to other sections of a message or message chain while still being able to see and edit the reply being composed. When the reply is scrolled such that the composition field is not visible on the display screen, the device displays the overlay when the user enters text or on user request. The user may then type text into the overlay while viewing the underlying portion of the reply message, such as previous messages in the string. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223562 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCH REQUEST MANAGEMENT - A computer apparatus for generating a graphical user interface on a display screen, the graphical user interface has:
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20100223563 | REMOTELY DEFINING A USER INTERFACE FOR A HANDHELD DEVICE - In some embodiments, a host computer can be used by a user to arrange icons among a plurality of home screens or views. For example, a representation of each of the home screens available at a handheld device can be displayed on a host computer along with a representation of the available icons usable at the handheld device. A user can select representation of icons at the host computer and arrange the icons among the representations of the home screens. Icons and/or home screens can be added and/or removed. The arrangement created by the user at the host computer display can be sent to the handheld device when completed. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223564 | Automatically Merging Graphical Programs - System and method for merging differences between graphical programs. Information is received regarding matches and differences, e.g., in hardware, software, configuration, and/or connectivity, between first and second graphical programs, each comprising respective pluralities of interconnected nodes. The information is analyzed to merge differences between the first and second graphical programs, e.g., for each difference: removing all non-common nodes and connections thereto in the second sub-graph from the second graphical program, adding all common nodes and connections thereto in the first sub-graph to the second graphical program, determining all edges in the first sub-graph that connect common nodes to non-common nodes; and for each determined edge, adding to the second graphical program an edge that connects a corresponding common node in the second sub-graph with a corresponding non-common node added from the first sub-graph. A merged graphical program is displayed on a display, e.g., graphically indicating the merged matches and/or differences. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223565 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN IMAGE EFFECTS INTERFACE - A method and system for generating user-accessible effects. The method includes receiving a library of operators, each operator including a set of operations performable on an image. The method includes receiving an effect definition from a designer via a graphical user interface, wherein the effect definition includes a set of operators from the library to be executed on a user-provided image and parameters associated with each operator. The method includes saving the effect definition to an accessible memory. The method includes uploading the effect definition to a servers wherein the effect definition is accessible to a user over a network. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223566 | Method and system for enabling interaction with a plurality of applications using a single user interface - A method for simultaneously interacting with a plurality of application programs is provided. Using a processor an application interaction program having a plurality of application programs associated therewith is executed. Interactive functionalities of the plurality of application programs are associated with respective interaction zones. An interactive functionality being a same for at least two application programs is associated with a single interaction zone. Display data indicative of a single user interface comprising the interaction zones are then generated. The interaction zones enable user interaction with the plurality of application programs. Using a graphical display connected to the processor the display data are displayed in a human comprehensible fashion. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223567 | DO-IT-YOURSELF BADGE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A system for generating customized badges. The system includes a computer, a printer coupled to the computer, a display coupled to the computer, and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium includes instructions for opening a badge profile, providing a data entry screen based on the profile, receiving data in the data entry screen, and printing customized badges on the printer based on the received data. The badge profile defines a size, type, and location of data to be printed on the customized badges. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223568 | IMAGE COLLAGE BUILDER - A computer-implemented method includes providing a collage layout comprising one or more image receiving areas on a user interface, moving an image symbol representing a digital image into a first image receiving area in the collage layout; and storing a data structure comprising digital data associated with the digital image and digital data defining the one or more image receiving areas in the collage layout. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223569 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NOTIFICATION ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for providing a notification on a portable electronic device includes: providing an application for managing events that is associated with an icon and executable by a processor and rendering a visually modified icon corresponding to said icon for display on a display screen of the portable electronic device in response to occurrence of a new event. The visually modified icon includes a counter for indicating a number of new events and when the number of new events is zero, the processor of the portable electronic device fails to render the visually modified icon for display on the display screen. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MODEL CONTENT STATE AND ACCESS CONTROL IN BACKEND-SYSTEMS AND BUSINESS PROCESSES - A method to model and change the state of associated content objects from one or more workflow and task management systems is provided. The method includes overlaying a business process model associated with a graphical content state overlay. A state of the content objects changes accordingly when the business process instance proceeds. Access rights are forwarded from human tasks in a business process to an associated content object. Concurrent access rights that are forwarded from multiple systems are handled. The graphical content state overlay areas include an active state overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance is active, an assessed overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance is assessed, an approval/rejected overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance has received one of an approval decision and a rejection decision, and a state archived overlay to graphically indicate a business process instance has been archived. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCROLLING PAGES DISPLAYED ON A HANDHELD DEVICE - A page flip mechanism and method for a handheld device. According to an embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to work in conjunction with a pointing device on the handheld device to flip or advance a document page by page. According to an embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to display the document based on page breaks in the document. According to another embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to display the document based on page boundaries corresponding to the display area. According to another aspect, the page flip mechanism is configured for a page select mode of operation. According to another aspect, the page flip mechanism is configured for a zoom mode of operation. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223572 | Creating Manager Views In An Employee Compensation System - Systems, methods, and software applications for setting up manager views of a compensation management page are described in the present disclosure. According to one embodiment, among many, a computer readable medium is configured to store instructions that are executable by a processing device. The computer readable medium in this embodiment includes logic adapted to enable a user to group a plurality of manager views, wherein the layouts of the pages are to be set up by the user. The computer readable medium further includes logic adapted to enable a user to define the layout of each of the plurality of manager views and logic adapted to enable a user to define one or more columns of each manager view. The user can set up and define the manager views without affecting actual compensation data. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223573 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROL FOR SAME, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is configured to execute a plurality of operations in parallel. A display unit displays a header identifying each operation in a plurality of operation on a display unit. A control unit switches a current operation based on selection of the header via an input unit and, when switching the current operation, controls display of suspension information to indicate a suspension state of a suspended operation on the header for the suspended operation in addition to the current operation. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223574 | Multi-Screen User Interface - A user interface and techniques for presenting content in a multiple virtual screens are described. The user interface has one or more multiple virtual screen to define separate and distinct portions of content data. Overview, related content information may be placed in the various multiple virtual screens. Navigation buttons facilitate movement from display of content information in one virtual screen to the display of content information in another virtual screen. With the bar navigation element, a user can intuitively move among the multiple virtual screens using just a single actuation (e.g., a single click of a mouse, or a stylus tap). The multiple virtual screens remain in their original orientation and relative positioning, and remain visible in the user interface so that the user can track their location. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223575 | User Interface for Providing Task Management and Calendar Information - An electronic “To-Do” bar is provided in which displayed upcoming tasks, meetings, appointments and the like. The electronic To-Do bar is displayed in a lightweight menu of tasks, meetings and appointments and is displayed persistently in addition to other software functionality or user interfaces displayed on a user's computer display screen according to other software applications or other software functionality in use. A user is presented with an always-visible list of upcoming tasks, meetings and appointments without the need to launch a separate tasks application or calendar application to view upcoming tasks, meetings or appointments. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223576 | ELECTRONIC DATA CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - A graphical user interface ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100223577 | DIGITAL MAP HAVING USER-DEFINED ZOOM AREAS - A digital geographic map affords a user the ability to selectively and simultaneously zoom in on multiple areas of the map. These zoomed areas are displayed as zoom windows, which are overlaid over the initial map. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223578 | POPULATING VARIABLE CONTENT SLOTS ON WEB PAGES - A respective novelty value is ascertained for each of multiple user-selectable contents. Each of the novelty values represents a level of newness of the respective user-selectable content in relation to the other user-selectable contents. A respective novelty decay value is calculated for each of the user-selectable contents as a decreasing function of the respective novelty value. A prioritization order of the user-selectable contents in respective prioritized positions on a web page is determined based on the novelty decay values. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223579 | IPHONE APPLICATION DISGUISER - A system and method is provided to hide one or more selected iPhone apps and provide secure access to the hidden apps. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223580 | DATA BROWSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - First type icon data containing one icon image per content item and second type icon data containing a plurality of icon images per content item are received and temporarily stored in a temporary storage unit. Among the icon data temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit, an icon image is read from each of one or a plurality of icon data items and displayed. In so doing, regarding the second type icon data among the icon data whose icon images are being displayed, a plurality of corresponding icon images are sequentially displayed by being sequentially read out of the temporary storage unit. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223581 | VISUALIZATION OF PARTICIPANT RELATIONSHIPS AND SENTIMENT FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Providing for graphical visualization of contextual information pertinent to electronic messaging is described herein. By way of example, contextual network usage information or messaging disposition can be determined for a set of participants to electronic communication. The contextual information is compiled into categories and organized at least as a function of category. The compiled data can be transformed into a visualization of user disposition or context and output to a user device as a multi-dimensional graphical rendering. By rendering contextual data graphically, the rich and diverse information available from usage histories, current user context and user dispositions can be output and consumed rapidly and efficiently, resulting in productive electronic interaction. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING MOVEMENTS OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT DATA - The disclosure relates to a system and method for analyzing movements of a handheld electronic device. The system comprises: memory; a microprocessor; a first module to generate movement data responsive to movements of the device, such as rotational movements; a second module providing instructions to the microprocessor to map the movement data against symbols representing an input movement string and store the string representation in the memory; and a third module. The third module provides instructions to the microprocessor to analyze data relating to the string representation against data relating to a gesture string representing a gesture related to a command for the device to determine if the gesture has been imparted on the device; and if the string representation sufficiently matches the gesture string, executes a command associated with the gesture on the device. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223583 | HIERARCHICAL FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR ELECTRICAL INTERACTION CALCULATIONS - A method of calculating electrical interactions of circuit elements in an integrated circuit layout without flattening the entire database that describes the layout. In one embodiment, a hierarchical database is analyzed and resistance and capacitance calculations made for a repeating pattern of elements are re-used at each instance of the repeated pattern and adjusted for local conditions. In another embodiment, a circuit layout is converted into a number of tiles, wherein the resistance and capacitance calculations made for the circuit elements in the center and a boundary region of the tiles are computed separately and combined. Environmental information that affects electrical interaction between circuit elements in different levels of hierarchy is calculated at a lower level of hierarchy so that such calculations do not need to be made for each placement of a repeated cell and so that not all interacting elements need to be promoted to the same hierarchy level to compute the electrical interactions. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223584 | Logic Design Verification Techniques for Liveness Checking With Retiming - A technique for verification of a retimed logic design using liveness checking includes assigning a liveness gate to a liveness property for an original netlist and assigning a fairness gate to a fairness constraint for the original netlist. In this case, the fairness gate is associated with the liveness gate and is asserted for at least one time-step during any valid behavioral loop associated with the liveness gate. The original netlist is retimed, using a retiming engine, to provide a retimed netlist. The liveness and fairness gates of the retimed netlist are retimed such that a lag of the fairness gate is no greater than a lag of the liveness gate. Verification analysis is then performed on the retimed netlist. Finally, when the verification analysis yields a valid counter-example trace for the retimed netlist, a liveness violation for the original netlist is returned. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223585 | DUMMY FILL TO REDUCE SHALLOW TRENCH ISOLATION (STI) STRESS VARIATION ON TRANSISTOR PERFORMANCE - A method of forming an integrated circuit structure on a chip includes extracting an active layer from a design of the integrated circuit structure, forming a guard band conforming to the shape of the active layer, the guard band surrounds the active layer, and the guard band is spaced from the active layer at a first spacing in the X-axis direction and at a second spacing in the Y-axis direction, removing any part of the guard band that violates design rules, removing convex corners of the guard band, and adding dummy diffusion patterns into the remaining space of the chip outside the guard band. The first and second spacing can be specified as the same spacings in a Spice model characterization of the integrated circuit structure. The dummy diffusion patterns with different granularities can be added so that the diffusion density is substantially uniform over the chip. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223586 | TECHNIQUES FOR PARALLEL BUFFER INSERTION - The present disclosure is directed to a method for determining a plurality of buffer insertion locations in a net for an integrated circuit design. The method may comprise calculating a plurality of resistive-capacitive (RC) influences in parallel, each RC influence corresponding to one of a plurality of buffering options available for a first sub-tree for the addition of a wire segment to the first sub-tree; updating the plurality of RC influences for the addition of a buffer for the first sub-tree, the buffer comprising one of a plurality of buffer types; and merging the first sub-tree with a second sub-tree in parallel by grouping the plurality of buffering options available for the first sub-tree and a plurality of buffering options available for the second sub-tree into a plurality of merging groups, and merging at least two groups of the plurality of merging groups in parallel. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223587 | EFFICIENT CHIP ROUTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BLOCKS WITH MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for improving the speed of chip routing for integrated circuit blocks with multiple connections. In some embodiments, the method may include creating a layout abstract for a first block and a second block of the integrated circuit, where the first and second blocks are coupled together via a plurality of connections. The method may further include determining whether the number of connections in the plurality exceeds a threshold, and in the event that the number of connections exceeds the predetermined threshold, representing a first subset of the plurality as a first logical connection. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223588 | REDUCING COUPLING BETWEEN WIRES OF AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - A routing method for reducing coupling between wires of an electronic circuit is proposed, wherein sets of nets are classified according to their coupling characteristics, and spacing between wires assigned to the sets of nets is chosen according to the coupling characteristics. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223589 | COMBINATION OF GROUND DEVICES IN WIRING HARNESS DESIGNS - A method can include allowing a user to place a first wiring harness design component within a wiring harness topology in a wiring harness design workspace, allowing the user to place a first plurality of ground devices within the first wiring harness design component placed in the wiring harness topology, allowing the user to request an automatic ground combination, and, in response to the user requesting an automatic ground combination, automatically applying at least one electronically stored ground combination rule to a first set of ground devices comprising a plurality of the first plurality of ground devices and automatically combining at least two of the first set of ground devices into a first combined ground device based at least in part on the applied at least one electronically stored ground combination rule. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223590 | Mask Decomposition for Double Dipole Lithography - Method and apparatus for generating a pair of layouts suitable for forming exposure mask to use in a double dipole lithographic process are disclosed. With some implementations, a y-dipole layout and an x-dipole layout are generated by decomposing a target layout. Subsequently, an optical proximity correction process is implemented on the y-dipole layout and the x-dipole layout. The decomposition may designate ones of the edge segments in the target layout at major edge segments and other ones of the edge segments as minor edge segments. A higher feedback value may then be assigned to the minor edges than the major edges. Subsequently, a few iterations of an optical proximity correction process that utilizes a smaller than intended mask rule constraint value and the assigned feedback values is implemented on the target layout. The minor edges separated by a distance of less than the intended mask rule constraint distance are then collapsed. After which, a few iterations of the optical proximity correction process are allowed to iterate. In further implementations, once the y-dipole and x-dipole layouts have been generated. An additional optical proximity correction process is implemented on the layouts. During this optical proximity correction process, a higher feedback values is again assigned to the minor edge segments. At a point during the optical proximity correction process, minor edges within portions of the layouts that have a bias value larger than a predetermined value are expanded back from their collapsed position. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223591 | METHOD AND APPLICATION SERVER FOR CONVERTING WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION LOGIC - A method for converting a web service composition logic and an application server includes: obtaining a first BPEL process framework of an existing BPEL composition logic; generating a DAG composition logic according to the first BPEL process framework; obtaining an independent path group according to the DAG composition logic; analyzing an independent path grouping result to generate a second BPEL process framework; and filling a process of the second BPEL process framework to generate an executable process. An application server is provided to convert the web service composition logic. The method and the application server provided herein optimize the logic through parallelism or nesting of web service invocation, and improve the execution efficiency. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223592 | CODE COMPONENT LEVEL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REMEDIATION - A method, system, and computer usable program product for code component level IP remediation are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An actionable instance of the third-party's intellectual property is identified in a component of the product. A component model of the product is constructed. The actionable instance of the third-party's intellectual property is associated with a component in the component model. A graphical representation of the component model is created. Information about a type of license associated with the actionable instance is added to the graphical representation of the component. The graphical representation is published. The actionable instance may be identified based on the type of the license associated with the third-party's intellectual property, a context of the inclusion, or both. A remediation action is identified for the actionable instance. Information corresponding to the remediation action is added to the component using visual highlights in the graphical representation. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223593 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL CONFIGURATION WITH OBJECT HIERARCHY, VERSIONING, CHANGE RECORDS, OBJECT COMPARISON, AND OTHER ASPECTS - Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object. Configuration-time formulas contained objects are evaluated to constants prior to downloading to the control system. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223594 | Method and apparatus for implementing a composable control architecture - A method and apparatus for generating a composed control. The method comprises selecting one or more functional modules, coupling the one or more selected functional modules to a core control, and generating scripted code that, when executed, implements the functionality of the core control and selected functional modules. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223595 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING POLYMORPHIC ELEMENTS AT RUN-TIME IN PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES - Various methods, apparatuses and systems for supporting polymorphic elements at run-time in portable computing devices are provided. One embodiment includes a development tool that can be incorporated into an integrated development environment. (IDE) The development tool is configured to detect when a programming instruction corresponding to a polymorphic element is received. Upon such detection, the developer operating the IDE is prompted to provide specific mapping information such that an application that is finally generated using the IDE avoids or reduces the use of polymorphic elements and thereby reduce computing resource stresses on the device on which such an application is ultimately deployed. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223596 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - Based on a constriction condition of a parallel operation device which has been previously registered with data, a data processing device extracts a loop structure from a single-layer state transition graph structure of an object code input thereto, and converts the state transition graph containing a loop structure into a state transition on another layer, which is then output as a new object code. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223597 | AGGREGATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF APPLICATION ISSUE DATA - A novel software application development aid comprises a web portal that provides aggregated and prioritized application issue data to ISVs in an ISV-specific and ISV-customizable manner so that the ISVs may improve their applications or correct errors therein and may know which application issues are causing the greatest reductions in customer satisfaction. So informed, the ISV may efficiently focus limited corrective resources on the most pressing problems. The application issue data sources for the ISV portal may include logo testing data, user crash report data, and other testing data. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223598 | Collecting profile-specified performance data on a multithreaded data processing system - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for collecting performance data. In one illustrative embodiment, signaling is performed to start collecting the performance data by an operating system support unit in a multithreaded data processing system. Responsive to a thread switch to an incoming thread after signaling has occurred, the performance data for the incoming thread is collected using a thread specific data collection profile to form collected performance data if the incoming thread is associated with the thread specific data collection profile, wherein the thread specific data collection profile specifies a type of data to collect. Responsive to a subsequent thread switch, the collected performance data is sent to a number of destinations. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223599 | EFFICIENT SYMBOLIC EXECUTION OF SOFTWARE USING STATIC ANALYSIS - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing software comprising one or more inputs, one or more variables, and one or more segments of code that when executed operate on one or more of the inputs or one or more of the variables. The method includes, for every variable, determining whether the variable is relevant or irrelevant to a set of the inputs when expressed symbolically and, if the variable is relevant, instrumenting the variable and every one of the segments of code associated with the variable. A segment of code is associated with the variable if the variable affects the segment of code when executed. The method includes symbolically executing the software with every relevant variable and its associated segments of code as instrumented to test the software. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223600 | THREAD EXECUTION ANALYZER - A thread execution analyzer analyzes blocking events of threads in a program using execution data and callstacks collected at the blocking events. The thread execution analyzer attempts to identify an application programming interface (API) responsible for each blocking event and provides blocking analysis information to a user. The blocking analysis information may be used by a developer of the program to understand the causes of blocking events that occur for threads of the program. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223601 | COMPILATION METHOD WITHOUT EXPLICIT SYMBOL TABLE FOR SAVING MEMORY - There is described a method of compiling source code for a computer programme into corresponding object code. The source code includes several declared variables. The method comprises, for each declared variable in the source code, including in the object code a declaration statement indicating an associated memory location for that variable and indicating the position in the object code of the next declaration statement. During compilation, the memory location for each declared variable can be retrieved from the object code by examining each declaration statement in turn, using the position information from each declaration statement to locate the next declaration statement. This is of particular advantage where the available volatile memory is limited, because there is not requirement for a look-up table of variables against memory locations. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223602 | METHODS AND TOOLS FOR CREATION OF READ-ONLY-MEMORY SOFTWARE BINARY IMAGES AND CORRESPONDING SORTWARE PATCHES - There are described tools and methodologies for building Read Only Memory (ROM) mask software images and the corresponding data/code patching software images. One method is for creating ROM mask content having patch references included therein whereby patch reference errors are detected and corrected. A software patch for a ROM mask with existing patch references may then automatically be created. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223603 | MULTIPLE STAGE PROGRAM RECOMPILER USING INFORMATION FLOW DETERMINATION - A method for dynamic recompilation of source software instructions for execution by a target processor, which considers not only the specific source instructions, but also the intent and purpose of the instructions, to translate and optimize a set of equivalent code for the target processor. The dynamic recompiler determines what the source operation code is trying to accomplish and the optimum way of doing it at the target processor, in an “interpolative” and context sensitive fashion. The source instructions are processed in blocks of varying sizes by the dynamic recompiler, which considers the instructions that come before and after a current instruction to determine the most efficient approach out of several available approaches for encoding the operation code for the target processor to perform the equivalent tasks specified by the source instructions. The dynamic compiler comprises a decoding stage, an optimization stage and an encoding stage. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223604 | MODULE SYSTEM FOR POLYMORPHIC PI-CALCULUS - A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for using a module system for polymorphic π-calculus. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a formal specification of a software program; and performing automatic analysis on the formal specification using a module system fitted with processes of the polymorphic π-calculus processes. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223605 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PARALLELIZING NETWORK APPLICATIONS THROUGH PIPELINING TRANSFORMATION - In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for automatically parallelizing a sequential network application through pipeline transformation are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the configuration of a network processor into a D-stage processor pipeline. Once configured, a sequential network application program is transformed into D-pipeline stages. Once transformed, the D-pipeline stages are executed in parallel within the D-stage processor pipeline. In one embodiment, transformation of a sequential application program is performed by modeling the sequential network program as a flow network model and selecting from the flow network model into a plurality of preliminary pipeline stages. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223606 | FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING TUPLE AND PAGE CLASSES - Techniques for reducing the memory used for processing events received in a data stream are provided. This may be achieved by reducing the memory required for storing tuples. A method for processing a data stream includes receiving a tuple and determining a tuple specification that defines a layout of the tuple. The layout identifies one or more data types that are included in the tuple. A tuple class corresponding to the tuple specification may be determined. A tuple object based on the tuple class is instantiated, and during runtime of the processing system. The tuple object is stored in a memory. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ABSTRACTING SOFTWARE CONTENT MANAGEMENT IN A SOFTWARE PROVISIONING ENVIRONMENT - To provision software content from the different software repositories and manage updates to the repositories, a provisioning server can maintain a repository record. The repository record can include an identification of the repositories associated with the provisioning server. Additionally, the repository record can associate, with each identification of a repository, the type of repository, the software content contained in the repository, and provisioning objects associated with the software content contained in the repository. The provisioning server can be configured to utilize the repository record during provisioning processes for software content and for updating software content of target machines. | 2010-09-02 |
20100223608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING REVERSE INSTALLATION FILE FOR NETWORK RESTORATION - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a reverse installation file for network restoration. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management engine communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management engine can scan the managed network for kickstart, or provisioning answer files, that were used to install software to network nodes at a prior time. The network management engine can access the original kickstart file, and update that file to reflect a current state of the associated machine by inserting user-supplied updates, storage configuration updates, security credentials, and/or other data. Upon a crash or other malfunction of the associated machine, the network management platform can access the reverse kickstart file and generate a restoration of that node to a current state from the reverse kickstart data. | 2010-09-02 |