36th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100229021 | MICROPROCESSOR PERFORMANCE AND POWER OPTIMIZATION THROUGH INDUCTIVE VOLTAGE DROOP MONITORING AND CORRECTION - A voltage droop monitoring and correcting circuit for a microprocessor includes: a monitor circuit configured to monitor voltage droops of the microprocessor and perform a temporary clock-skipping technique to compensate for the voltage droops. A method for monitoring and correcting voltage droops of a microprocessor includes: monitoring voltage droops of the microprocessor; and performing a temporary clock-skipping technique to compensate for the voltage droops. A computer system includes memory; a processor operatively connected to the memory; and computer-readable instructions stored in the memory for causing the processor to: monitor voltage droops of the microprocessor; and perform a temporary clock-skipping technique to compensate for the voltage droops. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229022 | COMMON TROUBLESHOOTING FRAMEWORK - Techniques for improving a troubleshooting experience by providing a common troubleshooting framework. Such a framework may enable use of common elements between troubleshooters and lead to similarities between troubleshooting packages, which may improve the user experience. Further, a framework may reduce the amount of knowledge and time necessary to create troubleshooting packages, and thus encourage increased development of these troubleshooting packages. In some implementations of the framework, a troubleshooting package may be implemented in a declarative manner that outlines/describes the problems it solves and the potential solutions to those problems. The declarative troubleshooting packages may then be provided to the troubleshooting framework and may provide direction to the framework, in that the framework may execute functions as directed by the troubleshooter. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229023 | TELEMETRY DATA FILTERING THROUGH SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS - One embodiment provides a system that analyzes telemetry data from a computer system. During operation, the system periodically obtains the telemetry data from the computer system. Next, the system preprocesses the telemetry data using a sequential-analysis technique. If a statistical deviation is found in the telemetry data using the sequential-analysis technique, the system identifies a subset of the telemetry data associated with the statistical deviation and applies a root-cause-analysis technique to the subset of the telemetry data to determine a source of the statistical deviation. Finally, the system uses the source of the statistical deviation to perform a remedial action for the computer system, which involves correcting a fault in the computer system corresponding to the source of the statistical deviation. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229024 | MESSAGE PRODUCER WITH MESSAGE TYPE VALIDATION - Message type validation occurs at a message producer before a message is sent to a message destination. A message producer system includes an administrator component, which stores message type parameters associated with a message destination. A message is created for the message destination and a validation component at the message producer system checks the created message for conformity with the stored message type parameters for the message destination. An error is reported if the message type does not conform to the stored message type parameters associated with the message destination. The validation component checks the created message for conformity after a publish call by the message producer system and before a send call and, therefore, prevents an invalid or non-conforming message from being sent. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229025 | Fault Recovery in Concurrent Queue Management Systems - A method for fault tolerance and fault recovery in multiprocessor systems that concurrently manage queues is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment comprises a plurality of servers, a queue of jobs to be assigned to the servers, and two queue managers—a primary unit and a secondary unit—such that the secondary fills in for the primary unit while the primary unit is down. The illustrative embodiment provides for smooth transitions from the normal state into the failure state and back into the normal state without losing jobs or violating the queue discipline of the system. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229026 | Method and Apparatus for Cluster Data Processing - A cluster data processing method and system based on a unique identity control without requiring continuous network connection between the servers in the cluster and an external computer. The cluster sends a first data containing a controlling identity record to the external computer. The controlling identity record includes a unique identity and a control information. A load-balancing device of the cluster receives from the external computer a second data, which contains a controlling identity record corresponding to that of the first data. The cluster routes the second data according to the control information in the controlling identity record of the second data. The disclosed method and system may help avoid the overload problem of server resources and prevent low performance caused by continuous network connection that has to be maintained between the cluster and external server | 2010-09-09 |
20100229027 | IMS RECOVERY AFTER HSS FAILURE - The present invention is aimed to provide means and methods for recovery of an IP Multimedia Subsystem ‘IMS’ where a Home Subscriber Server ‘HSS’ holding subscriber data for subscribers of the IMS has suffered a restart. A first method of recovery is applied after detecting a HSS restart, and as receiving a registration from a given subscriber or an invitation to communicate with a given subscriber from another subscriber. A second method of recovery is applied after detecting a HSS restart, and as receiving a request from a given subscriber at a S-CSCF previously assigned for serving the given subscriber in the IMS. Both first and second methods may be applied in the IMS separately, or in cooperation, following a best effort to ensure that, whatever event occurs first, receiving a registration from a given subscriber, or an invitation to communicate with a given subscriber, or receiving a request from a given subscriber at a S-CSCF previously assigned, the actions triggered by the first method or by the second method achieve the recovery of the IMS without further actions not applied yet from said second or first methods. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229028 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A computer unit includes computer components each having a processor and a computer component controller for controlling the operations of the computer components by communicating a control signal with the computer components through a radio transmission path. Another computer unit has a similar configuration. At an instruction from an external control terminal which has recognized the fault of another computer component controller provided for the another computer unit, the computer component controller concurrently controls the operations of computer components provided for the another computer unit by communicating a control signal through a radio transmission path. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229029 | INDEPENDENT AND DYNAMIC CHECKPOINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of synchronizing a routing system having an active subsystem actively processing within the routing system and a standby subsystem. The method includes the steps of specifying an address or range of addresses of data to be synchronized within the routing system, detecting a write to main memory of the active subsystem, and comparing an address of the detected write to main memory of the active subsystem with the specified address or range of addresses. Next, the address and data of the detected write to main memory are stored in a First In First Out (FIFO) queue of the active subsystem if the address of the detected write to main memory matches the specified address or range of addresses. The address and data of the detected write to main memory are sent to the standby subsystem where the data and address are written to the main memory of the standby subsystem. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229030 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A communication apparatus stores a first address in association with a second address of an apparatus which is targeted to permit or restrict processing of a received packet. The communication apparatus detects first and second addresses of a transmission apparatus which is a source of a packet received through a network, and if the detected first address of the transmission apparatus is stored, then the processing of the received packet is permitted or restricted. If the detected first address of the transmission apparatus is not stored in association with the second address of the transmission apparatus and the detected second address is stored, then the communication apparatus updates the stored first address with the detected first address. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229031 | Systems and Methods for Recovering Information from a Defective Medium - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data regeneration. For example, a system for regenerating data is disclosed. The system includes a media defect detector that is operable to identify a potential media defect associated with a medium from which an input signal is derived, an attenuation amplitude detector that generates an attenuation factor, and a data detector. The data detector includes a first data path and a second data path. The first data path includes a bank of two or more selectable noise prediction filters and the second data path includes a fixed noise prediction filter and the attenuation factor. The data detector processes a derivative of the input signal using the second data path when the potential media defect is indicated, and processes the derivative of the input signal using the first data path when a media defect is not indicated. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229032 | SOLID STATE DISK DEVICE AND RELATED DATA STORING AND READING METHODS - A solid state disk device comprises a plurality of nonvolatile memories and a controller. The plurality of nonvolatile memories are electrically connected to a plurality of channels, respectively. The controller controls storing, erasing and reading operations of the nonvolatile memories. The controller divides input data into a number of units corresponding to a number of the plurality of channels and stores the divided input data in the nonvolatile memories through the plurality of channels. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229033 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes data storage devices, spare storage devices used when a failure occurs in a data storage devices, a group management unit that divides the data storage devices into groups and implements a redundancy, a data storage device restoration unit that assigns the spare storage device as a replacement when a failure occurs, and a configuration change unit changing configuration of the group to which the data storage devices belong. The configuration change unit includes, a spare storage device securing unit that secures the spare storage device, a change processor that writes data concerning the group into the spare storage device, and a change restoration unit that performs continuation of the configuration change, or restoration of the group to a state in a start, using the data written into the spare storage device when the configuration change of the group is interrupted. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229034 | CLOCK SUPPLY METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A clock supply method for supplying a clock to a plurality of processing units includes supplying a clock from a first clock supply unit to processing units forming a first group as a primary clock and to processing units forming a second group as a standby clock; supplying a clock from a second clock supply unit including a clock source different from that of the first clock supply unit to the processing units forming the second group as a primary clock and to the processing units forming the first group as a standby clock; and when a processing unit in the first or second group detects an abnormality of the primary clock, switching the standby clock into use in place of the primary clock being supplied to the processing units that has detected the abnormality belongs; wherein the first and second clock supply units supply clocks with the same frequency. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229035 | SYSTEMATIC ERROR CORRECTION FOR MULTI-LEVEL FLASH MEMORY - In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a multi-level flash memory employs error correction of systematic errors when reading multi-level flash memory. Error correction includes i) detection of each systematic error, ii) feedback of the systematic error to circuitry within the memory, and iii) subsequent adjustment within that circuitry to cause a correction of systematic error in the output signal of the multi-level flash memory. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM TESTING USING MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION TYPES - An apparatus for use in testing at least a portion of a system under test via a Test Access Port (TAP) is provided. The apparatus includes a memory for storing a set of instructions of a test instruction set architecture and a processor executing the set of instructions of the test instruction set architecture for testing at least a portion of the system under test via the TAP. The set of instructions of the test instruction set architecture includes a first set of instructions including a plurality of instructions of an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) supported by the processor and a second set of instructions including a plurality of test instructions associated with the TAP. The instructions of the first set of instructions and the instructions of the second set of instructions are integrated to form the set of instructions of the test instruction set architecture. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229037 | MASTER UNIT DEVICE AND BAND MANAGEMENT METHOD USED BY THE SAME MASTER UNIT DEVICE - In a network including at least two transmission paths whose bands are respectively managed, an RTT test of DTCP-IP may fail due to a relay wait time generated by the band management regardless of retrials. An objective of the present invention is to assure success of the RTT test. A master unit device ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100229038 | System and Method for Testing a Module - In an embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system has a bus interface port, a selection circuit coupled to the bus interface port, a first bus interface circuit coupled to the selection circuit and a second bus interface circuit coupled to the selection circuit. The selection circuit is configured to select between the first bus interface circuit and the second bus interface circuit. The system also has an initialization circuit configured to detect a first codeword written to the bus interface port, and activate the second bus interface circuit if the first codeword is detected. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229039 | TESTING APPARATUS, TESTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A testing apparatus includes a vector memory unit storing original test vector data in which an input signal to be inputted to a circuit subjected to inspection is described, a vector generator generating generated test vector data from the original test vector data, an output part outputting test vector data to be inputted to the inspected circuit, a fault occurrence rate memory unit storing a fault occurrence rate of the input signal, a random number generator generating random number data, and a comparison part comparing the fault occurrence rate of the input signal with the random number data. The vector output part outputs the generated test vector data when the random number data is smaller than the fault occurrence rate of the input signal, and outputs the original test vector data when the random number data is larger than the fault occurrence rate of the input signal. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229040 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING PATTERN MATCHING STATE MACHINE - A method and a device for creating a pattern matching state machine are provided. The method includes: obtaining a predefined keyword set; generating a Goto function according to the keyword set; constructing a Failure function according to the generated Goto function, and setting that an acceptable input set of the Failure state of each state is not a subset of an acceptable input set of the state, where the acceptable input set of the state indicates that when any symbol within the symbol set is input in the state, the Goto function of the state does not fail; and generating an Output function according to the Goto function and the Failure function. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229041 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXPEDITING FEEDBACK ON CHANGES OF CONNECTION STATUS OF MONITIORING EQUIPMENTS - The present invention relates to a device and method for expediting feedback on changes of connection status of monitoring equipments, comprising a CPU, a switch module and at least an optical fiber connector, wherein the CPU contains multiple reserved pins and is connected with the switch module, while the switch module is connected with at least one optical fiber connector, which includes signal detect pins that are used to connect with the switch module. The CPU is connected through one of the reserved pins with the SD pin of the optical fiber connector, and controlled by a system software to read the bit value of the signal address of the SD pin. This allows the system software to analyze and determine if the address value of the signals received by the reserved pin is changed or not, and to take action to respond when the connection status is changed. Because signals are transported without using the switch module, it will save the time required for bus communication and synchronous processing of signals, thus expediting feedback on change of connection status. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229042 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM TESTING USING MULTIPLE PROCESSORS - An apparatus is provided for performing testing of at least a portion of a system under test via a Test Access Port (TAP) configured to access the system under test. The apparatus includes a first processor for executing instructions adapted for controlling testing of at least a portion of the system under test via the TAP, and a second processor for supporting an interface to the TAP. The first processor is configured for detecting, during execution of the test instructions, TAP-related instructions associated with control of the TAP, and propagating the TAP-related instructions toward the second processor. The second processor is configured for receiving the TAP-related instructions detected by the first processor and processing the TAP-related instructions. The first processor is configured for performing at least one task contemporaneously with processing of the TAP-related instructions by the second processor. An associated method also is provided. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229043 | HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR A SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for accelerating transactional execution. Barriers associated with shared memory lines referenced by memory accesses within a transaction are only invoked/executed the first time the shared memory lines are accessed within a transaction. Hardware support, such as a transaction field/transaction bits, are provided to determine if an access is the first access to a shared memory line during a pendancy of a transaction. Additionally, in an aggressive operational mode version numbers representing versions of elements stored in shared memory lines are not stored and validated upon commitment to save on validation costs. Moreover, even in a cautious mode, that stores version numbers to enable validation, validation costs may not be incurred, if eviction of accessed shared memory lines do not occur during execution of the transaction. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229044 | Diagnostic Test Sequence Optimization Method and Apparatus - A method for optimizing a test sequence to diagnose a failure mode of a device, such as a vehicle, is provided. At least one symptom of a fault of the device is received, and a plurality of taxonomies is generated. The taxonomies include a device component taxonomy, a fault taxonomy, and a diagnostic taxonomy, and each taxonomy has a plurality of nodes. At least one diagnostic test sequence, based on the symptom and the taxonomies, is generated, costs associated with the diagnostic test sequence are determined, and a cost optimal test sequence, based on the costs and the diagnostic test sequence, is generated. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229045 | Computer Method and Apparatus Providing Invocation of Device-Specific Application Through a Generic HTTP Link - A computer method and system processes and handles hypertext-type links by converting client device-independent URLs to respective device-dependent URLs. This enables invocation of device-specific applications through a generic HTTP link. The HTTP link may be embedded in an email, SMS, web-page or similar communication documents or files. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229046 | Bus Guardian of a User of a Communication System, and a User of a Communication System - A monitoring unit which is locally assigned to a bus controller of a user of a communication system, for monitoring and controlling the access to a data bus. Bus controller accesses data bus via a bus driver, and monitoring unit monitors and controls the access authorization of bus driver to data bus. In order to detect also permanent disturbances of bus controller and resulting errors of bus controller when accessing data bus monitoring unit has an arrangement for implementing a question-answer communication with bus controller and that it enables the bus controller to access data bus only if the question-answer communication establishes a proper functioning of bus controller. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229047 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PAIR STATE OF COPY PAIRS - A method for displaying a state of a copy pair which is a pair of logical volumes belonging to one or a plurality of storage sub systems connected to a task server, including: monitoring periodically, by a backup management program on the task sever, an operation condition of an application on the task server; notifying, by the backup management program, a maintenance to a control program on the storage sub system, if the application is on a stop condition at some time; setting, by the control program which receives the notification, “on-maintenance” to an action mode on the storage sub system; after a maintenance by a user and at time of a restart of the application, checking, by the backup management program, the operation condition of the application and notifying a release of the maintenance to the control program; and setting, by the control program which receives the notification of the release, the action mode of the storage sub system to a normal condition. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229048 | FIELD FAILURE DATA COLLECTION - The operation of a powered device is monitored to detect a failure condition, the powered device connected to power sourcing equipment by a communications channel including inline power delivery from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device. Diagnostic information is captured including (i) configuration and status information identifying the power sourcing equipment, the communications channel, and status of the inline power delivery at the time of detection of the failure condition, and (ii) failure information identifying the failure condition. This diagnostic information is stored as diagnostic information signals in an electronic memory which is electronically accessible by an external user as part of a failure analysis process. By this process, diagnostic information pertaining to the operation of the powered device with the power sourcing equipment and the communications channel is captured and stored, providing greater information for more thorough failure analysis. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229049 | Trigger Core - A method to detect an event between a data source and a data sink using a trigger core is described herein. The method comprises monitoring control lines and an associated data stream for a programmable pattern, wherein the pattern is one or more of a condition, state or event. The method further comprises generating an indication by updating a status register, sending an interrupt or asserting a control line upon a pattern match. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229050 | APPARATUS HAVING FIRST BUS AND SECOND BUS CONNECTABLE TO I/O DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING APPARATUS - An apparatus connected to a first and second buses, the apparatus having a first controller that transforms first form data into second form data, transforms second form data into first form data, and outputs the transformed data, a second controller that transforms first form data into second form data, transforms second form data into first form data, and outputs the transformed data, a first distributing unit connected to the first and second controllers, the first distributing unit distributing first form data to the first and second controllers, respectively, a first selector that selects one of the second form data, and outputs the selected data, a second distributing unit connected to the first and the second controllers, the second distributing unit distributing second form data to the first and second controllers, respectively, and a second selector that selects one of the first form data, and outputs the selected data | 2010-09-09 |
20100229051 | DYNAMICALLY RESOLVING RECIPIENTS TO RETRIEVE PUBLIC KEYS DURING SEND/RECEIVE - Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate identifying messages generated on a mobile device while the device is offline as requiring encryption, storing the messages in a message outbox with a flag indicating that encryption is required, and identifying recipients of the flagged messages to generate a recipient list. The recipient list can be piggybacked on a server synchronization request when the mobile device enters a period of online activity, and a server can return public keys associated with identified recipients to permit an encryption component, such as a secure/multipurpose Internet mail extension protocol (S/MIME) encryption component, in the mobile device to encrypt the messages. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229052 | RESOLVING ASYNCHRONOUS VALIDATION ERRORS - Architecture that facilitates asynchronous error handling of validation failures, which enables rapid editing in web applications without forcing the end user to wait for server responses or interrupting successive edits. A technical infrastructure is provided that tracks changes over time as well as marks and resolves validation failures. A user interface creates and presents visual cues for validation failures on both a row and cell granularity. Cell-level and row-level validation failures are processed as well as contextually relevant errors and messages. The architecture affords for cycling through multiple errors, and hiding error details unless interacted with by the end user. Support is provided for rapid and type safe editing in a web-based environment and for non-blocking validation failures. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229053 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME VERNIER CALIBRATION - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for calibrating a time vernier with an input data signal, a reference signal and a third trigger signal, all of which have pre-defined related frequencies so as to allow for accurate determination of vernier delays and strobe placement in an ATE system. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229054 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus performs data communication with a base station using a plurality of transport channels (TRCHs) that share a frequency band, and selects a reference TRCH using coding schemes of data to be transmitted using the TRCHs. After that, the wireless communication apparatus performs outer loop control so that a block error rate (BLER) of the data to be transmitted using the reference TRCH is set to a target BLER. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229055 | Fault Diagnosis For Non-Volatile Memories - Fault diagnosis techniques for non-volatile memories are disclosed. The techniques are based on deterministic partitioning of rows and/or columns of cells in a memory array. Through deterministic partitioning, signatures are generated for identification of failing rows, columns and single memory cells. A row/column selector or a combined row and column selector may be built on chip to implement the process of deterministic partitioning. An optional shadow register may be used to transfer obtained signatures to an automated test equipment (ATE). | 2010-09-09 |
20100229056 | System and Method for Increasing the Extent of Built-In Self-Testing of Memory and Circuitry - An integrated circuit (IC), a method of testing an IC and a method of reading test results from an IC containing built-in self-test (BIST) circuitry. In one embodiment, the IC includes: (1) an external test bus interface, (2) read-write memory coupled to the external test bus interface, (3) other circuitry and (4) BIST circuitry, coupled to the external test bus interface, the read-write memory and the other circuitry and configured to test the read-write memory to identify a good data block therein, store in a predetermined data block in the read-write memory multiple instances of a pointer to the good data block, conduct a test of at least the other circuitry and store at least some results of the test in the good data block. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229057 | Semiconductor device test circuit, semiconductor device, and its manufacturing method - The test circuit can apply a stress to each node of each object combinational circuit in the semiconductor device and suppress the semiconductor circuit overhead when in burn-in or leak test operations for the semiconductor device while it has been impossible to apply such a stress to any of such nodes only with use of an F/F circuit in any conventional environments. The test circuit is disposed in the semiconductor and combined with first and second combinational circuits therein. In the semiconductor device, a transfer gate switch is connected between first and second nodes and a first transistor is connected between the second node and a power supply. The second transistor is connected between the second node and a ground. Each of the transfer gate switch and the first and second transistors operates according to at least one of the control signals supplied from outside the semiconductor device. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229058 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM TESTING USING SCAN CHAIN DECOMPOSITION - A method is provided for testing a portion of a system under test via a scan chain of the system under test. The method includes decomposing the scan chain into a plurality of segments, generating a set of instructions for testing the portion of the system under test, and executing the set of instructions for testing the portion of the system under test. The scan chain is composed of a plurality of elements, and each segment includes at least one of the elements of the scan chain. The set of instructions includes a plurality of processor instructions associated with an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), and a plurality of test instructions. The test instructions include, for each of the plurality of segments of the scan chain, at least one scan operation to be performed on the segment. An associated apparatus also is provided. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229059 | JTAG BUS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure describes using the JTAG Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminals as general purpose serial Input/Output (I/O) Manchester coded communication terminals. The Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminal can be used as a serial I/O communication channel between; (1) an IC and an external controller, (2) between a first and second IC, or (3) between a first and second core circuit within an IC. The use of the TMS and/or TCK terminal as serial I/O channels, as described, does not effect the standardized operation of the JTAG Tap, since the TMS and/or TCK I/O operations occur while the Tap is placed in a non-active steady state. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229060 | Compression Based On Deterministic Vector Clustering Of Incompatible Test Cubes - The test data compression scheme is based on deterministic vector clustering. Test cubes that feature many similar specified bits are merged into a parent pattern in the presence of conflicts. The parent pattern along with a control pattern and incremental patterns representing conflicting bits are encoded efficiently. A tri-modal decompressor may be used to decompress the test data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229061 | Cell-Aware Fault Model Creation And Pattern Generation - Cell-aware fault models directly address layout-based intra-cell defects. They are created by performing analog simulations on the transistor-level netlist of a library cell and then by library view synthesis. The cell-aware fault models may be used to generate cell-aware test patterns, which usually have higher defect coverage than those generated by conventional ATPG techniques. The cell-aware fault models may also be used to improve defect coverage of a set of test patterns generated by conventional ATPG techniques. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229062 | DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF FUSE RE-GROWTH IN A MICROPROCESSOR - A microprocessor includes control hardware that receives and stores control values and provides the control values to circuits of the microprocessor for controlling operation of the microprocessor. The microprocessor also includes a first plurality of fuses selectively blown collectively with a predetermined value, and a second plurality of fuses selectively blown collectively with an error correction value computed from the predetermined value collectively blown into the first plurality of fuses. In response to being reset, the microprocessor reads the first and second plurality of fuses, detects an error in the value read from the first plurality of fuses using the value read from the second plurality of fuses, corrects the value read from the first plurality of fuses back to the predetermined value using the value read from the second plurality of fuses, and uses the corrected predetermined value to write the control values into the control hardware. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229063 | Replacement messages for identifying and preventing errors during the transmission of realtime-critical data - A destination node in a data network for transmission of real-time data by a data telegram, the data telegram including an identification, data and a transfer status, is provided. The destination node includes a device for receiving a first data telegram, a device for storing the data of the first data telegram and an assigned timer value, a device for receiving a second data telegram and a device for replacing the stored data of the first data telegram, wherein the stored data of the first data telegram is replaced with data of the second data telegram. Further, a method and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229064 | Wireless Transmission Method and Apparatus - A method of transmitting a data sequence between a sender and a receiver over a wireless link. The method comprises, at the sender, segmenting the data sequence into a plurality of data segments and, for each segment, constructing a frame containing as payload the data segment, transmitting the frame across the wireless link, and receiving an acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement from said receiver for the frame, and only upon receipt of such acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement, retransmitting the frame or transmitting a further frame containing as payload the next data segment. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229065 | RADIO RECEPTION DEVICE, RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - It is possible to provide a radio transmission device, a radio reception device, and a radio communication method which can suppress increase of the feedback overhead and improve the throughput characteristic. In ST | 2010-09-09 |
20100229066 | CHECK MATRIX GENERATING METHOD - An irregular parity check matrix is generated which has an LDGM structure in which a masking quasi-cyclic matrix and a matrix in which cyclic permutation matrices are arranged in a staircase manner are arranged in a predetermined location. A mask matrix capable of supporting a single encoding rate for making the regular quasi-cyclic matrix into an irregular quasi-cyclic matrix is generated. The irregular parity check matrix is masked using a generated mask matrix, and a parity check matrix is generated combining a masked irregular parity check matrix with a lower triangular matrix formed in a staircase manner to satisfy a single encoding rate. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229067 | Cable Interconnection Techniques - Techniques are described that can extend the transmission rate over cable. Multiple cables can be used to increase the transmission rate. The transmission standard applied for each cable can be an Ethernet backplane standard such as IEEE 802.3ap (2007). Data can be assigned to virtual lanes prior to transmission over a cable. Forward error correction may be applied to each virtual lane prior to transmission over cable. Forward error correction may be negotiated over a single virtual lane and then applied to all virtual lanes. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229068 | EMBEDDED ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STORING DATA - An embedded electronic device is provided. The embedded electronic device comprises a flash memory and a processor. The flash memory comprises a plurality of data storage blocks. The processor performs a parity check process to determine parity data of operation system (OS) data, wherein the parity data serves as a backup for the operation system (OS) data. The processor stores the operation system (OS) data and corresponding parity data into the data storage block of the flash memory. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229069 | DRIVE DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, DATA READOUT METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A drive device is provided to promote copyright protection by preventing playback of copied contents, even if unique identification information on a recording medium, used to generate title keys for decrypting encrypted contents, is revealed, and the contents are independently encrypted and copied using this identification information. Identification information unique to a recording medium | 2010-09-09 |
20100229070 | Erasures Assisted Block Code Decoder And Related Method - An erasures assisted block code decoder and related method are provided. The erasures assisted block code decoder comprises a first block decoder, an erasures processor, and a second block code decoder. The first block decoder, for example, a Reed-Solomon decoder, is configured to decode blocks of data elements, e.g., bytes, that were previously affected by bursty errors. The first block decoder is also configured to identify those of such blocks it is unable to decode. The erasures processor is configured to identify, as erasures, data elements in the un-decodable blocks by utilizing, in the erasures identification process, data elements in the decoded blocks that were corrected by the first block decoder. The second block decoder, e.g., the same or different Reed-Solomon decoder, is configured to decode one or more of the un-decodable blocks by utilizing, in the decoding, the erasures identified by the erasures processor. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229071 | Interconnections techniques - Techniques are described that can be used to extend the data transmission rate specified by 10 GBASE-KR of IEEE 802.3ap (2007) to more than 10 Gb/s using a multiple lane backplane. A signal for transmission over 10 Gb/s can be divided into multiple streams for transmission over multiple lanes. Multiple transceiver pairs can be used for transmission and receipt of the multiple streams. Each transceiver pair may comply with 10 GBASE-KR of IEEE 802.3ap (2007). | 2010-09-09 |
20100229072 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a time slicing processor. When a frame border of the last section for determining a burst reception end time is not detected during a burst reception operation, the time slicing processor receives a burst enough to restore the whole MPE-FEC frame to the former state or receives an early burst reception end request for notifying that it is impossible to restore the whole MPE-FEC frame to the former state, and terminates the burst reception process. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229073 | ENCODING AND ERROR CORRECTION SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF LEGACY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - A system includes a header stripper configured to strip header data from a plurality of legacy system frames. Each of the plurality of legacy system frames (i) being in accordance with a legacy system frame format and (ii) including a header block and a traffic channel block. A first encoder is configured to encode speech data for a plurality of slots of the traffic channel blocks. A second encoder is configured to encode the stripped header data as a frame header. A combiner is configured to combine the frame header and the encoded speech data to generate a frame. A segmenter segments the frame into a plurality of segments. A transmitter is configured to transmit the plurality of segments as traffic channel data in accordance with the legacy system frame format. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK - A method of transmitting data in an optical transport network is provided. The method comprises generating an optical transmission unit frame including an in-band area including a first area to which information data is allocated and a second area to which the information data is not allocated and an out-band area including parity information and transmitting the data through the optical transmission unit frame. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229075 | CHIP BLANKING AND PROCESSING IN SCDMA TO MITIGATE IMPULSE AND BURST NOISE AND/OR DISTORTION - A system for mitigating impairment in a communication system includes a delay block, a signal level block, a moving average window block, an impulse noise detection block, and a combiner. The delay block receives and delays each chip of a plurality of chips in a spreading interval. The signal level block determines a signal level of each chip of the plurality of chips in the spreading interval. The moving average window block determines a composite signal level for a chip window corresponding to the chip. The impulse noise detection block receives the signal level, receives the composite signal level, and produces an erasure indication for each chip of the plurality of chips of the corresponding chip window. The combiner erases chips of the plurality of chips of the spreading interval based upon the erasure indication. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229076 | Decoding Apparatus and Decoding Method - Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus including: with N and x each being a positive integer and k being a positive integer being equal to or greater than 1, a shift register of k stages configured to accumulate path select information for k inputs that is information about a survivor path of xN bits made up of radix-2 | 2010-09-09 |
20100229077 | Information processing apparatus and error detection method - An information processing apparatus includes multiple bus slaves, a bus master that outputs address data having a base address value for specifying arbitrary bus slave among the multiple bus slaves, and an offset address value for specifying access position in the bus slave, a selection unit that outputs a selection signal for selecting the arbitrary bus slave to the multiple bus slaves according to the base address value output from the bus master, an error detecting code generation unit that outputs an error detecting code from the address data output from the bus master, and an error detection unit that detects an error in the address data according to the error detecting code, which is generated from the offset address value output from the bus master and the base address value for specifying the selected bus slave, and the error detecting code output from the error detecting code generation unit. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229078 | CONTENT DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTENT DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The content display control apparatus ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100229079 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The page division unit which contains link information is updated by merging an image data indicated by the link information into the start of the page division unit, and changing a link destination indicated by the link information to the image data (S | 2010-09-09 |
20100229080 | COLLABORATIVE LINKING OF SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE BASES WITH VISUALIZATION OF DEVICE - A system and method which may be implemented at least partly by a computer, are provided for developing a support system. A virtual representation of a device is generated for display on a user interface. Links between components of the virtual representation, which represent components of the device, and corresponding cases in a searchable knowledge base (SKB) are stored. Users can navigate the SKB in search of a solution to a problem with the device with the assistance of the virtual representation which enables actuation of the existing links. The users are able to create new links, each new link linking a component of the virtual representation with a case in the SKB which the user identifies as providing a solution to the problem with the device which is related to the component. The new link is stored for future use by the user or by other users. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229081 | Method for Providing a Navigation Element in an Application - Integration of a first application and at least one second application can be done in the following way without requiring changes to the application source code even if the number or identity of the second application(s) changes. The first application reads a first piece of information identifying a reference provider and a second piece of information associated with information to be fetched from a second application from a configuration entry. The first application retrieves a reference from said reference provider, said reference referring to said information to be fetched from said second application and conforming to a format expected by said second application. The first application presents a navigation element associated with said reference to a user. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229082 | DYNAMIC CONTEXT-DATA TAG CLOUD - Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of a dynamic context-data tag cloud. A context data from a context-enriched message is acquired. A context-data tag that corresponds to the context data is generated. A context-data tag cloud comprising at least one context-data tag is provided. A mobile device that generated the context-enriched message for an updated context data may be queried. A depiction value of the context data may be updated according to an updated context-data value. The context-data tag cloud may include a visual cue of an attribute of the context data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229083 | SCREEN DISPLAY PROGRAM GENERATING APPARATUS, SCREEN DISPLAY SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN A COMPUTER PROGRAM CAUSING A COMPUTER TO FUNCTION AS THE SCREEN DISPLAY PROGRAM GENERATING APPARATUS, AND SCREEN DISPLAY PROGRAM GENERATING METHOD - To automatically generate a screen display program where parameters vary like web service calling. A style sheet generating section | 2010-09-09 |
20100229084 | RAPID SOFTWARE REPORT DEVELOPMENT TOOL WITH AUTO DATABASE HANDLING AND MENU TOOL-BAR PLUG-IN FOR APPLICATION REPORT ACCESS - A method is provided for generating reports for a computer monitored or aided environment that has a server-side module, a client-side module and a database, the server-side module, client-side module and database being interconnected, The method includes creating a report layout, the report layout containing a predefined number of dynamic fields at predetermined positions; associating, at the server-side, each dynamic field with a data source; collecting, at the server-side, information for each dynamic field according to the associated data source; storing the information in the database; and displaying the information for each dynamic field on a display according to the report layout. The report layout is shared universally for the generation of a displayed report and a printed report. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR YEARBOOK CREATION - A yearbook system is provided. The yearbook system provides a single, extensive resource to plan, create, educate about, sell, and distribute yearbooks. The system further provides an integrated yearbook system management and yearbook production system to enable the production of the yearbook to a printed output. A yearbook server hosts a client site and a client database. The client site is enables the school to plan, create, sell and distribute a yearbook. Further, they system may be used to create the yearbook online. A production server hosts a production database synchronizes with the yearbook server, providing images to the client for use in creating the yearbook, and accepting completed created pages submitted by the school from the yearbook server. The production server translates the created pages into the format to proceed through the regular preparation for production of the yearbook. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229086 | CONTENT RENDERING ON A COMPUTER - Portions of content are transformed into portions of rendered content. While the portions of the content are being transformed into portions of the rendered content, each discrete portion of the rendered content can be provided to the application program after that portion is completed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229087 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes; a processing content information creating unit that creates processing content information indicative of content of processing corresponding to operation accepted for operation target information to be operated by a user; a processing content information storing unit that stores the processing content information; and an outputting unit that outputs the operation target information added with additional information corresponding to the processing content information stored by the processing content information storing unit. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229088 | GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSIC USING VARYING LEVELS OF DETAIL - Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing graphical representations of music of varying levels of detail. An electronic device can determine the attributes of a first type (e.g., genre) associated with the music. The electronic device can display a graphical representation of the music using the attributes. The graphical representation can be based on a spiral, helix, map, or any other geometric shape or curve. A user can zoom into a portion of the graphical representation to select the music of a particular genre in which to view more detailed information. In response, the electronic device can determine the attributes of a second, more detailed type (e.g., artist) associated with the selected music and can revise the graphical representation to use the attributes of the second type. The revised graphical representation can include album cover art associated with the selected music. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229089 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control section which, if it is determined that a first object is selected by an operating body, causes a second object, which is obtained by duplicating a part or all of the first object, to be displayed at a predetermined position on a second display surface, and if it is determined that the second object is selected by the operating body, hides the first object displayed at the position indicated by object coordinate information and also updates the object coordinate information with in-second display surface destination coordinate information. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229090 | Systems and Methods for Interacting With Touch Displays Using Single-Touch and Multi-Touch Gestures - Embodiments include position detection systems that can identify two touch locations mapped to positions proximate a GUI object, such as a boundary. In response to movement of one or both of the two touch locations, the GUI object can be affected, such as moving the boundary to resize a corresponding object and/or to relocate the boundary, or the GUI object can be selected without movement of the touch locations. Embodiments include single touch gestures, such as identifying a rolling, bending, or other movement occurring while a touch location remains substantially the same and interpreting the movement as an input command. Embodiments may utilize one or more optical sensors having sufficient sensitivity to recognize changes in detected light due to variations in object orientation, makeup or posture caused by the rolling, bending, and/or other movement(s). | 2010-09-09 |
20100229091 | Information Processing Apparatus and Estimating Method - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation display unit for displaying a display screen and detecting an operation location on the display screen based upon a user operation on the display screen, a pressure detecting unit including a plurality of pressure sensors for detecting a pressure value according to the user operation on the operation display unit for each of the plurality of pressure sensors, an operation type determining unit for determining a type of the user operation, a deriving unit for selectively deriving a barycentric location on the display screen based upon detection results from the plurality of pressure sensors, based upon a determination result from the operation type determining unit, and an estimating unit for estimating a pressure value on the operation location, based upon a derivation result from the deriving unit and upon information of barycentric location candidates. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229092 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE LEVELS OF HELP INFORMATION FOR A COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and system for providing help information for a computer program. The help system provides help information based on a schema that specifies the structure of a valid computer program. The schema provides definitions of program element types that are specific instances of a program element type derived from more general program element types. The help system identifies a “derivation” of program element types relating to the selected program element. The help system then displays the derivation to the user. The user can then select to display documentation associated with the displayed program element types. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229093 | Apparatus and method for sorting video inputs in input select menu of display device - A display device has a plurality of video inputs and a video selection switch for switching between video inputs based on user inputted commands. An input select menu containing a list of the available video inputs can be displayed on the device. A remote control or input key is used to retrieve the input select menu and enter commands. The list of video inputs can be sorted in the input select menu using an automatic sorting function or a manual sorting function. A storage device keeps track of the number of times each video input is selected. The automatic sorting function uses the information in the storage device and a sorting algorithm to sort the list of video inputs in order of most frequently used to least frequently used. The manual sort function can be used to manually move the video inputs up or down in the input select menu. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229094 | AUDIO PREVIEW OF MUSIC - Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing an audio preview of songs and other audio elements. In some embodiments, the electronic device can provide a user-controllable pointer scrollable through various categories, such as different genres or artists. Responsive to each movement of the pointer, the electronic device can select a song from the pointed-to category and can play a portion of the selected song. In other embodiments, music groups can be defined, where each music group includes songs that go well together. The electronic device can play, in succession, a portion of one song from each of the music groups. Responsive to a user selection of a playing portion, the electronic device can create a playlist based on the music group of the selected playing portion. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229095 | Workflow Widgets - Systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, user interfaces and other implementations are disclosed for workflow widgets. In some implementations, a widget workflow method includes: launching a widget at a first device; and updating the widget with content created at a second device. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229096 | System and Interface For Monitoring Information Technology Assets - An application service provider (ASP)-based interface and system for analyzing performance and costs of respective enterprise information technology assets from the correlation of metrics data of enterprise SNMP-enabled devices. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229097 | Method for Selecting a Communication System Assigned to a Transmission Network of an Automation System - A method for selecting a communication system assigned to a transmission network of an automation system, where a transmission network with a plurality of subscribers, connected to the transmission network, of one or more automation systems is displayed, or is capable of being displayed, on a display unit. The transmission network is assigned to a plurality of communication systems, where the plurality of communication systems are each designed or configured for communication over the transmission network between at least two of the subscribers connected to the transmission network. By selecting a selection area assigned to the transmission network on the display unit by a selection device, the plurality of communication systems assigned to the transmission network are displayed on the display unit. Subsequent to selection of the selection area assigned to the transmission network by the selection means, one of the displayed communication systems is then selectable by means of the selection means. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229098 | CONFIGURATION OF INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An arrangement is disclosed for configuring an intelligent electronic device, having a configuration unit configured to provide a plurality of function blocks into a visual representation of a configuration of the intelligent electronic device. Each function block is configured for executing a function in the intelligent electronic device and has a predetermined set of connection interfaces for connecting the function block with other function blocks or external variables. A checking unit is configured to check, for a function block, a completion status of the connections of the function block in the configuration, and an indicating unit is configured to provide a visual indication in the visual representation to indicate the completion status of the connections of the function block. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229099 | Remote Audio - Various embodiments for remote presentation of an interface of a computing device, such as a PC, are described herein. In particular, in various illustrated embodiments, a local device such as a Digital Media Adapter (DMA), mobile device, cellular telephone, etc. may be used to receive input from a remote control, where the local device provides human perceptible feedback, such as a sound, visual response, etc., responsive to use of the remote control. In some embodiments, the local device may contain a memory or cache for locally storing particular feedback data for human perceptible feedback. In various embodiments, a communication protocol is provided for storing, triggering, deleting, etc. feedback data in the memory or cache. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229100 | Methods and Systems for Storing and Accessing Application History - In a communication device, multiple instances of different applications may execute. Advantageously, at least one instance of an application records and stores a browsing history of data items accessed during its execution. This stored browsing history may be made available to later instances of applications. Furthermore, one or more such stored histories may be accessed via a global back or a global forward command, allowing the histories to be browsed according to the order in which they were recorded. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229101 | WEATHER INFORMATION IN A CALENDAR - A system receives location information from a user, retrieves weather information based on the received location information, retrieves calendar information associated with the user, and associates the weather information with the calendar information in a calendar application. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229102 | ASSISTIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An assistive communication device of the type on which a user can compose a message to be spoken by the device, using an input device to select items on a display to construct the message, can operate in a mode suitable for visually impaired and/or inexperienced users by aurally stepping through the available choices, explaining to the user the consequences of selecting each choice. The order in which choices are presented in these modes may differ from a mode in which they would be presented to an experienced or fully-sighted user. Even for an experienced user, the order in which choices are highlighted on the display may differ according the user's usage history. The device may be connected to external communications, including a telephone line, a data network for electronic mail, or a caregiver alert device. The caregiver alert device may be portable, or may be a caregivers' station console. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229103 | System and method for conference management - The present invention relates to a system for conference management and a method for conference management. The system for conference management comprises a gateway including a conference control module; a plurality of computers connected to the gateway by a network, each of the computers storing a report content respectively; and a large sized display connected to the gateway. By using the conference control module to manage the rights of display of the computers, the computer that is granted the right of display transmits the report content to the gateway, and displays on the large sized display for information communication. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229104 | Teleconferencing apparatus, Teleconferencing system, method of controlling Teleconferencing apparatus, and computer-readable medium storing control program for controlling teleconferencing apparatus - A teleconferencing apparatus for a teleconference to be performed between a plurality of terminal apparatus including a shared display area and an individual display area, the teleconferencing apparatus includes a browsing page information storage control device that causes a browsing page information storage device to store, identification information for identifying the terminal apparatus having sent the page information and the received page information, a browsing time information storage device that stores, as browsing time information, the page information of the display data displayed in the individual display area and a display time indicating a time in which a page specified with the page information is displayed in the individual display area unlike a page in the shared display area, a sending device that sends page information of the browsing time information, to the terminal apparatus. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229105 | INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE OF VOGUE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARED INTEGRATED ONLINE SOCIAL INTERACTION - A novel application and user interface for facilitating group interactions over a network integrates messaging, file sharing, media playing, journaling, profiles, and gaming into a cohesive environment. The groups facilitated by the invention are persistent and mobile in that a user does not have to recollect and reconfigure the group each time he or she wants to interact with the group online and, while online, the group may be taken from one activity to another without having to disband and reconnect at the second activity. The application is modular so as to be extensible to include other activities and functionalities. In an embodiment, the group interaction application utilizes a peer-to-peer network environment to facilitate network communications between group members. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229106 | SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT CHARACTER DATA SHARING - Synthetic environment character data sharing is described, including retrieving data from a plurality of sources configured to store the data, the data being generated from an interaction between a character and a synthetic environment, generating a feed comprising dynamic content associated with the character and the synthetic environment, the feed being configured to present the data to one or more clients associated with the synthetic environment in substantially real time, transmitting the feed to the one or more clients, extracting the data from the feed and presenting the data on the one or more clients after being extracted from the feed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229107 | CROSS-INTERFACE COMMUNICATION - Cross-interface communication is described, including generating data associated with a synthetic environment, the synthetic environment comprising one or more communication protocols, converting the data using one of the one or more communication protocols to generate converted data, wherein the converted data is interpreted using another of the one or more communication protocols, and transmitting the data over a communication path between two or more endpoints using one or more communication interfaces, wherein the data, after being interpreted by the another of the one or more communication protocols, is used to present information associated with the synthetic environment on at least one of the two or more endpoints. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229108 | Computational Delivery System for Avatar and Background Game Content - Data defining an avatar is received, over a network. The data defining the avatar is stored to a computer readable medium. A sprite sheet comprising a plurality of sprites is created, using at least one computing device, using the data defining the avatar. Each sprite comprises a partial rendering of the respective avatar and at least one run-time parameter comprising a sprite attribute. A plurality of requests are received, over the network, for the avatar from a plurality of user applications. The data defining the avatar and the sprite sheet are transmitted, over the network, to each of the requesting games, whereby each respective user application is enabled to display the sprites in the sprite sheet. The user application is enabled to set the run-time parameter associated with each of the sprites in the sprite sheet such that each respective sprite is thereby customized to the application. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229109 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING IMAGE DATA, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is provided with a first electronic mail message transmission portion for transmitting an image file of a target image to be transmitted to an intended receiver to an apparatus of the intended receiver together with a URL of a web page on which an image format is specified, a second transmission image data generation portion for generating an image file of the target image in the format specified on the web page, and a second electronic mail message transmission portion for transmitting the image file thus generated to the apparatus of the intended receiver. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229110 | Task Sensitive Methods and Systems for Displaying Command Sets - Methods and systems present commands to a user within a software application program by determining the user's context within the application program and automatically presenting in a user interface commands that pertain to the user's current context. When the user's context changes, the context-sensitive commands are automatically removed from the user interface. In one implementation context blocks and context panes are employed to present the commands. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229111 | ACCELERATED SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING, MANAGING, AND PUBLISHING BUSINESS INFORMATION - Embodiments of the invention provide an accelerated system and methods for gathering business information, augmenting that information to conform to requirements for sharing the information and for synchronizing, managing and publishing the information across the supply chain. Through use of a control module business information is gathered from a variety of enterprise wide systems and stored via an acceleration engine. After augmenting and/or altering the information to conform to the requirements of a desired repository of information known as a data pool, the information is published to the data pool and registered by the data pool with a registry for looking up the published information. One or more embodiments of the invention allow for the rapid publication and modification of publication related data using advanced querying mechanisms of the acceleration engine. The publication features of the system allow for multi-lingual output and support for multiple output types including print and web based publications using the same inherent product data for example a product catalog, In addition, subscribing to product information is performed in the inverse direction with respect to a data pool allowing not only manufacturers, but also retailers to gain the benefits of the accelerated system. One or more embodiments of the user interface component comprise declaratively defined interfaces that are not hardcoded in a source code program. The server interface is capable of utilizing declaratively defined interface definitions for data pool specific messages and data attributes that are not hardcoded in a source code program. Declaratively defined user and server interfaces allow for modification of the interface without altering the source code and this allows lower skilled level employees to install and maintain the system. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229112 | PROBLEM REPORTING SYSTEM BASED ON USER INTERFACE INTERACTIONS - A system for reporting and analyzing problems encountered by computer users. The system includes a recording tool executing on a user computer to capture a sequence of user interactions in the context of a graphical user interface. When a problem or other stop event is encountered, the tool generates a report indicating user interactions leading to the stop event, including information such as the specific sequence of controls for specific programs accessed by the user. The report can be analyzed to identify a sequence of user interactions characteristic of a problem type, which in turn may be used to find a solution for a particular user's problem. The system may also include a server that receives and analyzes reports from multiple computer users to identify patterns of user interactions that characterize problem types. This information may be used for associating specific problems with future reports or to provide information to software developers for improving their products. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229113 | VIRTUAL OFFICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A virtual office management system has an image output module that displays as a single view web page. A series of defined sections are included in the single view web page, a defined section being a divisible frame capable of displaying separate content within that divisible frame, a physical office module, a desktop module, and a resource module. The physical office module is connected to the single view web page and displayed within the divisible frame, the physical office module providing a layered physical office environment with tags assigned to file directories. The desktop module is connected to the single view web page and displayable through the divisible frame, the desktop module being linkable to content of a pre-determined file directory that is then displayed as a system file folder, and changeable through assigned tags associated with the layered physical office environment. The resource module is connected to the single view web page through a series of separate embedded links, the links individually layered into another frame of the single view web page and connected to both internal and external content. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229114 | User Interface for Interaction with Virtual Machine - Systems, methods, and computer program products are described that provide a user interface to a user of a first operating system to enable the user to interact with a second operating system executing in a virtual machine. If the first and second operating systems are in communication in accordance with an operating system remote terminal (OSRT) protocol, such as Remote Desktop Protocol, a first user interface is provided as the user interface. If the first and second operating systems are not in communication in accordance with the OSRT protocol, a second user interface is provided as the user interface. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229115 | ZOOMABLE USER INTERFACE DATA GENERATION - Systems and methods for generating zoomable user interface dynamically or at scale are disclosed. In at least some implementations, at least portions of zoomable user interface information returned to a client may be generated in response to a request. In the same or other implementations, one or more of a variety of optimizations may be used to more efficiently generate zoomable user interface information. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229116 | Control aparatus - A control apparatus includes a voice recognition unit for recognizing user utterance to output a recognized word, a function storage unit for determining and storing a desired function that corresponds to the recognized word, a detector for detecting a preset user operation, a button display unit for displaying on a screen a shortcut button that instructs execution of the desired function stored in the storage unit when the detector detects the preset user operation, and a control unit for controlling execution of the desired function when the shortcut button is operated. By storing the desired function in association with the recognized word and by detecting user instruction, the control apparatus displays a shortcut button for a necessary function only. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229117 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY OF PORTABLE DEVICE - Provided is a method of displaying information of a portable device, which includes receiving a signal of booting or termination of the portable device; and displaying a valid information which is previously set while the booting or termination process is performing. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229118 | METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRODUCING MEDICAL FINDINGS ON THE BASIS OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - In order to produce a set of medical findings based on image data which has been obtained by way of different imaging methods, a plurality of image viewer programs has hitherto been required. In at least one embodiment, a viewer device is to be provided, with which different image data can be viewed and with which it is simultaneously possible to produce a set of medical findings. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided wherein a base page and at least one content page with display elements are selected and are loaded and activated by a program. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229119 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR FILTERING A POPULATION OF ITEMS - Graphical user interface for filtering a population of items. The graphical user interface may be implemented as a method on a system comprising a computer server or other computing device. The system defines a library of available criteria to be used in filtering a population of items to identify items of interest. Each criterion has a graphical representation. The system receives an indication of at least one of the criterion to be applied to the population as a filter and also accepts an indication of a tier of the filter to which the selected criterion is to be associated. The system identifies a list of items of interest satisfying a current set of criteria defining the filter. A graphical representation of the filter is displayed by the system while it is being constructed by the user. In one embodiment, the items are securities such as stocks. | 2010-09-09 |
20100229120 | OPERATION ASSISTING APPARATUS AND OPERATION ASSISTING METHOD - Provided are an operation assisting apparatus and a method thereof which accurately estimate an intention of a user and present a desired function more preferentially. | 2010-09-09 |