45th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 42 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170322850 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, SYSTEM, DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SERVER AND TERMINAL - Disclosed are a data synchronization method, system, data synchronization server and terminal. A synchronization server determines the source of corresponding digital content according to the brief information uploaded by a user, and determines, according to the source of the digital content, to store the brief information only or further store the storage position information of the digital content or the digital content itself, thus reducing the data traffic for data backup, simplifying data migration difficulty when the user replaces a terminal, and reducing the communication cost of the user and the network resource pressure of a carrier. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322851 | METHODS FOR DETECTING OUT-OF-ORDER SEQUENCING DURING JOURNAL RECOVERY AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and storage server computing device that allocates monotonically increasing sequence numbers to storage operations based on an order of the storage operations corresponding entries in a log. The storage operations are sequenced including by identifying a subset of the storage operations that are parallelizable. A file system data structure is allocated and populated with data associated with one of the storage operations. A determination is made when a rollback is detected based on whether a replay ledger index field of the file system data structure comprises one of the sequence numbers that is greater than another one of the sequence number corresponding to the one of the storage operations. The another one of the sequence numbers is inserted into the replay ledger index field, when the determining indicates that a rollback is not detected. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322852 | VERSIONING AND RECOVERY OF WORKLOADS - In one example, a method may include generating, by a computing device, a volume as a file in memory, where the volume may be based on an operating system (OS) image. The method may include attaching the file to a workload, booting the workload using the OS image, generating a version of the file with at least one block that underwent change and metadata associated with the change based on an input/output request to the volume, storing, by the computing device, the file and the version of the file on a storage device associated with the computing device, and recovering a version of the volume associated with the workload using the file and the version of the file stored in the storage device. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322853 | METHOD OF MANAGING DATA OF FILE SYSTEM AND COMPUTING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A method of managing data of a file system includes: obtaining information of an unallocated inode that is not currently used because a corresponding file has been deleted based on status of use of inodes stored in an inode bitmap and deletion information of the inodes stored in an inode table; retrieving a backup inode corresponding to the unallocated inode in a journal log area using the obtained information of the unallocated inode; and requesting selection of whether to permanently delete files corresponding to the retrieved backup inode. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322854 | Data Storage Devices and Data Maintenance Methods - A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of blocks. Each block includes a plurality of pages. when the data storage device is resumed from a power-off event, the controller selects a first block which was written last before the power-off event among the plurality of blocks and writes data of a plurality of first pages of the first block into a plurality of second pages of the first block. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RECOVERING FROM THE FAILURE OF A SERVER LOAD BALANCER - The invention provides, in one aspect, a server load balancer (SLB) recovery method that replicates a primary SLB's connection data after the primary SLB experiences a failure, as opposed to before it experiences a failure as is currently done in the known hot stand-by recovery method. In some embodiments, this is made possible by (1) employing a replication agent on each target processing unit (e.g., each processing unit on which a server application runs) and (2) transmitting, from the primary SLB, connection data information (i.e., information comprising a session identifier) to the replication agent running on the target processing unit to which the session is mapped, which replication agent will store the data until it is required to transmit the data to a cold stand-by SLB. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TESTING OF PERIPHERAL NODES - A system and method for facilitating testing of peripheral devices is disclosed. The system can be a USB virtual device that storing a plurality of class libraries associated with a set of peripheral nodes. The plurality of class libraries enable communication between a peripheral node and a testing platform. The system receives an access request from the testing platform for initiating a test cycle on a target peripheral node from the set of peripheral nodes. The system activates a class library associated with the target peripheral node, from the plurality of class libraries for enabling communication between the testing platform and the target peripheral node. Further, the system transmits an acknowledgement message to the testing platform to initiate the test cycle on the target peripheral node, using the class library, based on a test suit corresponding to the target peripheral node. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322857 | BENCH AND SOFTWARE FOR TESTING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, IN PARTICULAR A COMPUTER - Disclosed is a test bench ( | 2017-11-09 |
20170322858 | Device And Method For Concurrently Analyzing A Plurality Of Telecommunications Signal Protocols - An improved method for telecommunication analysis and monitoring employing a logic analyzer device. The logic analyzer device provides a plurality of concurrent graphic depictions of different electronic signals under differing electronic protocols for signal error determination on a communications channel. Error source determination is enabled through the provided concurrent depiction of digital and analog signal characteristics in the differing protocols, including digital data packets, signal voltages and timing. Through this concurrent depiction the user can visually discern potential causation for electronic communication errors caused by non-continuous signal anomalies affecting one or more of the protocols. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322859 | CPU PERFORMANCE PROFILING - Methods, systems and media for profiling CPU performance are provided. In one example, a method for profiling CPU performance includes generating a CPU profiling data file using a profiling tool, loading a flame graphing tool into a browser, loading the CPU profiling data file into a profiling page of the browser using the flame graphing tool, converting the loaded CPU profiling data file into an aggregated JSON format, and using the flame graphing tool to generate a flame graph using the aggregated JSON data. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322860 | POWER MONITORING SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL PLATFORM SIMULATION - This application is directed to a power monitoring system for virtual platform simulation. In one embodiment, a simulation system may comprise a virtual power monitor (VPMON) and a performance simulator. An example VPMON module may include at least a system agent (SA) module to receive virtual platform data from the performance simulator. The SA module may then be further to determine at least one component power model based on the virtual platform data, and may proceed to formulate a platform power model based on the at least one component power model. During simulation of the virtual platform, the SA module may be further to generate power data corresponding to the virtual platform based on the platform power model. For example, the SA module may obtain performance data from the performance simulator, and may provide the performance data to the platform power model to generate the power data. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322861 | COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES FOR ENCODING STACK TRACE INFORMATION - Embodiments provide a thread classification method that represents stack traces in a compact form using classification signatures. Some embodiments can receive a stack trace that includes a sequence of stack frames. Some embodiments may generate, based on the sequence of stack frames, a trace signature that represents the set. Some embodiments may receive one or more subsequent stack traces. For each of the one or more subsequent stack traces, some embodiments may determine whether a subsequent trace signature has been generated to represent the sequence of stack frames included within the subsequent stack trace. If not, some embodiments may generate, based on the trace signature and other subsequent trace signatures that were generated based on the trace signature, the subsequent trace signature to represent the subsequent sequence of stack frames. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM - In order to control communication in an IPv6 environment, a network monitoring apparatus includes a communication data acquisition unit that acquires communication data in a network, a target terminal determination unit that determines whether a terminal included in a source or a destination of the acquired communication data is a target terminal meeting a predetermined condition, and a communication guiding unit that, by notifying the target terminal of a physical address of a predetermined terminal as a physical address of a terminal other than the target terminal, guides the communication data sent from the target terminal, to the predetermined terminal. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322863 | CONTEXT TRACING FOR SOFTWARE LOGGING - Context tracing may be implemented by modifying a call to parameterize, and thereby govern, logging operations of a called software application or program. Resulting messages of the logging operations are stored in a manner that facilitates fast identification and retrieval of the messages. Accordingly, accurate identification of errors or sub-optimal operations of the called software application or program is enabled, thereby enabling correction and/or optimization of operations of the called program. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322864 | GROUPING EVENT REPORTS - Examples disclosed herein relate, among other things, to a monitoring system that includes a monitoring device. The monitoring device may include a report monitor to obtain a plurality of event reports, and a report analyzer to group the plurality of event reports into a plurality of report groups and to generate an event summary for at least one of the plurality of groups. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322865 | DEBUGGING CODE CONTROLLING RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED INTELLIGENT DEVICES CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH EXECUTING OBJECT CODE - This disclosure involves debugging code for resource-constrained intelligent devices contemporaneously with executing object code on the intelligent device. For example, object code is transmitted to a radio device. A program counter entry is provided from the radio device to a computer via a communication link contemporaneously with a pause in execution of the object code at the radio device. A correspondence between the program counter entry and a portion of assembly code, which was used to generate the object code, is identified and is used to generate a list of additional program counter entries for pausing the object code's execution. The list is provided from the computer to the radio device and is used to pause the object code's execution at the radio device. Log data is provided from the radio device to the computer for display after pausing the object code's execution at one of these program counter entries. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322866 | COMPUTER AIDED BUG REPORTING SYSTEM FOR GUI APPLICATIONS - A computer aided bug reporting system for GUI-based apps extracts and stores static and dynamic data from an app's source code. Using the extracted/stored data, a sequence of prompts is generated on a bug reporter's display device. The prompts are ordered in accordance with one of the app's execution paths associated with an encountered bug wherein each of the prompts is associated with one of the path's execution steps. Each prompt presents the GUI components and attributes of the GUI components associated with the one of the execution steps wherein selected ones of the GUI components and selected ones of the attributes of the GUI components are defined. The selected ones of the GUI components and the selected ones of the attributes of the GUI components for the execution steps associated with the one of the execution paths are presented for review by a software developer. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322867 | DEBUGGING SUPPORT UNIT FOR MICROPROCESSOR - A debug-enabled processing device includes a processor, a communication transceiver circuit, and a debug support unit. The debug support unit has a plurality of dedicated debug registers to facilitate debugging a software program under execution by the processor. One of the plurality of debug registers is a control register having at least four bits, which are used to enable/disable a plurality of debugging operations. Others of the debug registers include a set of index registers that may be configured to pass data to and from the processor. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322868 | Testing Application Programs Using a Virtual Machine - A method, apparatus, and virtual computer system for testing application software. A first operating system of a first operating type is run on a first processor of a first processor type in a physical computer system. A virtual machine that emulates a second processor of a second processor type is run on the first processor. A second operating system of a second operating type is run on the virtual machine with the virtual machine running on the first processor. The first processor running the first operating system and the virtual machine running the second operating system together form the virtual computer system. A tool qualifier module performs verification of an application testing tool on the virtual machine using tool qualification data to qualify the application testing tool before the application testing tool is run using the second operating system on the virtual machine to test an application program. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322869 | Transferring Application Software Between Virtual Machines - A method and apparatus for testing application software for installation on hardware platforms. A software tool is qualified using a tool qualifier module running on a first virtual computer system having a configuration that comprises a processor of first processor type and a first virtual machine emulating a processor of second processor type. A benchmark performance is established for the first virtual machine. A second virtual computer system has a configuration that comprises a processor of third type and a second virtual machine emulating the processor of the second processor type. The second virtual machine is verified using a qualifier module to determine whether its performance is consistent with the benchmark performance to form a qualified second virtual machine. After the tool has been qualified, the tool is transferred from the first virtual machine to the qualified second virtual machine without needing to be requalified. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322870 | Transferring Application Software from a Physical to a Virtual Computer System - A method and apparatus for testing application software for installation on hardware platforms. A software tool is verified using a tool qualifier module running on a physical computer system that has a processor of a first processor type and an operating system of a first operating type. A benchmark performance is established for the physical computer system. A virtual machine in a virtual computer system is verified using a qualifier module to determine whether its performance is consistent with the benchmark performance to form a qualified virtual machine. The virtual computer system has a configuration that comprises a processor of a second type; an operating system of a second operating type; the virtual machine emulating the processor of the first processor type; and an operating system of the first operating type. The software tool can be transferred from the physical computer system to the qualified virtual machine without requiring requalification. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322871 | SIMULATED DEPLOYMENT OF DATABASE ARTIFACTS - Systems and techniques for performing a simulated deployment to a database include generating a dependency graph of multiple artifacts contained in a container for deployment to a database and receiving an indication to perform a simulated deployment of the artifacts. In response to receiving the indication, the container is marked for simulated deployment. The artifacts are deployed to the database using the marked container and the generated dependency graph without committing the artifacts to the database. The deployed artifacts are rolled back such that no state changes are made to the database due to the simulated deployment. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322872 | User Interface Test Coverage - A user interface (“UI”) code coverage system and process determines the coverage by test code of UI Components in a computer program. In other words, the UI code coverage system and process determine whether the test code tests a UI Component. In at least one embodiment, the UI code coverage system and process identify the particular UI Components tested by the test code, provide coverage (i.e. tested) statistics, provide a visualization of the UI Component tested, provide a visualization of tested and not-tested (also referred to respectively as “covered” and “not covered”) UI Components of a UI Screen. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322873 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR AUTOMATED GENERATION OF TEST FILES AND TESTING NETWORK EQUIPMENT USING SAME - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for automated generation of test files and for related testing. According to one method, the method includes receiving a configuration file, where the configuration file indicates a test case or a test plan to be generated, wherein the configuration file includes a feature identifier or a bug identifier and information about a system under test (SUT). The method also includes generating at least one test file based on the configuration file, wherein the at least one test file is for testing a feature or a bug in the SUT associated with the feature identifier or the bug identifier in the configuration file. The method further includes generating at least one directory based on the configuration file and storing the at least one test file in the at least one directory. The method also includes testing the feature or bug in the SUT using the at least one test file. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322874 | GENERATING TEST CASES - Systems and techniques are described for generating test cases. In one example, a manual test of code is performed. The manual test uses proxy code to detect at least one input to the code and a data transfer between the code and other code. The data transfer includes an input to the other code and an output from the other code. A file is generated that includes the at least one input to the code, the input to the other code, the output from the other code, and data that specifies that the manual test of the code resulted in an expected output. A mock test automates the manual test of the code based at least in part on the file. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322875 | READ AND WRITE SETS FOR RANGES OF INSTRUCTIONS OF TRANSACTIONS - Transactional memory accesses are tracked using read and write sets based on actual program flow. A read and write set is associated with a range of instructions of a transaction. When execution follows a predicted branch, loads and stores are marked as being of selected read and write sets. Then, when a misprediction is processed, and execution is rewound, speculatively added read and write set indications are removed from the read and write sets. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322876 | MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH MEMORY RESOURCE MEMORY MANAGEMENT - In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a memory controller is disclosed. The memory controller is communicatively coupleable to a memory resource having a plurality of memory resource regions, which may be associated with a plurality of computing resources. The memory controller may include a memory resource interface to communicatively couple the memory controller to the memory resource and a computing resource interface to communicatively couple the memory controller to the plurality of computing resources. The memory controller may further include a memory resource memory management unit to manage the memory resource. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322877 | MEMORY USAGE DETERMINATION TECHNIQUES - Embodiments provide techniques for estimating seasonal indices for multiple periods. Some embodiments can receive a signal comprising a plurality of measures sampled over a span of time from an environment in which one or more processes are being executed. Some embodiments may then extract a seasonal effector and a de-seasonalized component from the signal. Next, some embodiments can apply one or more spline functions to the seasonal effector to generate a first model. Some embodiments may then apply a linear regression technique to the de-seasonalized component to generate a second model. Some embodiments may then initiate actions associated with the code. Some embodiments may then generate a forecast of the signal based on the first model and the second model. Next, some embodiments may initiate, based at least in part on the forecast, one or more actions associated with the environment. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322878 | DETERMINE UNREFERENCED PAGE IN DEDUPLICATION STORE FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION - Examples to determine an unreferenced page in a deduplication store are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value is calculated for a received garbage collection data request for data on a client volume. The CRC value is translated into a physical page location in a deduplication store for the client volume using a three-level table scheme. It is then determined whether a physical page in the deduplication store is unreferenced. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322879 | REDUCING MINOR GARBAGE COLLECTION OVERHEAD - A method and system are provided for reducing garbage collection overhead. The method includes representing, by a hardware processor, an application program by a Directed Acyclic Graph having a set of nodes. Each of the nodes represents a respective one of a plurality of computation tasks. The method further includes specifying, by the hardware processor from the set of nodes, any of the nodes which store a respective computation result for at least a threshold period of time as cache nodes. The method further includes allocating, by the hardware processor, the respective computation result of each of the cache nodes into a tenure area of a memory. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322880 | Methods for Reprogramming Data and Apparatuses using the Same - A method for reprogramming data, performed by a processing unit, is disclosed to include at least the following steps. When a page data has failed to be programmed into a first block of a storage unit and the failed page is an upper page of the first block, a host page number associated with a first lower page of memory cells of the first block of a wordline is obtained, where the memory cells comprises the failed page. When the failed page is an upper page, data from the first lower page to the upper page of the first block is programmed into a second block of the storage unit. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322881 | READ AND WRITE SETS FOR TRANSACTIONS OF A MULTITHREADED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Facilitating processing in a computing environment. A request to access a cache of the computing environment is obtained from a transaction executing on a processor of the computing environment. Based on obtaining the request, a determination is made as to whether a tracking set to be used to track cache accesses is to be updated. The tracking set includes a read set to track read accesses of at least a selected portion of the cache and a write set to track write accesses of at least the selected portion of the cache. The tracking set is assigned to the transaction, and another transaction to access the cache has another tracking set assigned thereto. The tracking set assigned to the transaction is updated based on the determining indicating the tracking set is to be updated. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322882 | I/O BLENDER COUNTERMEASURES - A cache storage method includes providing a storage cache cluster, comprising a plurality of cache storage elements, for caching I/O operations from a plurality of virtual machines associated with a corresponding plurality of virtual hard disks mapped to a logical storage area network volume or LUN. Responsive to a cache flush signal, flush write back operations are performed to flush modified cache blocks to achieve or preserve coherency. The flush write back operations may include accessing current time data indicative of a current time, determining a current time window in accordance with the current time, determining a duration of the current time window, and identifying a current cache storage element corresponding to the current time window. For a duration of the current time window, only those write back blocks stored in the current cache storage element are flushed. In addition, the applicable write back blocks are flushed in accordance with logical block address information associated with each write back block. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322883 | VICTIM BUFFER FOR CACHE COHERENT SYSTEMS - In accordance with various aspects of the invention, a recall transaction is issued if a tag filter entry needs to be freed up for an incoming transaction. Directory entries chosen for a recall transaction are pushed into a fully associative structure called victim buffer. If this structure gets full, then an entry is selected from entries inside the victim buffer for the recall. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322884 | READ AND WRITE SETS FOR TRANSACTIONS OF A MULTITHREADED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Facilitating processing in a computing environment. A request to access a cache of the computing environment is obtained from a transaction executing on a processor of the computing environment. Based on obtaining the request, a determination is made as to whether a tracking set to be used to track cache accesses is to be updated. The tracking set includes a read set to track read accesses of at least a selected portion of the cache and a write set to track write accesses of at least the selected portion of the cache. The tracking set is assigned to the transaction, and another transaction to access the cache has another tracking set assigned thereto. The tracking set assigned to the transaction is updated based on the determining indicating the tracking set is to be updated. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322885 | MANAGING MEMORY ACCESS REQUESTS WITH PREFETCH FOR STREAMS - Managing memory access requests to a cache system including one or more cache levels that are configured to store cache lines that correspond to memory blocks in a main memory includes: storing stream information identifying recognized streams that were recognized based on previously received memory access requests, where one or more of the recognized streams comprise strided streams that each have an associated strided prefetch result corresponding to a stride that is larger than or equal to a size of a single cache line; and determining whether or not a next cache line prefetch request corresponding to a particular memory access request will be made based at least in part on whether or not the particular memory access request matches a strided prefetch result for at least one strided stream, and a history of past next cache line prefetch requests. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322886 | ADMISSION CONTROL FOR MEMORY ACCESS REQUESTS - Managing memory access requests for a plurality of processor cores includes: storing admission control information for determining whether or not to admit a predetermined type of memory access request into a shared resource that is shared among the processor cores and includes one or more cache levels of a hierarchical cache system and at least one memory controller for accessing a main memory; determining whether or not a memory access request of the predetermined type made on behalf of a first processor core should be admitted into the shared resource based at least in part on the stored admission control information; and updating the admission control information based on a latency of a response to a particular memory access request admitted into the shared resource, where the updating depends on whether the response originated from a particular cache level included in the shared resource or from the main memory. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322887 | METHOD TO CONTROL CACHE REPLACEMENT FOR DECOUPLED DATA FETCH - A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for decoupling data pre-fetch from demand loads. The method includes the steps of receiving, by a processor, a set of instructions that includes a load instruction; and executing, by the processor, the load instruction to perform a load operation. The load operation loads data from a cache unit into a register file. The load instruction includes a no-update operator that prevents the cache unit from updating the cache state information in response to the load operation. The result is that the eviction policy for the cache unit responds to the order of pre-fetch memory access requests rather than the demand load operations. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322888 | ZONING OF LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL DATAADDRESS TRANSLATION TABLES WITH PARALLELIZED LOG LIST REPLAY - An example device includes a memory device and one or more processors. The memory device is configured to store a table that includes two or more mappings, each mapping being associated with a respective logical address and a respective physical address. The processors are configured to identify, within the table, a first zone and a second zone. Each zone includes one or more mappings of the table. The zones do not share any mapping of the table. The processors are further configured to form a first log list indicating one or more mapping updates associated with the mapping(s) included in the first zone, to form a second log list indicating one or more mapping updates associated with the mapping(s) included in the second zone, and to replay a portion of the first log list and a portion of the second log list concurrently to update the table. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322889 | COMPUTING RESOURCE WITH MEMORY RESOURCE MEMORY MANAGEMENT - In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computing system includes a memory resource having a plurality of memory resource regions and a plurality of computing resources. The plurality of computing resources are communicatively coupleable to the memory resource. Each computing node may include a native memory management unit to manage a native memory on the computing resource and a memory resource memory management unit to manage the memory resource region of the memory resource associated with the computing resource. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322890 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A configuration capable of performing reliable source analysis of illegal copy content using content in which a reproduction path is settable is implemented. Content in which an individual segment region including a plurality of pieces of variation data which include different identification information embedded therein and are decryptable using different keys and a common segment region including single data are provided, and variation data is configured with an aligned unit is set. A content reproducing device calculates a reproduction path by applying a device key and selects and reproduces an aligned unit corresponding to the reproduction path on the basis of a variation data identifier recorded in an adaptation field in a plain text region at the head of a plurality of aligned units constituting the variation data. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322891 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SECURE DATA STORAGE - A device for secure data storage has a host unit that obtains data stored on an external device at an external storage address; a user signal generator that generates a user defined security signal based on the external storage address of the data that indicates a security level of the data; a storage address determining unit that determines an internal storage address for the data based on the security level of the data; and a storage unit that stores the data at the internal storage address corresponding to the security level. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322892 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The information processing system includes: a plurality of operation devices respectively connected to a plurality of communication terminals; operation integration means that inputs information about an operation on the plurality of operation devices; a display device that has a communication function; control means that controls generation of a screen related to information about an operation from the plurality of operation devices: and display control means that causes the display device to display the screen. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322893 | COMPUTING NODE TO INITIATE AN INTERRUPT FOR A WRITE REQUEST RECEIVED OVER A MEMORY FABRIC CHANNEL - A computer system operates as a computing node of a fabric computing system, to receive write requests over a memory fabric channel from a sender node. The computer system determines an interrupt vector identifier (VID) for individual write requests that specify a monitored portion of memory. When a write request is to the monitored portion of memory, a processor of the computer system initiates an interrupt that is based on the interrupt VID. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322894 | SYNCHRONOUS INPUT/OUTPUT COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING HARDWARE INVALIDATION OF SYNCHRONOUS INPUT/OUTPUT CONTEXT - A synchronous input/output (I/O) computing system includes a processor and a memory unit that stores program instructions. The system is configured to purge a device table cache (DTC) in response to the processor executing the program instructions. An operating system runs on the synchronous I/O computing system and issues a synchronous I/O command indicating a request to perform a device table entry transaction that has a total data length to be transferred. A device table entry is selected from a device table, loaded into the DTC, and data packets corresponding to the device table entry transaction are transferred using the selected device table entry. A host bridge processor monitors the data packets transferred using the selected table entry, and automatically purges the selected device table entry from the DTC in response to determining the transferred data packets match the total data length. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322895 | DMA CONTROLLER WITH ARITHMETIC UNIT - A digital signal processor (DSP) includes a CPU, and a DMA controller. The DMA controller transfers data from a source to a destination as a function of an initialization command from the CPU. The DMA controller has a logic unit that performs filter operations and other arithmetic operations on-the-fly on a data stream transferred therethrough. The filter operations include multiplication by filter coefficients and addition, without processing by the CPU. The DMA controller may have subsets of hardware configurations that can perform different operations that are selectable as a function of the initialization command. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322896 | DATA TRANSFER USING A DESCRIPTOR - A data processing apparatus includes a number of processor cores, a shared processor cache, a bus unit and a bus controller. The shared processor cache is connected to each of the processor cores and to a main memory. The bus unit is connected to the shared processor cache by a bus controller for transferring data to/from an I/O device. In order to achieve further improvements to the data transfer rate between the processor cache and I/O devices, the bus controller is configured, in response to receiving a descriptor from a processor core, to perform a direct memory access to the shared processor cache for transferring data according to the descriptor from the shared processor cache to the I/O device via the bus unit. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING A SUBMISSION QUEUE - A data storage device includes a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller is configured to select a submission queue from a set of submission queues of an access device based at least in part on availability of space in a completion queue of the access device. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322898 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE HDD/SSD STORAGE SUPPORT - Various examples of the present technology provide systems and methods for incorporating a switch card and adapter cards in a server system to provide flexible HDD and SSD supports. More specifically, a server system comprises a switch card having at least two different types of interfaces (e.g., a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, a serial ATA (SATA) interface, or a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface), and a controller that comprises a first Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a second CPU. The first CPU is connected to a first adapter card while the second CPU is connected to a second adapter card. The first adapter and the second adapter are coupled to the switch card of the server system. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322899 | DYNAMIC PCIE SWITCH RECONFIGURATION MECHANISM - A system and method for dynamic reconfiguration of at least one peripheral bus switch of a system includes a management controller that detects whether a server system is connected to each peripheral bus slot of the system. The management controller selects a peripheral bus switch topology for the at least one peripheral bus switch, based on the detecting. The management controller sets each port of the at least one peripheral bus switch to either an upstream port configuration or a downstream port configuration, based on the peripheral bus switch topology. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322900 | FLEXIBLE CONFIGURATION SERVER SYSTEM - A flexible server configuration system includes a connector array including a plurality of slots and a first jumper board configured to removably engage with the connector array by connecting to a first set of consecutive slots from the plurality of slots. The first jumper board is configured to disengage and reengage from the connector array to connect with a different set of consecutive slots from the plurality of slots. The system further includes a first set of at least one peripheral device, each connected to one of the plurality of slots, and a first node including at least one first node processor. The first node is connected to two of the plurality of slots. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322901 | PCI EXPRESS NETWORK CARD - A PCI Express network card is disclosed, including a circuit board, a plate, a plurality of integrated circuits, and two heat sinks. The circuit board has five ports. The plate is provided on the circuit board and near a front edge of the circuit board, wherein the plate has a plurality of openings. The integrated circuits are provided on the circuit board, including a first processor and a second processor, which consume the most power. The first processor and the second processor are arranged in a staggered way. Each of the heat sinks abuts against the first processor and the second processor, respectively. An area of each of the heat sinks is greater than an area of each one of the first processor and the second processor. Whereby, effective heat dissipation could be achieved. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENFORCING POLICIES IN THE DISCOVERY OF ANONYMIZING PROXY COMMUNICATIONS - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for systems and methods that enforce policies with respect to proxy communications. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322903 | DEFAULT CALIBRATED SENSOR MODULE SETTINGS - Examples of a system, method, and machine-readable non-transitory storage medium including instructions executable by a processor are disclosed herein. An example of the machine-readable non-transitory storage medium includes instructions executable by a processor to allow selection of a capture mode of a sensor module to record still images and/or a video mode of the sensor module to record video, retrieve default calibrated sensor module settings from a persistent memory, allow creation of at least one user defined sensor module setting that differs from one of the default calibrated sensor module settings, and utilize the at least one user defined sensor module setting along with the remaining default calibrated sensor module settings with the selected sensor module mode. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATING DEVICES AND DEFINING AND DISTRIBUTING COMPUTATIONAL TASKS AMONG SAME - A method for issuing commands to remote devices comprising determining a criterion that forms a rule for a service, the service comprising a service property, a service method, and a service event distributing the rule to a behavior engine on a programmable device, the behavior engine comprising a set of rules, and evaluating, at the behavior engine, if a trigger criterion for the rule is met. Upon determining that the trigger criterion is met, the method may further comprise performing an action comprising evaluating, at the behavior engine, if a condition is met, and upon determining that the condition is met, issuing a command to perform a first action comprising setting a service property and calling a service method for all devices including the service property within a scope of the action, defining an action scope. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322905 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MASK PERMUTE INSTRUCTIONS - An apparatus is described having instruction execution logic circuitry. The instruction execution logic circuitry has input vector element routing circuitry to perform the following for each of three different instructions: for each of a plurality of output vector element locations, route into an output vector element location an input vector element from one of a plurality of input vector element locations that are available to source the output vector element. The output vector element and each of the input vector element locations are one of three available bit widths for the three different instructions. The apparatus further includes masking layer circuitry coupled to the input vector element routing circuitry to mask a data structure created by the input vector routing element circuitry. The masking layer circuitry is designed to mask at three different levels of granularity that correspond to the three available bit widths. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322906 | Processor with In-Package Look-Up Table - The present invention discloses a processor for computing a mathematical function. The processor comprises a memory die and a logic die. The memory die comprises a look-up table circuit (LUT) for storing data related to the mathematical function. The logic die comprises an arithmetic logic circuit (ALC) for performing arithmetic operations on the function-related data. The memory die and the logic die are located in a same package. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING VEHICLE ECU PROGRAMMING TO CURRENT VEHICLE OPERATING CONDITIONS - Disclosed herein are techniques for implementing vehicle ECU reprogramming, so the ECU programming, which plays a large role in vehicle performance characteristics, is tailored to current operational requirements, which may be different than the operational characteristics selected by the manufacturer when initially programming the vehicle ECU (or ECUs) with specific instruction sets, such as fuel maps. In one embodiment, a controller monitors the current operational characteristics of the vehicle, determines the current ECU programming, and determines if a different programming set would better suited to the current operating conditions. In the event that the current programming set should be replaced, the controller implements the ECU reprogramming. In a related embodiment, users are enabled to specify the ECU programming to change, such as changing speed limiter settings. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322908 | AUTOMATICALLY CREATING AT-A-GLANCE CONTENT - Generating notifications comprising text and image data for client devices with limited display screens is disclosed. An image to be included in the notification is resized and reshaped using image processing techniques. The resized image is further analyzed to identify optimal portions for placing the text data. The text data can also be analyzed and shortened for including at the identified portion of resized image to generate a notification. The resulting notification displays the text and image data optimally within the limited screen space of the client device so that a user observing the notification can obtain the information at a glance. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322909 | Preferred Consumption of Social Media - Techniques are described for preferred consumption of social media. In one implementation, a computer program product comprises a computer-readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith. The program code is executable by a computing device to perform operations comprising: monitoring a user accessing information in a social networking system; identifying a viewing preference for the user without receiving user input indicating the viewing preference; and changing the presentation of the information based on the identified viewing preference. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322910 | Extension of Text on a Path - Techniques and systems are described to extend text on a path. The path, for instance, may be user specified and configured to control placement of subsequent text in a user interface. During entry of the text, the computing device detects that the text inputs overflow the input path. In response, the computing device generates a path that is linked to the input path to include the text that is to overflow the input path, e.g., through the use of threading. The generated path is then plotted in the user interface for inclusion of the overflow of text in the user interface, such as to mimic a shape of the input path after translation or scaling at the translated location. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322911 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display configured to output a screen on which a web browser is executed, an input device comprising input circuitry configured to integrate with the display or be independent of the display, a communication circuit configured establish a communication channel with the network via a wired or wireless communication connection, a processor configured to be electrically connected with the communication circuit, the display, and the input device, and a memory configured to store a program and instructions for the web browser and be electrically connected with the processor. The memory stores the instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform at least one operation comprising: displaying the screen where the web browser is executed on the display, receiving a web document via the communication circuit, displaying the content on the first region based on the first code and displaying an object which may interact with the content on the second region based on the second code. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING PAPER FORMS TO AN ELECTRONIC FORMAT - A system and method for creating and managing electronic forms is described. The system includes a processor configured to receive an image of a form and receive, via a network interface, form template information specifying at least a first input field. The form template information includes a first input field type selection and first field location information for the first input field. The first input field type is selected from a plurality of input field types and the first field location information is defined relative to the image. The processor stores the form template information within a memory. The electronic form is configured to be rendered by superimposing a representation of the first input field over the image of the form. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322913 | STYLIZING TEXT BY REPLACING GLYPH WITH ALTERNATE GLYPH - Systems and methods provide for replacing a glyph in text displayed by an application with an alternate glyph. A glyph is selected, and the character and font of the glyph are identified. Alternate glyphs for the character in the font are then determined, and a visual indicator is displayed proximate to the glyph in the text to indicate availability of the alternate glyphs. In response to a user action associated with the glyph and/or visual indicator, the alternate glyphs are presented. A user can then select one of the alternate glyphs, and the original glyph in the text is replaced with the selected alternate glyph. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322914 | DYNAMIC HIGHLIGHTING OF REPETITIONS IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - In a method for dynamically highlighting repetitive text in electronic documents, obtaining one or more user preferences related to a user reading an electronic document. The method further includes determining whether the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, wherein a repetitive text association is data that provides one or more indications of repetitive text segments interspersed within a document. In response to determining that the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, the method further includes identifying one or more repetitive text segments in the electronic document corresponding to the one or more repetitive text associations and determining a time duration expended by the user reading an instance of the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document. The method further includes highlighting the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document based one or more obtained user preferences. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322915 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORKED USERS BASED ON COMMON CHARACTERISTICS - A computer-implemented method and system for enabling communication between networked users based on search queries and common characteristics is disclosed. Particular embodiments relate to receiving a search query from a first user and establishing a communication link between the first user and a second user based on the first user's search query. Particular embodiments relate to receiving a first search query from a first user, receiving a second search query from a second user, determining if the first user and the second user fit within match criteria, and establishing a communication link between the first user and the second user if the first user and the second user fit within match criteria. Particular embodiments relate to receiving a first search query from a first user, receiving a second search query from a second user, determining if the first search query and the second search query fit within match criteria, determining if the first user and the second user fit within match criteria, and establishing a communication link between the first user and the second user if the first search query and the second search query fit within match criteria and if the first user and the second user fit within match criteria. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322916 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING REAL TIME CLIENT SIDE DATA AND FOR GENERATING A PERMANENT RECORD - A system is provided for generating a permanent record for an, e.g., online transaction. The system includes a computer interface module which records movement of a cursor on a computer screen and outputs the recorded data. A signature generation module which receives the recorded data and generates a graphical image based upon the recorded data. A webpage reading module reads the webpage and the data input by a user and outputs the combined content and data to a rendering process, which renders a permanent computer record file that includes an image capture of the transaction (content and data) along with, optionally, the signature. According to the present invention, a record can be created that includes the exact content and other information presented to a party to an online transaction along with a signature of that party. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322917 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PREDICTIVE INSIGHTS FOR AUTHORING SHORT MESSAGES - A method for generating predictive insights for authoring messages is provided. The method includes receiving a message to be sent as an input. Key performance indicator (KPI) whose value is to be predicted for the message is identified from the input or marketing tool configuration. A plurality of feature vectors of the message are generated. KPI contributions for the plurality of feature vectors are determined using feature vectors of messages sent in past and tracked KPI values of the messages sent in past. The KPI contribution is a measure of contribution of feature vector to value of the KPI. Value of the KPI for the message is predicted by applying determined KPI contributions to the plurality of feature vectors. Apparatus for substantially performing the method as described herein is also provided. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322918 | Virtual Sticky Generation - Digital programmed logic implemented on a computing device programmed to cause the display of an electronic document on a graphical user interface within the computing device. The electronic document displayed includes a plurality of data items of information. The programmed logic is programmed to automatically generate summary data that summarizes at least two data items from the plurality of data items included in the electronic document. The programmed logic is further programmed to generate a virtual sticky and display the virtual sticky on the electronic document. The virtual sticky displays the automatically generated summary data and the display of the virtual sticky is overlaid onto at least a portion of the display of the electronic document. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322919 | REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE CLINICAL DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND EDITING - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing real-time analysis and annotation of clinical documents in a distributed system. A clinical transformation session is opened at a clinical transformation server maintaining sessions for one or more editors and agents operating on a clinical document. Sequences of operations on the clinical document are stored at a memory accessible by the server. At least a portion of the clinical document is analyzed in real-time to provide annotations and other document modifications to each of the one or more editors having a session at the server. Parallel annotations or modifications are resolved and a synchronized view of the clinical document is maintained based on operational transformation. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322920 | DISPATCH OF USER INPUT TO MULTIPLE INPUT FIELDS IN A USER INTERFACE - The technology relates to dispatching entered data to appropriate input fields. One or more computing devices may scan a first location to detect a set of input fields and determine an associated data type for each input field in the set of input fields. A text box may be generated and displayed, the text box including instructions requesting entry of user data based on the associated data types of each input field. The computing devices may receive the entered user information in the text box, parse the entered information into one or more parts, compare each of the one or more parts to the associated data type for each input field, and associate each of the one or more parts with the input field corresponding to the associated data type which it satisfies. Each of the one or more parts may be dispatched to the input field corresponding to the associated data type which the respective one or more part satisfies. Each input field may be automatically populated with the one or more parts which were dispatched to the respective input field. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TABLES FROM PRINT-READY DIGITAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods are provided for generating tables from print-ready digital source documents. A document is received and one or more text fragments are identified on a rendered page of the document. A wrapping region collection is generated, comprising one or more wrapping regions. A tabular, narrative and label score is generated for each wrapping region. A block type is assigned to each wrapping region based on the scores. A wrapping region group and a block set are generated. One or more tables are generated based on text fragments corresponding to one of the one or more blocks. The text fragments are organized into corresponding fields of the one or more tables. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322922 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIALOG CUSTOMIZATION - A system includes, for a selection of objects on a displayed page of the system, each object having pre-defined customizable attributes and non-customizable attributes, a sorter to sort the customizable attributes of the selected objects. The system also includes a dialog builder to build a customization dialog specific to the selection based on the sorted pre-defined customizable attributes, a displayer to display the dialog and an updater to receive input according to the dialog and to update the customizable attributes according to the input. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322923 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING TEXTUAL TONE AND PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS TO USERS - A computer-implemented technique can include obtaining a vector-based language model associating elements of an unlabeled corpus that have similar meanings, training a machine-learning classifier using the vector-based language model and a labeled corpus of text that has been annotated as having a particular level of abusiveness, obtaining a text, determining a prediction for the text using the machine-learning classifier, the prediction being indicative of a level of abusiveness of the text, and based on the level of abusiveness of the text, selectively outputting a recommended action with respect to the text. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322924 | RELAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay apparatus includes a characteristic information storage unit, a first dictionary information storage unit, a first selection unit, and a first conversion unit. The characteristic information storage unit stores pieces of terminal information in association with respective pieces of characteristic information, each indicating a characteristic of a user. The first dictionary information storage unit stores the pieces of characteristic information in association with respective pieces of first dictionary information used for converting voice data into text data. The first selection unit selects, when voice data is received from a second communication terminal to communicate with a first communication terminal, the characteristic information associated with the terminal information for identifying the second communication terminal and selects the first dictionary information associated with the selected characteristic information. The first conversion unit converts the voice data received from the second communication terminal to text data using the first dictionary information. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322925 | PERSONAL DICTIONARY - A method includes receiving, at a processor, a request to construct a word entry of a word. The method further includes collecting, by the processor, a user profile. The method further includes selecting, by the processor, one or more definition databases according to the user profile. The method further includes retrieving, by the processor, definitions of the word from the definition databases. The method further includes ranking, by the processor, the definitions retrieved from the definition databases. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322926 | ELECTRONIC MEETING QUESTION MANAGEMENT - Multimedia content is presented to a user. Questions presented by the user are monitored. A core concept of the question can be identified. The multimedia content can be analyzed to determine whether the multimedia content contains a possible answer to the question. If the multimedia content contains a possible answer to the question, a confidence score can be assigned to at least one segment of the multimedia content that covers the at least one possible answer, the confidence score assigned to the segment of the multimedia content indicating a probability that the segment of the multimedia content answers the question. Based on the confidence score assigned to segment of the multimedia content, the segment of the multimedia content can be selected. Based on the selected segment of the multimedia content, an answer to the question presented by the user can be automatically generated and presented to the user. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322927 | GENERALIZED WRITE OPERATIONS VERIFICATION METHOD - A verification architecture described according to embodiments of the present invention validates changes made to metadata and may comprise one or more subsystems and phases. According to some embodiments, the “mkfs” volume creation utility works in cooperation with the device driver to create a file system volume by means of reservation and initialization space for metadata structures inside the device's partition that is reserved for the specific file system volume. The storage device uses a verified area legend when checking write requests after the file system volume has been created. The verified area legends may be stored in a dedicated partition or inside the master boot record (MBR) or Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) partition table (GPT) or special memory chip (NAND flash, for example). Write requests that overlap with any extent of reserved metadata area must be verified to prevent metadata corruption. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322928 | EXISTING ASSOCIATION REVIEW PROCESS DETERMINATION UTILIZING ANALYTICS DECISION MODEL - A system may automatically identify electronic records to be routed to an existing association review process via an automated back-end application computer server. The system may include a data store containing a set of electronic records, each record representing an existing risk association with an entity, and each record may contain a record identifier and a set of record characteristic values, including at least one record characteristic value collected during the existing risk association. The computer server may then access the electronic records and automatically create, by an analytics decision model based on the record characteristic values, a subset of the records for the review process. An indication of the existing association review process subset may then be transmitted in connection with an interactive user interface display and records in the subset may be automatically routed for the existing association review process. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322929 | SCRIPT MANAGER FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - A customer of a shared resource environment can generate script to be executed by one or more virtual machines, or other such instances or resources, and share that script with other users. The script can relate to administrative or other such tasks, and can be encapsulated into a document, or other such expression, and stored to a network-accessible location. The owner of the document can designate permissions as to which users have rights to access and/or execute the script against their own virtual machines. An owner can grant permission to all users, no other users, or specific users. The script can include parameter values that can be set by the other users or links to specific executables or other objects, among other such options. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322930 | DOCUMENT BASED QUERY AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for document based query and information retrieval which rapidly locate similar documents within a document corpora providing a document based search result to the search initiator including one or more estimated measures of similarity for each search result item and appropriate search result document metadata. After providing document based similarity approximation search results, the system also rapidly retrieves and determines more accurate measures of similarity, including the relevant document terms and term statistics used to determine an exact measure of similarity, between the document based query document term collection and individual search result document term collections using one or more computing devices, that are application and platform independent, participating in a distributed multicore processing environment. One or more web clients transmit document based query and information retrieval requests to one or more restful services which provide the document based search results to the search initiator via stateless HTTP responses and requests. Dimensionality reduction techniques are used to limit the total number of similarity approximations and document term data similarity calculations performed during both nearest neighbor pre-processing and document based searches. The systems and methods disclosed include document based query and information retrieval embodiments providing document search results to the search initiator which include the details supporting exactly how two documents are, in fact, similar using a given particular document based query and a specific measure for document based similarity. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322931 | INTEGRATION AND COMBINATION OF RANDOM SAMPLING AND DOCUMENT BATCHING - Methods and systems of integrated batching and random sampling of documents for enhanced functionality and quality control, such as validation, within a document review process are provided herein. According to various embodiments, a batching request may be received and may include a population size that corresponds to a total amount of documents available for sampling. The batching request may also include an acceptable margin of error. A random sample size may be calculated based on the batching request, and then a subset of documents corresponding to the random sample size may be selected from the total amount of documents available for sampling. The subset of documents may be grouped into one or more batches, and the one or more batches may be assigned to one or more review nodes. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322932 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY TAGGIN DOCUMENTS WITH MATRIX BARCODES AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO A PLURALITY OF SAID DOCUMENT VERSIONS - A method of tagging a document for future access, the method comprising the steps of: (a) Saving a document on a server, (b) Accessing said document by a tagging process program, (c) Having said tagging process program: (i) generate a tag referring to the location of said document on said server; and (ii) add said tag to said document, while said tag being visible on the printed version of the document, wherein, said tag can be scanned by a device equipped with an optical scanner and as a result said document would be accessible to said device. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACESHIFTING MEDIA PLAYBACK - Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage server. The data storage server may send the media file to the first device from the data storage server, and the first device may play back the media file where the second device left off. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322934 | SOFTWARE VERSION CONTROL WITHOUT AFFECTING A DEPLOYED CONTAINER - A method for executing multiple versions of an application within a computing environment. The method includes a computer processor identifying a request to execute an instance of a first version of an application within a computing environment and determining that an instance of a second version of the application is active within the computing environment. The method further includes accessing a data structure including information associated with the application to obtain a first set of data corresponding to the first version of the application. The method further includes copying one or more executable objects associated with the first version of the application based, at least in part, on the first set of data to the computing environment. The method further includes executing the copied one or more executable objects associated with the first version that comprise the requested instance of the first version of the application within the computing environment. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322935 | AUTOMATED/SMART CREATION DISPLAY OF VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER AND OTHER OWNER INFORMATION VIA INFOTAINMENT DISPLAY - A vehicle includes a memory device storing information identifying the vehicle. An infotainment user interface includes a display screen, a keyboard, and an electronic processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The electronic processing device responds to a user keying in a set of predefined characters into the keyboard by displaying on the display screen the information identifying the vehicle. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322936 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE WITH ETERNAL INTEGRITY GUARANTEES - A method for generating a universal distributed data storage includes: receiving a plurality of data values; generating a key for each of the plurality of data values, wherein the respective key is generated via application of a hashing algorithm to the associated data value; storing, in a database, each of the plurality of data values and the associated generated key as a plurality of key-value pairs; receiving a plurality of additional key-value pairs, wherein each value of the plurality of additional key-value pairs is not included in the plurality of data values; and storing, in the database, each of the plurality of additional key-value pairs, wherein each key included in the plurality of additional key-value pairs is generated via application of the hashing algorithm to the associated value and is not included in the keys generated for each of the plurality of data values. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322937 | PROVIDING A CONTENT PREVIEW - A content preview of a content item stored in an online storage system can be viewed on a client device without the content item itself being downloaded to the client device and without the use of software associated with the content item being installed on the client device. Furthermore, data storage and processing requirements can be minimized by creating and storing only one content preview for each unique content item. The content item can be identified by using the content item as a hash key in a hashing algorithm. The resulting unique identifier can be used to search a preview index that lists all created content previews and their location. A content preview is only created if one does not exist. The unique identifier can be used to locate the content preview and return it in response to a preview request by a client device. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322938 | CONDITIONAL PROCESSING BASED ON DATA-DRIVEN FILTERING OF RECORDS - Conditional processing based on data-driven filtering of records is described. A system stores a corresponding identifier in a data structure for each of a data manipulation action, an object, a filter field, a filter condition, and a process. The system receives a request to perform the data manipulation action for the object. The system determines, for each record based on the object, whether the filter field associated with a corresponding record satisfies the filter condition. The system identifies, for each record based on the object, a corresponding record as an included record that should be included for subsequent processing in response to a determination that the filter field associated with the corresponding record either satisfies the filter condition or does not satisfy the filter condition. The system executes the process on each included record. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322939 | RESPONSE EFFECTIVENESS DETERMINATION IN A QUESTION/ANSWER SYSTEM - Answer effectiveness evaluations include providing, by a computing device, an answer to a search query received from a user, and in response to receiving a subsequent search query from the user, determining by the computing device a level of effectiveness of the answer to the search query with respect to the user. The determination includes comparing aspects of the search query to aspects of the subsequent search query, calculating, based on the comparing, a relevance score that indicates a measure of similarity between the aspects of the search query and the aspects of the subsequent search query, and determining that the answer effectively answers the search query when the relevance score exceeds a threshold value. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322940 | COMMUNITY CONTENT IDENTIFICATION - In one embodiment, a method for community content identification is provided. The method includes identifying one or more error messages from software running on a cloud instance. The method further includes determining relevance of content items of community content to the identified error messages. The method further includes assigning weights to the content items of the community content based on their determined relevance, wherein content items having high relevance to the identified error messages are assigned a higher weight than content items determined not relevant to the error messages and displaying content items according to the assigned weights. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322941 | RANKING PROXIMITY OF DATA SOURCES WITH AUTHORITATIVE ENTITIES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method for ranking a proximity of data sources with one or more reference entities, which may be authoritative entities. The method comprises identifying several data sources and one or more reference entities. For each of the identified reference entities a vector of terms representative of said each of the reference entities is obtained. For each data source of the identified data sources, terms from said each data source are selected, an array comprising the selected terms can be accordingly populated, and a term frequency of terms of the vector obtained for said each of the reference entities is determined, in said array. The term frequency corresponds to the number of occurrences of said each of the terms in said array. The method ranks a proximity of the identified data sources with each of the one or more reference entities. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322942 | Searching Shared Video Footage from Audio/Video Recording and Communication Devices - Systems and methods are provided for searching shared video footage from a plurality of neighborhoods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, a method for searching video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices located in a plurality of neighborhoods may include receiving, from a first client device, a share signal including first image data captured by a camera of a first A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; associating the first image data with at least one searchable identifier; receiving, from a second client device, at least one search input; matching the at least one search input with the at least one searchable identifier; and transmitting, to the second client device, the first image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322943 | MAPPING STRUCTURE FOR MAINTAINING METADATA FOR SNAPSHOTS IN A VIRTUALIZED STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - A method for maintaining a mapping structure for maintaining metadata for snapshots in a virtualized storage environment, includes taking a snapshot of a virtual disk, generating an entry in a metadata structure for the snapshot, wherein the entry includes metadata for blocks in the snapshot that have been modified since a preceding snapshot and lazily generating an entry in the mapping structure for the snapshot, wherein the entry includes values for each block in the snapshot, wherein a value for a block indicates a presence of metadata in the metadata structure for the block or an absence of metadata in the metadata structure for the block. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322944 | AUTOMATIC ENTRY OF SUGGESTED TRANSLATED TERMS IN AN ONLINE APPLICATION PROGRAM - A method and system for a translation manager system are described. The translation manager system allows a web translation application to insert the proper translations into web pages generated by the translation manager system. The translation manager system properly identifies how a page is reached by the user, as well as where in the page the user has selected to make their suggestion. The translation manager system uses key-locations to identify different areas where the user may make a suggestion and the web page may include multiple key-locations. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322945 | Search Engine Direct Links method and system for assigning and displaying in a communication network system thru a search engine website - Search Engine Direct Links method and system for assigning and displaying in a communication network system thru a search engine website. A product or service described with the fewest words is linked to websites that provide this product or service. This system and method links those descriptions to their respective websites and save them in a searchable database. This system and method searches this database to produce a small and precise list of websites linked to those products or services descriptions. This system and method allows current, active and supported websites stand out among thousands and thousands of websites found during a regular search engine search by creating a small and separate search engine direct links list result. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322946 | Exchange Of Newly-Added Information Over the Internet - System and method for collecting and supplying ranked ( | 2017-11-09 |
20170322947 | PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENT BASED ON MEDIA ELEMENT PREFERENCES - A computing device is programmed to receive data collected from communications of a user. The computer identifies portions of the collected data including a keyword selected from a list of media content elements or lists of keywords associated with each of the media content elements. The computer associates each portion with a media content element. The computer further determines a score for each media content element based on at least one of the number of references, words included in the portion of collected referring to the media content element, and the voice quality of the portion of collected data referring to the media content element. Based on the scores, the computer assigns media content elements to the user. The computer recommends media content items to the user based at least in part on the media content elements assigned to the user. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322948 | STREAMING DATA READING METHOD BASED ON EMBEDDED FILE SYSTEM - A streaming data reading method based on an embedded file system, including: receiving a request for reading streaming data, when the requested streaming data exists in a disk, creating a new reading task for the request, allocating a storage space to the newly created reading task, and initializing relevant parameters; decomposing the reading task into a plurality of sub-tasks, each sub-task being responsible for reading a piece of physically continuous data, and caching same; extracting the data from the sub-task cache, packaging same according to a streaming data format, submitting the data to a caller of this reading task once one block of data is packaged, and releasing this sub-task and triggering the next sub-task after submission; and when all sub-tasks are successfully completed, reporting the normal completion of the task to the task caller, and waiting for the task caller to end the current reading task. | 2017-11-09 |
20170322949 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, MAP UPDATE METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map. | 2017-11-09 |