46th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130305213 | MODULARIZED CUSTOMIZATION OF A MODEL IN A MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - A method for the modularized customization of a model within a model driven development environment includes selecting a template specifying a base model and different points of variability of a base model in a model driven development environment and transmitting over a data communications network an electronic form configured to receive data in different data fields representative of the points of variability. Thereafter, a submission of the electronic form can be received and data from the received submission representative of the points of variability can be extracted. Instructions can be added to a control file corresponding to the points of variability and the control file can be processed to generate artifacts in an import file specifying the points of variability. Finally, the import file can be imported into the model driven development environment and the base model modified with the points of variability of the artifacts. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305214 | AUTOMATED MERGING IN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for merging changed elements in a software development environment is provided, in which the software development environment is provided with a set of at least one defect, comprising at least one changed element, associated with a software project that comprises a plurality of elements, the software project comprising a plurality of elements. The environment first obtains a list of changed elements in a defect record, for example from a defect database, and for each changed element in the list, attempts an automated merge of the changed element with a corresponding target. If any attempt fails, the environment may re-attempt the merge for any failed attempt, and may invoke a user interface for resolving the merge manually. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305215 | INTEGRATED SERVICE FRAMEWORK - Embodiments of the invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for an integrated service framework with a suite of products that provide a development environment and common framework for programming within an operating system. The programmers write code to develop class plug-ins within that structure of the abstract class in order to perform services. The abstract class provides a standardized structure that may be utilized by all of programmers working within the integrated service framework to reduce redundant programs. The integrated framework also provides a service manager that identifies the class plug-ins, runs the services, logs information about the services, sends notifications to users about the services, configures itself to monitor the services, and provides communication between the services. Furthermore, the integrated service framework also provides a controller service that allows a programmer or an administrator to control, monitor, or query any issues that occur with the services. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305216 | SERVICE MANAGER FOR AN INTEGRATED SERVICE FRAMEWORK - Embodiments of the invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for an integrated service framework with a suite of products that provide a development environment and common framework for programming within an operating system. The integrated service framework provides a service manager that identifies the class plug-ins, runs the services, logs information about the services, sends notifications to users about the services, configures itself to monitor the services, and provides communication between the services. The service manager may act as the service installer to install and run the class-plug in. The service manager allows the service to communicate to the client application through the use of a common format. The service manager may also be self-adjusting, such that the service manager may change interval commands to prevent common notification errors from occurring. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305217 | SERVICE PLUG-IN AND SERVICE BASE FOR AN INTEGRATED SERVICE FRAMEWORK - Embodiments of the invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for an integrated service framework with a suite of products that provide a development environment and common framework for programming within an operating system. The programmers write code to develop class plug-ins within the structure of the abstract class in order to perform services. The abstract class provides a standardized structure that may be utilized by all of programmers working within the integrated service framework to reduce redundant programs. The user creates the code for the class plug-ins that run services within the structure of the abstract class in order to allow the service to configure and run properly. If the class plug-in does not properly use the structure provided by the abstract class the class plug-in will not work properly, and thus, would not configure. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPECIALIZED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT PLATFORM - Systems and methods for developing, customizing, and deploying applications for devices are provided through a application development and deployment platform. Preferably, these systems and methods are implemented in an Internet based environment that allows non-technical users to build sophisticated, highly-customizable cross-platform applications. The platform allows users to select, input, create, customize, and combine various content, design characteristics, and application components, such as modules, some of which utilize features and functionality associated with various devices capable of running applications, operating systems, and app-enabled accessories. In certain embodiments, the platform allows users to compile and generate a configuration file for the application that can be distributed to end users for execution on various devices and operating systems. When the application is installed on, or executed by the device, the configuration file may enable the retrieval of various data associated with the application. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305219 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOM SOFTWARE, AND METHOD FOR SOFTWARE CUSTOMIZATION - The apparatus for providing custom software: transmits a core code to a terminal to be used for software customization by using the core code divided into a plurality of lines; receives a custom code corresponding to a software customization result from the terminal; and stores software information separated from the core code after extracting the custom software information including content altered in the coed code from the custom code. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305220 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR RECORDING OBJECT ALLOCATION SITE - A method, system, and program for recording an object allocation site. In the structure of an object, a pointer to a class of an object is replaced by a pointer to an allocation site descriptor which is unique to each object allocation site, a common allocation site descriptor is used for objects created at the same allocation site, and the class of the object is accessed through the allocation site descriptor. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305221 | SERVICE CONTROLLER FOR AN INTEGRATED SERVICE FRAMEWORK - Embodiments of the invention provide for methods, systems and computer program products for an integrated service framework with a suite of products that provide a development environment and common framework for programming within an operating system. The integrated service framework provides a service controller that allows a programmer or an administrator to control, monitor, query, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that occur with the services. The service controller provides service interfaces that are completely configurable without the need for programing code to display the individual service interfaces. The service controller provides the service interfaces using the text from a configuration file populated by a user. The user can utilize the service interfaces provided by the service controller to send commands to services to start, stop, pause, and resume the services, monitor information about the services, and query the services to determine if the services are working properly. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305222 | Development System - A method for remotely testing an application on a device is disclosed. The method includes connecting a development system to the device. The device is hosted in a remote environment and is not directly accessible to the development system. The development system connects to the device via an agent that is coupled to the device, wherein the agent is configured to receive application data for the device and control signals from the development system and operate the device according to the control signals. The method further includes fetching the collected device data from the device, wherein the agent is configured to collect the device data from the device and the development system retrieves the collected device data from the agent. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305223 | Dashboard for Architectural Governance - A software architecture as designed is governed. A rules engine tests code for implemented architectural decisions. Deviation from designed architecture is detected by execution of the rules engine. The dashboard generates a graphical or textual representation indicating violations and/or changes in the implemented architecture over time. A dashboard assists in managing implementation of the architecture by indicating deviation or the results of change to coding. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305224 | Rules Engine for Architectural Governance - A software architecture as designed is governed. A rules engine tests code for implemented architectural decisions. Deviation from designed architecture is detected by execution of the rules engine. To create the rules engine, the architecture is broken down into automatically testable architectural decisions. The decisions can be tested, allowing creation and application of the rules engine. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305225 | STREAMS DEBUGGING WITHIN A WINDOWING CONDITION - Method, system and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation including providing a plurality of processing elements comprising one or more operators, the operators configured to process streaming data tuples. The operation then establishes an operator graph of multiple operators, the operator graph defining at least one execution path in which a first operator of the plurality of operators is configured to receive data tuples from at least one upstream operator and transmit data tuples to at least one downstream operator. The operation then defines a breakpoint, the breakpoint comprising a condition, the condition based on attribute values of data tuples in a window of at least one operator, the window comprising a plurality of data tuples in an operator. The operation, upon detecting occurrence of the condition, triggers the breakpoint to halt processing by each of the plurality of operators in the operator graph. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305226 | Collecting Tracepoint Data - Collecting tracepoint data includes: maintaining, by a log handler, a list of a plurality of tracepoints and each tracepoint's parameters, the values of the parameters defining, for a tracepoint, information to be stored when an application encounters the tracepoint; encountering, by an application, a tracepoint; determining, responsive to the encounter by the log handler, whether the tracepoint is linked to a different tracepoint; and if the tracepoint is linked to a different tracepoint, determining, by the log handler, whether to modify values of the parameters for the different tracepoint and executing the different tracepoint. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305227 | STREAMS DEBUGGING WITHIN A WINDOWING CONDITION - Method product for performing an operation, the operation including providing a plurality of processing elements comprising one or more operators, the operators configured to process streaming data tuples. The operation then establishes an operator graph of multiple operators, the operator graph defining at least one execution path in which a first operator of the plurality of operators is configured to receive data tuples from at least one upstream operator and transmit data tuples to at least one downstream operator. The operation then defines a breakpoint, the breakpoint comprising a condition, the condition based on attribute values of data tuples in a window of at least one operator, the window comprising a plurality of data tuples in an operator. The operation, upon detecting occurrence of the condition, triggers the breakpoint to halt processing by each of the plurality of operators in the operator graph. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305228 | REDUCING APPLICATION STARTUP TIME THROUGH ALGORITHM VALIDATION AND SELECTION - An application developer is able to select from a library only those algorithms or functions that are needed. When the application starts on a device, only those algorithms will perform a self-test thereby significantly reducing application start-up time. This is in lieu of the conventional practice of having all the algorithms in library perform a self-test at application runtime. The application developer, by changing parameters to certain functions in the library, can add and remove algorithms as the application changes. The service provider providing the library can still make a generic offering of the full library to its customers and, through the new functionality, facilitate application developer selection of algorithms that are needed. This reduction of start-up time is particularly beneficial on mobile devices where processing power may be limited. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305229 | ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC ELEMENTS IN BOUNDED TIME - A code analysis system is described herein that provides code completion for programming languages that include elements that are not statically discoverable and that provides results in a predictable period that is acceptable for an interactive user interface. The system compiles each file into an intermediate state that can be stored and cached to speed later analysis of files. In addition, when executing a particular file, the system monitors a time-based threshold and/or a recursion depth so that if the compilation time is exceeding the threshold or a function is exceeding the recursion depth the system can stop the execution and use the intermediate results obtained up to that point to provide as much information as possible within a bounded execution time. When dynamic analysis fails, the system falls back to static analysis. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305230 | OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS, OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM - An optimization apparatus includes an insertion unit inserting a method test for each of the virtual methods included in a code sequence, an acquisition unit acquiring one or more profiled run-time classes of a receiver object used for calling each of the virtual methods at execution of the code sequence into which the method tests have been inserted, and an optimization unit inserting, in place of the inserted method test, a class test that sets a recording-time class and the run-time class of a corresponding receiver object as classes to be permitted on condition that the run-time class of the corresponding receiver object has successfully called all virtual methods requesting the method test for the receiver object. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305231 | Profile-Based Global Live-Range Splitting - A system is provided for splitting a live-range of a variable in frequently executed regions of program instructions. The live-range of a variable is split into multiple sub-ranges, each of which can be assigned to a different register or spilled into memory. The amount of spill code is reduced in frequently used regions of code by coalescing the live ranges based on profile information obtained after splitting the live ranges at every join and fork point in a control flow graph. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305232 | Profile-Based Global Live-Range Splitting - A computer program product is provided for splitting a live-range of a variable in frequently executed regions of program instructions. The live-range of a variable is split into multiple sub-ranges, each of which can be assigned to a different register or spilled into memory. The amount of spill code is reduced in frequently used regions of code by coalescing the live ranges based on profile information obtained after splitting the live ranges at every join and fork point in a control flow graph. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATE COMPILATION OF DEVICE CODE EMBEDDED IN HOST CODE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel solution that supports the separate compilation of host code and device code used within a heterogeneous programming environment. Embodiments of the present invention are operable to link device code embedded within multiple host object files using a separate device linking operation. Embodiments of the present invention may extract device code from their respective host object files and then linked them together to form linked device code. This linked device code may then be embedded back into a host object generated by embodiments of the present invention which may then be passed to a host linker to form a host executable file. As such, device code may be split into multiple files and then linked together to form a final executable file by embodiments of the present invention. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE EMBEDDED DEVICE LINKS IN A HOST EXECUTABLE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel solution to generate multiple linked device code portions within a final executable file. Embodiments of the present invention are operable to extract device code from their respective host object filesets and then link them together to form multiple linked device code portions. Also, using the identification process described by embodiments of the present invention, device code embedded within host objects may also be uniquely identified and linked in accordance with the protocols of conventional programming languages. Furthermore, these multiple linked device code portions may be then converted into distinct executable forms of code that may be encapsulated within a single executable file. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305235 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTE LOADING OF OBJECTS OR FILES IN ORDER TO UPDATE SOFTWARE - A system for remote loading of objects or files in order to update software includes operating system architecture that calls for different tasks to be broken down into software modules that are connected to one another by dynamic links or are composed of executable subroutines that have main dependence links to other parts of the operating system. Each of the modules is composed of object files or libraries that are represented by dynamic link libraries among themselves according to a number of dependence levels that are described in their respective attributes. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305236 | HITLESS SOFTWARE UPGRADES - Disclosed is a technique for facilitating software upgrade for a switching system comprising a first management processor and a second management processor and a set of one or more line processors, the techniques comprising receiving a signal to perform a software upgrade for a line processor from the set of line processors, and performing a software upgrade for the line processor without substantially affecting packet switching performed by the switching system. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305237 | Grandfathering Configurations in a Distributed Environment - An approach is provided in which a distributed management appliance receives active device type identifiers from a computing system included in a distributed environment. The distributed management appliance identifies legacy device types from the active device type identifiers that fail to correspond to devices currently supported by the distributed management appliance. In turn, the distributed management appliance includes legacy device type identifiers and supported device type identifiers in a customized support matrix and distributes the customized support matrix to each of the computing systems included in the distributed environment. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305238 | METHOD FOR UPDATING A SOFTWARE APPLICATION HOSTED BY AN EQUIPMENT ITEM ON BOARD AN AIRCRAFT - A method for updating a software application stored in an equipment item on board an aircraft. The method comprises downloading update files to an on-board dataloader, checking the integrity and authenticity of the new software application version, transmitting this new software application version to the equipment item concerned, storing the new software application version in question into a standby memory zone of said equipment item, while this equipment item is still controlled by a previous version of said software application stored in an active memory zone, distinct from said standby memory zone, and finally, switching said standby and active memory zones, said equipment item being then controlled by the new software application version stored in the active memory zone after the memory zones have been switched. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305239 | Catalog-Based Software Component Management - Multiple software component identifiers are maintained in a catalog of an operating system running on a device. Each of these software component identifiers corresponds to one of multiple software components installed on the device. The catalog is accessed in response to a request regarding one of the multiple software components, and the request is responded to based at least in part on information included in the catalog. Additionally, two or more versions of a software component that are installed on the computing device can be identified. Which one of the two or more versions of the software component is an active version of the software component to be run is determined. In response to requests for information regarding the software component, information regarding the active version of the software component is returned. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305240 | INSTALLING APPLICATIONS TO PASSWORD PROTECTED DESKTOP SCREENS ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device includes a user interface that has a plurality of non-password-protected desktop screens and at least one password protected desktop screen. The mobile device includes a touch sensitive display device that accepts gestures used to navigate between the desktop screens. Applications may be installed to password protected desktop screens. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305241 | Sharing Reconfigurable Computing Devices Between Workloads - One or more physical RCDs (PRCDs) are shared between one or more workloads in one or more virtual computing environments. Example PRCD sharing operations may include: (1) providing a virtual RCD (VRCD) for one of the workloads, the VRCD being programmed with an IC design representing a hardware implementation of a software hotspot in the workload, (2) allocating one of the PRCDs to the workload by scheduling the programmed VRCD on the PRCD, (3) burning the PRCD with the IC design of the programmed VRCD so that the PRCD becomes a programmed PRCD that is capable of implementing the workload's hotspot in hardware, and (4) invoking the programmed VRCD instead of executing the hotspot as software in order to cause the programmed PRCD to implement the hotspot in hardware. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305242 | Performance of Load Balancing Modules with Migration Awareness - Embodiments perform migration-aware load balancing in virtual data centers. One or more load balancing modules in a host distribute data requests from clients to one or more servers implemented as virtual machines (VMs). The load balancing modules are notified of VM migration (e.g., live migration) prior to the VM migration and reduce the load on the VM to be migrated. After being notified of completion of VM migration, the load balancing modules increase the load on the migrated VM. Such migration notifications enable the load balancing modules to prevent or reduce performance degradation and migration duration, among other aspects. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305243 | SERVER SYSTEM AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - A server system for providing a plurality of virtual machines constructed on a physical machine equipped with a physical resource, wherein each of the virtual machines includes: an OS recognizing the physical resource allocated to the virtual machine as a resource in the virtual machine; and a software management unit for securing the resource recognized by the OS and allocating the resource to a plurality of pieces of business application software registered in the virtual machine; wherein the software management unit identifies the plurality of pieces of business application software and allocates the resource to the plurality of pieces of business application software according to a preset policy to allocate the resource; and wherein when the software management unit detects an increase or decrease of the resource allocated to the virtual machine, it changes allocation of the resource to the plurality of pieces of business application software in accordance with an amount of the detected resource increase or decrease. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305244 | PREASSEMBLED, RAPLIDLY DEPLOYABLE SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS - Various embodiments provide mechanisms that mitigate organizational exposures when evaluating and choosing computer applications, enhancements, and modifications thereto. Some embodiments provide technological solutions that allow for rapid application prototyping, deployment, evaluation, testing, and the act of going live in a production environment. Some such embodiments provide applications including content and data, in the form of virtual appliance templates, that is pre-installed, pre-configured, pre-tested, and pre-loaded in a very rapid manner. Some embodiments may further allow for cloning of the instantiated application to another virtual computing environment, and utilization from that location on forward looking basis. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305245 | METHODS FOR MANAGING WORK LOAD BURSTS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and resource management computing device comprises identifying one or more workload bursts in a production environment. One or more additional resources in a non-production environment required to manage the one or more workload burst in a production environment is determined by comparing an environment resource consumption value against a permissible maximum value, wherein the environment resource consumption value is a value indicating usage of each of the one or more resources. One or more additional resources are identified in the non-production environment. The identified one or more additional resources are provided to handle the one or more workload bursts. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305246 | LIVE MIGRATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DURING DIRECT ACCESS TO STORAGE OVER SR IOV ADAPTER - A method is provided to migrate a virtual machine from a source computing machine to a destination computing machine comprising: suspending transmission of requests from a request queue disposed in source computing machine memory associated with the VM from the request queue to a VF; while suspending the transmission of requests, determining when no more outstanding responses to prior requests remain to be received; in response to a determination that no more outstanding responses to prior requests remain to be received, transferring state information that is indicative of locations of requests inserted to the request queue from the VF to a PF and from the PF to a memory region associated with a virtualization intermediary of the source computing machine. After transferring the state information to source computing machine memory associated with a virtualization intermediary, resuming transmission of requests from locations of the request queue indicated by the state information to the PF; and transmitting the requests from the PF to the physical storage. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305247 | INTERPRETING I/O OPERATION REQUESTS FROM PAGEABLE GUESTS WITHOUT HOST INTERVENTION - Input/output (I/O) operation requests from pageable storage mode guests are interpreted without host intervention. In a pageable mode virtual environment, requests issued by pageable storage mode guests are processed by one or more processors of the environment absent intervention from one or more hosts of the environment. Processing of the requests includes manipulating, by at least one processor on behalf of the guests, buffer state information stored in host storage. The manipulating is performed via instructions initiated by the guests and processed by one or more of the processors. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305248 | Task Performance - A method including: identifying, for a current user input state, a plurality of available next user input states; defining a set of putative next user input states comprising including one or more of the available next user input states; defining a set of advancing tasks, in anticipation of the current user input state becoming, next, any one of the one or more putative next user input states of the set of putative next user input states; redefining the set of putative next user input states, including one or more of the available next user input states, in response to a user movement signal that depends upon user movement; and redefining the set of advancing tasks, in anticipation of the current user input state becoming, next, any one of the one or more putative next user input states of the set of putative next user input states | 2013-11-14 |
20130305249 | ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TERMINAL AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - A disclosed electronic information terminal includes a main control unit to control an overall function of the terminal, a storage unit to store various data and programs, a display unit to display a fixed format including input items, an input unit to input information into the corresponding input items, a communication control unit to establish a communication network between the input unit and a server, an input completion detector unit to detect completion of input operations in which the information corresponds to the input items of the fixed format, and a process execution unit to execute a process subsequent to the input operations. When the input completion detector unit detects the completion of the input operations, the process execution unit executes the process subsequent to the input operations. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305250 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING NESTED EXECUTION STREAMS - One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth an enhanced way for GPUs to queue new computational tasks into a task metadata descriptor queue (TMDQ). Specifically, memory for context data is pre-allocated when a new TMDQ is created. A new TMDQ may be integrated with an existing TMDQ, where computational tasks within that TMDQ include task from each of the original TMDQs. A scheduling operation is executed on completion of each computational task in order to preserve sequential execution of tasks without the use of atomic locking operations. One advantage of the disclosed technique is that GPUs are enabled to queue computational tasks within TMDQs, and also create an arbitrary number of new TMDQs to any arbitrary nesting level, without intervention by the CPU. Processing efficiency is enhanced where the GPU does not wait while the CPU creates and queues tasks. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305251 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND SCHEDULING SYSTEM - A scheduling method is performed by a scheduler that manages plural processors including a first processor and a second processor. The scheduling method includes assigning an application to the first processor when the application is started; instructing the second processor to calculate load of the processors; and maintaining assignment of the application or changing assignment of the application based on the load. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305252 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HETEROGENEOUS FILTERING FRAMEWORK FOR SHARED MEMORY DATA ACCESS HAZARD REPORTS - A system and method for detecting, filtering, prioritizing and reporting shared memory hazards are disclosed. The method includes, for a unit of hardware operating on a block of threads, mapping a plurality of shared memory locations assigned to the unit to a tracking table. The tracking table comprises initialization information for each shared memory location. The method also includes, for an instruction of a program within a barrier region, identifying a potential conflict by identifying a second access to a location in shared memory within a block of threads executed by the hardware unit. First information associated with a first access and second information associated with the second access to the location is determined. Filter criteria is applied to the first and second information to determine whether the instruction causes a reportable hazard. The instruction is reported when it causes the reportable hazard. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305253 | LOCK CONTROL IN MULTIPLE PROCESSOR SYSTEMS - A computer implemented method executing a plurality of tasks, each task comprising threads and each task being assigned a priority from 1 to a whole number greater than 1, each thread of a task assigned the same priority as the task and each thread being executed by a processor. The method also provides locking and unlocking arranged to lock and unlock data stored by a storage device responsive to such a request from a thread. A method of operating the system comprises maintaining a queue of threads that require access to locked data, maintaining an array comprising, for each priority, duration and/or throughput information for threads of the priority, setting a wait flag for a priority in the array according to a predefined algorithm calculated from the duration and/or throughput information in the array. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305254 | CONTROLLING 32/64-BIT PARALLEL THREAD EXECUTION WITHIN A MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM UTILITY PROGRAM - A method of programming operating system (O/S) utility C and C++ programs within the Microsoft professional development 32/64-bit parallel threads environment, includes providing a computer unit, which can be a 32/64-bit Microsoft PC O/S, or a 32/64-bit Microsoft Server O/S, a Microsoft development tool, which is the Microsoft Visual Studio Development Environment for C and C++ for either the 32-bit O/S or the 64-bit O/S. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305255 | CONTROLLING PRIORITY LEVELS OF PENDING THREADS AWAITING PROCESSING - A data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry arranged to process processing threads using resources accessible to the processing circuitry. A pipeline is provided for handling at least two pending threads awaiting processing by the processing circuitry. The pipeline includes at least one resource-requesting pipeline stage for requesting access to resources for the pending threads. A priority controller controls priority levels of the pending threads. The priority levels define a priority with which pending threads are granted access to resources. When a pending thread reaches a final pipeline stage, if the request resources are not yet available then the priority level of that thread is raised selectively and the thread is returned to a first pipeline stage of the pipeline. If the requested resources are available then the thread is forwarded from the pipeline. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305256 | Systems And Methods To Allocate Application Tasks To A Pool Of Processing Machines - Systems and methods are provided to allocate application tasks to a pool of processing machines. According to some embodiments, a requestor generates a scope request including an indication of a number of compute units to be reserved. The requestor also provides an application request associated with the scope. A subset of available processing machines may then be allocated to the scope, and the application request is divided into a number of different tasks. Each task may then be assigned to a processing machine that has been allocated to the application request. According to some embodiments, each task is associated with a deadline. Moreover, according to some embodiments an overall cost is determined and then allocated to the requestor based on the number of compute units that were reserved for the scope. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305257 | SCHEDULING METHOD AND SCHEDULING SYSTEM - A scheduling method is executed by a given CPU among multiple CPUs. The scheduling method includes subtracting for each of the CPUs, a number of processes assigned to the CPU from a maximum number of speculative processes that can be assigned to each of the CPUs; summing results yielded at the subtracting to yield a total number of speculative processes; and assigning to the CPUs, speculative processes of a number is less than or equal to the total number of speculative processes. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305258 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING NESTED STREAM EVENTS - One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for enforcing cross stream dependencies in a parallel processing subsystem such as a graphics processing unit. The technique involves queuing waiting events to create cross stream dependencies and signaling events to indicated completion to the waiting events. A scheduler kernel examines a task status data structure from a corresponding stream and updates dependency counts for tasks and events within the stream. When each task dependency for a waiting event is satisfied, an associated task may execute. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305259 | HARDWARE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A hardware control method for multitasking drivers under a user mode is provided. The control method includes steps of: receiving a request for access to a hardware device from a current process under the user mode; determining whether the current process has obtained a mutual exclusion (mutex) of the hardware device; if affirmative, determining whether an identification of the current process and an identification of a previous process accessed the hardware device are the same; if negative, performing a context switch on the current process and the previous process accessed the hardware device to allow the current process to access the hardware device. Accordingly, when accessing complicated hardware devices, the disclosure significantly enhances driver performance under a user mode while also implementing secured random access to hardware devices in a multitasking environment. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305260 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINISTIC CONTEXT SWITCHING IN A REAL-TIME SCHEDULER - A system and method deterministically switches context in a real-time scheduler to guarantee schedule periodicity. The method includes determining a time slice for each of the plurality of processes. The method includes determining a time slice switch duration between consecutive ones of the time slices. The method includes determining a starting point for each time slice. The method includes generating a schedule as a function of the time slices, the time slice switch durations, and the starting points of the time slices. The schedule includes an order for each of the time slices for a respective one of the plurality of processes. Each of the time slices and each of the time slice switch durations are required to run for their entire duration to guarantee a periodicity of the schedule. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305261 | DETERMINING INFORMATION RELATING TO OCCUPANCY OF A SPACE - A method of determining information relating to the occupancy of a space that includes receiving first data relating to the occupancy of the space over a time period, receiving second data indicative of either times of decrementing events or times of incrementing events affecting the occupancy of the space during the time period, and either, for each decrementing event time, using the first data to obtain an estimated incrementing event time, or, for each incrementing event time, using the first data to obtain an estimated decrementing event time. The method has particular application in the determination of waiting times, for example in the context of queue monitoring. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305262 | In-Car Information System, Information Terminal, And Application Execution Method - An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal includes a storage unit in which applications are stored and a control unit that executes an application manager. The application manager has a launch function that enables execution of the application stored in the storage unit in the foreground and a communication function that enables execution of communication processing in the background to allow the information terminal and the in-car device to exchange information. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305263 | COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT - The creation of a virtual network adapter is disclosed. At least one existing network device having an existing driver is discovered. At least one of an existing device-to-driver mapping and an existing driver associated with the existing network device is removed. A new driver capable of communicating with the existing network device using a common set of primitive commands is installed. The new driver is mapped to the existing device. The use of the virtual network adapter is also disclosed. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305264 | Virtual Application Extension Points - A virtual application may be configured with several extension points within a host operating system. The virtual application may be configured with a private namespace in which various components, such as registry settings, dynamic linked libraries, and other components may reside. During configuration, links may be placed in the host operating system that may point to objects in the virtual application's private namespace so that the operating system and other applications may launch, control, or otherwise interact with the virtual application. The links may be located in a file system, registry, or other locations and may be available to other applications, including other virtual applications. A configuration routine may place the links into the host operating system at the time the application may be configured. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305265 | MEDIUM TRANSPORTING UNIT AND MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A holding mechanism is operable to hold a top medium from a plurality of plate-shaped media accommodated in a stacker in a stacked manner. A transport arm supports the holding mechanism. The transport arm is provided with a separation mechanism operable to separate a second medium positioned just below the top medium which is held by the holding mechanism. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305266 | SLOT-IN TYPE OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - A slot-in type optical disk drive is disclosed. An inclined flange is protruded on the lower end of a guide pin. When ejecting a disc, a power unit moves a slider backward to push a shifting lever at one end of a detecting rod. The detecting rod is rotated to move the guide pin at the other end such that the inclined flange pushes the back edge of the disc to ascend along the inclined flange to avoid jamming. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305267 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE HAVING A CABLE FOR CONNECTING ELECTRIC DEVICES - An optical disc drive (ODD) including a tray having a spindle motor, an optical pickup unit, and a transfer motor, may have first and second flat cables. The first flat cable may be connected to the transfer motor, and the second flat cable may have a first terminal part connected to the first flat cable and a second terminal part connected to a circuit board. The circuit board may be arranged at the front of the tray. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305268 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device includes: a carriage moveably supported on an upper surface of a mount base and holding a light source, a light condensing member and optical components guiding the laser light from the light source to the light condensing member; a wiring member connected to the light source to supply electric power thereto; and a protection cover covering the upper surface of the mount base and a part of the wiring member and is provided with an opening through which the laser light passing through the light condensing member is irradiated onto the optical disk. The light source, light condensing member and optical components are located within a region obtained by projecting the opening in a direction perpendicular to a disk surface of the optical disk, and at least one of the light source, light condensing member and optical components protrudes into the opening in the protection cover. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305269 | HIGH DEFINITION PLAYBACK VERIFICATION - An advertisement delivery system includes a billing system that provides a plurality of schedule files providing time and zone information for inserting advertisement in a first delivery format and in a second delivery format to subscribers of a cable television network, an ad inserter that inserts advertisements according to the plurality of schedule files, and a merge module that receives a first plurality of log files that provide information about advertisement playback status for the first delivery format and a second plurality of log files that provide information about advertisement playback status for the second delivery format and merges the first plurality of log files and the second plurality of log files according to a set of rules to produce a plurality of merged log files, and delivers the plurality of merged log files to the billing system. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING A MEDIA FILE - The subject matter discloses a method comprising obtaining a viewer's feedback from a viewer of a media file, determining a rating value according to said viewer's feedback and transmitting the rating value to a server. The method also comprises receiving an accumulated rating value of the media file from the server and displaying said accumulated rating value to reflect the viewer's feedback. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305271 | Method And Apparatus For Generation Of A Preferred Broadcasted Programs List - A second set of broadcasted programs is added to a first set of broadcasted programs. The second set of broadcasted programs includes broadcasted programs viewed by a viewer for a period of time at least equal to a first threshold. A third set of broadcasted programs is removed from the first set of broadcasted programs. The third set of broadcasted programs includes broadcasted programs not viewed by a viewer for a period of time at least equal to a second threshold. In one embodiment, a fourth set of broadcasted programs selected by the viewer is added to the first set of broadcasted programs. In one embodiment, the first threshold and the second threshold are updated upon the viewer indicating dissatisfaction. In one embodiment, the first threshold and the second threshold are updated upon the viewer returning to a schedule list more than a predetermined number of times. In one embodiment, the first threshold is set to be a first percentage of a period of time that a channel was viewed, and the second threshold is set to be a second percentage of the period of time that the channel was viewed. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305272 | PROCEDURE, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VIDEO ADDRESSABLE ADVERTISING - A procedure for selecting targeted content, and a computer program, apparatus, and system that operate in accordance with the procedure. The procedure includes monitoring a user's activity in a first type of provided service, and selecting content from a second type of provided service, based on the monitoring. In one example the first type of provided service is a data service, the second type of provided service is a video service, and the user's activity includes web browsing. Also in one example, the content includes advertising content, such as in video form, and such content is selected based on a user interest profile generated based on the user's activity. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305273 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - A system and methods to calculate ratings of television advertisements based on viewing data and to assess the effectiveness of the advertisements. In some embodiments, consumer viewing data is consolidated across a plurality of disparate channels through which content and advertisements are presented to viewers. Some of the channels may provide information directly to the system about which advertisements were presented to viewers. In some embodiments, the system may instead determine whether an advertisement was likely viewed based on scheduling data associated with the presentation of content and advertisements. The system may provide additional algorithms for rating advertisements based on the consolidated information. That is, the system may allow performance of advertisements to be compared against other advertisements across a desired population of viewers. Embodiments may further provide information for a graphical user interface to assess the ratings and results. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305274 | OVER THE TOP CONTENT ACCESS - A system and method for accessing external content through an IPTV network is provided. An IPTV user can request access to content offered by an external content provider. An IPTV middleware can negotiate and create an ad hoc Service Level Agreement with the external content provider in response to the content request, in order to provide access to the external content. These mechanisms can allow an IPTV network operator to build a library of Video on Demand content based on requests issued by the subscribers. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305275 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING USER CONTENT THROUGH A SET-TOP BOX - The disclosed embodiments include a system, computer readable medium, and method for recording and distributing video content based on DRM parameters. For example, in one embodiment, a set-top box is disclosed that includes a processor for executing a set of instructions. The set-top box also includes memory in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to execute the set of instructions to receive user input to record a video content; determine DRM parameters associated with the video content, wherein the DRM parameters are established by at least of a content owner and a communications service provider, the DRM parameters indicating designated portions of the video content that is recordable; and record the video content based on the DRM parameters. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305276 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-STREAM ADVERTISING ON AN INTERNET CONNECTED DEVICE - This invention discloses a system for in-stream advertising on an internet connected device comprising: at least a media streaming server adapted to stream media content in relation to a request from said internet connected device, said media streaming server further adapted to read and stream a concatenated file containing said media content and in-stream advertisement, on said internet connected device, in a single request from said internet connected device; at least an adinsert module adapted to concatenate said fetched advertisement and said media content; and at least a file writer configured to write said concatenated file containing fetched said media content and said in-stream advertisement in a single file in order to enable said media streaming server to read and stream said concatenated file on said internet connected device in a seamless manner. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305277 | Terminating Enhanced Television Broadcasts - An enhanced television broadcast system may enable the transmission and reception of a real-time event when a new program is about to begin. The real-time event may control access to enhancements from the program that is ending. In some embodiments, these real-time events may constitute triggers that are included within packets transmitted in an Internet Protocol multicast. As one example, the trigger may include a Uniform Resource Locator in the form of a tv: protocol that automatically causes the television display to go to full screen television. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305278 | INTEGRATED ADVERTISING IN VIDEO LINK AGGREGATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for presentation of content through an interface to provide personalized video feeds to a user. A video feed is harvested from feed items gathered at various Internet sources. The feed items are filtered to remove those that do not link to video content. A criteria specified by the user is used to filter the feed items. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305279 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALTERING THE PRESENTATION OF BROADCAST CONTENT - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for altering a presentation of broadcast content. More specifically, embodiments provide an accurate and efficient mechanism for suppressing advertisements by using downloaded templates to identify advertisements before suppression for a duration indicated by information downloaded about the advertisement, where the suppression is effectuated by controlling a display or set-top box using remote-control functionality. In one embodiment, a digital signal comprising broadcast content is accessed. A plurality of templates are received and stored, wherein each template represents a known portion of the broadcast content. The digital signal is then compared against a portion of the plurality of stored templates. Upon a match, a control signal operable to alter a component of a presentation of the known portion of the broadcast content is generated. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305280 | Web Identity to Social Media Identity Correlation - An identification server correlates the web browsing behavior of individuals with their use of social media systems. Based on these behaviors, web identifiers (referred to as identities or IDs) may be matched to social media identifiers; these matches being determined, stored, and output as a confidences that the web identity of the user corresponds to a social media identity. Each web identity may be associated with one or more social media identities. The identity correlations between web identities and social media identities may be used along with other alignments to provide information regarding the time-based media (e.g., advertisements) a user may have likely been exposed to, and to provide targeted advertisements. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING ADVERTISING DATA BASED ON DATA ASSOCIATED WITH VIDEO DATA - A computer readable medium is disclosed containing computer executable instructions including but not limited to instructions to monitor video data for advertising data keys; instructions to correlate the advertising data keys with penetration data for an end user; and instructions to select advertising data for the end user based on the correlation. A system is disclosed that is useful in performing the method. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305282 | Topic to Social Media Identity Correlation - An identification server correlates the web browsing behavior of individuals with their use of social media systems. Based on these behaviors, web identifiers (referred to as identities or IDs) may be matched to social media identifiers; these matches being determined, stored, and output as a confidences that the web identity of the user corresponds to a social media identity. Each web identity may be associated with one or more social media identities. The identity correlations between web identities and social media identities may be used along with other alignments to provide information regarding the time-based media (e.g., advertisements) a user may have likely been exposed to, topics the user is interested in, and to provide targeted advertisements. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305283 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT VIDEO AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display unit which displays a content video thereon; a communication unit which communicates with an external server providing a social networking service (SNS); and a controller which receives from the external server feedback information of a part of a playing section of the content video based on feedback information of a plurality of users with respect to the content video, the feedback information being collected through the SNS, and provides feedback information of a user regarding the part of the playing section while the content video is played. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305284 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL TABLE FOR A BROADCAST PROTOCOL AND METHOD OF BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS USING THE SAME - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305285 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE SUPPORTING ON-DEMAND TV CONTENT - Method and meta-data search server (MSS | 2013-11-14 |
20130305286 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MULTIMEDIA CONTENT FUNCTION - An electronic device is configured to preview video files on a display that displays a media library screen containing a preview image in the form of a thumbnail image for each of plural video files available for viewing using the electronic device. A user input receives user inputs. A controller is configured to control the display of the thumbnail images so that when the user navigates to the media library screen, each video file is represented by an initial thumbnail image being a first representative frame from the corresponding video file and change the thumbnail images to revised thumbnail images in response to a designated user input. Each revised thumbnail image is a second representative frame from the corresponding video file. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305287 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A USER PROFILE BASED CUSTOMIZED MEDIA GUIDE THAT INCLUDES AN INTERNET SOURCE - Systems and methods for presenting user-generated content in an easily accessible manner using an interactive media guide are provided. In particular, a user may be able to peruse user-generated content through an interactive media guide which is also used to access non-user-generated media content such as linear programming (e.g., over-the-air broadcast, cable, and satellite scheduled programming) and on-demand media. The interactive media guide may include a provider of user-generated content populated with user-generated content according to the user's interests or most recently added to the provider. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305288 | DISPLAYING ADVERTISING IN AN ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE - Dynamically controlling advertisements on an electronic guide is disclosed. An advertisement cell on an electronic guide may be moved based on the movement of other cells. The advertisement cell may be subsequently kept stationary in relation to the other cells for a certain time portion. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305289 | GENERATION OF DYNAMIC CONTENT INTERFACES - Example embodiments relate to generation of dynamic content interfaces based on device capabilities and user entitlements. Multiple devices associated with a user account may each request a content interface. Generation of the content interfaces may be based on capability information of the devices and a tier entitlement associated with the user account. A service included in both the content interfaces may be assigned a same virtual channel in each of the content interfaces. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305290 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING ASSETS RELATIVE TO A GROUP OF VIEWERS - Systems and methods are provided for ranking assets relative to a group of viewers. A group is formed by a user by selecting a number of different viewer preference profiles or automatically by the system as a function of analyzing similarities among viewer preference profiles. Individual preference values are computed for each viewer in the group relative to an asset. A group preference value is then computed by performing a function on the individual preference values. A display is generated that represents the individual preference values and the group preference value relative to an asset. Based on the information provided in the display, the asset most relevant to the group may be selected. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305291 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SHARE MEDIA CONTENT BETWEEN DEVICES VIA NEAR FIELD COMMMUNICATION (NFC) AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A media storage and access system and methodology including a set-top box which receives and processes a plurality of signal sources and makes programming available locally through connected devices or via a data network such as a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. The system also integrates a multimedia storage system that allows programming content to be digitally stored. The system utilizes an integrated digital storage system and operating software to allow users to view a broadcast program (e.g., television, radio, etc.) with the option of instantly reviewing previous segments within the program. In addition, the system allows the user to store selected media programming while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing another program. The system also allows stored media assets to be accessed locally via a media device connected to the unit or remotely via the Internet. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305292 | MEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION WITHIN HOME NETWORK USING SET-TOP BOX AS GATEWAY - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for transmitting TV program related content to IP connected devices on a home network, or other local area network. Users can watch television while simultaneously receiving content related to TV programs currently being displayed on a television. TV centric and TV program related content can be transmitted to IP connected devices. Moreover, this TV program related content can be displayed at the same time as a television program is being displayed on a television. As such, the system can provide media synchronization within home network using the set-top box as a gateway for delivering the content. Users can watch TV at home, and at the same time receive TV program related content on a laptop, tablet computer, mobile phone, etc. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305293 | PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTIFICATION DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD, PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTIFICATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A television set ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130305294 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A USER INTERFACE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA APPLICATIONS - A method and system for centrally producing user-specific user interfaces for controlling and selecting interactive media applications are provided. The system has, at each user end, an input unit used to input control signals for controlling and selecting the interactive media applications, and an output unit used to display an appropriate user-specific user interface. Following registration of the input and output units, the control signals are transmitted via a communication network to a central user interface server in the system. The user interface server initiates a user interface production unit which takes the control signals as a basis for generating user-specific elements for the user interface. A mixing component in the system adds non-user-specific elements provided by a database in the system. The user-specific user interface produced is then forwarded from a central streaming server in the system to the output unit and is displayed by the latter. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305295 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATION - Certain aspects of a method and system for satellite communication are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a receiver that handles digital broadcasting. The receiver may be enabled to dynamically vary spacing between two or more pilots and/or the size of one or more pilots within at least one frame based on a determined symbol rate. The size of each of a plurality of received programs may be determined and the spacing between two or more pilots may be dynamically varied based on the determined size of each of the plurality of received programs. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305296 | IN-HOME EQUIPMENT, CONTENT HANDOFF METHOD, AND CONTENT HANDOFF PROGRAM - The in-home equipment comprises: playback availability determining means | 2013-11-14 |
20130305297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL WIFI VIDEO STREAMING - A video or multimedia distribution system receives multiple video streams and transcodes them into a single stream of UDP packets with each of the plurality of video data packets for respective ones of the video streams being assigned a port number corresponding to the respective video stream. The UDP packets are routed to a plurality of Access Points (APs) for transmission throughout a vehicle, such as an aircraft or ship. A User Equipment (UE) communicates with the APs and selects one or more of the video streams for viewing on the UE by selecting the port number corresponding to the desired video streams. The UE can “change channels” to view other video streams by changing the port number to the port number of the desired video stream. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305298 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION CABLE - The present invention relates to providing high-speed bidirectional communication while maintaining compatibility. When an HDMI® source | 2013-11-14 |
20130305299 | PUSH-PULL BASED CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - QoS is built into a peer network within existing Internet infrastructure itself lacking QoS, by enabling a network peer to continuously discern the network's ability to deliver to that peer a particular Content Object (distributed in groups of component Packages among neighboring VOD peers) within predetermined times. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305300 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING PODCASTS VIA IPTV - Systems, methods, and computer products for providing podcasts via Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) are disclosed herein. Exemplary embodiments include a network-based method for providing digital media podcasts. The method includes receiving a request to render at least one podcast on a communications device authenticated on an IPTV network, retrieving the at least one podcast from the IPTV network, and providing the at least one podcast to the communications device. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305301 | Multimodal Portable Communication Interface for Accessing Video Content - A portable communication device has a touch screen display that receives tactile input and a microphone that receives audio input. The portable communication device initiates a query for media based at least in part on tactile input and audio input. The touch screen display is a multi-touch screen. The portable communication device sends an initiated query and receives a text response indicative of a speech to text conversion of the query. The portable communication device then displays video in response to tactile input and audio input. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305302 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PERFORMANCE MONITORING - A probe is configured to monitor one or more communication parameters on one or more downstream frequency channels carried on a communication medium of an access network. Results of repeated monitoring are stored over a predetermined period. At the conclusion of the monitoring period, data reports reflecting the stored results are transmitted in upstream frequency channels carried on the same medium. The probe can also be configured to send immediate messages if a parameter exceeds predefined limits and can store a plurality of monitoring programs and can be reprogrammed remotely. The probe can be contained within a cable tap if the medium is, e.g., a coaxial cable. Numerous probes can be deployed throughout an access network so as to provide monitoring data from each of many locations over a prolonged period. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305303 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a program, and a content distribution system capable of stably supplying content to a plurality of terminal devices. A terminal device can receive content streaming distribution from a content distribution server over the Internet. In addition, the terminal device can relay the received content to a different terminal device over the Internet. If the quality of the content distributed in such a manner is degraded (e.g., the amount of delay increases), the content distribution server can control a TV broadcasting apparatus to streaming-distribute the content by on-air broadcast. In addition, the content distribution server can stop broadcasting of the content in accordance with the number of viewers. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305304 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A CONTROL MESSAGE IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for providing information used for generating and consuming multimedia content in a broadcast system supporting a multimedia service based on an Internet protocol are provided. The method includes composing a message type field containing information indicating on a type of control information contained in the control message, composing a length field containing information on the length of the control message, composing optional fields having different values according to the type of the control information, and composing a payload field containing content of the control information. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305305 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN APPLICATION SERVICE IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for driving an application, contained in a hybrid multimedia service, in a broadcast system that provides a user equipment with the hybrid multimedia service based on a hybrid network including at least a broadcast network and a network supporting an Internet protocol is provided. To this end, a broadcast server constituting the broadcast system constructs control information to be used for acquiring an instruction table for driving the application contained in the hybrid multimedia service, and transmits the constructed control information to the user equipment in a predetermined format. The user equipment may acquire the instruction table using the control information provided from the broadcast server, and drive a desired application using the acquired instruction table. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305306 | IPTV Session Management - A session management involves registering at least one IPTV application in a registration table so that the registration table includes at least a respective identifier of the IPTV applications. The IPTV applications are invokable at a set top box and can be so-called embedded applications and/or browser-based applications. An event requiring the invocation of an IPTV application at the set top box is detected and triggers a look-up in the registration table. The registration table is thus used as source to indicate those IPTV applications that are potentially available and can be launched at the set top box. One of the registered applications is launched for the purpose of handling the detected event. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305307 | SERVER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, SERVER CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a server includes a receiver, a setting module and a storage. The receiver is configured to receive history data comprising a history of channel operations for switching programs. The setting module is configured to set a weight for each program based on a history of channel operations according to a first rule. The storage is configured to store the weight set for each program. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305308 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A BROADCAST SERVICE, METHOD FOR RECEIVING A BROADCAST SERVICE, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A BROADCAST SERVICE - According to the invention, a broadcast receiver receives a packetized stream. The broadcast receiver extracts display time information from a header of the packetized stream, and extracts trigger information including a target object identifier from a payload of the packetized stream. The broadcast receiver recognizes the type of the trigger information. If the trigger information is of the preparation trigger type, the broadcast receiver acquires information on the location of the file which belongs to the target object identifier. The broadcast receiver downloads the file which belongs to the target object identifier from the time corresponding to the extracted display time information via said acquired information on the location of the | 2013-11-14 |
20130305309 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL TABLE FOR A BROADCAST PROTOCOL AND METHOD OF BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS USING THE SAME - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305310 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL TABLE FOR A BROADCAST PROTOCOL AND METHOD OF BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS USING THE SAME - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305311 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A FLUID SECURITY LAYER - A security management capability enables migration of individual security rules between storage/application locations. The migration of a security rule may include selection of a location at which the security rule is to be applied and migration of the security rule to the selected location at which the security rule is to be applied. The selection of the location at which the security rule is to be applied may be performed based on security rule policies and/or security rule location selection information. The security rule is migrated from a current location (e.g., a location at which the security rule is currently applied, a management system, or the like) to the selected location at which the security rule is to be applied. In this manner, a fluid security layer may be provided. The fluid security layer may be optimized for one or more of security level, performance, cost, or the like. | 2013-11-14 |
20130305312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION BY DEFINING A DEMANDED LEVEL OF SECURITY - There is provided a computer-implemented method for authentication, the method comprising:
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