03rd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140019886 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING CUSTOMER SERVICE ACROSS MULTIPLE CHANNELS - A method and apparatus for a computer-implemented technique for maximizing customer satisfaction and first call resolution, including converting telephone calls into online chats, while minimizing cost is provided. Techniques for incorporating analytics as applied to customer data into particular strategies for call deflection, targeting particular individuals to increase chat acceptance rate, and computing a customer's wait time are also provided. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019887 | METHOD OF ENCAPSULATING DIVERSE USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS WHILE CONSISTENTLY ENFORCING EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium encapsulate user interface components that collect data for a case management solution, while consistently enforcing metadata and constraints. Multiple types of interactive documents are supported, and a configuration indicates the type whose user interface components are to be encapsulated. A wrapper widget is created based on the interactive document type and implements an interface that enables it to interact externally with the case management environment and internally with the interactive document. The wrapper widget injects case property data values, metadata and/or constraints from the case management environment into the interactive document, which then enables editing of the case property data values and the effecting of the metadata and/or enforcing of the constraints. The wrapper widget is responsive to requests from the case management environment to validate and persist the interactive document to a case of the case management solution. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019888 | ENHANCED MULTI-TAB CO-BROWSING BETWEEN ONE OR MORE OPERATORS AND ONE OR MORE VISITORS - Apparatuses, computer readable mediums, and methods of co-browsing between a visitor and an operator are disclosed. The method may include on a condition that an event associated with a tab is received, handling the event. The method may include on a condition of receiving a user interface event or a webpage data update from the visitor, handling the user interface event or received webpage data update. Another method may include on a condition of an operator becoming active, sending webpage data regarding an active tab for visitors. The method may include receiving a webpage data update associated with the active tab from a first visitor. The method may include storing the webpage data update based on the first visitor and the active tab. The method may include sending an indication of the webpage data update to the operator with an indication of the active tab and of the first visitor. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019889 | REGENERATING A USER INTERFACE AREA - A user interface (UI) area having multiple data sources is regenerated based upon changes made to UI elements associated with the UI area. To efficiently regenerate the changed UI elements, a processor of the computer determines UI controls and data objects associated with the UI area to generate a conditional list. The conditional list includes corresponding events representing an association of the UI controls and the data objects. Based upon a modification to a data object, an optimized data binding structure is generated to determine a corresponding UI control that is affected by the modification. An updated UI controls list is computed to include the affected one or more UI controls based upon the optimized data binding structure. Based upon a trigger to render the UI area, the affected UIs are regenerated on the UI area by updating the affected UI controls based upon the modification. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019890 | SYNCHRONIZING A USER INTERFACE AREA - A user interface (UI) area having multiple data sources is synchronized based upon changes made to UI elements associated with the UI area. To synchronize the changed UI elements, a processor of the computer determines UI controls and data objects associated with the UI area. Based upon a modification to a data object, a corresponding UI control that is affected by the modification is determined. A synchronization process is triggered to determine updated UI controls and updatable UI controls from the UI controls that are affected by the modification. The UI area is synchronized by updating the updatable UI controls based upon the modification. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND DELIVERING PLATFORM INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS ON USER DEVICES - The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for developing and delivering a platform independent application for a plurality of user devices. The system comprises an application development framework to generate a plurality of platform independent data formats describing the application elements and actions allowed on them, a content generating server to generate a plurality of device specific data formats, a content distribution server to create a schedule for delivering the plurality of device specific data formats to the plurality of user devices and a device specific application container to render the application on the user device based on the plurality of device specific data formats received from the content distribution server. The content generating server includes a data format builder module which takes input from the application development framework and an application metadata and invokes an application handler to generate device specific data formats. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019892 | Systems and Methods for Generating Application User Interface with Practically Boundless Canvas and Zoom Capabilities - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a user request in a controller. The controller stores information about the display of data on a canvas. The canvas is generated for display on a user interface. The canvas includes a plurality of application elements and a pod. The canvas is displayable in levels of context. First display information is generated based on the canvas and a first type of user request. The first display information includes one of the levels of context of the canvas and the pod. Second display information of the pod is generated based on the pod and a second type of user request. The second display information includes application elements of a selected level of context of the canvas. A selected application element of the second display information is modified based on a third type of user request. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019893 | STORY ELEMENT INDEXING AND USES THEREOF - A story index of story elements is provided in which each story element is able to be referenced in a story by name and by language that does not include the name. The story index may also contain references to the same story elements in other associated stories, including other stories in a series or that are in a different type of media. An associated story presentation application program may enable a viewer to view the entries in the story index for a specified story element and to then view the specified story element at any of the referenced locations. The application may enable purchase or downloading of the associated stories. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019894 | AUGMENTING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to augmenting user interface elements of a large interactive display. A user interface element displayed on a region of interest of the large interactive display is determined. A location of the user interface element is augmented based on timing information. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019895 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device according to the present invention includes a display module, a touch panel, and a control module that controls display of the display module in accordance with an operation of the touch panel. When a predetermined operation is performed to the touch panel, the control module transfers, on a display screen of the display module, an image to cause the electronic device to execute a predetermined function. When the image is transferred on the display screen, if an identical image to the image is included in the display screen, the control module performs processing of informing to that effect. The display module can display a screen for selection to select an operation screen in which the image is to be set from a plurality of operation screens, and the screen for selection includes a plurality of thumbnails corresponding to the plurality of operation screens, respectively. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019896 | USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING SELECTABLE SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITY CONTROLS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO A SELECTED OBJECT - An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls that are relevant to a selected object and that remain visibly available for use while the selected object is being edited. Upon selection of a particular object for editing, functionality available for editing the object is presented in a ribbon-shaped user interface above the software application workspace to allow the user ready and efficient access to functionality needed for editing the selected object. The display of relevant functionality controls is persisted until the user dismisses the display, selects another top-level functionality control or selects another object for editing. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019897 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an object displaying unit, an object identifying unit, and an object moving unit. The object displaying unit displays at least one object in a display area of an operation display. The operation display includes the display area where an image is displayed and outputs information about a position pointed by an operator in the display area. The object identifying unit identifies an object pointed by the operator in accordance with the output information. When the position pointed by the operator is moved on the display area in a state in which the object is identified, the object moving unit moves the identified object on the display area by a distance corresponding to a moving distance of the position pointed by the operator and a coefficient that is associated with the object and that is set in advance in at least one direction. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC BOOKS - A method for managing an electronic book (e-book) is provided. The method includes mapping e-books corresponding to class textbooks by time zone based on a timetable, displaying the timetable comprising objects corresponding to the e-books mapped by time zone and class related information, and, if any one of the objects corresponding to the e-books is touched, opening and displaying a page of an e-book corresponding to the touched object. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019899 | Location-Dependent Drag and Drop UI - An improved interactive user interface for presenting functionalities of an application is provided. An application functionality applied to a data element range may be represented by a selectable preview element that provides a preview of the application functionality applied to the data element range. Upon selection of a preview element, one or more drop zones may be displayed. The preview element may be dragged to a drop zone and may animate into a visualization of the application functionality applied to the data element. The type of visualization that is displayed may be dependent on the drop zone to which the preview element is dragged. After a preview element is dropped into a drop zone, the functionality may be applied to the data element range and be displayed. The interactive data visualizations may encourage a user to explore features of an application. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019900 | USER INTERFACE OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD - A user interface of an automation system adapted to display one or more components controlled by the automation system is provided. The user interface includes a plurality of input interface associated with each of the one or more components, a plurality of output interface associated with each of the one or more components, a first input trigger adapted to store one or more states of the one or more components alongwith corresponding input interfaces and output interfaces, and a second input trigger for displaying the stored states of the one or more components. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019901 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIEWING PATIENT DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying an electrocardiogram (ECG) on a computing device using actions including receiving data corresponding to the ECG, processing the data to generate a plurality of traces, displaying a plurality of trace display windows, displaying each trace of the plurality of traces in a trace window of the plurality of trace windows, receiving user input corresponding to at least one trace window of the plurality of trace windows, and modifying a display of each trace of the plurality of traces in the respective trace display windows in response to the user input. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019902 | PROGRESS BARS FOR MEDIA CONTENT - Some example embodiments include a method for presenting media content. The method includes decoding the media content having a number of time segments to access metadata that defines a number of selectable characteristics for semantic content in the media content. The method includes presenting to a viewer of media content the number of selectable characteristics for the semantic content. The method includes receiving, from the viewer, a selectable characteristic of the number of selectable characteristics. The method includes presenting, along with the media content, a progress bar for the media content that defines, through the number of time segments, temporal positions in the media content where the selectable characteristic is within the media content. The presenting of the progress bar includes presenting a graphic in the progress bar that is different for different values for a same selectable characteristic of the at least one selectable characteristic. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019903 | KEYPAD DISPLAYING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM SOURCE FOR THE METHOD - A keypad displaying method is provided. The keypad displaying method includes displaying a plurality of keys in a predetermined first display area, and upon receiving a signal corresponding to a request to cyclically shift the plurality of keys, cyclically shifting the plurality of keys in response to the request. The proposed keypad displaying method enables a user to conveniently enter text into a media device while holding the media device with one hand. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019904 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT DISPLAYED ON A TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY - A method for providing data associated with an object displayed on a touch screen display, the method including detecting a physical contact with the object displayed on the touch screen display, detecting a given finger gesture generated following the physical contact and providing data associated with the given finger gesture and the object displayed. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019905 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING APPLICATION BY HANDWRITING IMAGE RECOGNITION - A method and an apparatus for controlling an application by handwriting image recognition are provided. The method includes displaying an executed application on a touch panel, detecting a predefined user input, displaying a memo window including a handwriting input area and a non-handwriting input area over the application in response to the detected the user input, receiving and recognizing a handwriting image in the handwriting input area of the memo window, and controlling a function of the application according to a recognized result. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019906 | COMPUTER INPUT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTING DEVICES, SOFTWARE, AND METHODS - Computer input devices include a detector adapted to detect relative movement of an input member in x-, y-, and z-dimensions relative to a base point in a base plane, and a controller adapted to send a signal to an associated computing device based at least in part on the relative movement of the input member. Associated computing devices, software, and methods are also disclosed. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019907 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device, and relates to the field of electronic device application. The disclosure is made to enable a user to perform image information processing while clearly viewing image information. The method comprises analyzing image information of a to-be-displayed image and/or a captured image; determining a display position of an interaction interface based on the result of analyzing; and displaying the interaction interface on a displaying unit based on the display position. The disclosure is mainly used in the process of taking phones by a mobile phone. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019908 | Facilitating the Use of Selectable Elements on Touch Screen - When the user touches a touch selectable element, the appearance of the computer recognized selected element may be changed so that the user can confirm that the element is, in fact, the element the user intended to select. If it is not, in some embodiments, the user can slide the user's finger to the correct element and, again, that element may be modified in a way to indicate to the user which element has now been selected. When the user removes the user's finger from the touch selectable element, in some embodiments, the element is then selected. Also, the user, in some embodiments, can touch blank areas of the display screen to reveal which elements on the display screen are touch selectable elements. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019909 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Time Series Exploration Using Structured Judgment - Systems and methods are provided for analyzing unstructured time stamped data. A first series of user display screens are provided, where the first series of user display screens are configured to be displayed in a step-wise manner so that a user can specify a first approach through a series of predetermined steps on how the unstructured data is to be structured. A second series of user display screens are provided, where the second series of user display screens are configured to be displayed in a step-wise manner so that the user can specify a second approach through the series of predetermined steps on how the unstructured data is to be structured. Tracking data enables alternate viewing of the first and second approach to facilitate a decision whether to format the unstructured time stamped data according to the first approach or the second approach. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019910 | TOUCH AND GESTURE INPUT-BASED CONTROL METHOD AND TERMINAL THEREFOR - A touch and gesture input-based control method for a mobile terminal or handheld display is provided for facilitating the switching operation between for an object in response to a gesture input subsequent to a touch input. The method includes detecting a touch input; selecting at least one object corresponding to the touch input; detecting a gesture input; and performing switching corresponding to the gesture input in a state where the object is held at a position of the touch input. The invention permits paging through lists of documents or icons, etc., while retaining the display of the held object on the touch screen. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019911 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A display control apparatus can receive an instruction to switch selection to a first direction and a second direction, and perform control to, in response to an instruction to switch the selection to the first direction, from among display items included in a succeeding row, select a second display item a position in a second axial direction parallel to the second direction of which is closest to a position in the second axial direction of a first display item that is first selected, and, when a second instruction to switch the selection to the first direction is further issued from a state where the second display item is selected, select a display item a position in the second axial direction of which is closest to the position in the second axial direction of the first display item from among the display items included in a further succeeding row. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SLIDING OPERATIONS ON PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICES - The invention relates to a system for processing sliding operations on a portable terminal device. The portable terminal device includes a touch screen. The system includes a memory device configured to store data related to sliding operations, and a processor coupled to the memory device. The processor is configured to cause to display, on the touch screen, a communication function interface for receiving user sliding operations. The processor is further configured to receive original messages obtained on the touch screen corresponding to the user sliding operations, and process the original messages to determine possible sliding patterns corresponding to the user sliding operations. The processor is also configured to set a user-defined sliding pattern based on the possible sliding patterns. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019913 | USER INTERFACE WITH PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR OBJECT TRACKING - A system or method for tracking items proximate a user interface device include a user interface device having at least one solid-state touch-sensitive region and a receiver for wirelessly receiving a signal from at least one item to determine proximity of the item relative to the user interface device. The device may also include a display screen for displaying controls and information. The user interface device may be permanently or removably mounted in a vehicle and used to interface with vehicle systems and personal electronic devices for control and information display. Tracked items or objects may include passive or active data tags and communicate identification information and optionally position information to the user interface device. The device may alert the user to movement of tracked objects, and/or confirm presence of a group of objects intended for a particular task or project. The device may use various wired or wireless devices to control selections and/or a cursor on the display. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019914 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display control device includes a first memory, an operation-display unit, and a display controller. The first memory stores data of a normal screen and data of a simple screen. The normal screen is a screen that displays functions related to a service process provided to a user, whereas the simple screen is a screen that displays a smaller number of functions than the normal screen. The operation-display unit displays one of the normal screen and the simple screen to the user and accepts a setting operation performed by the user on a function among the displayed functions. The display controller controls the operation-display unit so that an indication recommending the user to use the simple screen is displayed in a case where every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the simple screen. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019915 | DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A data retrieval system is disclosed comprising means for displaying data relating to one or more entities in a timeline format wherein the data is presented to a user by an icon on a display related with a particular point on a timeline whereby a user can take an action in relation to an icon and view or otherwise process or manipulate further data or a document related to the data represented by the icon. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019916 | Online Store - A method and system are presently disclosed. The method discloses providing tracking program code to a visitor console, process action data from the visitor console, wherein the tracking program generates the action data based on a webpage of a website displayed on the visitor console, display a three dimensional graphical representation of the website to a user console, display at least one computer generated character interacting with the three dimensional graphical representation of the website, wherein the at least one computer generated character interacts with the three dimensional graphical representation of the website based on the action data. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019917 | DISAMBIGUATION OF MULTITOUCH GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR 3D INTERACTION - A multitouch device can interpret and disambiguate different gestures related to manipulating a displayed image of a 3D object, scene, or region. Examples of manipulations include pan, zoom, rotation, and tilt. The device can define a number of manipulation modes, including one or more single-control modes such as a pan mode, a zoom mode, a rotate mode, and/or a tilt mode. The manipulation modes can also include one or more multi-control modes, such as a pan/zoom/rotate mode that allows multiple parameters to be modified simultaneously. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019918 | SMART PHONE LIKE GESTURE INTERFACE FOR WEAPON MOUNTED SYSTEMS - A smart phone like gesture based interface for controlling weapon mounted system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a gesture input is detected via the gesture based interface. One or more inputs and/or one or more outputs associated with the detected gesture interface is then identified. The weapon mounted system is then controlled based on the identified one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019919 | FLARE EFFECT INDUCED ERROR CORRECTION - A target pattern is provided including a first pattern in a first region. A sensor pattern is inserted in the target pattern in the first region. A flare intensity of the sensor pattern in the first region is determined. A pattern bias is determined based on the flare intensity. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019920 | METHOD FOR CREATING A PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY MASK - A method may be for creating a photolithography mask from a set of initial mask cells arranged to form an initial mask. The set may include first and second initial mask cells having a mask element in common within an initial region of the initial mask. The method may include a creation of a first modified mask cell and of a second modified mask cell including OPC processing operations, a comparison of the position of the mask element in common between the first modified mask cell and the second modified mask cell, and if the result of the comparison is greater than a threshold, a creation of a new mask region including an optical proximity correction processing operation on the initial region, and a creation of the photolithography mask from the new mask region. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019921 | LAYOUT METHOD FOR SOFT-ERROR HARD ELECTRONICS, AND RADIATION HARDENED LOGIC CELL - This invention comprises a layout method to effectively protect logic circuits against soft errors (non-destructive errors) and circuit cells, with layout, which are protected against soft errors. In particular, the method protects against cases where multiple nodes in circuit are affected by a single event. These events lead to multiple errors in the circuit, and while several methods exist to deal with single node errors, multiple node errors are very hard to deal with using any currently existing protection methods. The method is particularly useful for CMOS based logic circuits in modem technologies (.ltoreq.90 nm), where the occurrence of multiple node pulses becomes high (due to the high integration level). It uses a unique layout configuration, which makes the circuits protected against single event generated soft-errors. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019922 | OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NETLIST USED IN LOGIC CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A method, device, and article for assisting in the design of a logic circuit. The method can be such that: logic circuit description data is acquired, a first netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, and a second netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a second frequency higher than the first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, logical operation elements and the wiring for the logical operation elements are arranged based on the first netlist, and a timing report is outputted which is related to the execution timing for each block divided into a predetermined wiring unit, and any block not satisfying the desired operational speed based on the outputted timing report is extracted, the first netlist is replaced with the second netlist for any extracted block, and placement and routing is performed. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019923 | TEST BENCH HIERARCHY AND CONNECTIVITY IN A DEBUGGING ENVIRONMENT - This application discloses a design verification tool to collect messages generated by a test bench during elaboration of the test bench. The messages can identify connectivity corresponding to library components in the test bench. A debug tool can generate a schematic representation of the test bench having circuit symbols corresponding to at least portions of the library components, which are interconnected with trace lines based, at least in part, on the messages. The debug tool can prompt display of the schematic representation of the test bench. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019924 | BIOMETRIC MARKERS IN A DEBUGGING ENVIRONMENT - This application discloses a debug tool to prompting display of at least a portion of a simulated output for a circuit design in a debug window, identifying a marker corresponding to a value in the simulated output has been specified for the debug environment, and prompting accentuation of one or more occurrences of the value in the debug window relative to other values in the simulated output based, at least in part, on the marker specified for the debug environment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019925 | METHOD FOR TESTING A COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method for testing a circuit specification after changing a first version of the circuit specification into a second version of the circuit specification due to a revision of the circuit specification includes receiving a first set of mutations that can be or have been inserted into the first version of the circuit specification and a second set of mutations that can be inserted into the second version of the circuit specification computer program. Changed and unchanged mutations are identified in the first set of mutations and in the second set of mutations based on a comparison between the second version of the circuit specification and against the first version of the circuit specification. Information configured to test the second version of the circuit specification is generated using at least a portion of the identified mutations classified as the changed mutations. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019926 | DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD AND DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS - A determining unit determines parameters indicating a relation among voltages and currents at input and output of each of a non-linear device model provided in a high frequency circuit model having a non-linear device and a circuit model of a passive element connected to the non-linear device model. A calculating unit calculates amplitude and phase of a voltage source providing a fundamental wave of an equivalent circuit model, based on an input power and an impedance matching condition preliminarily determined by a designer and parameters determined by the determining unit. In addition, the calculating unit calculates amplitude and phase of a voltage source providing a harmonic wave of the equivalent circuit model, based on a harmonic termination condition preliminarily determined by the designer and the parameters determined by the determining unit. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019927 | WAFERLESS MEASUREMENT RECIPE - Embodiments relate to a method for manufacturing and processing semiconductor devices or integrated circuits (IC) and in particular to the generation of measurement recipes in the manufacturing of the semiconductor devices or ICs. The method comprises defining a sampling plan, mapping target locations of a device contained in the sampling plan to an article/a wafer having a plurality of said devices, verifying the mapping file and processing the verification to produce a measurement recipe. In one embodiment, the measurement recipe is created without having the actual processed wafer. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019928 | CIRCUIT ANALYZER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Structures of a circuit are identified. Voltages are propagated to the identified structures. Additionally, internal node voltages for the identified structures are obtained. Asymmetrical operating conditions are identified. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019929 | Partial Instruction-by-instruction checking on acceleration platforms - A method, apparatus, and product for partial instruction-by-instruction checking on acceleration platforms. The method comprising: obtaining a trace from an hardware accelerator, wherein the trace is generated by the hardware accelerator during simulation of an execution of a test case on a circuit design; identifying a synchronization point in the trace; simulating execution of the test case by a reference model until reaching the synchronization point; and performing instruction-by-instruction checking in order to identify an error in the circuit design based on the simulated execution by the hardware accelerator, wherein the instruction-by-instruction checking is performed with respect to a portion of the trace that relates to operation after executing the synchronization point, wherein the instruction-by-instruction checking utilizes the reference model to determine an expected outcome of each event recorded in the portion of the trace. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019930 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE DESIGN METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In a semiconductor device design method performed by at least one processor, at least one first parasitic parameter between electrical components inside a region of a layout of a semiconductor device and at least one second parasitic parameter between electrical components outside the region of the layout are extracted by different tools. The extracted parasitic parameters are incorporated into the layout. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FIXING PIN MISMATCH IN LAYOUT MIGRATION - Approaches are provided for fixing pin mismatches from swapping library cells in layout migration. Specifically, a method is provided that includes collecting information about a first technology pin from a library cell in a first technology. The method further includes swapping the library cell in the first technology with a library cell in a second technology. The method further includes collecting information about a second technology pin from the library cell in the second technology. The method further includes building a pin-mapping table that is configured to map the first technology pin to the second technology pin. The method further includes scaling a layout from the first technology to the second technology. The method further includes modifying the layout based on the pin-mapping table to match the at least one first technology pin to the at least one second technology pin while satisfying ground rules of the second technology. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION USING MIXED CELL LIBRARIES - A system and method for designing circuits, such as integrated circuits, that allow a designer to employ mixed cell libraries. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a cell placement EDA tool configured to transform a logical circuit representation into a physical circuit representation by placing cells from mixed cell libraries into clusters corresponding to the mixed cell libraries and (2) an interconnect routing EDA tool associated with the cell placement EDA tool and configured to route interconnects in buffer zones separating the clusters. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019933 | SELECTING A DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE FOR WORK IN A UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML) ENVIRONMENT - An approach is provided for selecting a development resource to develop a component in a Unified Modeling Language (UML) software system architecture. Specifically, a request for a developer is received from an architect. A component for the developer is determined and candidate analytics is performed on the component. Based on the candidate analytics, a list of potential candidates is presented to the architect. A developer is then selected from the list of candidates. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019934 | GENERATION FRAMEWORK FOR MAPPING OF OBJECT MODELS IN A DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - A delta handler can allow calculation of difference between an already generated set of backend entities and a set of new entities necessary to support a primary object affected by a change made in a development environment supporting extensions to a backend model of a software architecture. Improved stability and robustness can be provided via an approach in which a target list of activities relating to creating, changing, or deleting of entities in backend repositories necessary to support the affected primary object is created and a sequence for performance of the activities in the target list is determined in a manner that can allow handling of such activities in a unified manner rather than on a per object type basis. Related methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and the like are described. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019935 | AUTOMATED APPLICATION GENERATION - A modification method and system. The method includes retrieving by a computer processor of a computing system a list of features and plug-ins associated with an application. The features include features version metadata and the plug-ins include plug-ins version metadata. The computer processor compares features source code associated with the features with previous versions of associated source code. The computer processor generates modified features version metadata associated with the features version metadata. The modified features version metadata includes updated version labels differing from previous version labels of the previous versions of associated source code. The features are assembled into an application. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019936 | Dynamic Scripts To Extend Static Applications - One or more processors receive (a) first software written in a first computer language, (b) user input identifying a first name of a first method in a plurality of methods defined in the first software, and (c) user input identifying a location within a second software that is written in a second computer language different from the first computer language. In response, the one or more processors automatically prepare and store at the user-identified location in the second software, a new instruction formatted in a syntax of the second computer language that invokes the first method identified in the first software by the first name. The second software may be initially created with a first instruction to include at least a first additional name (e.g. “main”) used to invoke execution of the second software, and as a parameter thereof a second additional name identifying the first software. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019937 | UPDATING PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION USING AUTOMATED TEST SCRIPTS - Techniques are disclosed for generating and updating product documentation. The techniques include monitoring a script being executed to test the functionality of an application. The script may have one or more tags associated with corresponding tags in documentation associated with the application. The techniques further include capturing, during execution of the script, content items from the application based on the one or more tags of the script and inserting the captured content items into the documentation at locations indicated by the corresponding tags of the documentation. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JUDGING NECESSITY OF PERFORMING INTEGRATION TEST - Whether or not an integration test between or among software components is necessary is judged. Corresponding information between features is acquired, which configures a feature model expressing characteristics of a group of products produced by the software product line, and a type and variations of each software component. For each software component, a set of state variables of all of the features corresponding to the software components is produced based on the corresponding information. For each software component, a specific logical formula is produced. Two or more software components are designated. A necessity judgment formula is produced by logical-product combining all the specific judgment formulas, for the software components designated. It is judged that the integration test is necessary when the necessity judgment formula always shows FALSE (inconsistent formula) and not necessary when the necessity judgment formula shows unclearness as to TRUE or FALSE, or always shows TRUE (valid formula). | 2014-01-16 |
20140019939 | Iterative Generation of Symbolic Test Drivers for Object-Oriented Languages - A method includes, by one or more computing devices, determining instructions for a computing device to be evaluated, creating a first symbolic test driver including one or more of the instructions to be evaluated and a designation of a symbolic variable corresponding to a portion of the instructions, symbolically executing the instructions with respect to the symbolic variable, determining a test case from the results of the symbolic execution including one or more commands to execute the instructions with a given value for the symbolic variable, determining one or more calls to an object-oriented-programming component in the commands, creating a new symbolic test driver including the calls based on the determined calls, and subsequently symbolically executing the new symbolic test driver. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019940 | Tool-Based Testing For Composited Systems - Tool-based testing of composited systems indirectly tests properties of a dynamic linked library for a desktop compositor such as DWMCore.dll via an algebraic structure of tools that define composition and rendering properties and derive equivalent resource models. The system tests for undesired side effects by examining characteristics of pixels from complicated render operations and employs a framework to test the composition and rendering of Desktop Windows Manager directly on the DWMCore.dll Application Programming Interface. The process includes mimicking uDWM.dll behavior by using resources with test patterns to take controlled measurements and validate primitives. The framework includes an infrastructure, a resource model, and tools. Each tool exposes a different composition or rendering property. A tool combinator exposes high level composition properties, including correct overlapping of transparent content and visual transformation (translation, scale, color transforms, etc.) by taking tools as input and using visual tree constructs to combine them. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019941 | DATA SELECTION - In an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, a data selection method may include receiving first data representative of program code having a plurality of database operations. Second data is generated and is representative of a sequence of operations encounterable in an execution of the program code, where the sequence of operations includes at least one of the database operations. A third data is selected from a database, by using the second data. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019942 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING AND TESTING A CONTROL UNIT PROGRAM - A development device and a method for creating and testing a control unit program, whereby the preparation of an intervention point for manipulating a quantity of a runtime environment for testing a control unit program component in a test environment having a test scenario program component and an observation device for receiving output values and indicating the test result. An executable program containing all program components is created from one or more program components, including a control unit program component that is to be tested and a test scenario program component. The creation includes generation of a runtime environment, wherein the runtime environment provides a communication channel for transmitting input and output values between the program components, and wherein a component test service is provided that offers an interface to the runtime environment pursuant to the AUTOSAR standard as an intervention point for manipulating a quantity of the runtime environment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019943 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING EXPRESSION FOLDING - A system for verifying that a comparison model having folded expressions matches a reference model includes at least one memory device that stores a reference model and a comparison model, wherein the comparison model was previously generated based on the reference model. The reference model adheres to a first set of syntax and semantics, wherein the reference model includes a plurality of first expressions, each of the first expressions including a first operator and a first operand. The comparison model adheres to a second set of syntax and semantics, wherein the comparison model includes a second expression, the second expression including a second operator and a second operand. The system further includes a processing unit configured to match the second expression with the plurality of first expressions. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019944 | Automated Identification of Redundant Method Calls - Embodiments of the invention may provide for collecting specified data each time that a call to a given method occurs, wherein a given call to the given method is associated with a set of arguments comprising one or more particular argument values for the given method, and the collected data includes an element uniquely identifying each of the particular argument values. The process may further include storing the collected data at a selected location, and selecting a call threshold for the given method, wherein the call threshold comprises a specified number of occurrences of the given call to the given method, when the program is running. The collected data may be selectively analyzed at the storage location, to determine whether an occurrence of the given call to the given method has exceeded the call threshold. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019945 | SOFTWARE INSTRUMENTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method and apparatus for monitoring software events in a computer system comprises a plurality of processors each performing a portion of an overall system task. Each processor has an application portion having one or more threads for performing the portion of the overall task and an application program interface for receiving notification of an event within the portion and transferring data relevant to the overall task portion and indication of occurrence of the event to a common hardware module that time stamps and stores the time of event, the origin of the relevant data, and the relevant data, time stamping being achieved using a highly accurate clock. The system can then send a record of the event, accurately time stamped at the very time of its occurrence, to a remote monitoring site for later assessment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019946 | LAYERED DECOMPOSITION FOR SCALABLE STATIC DATA RACE DETECTION OF CONCURRENT PROGRAMS - Disclosed is a method of performing static data race detection in concurrent programs wherein a control flow graph (CFG) is decomposed into layers of bounded call-depth which are then used to perform a resulting analysis. Next, a set of pointers of interest are segmented into classes such that each pointer may only be aliased to pointers within its own class, these classes related to computation of shared variables, locksets, waitsets, and notifysets. A flow sensitive context sensitive points-to-analysis for program statements that impact aliases of members within the given class is performed—advantageously reducing the overall size of the problem at hand. Notably, the analysis for individual threads is performed independently of one another, on multiple layers of the CFG, and subsequently merging the results from the individual layers. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019947 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING COMPATIBILITY CHECKING FOR LAMBDA EXPRESSION - A system and method can support compatibility checking in a programming language environment. The programming language environment can check whether a target type associated with an expression in the programming language environment is functional, wherein the target type is functional when it has exactly one method meeting one or more criteria that define that method as relevant in a counting system. Then, the programming language environment can derive a function descriptor from the target type, which is context-dependent. Furthermore, the programming language environment can type-check the expression with the function descriptor associated with the target type. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING LAMBDA EXPRESSION IN A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT - A system and method can support context-dependent expression compilation in a programming language environment. A compiler in the programming language environment can provide one or more context objects that operate to compile various context-dependent expressions in different programming contexts. Then, the compiler can use a said context object to derive a target type associated with a context-dependent expression, and use the context object to perform compatibility check for the context-dependent expression in the programming language environment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019949 | Method and System for Automated Improvement of Parallelism in Program Compilation - A method of program compilation to improve parallelism during the linking of the program by a compiler. The method includes converting statements of the program to canonical form, constructing abstract system tree (AST) for each procedure in the program, and traversing the program to construct a graph by making each non-control flow statement and each control structure into at least one node of the graph. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019950 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A MODIFIED PROGRAM IS TO BE APPLIED - An information processing apparatus includes a check data applicator, a count-up determiner, and a patch data applicator. When there is a modified part in a computer program under operation and the modified part has been executed, the check data applicator applies check data incorporating processing of counting the number of times the modified part has been executed to the program under operation. The count-up determiner determines if the count indicating the number of times the modified part has been executed is counted up at a predetermined timing as a result that the check data has been applied. When the count has been determined to be counted up, the patch data applicator replaces the check data including the modified part determined to be counted up with a post-modification program including the modified part having been modified. The configuration described above enables appropriate determination whether the post-modification program is to be applied. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019951 | MOBILE APPLICATION TRANSLATION - Various embodiments of systems and methods mobile application translation are described herein. A localizable file, in the mobile application, which is to be translated, may be identified. The identified localizable file is then retrieved from the mobile application. The localizable file, which is in a mobile platform specific format, may then be converted to a to-be-translated file in a translatable format. The to-be-translated file may then be forwarded to a translation system for translating the to-be-translated file. A translated file that includes the translation of the to-be-translated file may then be retrieved from the translation system. The retrieved translated file may then be updated to the mobile application. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019952 | SECURE METHOD OF ENFORCING CLIENT CODE VERSION UPGRADE IN DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for enforcing a software upgrade for software operable on a device includes receiving, at the device, a message including software-version information for the software from a domain controller. The software-version information indicates a list of approved versions of the software. The method includes determining, by the device, the software-version information from the message, and determining a current version of the software included on the device by performing a comparison of versions in the list of approved versions to the current version of the software on the device. If the current version of the software is not included in the list of approved versions, the method includes causing the device to not have or use a set of up-to-date security credentials for a set of content servers, for accessing any pieces of media on the set of content servers until the device has an approved version of the software. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019953 | CLIENT-SIDE SCRIPT BUNDLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method of operation of a bundle management system includes: generating a resource bundle with client-based script code based on a client device condition of a potential client device; generating a condition map correlating the client device condition to the resource bundle; generating a bundle set including the resource bundle based on a developer version of the client-based script code; uploading the condition map to a web service system; and configuring the web service system to operate a web service corresponding to the developer version of the bundle set. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019954 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SOFTWARE COMPONENT STATE - A request is received from a software component of a software product to access a value of a public setting of the software component. A check is made as to whether the request conforms to an appropriate format for the public setting. If the request conforms to the appropriate format, then the requested access is performed. However, if the request does not conform to the appropriate format, then the requested access is denied. Multiple values for the public setting can be received and maintained concurrently. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019955 | UPDATE OF A DATA-CARRIER APPLICATION - In a method for updating or installing a data storage medium application which can be executed on a secure data storage medium, the data storage medium is used in a telecommunications terminal. Updating data for the data storage medium application are first integrated into a terminal application certificate of a terminal application to be installed on the telecommunications terminal. Next the terminal application is installed in the telecommunications terminal and the data storage medium application in the data storage medium is configured according to the updating data. The terminal application certificate functions as a data container for the transparent updating data to be forwarded to the data storage medium. The updating data may relate to access rights of the terminal application to a data storage medium application already installed in the data storage medium or to a data storage medium application to be newly installed in the data storage medium. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019956 | Packaging Content Updates - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to obtaining user feedback and causing a package of content updates to be created and distributed based on the received feedback. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for creating a package that contains one or more content updates that are configured for implementation on a remote device. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019957 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING SOFTWARE AMONG TERMINALS - This discloses a software-sharing method among terminals. The method includes: receiving a request transmitted by a second terminal to obtain a second shared software installation package; obtaining, in accordance with the shared software ID, a default software installation package corresponding to the shared software ID; generating the second shared software installation package in accordance with the default software installation package and an sharing party ID; transmitting the second installation package to the second terminal, allowing installation at the second terminal the shared software using the second installation package. Also disclosed is a server including: a software installation package acquisition request obtaining module, a shared software installation package transmitting module, a shared software installation package generating module, and a default software installation package obtaining module. The embodiment can effectively determine the provider of the shared software when sharing software among terminals, thereby providing better utilization for the operator. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019958 | ENTERPRISE PORTAL MOBILE APPLICATIONS INSTALLS - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for resolving issues with applications accessed through portals. A computer-implemented method includes providing an enterprise portal page to a mobile device including at least one link associated with a native mobile device application; identifying an issue associated with activation of the at least one link associated with the native mobile device application within the enterprise portal page, where the issue results from the native application being unavailable at the mobile device; identifying a device type of the mobile device on which the issue occurred; and providing information for resolving the issue to a user interface on the mobile device to correct the issue, including at least one suggested link for downloading the native mobile device application associated with the identified issue, the at least one suggested link is selected based on the identified issue and the identified device type. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019959 | AUTOMATED PROVISIONING OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - Virtual machines in a network may be isolated by encrypting transmissions between the virtual machines with keys possessed only by an intended recipient. Within a network, the virtual machines may be logically organized into a number of community-of-interest (COI) groups. Each COI may use an encryption key to secure communications within the COI, such that only other virtual machines in the COI may decrypt the message. Virtual machines may be automatically provisioned with configuration information, such as the encryption keys, when the virtual machine is started. The provisioning information may be created based on a template stored on a configuration server. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATING CUSTOM VIRTUAL MACHINES - Systems and techniques of the creation of Virtual Machines (VM) from user requests to a Virtual Takeaway (VT) system are presented. In one embodiment, the VT system comprises a website to which the user may make requests for either pre-defined VM builds or customized VM builds. The VT system may also comprise a set of virtualization servers to which the requests for VM may be affected. In addition, the VT system may comprises a VT controller which may schedule jobs for the completion of user requests, to keep track of status of the state of various VM build requests and to perform administrative jobs for the efficient operation of the system. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019961 | System and Method for Automated Assignment of Virtual Machines and Physical Machines to Hosts - A system and method for reconfiguring a computing environment comprising a consumption analysis server, a placement server, an infrastructure management client and a data warehouse in communication with a set of data collection agents and a database. The consumption analysis server operates on measured resource utilization data to yield a set of resource consumptions in regularized time blocks, collects host and virtual machine configurations from the computing environment and determines available capacity for a set of target hosts. The placement server assigns a set of target virtual machines to the target set of hosts in a new placement. In one mode of operation the new placement is nearly optimal. In another mode of operation, the new placement is “good enough” to achieve a threshold score based on an objective function of resource capacity headroom. The new placement is implemented in the computing environment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019962 | SCAN SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SCANNING VIRTUAL MACHINES - A method and a system scan a virtual machine (VM). The method stores a first copy of a scan token associated with a first scan operation within a VM and stores a second copy of the scan token in a database accessible by a management module. Upon restarting of the VM, a scan token in the restarted VM is compared with a scan token associated with the restarted VM in the database. The scan token in the restarted VM is current when the scan token in the restarted VM matches the scan token in the database. A first scan operation is resumed on the restarted VM when it is determined that the scan token in the restarted VM is current, and a new first scan operation of the restarted VM is initiated when it is determined that the scan token in the restarted VM is not current. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019963 | CO-LOCATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH NESTED VIRTUALIZATION - Co-locating a virtual machine with nested virtualization, in one aspect, may comprise receiving a list of one or more virtual machine instances to co-locate with associated configuration information. A parent virtual machine instance may be identified to host the one or more virtual machine instances. Virtual machine images associated with the one or more virtual machine instances may be consolidated. A composite parent virtual machine image may be created based on the consolidated virtual machine images and the parent virtual machine instance. The parent virtual machine instance may be configured to accommodate for capacity requirement of the one or more child virtual machine instances. The parent virtual machine instance may be started on a processor via the composite parent virtual machine image. The one or more virtual machine instances may be started within the parent virtual machine instance as one or more child virtual machine instances. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ASSIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES AND PHYSICAL MACHINES TO HOSTS USING INTERVAL ANALYSIS - A system and method for reconfiguring a computing environment comprising a consumption analysis server, a placement server and a data warehouse in communication with a set of data collection agents and a database. The consumption analysis server operates on measured resource utilization data to yield a set of resource consumptions in a set of regularized time blocks in a set of sample periods, and, to group regularized time blocks across a set of sample periods to form a set of interval groups. The placement server assigns a set of target virtual machines to the target set of hosts in a new placement and scores the new placement in an effort to meet a threshold score based on an objective function of resource capacity headroom. In one aspect, the scoring relies on percentile analysis of resource consumption in the interval groups. The new placement is implemented in the computing environment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019965 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ASSIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES AND PHYSICAL MACHINES TO HOSTS WITH RIGHT-SIZING - A system and method for reconfiguring a computing environment comprising a consumption analysis server, a placement server and a data warehouse in communication with a set of data collection agents and a database. The consumption analysis server operates on measured resource utilization data to yield a set of resource consumptions in regularized time blocks, collects host and virtual machine configurations from the computing environment and determines available capacity for a set of target hosts. The placement server assigns a set of target virtual machines to the target set of hosts in a new placement that is right-sized according to a set of right-sizing constraints and rules. In one mode of operation the new placement is nearly optimal. In another mode of operation, the new placement is “good enough” to achieve a threshold score based on an objective function of capacity headroom. The new placement is implemented in the computing environment. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS WITH AUTOMATED ASSIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES AND PHYSICAL MACHINES TO HOSTS - A system and method for automatically reconfiguring a computing environment comprises a consumption analysis server, a placement server, a deployment server in communication with a set of virtual machine monitors and a data warehouse in communication with a set of data collection agents, and a database. The consumption analysis server operates on measured resource utilization data in the data warehouse to yield a set of resource consumptions, available capacities and host and virtual machine configurations from the computing environment. The deployment server continuously monitors an event triggering condition and when the triggering condition is met, the placement server assigns a set of target virtual machines to a target set of hosts in a new placement and the deployment server implements the new placement through communication with the set of virtual machine monitors. The placement server right-sizes the virtual machines and the target set of hosts. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019967 | PREPROVISIONING USING MUTATED TEMPLATES - A system, and computer program product for preprovisioning using a mutated template. A subset of templates is selected from a set of templates that can be provisioned to a data processing system, a template in the set of templates including data to create a virtual machine on the data processing system. The mutated template is constructed using the subset of templates. A manifest is constructed such that a template in the subset of templates can be reconstructed from the mutated template using the manifest. Instead of the subset of templates, the mutated template is preprovisioned to the data processing system. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019968 | CO-LOCATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH NESTED VIRTUALIZATION - Co-locating a virtual machine with nested virtualization, in one aspect, may comprise receiving a list of one or more virtual machine instances to co-locate with associated configuration information. A parent virtual machine instance may be identified to host the one or more virtual machine instances. Virtual machine images associated with the one or more virtual machine instances may be consolidated. A composite parent virtual machine image may be created based on the consolidated virtual machine images and the parent virtual machine instance. The parent virtual machine instance may be configured to accommodate for capacity requirement of the one or more child virtual machine instances. The parent virtual machine instance may be started on a processor via the composite parent virtual machine image. The one or more virtual machine instances may be started within the parent virtual machine instance as one or more child virtual machine instances. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019969 | CONFIGURING VM AND IO STORAGE ADAPTER VF FOR VIRTUAL TARGET ADDRESSING DURING DIRECT DATA ACCESS - A method is provided for use in a system that includes a host computing machine configured to implement a virtualization intermediary and that includes a physical storage adapter, the configures a virtual machine (VM) and a virtual function (VF) to support IO operations to physical storage through a direct IOV path to the VF of the physical storage adapter, the method comprises: creating by the virtualization intermediary mapping information that includes a first mapping between virtual disks and physical regions of physical storage and that includes a second mapping between virtual disks and virtual disk addresses; transmitting the mapping information from the virtualization intermediary over the physical storage adapter from a physical function (PF) of the physical storage adapter to the VF; associating a virtual port with the mapping information within the virtualization intermediary; binding the virtual port to the VF; communicating virtual disk addresses indicated within the second mapping within the transmitted mapping information for the allocated virtual disks to the VM. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019970 | VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND VIRTUAL MACHINE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A migration of a virtual machine is performed to the nearest virtual-machine-operating server derived from location coordinates information of a client terminal, to establish a connection with a virtual-machine-operating server subjected to a reduced influence of the line delay. Specifically, a location optimization server on the network manages virtual-machine-operating servers on which a virtual machine providing a server for the client terminal operates, and orders a migration of the virtual machine to a destination virtual-machine-operating server selected depending on the location coordinates information related to the client terminal. In this operation, the location optimization server issues instructions related to the migration of the virtual machine to both of the virtual-machine-operating server on which the virtual machine is currently operating and the destination virtual-machine-operating server. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019971 | TECHNIQUES FOR DYNAMIC DISK PERSONALIZATION - Techniques for dynamic disk personalization are provided. A virtual image that is used to create an instance of a virtual machine (VM) is altered so that disk access operations are intercepted within the VM and redirected to a service that is external to the VM. The external service manages a personalized storage for a principal, the personalized storage used to personalize the virtual image without altering the virtual image. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATH-BASED MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL SERVERS IN STORAGE NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods for analyzing the service and performance levels associated with virtual machines in a storage network environment for compliance with a resource capacity policy are provided. Component configuration and connectivity information from components in the network environment is collected without using host agents on the virtual machines. Access paths defining end-to-end access relationships between an application on a virtual machine and storage data objects associated with the virtual machine in the network environment are derived. Access paths comprise sequences of components configured to enable information flow between an application residing on a virtual machine and a data object on a respective storage device. Access path resource consumption is computed and virtual machines with resource consumptions that violate the resource capacity policy are identified. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019973 | VIRTUALIZATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A virtualization processing method and apparatuses, and a computer system are provided. Where a computing node includes: a hardware layer, a Host running on the hardware layer, and at least one virtual machine (VM) running on the Host, the hardware layer includes an I/O device, several corresponding virtual function (VF) devices are virtualized from the I/O device, the Host has several VF software instances, the several VF software instances and the several VF devices are in one-to-one correspondence; the Host further has a back-end instance (BE) of an I/O virtual device having the same type with the I/O device, the VM has a front-end instance (FE) of the I/O virtual device; the BE in the Host is bound with an idle VF software instance. The solutions of the embodiments of the present invention are beneficial to optimization of the performance and compatibility of a virtualization system. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019974 | MIGRATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MIGRATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A migration management apparatus includes a first decision unit, a second decision unit, and a migration processing unit. The first decision unit simulates the migration of each virtual machine being a migration target to decide a migration destination. The second decision unit decides a migration mode of the virtual machine whose migration destination has been decided by the first decision unit based on the power status of the virtual machine. The migration processing unit, upon the migration destinations and migration modes of the virtual machines being the migration targets having been decided, migrates the virtual machines to the respective migration destinations decided by the first decision unit in the respective migration modes decided by the second decision unit. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019975 | SERVICE TO RECOMMEND OPENING AN INFORMATION OBJECT BASED ON TASK SIMILARITY - The present description is directed to a technique to store one or more tasks, each task including one or more knowledge actions (KAs) that includes an action of one of a plurality of KA types being performed, determine a degree of similarity between each of one or more of the stored tasks and a current task, identify one of the stored tasks that most closely matches the current task based on the degree of similarity for each of the one or more stored tasks, identify one or more information objects that were open for the identified stored task, identify one or more information objects that are currently open for the current task, determine an additional information object that was open for the identified stored task but is not currently open for the current task, and provide a recommendation to a user to open the additional information object. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019976 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an inclusion relation memory, a correspondence relation memory, a data type identifying unit, a software application identifying unit, and a display controller. The inclusion relation memory stores inclusion relation between multiple data types. The correspondence relation memory stores correspondence relation between the data types and software applications used in input of data. The data type identifying unit analyzes acquired information to identify a data type corresponding to an input area of the acquired information. The software application identifying unit identifies a software application corresponding to each data type included in the identified data type in accordance with the inclusion relation and the correspondence relation. The display controller displays a display part in which the identified software application is used in a display. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ECONOMICAL MIGRATION OF LEGACY APPLICATIONS FROM MAINFRAME AND DISTRIBUTED PLATFORMS - An economical system and method of migrating legacy applications running on proprietary mainframe computer systems and distributed networks to commodity hardware-based software frameworks, by offloading the batch processing from the legacy systems, and returning the resultant data to the original legacy system to be consumed by the unaltered applications. An open source code tool is used to transfer the software, and rewrite it on a faster and more economical hardware system, while leaving a seamless integration of offloaded processing with existing batch processing flow. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019978 | System and Method of Providing A Fixed Time Offset Based Dedicated Co-Allocation of a Common Resource Set - Disclosed are a system, method and computer-readable medium relating to managing resources within a compute environment having a group of nodes or computing devices. The method comprises, for each node in the compute environment: traversing a list jobs having a fixed time relationship, wherein for each job in the list, the following steps occur: obtaining a range list of available timeframes for each job, converting each availability timeframe to a start range, shifting the resulting start range in time by a job offset, for a first job, copying the resulting start range into a node range, and for all subsequent jobs, logically AND'ing the start range with the node range. Next, the method comprises logically OR'ing the node range with a global range, generating a list of acceptable resources on which to start and the timeframe at which to start and creating reservations according to the list of acceptable resources for the resources in the group of computing devices and associated job offsets. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019979 | AUTOMATED WEB TASK PROCEDURES BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF ACTIONS IN WEB BROWSING HISTORY LOGS - Embodiments of the invention relate to generating automated web task procedures from an analysis of web history logs. One aspect of the invention concerns a method that comprises identifying sequences of related web actions from a web log, grouping each set of similar web actions into an action class, and mapping the sequences of related web actions into sequences of action classes. The method further clusters each group of similar sequences of action classes into a cluster, wherein relationships among the action classes in the cluster are represented by a state machine, and generates automated web task procedures from the state machine. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019980 | Thread Scheduling and Control Framework - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for thread control and scheduling. According to a particular embodiment, a daemon framework provides a uniform approach for scheduling and execution of inter-related processes. The daemon framework may comprise a main daemon configured to manage lifecycle, to manage status, and to control child daemon(s) responsible for functions such as scanning of folders and Persistent Staging Areas (PSAs) for delivery of new data threads. Embodiments may allow visualization of process status, as well as controlling each of these processes. Embodiments may provide for programmatical and/or manual intervention, including error correction. Particular embodiments may have self-correction capability in the case of external or internal errors. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019981 | SCHEDULING USER JOBS ACROSS TENANTS - Jobs are scheduled per user across tenants in a multi-tenant environment. When a tenant is serviced, scheduling information is stored that indicates a servicing time of a user that remains unserviced after servicing the tenant. Each time a scheduler begins to schedule the servicing of tenants it obtains the list of the tenants. The scheduler sorts the tenants using the servicing information obtained from each of the tenants. The tenant that has the oldest unserviced user is serviced first. The scheduler starts servicing the first tenant in the sorted list and services as many jobs for as many users for that tenant based on the available processing resources. When the limit of servicing users for the tenant is reached and one or more users remain unserviced, the time for an unserviced user is stored in the servicing information. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019982 | CORE-AFFINE PROCESSING ON SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS - Embodiments of a symmetric multi-processing (SMP) system can provide full affinity of a connection to a core processor when desired, even when ingress packet distribution, protocol processing layer and applications may autonomously process packets on different cores of the SMP system. In an illustrative embodiment, the SMP system can include a server application that is configured to create a plurality of tasks and bind the plurality of tasks to a plurality of core processors. One or more of the plurality of tasks are configured to create a corresponding listening endpoint socket, bind and listen on a protocol address that is common to the plurality of tasks. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019983 | INVERSION OF CONTROL FOR EXECUTABLE EXTENSIONS - A system method and non-transitory computer readable medium implemented as programming on a suitable computing device, the system for inversion of control of executable extensions including a run-time environment configured to push data to one or a plurality of extensions, wherein said one or plurality of extensions are configured to comprise one or a plurality of signatures. Wherein said one or a plurality of extensions are compilable, designable and testable outside of the run-time environment, and wherein the run-time environment may be configured to accept an extension and to push data to that extension as per said one or a plurality of signatures. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019984 | FEEDBACK-DRIVEN TUNING FOR EFFICIENT PARALLEL EXECUTION - A parallel execution manager may determine a parallel execution platform configured to execute tasks in parallel using a plurality of available processing threads. The parallel execution manager may include a thread count manager configured to select, from the plurality of available processing threads and for a fixed task size, a selected thread count, and a task size manager configured to select, from a plurality of available task sizes and using the selected thread count, a selected task size. The parallel execution manager may further include an optimizer configured to execute an iterative loop in which the selected task size is used as an updated fixed task size to obtain an updated selected thread count, and the updated selected thread count is used to obtain an updated selected task size. Accordingly, a current thread count and current task size for executing the tasks in parallel may be determined. | 2014-01-16 |
20140019985 | Parallel Tracing for Performance and Detail - A parallel tracer may perform detailed or heavily instrumented analysis of an application in parallel with a performance or lightly instrumented version of the application. Both versions of the application may operate on the same input stream, but with the heavily instrumented version having different performance results than the lightly instrumented version. The tracing results may be used for various analyses, including optimization and debugging. | 2014-01-16 |