12th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110072274 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR MULTI-FUNCTION SECURE VERIFIABLE SIGNER AUTHENTICATION - A distributed multi-function secure system for verifiable signer authentication having a personal private key stored in a secure storage of a mobile device where the mobile device connects to a fragmented distributed signing engine by a secure protocol and is issued a signer certificate from a circle of trust certificate server to securely electronically sign documents. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072275 | Detecting counterfeit products - In some embodiments an indication of an intended use of a logic device is stored in a register of the logic device, and any further programming of the register is prevented. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072276 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS HAVING CRYPTION AND METHOD THEREOF - A storage apparatus including a storage unit to store data, a processor unit to process the data according to a command received from an external device, a key unit to store a plurality of crypto keys, and a decoder unit to select one of the crypto keys according to address information of the command received from the external device. Hardware encryption is more secure and less complex to manage. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072277 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor-circuit layer; metal layers formed on the semiconductor-circuit layer, one of the metal layers being a metal layer in which an active shield is formed; and an antenna formed by patterning in at least one of the metal layers that are below the metal layer in which the active shield is formed. The semiconductor-circuit layer includes an encryption circuit configured to receive a drive voltage and to perform encryption arithmetic; a power-supply circuit configured to provide the drive voltage to the encryption circuit; and a circuit system configured to receive a power-supply voltage from an external power supply. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072278 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL SIGNATURE METHOD - A data processing apparatus includes, an input unit to accept information on one or more deletion-target data blocks specified from a plurality of data blocks, a hash generating unit to calculate a hash value of each of the plurality of data blocks, an auxiliary data generating unit to calculate auxiliary data β=g | 2011-03-24 |
20110072279 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SECURELY STORING DATA - Devices and methods for securely storing data are provided. A device for constructing an encryption key comprising a tamper-protection barrier that encloses one or more memory devices is provided. The memory stores data for constructing the encryption key. The memory may include a single memory device or a plurality of memory devices. The tamper-protection barrier also encloses a security processor configured to combine the data stored in the memory based in part on a function, such as a logical exclusive-or (XOR) function, to construct the encryption key. The stored data in the memory may include partial keys. These partial keys may be created based in part on applying the XOR function to an encryption key. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072280 | Systems and methods for time-based management of backup battery life in memory controller systems - Systems and methods that may be implemented for time-based management of storage memory controller (e.g., RAID controller) backup battery life in information handling systems by limiting the backup battery system operation time in order to save energy, reduce the impact of leakage current, and prolong memory controller backup battery shelf life while at the same time meeting requirements of back-up time for storage/server applications. The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented, for example, by providing a battery system controller that implements a pre-set memory controller backup battery operation time, in combination with a hardware-controlled mechanism that extends backup battery system operation time by disabling one or more current leakage paths within the storage memory controller circuitry. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072281 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit to form an image, a user switch unit to output a user operation signal to switch between a power-on state and a power-off state of the image forming apparatus, a main controller to control the image forming unit and to output a power control signal based on the user operation signal, a power switching unit to selectively supply operation power to the main controller based on the user operation signal and the power control signal, and an auxiliary controller to control the power switching unit such that the operation power is not supplied to the main controller when the power control signal is changed in a power-off state. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072282 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN A PROCESSOR AND/OR APPARATUS AND/OR SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME - A method for detecting temperature associated with a processor, results of the detecting being used for controlling power dissipation associated with the processor and/or apparatus and/or system employing the same. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072283 | Microarchitecture Controller For Thin-Film Thermoelectric Cooling - A device having multiple cores executes an algorithm to control Thin-Film Thermoelectric Coolers (TFTEC) that employ the Peltier effect to remove heat from the various cores of the multi-core processor. The algorithms may combine Thread Migration (TM) and Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to provide Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) and TFTEC control. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072284 | METHODS OF PREPARING A POWER SAVING STATE, UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICE AND UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS HOST - Methods of preparing a power saving state, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device and a USB host are provided. A method of preparing a power saving state comprises sending a request from a USB device to a USB host, the USB host being connected to the USB device via a USB and the request requesting that the USB host shall stop any bus traffic on the USB. Another method of preparing a power saving state comprises receiving, at a USB host, a request from a USB device, the USB device being connected to the USB host via a USB and the request requesting that the USB host shall stop any bus traffic on the USB. A USB device and a USB host are configured to carry out the respective methods. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072285 | Method and System for No Buffered Traffic Indication for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Power Save - Aspects in a method and system for no buffered traffic indication for wireless local area network (WLAN) power save may enable a peer communication device to determine a time duration for remaining in an active operating state based on communication with other peer communication devices. In one aspect, a given peer communication device may determine that it has no data to communicate to any of the remaining peer communication devices. The given communication device may communicate to each of the peer communication devices that there is no data to transmit to the peer communication device. Each of the peer communication devices may communicate that there is no data to transmit to the given peer communication device. Based on the communications, the given peer communication device may exit the active operating state and enter a low power operating state. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072286 | POWER CONTROLLED NETWORK DEVICES FOR SECURITY AND POWER CONSERVATION - The present invention provides method and systems for activating or deactivating network devices by managing the power of the network device. By controlling the power for network devices, the size and coverage of the network can be adjusted to meet the needs for the current usage. This can be particularly advantageous in wireless networks where multiple wireless access points may be provided to provide coverage during peak usage but present the additional security concern of the network being accessible to unauthorized users. Being able to power down unneeded wireless access points during off-peak usage allows for the minimization of such potential security concerns. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072287 | POWER MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS - A data processing system refreshes a display at a first frequency when operating in a first power mode. The data processing system refreshes the display at a second frequency when operating in a second mode. The first frequency is higher than the second frequency, and the second power mode is configured to consume less power than the first power mode. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072288 | Centralized Service for Awakening a Computing Device - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing and interacting with a centralized wake service. A server-side wake service is provided that is operable to allow applications to subscribe to the wake service. The wake service receives a wake request directed to a particular computing device from a particular one of the applications. The wake request is forwarded from the wake service to a client-side communication service on the particular computing device if forwarding is determined to be appropriate. When the client-side communication service on the particular computing device receives the wake request while in a reduced power mode, the computing device wakes up and an appropriate response is determined. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072289 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERY AND DETECTION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEVICE AND POWER DISTRIBUTION OUTLET - For the discovery and detection of the relationships between power consuming devices and power distribution outlets, an aspect of the invention is directed to a system including at least one power consuming device and a plurality of outlets for supplying power, and a method for discovering a relationship between a target device of the at least one power consuming device and at least one outlet of the plurality of outlets which supplies power to the target device. The method comprises applying an external action to the target device to change power consumption of the target device; monitoring power consumption at each of the plurality of outlets; and correlating the applied external action and the monitored power consumption to obtain the relationship between the target device and the at least one outlet which supplies power to the target device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072290 | AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY, A METHOD OF PROVIDING POWER TO A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND A BACK-UP POWER SUPPLY CHARGING CIRCUIT - The invention provides a data storage system, comprising: one or more data storage media; a midplane to which the one or more data storage media are, in use, connected; at least one input/output module for providing control of data transfer between the or each of the data storage media and one or more hosts to which, in use, the data storage system is connected; and a back-up power supply to provide power to the input/output modules in the event of a failure of regular power sources therefor, the back-up power supply being provided separately from the at least one input/output module. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072291 | POWER EFFICIENT DATA STORAGE WITH DATA DE-DUPLICATION - A storage system includes a first de-duplication scope comprising a first volume, a first table of hash values corresponding to first chunks of data stored on the first volume, and a first table of logical block addresses of where the chunks of data are stored on the first volume. A second de-duplication scope includes similar information for a second volume. The first scope is used for de-duplicating and storing first data from a first data source and the second scope is used for de-duplicating and storing second data from a second data source. First storage mediums that make up the first volume remain powered off while de-duplication and storage of the second data on the second volume takes place, and second storage mediums that make up the second volume remain powered off while de-duplication and storage of the first data takes place, thereby enabling data de-duplication while saving power. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072292 | POWER MANAGEMENT OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A user interface for power management of a mobile communications device is described. In an implementation, power consumption used in performance of a plurality of tasks is monitored by a mobile communications device. A determination is made as to an amount of power that remains in a battery of the mobile communications device. A user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile communications device that describes an amount of time each of the plurality of tasks may be performed based on the determined amount of power that remains in the battery. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072293 | Systems and Methods for Attributing An Amount of Power Consumption To A Workload - A method for attributing a portion of a level of electrical power consumption by a server to a virtual machine executing on the server, includes determining a level of electrical power consumption of a server. The method includes identifying a level of load placed on the server by a workload executing on the server. The method includes attributing, by a power apportionment module in communication with the server, a portion of the level of electrical power consumption of the server to the workload, based on the identified level of load. The method includes providing, by the power apportionment module, to a user, an identification of the attributed portion of the level of electrical power consumption. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072294 | System and Method for Dynamic Power Regulator for Power Supply Output Adjustment - An apparatus with a direct-current to direct-current power transformer is configured to transform an input voltage at an input terminal to an output voltage at an output terminal. A current sensor is coupled to the power transformer and configured to measure a current flowing through the power transformer. A voltage adjustment controller is coupled to the current sensor and the output terminal and configured to change the output voltage based at least on the measured current. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072295 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A WIRELESS DEVICE - Apparatus and methods are disclosed for power optimization in a wireless device. The apparatus and methods effect monitoring the amount of data stored in a data buffer that buffers data input to and data output from a processor. Dependent on the amount of data stored in the buffers parameters of a control function, such as a Dynamic Clock and Voltage Scaling (DCVS) function are modified based on the amount of data stored in the data buffer. By modifying or pre-empting the parameters of the control function, which controls at least processor frequency, the processor can process applications more dynamically over default parameter settings, especially in situations where one or more real-time activities having strict time constraints for completion are being handled by the processor as evinced by increased buffer depth. As a result, power usage is further optimized as the control function is more responsive to processing conditions. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072296 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A clock adjustment circuit delays a phase of a clock signal on the basis of a TAP value so as to output an adjusted clock signal. By synchronizing transmission data with the adjusted clock signal, reception data is generated. A data adjustment circuit delays the transmission data on the basis of a TAP2 value. By synchronizing the delayed transmission data with the adjusted clock signal, adjusted reception data is generated. A data adjustment control circuit generates the TAP2 value on the basis of a result of a comparison between the reception data and the adjusted reception data, and outputs to a clock adjustment control circuit an instruction to update the TAP value. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072297 | SPI DEVICES AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN THE SPI DEVICES - A method for transferring data between a serial peripheral interface (SPI) master device and an SPI slave device generates a first clock signal for the SPI master device and a second clock signal for the SPI slave device. Clock frequency of the first clock signal and the second clock signal is twice than a serial clock signal between the SPI master device and the SPI slave device. Data are transferred with double data rate or single data rate based on the first clock signal and the second clock signal. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072298 | Information processing device, transfer circuit and error controlling method for information processing device - An information processing device includes SBs; an XBB for executing data transfer between the SBs; and an SCF for managing and controlling the SBs and the XBB. The SB includes a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting a notification packet indicating occurrence of an error via the XBB when detecting the occurrence of the error. The SCF includes an executing unit for executing a configuration change process corresponding to an instruction when detecting the instruction related to the SB, a suspending unit for suspending acceptance of an error report from the SB in which the error occurs during execution of the configuration change process and an XBB controller for controlling the XBB to destroy the notification packet received from the SB of which configuration change process is being executed and controlling the XBB to inhibit transfer of the notification packet to the SB of which configuration change process is being executed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072299 | LEAK MONITORING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A system to check for memory leaks in storage may include a data processing application executing via a computer processor, and storage to store data generated by the data processing application. The system may also include a monitor executing via the computer processor that checks the storage over different time intervals in order to identify a particular sized memory leak in the storage based upon each time interval's length. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072300 | TEARING-PROOF METHOD FOR WRITING DATA IN A NONVOLATILE MEMORY - A method for writing and reading data in memory cells, comprising, when writing a data in a block of a first memory zone, a step consisting of writing in a second memory zone a temporary information structure metadata comprising a start flag, an identifier of the temporary information structure, an information about the location of the block in the first memory zone, and a final flag, and, after a power on of the first memory zone, searching for an anomaly in temporary information structures present in the second memory zone. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072301 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOVERING MEMORY - A system includes a group of devices and a shared memory that is partitioned into blocks that are capable of being allocated to the group of devices using linked lists. The system also includes check logic configured to store a group of bits, where each bit corresponds to one of the blocks, and counter logic configured to count for a predetermined period of time. The system further includes logic configured to clear the group of bits stored in the check logic, cause the counter logic to count for the predetermined period of time, monitor a de-allocation of the blocks in the shared memory, set, for each of the blocks that is de-allocated during the predetermined period of time, the corresponding bit in the check logic, identify, after the predetermined period of time, one or more bits that have not been set, and mark the blocks corresponding to the one or more bits as available for allocation. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072302 | SOLID STATE MEMORY CARTRIDGE WITH WEAR INDICATION - A memory cartridge is described that includes a non-volatile memory. The cartridge also includes logic to concentrate memory operations on particular areas of the non-volatile memory to cause the areas of concentration to wear out at an accelerated rate relative to non areas of concentration, and logic to track wear on the non-volatile memory resulting from one or both of erases and writes. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072303 | DATA PROCESSING WITH PROTECTION AGAINST SOFT ERRORS - A processing circuit has functional units ( | 2011-03-24 |
20110072304 | APPLICATION SERVER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A mobile telephone accesses an application server and application software is launched in the server. The application software is run on the application server based upon instructions from the mobile telephone and the result is displayed on the mobile telephone. If the mobile telephone and application server are disconnected and a fixed period of time elapses, the application software that has been launched in the application server is terminated. Since the application server can be allocated to software launched by mobile telephones other than the above-mentioned mobile telephone, the application server can be utilized more efficiently. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072305 | RECOVERY METHOD MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND RECOVERY METHOD MANAGEMENT METHOD - A recovery method management method includes executing and completing a work on a work target of a system according to a work start command and a work completion command, creating working method information for each work target, acquiring before-work-start system information and after-work-completion system information of the system to create before-and-after-work change information for each work target, storing and managing the working method information and the before-and-after-work change information in a work information managing and storing unit for each work target, creating recovery method information for each similar recovery work target among the work targets on the basis of the working method information, creating before-and-after-recovery change information for each recovery work target on the basis of the before-and-after-work change information, and storing and managing the recovery method information created and the before-and-after-recovery change information created in a recovery method managing and storing unit for each recovery work target. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072306 | Method and System for Automated Test of End-User Devices - A test system, for example for set top boxes or game consoles, includes logic to reformat media signals output by a device under test, logic to receive the reformatted media signals and to analyze them for errors, and a pluggable interface coupling the device under test to the logic to reformat the media signals. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072307 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING NETWORK TEST PACKETS AND PARTS OF NETWORK TEST PACKETS - Some aspects of the technology relate to the generation for test purposes of test packet ingredients by a microprocessor, ongoing with the generation for test purposes of test packets incorporating the test packet ingredients by a high-speed FPGA. Some aspects of the technology relate to the generation of outgoing test packets incorporating the test packet ingredients, at a programmable logic device such as an FPGA. These aspects are implemented as an apparatus, a method, computer readable medium, and a data structure. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072308 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING SERIAL SIGNALS - An electronic device includes a serial signal test system to test serial signals generated by a serial signal generator. A test method tests serial signals using the electronic device. The test method sets test parameters that tests serial signals. Furthermore, the test method identifies an error bit from coded bits of each of the serial signals, and identifies abnormal attribute data of each of the serial signals. In addition, the test method generates a test report according to all identified error bits and abnormal attribute data. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072309 | Debugger for Multicore System - A debugger includes: a plurality of processor cores; and a scheduler configured to control an allocation of a plurality of basic modules to the processor cores based on an execution rule for enabling parallel execution of a program that is divided into the basic modules that are executable asynchronously with one another, the program being defined with the execution rule of the basic modules for executing the basic modules in time series, wherein the scheduler includes a break point setting module configured to set a group of break points that are designated through a graphical user interface. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072310 | Diagnostic Data Capture in a Computing Environment - A method in a multithreaded computing environment for capturing diagnostic data, the method comprising the steps of: in response to a determination that the computing environment is in a predetermined invalid state, a first thread recording diagnostic data for the computing environment, wherein the determination includes a verification that the invalid state corresponds to a state other than a transient state of the computing environment corresponding to a transition of the computing environment by a second thread from a first valid state to a second valid state. An apparatus and computer program element for providing such diagnostic data capture are also provided. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072311 | Method and apparatus for performing external device's diagnostic functions in host computer - Provided are a method and apparatus for performing diagnostic functions of an external device such as a printer, connected to a host computer. The apparatus and method receive information about diagnostic functions supported by the external device from the external device; receive one or more of the diagnostic functions which are selected by a user; request the external device to perform the selected diagnostic functions; and receive the results of the requested diagnostic functions from the external device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072312 | System and Method to Manage Problems with Network-Based Services - A problem management system can include a system architecture having a first horizontal layer including a plurality of access interfaces, each access interface adapted to receive a problem report from a customer. The problem report indicates that the customer is having a problem with a network-based service of a plurality of network-based services. The architecture also includes a task management domain at the first horizontal layer adapted to obtain a workflow, a problem resolution rule, or any combination thereof, from a second horizontal layer of the problem management system, and provide a diagnostic tool, troubleshooting information, or any combination thereof, via the access interface. The architecture also includes an agent support platform to provide the diagnostic tool, troubleshooting information, a trouble report associated with the customer, a problem history associated with the customer, or any combination thereof, to an agent via another access interface after the customer contacts the agent. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072313 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FAULT TOLERANCE FOR AT LEAST ONE MICRO CONTROLLER UNIT - The invention relates to a system for providing fault tolerance for at least one micro controller unit, hereinafter called MCU ( | 2011-03-24 |
20110072314 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MONITORING DEVICE - A computer system and a monitoring device for a computer system are disclosed. The computer system includes a plurality of electronic modules, a memory module and an embedded controller. The embedded controller is coupled to the electronic modules and the memory module, respectively. The embedded controller collects information of the electronic modules and generates the system information about the electronic modules. The embedded controller selectively writes the system information into the memory module. The system information in the memory module can be provided to the user or the maintenance engineer for system analysis. Besides, the computer system may utilize an application program to monitor the system information, so as to achieve the error prevention and alert function. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072315 | System and Method for Multivariate Quality-of-Service Aware Dynamic Software Rejuvenation - A method for monitoring the quality-of-service (QoS) of high priority transactions in a software system includes receiving a specific QoS metric of a high priority transaction, where the QoS metric associated with a plurality of buckets and comparing the sampled specific QoS metric to an expected value for the specific QoS metric. If the sampled specific QoS metric exceeds the corresponding expected value, a bucket for the specific QoS metric is incremented, otherwise the bucket is decremented. If the bucket for the specific QoS metric overflows, the current bucket is reinitialized to zero, a depth of a next bucket for the specific QoS metric is computed, and a number of standard deviations from a mean value for the specific QoS metric is incremented. When the bucket for the specific QoS metric exceeds a threshold, a software rejuvenation routine is executed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072316 | SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE TIME AND COMPLEXITY OF SELF CONFIGURING SYSTEMS - A system and method for testing a self configuring computer which includes a computer system. Sensors electrically communicating with respective electrical connectors in the computer system. The sensors detecting when the electrical connector has a change of status from a previous start up. The sensor indicating a state change when the connector has a change of status. The computer system electrically communicating with the sensor for detecting the sensor state. The computer system initiating a power up and a self test of the connector and a new device connected to the connector using the program upon start up of the computer system when a change in the state of the sensor indicates a change in the status of the connector. The computer system by-passing a power up and self test of the connector when there is no change in the state of the sensor. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072317 | CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus includes a lower layer control unit configured to perform control of a load, an upper layer control unit configured to control the lower layer control unit, a communication unit configured to perform communication between the upper layer control unit and the lower layer control unit via a communication line, a detection unit configured to detect power supply voltage of the lower layer control unit, wherein the upper layer control unit detects communication abnormality of the communication unit and notifies the communication abnormality, the upper layer control unit notifying abnormality of power supply voltage of the lower layer control unit, in such a manner as to be identified from the communication abnormality of the communication unit. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072318 | READER CONTROL SYSTEM - An RFID reader control system and method is provided. A protocol for controlling an RFID reader and an RFID reader control unit of a mobile phone is defined. Messages, information, commands, responses, and notification are constructed and transmitted between the RFID reader and the RFID reader control unit. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072319 | Parallel Processing of ETL Jobs Involving Extensible Markup Language Documents - Techniques for running an Extract Transform Load (ETL) job in parallel on one or more processors wherein the ETL job comprises use of an extensible markup language (XML) document are provided. The techniques include receiving an XML document input, identifying a node in the XML document at which partitioning of the XML document is to begin, sending partition information to each respective processor, performing a shallow parsing of the XML document in parallel on the one or more processors, wherein each processor performs shallow parsing using the identified partition node until it reaches its identified partition, using the shallow parsing to generate the partition of the input XML document, wherein each processor generates a different partition of the same XML document, and sending each partition in streaming format to an ETL job instance. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072320 | CACHE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM - According to the embodiments, a cache system includes a cache-data storing unit and a failure detecting unit. The failure detecting unit detects failure in units of cache line by determining whether instruction data prefetched from a lower layer memory matches cache data read out from the cache-data storing unit. A cache line in which failure is detected is invalidated. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072321 | OPTIMISTIC DATA WRITING IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins by a processing module dispersed storage error encoding data to produce a set of encoded data slices and sending a set of write request messages to a set of dispersed storage (DS) units, wherein each of the set of write request messages includes an encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module determining whether a pillar width number of favorable write response messages has been received within a write acknowledgement (ACK) time period. The method continues with the processing module executing a retry write process to at least one DS unit of the set of DS units from which a favorable write response message was not received during the write ACK time period when the pillar width number of favorable write response messages has not been received within the write ACK time period. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072322 | SYSTEM, USER INTERFACE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A server provides a file to display a user interface to an information processing apparatus in accordance with a request from the information processing apparatus, and instructs the information processing apparatus to send the device information of the information processing apparatus to the server. The information processing apparatus acquires the device information of the information processing apparatus in accordance with the instruction, and sends, to the server, the device information of the information processing apparatus together with the request of the file to display the user interface. The server receives the device information of the information processing apparatus, and provides, to the information processing apparatus, the file to display the user interface based on the device information of the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus displays, based on the provided file, the user interface based on the device information of the information processing apparatus. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072323 | Supporting scan functions within memories - A memory is disclosed comprising: a storage array for storing data; and access circuitry for transmitting data to and from the storage array. The access circuitry forms a data path for inputting and outputting data to the storage array. The access circuitry comprises a latch configured to latch in response to a first phase of a first clock signal and a further latch configured to latch in response to a second phase of a second clock signal, the further latch comprises an output latch for outputting the data from the storage array, and the first and second clock signals are synchronised with each other. The memory further comprises: a multiplexer, a scan input and a scan enable input, the multiplexer being responsive to an asserted scan enable signal at the scan enable input to form a scan path comprising the latch and the further latch connected together to form a master slave flip flop, such that scan data input at the scan input passes through the master slave flip flop and not through the storage array while the scan enable signal is asserted and is output by the output latch. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEST CONNECTIVITY, COMMUNICATION, AND CONTROL - Functional circuits and cores of circuits are tested on integrated circuits using scan paths. Using parallel scan distributor and collector circuits for these scan paths improves test access of circuits and cores embedded within ICs and reduces the IC's power consumption during scan testing. A controller for the distributor and collector circuits includes a test control register, a test control state machine and a multiplexer. These test circuits can be connected in a hierarchy or in parallel. A conventional test access port or TAP can be modified to work with the disclosed test circuits. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072325 | HIGH SPEED DOUBLE DATA RATE JTAG INTERFACE - A process and apparatus provide a JTAG TAP controller ( | 2011-03-24 |
20110072326 | SRAM MACRO TEST FLOP - A SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) macro test flop circuit includes a flip-flop circuit, a scan control circuit, and an output buffer circuit. The flip-flop circuit includes a master latch circuit and a slave latch circuit. The master latch circuit includes a master feed-back circuit including a master storage node and a master feed-forward circuit. The slave latch circuit includes a slave feed-back circuit including a slave storage node and a slave feed-forward circuit driven from the master latch. The scan control circuit includes a scan slave feed-forward circuit, a scan latch circuit, and a scan driver circuit driven by the scan feed-back circuit. The scan latch circuit includes a scan feed-back circuit comprising a scan storage node and a scan feed-forward circuit driven from the slave latch. The output buffer circuit includes a master driver driven from master latch circuit and a slave driver driven from slave latch circuit. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072327 | Method and Device for retransmission - Embodiments related to retransmission in a communication system are described and depicted. In one embodiment, a retransmission entity repeats a transmission of a data transfer unit by the device after a predetermined number of other transmitted data transfer units has been transmitted. The retransmission entity may also determine whether a measure for a time period since the first transmission of the data transfer unit by the device has exceeded a predetermined threshold and to provide a final transmission of the data transfer unit based on the determining that the measure for the time period has exceeded the predetermined threshold. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072328 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY CONTROLLER WITH SCALABLE PIPELINED ERROR CORRECTION - A nonvolatile memory system includes a memory controller in communication with multiple memory dies through multiple memory interfaces. Multiple ECC blocks are provided to decode data from the multiple memory interfaces. ECC blocks are provided with a clock signal that may have a frequency that is lower than another clock signal that is provided to a host interface. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072329 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL - A DTV transmitting system includes a first pre-processor for coding first enhanced data having a high priority for forward error correction (FEC) at a first coding rate and expanding the first enhanced data at a first expansion rate, and a second pre-processor for coding second enhanced data having a low priority for FEC at a second coding rate and expanding the second enhanced data at a second expansion rate. The receiving system further includes a data formatter for generating enhanced data packets, a multiplexer for multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, an RS encoder for RS-coding the multiplexed data packets, and a data interleaver for interleaving the RS-coded data packets and outputting a group of interleaved data packets having a head, a body, and a tail. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072330 | Modified error distance decoding - Modified error distance decoding. In certain communication systems, multiple signals (e.g., which may be viewed as being codewords, groups/sets of bits or symbols, etc.) can be commonly affected by such deleterious phenomenon as burst noise when traversing a communication channel (e.g., from a transmitter communication device to a receiver communication device). In such instances, a test error pattern may be identified which covers those affected bits (or symbols) among at least two respective signals (e.g., all of the respective signals or any subset thereof). Various respective test error patterns may be employed, each having a different respective weight, to the desired group of signals (e.g., codewords, groups/sets of bits or symbols, etc.). As such, more than one possible estimate of each respective signal may be generated. A variety of selection operations may be employed when more than one possible estimate exists (e.g., random selection, that estimate with minimum distance, etc.). | 2011-03-24 |
20110072331 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A memory system having a memory card configured to store frame data composed of a plurality of pieces of sector data and a host configured to send and receive the frame data to and from the memory card, the memory card includes: an ECC1 decoder configured to perform BCH decoding processing with a hard decision code on a sector data basis; an ECC2 decoder configured to perform LDPC decoding processing with an LDPC code on a frame data basis; a sector error flag section configured to store information about presence or absence of error data in the BCH decoding processing; and an ECC control section configured to perform, in the LDPC decoding processing, control of increasing a reliability of sector data containing no error data based on the information in the sector error flag section. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072332 | Method for Copying Data in Reprogrammable Non-Volatile Memory - The present invention presents methods for improving data relocation operations. In one aspect, rather than check the quality of the data based on its associated error correction code (ECC) in every relocation operation, it is determined whether to check ECC based on predetermined selection criteria, and if ECC checking is not selected, causing the memory to perform an on-chip copy the data from a first location to a second location. If ECC checking is selected, the data is transferred to the controller and checked; when an error is found, a correction operation is performed and when no error is found, an on-chip copy is performed. The predetermined selection criteria may comprise a sampling mechanism, which may be random based or deterministic. In another aspect, data transfer flags are introduced to indicate data has been corrected and should be transferred back to the memory. A further aspect considers the header and user data separately if each has a distinct associated ECC. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072333 | CONTROL METHOD FOR FLASH MEMORY BASED ON VARIABLE LENGTH ECC - A control method for flash memory based on variable length ECC is provided in the present invention. A first channel of the flash memory is set to have a first ECC with a first length based on the size of data page and the length of first management data; and a second channel of the flash memory is set to have a second ECC with a second length based on the size of data page and the length of second management data. The first ECC and the second ECC are designated with different identification codes respectively, wherein the first length is shorter than the second length. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072334 | SYSTEMATIC ENCODER WITH ARBITRARY PARITY POSITIONS - An encoder structure for an error correcting code with arbitrary parity positions is presented. The invention is effective for all error correcting codes whose parity check matrix is of the Vandermonde type. In contrast to conventional encoder circuits, the parity symbols produced by this encoder are not restricted to form a block of consecutive parity symbols at the beginning or at the end of a codeword, but may be spread arbitrarily within the codeword. A general structure of the parity check matrix for such a code is found by exploiting the special Vandermonde structure of matrices. From this general parity check matrix, an expression for the evaluation of the parity symbols in terms of a polynomial with limited degree is derived. An efficient hardware implementation of the proposed encoder is suggested. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072335 | BRANCH-METRIC CALIBRATION USING VARYING BANDWIDTH VALUES - In one embodiment, a signal processing receiver has a branch-metric calibration (BMC) unit that receives (i) sets of four hard-decision bits from a channel detector and (ii) a noise estimate. The BMC unit has two or more update blocks (e.g., tap-weight update and/or bias-compensation blocks) that generate updated parameters used by a branch-metric unit of the channel detector to improve channel detection. The two or more update blocks generate the updated parameters based on (i) the sets of four hard-decision bits, (ii) the noise estimate, and (iii) bandwidth values. The bandwidth values for at least two of the two or more update blocks are selected such that they are different from one another. Selecting different bandwidth values may reduce the bit-error rate for the receiver over the bit-error rate that may be achieved by selecting the bandwidth values to be the same as one another. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072336 | LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) coded modulation symbol decoding - LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) coded modulation symbol decoding. Symbol decoding is supported by appropriately modifying an LDPC tripartite graph to eliminate the bit nodes thereby generating an LDPC bipartite graph (such that symbol nodes are appropriately mapped directly to check nodes thereby obviating the bit nodes). The edges that communicatively couple the symbol nodes to the check nodes are labeled appropriately to support symbol decoding of the LDPC coded modulation signal. The iterative decoding processing may involve updating the check nodes as well as estimating the symbol sequence and updating the symbol nodes. In some embodiments, an alternative hybrid decoding approach may be performed such that a combination of bit level and symbol level decoding is performed. This LDPC symbol decoding out-performs bit decoding only. In addition, it provides comparable or better performance of bit decoding involving iterative updating of the associated metrics. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072337 | DATA RECEIVING METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING DATA RECEIVING MECHANISM - A data receiving method for an electronic system including a host apparatus and a target apparatus, wherein the host apparatus transmits at least one request to the target apparatus for requesting at least one desired data, and the target apparatus transmits the desired data to the host apparatus according to the request. The data receiving method comprises: (a) generating a statistic value according to a number of the requests; (b) varying the statistic value according to a number of the desired data; and (c) determining whether data received by the host apparatus is the desired data corresponding to the request or not according to the static value, to thereby determine whether the data received by the host apparatus is stored to the host apparatus or not. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072338 | Dynamic Hyperlinks for Process Control Systems - Methods and systems for providing knowledge access in a process control system and methods and systems for providing dynamic hyperlinks in a process control system are disclosed. A dynamic hyperlink may define an association between a process control object corresponding to a process control element and a knowledge object corresponding to a knowledge reference stored internally or externally to the process control system. At a run-time of a display view that includes the process control object, the defined dynamic hyperlink may be established without a configuration or a download. Upon selection of the defined dynamic hyperlink, the corresponding knowledge reference may be displayed. Defined dynamic hyperlinks may be stored in a process control system database independent of process control objects or knowledge objects. Embodiments of user interfaces for administrating dynamic hyperlinks are also disclosed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072339 | CHEMICAL WEB BROWSER - The present invention relates to a system, method and program product for a chemical web browser. A chemical web browser including a document system for accessing a document containing at least one chemical name is provided. A chemical annotation system identifies the at least one chemical name within the document. A chemical formulae conversion system associates a chemical structure with the identified chemical name. The chemical structure is displayed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072340 | MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and devices are provided for assigning cell properties based on user-defined metadata in a spreadsheet. In one embodiment, the method may involve receiving at least one row metadata and at least one column metadata. The method may involve associating cells at an intersection of at least one row containing the at least one row metadata and at least one column containing the at least one column metadata into a set. The method may involve assigning at least one property (e.g., formatting attribute and/or content) for the set. In related aspects, the method may further involve, in response to a user changing the at least one property in any cell of the set, applying the changed at least one property to each cell of the set. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072341 | DOCUMENT IMAGE GENERATION SERVER, DOCUMENT IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM, AND DOCUMENT BROWSING SYSTEM - In response to a browsing request of a document file from a cellular phone, a document image generation server loads the document file into a RAM. A font size detection section detects font sizes contained in the document file. A document division section divides the document file into predetermined units having approximately the same two dimensional size. A resolution determination section determines a resolution of each document image to be generated from the document file on a unit-by-unit basis in accordance with the smallest font size contained in the unit. A conversion section converts the document file into the document images on a unit-by-unit basis so that each document image has the determined resolution. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072342 | Patent Analyzer - Systems and methods are disclosed to analyze a patent document by receiving patent application text including background, description of drawings, description and claims; generating a claim chart showing claim dependencies; checking for antecedent, support in drawings, support in the description; generating a navigable claim hierarchy; and generating a diagnostic message for the patent document. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072343 | OPTIMIZING ONLINE ADVERTISING LINK AND TEXT CHARACTERISTICS - In one embodiment, a method for displaying advertising content on a display device includes determining at least one color characteristic of the advertising content and the main content in a web page. The method also includes changing a first level of the at least one color characteristic for at least one portion of the advertising content in a first direction, and changing a second level of the at least one color characteristic for at least one portion of the main content in a second direction. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072344 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH VISUAL CLIPBOARD - A visual clipboard system and method are provided, in which drag-and-release operations are employed to move copies of a displayed object onto and off of a predefined clipboard area. When a copy of a displayed object is placed on the predefined clipboard area, the displayed object is visually modified to indicate that the visually-modified copy is docked on the predefined clipboard area, and thus eligible for use in a copy operation. When a copy is removed from the predefined clipboard area and placed in a desired target location, the original appearance of the displayed object is restored. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072345 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal is provided that includes a touch input unit and a display. A method of operating the mobile terminal includes operating the touch input unit of the mobile terminal in a normal mode, detecting a first multi-touch signal from the touch input unit, switching the touch input unit from the normal mode to a direction input mode in response to the first multi-touch signal, detecting a second multi-touch signal from the touch input unit while the touch input unit is in the direction input mode, determining a direction represented by the second multi-touch signal based on the tap signal, and scrolling at least one object displayed on a screen of a display of the mobile terminal in the determined direction. The second multi-touch signal may include a tap signal. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072346 | CONTEXT-BASED SMART TAGS - A context-based action determiner is configured to facilitate the application of context-based smart tags. The context-based action determiner includes a type determining module configured to determine a type of a context object based on a context in which the context object is being used. The context-based action determiner also includes an action determining module configured to determine one or more context-specific actions that may be performed for the context object based on the type of the context object and to provide the context-specific actions to a user. The context-based action determiner further includes a selection receiving module configured to receive a selection from the user of a context-specific action to be performed and an action performing module configured to perform the selected context-specific action. The type of the context object and the action to be performed are determined based on a smart tag configuration. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072347 | ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH REMOTE CONTROL - A method of using a media device operable in first and second modes, the first mode including operation as a system for accessing a media source co-house with or directly connected to the media device. The source is configured to stream media files or media streams for output by the media device. The second mode comprises operating the media device as a remote controller system for controlling over a network a media source remote from the media device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072348 | ONE CLICK FULL-SCREEN VIDEO SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention provides a method and system for playing full-screen video on a user computer. The method includes displaying in the user interface at the user computer a web page containing at least one link to electronic video file, selecting the link to request the video file, downloading the video file to user computer in response to the request, detecting by the user computer receipt of the video file, opening in the user interface to window of the video player in full-screen mode in response to the detecting, and reading the video file by the player to play the video in the window. A feature of the present invention is that the video player may not have its preferences preset by the user to open in any particular mode. The mode in which the video player opens will be determined by the downloaded video file. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072349 | User manipulation of video feed to computer screen regions - A process for dividing an electronic screen, such as a television or computer screen, into discrete, independently operating sub-screens includes the step of electronically linking the screen to a screen operating system. This operating system is capable of selectively dividing the screen into two or more sub-screens which support audio or visual data in an active mode simultaneously and independently. This is performed through the use of a plurality of data access lines which provide data simultaneously to the two or more sub-screens such that the data can be simultaneously accessed and manipulated in more than one sub-screen such that each sub-screen actively supports data generated from a dedicated software program. Such invention may be implemented in customized encoded hardware or a combination of hardware and software. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING AND SHARING AUDIO FILES - Systems for recording and sharing audio files among a plurality of users. The systems include a server that is configured to receive, index, and store a plurality of audio files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources, within at least one database in communication with the server. In addition, the server is configured to make one or more of the audio files accessible to one or more persons—other than the original sources of such audio files. Still further, the server is configured to receive and publish comments associated with the audio files within a graphical user interface of a website. The comments may be submitted to the server through the website by persons other than the original sources of such audio files. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072351 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORGAE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREON - An image display device ( | 2011-03-24 |
20110072352 | METHOD AND APPLICATION TOOL FOR DYNAMICALLY NAVIGATING A USER CUSTOMIZABLE REPRESENTATION OF A NETWORK DEVICE CONFIGURATION - In one embodiment of the invention, a method and an application tool for dynamically representing configuration commands of a network device on a user interface are provided. According to the method, a data model is stored with the application tool. Thereafter, the configuration commands are rendered on to the data model and the rendered data model is represented on the user interface in real time. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072353 | TIME-BASED GRAPHIC NETWORK REPORTING NAVIGATOR - The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to representing network performance information using a network map by partitioning a graphical affordance representing a network element in the network map into segmented sections in accordance with a temporal encoding scheme to encode temporal information in the network map. The segmented sections are encoded using a performance encoding scheme to identify a level of performance associated with the segmented sections so that the network map depicts a performance of the network element over time. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072354 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE SYNCHRONIZATION - Social network service synchronization techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made by a client that a browser has been used to navigate to a website. A prompt is displayed by the client, responsive to the determination, that is selectable to cause data that describes activities that are performable in conjunction with the website to be communicated to a social network service to be stored in conjunction with a user account of the user at the social network service. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072355 | AT-A-DISTANCE MAGIC LENSES FOR PRIVACY-SENSITIVE, COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT VIEWING ACROSS MOBILE DEVICES AND LARGE DISPLAYS - Systems and Methods that allows multiple users to see a privacy-filtered overview of a document on a large display and that allows them to view on their personal mobile device details of the same document that are specific to their credentials. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072356 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The device information of an information processing apparatus is acquired. It is determined, based on the acquired device information, whether a function of the information processing apparatus is usable. Upon determining that the function of the information processing apparatus is usable, a file to display the execution instruction window of processing using the function of the information processing apparatus is requested of the server. On the other hand, upon determining that the function of the information processing apparatus is not usable, a file to display a warning window is requested from the server. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072357 | Location Specific Display Of Information Resources On A Host Interface - A computer implemented method and system is provided for displaying information resources linked from a host interface on selected locations on the host interface. A processing element is defined for a link referenced in the host interface. The processing element determines an address of an information resource referenced by the link. An area representation element specifies locations for displaying the information resource on the host interface. A display element is defined for displaying content of the information resource on the host interface and is linked to the processing element and the area representation element. The linked display element retrieves the address of the information resource from the processing element and retrieves the location selected by the user from the area representation element. The linked display element retrieves content of the information resource from the retrieved address and displays the retrieved content in the selected location on the host interface. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072358 | REMOTE CONTROLLER SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING EVENT IN WEB ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a system and method that may perform various operations on a website according to combinations of buttons on a remote controller. A system for supporting a remote controller may include: a profile storage unit to store a plurality of profiles containing functions of the remote controller and information associated with the functions of the remote controller; a receiver to receive an input signal from the remote controller, and to interpret an event of the input signal based on a profile corresponding to the remote controller; and a presentation unit to access a web server, to transform, to a predetermined behavior, at least one event interpreted by the receiver, and to request the web server for an operation corresponding to the behavior. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072359 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZABLE REMOTE USER INTERFACE PAGE - An apparatus and method for providing a customizable RUI page. The method includes setting object information including customization capability information and an attribute to an object of a User Interface (UI) to be configured at the RUI page; transmitting the set object information to a UI page-configuring unit to configure the RUI page using the object information; and when request for a user-customized object is received, configuring and transmitting the requested user-customized object according to object information included in the request. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PERFORMING AN ONLINE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN - A computer implemented method is described. Data is collected about a number of member entities that have online interaction with a group entity. A predefined state is assigned to a selected one of the member entities automatically, in response to applying a predefined rule to analyze some of the collected data. The rule is defined in part by the group entity. The method automatically determines whether or not online content is to be delivered to the selected member entity, based on the assigned state. In another embodiment, online content that is to be delivered to the selected member entity is automatically personalized for the selected member entity, again based on the assigned state. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072361 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a storage unit, a generating unit, and a display unit. The storage unit is configured to store operation history each time an operation is performed. The generating unit is configured to retrieve operation history information from the storage unit. And the generating unit is also configured to generate recommended information based on the operation history information. The display unit displays a home screen as a starting point of operation so that the home screen contains the recommended information generated by the generating unit. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072362 | Meeting Agenda Management - A method for scheduling a meeting based on data collected from previous meetings includes: creating an agenda for a meeting with a computerized meeting management system, the agenda having at least one recurring agenda item; presenting a suggested amount of time for the at least one recurring agenda item to a user through the computerized meeting management system, the suggested amount of time being based on data regarding the recurring agenda item from at least one previous meeting. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072363 | PRESENTATION AND SORTING OF EMAIL - The system provides a method and process for displaying and sorting messages in a communication system. The system allows multiple folders of messages to be opened simultaneously. The system also displays sent and received messages in the same display when desired. The system includes automatic and/or custom color coding of messages for ease of identification of message types, sent or received messages, root sender, cc messages, responsive messages, etc. The system also includes a unique navigation system to allow the user to more easily move through related messages, threads, and folders. The navigation system can be used in situations where the prior art would have required a search to be executed. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072364 | INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING STORED DATA - A modular data and storage management system. The system includes a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of data that is received over time. The time variance interface of the modular data and storage management system provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of an indication of the data corresponding to a user specified date. The retrieved indication of the data provides a user with an option to access specific information relative to the data, such as content of files that are included in the data. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072365 | DISTRIBUTED CLIPBOARD - Techniques for providing a shared clipboard to participants in a conversation are provided. The shared clipboard is specific to the conversation to which it is associated in that the shared clipboard does not “spill over” from one conversation to another. When a conversation between two or more participants is established, a shared clipboard becomes available to the participants of the conversation. The shared clipboard facilitates the sharing of data between the participants in the conversation. During the conversation, each participant in the conversation is provided access to the shared clipboard, including its contents. When a participant joins or is added to the conversation, the added participant is also provided access to the shared clipboard and its contents. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA MULTIPOINT REAL-TIME CONFERENCING - A system is disclosed for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing that includes a communication module to receive via a transport protocol, from a client embedded in a host website (such as a social networking website, a blog, or a dating website), a request to share media content in a real-time group conference associated with users of a virtual room. The content may include an audio, a video, a text, or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code referencing a third-party resource. The request may be associated with routing requirements and transport characteristics. The system may further include a content encoder at the host website to create a data packet encapsulating the transport characteristics and the routing requirements. The system may further include a multipoint router to share the content via the transport protocol in the real-time group conference associated with the users of the virtual room. The shared content may include implicit and explicit recommendations. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072367 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DIGITALLY RENDERED ENVIRONMENTS - A virtual environment program, method and system are provided that allow avatars representing users to interact in different ways within the virtual environment. A medical consultation environment is provided. A simulated environment with different virtual rooms, and different interactive functionality associated with different rooms is provided. Additionally, verbal communications between participants are determined based on physical separation of avatars and other location information. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072368 | Personal navigation device and related method for dynamically downloading markup language content and overlaying existing map data - A method of overlaying markup language content on map data in a personal navigation device includes outputting map data on a display of the personal navigation device with a map display program, receiving markup language content with a markup language renderer, and overlaying the markup language content received by the markup language renderer on the map data output by the map display program. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072369 | REMOTE CONTROLLER SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING FUNCTION OF KEY BEING MAPPED WITH REMOTE CONTROLLER - Provided is a remote controller supporting system and method that may display, on objects included in a webpage, keys of a remote controller corresponding to the objects and manipulation schemes, respectively. The remote controller supporting system may include: a profile storage unit to store a plurality of profiles containing functions of the remote controller and information associated with the functions of the remote controller; a receiver to receive an input signal from the remote controller, and to interpret a meaning of the input signal based on a profile corresponding to the remote controller; an event unit to transform the meaning of the input signal to an event form; and a presentation unit to access a web server to display a webpage, to transform, to a predetermined behavior, at least one event transformed by the event unit, and to request the web server for an operation corresponding to the behavior. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072370 | USER INTERFACE MODIFIER - Various embodiments of the present technology, a method [ | 2011-03-24 |
20110072371 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR USER INTERFACE CREATION - Various embodiments related to an application programming interface for user interface creation are disclosed herein. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides an application programming interface, embodied on one or more data-holding subsystems, comprising user interface creation services for intermediately defining a user interface including one or more user interface elements as declarative extensible markup language data. The application programming interface further comprises compiler services for providing aspects of the declarative extensible markup language data to one or more compilers for compilation into two or more different machine code implementations, where each machine code implementation is natively executable without a virtual machine by a different hardware platform to present the user interface intermediately defined as declarative extensible markup language data. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072372 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME FOR DETERMINATION OF FREE TIME PERIODS - A method of controlling an electronic device includes retrieving, from at least one database comprising a plurality of calendared events, calendared events for a calendar day and for the calendar day, determining free time periods between an earliest of a start time of a working day and an end time of a first calendared event and a latest of the end time of the working day and a start time of a last calendared event, and rendering the calendared events and the determined free time periods in a time-ordered list on a display of the electronic device. | 2011-03-24 |
20110072373 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An information processing device ( | 2011-03-24 |