21st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 80 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150143309 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A LAYOUT OF A CELL DEFINING A CIRCUIT COMPONENT - A computer implemented system and method is provided for generating a layout of the cell defining a circuit component, the layout providing a layout pattern for a target process technology. The method comprises obtaining an archetype layout providing a valid layout pattern for the cell having regard to design rules of the target process technology, and receiving an input data file providing a process technology independent schematic of the circuit component for which the cell is to be generated. A schematic sizing operation is then performed on the input data file, having regard to both schematic constraints applicable to the target process technology and layout constraints derived from the archetype layout, in order to generate an output data file providing a process technology dependent schematic of the circuit component. A cell generation operation is then performed using the output data file and layout data determined from the archetype layout in order to generate the layout of the cell. Such an approach enables both the schematic and layout to be co-optimised during generation of the layout of the cell. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143310 | P-CELL CACHING - In one or more embodiments, a caching apparatus includes functionality to persist evaluation results associated with pcells in a design across sessions of an EDA application as well as across design libraries. The caching apparatus may create and maintain a mirror cache in a design library with only subMasters referenced by the design library. The contents of a central cache file or a mirror cache in the design library are examined for an evaluation result. If the evaluation result is not found in the central cache file, the evaluation result may be retrieved from the mirror cache if present. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143311 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of designing a semiconductor device is performed by at least one processor. In the method, a first environment temperature for a first substrate is determined based on an operational temperature of a second substrate, the first and second substrates stacked one upon another in the semiconductor device. An operation of at least one first circuit element in the first substrate is simulated based on the first environment temperature. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143312 | METHOD OF DESIGNING PATTERNS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A method of designing patterns of semiconductor devices includes forming a plurality of tiles having patterns on a wafer, measuring the patterns of the plurality of tiles, analyzing the measurements of the patterns and determining a tile having such a size that the measurements linearly vary according to a design size and pattern density, and modifying the pattern density of the determined tile. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143313 | Grouping Layout Features For Directed Self Assembly - Aspects of the invention relate to techniques of grouping layout features for directed self-assembly (DSA). Via-type features in a layout design are separated into via-type feature groups and isolated via-type features. The derived via-type feature groups are analyzed to determine whether the via-type feature groups are DSA-compliant. The layout design may be modified if one or more via-type feature groups in the via-type feature groups are non-DSA-compliant. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143314 | METHOD OF DESIGNING FIN FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FINFET)-BASED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A method of designing a fin field effect transistor (FinFET)-based circuit includes designing, using a processor, a first circuit schematic design based on a performance specification, the first circuit schematic design is free of artificial elements, wherein the artificial elements are used to simulate electrical performance of the FinFET-based circuit. The method further includes modifying, using the processor, at least one device within the first circuit schematic design to form a second circuit schematic design taking the artificial elements into consideration. The method further includes performing a pre-layout simulation using the second circuit schematic and taking the artificial elements into consideration. The method further includes generating a layout, wherein the layout does not take the artificial elements into consideration, and performing a post-layout simulation, wherein the post-layout simulation does not take the artificial elements into consideration | 2015-05-21 |
20150143315 | FAULT INJECTION OF FINFET DEVICES - A device layout tool includes a gate electrode layer, wherein the gate electrode layer is configured to define a three dimensional gate structure over a fin structure, wherein the fin structure has three exposed surfaces. The device layout tool further includes a defect-describing layer, wherein the defect-describing layer is configured to define locations of gate defects relative to the three exposed surfaces of the fin structure. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143316 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN INTO MULTIPLE PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES - Methods and systems for partitioning a design across a plurality of programmable logic devices such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are provided. The systems include SerDes (SERializer DESerializer) interfaces, such as PCIe, (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) in the programmable logic devices operably connecting logic blocks of the design. Embodiments include a bridge in each programmable logic device for providing synchronization and deterministic latency of packets sent between the programmable devices. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143317 | Determination Of Electromigration Features - For one or more geometric elements partitioned into a plurality of geometric element portions, the expected current directions through each geometric element portion are determined. Using the expected current directions, each expected current path through the geometric element portions is determined. Based upon the expected current paths, and the physical characteristics represented by the geometric element portions in those expected current paths, the electromigration features corresponding to the geometric element or elements are determined. For example, the length of the longest expected current path through the geometric element or elements can be identified based upon the lengths of the geometric element portions and the directions of their currents, and this length can then be compared with the Blech length for the geometric element or elements. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143318 | DETERMINATION OF ELECTROMIGRATION SUSCEPTIBILITY BASED ON HYDROSTATIC STRESS ANALYSIS - Aspects of the invention relate to techniques for determining the electromigration features corresponding to layout design data. According to various examples of the invention, a circuit design is analyzed to determine voltages of nodes in an interconnect tree. From the voltages of the nodes, current density values and current directions for the segments of the interconnect tree are determined. Based on the current density values and the current directions, hydrostatic stress values for the nodes are computed under a steady-state condition and conservation of the conductive material within the interconnect tree. The electromigration susceptibility of the interconnect tree is then determined based on the computed hydrostatic stress values. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143319 | DIFFERENT SCALING RATIO IN FEOL / MOL/ BEOL - The present disclosure relates to a method of generating a scaled integrated chip design by scaling a FEOL and a BEOL of an original IC design at different scaling ratios, and an associated apparatus. In some embodiments, the method is performed by forming an original integrated chip (IC) design that is a graphical representation of an integrated chip. The original IC design has a front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) section, a back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) section, and a middle-of-the-line (MOL) section that is disposed between the FEOL and BEOL sections. A scaled integrated chip design is formed by scaling (i.e., shrinking) the FEOL section and the BEOL section of the original integrated chip design at different scaling ratios, and by scaling different design layers within the MOL section at different scaling ratios to avoid misalignment errors between the FEOL section and the BEOL section. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143320 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING MROM MEMORY BASED ON OTP MEMORY - A method of producing a MROM memory based on an OTP memory is provided. The method includes: removing the floating gate of the second PMOS transistor of the OTP memory cell for storing data “0” in the OTP memory map, such that the OTP memory cell being transferred to a MROM memory cell for storing data “0”, and retaining the original structure of the OTP memory cell for storing data “1” in the OTP memory map, such that the original structure being used as a MROM memory cell for storing data “1”, thus forming a MROM memory map; and producing a MROM memory according to the MROM memory map. According to the present invention, the OTP memory map which is debugged and has determined data can be changed into the MROM memory map, and the OTP process can be transferred into the MROM process by adjusting only one mask during the producing process. The present invention greatly saves the time and cost of the device programming and testing, thus simplifying the process and saving the cost, increasing the profit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143321 | Methods for Cell Phasing and Placement in Dynamic Array Architecture and Implementation of the Same - A semiconductor chip is defined to include a logic block area having a first chip level in which layout features are placed according to a first virtual grate, and a second chip level in which layout features are placed according to a second virtual grate. A rational spatial relationship exists between the first and second virtual grates. A number of cells are placed within the logic block area. Each of the number of cells is defined according to an appropriate one of a number of cell phases. The appropriate one of the number of cell phases causes layout features in the first and second chip levels of a given placed cell to be aligned with the first and second virtual grates as positioned within the given placed cell. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143322 | SWITCH CELL - A designer uses an option device to switch one or more signal flows in a schematic design to create different versions for the same design. Currently, there is no related automatic tool for the automatic placement of option devices. In various embodiments, option device instances are used to decide option device positions. Option devices can be automatically placed and routing considered and adjusted as needed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143323 | Generating Guiding Patterns For Directed Self-Assembly - Aspects of the invention relate to techniques of generating guiding patterns for via-type feature groups. A guiding pattern may be constructed for a via-type feature group that comprises two or more via-type features in a layout design. A backbone structure may then be determined for the guiding pattern. Based on the backbone structure and a self-assembly model, simulated locations of the two or more via-type features are computed. The simulated locations are compared with targeted locations. If the simulated locations do not match the targeted locations based on a predetermined criterion, the simulated locations adjusted to derive modified locations. Using the modified locations, the above operations may be repeated until the simulated locations match the targeted location based on a predetermined criterion or for a predetermined number of times. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143324 | Semiconductor Device Design Methods and Conductive Bump Pattern Enhancement Methods - Semiconductor device design methods and conductive bump pattern enhancement methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of designing a semiconductor device includes designing a conductive bump pattern design, and implementing a conductive bump pattern enhancement algorithm on the conductive bump pattern design to create an enhanced conductive bump pattern design. A routing pattern is designed based on the enhanced conductive bump pattern design. A design rule checking (DRC) procedure is performed on the routing pattern. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143325 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MODELING RESISTANCE OF A MULTI-LAYERED CONDUCTIVE COMPONENT - Disclosed is a technique for modeling resistance of a conductive component of a device, where the component comprises multiple conductive materials. If necessary (e.g., for a complex conductive component), the component is divided into multiple conductive regions. For a given conductive region, current flow-through and current flow-in-and-terminate axes are determined and the conductive region is divided into layers. Relative electric currents flowing along the current flow-through axis in each layer and along the current flow-in-and-terminate axis in each layer are evaluated to determine a total resistance value for the conductive region. For a complex conductive component, these processes are repeated for all conductive regions and an overall resistance value is determined based on the corresponding total resistance values and, as calculated for each conductive region, a ratio of maximum electric current flowing in/out of the conductive region to the total electric current flowing out of the complex conductive component. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143326 | EFFICIENT CEFF MODEL FOR GATE OUTPUT SLEW COMPUTATION IN EARLY SYNTHESIS - A slew-based effective capacitance (C | 2015-05-21 |
20150143327 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOL - An example project management tool, which is a computer-implemented system configured to provide a real-time view of a product change with respect to its status within a testing process, is provided. In operation, the project management tool receives a request to create a new project for a particular product change, determines the requirement definition included in the request and, based on the requirement definition, identifies all components of the associated computing application that are affected by the product change. The project management tool then uses the monitored information to generate one or more views that may provide users with information regarding the estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the product that has a certain product change incorporated into it. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143328 | OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS - Various tools for use in connection with software projects that may contain open-source software code therein. The tools may include systems and methods for improving results regarding scans of the software projects based on insight data obtained from at least one user's analysis of the results of a previous scan. The systems and methods may also include an application-specific collaboration tool. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143329 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PROCESSING AND PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION - Embodiments may implement processing and presentation of information with, e.g., standalone and/or application integration, object-oriented, hierarchical architecture, in the form of, e.g., an add-in application or a computing platform for creating, modifying, interpreting, compiling, and/or executing an application. Embodiments may be implemented as a discrete computing platform or as an overlay, allowing interoperability with capabilities of the overlaid platform. Many embodiments correspond to computing platforms that support a new computing paradigm, a definition-centered paradigm. The definition-centered paradigm is an object-oriented hierarchy referred to as a Model hierarchy with one or more data structures referred to as Entities and, in many embodiments, interface types referred to as Relations. Each Entity has a defined type that specifies the data structure layout and supported functions. Each data structure type may implement a set of Relations, forming part of a type hierarchy that affects the resolution of the Model. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143330 | IMPLICIT PARAMETERS AND IMPLICIT ARGUMENTS IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - An embodiment of the present invention consists of methods for parameter declaration in implicit way and of methods for argument usage in implicit way. An embodiment of the present invention is useful in programming languages which support at least one concept that can be interpreted as a method. This invention: raises code readability; reduces redundancy of parameter name and parameter type information making specific parts of the programming language code more compact; allows reduction of global variables making code more parallelizable and suitable for parallel computing systems. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143331 | TEMPLATE GENERATING METHOD AND TEMPLATE GENERATING APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a template generating program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes specifying common script portions and non-common script portions from a plurality of templates for each of a plurality of categories, each of the plurality of templates include scripts related to components constituting a system, the plurality of categories being grouped by similarity of kind of the components; generating a plurality of versatile scripts for the plurality of categories, respectively, each of the plurality of versatile scripts including the specified common portions and defining the non-common portions as items indicating description variants; and generating a template for a new system combining, for a component identical to a component in the existing system, the script for the identical component in the existing system and, for a new component, the versatile script of a similar category. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143332 | FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE PATTERN FOR SAFETY APPLICATIONS - A process for decomposing safety software involves the steps of providing a first software module associated with a first logical unit, providing a second software module associated with a second logical unit, instructing the first software module to implement a first safety goal based on a quality management level, and instructing the second software module to implement a second safety goal based on a safety integrity level, where the second software module uses at least one input and at least one output of the second logical unit to determine if the second safety goal is satisfied. Consequently, the second software module uses a result of the first software module to determine if the first safety goal has been completed, and the second software module uses at least one algorithm to verify an operational status of the first logical unit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143333 | Native Application Variation - From one aspect, a computer implemented method, apparatus and computer program product is provided for varying at least one element of a plurality of elements of a viewable area of a native software application during runtime on a first computing device, the method comprising highlighting at least one element of the viewable area of a native software application, receiving a user input relating to a selection of the element and information relating to a modification of the element; storing, as element information, an identifier of the selected element and the modification information of the selected element, and transmitting the element information to a server computer system if a network connection is available. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143334 | MESSAGE EXCHANGE PATTERN RENDEZVOUS ABSTRACTION - A rendezvous abstraction that is used to correlate messages within message exchange. The rendezvous abstraction may be instantiated to correlate messages regardless of the type of message exchange pattern, and regardless of the underlying protocols used to communication message. Messages exchanges of primitive protocols are modeled as unilateral message exchanges. The rendezvous abstraction is used to correlate messages of the unilateral message exchange, and serves as an abstraction that is used to represented the rendezvous point where the message of the message exchange pattern are handled. Accordingly, instead of focusing on the protocol-specific mechanisms for correlation, if even available, the application author may simply work with a standard rendezvous abstraction. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING, ANALYZING AND INTEGRATING RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SOURCE CODE - The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for identifying, analyzing and integrating the risks associated with a source code. The system comprises a code coverage module for collecting and transforming the code coverage information by a file name, a source code analyzer module for collecting and transforming source code violations information by the file name, a software configuration management module for collecting and transforming the source code commit information by the file name, a risk analyzer processing module for receiving and relating the collected code coverage information, source code violations information and source code commit information with each other by the file name and a report generation module for publishing the processed result of the collected code coverage information, source code violations information and source code commit information in a report. The report is reviewed for identifying, analyzing and integrating risks associated with source code. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143336 | SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION CONTROL WHEREIN CONTAINERS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL STORAGE OF SOFTWARE APPLICATION VERSIONS IN A SOFTWARE PRODUCTION LANDSCAPE - According to some embodiments, a source version of a software product may be established in connection with a software production landscape. A first container, representing a first uniquely addressable physical location in the software production landscape, may then be associated with the source version. An executable derivative version of the software product may be built from the source version, and a second container, representing a second uniquely addressable physical location in the software production landscape, may be associated with the executable derivative version. Software configuration information may then be automatically provided to a user based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second containers at a given point in time. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143337 | DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE CLASSES OF USER INTERFACES FOR A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - Methods and systems for developing multiple classes of user interfaces for a software application are disclosed. A master view of a software application is displayed, at a computer system, for use in developing multiple classes of user interfaces for the software application wherein each of the multiple classes pertain to at least one form factor for a device to execute the software application. Subordinate views are created, at the computer system, wherein each of the subordinate views pertain to one of the multiple classes of user interfaces and comprise deltas that alter the master view such that a first subordinate view is displayed based on the master view combined with a first group of the deltas for the first subordinate view. A change is propagated to the master view to each of the subordinate views, at the computer system. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143338 | SPATIAL LAYOUT OF HIERARCHICAL SHARED RESOURCES - A hierarchical shared resources spatial visualization system and method including a visualization runtime user interface that quickly and efficiently displays a spatial layout of a shared resource having a hierarchical nature. The user interface provides a spatial layout of the hierarchical shared resource and overlays salient activity information of a group's interaction with the shared resource. In software development, the user interface provides software teams with awareness of activity by other developers in the group regarding files in the shared source code base. The salient activity includes active file information (such as which files are open and by whom) and source repository actions (such as a developer's activity within a project's source repository system). Visual geometry and colors are employed to create a visually distinctive environment that is used to convey the salient activity information quickly and efficiently. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143339 | CALLPATH FINDER - Techniques and systems for creating a function call graph for a codebase are disclosed. Graph creation includes identifying functions in the codebase by a function signature and representing a function as a first node in the call graph. For that function, identifying call-to functions, call-from functions, and inheritance parents and children, and a base class from the function signature of that function; adding child nodes to the first node based on the identified call-to and call-from functions; for an interface call to a base class method in the function, adding child nodes to the first node based on implementations of an override of the base class method; for an added child node, removing that child node from the first node if a source file that includes an implementation of an override and a source code file that includes the function don't share at least one common binary file. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143340 | METHOD OF CLASSIFYING APPLICATION IN ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING APPLICATION IN ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM RECORDED THEREON - A method of classifying an application in an Android operating system includes analyzing system service performed by a system service module in advance, the system service module being basically mounted to provide core functions of a system in the Android operating system, recognizing a relationship between the application and the system service in the Android operating system, estimating a characteristic of the application based on the relationship between the application and the system service in the Android operating system recognized in the recognizing of the relationship, and classifying the application based on the characteristic of the application estimated by the Android operating system in the estimating of the characteristic. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143341 | SELECTIVE OBJECT TESTING IN A CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for testing objects in a client-server environment. A server computing system receives at least one modification to a set of objects. The server computing system registers the at least one modification with a user identifier. The server computing system receives instructions to execute the set of objects with the at least one modification that is registered to the user identifier. The server computing system determines which of the set objects the at least one modification alters. The server computing system executes the set of objects, wherein the set of objects incorporates the at least one modification associated with the user identifier. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143342 | FUNCTIONAL VALIDATION OF SOFTWARE - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to software validation. In aspects, a baseline may be created by instrumenting code of a software application or runtime, executing the code of the software application a plurality of times to generate a plurality of logs, determining invariant characteristics of the logs, and writing the invariant characteristics to a baseline. When a new version of the software application or runtime is created, the new version may be validated by instrumenting the code of the new version or runtime, executing the code of the new version, and comparing the log generated with the baseline. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143343 | TRACE-DATA PROCESSING AND PROFILING DEVICE - A trace-data processing device comprises an input to receive source-specific trace data streams comprising trace messages carrying execution-flow information on a program execution flow performed by a source device under test or under observation, hereinafter DUT. A trace-data processing unit ( | 2015-05-21 |
20150143344 | Diagnosing Production Applications - A debugging and diagnostics system allow for dynamic code generation that inserts code into a production application to identify snappoints or breakpoints that cause snapshots to be taken if predefined conditionals are satisfied. The snappoints are associated with locations in source code for the production application and include conditional statements that must be met to create a snapshot of the production application. The snappoints are used to generate a collection plan that is provided to the server running the production application. The server rewrites the code of the production application based upon the collection plan to insert instructions that create snapshots when the conditional statements are met. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143345 | APPLICATION VERSION RELEASE MANAGEMENT - Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143346 | Constructing test-centric model of application - A test-centric model of an application is constructed. Each resource specified by each test governing an application is added to the test-centric model. The test or tests specifying an resource are linked to the resource within the test-centric model. A composition of the application is defined using the one or more tests, as the resources specified by the one or more tests, within the test-centric model of the application. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143347 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT AND METHOD OF COMPILING INTEGRATED SOURCE CODE - A software development environment (SDE) and a method of compiling integrated source code. One embodiment of the SDE includes: (1) a parser configured to partition an integrated source code into a host code partition and a device code partition, the host code partition including a reference to a device variable, (2) a translator configured to: (2a) embed device machine code, compiled based on the device code partition, into a modified host code, (2b) define a pointer in the modified host code configured to be initialized, upon execution of the integrated source code, to a memory address allocated to the device variable, and (2c) replace the reference with a dereference to the pointer, and (3) a host compiler configured to employ a host library to compile the modified host code. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143348 | HYBRID DYNAMIC CODE COMPILING DEVICE, METHOD, AND SERVICE SYSTEM THEREOF - An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a hybrid dynamic code compiling device having a parser, a native code generator, and a dynamic code rewriter, wherein the parser is coupled to the native code generator and the dynamic code rewriter. The parser receives and parses a first dynamic code to divide the first dynamic code into compilable blocks and non-compilable blocks. The native code generator generates a native code according to the compilable blocks. The dynamic code rewriter rewrites the non-compilable blocks to generate a second dynamic code, wherein the second dynamic code has function calls which communicate between the native code and the first dynamic code. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143349 | METHOD FOR DIVERGENCE ANALYSIS OF POINTER-BASED PROGRAM - A method comprises generating an intermediate representation of a pointer-based program; providing a control flow graph of the intermediate representation; selecting an analysis candidate from the intermediate representation as a traced variable and a root node; determining a definition site of the trace variable according to a use-define chain and the control flow graph; defining a node for each definition site variable; defining an edge by using each definition site variable and the traced variable; using each definition site variable of the definition site as a traced variable; repeating the steps of determining a definition site, defining a node, defining an edge and using each definition site to obtain a divergence relation graph; transforming the divergence relation graph into a directed acyclic graph; and determining whether the analysis candidate is divergent or not according to a divergent node and the directed acyclic graph. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143350 | MULTISTATE DEVELOPMENT WORKFLOW FOR GENERATING A CUSTOM INSTRUCTION SET RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR - Systems and methods which implement workflows for providing reconfigurable processor core algorithms operable with associated capabilities using description files, thereby facilitating the development and generation of instruction sets for use with reconfigurable processors, are shown. Embodiments implement a multistage workflow in which program code is parsed into custom instructions and corresponding capability descriptions for generating reconfigurable processor loadable instruction sets. The multistage workflow of embodiments includes a hybrid threading complier operable to compile input program code into custom instructions using a hardware timing agnostic approach. A timing manager of the multistage workflow of embodiments utilizes capabilities information provided in association with the custom instructions generated by the hybrid threading complier to impose hardware timing on the custom instructions. A framework generator and hardware description language complier are also included in the multistage workflow of embodiments. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143351 | Streaming from a Media Device - A technique for streaming from a media device involves enabling a local device to function as a streaming server. An example of a method according to the technique includes inserting a removable storage device that includes programs associated with a streaming application, running one or more of the programs, ensuring that a streaming software player is installed, and executing a streaming-related activity associated with the streaming application. An example of a system according to the technique includes a means for providing a streaming application that expects content to be found on a media drive, a means for intercepting requests for content expected to be found on the media drive, and a means for honoring the requests with content from a different media location. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS UPDATING OF FIRMWARE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus having a firmware update technology that realizes updating of firmware using an encrypted file and reduces a downtime using a differential update. When a first update instruction to perform an update using a first firmware including an encrypted plurality of files is accepted, a content list file is downloaded from an external apparatus, an update file to be updated is identified based on the content list file, and the identified update file is further downloaded from the external apparatus. Then, the update file is decrypted and installed in the image forming apparatus. When a second update instruction to perform an update using a second firmware including an encrypted plurality of files and content list files is accepted, the second firmware is downloaded in a single batch from the external apparatus. Then, the second firmware is decrypted, and the plurality of files is installed in the image forming apparatus. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143353 | FIRMWARE OVERWRITING METHOD IN PAIRED USE WIRELESS MICROPHONE AND RECEIVER - A firmware overwriting method for paired use wireless microphone and receiver is disclosed. The firmware update method comprises building a wireless connection between the at least one wireless microphone and the at least one receiver; and executing the determining program by the receiver processing module to determine if the installed wireless microphone matching backup firmware is the same as the wireless microphone firmware. If yes, the overwriting program is not executed. If no, the receiver processing module sends a command to the wireless microphone processing module to download the installed wireless microphone matching backup firmware from the receiver storage module, and the overwriting program is executed by the wireless microphone processing module to overwrite the wireless microphone firmware with the installed wireless microphone matching backup firmware. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143354 | ZERO DOWNTIME DEPLOYMENT AND ROLLBACK - A system and method for zero or near zero downtime deployment and rollback are provided. In an example embodiment, a second application is deployed to an application server that is running a first application bound to a port of the server computer. The second application is started without binding the second application to the port. The second application is bound to the port while the first application is bound to the port. The first application is then unbound from the port after the second application is bound to the port. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143355 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE VERSION AND DEPENDENCY CONTROL - This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing version control functionality for web services of one or more service oriented architecture (SOA) systems. According to these techniques, a version control service (VCS) may receive an indication of a version update for a first web service. In response to the received request, the VCS determines whether the version update, if executed within the SOA system, will cause a change in operation of a second web service. If the version update will cause a change, VCS provides an indication of the determined change to a user. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143356 | Architecture for Field Upgrade of A Health Monitoring System - An architecture allows individual system components to be developed and tested individually, i.e., as distinct modules, and to be subsequently combined through standardized electrical and communication interfaces. Any combination of these modules can be implemented to form different products that provide any number of functions, such as an integrated system for monitoring a health condition and/or delivering a medication. The architecture also provides an approach for dynamically updating the product and offering its users the latest generation of technology even after the users have already purchased the product. In particular, the embodiments employ the communication interfaces to also provide connection to a remote network that can update or upgrade the product's software when the product is out in the field. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143357 | METHOD OF MANAGING EXTERNAL DEVICES, METHOD OF OPERATING EXTERNAL DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND EXTERNAL DEVICE - Provided is a method of a host device managing at least one external device connected to the host device through a management server. The method includes: obtaining measurement information measured by the at least one external device; requesting authorization by the management server; transmitting the obtained measurement information to the management server when the authentication succeeds; receiving management information for managing the at least one external device, where the management information is generated based on the measurement information by the management server; and managing the at least one external device based on the received management information. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143358 | CONFIGURATION AND INSTALLATION AUTOMATION - A processor may be configured to process a first and second set of configuration statements. The processor may also be configured to at least partially rebuild a software product based, at least in part, on the processed first set of configuration statements. The processor may also install or reinstall the software product. The processing, rebuilding, and the installing or reinstalling features may be performed by a configuration and installation utility that can determine which steps need to be performed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143359 | SOFTWARE SIGNATURE DISCOVERY - In a method for determining signatures for a software package, a processor compares files on a computer system after an installation of a software package to files on the computer system before the installation. The processor determines a signature of the software package. The signature includes an indication of files on the computer system after the installation of the software package that were not present on the computer system before the installation. The processor compares files remaining on the computer system after an uninstall of the first software package to the files on the computer system after the installation of the first software package. The processor determines one or more files indicated in the first signature not remaining on the computer system after the uninstall of the first software package. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143360 | Comparing system engram with product engram to determine compatibility of product with system - A system engram encoding an existing configuration of a target system is received. The existing configuration includes one or more of hardware and software of the target system. The system engram is originally acquired by a first processing device and is received by a second processing device. The second processing device compares the system engram with a product engram encoding a required configuration of the target system for a product to be compatibly installed in relation to the target system. The required configuration includes one or more of required hardware and required software within the target system for the product to be compatibly installed in relation to the target system. The second processing device can output, as compatibility information of the product with the target system, results of comparison of the system engram with the product engram. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143361 | SOFTWARE ROAMING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A software roaming system, method and a computer readable storage medium thereof are disclosed herein. The software roaming system includes a first electronic device having a plurality of widget software. The first electronic device includes a device description data. The device description data includes virtual units corresponding to the widget software, wherein the first electronic device establishes the virtual units in accordance with a universal plug and play (UPNP) protocol. The first electronic device searches a second electronic device through an network in accordance with the UPNP protocol and copies a first widget software of the widget software and a runtime data thereof to the second electronic device, and thus the second electronic device installs the first widget software and recovers the runtime data. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143362 | Enabling a Secure Environment Through Operating System Switching - Described systems and methods allow a host system, such as a computer or a smartphone, to enable a secure environment, which can be used to carry out secure communications with a remote service provider, for applications such as online banking, e-commerce, private messaging, and online gaming, among others. A hypervisor oversees a switch between an insecure environment and the secure environment, in response to a user input, or in response to an event such as receiving a telephone call. Switching from the insecure to the secure environment comprises transitioning the insecure environment to a sleeping state and loading the secure environment from a memory image (snapshot) saved to disk, after checking the integrity of the snapshot. Switching from the secure to the insecure environment comprises transitioning the secure environment into a sleeping state and waking up the insecure environment. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL MACHINES IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for managing virtual machines in a distributed computing environment. The method includes determining an estimated execution time for each job type in one or more jobs received from users and subscribing to virtual machines from the distributed computing environment to execute jobs of each type. The virtual machines are subscribed based on service level agreement (SLA) terms, quality of service (QoS) metrics, and/or the estimated execution time. Further, an actual job execution time for each job executed on an associated subscribed virtual machine is monitored. Thereafter, one or more under-performing virtual machines are identified based on the actual execution time, the estimated execution time, and a tolerance value for each type of job. The one or more under-performing virtual machines are released, while a new set of virtual machines are re-subscribed, such that the SLA terms and the QoS metrics are met. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143364 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION IN AN OPERATING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments directed toward a method, and a system. A method can be directed toward deciding whether to accept a virtual machine migration on a host. The method can include receiving a request to host a migrated virtual machine. The method can include determining if the host is overcommitted. The method can include selecting a low priority virtual machine in response to the host being overcommitted. The method can include determining if a resource for the low priority virtual machine can be reduced to accommodate the migrated virtual machine. The method can include reducing the resources for the low priority virtual machine in response to the resources being able to be reduced. The method can include accepting the request to host the migrated virtual machine in response to the reduction of the resources. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143365 | INCREASING PERFORMANCE OF A STREAMING APPLICATION BY RUNNING EXPERIMENTAL PERMUTATIONS - A streams manager monitors performance of a streaming application, and when the performance needs to be improved, the streams manager automatically requests virtual machines from a cloud manager. In response, the cloud manager provisions one or more virtual machines in a cloud. The streams manager builds a permutation of a flow graph for the streaming application using the virtual machine(s), runs the permutation in parallel with the corresponding portion of the flow graph, and compares the performance of the original portion of the flow graph to the performance of the permutation. When the performance of the permutation exceeds the performance of the original part of the flow graph, the streams manager modifies the flow graph so the permutation replaces the original part of the flow graph. In this manner a streaming application can dynamically evolve to increase its performance as needed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143366 | OPTIMIZING PLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - Provided is a method of identifying a virtual machine for placement in a cloud computing environment, wherein the cloud computing environment comprises multiple cloud computing systems. Workload requests of the virtual machine are segregated into fixed workload request and flexible workload request. An optimal cloud computing system is selected in the cloud computing environment to perform fixed workload request and/or flexible workload request of the virtual machine. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143367 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - A method for resource allocation in a cloud environment detects a metrics parameter of at least a first virtual machine among a plurality of virtual machines inside a virtual system in the cloud environment; calculates a key performance indicator according to the metrics parameter, the key performance indicator indicating running status of at least the first virtual machine; and reallocates resources among at least the first virtual machine and other virtual machines within the virtual system based on the key performance indicator through the cloud environment in response to the key performance indicator indicating that at least the first virtual machine is overloaded. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143368 | Physical to Virtual Network Transport Function Abstraction - When the physical network is transitioned into a virtual network, functionality provided by physical ports are no longer available in the virtual machine (“VM”) environments. Physical to virtual network transport function abstraction may be implemented to provide software applications running in the VM with state information or similar information necessary for the software applications to continue running, without the physical ports that would provide such information in a physical system. In some embodiments, a virtual machine manager might send first information to a virtual infrastructure manager, which might send second information to a virtualized application manager or orchestrator. The virtualized application manager or orchestrator might in turn send third information to a virtualized application running in a virtual machine or container. The first, second, and/or third information might include state information (e.g., state change information) that enable software applications running in the VM to continue running, without physical ports. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143369 | Communications Method and System - A communications method and system. When a central control point learns that a virtual machine of a tenant is deployed on a first server, the central control point delivers, to the first server, a first local virtual local area network identifier (VLAN ID) pre-configured for the tenant, so that a virtual switch (vSwitch) of the first server stores a correspondence between the tenant and the first local VLAN ID and can control, according to the correspondence, communication between virtual machines of the tenant in a ToR switch to which the first server belongs; the central control point delivers, to a first ToR, a first mapping relationship that is between a global VLAN ID and the first local VLAN ID and is pre-configured for the tenant, so that the first ToR can control communication between virtual machines of the tenant in different servers according to the first mapping relationship. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143370 | IMAGE INSTANCE MAPPING - A method and system for image instance mapping is provided. The method includes receiving from change agents on virtual machine instances periodic monitoring data indicating changes for each virtual machine instance. The periodic monitoring data is analyzed and unique updates are applied to the virtual machine instances. High level semantic updates to the virtual machine instances are identified and updates associated with a golden master image are tracked. High level semantic updates to the golden master image are identified and in response, a version tree configured to track drift of each virtual machine instance with respect to golden master image is maintained. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143371 | TRANSLATING MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) ADDRESSES IN A NETWORK HIERARCHY - In one embodiment a method includes receiving a packet including a destination media access control (MAC) address field having a MAC address of a hypervisor and a destination Internet protocol (IP) address field having an IP address of a virtual machine (VM) coupled to the hypervisor. The method further determines a MAC address of the VM using the IP address of the VM and applies the VM MAC address to the destination MAC address field of the packet to forward the packet to the VM. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143372 | METHOD FOR LIVE MIGRATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - A method and system for an assisted live migration of virtual machines are provided. The method monitoring, by an advisory server, at least a workload of physical machines in a datacenter; determining if at least one physical machine is overloaded based on the monitored workload; for each of the at least one physical machine determined to be overloaded, selecting at least one virtual machine resides in the respective physical machine, wherein the selection is based at least on a current load of the virtual machine; and initiating a live migration of the selected virtual machine when the current load is lower than a comfort load level. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143373 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE VIRTUAL MACHINE NETWORKING - A virtual machine (VM) runs on system hardware, which includes a physical network interface device that enables transfer of packets between the VM and a destination over a network. A virtual machine monitor (VMM) exports a hardware interface to the VM and runs on a kernel, which forms a system software layer between the VMM and the system hardware. Pending packets (both transmit and receive) issued by the VM are stored in a memory region that is shared by, that is, addressable by, the VM, the VMM, and the kernel. Rather than always transferring each packet as it is issued, packets are clustered in the shared memory region until a trigger event occurs, whereupon the cluster of packets is passed as a group to the physical network interface device. Optional mechanisms are included to prevent packets from waiting too long in the shared memory space before being transferred to the network. An interrupt offloading mechanism is also disclosed for use in multiprocessor systems such that it is in most cases unnecessary to interrupt the VM in order to request a VMM action, and the need for VMM-to-kernel context transitions is reduced. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143374 | SECURING AN INTERNET ENDPOINT USING FINE-GRAINED OPERATING SYSTEM VIRTUALIZATION - Approaches for executing untrusted software on a client without compromising the client using micro-virtualization to execute untrusted software in isolated contexts. A template for instantiating a virtual machine on a client is identified in response to receiving a request to execute an application. After the template is identified, without human intervention, a virtual machine is instantiated, using the template, in which the application is to be executed. The template may be selected from a plurality of templates based on the nature of the request, as each template describe characteristics of a virtual machine suitable for a different type of activity. When the client determines that the application has ceased to execute, the client ceases execution of the virtual machine without human intervention. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143375 | TRANSACTION EXECUTION IN SYSTEMS WITHOUT TRANSACTION SUPPORT - Interaction between isolated partitioned execution environments may be permitted through transmission of messages. A method for interaction between partitions may include may include receiving, by a processor, a request message comprising a request to execute a transaction application code; creating, by the processor, an isolated execution environment; starting, by the processor, an operating system in the isolated execution environment; and executing, by the processor, the transaction application code in the operating system. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143376 | SYSTEM FOR ERROR CHECKING OF PROCESS DEFINITIONS FOR BATCH PROCESSES - A system for processing a batch job comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive a batch job comprising a sequential or parallel flow of operations, wherein each operation has a defined input type and a defined output type. The processor is further configured to verify that the batch job can run successfully, wherein verifying includes checking that a first operation output defined type is compatible with a second operation input defined type when a first operation output is connected to a second operation input, and wherein verifying includes checking that a parameter used by a calculation in an operation is input to the operation. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143377 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF TASKS FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING DATA USING JOB CONFIGURATION DATA - A scheduler manages execution of a plurality of data-collection jobs, assigns individual jobs to specific forwarders in a set of forwarders, and generates and transmits tokens (e.g., pairs of data-collection tasks and target sources) to assigned forwarders. The forwarder uses the tokens, along with stored information applicable across jobs, to collect data from the target source and forward it onto an indexer for processing. For example, the indexer can then break a data stream into discrete events, extract a timestamp from each event and index (e.g., store) the event based on the timestamp. The scheduler can monitor forwarders' job performance, such that it can use the performance to influence subsequent job assignments. Thus, data-collection jobs can be efficiently assigned to and executed by a group of forwarders, where the group can potentially be diverse and dynamic in size. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143378 | MULTI-THREAD PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEQUENTIALLY PROCESSING THREADS - Provided are a multi-thread processing apparatus and method for sequentially processing threads. The multi-thread processing method includes scheduling, at a processor, one of a plurality of thread groups allocated by a job distributor, determining whether the thread group has been initialized based on an examination an uninitialized flag of the scheduled thread group, generating a thread group descriptor for the scheduled thread group and initializing the thread group based on the determination of whether the thread group has been initialized, and initializing a thread descriptor based on a determination of whether initialization is needed and sequentially executing each thread in the scheduled thread group. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143379 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a receiver configured to receive a request to perform processing related to a task, from a first information processing apparatus which functions as a client on a network; a scheduler configured to, when a rank of a priority of the scheduler of the information processing apparatus among information processing apparatuses on the network is a first predetermined rank or higher, assign the task to one or a plurality of second information processing apparatuses which function as nodes on the network; and a transmitter configured to transmit a request to execute processing related to the task assigned to the one or the plurality of second information processing apparatuses. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143380 | SCHEDULING WORKLOADS AND MAKING PROVISION DECISIONS OF COMPUTER RESOURCES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for workload scheduling and resource provisioning. In one embodiment, in accordance with the present invention, the computer implemented method includes the steps of scheduling a set of pending workloads for execution on computer resources in a computing environment; identifying a workload in the set of pending workloads that is scheduled to utilize hypothetic resources, wherein hypothetic resources are idle computer resources that are currently not available, but can be made available to execute workloads through provisioning actions; holding the identified workload from dispatch to hypothetic resources for a holding period, wherein the holding period is a customizable duration of time; provisioning the hypothetic resources corresponding to computer resource requirements of the identified workload; determining whether the provisioned hypothetic resources have become available during the holding period. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143381 | COMPUTING SESSION WORKLOAD SCHEDULING AND MANAGEMENT OF PARENT-CHILD TASKS - A single workload scheduler schedules sessions and tasks having a tree structure to resources, wherein the single workload scheduler has scheduling control of the resources and the tasks of the parent-child workload sessions and tasks. The single workload scheduler receives a request to schedule a child session created by a scheduled parent task that when executed results in a child task; the scheduled parent task is dependent on a result of the child task. The single workload scheduler receives a message from the scheduled parent task yielding a resource based on the resource not being used by the scheduled parent task, schedules tasks to backfill the resource, and returns the resource yielded by the scheduled parent task to the scheduled parent task based on receiving a resume request from the scheduled parent task or determining dependencies of the scheduled parent task have been met. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143382 | SCHEDULING WORKLOADS AND MAKING PROVISION DECISIONS OF COMPUTER RESOURCES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for workload scheduling and resource provisioning. In one embodiment, in accordance with the present invention, the computer implemented method includes the steps of scheduling a set of pending workloads for execution on computer resources in a computing environment; identifying a workload in the set of pending workloads that is scheduled to utilize hypothetic resources, wherein hypothetic resources are idle computer resources that are currently not available, but can be made available to execute workloads through provisioning actions; holding the identified workload from dispatch to hypothetic resources for a holding period, wherein the holding period is a customizable duration of time; provisioning the hypothetic resources corresponding to computer resource requirements of the identified workload; determining whether the provisioned hypothetic resources have become available during the holding period. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143383 | APPARATUS AND JOB SCHEDULING METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus and a job scheduling method are provided. For example, the apparatus is a multi-core processing apparatus. The apparatus and method minimize performance degradation of a core caused by sharing resources by dynamically managing a maximum number of jobs assigned to each core of the apparatus. The apparatus includes at least one core including an active cycle counting unit configured to store a number of active cycles and a stall cycle counting unit configured to store a number of stall cycles and a job scheduler configured to assign at least one job to each of the at least one core, based on the number of active cycles and the number of stall cycles. When the ratio of the number of stall cycles to a number of active cycles for a core is too great, the job scheduler assigns fewer jobs to that core to improve performance. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143384 | NETWORK SYSTEM, NETWORK NODE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Network system being configured to execute I/O commands and application commands in parallel and comprising a network and at least one network node, wherein the at least one network node is connected to the network via a network adapter and is configured to run several processes and/or threads in parallel, wherein the at least one network node comprises or is configured to establish a common communication channel (C-channel) to be used by the several processes and/or threads for data communication with the network via the network adapter, wherein the C-channel comprises or is established to comprise a work queue (WQ) for execution of I/O commands and a completion queue (CQ) for indication of a status of I/O commands, and wherein the at least one network node, especially its comprised or to be established C-channel, is configured for an exclusive access of precisely one single process or thread out of the several processes and/or threads to the CQ of the C-channel at a particular time. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143385 | TRIGGERING PROCESSING OF NETWORK REQUESTS - A network handler may be triggered to process input/output requests placed on a network queue to reduce latency compared to occasionally polling the network queue for new input/output requests. A method for processing network input/output requests may include receiving, by a processor, an input/output request for a network device; placing, by the processor, on a network queue the input/output request; and triggering, by the processor, a handler for the network queue. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143386 | CONCISE RESOURCE ADDRESSING - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for concise resource addressing. An example method includes receiving a request for an application including a resource identifier, the resource identifier including a textual identifier and a contextual identifier, the textual identifier including a textual description of the requested application, and the contextual identifier including an encoded description of the requested application; determining at least one target application associated with the resource identifier based at least in part on the textual identifier or the contextual identifier; and sending a response to the request include the at least one target application associated with the resource identifier. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143387 | DYNAMIC LINKING AND LOADING OF POST-PROCESSING KERNELS - A computer system may generate a plurality of component kernels, which are to be linked during the runtime. The system may determine whether a combined kernel K is present in response to receiving a first request to retrieve the combined kernel K. The system may compose the combined kernel K from the selected component kernels of the plurality of component kernels during the runtime if the combined kernel is not already present. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143388 | Spindle Motor - A spindle motor is provided, the motor comprising: a base plate, a PCB on the base plate, a bearing assembly arranged on the base plate, a stator coupled to a periphery of the bearing assembly, a rotor rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly, the rotor including a yoke and a magnet, and a rotation shaft rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly. The base plate includes a planar portion and a protruding portion arranged along with a periphery of the yoke, the protruding portion being apart from the yoke. The base plate is partially covered with the PCB in a region where the stator is arranged. And, a height from the planar portion to an upper surface of the protruding portion is smaller than a height from the planar portion to a lower surface of the periphery of the yoke. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143389 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE CONTENTS FOR SMART TV - The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive contents for a smart TV, which allows a seller to directly upload contents such that vivid contents can be easily provided. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143390 | FILLABLE FORM FOR PROVIDING AND RECEIVING CUSTOMIZED AUDIO VIDEO CONTENT - A consumer electronics (CE) device receives a form along with AV content that includes information fields pertaining for entrance of information regarding the CE device and/or at least one user thereof. Information entered to the form is then transmitted back to the provider of the form for use to subsequently provide to the CE device advertisements, notifications of device and/or software updates, and other AV content targeted to the CE device and/or its user based on the information entered to the form. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143391 | SPOT NOTIFICATION METHOD, SPOT NOTIFICATION DEVICE, AND SPOT NOTIFICATION DEVICE PROGRAM - A spot notification device includes: a viewing history acquisition unit that acquires a program viewing history of a user; a program metadata acquisition unit that acquires program metadata including a name and locational information on a spot introduced in a program; a spot list generation unit that generates, on the basis of the viewing history and the program metadata, a spot list including the name and locational information on the spot; a current location acquisition unit that acquires a current location of the user; an activity history holding unit that holds the current location in time series as an activity history; a notifying spot determination unit that sets a search range in accordance with the activity history and refers to the spot list to search for the spot present within the search range; and a spot notification unit that notifies the user of information relating to the spot. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143392 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING VIEWER REACTION TO CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method, apparatus and system for determining viewer reaction to content elements include generating a viewer feedback signal by recording biometric measurements of a viewer's reactions to viewed content, synchronizing the viewer feedback signal with a content metadata signal for the viewed content and correlating the biometric measurements in the viewer feedback signal with respective elements in the content metadata signal to determine a viewer reaction score for the respective elements in the content. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143393 | WATER DISPENSING AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An apparatus for dispensing liquid, such as water, with the dispensing of the liquid associated with a media presentation, for example, a video presentation, viewable on a monitor of the apparatus by consumers proximate to the apparatus, including the consumer to whom the water is being dispensed, is disclosed. The media presentation begins upon the dispensing of the water, and continues until it is stopped or completes (ends). | 2015-05-21 |
20150143394 | CONTENT PRESENTATION METHOD, CONTENT PRESENTATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143395 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING USING MULTIPLE COORDINATED DEVICE SETS - Systems and methods for navigating hypermedia using multiple coordinated input/output device sets. Disclosed systems and methods allow a user and/or an author to control what resources are presented on which device sets (whether they are integrated or not), and provide for coordinating browsing activities to enable such a user interface to be employed across multiple independent systems. Disclosed systems and methods also support new and enriched aspects and applications of hypermedia browsing and related business activities. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143396 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE A CROSS DEVICE AUDIENCE - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to generate a cross device panel by determining that a first panelist associated with a first panel data and a first device is also associated with a non-paneled device. Example methods and apparatus disclosed herein match, via a processor, a second panelist associated with second panel data to the first panelist based on (1) the second panelist having demographics matching the first panelist and (2) the second panelist being associated with a second device corresponding to the non-paneled device of the first panelist, and generate a cross device panelist profile for the first panelist, the cross device panelist profile comprising at least some of the first panel data and at least a portion of the second panel data. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143397 | INTERNET-BASED SUBMISSION OF CABLE NETWORK CONTENT - A cable network content delivery system providing advertising information via a cable network and an advertising content interface are described. An advertiser submits advertising content over an internet which is then adapted for a cable network. A data gateway stores the advertising information. The system processes a user command received via the cable network, including an advertising information search command, and provides advertising information retrieved via the cable network. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143398 | System and Method for Providing Image-Based Video Service - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing an image-based video service. The present invention provides a system for providing image-based video service, including a cache system configured to store video information that matches image-related data; a fingerprint extraction unit configured to extract the fingerprint of an image corresponding to input image-related data; and a matching unit configured to determine video information that matches the fingerprint of the image extracted by the fingerprint extraction unit; wherein the system for providing image-based video service determines video information, matching image-related data received from a client terminal, via the cache system or the matching unit, and transmits video result information corresponding to the determined video information to the client terminal, and a method using the same. According to the present invention, there are provided a system and method that can accurately determine a video or a frame corresponding to an image over a network, such as the Internet or a mobile communication, in real time and accurately perform playback from the corresponding video or frame. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143399 | CHANNELS AND SERVICES DISPLAY - The availability of a new information service is publicized by displaying an icon in an EPG when the presence of a new information service is detected. A list of new services is then displayed responsive to a user command. When one of the new services is displayed instead of the list. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143400 | Methods and Apparatus for Determining the Operating State of Audio-Video Devices - Methods and apparatus for identifying an operating state of an AV device are described. An example method includes extracting, at a first AV device, data communicated via a data bus coupling a processor of the first AV device to a HDMI interface, the HDMI interface coupled to a second AV device different than the first AV device; analyzing a temporal sequence of the extracted data to determine if additional information is needed from the second AV device to identify a current operating state of the second AV device; when the temporal sequence is missing an expected message related to the current operating state of the second AV device, causing an AV network controller of the first AV device to request information from the second AV device; and analyzing a response from the second AV device including the requested information to identify the current operating state of the second AV device. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143401 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REAL-TIME LIVE STREAMING CONTENT - Implementations of the system and method use an existing management server infrastructure to deliver video-on-demand or streaming content, including real-time live streaming. Existing client content playback devices, such as IPTVs, may be employed to stream content items, obtain advertisements, track user's viewing behaviors, and the like. By reusing existing client devices, there is no need for additional hardware purchases on the user side. By reusing existing management server infrastructures, capital expenses are also reduced. In such a system, a user can watch both video-on-demand and streaming audiovisual content. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143402 | METHOD FOR SHARING BROADCAST CHANNEL INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A broadcast channel information sharing method in an electronic device and the electronic device thereof are provided. An operation method in an electronic device includes creating a request message of requesting to share broadcast channel information, the request message comprising one or more of user information, location information, and habit information, transmitting, by the electronic device, the request message to a network server, receiving, by the electronic device, a response message corresponding to the request message from the network server, and extracting, by the electronic device, broadcast channel information of another electronic device comprised in the response message and sharing the extracted broadcast channel information with the other electronic device. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143403 | IPTV DEVICES AND METHODS ADAPTED FOR SUCH DEVICES - Methods and apparatus for enabling upgrading of a television (TV) device that is connectable to an internet protocol TV (IPTV) system including an operator system and a TV manufacturer system are described. The upgrading is based on a token object and verifies a requested upgrading of the TV device. A token object is generated at the TV manufacturer system in response to receiving a request for upgrading from the TV device, and delivered to the TV device, thus enabling the TV device to complete the requested upgrading process due to possessing a valid token. A TV device, an operator system, and a TV manufacturer system adapted to execute the suggested methods are also provided. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING PROMOTIONAL CONTENT - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a media program on a first media channel, detecting a first segment in the media program, where the first segment comprises media content combined with an embedded advertisement, determining a first emotional context from a first analysis of the media content, determining a second emotional context from a second analysis of the embedded advertisement, and detecting an inconsistency between the first emotional context and the second emotional context. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143405 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND NAVIGATING BROADCAST-READY SOCIAL CONTENT ITEMS IN A LIVE PRODUCED VIDEO - Systems and methods for incorporating social content items into a produced video are provided. The system presents a producer interface to a user that allows the user to query for social content items. The user may then select and arrange social content items in an on-air queue. In an on-air mode, the system generates a broadcast-ready on-air format of the social content items and provides a video stream including the broadcast-ready social content items in the on-air queue to a video production system. The broadcast-ready social content items are incorporated into a produced video by the video production system. The user may navigate through the social content items in the on-air queue while on camera as part of the produced video. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143406 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING NOTIFICATION MESSAGE USING THE SAME - A broadcast receiving apparatus including a display, a storage configured to store priority information corresponding to a current output state of the broadcast receiving apparatus and priority information corresponding to an event, a communicator configured to receive, from an external device, a signal indicating an occurrence of the event at the external device, and a controller configured to, upon the communicator receiving the signal indicating the occurrence of the event at the external device, selectively display a notification message regarding the event on the display, based on the priority information corresponding to the event and the priority information corresponding to the current output state of the broadcast receiving apparatus. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143407 | INCREMENTAL TRANSMISSION OF DATA - In one form, the present teachings provide a method and apparatus for broadcasting an event. The method includes receiving data related to an event via an uplink. Another aspect of the method includes determining whether the data is broadcast on a recurring basis. The method also includes determining whether a transponder channel associated with multiplexed program channels has any unused data or bandwidth to broadcast a portion of the data along with the multiplexed program channels. Additionally, the method includes broadcasting the portion of the data in a data stream. | 2015-05-21 |
20150143408 | PREMISES AUTOMATION CONTROL - A content service provider can transmit a plurality of content streams each including audio, video, or audio-video content to a plurality of premises. In addition, the content service provider can transmit one or more command streams, along with the plurality of content streams over a common content distribution network. The one or more command streams may each include a repeating set of premises automation commands. The premises automation commands may be sent to one or more appropriate systems if a user selects a channel associated with the corresponding command stream. Each set of premises automation commands may be configured to instruct a system at a premises to perform a function. The commands may, for example, instruct a lighting system to turn on/off lights, a security system to enter an arm or disarm operational state, a thermostat to adjust its temperature, etc. | 2015-05-21 |