45th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130298083 | OVERHEAD IMAGE VIEWING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for providing a user interface for searching, browsing, and ordering overhead (e.g. aircraft or satellite) imagery are provided. The user interface provides a map and search bar for searching and browsing images. Images may be presented to a user based on a selected and/or displayed geographic region of interest. Browsing to a different geographic region of interest may dynamically and automatically update the images presented. The user interface allows the user to select an image for viewing and/or purchase. Selection of an image overlays the image on the map, aligned with the geographic region which the image captures. Closing the selected image re-centers and re-zooms to the original display. Presented images can be filtered based on several criteria. Images can include still images and/or videos. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298084 | TARGETED ADVERTISING BASED ON TRENDING OF AGGREGATED PERSONALIZED INFORMATION STREAMS - Targeted advertising based on trending aggregated personalized information streams is disclosed. The method of targeted advertising, which can be implemented on a system includes receiving a topic from a user, wherein the user wants to present advertisements on social media platforms related to the topic, retrieving social media messages that relates to the topic from the social media platforms, identifying trending keywords associated with the social media messages that relates to the topic, and/or presenting the advertisement including the trending keywords on the social media platforms. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298085 | DISPLAYED CONTENT DRILLING IN A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - Methods may provide drilling of displayed content in a touch screen device. A method may include detecting a touch gesture by a user on a first portion of displayed content on a touch display. The first portion may include a drillable data element having at least a first dimension, a second dimension and a third dimension. The method may further include detecting information associated with the touch gesture, determining a requested drilling action based at least in part on the detected information, the requested drilling action including at least one of a change of a displayed drill dimension and a change of a displayed drill degree, sending the requested drilling action of the first portion to a report server and presenting a drilled first portion on the touch display. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298086 | DISPLAY DEVICE DETECTION OF AND RESPONSE TO AN IDLE MODE OF A REMOTE SENDER DEVICE - A method, system and apparatus provide for detection by a display device of an idle mode of a remote sender device. Information received from a remote sender device by a display device is monitored during a normal operating mode of operation of the display device to determine whether the remote sender device is not providing primary content for display by the display device, such as might occur during a sleep or idle mode of the remote sender device. If the display device determines that primary content is not being provided by the remote sender device, then the display device acquires alternate content that may be displayed. This abstract is not to be considered limiting. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298087 | DOSE-DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, generating virtual data by mirroring data based on a dimension measurement result in a measurement region on an inner side of a shot region to a non-shot region on an outer side of a shot edge, and calculating dose data of the measurement region and a non-measurement region based on data in the measurement region and the virtual data are included. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298088 | System and Method for Combined Intraoverlay and Defect Inspection - A method and system for measuring layer overlay and for inspecting a mask for defects unrelated to overlay utilizing a singe comprehensive tool is disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving a mask design database that corresponds to a mask and has a die area with a mask database feature. A mask image of the mask is received, and a comprehensive inspection system compares the mask image to the mask design database in order to detect mask defects that are not related to layer alignment. The system produces mask defect information corresponding to the mask defects. The comprehensive inspection system also compares the mask image to the mask design database to determine a database-to-mask offset. From the database-to-mask offset, a mask overlay characteristic is determined. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298089 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE ROBUSTNESS OF A DOUBLE PATTERNING ROUTER USED TO MANUFACTURE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICES - A method for increasing the robustness of a double patterning router used in the manufacture of integrated circuit devices that includes providing a set of original color rules defining an original color rule space, providing a set of integrated circuit designs defining a design space, providing a router processing engine, perturbing the original color rules to define a perturbed color rule space, applying the perturbed color rule space and the design space to the router processing engine to expose double pattern routing odd cycle decomposition errors, and feeding back the exposed decomposition errors to enhance router processing engine development by reconfiguring the router processing engine in accordance with the exposed decomposition errors. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298090 | NETWORK RESISTOR MODEL ANALYSIS TOOL - The invention may be embodied in a network resistor model analysis tool for an Electrical Rule Checking (ERC) system. The network resistor model analysis tool typically includes, but need not be limited to, (i) a recursive, deterministic resistor path algorithm that identifies all valid resistor paths from a start net to a stopping net in a netlist corresponding to an analog circuit, (ii) a programming representation algorithm complete for representing the resistor paths in a programmatic format accessible through an application program interface, and (iii) a recursive, deterministic resistance value algorithm that solves the programmatically represented network to determine a total resistance value for each valid path and each resistor leg in each valid path. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298091 | METHOD OF PERFORMING CIRCUIT SIMULATION AND GENERATING CIRCUIT LAYOUT - A method of generating a circuit layout of an integrated circuit includes generating layout geometry parameters for at least a predetermined portion of an original netlist of the integrated circuit. A consolidated netlist including information from the original netlist and the layout geometry parameters is generated. Then, the circuit layout is generated based on the consolidated netlist. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298092 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISHING HIERARCHICAL PARAMETERIZED CELL (PCELL) DEBUGGING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method are provided for establishing an automated debugging environment in an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) work flow for the debugging of parameterized cells (PCELLS/PyCELLS) in a layout. A user may merely select a particular PCELL within a hierarchical PCELL and the system and method will determine dependencies thereof. The source code for the selected PCELL and its dependencies may be located and loaded. At least one breakpoint may be set in the source code of the selected PCELL. The source code for the selected PCELL and its dependencies may be executed to be arrested at the set breakpoints. Upon the arrest of execution, a debugging environment may be established and the located source code of the selected PCELL may be displayed along with values for parametric components thereof and progression control tools. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298093 | Method of Predicting Contention Between Electronic Circuit Drivers - Software method to identify presence of multiple digital drivers disposed in a manner that creates multiple conflicting current paths in complex electronic circuit designs. Digital drivers are analyzed by expanding backwards to build a logical tree representation of the previous predecessor circuit portions that drive the digital driver's state. The previous level of predecessor circuit node states earlier in the circuit are checked to see if they simultaneously create pull up paths to power nets and pull down paths to ground nets, thus logically determining if a contention configuration is possible. This back-trace analysis is then repeated for the next previous level of predecessor circuit portions, further seeking logical contention issues within the expanding logic tree. This is continued until either no predecessor circuit portion that causes contention is found, or until a portion that does cause logical contention is found, in which case the contention digital drivers are reported. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298094 | Methods and Apparatus for Layout Verification - Methods and apparatus of performing layout-versus-layout (LVL) comparison are disclosed. A layout may be in various formats such as GDSII or OASIS, for different circuits, and represented by a basic layout element, a hierarchical cell or a plurality of independent cells in various layers. A basic layout element, a hierarchical cell, and a layout with a plurality of independent cells may have a signature generated according to the embodiment methods. The signature of a basic layout element may be generated based on values of a center and a circumference, and a hashed trace value generated by a hash function of a trace of the basic layout element. The signature of a hierarchical cell can be generated recursively. A signature of a first layout may be compared to a signature of a second layout to determine whether the first layout matches the second layout. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298095 | METHOD FOR CHECKING I/O CELL CONNECTIONS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A computer readable medium includes a program code for checking whether an I/O cell of a chip design has a connection error or not, where the chip design includes a plurality of I/O cells and a plurality of blocks, and when the program code is executed by a processor, the program code executes following steps: checking a connection between the I/O cell and a block by utilizing a check item corresponding to an attribute of the I/O cell to generate a checking result; and determining whether the I/O cell has a connection error according to the checking result. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298096 | REAL TIME DRC ASSISTANCE FOR MANUAL LAYOUT EDITING - Roughly described, while manually dragging shapes during IC layout editing, editing operations determine which edges of which shapes are moving at what speed ratios. Based on the edge information and the DRC rules, the system calculates and keeps track of the minimum of the maximum distance the edges are allowed to move with the cursor without violating DRC rules, in four linear directions and all corner directions. Once a next cursor destination point is known, a DRC clean destination point is calculated based on the linear and corner bounds. If the next cursor position is beyond a the push-through distance ahead of the new DRC clean point, the editing objects are moved to the user's destination point. Otherwise, the editing objects are moved to the new DRC clean destination point, thereby stopping movement at that point. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298097 | METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING TIMING ENGINEERING CHANGE ORDER - A method of implementing timing ECO in a circuit includes the steps of performing a static timing analysis on the circuit so as to determine at least one timing violating path of the circuit, decomposing the timing violating path into at least one violating path segment, determining a smooth curve from each timing violating path and determining a plurality of reference points along the smooth curve, computing a fixability parameter of each gate on the violating path segment, extracting at least one gate according to the fixability parameters, and selecting one spare cell and disposing the selected spare cell on the violating path segment. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH SPEED AND LOW MEMORY FOOTPRINT STATIC TIMING ANALYSIS - The invention provides a method and system for performing Static Timing Analysis on SoC (System on a Chip) designs. The invention solves a longstanding problem with timing analysis of designs, namely, the ability to multi-thread the design under analysis. The invention provides for slicing a design into levels, further decomposing each level into gates, and the multi-threaded processing of gates so that the solution of large design analysis is generated significantly faster than current approaches. Further, the invention provides that only one level exists in the RAM at any time. Once the arrival time on the level is computed, the data is saved to disk immediately. Because the memory footprint is sub-linear to the size of the design, entire system-on-a chip designs may be run on inexpensive, off-the-shelf hardware. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298099 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A DIFFUSION POTENTIAL OF A DIFFUSIVE PROPERTY - Methods, systems, and techniques for estimating a transient diffusion potential of a diffusive property involve modeling, as a circuit, diffusive behavior of a diffusion region and then simulating operation of the circuit to estimate the transient diffusion potential at a location in the diffusion region by determining circuit potential at a node in the circuit that corresponds to the location in the diffusion region. The circuit has steady-state and transient portions that model the steady-state and transient behavior of the diffusion region, respectively. The transient behavior is modeled using a capacitive circuit element. The diffusive property diffuses linearly within the diffusion region and generation of the diffusive property is distributed within the diffusion region. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298100 | Graphical User Interface for Display of System Resistance - Techniques for determining resistances of analog routes in electronic designs are described herein. In an example embodiment, a computer system receives first user input that indicates, in a user interface, a first component in an electronic design. The electronic design has been placed and routed for a programmable target device. The computer system receives second user input that selects, in the user interface, a particular component from one or more second components of the electronic design, where the one or more second components have analog connectivity to the first component. The computer system determines a resistance value of an analog route between the first component and the particular component, and displays the resistance value in association with the analog route in the user interface. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TEMPERATURE EVALUATION AND IC DESIGN - A method and apparatus generates thermal partitions for metal interconnects of an integrated circuit, based on interconnect self heat data and mutual heat data. Each of the thermal partitions includes data identifying thermally related interconnects and respective temperature values associated with each of the thermally related interconnects. Thermally related partitions that can be computed efficiently and simultaneously and the results then integrated using superposition for the full chips. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298102 | Input Space Reduction for Verification Test Set Generation - Various embodiments provide for the determination of a test set that satisfies a coverage model, where portions of the search space need not be searched in order to generate the test set. With various embodiments, a search space defined by a set of inputs for an electronic design and a coverage model is identified. The search space is then fractured into subspaces. Subsequently, the subspaces are solved to determine if they include at least one input sequence that satisfies the coverage constraints defined in the coverage model. The subspaces found to include at least one input sequence that satisfies these coverage constraints, are then searched for unique input sequences in order to generate a test set. Subspaces found not to include at least one input sequence that satisfies the coverage constraints may be excluded from the overall search space. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298103 | Application Framework For Reactive Information Propagation And Planning For Lifelike Exercises - The present invention addresses the development of software applications for multiple domains and users. The application framework of the present invention includes a collection of mutually compatible software components, technologies and capabilities that can be assembled using object-oriented techniques to build custom software applications. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298104 | RAPIDLY CONFIGURABLE PROGRAM - The present application describes a rapid application configuration program. The application configuration program allows for an enterprise to configure a standard framework into numerous applications without having to develop the software application anew. Herein, the application configuration program can be based on a data paradigm that encompasses most, if not all, of the different enterprise applications that may be developed by an enterprise. The data paradigm helps configure applications based on a hierarchical nodal structure that allows data or information to be input by a user for various enterprise tasks. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298105 | INDICATORS FOR RESOURCES WITH CLOSE METHODS THAT DO NOT COMPLETE ERRONEOUSLY IN SOFTWARE PROGRAMS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the development and compilation of a software program. During operation, the system provides, in a programming language platform associated with source code for the software program, an indicator for a resource with a close method that does not complete erroneously. Next, the system enables use of the indicator with a resource-management statement in the source code, wherein the indicator facilitates omission of an exception-handling construct for the resource-management statement. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298106 | INDICATORS FOR RESOURCES WITH IDEMPOTENT CLOSE METHODS IN SOFTWARE PROGRAMS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the development and compilation of a software program. During operation, the system provides, in a programming language platform associated with source code for the software program, an indicator for a resource with an idempotent close method. Next, the system enables use of the indicator with a resource-management statement in the source code, wherein the indicator facilitates the use of a wrapped resource in the resource-management statement. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING AN OBJECT ORIENTED SCRIPTING TOOL - A system and method can support an object-oriented scripting tool. The system can comprise a parser that operates to parse a document that specifies a software class in a scripting language using one or more tags that are defined in a markup language environment. Furthermore, the system can include a type definition table that includes a plurality of type definitions, wherein this type definition table operates to use a tag name of a said tag as a key that is associated with a type definition. Additionally, the system can include an instance pool that operates to store one or more instances of the software class for the object-oriented scripting tool. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A DEFERRED REFERENCE TO AN OBJECT IN AN OBJECTED-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT - A system and method can support a deferred reference in an object-oriented programming language environment. The object-oriented programming language environment can include an interface that can provide a deferred reference to an object that will be available at a future time. Furthermore, after receiving a request from a caller to get the object based on the deferred reference, the interface can return the object to the caller when the object is available or can indicate to the caller when the object is not currently available and/or when the object will never become available. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298109 | INSTRUMENTATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FOR CONFIGURATION THEREOF - A solution is proposed for instrumenting a software application for configuration thereof. A corresponding method includes scanning a source code of the software application for detecting an indication of a set of configuration parameters each one being identified by a pre-defined non-executable statement, creating a set of instances of a pre-defined configuration object each one mapping a corresponding one of the configuration parameters, the configuration object being designed to manage the corresponding configuration parameter, and creating a set of configuration interfaces for editing the configuration parameters, the configuration interfaces being operable to interact with each instance of the configuration object to get and set the corresponding configuration parameter. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298110 | Software Visualization Using Code Coverage Information - A method for visualization of a software program includes receiving code coverage data generated by the software program, the code coverage data being associated with a test case, by a visualization tool in a computing system; and generating, by the visualization tool, a visualization of an execution of the test case by the software program based on the code coverage data; and displaying the visualization to a user. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298111 | CODE CONVERTING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method, system, and article of manufacture for processing a programming language, which is able to describe data conversion of data input by an iterator. The method includes: converting iterator code of the programming language to a generator code in an intermediate language that includes a generator as an operator; reading a consumer side code; and overwriting code by inline substitution between the consumer side code and the generator code. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298112 | Control Flow Graph Application Configuration - An operating system may be configured using a control flow graph that defines relationships between each executable module. The operating system may be configured by analyzing an application and identifying the operating system modules called from the application, then building a control flow graph for the configuration. The operating system may be deployed to a server or other computer containing only those components identified in the control flow graph. Such a lightweight deployment may be used on a large scale for datacenter servers as well as for small scale deployments on sensors and other devices with little processing power. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298113 | USE OF METADATA FOR SEAMLESS UPDATES - The invention provides a system and method for updating software in the CPU of a network device without interrupting the operation of the network device. The invention determines whether operating state information is recoverable. If it is not recoverable, then it will be stored in a metadata module or reload buffer. When the CPU is rebooted, after a software update or crash, it operates in a special reload mode and is able to recover any system state information not available in the network device from the metadata module. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298114 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A software-based customer relationship management system and method. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298115 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING SOFTWARE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for installing software in a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus for installing software in a mobile communication terminal, includes an external memory having software to be installed, a detector of the mobile communication terminal for, if an external memory is plugged in the mobile communication terminal, detecting a plugging state of the external memory, a memory being embedded in the mobile communication terminal, and a controller of the mobile communication terminal for reading the software to be installed from the external memory and storing the software in the memory if connection with the external memory is detected. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298116 | Method and System for Intelligent Installation/Upgrading of Software - The present provides a method and system for intelligent installation/upgrading of software. Said method first detects, at a client, softwares that have been installed on the client, generates a list of softwares to be installed/upgraded, and provides a corresponding installation/upgrading prompt for each software to be installed/upgraded; then, upon detecting, by the client, that a user selects an installation/upgrading operation of a software according to said installation/upgrading prompt, it downloads a corresponding target software installation/upgrading package from a server according to a name and version number of said software to be installed/upgraded; next, it runs an installation/upgrading file in said target software installation/upgrading package at the client to finish installation/upgrading of said software. The present invention makes the user no longer need to worry about the irrelevant and harmful contents bound to the software to be installed, so it can realize convenient installation, meanwhile, it can enable the user to learn about new versions of softwares installed in the client in time and can upgrade several softwares at one time. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298117 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE UPDATES TO LOCAL MACHINES - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a updating software in a plurality of devices coupled to one another in a communicating relationship through a local network, the method comprising receiving a descriptor file for a software update at the first device from a remote source outside the local network, the descriptor file including a hash code for each of a plurality of update sub-files and an order for assembling the update sub-files into the software update, downloading the plurality of update sub-files to the first device from a remote source outside the local network until the sub-files identified in the descriptor file are present on the first device, where a presence of the sub-files is evaluated using the hash codes in the descriptor file, and broadcasting every one of the plurality of update sub-files from the first device to the number of other devices. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298118 | THROTTLING PRODUCERS BASED ON TOTAL HEAP USAGE - A method for a messaging engine to control messaging within a virtual machine having a heap is disclosed. The messaging engine creates a list of destinations associated with a messaging engine and receives parameters associated with the heap. The messaging engine determines total heap usage and based on the parameters associated with the heap and the total heap usage, controls message production rates of producers associated with the destinations. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298119 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A management method for multiple virtual machines (VMs) in a virtualized server is provided. The management method includes steps of: generating a command; determining an extended cluster including N serving VMs and M redundant VMs in response to the command, wherein the N serving VMs are for providing computing services, N is a natural number, and M is an integer greater than or equal to zero; determining an expanding event in response to the command; periodically detecting workload information of the N serving VMs; periodically determining whether the workload information of the N serving VMs satisfies the expanding event; if yes, determining whether M equals zero; if M does not equal zero, activating one of the M redundant VMs to remove one redundant VM and to accordingly add a new serving VM. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298120 | Copy Equivalent Protection Using Secure Page Flipping For Software Components Within An Execution Environment - Embodiments of copy equivalent protection using secure page flipping for software components within an execution environment are generally described herein. An embodiment includes the ability for a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), Operating System Monitor, or other underlying platform capability to restrict memory regions for access only by specifically authenticated, authorized and verified software components, even when part of an otherwise compromised operating system environment. In an embodiment, an embedded VM is allowed to directly manipulate page table mappings so that, even without running the VMM or obtaining VMXRoot privilege, the embedded VM can directly flip pages of memory into its direct/exclusive control and back. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298121 | Method for Isolated Use of Browser - The present invention provides a method for isolated use of browser comprising: establishing a virtual environment in a user's computer system by a browser; arranging content loaded by the browser in the virtual environment; processing operation results in the virtual environment. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298122 | VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION - In embodiments of virtual machine migration, a virtual machine migration system includes a storage array that maintains data. A first host computer includes at least one virtual machine with a virtual drive that is mapped to a logical unit number (LUN) of the storage array, and the LUN corresponds to a LUN mask that associates the LUN with the first host computer. A virtual manager is executable on the first host computer, and is implemented to unmask the LUN to migrate the virtual machine from the first host computer to a second host computer that is configurable as a host of the virtual machine. The virtual manager can log the first host computer out of the LUN and the second host computer can log into the LUN to access the data in the storage array. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298123 | APPLYING POLICIES TO SCHEDULE NETWORK BANDWIDTH AMONG VIRTUAL MACHINES - Computerized methods, systems, and computer-storage media for allowing virtual machines (VMs) residing on a common physical node to fairly share network bandwidth are provided. Restrictions on resource consumption are implemented to ameliorate stressing the network bandwidth or adversely affecting the quality of service (QoS) guaranteed to tenants of the physical node. The restrictions involves providing a scheduler that dynamically controls networking bandwidth allocated to each of the VMs as a function of QoS policies. These QoS policies are enforced by controlling a volume of traffic being sent from the VMs. Controlling traffic includes depositing tokens into token-bucket queues assigned to the VMs, respectively. The tokens are consumed as packets pass through the token-bucket queues. Upon consumption, packets are held until sufficient tokens are reloaded to the token-bucket queues. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298124 | MEMORY ADDRESS RE-MAPPING OF GRAPHICS DATA - A method and apparatus for creating, updating, and using guest physical address (GPA) to host physical address (HPA) shadow translation tables for translating GPAs of graphics data direct memory access (DMA) requests of a computing environment implementing a virtual machine monitor to support virtual machines. The requests may be sent through a render or display path of the computing environment from one or more virtual machines, transparently with respect to the virtual machine monitor. The creating, updating, and using may be performed by a memory controller detecting entries sent to existing global and page directory tables, forking off shadow table entries from the detected entries, and translating GPAs to HPAs for the shadow table entries. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298125 | EFFICIENT RECONSTRUCTION OF VIRTUAL DISK HIERARCHIES ACROSS STORAGE DOMAINS - A method and software is described for recreating on a target datastore a set of hierarchical files that are present on a source datastore. A content identifier (ID) is maintained for each component of the set of hierarchical files. The content ID of a component is updated when its contents are modified. The child component is copied from the source datastore to the target datastore. The content ID corresponding to the parent component on the source datastore is compared with content IDs corresponding to files present on the target datastore. When a matching content ID is discovered, it infers a copy of the parent component. The matching file on the target datastore is associated with the copied child component so that the matching file becomes a new parent component to the copied child component, thereby recreating the set of hierarchical files on the target. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298126 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND DATA RELAY DEVICE - Each switch blade receives, from a CPU server serving as a migration destination to which a VM to be migrated is migrated, a setting request of port profile information corresponding to the VM. Then, each switch blade determines whether a VSI ID included in the received setting request is stored in a storage unit that stores therein the VSI ID identifying the VM. Subsequently, each switch blade executes processing according to the setting request when determining that the received VSI ID is stored in the storage unit. Furthermore, when determining that the received VSI ID is not stored in the storage unit, each switch blade forwards the setting request to an external switch that is an upper-level data relay device connected to the CPU server serving as the migration destination through the corresponding switch blade. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298127 | LOAD-STORE DEPENDENCY PREDICTOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT - Methods and apparatuses for managing load-store dependencies in an out-of-order processor. A load store dependency predictor may include a table for storing entries for load-store pairs that have been found to be dependent and execute out of order. Each entry in the table includes a counter to indicate a strength of the dependency prediction. If the counter is above a threshold, a dependency is enforced for the load-store pair. If the counter is below the threshold, the dependency is not enforced for the load-store pair. When a store is dispatched, the table is searched, and any matching entries in the table are armed. If a load is dispatched, matches on an armed entry, and the counter is above the threshold, then the load will wait to issue until the corresponding store issues. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298128 | MANAGED CONTROL OF PROCESSES INCLUDING PRIVILEGE ESCALATION - Determining execution rights for a process. A user selects a process for execution. A driver intercepts the execution and communicates with a service or its remote agent. Configuration data is accessed to determine an execution role specifying whether the process should be denied execution or should execute with particular rights to access or modify system resources. The execution role is provided to the driver, and the driver allows or denies execution of the process in accordance with the provided execution role. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298129 | CONTROLLING A SEQUENCE OF PARALLEL EXECUTIONS - An apparatus having a first circuit and a plurality of second circuits is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to dispatch a plurality of sets in a sequence. Each set generally includes a plurality of instructions. The second circuits may be configured to (i) execute the sets during a plurality of execution cycles respectively and (ii) stop the execution in a particular one of the second circuits during one or more of the execution cycles in response to an expiration of a particular counter that corresponds to the particular second circuit. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298130 | AUTOMATIC PIPELINING FRAMEWORK FOR HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for automatic generation of software pipelines for heterogeneous parallel systems (AHP) include pipelining a program with one or more tasks on a parallel computing platform with one or more processing units and partitioning the program into pipeline stages, wherein each pipeline stage contains one or more tasks. The one or more tasks in the pipeline stages are scheduled onto the one or more processing units, and execution times of the one or more tasks in the pipeline stages are estimated. The above steps are repeated until a specified termination criterion is reached. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298131 | CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION OF ARCHIVE MANAGEMENT SCHEDULING BY USE OF INTEGRATED CONTENT-RESOURCE ANALYTIC MODEL - A method and associated system for continuously optimizing data archive management scheduling. A flow network is modeled. The flow network represents data content, software programs, physical devices, and communication capacity of the archive management system in various levels of vertices such that an optimal path in the flow network from a task of at least one archive management task to a worker program of the archive management system represents an optimal initial schedule for the worker program to perform the task. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298132 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM AND SCHEDULING METHOD - A multi-core processor system includes plural processors; and a scheduler that assigns applications to the processors. The scheduler upon receiving a startup request for a given application and based on start times of the applications executed by the processors, selects a processor that is to execute the given application. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298133 | TECHNIQUE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NESTED PARALLELISM - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing nested kernel execution within a parallel processing subsystem. The technique involves enabling a parent thread to launch a nested child grid on the parallel processing subsystem, and enabling the parent thread to perform a thread synchronization barrier on the child grid for proper execution semantics between the parent thread and the child grid. This technique advantageously enables the parallel processing subsystem to perform a richer set of programming constructs, such as conditionally executed and nested operations and externally defined library functions without the additional complexity of CPU involvement. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298134 | System and Method for a Self-Optimizing Reservation in Time of Compute Resources - A system and method of dynamically controlling a reservation of resources within a cluster environment to maximize a response time are disclosed. The method embodiment of the invention comprises receiving from a requestor a request for a reservation of resources in the cluster environment, reserving a first group of resources, evaluating resources within the cluster environment to determine if the response time can be improved and if the response time can be improved, then canceling the reservation for the first group of resources and reserving a second group of resources to process the request at the improved response time. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298135 | Dynamically Allocating Multitier Applications Based Upon Application Requirements and Performance Reliability of Resources - The present disclosure relates to dynamically allocating multitier applications based upon performance and reliability of resources. A controller analyzes resources and applications hosted by the resources, and collects operational data relating to the applications and resources. The controller is configured to determine an allocation scheme for allocating or reallocating the applications upon failure of a resource and/or upon rollout or distribution of a new application. The controller generates configuration data that describes steps for implementing the allocation scheme. The resources are monitored, in some embodiments, by monitoring devices. The monitoring devices collect and report the operational information and generate alarms if resources fail. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298136 | MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM - A multiprocessor system includes plural processing parts configured to execute a program stored in a program memory; a common resource shared by the processing parts; a resource status table in which an occupation status of the common resource is written; a resource access table in which address areas are associated with occupation manners of the common resource on a function basis of the program stored in the program memory; and a controlling part configured to determine whether to permit execution of a function which involves occupation of the common resource by one of the processing parts using the resource status table and the resource access table. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298137 | MULTI-TASK SCHEDULING METHOD AND MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SYSTEM - A multi-task scheduling method includes assigning a first thread to a first processor; detecting a second thread that is executed after the first thread; calculating based on a load of a processor that is assigned a third thread that generates the second thread, a first time that lasts until a start of the second thread; calculating a second time that lasts until completion of execution of the first thread; and changing a first time slice of the first processor to a second time slice when the second time is greater than the first time. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298138 | PRIVACY APPLICATION AND METHOD - A computing device comprising an operating system comprising one or more operating system features, a plurality of applications and a background service. A first of the plurality of applications is adapted to create one or more privacy groups and associate a remainder of the plurality of applications with at least one of the one or more privacy groups. The background service is adapted to (i) communicate with the first of the plurality of applications and the one or more operating system features, and (ii) associate at least one of the remainder of the plurality of applications and one of the one or more privacy groups with the one or more operating system features. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298139 | INTERNATIONALIZATION OF OBJECTS EXECUTABLE IN A SUPERVISORY PROCESS CONTROL AND MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEM - An application object for a supervisory process control and manufacturing information system application distributable to a plurality of networked computer devices and having a layered architecture, the application object comprising a set of text entries listed in a first language, a dictionary within each object drafted to enable the set of text entries to be translated into a plurality of multiple languages, and a set of one or more translation fields for storing text in each of the plurality of languages corresponding to the set of text entries listed in the first language. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298140 | Method and Apparatus for Displaying Data from a Plurality of Concurrent Operating System Environments - A method includes running a first operating system environment and a second independent operating system environment, with both operating system environments utilizing a common kernel. The method includes mapping a home screen of the first operating system environment to a workspace of the second operating system environment, and generating display data for a combined workspace using the mapping of the home screen to the workspace. The method may generate the display data for the combined workspace, including at least one selectable application icon for selecting an application associated with the first operating system environment, and at least a second selectable application icon for selecting an application associated with the second operating system environment. A plurality of home screens may be mapped to a plurality of workspaces to create a plurality of combined workspaces. An apparatus having at least one processor is operative to perform the disclosed methods. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298141 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Contextual Information Between Operating System Environments - A method includes providing data and associated contextual information, to a first operating system environment by a second operating system environment, both operating system environments utilizing a common kernel. The data is utilized by the first operating system environment, based on the contextual information. The method may include installing the data as an application file, using the contextual information to understand that the data is an application file. An apparatus that performs the method includes a programmable processor, and memory containing executable instructions. The processor runs multiple operating system environments utilizing a common kernel. The second operating system environment is operative to provide data and contextual information for the data, to the first operating system environment, and the first operating system environment is operative to utilize the data based on the contextual information. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298142 | Method of Deriving Web Service Interfaces From Form and Table Metadata - A system and method of deriving web service interfaces from form and table metadata is disclosed. The method uses a discovery subsystem to discover services that are available on an application server, retrieves the metadata descriptions of the services on the application server and uses the services discovered and the metadata descriptions to create web services interfaces such that the service is available using web services description language. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298143 | WAIT ON ADDRESS SYNCHRONIZATION INTERFACE - In a first thread of a process a determination is made that a current value at a target address is not a desired value. In response to this determination, a first application programming interface (API) is invoked to indicate that the first thread is to sleep and be woken up when a second thread modifies the value at the target address. When a second thread modifies the value at the target address, the second thread invokes a second API to indicate that the value at the target address has been modified. In response to the second API being invoked, the first thread is woken up. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298144 | TRAY LOCKING DEVICE FOR OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - A tray locking device adapted to an optical disc drive for locking and releasing a tray is provided. The optical disc drive has an optical head connected to a lead screw and driven to move by the lead screw. The tray locking device includes a pushing member driven to move by the lead screw, a latching hook for locking and releasing a protruding pin, and a transmission assembly configured between the pushing member and the latching hook. The transmission assembly includes a first rod and a second rod movably configured in the tray. The first rod has a first driving portion, and the second rod has a second driving portion. When the transmission assembly is located at an initial position, the first driving portion is located on a moving path of the pushing member, while the second driving portion is not located on the moving path of the pushing member. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298145 | STACKING TYPE TRAY AND TRAY DEVELOPING MECHANISM AND STACKING TYPE TRAY DEVELOPING SYSTEM - To develop optical discs stored while being stacked and to load them to a plurality of recording/reproducing devices simultaneously. Trays for mounting optical discs are stacked to configure an optical disc transportation body, and the portions being exposed without overlapping when the stacked trays are viewed from the stacking direction are utilized as tray operation portions for handling. Supporting portions abutting against the tray operation portions inherent to respective trays in one to one correspondence are fixed with an interval in the vertical direction to the frames configuring a tray distributing/holding portion. The tray operation portion of each tray is held by the supporting portion at each position by moving the optical disc transportation body downward along the frames, and intervals corresponding to the arrangement pitch of recording/reproducing devices are formed between respective trays. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298146 | DETERMINING A FUTURE PORTION OF A CURRENTLY PRESENTED MEDIA PROGRAM - This document describes techniques and apparatuses for determining a future portion of a currently presented media program. The techniques and apparatuses can receive current media reactions of one or many people to a currently presented media program and determine later portions to present in the media program based on the media reactions. In some embodiments, for example, a program can be presented live, reactions can be received during the live presentation, and the program altered on-the-fly and in real time based on those reactions. Further, the alterations can be general or tailored to a group or a particular person. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298147 | ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON VIEWER FEEDBACK - A method, and a corresponding system, enable an advertiser to provide advertisements to viewers based on viewer feedback. The method includes providing advertisements for display to a viewer on a first electronic media display device; receiving a favorability signal for a first advertisement displayed to the viewer, the favorability signal originating from a second electronic media display device independent of the first electronic media display device, the second electronic media display device operated by the viewer; computing a favorability value from the favorability signal, the favorability value based on additional favorability signals; comparing the favorability value to a threshold; and if the favorability value is less than the threshold, replacing the first advertisement with a second advertisement for subsequent display to the viewer. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298148 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SCRIPTING - A computer controlled system and method for creating an interactive television show incorporates audience feedback gathered by way of Internet software. Selected inputs include e-mail, as well as telephone and telecopy with these inputs influencing various levels of the script of upcoming episodes. The system provides for enhanced entry of comments and feedback, gathered by way of a calculated overlapping of questions, to allow structured incorporation of such feedback into the complex process for producing weekly and other episodic television shows. This invention further includes means for optimizing advertising revenues through Internet data gathering and dynamic feedback by character webmasters. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298149 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND VALIDATION - Methods and apparatus for collection, validation, analysis, and automated error correction of data regarding user interaction with content. In one embodiment, statistical methods are used to arrive at expected values for the collected data. The data is compared to the expected value and must meet one or more acceptance criteria (e.g., be within a prescribed range) to be considered valid. The prescribed range is determined by the network operator, or a computer program adapted to generate this value. The invention enables a network operator to assess a large volume of data without requiring significant amounts of manual monitoring and/or error correction. The ability to collect, validate and analyze data across multiple platforms is also provided. Still further, an automated system capable of learning evaluation and error correction patterns is disclosed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298150 | COMMUNICATION SERVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, MEMORY MEDIUM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A communication server | 2013-11-07 |
20130298151 | DETECTION OF UNAUTHORIZED CONTENT IN LIVE MULTIUSER COMPOSITE STREAMS - Systems and methods described herein relate to detecting the existence of unauthorized content in multiuser composite media stream. In particular, multiuser composite media streams can be examined and to determine if these composite streams include unauthorized content such as copyrighted content or nudity, violence, language violations where desired. The multiuser composite media stream can be partitioned into sections associated with broadcasting users and the portions can be analyzed independently. A notification can be provided to, e.g., the broadcasting user responsible for the unauthorized content in response to detection of the unauthorized content. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298152 | Supporting multiple users from a single location sharing a media processing system via a personal media guide - Systems and methods of supporting multiple users from a single location sharing a media processing system via a personal media guide are provided. In one embodiment, a system may comprise, for example, a communication device, media content, and a software platform. The communication device may be coupled to a communication network. The media content may be disposed in the communication network or the communication device, and the media content may comprise broadcast media and personal media. The software platform may reside on the communication device, and the software platform may further receive authentication information and facilitate a display of a user-defined selection from the media content by the communication device in a user-defined layout. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298153 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention propose an broadcast reception system, wherein a program reception control apparatus is connected to Internet via a network interface to which a terminal apparatus carrying by a user. The broadcast received at an antenna is selected by a tuner, A/D converted, compressed at a compression unit, and encrypted at an encryption unit. The encrypted data from the encryption unit changed to packets at packet creation unit, and transmitted to the terminal apparatus via the network interface. A User is able to view the program in real time before the end of the broadcast for the program by successively creating data based on the received data, and transmitting them. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298154 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED ACCESS TO MEDIA CONTENT USING PLACESHIFTING - Systems and techniques are provided to distribute access to stored or other local media content across a number of different placeshifting systems. A server maintains a database of stored programs or other content that is available from at any number of different placeshifting systems. The server processes requests for content received from authenticated users by identifying a placeshifting system that has local content that corresponds to the requested content and that is accessible via a network. The server then facilitates a placeshifting session between the identified placeshifting system and a client device operated by the authenticated user in which the client device obtains the requested content. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298155 | VIDEO PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CODE FOR VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICES - The subject disclosure provides for user account authorization in conjunction with online multimedia television content services. By way of example, a network-enabled television device can request a video identification code in response to a power-on event. A set of video data comprising a picture of a distinct identification code can be received from a network server in response to the request. The video data can be played on a video display of the television device, to facilitate verifying that a user or viewer of the television device maintains a subscription account associated with online multimedia television services. Upon successful verification, the television device can be linked with the subscription account, and promotional content or services associated with the verification can be allocated to the subscription account. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING MEDIA AND TARGETED CONTENT - Systems and methods for synchronizing media and targeted content are provided. Timing data associated with playing media content from a disconnected media outlet is obtained. The timing data is sent over a network to a server. Synchronization data is received from the server. The synchronization data is generated without communication with the disconnected media outlet. At least one synchronized advertisement is received, where each synchronized advertisement is associated with a time code associated with the playing media content. The at least one synchronized advertisement is displayed based on the time code and the synchronization data. An e-commerce user interface is provided for at least one product associated with the at least one synchronized advertisement. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298157 | FILTERING - An alert generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, alert data indicating filters for specified alert types associated with possible future events. The computer processor receives monitor definition data and media generated audio/video data; compares the alert data to the media generated audio/video data; determines a first alert type matches first audio/video data of the media generated audio/video data; and determines that the first audio/video data comprises a primary event. The computer processor broadcasts the primary event. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298158 | ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION BASED ON A CURRENT MEDIA REACTION - This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling advertisement presentation based on a current media reaction. The techniques and apparatuses can receive a current media reaction of a user watching a media program and, based on this current media reaction, determine which advertisement is likely to be effective. Further, the techniques and apparatuses may inform advertisers of a current media reaction thereby enabling the advertisers to bid on a right to present an advertisement based on that reaction. By so doing, costs for advertisements may more-accurately reflect the value of the time in which they are presented and advertisements may be more effective. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING ADVERTISEMENTS - According to one exemplary embodiment of an advertisement allocating system, an image object marking and response element receives a TV program signal and then marks at least one object appearing in the TV program during a current time slot; a user element tallies all the users interested in the object, and collects all the feedback information from all the users on the TV program; based on an allowable advertisement set for the current time slot, an advertisement auto-matching element computes the correlation between each specific object and each advertisement of the allowable advertisement set, computes a score for each advertisement of the allowable advertisement set, and extracts an advertisement candidate group for broadcasting. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME AUDIO AND VIDEO COMMUNICATION - A method for near real time data communication is disclosed. The method includes determining available data from a first discovered device, and inserting a listing for the first discovered device into an electronic program guide (EPG). A system is disclosed for near real time data communication is also disclosed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298161 | UP NEXT VIDEO GUIDE FOR TV VIDEO PLAYER - An Internet TV shows which video clip in an Internet-provided playlist of multiple clips is “up next” for play. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298162 | MEDIA SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDED SEARCH TERM CORRESPONDING TO AN IMAGE - A media system and a method of providing recommended search term corresponding to an image are disclosed. Herein, a display device may be configured to display a still image of the content and a search window on a display screen. And, an electronic device may be configured to verify whether or not an image or a portion of the image has been dragged to the displayed search window, wherein the image may be included in the still image, and, when the image or the portion of the image has been dragged to the search window, the electronic device may be configured to send directions to the display device, so that the display device can display multiple search terms related to the image or the portion of the image as recommended search term on the search window. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298163 | USER INTERFACE HAVING READING LENS - A user interface, such as a graphical user interface or other electronic displayable interface, is contemplated. The user interface may include a reading lens portion configured to facilitate providing expanded viewing of content from other portions of the display. The reading lens portion may be displayed according to a non-linear timeline as to facilitate identifying upcoming contents without being constrained by a linear timeline used in other portions of the user interface. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTION, DELIVERY AND DISPLAY OF ITV APPLICATIONS THAT BLEND PROGRAMMING INFORMATION OF ON-DEMAND AND BROADCAST SERVICE OFFERINGS - A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further include managed content relevant to the designated category, where desired. Such designated categories may include television programming categories and/or content categories. The options for linear and non-linear programming may be presented together within a single screen of the user interface. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298165 | VIRTUAL CHANNEL TABLE FOR A BROADCAST PROTOCOL AND METHOD OF BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS USING THE SAME - A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298166 | ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE WITH RELATED-PROGRAM SEARCH FEATURE - A system for searching for programs is provided. The system. may allow the user to indicate an interest in a given program and to request that the system locate programs related to the given program. The system may locate program listings related to the given program. (e.g., based on attributes of the given program), display a list of located listings and allow the user to select listings from the list. For a program selected from the list, the system may tune to the program, may display an information display screen for the program, etc. The system may allow the user to configure and save search parameters, sort related program listings based on the attributes of the given program. For a saved search, the system may allow the user to retrieve the search to locate currently available program listings, receive automatic notifications of programs matching the search, modify the search, etc. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298167 | DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNAL, DIGITAL TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNAL - A digital television (DTV) signal for use in a DTV receiver includes an extended text table (ETT) which includes a header and a message body. The header includes a table identification extension field which serves to establish uniqueness of the ETT, and the message includes an extended text message (ETM). If the ETT is an event ETT, the table ID extension field includes an event identification which specifies an identification number of an event associated with the ETT. On the other hand, if the ETT is a channel ETT, the table identification extension field includes a source identification which specifies a programming source of a virtual channel associated with the ETT. A section-filtering unit included in the DTV receiver is able to use table identification extension fields of a plurality of ETTs for section-filtering a pertinent event or channel ETT from the ETTs. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL SHOPPING - Disclosed herein, in various embodiments, are methods and apparatus incorporating, among other things, the concept of using, in particular but without limitation, traditionally non-commercial programming as a medium for selling products or services on-line, and again in particular over the Internet. Using this concept, for example, an element identified in motion picture programming can be made identifiable by a viewer of the motion picture programming, and thereby enabling a viewer to determine the source, location, or other information referred to by the element. Using this concept, for example, a viewer viewing a soap opera is able to use a device to electronically select a element identified in the broadcast. In turn, information referred to by the content element can be displayed to the viewer, including purchase information. Using this particular concept of the invention, traditionally non-commercial programming can be efficiently used to indirectly advertise goods or services and offer them for sale on-line. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298169 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING APPLICATION, AND DEVICE - A broadcasting receiving apparatus capable of communicating with a secondary device includes a receiving module configured to receive application information relating to a selected program; and a control module configured to receive a control command from a control device, wherein the control module, in response to a predetermined control signal, controls the secondary device to execute an application identified by the application information, when the secondary device is registered in order to communicate with the broadcast receiving apparatus. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298170 | VIDEO STREAMING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE RECOVERY USING A VIDEO QUALITY METRIC - A method for quality of experience recovery for a plurality of video streams associated with a plurality of user terminals in a communication network, the method comprising determining that an overall video quality metric associated with the plurality of video streams is below a first threshold value, selecting at least one of the plurality of video streams based on at least one video stream metric corresponding to each video stream, and applying at least one load reduction action to each selected video stream whereby the at least one load reduction action reduces a required network resource load associated with the selected video stream. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298171 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING CONTENT DATA, METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTENT DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To effectively reduce the load on a device involved in converting the format of content data. A storage unit ( | 2013-11-07 |
20130298172 | MOBILE VIDEO SYSTEM - A mobile video system includes a first video source, a second video source, a first video monitor, a second video monitor, an audio signal receiver, and a wireless transmitter. One of the first video source and the second video source generates a first audiovisual signal. One of the first video monitor and the second video monitor receives a video portion of at least one of the first audiovisual signal and the second audiovisual signal. The wireless transmitter transmits an audio portion of one of the first audiovisual signal or the second audiovisual signal to the audio signal receiver. A video portion of the first audiovisual signal or the second audiovisual signal is displayed on the first video monitor, on the second video monitor, or on both the first video monitor and the second video monitor. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298173 | AIRCRAFT IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH ROBUST DAISY-CHAINED NETWORK - An aircraft in-flight entertainment system includes a plurality of seat electronic units (SEUs) that are daisy chained through a packet data network (PDN) loop to a content server containing media content. The SEU includes a power supply, a communication switch, a processor, a communication interface, and a power control circuit. The power supply supplies power to the communication switch, the processor, and the communication interface. The communication switch selectively routes packets containing media content through the processor and the communication interface to the video display unit, or through a segment of the PDN loop to a downstream electronic unit. The power control circuit responds to the power supply supplying less than a threshold level of power by supplying power to the communication switch from the segment of the PDN loop connected to the upstream electronic unit and/or the downstream electronic unit. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298174 | SERVICE BASED POWER MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK - Power management techniques for a network device providing services to other network devices. In one embodiment, a first device communicates requests for access to and release of a resource (such as a media serving service) hosted by a second device. Power management functionality in the second device selectively controls power to the resource based, at least in part, on such requests. For example, a resource may be placed in an inactive state following receipt of a request for release of the resource. Access to the resource may be provided through a network interface that is separately activated or deactivated by the power management functionality. In further embodiments, information relating to the state of the resource and/or network interface is provided by a proxy device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298175 | CONSTRUCTING A CUSTOMIZED MESSAGE IN A VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SERVICE - A method, system and computer program product for creating a customized message in a video-on-demand service, in which a user accesses the service using a communications device. In an embodiment, the method comprises using a video-on-demand server to intercept the access by the user of the video-on-demand service, obtain information about video content of a local cache of the video-on-demand service, obtain a profile of the user, and identify a context of the user. A customized message is constructed for the communications device based on the information about the local cache, the profile of the user, and the context of the user. The video-on-demand server sends the customized message to the communications device. In one embodiment, the user accesses the video-on-demand service through an edge base station of a core network, and the video-on-demand server is in this base station of the core network. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298176 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING INTERACTIVE MEDIA CONTENT REQUESTS USING MOBILE MEDIA MANAGER AND VIRTUAL LOCATION MEDIA SERVERS - A digital media selection, retrieval and delivery apparatus and method includes a mobile media manager controller disposed in communication with one physical location media server. One or more virtual location media server is embodied in computer readable medium in a computing device are disposed in communication between the media manager controller and different audio-visual playback devices. A user request for a selected media to be played on a selected audio visual device is routed through the mobile media manager controller, and one selected virtual location media server to the specified audio visual device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING CONTENT IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for transmitting content in a content-transmission system are provided. The apparatus includes a service provider to construct a service using a plurality of pieces of content, and to transmit the service via one or more paths over a heterogeneous network, such that the service may be consumed in a converged environment. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298178 | System and Method for Remote-Hosted Video Effects - A method for remote-hosted video effects includes rendering an application frame buffer in a hosting service that is streaming interactive video. Only a portion of the application frame buffer is subsequently displayed on a local device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298179 | COMPANION DEVICE SERVICES BASED ON THE GENERATION AND DISPLAY OF VISUAL CODES ON A DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a method includes launching an application on a first device. The application allows the first device to trigger a service based on a program being played on a second device. The first device captures a visual code being displayed in association with the program being played on the second device. The visual code includes encoded information for program ID information associated with the program being played on the second device and timing information associated with the program being played on the second device. The method determines the program ID information and the timing information from the encoded information included in the visual code and then triggers the service for the application using the timing information and the program ID information. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298180 | COTENT RECOGNITION AND CENSORSHIP - A method for controlling the output of media content, particularly audio content, to a user in relation to an apparatus, such as a set-top-box, having an input, for receiving media content, and an output, for providing the media content to an output device such as a television or other display device. Media content is received at the input and then analysed using a media content recognition unit. The media content recognition unit undertakes the step of identifying portions of the received media content that contain undesired content, such as offensive language. The output of media content to a user is then controlled, based on any identified undesired content, to prevent the output of content when the identified undesired portions are to be output. A corresponding apparatus and computer program are also provided. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298181 | NOISE, ENCRYPTION, AND DECOYS FOR COMMUNICATIONS IN A DYNAMIC COMPUTER NETWORK - A method and apparatus for processing data messages in a dynamic computer network is disclosed. The method includes implementing a mission plan specifying a message type, a message generation location, and a message distance vector for false messages, receiving a data message that includes a plurality of identity parameters, and determining a message type and a message distance vector for the received message. The network device is configured to generate false messages and process received messages. If the message type is a false message and the distance vector of the false message has been exhausted, the data message is dropped. If the distance vector of the false message has not been exhausted, transmitting the false message in accordance with the mission plan. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298182 | POLICY-BASED CONFIGURATION OF INTERNET PROTOCOL SECURITY FOR A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK - A method for performing policy-based configuration of Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) for a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is provided. According to one embodiment, a browser-based interface of a network device displays a policy page through which multiple settings may be configured for a VPN connection. The settings include a type of IPSec tunnel to be established between the network device and a peer. One or more parameter values corresponding to one or more of the settings are received and responsive thereto a policy file is created or modified corresponding to the VPN connection. The policy file has contained therein multiple parameter values corresponding to the settings. Establishment of the VPN connection between the network device and the peer is requested based on the parameter values contained within the policy file by sending a notification request, including the policy file, from the network device to the peer. | 2013-11-07 |