51st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
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20100325602 | OPEN SYSTEMS DEVELOPER PORTAL - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a plurality of development projects. A network portal receives a first request to be accessed using a single user account. The network portal defines a namespace. The namespace comprises a system for specifying a set of elements associated with the plurality of development projects. Corresponding members of the set of elements are associated with corresponding development projects within the plurality of development projects. The network portal allows a user, using the single user account, to access any of the corresponding members of the set of elements and any of the corresponding development projects. A second request is received to access a first element within the set of elements via the network portal and using the namespace. The first element is retrieved. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325603 | COMPUTER METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENFORCING DERIVED UNION CONSTRAINTS - A computer method and system preserves derived union constraints and enforces the same in generated target code. The method includes (a) providing a model element having one or more derived union properties, (b) tracking derived union constraints from the derived union properties of the model element, and (c) interpreting the tracked derived union constraints and generating therefrom an implementation that enforces the derived union constraint. Tracking may be by annotating the model element accordingly. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING COST ESTIMATION IN A SERVICE PROVIDER ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for providing cost estimation in performing a work project on communications infrastructure may include accessing a first data record generated by a first software tool, where the first data record includes data that specifies a work project on communications infrastructure. A second data record utilized by a second software tool may be populated utilizing the data of the first data record. A data set that is related to a combination of a first data element and a second data element of the first data record may be accessed. Using the second software tool, the data set may be presented to a user in a selectable format to enable the user to select a third data element from the presented data set, where the third data element may be used to estimate a cost for performing the work project. A cost estimate based on the third data element may be generated and presented to the user using the second software tool. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325605 | GRAPHICAL MODELING TOOL - A method for implementing a graphical modeling tool in a web-based environment is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such a method may include enabling a user to import, into a web-based environment, a domain meta model comprising a number of meta model elements. The method may further enable the user to associate the meta model elements with graphical representations in the web-based environment, thereby allowing the user to create palette elements. The user may then assemble the palette elements on a canvas to create a diagram. This diagram may be converted into an instance of the domain meta model. This instance may be validated for conformance with the rules and constraints associated with the domain meta model. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325606 | COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEM - A computer implemented model-driven method to generate platform specific code for a user interface is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes, capturing customer requirements of the software component in a schema, modeling business-software architecture of the software component in a first level of the schema, modeling technical architecture of the software system from the modeled business-software architecture in a second level of the schema, defining events in the schema that connect the first level and the second level of the schema, defining links in the schema that represent interactions between the user interfaces, defining integration services in the schema for each of the events, mapping each element in the first level to a corresponding one of the elements in the second level using the events, links, and integration services in the schema, loading the schema of the software component into a code generation repository. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325607 | Generating Code Meeting Approved Patterns - A compiler deployed as a component of an integrated development environment (“IDE”) is adapted to transform source code into target code that is correct by construction by complying with approved patterns described by an external configuration file which is utilized to parameterize the generation of the target code by a code generator. The approved patterns can express various design requirements, guidelines, policies, and the like that are acceptable for the target code to include as well as those which are unacceptable. A rules generator that applies regular tree grammar is configured to encapsulate the approved patterns in the external configuration file using a formal description that is machine-readable by the code generator. A source code translator is alternatively utilized to transform non-compliant source code into compliant source code that adheres to the approved patterns. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325608 | GENERATION OF PARALLEL CODE REPRESENTATIONS - A generated grouped representation of existing source code can define regions of the existing source code. A set of the regions that can run in parallel can be identified based on the grouped representation. The grouped representation can be converted into a modified representation, such as modified source code or a modified intermediate compiler representation, which can be configured to be resolved or executed to self-schedule the set of regions to run in parallel as a set of tasks. Additionally, the source code can include one or more exception handling routines, and user input can be received to identify in one or more lambda expressions one or more regions of the source code to be run in parallel as one or more tasks. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325609 | RULE ENGINE SYSTEM CONTROLLING DEVICES OF DISPARATE TYPES AND PROTOCOLS - A rule engine system works with physical systems monitored by Internet-enabled endpoints on one hand and developer custom applications on the other. Endpoints operate in both the domain specific language of the rule engine, and communicate with participating applications in the native protocols thereof. Whether new or legacy, whether hardware, software, or firmware, whether having much, little, or no digital processing or communication capacity, the participating application may be monitored and controlled by an endpoint that communicates over the Internet with the rule engine. Individual developers prepare rule language files, containing data and instructions for the rule engine to implement through the end point. Any apparatus, whether exclusively mechanical, electrical, electronic, highly sophisticated electronic, or some combination may be monitored and controlled. Any participating application, from a mechanical lawn sprinkler to an Internet commerce server may be implemented thus. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325610 | CONNECTION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus generates connection information indicating a connection between a first component program and another component program based on definition information stored in a storage unit. The apparatus determines whether or not the other component program corresponds to a first identifier described in definition information of the first component program associated with a first icon displayed on a display screen, displays the first icon, a second icon corresponding to the first identifier and a link between the first and second icons on the display screen, and displays, on the display screen, an identifier of the other component program, which is determined to correspond to the first identifier, as a candidate to be connected to the first component program. The apparatus generates the connection information indicating the connection between the first component program and the other component program that is determined to correspond to the first identifier. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325611 | Providing Target Specific Information for Textual Code at Edit Time - Providing target specific information for textual code at edit time. Input specifying textual code or the textual code itself may be received. The textual code may be specified for a target device. The textual code may be analyzed to determine information regarding execution of the textual code on the target device. The information may regard at least one statement of the textual code. The information may be provided for display. The analysis and provision of information may be performed at edit time. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325612 | Selecting a Set of Candidate Code Expressions from a Section of Program Code for Copying - To facilitate code building, a user can identify an expression to be copied at a position in a source section of program code. Occurrences of the user-selected expression form a set of candidate code expressions. The user-selected expression may include some or all occurrences of a variable within an enclosing scope in the source section, program statements, etc. The formed set of candidate code expressions is presented to the user for user selection of one or more of the expression occurrences within the set. The set occurrences selected by the user are pasted to one or more target locations. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325613 | Documentation Roadmaps and Community Networking for Developers on Large Projects - A version control system includes a mechanism for a learning roadmap based on information available from a source repository. More particularly, the mechanism generates an easily understandable timeline of a project and a directory of developers based on information available in the version control system that contains the source content of a project. The timeline for the project may be tied to the directory of developers. Under each date in the timeline, a list of developers and their roles and commits may be listed. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325614 | DETECTING PLAGIARISM IN COMPUTER SOURCE CODE - Plagiarism is detected by comparing statements within source code of a first program to comments within source code of a second program. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING WEB-PAGE INFORMATION THROUGH WEB-BROWSER PLUGIN - Capturing web-page information through a web-browser plug-in includes accessing a target test website, receiving webpage data from the target test website, injecting test code into the webpage data to create a modified webpage, executing the injected test code from the modified webpage, and outputting results of the executing. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325616 | PARALLEL SOFTWARE TESTING BASED ON A NORMALIZED CONFIGURATION - A system of testing software is provided. The system comprises a first hardware system having hardware components to execute a first version of the software, and additionally comprises a second hardware system having hardware components to execute a second version of the software at approximately the same time as the hardware components of the first hardware system execute the first version of the software. Here, the hardware components of the first hardware system are essentially equal to the hardware components of the second hardware system. In addition, the system includes a simulator coupled to the first hardware system and the second hardware system through the same network. This simulator comprises an agent to input a substantially same amount and a substantially same type of input data into the first and second hardware systems for execution by the first and second versions, respectively. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325617 | Compiling a Graphical Program Having a Textual Language Program Portion for a Real Time Target - Compiling a graphical program including a textual program portion for execution on a real time target. The graphical program may be created on a display or stored in a memory medium. The graphical program may include a plurality of connected nodes which visually indicate functionality of the graphical program. The graphical program may include at least one node which corresponds to a textual language program portion. The textual language program portion may be written or specified in a dynamically typed programming language. The graphical program may be compiled for deployment on the real time target. Compiling the graphical program may include compiling the plurality of connected nodes and the textual language program portion for deterministic real time execution on the real time target. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325618 | FAULT TOLERANT COMPILATION WITH AUTOMATIC ERROR CORRECTION - A compilation method is provided for automated user error correction. The method includes using a compiler driver run by a processor to receive a source file for compilation. With a compiler component invoked by the compiler driver, the method includes identifying an error in the source file such as a linking problem or syntax error in the user's program. The method includes receiving with the compiler driver an error message corresponding to the identified error. With an error corrector module run by the processor, the method includes processing the error message to determine an error correction for the identified error in the source file. The compiler driver modifies the source file based on the error correction and compiles the modified source file with the compiler component. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325619 | FAULT TOLERANT COMPILATION WITH AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION ADJUSTMENT - A compilation method is provided for correcting compiler errors that include compiler internal errors and errors produced by running a validation suite. The method includes running a compiler on a computer and storing a set of optimization levels in memory accessible by the compiler. The method includes receiving a source file with the compiler that includes a user-defined optimization level to be used in compiling the source file. The method includes identifying a set of functions within the source file and using compiler components to compile these functions using the original optimization level. When the compiling results in an internal error occurring and being reported for one or more of the functions, the method includes using an optimization adjustment module to process the internal error and assign an adjusted or lower optimization level to the one or more functions and recompiling of these functions again with the lower optimization level. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325620 | EMBEDDED ANNOTATION AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS - Program source code is annotated to support dataflow analysis or other program analysis, without requiring changes to compilers. Annotation statements are embedded inside comments or other non-code-generative portions of the source code. The annotations can be used to express contracts at routine boundaries, allowing an analyzer to check the global correctness of the source code through modular (local) analysis, with performance that is linear in the number of routines. In particular, annotated SQL source code may be analyzed to identify SQL injection vulnerabilities. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325621 | PARTITIONING OPERATOR FLOW GRAPHS - Techniques for partitioning an operator flow graph are provided. The techniques include receiving source code for a steam processing application, wherein the source code comprises an operator flow graph, wherein the operator flow graph comprises a plurality of operators, receiving profiling data associated with the plurality of operators and one or more processing requirements of the operators, defining a candidate partition as a coalescing of one or more of the operators into one or more sets of processing elements (PEs), using the profiling data to create one or more candidate partitions of the processing elements, using the one or more candidate partitions to choose a desired partitioning of the operator flow graph, and compiling the source code into an executable code based on the desired partitioning. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325622 | Updating Firmware of an Electronic Device - Disclosed is a method for updating software of an electronic device from a current to an updated version. A first set of load modules of the software is required for operating the electronic device in an update mode. The method comprises: receiving and storing incremental update instructions, executing a first set of update instructions so as to update the stored current version of the first set of load modules with the generated updated version of the first set of load modules; booting the electronic device in said update mode in which only the updated version of the first set of load modules is executed; and executing a stored second set of update instructions so as to perform an in-place update of the rest of the load modules. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325623 | ROBOT SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE, AND SOFTWARE UPDATE METHOD OF ROBOT SYSTEM - A transmission-side robot control device ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100325624 | Method and System for Application Portability - A method of deploying applications in an application deployment environment comprising a plurality of servers is provided that includes selecting an application for deployment on a first server in the plurality of servers, and activating an application configuration engine provided by a central deployment repository, wherein the application configuration engine instantiates the application on the first server based on configuration information for the application stored in the central deployment repository. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325625 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEVICE LOCATION LIMITED DEVICE MANAGEMENT CLIENTS - Various embodiments pertain to managing electronic devices with different types of device location limited device management clients. According to one embodiment, first information describing first device capabilities | 2010-12-23 |
20100325626 | SERVING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FROM SERVERS TO CLIENT COMPUTERS - An application serving system is disclosed that comprises a target client computer that connects to a server system and subscribing institution host Web Server, over a network. Both the client computer Web server and server system implement a network protocol layer to communicate across the network. In a preferred embodiment, network is the Internet, or other public or private network, and the network protocol layers are implemented on top of TCP/IP or UDP/IP. Other network configurations and network protocols layers, however, could be implemented in place or in addition to the Internet such as wireless CDPD, GPRS, or other networks. The target, client computer is preferably a PC. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325627 | System for Deploying Software Components on Computation Units that are Limited in Terms of Processing Capacity - The present invention relates to a system comprising a software platform for deploying components on computation units that are limited in processing capability. The host platform offers a core framework means of deploying and executing components on the computation units, said means comprising:
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20100325628 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A terminal having a plurality of virtual machines in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of stakeholders is enabled to activate in compliance with the trust dependency relation among the virtual machines and a virtual machine monitor. The terminal includes: the plurality of virtual machines in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of stakeholders; a plurality of tamper-resistant modules in one-to-one correspondence with the virtual machines, and a management unit controlling the virtual machines and the tamper-resistant modules in mutually related manner. Each virtual machine securely boots with reference to a certificate having a trust dependency with one or other virtual machines. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325629 | Apparatus, System and Method for a User Profiled-Based OS for Mobile Devices - A tile bar for use in association with a graphical user interface associated with at least one operating system is disclosed. The tile bar includes a plurality of tiles indicative of one or more of an application, a file, a window, a data, and an outcome, an identifying tile among the plurality of tiles, wherein the identifying tile is uniquely indicative of at least one of a user preference and user information of a user logged in to the graphical user interface, and wherein the identifying tile is adjacent to at least one tile of the plurality of tiles, and a scroll for presenting ones of the plurality of tiles not immediately viewable to the user. The tile bar further includes each of said plurality of tiles comprises at least one of rotating about an axis, focused by a magnifying cursor, increased vividness, and blurring upon placement of a cursor provided by the graphical user interface at a predetermined proximation to each tile. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325630 | PARALLEL NESTED TRANSACTIONS - A system for managing transactions, including a first reference cell associated with a starting value for a first variable, a first thread having an outer atomic transaction including a first instruction to write a first value to the first variable, a second thread, executing in parallel with the first thread, having an inner atomic transaction including a second instruction to write a second value to the first variable, where the inner atomic transaction is nested within the outer atomic transaction, a first value node created by the outer atomic transaction and storing the first value in response to execution of the first instruction, and a second value node created by the inner atomic transaction, storing the second value in response to execution of the second instruction, and having a previous node pointer referencing the first value node. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING LOAD BANDWIDTH - A method and apparatus for dual-target register allocation is described, intended to enable the efficient mapping/renaming of registers associated with instructions within a pipelined microprocessor architecture. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325632 | Workload scheduling method and system with improved planned job duration updating scheme - A method for scheduling execution of a work unit in a data processing system comprises assigning to the work unit an expected execution duration; executing the work unit determining an actual execution duration of the work unit; determining a difference between the actual execution duration and the expected duration; and conditionally adjusting the expected execution duration assigned to the work unit based on the measured actual execution duration, wherein the conditionally adjusting includes preventing the adjustment of the expected execution duration in case said difference exceeds a predetermined threshold. The method further includes associating to the work unit a parameter having a prescribed value adapted to provide an indication of unconditional adjustment of the expected execution duration: in case said parameter takes the prescribed value, the expected duration assigned with the work unit based on the measured actual execution duration even if the difference in durations exceeds the predetermined threshold. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325633 | Searching Regular Expressions With Virtualized Massively Parallel Programmable Hardware - Logic and state information suitable for execution on a programmable hardware device may be generated from a task, such as evaluating a regular expression against a corpus. Hardware capacity requirements of the logic and state information on the programmable hardware device may be estimated. Once estimated, a plurality of the logic and state information generated from a plurality of tasks may be distributed into sets such that the logic and state information of each set fits within the hardware capacity of the programmable hardware device. The tasks within each set may be configured to execute in parallel on the programmable hardware device. Sets may then be executed in series, permitting virtualization of the resources. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325634 | Method of Deciding Migration Method of Virtual Server and Management Server Thereof - Occupancy amount of physical resource of a virtual server(VS) is calculated based on maximum physical resource amount indicating performance of a physical server(PS), the occupied virtual resource coefficient indicating relation of physical resource amount used by the VS to the physical resource amount allocated to the VS and the allocated physical resource coefficient indicating relation of the allocated physical resource to the maximum physical resource amount of the PS, and change value of the occupied physical resource amount from a predetermined occupied physical resource amount is calculated based on the calculated occupancy amount and the predetermined occupied physical resource amount. The migration time required of the VS is calculated based on the calculated change value, variation ratio indicating degree of influence exerted by change of the occupied virtual resource coefficient of the VS on the required migration time and reference execution time set based on the predetermined occupied physical resource amount. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325635 | Method for correct-by-construction development of real-time-systems - Methods and implementations for constructing a real-time system are disclosed. The real-time system includes at least one module, each module having at least one mode. According to an embodiment, a method comprises: defining a mode period for each mode for a repeated execution of the respective mode by the corresponding module; for each mode, defining one or more synchronous tasks to be executed by the real-time system, whereby each synchronous task is associated with a logical execution time during which the task execution has to be completed; defining an integer number of time-slots for the mode period of each mode; assigning to each task at least one time slot during which the task is to be executed. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325636 | INTERFACE BETWEEN A RESOURCE MANAGER AND A SCHEDULER IN A PROCESS - An interface between a resource manager and schedulers in a process executing on a computer system allows the resource manager to manage the resources of the schedulers. The resource manager communicates with the schedulers using the interface to access statistical information from the schedulers. The statistical information describes the amount of use of the resources by the schedulers. The resource manager also communicates with the schedulers to dynamically allocate and reallocate resources among the schedulers in the same or different processes or computer systems in accordance with the statistical information. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325637 | ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO A SCHEDULER IN A PROCESS - A resource manager manages processing and other resources of schedulers of one or more processes executing on one or more computer systems. For each scheduler, the resource manager determines an initial allocation of resources based on the policy of the scheduler, the availability of resources, and the policies of other schedulers. The resource manager receives feedback from the schedulers and dynamically changes the allocation of resources of schedulers based on the feedback. The resource manager determines if changes improved the performance of schedulers and commits or rolls back the changes based on the determination. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325638 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RESOURCE MANAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a resource manager that allocates a resource in response to a codec processing request from an application, wherein the resource manager has first information indicating the relationship between codec processing functions and resources and second information indicating the availability of the resources, and the resource manager identifies resources having the codec processing function corresponding to the codec processing request from the application based on the first information, selects an idle resource from the identified resources based on the second information, and allocates the idle resource. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325639 | ON-VEHICLE RELAY CONNECTION UNIT - It is possible to reduce the memory capacity of a buffer of relay connection unit and reduce the time required for deciding a message to be transmitted. A relay connection unit is arranged between bushes to which electronic control units are connected and relays a message transmitted and received between the electronic control units belonging to different bushes. The relay connection unit includes: a buffer which temporarily stores message in the order to receptions; a storage unit which stores the priority set for each of the message; and a processing unit which extracts N message in the order of the receptions from the buffer, reads the priorities of the respective messages extracted from the storage unit, compares the priorities of the N messages, and transmits the message having the highest priority. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325640 | QUEUEING MESSAGES RELATED BY AFFINITY SET - In a messaging and queuing system that supports a cluster of logically associated messaging servers for controlling queues of messages, messages are processed. In response to an application program command to a first messaging server, a queue is opened, the queue having multiple instances on further messaging servers of the cluster. Responding to first messaging server putting messages on the queue, messages are distributed among the multiple instances of the queue on their respective messaging servers so as to balance. For the first message of an affinity set, access information for the particular queue instance to which it is put is obtained and stored. The access information may be used in order to send the further message to the particular queue instance and, if said further message is not part of the affinity set, it is put to an instance of the queue as determined by said predetermined rules. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325641 | COMMON COMPONENT FRAMEWORK - A Common Component Framework (CCF) provides a container interface and a component interface for communication in a multi-tiered software application. Component context data may be transmitted to and from a container describing a current state of a component executing within the container. Context data may correspond to a specific entity (e.g., a financial entity such as a company or stock) identified by a user interacting with the component. The container may communicate the context data between different components to synchronize and coordinate component behavior, providing a more robust and coherent user experience. In addition to component context data, other information may be transmitted between containers and components such as properties, menu options, and data fields, supporting more complete integration of even web-based components into containers. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325642 | AUTOMATICALLY RE-STARTING SERVICES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically re-starting services. Embodiments of the invention can be used to re-start a service when it is determined that the service stopped during the processing pending work. A container manager durably tracks a service's status (busy/idle and alive/dead) and tracks transitions between statuses. Accordingly, when a busy service is deemed dead (due to any event), the container manager can automatically re-start the service. Upon re-start the service can check for pending work and start executing its pending work. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325643 | INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE APPLICATIONS ON A NETWORK - A system is implementable in a network including a plurality of electronic devices coupled to each other via a communication medium. The system includes a first mobile agent object executable on an electronic device of the plurality and operable to perform a first operation on a data set. A second mobile agent object is executable on an electronic device of the plurality and operable to perform a second operation on a data set. A composition object is operable to enable the first mobile agent object to provide the data set to the second mobile agent object if the first mobile agent object and second mobile agent object are executing on the same electronic device of the plurality. At least one bridging object is operable to enable the first mobile agent object to provide the data set to the second mobile agent object if the first mobile agent object and second mobile agent object are executing on different electronic devices of the plurality. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325644 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPORTING A DEVICE DRIVER INTO A GUEST COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system for importing, from a host computer, a device driver into a guest computing environment provided by an external media device which does not include the device driver, includes a first computing environment, a second computing environment, a device discovery agent, a device driver discovery agent, and a device driver installation agent. A device driver associated with a device available to a first computing environment is installed on a computing device. The second computing environment is executed by a virtual machine on the computing device, based upon data retrieved from an external media device. The device discovery agent identifies a device available to the second computing environment. The device driver discovery agent determines that the installed device driver is associated with the device available to the second computing environment. The device driver installation agent imports the installed device driver into the second computing environment without user input. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325645 | DISK GUIDING DEVICE - The present invention is related to a disk guiding device disposed on a disk process device, the disk guiding device comprises a base, a transmitting portion and a slayer. The base is disposed on a main body of the disk process device; the transmitting portion comprises a gear and a positioning module, wherein the gear is pivotally connected to the base and has a long gear and a plurality of short gears, the positioning module is disposed on the base for sustaining and taking the crown of the long gear for confining the rotation angle of the gear. The slayer is disposed and capable of sliding on a plane portion of the base, wherein a plurality of holes are disposed on the salver in sequence from an end-side of the salver toward the perpendicular direction of the end-side, and used for correspondingly engaging with the gear. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325646 | Virtual Community For Incentivized Viewing Of Multimedia Content - A computer implemented method and system for creating a virtual community network for incentivized multimedia content viewing is provided. A first viewer receives the multimedia content for viewing on a client device from a server provided in a networked environment. The first viewer refers the multimedia content to one or more second viewers in the networked environment for viewing and further referrals. The server controls access to the multimedia content and confirms viewing of the multimedia content by the first viewer, the second viewers, and nth viewers from further referrals using a random challenge. The server generates response reports based on viewing of the multimedia content. The server credits the first viewer, the second viewers, the nth viewers, etc. with one or more items of value based on referring of the multimedia content, multimedia content view confirmation, and/or registration of the second viewers, the nth viewers, etc, with the server. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325647 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INDIRECT ILLUMINATION IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA RATING SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus for indirect illumination in electronic media rating systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method to detect an audience member includes reflecting non-visible light off of a room surface to indirectly illuminate a first portion of the room, receiving reflections of the indirect illumination, processing the received reflections to determine whether an audience member is present in the illuminated portion of the room, and when the audience member is not detected, adjusting a source of the non-visible light to illuminate a second portion of the room. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325648 | CONTENTS WATCHING DEVICE AND CONTENTS RECOMMENDING METHOD - A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDITING AUTHORIZATION OF A SERVICE USING DISPLAYED WATERMARKS - Auditing systems and methods detect access authorization of a media device for a service during an audit. An exemplary embodiment receives an audit trigger at a media device communicating the service to a media presentation device, determines whether the media device is authorized to communicate the service to the media presentation device, and communicates a security watermark from the media device to the media presentation device. The security watermark is displayed on a display of the media presentation device and indicates authorization to access the service to an auditor performing the audit. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS - Systems and methods for automatically generating a playlist of series assets and systems and methods for grouping assets of a playlist in clusters are provided. In one embodiment, series assets may automatically be included into a playlist for that series. In another embodiment, an interactive media guidance application may group assets in clusters based on one or more user selected parameters or may group assets in cluster based on automatically determined parameters. In yet another embodiment, the interactive media guidance application may group assets in clusters and display at least one identifier in connection with each cluster to indicate a basis for forming the cluster. The identifier may be a key word or catch phrase that succinctly identifies a trait or characteristic of assets in a particular cluster associated with the identifier. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325651 | Video Signal Processing Apparatus and Set Top Box - This video signal processing apparatus includes a first resolution conversion portion, a first analog video output portion, a digital video output portion and a control portion. The control portion is so formed as to make the first resolution conversion portion convert a video signal to a digital video signal of high definition and make the digital video output portion output the digital video signal of the high definition when recognizing that connection between the digital video output portion and a display is in an on-state, also in a case where a broadcast signal includes a signal for restricting output of the video signal of the high definition. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325652 | METHOD OF PERFORMING DATA COMMUNICATION WITH TERMINAL AND RECEIVER USING THE SAME - A method of performing data communication with a terminal and a receiver using the same enables viewing of a broadcast program and a video program of an external device outside the home. The method includes steps of receiving a control signal from a terminal via a network, the control signal including a request signal identifying a specific video program; processing, in response to the received control signal, the specific video program according to characteristic information of the terminal; and transmitting the processed video program to the terminal via the network. The characteristic information for the terminal may or may not be included in the control signal, since a system controller of the receiver may access a user information storage unit to retrieve terminal characteristic information indicating the appropriate format conversion for the terminal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325653 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Blocking Content - Methods, systems, and products block objectionable content and substitute alternative content. Multiple fields of a preferred tag are retrieved from memory. Multiple fields of an alternative tag, associated with alternative content, are retrieved from the memory. A number of matching fields, between the multiple fields of the preferred tag and the multiple fields of the corresponding alternative tag, are determined. The number of matching fields is compared to a threshold value. When the number of matching fields exceeds the threshold value, then the alternative content is substituted for the objectionable content. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325654 | COMMUNICATING A DEVICE DESCRIPTOR BETWEEN TWO DEVICES WHEN REGISTERING ONTO A NETWORK - A method for registering a first device with a second device over a wireless network includes receiving a registration request from the first device and sending one or more user input choices to the first device. The user input choices each specify a user input action available though a user interface associated with the second device. A device description describing the second device is sent to the first device in a manner that allows it to be presented to the user by the first device. At least one of the user input actions are sequentially received through the user interface in response to instructions provided to the user by the first device. The first device is registered with the second device if the user input actions received by the second device correctly reflect the instructions provided to the user by the first device. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325655 | Dynamic adjustment of electronic program guide displays based on viewer preferences for minimizing navigation in VOD program selection - Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325656 | Speculative video on demand - A method of transmitting a Video-on-Demand (VOD) program involves at a service provider head-end, separating VOD program data into first and second parts; transmitting the first part over a communication network to a recipient receiver for storage at a storage device as cached speculative data, where the transmitting is carried out as a data push when the communication network has available bandwidth to permit such transmitting and without regard for any order having been received for the VOD program to be sent to the receiver; receiving an order for the VOD program to be sent to the receiver; and streaming the second part to the receiver for reassembly into the VOD program at the receiver by combining the second part as it is streamed with the cached speculative data. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325657 | INSERTION OF RECORDED SECONDARY DIGITAL VIDEO CONTENT DURING PLAYBACK OF PRIMARY DIGITAL VIDEO CONTENT - A method of operating a digital video service set top box system is provided. The set top box system accommodates playback of locally stored recorded secondary digital video content. The method begins by initiating playback of a primary digital video program. Insertion points associated with the primary digital video program are detected; these insertion points indicate frame-accurate transition points in the primary digital video program. During playback of the primary digital video program, the recorded secondary digital video program is inserted at any appropriate insertion point in a frame-accurate manner. The termination of the secondary digital video program is likewise marked and triggers a return to the primary digital video program, at the original insertion point or any other desired insertion point which may exist in the primary digital video program. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325658 | TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS USING AN EDGE QAM - An edge quadrature amplitude modulator (QAM) including an input module configured to receive a switched digital video (SDV) stream containing at least one ad opportunity, at least one ad stream containing a plurality of alternative advertisements, and an ad playlist that contains a list of one or more of the plurality of alternative advertisements to be inserted into the SDV stream. The edge QAM also includes an ad insertion module configured to detect the at least one ad opportunity in the SDV stream and to insert one or more of the plurality of alternative advertisements in the at least one ad stream based upon the ad playlist into the SDV stream at the at least one ad opportunity and an output module configured to send the SDV stream and the one or more alternative advertisements to at least one STB. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325659 | Targeted television advertisements based on online behavior - In a method for delivering targeted television advertisements based on online behavior, IP addresses indicating online access devices and IP addresses indicating television set-top boxes are electronically associated for a multitude of users. Using user profile information derived from online activity from one of the online access IP addresses, a television advertisement is selected, such as by using behavioral targeting or demographic information, and automatically directed to the set-top box indicated by the set-top IP address associated with that online access IP address. Preferably neither the user profile information nor the electronic association of online access and set-top box IP addresses includes personally identifiable information. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325660 | RE-ADDRESSABLE ALTERNATE CONTENT - Providing re-addressable alternate video content to consumers during trickplay modes of operation. For example, providing first video content for standard playback to a consumer; receiving a first consumer request for a first trick mode operation during the standard playback of the first video content; responsive to the first consumer request, providing addressable second video content, different from the first video content, to the consumer; receiving, during providing of the addressable second video content, a second consumer request for a second trick mode operation on the addressable second video content; and responsive to the second consumer request, providing addressable third video content, different from the first and second video contents, to the consumer. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325661 | VIDEO/AUDIO BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND CUSTOMIZED BROADCASTING METHOD OF SAME - A video/audio broadcasting system and customized video/audio broadcasting method selects a corresponding graphic user interface among multiple graphic user interfaces according to an operation of a user on the video/audio broadcasting system, and uses the corresponding graphic user interface to operate the video/audio broadcasting system, for receiving and broadcasting corresponding contents of a video/audio signal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING POSITION WITHIN VIDEO FILES - A video navigation system that provides substantial video context to enable a user to more accurately navigate to the relevant portion of the video. A user is provided with visual content that is temporally and spatially organized. By moving a pointer either horizontally or vertically along the time-organized content a user can change the view to enable more accurate selection of position within a video. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325663 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING CHANNELS THEREOF - A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for channel switching in a broadcast receiving apparatus are provided. The method includes enabling a decoding unit when a broadcast receiving mode starts, decoding, when a serving transport stream is received via a serving broadcast channel, the received serving transport stream in the decoding unit, terminating the decoding of the received serving transport stream in the decoding unit, when the serving broadcast channel is switched to a target broadcast channel, decoding, when the target transport stream is received via the target broadcast channel, the received target transport stream in the decoding unit, and disabling the decoding unit when the broadcast receiving mode is terminated. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325664 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ELECTRIC PROGRAM GUIDE - In a display apparatus, an Electric Program Guide (EPG) is distinctively displayed to overlap with current broadcasting data being displayed. A method for displaying EPG includes determining whether an EPG display request signal is received while broadcasting data is displayed. When the EPG display request signal is received, at least one of brightness and chroma of a screen displaying the broadcasting data is modified. The EPG is displayed on the screen so that the displayed EPG has a different brightness or chroma than the modified brightness or chroma of the screen. This may improve recognizability and/or legibility of EPG by employing a modification in brightness or chroma when the EPG is displayed on current broadcasting data. For further improved recognizability and/or legibility, a border effect or a blur effect may be applied to a user's selected item in the displayed EPG. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325665 | Automatic Web Searches Based on EPG - An enhanced graphical user interface to a user, such as an electronic programming guide, including certain selectable attributes. When a particular attribute is selected, a network transaction may be initiated to a website or other network node. Information or other content received from the network node may be displayed as output. The output may include indications of upcoming or future programs that are related to a particular selected attribute. The output may also include a select link that operates to automatically set a timer to record one or more upcoming programs that are related to the selected attribute. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325666 | SYSTEM FOR CONTENT DELIVERY - A system for and method of transmitting audio and visual programming content, by identifying an amount of broadcast transmission capacity available for transmitting the content to one or more users. The content is separated into at least first and second portions based on user demand for the content and/or the identified available broadcast transmission capacity. The first portion of the content is transmitted, to a receiver/STB associated with at least one of the users, using the identified broadcast transmission capacity; and the second portion of the content is transmitted to the receiver using transmission other than broadcast transmission. The content can include nonlinear content. Transmission other than broadcast transmission can include unicast transmission, which can be in response to a user request and/or an initiation by a server. The received nonlinear content can be stored at the receiver for play back at a time different from the time of transmission. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325667 | SYSTEM, SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION SERVICE RELATED TO BROADCAST CONTENT - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a supplementary information service related to broadcast content. The system for providing a supplementary information service related to broadcast content being broadcasted to user terminal comprises a Time Information Creating Server for Identifying a start time information of the broadcast content; and a Supplementary Information Service Providing Server for receiving the start time information of the broadcast content from the Time Information Creating Server, calculating elapsed time for a specific scene based on the start time information, and providing a user terminal with an supplementary information corresponding to the scene based on the elapsed time, through a communication network. And the method for providing a supplementary information related to broadcast content being broadcasted to user terminal comprises steps of identifying a start time information of the broadcast content; calculating elapsed time for a specific scene based on the start time information; and providing a user terminal with an supplementary information corresponding to the scene based on the elapsed time, through a communication network. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325668 | TELEVISION SCHEDULE SYSTEM | 2010-12-23 |
20100325669 | BAND CONVERTER AND SATELLITE TELEVISION SYSTEM THEREOF - A band converter consists of a band-pass filter, a band-stop filter, a first power distributor, a local oscillator, a mixer, a switch circuit, a high-pass filter, a second power distributor, and a low-pass filter. The band-pass filter and the band-stop filter respectively filter a down-converted input signal to generate a first filtered signal and a second filtered signal. The first power distributor is coupled to the band-stop filter. The mixer is coupled to the first power distributor and the local oscillator. The switch circuit is coupled to the first power distributor and the mixer. The high-pass filter is coupled to the switch circuit. The second power distributor is coupled to the band-pass filter and the high-pass filter. The low-pass filter is coupled to the second power distributor. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325670 | Satellite Signal Distribution - Disclosed is a system and method for receiving satellite television signals. A centralized system component may be provided in association with the satellite antenna. The centralized system component includes at least one or more tuners and one or more demodulators. The centralized component may provide output through a network adaptor that provides output through a single output, which is a coaxial cable in one embodiment. The centralized component may send output in the form of packetized data directed to one or more set-top boxes by way of a network transaction. The set-top box or boxes may be operable to receive the network transaction and to process the data, as appropriate, for display on a TV/monitor. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325671 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR CONTROLLING A SATELLITE TELEVISION OUTDOOR UNIT VIA A NETWORK - Various systems and methods allow control information to be provided between a set top box (STB) or other receiver and the outdoor unit (ODU) associated with the satellite antenna over a control network in a network format, such as an IEEE 802.15.4 or other peer-to-peer network format. The ODU includes a network interface that receives instructions from the television receiver via a control network in a peer-to-peer network format. Received satellite broadcast signals are received, converted, demodulated or otherwise processed in response to the instruction received via the control network. The resulting signal is transmitted across a cable connection to the television receiver to thereby allow viewing of the television content by the viewer. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325672 | IN-HOME DISTRIBUTION RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY AND/OR SET TOP BOX - A multimedia residential gateway device for providing video services to multiple televisions within a home. The device receives incoming video content from a DSL, DOCSIS, or Ethernet data stream and outputs selected content to individual televisions, with the content for each television being transmitted over an ATSC or NTSC channel associated with each television. This eliminates the need for multiple set top boxes in a high-definition offering. Radio frequency handheld remotes for each television are provided which communicate directly with the gateway device. The device may also be provided as a multi-television set top box, wherein the device receives Ethernet data streams from a customer's existing residential gateway. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325673 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE SYSTEM WITH PAY PROGRAM PACKAGE PROMOTION - A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the package is provided to the user so that the user may decide whether to purchase the package. If the selected program is part of several packages, information for all packages is provided. The system automatically sets reminders for packages containing repetitive programming. The system monitors whether the user has watched any of the programs in such packages. When the user watches a program from the package, the remaining reminders are cancelled. If a user does not watch any programs in a package of any type, purchase of the package is cancelled and the user is provided with the opportunity to reschedule. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325674 | Method of Reducing the Number of Real-Time Video Transcodings with Adaptive Sourcing - An apparatus comprising a video transcoding engine (VTE), a video source storage (VSS) coupled to the VTE, a network engine (NE) coupled to the VTE and in communications with a plurality of user devices, and a media management system (MMS) coupled to the VTE, the VSS, and the NE, and in communications with the user devices, wherein the VSS comprises an original video source (OVS) and an adaptive video source (AVS) that corresponds to the same video content, and wherein the AVS comprises a content format that is more frequently delivered to the user devices than a plurality of other delivered content formats of the video content other than the OVS. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING A SECURED SERVICE PROVIDER MEMORY - A system and method for utilizing a secured service provider memory are disclosed. An electronic device is associated with a subscriber and is in communication with a data distribution network configured to deliver data by a service provider to the subscriber. The data distribution network comprises a server in communication with the data distribution network and the server configured to deliver a stream of data over the data distribution network. The electronic device comprises a first memory communicatively connected to the server. The first memory is configured to receive and store data from the server and it is accessible by the subscriber. A second memory is also communicatively connected to the server. The second memory is configured to receive and store data from the server, though the second memory is accessible only by the service provider. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325676 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DIGITAL REALISTIC BROADCASTING BASED ON NON-REALTIME AND METHOD THEREFOR - Provided are a transmitting and receiving system for non-realtime based digital realistic broadcasting, and a method thereof. The transmitting system includes a broadcasting TS generator for generating a 2-D TS for a 2-D image and an auxiliary TS for auxiliary information necessary for realistic broadcasting of the 2-D image, and a transmitter for transmitting the generated auxiliary transport stream before a corresponding broadcasting time and transmitting the generated 2-D transport stream according to a corresponding broadcasting schedule. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325677 | TV Network-Based Ethernet Data Transmission Method and Physical Layer Transmission Apparatus - Embodiments of the present invention provide a television, TV, network based Ethernet data transmission method and a physical layer, PHY, transmission apparatus. The method includes: determining in advance data transmission speed according to bidirectional frequency spectrum width reserved in a TV network; setting working speed of transmitting and receiving of a PHY transmission apparatus according to the determined data transmission speed to make the working speed match the data transmission speed; receiving and transmitting, by the PHY transmission apparatus, data with the transmission speed; performing, by the PHY transmission apparatus, speed matching for the data according to speed of a Media Access Control, MAC, layer interface; receiving and transmitting, by the MAC layer interface, the data after completing the speed matching. The PHY transmission apparatus includes: a transmitting unit, a receiving unit and a variable speed control unit. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325678 | BROADCAST SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, PRESENTATION DEVICE, PRESENTATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A broadcast system, transmission device, transmitting method, reception device, receiving method, presentation device, presentation method, program, and storage medium, whereby presentation of content can be flexibly performed. A transmission/reception system is configured of a transmission device to transmit data, and a reception device to receive data. The transmission device transmits object information for each object used for content. On the other hand, the reception device receives the object information from the transmission device, and generates content based on the object information. The present invention can be applied to a broadcast system for performing broadcast and so forth, for example. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325679 | PREFERENCE BASED PROGRAM DELETION IN A PVR - Systems and methods are described for personal video recorders (PVRs) and other devices configured for recording and playing back media content from a data storage unit, preferably a random access unit such as a hard drive. A system is described having network connectivity, such as a power-line communications, with other PVRs or similar units, wherein media content can be automatically shifted from one unit to another over the network, such as in response to changes in available storage space. Content transfers and deletions within the system being intelligently performed based on content status, user preference settings, and user preference information such as received from a preference engine, toward optimizing the value to the user of the content which is retained network wide. An additional aspect provides content restoration after mistaken deletion by the user or automated deletion functions. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325680 | STEERING MIRROR FOR TV RECEIVING HIGH FREQUENCY WIRELESS VIDEO - In a home system in which a TV receives video from various sources over directional wireless links such as 60 GHz links, a mirror apparatus is provided that can be configured to physically steer a signal toward a receiver on the TV to optimize received signal strength. In this way, RF energy that otherwise would be radiated in non-productive directions away from the receiver is reflected toward the receiver. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325681 | RECEIVER, RECEIVING METHOD, AND DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a receiver configured to perform browsing of information relating to a broadcast program to be received and/or recorded by accessing to an Internet server being independent of the broadcast program, the receiver including: a browsing module configured to perform the browsing; a recording module configured to start, upon a start of the browsing, recording of the broadcast program being broadcasted and viewed; and a replying module configured to return, upon receiving of an acquisition request from the Internet server, identifying information relating to the broadcast program that has been viewed so far or being viewed to the server. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325682 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TIMESHIFT AND PERMANENT RECORDING IN A STORAGE DEVICE ON A VIDEO BROADCAST RECEIVER - Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for managing timeshift and permanent recording in a storage device on a video broadcast receiver. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for recording programs. The system comprises memory, another memory, and a processor. The memory buffers recently displayed programs on a channel that said system is tuned. The another memory stores a plurality of instructions. The processor executes the plurality of instructions. Execution of the plurality of instructions causes writing the recently displayed programs on the channel that said system is tuned; writing a first list comprising at least one element, wherein each of the at least one elements indicate particular ones of the recently displayed programs; receiving an input indication a selection of presently displaying program for recording; and removing an element indicating the presently displaying program from the first list and adding the element to a second list. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325683 | Media broadcast emulator - Media broadcast emulator. A media processing device is operative to create a live program type experience for a user. Various types of media are combined to emulate a live media broadcast. Different portions of various media types (e.g., real-time media, stored media, etc.) may be combined to generate a program that emulates a live program. First media can be analyzed to identify characteristics thereof (e.g., meta data associated therewith: (1) music media: song title, rating, artist name, album name, year, track number, genre, author, publisher, etc., (2) disk jockey/talk radio commentary media: speaker, date of first broadcast, station affiliate, broadcast locale, etc.). Based on these identified characteristics, second media related to the first media may be combined with the first media to generate an emulation of a live media broadcast. Alternatively, it is noted that any desired playlist may also be constructed by combining user-selected and/or related media as well. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325684 | ROLE-BASED SECURITY FOR MESSAGING ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT - A role-based access control (RBAC) for the administration of complex services, such as for messaging. The RBAC architecture facilitates the creation of a role mechanism that describes any end-user, administrator, or partner action, of a set of scopes that address all populations, and a single authorization mechanism to handle role assignments through various mechanisms. Moreover, role and scope concepts are provided that universally apply to various management scenarios. A common set of primitives is defined that represent actions of enterprise and tenant end-users, partners, tenant administrators, datacenter administrators, and enterprise administrators. The primitives can include actions, action parameters, and API calls. Additionally, a set of scopes is defined that include self-relative scopes for end-users and tenants, and, absolute and filter-based scopes for administrators. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325685 | Security Integration System and Device - The present disclosure generally relates to systems and devices that share information related to computer and network security. In an embodiment, an integration device can receive a notification of a security event at a security device. The integration device can compare the contents of the notification against a set of rules, select actions to take based on the set of rules at other security devices, establish a connection to the other security devices, and take the actions over the connection. The integration device can take the actions by sending commands understood by the other security devices over the connection. The other security devices can be of different platforms than the security device or not interoperable with the security device. Additionally, the integration device can receive information related to log entries, security incidents, transaction data, or configuration data, and take actions based on this information at other security devices. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325686 | DYNAMIC ACCESS CONTROL LISTS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for creating and managing dynamic access control lists (ACL's). In a specific embodiment, a method of creating or modifying a dynamic access control policy (ACP) is disclosed. A current ACP for one or more specified resources is defined based on one or more membership rules for specifying users who can access the one or more specified resources based on user information that was or will be collected for a plurality of users. The collected user information includes at least user presence information or user communication data. The current ACP is retained for the one or more specified resources, wherein the current ACP is accessibly usable so as to dynamically allow a selected set of users, who each have corresponding collected user information which meets the one or more membership rules of the current ACP, to access the one or more specified resources. The selected set of users is changeable over time as different user information is collected over time. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325687 | Systems and Methods for Custom Device Automatic Password Management - In various embodiments, a method comprises receiving a custom login script from a first user, receiving a custom change password script from the first user, logging onto an account on a digital device using the custom login script from the first user, changing an old password on the account to a new password at predetermined intervals using the custom change password script from the first user, receiving a password request from a second user, approving the password request, and checking out the new password to the second user. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325688 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, includes: a registering unit for referring to a first storing unit for storing usage limitation information indicating a policy of usage limitation of a document which corresponds to a pair of a stamp image corresponding to an image representing that the document is limited in use, and the number of the stamp images, extracting the stamp image from document image information obtained by reading a paper document containing at least one of the stamp images, obtaining the usage limitation information corresponding to a pair of the extracted stamp image and the number of the extracted stamp images from the first storing unit, and registering the obtained usage limitation information and the document containing the document image information in correlation with each other into a second storing unit. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325689 | USE AUTHORITY ATTACHING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A use authority attaching device includes: a storing unit that stores use authority information corresponding to each of stamped images of various forms; a detecting unit that detects a stamped image from a document image obtained by reading a stamped paper document; and a storage control unit that specifies use authority information corresponding to the stamped image detected by the detecting unit from the storing unit and stores an electronic document corresponding to the document image in a predetermined saving unit, in association with the specified use authority information under control. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325690 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus, includes: a registration unit that refers to a use limit information memory which stores use limit information indicating a policy of a use limit of a document corresponding to a set of a mark image indicating that use of the document is limited and user associated information relating to a user associated to the document, extracts the mark image and person in charge information from document image information obtained by reading a paper document including the mark image and the person in charge information indicating a person in charge with respect to contents of the paper document, acquires the use limit information corresponding to a set of the extracted mark image and the user associated information corresponding to the extracted person in charge information from the use limit information memory, and registers the acquired use limit information associated with a document including the document image information in a document memory. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325691 | Systems and Methods for Enabling a Service Provider to Obtain and Use User Information - In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for providing user information to a service provider. The method may include receiving a message including a communication device identifier; storing the communication device identifier with an identifier associated with a user of the communication device so that the communication device identifier is associated with the user identifier; transmitting a consent request message to the user; receiving a response to the consent request message, which response indicates that the user has provided the requested consent; and in response to receiving the response to the consent request message, transmitting a consent confirmation message to the service provider. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POLICY DISTRIBUTION WITH PARTIAL EVALUATION - The present invention relates to a system ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100325693 | REMOTE AUTHORIZATION FOR OPERATIONS - Techniques for the remote authorization of secure operations are provided. A secure security system restricts access to a secure operation via an access key. An authorization acquisition service obtains the access key on request from the secure security system when an attempt is made to initiate the secure operation. The authorization acquisition service gains access the access key from a secure store via a secret. That is, the secret store is accessible via the secret. The secret is obtained directly or indirectly from a remote authorization principal over a network. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325694 | CENTRALIZED IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method of centralized identity authentication for use in connection with a communications network includes registering users of the communications network such that each registered user's identity is uniquely defined and determinable, and registering a plurality of vendors having a presence on the communications network. The registered vendors selectively transact with registered users, wherein the transactions include: (i) the registered vendor selling goods and/or services to the registered user; (ii) the registered vendor granting the registered user access to personal records maintained by the registered vendor; and/or (iii) the registered vendor communicating to the registered user personal information maintained by the registered vendor. The method also includes each user's identity being authenticated over the communications network prior to completion of transactions between registered vendors and registered users. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325695 | CONTENT DELIVERY SERVER, CONTENT PROVIDING SERVER, CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A foreign gateway (FGW) ( | 2010-12-23 |
20100325696 | SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION OF CONFIDENCE LINK AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION AND INDICATING AUTHENTICATION THEREOF - In a certified link authentication system, a terminal parses a web page and extracts markup information for a certified link. In addition, the terminal transmits the extracted markup information to a certified link authentication server. The certified link authentication server authenticates the certified link from the markup information of the certified link transmitted from the terminal, and transmits an authentication result to the terminal. The terminal marks the authenticated certified link with a certified mark, renders the web page, and displays it to the user. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325697 | MULTILAYER ACCESS CONTROL SECURITY SYSTEM - A computer-based system provides secure, configurable access to computer network resources. A human-readable language is provided for defining access policy rules. Rules in this language are converted in an automated fashion into filters applied within the various subsystems and components in a multi-layer security system. Network users are authenticated by an access control security system that obtains basic information about that user. Based on the user ID, a set of abstract policies can be retrieved. The retrieved policies are associated with the user and the groups associated with that user. Based on the retrieved rules, a set of rules for multiple layers of the network are generated and applied to those subsystems. Two or more of the subsystems may be placed in series with different types of processing occurring in each of the subsystems, reducing the workload of subsequent subsystems. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325698 | Trusted and Secure Techniques for Item Delivery and Execution - Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or imaged documents can be marked using handwritten signature images, seal images, electronic fingerprinting, watermarking, and/or steganography. Electronic commercial transactions and transmissions take place in a reliable, “trusted” virtual distribution environment that provides significant efficiency and cost savings benefits to users in addition to providing an extremely high degree of confidence and trustedness. The systems and techniques have many uses including but not limited to secure document delivery, execution of legal documents, and electronic data interchange (EDI). | 2010-12-23 |
20100325699 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND MANAGING AN ONLINE COMMUNITY CONTAINING A WILL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND DISCLOSURE SYSTEM - A Community Website hosted on A Hosting Server maintained by a Hosting Entity and communicatively coupled to a network makes a Resource Center accessible to a plurality of members. The Resource Center has content generated by the members. A Content Management System can manage content on the Community Website so that a friendship tool allows the members to establish virtual friendships with one another “friend requests” and to add them to their virtual friendship network. The Content Management System contains a will information management and disclosure system for holding will information that it unseals in accordance with unsealing conditions registered in advance by a member and/or when the member has become unable to express his/her intentions and discloses to a predetermined recipient. The members enter as electronic information their deposit information in a rewritable manner via a depositor's terminal. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325700 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE ACCESS MODES IN A DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A system, method and apparatus for providing multiple access modes in a data communications network includes a network access device having a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, and a switching fabric for routing data received on the plurality of input ports to at least one of the plurality of output ports. Control logic within the network access device is adapted to determine whether a user device coupled to one of the plurality of input ports supports a user authentication protocol used by a host network. If the user authentication protocol is not supported, then the input port to which the network access device is coupled is placed in a semi-authorized access state that limits access to a pre-configured network accessible via the host network. | 2010-12-23 |
20100325701 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A USER - In the field of communications, a method and an apparatus for managing a user are provided. The method for managing a user includes the following steps. An identity of a user is authenticated. After the identity authentication of the user is successfully performed, a service router (SR) authenticates a management authority of the user. After the management authority authentication is successfully performed, service configuration management is performed according to the management authority of the user. As compared with the conventional art, by moderately authorizing the lower level user, the technical solutions can reduce the costs of operation and maintenance, improve the efficiency and solve the problem in time, thereby improving customer satisfaction. | 2010-12-23 |