Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140032738 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING SUBSCRIPTION HEADROOM FOR A STORAGE POOL - Techniques and mechanisms for determining that subscription headroom is available for a storage pool. In an embodiment, the storage pool is classified based on a current subscription level for the storage pool and respective levels of one or more metrics for the storage pool. A signal is generated in response to a storage pool classification indicating availability of subscription headroom. In another embodiment, a target subscription level is determined for generating the signal, where the target subscription level is based on the current subscription level, a first metric of the one or more metrics, and a high utilization threshold corresponding to the first metric. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032955 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR DELAYING PACKETS DURING A NETWORK-TRIGGERED WAKE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method, device, and system for delaying delivery of incoming packets during a network-triggered wake of a host computing device includes receiving one or more packets from a remote computing device over a network. The host computing device holds or buffers incoming packets to delay delivery while one or more components transition from a low-power power-managed state to an operational power-managed state. The host computing device may hold and release the packets after passage of a reference time. Additionally, the host computing device may hold and release, buffer and inject, or buffer and replay the packets upon receiving notification that one or more components has transitioned from a low-power state to an operational state. The delayed packets may be acknowledged to the remote computing device to reduce or minimize the overall time needed to establish a connection. | 01-30-2014 |
20140055339 | ADAPTIVE VISUAL OUTPUT BASED ON MOTION COMPENSATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems, storage medium, and methods associated with motion compensation of visual output on a mobile device are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a storage medium may have instructions to enable the mobile device to acquire data associated with motion of an environment in which the mobile device may be situated. The instructions may also enable the mobile device to calculate motion compensation for at least a portion of visual output of an application of the mobile device. The instruction may enable the mobile device to calculate motion compensation based at least in part on the data associated with motion, for use by the application to adapt at least the portion of visual output of the application. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140057675 | ADAPTIVE VISUAL OUTPUT BASED ON CHANGE IN DISTANCE OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO A USER - Systems, storage medium, and methods associated with adaptive visual output on a mobile device are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a storage medium may have instructions to enable the mobile device to determine a change in a distance between the mobile device and a user of the mobile device. The instruction may also enable the mobile device to operate an end-user application that may adaptively present a visual output based at least in part on a result of the change in the distance. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140087656 | Providing A Locking Technique For Electronic Displays - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving in a persistent electronic display an authentication code from an end user, determining whether the received authentication code corresponds to a stored authentication code, and displaying a selected image on the persistent electronic display if the received authentication code corresponds to the stored authentication code, and otherwise displaying an obscured image on the persistent electronic display. This obscured image may be in an unreadable format in which information of the selected image is unreadable but a type of document represented by the selected image is determinable. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092006 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING RENDERING BASED ON VIEWER FOCUS AREA FROM EYE TRACKING - Devices and methods for modifying content rendered on the display of a computing device as a function of eye focus area include receiving sensor data from one or more eye tracking sensors, determining an eye focus area on the display screen as a function of the sensor data, and adjusting one or more visual characteristics of the rendered content as a function of the eye focus area. Perceived quality of the rendered content may be improved by improving the visual characteristics of the content displayed within the eye focus area. Rendering efficiency may be improved by degrading the visual characteristics of the content displayed outside of the eye focus area. Adjustable visual characteristics include the level of detail used to render the content, the color saturation or brightness of the content, and rendering effects such as anti-aliasing, shading, anisotropic filtering, focusing, blurring, lighting, and/or shadowing. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092142 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VIEWING PERSPECTIVE CORRECTION - Devices and methods for improving viewing perspective of content displayed on the display screen of a computing device include determining one or more viewing angles relative to a viewer of the content, generating a content transformation to apply a corrective distortion to the content to improve the viewing perspective when viewed at the one or more viewing angles, and rendering the content as a function of the content transformation. The viewing angles relative to a viewer of the content may be determined automatically using viewer location sensors, or may be input manually by the viewer. The content transformation visually scales the content by an appropriate factor to compensate for visual distortion experienced by the viewer at one or more viewing angles. Content may be transformed as a function of a single approximate viewing angle or multiple viewing angles. | 04-03-2014 |
20140173752 | HANDLING REPEATED REQUESTS FOR THE SAME USER DATA - In accordance with some embodiments, data may be automatically provided on preordained conditions for specific types of data. Thus specific types of data or specific requestors may be treated differently. The system may be programmed to respond appropriately to requests for certain types of data from certain types of requestors. This offloads the need to review specific requests in many cases and enables an automated system for providing requested data as appropriate. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181576 | MEMORY ALLOCATION FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES USING MEMORY MAP - Apparatuses and methods associated with memory allocations for virtual machines are disclosed. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a processor; a plurality of memory modules; and a memory controller configured to provide a layout of the memory modules. The apparatus may further include a VMM configured to be operated by the processor to manage execution of a VM by the processor including selective allocation of the memory modules to the VM using the layout of the memory modules provided to the VMM by the memory controller. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140244723 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-LAYER SECURE CONNECTION SET UP - Described herein are systems and methods for establishing a secure communications channel between electronic devices. In some embodiments, the secure data channel includes a secure layer | 08-28-2014 |
20140273956 | MOTION INITIATED TELECONFERENCE - Systems and method may provide for a communication device that includes a primary communications module, a sensor, and a secondary wireless communications module. The sensor may detect a motion towards a second device while the communication device is involved in a real-time communication with one or more parties using the primary communications module. The secondary wireless communications module may invite the second device to join the real-time communication if the second device is authorized to take part in the real-time communication. | 09-18-2014 |
20150058629 | Processing Data Privately in the Cloud - While cloud services can offer processing from personal devices or synthesized data from multiple sources, many users prefer their data to remain private. According to some embodiments, private user data may be processed in the cloud without revealing the user identity to the cloud service provider. Only the user or an authorized agent of the user and the service's hardware platform have access to certain keys. The service application software and operating system only have access to encrypted data. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067787 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENTS TO COMPUTING DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN USER VIEWING PATTERNS - A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic adjustments to features of computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes automatically monitoring usage patterns relating to a user of computing device. The usage patterns may be based on audio user characteristic or visual user characteristics relating to usage of the computing device. The method may further include automatically monitoring environment patterns relating to the usage of the computing device. The environment patterns may be based on surrounding environment having the user and the computing device. The method may further include facilitating dynamic adjustment of one or more features of the computing device based on one or more of the usage patterns, environment patterns, and user preferences. | 03-05-2015 |
20150086949 | USING USER MOOD AND CONTEXT TO ADVISE USER - Various systems and methods for using a user's mood and context to advise a user are described herein. Data may be received at a mobile device, the mobile device associated with the user. A mood of the user is determined based on the data. An event involving the user is identified and advice is provided to the user regarding the event, the advice based on the received data, the mood, and the event. | 03-26-2015 |
20150120800 | CONTEXTUAL CONTENT TRANSLATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure is directed to contextual content translation system. A system may comprise a device to present content to a user, the content being obtained from a content provider (CS). Prior to presentation, a contextual translation (CT) module may augment the content based on the context of the user. The CT module may receive the content from the CS, may receive information about the context of the user from a user data (UD) module and may augment the content based on the user context. Additional information may be provided by a relationship builder (RB) module, as needed, to help determine the correspondence between the content and the user context. Augmenting the content may comprise altering the content (e.g., changing or removing portions of the content) or adding information to the content, the information relating to how portions of the content may correspond to the context of the user. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127813 | CONTEXTUAL BROWSER COMPOSITION AND KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION - Various systems and methods for organizing knowledge are described herein. A context of a browsing session of a plurality of online resources is identified. User browsing behavior during browsing of the plurality of online resources is tracked. Using a computing device, a relevance metric of the plurality of online resources is determined using the user browsing behavior, with the relevance metric measuring a relevance of the plurality of online resources in view of the context. The relevance metric, an indicia of the context, and the plurality of online resources are stored in a database on the computing device. | 05-07-2015 |
20150219757 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDOOR GEOLOCATION AND MAPPING - Methods and systems to provide location and navigation information to a user within a building. In an embodiment, low power radars may be used to locate and track a user. Moreover, the systems and methods described herein may take advantage of the known layout of a building, or may ascertain the layout using the radar devices. This information may be used to direct a user from a current location to a desired destination. In some contexts, such as stores, radio frequency ID (RFID) tags may be used to identify a particular destination, such as a particular product in a particular aisle in a store. Multiple persons may be tracked as they move about the building, so that the more frequently used paths may be identified for moving from point to point. These identified paths may then be used in constructing a path for a user who needs directions. | 08-06-2015 |
20150269533 | USING CONTEXTUAL, CONSTRAINT AND PREFERENCE INFORMATION TO OPTIMIZE GROUP ACTIVITIES - Systems and methods may provide for generating a schedule for a plurality of tasks based on one or more of contextual information, constraint information or preference information related to the plurality of tasks, wherein the schedule includes a plurality of individual-specific task lists. Additionally, a real-time change in one or more of the contextual information, the constraint information, current status or the preference information may be detected and the schedule may be automatically revised in response to the real-time change. In one example, at least a portion of the revised schedule is communicated to one or more individuals responsible for completing at least one of the plurality of tasks. | 09-24-2015 |
20150334197 | HANDLING REPEATED REQUESTS FOR THE SAME USER DATA - In accordance with some embodiments, data may be automatically provided on preordained conditions for specific types of data. Thus specific types of data or specific requestors may be treated differently. The system may be programmed to respond appropriately to requests for certain types of data from certain types of requestors. This offloads the need to review specific requests in many cases and enables an automated system for providing requested data as appropriate. | 11-19-2015 |
20150379314 | RADAR BASED INTERPRETATION OF 3D CODES - Systems and methods may provide for transmitting an outbound radar signal via an antenna structure and receiving a reflected radar signal via the antenna structure. Additionally, a three dimensional (3D) code may be interpreted based on the outbound radar signal and the reflected radar signal. In one example, interpreting the 3D code includes determining depth data for each of a plurality of cells in the 3D code. | 12-31-2015 |