University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer
University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer Patent applications | ||
Patent application number | Title | Published |
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20140015749 | CLOSED-LOOP CROWD CONTROL OF EXISTING INTERFACE - “A computer-implemented method and system (“Legion”) for capturing and outsourcing an existing graphical user interface (“GUI”) of an application to a crowd for their collaborative real-time control using an input device are provided. A crowd refers to a dynamic pool of one or a plurality of anonymous worker of varying skill level and/or reliability. The pool is dynamic because workers are able to come and go at their leisure and no specific worker can be relied upon to be available at a given time or to continue working on a job for a specific amount of time. Mediation strategies for integrating the input of multiple crowd workers in real-time is also provided.” | 01-16-2014 |
20120179877 | MECHANISM TO SUPPORT FLEXIBLE DECOUPLED TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY - The present invention employs three decoupled hardware mechanisms: read and write signatures, which summarize per-thread access sets; per-thread conflict summary tables, which identify the threads with which conflicts have occurred; and a lazy versioning mechanism, which maintains the speculative updates in the local cache and employs a thread-private buffer (in virtual memory) only in the rare event of an overflow. The conflict summary tables allow lazy conflict management to occur locally, with no global arbitration (they also support eager management). All three mechanisms are kept software-accessible, to enable virtualization and to support transactions of arbitrary length. | 07-12-2012 |