01st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100005313 | PORTABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - Portable telecommunications apparatus having one or more functionalities including providing user access to a telecommunications network, the portable telecommunications apparatus comprising integrated circuit card (ICC) reader circuitry, storage circuitry and processing circuitry, wherein the ICC reader circuitry is configured to communicate with one or more network-access ICCs; the storage circuitry is arranged to comprise a list of at least one network-access ICC authorised for use with the apparatus; and wherein the processing circuitry is arranged to undertake an authentication process on removable storage circuitry in communication with the apparatus to determine whether or not the security circuitry is authenticated for use with the apparatus; to allow the authorisation of network—access ICCs in the storage circuitry according to whether authenticated security circuitry is in communication with the apparatus; and to permit a user access to the one or more functionalities of the apparatus according to whether an authorised network-access ICC is in communication with the ICC reader circuitry. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005314 | IN-CIRCUIT SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AND USE OF SENSITIVE DATA - The invention disclosed herein is an in-circuit security system for electronic devices. The in-circuit security system incorporates identity credential verification, secure data and instruction storage, and secure data transmission capabilities. It comprises a single semiconductor chip, and is secured using industry-established mechanisms for preventing information tampering or eavesdropping, such as the addition of oxygen reactive layers. This invention also incorporates means for establishing security settings, profiles, and responses for the in-circuit security system and enrolled individuals. The in-circuit security system can be used in a variety of electronic devices, including handheld computers, secure facility keys, vehicle operation/ignition systems, and digital rights management. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005315 | METHODS FOR SECURE ENROLLMENT AND BACKUP OF PERSONAL IDENTITY CREDENTIALS INTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A method and system for securely enrolling personal identity credentials into personal identification devices. The system of the invention comprises the manufacturer of the device and an enrollment authority. The manufacturer is responsible for recording serial numbers or another unique identifier for each device that it produces, along with a self-generated public key for each device. The enrollment authority is recognized by the manufacturer or another suitable institution as capable of validating an individual before enrolling him into the device. The enrollment authority maintains and operates the appropriate equipment for enrollment, and provides its approval of the enrollment. The methods described herein discuss post-manufacturing, enrollment, backup, and recovery processes for the device. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005316 | BRANCH TRACE METHODOLOGY - Method, system, and computer program product embodiments for performing a branch trace operation on a computer system of an end user are provided. An encrypted mapping macro is provided to the end user to be made operational on the computer system. A trace program is provided to the end user. The end user executes the trace program on the computer system as a diagnostic tool. The trace program is adapted for decrypting the encrypted mapping macro, determining a storage offset location of a branch instruction; checking the storage offset location for an identifying constant, cross referencing the identifying constant with an entry in the decrypted mapping macro to identify a branch triggering bit and diagnostic information associated with the branch instruction, and returning the branch triggering bit and diagnostic information, the branch triggering bit and diagnostic information provided to a coder. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005317 | Securing temporary data stored in non-volatile memory using volatile memory - Temporary digital data received for storage in non-volatile memory are encoded using a key stored in volatile memory. The encoded digital data are then stored in the non-volatile memory. As long as there has been no interruption of supply of power to the volatile memory, the key is available enabling decoding of the encoded digital data stored in the non-volatile memory. Upon interruption of supply of power to the volatile memory the key is erased. Absent the key, access to the encoded digital data stored in the non-volatile memory is prevented. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005318 | Process for securing data in a storage unit - The invention is a process for securing data in a storage unit using public and private key encryption and symmetrical encryption techniques by a owner of the data for use by multiple users. The process including the steps of: 1) encrypting the data; 2) attaching encrypted meta data to the encrypted data providing access at a selected level to the data by each of the multiple users, the access level to each of the multiple users being the ability to read and change the data, or the ability to only read the data, or no access to the data; 3) storing the encrypted data and meta data in the storage unit; and 4) providing each of the multiple users with de-encryption means such that the encrypted data can be de-encrypted at the selected level granted to each of the multiple users. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005319 | HARDWARE PROTECTION FOR ENCRYPTED STRINGS AND PROTECTION OF SECURITY PARAMETERS - In one embodiment, a disk drive is provided that is adapted for security authentication. The disk drive includes: a non-volatile memory storing object code; a processor for retrieving the stored object code; a decryption engine for decrypting a retrieved shared secret from the object code; and a first memory for storing the decrypted retrieved shared secret; wherein the processor is configured to overwrite the written decrypted retrieved shared secret after it has been used in an authentication procedure. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005320 | Protected Midspan Power Sourcing Equipment for Power Over Ethernet Applications - A protected midspan power sourcing equipment for a local area network communications system includes a network connection subsystem that is connectable to at least one first network cable having a plurality of electrical wires, and a powered equipment connection subsystem that is connectable to at least one second network cable also having a plurality of electrical wires. The at least one second network cable is commumncatable with a powered end station of the LAN communications system and provides power signals and voice and data signals to the powered end station. A power source is connected to the second network cable and the powered equipment connection subsystem and generates the power signal that is provided on the at least one second network cable to the powered end station. Electrical surge protectors in the midspan power sourcing equipment are connected to the powered equipment connection subsystem and the at least one second network cable and provide electrical surge protection for the powered end station. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005321 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a wireless communication terminal | 2010-01-07 |
20100005322 | High Speed Isolation Interface for PoE - A high speed isolation interface which can be used to enable high speed communications between the isolated side and the wire side in a PoE system is provided. The high speed isolation interface may implement an Ethernet or non-Ethernet based signaling scheme. The high speed isolation interface can be used within both PSE (endspan or midspan) and PD systems, including single port and multi-port PSE and PD systems. Further, the high speed isolation interface is usable within pre-standard PoE, 802.3af PoE, and 802.3at PoE systems. The high speed isolation interface may also be used within 2-pair PoE (Alternative A) and 4-pair PoE (Alternative B) systems. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005323 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit with processors incorporated therein, which makes it possible to achieve a good balance between realizing low-power consumption control, and securing a processing performance that the practicability of real time processing is required. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005324 | SUBSTRATE BIAS SWITCHING UNIT FOR A LOW POWER PROCESSOR - The feature of the present invention consists in: a processor main circuit for executing program instruction strings on a processor chip; a substrate bias switching unit for switching voltages of substrate biases applied to a substrate of the processor main circuit; and an operation mode control unit for controlling, in response to the execution of an instruction to proceed to a stand-by mode in the processor main circuit, the substrate bias switching unit in such a way that the biases are switched over to voltages for the stand-by mode, and for controlling, in response to an interruption of the stand-by release from the outside, the substrate bias switching unit in such a way that the biases are switched over to voltages for a normal mode, and also for releasing, after the bias voltages switched thereto have been stabilized, the stand-by of the processor main circuit to restart the operation. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005325 | ENERGY SAVING INFORMATION APPLIANCE NETWORK AND ENERGY SAVING CONTROL METHOD - The present invention relates to an energy saving information appliance network and an energy saving control method. The energy saving information appliance network comprises a household network host and an intelligent information appliance. The household network host is provided with a signal interface module. The intelligent information appliance is provided with a signal processing module for communicating connection with the signal interface module. The signal processing module comprises a high frequency signal processing unit and a low frequency signal processing unit. The signal processing module is connected with an information processing and transceiving unit. The energy saving control method comprising sending, by a low frequency signal processing unit provided in an intelligent information appliance, an operation triggering signal to a high frequency signal processing unit provided in the intelligent information appliance upon receiving a low frequency triggering signal. The intelligent information appliance feeds back information which indicates that a hot standby state is to be assumed. The intelligent information appliance accomplishes information processing, and then switches from the hot standby state to a cold standby state. The present invention greatly reduces the power consumption of an information appliance network, reduces the probability of important components being damaged, and eliminates the fire safety risk. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005326 | Profiling An Application For Power Consumption During Execution On A Compute Node - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for profiling an application for power consumption during execution on a compute node that include: receiving an application for execution on a compute node; identifying a hardware power consumption profile for the compute node, the hardware power consumption profile specifying power consumption for compute node hardware during performance of various processing operations; determining a power consumption profile for the application in dependence upon the application and the hardware power consumption profile for the compute node; and reporting the power consumption profile for the application. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005327 | USB HOST CONTROLLER, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, CONTROL METHOD OF USB HOST CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A USB host controller includes: a suspend signal generating unit configured to generate a suspend signal for stopping the operation of a PLL circuit and output the signal to a physical layer including the PLL circuit if there is no communication between a USB device and a CPU in a first mode state of using a clock signal generated by the PLL circuit to transfer data between the USB device and the CPU; and a controller configured to generate the suspend signal for stopping the operation of the PLL circuit and output the signal to the physical layer in a connection waiting state in which the USB device is not connected and in a second mode state of transferring the data between the USB device and the CPU without using the clock signal generated by the PLL circuit. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005328 | Integrated Circuit with Modular Dynamic Power Optimization Architecture - A system and method for regulating power consumption within an integrated circuit (IC) with a modular design. The IC is designed so that any one distinct functional module within the IC utilizes only transistors with a substantially same or similar critical voltage level, which may for example be the threshold voltage of the transistors. Consequently, the supply voltage delivered to each functional modules can be lowered to the minimum voltage necessary to enable the transistors within the module to operate. Similarly, modules within the IC may be designed with transistors which share a common value for a substrate bias voltage or a clock speed, or with a combination of common values for several electrical factors. In this way, it is possible to reduce power consumption by fine-tuning the voltages supplied to (or clock speeds driving) specific modules, in a way which is custom-tuned to each module. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005329 | Storage System - There is provided a storage system including a file server connecting to a computer over a network and a storage apparatus connecting to the file server connecting over the network, wherein the file server includes a first controller, the storage apparatus includes multiple storage devices having multiple storage areas and a second controller that controls accesses to the multiple storage areas, each of the multiple storage areas has at least one power saving mode among multiple power saving modes with different shift times from the power saving modes to a ready mode, the first controller, in response to the reception of data from the computer, sets an indicator relating to the performance of response to an access from the computer to the data and refers to the indicator of the data and selects a first storage area having the power saving mode satisfying the indicator, and the second controller stores the data to the first storage area. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005330 | Static and Dynamic Power Management for a Memory Subsystem - In one embodiment, an information handling system may include a processor, a power supply coupled to the processor, a memory device communicatively coupled to the processor, where the memory device may include (1) a plurality of memory modules, and (2) a memory extender configured to extend a communication bandwidth of the plurality of memory, and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller may be configured to determine a status of the power supply and/or one or more of the memory modules, and based at least on the determined status, disable the memory extender. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005331 | AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN POWER OUTLETS AND IT EQUIPMENT - The invention relates generally to the field of power management in data centers and more specifically to the automatic discovery and association of connectivity relationships between power outlets and IT equipment, and to methods of operating data centers having automatic connectivity discovery capabilities. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING A GLOBAL TIMEBASE WITHIN A SYSTEM-ON-CHIP HAVING MULTIPLE CLOCK DOMAINS - A global timebase system and method for a system-on-chip synchronizes multiple clock domains in each of a plurality of receiver modules by broadcasting a global timebase count value as Gray code over a global timebase bus. A global timebase generator includes a binary counter and a binary-to-Gray-code converter. Each receiver module registers the global timebase count value with its own local clock and includes a Gray-code-to-binary converter. The converted value, in binary form, may be used as least significant bits of a globally synchronized local timebase. Most significant bits may be generated by a local binary counter incremented at each 1-to-0 transition of the most significant bit of the global timebase count value. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005333 | MICROTCA CARRIER, CLOCK CARD AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLOCK - A MicroTCA system is disclosed that includes an MCH, a clock card connected with the MCH, and multiple AMCs. The clock card includes a clock selecting unit, configured to select and output a clock source and a phase-lock unit, configured to generate a system synchronization clock according to the clock source selected by the clock selecting unit of the clock card. The MCH includes a clock drive unit, configured to drive the system synchronization clock generated by the clock card to multiple AMCs connected with the MCH. A clock card, a cascaded MicroTCA carrier, and a method for providing a clock are also provided. In this way, the implementation of the MicroTCA clock system is simplified, and the whole configuration cost of multiple cascaded MicroTCA carriers is reduced. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005334 | METHOD FOR ENSURING SYNCHRONOUS PRESENTATION OF ADDITIONAL DATA WITH AUDIO DATA - A recording medium, method and apparatus for managing data are discussed. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method of reproducing main data and additional data. The method includes receiving the additional data associated with the main data, the additional data being divided into a plurality of segment units; and reproducing the additional data in a synchronous manner with the main data using time information if indication information indicates a presence of the time information. The time information indicates a presentation time of the additional data with respect to the main data. The main data and the additional data are reproduced according to management data, the management data including link information for linking the main data and the additional data. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005335 | MICROPROCESSOR INTERFACE WITH DYNAMIC SEGMENT SPARING AND REPAIR - A processing device, system, method, and design structure for providing a microprocessor interface with dynamic segment sparing and repair. The processing device includes drive-side switching logic including driver multiplexers to select driver data for transmitting on link segments of a bus, and receive-side switching logic including receiver multiplexers to select received data from the link segments of the bus. The bus includes multiple data link segments, a clock link segment, and at least two spare link segments selectable by the drive-side switching logic and the receive-side switching logic to replace one or more of the data link segments and the clock link segment. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005336 | Method and Device for Exchanging Data on the Basis of the Opc Communications Protocol Between Redundant Process Automation Components - The invention relates to a method and a device for exchanging data on the basis of the OPC communications protocol, wherein at least one OPC-ready server is connected parallel to a master OPC server. an OPC client is connected to the master OPC server over a first communications link and to at least one OPC-ready server via at least one second communications link. The OPC client exchanges data over the first communications link and the master OPC server, and over at least the second communications link and at least one OPC-ready server with automatic devices, and evaluates the data transmitted by the master OPC server and at least one OCT-ready server. In the event of failure, the master OPC server is at least partially switched over from the OPC client to at least one OPC-ready server such that the program continues to run smoothly in the same place. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005337 | Data Transfer and Recovery Process - A backup image generator can create a primary image and periodic delta images of all or part of a primary server. The images can be sent to a network attached storage device and a remote storage server. In the event of a failure of the primary server, the failure can be diagnosed to develop a recovery strategy. Based on the diagnosis, at least one delta image may be applied to a copy of the primary image to generate an updated primary image at either the network attached storage or the remote storage server. The updated primary image may be converted to a virtual server in a physical to virtual conversion at either the network attached storage device or remote storage server and users may be redirected to the virtual server. The updated primary image may also be restored to the primary server in a virtual to physical conversion. As a result, the primary data storage may be timely backed-up, recovered and restored with the possibility of providing server and business continuity in the event of a failure. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005338 | Programmable Logic Configuration for Instruction Extensions - A processing system with reconfigurable instruction extensions includes a processor, programmable logic, a register file, and a load/store module. The processor executes a computer program comprising a set of computational instructions and at least one instruction extension. The programmable logic receives configuration information to configure the programmable logic for the instruction extension and executes the instruction extension. The register file is coupled to the programmable logic and stores data. The load/store module transfers the data directly between the register file and a system memory. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005339 | System for Automated Computer Support - Systems and methods for providing automated computer support are described herein. One described method comprises receiving a plurality of snapshots from a plurality of computers, storing the plurality of snapshots in a data store, and creating an adaptive reference model based at least in part on the plurality of snapshots. The described method further comprises comparing at least one of the plurality of snapshots to the adaptive reference model, and identifying at least one anomaly based on the comparison. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005340 | Test execution of user SQL in database server code - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with test execution of user SQL in server code are described. One example method includes producing a reproduced execution environment that reproduces a portion of an execution environment in which a user SQL runs. The example method may also include running the user SQL in the reproduced execution environment and capturing a statistic associated with performance of the user SQL while the user SQL runs in the reproduced execution environment. The method may conclude by storing, displaying, and/or providing a signal concerning the statistic. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005341 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF TEST REGRESSION WITH AUTOMATIC ON-DEMAND CAPTURE OF PROFILES FOR REGRESSION ANALYSIS - A system for automating certain processes of regression testing. One or more regression test cases are executed on a current build of a test application. Current application performance data are collected as a result of execution of the one or more test cases. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005342 | Redundant Error Detection in a Clinical Diagnostic Analyzer - Disclosed is a clinical diagnostic analyzer employing a redundant error detection capability to further examine the internal message traffic for possible errors or questionable results by comparing the actual parameters against a fingerprint generated for each assay using an assay database and a configuration file. This testing does not rely on inputs from the software module being tested, and hence is an independent test. Further, a testing mechanism is provided to test the Redundant Error Detection (“RED”) capability itself. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005343 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR PERIPHERAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FAILURE OF PERIPHERAL DEVICE - The peripheral device of the present invention is connected to a computer | 2010-01-07 |
20100005344 | Event-Based Communication in a Clinical Diagnostic Analyzer - A networked clinical diagnostic analyzer is disclosed with support for monitoring by a remote back office. The disclosed analyzer includes a module to detect in real-time events of interest while allowing the back office to modify the definitions of the events. The module may be networked using virtual private networking into the back office network, which is usually different from the network at the site of the clinical diagnostic analyzer's deployment. The real-time alerts allow both a quick response to actual or expected error conditions and the downloading of logged data that is likely of most interest and relevance. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005345 | BIT SHADOWING IN A MEMORY SYSTEM - A communication interface device, system, method, and design structure for bit shadowing in a memory system are provided. The communication interface device includes shadow selection logic to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and the shadowed driver value on separate link segments of a bus. The communication interface device also includes shadow compare logic to compare a selected received value with a shadowed received value from the bus and identify a miscompare in response to a mismatch of the compare, and shadow counters to count a rate of the miscompare relative to a bus error rate over a period of time. A defective link segment is identified in response to the rate of the miscompare within a predefined threshold of the bus error rate. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING DATA QUALITY METRICS INTO ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT PROCESSES - A method and system for assessing data quality stored in an enterprise database is provided. In response to a request by a user, a pre-determined event, or other event, a profile is chosen from a list of profiles stored in a profile database based on the request, wherein the profile includes a set of rules for calculating data quality metrics and for triggering workflow processes. One or more data records are received from one or more enterprise databases. The data quality metrics of the one or more data records based on the set of rules for calculating data quality metrics is calculated. Based on the calculated data quality metrics and rules for triggering workflow, a determination is made regarding whether to trigger one or more workflow processes: and, if so, triggering the one or more workflow processes; and/or converting the calculated data quality metrics to a representation for display. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005347 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A method of controlling a mobile terminal is provided. The method may include displaying an icon on the mobile terminal indicating that at least one access-failed website is currently accessible by the mobile terminal. The at least one access-failed website may be a website that the mobile terminal previously failed to access. In response to selection of the icon displayed on the mobile terminal, a website list may be displayed o n the mobile terminal. The website list may include information of the access-failed website that is currently accessible. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005348 | IMAGE FILE TRANSFER APPARATUS - Even if a write operation onto a storage media on an external storage device is interrupted, consistency of management information on the storage media is improved. An image file transfer device includes a transferor which transfers an image file stored on a storage media to an external device, a retriever which obtains management information in relation to a file system from a storage media included in the external device, before the transfer of the image file by the transferor, a non-volatile storage which stores the management information obtained by the retriever, and a deleter which deletes the management information stored in the non-volatile storage in response to a completion of the transfer of the image file by the transferor. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005349 | ENHANCED MICROPROCESSOR INTERCONNECT WITH BIT SHADOWING - A processing device, processing system, method, and design structure for an enhanced microprocessor interconnect with bit shadowing are provided. The processing device includes shadow selection logic to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and the shadowed driver value on separate link segments of a bus. The processing device also includes shadow compare logic to compare a selected received value with a shadowed received value from the bus and identify a miscompare in response to a mismatch of the compare, and shadow counters to count a rate of the miscompare relative to a bus error rate over a period of time. A defective link segment is identified in response to the rate of the miscompare within a predefined threshold of the bus error rate. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005350 | TEST MODE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME IN SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A test mode control circuit of a semiconductor memory device includes an input unit configured to input test mode data for at least one of a plurality of test modes, and a test mode controlling unit configured to enable/disable a test mode according to the number of inputs of the test mode data. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005351 | METHOD OF RETRANSMITTING DATA IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication method according to an automatic repeat request scheme in a mobile communication system includes transmitting a retransmission packet per certain time period (periodically) in response to NACK of a first user equipment related to a first packet transmitted within a frame group consisting of a plurality of successive frames, and transmitting a retransmission packet non-periodically in response to NACK of a second user equipment related to a second packet transmitted within the frame group. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005352 | PROGRAM TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, PROGRAM TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - A program transmission system in which a program is transmitted from a transmission apparatus to an image forming apparatus is provided. The program transmission system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire operational state information about an operational state in the image forming apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine timing to transmit the program to the image forming apparatus according to the operational state based on the operational state information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the program from the transmission apparatus to the image forming apparatus according to the timing determined by the determination unit. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005353 | CORRECTION CIRCUIT FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN A CHANNEL DECODER - A receiver for a mobile communication system includes a channel equalizer for receiving a burst and generating a soft decision output associated with the burst, a soft decision correction circuit follows the channel equalizer and a decoder receives and decodes a block of bursts. The soft decision correction circuit calculates a correction factor based on the soft decision output for the burst and applies the correction factor to the burst prior to the burst entering the decoder. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005354 | Detection and recovery of HARQ NAK-TO-ACK feedback error in wireless communications systems - In wireless communication networks that use ARQ/HARQ feedback protocols, when a first device receives an apparent HARQ ACK from a second device, the first device may make a new transmission using a HARQ Channel ID whose previous usage was under conditions indicating a likelihood of error in the ACK. When the second device receives the new transmission, the reuse of that HARQ Channel ID in a new transmission rather than a retransmission lets the second device know that its previous NAK transmission was incorrectly received as an ACK. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005355 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE WITH SYNCHRONOUS HARQ AND PERSISTENT SCHEDULING - A method of avoiding periodic interference by permuting periodic transmissions by a base station (BS) may include transmitting a frame of data to a subscriber station (SS). The BS may check for an acknowledgement of the frame of data from the SS and may schedule a next frame of data for transmission or retransmission based on whether the acknowledgement was received from the SS. The scheduling may include permuting traffic within the next frame in time or in frequency relative to similar traffic in a prior frame according to a predetermined function. The BS may generate media access protocol (MAP) information for the next frame based on the permuting. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005356 | Method and apparatus for combining hybrid automatic repeat request data in wireless communication system - A receiving method and apparatus for combining Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) data in a wireless communication system are provided. More particularly, a method and apparatus for increasing HARQ combining capability while effectively using a limited-sized memory are provided. The receiving method for combining the HARQ data includes predicting a maximum size of currently receivable data, converting HARQ data received from a transmitting end into Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) information, determining whether the received HARQ data is retransmitted data, if the determination result shows that the HARQ data is not the retransmitted data, determining whether the converted LLR information is compressed according to the predicted maximum data size, and storing the converted LLR information in a memory according to the determination result on whether compression is necessary. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005357 | Symbol Vector Mapping for Chase-Combining HARQ - A method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver includes transmitting a first data unit to the receiver via a plurality of antennas, the first data unit including a payload that has a plurality of symbols; determining whether the receiver has successfully received the first data unit; and, in response to determining that the receiver has not successfully received the first data unit, transmitting a second data unit to the receiver, the second data unit including the payload, such that transmitting die second data unit includes transmitting the plurality of symbols via at least one of different antennas and different subcarriers with respect to the first data unit. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005358 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING HYBRID ARQ IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A method of performing HARQ by a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system includes receiving a control message including resource allocation information, decoding the control message, if the decoding is successful, determining whether a previous control message is lost, and if the previous control message is lost, transmitting one of a null signal and a specific indicator through a response channel. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005359 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING METHOD OF A WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM FOR HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST AND TANGIBLE MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A communication apparatuses, a transmission method, a receiving method of a wireless network system for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The wireless network system comprises a base station (BS) and at least one mobile station (MS). The transmission method comprises the following steps of: transmitting at least one first burst having a first symbol and a second symbol to the at least one MS; receiving at least one negative acknowledgement (NAK) from the at least one MS; generating a third symbol by proceeding a linear combination according to the first symbol and the second symbol of the at least one first burst; and transmitting at least one second burst having the third symbol to the at least one MS. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005360 | IMPORTANCE-BASED FED-AWARE ERROR-REPAIR SCHEDULING - Particular embodiments generally relate to providing retransmission that is forward error correction (FEC) aware. In one embodiment, information is received that defines a plurality of missing packets for a media stream for a receiver. The plurality of missing packets may define FEC packets and source packets that are missing at the receiver. A retransmission server determines one or more retransmission packets for retransmission based on the FEC packets and source packets received at the receiver. In taking into account the FEC packets and source packets received at the receiver, retransmission of all missing source packets may not be necessary. The one or more retransmission packets are then sent to the receiver and the receiver can use the one or more retransmission packets to recover the plurality of missing source packets. The retransmission server may take into account the FEC and source packets received at multiple receivers and perform error repair such that a maximum total number of source packets can be repaired at all receivers. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005361 | RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A retransmission control method comprising: generating N parity check matrices; generating a generator matrix containing a check symbol generator matrix contained in the first parity check matrix; transmitting the codeword generated by using the generator matrix to another communications device; generating, when the communications device receives a NAK in response to the codeword, a first additional parity by using the second parity check matrix; and retransmitting the first additional parity to the another communications device. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005362 | SOUND DATA DECODING APPARATUS - A sound data decoding apparatus based on a waveform coding method includes a loss detector, sound data decoder, sound data analyzer, parameter modifying section and sound synthesizing section. The loss detector detects whether a loss exists in a sound data. The sound data decoder decodes the sound data to generate a first decoded sound signal. The sound data analyzer extracts a first parameter from the first decoded sound signal. The parameter modifying section modifies the first parameter based on a result of the detection of loss. The sound synthesizing section generates a first synthesized sound signal by using the modified first parameter. Thus, a deterioration of sound quality is prevented in the error compensation of sound data. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005363 | CODE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES FOR WIRELESS ROUTERS USING 802.11N PROTOCOL - Method and apparatus for implementing LDPC codes in an IEEE 802.11 standard system configured to operate in a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) schema. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises defining a base LDPC code, having a length equal to an integer number of data carriers in an ODFM symbol, transmitting the base LDPC code over a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein the base code is transmitted at an expected phase on sub-carriers specified by the IEEE 802.11 standard system, and transmitting the base LDPC code on other sub-carriers than those specified by the IEEE 802.11 standard system, wherein the base LDPC code on the other sub-carriers is transmit offset in phase from the base LDPC code on the specified sub-carriers. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005364 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND DECODING APPARATUS USING BLOCK CODE - An input unit receives an information sequence. A first encoding unit performs at least a portion of a block encoding process on the information sequence to generate a first code sequence. A second encoding unit performs the block encoding process on a first check symbol sequence in the generated first code sequence to generate a second code sequence. A generating unit combines a second check symbol sequence in the generated second code sequence with the input information sequence to generate a third code sequence. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005365 | ERROR CORRECTING CODE PROTECTED QUASI-STATIC BIT COMMUNICATION ON A HIGH-SPEED BUS - A communication interface device, system, method, and design structure for error correcting code (ECC) protected quasi-static bit communication (SBC) on a high-speed bus are provided. The communication interface device includes high-speed sampling logic to capture high-speed data from the high-speed bus using a high-speed sampling clock and SBC sampling logic to capture SBC samples from the high-speed bus using an SBC sampling clock. The SBC sampling clock is slower than the high-speed sampling clock. The communication interface device also includes an SBC finite state machine (FSM) to detect a received SBC command in response to a static pattern persisting for a predetermined number of the SBC samples and command decoding logic to decode the received SBC command. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005366 | CASCADE INTERCONNECT MEMORY SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED RELIABILITY - A hub device, memory system, and method for providing a cascade interconnect memory system with enhanced reliability. The hub device includes an interface to a high-speed bus for communicating with a memory controller. The memory controller and the hub device are included in a cascade interconnect memory system and the high-speed bus includes bit lanes and one or more clock lanes. The hub device also includes a bi-directional fault signal line in communication with the memory controller and readable by a service interface. The hub device also includes a fault isolation register (FIR) for storing information about failures detected at the hub device, the information including severity levels of the detected failures. In addition, the hub device includes error recovery logic for responding to a failure detected at the hub device. Responding to the error includes recording a severity level of the failure in the FIR and taking an action at the hub device that is responsive to the severity level of the failure. The action includes one or more of fast clock stop, setting the bi-directional fault indicator, setting cyclical redundancy code (CRC) bits and transmitting them to the memory controller, re-try, sparing out a bit lane and sparing out a clock lane. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005367 | PROBABILISTIC ERROR CORRECTION IN MULTI-BIT-PER-CELL FLASH MEMORY - Data that are stored in cells of a multi-bit-per cell memory, according to a systematic or non-systematic ECC, are read and corrected (systematic ECC) or recovered (non-systematic ECC) in accordance with estimated probabilities that one or more of the read bits are erroneous. In one method of the present invention, the estimates are a priori. In another method of the present invention, the estimates are based only on aspects of the read bits that include significances or bit pages of the read bits. In a third method of the present invention, the estimates are based only on values of the read bits. Not all the estimates are equal. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005368 | ENCODER OF CYCLIC CODES FOR PARTIALLY WRITTEN CODEWORDS IN FLASH MEMORY - Provided is a systematic encoder of cyclic codes for partially written codewords in flash memories wherein all bits of an erased but unwritten area have a default value such as one. In the case where the host writes data to one or a plurality of discontinuous fragments in an area reserved for storing the message section of a codeword in the flash memory, the encoder computes the parity of the codeword by using only the data written to the flash memory as input and by asserting that all bits in the gaps between the written fragments have the default erased value, such that after both the data and the parity are written to the flash memory, the area reserved for storing the codeword would contain a valid codeword. On read back, the host reads the entire codeword area from the flash memory without having to distinguish between the written and unwritten fragments. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005369 | Method and Apparatus for Adapting Data To a Transport Unit of a Predefined size prior to transmission - An apparatus and a method for adapting data in a communications system to be transmitted from a sender to a receiver, to a transport unit of a predefined size involve representing said data as a combination of bits over a finite field, wherein said data comprises of an information part and a control part; adapting said represented data to fit said predefined size of said transport unit, by expressing both said information and control parts with bits, wherein said bits are less in number that said represented combination of bits and a number of removed bits is known to said receiver, said removed bits comprise of bits from both said information and control parts. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005370 | PROBABILISTIC ERROR CORRECTION IN MULTI-BIT-PER-CELL FLASH MEMORY - Data that are stored in cells of a multi-bit-per cell memory, according to a systematic or non-systematic ECC, are read and corrected (systematic ECC) or recovered (non-systematic ECC) in accordance with estimated probabilities that one or more of the read bits are erroneous. In one method of the present invention, the estimates are a priori. In another method of the present invention, the estimates are based only on aspects of the read bits that include significances or bit pages of the read bits. In a third method of the present invention, the estimates are based only on values of the read bits. Not all the estimates are equal. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PUNCTURING PULSES IN A RECEIVER OR TRANSMITTER - An apparatus for data communication that receives a plurality of pulses from a remote communications device, determines a pulse puncturing rate based on the pulses, and punctures or discards subsequent pulses based on the pulse puncturing rate. During intervals when punctured pulses are expected, the apparatus operates in a lower power consumption mode for the purpose of conserving power. In another aspect, a receiving apparatus determines the pulse puncturing rate based on received pulses, and transmits the pulse puncturing rate information to a transmitting apparatus. In response, the transmitting apparatus sends a subset of the pulses it would have transmitted based on the pulse puncturing rate. Because the receiving apparatus receives fewer pulses (e.g., a subset), the receiving apparatus may operate in a lower power consumption mode for longer periods in order to conserve power. Similarly, because the transmitting apparatus sends fewer pulses, it may also operate in a lower power consumption mode for longer periods. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005372 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TRELLIS DECODING - A digital signal processor for decoding Trellis based channel encoding stages based on radix-4 stages comprising means for rearranging the input and output data in Radix-4 Viterbi decoding to make inter-stage Trellis data movement suitable for use in the digital signal processor. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005373 | Majority Voting Logic Circuit for Dual Bus Width - A circuit is presented for determining whether or not to invert a bus, for example a data bus that is operable having multiple widths. The circuit includes comparison circuitry that can receive both the current and next values for the bus and individually compare the current and next values of the bits on the bus to determine whether these have changed. A voting circuit receives the result of these determinations and also receives an indication of width with which the bus is being operated. The voting circuit then determines a bus inversion values based upon whether the number of bits on the data that have changed exceed a value that depends upon the indication of bus width. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005374 | Ensuring Data Consistency - Mechanisms for ensuring data consistency in a data store are provided. The mechanisms access a parity scrub factor f and perform a check on a data group of the data store. The check on the data group includes performing a parity check on a portion of the data group, the portion being equal to 1/ | 2010-01-07 |
20100005375 | CYCLICAL REDUNDANCY CODE FOR USE IN A HIGH-SPEED SERIAL LINK - A system and method for providing a cyclical redundancy code (CRC) for use in a high-speed serial link. The system includes a cascade interconnect memory system including a memory controller, a memory hub device and a downstream link. The downstream link is in communication with the memory controller and the memory hub device and includes at least thirteen signal lanes for transmitting a multiple transfer downstream frame from the memory controller to the memory hub device. A portion of the downstream frame includes downstream CRC bits to detect errors in the downstream frame. The downstream CRC bits capable of detecting any one of a lane failure, a transfer failure and up to five bit random errors. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPAIRING HIGH CAPACITY/HIGH BANDWIDTH MEMORY DEVICES - Memory systems, systems and methods are disclosed that may include a plurality of stacked memory device dice and a logic die connected to each other by through silicon vias. One such logic die includes an error code generator that generates error checking codes corresponding to write data. The error checking codes are stored in the memory device dice and are subsequently compared to error checking codes generated from data subsequently read from the memory device dice. In the event the codes do not match, an error signal can be generated. The logic die may contain a controller that records the address from which the data was read. The controller or memory access device may redirect accesses to the memory device dice at the recorded addresses. The controller can also examine addresses or data resulting in the error signals being generated to identify faults in the through silicon vias. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING MULTIMEDIA ENHANCED ITEMS - The present invention describes a multimedia enhanced gift item, an external customization unit and a computer implemented method for enabling a user to customize multimedia enhanced gift items. Such an item can facilitate combining personal greetings to a greeting card, to a stuffed animal, and to other toys or objects alike. A user buying multimedia enhanced gift item may use the method to provide and generate multimedia contents to be embedded in that item, and wherein the multimedia contents can be played on demand at any time later. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INSPIRATION BOARDS - A system and method are provided for automatically generating an inspiration board. The system and method involves inputting at least one term into a computer system. Based on the inputted term, at least one image is selected from a database of images stored in the computer system and at least one pattern from a database of patterns stored in the computer system. The inspiration board is assembled by the computer system using the image and the pattern. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005379 | ON-DEMAND LOADING OF MEDIA IN A MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided for efficient and effective loading of media in a multi-media presentation, such that a user may be able to view and/or edit the presentation. In one embodiment, a method for loading media comprises providing a maximum number of layers per page of a collage document, the collage document including at least one page having a plurality of layers, and each layer being associated with a media object. The method further includes loading a first page of the collage document to a client device, and creating a list of layers of the loaded page, with each layer indexed by at least a position in the collage document. The method continues by filtering the list of layers based on at least the position in the collage document and a visual window of a user interface to thereby display visible layers of the loaded page within the visual window. In another embodiment, a method for loading media comprises receiving a request for a collage document, receiving a specification of a maximum number of layers per page of the collage document, and returning a page of the requested collage document. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005380 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC MEDIA POPULATION OF A STYLE PRESENTATION - A method for automatic media population of a style presentation comprises collecting presentation media; positioning the collected presentation media on a storyboard; and selecting a style presentation; wherein the selection of the style presentation results in the automatic population of the style presentation with the presentation media positioned on the storyboard is described herein. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005381 | Method for organizing and consulting electronic data, in the environment of a media library - Method for organizing and consulting electronic data in the environment of a media library. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005382 | Method And System For Recording Asset Installations - A computer-implemented method for recording an asset survey or installation, comprising storing data received from an electronic database in an independent spreadsheet application operable on a portable electronic device, the data including identifying information for new and/or old assets and an employee listing. At least one field of the independent spreadsheet application is prepopulated with a set of data displayed in a drop down menu when the independent spreadsheet application is not operably connected to the asset management database. A variable is selected from the set of data presented in the drop-down menu associated with the at least one field displayed on the independent spreadsheet when the independent spreadsheet application is not operably connected to the asset management database. The selected variable is stored as a record located in a storage worksheet of the independent spreadsheet application when the spreadsheet application is not operably connected to the asset management database. The record is transferred from the independent spreadsheet application to the asset management database in accordance with controls stored in a control worksheet of the independent spreadsheet application that control the manner of exchange of data with the asset management database. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005383 | Data Storage Using Spreadsheet and Metatags - Metatag identifiers are stored in a spreadsheet, and are made available for use in metatagging various files. Steps may include: identifying the item of data in a document; activating an activation code; providing a listing of metatag choices; selecting a metatag from the listing of metatag choices; identifying the selected metatag with a column in the spreadsheet; and storing at least a portion of the item of data in a cell of the column. The listing is preferably a visually displayed listing, and selection can be made by clicking. Data previously associated with a metatag, and stored in the spreadsheet can be displayed as values. The values for a given metatag can thus be sorted and listed, providing immediate feedback to a user to assist in determining the propriety of a particular metatag. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFERING MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS OF AN IPC TICKET - A system and method for rendering different views of an incident, problem or change (IPC) ticket relating to an incident based on attributes of the user looking at or working with the ticket includes determining relevant information. An environment related to a usage by the user is determined. Based upon the relevant information and the environment, an IPC ticket generated with different views where only a relevant view of the different views is provided to each particular user. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005385 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING A PLURALITY OF COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY WEB SITES - Systems and methods described herein may facilitate scalability while permitting quick deployment and customization of web sites. In some embodiments, customization may involve associating custom software modules, content, and pre-compiled content templates with web-sites that are being served by a web-server application using a database. Systems and methods disclosed facilitate software maintenance, scalability, content sharing, and customization using the custom software modules and templates associated with the web-sites to serve content associated with the web site to users. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005386 | DOCUMENT ANALYSIS, COMMENTING, AND REPORTING SYSTEM - A document analysis, commenting, and reporting system provides tools that automate quality assurance analysis tailored to specific document types. As one example, the specific document type may be a requirements specification and the system may tag different parts of requirements, including actors, entities, modes, and a remainder. The system also includes tools for visualizing the relationships between entities in a requirements specification and for identifying whether the requirements specification provides for attributes specified by a non-functional attribute glossary. The system facilitates the visualization of interactions of individual entities, of a system of entities, or entities identified for a specific use. The different types of visualizations distinguish between interacting and non-interacting entities, and highlight where a set of requirements may be deficient with respect to the non-interacting entities. However, the flexibility of the system permits analysis of any other document type, such as instruction manuals and best practices guides. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005387 | Terminal, content display method, and content display program - A terminal device adapted to display content, comprising a display; a content display means for analyzing data of the content, and rendering and displaying the content on the display based on a result of analyzing; an area designation means for designating an area in the content displayed on the display; an element extraction means for extracting an element which forms the content and at least a part of which is included in the designated area; and a content enlarging and displaying means for enlarging the extracted element relative to a size defined when the area is designated and for displaying the extracted element on the display. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FORMATTED TEXT DOCUMENTS IN A DATABASE - A system and method for automatically determining a plurality of pieces of different information about a textual document from the text of the textual document are provided in which one or more particular characteristics of the text of the textual document are identified to generate a file containing the text of the textual document with the particular characteristics marked up within the text. In addition, any negative treatment of other textual documents from the text of the textual document is determined to generate negative treatment information, a data record is produced indicating a depth of treatment for each other textual documents cited in the text of the textual document, the source of a quotation in the text of the textual document is verified to generate verified quotation information, any subject matter text that is applicable to the text of the textual document is determined to generate subject matter headings associated with the text of the textual document, and a data record is generated containing the identified characteristics of the textual document, the negative treatment of other textual documents cited in the textual document, the depth of treatment of other textual documents cited in the textual document, the verified quotation information, and the subject matter text associated with the textual document so that all of the information is accessible. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005389 | Apparatus and method for a user to select one or more pieces of information - An apparatus and method for a user to select pieces of information. The apparatus comprising a rotatable part or a touch pad for the user to operate to scroll between the pieces of information using a movement along a closed path. Touch or engagement at predetermined position(s) along the closed path will allow the user to select predetermined pieces of information independently of the position of the scrolling. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005390 | MOBILE TERMINAL USING PROXIMITY SENSOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a first screen on a display module; if a pressure-touch input is detected from the first screen, displaying one or more menu items associated with the first screen; choosing one of the menu items according to a level of pressure corresponding to the pressure-touch input; and if a predetermined amount of time elapses after the choosing of one of the menu items, performing an operation corresponding to the chosen menu item. Therefore, it is possible to control various operations performed by the mobile terminal in response to a pressure-touch input. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005391 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM - Additional information indicating photographic conditions for a received image signal is compared with additional information indicating photographic conditions for an access target image signal. If the both conditions satisfy a predetermined relationship, an access to the access target image signal is permitted. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005392 | TRANSLATING USER INPUT IN A USER INTERFACE - Systems and methods for translating user input in a high definition video playback system are disclosed. A disc viewer is configured to execute at least one user interactive program stored on a high definition optical disc defining a user interface. The user interactive program defines a user interface and a plurality of keyboard event handlers for interaction with the user interface. The user interface includes a plurality of selectable user interface elements. A user interface renderer is configured to encode for display the user interface. A non-keyboard input translator is configured to receive a non-keyboard user input translates it into at least one keyboard event. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005393 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for making easier-to-understand evaluations of contents. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005394 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE VIEWING - A method and apparatus for dynamically sharing information between viewers viewing an event, in which information is stored in a database and is being pushed from server to viewers according to a time-line. Additional information is uploaded to the server by the users, a display device associated with each user displays the main event, a billboard comprising data pushed from a server, a private area in which the user can display or manipulate data, and a shared area displaying information contributed by any of the users. The billboard data and the shared area data optionally comprise prioritized and current data which corresponds with the state and subject of the broadcast event. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND CLIENT SERVER SYSTEM - An information processing terminal is capable of switching between a thin client mode in which a screen generated by executing an application program in a remote server is received from the remote server and displayed in a display unit, and a local mode in which a screen generated by executing an operation of the application program is displayed in the display unit. The information processing terminal is configured such that the execution of the application program in the local mode is started from the execution state of the application program at a certain time point in the thin client mode. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005396 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A COMLEMENTARY USER INTERFACE ON A DISPLAY SURFACE - An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content controller interacts with the computer utility operating system and hardware drivers to control allocation of display space and create and control one or more parallel graphical user interfaces in addition to the operating system desktop. An alternate display content controller may be incorporated in either hardware or software. As software, an alternate display content controller may be an application running on the computer operating system, or may include an operating system kernel of varying complexity ranging from dependent on the utility operating system for hardware system services to a parallel system independent of the utility operating system and capable of supporting dedicated applications. The alternate display content controller may also include content and operating software delivered over the Internet or any other LAN. The alternate display content controller may also be included in a television decoder/settop box to permit two or more parallel graphical user interfaces to be displayed simultaneously. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005397 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL AND VARIABLE SPEED NAVIGATION OF COLLAGE MULTI-MEDIA - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided for flexible and user-friendly navigation of loaded media in a multi-media presentation, such that a user may be able to view and/or edit the presentation. In one embodiment, a method for navigating loaded media comprises loading a page of a collage document to a client device, the page having a plurality of layers with each layer being associated with a media object. The method further includes creating a list of layers of the loaded page, each layer indexed by at least a position in the collage document; navigating the collage document in at least one direction and at at least one speed based on user input; and filtering the list of layers based on at least the position in the collage document and a visual window of a user interface to display visible layers of the page within the visual window. A client device for navigating loaded media is also disclosed. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005398 | Method and Apparatus for Viewing and Managing Collaboration Data from Within the Context of a Shared Document - Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for viewing and managing collaboration data from within the context of a shared electronic document. A document editing pane is displayed for editing the shared document. In conjunction with the document editing pane, a collaboration pane is displayed for displaying the collaboration data. Through the collaboration pane, collaboration data such as the identities of one or more collaborators, task, documents, links and other information may be displayed. Actions may also be performed with respect to any aspect of the collaboration data through the collaboration pane. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005399 | Systems and Methods for Processing Attachments Associated with Electronic Messages - Attachments that are received through one or more message transport services are processed. An object identifier is received through an electronic message received through one of a plurality of message transport services. A thumbnail graphic of a portion of the contents of the object associated with the object identifier is generated and displayed in a display window. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005400 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING AND PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS - A system, method, and program product for identifying and providing suggestions includes registering information of a behavior of a user in an environment within a domain. Behavior processes identify the behavior, identify an item associated with the behavior, identify an identity of the user, and store the identified information. Task processes prepare a suggestion list using the information and a stored configuration. A participant account in the environment requests suggestions to serve to the user where the participant account belongs to a participant belonging to a group of affiliated participants. Suggestion processes identify a request item, identify the identity of the user and attributes associated with the request, aggregate suggestions using the stored configuration and a suggestion list set, and record served suggestions. The participant account receives the served suggestions where the participant account can offer the served suggestions on behalf of an affiliated participant. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005401 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - A system for distributing a new version of a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user is described. The system comprises a central store retaining a GUI representation of a workflow process. A plurality of users, each having access to a version of a previous representation, are located remotely from the central store and related to each other in a user hierarchy below the central store. The system further comprises comparing means for comparing the new version of the representation with a user's previous version of the representation to determine any differences; forwarding means for forwarding those differences to the user associated with that version of the representation for consideration; and reviewing means provided within each previous version of the representation. The reviewing means is arranged to accept or reject the differences and to convey an acceptance or rejection to a higher level within the hierarchy. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005402 | System and Apparatus for Whispering in Group Chats - A method, system and program storage device are provided for allowing chat room participants to communicate with other participants privately without requiring general chat “friends” or “buddies” pre-authorization. All chatting dialog including private and public chats are consolidated into a unified group chat dialog window that requires no special handling by a user to see public and private chats. The private and public chat messages are displayed chronologically in a single chat message log within the chat group window. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005403 | Monitoring viewable times of webpage elements on single webpages - In accordance with at least one exemplary embodiment, methods, computer program products and systems for monitoring viewable times of webpage elements on single webpages are disclosed. An exemplary method for rotating webpage elements on a single webpage based on viewable time can include loading a single webpage having at least one first webpage element and other webpage content. A first viewable time can be determined for the first webpage element. The first viewable time can be compared to a first viewable time limit until the first viewable time reaches the first viewable time limit. At least one second webpage element can be loaded in place of the first webpage element on the single webpage. In at least one exemplary embodiment, the first and second webpage elements are web advertisements. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005404 | APPLIANCE WITH USER INTERFACE BEHAVIORAL MODEL - An appliance includes one or more control boards having control software to control the cycle of operation, and a graphical user interface with one or more instances of a user interface control in communication with the control boards. The appliance also has a binding map for associating the user interface control instances with one or more locator objects or one or more binding objects associated with the locator objects. The locator objects are associated with addressing information used to find renderable data for user interface control instances. The appliance also has a software framework for acquiring the renderable data at runtime by resolving the location of the renderable data from the addressing information and retrieving the renderable data from the location for use by the graphical user interface. With this structure, the software framework dynamically renders the graphical user interface at runtime based on the associations and addressing information in the binding map. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005405 | APPLIANCE DEVELOPMENT TOOLKIT WITH UNIVERSAL EDITOR - An appliance development toolkit is provided to enable creation of content to affect operation of a component in an appliance or to affect user interaction with an appliance, and includes appliance user domain data or source identification domain data, an editor to create instances of data elements related to functionality of an appliance or the editor derived in part from the domain data, an interactive user interface on which the editor is displayed for use by a developer, and a converter to generate content using the data elements created by the instance. The editor is configured at least in part by the domain data irrespective of the appliance so that the appliance development toolkit can be used for different appliances without recoding. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005406 | METHOD OF PRESENTING INFORMATION - A method of displaying visual information to a user of a video display. The method includes defining a dynamic portion of the visual display, providing a mask that obscures the dynamic portion of the visual display for an observable period of time, and providing a second display of content to the dynamic portion of the visual display during the observable period of time, the second display of content being occluded by the animated content during the observable period of time. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005407 | User interface framework and method for utilizing same - There is presented a user interface (UI) framework and systems and methods for its use. Such a system comprises a content server and a rich media content generated by a compiling of a rich media source code, wherein the rich media content is hosted by the content server. The rich media content includes a first embedded graphics environment configured to present display assets of the rich media content, and a first UI framework ported to the first embedded graphics environment, the first UI framework configured to interact with the first embedded graphics environment to modify the display assets of the rich media content in response to data received from a UI layout feed. The first UI framework is configured to modify the display assets of the rich media content without requiring modifications to the rich media source code or recompiling of the rich media source code. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005408 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA "HOT SPOT" ENABLEMENT - A method for creating a multimedia presentation element, comprises selecting a presentation element icon; adding information to a presentation element box defined by a presentation boundary within a first multimedia element of the multi-media presentation having a plurality of multimedia elements, the presentation element boundary resulting from the selection of the presentation element icon; and associating the presentation element box with the first multimedia element such that the presentation element box remains associated to the first multimedia element during navigation from different multimedia elements of the plurality of multimedia elements, is described herein | 2010-01-07 |
20100005409 | METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH AND MANIPULATING INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF - A method, computer readable medium and system for providing an interactive desktop and/or browser-based information workspace (or “playground”) includes obtaining at a workspace management processing system a selection of one or more condensed information objects and one or more of application tools. A customized interactive workspace for non-video game based information in a video game display graphical user interface format is provided to the computing system from the workspace management processing system based on a default interactive workspace populated with the selected one or more condensed information objects and one or more application tools. The customized interactive workspace is configured to enable at least one of the one or more application tools to act upon, affect or interact with at least one of the one or more condensed information objects from within the customized interactive workspace and the customized interactive workspace. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005410 | MOBILE DEVICE APPLICATION FRAMEWORK - Methods and systems for enabling mobile devices to run a variety of content-carrying script programs using a standard script language, without the confines of operating within a network browser. A client layer has a Script-to-Document Object Model (DOM) engine that executes a content-carrying-script file, efficiently interprets the script and delivers interactive objects to a dynamic environment to provide end user services. The script-to-DOM engine can construct the DOM object on any device in a computationally efficient manner, while also updating objects on a dynamic basis. The constructed DOM object suitably matches the client device environment requirements and interacts with users without the need of complete refresh of the client layer, and generation/modification of the content structure becomes possible during buildup. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005411 | CREATION, SHARING AND EMBEDDING OF INTERACTIVE CHARTS - Systems and methods for generating and sharing interactive charts are described. The interactive charts are generated in an online portal that allows users to customize the interactive features of the chart. An online portal may also be provided to allow users to automatically embed interactive chart(s) in another website without reprogramming the code of the website each time the interactive chart(s) are changed or new interactive chart(s) are added. | 2010-01-07 |
20100005412 | In-vehicle display apparatus - An in-vehicle display apparatus includes (i) an operation device having an operation knob, and (ii) a display control device having a display section. The operation device has a drive section which gives force to the operation knob. When the display section displays a display window to enable a scroll display in which several selection buttons are circulated, the display control device acquires a reactive force map. The map specifies that a vibration is applied to the operation knob when the cursor is located on the selection button at the tail end of the series of the selection buttons in the display window. The display control device then instructs the drive section to apply the vibration to the operation knob based on the acquired reactive force map. | 2010-01-07 |