04th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150026493 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND DEVICE SLEEP STATE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A nonvolatile memory device includes a device interface configured to communicate with a host. The nonvolatile memory device includes a sleep controller configured to select a sleep state from among a plurality of sleep states. The sleep controller is configured to control the device interface to enter the selected sleep state. Each of the plurality of sleep states have different resume times. The resume times are a period of time taken for the nonvolatile memory device to exit an associated sleep state. In each of the plurality of sleep states, the sleep controller is configured to remove a supply of power from physical blocks of the device interface except for a physical block used for sideband signaling. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026494 | INTELLIGENT MESOCHRONOUS SYNCHRONIZER - A method and apparatus for transmitting data over a clock-gated mesochronous clock domain boundary in an interconnect network of an integrated circuit. New data is received into storage buffers within a sender domain. The data is synchronized by sending time-controlled signals from storage elements in a sender control within the sender domain to corresponding inputs in a receiver control signal path in a receiver domain. Multiplexers are signaled to sequentially transmit the data from the storage buffers across the domain boundary to the receiver domain according to the time-controlled signals received from the sender control by the receiver control signal path, where the multiplexers receive signals from a data path pointer counter in communication with the receiver control signal path. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDLE STATE OPTIMIZATION IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM ON A CHIP - Various embodiments of methods and systems for idle state optimization in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. An exemplary method includes comparing an aggregate power consumption level for all processing cores in the PCD to a power budget and, if there is available headroom in the power budget, transitioning cores operating in a first idle state to a different idle state. In doing so, the latency value associated with bringing the transitioned cores out of an idle state and into an active state, should the need arise, may be reduced. The result is that user experience and QoS may be improved as an otherwise idle core in an idle state with a long latency time may be better positioned to quickly transition to an active state and process a workload. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026496 | POWERED DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND OPERATION MODE SELECTION METHOD - A powered device, a power supply system and an operation mode selection method are provided. The power supply system includes a power sourcing equipment and the powered device. The powered device is electrically connected to the power sourcing equipment through an internet cable. The powered device includes a sensing module and a controlling module. The sensing module receives an internet signal from the power sourcing equipment through the internet cable, and outputs a switching signal according to the internet signal. The controlling module is used for selecting an operation mode of the powered device according to the switching signal. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026497 | Electronic Device That Executes Hibernation - An electronic device includes a main processor and a first memory. The main processor is configured to: determine whether or not specific data is stored in a first IO memory area of the first memory; generate a first piece of image data based on an OS memory area of the first memory; store the first piece of image data to a nonvolatile storage device; generate a second piece of image data based on the OS memory area of the first memory and the first IO memory area of the first memory; store the second piece of image data of the nonvolatile storage device; restore the software program to the OS memory area from the first piece of image data; and restore the software program to the OS memory area and the specific data to the first IO memory area from the second piece of image data. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026498 | POWER MANAGEMENT IN A DATA-CAPABLE STRAPBAND - Embodiments of the invention relates generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and computing devices, and more specifically to structures and techniques for managing power generation, power consumption, and other power-related functions in a data-capable strapband. Embodiments relate to a band including sensors, a controller coupled to the sensors, an energy storage device, a connector configured to receive power and control signals, and a power manager. The power manager includes at least a transitory power manager configured to manage power consumption of the band during a first power mode and a second mode. The band can be configured as a wearable communications device and sensor platform. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026499 | CIRCUIT FOR CHANGING LOAD OPERATION USING TEMPORARY POWER-OFF MEANS - A circuit for changing load operation using temporary power-off means having a power-off detection circuit with input end connected to a power source and its output end is connected to a microprocessor (MCU) connected to at least one load driving circuit. A load appliance is mounted on each of the load driving circuits. The microprocessor (MCU) has a program controlling each load appliance. During operation, the power is restored immediately after the power source is temporarily powered off, such that the power-off detection circuit detects a temporary turned-off signal and sends the signal to the microprocessor (MCU). Accordingly, the program to control each of the load appliances in the microprocessor (MCU) manipulates each load appliance for performing another operation or function. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026500 | GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSING UNIT WITH LOW POWER DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (DSP) MODE - A method and circuit arrangement utilize a general purpose processing unit having a low power DSP mode for reconfiguring the general purpose processing unit to efficiently execute DSP workloads with reduced power consumption. When in a DSP mode, one or more of a data cache, an execution unit, and simultaneous multithreading may be disabled to reduce power consumption and improve performance for DSP workloads. Furthermore, partitioning of a register file to support multithreading, and register renaming functionality, may be disabled to provide an expanded set of registers for use with DSP workloads. As a result, a general purpose processing unit may be provided with enhanced performance for DSP workloads with reduced power consumption, while also not sacrificing performance for other non-DSP/general purpose workloads. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026501 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD - A portable electronic apparatus and a power management method are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus comprises a processor and an embedded controller (EC). The EC determines whether the processor starts a throttling mechanism according to a current power consumption, a proportional term, a last power consumption, a lower bound, a delta power and a derivative term. The EC determines whether the processor cancels the throttling mechanism according to the current power consumption, the lower bound, a count that the power consumption is lower than the lower bound, and an integral term. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026502 | RESET SIGNAL CONTROL APPARATUS - A reset signal control apparatus outputs a reset signal to a microcomputer to restrict a malfunction of the microcomputer when the microcomputer is started. The reset signal control apparatus outputs the reset signal to the microcomputer at least until a clock signal provided by an oscillation circuit and based on which the microcomputer operates is stabilized. The reset signal control apparatus includes a power supply section, a measuring section, and an output ending section. The power supply section supplies a power to the oscillation circuit and the microcomputer. The measuring section measures a consumption current of the oscillation circuit and the microcomputer. The output ending section determines that the clock signal provided by the oscillation circuit is stabilized and ends an output of the reset signal to the microcomputer when the consumption current becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026503 | APPLIANCES POWERED OVER SAS - Methods and structure for powering storage devices over a SAS interface. An exemplary system includes a storage device that includes a receptacle configured to receive a plug that communicates Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface compliant signals from a host system. The storage device also includes a microcontroller configured to detect a first power level on a power contact of the receptacle. The storage device further includes a circuit board configured to power up to the first power level via the microcontroller, to receive an inter-integrated circuit communication that indicates a second power level is available, and to power up to the second power level to sufficiently power a storage appliance. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026504 | CONTROLLER TIMING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A controller timing system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a master controller to generate a timing signal, a first slave controller configured to wake in response to the timing signal, and a second slave controller configured to wake in response to the timing signal. Timing of the first slave controller and timing of the second slave controller is coordinated based on the timing signal. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026505 | STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND BACKGROUND PROCESSING EXECUTION METHOD - According to an embodiment, a storage device includes a storage medium and a controller. The controller manages a local clock, adjusts the local clock in accordance with an order for adjustment of the managed local clock, and executes background processing involving access to the storage medium on the basis of the adjusted local clock. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026506 | ERROR DETECTING APPARATUS FOR GATE DRIVER, DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF DETECTING ERROR OF GATE DRIVER - Exemplary embodiments of present invention relate to an error detecting apparatus for a gate driver improving a reliability of a display apparatus, a display apparatus having the error detecting apparatus, and a method of detecting an error of the gate driver using the error detecting apparatus. An exemplary embodiment discloses an error detecting apparatus including an error detecting part configured to receive a gate signal of a gate driver and determine whether a status of the gate driver is in a normal status or an error status based on the gate signal, a memory configured to store the status of the gate driver, and a signal outputting part configured to selectively output a clock signal and an error signal based on the status of the gate driver stored in the memory. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026507 | TRANSPORT CONTROL SERVER, NETWORK SYSTEM AND TRANSPORT CONTROL METHOD - It is intended to shorten the time required for a path recalculation and a path switching upon occurrence of a failure. A path generation unit of a transport control server (TCS) S- | 2015-01-22 |
20150026508 | MOVING OBJECTS IN A PRIMARY COMPUTER BASED ON MEMORY ERRORS IN A SECONDARY COMPUTER - In an embodiment, a partition is executed at a primary server, wherein the partition accesses a first memory location at a first memory block address at the primary server. If a first corresponding memory location at a secondary server has an error, wherein the first corresponding memory location at the secondary server corresponds to the first memory location at the primary server, then an object is moved from the first memory location at the primary server to a second memory location at the primary server. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026509 | STORAGE DEVICE HAVING A DATA STREAM CONVERTER - According to one embodiment, a storage device has a plurality of memory modules and a memory controller. The memory controller has a first unit configured to receive data to be stored in the memory modules from a host device as a write data stream and transmit data read from the memory modules to the host device as a read data stream, a second unit having a plurality of subunits, each of which is configured to write data in one of the memory modules corresponding to the subunit and read data from one of the memory modules corresponding to the subunit, and a data stream converter configured to parallelize the write data stream into a plurality of data blocks each of which is to be stored in one of the memory modules and to serialize a plurality of data blocks read from the memory modules into the read data stream. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026510 | DYNAMIC BUFFER SIZE SWITCHING FOR BURST ERRORS ENCOUNTERED WHILE READING A MAGNETIC TAPE - In one embodiment, a system for dynamically allocating a ring buffer includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being configured to divide a ring buffer into a first portion and a second portion after detecting an error condition in data read from a data storage medium, wherein the first portion is allocated for processing normal read and/or write requests, and wherein the second portion is allocated for processing error recovery procedure (ERP) requests. In another embodiment, a method for dynamically allocating a ring buffer includes dividing a ring buffer into a first portion and a second portion after detecting an error condition in data read from a data storage medium, wherein the first portion is allocated for processing normal read and/or write requests, and wherein the second portion is allocated for processing ERP requests. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026511 | PARTITIONABLE DATA BUS - A method and a system are provided for partitioning a system data bus. The method can include partitioning off a portion of a system data bus that includes one or more faulty bits to form a partitioned data bus. Further, the method includes transferring data over the partitioned data bus to compensate for data loss due to the one or more faulty bits in the system data bus. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026512 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes a boot-up control unit configured to control a start of boot-up operation by starting the boot-up operation when an initialization signal is activated, and ignore the initialization signal after a complete signal is activated, a nonvolatile memory unit configured to store repair data, and output the stored repair data during the boot-up operation, a plurality of registers configured to store the repair data outputted from the nonvolatile memory unit, a plurality of memory banks configured to replace a normal cell with a redundant cell, using the repair data stored in the corresponding registers among the plurality of resistors, and a verification unit configured to generate the complete signal to notify that the boot-up operation is completed. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026513 | MEMORY BUFFER HAVING ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION AFTER A PROGRAM-FAIL - A memory device, and a method of operating same, utilize a memory buffer associated with a memory array to maintain information to be available subsequent to a program-fail event associated with the memory array. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026514 | Raid 10 Reads Optimized for Solid State Drives - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system. The mechanism determines a maximum queue depth of a queue for each solid state drive in a plurality of solid state drives. A given data block is mirrored between a group of solid state drives within the plurality of solid state drives. The mechanism tracks outstanding input/output operations in a queue for each of the plurality of solid state drives. For a given read operation to read the given data block, the mechanism identifies a solid state drive within the group of solid state drives based on a number of empty slots in the queue of each solid state drive within the group of solid state drives. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026515 | MOBILE DATA CENTER - A portable and mobile deployable data center (DDC) is disclosed, which includes various components that enables the DDC to have multiple functions including, computing, data storage and retrieval, communications and routing. A DDC includes a rugged case that suitable for harsh environments, an interconnection mechanism, a plurality of hot swappable readers, a plurality of hot swappable portable computing devices, and a plurality of hot swappable power supplies. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026516 | AUXILIARY POWER SUPPLY AND USER DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A user device is provided. The device includes a main power supply, and an auxiliary power supply. The main power supply provides a main power. The auxiliary power supply cuts off the main power according to a power level of the main power supply and provides an auxiliary power upon Sudden Power-Off (SPO). | 2015-01-22 |
20150026517 | ALLOCATION OF REPLICA-SETS IN A STORAGE CLUSTER - A data storage system may be configured to allocate replica-sets in a balanced manner and mark some of these balanced replica-sets as being spares. As one or more drives or machines fail, the data storage system may move all copies of an affected replica-set to a marked spare replica-set and mark the affected replica-set as being inactive or invalid. As the failed drives are replaced, the data storage system may reconfigure those inactive replica-sets and use them as new spares. The data storage system may implement a coordinator module that handles the balancing and allocation of spares within a sub-cluster. The coordinator may also reallocate entire replica-sets across sub-clusters to maintain balance at the cluster level. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA DISASTER RECOVERY - A system includes a production computer machine that includes an operating system and a driver stack. The driver stack includes a file system layer, a recovery driver, a storage layer, a driver layer, a bus driver layer, and a storage device. The system also includes a backup computer processor coupled to the production computer machine via the recovery driver. The recovery driver is configured to commence a recovery of data from the backup computer processor, receive a disk access request from the file system layer, determine if the disk access request accesses data that has not yet been recovered from the backup computer processor, and initiate an on-demand recovery request from the backup computer processor when the data has not been recovered from the backup computer processor. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026519 | SERIAL ATTACHED SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE EXPANDER AND DEBUGGING METHOD - A serial attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) expander comprises a SAS expander chip which comprises a first debug port and a second debug port, a controlling chip which is in communication with the first debug port through a first serial port, in communication with the second debug port through a second serial port, and in communication with a host computer through a third serial port, once the controlling chip controls the third serial port to receive a debug command from the host computer, the controlling chip sends the received debug command to the first debug port or the second debug port according to a reference table. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026520 | DEBUGGING CIRCUIT - A debugging circuit comprises a debugging interface, a switch unit coupled to the debugging interface, a controller coupled to the switch unit, a platform controller hub (PCH), and a central processing unit (CPU). The PCH and the CPU are coupled to the switch unit. The debugging interface is coupled between the switch unit and a debugging device. The switch unit receives a control signal from the controller, and selectively outputs a first data signal from the PCH or a second data signal from the CPU to the debugging device through the debugging interface according to the control signal. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026521 | OPERATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In the invariant analysis, a fault cause is judged correctly. A correlation model storing unit ( | 2015-01-22 |
20150026522 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE APPLICATION A/B TESTING - Techniques for electing winning treatments in connection with A/B testing of mobile applications are described. According to various embodiments, the activation of a version of a mobile application installed on a mobile device may be detected. A database storing winning treatment information describing one or more winning treatments for one or more A/B tests is accessed. In some embodiments, each of the one or more A/B tests in the winning treatment information may be associated with a particular version of a particular mobile application. Thereafter, a specific winning treatment for a specific A/B test associated with the version of the mobile application installed on the mobile device may be determined, based on the winning treatment information. The specific winning treatment may then be implemented in the mobile application installed on the mobile device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026523 | DEBUGGING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method for debugging a computer program is proposed. The method comprises: running at least part of said computer program on a computer, thereby prompting said computer to execute a sequence of instructions and to generate a trace corresponding to said executed sequence of instructions; and, when said program has generated an exception, selecting a set of one or more exception strings on the basis of said trace, so that each of said exception strings is a unique substring of said trace; and indicating said exception strings to a user or to a debugging tool. The set of exception strings may notably include the ultimate shortest unique substring of said trace. A computer program product is also described. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026524 | TEST CASES GENERATION FOR DIFFERENT TEST TYPES - A method and system for generating test cases of different types for testing an application. A functional flow of the application is created. The test cases are generated, based on at least one test case generation rule and additional test information corresponding to different stages of the functional flow with respect to at least two test types. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026525 | SERVER CONTROLLED ADAPTIVE BACK OFF FOR OVERLOAD PROTECTION USING INTERNAL ERROR COUNTS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to server controlled adaptive back off for overload protection. The server controls a back off period for each request, which indicates a retry time of when a request should be resent to the server. This back off approach relies on the server since the server has much more accurate information available on which to make back off decisions. The server changes the retry time based on how busy it is and its ability to handle the current load and/or its downstream dependent systems. This back off approach increases server stability during a very high load by spreading the load out over a longer time period. The server is able to turn a traffic spike into a constant load, which is easier and more efficient for the server to handle. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026526 | TECHNIQUES FOR TESTING ENCLOSURE MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER USING BACKPLANE INITIATOR - One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a backplane initiator for testing enclosure management controller. The backplane initiator includes: an initiator board and an initiator control application. The initiator board includes initiator controller, at least one SGPIO interface, at least one SMBus interface, and a first communication interface. The initiator controller is configured to transmit control commands and data according to enclosure management protocol through the SGPIO interface and the SMBus interface to an EMC. The initiator control application, when executed on a computing device having a second communication interface in communication with the first communication interface, is configured to establish a communication channel with the initiator controller through the first and second communication interfaces, and instruct the initiator controller to transmit a first control command and first control data according to enclosure management protocol through the SGPIO interface and the SMBus interface to the EMC. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026527 | Data Transmission Method, Device and System - A data transmission method, device and system to improve reliability of a data link. When the sender side detects erroneous data, the erroneous data is discarded and a data retransmission request is sent to the sender side to ensure correctness of received data and improve reliability of the data link; and, when the sender side detects the erroneous data and a bit error rate is greater than a preset bit error rate threshold, the data link gets into auto recovery, and data transmission is resumed after the recovery succeeds, thereby avoiding an excessively high bit error rate, preventing an excessively high probability of omitted checks (the higher the bit error rate is, the higher probability of omitted checks is), and further improving reliability of the data link. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026528 | CONTROLLER BASED MEMORY EVALUATION - A memory system or flash card may include a controller. Improved testing and memory evaluation may be achieved by utilizing the memory's controller rather than an external tester. User defined test algorithms may be run from the controller to characterize, evaluate and test memory (e.g. NAND memory) or test other components, such as the controller itself. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026529 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF EVALUATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory cell array units and a test circuit unit. The test circuit unit includes a test data generating unit configured to generate a test data piece per test cycle including a writing period and a retrieving period; an expected value register configured to output the test data piece as an expected value data piece; a memory cell driving unit configured to supply a writing driving signal during the writing period, and a retrieving driving signal during the retrieving period; a data relay switching unit configured to supply the test data piece during the writing period, and to output retrieved data piece during the retrieving period; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the retrieved data piece output from the data relay switching unit matches the expected value data piece, and to generate a test result signal indicating a determination result. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026530 | CONTROLLER BASED MEMORY EVALUATION - A memory system or flash card may include a controller. Improved testing and memory evaluation may be achieved by utilizing the memory's controller rather than an external tester. User defined test algorithms may be run from the controller to characterize, evaluate and test memory (e.g. NAND memory) or test other components, such as the controller itself. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026531 | POWER SUPPLY MONITOR FOR DETECTING FAULTS DURING SCAN TESTING - Some embodiments of a power supply monitor include a measurement circuit to measure a voltage provided to the power supply monitor, a comparator to compare the voltage to a predetermined voltage threshold, and an interface to provide, during a scan test of a processing device including the power supply monitor, a fault signal in response to the voltage being below the voltage threshold. Some embodiments of a method include providing a first test pattern to one or more power supply monitors associated with one or more circuit blocks in the processing device and capturing a first result generated by the power supply monitor(s) based on the first test pattern. The first result indicates whether a voltage provided to the circuit block(s) is below a voltage threshold. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026532 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CLOCK SIGNALS FOR A SCAN CHAIN - An integrated circuit device includes a plurality of flip flops configured into a scan chain. The plurality of flip flops includes at least flip flop of a first type and at least one flip flop of a second type. A method includes generating a first scan clock signal for loading scan data into at least one flip flop of a first type, generating a second scan clock signal and a third scan clock signal for loading the scan data into at least one flip flop of a second type, and loading a test pattern into a scan chain defined by the at least flip flop of the first type and the at least one flip flop of the second type responsive to the first, second, and third scan clock signals. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026533 | WAFER SCALE TESTING USING A 2 SIGNAL JTAG INTERFACE - Testing of die on wafer is achieved by; (1) providing a tester with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously bidirectional transceiver circuitry, (2) providing die on wafer with the capability of externally communicating JTAG test signals using simultaneously bidirectional transceiver circuity, and (3) providing a connectivity mechanism between the bidirectional transceiver circuitry's of the tester and a selected group or all of the die on wafer for communication of the JTAG signals. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026534 | INTERPOSER INSTRUMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving interposers to include embedded monitoring instruments for real time monitoring digital signals, analog signals, voltage signals and temperature sensors located in the interposer. An embedded monitor trigger unit controls the starting and stopping of the real time monitoring operations. The embedded monitoring instruments are accessible via an 1149.1 TAP interface on the interposer. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INTERLEAVER INDEX - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for generating an internal interleaver index of a turbo encoder in parallel. There are effects of reducing the time spent for generating total indexes by generating indexes for a plurality of bits in parallel and improving the resource efficiency and the performance in the hardware implementation by calculating indexes for following bits through the use of an index calculated for a predetermined bit without the use of a multiplier and a divider. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026536 | Data Decoder With Trapping Set Flip Bit Mapper - A low density parity check decoder includes a variable node processor operable to generate variable node to check node messages and to calculate perceived values based on check node to variable node messages, a check node processor operable to generate the check node to variable node message vectors and to calculate checksums based on the variable node to check node messages, and a convergence detector and bit map generator operable to convergence of the perceived values and to generate at least one bit map that identifies variable nodes that are connected to check nodes with unsatisfied parity checks. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026537 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH OVER-REFRESH AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for over-refreshing a memory device comprises in a refreshing cycle, refreshing normal cells and a weak cell, and additionally refreshing the weak cell at least once. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026538 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - An error detection-correction unit reads system information for operating a system from a first memory and performs error detection-correction processing. A control unit supplies the system information to a host computer in a case where the error detection-correction processing is successful. In addition, the control unit reads a backup of the system information from a second memory that is different from the first memory and supplies the backup of the system information to the host computer in a case where the detection-correction processing fails. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026539 | UTILIZING A LOCAL AREA NETWORK MEMORY AND A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK MEMORY TO ACCESS DATA - A method begins by a processing module encoding data based on a decode threshold parameter and a pillar width parameter to produce a set of encoded data slices and selecting a local area network (LAN) pillar width value of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices for storage in LAN available memories, wherein the LAN pillar width value is based on the decode threshold parameter, the pillar width parameter, and quantities of the LAN available memories. The method continues with the processing module selecting a wide area network (WAN) pillar width value of encoded data slices of the set of encode data slices for storage in a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory of a wide area network, wherein the WAN pillar width value is based on the decode threshold parameter and the pillar width parameter. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026540 | FLASH DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A flash device is provided. A flash memory includes a plurality of pages. A controller coupled to the flash memory includes an operating unit, an error correction code (ECC) decoder and a processing unit. The operating unit receives a plurality of bytes of the page which are from the flash memory and corresponding to a read command, and obtains an operating result according to a logic level of each bit of each of the bytes. The ECC decoder decodes the bytes of the page according to an ECC code. The processing unit determines whether the page is valid data according to the decoded bytes, and determines whether the page is an empty page according to the operating result when the page is not the valid data. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026541 | Iterative Decoding for Cascaded LDPC and TCM Coding - At a receiver side, to enhance the performance of concatenated LDPC and TCM coding, an iterative decoding between TCM decoder and LDPC decoder enables improvement in the reliability of received LLRs of each symbol after each iteration. A SOVA output of the TCM is used for LDPC decoding, and then the updated LLRs from LDPC decoder are further looped back to the TCM decoder for the next iteration. In such a manner, the decoding performance could be significantly improved after just several iterations. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026542 | Method, Device and System For Packet Transmission Over IP Networks - In a method for packet transmission over IP networks redundant IP packet streams are generated by an IP transmitter ( | 2015-01-22 |
20150026543 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DECODING POLAR CODES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for decoding Polar codes. A reliable subset is extracted from an information bit set of the Polar codes, where reliability of information bits in the reliable subset is higher than reliability of other information bits. The method includes: obtaining a probability value or an LLR of a current decoding bit of the Polar codes; when the current decoding bit belongs to the reliable subset, performing judgment according to the probability value or the LLR of the current decoding bit to determine a decoding value of the current decoding bit, keeping the number of decoding paths of the Polar codes unchanged, and modifying probability values of all the decoding paths by using the probability value or the LLR of the current decoding bit. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026544 | Method and Apparatus for LDPC Transmission Over a Channel Bonded Link - A particular overall architecture for transmission over a bonded channel system consisting of two interconnected MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) 2.0 SoCs (Systems on a Chip) and a method and apparatus for the case of a “bonded” channel network. With a bonded channel network, the data is divided into two segments, the first of which is transported over a primary channel and the second of which is transported over a secondary channel. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONSTELLATION-BASED INFORMATION CODING USING PHYSICAL NOISY PSEUDO-RANDOM SOURCES - A method and system are provided for a symbol-oriented approach that addresses information recovery from manufacturing variations (MVs) readings in a high noise environment. The multi-bits-per-symbol approach, which is in accordance with the various aspects of the present invention, is in contrast with how manufacturing-variation-derived bits are normally treated in the context of PUF Key Generation's error correction process. The multi-bit-per-symbol approach also offers a natural distance metric (distance to the most-likely symbol, distance to the next-most-likely symbol, etc.) which can aid soft-decision decoding or list-decoding, and can be used to improve the provisioning of a more reliably encoded secret and its associated helper data value. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026546 | BELIEF PROPAGATION PROCESSOR - A processor includes a first memory module for storing a first set of storage values each representing a respective input, and a second memory module for storing a second set of storage values in analog form. An analog module is coupled to the first and the second memory modules. The analog module is configured to, in each operation cycle of at least one iteration, update at least some of the second set of storage values based on the first and the second sets of storage values. An output module is for generating a set of outputs from at least some of the second set of storage values. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026547 | Reliable Data Transmission with Reduced Bit Error Rate - A data transmission system includes at least one transmission line. A sender is configured to send data frames to the at least one transmission line and a recipient is configured to receive the data frames from the at least one transmission line. The sender and the recipient are both configured to determine a check sum based on a plurality of corresponding data frames that are sent to and, respectively, received from the at least one transmission line. A check sum comparing unit is configured to receive and to compare the check sum determined by the sender and the corresponding check sum determined by the recipient. The check sum comparing unit is also configured to signal a transmission error or initiate a safety function when the check sums compared are not equal. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026548 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR BINDING ATTRIBUTES BETWEEN VISUAL COMPONENTS - Methods and systems are described for binding attributes between visual components. A first visual component, including a first presentation space for presenting first data by an operating first application, is detected. Binding information, for the first application, is identified that specifies a mapping between a first visual attribute of the first visual component and a second visual attribute of a second visual component including a second presentation space for presenting second data by a second application. A change to the first visual attribute is detected. In response to the detection of the change, change information is automatically sent to change the second visual attribute according to the mapping. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026549 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COPYING AND PASTING WEBPAGE CONTENT, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for copying and pasting webpage content comprises the following steps: acquiring a copy instruction of copying webpage content; appending the webpage content into a clipboard, wherein the clipboard is a designated file under a preset directory; acquiring a paste instruction of pasting the webpage content in the clipboard to a target position; and pasting the webpage content corresponding to the paste instruction to the target position. In the method for copying and pasting webpage content, a clipboard is a designated file under a preset directory, webpage content copied in multiple times can be added to the clipboard, and the webpage content in the clipboard can be pasted to a target position, so that different webpage content copied in multiple times can be pasted for multiple times, which facilitates operation of a user. Also provided are a system for copying and pasting webpage content and a computer storage medium. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026550 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIERARCHICAL DATA READING - Method and device of presenting data stored at remote source are disclosed. The method includes: receiving first webpage data that is configured to be rendered as a first webpage, the first webpage, when rendered, provides one or more access links each directed to respective second webpage data that is stored at a respective remote source; from the first webpage data, recognizing respective reference data for each of the respective second webpage data; in accordance with the respective reference data, requesting the respective second webpage data from its respective remote source; receiving and storing at least one of the respective second webpage data before detecting the user's selection of the access link; and upon detecting the user's selection of the access link, rendering the stored at least one of the respective second webpage data as a second webpage. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026551 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING USERS OF AN INTERNET SERVICE - An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze data sent by a user to determine a subscriber account associated with the data and a user associated with the data. A database is then queried to determine the number of users of the subscriber account, with a number above a threshold indicating a likely theft of service. This automatic process is accompanied by automated messaging to the user with information as to the measures taken and remedial options. The messaging may be different dependent on whether the user is deemed to be an authorized user having subscriber account administration rights. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026552 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE DATA DISPLAYING METHOD - Provided are an electronic device and an image data displaying method. Each of the electronic device and the image data displaying method displays screen data on a display, stores a plurality of pages of image data in a memory in association with page information of the image data, extracts a part of the plurality of pages of image data, stores the extracted part of the plurality of pages of image data and page information of the image data from which the part of the plurality of pages of image data has been extracted in the memory, and pastes the extracted part of the plurality of pages of image data obtained from the memory on the screen data displayed on the display. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026553 | ANALYZING A DOCUMENT THAT INCLUDES A TEXT-BASED VISUAL REPRESENTATION - A hardware device analyzes a document that includes a text-based visual representation. A correspondence information hardware storage device holds known representations of graphical images as text-based visual representations. The graphical images depict portraits of physical objects. The text-based visual representations are associated with information that each describe one of the physical objects. An identification hardware device identifies a text-based visual representation within a document. The identification hardware device matches the text-based visual representation within the document to one or more of the text-based visual representations stored in the correspondence information hardware storage device. An editing hardware device retrieves information from the correspondence information hardware storage device that is identified, by the identification hardware device, as describing a text-based visual representation component within the document. The editing hardware device displays the text-based visual representation component within the document and information that describes the text-based visual representation on a display. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026554 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANIPULATING TABLES USING MULTICONTACT GESTURES - An electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface, displays a table having a plurality of rows, a plurality of columns, and a plurality of cells. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface that includes movement of one or more of a first contact and a second contact. When the detected gesture is a pinch gesture at a location that corresponds to one or more respective columns in the table and has a component that is perpendicular to the one or more respective columns, the device decreases the width of the one or more respective columns. When the detected gesture is a de-pinch gesture at a location that corresponds to one or more respective columns in the table and has a component that is perpendicular to the one or more respective columns, the device increases the width of the one or more respective columns. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026555 | DATA OUTPUT METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DATA OUTPUT PROGRAM AND DATA OUTPUT SYSTEM - A data output method, includes: extracting, by a computer, data satisfying a first condition on one data among a plurality of conditions, from a plurality of data, as a node; creating a first graph by coupling two nodes satisfying a second condition on a relationship between two data among the plurality of conditions with a link; creating a second graph by deleting a node that does not satisfy the second condition from the first graph; determining candidates of data combination in the second graph; and outputting a data combination satisfying the plurality of conditions from the candidates of data combination. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026556 | Systems and Methods for Extracting Table Information from Documents - Systems and methods for extracting table information from documents are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include annotating a document with annotations that identify table cell data included therein, generating a candidate table for each of a plurality of table models using the annotated table cell data, scoring each of the candidate tables, selecting a highest scoring candidate table, and annotating the highest scoring table to produce a final table. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026557 | Subject-Matter Analysis of Tabular Data - A system, and computer program product for subject-matter analysis of tabular data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first document including the tabular data is received. A library of functional signatures for a first subject-matter domain is selected. A determination is made whether a threshold number of functional signatures from the selected library are applicable to the tabular data, wherein a functional signature is applicable to the tabular data when values in the tabular data correspond to an operation and a table structure specified in the functional signature. Responsive to the threshold number of functional signatures from the selected library being applicable to the tabular data, a processor and a memory process the first document according to a process for the first subject matter domain selected from a plurality of processes for respective subject matter domains. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026558 | PAGE FRAME AND PAGE COORDINATE DETERMINATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SEQUENTIAL REGULARITIES - Disclosed is a method that generates a page frame structure associated with a sequentially-ordered set of pages, each being characterized by a set of page frame features. N-grams (sequence of n features) are computed from a set for n contiguous pages, and n-grams which are repetitive (Kleene cross) are selected. Pages matching the most frequent repetitive n-ram are grouped together under a new node, and a new sequence is created. The method is iteratively applied to this new sequence. The output is an ordered set of trees. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026559 | Information Extraction and Annotation Systems and Methods for Documents - Information extraction and annotation systems and methods for use in annotating and determining annotation instances are provided herein. Exemplary methods include receiving annotated documents, the annotated documents comprising annotated fields, analyzing the annotated documents to determine contextual information for each of the annotated fields, determining discriminative sequences using the contextual information, generating a proposed rule or a feature set using the discriminative sequences and annotated fields, and providing the proposed rule or the feature set to a document annotator. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026560 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENTS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and a display processor. The processor stores a plurality of clip data items in storage, each of the plurality of clip data items including a clip and one or more tags associated with the clip, the clip corresponding to at least a part of a document. The display processor displays one or more first tags on a screen if a first clip is selected from a first document displayed on the screen, the first clip corresponding to at least a part of the first document, wherein the one or more first tags are related to the first clip and extracted from the plurality of clip data items. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WEB PAGE - A system and method for displaying a web page prevents an operation error when the contents of display of the web page change. A vehicle-mounted device includes a touch panel and an input processor for performing an input operation corresponding to a position of contact of an indicator with a display screen. A proximity sensor and an indicator detector detects that the indicator has a predetermined positional relationship relative to the screen. A web browser obtains data on the web page, and a rendering engine performs web page display processing, including web page analysis processing and screen layout calculation for the data obtained. A display processor and a display device for displaying the web page subjected to the web page display processing are included. When the indicator has the predetermined positional relationship relative to the display screen, the web page display processing is stopped. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026562 | TECHNIQUES FOR AN AGENT-ASSISTED BROWSING SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for agent-assisted information browsing. In one example, an audio connection is established between a mobile device and an agent platform. In addition, a web service is established between the mobile device and the agent platform. The mobile device requests information through audio connection and/or web service. The agent platform searches a database for requested information and updates a webpage on the mobile device through the web service. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026563 | EVALUATION DEVICE, EVALUATION METHOD, EVALUATION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING EVALUATION PROGRAM - Provided are an evaluation device, an evaluation method, and an evaluation program for further accurately evaluating the magnitude of effect of each page in an electronic book on getting users interested, and also a computer-readable recording medium recording the program. With a book server | 2015-01-22 |
20150026564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEFINING A SIMULATED INTERACTIVE WEB PAGE - The system includes a novel software application interactive representation modeling language, a software application ( | 2015-01-22 |
20150026565 | XML STREAMING TRANSFORMER (XST) - The present invention includes devices and methods to specify a document transformation. A template specifies a transformation that is applied to a document in a streaming mode, without building a full object tree in memory representing the document. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026566 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRIORITIZE BROWSER TILE GENERATION FROM LQ TILE CONTENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for web browsers to prioritize rendering of low quality (LQ) tiles of webpages into high quality (HQ) tiles based on an estimated amount of information content in the LQ tiles. While HQ tiles are tiles that have been rendered previously, LQ tiles are scaled down versions of the information content overlapped by the LQ tiles. LQ tiles provide quick thumbnail sketches of the information content but need to be rendered into HQ tiles to fully display the information. Web browsers may display a frame of a webpage as a mixture of LQ and HQ tiles. The amount of information of the webpage content contained in the LQ tiles may be estimated using information metrics. The importance of the LQ tiles is ranked based on the information metrics. LQ tiles that have more information, and hence deemed as more important, are rendered into HQ tiles first. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026567 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED DELTA COMPRESSION - Systems and methods for reducing file sizes for files delivered over a network are disclosed. A method comprises receiving a first file comprising sequences of data; creating a hash table having entries corresponding to overlapping sequences of data; receiving a second file comprising sequences of data; comparing each of the sequences of data in the second file to the sequences of data in the hash table to determine sequences of data present in both the first and second files; and creating a third file comprising sequences of data from the second file and representations of locations and lengths of said sequences of data present in both the first and second files. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRUNCATING CHARACTER STRING - Methods, apparatus, and terminal devices for truncating a character string are provided. A character string to be truncate is read and a byte length occupied by a current character is obtained. It is determined whether a substring, formed from a starting character of the character string to be truncated to the current character, satisfies a pre-set truncating condition. When the substring, formed from the starting character of the character string to be truncated to the current character, satisfies the pre-set truncating condition, the current character is subtracted from the substring to generate a truncated substring for displaying, according to the byte length occupied by the current character. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026569 | METHOD FOR EDITING OBJECT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An electronic device is configured to perform a method for editing an object. The method includes determining one or more edit references with respect to one or more objects displayed on a display unit, detecting a motion input, and editing the one or more objects based on at least one of the one or more edit references and a characteristic of the motion input. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026570 | REPORT CREATING SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A report creating support apparatus displays, on a display unit, an evaluation item associated with a diagnosis target and a plurality of evaluation values for the evaluation item, determines one indicated evaluation value from the plurality of evaluation values displayed, and superimposes criteria information of the indicated evaluation value and criteria information of not less than one evaluation value other than the indicated evaluation value among the plurality of evaluation values on display. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026571 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE - A display apparatus and a method for providing a user interface are provided. The method for providing a user interface according to an exemplary embodiment includes displaying a content list including at least one content, and determining whether a source providing the selected content is connected to the display apparatus, when one of at least one content included in the content list is selected, and displaying a guidance message indicating information regarding the source in response to a determination that the source is not connected to the display apparatus. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026572 | GESTURE-BASED CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Various techniques for gestured-based control of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting first and second inputs respectively to first and second locations of a detection zone of an input/output device when the electronic device is in a locked mode. The first location is different than the second location. The method also includes determining a gesture that corresponds to both the detected first and second inputs and interpreting the determined gesture as a control signal to a media player on the electronic device. The method further includes controlling the media player based on the interpreted control signal. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026573 | Media Editing and Playing System and Method Thereof - A Media Editing and Playing System includes an editing engine and a playing engine. The editing engine edits a VXPLO media and the playing engine plays the VXPLO media. The VXPLO media includes at least one interactive media elements. The editing engine edits the interactive relationships in between the interactive media elements, and generates a recorder to record the properties of the interactive media elements and the interactive relationships. The playing engine analyzes the recorder and plays the VXPLO media. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026574 | Multiple Contact And/or Sense Promotional Systems and Methods - Various embodiments that may generally relate to presentation of content in a coordinated manner through a plurality of output devices is described. A smartphone, for example, may enhance a visual presentation made by a digital billboard by adding audio to the presentation. Various methods are described. Various apparatus are described. Further embodiments are described. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026575 | NAVIGATING WITHIN A MEDIA ITEM - A method and apparatus for user-controlled navigation within a media item comprising a sequence of elements. The method comprises: defining a line or curve for controlling the navigation; defining a transfer function that associates a plurality of positions along the line or curve with respective elements of the sequence; detecting an input operation by the user, wherein the input operation selects one of the plurality of positions; determining the element of the sequence that corresponds to the user-selected position, according to the defined transfer function; and navigating within the media item to the determined element, wherein the transfer function is a nonlinear one-to-one mapping between the positions along the line or curve and the elements of the sequence. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026576 | Visual Storytelling on a Mobile Media-Consumption Device - Techniques and apparatuses for visual storytelling on a mobile media-consumption device are described. These techniques and apparatuses enable a user to view events central to the story while also viewing context for the story. By so doing, a user may enjoy the story as the story's author intended without sacrificing a user's ability to engage with the story's context. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026577 | MANAGING PLAYBACK OF SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT - A computing device may provide a control interface that enables the user to manage the synchronized output of companion content (e.g., textual content and corresponding audio content). For example, the computing device may display a visual cue to identify a current location in textual content corresponding to a current output position of companion audio content. As the audio content is presented, the visual cue may be advanced to maintain synchronization between the output position within the audio content and a corresponding position in the textual content. The user may control the synchronized output by dragging her finger across the textual content displayed on the touch screen. Accordingly, the control interface may provide a highlight or other visual indication of the distance between the advancing position in the textual content and the location of a pointer to the textual content indicated by the current position of the user's finger. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026578 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING USER GENERATED MEDIA ITEMS WITH EXTERNALLY GENERATED MEDIA ITEMS - A method for integrating user generated media items with externally generated media items may include: obtaining one or more user-generated media items captured by a user during one or more events; obtaining a plurality of externally generated media items, wherein at least one of the media items was captured independently of the one or more events; analyzing the user-generated media items, to extract visual data of the user-generated media items; automatically selecting a subset of the externally generated media items, based on a visual relationship between visual data of the selected externally generated media items and the visual data of the user-generated media items; and automatically producing a media sequence comprising portions of the user-generated media items and portions of the selected externally generated media items. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026579 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING CROWDSOURCED TASKS - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for processing one or more crowdsourced tasks. The method comprises converting an audio input received from a crowdworker to one or more phrases by one or more processors in at least one computing device. The audio input is at least a response to a crowdsourced task. A mode of the audio input is selected based on one or more parameters associated with the crowdworker. Thereafter, the one or more phrases are presented on a display of the at least one computing device by the one or more processors. Finally, one of the one or more phrases is selected by the crowdworker as a correct response to the crowdsourced task. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026580 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION - A system of communicating between first and second electronic devices, comprises, in a first device, receiving from a second device, voice representative information acquired by the second device, and connection information indicating characteristics of communication to be used in establishing a communication link with the second device. The system compares the voice representative information with predetermined reference voice representative information and in response to the comparison, establishes a communication link with the second device by using the connection information received from the second device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026581 | INFORMATION INPUTTING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD - A handheld device in communication with an electronic device which requires confidential information to be inputted allows the information to be input into the handheld device in a private and secure manner. The handheld device comprises a communication module, a determining module, an interface establishing module, and an inputting module. Triggering information from the electronic device causes the interface establishing module to establish a visual interface when the determining module determines that triggering information is received from the electronic device. The input module allows the input of confidential information in more than one manner of input. The communication module further transmits the inputted confidential information to the electronic device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026582 | GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF CLASSIFICATION OF WORKLOADS - Technology is disclosed for graphically representing classification of workloads in a storage system. Workload classification is graphically represented to the user by mapping workload signatures of the workloads to a grid. When the workload signatures are mapped to the grid, a number of clusters are formed in the grid. Each of the clusters represents workloads of a particular category. Mapping the workload signature to the grid includes mapping a high-dimensionality workload signature vector to a low-dimensionality grid. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026583 | MEDIA CONTENT BOARDS - A system, comprising a media device that includes a processor and a memory, is configured to receive from a first remote site a first set of data concerning a plurality of items of media content. Each of the plurality of items of media content is determined at the first remote site at least in part according to a descriptor provided from the first media device and data from a second remote site. The media device is configured to display a graphical user interface identifying each of the plurality of items of media content. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026584 | PREVIEWING EXPANDABLE CONTENT ITEMS - This specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage device, for providing a preview of an expandable content item. The subject matter of the specification is embodied in a method that includes presenting an interface configured to receive input for designating characteristics associated with an expandable content item and receiving, via the interface, a designation of one or more directions for expansion of the expandable content item. The method also includes presenting a control for enabling selection of a preview option, and receiving a selection of the control. The method further includes presenting a preview interface responsive to receiving the selection of the control, the preview interface including an option for designating a selection of at least a first or a second different preview environment. The preview interface also includes a preview area that displays the expandable content item in accordance with the one or more directions in a position on a page. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026585 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management system includes an electronic device and a remote maintenance server. The electronic device displays an operation screen to a user. The remote maintenance server includes a transparent panel management portion that draws a guide image on a virtual transparent panel based on an operation of a service person performed on a service terminal device, and causes the electronic device to overlay and display the virtual transparent panel on the operation screen. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026586 | TRANSLATION OF TOUCH INPUT INTO LOCAL INPUT BASED ON A TRANSLATION PROFILE FOR AN APPLICATION - Examples disclosed herein relate to translation of touch input into local input based on a translation profile for an application. Examples include translating touch input into local input based on a translation profile for an application in focus, if the translation profile is accessible. Examples further include providing the touch input to an operating system if no translation profile for the application in focus is accessible and the operating system is able to utilize touch input. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026587 | System and Method for Displaying Objects in a User Interface Based on a Visual Acuity of a Viewer - A system, a computer readable storage medium including programs, and a computer-implemented method for displaying objects in a graphical user interface of a device are described. A vision test is presented in the graphical user interface of the device, the vision test including vision test objects used to test a visual acuity level of a user of the device. Input is received from the user identifying the user's ability to see at least one vision test object in the vision test. Display settings corresponding to the input received from the user are identified. Objects in the graphical user interface are displayed based on the display settings. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026588 | INTEGRATED COMBAT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An integrated combat resource management device is in the form of a smartphone with a display screen and user input device. The smartphone has a set of integrated applications stored therein which when executed provide an interactive display offering dynamic real-time situational awareness information to the user. Configuration files contain user-specific profiles. A launcher application offers access control and the management of several user profiles on the same smartphone such that upon successful login the appropriate user-specific profile is applied. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026589 | RELATIONSHIP QUALITY EVALUATION AND REPORTING - A system for relationship information evaluation and management. The system incorporates relationship quality parameters that define the contextual parameters of quality, which are mutually validated and are accepted by the respective parties within an existing or prospective relationship. A computer, computing device, written documents or other means are used to capture the perspectives of each person, representative, or entity within the relationship or prospective relationship. This can be done automatically, on a random, periodic, or scheduled basis, or upon manual initiation. The information or data may then be analyzed and coalesced into a meaningful whole (or segments thereof), which may then be archived, printed, reported, and presented to one or both of the parties, or others. The information can be processed and stored based upon certain parameters, attributes, types or classes or relationships, so as to provide history, patterns, trends, alerts, warnings, analyses or comparisons concerning relationship quality. All information collected can be further applied or aggregated within an organization (or beyond, such as in a general locality or marketplace). | 2015-01-22 |
20150026590 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILTERING MESSAGES - A device and method for filtering messages is provided. The device comprises: a processor; a memory storing messages, at least a subset of the messages designated as unread messages; and a touchscreen including a display. A sliding touch input is detected at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input including a change in direction, the sliding touch input terminating in a static touch input proximal an edge of the touchscreen. In response to detecting the static touch input, a list of the unread messages is provided at the display. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026591 | User Interface - A method of controlling communication quality between one node and at least one other node in a packet switched communication system, the method comprising the steps of detecting at one of said nodes a condition that indicates that communication quality is below an acceptable threshold, automatically generating instructions based on the detected condition for a user of the at least one node, said instructions intended to provide a remedy to improve the communication quality, and receiving input from a user of the at least one node responsive to the instructions to implement the remedy and thereby improve the communication quality. | 2015-01-22 |
20150026592 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILTERING MESSAGES USING SLIDING TOUCH INPUT - A device and method for filtering messages using sliding touch input are provided. The device comprises a processor; a memory storing messages of different types, at least a subset of the messages designated as unread messages; and a touchscreen including a display. A sliding touch input is detected at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input comprising a first portion in a first direction and a second portion in a second direction such that the sliding touch input includes a change in direction. In response, the messages are filtered according to one or more of a first filtering condition associated with the first portion and a second filtering condition associated with the second portion, to filter the messages according to one or more of type and a read status. | 2015-01-22 |