15th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120089907 | Single Word and Multi-word Term Integrating System and a Method thereof - A single word and multi-word term integrating system and a method thereof are disclosed, wherein a user uses an input unit to continuously input pinying codes for the system to find combinations of the pinying codes to provide word candidates for the user to choose, wherein the word candidates can be combined into a phrase or a sentence; when the inputted pinying codes are too long or incomplete, there might be a false prediction of a word or a sentence due to an incorrect combination of pinying codes; consequently, the system forcibly determines the pinying codes to be regarded as a single word and does not combine them with the follow-up pinying codes; then the system uses a full sentence prediction result display unit for the user to choose a correct word, thereby improving prediction accuracy. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089908 | LEVERAGING GEO-IP INFORMATION TO SELECT DEFAULT AVATAR - Default selections presented to a client device can be customized when the client device accesses an online service via a network. A geographic location for the client device can be determined from network address information for the device. Socioeconomic information characteristic of the geographic location can be obtained from a first database. A socioeconomic-factor-dependent default menu selection can be customized according to the socioeconomic information. Supplemental information relevant to the menu selection can be obtained from a second database that maps user feedback that is relevant to the menu selection in that geographic location. The default selection can be updated according to the supplemental information. Updating the default selection may optionally include changing a duration for which a particular selection from a sequence of selections is presented on the client device. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089909 | GOAL MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method of generating a set of goals is presented. The method entails receiving user input that includes items and an input value associated with each of the items. Individual values are assigned to the items based on the input value. The individual values are then summed to generate a total value, and the items are ranked according to the contributions of their respective individual values to the total value. A difference between the total value and a corresponding reference value is determined. The input value that is associated with the highest-ranking item is changed, and the total value and the difference are then recalculated using the changed input value. The process is repeated with the next highest-ranked item and the next until a condition is fulfilled. A goal is defined based on the changed input value of the items at the time the condition is fulfilled. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089910 | ADVANCED PLAYBACK QUEUE MANAGEMENT - Methods, systems, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable-media are described for creating and/or maintaining a playback queue of media content. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of providing playback of media content includes receiving a request from a mobile communications device associated with a user to browse a media archive. A user selection of a category and a request to initiate management of a playback queue are received. A media listing is generated responsive to the received request. A user selection of one or more items of media content from the generated media listing is received. One or more playback queue options for the user selected items of media content are presented. A user selection of one of the presented one or more playback queue options is received. The user selected items of media content are manipulated to update the playback queue responsive to the received user selected playback queue option. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089911 | Bookmarking System - A bookmarking system is described for allowing users to bookmark audio and video content for sharing with other users. The system allows the bookmark to be generated with minimal user involvement, making the process as easy to use as the bookmarking of websites on a computer device. A disambiguation server is provided to disambiguate the content to be book-marked. The disambiguation server uses information from various sources to provide a number of candidates for selection by the user. Historical data and the bookmarks of other users can also be used to aid the disambiguation process. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089912 | PRESTREAMS - There are disclosed apparatus and processes for playing a prestream. A client computer running a browser has loaded a webpage including instructions for playing a designated stream in a media player. To enable the prestream, prestream control code is included in the webpage such that when a stream initiation action takes place the prestream control code is processed and causes the prestream to be played before the media player plays the stream. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089913 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOVING PICTURE CLIP AND/OR DISPLAYING CONTENT FILE LIST, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A recording and reproducing apparatus for displaying a content file list, a content file list displaying method and a recording medium storing a program performing the method, which are capable of easily identifying a paused content file and memorizing a point of the content file which reproducing is paused and content of the content file at the paused point, are provided. The method includes: determining whether or not a paused content file exists; creating a content file list capable of identifying the paused content file with reference to the result of the determination; and displaying the created content file list. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089914 | USER INTERFACES FOR NAVIGATING STRUCTURED CONTENT - User interfaces for navigating structured content. In one example embodiment, a user interface includes a grid, a header row of cells each positioned in a separate column of the grid, a header column of cells each positioned in a separate row of the grid, a plurality of multi-dimensional cells each having a unique position in the grid, and a viewport that displays only a portion of the grid. Upon of reception an indication that the portion of the grid displayed within the viewport should simultaneously scroll both horizontally and vertically, the multi-dimensional cells of the grid are configured to scroll simultaneously within the viewport both horizontally and vertically, and the header row cells and header column cells of the grid are configured to scroll in a synchronous manner so as to remain visible in the viewport and remain aligned with the rows and columns of multi-dimensional cells. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089915 | Method and Device for Temporally Sequenced Adaptive Recommendations of Activities - A method and device for temporally sequenced recommendations of activities delivers to users temporally sequenced objects comprising user activities, wherein the delivered objects are selected based, at least in part, on inferences of preferences from usage behaviors. The delivered objects may include activities associated with processor-based devices in addition to human activities. Variations of the system and method include delivering the temporally sequenced objects in accordance with the contents of the objects and user feedback with regard to the objects. Information as to why objects were delivered to users may be provided to the users. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089916 | MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION EDITOR FOR A SMALL-DISPLAY COMMUNICATION TERMINAL OR COMPUTING DEVICE - A method by which a multimedia presentation editor for use on a (typically handheld) communication or computing terminal ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120089917 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GUI IN WHICH THE CONNECTION RELATIONSHIPS AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF DEVICES ARE SHOWN, AND DEVICE ADOPTING SAME - A method and device for providing a Graphic User Interface (GUI) that displays connections between a plurality of devices and an arrangement of the plurality of devices, by determining connections between a plurality of devices and an arrangement between the plurality of devices; generating a GUI that displays the devices, the connections between the devices and the arrangement of the devices; and displaying the generated GUI, making it possible for a user to easily and intuitively determine the connections and arrangement of the devices that are connected to a network. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089918 | METHOD FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS OF PORTABLE DEVICE - A method for managing applications of a portable device by a computer electrically connected to the portable device is provided, wherein the computer connects to the internet. Application information from websites is obtained by the computer after recognizing the portable device, wherein the application information includes recommendation lists of the websites. An application is downloaded from the websites to the portable device via the Internet connection of the computer and not the Internet connection of the portable device. The downloaded application is provided to the devices other than the portable device by the computer via the internet. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089919 | LEVERAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR COMPUTER HELP - Computer help is provided through a user's social networking sites. For example, a computer help desk can request permission to be added to a user's social networking contacts or can add itself automatically as a contact of the user to provide help information through the social network as an RSS feed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089920 | PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING REAL-TIME POSITION AND MOVEMENT DATA - A geospatial platform for building applications involving location and time is disclosed. The applications allow users to analyze and make sense of the location and time-based data generated by a wide variety of devices in real time, as it is generated. The platform in one example features a dashboard for associating code statements with a variety of data visualizations. The code statements access real-time and/or location based data and generate a result set that is optimized for displaying a selected data visualization in the dashboard. The code statements are ideally executed on a server so that large quantities of data can be manipulated as it is generated by various devices in real-time. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089921 | Cell phone software-customized to serve across the internet as a controller to a computer that is still further connected to the internet, including for interactive gaming - A mobile phone controls across the Internet a computer that is also concurrently connected upon the Internet to at least one server. The server may provide gaming, and computer controlled by the mobile phone user to display a game to this user. Alternatively, the server may provide maintenance, and the computer—which may be remote—controlled by the user to effect maintenance. Further alternatively, a remote computer may be controlled by the user of the mobile phone to process education and entertainment content, providing display information yet again across the interne to one or more displays local, and visible, to the user. By lavish use of Internet communication remote computers of considerable power and communications bandwidth may thus be controlled by a simple programmed mobile phone to process, and to provide, copious information to a local user having but an inexpensive terminal, or Internet-connected display. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089922 | Apparatus and method for effectively implementing system and desktop configuration enhancements - An apparatus for effectively implementing system and desktop configuration enhancements in an electronic device includes a user interface that a device user may utilize to interact with the electronic device. In accordance with the present invention, various appropriate means for enhancing the utilization capabilities of the user interface are implemented and supported. The electronic device further includes a processor device that is configured to control the means for enhancing the utilization capabilities of the user interface. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089923 | DYNAMIC COMPANION DEVICE USER INTERFACE - A method of dynamically changing a user interface of a companion device configured to remotely control an entertainment system is provided. The method includes establishing two-way communication with the entertainment system, and registering one or more trigger events with the entertainment system. The method further includes, upon occurrence of a trigger event, receiving a notification of the trigger event from the entertainment system, and dynamically changing the user interface of the companion device responsive to the notification. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089924 | Multiple personalities - A computer implemented method enables perception of multiple online personas in an instant messaging communications session by identifying at least two identities within a communications environment to whom messages may be directed, and by enabling a first persona of a user to be projected to a first of the identities while concurrently enabling a second persona of the same user to be projected to a second of the identities. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089925 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING TEXT - An electronic messager with a predictive text editor, including a storage unit for storing a data structure associating, for each one of a plurality of a user's contacts, usage data for the user's history of usage of words in communications with the user contact, a data manager coupled with the storage unit for generating the data structure in the storage unit, and for updating the data structure as additional communications with each user contact are performed and additional usage data is obtained therefrom, and a text predictor coupled with the storage unit, for receiving as input a character string and a designated user contact, and for generating as output an ordered list of predicted. A method is also described and claimed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089926 | Instant Messaging with Browser Collaboration - The invention enables collaboration between first and second users at first and second workstations having first and second browsers, respectively. A page is loaded into the first browser. An instant messaging connection is established between the first workstation and the second workstation. Then an address of the page loaded at the first browser is sent to the second browser via the instant messaging connection. At the second browser the page is loaded in response to receipt of the page address. A network connection is then established between the first browser and the second browser. Thereafter, messages are sent from the first browser to the second browser via the network connection responsive to screen events by a user at the first workstation to control screen events at the second workstation. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING UNAVAILABLE ITEMS IN SHARED SCREEN DATA - A system and method of managing unavailable items in shared screen data which provides access to modified screen data substantially simultaneously. The system includes a first computer including a display for displaying a screen containing items from screen data including modified screen data during a transaction. The modified screen data reflects that at least one of the items is unavailable. The first computer shares the screen data with a second computer. The first computer is also for displaying an indication that the at least one item is unavailable substantially simultaneously following modification of the screen data and upon selection of the at least one item at one of the first and second computers. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089928 | INDEPENDENT VIEWING OF WEB CONFERENCE CONTENT BY PARTICIPANTS - A method for allowing independent viewing of web conference content may include enumerating a plurality of windows of content of a web conference to allow caching of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window by a client computer device of a participant to provide independent viewing of each enumerated window by the participant in the web conference. The method may also include forming a bitmap of visible and non-visible portions of each enumerated window. The method may further include transmitting the bitmap of each enumerated window to the client computer device of the participant in the web conference. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089929 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING OPERATION SCREEN DESIGN - A UI specification creating apparatus displays a format that allows information relevant to a condition of an element displayed on an operation screen of a user interface to be activated and information concerning content of process that the element operates to be described in a given form and receives descriptions relevant to specifications of the element based on the format. The UI specification creating apparatus then displays the operation screen of the user interface and carries out a simulation of an operation of the element displayed on the operation screen of the user interface based on the information relevant to the condition of the element to be activated and the information concerning the content of process that the element operates received. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089930 | Customizable Methods and Systems of Growing and Harvesting Cells in a Hollow Fiber Bioreactor System - Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and systems for customizing protocols for use with a cell expansion system. Through a user interface, a user may create a custom task for loading, growing and/or harvesting cells. A custom task may comprise one or more steps, in which a user may add or omit steps, as desired. Data may be entered for settings associated with a custom task, in which embodiments provide for such data to be entered each time the custom task is performed. In another embodiment, the settings for a custom task may be configured, in which such settings may be stored and retrieved upon selection of the custom task. Customization and configuration of a custom task may occur using a diagram view of the cell expansion system, in which process settings are associated with graphical user interface elements. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089931 | LIGHTWEIGHT OPERATION AUTOMATION BASED ON GUI - Systems and methods for operation automation based on GUI are described. A GUI session is generated in a server runtime environment. The GUI session includes a number of objects corresponding to GUI elements, as defined in a software application. The objects of the GUI session are simultaneously exposed to a number of GUI channels via a number of interfaces. Each of the GUI channels is compliant with a different access protocol. Client operation requests compliant with different protocols are executed in parallel against the objects of the GUI session via GUI channels with matching protocol compliancy. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089932 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus is provided that comprises a first detection unit configured to detect a first user operation on a first object and a first display unit configured to generate signals to display the first object in a first display state. The apparatus further comprises a second display unit configured to generate signals to change the display state of the first object from the first display state to a second display state. The apparatus further comprises a third display unit configured to generate signals to change the display state of the first object from the second display state to the first display state in response to the detection of the second user operation on the first object. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089933 | CONTENT CONFIGURATION FOR DEVICE PLATFORMS - The present technology includes a digital content authoring tool for authoring digital content without the need to understand or access computer code. The present technology further includes creating digital content that can be modified with animation of assets. Each animation can be controlled by an action, and the actions can be tied to a time axis for execution. By relating actions to a time axis, animations based on the actions can be more easily viewed and reviewed. In some embodiments, the system can clear a page of all but a selected asset so that it may be more easily worked with. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089934 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION IDENTIFYING RELATIONSHIPS IN A DATABASE - A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for presenting information identifying relationships in a database. Entity labels identifying a plurality of different entity types modeled in the database are presented in a user interface. Input identifying one or more selected entity types is received. A plurality of entity instance relationship sets is accessed. Each entity instance relationship set identifies a relationship between entity instances of at least two different entity types. Attribute data of the entity instances identified in only those entity instance relationship sets that identify a relationship between entity instances of the one or more selected entity types are presented, such that attribute data for each unique relationship between entity instances of the one or more selected entity types are presented only once. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089935 | Mixed Signal Analysis - System and method implementing an integrated interface for multiple instruments for signal analysis, including two or more virtual instruments. The method includes a) receiving user input specifying an operation implementing at least a portion of a signal analysis function; b) performing the operation utilizing at least one of the instruments to perform the operation; c) displaying an icon comprising a graphical representation of the operation in response to the specifying; d) storing information specifying the operation; and repeating a)-d) multiple times to specify the function, thereby producing stored information representing the operations in the function, and after which multiple icons are displayed representing the operations and visually indicating the function. The operations in the function include 1) generating signals displayed in a graph, and/or 2) modifying one or more signals displayed in the graph. After each respective operation is specified, the operation is performed substantially continuously during said repeating. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089936 | Progress displaying system and method thereof - A progress displaying system and the method thereof are provided. The system and the method thereof are applicable to mileage calculating devices. By generating progress displaying graphs during mileage calculations according to the moving speeds and completed percentages at different time points, and continuously showing progress displaying graphs until the completed percentage is completely fulfilled, the system and the method thereof can achieve the goal of vividly reflecting user's current status during the progress display. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089937 | REMOTE CONTROLLER WITH TOUCH SCREEN - A remote controller with touch screen is used for controlling an electronic device. The remote controller includes a housing, a storage unit, an interface unit, and a processing unit. A remote control interface is displayed on the touch screen. The remote control interface includes at least one virtual key, and the at least one virtual key produces a corresponding trigger signal in response to user's touch. The processing unit identifies the remote code after receiving the trigger signal, and drives the interface unit to emit the corresponding coded pulse to the electronic device, and at the same time the processing unit drives the touch screen to display the next level remote control interface. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089938 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program - An apparatus for displaying content stored as a plurality of pages is provided. The apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect a first user operation and a control unit configured to send signals to display one of the plurality of pages on a screen. The control unit is further configured to, when the detected first user operation comprises a page turn instruction, send signals to sequentially change the displayed page at a first rate when the displayed page is outside a first number of pages before or after a first marked page and sequentially change the displayed page at a second rate slower than the first rate when the displayed page is within the first number of pages before or after the first marked page. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089939 | COMBINED PROPERTIES DIALOG FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES - An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method to manage properties in a dialog from various sources creates a widget properties dialog and receives properties and validation rules from each source associated with the widget properties dialog to form received information. The computer-implemented method further creates a group of tabs in the widget properties dialog using the received information, wherein the group of tabs contains a general tab and a group of content tabs, wherein each content tab is specific to an instance of content provider and content type. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089940 | METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A USER INTERFACE ON A REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE AND A REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE APPLYING THE SAME - A method for displaying a user interface (UI) of a display apparatus on a remote control and a remote control applying the same are provided. The remote control includes a controlling unit which identifies information regarding a UI where a cursor is located on a screen of the display apparatus, and a display unit, such as a touch screen, which displays an image corresponding to the identified UI information. Accordingly, a user may remotely control the display apparatus more intuitively and delicately using the touch screen display unit on the remote control. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089941 | Visualizing motifs with visual structures - Visual structures are produced to represent corresponding motifs, where the motifs correspond to repeating patterns in an input data set, where sizes of the visual structures are based on values of a characteristic associated with the motifs, and where a first of the motifs is nested within a second of the motifs to represent a hierarchical relationship of the patterns represented by the first and second motifs. The visual structures of corresponding motifs are presented for display in a visualization screen, where the visualization screen depicts the data in the input data set with the visual structures overlapping parts of depicted data. Interactive input is received specifying modification of a region containing motifs, wherein the specified modification includes interactive distortion of the visual structures in the region to change a size of the visual structures in the region. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089942 | METHOD AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PRESENTING TEXT - A method and portable electronic device for presenting text portable is provided. In accordance with one example embodiment, there is provided a method to enlarge text on a portable electronic device comprising: determining a location of an onscreen position indicator in text displayed on a display screen of the portable electronic device; and displaying a selected portion of the text in an area in relation to the location of the onscreen position indicator in enlarged text. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089943 | INITIATING AND COMPLETING TRANSACTIONS VIA NOTIFICATION ELEMENTS - Initiating and completing transactions using a notification architecture associated in part with an operating system executing on a first computing device. The transactions are associated with a second computing device (e.g., a merchant computing device). Transaction messages relating to the transactions are conveyed via the notification architecture to the first computing device of a user. User interface notification elements associated with the operating system on the first computing device display the transaction messages, and receive authorization from the user relating to the transactions. The authorization is provided to the merchant computing device by the notification architecture. The transactions are completed without executing, on the first computing device, an application associated with the merchant computing device. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089944 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a display apparatus and a control method thereof, the display apparatus including: a display unit; an image receiver which receives an image signal; an image processor which processes the image signal received by the image receiver and displays an image corresponding to the processed image signal on the display unit; and a controller which maps a plurality of objects in the image displayed on the display unit corresponding to four directions including up, down, right, and left, and controls the image processor so that a second object corresponding to a same row as a first object is selected when a first transfer command instructing a transfer in a right or left direction is received through up, down, right, and left keys with the first object being selected among the plurality of objects. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089945 | EFFICIENT NAVIGATION BASED ON IMPORTANCE WITH AUDIO OUTPUT OPTION - A system and method for navigating items includes computing an importance of a plurality of items. The importance is compared to one of a threshold or other items. Upon encountering a next item, a determination to skip the item or stop on the item is made based upon a comparison of the importance. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089946 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND SCRIPT CONVERSION METHOD - A control apparatus includes: a display unit which is smaller than a display unit of a control target apparatus in display area; an operating unit which receives an input via an operation screen displayed on the display area of the display unit; a script receiving unit obtaining, from the control target apparatus, a script which defines GUI receiving the input via the operation screen displayed on the one-screen display area of the control target apparatus; and a script converting unit converting the script into another script such that the converted script defines a GUI component to be displayed on the display unit in an operable manner, the GUI component being allocated on the operation screen of the GUI defined by the obtained script. The display unit displays the operation screen of the control target apparatus based on the converted script. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089947 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a method of controlling the electronic device are provided. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089948 | GESTURE CONTROLLED USER INTERFACE - In an embodiment, a device is described that includes a computer-readable medium, a processing device, and an MCUI. The processing device may be configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored on the computer-readable medium. The MCUI may include computer-executable instructions stored on the computer-readable medium. The computer-executable instructions may include instructions for processing data representing movement of the device to actuate one or more features of the device. Each feature may be designated on the device by a corresponding feature icon. The computer-executable instructions may also include instructions for providing, on the device, an indication of which feature is actuated on the device. The indication may be associated with a feature icon corresponding to an actuated feature. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089949 | METHOD AND COMPUTING DEVICE IN A SYSTEM FOR MOTION DETECTION - A computing device in a system for motion detection comprises an image processing device to determine a motion of an object of interest, and a graphical user interface (GUI) module to drive a virtual role based on the motion determined by the image processing device. The image processing device comprises a foreground extracting module to extract a foreground image from each of a first image of the object of interest taken by a first camera and a second image of the object of interest taken by a second camera, a feature point detecting module to detect feature points in the foreground image, a depth calculating module to calculate the depth of each of the feature points based on disparity images associated with the each feature point, the depth calculating module and the feature point detecting module identifying a three-dimensional (3D) position of each of the feature points, and a motion matching module to identify vectors associated with the 3D positions of the feature points and determine a motion of the object of interest based on the vectors. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089950 | PINCH GESTURE TO NAVIGATE APPLICATION LAYERS - Using pinch gestures to navigate user interface layers of an application. In particular embodiments, a pinch gesture may cause an application program to close a currently running user interface layer of the application, or return to a previously viewed user interface layer. In some implementations, a pinch gesture may cause an application to close. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION WITHIN A MULTI-LEVEL APPLICATION - A processor in a computing system, such as a mobile device, can be configured to execute program instructions to provide an application having levels to which a user can navigate and in which a user can make selections to change the operation of the application. A navigation prompt provided by the application is selectable to produce a navigation interface with controls corresponding to different levels in the application. In some implementations, at least some of the controls can be labeled in accordance with selections made to navigate to the current level of the application. In other implementations, one or more of the controls can be labeled in accordance with how an item viewed at a current level of the application is categorized within the application hierarchy. Selection of a control in the navigation interface produces a new interface screen at a corresponding level of the application. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089952 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE GESTURE RECOGNITION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for gesture recognition in a portable terminal. An operation of the portable terminal includes determining a user situation by using at least one situation information, determining a user's gesture by using at least one sensor measurement value, and performing a function corresponding to the user situation and the gesture. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089953 | MASK LAYOUT FORMATION - A method for mask layout formation including forming a plurality of phase shapes on either side of a critical feature of a design layout of an integrated circuit chip having a plurality of critical features, wherein each phase shape has an edge; identifying a plurality of transition edges from the edges, wherein each transition edge is parallel to a critical feature; identifying a transition space defined by one of a group including two transition edges, wherein the space is external to all phase shapes, and one transition edge, wherein the space is external to all phase shapes; forming a transition polygon by closing each transition space with at least one closing edge, wherein each closing edge is perpendicular to the plurality of transition edges; transforming each transition polygon into a printing assist feature; and forming a first mask layout or a second mask layout from the printing assist features and the critical features. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089954 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PARALLELIZING TASKS IN PROCESSING AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN - Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing compact manufacturing model during various stages of electronic circuit designs. In some embodiments, the method loads the full design database information on the master; distributes the tasks to be processed in parallel; loads a full design on a master; spawns a plurality of slave sessions; sends to at least one slave a nutshell representation of the electronic circuit design; identifies a task to perform in parallel and sends the task to be performed in parallel; and receives execution results or processing results from some of the plurality of slaves and updates one or more databases to incorporate the execution or processing results. In some embodiments, the method allows speeding up the applications without major rewrite without a need for design partition, and without memory penalty. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089955 | IMPLEMENTING ROUTING FIRST FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING AND IMPROVED WIRING OF HETEROGENEOUS HIERARCHICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing routing first for rapid prototyping and improved wiring of heterogeneous hierarchical integrated circuit chips. Placement for each of a plurality of random logic macros (RLMs) is identified. Predefined wiring shapes are created for each of the identified RLMs. Full chip wire routing is defined responsive to the created predefined wiring shapes for each of the identified RLMs. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089956 | Automated Bottom-Up and Top-Down Partitioned Design Synthesis - An embodiment of the present invention includes a partitioner, a synthesizer, and an optimizer. The partitioner partitions a design into a hierarchy of partitions having a top-level partition and lower partitions. The lower partitions include a bottom-level partition. The top-level partition has top-level constraints. The synthesizer synthesizes the lower partitions hierarchically from the bottom-level partition to create lower partition netlists based on the top-level constraints. The optimizer optimizes a top-level netlist corresponding to the top-level partition from the lower partition netlists to satisfy the top-level constraints. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089957 | CIRCUIT DESIGN ASSISTING DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A circuit design assisting device for assisting design of a circuit, the circuit design assisting device includes a storage unit that stores circuit connection data of the circuit, a selecting unit that chooses a storage element that holds a signal inputted from an input terminal based on a clock signal and outputs the signal from an output terminal from the circuit connection data, a tracing unit that traces a logical connection from the input terminal of the chosen storage element in an opposite direction against propagation of the signal based on the circuit connection data, and a control unit that suspends the tracing unit to trace the logical connection when the tracing unit reaches to an element having two or more input terminals. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089958 | Apparatus and Methods for Optimizing the Performance of Programmable Logic Devices - A programmable logic device (PLD) includes first and second circuits. The first and second circuits are part of a user's design to be implemented using the PLD's resources. The first circuit is powered by a first supply voltage. The second circuit is powered by a second supply voltage. At least one of the first and second supply voltages is determined by a PLD computer-aided design (CAD) flow used to implement the user's design in the PLD. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING SERVICE FLOW BASED ON USER'S GOAL-DRIVEN SEMANTIC SERVICE DISCOVERY - Provided is a method and apparatus for automatically creating a service flow. A goal may be identified based on a keyword input from a user. The identified goal may be decomposed into at least one sub-goal, and a service may be discovered and determined with respect to each sub-goal. A service flow may be created based on the determined service, and a code may be generated based on the service flow. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089960 | EXTENSIBLE COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE MODELING - Multiple architects may concurrently create and modify a model of computer software, each on their own client at a different location. Each change that is made to a model is forwarded to a server for analysis. The server may determine whether the change creates a conflict. If no conflict is detected, the change may be approved, saved, and propagated by the server to all of the other clients that are working on the same model. If a conflict is detected, on the other hand, the change may not be approved by the server. The server may instead provide notice of the conflict. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089961 | TILE COMMUNICATION OPERATOR - A high level programming language provides a tile communication operator that decomposes a computational space into sub-spaces (i.e., tiles) that may be mapped to execution structures (e.g., thread groups) of data parallel compute nodes. An indexable type with a rank and element type defines the computational space. For an input indexable type, the tile communication operator produces an output indexable type with the same rank as the input indexable type and an element type that is a tile of the input indexable type. The output indexable type provides a local view structure of the computational space that enables coalescing of global memory accesses in a data parallel compute node. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089962 | Unchanged Object Management - A method includes, using a static analysis performed on code, analyzing the code to determine a set of unchanged objects and modifying the code to exercise a singleton-pattern technique for one or more members of the set of unchanged objects. The method also includes outputting the modified code. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed. Another method includes accessing code from a client, and in response to any of the code being source code, compiling the source code into object code until all the code from the client comprises object code. The method further includes, using a static analysis performed on the object code, analyzing the object code to determine a set of unchanged objects and modifying the object code to exercise a singleton-pattern technique for one or more members of the set of unchanged objects. The method additionally includes returning the modified object code to the client. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089963 | AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS - An application analysis mechanism analyzes a composite application for conformance to a set of component interaction rules that define one or more conditions that should be satisfied between components written in different languages, along with an action that is performed depending on the analysis of the conditions. Once the component interaction rules are defined, the composite application is received. Next, a model of the composite application is built that separates components of the composite application into categories based on the programming language used, and includes metadata to describe interaction between components. The set of component interaction rules is then run against the model of the composite application. The results of the analysis are then output. The automated analysis of composite applications removes much of the process that is prone to human errors to provide an efficient and consistent approach for analyzing composite applications. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089964 | ASYNCHRONOUS CODE TESTING IN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (IDE) - A system and associated method for asynchronous code testing in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE has components of a source code editor, an impact analyzer, a test case launcher, a graphical user interface (GUI), and a database. All components run concurrently for asynchronous and real-time code editing. Upon modification of a code block of an input code, a test case is automatically generated and a launching priority is calculated based on the relationship between the modified code block and each code block affected by the modification. Generated test cases are automatically run by the test case launcher or manually selected by the user to produce a test run result. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089965 | APPLICATION SERVICES SOURCE REFACTORING - An embodiment of the disclosure can compile source of an interactive application with debug options enabled. Execution activity of the interactive application can be enabled. A code path of a selected service of the interactive application can be executed in a debug environment using a user interface of the selected service to identify execution data associated with the selected service. Unresolved branch conditions in the execution data can be addressed for each code path of the selected service. A source extraction of the selected service can be performed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089966 | TWO PASS AUTOMATED APPLICATION INSTRUMENTATION - A two-pass technique for instrumenting an application is disclosed. One pass may be performed statically by analyzing the application and inserting probes while the application is not running. Another pass may be performed dynamically by analyzing data collected by the probes while the application runs to derive metrics for the probes. One or more metrics for each probe may be analyzed to determine whether to dynamically modify the probe. By dynamically modifying the probe, the application does not need to be shut down. Dynamically modifying the probe could include removing the probe from the application or moving the probe to another component (e.g., method) in the application, as examples. For example, the probe might be moved to a component that is either up or down the call graph from the component that the probe is presently in. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089967 | DYNAMIC DATA AND COMPUTE RESOURCE ELASTICITY - An execution environment in a computer system provides dynamic data and compute resources elasticity for user code to improve execution efficiency. The execution environment translates the user code into a runtime agnostic representation with a set of tasks. For each task, the execution environment determines a level of concurrency for executing the task based on the size of the set of input data for the task, the amount of compute resources available at the time of invocation of the task, and any context-sensitive heuristics provided by the user code. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089968 | RUNTIME AGNOSTIC REPRESENTATION OF USER CODE FOR EXECUTION WITH SELECTED EXECUTION RUNTIME - An execution environment in a computer system allows user code to be executed using multiple execution runtimes. The execution environment translates the user code into a runtime agnostic representation, selects an execution runtime for executing the runtime agnostic representation, and invokes a scheduler for the selected execution runtime. The scheduler dispatches tasks from the runtime agnostic representation for execution by the computer system using concurrency mechanisms in the selected execution runtime. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089969 | DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING MODEL WITH A NATIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE - An execution environment in a computer system supports a declarative programming model where user code is written with a query syntax in a native programming language to express inherent parallelism in terms of data flow. The execution environment translates queries in the user code into a runtime agnostic representation and dynamically selects an execution runtime for executing the runtime agnostic representation. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089970 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LOOP SCHEDULE OF A PARALLEL PROGRAM - A compiling apparatus and method are provided. The compiling apparatus includes a first setting unit that sets a first parameter of a parallel programming model for a parallel region of a caller, a callee detection unit that detects a callee that is called by the caller and that has at least one loop region, and a second setting unit that sets a second parameter of the parallel programming model for the loop region of the callee using the first parameter. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089971 | CREATING A SOFTWARE PRODUCT FROM A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A computer-usable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for creating a product. The method comprising, initiating installation operations for application software on a computer system; recording the installation operations of the application software via a product browser; and creating the product based on the recording the installation operations wherein the product is a self-contained single file resolvable by the product browser. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089972 | Image Based Servicing Of A Virtual Machine - An invention is disclosed for preserving state in a virtual machine when patching the virtual machine (VM). In an embodiment, when a deployment manager that manages VMs in a deployment determines to patch a VM, the manager removes the VM from a load balancer for the deployment, attaches a data disk to the VM, stores application data to the data disk, swaps the prevailing OS disk for a patched OS disk, boots a gust OS stored on the patched OS disk, restores the application state from the data disk to the VM, and adds the VM back to the load balancer. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089973 | SMART PATCH DELIVERY SYSTEM - Software fix packs and/or APAR's are maintained at a server for use on a requesting computer system. The requesting computer system makes a request for a specific APAR, which is identified by a version number, from the server. The server determines, by examining the requesting computer's request, whether the requesting computer system has all required software dependencies for the requested APAR. When it is determined what the requesting computer systems needs, the server bundles the requested APAR and any required software dependencies, not already on the requesting computer system, for shipment to the requesting computer system. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089974 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - A method for providing a service in a user terminal device, which includes downloading a service hub program, installing the service hub program, generating an icon container corresponding to the service hub program, and displaying the icon container on a screen. If the icon container is selected, a list regarding an application program corresponding to the service hub program and a list regarding an icon of the application program are received from the server, and an icon regarding each application program included in the list regarding the application program corresponding to the service hub program is displayed according to the list regarding the icon of the application program. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089975 | Electronic Device - An electronic apparatus is provided that can include a first downloader downloading a replacement control program from an external host computer by way of a first communicator under the control of a first communication program, in a case where a first inspector judges a control program is not normal and a second inspector judges the first communication program is normal. The apparatus can also include a second downloader downloading a replacement first communication program from an external maintenance computer by way of a second communicator under the control of a second communication program, in a case where a second inspector judges the first communication program is not normal, so that a first communication program stored in a rewritable flash ROM is rewritten with the replacement first communication program downloaded by the second downloader. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089976 | Integrating Software Components - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to integrating software components. In aspects, a previously created component is inserted into a target project. To do this, a location of elements of the component is obtained as well as a destination for placing the elements. Fixup code is also inserted into the project. The fixup code is to be executed after installing the component on a target entity prior to allowing the component to execute. The fixup code discovers the installation location of the component on the target entity and changes reference(s) from the original location to the installation location. After the component and the fixup code are inserted into the project, the project may be used to create a package which may be deployed on one or more target entities. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089977 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SERVICE IN PLURALITY OF DEVICES BASED ON WIDGET MIGRATION - A service performing method and a service requesting method are provided. The service performing method includes receiving from a second device a message including information representing whether to install a widget for performing a service, and location information of the widget; receiving the widget based on the location information of the widget, and selectively installing the widget based on the information representing whether to install the widget; and performing the service by executing the received widget. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089978 | METHOD FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS OF PORTABLE DEVICES - A method for managing applications of a portable device by a computer electrically connected to the portable device is provided, wherein the computer connects to the internet. Application information from websites is obtained by the computer after the portable device is recognized, wherein the application information is obtained by analyzing the applications of the portable device. According to the application information, an application is downloaded from the websites to the portable device through the Internet connection of the computer and not the Internet connection of the portable device. The downloaded application is provided to the devices other than the portable device by the computer through the internet. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089979 | Performance Monitor Design for Counting Events Generated by Thread Groups - A number of hypervisor register fields are set to specify which processor cores are allowed to generate a number of performance events for a particular thread group. A plurality of threads for an application running in the computing environment to a plurality of thread groups are configured by a plurality of thread group fields in a plurality of control registers. A number of counter sets are allowed to count a number of thread group events originating from one of a shared resource and a shared cache are specified by a number of additional hypervisor register fields. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089980 | ALLOCATING VIRTUAL MACHINES ACCORDING TO USER-SPECIFIC VIRTUAL MACHINE METRICS - The performance monitoring system allocates virtual machines to users or user sessions according to a user categorization that is determine using user session information and virtual machine metrics. A session monitor of the performance monitoring system is notified that a user session terminated, where the user session accessed a virtual machine. The session monitor responsively records the user session information and obtains virtual machine metrics for the virtual machine from a virtual machine performance monitor. The performance monitoring system updates a user workload profile using the user session information and the virtual machine metrics, and categorizes the user of the user session according to the user workload profile. Upon receiving a request from a user for a virtual machine, a virtual desktop infrastructure requests a virtual machine from a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager responsively allocates a virtual machine to the user according to the user's categorization. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089981 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POWER MANAGEMENT IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT DISRUPTING NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - A method for power management. The method includes gathering resource usage data for a first blade and a second blade on a blade chassis, migrating each virtual machine (VM) executing on the first blade to the second blade based on the resource usage data and a first migration policy, wherein the first migration policy defines when to condense the number of blades operating on the blade chassis, and powering down the first blade after each VM executing on the first blade is migrated from the first blade. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089982 | SUPPORTING HETEROGENEOUS VIRTUALIZATION - Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system are described. In some embodiments, a virtual machine monitor of a computer platform may comprise a service virtual machine created by the virtual machine monitor partitioning an underlying hardware machine to support execution of a plurality of overlying guest operating systems, wherein the plurality of guest operating systems comprise a guest operating system complying with a non-native guest system architecture different from a host system architecture with which the hardware machine complies. The service virtual machine may further comprise a translation layer to translate instructions from the guest operating system complying with the non-native guest system architecture into instructions complying with the host system architecture. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089983 | ASSESSING PROCESS DEPLOYMENT - System and methods for assessing process deployment are described. In one implementation, the method includes collecting at least one metric value associated with at least one operating unit within an organization. Further, the method describes normalizing the at least one collected metric value to a common scale to obtain normalized metric values. The method further describes analyzing the metric value to calculate a process deployment index which indicates the extent of deployment of the one or more processes within the organization. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089984 | Performance Monitor Design for Instruction Profiling Using Shared Counters - Counter registers are shared among multiple threads executing on multiple processor cores. An event within the processor core is selected. A multiplexer in front of each of a number of counters is configured to route the event to a counter. A number of counters are assigned for the event to each of a plurality of threads running for a plurality of applications on a plurality of processor cores, wherein each of the counters includes a thread identifier in the interrupt thread identification field and a processor identifier in the processor identification field. The number of counters is configured to have a number of interrupt thread identification fields and a number of processor identification fields to identify a thread that will receive a number of interrupts. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089985 | Sharing Sampled Instruction Address Registers for Efficient Instruction Sampling in Massively Multithreaded Processors - Sampled instruction address registers are shared among multiple threads executing on a plurality of processor cores. Each of a plurality of sampled instruction address registers are assigned to a particular thread running for an application on the plurality of processor cores. Each of the sampled instruction address registers are configured by storing in each of the sampled instruction address registers a thread identification of the particular thread in a thread identification field and a processor identification of a particular processor on which the particular thread is running in a processor identification field. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089986 | PROCESS POOL OF EMPTY APPLICATION HOSTS TO IMPROVE USER PERCEIVED LAUNCH TIME OF APPLICATIONS - Various embodiments enable a device to create a pool of at least one empty application. An empty application can be configured to contain resources that are common across one or more other applications and initialize the resources for the one or more other applications effective to reduce startup time of the other applications. In one or more embodiments, an empty application can further be populated with the one or more other applications effective to cause the one or more other applications to execute. Alternately or additionally, a device can be monitored for an idle state, and, upon determining the device is in the idle state, at least one empty application can be created. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089987 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS TO ACCESS RUNTIME VALUES OF OBJECT INSTANCES - In one embodiment, a plurality of executable instructions is stored at a first software module. The plurality of executable instructions are collectively configured to provide an identifier of a first object instance to a second software module stored at a memory and executed at the processor. The identifier of the first object instance is received at the second software module in response to execution of the plurality of executable instructions and a textual object element identifier is selected from a plurality of textual object element identifiers. Each textual object element identifier from the plurality of textual object element identifiers uniquely associated with an object element. An identifier of a second object instance is accessed and the object element uniquely associated with the textual object element identifier is reflectively accessed at the second object instance. The first object instance derived from the second object instance. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089988 | HOSTING NON-MESSAGING WORKFLOWS IN A MESSAGING HOST - A workflow hosting system is described herein that allows non-messaging workflows to be hosted by a message-based service host. The system provides a host implementation, which can be used to host non-messaging workflows, or workflows that either do not begin with a message activity or do not use messaging activities at all. When the host receives a message for a workflow service, if it is not already running (or persisted), the system creates a new workflow service instance. If a workflow does not begin with a message activity, it cannot be started by sending a message because there is no activity to receive the message. To host a non-messaging workflow, the system provides a translation layer that sits between the communication layer and the workflow with methods that a developer can override to correctly activate the workflow. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089989 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTING AND IMPLEMENTING COMPUTER PROCESSES IN PROCESS ENVIRONMENTS - In at least one embodiment a computer implemented method is disclosed. A computer process is extracted from a first environment including a unique process parameter and a first non-unique process parameter. The computer process is configured to execute a primary domain operation. The computer process is configured to execute the primary domain operation in a second environment comprising the unique process parameter and a second non-unique process parameter. The unique process parameter is input to the computer process and the primary domain operation is executed with the computer process in the second environment in response to inputting the unique process parameter to the computer process. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPORTING A SYNCHRONIZATION EVENT IN A RUNTIME SYSTEM OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A system and computer-implemented method for reporting a synchronization event in a runtime system of a computer system. A synchronization primitive in a runtime system of the computer system is monitored. A synchronization operation performed on the synchronization primitive by a thread in the runtime system is detected. An enumerator for the synchronization primitive is incremented when the synchronization operation satisfies predetermined criteria. A synchronization event that includes data relating to the synchronization operation performed on the synchronization primitive is reported. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CONTENTION OF SHARED RESOURCES IN A RUNTIME SYSTEM - A system and computer-implemented method for determining a runtime of a thread of an application. Synchronization events for a first thread of an application executing on the computer system are received, the synchronization events including at least a first synchronization event and a second synchronization event for the first thread. A first difference between a synchronization event timestamp of the first synchronization event and the synchronization event timestamp of the second synchronization event is calculated. A second difference between an accumulated timestamp of the first synchronization event and the accumulated timestamp of the second synchronization event is calculated. A runtime of the first thread of the application is calculated as a difference between the first difference and the second difference. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089992 | USER INTERACTION SUPPORT ACROSS CROSS-ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS - Cross-environment rendering and user interaction support provide a seamless computing experience in a multi-operating system computing environment. The multi-operating system computing environment may include a mobile operating system associated with a first user environment and a desktop operating system associated with a second user environment running concurrently and independently on a mobile computing device. User interaction support includes handling input events initially received in the shared kernel by accepting the input events in the desktop operating system and translating, mapping, and/or passing the input events through a virtual input device to the mobile operating system such that applications of the mobile operating system receive the input events as if coming from a user interaction space of the mobile operating system. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089993 | User Data Convergence (UDC) Notification Management - A method and arrangement in a User Data Repository, UDR, ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120089994 | OBJECT ORIENTED COMPONENT AND FRAMEWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING - A signal intelligence system comprising a plurality of software components that are programmable to provide a signal intelligence function. The signal intelligence system includes a processor system having a plurality of interconnected processor devices and a plurality of processor managers that are connected to the processor devices and are configured to control software components associated with the processor devices. Further, the signal intelligence system has a framework manager that is configured to interact with the plurality of processor managers to control the processor devices and effectuate the signal intelligence function | 2012-04-12 |
20120089995 | DISK APPARATUS - A disk device of the invention is provided with a trigger member rotated by being contacted with and pressed by a disk having a different diameter to be conveyed to a replayable position, a slide cam member which drives a disk installment mechanism by being pressed and moved by the trigger member, and a centering member which centers the disk so that the disk faces a turntable at the replayable position. The trigger member has a rotation shaft portion serving as a rotation center, a disk contact portion to be contacted with the disk, and a pressing portion for pressing the slide cam member, and the centering member is provided movably in a disk conveying direction by being contacted with and pressed by the conveyed disk, and has a guide portion for moving the rotation shaft portion of the trigger member in accordance with movement in the disk conveying direction. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089996 | CATEGORIZATION OF A MOBILE USER PROFILE BASED ON BROWSE AND VIEWING BEHAVIOR - A system for categorization of a mobile user profile based on a browse and viewing behavior of a user includes (a) using data of a wireless provider to ascertain a plurality of web browser activities as performed on a mobile communication facility of the user; (b) storing the plurality of mobile web browser activities relating to the user; (c) accessing from the wireless provider a viewing history of television content of the user, wherein the wireless provider has provided the television content; (d) analyzing the plurality of mobile web browser activities and the viewing history of television content to determine a relationship thereamongst; (e) creating a category of user profile based at least in part on the analysis; (f) associating the category of user profile with the user; and (g) transmitting content corresponding to the category of user profile to the mobile communication facility for display thereon. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089997 | SHARED PLANNER - An improved media system is provided for sharing, accessing and managing stored media content between a plurality of networked Set-Top Boxes (STB). Aspects include displaying a global STB planner listing media content stored on all remote STBs, switching between remote STB planners and filtering remote listings of media content. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089998 | VIDEO SERVICE BLACKOUT EVENTS - A method includes receiving, at a component of a multimedia content distribution system, a command including blackout information related to a first version of content. The blackout information includes scheduling information. The method includes updating a first entry within a control matrix based on the blackout information in response to the command. The first entry includes information related to when the first version of the content in a first stream is to be blacked out based on the scheduling information. The method also includes updating a second entry within the control matrix based on the blackout information in response to the command. The second entry includes information related to when the second version of the content in a second stream is to be blacked out based on the scheduling information. The method also includes sending a control stream based on the control matrix to one or more set top boxes. | 2012-04-12 |
20120089999 | Metadata Origination Verification - One embodiment may take the form of a method for verifying metadata associated with programming content. The method may include receiving a first metadatum corresponding to a first programming content, comparing the first metadatum to a stored metadatum corresponding to the first programming content stored in a database, determining whether the first metadatum matches the stored metadatum, and transmitting a first signal if the first metadatum matches the stored metadatum and transmitting a second signal different from the first signal if the first metadatum does not match the stored metadatum. | 2012-04-12 |
20120090000 | Implementation of media content alteration - A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a possible content alteration. A further embodiment feature may include a record of secondary authorization rights applicable to substitute altered content incorporated in a derivative version. Various techniques may be used to incorporate substitute altered content in a derivative version of the media work in accordance with applicable substitution guidelines. | 2012-04-12 |
20120090001 | APPARATUS HAVING MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE AND NETWORK ACCESS MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED THEREIN - An apparatus includes a multimedia interface module and a network module. The multimedia interface module has a plurality of connection ports including at least an input port and at least an output port, and supports network data transmission. The network module, coupled to the multimedia interface module via a first network protocol, is for accessing a network, wherein the multimedia interface module is arranged for selectively coupling the network module to one of the connection ports. | 2012-04-12 |
20120090002 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION DEVICE AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD - Disclosed are a digital broadcast reception device and digital broadcast reception method which can quickly present a data broadcast presentation screen once a user instructs that data broadcast be presented. The digital broadcast reception device ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120090003 | Thought Control of Set Top Box - Disclosure is directed to commanding a content receiver by interpreting brainwave patterns that are captured from a user of the content receiver. The user's brainwave patterns may be captured by the use of a headset having a plurality of sensors that are disposed at various locations in proximity to the user's head. The content receiver may be operable to learn to recognize specific brainwave patterns for individual users. The content receiver may recognize a number of specific brainwave patterns for each user, each specific brainwave pattern corresponding to a specific command that is executable by the content receiver. When executing user commands, the content receiver may process an input stream from the headset and compare portions of the input stream to the recognized brainwave patterns in order to extract commands from the input stream. Following this, the extracted commands may be executed by the content receiver. | 2012-04-12 |
20120090004 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A multifunctional display device includes a processor to control simultaneously display of visual information and monitoring information on a same screen. The monitoring information provides an indication of status of one or more applications executed at a same time the visual information is displayed, and the visual information corresponds to one of content provider, broadcast signal, or website information. | 2012-04-12 |
20120090005 | Holographic 3D Display - Disclosure is directed to projecting holographic images in connection with a program service such as cable or satellite television. In one instance, the projected holographic image may be an image of product that is featured in advertisement or other portion of program service. In another instance, the projected holographic image may be an image of a electronic programming guide with screens or menu displayed on sides of a cube or other geometric form. In still another instance, the projected holographic image is a video that supplements an instructional video or live broadcast. | 2012-04-12 |
20120090006 | TELEVISION AND GENERATING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE MENU THEREOF - A generating method of generating an electronic program guide menu of a television includes the following steps: providing a main tuner for receiving a first television signal of a current channel and providing at least one vice tuner for receiving at least one second television signal of at least one browsing channel; and generating the electronic program guide menu which includes program picture of the current channel and at least one program picture of the at least one browsing channel according to the first television signal and the at least one second television signal. With the present disclosure, the electronic program guide menu which is convenient and of plenty of information is provided to allow viewers to browse the browsing channel as well as allow viewers to watch the program of the current channel at the same time. | 2012-04-12 |