17th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110099411 | USB Device and Correction Method Thereof - A universal serial bus (USB) device for receiving data from a link partner is provided. An electrical physical unit receives a series of data from the link partner via a cable and generates a symbol string corresponding to the series of data, wherein the symbol string includes a plurality of symbols. A correction unit receives the symbol string, determines whether each symbol of the received symbol string is a first type symbol and counts a quantity of the received first type symbol, wherein when the counted quantity is odd and a next received symbol is a second type symbol, the next received symbol is replaced with the first type symbol by the correction unit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099412 | CLUSTER NEIGHBORHOOD EVENT ADVISORY - Database server instances in a database server cluster broadcast, to other instances in the cluster, information concerning certain problem events. Because each server instance is aware of problems that other server instances are experiencing, each server instance is enabled to make more intelligent decisions regarding the actions that it should perform in response to the problems that the server instance is experiencing. Instead of terminating itself, a server instance might opt to wait for a longer amount of time for an operation to complete. The server instance may do so due to the server instance having received information that indicates that other server instances are experiencing similar problems. Whenever the information received from other server instances makes it appear that a problem is unlikely to be solved in the cluster as a whole by terminating a server instance, that server instance may continue to wait instead of terminating itself. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCOMOTIVE INTER-CONSIST EQUIPMENT SPARING AND REDUNDANCY - In a system and method for communicating data in a locomotive consist or other vehicle consist (comprising at least first and second linked vehicles), a first electronic component in the first vehicle of the vehicle consist is monitored to determine if the component is in (or enters) a failure state. In the failure state, the first electronic component is unable to perform a designated function. Upon determining the failure state, data is transmitted from the first vehicle to a second electronic component on the second vehicle, over a communication channel linking the first vehicle and the second vehicle. The second electronic component is operated based on the transmitted data, with the second electronic component performing the designated function that the first electronic component is unable to perform. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099414 | Method and Device for Operating a Network and Communication System Comprising Such Device - A method and a device are provided for operating a network, wherein the network comprises several network elements that are connected via a ring, wherein a first segment is of a first type of connection and wherein a second segment is of a second type of connection, wherein the ring comprises at least one first segment and at least one second segment and wherein one network element of the network elements is a ring master comprising a primary port and a secondary port, comprising the steps (i) a failure of at least one of the at least one first segment is detected by the ring master; (ii) the ring master unblocks its secondary port; and (iii) the ring master sends a first message via its primary port and via its secondary port. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099415 | CEC COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, AUDIO AND VISUAL DEVICE USING THEREOF, AND CEC COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - The present invention provides a CEC communications device which eliminates a troublesome process to solve the CEC-related communication malfunction when the CEC communications device detects a CEC-related communication malfunction caused by a software malfunction and improves serviceability of the CEC communications by automatically resetting the CEC to execute a CEC communication recovery. In the CEC communications device, when a CEC communications line monitoring unit detects a CEC-related communication malfunction caused by a software malfunction, a CEC control unit determines a reset order of a CEC appliance found on a CEC network, and notifies the CEC resetting unit of a CEC resetting request. The CEC resetting unit resets the CEC of a CEC appliance found on the CEC network via an HDMI line (DDC in FIG. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099416 | Efficient Architecture for Interfacing Redundant Devices to a Distributed Control System - A system and method for interfacing redundant devices to a distributed control system, includes a first and second redundant field bus modules communicably coupled to the distributed control system and to one another via switches. A pair of redundant field devices are coupled to the switches, one FD having an address. The FBMs adopt respective roles as master FBM and tracker FBM, so that the master FBM is configured to capture data from the one FD using the address, and to pass any data changes periodically to the tracker FBM, through the switches. The master FBM is configured to point to the other field device in the event the other field device has assumed the address. The FBMs are configured to switch roles in the event communication is disrupted between the master FBM and the FD having the address. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099417 | Memory Device and Method for Repairing a Semiconductor Memory - A block repair device is used in a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) having a primary array with a defective cell and a redundant array with a redundant row. The block repair device stores a block repair configuration that determines the dimensions (e.g., the number of rows and columns spanned) of a repair block. Routing circuitry is configured by the stored block repair configuration to output some row and column address bits from received row and column addresses in a selected ratio. Comparison circuitry compares the row and column address bits output by the routing circuitry with the address of the defective cell that defines the repair block. When a match occurs, the comparison circuitry implements a block repair by activating the redundant row and by causing data to be written to or read from the activated redundant row instead of the primary array. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099418 | Non-Volatile Memory And Method With Post-Write Read And Adaptive Re-Write To Manage Errors - Data errors in non-volatile memory inevitably increase with usage and with higher density of bits stored per cell. For acceptable quality assurance, conventional error correction codes (“ECC”) have to correct a maximum number of error bits up to the far tail end of a statistical population. The present memory is configured to have a first portion operating with less error but of lower density storage, and a second portion operating with a higher density but less robust storage. If excessive error bits (at the far tail-end) occur after writing a group of data to the second portion, the data is adaptively rewritten to the first portion which will produce less error bits. Preferably, the data is initially written to a cache also in the first portion to provide source data for any rewrites. Thus, a more efficient ECC not requiring to correcting for the far tail end can be used. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099419 | SOLID STATE DRIVE WITH FLASH SPARING - A method for flash sparing on a solid state drive (SSD) includes detecting a failure from a primary memory device; determining if a failure threshold for the primary memory device has been reached; and, in the event the failure threshold for the primary memory device has been reached: quiescing the SSD; and updating an entry in a sparing map table to replace the primary memory device with a spare memory device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099420 | FAILOVER AND RECOVERY FOR REPLICATED DATA INSTANCES - Replicated instances in a database environment provide for automatic failover and recovery. A monitoring component can periodically communicate with a primary and a secondary replica for an instance, with each capable of residing in a separate data zone or geographic location to provide a level of reliability and availability. A database running on the primary instance can have information synchronously replicated to the secondary replica at a block level, such that the primary and secondary replicas are in sync. In the event that the monitoring component is not able to communicate with one of the replicas, the monitoring component can attempt to determine whether those replicas can communicate with each other, as well as whether the replicas have the same data generation version. Depending on the state information, the monitoring component can automatically perform a recovery operation, such as to failover to the secondary replica or perform secondary replica recovery. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099421 | RADIATION-HARDENED HYBRID PROCESSOR - A processing system having a small form factor and configured to connect to an external platform. The processing system includes input interfaces configured to receive an input signal to be processed; a radiation tolerant field programmable gate array including processors configured to process the input signal; memory containing reconfigurable instructions for the processors that, when the reconfigurable instructions are executed, process the input signal and obtain the output signal; output interfaces configured to send the output signal to the external platform; and a reset logic element configured to selectively reset the field programmable gate array and at least one of the processors in response to a reset command. The input interfaces include at least one gigabit Ethernet interface and at least one space-rated balanced voltage digital interface circuit. The output interfaces include at least one serial advanced technology attachment interface and at least one space-rated balanced voltage digital interface circuit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099422 | CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE - A method for automatically testing a business intelligence artifact includes receiving business metric data from a business intelligence system, creating a business intelligence artifact derived from the received business metric data, executing the business intelligence artifact to generate a business intelligence output populated with information related to the business metric data, creating at least one test case for the business intelligence artifact, the test case having at least one assertion associated with the business intelligence output to verify the proper functioning of the business intelligence artifact, testing, with an automated agent interfaced with the business intelligence system, the business intelligence artifact for errors by determining whether the output generated by the current version of the business intelligence artifact satisfies the conditions of the assertion after execution of the business intelligence artifact; and if errors are detected, correcting the errors to create a subsequent version of the business intelligence artifact. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099423 | Unified Boot Code with Signature - In an embodiment, code, such as the boot code for an integrated circuit or set of integrated circuit products, is provided in a system. The code may be a unified code base including multiple code blocks. Additionally, a signature is provided which describes the integrated circuit on which the boot is being performed. The signature may be processed (e.g. by a processor included in the integrated circuit) to determine which of the code blocks to execute. Accordingly, a single image of the boot code may be used for a variety of different integrated circuits and/or different integrated circuit implementations. For example, the same unified boot code may be used with one or more simulation models, or various programmable logic device models, that include various subsets of the components of the integrated circuit. The code blocks may correspond to various components, and may include tests for the corresponding components. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099424 | COMPUTING DEVICE FOR ENABLING CONCURRENT TESTING - A method for enabling concurrent testing is described. The method includes generating a plurality of test objects on a computing device. The plurality of test objects is generated using derived classes that are based on a base test class and each of the plurality of test objects corresponds to a separate block in a Device Under Test (DUT). The method also includes adding the plurality of test objects to a queue and sending information based on the plurality of test objects to an Automated Test Equipment (ATE). The method also includes causing the ATE to concurrently test the separate blocks in the DUT using the plurality of test objects. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING GRAPHICS CARD - A system for testing a video memory reliability of a video card includes an input module, a data read/write module, a data processing module, a data comparison module, and an output module. The input module is capable of activating a testing program which includes an original image file. The data read/write module is capable of writing the original image file in the video memory from the testing program, and reading the image file data stored in the video memory during the writing process for storing the read image file data to form a new image file. The data processing module is capable of calculating hash values of the original and new image files using hash function(s). The data comparison module is capable of comparing hash values, and outputting the comparison result. The output module is capable of indicating whether the video card is normal according to the comparison result. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099426 | SYSTEM FOR INJECTING PROTOCOL SPECIFIC ERRORS DURING THE CERTIFICATION OF COMPONENTS IN A STORAGE AREA NETWORK - An apparatus comprising an initiator circuit and a target circuit. The initiator circuit may be configured to (i) communicate with a network through a first interface and (ii) generate testing sequences to be sent to the network. The target circuit may be configured to (i) receive the testing sequences from the network through a second network interface and (ii) respond to the testing sequences. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099427 | TIMER CIRCUIT AND TIMER METHOD - A timer circuit and a timer method are provided for a BIOS of an electronic device. The timer circuit includes a processing module, a setting module, and a display module. The processing module includes a microprocessor unit (MCU), a clock circuit | 2011-04-28 |
20110099428 | DYNAMIC FAULT ANALYSIS FOR A CENTRALLY MANAGED NETWORK ELEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Model based fault analysing in a base station in a mobile telecommunication system, the base station having a fault manager and resources adapted to transmit fault indication signals to the fault manager. The fault analysing including functions for receiving into the fault manager a predetermined fault rule model of said resources in a fault rule configuration file; implementing a fault analysis algorithm of predetermined rules for analysing received fault indication signals dependent on said predetermined fault rule model; generating an analysis tree data structure dependent on the fault rule configuration file; receiving from one of said resources a fault indication signal indicating identification and classification information; retrieving an applicable fault rule in the analysis tree data structure dependent on said fault indication signal; evaluating the result of the retrieved fault rule applied on said fault indication signal; generating an alarm signal dependent on said result of the applied fault rule. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE CONSTANT-TIME EXCEPTION-PROTECTION MEMORY - Embodiments of the invention provide a table-free technique for detecting all temporal and spatial memory access errors in programs supporting general pointers. Embodiments of the invention provide such error checking using constant-time operations. Embodiments of the invention rely on fat pointers, whose size is contained within standard scalar sizes (up to two words) so that atomic hardware support for operations upon the pointers is obtained along with meaningful casts in-between pointers and other scalars. Optimized compilation of code becomes possible since the scalarized-for-free encoded pointers get register allocated and manipulated. Backward compatibility is enabled by the scalar pointer sizes, with automatic support provided for encoding and decoding of fat pointers in place for interaction with unprotected code. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099430 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MONITOR A DIVERSE HETEROGENEOUS APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method to detect potential problems within a heterogeneous and diverse application environment. Operations data is received from a plurality of application servers within the application environment. The operations data pertains to operations performed at the plurality of application servers over a predetermined time interval. The operations data is aggregated. The aggregated data is compared to reference data, and a potential problem within the application environment is detected if the aggregated data deviates from the reference data in a predetermined manner. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099431 | RELOCATABLE INTERRUPT HANDLER FOR TEST GENERATION AND EXECUTION - A relocatable interrupt handler for use in test generation and execution. A computer program product for executing test code includes a tangible storage medium storing instructions for execution by a processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes executing a test code block that includes a plurality of test instructions. The executing includes, for one or more of the test instructions: executing the test instruction at a first memory location; determining that the executing the test instruction caused an exception condition to occur; executing exception handling logic associated with the exception condition in response to determining that the executing the test instruction caused the exception condition to occur, the exception handling logic executed at a second memory location that is different than the first memory location; and clearing the exception condition. A return code that indicates a result of executing the test code block is then generated. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099432 | MAPPING USAGE PATTERNS USING CODE FEATURES - A usage pattern detector includes a determining module configured to determine that a monitored code feature of a software application has been executed on a first computer. The usage pattern detector also includes a recording module configured to record an indication that the monitored code feature has been used and an indication providing module configured to provide the indication that the monitored code feature has been used to a second computer. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099433 | INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD - An information generating apparatus, includes: a process executing part that executes at least one process using a battery as a power source; a power detecting part that detects power consumption of the battery; a consumption determining part that determines whether the power consumption is equal to or more than a specified threshold; an acquisition part that specifies a process executed by the process executing part when the power consumption is equal to or more than the specified threshold; and a generating part that generates execution state information about the specified process. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099434 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A FAILED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SIGNAL TRANSFER POINTS WAS IN ERROR - An exemplary system includes a first signal transfer point configured to communicate with a second signal transfer point via a communication network. The first signal transfer point is configured to generate an error message in response to receiving an unauthorized signal from the second signal transfer point. A monitoring system is in communication with the first signal transfer point. An order system is in communication with the monitoring system and is configured to store orders authorizing communication between the first signal transfer point and the second signal transfer point. The monitoring system is configured to receive the error message generated by the first signal transfer point and query the order system to determine whether an order authorizing the communication between the first signal transfer point and the second signal transfer point exists. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099435 | NAND FLASH MEMORY AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA THEREOF - A NAND flash memory and method for managing data reads a header from each storage area, and identifies each storage area. Data of the primary storage area is updated if the primary storage area exists, and an operating system in the NAND flash memory is initiated according to the updated data in the primary storage area, or in the secondary storage area if the primary storage area does not exist but a secondary storage area does. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099436 | EXPEDITED TRANSACTION FAILURE HANDLING BY LEVERAGING A RELIABLE MESSAGE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL TO ASSIST DETECTION OF DISCARDED PROCESSING - A method and system for immediate failure checking for lost message processing comprises receiving a first message of a web-service transaction comprising first message sequence information at a computing device in a transaction environment of a target web service, storing a first record of the first message within the computing device, receiving a subsequent message comprising corresponding message sequence information at the computing device, storing a second record of the subsequent message within the computing device, comparing the first message sequence information with the subsequent message sequence information using the computing device, identifying a transaction error using the computing device, if the subsequent message is not an initial message in a sequence of messages based on the comparing, reporting the transaction error from the computing device, and aborting processing of the web-service transaction if the transaction error has occurred, using the computing device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099437 | Loss Tolerant Transmission Control Protocol - A particular device includes a transmitter. The transmitter is adapted to estimate a packet erasure rate for packets of a data window to be transmitted to a receiver. The transmitter is adapted to determine a number of proactive forward error control (FEC) packets for the data window based on the estimated packet erasure rate. The transmitter is adapted to determine a packet size for the packets in the data window based on a window size of the data window and the determined number of proactive FEC packets. The transmitter is also adapted to transmit the data window to the receiver. The packets in the transmitted data window have a size corresponding to the determined packet size and include the determined number of proactive FEC packets. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099438 | Methods of Cell Population Distribution Assisted Read Margining - A memory using techniques to extract the data content of its storage elements, when the distribution of stored states is degraded, is presented. If the distribution of stored states has degraded, secondary evaluations of the memory cells are performed using modified read conditions. Based upon the results of these supplemental evaluations, the memory device determines the read conditions at which to best decide the data stored. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099439 | AUTOMATIC DIVERSE SOFTWARE GENERATION FOR USE IN HIGH INTEGRITY SYSTEMS - Systems, devices and methods of automatic diverse software generation are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes providing a base algorithm implementation related to a first hardware profile of a hardware resource, automatically generating a diverse algorithm implementation related to a second hardware profile different from the first hardware profile using the base algorithm implementation and information about the hardware resource, and executing the base algorithm implementation and the diverse algorithm implementation. Embodiments of systems and devices, including microprocessors and compilers, are also disclosed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099440 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING SOFT ERRORS AND SOFT ERROR RATES IN AN APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A test system includes a computer and an interface device for accessing a scan chain on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) under test. The computer includes a memory that contains application software that when executed by the computer quantifies soft errors and soft error rates (SER) in storage elements on the ASIC. The interface device receives commands and data from the computer, translates the commands and data from a first protocol to a second protocol and communicates the commands and data in the second protocol to the ASIC. A method for measuring SER in the ASIC includes baseline, comparison, and latch up accesses of data in a scan chain in the ASIC. Between accesses, the ASIC is exposed to a neutron flux that accelerates the occurrence of soft errors due to ionizing radiation upon the ASIC. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099441 | ACCELERATING SCAN TEST BY RE-USING RESPONSE DATA AS STIMULUS DATA ABSTRACT - Scan testing of plural target electrical circuits, such as circuits | 2011-04-28 |
20110099442 | ENHANCED CONTROL IN SCAN TESTS OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH PARTITIONED SCAN CHAINS - A test controller implemented in an integrated circuit (IC) with partitioned scan chains provides enhanced control in performing scan tests. According to an aspect, a test controller can selectively control scan-in, scan-out and capture phases of scan tests for different scan chains of the IC to be independent. The number of pins required to interface the test controller with an external tester is less than the number of partitions that the test controller can support. According to another aspect, an IC includes a register corresponding to each partition to support transition fault (or LOS) testing. According to another aspect, an IC with partitioned scan chains includes serial to parallel and parallel to serial converters, thereby minimizing the external pins required to support scan tests. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099443 | TEST APPARATUS - Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a plurality of test circuits that each perform a predetermined test function; a plurality of I/O circuits that are provided between the test circuits and the device under test, where at least one of the circuits has electrical characteristics that differ from the electrical characteristics of the other circuits; and an I/O switching section that switches which of the I/O circuits is used to electrically connect at least one of the test circuits to the device under test. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099444 | VIRTUAL REPAIR OF DIGITAL MEDIA - Embodiments described herein are directed to a virtual repair of digital media using a virtual repair service. Digital media stored on a digital media device is read using a media player. A request is received by a virtual repair unit from the media player to perform a virtual repair of a segment of unreadable digital content of the digital media. The virtual repair unit retrieves a readable copy of the digital content corresponding to the segment of unreadable digital content identified in the request from a media repository using the virtual repair unit. The virtual repair unit transmits the readable copy of the digital content to the media player for insertion into a buffer of the media player. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099445 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus, including an acquisition section adapted to receive a signal which includes at least one of a first signal and a second signal which have different structures from each other except that the first and second signals have a preamble signal and acquire the preamble signal from the received signal; a detection section adapted to detect a value for correcting the signal using the signal; and a correction section adapted to correct, if it is decided based on the preamble signal acquired by the acquisition section that the signal is the first signal, the signal using the value detected by the detection section. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099446 | TRANSMISSION METHOD USING PARITY PACKETS, TRANSMITTER AND REPEATER - Problem: A packet error rate in a receiver needs to be effectively reduced. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099447 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NDI IN RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE AND A METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL USING THE SAME - A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive a downlink signal, the method including receiving a first downlink control channel identified by a temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI) from a base station, the first downlink control channel including a first downlink assignment signal having a new data indicator (NDI) with a first value; receiving a second downlink control channel identified by a cell identifier (C-RNTI) from the base station, the second downlink control channel including a second downlink assignment signal having the NDI with a second value; and determining if the NDI has been toggled compared to the NDI previously received from the base station. Further, the UE ignores the NDI with the first value received through the first downlink control channel identified by the temporary cell identifier (Temporary C-RNTI). The method also includes receiving the downlink signal based on the determining. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099448 | SPLIT-ROW DECODING OF LDPC CODES - A method of decoding a low density parity check (LDPC) encoded block, with the LDPC code being defined by a parity check matrix including rows, includes processing the rows of the parity check matrix. The processing includes updating data in the rows using a split-row decoding algorithm. The updating includes partitioning each row into a plurality of partitions, and determining for each partition a first local minimum of the data of the partition. The method also includes comparing for each partition the first local minimum with a threshold, and updating at least some of the data of all partitions of the row using the local minimums or the threshold depending on the results of the comparing. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEC ENCODING AND DECODING - A method for Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding in a transmitter, the method comprising: receiving a data stream from a data source; generating a first Forward Error Correction data for respective data block with a first block size of the data stream; and generating a second Forward Error Correction data for respective data block with a second block size of the data stream, wherein the second block size is different with the first block size and wherein the data blocks of the first block size form the data stream, and the data blocks with the second block size form the data stream. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099450 | Error Protection Method, TDC module, CTDC Module, All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop, and Calibration Method thereof - An error protection method for a time-to-digital converter (TDC) decoder of an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) includes: retrieving a digital code received by the TDC decoder; retrieving a cycle code received by the TDC decoder; performing an exclusive-or operation on a first predetermined bit of the digital code and a second predetermined bit of the cycle code for generating an error protection code; and using the error protection code to fix errors within the cycle code by adding the error protection code into the cycle code and shifting the cycle code by a third predetermined number of bits. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099451 | Error control coding for single error correction and double error detection - An error correction coding is provided that generates P bits of check data from K M-bit words of payload data. The P bits of check data include an address field A, a bit error indicating field E and an auxiliary field P−(E+A). The address field encodes a set of error addresses which has a cardinality equal to the bit size K of the payload data and providing a one-to-one mapping between values of the address field and the locations of a single bit error within the payload data. The bit error indicating field indicates if a bit error is present. The auxiliary field is a minimum size bit vector such that together with the address field and the bit area indicating field it provides a checksum for a systematic code for the payload data with a minimum Hamming distance serving to provide either single error correction capability or single error correction and double error detection capability. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099452 | 2D Product Code and Method for Detecting False Decoding Errors - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for performing forward error correction with a multi-dimensional Bose Ray-Chaudhuri Hocquenghem (BCH) product code, and a method for detecting false decoding errors in frame-based data transmission systems. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099453 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - A receiving apparatus includes: a first decoding means for performing, every time frame data in which an inner code and an outer code are used as error correction codes is transmitted thereto, decoding processing employing the inner code and outputting decoded data; a storing means for storing the decoded data; a second decoding means for applying decoding processing employing the outer code to the decoded data; and a control means for controlling storage and output of the decoded data in and from the storing means to suspend, while the control means causes the storing means to output first decoded data as the decoded data of a decoding result of first frame data to the second decoding means, when the first decoding means starts output of second decoded data as the decoded data of a decoding result of second frame data following the first frame data, the output of the first decoded data to the second decoding means and cause the storing means to store the second decoded data and, when the storage of the second decoded data ends, cause the storing means to resume the output of the first decoded data to the second decoding means. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099454 | Low Complexity LDPC Encoding Algorithm - A method of encoding a binary source message u, by calculating x:=Au, calculating y:=B′x, resolving the equation Dp=y for p, and incorporating u and p to produce an encoded binary message v, where A is a matrix formed only of permutation sub matrices, B′ is a matrix formed only of circulant permutation sub matrices, and D is a matrix of the form | 2011-04-28 |
20110099455 | Method and Arrangement for Decoding a Signal Encoded by a Tail-Biting Code - A method of decoding a signal that has been encoded by a tail-biting code based on at least one encoding parameter is disclosed. The at least one encoding parameter may be a trellis size or a quantity of aggregated encoding elements or a code rate. The method is suitable for use in a communication device and comprises receiving ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110099456 | SUPPORTING GLOBAL INPUT/OUTPUT INTERCONNECT FEATURES ON PORTS OF A MIDPOINT DEVICE - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a midpoint device utilizing an Input/Output (I/O) interconnect is provided, wherein the midpoint device contains a plurality of ports, the method comprising: receiving a request to initiate a session between a device on a first port of the midpoint device and a device on a second port of the midpoint device; retrieving information regarding whether the first port supports a feature, and information regarding whether the second port supports the feature; and when the first port supports the feature and the second port does not support the feature, permitting the session to be initiated, such that communications between the first device and the second device are performed partially using the feature, independently of support of the feature on other ports. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099457 | DTV TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST DATA - A digital television transmitting system includes a pre-processor, a packet generator, an RS encoder, and a trellis encoder. The pre-processor pre-processes enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for first forward error correction and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data. The packet generator generates enhanced data packets including the pre-processed enhanced data and main data packets and multiplexes the enhanced and main data packets. Each enhanced data packet includes an adaptation field in which the pre-processed enhanced data are inserted. The RS encoder performs RS encoding on the multiplexed data packets for second forward error correction, and the trellis encoder performs trellis encoding on the RS-coded data packets. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099458 | ERROR DETECTION/CORRECTION BASED MEMORY MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for error detection/correction based memory management. One embodiment includes performing a read operation with respect to a particular group of memory cells of a memory device and, if the read operation results in an uncorrectable error, determining whether to retire the particular group of memory cells in response to a status of an indicator corresponding to the particular group of memory cells, wherein the status of the indicator indicates whether the particular group of memory cells has a previous uncorrectable error associated therewith. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099459 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory array, an error correction code circuit, and a timing control signal generator configured to, based on a first timing control signal used to control a timing at which data to be input to the error correction code circuit is transferred to the error correction code circuit, generate a second timing control signal used to control a timing at which data output from the error correction code circuit is transferred to another circuit. The timing control signal generator includes a circuit which is the same as or corresponds to at least a portion of the error correction code circuit, and is configured to delay a timing of the first timing control signal by a period of time corresponding to a delay time of the error correction code circuit, and output the second timing control signal, depending on the delayed timing. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099460 | Non-Volatile Memory And Method With Post-Write Read And Adaptive Re-Write To Manage Errors - Data errors in non-volatile memory inevitably increase with usage and with higher density of bits stored per cell. The memory is configured to have a first portion operating with less error but of lower density storage, and a second portion operating with a higher density but less robust storage. Input data is written and staged in the first portion before being copied to the second portion. An error management provides checking the quality of the copied data for excessive error bits. The copying and checking are repeated on a different location in the second portion until either a predetermined quality is satisfied or the number or repeats exceeds a predetermined limit. The error management is not started when a memory is new with little or no errors, but started after the memory has aged to a predetermined amount as determined by the number of erase/program cycling its has experienced. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099461 | DATA INTEGRITY UNITS IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY - An integrity unit can be calculated from a first data unit, and a first storage device can be requested to store the first data unit. A second storage device, which can be separate from and/or a different type of device from the first storage device, can be requested to store metadata, which includes the integrity unit, in nonvolatile memory. Also, a second data unit can be received from the first storage device in response to a request for the first data unit. The integrity unit can be received from the second storage device, and the second data unit and the integrity unit can be analyzed to determine whether the second data unit matches the first data unit. Alternatively, a first integrity unit can be stored in a metadata region of a nonvolatile memory block, where the block also stores the data from which the first integrity unit was calculated. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099462 | Content Integrity Management System - A method and system are provided for efficiently verifying the integrity of file-based video audio and other essence in a content production system. The method involves creating a sequence of hash codes for the editable units of the essence, which are stored as metadata apart from the content (either in a separate file or in a separate portion of the same file), and are correlated to the content by a time label (which may be an offset or a timecode number). Upon retrieval from storage, the hash codes are generated for the retrieved essence and compared to the stored hash codes to verify that the content has not been modified. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099463 | STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR CREATING, PRODUCING AND DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS AND OTHER RELATED INFORMATION IN STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS - A structured document file which includes graphical and non graphical information. The graphical information includes the vector and coordinate description of a representation of at least one three dimensional object and at least one of the following group of view attributes or features: rotation, translation, view angle, lighting, colors, specific graphical representations, labels and parameters. The vector and coordinate description are stored with or independently from the one or more view attributes or features and the vector and coordinate description and the one or more view attributes are stored in a single file which can be accessed and viewed by a structured document viewer. Related authoring tools and viewers are also disclosed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099464 | MECHANISM FOR ADDING CONTENT FROM A SEARCH TO A DOCUMENT OR MESSAGE - Methods and apparatus for adding content from a search to a document or message such as an electronic mail message are disclosed. A graphical user interface may be provided, where the graphical user interface includes an input portion and a template for generating a document or message. A query including one or more search terms may be received via the input portion of the graphical user interface. Search results associated with the query may be obtained. The search results associated with the query may be provided. A user selection may be received, where the user selection selects at least a portion of the search results. A hypertext link or content from the search results may be added to a document or message generated (or being generated by) via the template, wherein the hypertext link or content from the search results is added to the document or message in response to the user selection. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099465 | BUTTERFLY DIAGRAMS ENABLING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - A method for multi-dimensional performance analysis may be provided. A plurality of data may be displayed in a butterfly diagram comprising a data grid, a histogram associated with column sorting criteria, and a histogram associated with row-sorting criteria. Additional information depth may be provided with conditional formatting of the cells of the data grid. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099466 | Multiple Bindings in Web Service Data Connection - The invention features a method, system, and computer program product. User input defining a form that has one or more fields is received. User input defining a set of entries associated with the form is also received, the set of entries identifying available connections to data repositories and fields of the form that are associated with the connections. Each data repository is connected with the fields associated with the data repository using one or more declarative statements that enable one-to-many mappings from fields in the form to data repositories as defined by the set of entries. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099467 | CONFIGURABLE AND DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION OF WEB CONTENT - Dynamically transforming web content is described. An HTTP request is received from an Internet client. The web resource identified in the HTTP request is accessed. The content of the web resource is analyzed. A set of transformation instructions are applied on a set of identified portions of the content of the web resource. Each applied transformation instruction includes logic to locate and manipulate at least an identified portion of the content, and at least one of the applied transformation instructions is a client-side script transformation instruction that performs one or more of: modify a client-side script included in the content, remove a client-side script included in the content, and add a client-side script to the content. An HTTP response is rendered that includes the results of the applied transformation instructions and further includes those portions of the content that were not manipulated by a transformation instruction. The response is then transmitted to the Internet client. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099468 | DOCUMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - A document display system and method for enhancing the effectiveness of a user interface includes one or more tiles, a spatial modifier, and a variable display region. Document data of multiple abstraction levels is obtained and represented at one of the abstraction levels in a document representation within a variable display region of the tile. The tile can be spatially modified by position and dimension having a tile position and tile dimensions. Upon escaping a particular range of tile dimensions, the document representation alters the abstraction level portrayed therein. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099469 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for editing a document including a first layer and a second layer. The information processing apparatus determines, when a first layer is selected as a target layer, whether an object in a second page of the first layer, which follows a first page, can be relocated to a blank region in the first page of the first layer. When it is determined that the object in the second page of the first layer can be relocated, the information processing apparatus locates the object in the second page of the first layer to the first page of the first layer. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099470 | HARVESTING ASSETS FOR PACKAGED SOFTWARE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION - Harvesting assets for packaged application practices, in one aspect, may include obtaining one or more work products associated with deployment of packaged software applications, extracting content and style, enhancing content and style with models of work products, and storing assets in asset repository. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099471 | PRODUCT PREVIEW IN A PRODUCT SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW - A product preview method for a plurality of selected products populated with a selected plurality of digital images includes causing a display of an image selection control. A digital image is identified that corresponds to a user's manipulation of the image selection control. A display is caused of a preview group containing a plurality of preview images for only those of the plurality of products selected to be populated with the identified digital image. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099472 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An input of document data, in which a rule for retrieving an object from a database has been specified for each region, is received. For each region, the number of times that the database is referenced for retrieving the object is counted by applying the rule. A reference value and each of the counted are compared. For each region, it is determined that the object is to be inserted in the region if the result of the comparison is that the number of times is less than or equal to the reference value, and that the object is not to be inserted in the region if the number of times is greater than the reference value. A preview of the document data is displayed with, for each region, the object being inserted in the region or the object not being inserted in the region in accordance with the determination. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099473 | Input signal processing device for portable device and method of the same - A method of processing an input signal of a portable device is provided, including collecting an input signal generated from at least one of an input unit and a touch screen; generating a preset repetitive input signal when the collected input signal corresponds to a preset condition input signal; and using an application that is currently activated based on the repetitive input signal. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099474 | Method and System for Providing Software Application End-Users with Contextual Access to Text and Video Instructional Information - A tool data engine displays instructional information to an end-user of a software application that pertains to one or more tools associated with the software application. The tool data engine displays the instructional information within a graphical user interface (GUI) after the user has indicated interest in that tool. The instructional information includes a detailed description of the tool and one or more video clips associated with the tool. The tool data engine also allows end-users to record and/or upload video clips that demonstrate usage of the tool. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DATA-RELATED INFORMATION AND VIDEOS TO SOFTWARE APPLICATION END-USERS - A user operations engine allows an end-user to select a specific region of a document. The user operations engine then provides the end-user with access to one or more video clips that demonstrate modifications that were made to the selected region of the document using one or more tools associated with a software application. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099476 | DECORATING A DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for decorating a display environment. In one embodiment, a user may decorate a display environment by making one or more gestures, using voice commands, using a suitable interface device, and/or combinations thereof. A voice command can be detected for user selection of an artistic feature, such as, for example, a color, a texture, an object, and a visual effect for decorating in a display environment. The user can also gesture for selecting a portion of the display environment for decoration. Next, the selected portion of the display environment can be altered based on the selected artistic feature. The user's motions can be reflected in the display environment by an avatar. In addition, a virtual canvas or three-dimensional object can be displayed in the display environment for decoration by the user. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099477 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC HISTORICAL BROWSING - Systems and methods for dynamic historical browsing of a collection of documents, such as a collection of webpages. In some embodiments, the entry point of the browsing experience may be a timestamp-based or version-based. The entry point may be established by a navigation parameter, such as a graphical slider, for example. A historical browsing experience may be replicated based on the entry point. The system may be implemented via client-side implementation or a server-side implementation. A rich interface application (RIA) may be used. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099478 | IDENTIFYING COLLECTION IMAGES WITH SPECIAL EVENTS - A method for associating event times or time periods with digital images in a collection for determining if a digital image is of interest, includes storing a collection of digital images each having an associated capture time; comparing the associated capture time in the collection with a special event time to determine if a digital image in the collection is of interest, wherein the comparing step includes calculation of a special event time associated with a special event based on the calendar time associated with the special event and using such information to perform the comparison step; and associating digital images of interest with the special event. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099479 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for information management using a computer communicates with a plurality of electronic devices through a network. The method establishes a communication with each of the electronic devices, and installs an application sent from one of the electronic devices that is in communication with the computer. The method further scans all of the electronic devices in the network, and obtains information monitored by the electronic devices. Additionally, the method processes the obtained information, and displays the processed information on a screen of the computer through an interface of the application. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099480 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MACHINE IDENTIFICATION - A method and system for identifying a machine used for an online session with an online provider includes executing a lightweight fingerprint code from a provider interface during an online session to collect and transmit machine and session information; generating and storing a machine signature or identity including a machine effective speed calibration (MESC) which may be used to identify the machine when the machine is used in a subsequent online session by a method of matching the machine signature and MESC to a database of machine identities, analyzing a history of the machine's online sessions to identify one or more response indicators, such as fraud indicators, and executing one or more responses to the response indicators, such as disabling a password or denying an online transaction, where the response and response indicator may be provider-designated. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099481 | ANCHORING A REMOTE ENTITY IN A LOCAL DISPLAY - A remote desktop application displays a remote graphical interface on a local computer screen. A remote entity, for example, a taskbar, is anchored along an edge of the remote graphical interface on the local computer screen. The anchored taskbar and the remote interface are displayed on the local computer screen such that the remote entity is in a viewable position on the local computer screen. The anchoring can be turned on and off in response to a user selection of a control. The control can be provided to position the remote entity along a bottom, top, left, or right edge in response to a user selection. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099482 | INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL RULES - A computer implemented method, information processing system, and computer program product manage web application firewall rule configuration. A web application is analyzed. A set of data elements within the web application is identified. Each data element in the set of data elements stores information that is sent from a web client to a web server. Each data element in the set of data elements is analyzed. A data type is associated with each data element in the set of data element. The data type describes a type of data stored by the data element. A web application firewall rule recommendation is automatically generated for each data element based at least on the data type associated therewith. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099483 | Website Recording of Reactions of a Designated User through interaction with characters - The current invention is a Website Recording of Reactions of a Designated User through interaction with characters. It consists of a system on a website running on a computer processor where a user can connect to, the system will ask the user questions through the use of animations or recorded scripts, the user will answer these questions, these answers would be recorded by the system through a webcam or similar recording device and this recording would be made available to the user. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099484 | INTERNET SESSION INITIATION ON PERSONAL CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, AND CUSTOMIZATION PROTOCOL THEREFOR - A customizable client application capable of running on all seven classes of Internet-enabled personal cellular telecommunications devices whose Internet browser launching capabilities range from being Class 0 non Internet-enabled to Class 6 automatic Internet browser launching. The client application facilitates minimum subscriber intervention for Internet session initiation from an Internet session option of an interactive display message. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099485 | ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION (AEC) WITH CONFERENCING ENVIRONMENT TEMPLATES (CETs) - In at least some embodiments, a computer system includes a processor and a network interface coupled to the processor. The computer system also includes a system memory coupled to the processor, the system memory storing a communication application having a conferencing user interface. The conferencing user interface, when executed, enables a user to set up a conferencing session by selecting one of a plurality of conferencing environment templates (CETs). Each CET is matched to one of a plurality of different sets of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) parameters to be applied during the conferencing session. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099486 | Social Messaging User Interface - Hubs for social interaction via electronic devices are described. In one aspect, a data processing device includes a display screen displaying a social interaction hub, the social interaction hub including a collection of records. Each record includes a counterparty identifier identifying a counterparty of a past social interaction event, a mode indicium identifying a mode by which the past social interaction event with the counterparty occurred, and a collection of mode indicia each identifying a mode by which a future, outgoing social interaction event with the counterparty can occur. The counterparty identifier, the mode indicium, and the collection of mode indicia are associated with one another in the records of the social interaction hub. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099487 | END-TO-END SOLUTION FOR AN END-USER TO OBTAIN DESIRED INFORMATION IN USER INTERFACES - Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for providing user interfaces to a mobile device. The user interfaces (e.g., “widgets”) may provide information to a mobile device user by displaying the interfaces in a predetermined location on a mobile device display. For example, the user interfaces may be displayed on a dashboard on a mobile device and may contain updated information. As information pertaining to content of the user interfaces changes, the status of the information in the user interfaces may change accordingly. In one example, an event user interface may provide information pertaining to the event and may be updated based on changes to the event. For example, the number of participants may change. This information may be provided in the user interface. In addition, user interfaces may be selected, modified, arranged, organized or otherwise manipulated at a server and downloaded to the mobile device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING VIDEO ASSETS - An approach is provided for presenting video assets. An asset manager determines a plurality of factors for positioning of video assets represented on a graphical user interface. The asset manager then determines weighting of the factors using one or more rules that are based on a search operation or a browse operation relating to the assets. From the determined plurality of factors and weighting of the factors, the asset manager computes a score for ranking of a particular one of the assets with respect to the positioning of other ones of the assets. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099489 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING EMISSION VALUES - A system and method for computing emission values. In one aspect, a system and method is described to include an input module operable to receive raw activity data to define a record for an activity; a data provisioning module operable to compute standardized activity data using the raw activity data; a location module operable to compute a location hierarchy for a given location; a factor data module operable to compute factor data for a given location hierarchy and time period; a reference data module operable to compute reference data; and an emission engine operable to compute at least one emission value for the activity based on the optimal emission equation. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099490 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING POLYMORPHIC NOTES IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - An approach is provided for presenting polymorphic notes in a graphical user interface. A polymorphic note manager receives a request to display a plurality of polymorphic notes on a graphical user interface of a device. In response to the request, the polymorphic note manager determines an order of the plurality of polymorphic notes according to either an associated date or, if there is no associated date, a creation date corresponding to each of the plurality of polymorphic notes. The polymorphic note manager then causes, at least in part, actions that result in display of the plurality of polymorphic notes in the graphical user interface according to the determined order | 2011-04-28 |
20110099491 | User-Interface Testing - A user-interface testing process involves generating plural display-data representations of a common subject for plural respective user-interface instances. The resulting display data is tracked for each of the application user-interface instances so as to generate respective object-level descriptions of the user interface instances. The object-level descriptions are compared to detect differences between the application user-interface instances. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UI ANIMATION - A method and apparatus for translating between an object displayed in a first mode of a user interface (UI) and a second mode of the UI. The method includes determining a current UI mode from among UI modes, which include a physics animation mode and a non-physics animation mode, and determining an animation type of the current UI mode; extracting current UI information, associated with the animation type of the current UI mode, of a UI object; translating the current UI information of the UI object to translation UI information of the UI object associated with the animation type of another UI mode among the UI modes; and storing the translation UI information. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099493 | IMAGE AUXILIARY DATA SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING METHOD AND DOCUMENT CAMERA USING SUCH METHOD - An image auxiliary data searching and displaying method is used in a document camera. The document camera includes a processor and a user interface. The processor is accessible to a database. The image auxiliary data searching and displaying method includes steps of performing an image-selecting operation on an image of the to-be-displayed object via the user interface to generate a target image, processing the target image by the processor to generate a target characteristic property, searching the database by the processor according to the target characteristic property so as to generate a search result, and simultaneously displaying at least one image auxiliary data from the search result and the image of the to-be-displayed object for comparison. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099494 | DYNAMIC GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE LAYOUT - A system and method for laying out graphical user interface elements at a client device. A client device receives a set of containers, each container including program instructions and specifications. The program instructions of each container are executed to determine a size and position of each graphical user interface element. Each type of container has corresponding logic upon which sizing and positioning of graphical user interface elements is based. The client device may receive data metadata descriptive of the graphical user interface elements and application specifications. Sizing and positioning of the graphical user interface elements may be based on the data metadata and application specifications. A layout process may recursively descend a structure of containers to determine sizes and positions of each GUI element. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099495 | METHOD FOR ENABLING INTERNET ACCESS ON A MULTIFUNCTION REPROGRAPHIC MACHINE - A system and method are described that enable a multifunction reprographic machine with limited display means to perform retrieval of documents or web pages by allowing a user to enter the address of a web page. The retrieved web page is examined for any links embedded in the retrieved web page and these embedded links are reformatted for the limited display and user interface and re-displayed to allow the user to further search for a desired document. When the desired document is retrieved, the user can submit the document to the multifunction reprographic machine for processing. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099496 | APPLICATION SHARING SECURITY - A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for facilitating application sharing. In operation, a user selects at least one of a plurality of applications operating on a first computer to share with at least a second computer. The user then selects at least one of a plurality of security measures for preventing a user operating the second computer from performing at least one of a plurality of unauthorized operations. Next, the user initiates applications sharing on the first computer, wherein the user operating the second computer may access or observe an application running on the first computer, but may not perform any unauthorized operations on the first computer. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099497 | METHOD FOR ENABLING A MOBILE USER EQUIPMENT TO DRAG AND DROP DATA OBJECTS BETWEEN DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS - The invention concerns a system and a method for enabling a mobile User Equipment ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110099498 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE HIERARCHY GENERATION - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with graphical user interface (GUI) hierarchy generation are described. One example method includes generating a graph based on an image of a GUI. Nodes in the graph may represent GUI components depicted in the image. Edges in the graph may represent relationships between the GUI components. The example method may include parsing the graph according to a formal graph grammar to produce a GUI hierarchy. The GUI hierarchy may comprise descriptions of groups of the GUI components. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099499 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with graphical user interface (GUI) component identification are described. One example method includes identifying a set of GUI components. The identifying may be based on a screen image of a GUI. The screen image may comprise data describing a visual representation of the GUI. The example method may also include providing data identifying the set of GUI components. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099500 | HISTORICAL NETWORK EVENT VIEWING - A computer-implemented method, comprising determining a displayable sub range of events from among event records in a stored repository of network event data; determining a start time; in response to determining the start time, loading from the repository, a subset of a specified number of event records representing only network events that occurred at one or more network infrastructure elements before the start time; graphically displaying, in a first portion of a screen display on a display unit, an event graph that plots a number of network events that occurred in each of a plurality of discrete time periods represented by the sub range of events, and between the start time and the end time; graphically displaying, over the event graph, a time slider and a loaded event indicator area that is delimited by the start time and the end time; displaying, in a second portion of the screen display, a table listing only such network events as occurred between the start time and end time as indicated by the loaded event indicator area; wherein the steps are performed by one or more computing devices. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099501 | PREVIEWING AND EDITING PRODUCTS IN A PRODUCT SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW - A method for previewing a plurality of products populated with a plurality of digital images includes identifying a layout of a selected product page of a selected one of the plurality of products and identifying one or more controls that correspond to the identified layout. In a user interface, a display is caused of the identified controls and a preview image of the selected product page. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099502 | Developer Interface and Associated Methods for System for Querying and Consuming Web-Based Data - A graphical user interface (GUI) for a system for querying web data includes a query entry component defined to receive textual input of a query language (QL) statement. The QL statement identifies one or more QL tables associated with one or more web data sources. The GUI also includes a results data display component defined to visually display results data obtained from execution of the QL statement present in the query entry component. The GUI further includes a QL web service universal resource locator (URL) conveyance component defined to visually and electronically convey a QL web service URL defined to access one or more QL tables identified in the QL statement through the Internet and retrieve direction from the one or more QL tables regarding access and retrieval of data from the one or more web data sources associated with the one or more QL tables. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099503 | USER INTERFACE DISPLAY FOR MONITORING A DATABASE LOAD ENGINE - The invention described herein provides a load engine and method for efficiently accomplishing mass conversions of customer data into an existing customer database, such as an IBM® Websphere® Customer Center (WCC). In particular, the method incorporates existing business rules for validating new customer data and for creating tables for the new customer data, creates load files for the new customer data, and provides a means for running multi-threaded data loads of the new customer data tables onto an existing customer database. The disclosure further provides a method for gathering data regarding the status of a data load or conversion and creating a user interface for tracking the progress of a specific data load. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099504 | SCALE WITH AUTOMATIC OFFLINE INDICATION AND RELATED METHOD - A scale and associated method automatically identify when a food product pricing scale is in an offline condition and changes a color condition on the scale display to alert scale operators of the offline condition. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099505 | TOUCH SCREEN KEYPAD LAYOUT - A apparatus includes a touch-screen display. A virtual keypad is displayed wherein the keys are sized in accordance with their location. Keys located in a corner of the display are smallest, keys located on an edge but not in a corner are larger, and keys not having any contact with an edge are largest. A user can easily select keys for entering a text message using multi-tap or predictive text algorithms. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099506 | Predictive Text Entry for Input Devices - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing predictive text functionality to input devices. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection of a first character from a plurality of characters displayed in a virtual representation of an input device; generating one or more first selectable suggestions based on the first character; and displaying the one or more first selectable suggestions proximate to the first character in the virtual representation of the input device. The first selectable suggestions are displayed closer to the first character than any of the plurality of characters normally displayed in the virtual representation of the input device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099507 | DISPLAYING A COLLECTION OF INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS THAT TRIGGER ACTIONS DIRECTED TO AN ITEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying of collections of interactive elements that trigger actions directed to a particular contact, message, media file, or other item. In one aspect, a method is performed by a system comprising one or more data processing devices and a touchscreen display. The method includes displaying several identifiers, each identifier comprising one or more graphical or textual elements that identify an item, each identifier associated with a respective interactive element, receiving user interaction with a first of the interactive elements that is associated with a first of the identifiers, in response to the user interaction, displaying a collection of action widgets on the touchscreen display, the action widgets comprising iconic graphical indicia that each represent an action triggered by user interaction therewith, the iconic graphical indicia displayed adjacent one another in a strip-shaped area that is wider than it is high, the strip-shaped area being displaced vertically on the touchscreen display from the first identifier so that the first identifier is visible on the touchscreen notwithstanding the display of the collection of action widgets, receiving user interaction with a first of the action widgets that is in the collection displayed on the touchscreen display, and performing the action represented by the first of the action widgets on the item identified by the first identifier. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099508 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A USER INTERFACE OF THE MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device and a method for operating the mobile device are provided. The method initializes the mobile device to support a multitasking environment, and synchronously executing multiple software applications in the multitasking environment. The method generates a user interface on a home screen of the mobile device, and divides the user interface into multiple display areas according to a total number of the executed software applications. The method receives an input command from a keypad of the mobile device, and generates a key input event according to the input command. In addition, the method controls different software applications to communicate with each other according to the key input event, and displays an execution result of each of the executed software applications on a corresponding display area of the user interface. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099509 | Scroll Display Program, Device, and Method, and Electronic Device Provided with Scroll Display Device - A storage unit is configured to store a document to be displayed in a predetermined display area on a display. An instruction acknowledging unit is configured to receive a scroll instruction signal for scrolling the document displayed in the display area. A range identifying unit is configured to identify a previously displayed block displayed in the display area before the scrolling operation and a subsequently displayed block displayed in the display area as updated by the scrolling operation. A delay control unit is configured to cause the previously displayed block to be scrolled in the display area by the predetermined amount of movement and displayed accordingly, and causing the subsequently displayed block to be scrolled and displayed accordingly with a delay from the previously displayed block. | 2011-04-28 |
20110099510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCROLLING AMONG CATEGORIES IN A LIST OF DOCUMENTS - A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories. | 2011-04-28 |