23rd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120144211 | Method and Device for Decoding Data - A method comprises predicting a workload required for decoding a code block using a turbo decoder and selecting a power mode of the turbo decoder, the selection of the power mode depending on the prediction of the workload. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144212 | MEMORY POWER SUPPLY CONTROL CIRCUIT - A memory power supply control circuit includes a number of memory slots, a platform controller hub (PCH), a first synchronous rectification driver, a number of second synchronous rectification drivers, and a complex programmable logic device (CPLD). The PCH is connected to the memory slots. The first synchronous rectification driver maintains a working state at all time. The CPLD is connected between the PCH and the second synchronous rectification drivers. The CPLD receives information from the PCH to determine a number of used memory slots, and controls the working states of the second synchronous rectification drivers according to the number of used memory slots. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144213 | USB HUB AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - A USB HUB is provided. The USB HUB comprises a wireless communication module, a storage module, a USB interface connected to a host outside of the USB HUB and a HUB controller. The storage module stores a driver program of the wireless communication module. The USB interface transfers data with the host. The HUB controller is coupled to the USB interface, the wireless communication module and the storage module. The HUB controller disables the storage module and enables the wireless communication module when the driver program has been installed in the host. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144214 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT, POWER SOURCE EQUIPMENT AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An optical network unit is provided that includes a communication detector configured to detect whether a communication is achieved between the ONU and at least one power source equipment (PSE), and a power controller configured to detect whether the PSE is powered and to control electrical power, which is provided from the PSE, based on at least one of the detection result about whether the communication is achieved between the ONU and the PSE and the detection result about the PSE is powered. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144215 | MAXIMUM CURRENT LIMITING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The maximum current is limited in a multi-processor core system by monitoring the latest power consumption in the processor cores, in order to prevent a system shutdown as a result of an over-current event. If the sum of the latest power of the processor cores exceeds a threshold limit, a performance state (P-state) limit is enforced in the processor cores. The P-state limit causes a P-state change to a lower frequency, voltage and thus a lower current. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144216 | TRANSACTION LEVEL SYSTEM POWER ESTIMATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A transaction level (TL) system power estimation method and system are provided. The method includes inserting at least a characteristic extractor into an electronic device of a target system. The characteristic extractor extracts at least a power characteristic of the electronic device when a TL simulation is proceeding. The power characteristic provided from the characteristic extractor is converted to at least a power consumption value by using a power model. The power consumption value is recorded into a power database, for analyzing power consumption of the whole target system. In some embodiments, the TL system power estimation method and system can be applied in the target system with dynamic power management. The TL system power estimation method and system also can be used with a high-level synthesizer to develop the power-aware electronic device in a short time. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144217 | Dynamically Modifying A Power/Performance Tradeoff Based On Processor Utilization - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multicore processor having a power controller with logic to dynamically switch a power management policy from a power biased policy to a performance biased policy when a utilization of the processor exceeds a threshold level. Thus at low utilizations, reduced power consumption can be realized, while at higher utilizations, greater performance can be realized. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144218 | Transferring Power and Speed from a Lock Requester to a Lock Holder on a System with Multiple Processors - Power is allocated between processors in a multiprocessor system. A request to acquire a lock is received from a first thread executing on a first processor. Responsive to receiving the request to acquire a lock, determination is made as to whether a second thread has acquired the lock. Responsive to determining that the second thread has acquired the lock, an original frequency of the first thread executing on the first processor and an operating frequency of the second thread executing on the second processor is identified. The operating frequency of the second thread executing on the second processor is then altered based on the original frequency of the first thread executing on the first processor. When the second thread releases the lock, the spinning thread with the highest original frequency acquires the lock. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144219 | Method of Making Power Saving Recommendations in a Server Pool - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for optimizing the power consumption of a plurality of information processing systems. Historical usage data representing power usage of a plurality of information processing systems is retrieved in response to a request to generate power savings recommendations. Statistical analysis is performed on the historical usage data are to determine usage patterns, which are then further analyzed to determine repetitions of the usage patterns. In turn, the repetitions of the usage patterns are analyzed to generate power consumption management recommendations to initiate power consumption management actions at particular times. One or more business constraints are determined, which are used to generate constraints to the power consumption management recommendations. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144220 | MODULAR GATING OF MICROPROCESSOR LOW-POWER MODE - A method of operating an electronic device includes determining whether one or more operating conditions for allowing the electronic device to operate in a low-power mode are satisfied, preventing the electronic device from operating in the low-power mode if fewer than all of the operating conditions are satisfied, and causing the electronic device to operate in the low-power mode if all of the operating conditions are satisfied. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144221 | LOAD STEP MITIGATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for load step, or instantaneous current spike, mitigation are provided. In the method and apparatus, load steps are mitigated if a computer system a whole is lightly load, which may be determined by the power consumption of the computer system. Further, load steps are mitigated if a number of processor cores capable of inducing a load step is higher than a threshold. The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) performance state of the cores is used to determine a core's potential for generating a load step. A processor core is instructed to mitigate load steps if conditions are met for the mitigation. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144222 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing system including a Web server and an information processing apparatus with a Web browser stores information indicative of a power consumed in execution of a function with respect to each of functions, wherein the information processing apparatus sets an upper limit of a power consumed by executing at least any one of the functions, determines whether or not the power consumed by the execution of the function exceeds the power set by a setting unit with respect to each of functions, and performs control such that a function determined as consuming the power beyond the set power is not executed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144223 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - Without disposing any dedicated management module, it is possible to monitor sensors of shared sections shared among computer modules. A computer system includes a state machine for monitoring a power state of each computer module and a state of a baseboard management controller of the computer module, shared modules of shared sections shared among the computer modules, and switches corresponding to the shared modules for selecting one of the baseboard management controllers to establish connections between the baseboard management controllers and the shared modules. At occurrence of an abnormality in the power state or the baseboard management controller of any one of the computer modules, the state machine dynamically conducts a switching operation to designate one of the baseboard management controllers to monitor sensors of the shared modules. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144224 | Adjusting a Device Clock Source to Reduce Wireless Communication Interference - Adjusting a clock source of a device clock to reduce wireless communication (e.g., radio frequency (RF)) interference within a device. The device clock may be derived from an input clock to a serial interface, e.g., coupled to a display, and may be initially driven by a first clock. Later, it may be determined that the serial interface clock is or will interfere with wireless communication. Accordingly, temporary clock signals may be provided to the device clock while the first clock is modified. Once modified, the modified clock signals may be provided to the device clock to reduce wireless communication interference. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144225 | VERIFICATION - A circuit simulator includes at least one clock generator. The at least one clock generator is configured to generate at least one root clock signal for an associated clock domain part of the circuit under simulation. The circuit simulator also includes a clock modifier configured to generate at least one delay to be applied to at least one of the at least one root clock signal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144226 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SESSION ESTABLISHMENT MANAGEMENT - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for performing session establishment management. For example, the method detects an evolved packet system establishment success rate that is measured over a predefined period of time falling below a predefined threshold, and performs, via a rule management server, an analysis on a bearer portion. The method then associates, via the rule management server, a root cause that contributed to the evolved packet system establishment success rate falling below the predefined threshold. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144227 | AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OF PROGRAM LOGIC - An approach to detection and repair of application level semantic errors in deployed software includes inferring aspects of correct operation of a program. For instance, a suite of examples of operations that are known or assumed to be correct are used to infer correct operation. Further operation of the program can be compared to results found during correct operation and the logic of the program can be augmented to ensure that aspects of further examples of operation of the program are sufficiently similar to the examples in the correct suite. In some examples, the similarity is based on identifying invariants that are satisfied at certain points in the program execution, and augmenting (e.g., “patching”) the logic includes adding tests to confirm that the invariants are satisfied in the new examples. In some examples, the logic invokes an automatic or semi-automatic error handling procedure if the test is not satisfied. Augmenting the logic in this way may prevent malicious parties from exploiting the semantic errors, and may prevent failures in execution of the programs that may have been avoided. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144228 | Apparatus and Method to Read Information from an Information Storage Medium - A method to read information from an information storage medium using a read channel, where that read channel includes a data cache, where the method generates an analog waveform comprising the information, provides that analog waveform to a read channel generates a digital signal from that analog waveform using one or more first operating parameters, corrects that digital signal at an actual error correction rate, determines if the actual error correction rate is greater than an error correction rate threshold. If the actual error correction rate exceeds the error correction rate threshold, then the method captures the digital signal, stores that captured data in a data cache, reads that digital signal from the cache, generates one or more second operating parameters, provides those one or more second operating parameters to the read channel. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144229 | VIRTUALIZED CLUSTER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method includes executing, in each of a number of nodes of a cluster communication system, a specialized instance of an operating system privileged to control a corresponding hypervisor configured to consolidate one or more VM(s) on a system hardware. The one or more VM(s) is configured to be associated with a non-privileged operating system. The method also includes providing a cluster stack associated with the specialized instance of the operating system on the each of the number of nodes to enable communication between peers thereof in different nodes, and controlling the one or more VM(s) as a cluster resource through the cluster stack. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144230 | CABLE REDUNDANCY AND FAILOVER FOR MULTI-LANE PCI EXPRESS IO INTERCONNECTIONS - Method and apparatus for providing failover operation for a connection between a first PCIE bridge and a first input/output (IO) device are provided. A first set of bussed bits is exchanged between the first PCIE bridge and the first IO device over a first link using a first set of lanes of the first PCIE bridge. In response to detecting a failure in the first link, at a PCIE bridge end, the first set of lanes is swapped with a second set of lanes of the first PCIE bridge for exchanging a second set of bussed bits between the first PCIE bridge and the first IO device over a second link using the second set of lanes, the second link connecting a second PCIE bridge with a second IO device. In response to detecting the failure in the first link, at an IO device end, the first set of lanes is switched with the second set of lanes for exchanging the second set of bussed bits between the first PCIE bridge and the first IO device over the second link using the second set of lanes | 2012-06-07 |
20120144231 | ARRANGEMENTS DETECTING RESET PCI EXPRESS BUS IN PCI EXPRESS PATH, AND DISABLING USE OF PCI EXPRESS DEVICE - A root port connection functioning as a PCI express bridge, and having a PCI express path constituting a PCI express tree having a PCI express device or switch; when detecting a failure on a PCI express path, a PCI express device or switch transmits a failure signal; the root port transmits an SMI responsive to the failure signal; the CPU executes the BIOS responsive to the SMI; the BIOS collects a log of the PCI express path where failure is detected, analyzes the collected log to judge failure type, and upon a fatal failure on the PCI express path, resets the PCI express tree downstream of the root port that received the failure signal, and upon a non-fatal failure on the PCI express path, resets the PCI express device in which the failure occurred; and the CPU closes the reset PCI express device by executing the device driver. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144232 | Generation of Standby Images of Applications - Embodiments that generate checkpoint images of an application for use as warm standby are contemplated. The embodiments may monitor accesses of external references by threads. An external reference may comprise a connection or use of services of an entity that is external to the set of processes that constitute the application, to which a process of the application attempts to connect by means of a socket or inter-process communication (IPC). Various embodiments comprise two or more computing devices, such as two or more servers. One of the computing devices may generate a checkpoint image of an application at a suitable point in time during initialization, when the state of the application is not yet dependent on interactions with external references. The second computing device may preload checkpoint image for the application and activate the checkpoint images when needed, following the specific resource management rules of the distributed subsystem. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144233 | Obviation of Recovery of Data Store Consistency for Application I/O Errors - Embodiments comprise a plurality of computing devices that dynamically intercept process application I/O errors. Various embodiments comprise two or more computing devices, such as two or more servers, each having access to a shared data storage system. An application may be executing on the first computing device and performing an I/O operation when an I/O error occurs. The first computing device may intercept the I/O error, rather than passing it back to the application, and prevent the error from affecting the application. The first computing device may complete the I/O operation, and any other pending I/O operations not written to disk, via an alternate path, perform a checkpoint operation to capture the state of the set of processes associated with the application, and transfer the checkpoint image to the second computing device. The second computing device may resume operation of the application from the checkpoint image. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144234 | AUTOMATIC ERROR RECOVERY MECHANISM FOR A DATABASE SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method, apparatus and article of manufacture for performing an automatic error recovery in a database system. Automatic error recovery is performed for a query execution plan, following errors, problems or failures that occur during execution, by automatically or manually deactivating and/or activating components, features or code paths, and then re-submitting the query execution plan for execution in the computer system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144235 | Reducing Application Downtime During Failover - Reducing application downtime during failover including identifying a critical line in the startup of an application, the critical line comprising the point in the startup of the application in which the application begins to use dependent resources; checkpointing the application at the critical line of startup; identifying a failure in the application; and restarting the application from the checkpointed application at the critical line. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS IN MULTIPLE VIRTUAL PARALLEL UNIVERSES - The system and method for diagnosing information technology systems in multiple virtual parallel universes described herein may create virtualized parallel universes that represent a problematic information technology system. The virtualized parallel universes may then be diagnosed to identify potential solutions to a problem experienced in the problematic information technology system (i.e., the parallel universes may be diagnosed without disrupting the live problematic system). For example, the problematic information technology system may be cloned in response to a diagnostic request associated therewith to create various virtualized parallel universes representing the problematic information technology system. The parallel universes may then conduct various problem resolution steps to identify a potential solution to the problem, which may then be applied to the problematic information technology system to resolve the problem associated therewith. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144237 | METHOD OF EFFICACY ANTICIPATION AND FAILURE EXAMINATION FOR AN APPARATUS - A method of efficacy anticipation and failure examination for an apparatus is disclosed. The method first establishes an anticipation model, and then trains the anticipation model by calibrating the same using errors obtained between a realistic data and an anticipated data, so as to use the calibrated anticipation model to estimate the performance efficacy of an apparatus or any component in the apparatus, and also to acknowledge if there is any abnormality occurred during the operation of the apparatus or the component. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144238 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING AN OPERATOR IN A REMOTE TROUBLESHOOTING CONTEXT - A system locates a user in a remote troubleshooting environment. An office device is utilized to perform at least one of a copy, a facsimile, a print, and an email. A headset facilities audio communication between the user and a remote troubleshooter. A compass is located proximate to the office device wherein the headset is placed in a predetermined location proximate to the compass to establish a datum point such that movement from the datum point is recognized as a location proximate to the office device. A remote processing component displays the location of the headset relative to the office device based on information provided by the compass. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144239 | CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE - Methods for automatically testing a business intelligence artifact include authoring a business intelligence artifact selected from the group consisting of a report specification, an analysis cube, and a metadata model; creating an assertion to verify the proper functioning of the business intelligence artifact; and testing, with an automated agent interfaced with the business intelligence system, the business intelligence artifact to verify its proper functioning by determining whether the conditions of the assertion are satisfied upon execution of the business intelligence artifact in the business intelligence system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144240 | DEBUG STATE MACHINE AND PROCESSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A processor or an integrated circuit chip including a debug state machine (DSM) that allows for programming complex triggering sequences for flexible and efficient debug visibility is disclosed. The DSM centralizes control of local debug functions such as trace start and stop, trace filtering, cross triggering between DSMs, clock stopping, triggering a system debug mode interrupt, flexible microcode interface, and the like. The DSM is configured to receive triggers from a processor core, other DSMs, a northbridge, other sockets, and the like and initiate a programmed action on a condition that a corresponding trigger or a sequence of triggers occurs. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144241 | DEVICE FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE OF VEHICLE - The present invention provides a device for conducting dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle. More particularly, it relates to a device for dynamically analyzing embedded software of the vehicle to detect real time errors of embedded software based on the analysis. More specifically, a data communication unit communicates data in real time with an electronic unit of the vehicle; and a control unit that monitors the condition of one or more hardware components which are used by embedded software of an electric field based on the data received through the data communication unit, and thereby outputs the monitored result accordingly. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM WITH IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF END USER ACTIONS - Dissatisfaction variables track inputs made by an end user at an information handling system that are associated with end user dissatisfaction regarding the operation of the information handling system, such as corrective actions, so that an alert issues if a dissatisfaction variable changes by a predetermined amount over a predetermined time period. Dissatisfaction variables identify a pattern of a change in behavior by an end user rather than the operational status of system components. For example, an increase in end user forced shutdowns of the information handling system indicates end user dissatisfaction with the information handling system, such as repeated freezes of the operating system so that performing a timely diagnostics will improve end user satisfaction and proactively correct and impending system failure. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144243 | Dynamic Administration Of Component Event Reporting In A Distributed Processing System - Methods, systems and products are provided for dynamic administration of component event reporting in a distributed processing system including receiving, by an events analyzer from an events queue, a plurality of events from one or more components of the distributed processing system; determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the received events and one or more event analysis rules, to change the event reporting rules of one or more components; and instructing, by the events analyzer, the one or more components to change the event reporting rules. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144244 | SINGLE-EVENT-UPSET CONTROLLER WRAPPER THAT FACILITATES FAULT INJECTION - A method that determines the system impact of single event upset (SEU) and a single event upset (SEU) wrapper that controls a SEU controller is disclosed. The method injects faults into a component (e.g. FPGA, ASIC) of an operational system that is carrying live traffic and monitors the system's response to the faults to determine the impact of SEU on the system. The SEU wrapper sends the SEU controller a pattern scheme that includes information indicating when, where, how often, and/or how long to inject bursts of one or more faults into memory of the component of the system. A burst of faults contains faults that are consecutively injected into the array of memory blocks. After each fault in a burst is injected, one or more errors in one or more memory elements are detected and/or corrected. Information regarding the detection and/or the correction of an error is updated using registers that store counters. After injecting a burst of faults, the SEU controller waits for a predetermined amount of time. While waiting for a predetermined amount of time, the system monitors the system response to the burst of faults, such as monitoring the system for failures. After waiting, the SEU controller determines whether to inject another burst of faults. Bursts of faults are injected into the plurality of memory blocks until a system failure is detected or until the pattern scheme indicates to no longer inject bursts of faults into the memory. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144245 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PCI SYSTEM ERRORS IN THE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method for detecting peripheral component interconnect (PCI) system errors is applied in a computing device. The computing device includes a north bridge, a baseboard management controller (BMC) connected to the north bridge, and a PCI bus connected to the north bridge. The north bridge detects a PCI system error of the PCI bus, and notifies the BMC of the PCI system error. In response to notification of the PCI system error, the BMC records error information of the PCI system error in a storage system of the computing device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144246 | PERFORMANCE MONITORING FOR APPLICATIONS WITHOUT EXPLICIT INSTRUMENTATION - Systems and methods for monitoring operational performance of at least one application containing no explicit instrumentation are described. Data relating to the operational performance of the application can be obtained and provided to a telemetry server for analysis without the use of diagnostic instrumentation within the application. Generic and targeted performance data can be obtained using responsiveness components within a computing operating system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144247 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TRAINING THROUGH INCORPORATION OF METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS - A system, apparatus and method for providing training through incorporation of metaphorical expressions are provided. A method includes receiving selected user preferences via a computer. The method also includes displaying a story board based on the selected user preferences, where the display shows text and images and the computer simultaneously plays vocals. Further, the method includes prompting the user to perform a task. Where the user successfully completes the task, the method includes taking the user to a next task. If the user does not successfully complete the task, the method includes repeating the story board and prompting the user to attempt the task again until the task is successfully completed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144248 | GUIDED PROBLEM RESOLUTION IN DEPLOYING AN APPLICATION - Techniques are disclosed for deploying an application. In one embodiment, a packaging tool determines that an error exists in a packaged application. The packaging tool may guide a user in fixing the error by updating the packaging tool and repackaging the application using the updated packaging tool. The packaging tool may guide the user via one or more notifications output for display to the user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144249 | Program Disturb Error Logging and Correction for Flash Memory - Program disturb error logging and correction for a flash memory including a computer implemented method for storing data. The method includes receiving a write request that includes data and a write address of a target page in a memory. A previously programmed page at a specified offset from the target page is read from the memory. Contents of the previously programmed page are compared to an expected value of the previously programmed page. Error data is stored in an error log in response to contents of the previously programmed page being different than the expected value of the previously programmed page, the error data describing an error in the previously programmed page and the error data used by a next read operation to the previously programmed page to correct the error in the previously programmed page. The received data is written to the target page in the memory. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144250 | Visual Outage Management Tool - Described herein are systems related to a visual tool for providing a dynamic and accessible collaborative environment during a production outage or network downtime. An outage management tool comprising a server application tool receiving and storing monitoring data related to an operation of a network and application-level components of the network, wherein the monitoring data includes outage information corresponding to one of the network and the application-level components, and a visualization tool generating an interactive representation of the network including the outage information, the visualization tool and generating, in response to a request, an adjusted interactive representation of the network including application-level components affected by an outage and event traffic related to the outage | 2012-06-07 |
20120144251 | Relevant Alert Delivery In A Distributed Processing System With Event Listeners and Alert Listeners - Relevant alert delivery including determining, by an events listener associated with an event queue, whether one or more events in an events queue have not been assigned to any events pool by any event analyzer; and if one or more events in the events queue have not been assigned to any events pool, identifying by the events listener in dependence upon the event analysis rules one or more alerts; sending by the event listener to an alerts queue all the alerts identified by the event listener; the alerts queue having an associated alerts listener; determining whether one or more alerts in the alerts queue have not been assigned to any alert pool; if one or more alerts in the alerts queue have not been assigned to any alerts pool, and determining in dependence upon alert analysis rules whether to suppress the alerts; and transmitting the unsuppressed alerts. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144252 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD - A first memory area and a second memory area are provided. The first (second) memory area is provided with at least one first (second) memory module group, each of the first (second) memory module group is provided with at least one first (second) memory module, and each of the first (second) memory module is provided with a plurality of memory chip. In the case in which an error chip that is a memory chip that is provided with an error is in the first memory module, a first memory module group that is provided with the error chip is not managed as a memory module group that cannot be used even if there is a possibility that an error of the first data element is mis-corrected based on the error detecting code of the first kind. In the case in which an error chip is in the second memory module, a second memory module group that is provided with the error chip is not managed as a memory module group that cannot be used in such a manner that an error of the second data element is not mis-corrected based on the error detecting code of the second kind. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144253 | HARD MEMORY ARRAY FAILURE RECOVERY UTILIZING LOCKING STRUCTURE - A technique for managing hard failures in a memory system employing a locking is disclosed. An error count is maintained for units of memory within the memory system. When the error count indicates a hard failure, the unit of memory is locked out from further use. An arbitrary set of error counters are assigned to record errors resulting from access to the units of memory. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously enable a system to continue reliable operation even after one or more internal hard memory failures. Other embodiments advantageously enable manufacturers to salvage partially failed devices and deploy the devices as having a lower-performance specification rather than discarding the devices, as would otherwise be indicated by conventional practice. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144254 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH JTAG PORT, TAP LINKING MODULE, AND OFF-CHIP TAP INTERFACE PORT - An IC includes an IEEE 1149.1 standard test access port (TAP) interface and an additional Off-Chip TAP interface. The Off-Chip TAP interface connects to the TAP of another IC. The Off Chip TAP interface can be selected by a TAP Linking Module on the IC. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144255 | REDUCED SIGNALING INTERFACE METHOD & APPARATUS - This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations. In a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, an interface select circuit, FIGS. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144256 | System and Method for Analyzing an Electronics Device Including a Logic Analyzer - A system for testing or debugging a device under test having an embedded logic analyzer. In one embodiment, the system includes software stored in non-transitory memory for testing a device under test having an embedded logic analyzer, the software program product having instructions which, when executed by a computing device associated with the device under test cause the computing device to reconstruct signals of interest in the device under test based at least in part upon signals captured by the embedded logic analyzer during the test or debug session, and cause the computing device to display the reconstructed signals of interest to a user of the computing device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144257 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A data receiving device includes a receiving unit, an inverse conversion unit and an error correction unit. The receiving unit receives converted data, which is obtained by converting data including transfer data of a plurality of bits, and an error detection code for error detection of the transfer data, according to a predetermined first procedure. The inverse conversion unit inversely converts the received converted data according to a predetermined second procedure. If it is impossible for the inverse conversion unit to inversely convert the converted data, if it is possible for the inverse conversion unit to inversely convert inverted data obtained by inverting a portion of the bits of the converted data, and if an error is not detected in data obtained by inversely converting the inverted data based on the error detection code, the error correction unit performs error correction by inversely converting the inverted data. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144258 | WIRELESS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT VIA CLIENT-FREE FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION - Packets are duplicated, delayed, and spread in time as a form of forward error correction. If a client device receives duplicate packets, they can be discarded. If one of the duplicate packets is lost, then the duplication provides forward error correction with no change to the device that receives the packet. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144259 | REED-SOLOMON ERASURE DECODING WITH ERROR DETECTION FOR RETRANSMISSION - By utilizing Reed-Solomon erasure decoding algorithms and techniques, the system is able to perform error detection for the case where the number of bytes received in error exceeds a correcting capability of a decoder. The error detection can be used, for example, to determine whether a codeword is decodable, and whether the retransmission of data is necessary. The retransmission can be accomplished by assembling a message that is sent to another modem requesting retransmission of one or more portions of data, such as one or more codewords. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144260 | Apparatus and Method for Detecting an Error Within a Coded Binary Word - An apparatus for detecting an error within a coded binary word includes an error corrector and an error detector. The error corrector corrects a correctable bit error within a faulty subset of bits of a faulty coded binary word coded by an error correction code, so that the corrected subset of bits is equal to a corresponding subset of bits of a code word of the error correction code, if the error corrector works faultlessly. Further, the error detector determines an error detection bit sequence indicating whether or not an error detector input binary word is a code word of the error correction code. The error detector input binary word is based on a corrected coded binary word containing the corrected subset of bits and maximally a proper subset of bits of the faulty coded binary word. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144261 | ERROR CHECKING AND CORRECTING CIRCUIT, MEMORY SYSTEM COMPISING ERROR CHECKING AND CORRECTING CIRCUIT, AND RELATED METHODS OF OPERATION - An error checking and correcting (ECC) circuit is connected with nonvolatile memories via a plurality of channels. The ECC circuit calculates a first syndrome according to first read data and stores the first syndrome in a first syndrome register block, and calculates a second syndrome according to second read data and stores the second syndrome in a second syndrome register block. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144262 | METHOD OF PRODUCING AND DECODING ERROR CORRECTION CODE AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - An apparatus and method for producing error correction code and error correction decoding are provided. The method for producing error correction code includes generating an asymmetric matrix by arranging input data bits in a matrix of a predefined size and adding a zero bit column and/or a zero bit row, each of the column and the row consisting of zero bits, to the matrix; primarily encoding the asymmetric matrix by adding one or more parity bits to each row; and secondarily encoding the primarily encoded matrix by adding one or more parity bits to each column of the encoded matrix. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144263 | METHODS OF DATA HANDLING - Methods include receiving data and an ECC code read from a memory array, generating an ECC code from the received data, and determining whether the received data is corrupted by evaluating the generated ECC code against the ECC code read from the memory array. If the received data is determined to be corrupted, a correction algorithm and a recorded likely state of a known bad/questionable bit of the received data may be used to correct error in the received data. Alternatively, if the received data is determined to be corrupted, the correction algorithm and a recorded location of a known bad/questionable bit of the received data may be used to correct error in the received data. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144264 | Memory Device On the Fly CRC Mode - On the fly enabling and disabling of error detection for memory access transactions on a transaction basis is provided. Dynamic enabling and disabling of error detection for memory access transactions can also be applied for multiple transactions. Control logic associated with the memory device determines whether to apply error detection, and selectively enables error detection in the memory access transaction. The selective enabling of error detection in a memory access transaction can apply to either reads or writes. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144265 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INDICATING A PACKET ERROR IN AN AUDIO AND VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are provided for indicating an error of a transport packet in an audio and video communication system. The method includes receiving a frame including a transport packet, attempting Forward Error Correction (FEC) on the frame, and setting a value of an error indicating field in the transport packet according to a result of the FEC. The error indicating field includes at least one of a first flag indicating a presence or absence of an error in the transport packet, a second flag indicating a success or failure of the FEC, and a third flag indicating detection or non-detection of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC). | 2012-06-07 |
20120144266 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN THE DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcast transmitting and a method of processing broadcast data in a digital broadcast transmitting system are disclosed. The method includes randomizing mobile service data; RS encoding and CRC encoding the randomized mobile service data to build an RS frame; dividing the built RS frame into L (L>1) number of portions and adding K bytes (K≧0) of dummy data to one of the portions; encoding data in the portions at a code rate of 1/H (H>1); first interleaving the encoded data; mapping the first interleaved data into data groups and adding known data sequences and transmission parameters to each of the data groups, deinterleaving data of the data groups; second interleaving the deinterleaved data; and transmitting a transmission frame including the second interleaved data. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144267 | DATA READING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS, AND CONTROLLER THEREOF - A data reading method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided, wherein the rewritable non-volatile memory module has a plurality of physical pages. The data reading method includes grouping the physical pages into a plurality of physical page groups and configuring a corresponding threshold voltage set for each of the physical page groups. The data reading method also includes respectively reading data from the physical pages of the physical page groups by using the corresponding threshold voltage sets. The data reading method further includes when data read from one of the physical pages of one of the physical page groups cannot be corrected by using an error checking and correcting (ECC) circuit, updating the threshold voltage set corresponding to the physical page group. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144268 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE APPARATUS, AND METHOD - An access control apparatus for controlling an access to a storage device, the access control apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure the time to erase data stored in the storage device, and a determination unit configured to determine a data size of an error correcting code added to data stored in the storage device in accordance with the time measured by the measuring unit. The access control apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate the error correcting code having the data size determined by the determination unit, and an access controller configured to write the data and the error correcting code generated by the generation unit into the storage device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144269 | ERROR DETECTION FOR MULTI-BIT MEMORY - Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including a device that includes a plurality of data locations, a quantizing circuit coupled to the plurality of data locations, and an error detection module coupled to the quantizing circuit. In some embodiments, the error detection module includes an encoder configured to encode incoming data with redundant data derived from the incoming data and a decoder configured to detect errors in stored data based on the redundant data. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144270 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING ECC SETTINGS BASED ON MONITORED CONDITIONS - A storage subsystem monitors one or more conditions related to the probability of a data error occurring. Based on the monitored condition or conditions, the storage subsystem adjusts an error correction setting, and thus the quantity of ECC data used to protect data received from a host system. To enable blocks of data to be properly checked when read from memory, the storage subsystem stores ECC metadata indicating the particular error correction setting used to store particular blocks of data. The storage subsystem may be in the form of a solid-state non-volatile memory card or drive that attaches to the host system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144271 | DECODING ENCODED DATA CONTAINING INTEGRATED DATA AND HEADER PROTECTION - A method for decoding encoded data comprising integrated data and header protection is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such a method includes receiving an extended data array. The extended data array includes a data array organized into rows and columns, headers appended to the rows of the data array, column ECC parity protecting the columns of the data array, and row ECC parity protecting the rows and headers combined. The method then decodes the extended data array. Among other operations, this decoding step includes checking the header associated with each row to determine whether the header is legal. If the header is legal, the method determines the contribution of the header to the corresponding row ECC parity. The method then reverses the contribution of the header to the corresponding row ECC parity. A corresponding apparatus (i.e., a tape drive configured to implement the above-described method) is also disclosed herein. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144272 | PROBABILISTIC MULTI-TIER ERROR CORRECTION IN NOT-AND (NAND) FLASH MEMORY - Error correction in not-and (NAND) flash memory including a system for retrieving data from memory. The system includes a decoder in communication with a memory. The decoder is for performing a method that includes receiving a codeword stored on a page in the memory, the codeword including data and first-tier check symbols that are generated in response to the data. The method further includes determining that the codeword includes errors that cannot be corrected using the first-tier check symbols, and in response second-tier check symbols are received. The second-tier check symbols are generated in response to receiving the data and to the contents of other pages in the memory that were written prior to the page containing the codeword. The codeword is corrected in response to the second-tier check symbols. The corrected codeword is output. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144273 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A non-volatile semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells arrayed capable of storing information of N bits (N≧2) in accordance with variations in threshold voltage. A parity data adder circuit adds parity data for error correction to every certain data bits to be stored in the memory cell array. A frame converter circuit uniformly divides frame data containing the data bits and the parity data into N pieces of subframe data. A programming circuit stores the subframe data divided into N pieces in respective N sub-pages formed corresponding to the information of N bits. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144274 | RADIX-4 VITERBI FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION DECODING - A method for forward error correction decoding is disclosed. The method generally includes steps (A) to (D). Step (A) may calculate a plurality of metrics of a codeword using a forward error correction process on a trellis having a plurality of stages. Step (B) may update the metrics over each of the stages. Step (C) may permute the metrics in each of the stages. Step (D) may generate a signal carrying a plurality of decoded bits of the codeword. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144275 | CODE GENERATING DEVICE AND CODE GENERATING METHOD, CODE CHECKING DEVICE AND CODE CHECKING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A code generating device includes a code word generating section which generates a code word with a predetermined code word length by applying a second matrix Gq of a second error detection method with regard to an information word A′ which has been input, and a code word conversion section which converts the code word generated by the code word generating section based on an added fixed value (Qa+Pa) which is formed from respective code words Qa and Pa which are obtained by the second matrix Gq and a first matrix Gp of a first error detection method being respectively applied to an information word A which is formed from a specific data string. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144276 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A MEMORY DEVICE DIE STACKED WITH A LOGIC DIE USING DATA ENCODING, AND SYSTEM USING THE MEMORY SYSTEM - A memory system and method using at least one memory device die stacked with and coupled to a logic die by interconnects, such as through silicon vias. One such logic die includes an ECC system generating error checking and correcting (“ECC) bits corresponding to write data. The write data are transmitted to the memory device dice in a packet containing a serial burst of a plurality of parallel data bits. The ECC bits are transmitted to the memory device dice using through silicon vias that are different from the vias through which data are coupled. Such a logic die could also include a data bus inversion (“DBI”) system encoding the write data using a DBI algorithm and transmitting to the memory device dice DBI bits indicating whether the write data have been inverted. The DBI bits are transmitted using through silicon vias that are shared with the ECC bits when they are unused for transferring the ECC bits. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144277 | Two Dimensional Data Randomization for a Memory - In an embodiment, a data scramble/descramble circuit for a memory may employ multiple scramble circuits that may provide randomization of data across both rows and columns of a memory array. The first circuit may receive at least a portion of the address of the row, and may produce an output value by logically operating on the portion of the address. The second circuit may receive the output of the first circuit (or a portion thereof) as a seed, and may scramble the data to be written to memory. In one embodiment, a least significant portion of the address may be operated upon by the first circuit (e.g. the least significant byte), which may be most likely to change from row to row as compared to other portions of the address. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144278 | ERROR CODE PATTERN GENERATION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An error code pattern generation circuit includes a first storage unit configured to store at least one bit of an error code, and output error data for a first time period; and a second storage unit configured to store at least one remaining bit of the error code and output the error data for a second time period which is different from the first time period. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144279 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAULT TOLERANT FOTA UPDATE - An apparatus and method for fault tolerant Firmware-Over-The-Air (FOTA) update are provided. The method includes computing a checksum for each sector of a partially updated firmware, for each sector of the partially updated firmware, determining a last instruction in an update package that was applied to that sector, based on checksums included in the update package and the computed checksums of the sectors of the partially updated firmware, determining a last instruction of the update package that was applied to the partially updated firmware prior to the interruption based on the last instruction applied to each sector, and resuming the update procedure starting from an instruction immediately following the last applied instruction. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144280 | Profile Page with Biographical Summary for Social Networking System User - A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user's profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144281 | AUTOMATED TASK COMPLETION BY FLOWING CONTEXT - Providing context to a target minimizes the amount of information that a user must input. Context transfer pages receive context and reformat for the target. Selection of links to such pages provide context which is then reformatted and provided to the target to pre-populate information for the user. A return link can be specified to enable the target to return further context upon user interaction completion. The return link can specify further context transfer pages which can use the returned context to direct the performance of convenience actions, including invoking other applications on the user's computing device and entering information into them. The context transfer pages can themselves collect information from the user to provide appropriate interfaces without requiring resource investment from the target. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL IMAGE - There are provided methods and systems for providing viewers of a digital image with information about identifiable and scenes within the image. In an embodiment, digital images, uploaded to a host website, are customized through the incorporation of some number of selectable informational links and other text based information to provide viewers of the image real-time access to social and advertising related information regarding certain identifiable objects and scenes in the image. The selectable information links are incorporated within and around the digital image in a process referred to herein as image tagging. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144283 | ANNOTATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFERENCING - A conferencing system comprises a plurality of computing devices communicating over at least one network during a conference session, at least one of the computing devices being configured to share content displayed thereby with other computing devices, the other computing devices displaying the shared content, at least one of the computing devices also being configured to accept input annotations made on the displayed shared content and to share input annotations with other computing devices over a channel independent of the shared content. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144284 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC LOCAL MEMBERS ASSOCIATED WITH AN ADD-IN FOR A SPREADSHEET APPLICATION - According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate use of a spreadsheet application to access information stored in a multidimensional data source. Some embodiments include determining, at an add-in module, that a local member is to be attached to an attachment element of a report generated based on the multidimensional data source. The add-in module may receive a refresh indication from the spreadsheet application and dynamically update a reference in a spreadsheet cell based on a change associated with the attachment element. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144285 | USER INTERFACE FORM FIELD EXPANSION - The subject disclosure relates to configurable multi-view data entry. When a user encounters a form field with a complex data type, depending on the invoking mechanism, either automatic when on focus, or through a user gesture such as clicking on an icon in the form field, the form field expands to multiple form fields including the original form field. The multiple form fields can allow the user to enter in each separate data item that makes up the complex data type. As data items are entered, the data items can be combined into a correct format and displayed in the original form field. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144286 | AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING AND ANNOTATING CONTENT - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to detecting a modification of a portion of content presented on a display. The detecting of the modification of the portion of content is in response to user input. Some embodiments are further directed to generating a screen capture of at least the portion of the content presented on the display in response to detecting the modification of the portion of the content. Some embodiments are further directed to generating an indicator (e.g., an annotation) in response to generating the screen capture. The indicator specifies (e.g., highlights) the modification (e.g., a difference in appearance) of the portion of the content that occurred via the user input. Some embodiments are further directed to associating the indicator with the screen capture. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144287 | Geo-Trip Notes - A user may use a mobile device to request information related to a selected topic or a point of interest. A location of the mobile device may be determined to provide the user with informational content related to the selected topic or point of interest. The mobile device may receive and display the informational content as a set of search results. The user may select search results to review content referenced by the selected search results. A verification process or step may ensure that the selected information is relevant to the selected topic or determined location, and a link may be generated relating the topic, the selected search result(s), and the determined location. Moreover, a rating system may be used to provide an indication of the relevancy of search results. Thereafter, users may be provided access to the link when located in close proximity to the determined location. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144288 | WEB PAGE CONTENT DISPLAY PRIORITY AND BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - The method generates web page attributes information that a web content manager uses to determine relative priority for each web page element of the web page. The method determines those web page elements residing within or outside of a web page viewable area. The method provides for user input into web page element prioritization by type and further provides for modification to web page attribute information. The web content manager generates prioritization of each web page element from categories of input for web page content rendering prioritization. The categories of input may include resource attributes, context attributes, user preferences, and prioritization rules. The method may normalize web page element prioritization information and determines bandwidth allocation for each web page element. The method retrieves and renders each visible web page element consistent with the bandwidth allocation for each web page element during display. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144289 | Displaying a Portion of a First Application Over a Second Application - A method displays a portion of a first application over a second application. The method includes receiving a first view of the first application. The method includes receiving a selection of a portion of the first view. The method includes placing the selection over a second view of the second application. The method includes displaying the second view with the selection overlaid thereon. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144290 | Integrated Native HTML Rendering - A computer-implemented method for integrated native HTML rendering includes generating, in an application, an instruction to a native HTML renderer to render HTML content on a display device, the instruction generated using a runtime having an API that allows use of only at least one specified feature of the native HTML renderer. The method includes rendering, using the native HTML renderer, the HTML content on the display device per the instruction. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144291 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WEB BROWSER DISPLAY - An apparatus capable of modifying and displaying content of a website displayed on a web browser includes a communication unit to transmit or receive data to or from a web server, a determination unit to analyze a protocol of a website received from the web server through the communication unit and to determine specific characteristics of the website, and a control unit to modify content of the website using information about the specific characteristics of the website and to display the modified content on a web browser. A web browser display control method includes determining the type of a protocol of an accessed website, determining specific characteristics of the website based on the determined type of the protocol, modifying content of the website using information about the determined layout characteristics of the website, and displaying the modified content on a web browser. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144292 | PROVIDING SUMMARY VIEW OF DOCUMENTS - As part of a document summary view system, a miniaturized version of a document is provided that presents a summary overview of the document over a user interface, enabling a user to easily read and distinguish the contents of the document. The summary view may preserve a basic format and/or layout of a document and may retain the core elements within the document including headings, bulleted lists, tables, images, and/or the first sentence of each paragraph, and obscure any remaining text and elements. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144293 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING USER INTERFACE THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided and includes a display unit displaying a data object in the form of a corresponding icon, a user interface unit receiving a preset touch operation corresponding to an editing function of the data object, an editing unit to perform editing of the data object, and a control unit operating to perform the editing of the data object that corresponds to the preset touch operation when the preset touch operation for the icon is performed in an editing mode. Accordingly, a user's convenience can be sought. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144294 | ASSISTING DOCUMENT CREATION - Provided is a document creation assisting method, a document creation assisting system, and a document creation assisting program suitable to ensure consistent use of terms in document creation. Client processing is monitored to enable extracting one or more terms from a writing field of a document created by a user, and a terminology file is stored, where this terminology file includes a list of one or more standard terms that are the one or more terms thus extracted. Editing input assistance is provided, comprising extracting a term from a different writing field of a document being created by a user, locating from the terminology file a standard term that completely or partially matches the extracted term, and teaching the user the presence of the standard term located from the terminology file. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144295 | SERVICE REGISTRY POLICY EDITING USER INTERFACE - A selection of a service domain policy definition is received in a service repository. A service policy document is created from the service domain policy definition. At least one user change to the service policy document is received in accordance with the selected service domain policy definition. The service policy document is saved in the service repository. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144296 | DIGITAL PLAQUE THAT DISPLAYS DOCUMENTS AND UPDATES PROVIDED BY A PLAQUE MANAGEMENT SERVER - A plaque management server provides document delivery and update services to a digital plaque, such as delivering a document whose status can change. The plaque management server is communicatively coupled to the Internet and accessible over the Internet | 2012-06-07 |
20120144297 | Slide Show Navigation - A slide show, integrated into an email application, displays images such as those included as an attachment to an email message. The user can view the slide show without exiting the email application. Slide show navigation controls are provided. An index sheet mode can be activated wherein a number of thumbnails are displayed, allowing easy navigation to any image within the slide show. Transition animations can be provided for clarifying operations such as activating and dismissing the index sheet. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144298 | TOUCH INPUT DISAMBIGUATION - A user device may display content items in a content area on a touch screen display of the user device. The user device may detect a touch and determine a location of a contact area corresponding to the touch. If the contact area includes more than one target, the user device may request further user input, with respect to the selection, and defer performing a function corresponding to the selection. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144299 | Blind Navigation for Touch Interfaces - Systems and methods for enabling blind navigation of a control device having a touch interface include one or more steps of receiving an indication that the control device is to enable blind navigation, receiving an input via the touch interface, determining a command to which the received input corresponds, and executing or transmitting the command. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144300 | User Scriptable Server Initiated User Interface Creation - A computer-implemented method of providing user interfaces in association with network hosted computer scripts is disclosed. A group of selectable user interface elements is provided to a macro author. The elements include behavior that, when controls generated by the elements are selected by a computing device user, cause a web-connected server separate from the computing device to perform one or more operations. A selection by the macro author of a user interface element and an identification of one or more parameters for the element is received. Macro code to generate controls associated with the author-selected elements to be associated with a first macro is executed, the first macro stored to be called from and execute on computing devices different from the device used by the macro author. The macro code is stored and the generated macro code is provided for access by users of a hosted computer system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144301 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A VIRTUAL TRAINING AND COACHING SERVICE - The present invention relates to a method and system using an online website that provides personalized and comprehensive fitness, nutrition, motivation, and training information to registered users, typically without directing them to other sites or requiring the purchase of products. The invention provides an interactive, easy to use, personalized homepage for each user. The user has access to selectable Modules focused on different areas of fitness which open within the personalized homepage to help them improve general fitness ability, strength, speed, agility and flexibility or aid in prevention of and recovery from injuries while providing nutritional guidance, injury prevention and treatment tips, and/or coaching instructions. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144302 | MEDIA PLATFORM INTEGRATION SYSTEM - A media system comprising an encoder, a storage device, a user interface, and a publishing portal. The encoder is adapted to generate one or more digital files from media comprising at least one of a video source and an audio source. The storage device is adapted to store the one or more digital files. The user interface is adapted to enable a user to select at least a portion of the one or more digital files and create metadata. The publishing portal is adapted to associate the metadata with the at least a portion of the one or more digital files, enable the delivery of the at least a portion of the one or more digital files across one or more network types to one or more device types, implement a publishing schedule for the at least a portion of the one or more digital files, and provide advertising. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144303 | HD WEBSITE SKIN - A high definition website skin is provided, including a file containing computer executable instructions is executed on a host processor of a computer apparatus, directing the apparatus to render a webpage, the file including a high-definition video background rendering portion and a content overlay rendering portion. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ARTIFACTS IN IMAGES - A system and method reduce artifacts in images in a manner that efficiently incorporates user feedback, minimizes user effort, and adaptively processes images. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method includes executing an algorithm to remove artifacts in a first region of a first frame, regions outside of the first region being unaffected; identifying a second region of a second frame following the first frame, the second region of the second frame corresponding to the first region of the first frame; displaying the second frame with an indication of the second region; receiving a first user input defining a third region inside the second region; and executing the algorithm to remove artifacts in the second region excluding the third region. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRESENTING AT LEAST TWO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ON A PROCESSING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for simultaneously presenting at least two received multimedia content to a user is disclosed. At least one receiving device receives more or more multimedia content from at least one sending device. The at least one receiving device determines characteristics of each received multimedia content and operating condition on the at least one receiving device. The characteristics and the operating condition are used to retrieve a policy for presenting the received multimedia content to a user. When executed, the policy identifies whether two or more received multimedia content are to be simultaneously presented to the user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144306 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTING OR COLLABORATING WITH EXPLORATION - Embodiments of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer-readable media that enable executing oilfield software on a first computing device; communicably coupling the first computing device with a second computing device, the second computing device comprising a touch interface; receiving input from a user via the touch interface; and causing the oilfield software to perform an action in response to the input. Embodiments of the present disclosure may also include methods, systems, and computer-readable media that enable presenting a result of the action via a second touch interface of a third computing device communicably coupled to at least one of the first and second computing devices. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144307 | Profile Management Method - Most computer operating systems are able to automatically configure the coupled computer peripheral device for use with the computer operating system without the need for installation of a specific driver. However, when these peripheral devices are detected by the computing system, a generic UI control configuration is often assigned to them and whatever customised settings previously configured by the user will be lost and replaced with a new set of unfamiliar setting. This poses much inconvenience and hassle to gamers when they use a different computing system or machine. Described according to an embodiment of the invention is a profile management method, operating on a computing cloud, comprising steps for receiving client data provided by a computing system detecting coupling of a user-interface (UI) thereto and for retrieving configuration data corresponding to the client data for use in configuring the UI by the computing system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144308 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING DIGITAL CONTENT USING CONTACTS LISTS - A system and method for recommending digital content in which a user employs her contacts list to recommend the digital content. The recommender initiates the recommendation process using her local device by generating a recommendation. The recommendation contains an identification of the recommender, an identification of the contact and an identification of the digital content to be recommended. The recommendation is communicated from the recommender's local device through a communication channel to a server. The server processes the recommendation from the recommender and generates a recommendation email and/or a recommendation notification. The recommendation email and notification are sent to the recommendee through a communication channel selected by the recommender. The recommendation email further contains a URL that directs the recommendee back to a summary of the recommended digital content. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144309 | ATTRACTION-BASED DATA VISUALIZATION - A plurality of digital resources are identified in a set of digital resources. An indication of a user selection of at least one criteria is received, the user selection received through a user interface. A degree of correlation is determined between each digital resource in the plurality and each of the criteria. Data is sent that is configured for use in presenting, in a window of the user interface, a plurality of graphical resource objects and at least one graphical attractor object, each graphical resource object representing a digital resource in the plurality of digital resources and each graphical attractor object representing one of the criteria. Each resource object is presented a distance from each attractor object, the distance based at least in part on the corresponding degree of correlation between the digital resource represented by the resource object and the criteria represented by the attractor object. | 2012-06-07 |
20120144310 | INTELLIGENTLY ENABLED MENU CHOICES BASED ON ONLINE PRESENCE STATE IN ADDRESS BOOK - A computer implemented method for intelligently enabling menu choices includes rendering, on a client system, an address book user interface comprising information related to one or more contacts, selecting a contact from the address book user interface, determining an online presence state for the selected contact, enabling one or more menu options based upon the determined online presence state, with the menu options enabled for a first online presence state differing from the menu options enabled for a second online presence state, and presenting the enabled menu options to a user in a user interface. | 2012-06-07 |