| 38th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
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| 20090235093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POWER SOURCING EQUIPMENT DETECTION OF A POWERED DEVICE POWER FAILURE FOR POWER BACKUP - A system and method for power sourcing equipment (PSE) detection of a powered device (PD) power failure for power backup. A PSE can power a PD at a low level of power as a backup power source. Upon a failure in the PDs primary power source, the PSE can detect a transient (e.g., current and/or voltage) on the PD load as a signal that the PD requires additional power. The PSE can then allocate increased power to the port by entering into an active state as compared to a backup state. As the PSE is responsive to the detection of the transient, the PSE need not rely on a real-time communication from the PD. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN ETHERNET PHYSICAL LAYER DEVICE TO IDENTIFY CABLING TOPOLOGIES - A system and method for using an Ethernet physical layer device to identify cabling topologies. A power sourcing equipment (PSE) can power independent powered devices (PDs) using two sets of wire pairs in a single four-pair cable. Higher power PSEs can power a single PD using all four wire pairs in the cable. Conventional power over Ethernet (PoE) analog techniques (i.e., voltage, current, etc.) have a difficult time distinguishing where the wire pairs are going from the PSE. By using information (e.g., negotiated speed, link energy, distance diagnostic, etc.) generated by the physical layer device (PHY) subsystem, the PoE system can determine whether the two sets of wire pairs in a cable are powering a single PD or two independent PDs. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235095 | POWER SUPPLY VOLTAGE SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND DISK APPARATUS - Aspects of the present embodiment are related to a power supply voltage supply circuit and the disk apparatus that are capable of reducing power consumption in data writing and reading. The power supply voltage supply circuit includes a data processing unit writing data onto a disk medium and/or reading data from the disk medium=having a plurality of zones assigned a cylinder number, a data input-output unit transmitting data to the data processing unit at a transfer rate in accordance with the zones, a power supply voltage supply unit supplying a voltage to the data input-output unit and a control unit controlling the power supply voltage supply unit in order to supply the voltage in accordance with the transfer rate. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235096 | Network Connection Device - An assembly for transmitting data and/or power comprises a “Power over Ethernet” (PoE) control device having a plurality of connection ports for connection thereto of one or more network connection devices. The assembly includes connected via the ports plural network connection devices that are each capable of transmitting data and/or power over a cabling network, and are each connected to the PoE control device. Each network connection device includes at least one connection thereto of cabling and/or a further device; and the assembly includes one or more PoE modules operatively connected to the PoE control device and/or the network connection device. Each connection port of the PoE control device includes a releasable connection. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235097 | Data Center Power Management - An exemplary method for managing power consumption of a data center includes monitoring power consumption of a data center, assessing power consumption with respect to a billing equation for power, based on the assessment, deciding whether to implement a power policy where the power policy reduces instantaneous power consumption by the data center and increases a load factor wherein the load factor is an average power consumed by the data center divided by a peak power consumed by the data center over a period of time. Various other methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235108 | AUTOMATIC PROCESSOR OVERCLOCKING - Processor overclocking techniques are disclosed. Upon automatically determining that overclocking entry criteria are satisfied, one or more cores are clocked above their standard operation frequencies. The cores may be overclocked until one or more exit criteria are satisfied. At that point, an exit procedure is performed, with the one or more overclocked cores return to their normal operating frequency. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235109 | HYBRID COMPUTER SECURITY CLOCK - A clock object is provides, which includes a clock time and a monotonic time that are readable by the electronic device. The monotonic time is incremented every read of the monotonic time from the clock object. The clock object can also include an indication of a level of trust of the clock time. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235110 | INPUT/OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An input/output control method for an information processing apparatus that is connected to an input/output device through first and second paths, monitors an input/output response to an input/output request issued to the input/output device through the first path, and performs a timeout process when the input/output response is not present within a timeout time. The input/output control method includes predicting a timeout time to the input/output request on the basis of statistic information that the information processing apparatus obtains by monitoring the input/output response, detecting an error on the first path when an input/output response to the input/output request is not present within the predicted timeout time and disconnecting the first path when the error on the first path is detected. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235111 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A data transmission device, configured to be connected with a plurality of terminal devices via a network, includes a data transmission unit transmitting data sequentially to the terminal devices, a determining unit determining a transmission method for transmitting the data to each of the terminal devices, and a controller configured to, when the data transmission unit fails to transmit the data to a first one of the terminal devices in a first transmission method, control the determining unit to determine a second transmission method for retrying to transmit the data to the first terminal device, and control the data transmission unit to retry to transmit the data to the first terminal device in the second transmission method after the data transmission unit tries to transmit the data to terminal devices other than the first terminal device to which devices among the terminal devices the data has not been successfully transmitted. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235112 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of hardware resources and operates on a first power supply. The apparatus includes a non-volatile first storage unit that holds first fault information on a fault developed in one or more of the hardware resources even when the first power supply is shut down, a volatile second storage unit that holds second fault information different from the first fault information and is adapted not to hold the second fault information when the first power supply is shut down, a hardware monitoring unit that acquires component information of the plurality of the hardware resources mounted in the information processing apparatus and a system control unit that makes a fault information management unit restore the second fault information held in the second storage unit based on the component information and the first fault information stored in the first storage unit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235113 | MEMORY ERROR DETECTION - Systems and methods are provided for detecting and correcting address errors in a memory system. In the memory system, a memory device generates an error-detection code based on an address transmitted via an address bus and transmits the error-detection code to a memory controller. The memory controller transmits an error indication to the memory device in response to the error-detection code. The error indication causes the memory device to remove the received address and prevent a memory operation | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235114 | DATA WRITING METHOD - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for controlling a controller connected to a plurality of storage units storing data, the controller including a cache and a buffer, the method comprising the steps of: storing data in the cache; generating parity data corresponding to the data and storing the parity data in the buffer; writing the data and the parity data into the plurality of the storage units; comparing the parity data stored in the buffer with the parity data written into and read out from at least one of the storage unit; deleting, when the parity data stored in the buffer is different from the parity data read out from the storage unit, the parity data from the buffer; and regenerating parity data from data stored in the cache and rewriting the regenerated parity data into at least one of the storage unit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235115 | DATA STORAGE - A data storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices, each storage device comprising a plurality of storage nodes and each storage node comprising a plurality of logical partitions such that there are at least Q copies of a particular logical partition in the storage system. Each logical partition is divided into a plurality of sub-ranges which are individually lockable to both data input and data output whereby data in a particular logical partition is synchronisable sub-range by sub-range with the other copies of said particular logical partition. A method of maintaining such a data storage, including creating and updating data in the data store, recovering from failure of an element of the data store and/or increasing capacity in the data store. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235116 | Systems and Methods for Regenerating Data from a Defective Medium - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data regeneration. For example, a system for data regeneration is disclosed that includes a data input derived from the medium. A data detector and a data recovery system receive the data input. The data detector provides a first soft output, and the data recovery system provides a second soft output. The first soft output and the second soft output are provided to a multiplexer. A media defect detector performs a media defect detection process, and provides a defect flag that indicates whether the data input is derived form a defective portion of the medium. The defect flag is provided to the multiplexer where it is used to select whether the first soft output or the second soft output is provides as an extrinsic output. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235117 | COORDINATING RENDEZVOUS OF MULTIPLE VIRTUAL USERS ACROSS MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTED DEVICES - The present invention provides the ability to synchronize or rendezvous multiple virtual users across multiple distributed devices in a load testing tool with reduced network message exchange between devices. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235128 | Data detecting apparatus based on channel information and method thereof - An apparatus and a method for detecting data stored in a memory cell based on channel information of the memory cell are provided. The data detecting apparatus may include a voltage comparison unit that compares a plurality of soft decision reference voltages between neighboring hard decision reference voltages with a threshold voltage of a memory cell to determine a region including the threshold voltage, and a data detection unit that detects data stored in the memory cell based on channel information of the memory cell according to the region. The data detecting apparatus may further include a reference voltage determination unit that determines the plurality of soft decision reference voltages based on the channel information of the memory cell. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235129 | Apparatus and method for hybrid detection of memory data - The data detecting apparatus may provide a voltage comparison unit that compares a reference voltage, associated with a specific data bit from among a plurality of data bits stored in a memory cell, with a threshold voltage in the memory cell, a detection unit that detects a value of the specific data bit based on a result of the voltage comparison unit, and a decision unit that decides whether the specific data bit is successfully detected based on whether an error occurs in the detected data. The detection unit may re-detect a value of the specific data bit based on detection information with respect to at least one of an upper data bit and a lower data bit in relation to the specific data bit, in response to a result of the decision unit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235130 | TEST PATTERN CUSTOMIZATION OF HIGH SPEED SAS NETWORKS IN A MANUFACTURING TEST SYSTEM - A method for testing a high-speed serial interface, comprising: generating a customized stress test pattern configured to violate an 8bit/10bit-encoding scheme into an expander, the customized stress test pattern is configured to stress the high-speed serial interface beyond marginal limits resulting in less testing to force errors within the high-speed serial interface; transmitting the customized stress test pattern from a transmit port of a first serializer/deserializer device of the high-speed serial interface; and monitoring a receive port of a second serializer/deserializer device to detect errors within the high-speed serial interface. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235131 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING FAILURES DURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING - Methods and apparatus for processing failures during semiconductor device testing are described. Examples of the invention can relate to testing a device under test (DUT). Fail capture logic can be provided, coupled to test probes and memory, to indicate only first failures of failures detected on output pins of the DUT during a test for storage in the memory. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235132 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCASTING SCAN PATTERNS IN A SCAN-BASED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A broadcaster, system, and method for reducing test data volume and test application time in an ATE (automatic test equipment) in a scan-based integrated circuit. The scan-based integrated circuit contains multiple scan chains, each scan chain comprising multiple scan cells coupled in series. The broadcaster is a combinational logic network coupled to an optional virtual scan controller and an optional scan connector. The virtual scan controller controls the operation of the broadcaster. The system transmits virtual scan patterns stored in the ATE and generates broadcast scan patterns through the broadcaster for testing manufacturing faults in the scan-based integrated circuit. The number of scan chains that can be supported by the ATE is significantly increased. Methods are further proposed to reorder scan cells in selected scan chains, to generate the broadcast scan patterns and virtual scan patterns, and to synthesize the broadcaster and a compactor in the scan-based integrated circuit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235133 | SLACK-BASED TRANSITION-FAULT TESTING - A system that generates test patterns for detecting transition faults in an integrated circuit (IC). During operation, the system receives slack times for each net in the IC. Note that a slack time for a net is the minimum amount of delay that the given net can tolerate before violating a timing constraint. For each possible transition fault in the IC, the system uses the slack times for nets in the IC to generate a test pattern which exposes the transition fault by producing a transition that propagates along the longest path to the transition fault. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235134 | TEST PATTERN GENERATION FOR DIAGNOSING SCAN CHAIN FAILURES - Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise techniques that can be used to generate scan chain test patterns and improve scan chain failure diagnosis resolution. For example, certain embodiments can be used to generate high quality chain diagnosis test patterns that are able to isolate a scan chain defect to a single scan cell. At least some embodiments can be used to locate faults over multiple capture cycles in the scan chain. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235135 | BSC macrostructure for three-dimensional wiring and substrate having the BSC macrostructure - A BSC macrostructure for three-dimensional wiring includes a BSC (boundary scan cell) and an aperture electrode for electrode connection which is connected to the BSC. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235136 | ADDRESSABLE TEST ACCESS PORT METHOD AND APPARATUS - The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for making device TAPs addressable to allow device TAPs to be accessed in a parallel arrangement without the need for having a unique TMS signal for each device TAP in the arrangement. According to the disclosure, device TAPs are addressed by inputting an address on the TDI input of devices on the falling edge of TCK. An address circuit within the device is associated with the device's TAP and responds to the address input to either enable or disable access of the device's TAP. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235137 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus includes an error detection unit conducting error detection on N packet data units received in N transmission processes; a first transmission unit transmitting an affirmative response signal or a first retransmission request signal depending on a result of the error detection; a storage unit storing an affirmatively responding packet for forwarding to an upper layer; a second transmission unit, if affirmatively responding packets are not consecutive, determining whether a missing packet must be retransmitted and transmitting a second retransmission request signal; and a forwarding unit reordering the packet data units and forwarding the packets in the storage unit to the upper layer. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235148 | DOCUMENT-LEVEL FEATURES IN ADD-INS - Document level add-ins. A computing environment may include one or more applications. The applications host documents. A method includes acts for facilitating an application level add-in to add document level controls. The method includes determining that a document has been opened or created. The method further includes determining from an application level add-in, a class of documents for which document level controls should be added. It is determined that the document that has been opened or created is in the class of documents. A document level control specified in the application level add-in is added to the document. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235149 | Method and Apparatus to Operate Different Widgets From a Single Widget Controller - A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to manage and display mini Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications, or widgets. A widget controller can be associated with a plurality of widgets, upon which a user of the widget controller can then cycle among the associated widgets to display a selected widget. This conserves space on an output device since space for only one widget is needed. Widgets controllers can be embedded on web pages which are part of social networking sites. Particular widgets associated with a widget controller can be automatically determined and associated based on content of a web page containing the widget controller. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY CREATING HYPERLINKS ASSOCIATED WITH RELEVANT MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamically creating hyperlinks associated with relevant multimedia content in a computer network. A hyperlink generation module receives an electronic text file from a server. The module searches the text file to identify keywords present in the file. Once the keywords have been identified, a database is queried to identify multimedia content that is related to the keywords. Generally, multimedia content is associated with metadata to enable efficient searching of the multimedia content. Typically, the multimedia content is contextually relevant to both the identified keywords and text file. One or more hyperlinks corresponding to the keywords are then generated and inserted into the text file. The hyperlinks provide pointers to the identified multimedia content. After insertion into the text file, the hyperlinks may be clicked by a user or viewer of the file to retrieve and display the identified multimedia content. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235151 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING THE COLOR OF AN OBJECT WITH AN EVENT - Method and apparatus for associating the color of an object with an event preferably provides linked information for the object in any one of a plurality of succeeding video frames based only on the color value of the object. Preferably, at least one computer is coupled to a GUI and to a pointing structure, and is configured to: (i) identify coordinates of the object in a first video frame where the pointing structure has pointed; (ii) determine the color values of the identified object; (iii) store the color values of the identified object; (iv) detect an action of the object being selected in any one of the plurality of succeeding video frames; (v) determine the color values of the selected object; (vi) determine whether the selected object color values correspond to the stored color values; and (vii) automatically provide the linked information to the GUI only when the color values correspond. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235152 | LINKING VISUAL PROPERTIES OF CHARTS TO CELLS WITHIN TABLES - Tools and techniques are described for linking visual properties of charts to cells within tables. Methods provided by these tools enable users to select visual properties that are associated with graphical displays of chart data, and to link these visual properties to respective cells within the tables. User interfaces provided by these tools may provide representations of visual properties associated with the graphical displays of chart data, with these representations of the visual properties being responsive to user input to link the cells in the tables to the visual properties. These user interfaces may also include representations of the cells that are associated with the representations of the visual properties. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235153 | LINK TREE CREATION DEVICE - A computer-readable medium having a link tree creation program stored thereon and readable by a computer, the link tree creation program, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to create a link tree in relation to links pertaining to Web pages receivable via a network. The link tree creation program causes a computer to function as a link search unit that searches a link from a file of a specified Web page, a link list preparation unit that adds the searched link to a list of a link tree, which root indicating a link to the specified Web page, a tree addition determination unit that compares the searched link with the root of the link tree and determines whether creating an additional link tree rooted from the searched link, and a tree creation unit that creates an additional link tree from a determination of the tree addition determination unit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235154 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing access to workbook models through remote function calls - A method, system, and apparatus are provided for exposing and calling workbook models via remote function calls. According to the system, a client computer executes a spreadsheet program for creating a workbook model. The workbook model may be published to a server computer along with data defining a function name and the cells that should be used as inputs and outputs to the model. The system also includes a server computer that receives and responds to remote function calls directed toward workbook functions. When a function call is received at the server computer for a workbook function, the server computer populates the cells in the workbook identified as inputs with input parameters received with the function call and recalculates the workbook. The data contained in the output cells is then returned as a reply to the remote function call. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235155 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSOR - A client terminal acquires from a server terminal one or more document information which includes at least a thumbnail image and document identification information for identifying document data corresponding to the thumbnail image, and includes first annotation data and/or second annotation data associated with the document identification information. If first annotation data is included in respective acquired document information, the client terminal displays a thumbnail image with which the first annotation data is combined, as a list with thumbnail view, on a display unit. If the second annotation data is included in specified document data, the client terminal individually displays specified document data with which the second annotation data is combined, on a display unit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235156 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - There is a demand for a method for editing a document with improved ease-of-use even if the document has been described in a little-known vocabulary used by a small number of users. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235157 | SERVICE FLOW PROCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A service flow process apparatus receives a first message from a first Web service, and extracts data from the first message based on description in a service flow description document. The service flow process apparatus extracts position information showing a position in a second message corresponding to the extracted data from the Web service flow description document, and constructs a structure of the second message based on the extracted position information. The service flow process apparatus inserts the data extracted from the first message into the structure of the second message based on the position information extracted from the Web service flow description document, and transmits the second message into which the data extracted from the first message has been inserted to a second Web service. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235168 | USER MEDIATED EMBEDDED HELP SYSTEM - An embedded help system for a software application; said facility providing embedded help data to a user in response to a help query from said user; said embedded help data comprising base embedded help data and user added embedded help data; said embedded help data pertinent to the operation of said software application. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235169 | DIGITAL VIDEO RECORD DEVICE WITH TOUCH-PANEL HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE - A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface includes a touch panel and a digital video record electronic apparatus. The touch panel is disposed in front of the screen of a monitor, electrically connected to the digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus. The digital video record electronic apparatus electrically connects with at least a video camera, processes video signals generated by the video cameras, displays video signal related pictures and a plurality of icons denoting an operating instruction on the monitor, receives the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determines whether the touch coordinate signals correspond to a display range of the icons, and executes, upon affirmative determination, an operating instruction corresponding to the determined icon. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235170 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING EITHER A COMPUTER DISPLAY SCREEN OR A MEDIA FILE AND SELECTING THEREBETWEEN - A method selectively either (a) plays a media file accessed from a computer on a remote display device connected to a media adapter or (b) masquerades uncompressed pixel-level computer display screen graphics data as a media stream supported by the media adapter to cause the display device to substantially clone or extend what appears on at least a portion of a local display screen attached to the computer. The method senses when a user enters an input signifying a desire by the user to play a media file on the computer. If said input is not sensed, then the method performs a masquerading process to process, compress, and package the display screen graphics data as a media stream and then transmits the media stream to the media adapter. If said input is sensed, then the method transmits the media file to the media adapter. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235171 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING WRITE ASSIST FOR STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ARRAYS - An apparatus for implementing a write assist for a memory array includes a common discharge node configured to provide a discharge path for precharged write data lines and bit lines selected during a write operation of the memory array; negative boost circuitry configured to introduce a voltage lower than a nominal logic low supply voltage onto the common discharge node following the discharge of the common discharge node, write data lines and bit lines; and a clamping device coupled to the common discharge node, the clamping device configured to limit the magnitude of negative voltage applied to common discharge node by the negative boost circuitry so as to prevent activation of non-selected bit switches. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235172 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING WEB SERVICE TESTING - A method, apparatus, and a computer program product for providing web service testing are provided. The apparatus may include a processor that is configured to provide a user interface for a testing tool accessible in a distributed network architecture. The processor may also be configured to receive selections of an application(s) to be tested that is accessible in a distributed network architecture, a function(s) that is associated with the selected application and a method(s) that is associated with the selected function(s). Additionally, the processor may be configured to receive selections of a test case(s) that is associated with the selected method(s). Moreover, the processor may be configured to automatically conduct the selected test case(s). | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235173 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, OPERATION-SCREEN CHANGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image forming apparatus, a plurality of sets of flow definition data and screen definition data are stored in associated manner in a storage unit. A client device selects one of the sets of the flow definition data. Screen definition data corresponding to a process defined by the selected flow definition data is acquired from the storage unit and an editing screen is created from this screen definition data. The editing screen is sent to the client device and a predetermined operation with respect to a component of the editing screen is received from the client device. Screen definition data is created based on the changed editing screen in accordance with the predetermined operation, and the new screen definition data is stored in the storage unit so as to be associated with the flow definition data. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235174 | Virtualization of Groups of Devices - A virtialization mechanism may create a virtual representation of a group of physical computers and the physical connections between the computers. The mechanism may comprise a discovery tool for determining a topology of connected physical computers and selecting the elements to virtualize, a device virtualization tool that may create virtual versions of the physical computers, and a connection virtualization tool that may create virtual connections between the virtual computers. The virtual devices and virtual connections may then be operated virtually. In many cases, optimized versions of the virtual devices and virtual connections may be performed. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235175 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VISUAL INDICATORS TO MANAGE PERIPHERAL DEVICES - A system and method of providing visual indicators to manage peripheral devices is disclosed. In some embodiments, a graphical user interface environment is provided in which icons represent peripheral device objects. The appearance of the icons is modified based on attribute values associated with the device objects. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235176 | Social interaction system for facilitating display of current location of friends and location of businesses of interest - A system that manages communication between a user and a plurality of friends while it also displays current location of local branches of a user's businesses/stores of interest. A friends selection component employs user selections to present the user with a plurality of current location information associated with the plurality of friends wherein the user can express interest in a subset of the plurality of friends based on their current location. A communication management component delivers at least one of a task, a message, a content and a reference to each of the subset of the plurality of friends. A collection of the user's preferred businesses is managed. The system selectively displays a current location of a local branch of each of the user's preferred businesses on a map. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235177 | MULTI-MONITOR REMOTE DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT USER INTERFACE - Representation of multiple displays of a remote computing system within a local display of a local computing system. This permits a user at the local computing system to interface with the remote computing system through the representation of the remote displays that are represented at the local display. The local computer receives representation of the display state or content for multiple remote displays associated with the remote computing system. The local computer then causes representations of those remote displays to be rendered on the local display. The content of the active display of the remote computing system is caused to be emphasized in some manner at the local display, while the content of the inactive display(s) of the remote computing system is rendered in a deemphasized manner. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235188 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE PROGRAM - A computer implemented method of generating a graphical interface program comprising receiving and displaying a selection of elements among a plurality of graphical and/or data entry elements, each element having at least a property among a plurality of graphical and/or activation and/or content properties; receiving and displaying formulas, each formula linking at least two properties of one element or several elements of said selection; and determining from said selection of elements and said formulas a separate graphical interface program, the execution of said separate graphical interface program resulting in the display of said selection of elements, the properties of which are linked by said formulas. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235189 | NATIVE SUPPORT FOR MANIPULATION OF DATA CONTENT BY AN APPLICATION - Techniques for presenting data on an electronic device. A graphical user interface is generated with an application. The graphical user interface includes data managed by the application. The graphical user interface is displayed by calling, with the application, one or more native application programming interfaces to provide data management services through the graphical user interface. The application controls the data content from sources other than the application via calls to the one or more native application programming interfaces. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235190 | Managing Student Transcripts - Systems and software for managing student transcripts are disclosed herein. In one embodiment of a transcript management system, among several, the system comprises a network interface, which is configured in communication with a network that is associated with a university. The system further comprises a processing device configured to execute a transcript handling program. More specifically, executing the transcript handling program includes collecting data corresponding to information of one or more students associated with the university. Particularly, the data is collected from various locations on the network via the network interface. Executing the transcript handling program further includes storing the data as multiple fields in multiple results tables and allowing an administrator of the university to customize how the multiple results tables are placed on a transcript. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235191 | Method for Accessing a Secondary Virtual Environment from Within a Primary Virtual Environment - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for distributing data from within a virtual world to multiple hosts. In one embodiment, primary areas within the virtual world may be hosted on servers controlled by the provider of the virtual world. At the same time, some areas within the virtual world may be controlled by a second party and hosted by a secondary server. In the virtual environment, an interface may be provided to access the area controlled by the second party. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235192 | USER INTERFACE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING APPARATUS, AND APPARATUS - A user interface is disclosed, comprising a sensor arranged to determine a spatial change, said user interface being arranged to control at least one function, wherein the function is controlled by said determined spatial change. Further, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for controlling a function are disclosed. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235193 | Managing User Interface Control Panels - A computer-implemented method includes displaying a user interface on a display device, the user interface displaying a content item, in response to receiving input, displaying a user interface control panel including a user interface control, the user interface control configured to enable modifying one or more attributes of the content item, and in response to detecting a first selection of the user interface control, displaying a portion of the user interface control panel and hiding a portion of the user interface control panel, the displayed portion of the user interface control panel including the user interface control. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235194 | MULTI-STEP PROGRESS INDICATOR AND METHOD FOR INDICATING PROGRESS IN A MULTI-STEP COMPUTER APPLICATION - A system and method for displaying and providing access to information on a display unit are provided for combining a plurality of logical progression steps into a plurality of predetermined groups. Each of the plurality of predetermined groups includes a subset of data. The system and method includes displaying the plurality of predetermined groups in a collapsed format; prompting a user to expand a first group of the plurality of predetermined groups; allowing the user to access and input data into the first group; and allowing the user to access a second group of the plurality of predetermined groups once all logical progression steps in the first group have been completed by the user. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235195 | VIRTUAL OPTICAL INPUT DEVICE FOR PROVIDING VARIOUS TYPES OF INTERFACES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided are a virtual optical input device and a method of controlling the same. In the method, a portion of an input means such as a finger, and a portion of a shadow of the input means generated by a light source are detected through image processing. Physical variations formed between them are used to detect the touch contact of the input means, calculate the position of the input means, and input the corresponding command. Accordingly, it is possible to provide various input patterns. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235196 | CUSTOMIZABLE CONTROLS PROVIDED BY A MESSAGING APPLICATION FOR PERFORMING SELECTED ACTIONS - Technologies are described herein for providing users of a messaging application with controls that perform one or more selected actions with a message. Any number of default custom action controls may be displayed in a gallery. The selection of a custom action control performs various actions to an active message. New custom action controls may be created and existing controls modified to provide any number of desired actions. Dialogs provide user-friendly interfaces that allow a user to assign the desired functionality to a custom action control. The custom action controls may be organized into groups and shared between messaging applications and computers. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235197 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PASSWORD ENTRY - An exemplary system and method are provided for password entry using a touch screen. The method includes displaying a password input interface having a first field and a second field, receiving first inputs from the touch screen for entering a user account into the first field, displaying traces images converted from the first inputs corresponding to the user account, receiving second inputs from the touch screen for entering user account into the first field, and modifying the second inputs so as to disable displaying residual imprints or trace characters corresponding to the password. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235208 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - The lighting apparatus according to the present invention is a lighting apparatus which lights by emitting light through solid-state light-emitting devices using an AC power source, the lighting apparatus including an AC to DC conversion unit which converts AC from the power source into DC, and a power source device which includes a rectangular main single-side mounting board, on which a part of the AC to DC conversion unit is mounted, and a rectangular first single-side mounting sub-board, on which a remaining part of the AC to DC conversion unit is mounted, the power source device being shaped like a chopstick box laid out such that the long, rectangular mounting surface of the main single-side mounting board and the rectangular first single-side mounting sub-board face each other along a length-wise direction. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235209 | Manufacturability - Techniques are disclosed for modifying an existing microdevice design to improve its manufacturability. With these techniques, a designer receives manufacturing criteria associated with data in a design. The associated design data then is identified and provided to the microdevice designer, who may choose to modify the design based upon the manufacturing criteria. In this manner, the designer can directly incorporate manufacturing criteria from the foundry in the original design of the microdevice. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235210 | ORIENTATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD OF 2-PIN LOGIC CELL - In an orientation optimization, at least one signal chain path starting from a signal source and passing through a series of M 2-pin logic cells is located according to a netlist. An output of the Nth 2-pin logic cell in the series of M 2-pin logic cells, where N| 2009-09-17 | |
| 20090235211 | METHOD OF PREDICTING SUBSTRATE CURRENT IN HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICE - A method of predicting a substrate current in a high voltage device that may accurately predict substrate current components in each of a first region, a second region, and a third region. This may be accomplished by modeling a substrate current component in a third region, in which an inconsistency may occur when a substrate current in a high voltage device is calculated, for example using BSIM3-based modeling. According to embodiments, a substrate current for a third region may be modeled by an expression with a ternary operator, and the modeled substrate current may be added to a substrate current obtained through BSIM3-based modeling. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235212 | DESIGN STRUCTURE, FAILURE ANALYSIS TOOL AND METHOD OF DETERMINING WHITE BUMP LOCATION USING FAILURE ANALYSIS TOOL - A failure analysis tool, a method of using the tool and a design structure for designing a mask for protecting a critical area of wiring failure in a semiconductor chip during packaging is provided. The failure analysis tool includes a computer infrastructure operable to determine a risk area for wiring layer failure during solder bump formation by determining a distance from a center of a chip to a location for a solder bump processing and identifying an area at an edge of the location for the solder bump processes at a predetermined distance and greater from the center of the chip. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235213 | Layout-Versus-Schematic Analysis For Symmetric Circuits - Techniques for reducing the complexity of Electronic Design Automation Layout-Versus-Schematic algorithms to approximately O(n) for graphs without type-3 symmetries. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235214 | Variable Performance Ranking and Modification in Design for Manufacturability of Circuits - A method, computer system and program product introduce adding a variable performance ranking parameter to a diagram of a circuit to drive implementation of modifications that are yield improving, performance boosting, or performance-neutral. The information is paired to accomplish a more complete design for manufacturability modification in the design of circuits implemented on chips. In this matter, both yield and chip performance are improved. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235215 | GRIDDED GLYPH GEOMETRIC OBJECTS (L3GO) DESIGN METHOD - A method of gridded glyph geometric objects (L3GO) integrated circuit (IC) design, wherein at least one inter-level connect in a L3GO circuit design is represented as a point matrix glyph (PMG) on a L3GO grid. Each PMG connects a pair of conductors on the next adjacent (above and below) layer and includes an array (one or two dimensional) of point glyphs contained within a cage. The point glyphs may have uniform size and may be on minimum pitch. Each PMG may also include a flange on the above and below layer. A default flange insures adequate coverage of cut shapes represented by the point glyphs. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235216 | Combinational Equivalence Checking for Threshold Logic Circuits - Aspects of a method and system for combinational equivalence checking for threshold logic circuits are provided. In this regard, one or more inputs may be received at a threshold logic gate. The threshold function of the threshold logic gate may be recursively decomposed into a first function and a second function using cofactors of the threshold function. A Boolean function representation of the threshold logic gate may be generated based on the recursive decomposition of the threshold function. The generated Boolean function representation of the threshold logic gate may be a maximally factored form representation of a minimal sum of products (SOP) for the threshold logic gate. A logical equivalence of the threshold logic gate may be verified with one or more other logic circuits based on the generated Boolean function representation of the threshold logic gate. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235217 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY TIMING VIOLATIONS OUTSIDE OF MANUFACTURING SPECIFICATION LIMITS - A method of evaluating an integrated circuit design selects manufacturing parameters of interest which are outside of manufacturing specification limits. Then, the method runs timing tests on the integrated circuit design and successively evaluates the timing test results in an iterative process that considers the timing performance sensitivity to the selected manufacturing parameters of interest. The design is made more robust to each parameter out of manufacturing range. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235218 | TESTING PHASE ERROR OF MULTIPLE ON-DIE CLOCKS - The phase relationship between two clock signals in an integrated circuit (IC) is determined by transforming each of the clock signals into a data word, where bit transitions in the data word represent signal transitions in the clock signal, and comparing the two data words. For example, in an IC having a de-serializer as part of its input/output logic, the clocks are sequentially multiplexed into the de-serializer, which transforms the clocks into parallel-format data words. The resulting words corresponding to the first and second clock signals can then be compared to determine clock signal transition differences and thus the phase relationship between the corresponding clocks signals. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235219 | HIERARCHICAL ANALOG IC PLACEMENT SUBJECT TO SYMMETRY, MATCHING AND PROXIMITY CONSTRAINTS - A placement tool generates an optimal placement for a plurality of device modules within an analog integrated circuit (IC) subject to device matching, symmetry, and proximity constraints by first defining a multiple-level hierarchy of constraint groups, wherein each constraint group consists of elements that are subject to one of the placement constraints. Each element of each constraint group consists of either of one of the device modules or another one of the constraint groups residing at a lower level of the hierarchy. The tool then generates a hierarchical B*-tree representation of a trial placement for the IC including a separate node representing each constraint group of the hierarchy and a separate node for each of device module not included in any of the constraint groups. Each node representing a constraint group defines relative positions within the IC of each the device modules or lower level constraint groups forming the constraint group that are consistent with the placement constraint on the constraint group. The placement tool iteratively perturbs the hierarchical B*-tree to generate a sequence of trial placements for the IC design and then evaluates a cost function for each trial placement to select a best one of the trial placements as the optimal trial placement. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235220 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, BEHAVIORAL SYNTHESIS DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A behavioral synthesis unit generates an intermediate level description that describes a plurality of processes indicated by a behavioral level description and data passed over during the plurality of processes based oil a behavioral level description describing the behavior of an electronic circuit and synthesis constraint information constituting constraints to be satisfied while generating a register transfer level description based on the behavioral level description and the number and type of circuit configuration elements that can be described in the register transfer level description. The data flow path information analyzing unit acquires path information indicating a data path and at least one process executed on the path based on the intermediate level description. A synthesis constraint generating unit then generates new synthesis constraint information that improves prescribed circuit performance of the electronic circuit based on library information and path information. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235221 | ROUTING CHANNEL DISPLAYING METHOD AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A routing channel displaying method and a computer-accessible storage medium are provided. In the method, a circuit board is divided into m×n blocks which form a matrix with size m×n, and m, n are positive integers. Then, a processing direction is determined by a relative position of a first and a second component of the circuit board. After dividing the blocks into at least one set of processing blocks according to the processing direction, an analysis of the used space rate is sequentially performed on each set of the processing blocks. Finally, all blocks in each set of the processing blocks are labeled according to the result of the analysis of the used space rate so as to display at least one routing channel between the first component and the second component. Thereby, the probability of rerouting is reduced, and the routing efficiency of the circuit board is improved. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235222 | CREATING A STANDARD CELL CIRCUIT DESIGN FROM A PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE CIRCUIT DESIGN - A computer-implemented method of converting a circuit design for a programmable logic device (PLD) to a standard cell circuit design can include unmapping a PLD circuit design to a gate level netlist ( | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235223 | PROGRAM GENERATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a software generation apparatus generates software for verifying a RTL description obtained by high-level synthesis of an operation description describing an LSI operation. The apparatus comprises a judgment function generation module configured to generate a judgment function based on a test program for verifying the operation description and an execution cycle number, the judgment function starting a process of determining whether the relationship between the input value and the output value is an expected relation when the number of times of receiving a pair of an input value and an output value from the test program exceeds the execution cycle number. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235224 | Method for Processing Optical Proximity Correction - A method for processing optical proximity correction includes preparing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) map; extracting calibration data depending on a focus degree with the CMP map; and correcting optical proximity with the calibration data. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235225 | Rule based instantiation of software- and system development processes - A method, system and a computer readable medium for performing a rule based instantiation of a generic software and/or system development process to provide a project specific implemented instantiated process. The proposed approach provides a gradual way to provide an implemented instantiated process adapted to project specific needs by using a staggered instantiation mode. The approach distinguishes between high level instantiation and detailed instantiation depending on the nature of the instantiation operation. The approach is flexibly applicable to software and systems development processes and the set of instantiation operations is extendable. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235226 | Synthesis of Message Sequence Charts from Communicating Finite-State Machines - Synthesizing a message sequence chart (MSC) from a communicating finite-state machine (CFSM), by transforming the CFSM to a Petri net model, generating a labeled finite digraph with each path representing a linearization of an occurrence net segment of the Petri net, decomposing the diagraph into segments, and mapping where each segment to a compositional MSC. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235227 | Variability Layer for Domain-Specific Modeling Languages - Methods and systems are provided for adding variability support for a modeling language. Developers may utilize the added support to transform a model written in a preexisting domain-specific modeling language for product line development in which there is structural and configurational diversity. A variability layer is incorporated into the model, which permits product developers to better use the language to model product line variants. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235238 | CONDENSING PATTERN MATCHER GENERATION FOR INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE PATTERNS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to pattern matcher generation and provide a method, system and computer program product for automatic pattern matching and generation of intermediate language patterns. In one embodiment of the invention, a pattern matcher generation method can be provided. The method can include identifying input elements from intermediate language code, reducing the identified input elements from the intermediate language code to inputs of common and unique use, creating a unifiable form for each of the input elements of common and unique use, and generating a pattern matcher for each of the input elements of common and unique use in the intermediate language code using a corresponding unifiable form in place of each of the input elements of common and unique use. In particular, the generated pattern matcher can be EMTF conformant. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235239 | BUILD SYSTEM REDIRECT - Embodiments may provide a makefile interposer, which enables a makefile to be used for building software for different platforms without modifying the makefile. In some embodiments, the interposer intercepts the commands run by makefile and automatically interposes the correct library files, dependencies, paths, and other information used by make to build the program for a particular platform. Additionally, calls that the invoked tools themselves make are intercepted and the interposer may redirect them to the platform-specific tools or file system locations including redirecting file descriptors. In some instances, when a tool is called that is not in the platform, the interposer may also fall back on the other system tools. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235240 | METHOD FOR JIT COMPILER TO OPTIMIZE REPETITIVE SYNCHRONIZATION - Repetitive synchronization in program code is optimized through lock coarsening that is performed subject to a number of constraints. Using a forward pass over the program code followed by a backward pass, region extent bits may be determined that identify the points in the program where object locking can be coarsened. The program code may then be modified to realize coarsened locking regions determined based on the region extent bits. Alternatively, previously determined value numbers may provide much of the information collected by the two passes. In such a case, a single pass over the program code may locate features that limit lock coarsening opportunities. A set of synchronization operations that can be removed may then be determined and used when modifying the program code to coarsen locking regions. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235241 | FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTION PROCESSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A design system for generating configuration information and associated executable code based on a customisation specification, which includes application information including application source code and customisation information including design constraints, for implementing an instruction processor using re-programmable hardware, the system comprises a template generator for generating a template for each processor style identified as a candidate for implementation; an analyser for analysing instruction information for each template and determining instruction optimisations; a compiler for compiling the application source code to include the instruction optimisations and generate executable code; an instantiator for analysing architecture information for each template, determining architecture optimisations and generating configuration information including the architecture optimisations; and a builder for generating device-specific configuration information from the configuration information including the architecture optimisations. In another aspect, a management system for managing run-time re-configuration of an instruction processor implemented using re-programmable hardware, comprises a configuration library containing configuration information for a plurality of instruction processor implementations; a code library for containing associated executable code for the implementations; a loader for loading application data and, as required, configuration information and associated executable code into re-programmable hardware for implementation and execution of an instruction processor; a loader controller for signalling the loader to load application data and, as required, configuration information and associated executable code, and execute the executable code; a run-time monitor for obtaining run-time statistics relating to operation of the instruction processor; an optimisation determiner configured to receive the run-time statistics, and being operable to instruct the loader to load new configuration information and associated executable code for a new implementation into the re-programmable hardware; and an optimisation instructor for invoking the optimisation determiner. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235242 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REMOTE UPDATE VERIFICATION METHOD THEREFOR AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus which is capable of more reliably ensuring the operation of the apparatus having software files therein updated remotely and reducing an operational burden on the user. A ROM stores a plurality of software files. A scanner section and a printer section execute functions provided by the image forming apparatus, using the software files. An NIC section receives an update software file for updating at least one of the software files from an image processing apparatus. After a software file is updated based on the update software file received by the NIC section, a function using the updated software file is executed, a core section causes the image forming apparatus to operate in an functional check mode for checking operation of the executed function. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235243 | Method and apparatus for managing software lifecycle in home network - Provided is a method of efficiently managing a software lifecycle of a controlled device, wherein the method is performed by a controller device in a home network. According to the method, the controller device requests the controlled device to change the software lifecycle only when a predetermined condition is satisfied. Accordingly, the controller device efficiently uses software according to characteristics thereof in the home network. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235244 | SOFTWARE UPDATE SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION EQUIPMENT - A software update system includes a first server resided in a network different from a home network and has a storage device to store a software to be used for information equipment, and a second server resided in a network different from the home network and has an information equipment control unit that requests a software version to the information equipment, and a service control unit that requests a software version to the first server and compares the software version acquired from the information equipment with the software version acquired from the first server, which uniformly manages the information equipment by an internet service provider (ISP), in which ISP uses a standardized DHCP scheme and MAC address as an inherent value to identify the information appliance such that a user's operational burden can be reduced by using a TV monitor, a cellular telephone, etc. as a user interface. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235245 | Software Management System and Method - A software maintenance system for managing a software distribution system for distributing a software package to one or more target machines is described. The software distribution system comprises a plurality of software distribution parts. At least one of the software distribution parts is provided at each target machine for receiving the software package. The software management system comprises a software maintenance server for receiving a software package for updating one or more target machines and at least one software maintenance unit for each software distribution part. The software maintenance server is configured to: define at least target machines for download of the software package and provide the software package to the software distribution system. Each software maintenance unit for each software distribution part is for acting as an interface between the software maintenance server and each software distribution part. Each software maintenance unit is configured to control the respective software distribution part to achieve distribution of the software package to each target machine via the respective software distribution part. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235246 | Methods and Systems for Distributing Firmware Through an Over-the-Air Network - Systems and methods for over-the-air firmware distribution to battery-powered devices are disclosed. Such over-the-air distribution is accomplished, for example, using a non-battery-powered device as a buffer, for example, to reduce or eliminate the delay time of the over-the-air network. The firmware can be sent to and stored on a nearby, non-battery-powered device and then sent from there to the battery-powered endpoint device. The distribution of firmware to battery-powered devices may be implemented in an AMI system, a mesh network, a multi-channel radio network, or any other environment in which firmware distribution is desirable. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235247 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING IDLE PERIOD OF VIRTUAL MACHINE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR EMBODYING THE METHOD - An apparatus and method for checking an idle period of a virtual machine, and a computer readable recording medium for embodying the method. The apparatus includes a thread counting unit which counts a total number of threads that are under execution and a monitor thread which detects the idle period of the virtual machine based on the total number of threads that are under execution. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235258 | Multi-Thread Peripheral Processing Using Dedicated Peripheral Bus - One embodiment of the present invention performs peripheral operations in a multi-thread processor. A peripheral bus is coupled to a peripheral unit to transfer peripheral information including a command message specifying a peripheral operation. A processing slice is coupled to the peripheral bus to execute a plurality of threads. The plurality of threads includes a first thread sending the command message to the peripheral unit. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235259 | Synchronous Adaption of Asynchronous Modules - A program disposed on a computer readable medium, having a main program with a first routine for issuing commands in an asynchronous manner and a second routine for determining whether the commands have been completed in an asynchronous manner. An auxiliary program adapts the main program to behave in a synchronous manner, by receiving control from the first routine, waiting a specified period of time with a wait routine, passing control to the second routine to determine whether any of the commands have been completed during the specified period of time, receiving control back from the second routine, and determining whether all of the commands have been completed. When all of the commands have not been completed, then the auxiliary program passes control back to the wait routine. When all of the commands have been completed, then the auxiliary program ends. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235260 | Enhanced Control of CPU Parking and Thread Rescheduling for Maximizing the Benefits of Low-Power State - A system may comprise a plurality of processing units and a scheduler configured to maintain a record for each respective processing unit. Each respective record may comprise entries which may indicate 1) how long the respective processing unit has been residing in an idle state, 2) a present power-state in which the respective processing unit resides, and 3) whether the respective processing unit is a designated default (bootstrap) processing unit. The scheduler may select one or more of the plurality of processing units according to their respective records, and assign impending instructions to be executed on the selected one or more processing units. Where additional processing units are required, the scheduler may also insert an instruction to trigger an inter-processor interrupt to transition one or more processing units out of idle-state. The scheduler may then assign some impending instructions to these one or more processing units. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235261 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing system capable of enhancing the reliability of secret leakage prevention, which includes an image processing apparatus, an access control apparatus that issues authority information on each user, and a job history management apparatus that manages job histories. Authority information on a user logging in the image processing apparatus is acquired. With reference to the authority information, whether or not a job for which an execution instruction is given by the user is executable is determined. If executable, the job is executed. If the job is not executable, whether or not the job is executable on condition that a job history is transmitted to the job history management apparatus is further determined. If conditionally executable, the job is executed, and a history of the executed job is acquired and transmitted to the job history management apparatus. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235262 | EFFICIENT DETERMINISTIC MULTIPROCESSING - A hardware and/or software facility for controlling the order of operations performed by threads of a multithreaded application on a multiprocessing system is provided. The facility may serialize or selectively-serialize execution of the multithreaded application such that, given the same input to the multithreaded application, the multiprocessing system deterministically interleaves operations, thereby producing the same output each time the multithreaded application is executed. The facility divides the execution of the multithreaded application code into two or more quantum specifying a deterministic number of operations, and the facility specifies a deterministic order in which the threads execute the two or more quantum. The deterministic number of operations may be adapted to follow the critical path of the multithreaded application. Specified memory operations may be executed regardless of the deterministic order, such as those accessing provably local data. The facility may provide dynamic bug avoidance and sharing of identified bug information. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235263 | JOB ASSIGNMENT APPARATUS, JOB ASSIGNMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A management node at first extracts free computation nodes executing none of jobs in order to assign a new job to any one of computation nodes, and specifies a communication target computation node when executing an execution target job. Subsequently, the management node calculates, with respect to all of the computation nodes executing none of the jobs at that point of time, a determination value V | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235264 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - The allocation of hardware resources to distribution applications is enabled without using effective task priority available only in field devices. A distribution system makes a plurality of field devices connected with each other through a network (N) operate a plurality of distribution applications (distribution AP) in parallel. The distribution system is provided with an importance adjustment unit ( | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235265 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COST AVOIDANCE IN VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A method includes monitoring a utilization amount of resources within logical partitions (LPARs) of a plurality of servers and identifying a resource-strained server of the plurality of servers, wherein the resource-strained server includes a plurality of LPARs. Additionally, the method includes determining a migration of one or more LPARs of the plurality of LPARs of the resource-strained server and migrating the one or more LPARs of the resource-strained server to another server of the plurality of servers based on the determining to avoid an activation of capacity upgrade on demand (CUoD). | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235266 | Operating System and Augmenting Operating System and Method for Same - A method for determining status of system resources in a computer system includes loading a first operating system into a first memory, wherein the first operating system discovers system resources and reserves a number of the system resources for use of an augmenting operating system, loading the augmenting operating system into a second memory reserved for the augmenting operating system by the first operating system, accessing the first memory from the augmenting operating system and obtaining data, running a process on the augmenting operating system to perform a computation using the data obtained from the first memory, and outputting the results of the computation using the system resources reserved for the augmenting operating system. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235267 | CONSOLIDATED DISPLAY OF RESOURCE PERFORMANCE TRENDS - A consolidated representation of performance trends for a plurality of resources in a data processing system is generated. Recent performance measurement data for the plurality of resources is retrieved along with historical performance measurement data for the plurality of resources. For each resource, an associated performance trend is determined based on an analysis of the recent performance measurement data and the historical performance measurement data. A single consolidated graphical representation of the plurality of resources is generated based on the associated performance trends. Each resource in the plurality of resources may have a separate representation within the single consolidated graphical representation positioned within the single consolidated graphical representation based on a recent performance trend and an associated historical performance trend. The single consolidated graphical representation may be output for use by a user to identify areas of the data processing system requiring the user's attention. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235278 | Method for tracking and/or verifying message passing in a simulation environment - A message tracking and verifying system for verifying the correctness of messages being passed may comprise a tracking module for tracking a request message and a verifying module for verifying a response message. The tracking module may be configured to store a calculated source address and a calculated response address range. The verifying module may be configured to obtain an actual source address from the response message and an actual response address range for the response message. The correctness of the response message is determined based on the comparison of the calculated source address with the actual source address and the comparison of the calculated response address range with the actual response address range. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235279 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A processing apparatus for processing elements, which are contained in a message received via a network, by an application is provided. The apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select, in accordance with the number of elements contained in the received message, whether conversion of an element to a form processable by the application is carried out in response to or prior to a request from the application, a storage unit configured to store an element, which is converted to a form processable by the application, in response to a request from the application, a read-out unit configured to read an element, which has been requested by the application, out of the storage unit, and a conversion unit configured to convert an element to a form processable by the application in response to and prior to a request from the application in accordance with the selection. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235280 | EVENT EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An event extraction system includes a temporal module which extracts temporal expressions in text content of an electronic mail message. A calendar entry generation module generates a candidate calendar entry based on an extracted temporal expression and presents it to a user for consideration as a calendar entry. The candidate calendar entry can be displayed in a transient pop up window, allowing a user to ignore the candidate entry or to accept it. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235281 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A handheld electronic device, an input device and an input method thereof, and a display device and a display method thereof are provided. A display interface in the display device is divided into at least two portions so as to display the operation images of different application programs in the display interface at the same time. The operation images of the application programs are operated by using a single directional input interface of the input device. In the present invention, the function described above can be achieved without modifying the application programs by using only one touch screen including a display interface and a directional input interface. Thereby, the hardware cost of the handheld electronic device and the complexity for implementing the application programs of the handheld electronic device can be both reduced. | 2009-09-17 |
| 20090235282 | APPLICATION REMOTE CONTROL - Application remote control is affected across execution contexts. In one instance, input can be acquired from controlled applications and employed by other applications. Additionally or alternatively, remote control can be employed to test applications while minimizing unintended changes to applications under test caused by observation. | 2009-09-17 |
