42nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120265996 | Permitting Access To A Network - Method and communication system for permitting access to a network via an access point, wherein the method comprises determining, at a first node of the communication system, at least one identifier of the access point. Using a predetermined encrypting function and the determined at least one identifier of the access point, access credentials are encrypted in such a way that the at least one identifier of the access point is required in order to decrypt the encrypted access credentials. The access credentials are for accessing the network via the access point. The encrypted access credentials are provided over the communication system to a second node of the communication system, and the second node determines the at least one identifier of the access point by communicating with the access point. The second node uses the determined at least one identifier of the access point to decrypt the encrypted access credentials using a predetermined decrypting function which corresponds to the predetermined encrypting function, and the second node uses the decrypted access credentials to access the network via the access point. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265997 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING FLEXIBLE ANONYMOUS-PSEUDONYMOUS ACCESS - Systems and methods are disclosed for privacy-preserving flexible user-selected anonymous and pseudonymous access at a relying party (RP), mediated by an identity provider (IdP). Anonymous access is unlinkable to any previous or future accesses of the user at the RP. Pseudonymous access allows the user to associate the access to a pseudonym previously registered at the RP. A pseudonym system is disclosed. The pseudonym system allows a large number of different and unlinkable pseudonyms to be generated using only a small number of secrets held by the user. The pseudonym system can generate tokens capable of including rich semantics in both a fixed format and a free format. The tokens can be used in obtaining from the IdP, confirmation of access privilege and/or of selective partial disclosure of user characteristics required for access at the RPs. The pseudonym system and associated protocols also support user-enabled linkability between pseudonyms. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265998 | Methods And Apparatus For Authenticating Components Of Processing Systems - When a processing system boots, it may retrieve an encrypted version of a cryptographic key from nonvolatile memory to a processing unit, which may decrypt the cryptographic key. The processing system may also retrieve a predetermined authentication code for software of the processing system, and the processing system may use the cryptographic key to compute a current authentication code for the software. The processing system may then determine whether the software should be trusted, by comparing the predetermined authentication code with the current authentication code. In various embodiments, the processing unit may use a key stored in nonvolatile storage of the processing unit to decrypt the encrypted version of the cryptographic key, a hashed message authentication code (HMAC) may be used as the authentication code, and/or the software to be authenticated may be boot firmware, a virtual machine monitor (VMM), or other software. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265999 | PROCESSING DATA STORED IN EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE - An external storage device connectable to an information processing apparatus is provided. The storage device includes: an input/output interface via which data is exchanged with an information processing apparatus; a first storage region where data associated with first and second validity periods is stored; and a second storage region where a control program is stored. While the first validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to one information processing apparatus, the second validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to another information processing apparatus. The control program causes a processor to execute the steps of: establishing connection of the external storage device to an information processing apparatus; identifying any one of the validity periods as a validity period to be used for the data; and executing predetermined security protection processing on the data in accordance with the identified validity period. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266000 | TRUSTED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a trusted database system that leverages a small amount of trusted storage to secure a larger amount of untrusted storage. Data are encrypted and validated to prevent unauthorized modification or access. Encryption and hashing are integrated with a low-level data model in which data and meta-data are secured uniformly. Synergies between data validation and log-structured storage are exploited. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266001 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR SHARING BATTERY BETWEEN MOBILE TERMINALS - A system, a method, and a mobile terminal for sharing a battery between mobile terminals are disclosed, which can solve a problem that the battery can not be shared between mobile terminals in the prior art. In accordance with the present invention, a mobile terminal having power supplying ability is able to supply power to a mobile terminal lacking power by an external power supply line, power control circuits of the power supply end and the power utilization end are controlled, the power utilization end is able to detect an electricity quantity of the power supply end, and the sharing of a battery between two mobile terminals can be achieved, thereby greatly increasing utilization modes of the battery without external charging power supply so as to facilitate the using of a user. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266002 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE HAVING LOW POWER MODE AND RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION - A semiconductor memory device has a normal power mode and a low power mode. In the low power mode, a selection circuit assigns one data address to at least two memory cells in the semiconductor memory device, and it reads or writes one unit of data from the at least two memory cells. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSERVING ENERGY IN A DIGITAL HOME NETWORKING DEVICE - A method and apparatus configures a power level for a device able to receive audio, video, and data signals. An input signal is received by a receiver capable of receiving broadcast data signals and digital home networking signals. The system determines if the receiver is operating in a first mode having a first power level or a second mode having a second power level based on a type of input signal received by the receiver. A control signal is generated for modifying at least one setting on a first circuit for configuring the first circuit to operate according to the first power level if the input signal is a first type of input signal. The control signal is provided to the first circuit and the first circuit is configured to operate according to the first power level based on the control signal. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266004 | CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An SoC is connected to an SDRAM that is controlled by a memory controller and a memory PHY, and the SoC is operable in a normal mode and in a power saving mode. The SoC includes a block A to be powered off in the power saving mode and a block B not to be powered off in the power saving mode. A memory controller is included in the block A. A memory PHY and signal level holding cells are included in the block B. The signal level holding cells are provided between the memory controller and the memory PHY, and are configured to fix output signals from the memory controller at predetermined levels in the power saving mode. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266005 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION OF A PATTERN-RECOGNITION PROCESSOR - A device includes a pattern-recognition processor. The pattern recognition processor includes blocks, such that each of the blocks include a plurality of feature cells configured to analyze at least a portion of data to be analyzed and to selectively provide a result of the analysis. The pattern recognition processor also includes block deactivation logic configured to dynamically power-down the block. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266006 | POWER-ON TEST SYSTEM FOR TESTING STORAGE DEVICE AND TEST METHOD EMPLOYING THE SAME - A power-on test system for testing a storage device, the power-on test system includes a computer, a signal microcontroller, a switch unit, and a power source. The computer includes a counter capable of recording the number of power-on times of the storage device. The computer prompts the signal microcontroller to turn on or off the switch unit according to a preset frequency, the power source electrically connects to or disconnects from the storage device through the switch unit, the storage device outputs corresponding power-on status signals and power-off status signals to the computer, and the counter increases by one after each power-on testing. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266007 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) POWER SUPPLY, POWER DISTRIBUTION, OR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information technology (IT) equipment power supply, power distribution, or environmental control apparatus includes at least one input configured to operably connect to a power source, at least one output configured to deliver power, at least one processor in circuit with the input or the output and configured to receive data representing operational parameters of the input and the output. The apparatus further includes at least one wireless transmitter in circuit with the processor and configured to wirelessly transmit data representing the operational parameters. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266008 | SYSTEM-WIDE POWER MANAGEMENT CONTROL VIA CLOCK DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - An apparatus, method and computer program product for automatically controlling power dissipation of a parallel computing system that includes a plurality of processors. A computing device issues a command to the parallel computing system. A clock pulse-width modulator encodes the command in a system clock signal to be distributed to the plurality of processors. The plurality of processors in the parallel computing system receive the system clock signal including the encoded command, and adjusts power dissipation according to the encoded command. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266009 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS OR INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - If data received by the an information processing apparatus from an external device is delayed by one cycle or more with respect to a clock of the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus may require an additional process for adjusting a data latch timing. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266010 | CONVERSION OF TIMESTAMPS BETWEEN MULTIPLE ENTITIES WITHIN A COMPUTING SYSTEM - Method, apparatus and system are described for converting received timestamps to a time-recording standard recognized by the receiving computing system. Embodiments of the invention generally include receiving data from an external device that includes a timestamp. If the received data is the first communication from the external device, creating a time base used for converting subsequently received timestamps to a recognized standard. Moreover, the system updates the time base if a counter failure at the external device is detected. When the external device transmits subsequent data, the time base is added to the subsequently received timestamps to convert the subsequent timestamps to a time-recording standard recognized by the computing system. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266011 | RELIABILITY BASED DATA ALLOCATION AND RECOVERY IN A STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system provides highly flexible data layouts that can be tailored based on reliability considerations. The system allocates reliability values to logical containers at an upper logical level of the system based, for example, on objectives established by reliability SLOs. Based on the reliability value, the system identifies a specific parity group from a lower physical storage level of the system for storing data corresponding to the logical container. After selecting a parity group, the system allocates the data to physical storage blocks within the parity group. In embodiments, the system attaches the reliability value information to the parity group and the physical storage units storing the data. In this manner, the underlying physical layer has a semantic understanding of reliability considerations related to the data stored at the logical level. Based on this semantic understanding, the system has the capability to prioritize data operations on the physical storage units according to the reliability values attached to the parity groups. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOVERY OF A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT DURING PRE-BOOT AND RUNTIME PHASES - A method and system for recovery of a computing environment includes monitoring during a pre-boot phase and a runtime phase of a computing device for selection of a hot key sequence by a user and performing a recovery action in response to the selection of the hot key sequence by the user. The recovery action may be any one of a number of predetermined and/or selectable actions such as restoring system defaults, migrating memory, displaying a menu of options, setting various software flags, restarting or rebooting the computing device, and/or the like. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266013 | LINK AGGREGATION PROTECTION - A method includes detecting, by a first network device, a configuration problem at a second network device, where the first and second network devices are associated with a link aggregation group (LAG) coupling the first and second network devices. The method also includes de-activating, by the first network device, one or more links in the LAG in response to detecting the configuration problem. The method further comprises maintaining at least one of the links in the LAG as an active link and allowing traffic to be forwarded on the active link in the LAG. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266014 | E-Commerce Failover System and Method - Disclosed is a computerized method, non-transitory machine-readable medium and computer system for ensuring that critical information, such as that allowing an ecommerce customer to activate purchased downloadable software, can be retrieved even if issues occur in the primary distribution center. The method receives a call for data (e.g. key) at a first endpoint associated with a first distribution center, determining that the call for the data cannot be fulfilled at the first endpoint, and shifting the call for the data to a second endpoint associated with a second distribution center. The computer system comprises a first and second distribution center system, including modules for: fulfilling a call for data, or key; determining if a call cannot be fulfilled, determining a plurality of error indications; and redirecting calls originally directed to one of a first computer or a second computer to the other of the first computer and the second computer. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266015 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY REROUTING LOGICAL CIRCUIT DATA IN A DATA NETWORK - Determining a failure of a logical connection in a logical circuit identified by a logical circuit identifier, the logical circuit comprising variable communication paths in at least one of a first or a second logical telecommunications network and a fixed communication path between the first and second logical telecommunications networks, and the failed logical connection being between the first and second logical telecommunications networks; identifying a logical failover circuit comprising an alternate communication path in a failover network that is separate from the logical circuit, the failover network reserved to provide failover circuits to communicate data rerouted from failed logical circuits, and the logical failover circuit identified by a second logical circuit identifier; renaming the logical circuit identifier of the logical circuit to the second logical circuit identifier of the logical failover circuit; and rerouting the data from the logical circuit to the logical failover circuit without manual intervention. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266016 | MEMORY ADDRESS REMAPPING ARCHITECTURE AND REPAIRING METHOD THEREOF - A memory address remapping architecture is applied to execute an address remapping method for repairing a main memory. A valid flag and an essential flag in a TCAM corresponding to at least one subcube address in a spare memory are initialized, and the main memory is checked to find out some faulty cell addresses. The Hamming distance between the subcube address and the faulty cell address is calculated, and the faulty cell address is merged into the subcube address by a masked bits concentrator when the Hamming distance is not larger than an address-width degree of the subcube address and the merged number of the subcube address is not larger than a threshold value. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266017 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTRATION OF A NETWORK ACCESS DEVICE DURING LOSS OF POWER - A system and method for registration of a network access device including a processor configured to identify power loss at a network access device, initiate backup power at the network access device, identify when the backup power at the network access device decreases to or below a first predetermined level, and identify when backup power at the network access device is restored to or above a second predetermined level, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to a server, a registration extension message to reconfigure conditions for handling inbound communications and a registration extension cancellation message to restore original conditions for handling inbound communications. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266018 | FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEM, FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM FOR FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEM - In a fault-tolerant computer system that includes a computer | 2012-10-18 |
20120266019 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL ON-DEMAND RECOVERY - A data management system (“DMS”) provides an automated, continuous, real-time, substantially no downtime data protection service to one or more data sources. A host driver embedded in an application server captures real-time data transactions, preferably in the form of an event journal. The driver functions to translate traditional file/database/block I/O and the like into a continuous, application-aware, output data stream. The host driver includes an event processor that can perform a recovery operation to an entire data source or a subset of the data source using former point-in-time data in the DMS. The recovery operation may have two phases. First, the structure of the host data in primary storage is recovered to the intended recovering point-in-time. Thereafter, the actual data itself is recovered. The event processor enables such data recovery in an on-demand manner, by allowing recovery to happen simultaneously while an application accesses and updates the recovering data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266020 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR RESOLVING ERRORS IN A SYSTEM - A system includes at least one monitored device collect data detect and detect an error in the data, a central server, and at least one local server communicatively coupled to the monitored device and the central server. The local server is configured to receive the data and an indication of the error detected from the monitored device, determine a solution for use in resolving the error, transmit instructions to perform the solution to the monitored device, and transmit the error and the solution to the central server for storage. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266021 | AUTOMATIC TESTING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an automatic testing apparatus used for testing a tested device. The automatic testing apparatus is fixed on a first side of a testing platform. The tested device executes a testing program while being tested, and transmits a test signal to a control unit of the testing platform for controlling a driving testing unit or a multimedia testing module to test the tested device and hence testing the tested device automatically. Thereby, testing costs can be saved and artificial factor affecting the test results can be avoided. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266022 | Method for Verifying an Application Program in a Failsafe Programmable Logic Controller, and Programmable Logic Controller for Performing the Method - A method and a programmable logic controller (SPS) for verifying an application program in a failsafe programmable logic controller, wherein a signature (desired value) is generated using program modules or a complete application program when creating a program, and a copy of the signature is stored in the programmable logic controller and in an external component, respectively. Before the safety-oriented application program is started, the copy of the signature stored by the programmable logic controller is transmitted to the external component and is compared with the copy in the external component. In a further comparison, a signature (actual value) is generated using the content of the main memory of the programmable logic controller and using the actually loaded application program and is then compared with the local copy of the desired value of the signature. Starting of the actual application program is enabled only when both comparisons are positive. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266023 | PRIORITIZATION AND ASSIGNMENT MANAGER FOR AN INTEGRATED TESTING PLATFORM - A method of prioritizing and assigning test scripts is provided in a testing platform configured to organize, manage, and facilitate the debugging of test scripts. The test scripts are used in testing software modules. The method includes receiving a plurality of test scripts, applying a predetermined set of factors to each test script, and assigning a weight value to each factor based on a relative importance of the factor. A priority value is set for each test script based on the weighted factors, and the test script is assigned to a queue position for execution based on the corresponding priority value, where the assigned test script is associated with one or more bias factors. The test script is then selected from the testing queue and forwarded if the bias factors indicate that requirements of the test script match corresponding bias factors of the testing individual. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266024 | PROTOCOL SOFTWARE COMPONENT AND TEST APPARATUS - A particular system includes a processor and a network interface configured to send and receive messages via a network using an asynchronous computer communication protocol. The system may include two or more buffers, such as an ingress buffer and an egress buffer. The system may include a memory accessible to the processor. The memory may include first node instructions that are executable by the processor to implement one or more functions of a first node. The memory may also include one or more script callbacks. The script callbacks may be executable by the processor to at least one of provide: the first content to a test script to be modified before the first content is provided to the first node instructions from the ingress buffer, and provide the second content to the test script to be modified before the outgoing message is provided to the egress buffer. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266025 | Tool for Analyzing Siebel Escripts - A method, system and computer program product for enabling automated analysis of an extracted eScript to identify one or more problems within a configuration and script. The eScript is extracted from a Siebel repository and received in a DAVID (Development Application Verification Information on Demand for Siebel application where the VB.NET application, called SiebelParser, is utilized to conduct the analysis of the eScript. Occurrences of issues within an eScript are detected by SiebelParser. Issues within the eScript may include one or more of: empty event handlers, explicit object release, setting field values utilizing hard coded values, unnecessarily activated fields, call to next record after a call to delete record, and functions containing unnecessary code. Results from the analysis are reported to one log file document. The results of SiebelParser's log file are later incorporated to a spreadsheet by DAVID, to provide a more readable output format. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266026 | DETECTING AND DIAGNOSING MISBEHAVING APPLICATIONS IN VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Misbehaving applications may be detected by monitoring system resource utilization in a virtualized computer system. Utilization may be forecasted based on historical utilization data for the system resources when the application is known to be behaving normally. When the monitored utilization of system resources deviates from the forecasted utilization, an alert may be generated. When the alert is generated, system resources allocated to the application may be increased or decreased to prevent abnormal behavior in the virtualized computer system executing to misbehaving application. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266027 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Deterioration of performance due to diagnosis processing performed when a failure occurs is prevented. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266028 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEBUGGING PROGRAMS - In a method for debugging programs of an electronic device, the method adds an appended block to one or more memory blocks allocated by one or more memory allocation functions of a specified program, so as to obtain one or more appended blocks, stores an identifier of each memory allocation function into a corresponding appended block, and executes a memory leak test to determine one or more unqualified memory allocation functions. The method further searches for one or more identifiers from the appended blocks if the memory leak test fails, and obtains a position of each unqualified memory allocation function in the specified program according to each found identifier if source codes of the specified program are available in a storage device of the electronic device. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266029 | ARRANGEMENT FOR PROCESSING TRACE DATA INFORMATION, INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND A METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRACE DATA INFORMATION - An arrangement for processing trace data information is provided, the arrangement including, a chip including one or more memory circuits configured to store trace data information relating to a series of instructions, and a trace data information port configured to provide off-chip access to the trace data information; and a direct memory access controller circuit configured to control the transportation of trace data information from the one or more memory circuits to the trace data information port. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266030 | WATCHDOG TIMER TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer and method tests a watchdog timer of a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a motherboard. The computer obtains a count value from the watchdog timer. The computer calculates an accuracy value according to a beginning time of countdown, and a stop time of the countdown. The computer determines if the accuracy value falls within the predetermined qualification range and displays a determination on a display device of the computer. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266031 | Controlling Method and Controller for Memory - A memory controller including a detection module and a protection module is provided. The memory controller is applicable to a memory having a command transmission port and a data transmission port. The detection module detects whether an error condition occurs in an electronic device associated with the memory. When the error condition is detected, the protection module sends an interrupt command to the memory via the command transmission port to stop an operation associated with the data transmission port. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266032 | MLC Self-RAID Flash Data Protection Scheme - A two-dimensional self-RAID method of protecting page-based storage data in a MLC multiple-level-cell flash memory device. The protection scheme includes reserving one parity sector across each data page, reserving one parity page as the column parity, selecting a specific number of pages to form a parity group, writing into the parity page a group parity value for data stored in the pages of the parity group. The parity sector represents applying a RAID technique in a first dimension. The group parity represents applying a RAID technique in a second dimension. Data protection is achieved because a corrupted data sector can likely be recovered by the two dimensional RAID data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266033 | PROVIDING TEST COVERAGE OF INTEGRATED ECC LOGIC EN EMBEDDED MEMORY - A method is provided in which a first error test may be performed on a memory that includes an integrated error correcting code (ECC) portion. The functionality of the ECC portion may be bypassed in the first error test. A second error test may be performed on the memory, where the second error test includes testing the functionality of the ECC portion. Also provided is an apparatus including a memory device and an error correcting code (ECC) circuit. The apparatus also includes a first switching device adapted to select a first input signal or a second input signal and a second switching device adapted to select one of a signal from the memory device or a signal from a portion of the ECC circuit. Also provided are computer readable storage devices encoded with data for adapting a manufacturing facility to create the apparatus and for adapting a processor to perform the method above. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266034 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND TEST METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells; a data comparison section configured to compare input data to be stored in the memory cells with output data outputted from the memory cells in a test operation, an address storage section configured to store addresses corresponding to defected memory cells of the memory cells in response to a comparison result of the data comparison section, and a comparison period control section configured to generate a period control signal for controlling an activation period of the data comparison section. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266035 | DOUBLE DATA RATE TEST INTERFACE AND ARCHITECTURE - A device test architecture and a reduced device test interface enable efficient testing of embedded cores and other circuits within devices. The reduced device test interface uses a double data rate (DDR) signaling technique between the tester and the device. The DDR test interface allows the tester to interface to test circuits within the device, such as IEEE 1500 and/or IEEE 1149.1 test circuits, to provide high test data bandwidth to the test circuits using a minimum of test interface signals. The test architecture includes compare circuits that compare test response data within the device. The test architecture further includes a memory for storing the results of the test response comparisons. The test architecture includes a programmable test controller to allow for various test control operations by simply inputting an instruction to the programmable test controller from the external tester. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOW-PIN-COUNT SCAN COMPRESSION - A low-pin-count scan compression method and apparatus for reducing test data volume and test application time in a scan-based integrated circuit. The scan-based integrated circuit contains one or more scan chains, each scan chain comprising one or more scan cells coupled in series. The method and apparatus includes a programmable pipelined decompressor comprising one or more shift registers, a combinational logic network, and an optional scan connector. The programmable pipelined decompressor decompresses a compressed scan pattern on its compressed scan inputs and drives the generated decompressed scan pattern at the output of the programmable pipelined decompressor to the scan data inputs of the scan-based integrated circuit. Any input constraints imposed by said_combinational logic network are incorporated into an automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) program for generating the compressed scan pattern for one or more selected faults in one-step. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266037 | TAP TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING WITH SCAN TEST - An integrated circuit comprising (i) a plurality of portions, each portion including test control circuitry; and (ii) at least one test input arranged to receive test signals, the circuit having a test mode in which one or more of the plurality of portions are testable, wherein the circuit has a reset mode which has priority over the test mode. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266038 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE - The present invention provides a data transmission method and a network side device. The method includes: establishing a mapping relation between a first identifier of data required to be sent in a first retransmission request process and a second identifier of the data in a second retransmission request process,; and sending the data, where in the second retransmission request process updates, according to the mapping relation and a sending status of the data, sending status information of the data in the first retransmission request process, so that in the first retransmission request process, whether to retransmit the data is determined according to the sending status information of the data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266039 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING DATA ACROSS NOISY MEDIA - A method and a device for communicating data via noisy media in order to improve the protection against errors in the transmission of information via a noisy channel or transmission medium. The method and improved device involve using a new type of structure of the parity matrix for the low density parity check codes technology in the coding and decoding of data, which improves the correction of errors without increasing the complexity of the hardware implementation. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266040 | METHOD OF ERROR FLOOR MITIGATION IN LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES - A digital communication decoding method for low-density parity-check coded messages. The decoding method decodes the low-density parity-check coded messages within a bipartite graph having check nodes and variable nodes. Messages from check nodes are partially hard limited, so that every message which would otherwise have a magnitude at or above a certain level is re-assigned to a maximum magnitude. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266041 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION IN A MEMORY MODULE WHICH INCLUDES A MEMORY BUFFER - The present systems include a memory module containing a plurality of RAM chips, typically DRAM, and a memory buffer arranged to buffer data between the DRAM and a host controller. The memory buffer includes an error detection and correction circuit arranged to ensure the integrity of the stored data words. One way in which this may be accomplished is by computing parity bits for each data word and storing them in parallel with each data word. The error detection and correction circuit can be arranged to detect and correct single errors, or multi-errors if the host controller includes its own error detection and correction circuit. Alternatively, the locations of faulty storage cells can be determined and stored in an address match table, which is then used to control multiplexers that direct data around the faulty cells, to redundant DRAM chips in one embodiment or to embedded SRAM in another. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266042 | HEADER ENCODING/DECODING - In a communication device that is operative to perform decoding, a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) circuitry operates to calculate LLRs corresponding to every bit location within a received bit sequence. This received bit sequence may include a header and a data portion (both of which may be included within a frame that also includes a preamble). The header is composed of information bits, a duplicate of those information bits (such as may be generated in accordance with repetition encoding), and redundancy bits. The header includes information corresponding to frame or data including frame length, a code type by which the data are encoded, a code rate by which the data are encoded, and a modulation by which symbols of the data are modulated. Once the header has been decoded, then the data corresponding thereto is decoded by a block decoder circuitry to make estimates of that data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266043 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - The invention realizes a semiconductor memory device that can efficiently execute a detection of a data error that might possibly occur in a continuous reading action, and a correction of the error data. The semiconductor memory device uses a variable resistive element made of a metal oxide for storing information. During a reading action of coded data with an ECC in the semiconductor memory device, when a data error is detected by an ECC circuit, a writing voltage pulse having a polarity opposite to a polarity of a reading voltage pulse is applied to all memory cells from which the error is detected so as to correct bits from which the error is detected, on an assumption that an erroneous writing has occurred due to the application of the writing voltage pulse having the polarity same as the polarity of the applied reading voltage pulse. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266044 | NETWORK-CODING-BASED DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM - A network-coding-based distributed file system (NCFS) is disclosed. The NCFS may include a file system layer, a disk layer, and a coding layer. The file system layer may be configured to receive a request, for an operation on data within a data block, to specify the data block to be accessed in a storage node of a plurality of storage nodes. The disk layer may provide an interface to the file system to provide access the plurality of storage nodes via a network. The coding layer may be connected between the file system layer and the disk layer, to encode and/or decode functions of fault-tolerant storage schemes based on a class of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266045 | MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY CONTROLLER - A memory device includes a semiconductor memory including a plurality of memory cells, and a controller including a buffer which temporarily stores data, a data pattern check circuit which checks a predetermined data pattern of data that are stored in the buffer and are to be stored in a plurality of neighboring ones of the memory cells, and sends an address in accordance with a result of the check, and a data correction circuit which corrects a value of data at the address that is sent, and sends the corrected value to the semiconductor memory. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266046 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR USING MULTI-LEVEL CELL SOLID-STATE STORAGE AS SINGLE-LEVEL CELL SOLID-STATE STORAGE - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for storing information in a storage device that includes multi-level memory cells. The method involves storing data that is written to the storage device in the LSBs of the multi-level memory cells, and storing audit data in the MSBs of the multi-level memory cells. The audit data can be read separately from the data and used to determine whether or not there has been any unintended drift between states in the multi-level cells. The audit data may be used to correct data when the errors in the data are too numerous to be corrected using error correction code (ECC). The audit data may also be used to monitor the general health of the storage device. The monitoring process may run as a background process on the storage device. The storage device may transition the multi-level memory cells to operate as single-level memory cells. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266047 | ERROR CORRECTION SCHEME FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - Error correcting systems, methods, and devices for non-volatile memory are disclosed. In one embodiment, a non-volatile memory device comprises a data area for storing data, an error correcting code generation section for generating an error correcting code in response to receipt of a code generation command, and an error correcting code area for storing the error correcting code. The non-volatile memory device further comprises a detector circuit for detecting the generating of the error correcting code, and a read section for correcting the data stored in the data area based on the error correcting code upon the detecting of the generation of the error correcting code by the detector circuit, where the code generation command is forwarded by a memory controller when the data are is filled with the data beyond a threshold level | 2012-10-18 |
20120266048 | Dynamic Optimization of Back-End Memory System Interface - Techniques are presented for dynamically optimizing the performance of the controller-memory (or “back-end”) interface of a non-volatile memory system. Memory systems are usually designed to have a certain amount of error tolerance for error that can then be corrected by ECC. In may circumstances, such as when a device is new, the ECC capabilities of the system exceed what is needed to correct data storage errors. In these circumstances the memory system internally allots a non-zero portion of this error correction capacity to the back-end interface. This allows for the interface to operate at, for example, higher speed or lower power, even though this will likely lead to transmission path error. The system can also calibrate the back-end interface to determine that amount of error that result from various operating conditions, allowing the operating parameters of the back-end interface to be set according to amount of error that is allotted to the transfer process. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266049 | Parallel Reed-Solomon RAID (RS-RAID) Architecture, Device, and Method - The parallel RS-RAID data storage architecture can aggregate that data and checksums within each cluster into intermediate or partial sums that are transferred or distributed to other clusters. The use of intermediate data symbols, intermediate checksum symbols, cluster configuration information on the assignment of data storage devices to clusters and the operational status of data storage devices, and the like, can reduce the computational burden and latency for the error correction calculations while increasing the scalability and throughput of the parallel RS-RAID distributed data storage architecture. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266050 | Data Management in Solid State Storage Devices - A mechanism is provided for controlling a solid state storage device in which the solid state storage comprises erasable blocks each comprising a plurality of data write locations. Input data is stored in successive groups of data write locations, each group comprising write locations in a set of erasable blocks in each of a plurality of logical subdivisions of the solid state storage. The input data is error correction encoded such that each group contains an error correction code for the input data in that group. Metadata, indicating the location of input data in the solid state storage, is maintained in memory, An indication of validity of data stored in each data write location is also maintained, Prior to erasing a block, valid input data is recovered from the or each said group containing write locations in that block. The recovered data is then re-stored as new input data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266051 | STAIRCASE FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION CODING - In staircase forward error correction coding, a stream of data symbols are mapped to data symbol positions in a sequence of two-dimensional symbol blocks B | 2012-10-18 |
20120266052 | MLC Self-RAID Flash Data Protection Scheme - A two-dimensional self-RAID method of protecting page-based storage data in a MLC multiple-level-cell flash memory device. The protection scheme includes reserving one parity sector across each data page, reserving one parity page as the column parity, selecting a specific number of pages to form a parity group, writing into the parity page a group parity value for data stored in the pages of the parity group. The parity sector represents applying a RAID technique in a first dimension. The group parity represents applying a RAID technique in a second dimension. Data protection is achieved because a corrupted data sector can likely be recovered by the two dimensional RAID data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266053 | SECURITY COMMUNICATION METHOD BETWEEN DEVICES - There is provided a security communication method between devices to tighten the security of data by changing CRC polynomials and scramble codes in the communication between the devices. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266054 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND RESPONSE SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD - A terminal apparatus and a response signal transmitting method wherein the system transmission efficiency can be improved by devising a bundling rule. In a terminal ( | 2012-10-18 |
20120266055 | Systems and Methods for Short Media Defect Detection - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for media defect detection. As an example, a data processing circuit is disclosed that includes a defect detector circuit and a comparator circuit. The defect detector circuit is operable to calculate a correlation value combining at least three of a data input derived from a medium, a detector extrinsic output, a detector intrinsic output and a decoder output. The comparator circuit is operable to compare the correlation value to a threshold value and to assert a media defect indicator when the correlation value is less than the threshold value. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266056 | INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A method for providing an electronic document to a user in which the electronic document has one or more pages and one or more content placeholders associated with the pages. The method includes the steps of: providing content for insertion into the electronic document, inserting content into one or more content placeholders in response to a request by the user, and displaying the one or more pages of the electronic document with the content inserted in the one or more content placeholders. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266057 | ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER - A system for conveying printed information to a user, the system including a server receiving a data file representing an image, a software hosted on the server to generate an HyperText Markup Language environment including the image represented by the data file, wherein the HyperText Markup Language environment facilitates the manipulation of the image represented by the data file, and a user interface having a web browser to display the HyperText Markup Language environment to the user, wherein the image represented by the data file is viewable by the user. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266058 | EmovieBook - An author enhances the reading experience by adding hyperlinks from the internet, inside their (e)book, script, instructional booklet, or manuscript that displays a visual/audio/text companion. Scripts with links show how scenes should look—similar to a movie or TV show pilot but shorter. Electronic Movie Book (EmovieBook) is a book with links to visual/audio/text aids. Any computer with internet access is required. The method is reading with hyperlinks to visual/audio/text aids, references or instruction. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266059 | NETWORKED FINANCIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a networked computer system provides regulated financial services from a regulated computer system in conjunction with unregulated content from an unregulated computer system. A user's device is redirected from the unregulated computer system to the regulated computer system, and data representing at least one page to be rendered to the user is transferred from the unregulated computer system to the regulated computer system. The regulated computer system adds regulated content to the data from the unregulated computer system and serves the data to the user's device for rendering. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266060 | ADVANCED EMBED CODE - An embed code that can be copied from a first web site for placement in a second web site by users is disclosed. The embed code will render a content object from the second web site on a number of supported platforms. Autonomously, the embed code chooses from multiple playback options to choose one for the web browser rendering the embed code, for example, Flash,™ HTML5, Silverlight,™ or a media player. Wherever the embed code is placed in a web site, a wide range of end user devices are supported without needing to reference other locations on the Internet, i.e., the embed code alone can automatically configure to play on that wide range of end user devices. The content object may be hosted or stored in various locations with the embed code accessing the proper version of the end user device. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266061 | Procedurally Expressing Graphic Objects For Web Pages - A graphics object can be expressed using procedural language embedded in a markup language document. In an embodiment, a drawing space is specified in markup language. A drawing command to arbitrarily draw a graphics object into the drawing space is specified in procedural language. Interpretation of the markup and procedural language commands results in the rendering of the arbitrary graphics object. In another embodiment, there is a browser comprising a rendering engine, an interpreter, and parser. The rendering engine is configured to interpret a markup language instruction that specifies a drawing space as well as drawing commands in procedural language for drawing an arbitrary graphical object into the drawing space. The parser can then parse the drawing commands and convert them into an execution tree of tree objects. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266062 | ROUTE CONFIGURATION IMPLEMENTATION METHOD AND ROUTING DEVICE - The embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communication technologies and disclose a route configuration implementation method and a routing device, The route configuration implementation method includes: when it has been detected that an address entered in a browser is a locally configured address, analyzing a type of a display connected to a routing device; and if the display is a display of a first type, providing a pre-stored simplified page for the browser for displaying, where the pre-stored simplified page includes a route configuration page, and a page of the browser is displayed through the display and the simplified page is smaller than a regular page to match the screen of the display of the first type, where the resolution of the screen of the display of the first type is lower than that of a regular screen. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266063 | Systems and Methods for Creating and Maintaining a Customized Version of a Master Document - Methods for managing updates to customized documents and customized master documents including customized specification documents include receiving an update containing updated information for inclusion in a previously customized specification document, determining whether the updated information of the update impacts a customized portion of the previously customized specification document, and selectively merging the updated information with the previously customized specification document to generate a new customized specification document. The update and/or any impacted customizations may be presented to a user to permit the user to provide input into how the updated information and the previously customized specification document should be merged to generate the new customized specification document. Metadata regarding customizations of the previously customized specification document and metadata regarding any updates incorporated into the new customized specification document may be tracked and stored with the customized specification documents to facilitate merging of the updates and the customized information. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABBREVIATING INFORMATION SENT TO A VIEWING DEVICE - A system and method for transporting user-requested framed data from a gateway device to a handheld viewing device includes an information source, a gateway device, a relay network and a handheld viewing device. The gateway device includes a fetch and cache component, storage, and a wireless transport layer. The wireless transport layer delivers content from the gateway to the handheld viewing device. The user of the handheld device is then graphically presented with a representative form of the data and is thus able to manually select certain frames of data through a user interface. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266065 | Automatically Detecting Layout of Bidirectional (BIDI) Text - Automatically detecting the layout of a bidirectional (BIDI) text. In one embodiment, this comprises: determining a shaping attribute of the text based on scanning the text to detect at least one character of a specific shape, while preferably ignoring initial, final, and stand-alone shaped characters; determining a text type attribute of the text from the shaping attribute; and determining an orientation attribute of the text from the determined text type. A numeric shaping attribute and a symmetric swapping attribute may also be determined. Embodiments of the invention may be used, by way of illustration but not of limitation, for bidirectional layout transformation to allow conversion of a BIDI text received from a source computer system in a source BIDI layout format into a layout format of a target computer system. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266066 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDING SUBJECT-DEPENDENT FEEDBACK - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a network connection; a user interface for receiving input from a user of the digital image display device; and a program memory. The program memory stores executable instructions for receiving a set of digital media assets and associated metadata using the network connection; displaying a digital media asset on the display screen; identifying a subject depicted in the displayed digital media asset; determining a particular set of feedback message choices responsive to the determined subject; displaying the particular set of feedback message choices on the display screen; receiving input via the user interface to select a particular feedback message choice; and using the network connection to provide the selected feedback message. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266067 | TRANSLATING USER INTERFACE SOUNDS INTO 3D AUDIO SPACE - Translating user interface sounds into 3D audio comprises: receiving an audio request call from a process relating to a user interface event; converting the audio request call into a position in 3D audio space representative of the process from which the call has been received; and playing a corresponding sound in a surround sound system in the position in 3D audio space. Each open application in a graphical user interface may be provided with a sound space, in the 3D audio space, from which any event sounds are played. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266068 | Responsive Scroller Controls in Server-Hosted Applications - Environments are disclosed in which a server executes an application on behalf of a client device and, in particular, to providing responsive scrolling in server-hosted applications. In one example, a remote computing device may be a mobile (or stationary) computing device with (or without) a touch screen input surface. Some or all of the client-server communication between a client-side scrollable UI control module of the remote computing device and a server-side scrollable UI control module of the server device may occur in an asynchronous manner. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266069 | TV Internet Browser - A TV Internet browser is described. The TV Internet browser includes features which facilitate the browsing of the Internet from a television including, for example, support for 3D pointing, scrolling and zooming/panning mode control, adaptations to support entry of text into text boxes, searching, and other features. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266070 | Selectable Point of View (SPOV) Graphical User Interface for Animation or Video - A method for allowing a viewer or user of an animation or video to select from among a number of available points of view consists of the viewer or user interacting with a graphical user interface containing control elements designed for this purpose. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266071 | AUDIO CONTROL OF MULTIMEDIA OBJECTS - In some examples, aspects of the present disclosure may include techniques for audio control of one or more multimedia objects. In one example, a method includes receiving an electronic document that includes a group of one or more multimedia objects capable of generating audio data. The method also includes registering a multimedia object of the group of one or more multimedia objects, wherein registering the multimedia object comprises storing a multimedia object identifier that identifies the multimedia object. The method further includes receiving audio data; and determining, by a computing device, a volume level of the audio data generated by the registered multimedia object based on one or more configuration parameters, wherein the one or more configuration parameters define one or more volume levels associated with the multimedia object identifier. The method also includes outputting, to an output device, the audio data at the determined volume level. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266072 | Method And System For A Digital Diary System - A wireless communication device may generate an interactive digital diary for one or more users. The device may handle location information, multimedia data, transactions and/or secure communications via a plurality of technologies. Digital diary information may be stored internally or externally, it may be searchable and/or may comprise moving images, still images, audio, text, geographic location, entity information, time, date, transactions, financial information, consumer information, security information, user input, communications, user contacts, software applications, user profiles, scheduled events, prompts and/or reminders. The digital diary may comprise an interactive user interface which may have mapping capability and may provide link access to digital diary information and/or associated entities. User input methods may comprise screen touch, pressure sensor, key entry and/or voice. Information may be captured via a camera, microphone, geo-location data receiver, transaction write/reader, digital clock, digital calendar, key entry and/or tactile sensor. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266073 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING REPORTER SERVER - Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for managing a plurality of information technology devices in an information technology environment in which the plurality of information technology devices are connected to a network. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266074 | NAVIGATING PERFORMANCE DATA FROM DIFFERENT SUBSYSTEMS - Performance data can be collected from different runtime environment subsystems of a computer system while the computer system is running a program in the runtime environment. A visualization model can be displayed, and a visual query of the integrated data can be received at the visualization model. Queried data can be compiled and displayed in response to the visual query. The queried data can be drilled into in response to user input. In response to a navigation request, navigation can lead to a programming element related to a portion of the queried data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266075 | RICH CONTENT DOWNLOAD - According to the invention, a content download system for downloading a content file and additional content using a window is disclosed. The content download system includes a content site, a content provider and a third party. The content site presents the window that displays the download progress of the content file, presents the additional content while the content file is downloaded, and allows selection of the additional content. The content provider serves as an origin server for the content file. The third party receives information on the content file and provides the additional content. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266076 | CUSTOMIZING PERISHABLE CONTENT OF A MEDIA CHANNEL - A user can specify particular news, weather, traffic, or other perishable content received on a particular Internet radio station or other media channel. The user can customize the station so that wherever the user is currently located, he can receive perishable content related to a preferred geographic location or other category. In some embodiments, a user can specify that a customized station plays local news from one city at the top of the hour, traffic from another city at 10 minutes past the hour, and music or other content at other times. The user can also customize the station to select the perishable content, or other original content, from the personal libraries of specified users. Thus, a user can customize not only the genre of content or select a particular local station, but can also modify the perishable content provided by the customized station. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266077 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDING FEEDBACK MESSAGES - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a network connection; a user interface; and a program memory. The program memory stores executable instructions for receiving a set of digital media assets and associated metadata using the network connection, wherein each digital media asset is provided by a particular individual using a particular sharing method; displaying a digital media asset on the display screen; identifying a subject depicted in the displayed digital media asset; displaying a set of feedback message choices on the display screen; receiving input via the user interface to select a particular feedback message choice; and using the network connection to provide the selected feedback message to the particular individual who provided the digital media asset using the particular sharing method that was used to provide the displayed digital media asset. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266078 | System and Method for Accessing and Displaying Remotely Backed Up Data by Deploying a Windows Desktop Style User Interface - A system and method for accessing and displaying remotely backup data by deploying Windows desktop style User Interface. Upon invoking the application program installed on a local computer, the remotely backed up data can be accessed from the application User Interface after establishing a connection with the remote backup server via a network. The application program running on the local computer displays remotely stored data through a User Interface identical to the desktop of the windows operating system running on the local computer from where backup was taken. More specifically, the data is stored under the same folder names and same folder hierarchy including the icon names and positions of the icons, taskbar and start button on the windows desktop of the local computer. The user is easily able to visually recognize the same file system from the remote backup sever as is available on the local computer. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266079 | USABILITY OF CROSS-DEVICE USER INTERFACES - Mechanisms are provided that improve the usability of remote access between different devices or with different platforms by predicting user intent and, based in part on the prediction, offering the user appropriate interface tools or modifying the present interface accordingly. Mechanisms for creating and using gesture maps that improve usability between cross-device user interfaces are also provided. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266080 | Environment Independent User Preference Communication - Included are embodiments of a method for communicating user preferences to at least one environment. At least one embodiment includes receiving a request from an environment for preference information related to a user and receiving a user identifier from the environment, the user identifier obtained via a portable user device. Other embodiments include determining at least one user preference related to the user, determining capabilities related to the environment, and communicating at least one user preference to the environment. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266081 | DISPLAY SHOWING INTERSECTION BETWEEN USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system generates a friendship page that displays social graph data common to two or more social networking system users. A user requests the page by identifying two or more social networking system. The social networking system obtains social graph data common to the identified social networking system users and generates a friendship page containing that social graph data. The obtained social graph data may include interactions between each of the identified user and/or social networking system objects with which each of the identified users has interacted. Examples of the types of social graph data may include photos, videos, communications, content items, events, locations, friends, family members, biographical data, and location data. The friendship page may be displayed to the requesting user in a web browser or in a native application. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266082 | EMAIL CLIENT LANDSCAPE DISPLAY TRANSITION - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for an email application are provided. More particularly, a change in the operating mode of a multiple screen device from a multiple screen operating mode to a single screen operating mode, or from a single screen operating mode to a multiple screen operating mode, can be determined. Moreover, a change in the operating mode can effect a change in a presentation of a user interface associated with an email application. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface can be retained, where the number of screens of the device in view of the user is changed, provided a user interface for the email application remains in view of the user after the change in operating mode. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266083 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a graphical user interface that displays information on a plurality of different types of content on a single screen. The graphical user interface includes an overview display area and a detail display area. The overview display area displays an overview of the information on the content in chronological order, based on time information for the plurality of the different types of content. The detail display area displays, in greater detail, the information on the content that corresponds to the time information that is selected in the overview display area. Scrolling the information that is displayed in the overview display area causes the information on the content that is displayed in the detail display area to be scrolled. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266084 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDING INDIVIDUALIZED FEEDBACK - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a network connection; a user interface for receiving input from a user of the digital image display device; and a program memory. The program memory stores executable instructions for receiving a set of digital media assets and associated metadata using the network connection; displaying a digital media asset on the display screen; determining a particular individual who provided the displayed digital media asset; determining a particular set of feedback message choices responsive to the determined particular individual; displaying the particular set of feedback message choices on the display screen; receiving input via the user interface to select a particular feedback message choice; and using the network connection to provide the selected feedback message to the individual who provided the digital media asset. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266085 | Guidance System and Method for Identifying a Component of a Complex Product or System - A system for local client stations connected to a web server connecting with a database server enables a local client station to identify a necessity in a complex product or system, such as a detail or a spare part, in a commercially available store or stock storage of an arbitrary location, in order to provide guidance and replacement parts to a user. Any combination of verbal or figurative overview is presented to the user at an overarching structural level from which the user interactively can choose, via an interactive interface and based on memorizable facts, to a next, less over-arching structural level, in at least two steps, until at a level corresponding to a detail level (target level) at which an item sought for is found. Choices can be made based on facts corresponding to the memorizable facts carried along and displayed on the actual detail level. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266086 | METHOD OF SHARING MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT AMONG USERS IN A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK - In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for sharing multi-media content among a plurality of users in a computer network comprises creating a plurality of user accounts, each of said user accounts corresponding to one of the plurality of users, and having a plurality of interactive features including a first feature that permits the user to upload the multi-media content to the computer network; forming a user network including one or more of the plurality of user accounts in communication with one or more other user accounts and to the uploaded multi-media content via the computer network; categorizing the uploaded multi-media content in accordance with the subject matter of the uploaded multi-media content; organizing the uploaded multimedia content in a competitive format; and establishing a hierarchy for the uploaded multi-media content within the competitive format as a function of a competitive measurement system. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266087 | NETWORKED COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING AND OPERATING IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to interactive virtual reality networked computer systems and methods that facilitate communication and operation in a virtual reality environment. The virtual reality networked computer system has an infrastructure that includes a number of users, hosts and servers. The interconnected hosts and servers allow users to effectively locate, activate, access and interact within virtual reality environments in a variety of different ways. For example, users can establish user groups such that interaction within the virtual reality environment occurs between hosts (accessed by users) without the need of a central or dedicated server. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266088 | CONTEXTUAL TEMPLATES FOR MODIFYING OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for modifying object styles in a virtual universe. An object is rendered in accordance with a first contextual style template from a plurality of contextual style templates. The first contextual style template comprises first geometric and texture data to display the object with a first style. In response to detecting a set of contextual changes associated with the object, a second contextual style template is identified from the plurality of contextual style templates. The set of contextual changes triggers implementation of the second contextual style template to change the first style of the object to a second style. The object is rendered in accordance with second geometric and texture data in the second contextual style template to form a modified object, wherein the modified object is displayed with the second style. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266089 | PANELS ON TOUCH - Methods and systems for displaying content on a webpage are disclosed. The method may include receiving an application indication to open a first application on a touch device. The method may further include displaying the first application on the touch device as a panel overlaid on a portion of a viewable area of a webpage that is currently displayed on the touch device, and displaying a first icon on the touch device relative to the panel and the webpage, the icon representative of the first application. The content of the webpage may be viewable and accessible on a single display window for ease of convenience when navigating from the first application to the second application. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266090 | Browser Intermediary - A browser intermediary provides a user interface that displays representations of various types of available web-based content. Selection of a particular web-based content from the browser intermediary causes a web browser application to be launched and the selected web-based content to be loaded in the browser user interface. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266091 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING USER DEVICE AND SERVICE AS SOCIAL OBJECTS - A method and apparatus for representing a user device and a service as social objects include: registering user information; receiving social Web service account information of the user from a social Web service, and registering the social Web service account information in relation to the user information; and receiving information about the user device and information about services executed in the user device, and registering the received information in relation to the user information. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266092 | Method and Apparatus for Performing a Function in an Electronic Device - A method and apparatus for performing a function in an electronic device includes an electronic device displaying | 2012-10-18 |
20120266093 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANAGING CONTENTS USING THE SAME - A method of managing contents using an image display device, and which includes connecting, via a network interface unit of the image display device, a mobile terminal to the image display device; displaying, on a display unit of the image display device, a first display screen including an input stream processed by the image display device; displaying, on a display unit of the image display device, a third display screen including at least one of first contents stored in the image display device and second contents stored in the image display device; displaying, on the display unit of the image display device, a second display screen including a Quick Access tray; receiving, via an input unit of the image display device, a first input command indicating a selection of one of the first or second contents and placing of the selected one of the first or second contents in the displayed Quick Access tray; creating, via controller of the image display device, a Quick Access item corresponding to the selected one of the first or second contents in the displayed Quick Access tray based on the first input command; receiving a second input command indicating a selection of the created Quick Access item; and executing an application corresponding to the selected Quick Access item on one of the first and third display screens of the image display device based on the second input command. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266094 | Monitoring Process Control System - A system includes an identification component configured to identify a set of key performance indicators that fail to satisfy predetermined acceptance criteria based on acquired performance data, where the set of key performance indicators is indicative of performance of components of a process control system. The system further includes a visualization component configured to visually present the identified set of key performance indicators, the components, and the acquired performance data in a graphical user interface displayed via a monitor. The system further includes a manual override component configured to allow a user to manually override and modify the information presented by the graphical user interface based, at least in part, on the acquired performance data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120266095 | User Interface For Multi-Device Control - A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of system components connected via a wired and/or wireless communications network. The system components include audio/visual components (such as, televisions, monitors, PDAs, notepads, notebooks, MP3, portable stereo, etc.) as well as household appliances (such as, lighting, ovens, alarm clocks, etc.). A portable controller allows a user to access and control the system components from any location within a controlled residential and/or non-residential environment, including its surrounding areas. The portable controller includes a user and management interface that contains customized control screens for the system components. The control screens are stored in a hierarchical architecture that is searchable by region or component type. | 2012-10-18 |