| 44th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights (10-29-09/10-29-09_59) part 59 |
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| 20090271626 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ESTABLISHING SECURITY ASSOCIATIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A method of providing secure communications between a base station, a relay station, and a mobile station in a communication network includes authenticating the mobile station over the communication network; generating, by the base station, security material, wherein the security material comprises at least one of a traffic encryption key (TEK) and a message authentication code key (MACK); transmitting, by the base station, the security material to the mobile station; and transmitting, by the base station, the security material to the relay station. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271627 | Secure Data Transmission - A method of facilitating secure sending of a message from a sender to a recipient over a network, comprising establishing communication between a sender side and a recipient trusted server having knowledge of an encryption key of recipient; obtaining a messaging key comprising a messaging encryption key and a messaging decryption key; exchanging messaging key data between sender side and recipient trusted server such that sender side has knowledge of the messaging encryption key and recipient trusted server has knowledge of the messaging decryption key; encrypting messaging decryption key with recipient's encryption key by recipient trusted server; transmitting messaging decryption key encrypted by recipient's encryption key from recipient trusted server to sender side, and transmitting messaging decryption key encrypted by recipient's encryption key from sender side to recipient and transmitting the message encrypted by messaging encryption key directly from sender side to recipient. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271628 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEY EXCHANGE AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING PARAMETER TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH - The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for reducing the parameter transmission bandwidth. The parameter sender reduces the values of the parameters before sending the parameters to the parameter receiver. This scheme reduces the bandwidth consumed during parameter transmission, thus makes the transmission more efficient. The embodiment of the present disclosure also discloses a method for key exchange. This method reduces the values of the transmission parameters before sending the transmission parameters. This saves the bandwidth compared with the protocol in the prior art. Besides, the embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a system for key exchange. The parameter sender sends the transmission parameters to the bandwidth processing unit. The bandwidth processing unit performs a modulo operation on the received transmission parameters and then sends the processed transmission parameters to the parameter receiver, thus reducing the bandwidth consumed in the transmission of transmission parameters. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271629 | WIRELESS PAIRING CEREMONY - A security token is coupled to a computer and is available for use by both local and remote processes for on-demand response to a challenge. To minimize the security risk of an unattended session, the challenge may be issued to verify the presence of the token. When the token has a user interface, it may be used in conjunction with the computer to require that a user also participate in transferring displayed data between the token and computer. This helps to ensure that not only the token, but the user are both present at the computer during operation. For the most sensitive operations, such a confirmation may be required with each data submission. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271630 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE - Provided are an authentication method, authentication system and a terminal device in which the authentication of a non-participating third node is can be simplified and can be executed in the case of multicast by using an authentication ticket in a distributed processing network system, the non-participating third node being intended to access each of the nodes, including a first and a second node, constituting a workgroup. The first node that has already participated in the workgroup authenticates the third node intended to participate in the workgroup and issues the authentication ticket including the signatures of both nodes, and when the authentication ticket is submitted to the second node, the second node permits the third node to access, without password-based-authentication, by authenticating the first node and the second node which have signed the authentication ticket. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271631 | ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE VERIFYING METHOD - A key creating device creates a first public key and a first secret key of the electronic signature method satisfying the noncounterfeitability and a second public key and the first secret key of the chameleon commitment method. The signature device generates a commitment, a first random number according to the Com algorithm, and a first signature by using the first secret key. The signature device further generates a second random number according to the Cam algorithm by using the message written by adding a first signature to an object message, and creates an electronic signature by combining the first signature and the second random number. A verifying device receives the signed message written by adding the first signature included in the electronic signature to the object message, creates a commitment according to the ComVer algorithm, and performs verification by using the commitment and the first signature. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271632 | SECRET AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - Authentication data indicating authenticity of a client is distributed into a plurality of function data as distributed data, the plurality of function data including function data specifying a function and rule data specifying the authentication data from the function. The client and a server shares a portion of the plurality of function data. The client calculates verification data from the function data unshared with the server, by performing a calculation process difficult for a third party to calculate the function data, and transmits the verification data to the server. The server verifies authenticity of the client based on the authentication data and distributed data per client stored therein, and the verification data received from the client. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271633 | Data Access and Identity Verification - A user access interface for a processor device comprises a control program adapted to receive a first access data indicative of a first access key, so that upon receiving the first access data the control program causes the database to be interrogated, thereby obtaining a first verification data that is indicative of access verification for one or more accessible services associated with the first access data, the physical access key and a respective registered first user. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271634 | Bio-Cryptograhpy : Secure cryptographic protocols with bipartite biotokens - Techniques, systems and methods are described relating to combining biometric and cryptographic techniques to support securely embedding data within a token and subsequent biometrically-enabled recovery of said data. Various transformation approaches are described that provide a secure means for transforming a stored or live, secure biometric-based identity token, embedding data into such tokens and biometric-based matching to both verify the user's identity and recover the embedded data. Security enhancements to a range of existing protocols are described using the techniques. Systems using novel protocols based on these techniques are described | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271635 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTHENTICATION - The present invention discloses a method and system for authentication. The method for authentication includes: acquiring the privilege security level corresponding to a client-end; inquiring the identity security level corresponding to the privilege security level according to an established relation of association between privilege security level and identity security level; determining the authentication parameters for identity authentication according to the identity security level; performing identity authentication on the client-end using the authentication parameters; and obtaining an authentication result. The identity authentication and privilege authentication are combined, and identity authentication is performed according to the identity security level in accord with the privilege security level so that rules of identity authentication can be adjusted, and the flexibility of the process of authentication may be improved. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271636 | COMPUTER ENABLED SECURE STATUS RETURN - Computer related method and apparatus to transmit a logical value (e.g., 1 or 0) between two entities, such as an operating system and application program, in a secure way in an insecure environment. The logical status is sent by in effect encrypting it using two random numbers, one from each entity, before sending it to the other entity. However the encrypting is much “lighter” (requiring much less computer or circuit resources) than any conventional secure cipher and has a built-in verification feature. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND STATUS NOTIFICATION METHOD - The present invention aims at providing an information processing terminal, a status notification system, and a status notification method that can protect both privacy and security when a status of the information processing terminal is notified to a server. An information processing terminal | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271638 | Storage system with an encryption function - To reduce the performance degradation of storage system, this invention provides a storage system comprising a disk drive and a disk controller. The disk controller provides a storage area of the disk drive to a host computer; executes a processing of switching an encryption key that is used to encrypt data stored in the logical volume from a first encryption key to a second encryption key; encrypts write data requested to be written with the second encryption key when the write request for one of storage areas within the logical volume that stores data for which switching of encryption keys has not been finished is received while the encryption key switching processing is being executed; and writes the encrypted write data in the logical volume to switch encryption keys for data stored in the storage area where the data is requested to be written by the received write request. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271639 | Personal Wireless Network Power-Based Task Distribution - Apparatus and method for dynamically reassigning between a plurality of personal portable devices in a wireless network one or more task portions of a task that have been distributed among the personal portable devices in response to at least one of the personal portable devices having diminishing access to electric power. A reassignment may be prompted by the remaining electric power available to one of the personal portable devices diminishing to a predetermined level, and/or it may be prompted as a result of a goal of causing the remaining operating times of the personal portable devices engaged in performing the task to be as close to equal as possible. A reassignment may be prompted by the remaining electric power available to one of the personal portable devices being changed either by the coupling of that personal portable device to an external power supply or by a suspension of execution of a task routine associated with a task portion that had been assigned to that personal portable device. A reassignment of a particular task routine between two of the personal portable devices may be forestalled as a result of it being impermissible to transmit a copy of a task routine associated with a task portion and/or a piece of data associated with that task routine from one of the two personal portable devices to the other. A task portion reassigned between two personal portable devices may be associated with communications between personal portable devices and its reassignment may result in a changing in topological positions of the two personal portable devices within the topology of the wireless network. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271640 | Storage device and method of starting the same - An OOB sequence monitoring unit detects that an OOB sequence carried out between a base device as a superior device and a connection I/F which operates even if an extension device is in a standby state has proceeded to a given stage. Based on the detection by the OOB sequence monitoring unit, a power supply control unit instructs a starting power supply unit to supply power. When the extension device starts, the OOB sequence is carried out between the extension device and the connection I/F of another extension device in the same manner. As a result, extension devices are started in decreasing order from the extension device closest to the superior device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271641 | Method and apparatus for quick resumption - When transitioning from sleep mode to active mode, a processing system loads first stage resume content and second stage resume content into a volatile memory of the processing system. The first stage resume content may contain contextual data for a first program that was in use before the processing system transitioned to sleep mode. The second stage resume content may contain contextual data for another program that was in use before the processing system transitioned to sleep mode. The processing system may provide a user interface for the first program before all of the second stage resume content has been loaded into the volatile memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271642 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CAPABLE OF SAVING POWER AND OPTIMIZING OPERATING EFFICIENCY OF POWER SUPPLIES FOR PROVIDING POWER WITH BACK-UP OR REDUNDANCY TO PLURAL LOADS - The present invention relates to a power management system comprising at least one power management subsystem. Each power management subsystem comprises a first power module coupled to a first load and comprising at least one first power supply for supplying power to the first load; a second power module coupled to a second load and comprising at least one second power supply, wherein at least one second power supply is retractably installed in the second power module and selectively coupled to the second load; and a pass-through module comprising at least one pass-through unit retractably installed in the second power module to replace with the at least one second power supply and selectively connecting the first power module to the second load for allowing the first power module to supply power to the second load. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271643 | REAL-TIME INFERENCE OF POWER EFFICIENCY METRICS FOR A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that measures a power efficiency of a computer system. During operation, the system collects telemetry data from a set of sensors within the computer system. Next, the system determines a power consumption of the computer system from the telemetry data and determines a number of input/output operations per second (IOPS) for the computer system from the telemetry data. Finally, the system computes an IOPS per watt metric from the power consumption and the number of IOPS. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271644 | ENERGY EFFICIENT METHOD TO WAKE HOST SYSTEM FOR CHARGING BATTERY POWERED PORTABLE DEVICES VIA BUS POWERED EXTERNAL I/O PORTS - Optimized bus powered peripheral battery charging includes a circuit to initiate a change in an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) state in a controller allowing charging of a peripheral device battery, the circuit including a signal converter coupled between an input port and the controller to sense when a the peripheral device battery is coupled to an input port and to restrict the controller from changing ACPI state multiple times for a given peripheral device battery coupling; and a ground loop detector coupled in parallel to the signal converter between the input port and the controller to allow the controller to know that the peripheral device battery has maintained being coupled to the input port. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271645 | Management apparatus, storage apparatus and information processing system - Proposed are a management apparatus, a storage apparatus, and an information processing system capable of improving the storage apparatus performance and power saving efficiency. This management apparatus connected to a storage apparatus arranged in a power supply range set with a threshold value of power supplied externally includes a control unit configured to control, based on electric energy used for operating one or more conducting parts that are energized through supply of external power and subject to power saving control and the power threshold value, the power supplied to the one or more conducting parts in conducting part units. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271646 | Power Management Using Clustering In A Multicore System - A multi-core system including cores and voltage sources supplying power to the cores. The cores are divided into clusters based on the particular voltage source supplying power to each core. Power management is performed in the multi-core system based on one or more of core utilization and a management policy. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271647 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD AND CURCUIT IN COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT - A circuit includes: an input buffer for storing input data; a plurality of processing sections connected in series including a head processing section and a tail-end processing section to sequentially process the input data; and a power supply controller for controlling power supply to each of the plurality of processing sections depending on a lapse of time during which no input data is stored in the input buffer. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271648 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA WRITING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An information processing apparatus comprises: a creation unit creating a preset number of pieces of second data by duplicating first data, and holding the second data in a predetermined area or sending the second data to another information processing apparatus; a first writing unit for writing the first data in a first storage device; an activation unit activating power to a second storage device at a predetermined time, the second storage device being in a stopped state; a second writing unit for writing the second data in the second storage device activated by the activation unit by retrieving the second data from the predetermined area or another information processing apparatus after the second storage device is activated by the activation unit; a stop unit stopping power to the second storage device in which the second data is written by the second writing unit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271649 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR PHASE SHEDDING - A voltage regulator phase shedding system includes one or more subsystems to inventory memory power requirements of an IHS component, calculate a calculated memory power consumption, compare the calculated memory power consumption to a predetermined table of values to determine which phases of the voltage regulator to turn on, apply system power, assert desired phases of the voltage regulator after power is applied to the voltage regulator, and enable the voltage regulator to operate the desired phases of the voltage regulator. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271650 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A computer system includes multiple ports to which at least one external device is connected and which are connectable to multiple power supplying lines branched from a power supplying line for supplying electric power to the at least one external device; a switching unit which controls connections between the power supplying lines and the ports; and a controller which controls the switching unit so that two or more power supplying lines among the power supplying lines are connected to a first port, to which one of the at least one external device is connected, among the ports. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271651 | Method and System for Reducing Latency in Data Transfer Between Asynchronous Clock Domains - A method and an interfacing circuit are disclosed for transmitting data between a first clock domain operating at a first clock frequency C | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271652 | METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING SIMULTANEOUS SWITCHING INDUCED DATA OUTPUT TIMING SKEW - A method of determining timing skew between data outputs of a memory device can include writing a predetermined data pattern to a memory device at a first operational frequency that is less than a normal operational frequency used to write non-predetermined data to the memory device. The memory device is read to output the predetermined data pattern therefrom at a second operational frequency that is greater than the first operational frequency and about equal to a normal operational frequency used to read non-predetermined data from the memory device. Timing skew is determined between outputs from the memory device based on the actual time when the predetermined data is provided from the memory device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - A data synchronization system and method. The method includes that when a change happens in a source application, data is collected from a source application based on a target application subscribing the source application and collection data is transmitted to the target application or is directly inserted to target database. The system includes data collection unit and distribution unit. The present invention may realize synchronization on demand, simultaneously reduce greatly synchronous data quantity, decrease network load, and guarantee smoothness and stabilization of network. The present invention applies to data synchronization of enterprise internal/external data systems, telecommunication networks, etc. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271654 | CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to ensure, in an information processing system including a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, reliability and availability thereof when failover is executed. In an information processing system, which includes a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, and a management server coupled to the server apparatuses, and is configured to, when detecting occurrence of a failure in an active server apparatus of the server apparatuses, execute failover from the active server apparatus to a standby server apparatus of the server apparatuses after turning on a power supply of the standby server apparatus whose power supply having been turned off, the management server is enabled to: acquire information on the standby server apparatus after turning on the power supply of the standby server apparatus; turn off the power supply of the standby server apparatus after acquiring the information; and, based on the acquired information, judge whether or not failover to the standby server apparatus can be executed. Additionally, an acquisition method of the information can be selected in accordance with an allocated status of the standby server apparatus. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271655 | FAILOVER METHOD, PROGRAM, FAILOVER APPARATUS AND FAILOVER SYSTEM - The invention is to provide a failover method for improving overall reliability of a system including a large number of servers. Priorities set based on operating statuses of respective servers and shared devices capable of communicating with the respective servers in a failover system are stored in a storage portion while the priorities are associated with the respective servers, so that a failure processing portion of a management server retrieves a server based on the priorities and designates the retrieved server as a spare server when a failure occurs in one of the servers. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271656 | STREAM DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND FAILURE DETECTION METHOD - Provided are a stream distribution system and a failure detection method capable of easily identifying the cause of quality loss in stream distribution. This stream distribution system includes a first server for communicating with a client terminal via a router and sending stream data, and a second server configured as a redundant server of the first server and connected to the first server. The first server has a communication status notification unit for sending a connection management table concerning the communication with the client terminal to the second server. The second server has a packet recording unit for acquiring a mirror packet, which is a copy of a packet sent to the first server, from the router, and a network failure monitoring unit for detecting a failure in a network between the first server and the client terminal based on the connection management table and a packet buffer. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271657 | Drive health monitoring with provisions for drive probation state and drive copy rebuild - The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for monitoring drive health. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271658 | NO DATA LOSS IT DISASTER RECOVERY OVER EXTENDED DISTANCES - Systems and methods operating over extended distances provide for recovery of data and operational continuity of computer applications accessing data within an information technology system if an event occurs effecting access to the data. In one embodiment, an extended distance data recovery system ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271659 | RAID REBUILD USING FILE SYSTEM AND BLOCK LIST - This embodiment (a system) addresses and reduces the RAID build time by only rebuilding the used blocks and omitting the unused blocks. This starts after a disk drive from a RAID system is failed and replaced and storage controller starts the process of rebuilding the data on the new disk drive. Storage controller determines the logical volumes that must be rebuilt, send a message requesting only used blocks for these logical volumes from the volume manager and then uses this information and only rebuild the used blocks for the failed disk system. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271660 | MOTHERBOARD, A METHOD FOR RECOVERING THE BIOS THEREOF AND A METHOD FOR BOOTING A COMPUTER - A motherboard, a method for recovering a BIOS thereof, and a method for booting a computer are provided. In the method for booting the computer, a first boot block of a first BIOS unit is executed first, and then a second boot block of a second BIOS unit is executed. Afterwards, BIOS main program codes of the second BIOS unit are executed. When the second BIOS unit is down, a recovery mechanism of the first boot block is used to overwrite data in the second BIOS unit with a backup file. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271661 | STATUS TRANSITION TEST SUPPORT DEVICE, STATUS TRANSITION TEST SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A status transition table generation portion generates a status transition table containing combination information cells provided in the form of a matrix for describing information corresponding to combinations of internal status and event. In a status transition table design support portion, a test path generation portion generates a test path including a series of test cases to be executed as a status transition test, based on information accepted by an operation specification information input acceptance portion. In a test support portion, a test cell highlight portion highlights a combination information cell associated with the next test case to be executed, during execution of the status transition test, and a test result history, an error replication procedure, and test progress are displayed on a display portion. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271662 | STEADY STATE COMPUTER TESTING - A steady state value of each parameter in a set of one or more parameters of a computer system under test is defined, and acts related to the parameter are performed while the system under test is processing one or more test workloads. The acts can include comparing a working value of the parameter with the steady state value of the parameter, as well as operating on one or more workloads to bring the working value closer to a steady state value. This can include increasing or decreasing the working value of the parameter, such as by admitting one or more workloads to the system under test or cancelling one or more workloads from the system under test. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271663 | PROVIDING DETAILED PROGRAM STATE INFORMATION FOR ERROR ANALYSIS - A method of processing application execution errors in a data processing system includes recording function state changes of an application program during execution of the application program as a bitmap. The recorded bitmap is retrieved as a result of an application execution error. The application execution error may be identified using said bitmap. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271664 | METHOD FOR MONITORING DEPENDENT METRIC STREAMS FOR ANOMALIES - A method for monitoring dependent metric streams for anomalies including identifying a plurality of sets of dependent metric streams from a plurality of metric streams of a computer system by measuring an association of the plurality of metric streams using a statistical dependency measure analysis, wherein each set includes a plurality of the dependent metric streams and each metric stream includes a plurality of data, determining a subset of the plurality of sets of dependent metric streams to monitor by selecting a quantity of the sets of dependent metric streams that have a highest statistical dependency, cleaning the data of each set of dependent metric streams of the subset by identifying and removing outlier data, fitting a probability density function to the cleaned data of each set of dependent metric streams of the subset, wherein the probability density function is a likelihood function that provides a likelihood of an occurrence of the cleaned data, determining a detection threshold that is a lower threshold on the likelihood of the occurrence of the cleaned data of each set of dependent metric streams of the subset based on the likelihood function, detecting an anomaly if a likelihood of an occurrence of a new data of one of the sets of dependent metric streams of the subset is less than the detection threshold, and transmitting an alert signal in response to detecting the anomaly. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271665 | Fault Tracing in the Data Bus System of a Vehicle - A data bus system of a motor vehicle includes at least one first and one second control device which communicates with each another via at least one data bus. In order to be able to localize errors more easily, the system has at least one identification device which provides an identifier to each of the messages sent by the first and the second control device. The first control device receives a first message, and the identification device causes the first control device to provide the message sent therefrom with a first identifier. The second control device receives the message sent by the first control device with the first identifier, and the identification device causes the second control device to provide the message sent therefrom with a second identifier. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271666 | MESSAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a message processing device and a method improved to store a plenty of messages used for processing. When a message is transmitted to another node for providing a service, a message processing unit ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271667 | Apparatus and Method for Monitoring Computer System - A system monitoring apparatus specifies an intentionally shutdown system component or monitoring target, and a different monitoring target that is dependent thereon (a dependent target), and does not display an alert even when an error state is detected for a monitoring target inside the intentionally shutdown system component or the intentionally shutdown monitoring target, and the dependent target of the system component or monitoring target. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271668 | Bus Failure Management Method and System - A method, apparatus and program product improve computer reliability by, in part, identifying a plurality of error occurrences from Error Correction Codes. It may then be determined if the plurality of error occurrences are associated with a single bit of a bus. The determined, single bit may correspond to a faulty component of the bus. This level of identification efficiently addresses problems. For instance, a corrective algorithm may be applied if the plurality of error occurrences are associated with the single bit. Alternatively, the bus may be disabled if the plurality of error occurrences are not associated with the single bit of the bus. In this manner, implementations may detect, identify and act in response to multiple failure modes. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271669 | High-Speed Testing of Integrated Devices - A method for allowing high-speed testability of a memory device having a core with memory cells for storing data, comprising: enabling a data signal having a first logical state or a second logical state from the core to reach an output port of the memory device within an evaluate cycle during a functional operating mode and pass an array built in self test during LBIST mode; enabling the data signal to change from the first logical state to the second logical state during LBIST mode at a time that coincides with the latest possible time the data signal from the core can reach the read output port within the evaluate cycle during the functional operating mode and pass the array built in self test; and executing a logic built-in self test configured to test a logic block located downstream of a transmission path of the memory device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271670 | Systems and Methods for Media Defect Detection Utilizing Correlated DFIR and LLR Data - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for media defect detection. For example, a method for detecting a media defect is disclosed. The method includes deriving a data input from a medium and performing a MAP detection on the data input. The MAP detection provides an NRZ output and an LLR output corresponding to the data input. A product of the NRZ output is correlated with a product of the LLR output to produce a correlated output. The correlated output is compared with a threshold value, and a media defect output is asserted based at least in part on the result of the comparison of the correlated output with the threshold value. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271671 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED TEST CONTROLLABILITY AND OBSERVABILITY OF RANDOM RESISTANT LOGIC - A method for implementing improved observability of random resistant logic included in an integrated circuit (IC) design includes configuring a multiplexer device to pass, to a preexisting storage latch within the design, one of: a signal from one or more observation points within the random resistant logic and an output of first preexisting combinational logic; and selecting a preexisting net within the IC design to generate a randomized logic signal that, in a test mode, is passed to the multiplexer device to serve as a control signal thereto; wherein, in the test mode, the existing storage latch captures data randomly selected from either the existing combinational logic and the one or more observation points and in a normal mode, the existing storage latch captures data from only the existing combinational logic, facilitating random testing of the random resistant logic in a manner that avoids adding latches to the design. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271672 | PROBELESS TESTING OF PAD BUFFERS ON WAFER - The peripheral circuitry ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271673 | Dynamically Reconfigurable Shared Scan-In Test Architecture - A low overhead dynamically reconfigurable shared scan-in test architecture is provided. This test architecture advantageously allows for changing scan inputs during the scan operation on a per shift basis. The flexibility of reconfiguring the scan input to scan chain mapping every shift cycle can advantageously reduce both test data volume and test application time. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271674 | SCAN TEST METHOD AND APPARATUS - The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for providing expected data, mask data, and control signals to scan test architectures within a device using the falling edge of a test/scan clock. The signals are provided on device leads that are also used to provide signals to scan test architectures using the rising edge of the test/scan clock. According to the disclosure, device test leads serve to input different test signals on the rising and falling edge of the test/scan clock which reduces the number of interconnects between a tester and the device under test. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271675 | RADIATION INDUCED FAULT ANALYSIS - A method of locating a defect of a failed semiconductor device which includes applying a test pattern to the failed semiconductor device and providing failed semiconductor device test responses as a pass signature, applying radiation to each of multiple locations of circuitry of a correlation semiconductor device with sufficient energy to induce a fault in the circuitry, applying the test pattern to the correlation semiconductor device while the radiation is applied to the location and comparing correlation semiconductor device test responses with the pass signature for each location, and determining a defect location of the failed semiconductor device in which correlation semiconductor device test responses at least nearly match the pass signature. The radiation may be a laser beam. The method may include determining an exact match or a near match based on a high correlation result. Asynchronous scanning may be used to provide timing information. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271676 | Detecting architectural vulnerability of processor resources - In one embodiment, a quantum detector is provided to detect a vulnerability measure for a processor based on a processor metrics each associated with operation of a processor structure during a quantum, along with a controller to control an error mitigation unit based on the vulnerability measure. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271677 | Data Transformation Method and Related Device for a Testing System - A data transformation method for a testing system includes receiving a test signal comprising a test data and a timing information corresponding to the test data, and transforming the test data according to the timing information, so as to generate a test pattern. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271678 | INTERFACE VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON ERROR DETECTION - A method of adjusting an interface voltage includes transferring data between a memory device and a controller, and detecting whether an error occurred in the transfer of data. An interface voltage of at least one of the memory device and the controller is adjusted based on the detection. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271679 | RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND RECEIVING-END APPARATUS - A retransmission control method according to the present invention includes; transmitting, at a transmitter side apparatus | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271680 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND DATA FRAME RETRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A mobile station device ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271681 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR TRANSMITTING DATA PACKETS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for transmitting a plurality of data packets to a receiver in a data communication system. The method comprises the steps of transmitting one or more data packets from a list of data packets to be transmitted ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271682 | RECEIVING/TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD IN THE RECEIVING/TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - A receiving system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a controller, a demodulator, an equalizer, a turbo decoder, and an error correction unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including data packets, wherein an M/H service data packet includes known data and signaling data is periodically inserted for each of K number of data packets. The controller detects known data and decodes the signaling data from the received broadcast signal. The demodulator demodulates the received broadcast signal, based upon the known data. The equalizer channel-equalizes the demodulated broadcast signal, based upon the known data. The turbo decoder performs regressive turbo decoding on mobile service data, among the channel-equalized data, by applying at least one of an SCCC mode and a PCCC mode, based upon the signaling data. The error correction unit performs error correction on the mobile service data being turbo-decoded and outputted, based upon the signaling data. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271683 | System and Method of Processing Video Data - The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of correcting video data errors. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a stream of data packets at a re-generator of an Internet Protocol (IP) video transport stream. The stream of data packets includes a plurality of IP media packets and a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) packets. The method also includes determining an error profile of an error within the plurality of IP media packets. The method includes identifying one of the plurality of FEC packets, where the identified FEC packet is associated with an error correction code corresponding to the error profile. The method also includes selecting an inverse FEC function from a plurality of inverse FEC functions. The selected inverse FEC function corresponds to the identified FEC packet. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271684 | Iterative decoding between turbo and RS decoders for improving bit error rate and packet error rate - A technique for iterative decoding between turbo and Reed Solomon (RS) decoders for improving bit error rate (BER) and packet error rate (PER) in a receiver in a wireless communication system comprises receiving data samples comprising turbo encoded packets and RS code words at the receiver; decoding turbo encoded packets of the received data samples using a turbo decoder; decoding RS code words of the received data samples using a RS decoder; feeding the RS decoded data to turbo decoder to perform a plurality of iterations; and correcting data errors present in the received data samples. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271685 | Method for Processing Packets, an Apparatus for Transmitting Packets, and an Apparatus for Receiving Packets - The present invention discloses a packet processing method, comprising: A. the transmitter acquiring the redundancy information based on the payload of at least one transmitted packet and transmitting the redundancy information to the receiver; B. the receiver restoring the payload of the abnormal packet according to the redundancy information relating to the abnormal packet. The present invention also discloses the packet transmitting apparatuses and packet receiving apparatuses. By performing error correction and restoration for abnormal packets, the present invention improves packet transmission reliability and thus the quality of transmitted media streams. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271686 | COMMUNICATION SIGNAL DECODING WITH ITERATIVE COOPERATION BETWEEN TURBO AND REED-SOLOMON DECODING - Received communication signals may be decoded according to a combined turbo-RS (Reed-Solomon) decoding technique. The turbo decoding is based on information produced by the RS decoding. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271687 | TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN THE TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM - A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method of the same are disclosed. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a demodulator, a block decoder, and an RS frame decoder. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data divided into a plurality of output masses, signaling information associated with the mobile service data, and known data. The demodulator demodulates the received broadcast signal. The block decoder block-decodes the demodulated mobile service data of the plurality of output masses based upon the signaling information, thereby outputting the mobile service data of one output mass. And, the RS frame decoder configures an RS frame with the block-decoded and outputted mobile service data, and performs error-correction decoding on the corresponding mobile service data in RS frame units. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271688 | COMMUNICATION SIGNAL DECODING WITH ITERATIVE COOPERATION BETWEEN INNER AND OUTER CODES - Received communication signals may be decoded according to a combined, iterative inner code-outer code decoding technique. The inner code decoding is based on information produced by the outer code decoding. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271689 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device, comprising: a first encoder configured to encode data having an error detecting code in a first encoding format to generate first data; a second encoder configured to encode the first data in a second encoding format corresponding to decoding of the first encoding format to generate second data; and an error detector configured to perform error detection on the second data based on the error detecting code added to the data. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271690 | HANDLING CROSS-DOMAIN WEB SERVICE CALLS - Methods and apparatus are described for handling asynchronous web service calls across multiple domains. A JavaScript library provides a framework for handling such requests without being restricted by the “same origin” policy enforced by browsers. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271691 | LINKING DIGITAL AND PAPER DOCUMENTS - Various embodiments facilitate linking physical documents to digital documents. Links link physical documents to digital documents. Using a sensor, the physical documents are automatically detected and identified on a digital workspace. A computer is capable of displaying graphics, and user interaction with displayed graphics can be detected. The digital workspace displays a GUI component having one or more controls, and the GUI component is displayed at a location relative to a physical document on the digital workspace. User interaction with the control is detected and either a link between the physical document and one of the digital documents is edited, or an existing link between the physical document and a digital document is used to perform an operation on the digital document. Alternatively or additionally, links may be automatically generated digital documents determined to be implicitly related to the physical document. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271692 | METHOD FOR MAKING DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUM - A method for making a digital photo album on a digital photo frame, the method includes the following steps: selecting a plurality of photos in the digital photo album, and ranking the selected photos, reviewing each of the selected photos one at a time in the digital photo frame, detecting if there is audio input when reviewing each of the selected photos, recording the audio if audio input has been detected, and storing a plurality of information corresponding to the photo. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271693 | ASYNCHRONOUS USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS - A framework for enabling users to create User Defined Functions (UDFs), which can run simultaneously without using multiple calculation threads, is provided. A calculation engine continues a remainder of calculation operations independent of a pending asynchronous function upon starting to run the asynchronous function without waiting to receive a result. The result value is introduced to the computation at a later time during the calculation cycle, when it is received or completed by the calculation engine. When the results are received, downstream operations such as dependent functions are calculated without changing a flow of dependencies within the operations. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271694 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF NULL FIELD VALUES AND EFFECTIVELY NULL FIELD VALUES - Disclosed are systems for, and methods of, automatically detecting and treating field values of a particular field as null field values in records of a database. The system and method provide automatic treatment of these field values as null field values by calculating a critical frequency for the field. Based on the critical frequency of the field, the system and method treats field values that occur more than the critical frequency of the field as null field values and treats field values that occur less than the critical frequency as non-null field values. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271695 | METHOD OF ACCESSING OR MODIFYING A PART OF A BINARY XML DOCUMENT, ASSOCIATED DEVICES - The present invention concerns methods of accessing and modifying a part of a coded document, for example a structured document of Binary XML type, as well as associated devices. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271696 | Conflict Resolution - Embodiments of a collaborative authoring environment enable a user to resolve editing conflicts arising when synchronizing a user copy of a data file with a master copy of the data file. Content updates may be synchronized separately from metadata updates. Metadata updates may be synchronized automatically, whereas content updates may be synchronized only when any identified editing conflicts are resolved. When an editing conflict is identified, the user interface of the authoring application may be configured to toggle between displaying and hiding the identified editing conflicts. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271697 | CREATING A TEXT-EDITABLE WEB PAGE USING A WORD PROCESSOR - Embodiments of a method for providing documents, which may be performed by a system, are described. During operation, the system determines presentation information for content in a first document. Note that the content may include characters, and that the presentation information may specify relative positions of the characters in a framework of the first document. Then, the system generates a second document that includes the presentation information. Next, the system outputs a third document that includes the characters in the first document, where the characters can be presented in the framework based solely on the third document using an interpreter program. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271698 | System reporter-repository auditor - The System Reporter-Repository Auditor is a method for compiling system inventory data in an IPTV solution, including IPTV and database patches, and generating files in editable format. The method involves accumulation of system data in XML and other text format and generation of a configurable file/report from the XML and text files. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271699 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A REPORT THROUGH VIEW TIME INTERACTION - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to open a report including a view time interaction module, to display structured report data provided to the view time interaction module, and to modify the structured report data in response to a call to the report initiated by the view time interaction module, where the call is based on update information generated by the view time interaction module in response to user input. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271700 | TEXT TYPE-AHEAD - Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to index segments of text from multiple sources and receive segments of text being entered into text-entry applications in a floating application. The embodiments may also involve matching the segments of text to indexed segments of text and entering completions of the received segments of text into the text-entry applications. The completions may be based upon the matching, and the completion of a segment may be entered into the text-entry application from which it was received. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271701 | Method for Systematically Identifying Technology-Based Solutions - A process for identifying technology-based solutions in the context of technical component development includes identifying technical components for particular technical systems, as well as the corresponding technological functions associated with the identified technical components. In one embodiment, development obstacles associated with technical component development may be identified. A set of potential solutions corresponding to the identified obstacles may then be generated using prior project information and/or the information accessed from one or more technology databases. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271702 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING USER INTERFACE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE SAME - A user interface switching method, and an electronic device and a recording medium using the same are provided. First, a plurality of user interfaces are provided, and one of the user interfaces is displayed in a touch screen of the portable electronic device. A representative icon bar and a hot key bar are displayed in the touch screen, wherein the representative icon bar comprises representative icons respectively corresponding to the user interfaces and the hot key bar comprises one or more hot keys corresponding to the user interface currently displayed in the touch screen. When the touch screen detects a touch signal which falls within the representative icon bar and is moved therein, the representative icon bar is moved correspondingly, and the displayed user interface and hot keys are also switched according to the representative icon on which the touch signal is terminated. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271703 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book including a plurality of ordinary pages and a list page. Each ordinary page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser. When one of the ordinary pages is displayed as the current page, the user interface or the web page of the current page is accessible to the user of the electronic device. The list page includes a plurality of entries and each of the entries represents one of the ordinary pages. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271704 | DISPLAYING HELP SENSITIVE AREAS OF A COMPUTER APPLICATION - A window of a computer application on a display device is controlled through associating a pop-up window with the screen window of the computer application, wherein the computer application provides more than one screen window and a pop-up window is associated with each screen window of the computer application, and at least one mouse-sensitive area is defined for each screen window of the computer application, such that a mouse click on a mouse-sensitive area causes the appropriate pop-up window to be displayed on the display device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271705 | Method of Displaying Interactive Effects in Web Camera Communication - To allow for greater interactivity in video chat environments, displaying multiple effects from a sender of a first electronic device to a chat client of a second electronic device on a video chat region starts with the sender selecting an effect. If the selected effect has a predetermined mapping interactive effect, the interactive effect is displayed on the chat client. Then, the sender applies the effect or the interactive effect to an application region of the video chat region of the chat client. The application region is a partial or an entire region of the video chat region. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING AND PLAYING DATA - The present invention provides a general solution to presenting media interface and navigation tools for content provided from a plurality of sources. The invention maintains a user at a single site regardless of the source of the media content. This permits a consistent interface to be presented to the user. Because the user remains at the same site, differences in tiered membership may be tracked so that the user is only presented with content that the user is permitted to view. The invention uses a metadata language to characterize content so that viewer type, membership level, and other information can be maintained and used for an enjoyable viewing experience. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271707 | EXTENSIBLE BROWSER PLATFORM FOR WEB APPLICATIONS - An enhancement to a web browser offers an extension mechanism for web applications to utilize client-side resources, thereby moving more extensibility and flexibility to the client-side. The web browser may expose some control interfaces to meet various requirements from web applications. Using the extension mechanism, the web applications are able to offload the cloud servers, function when offline, and improve performance. The extension mechanism also provides users with full control to the data passing through their web browsers. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271708 | Collaboration Software With Real-Time Synchronization - A collaboration program operates on a computer system for storing, sharing and synchronizing data between different users. Centrally stored content data items are organized by associations into one or more folders, with the folders arranged by associations in a multi-level hierarchical structure. Users have access to all folders and content data items falling within at least one top level folder or “file cabinet” viewable by that user. When a user makes a change/addition to the hierarchical structure, that change/addition is transmitted to a server, which makes the change/addition to the necessary associations and sends messages through a TCP/IP format advising other signed-on users of the change/addition. With each content data item having the capability of being associated into multiple folders and each folder having the capability of being associated into multiple other folders or file cabinets, the computer system operating the collaboration program gives different users simultaneous, synchronized access to the folders and content data items in the hierarchical structure. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING UP WIRELESS LAN OF DEVICE - A wireless local area network (LAN) set up method and apparatus by which a client apparatus not having a character input function can easily provide wireless LAN setup. The wireless LAN set up method includes the operations of scanning associable wireless LAN devices so as to search for information about wireless LAN devices that support wireless security setup; and providing user interface information associated with wireless LAN setup of the wireless LAN devices according to found information about the wireless LAN devices that support the wireless security setup. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271710 | Remote On-Screen Display Control - A remote control of an on-screen display is provided. One example embodiment includes a method for receiving a first command from a user input device and converting the first command from the user input device to a second command, wherein the second command is in a display device format that the display device can use to control an on-screen display, then sending the second command to the display device to remotely control an on-screen display in the display device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271711 | AUTOMATED RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT FOR DARWIN INFORMATION TYPING ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to relationship management in information architectures and provide a novel and non-obvious method, computer system and computer program product for managing links in a Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing DITA links can include reading an information unit file comprising a plurality of topics and reading a relationship management file corresponding to the information unit file, wherein the relationship management file comprises at least one link corresponding to at least one of the plurality of topics, wherein a link comprises a reference to or from a second topic. The method can further include displaying in a graphical user interface the plurality of topics and displaying in the graphical user interface a description of each link corresponding to the plurality of topics. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271712 | MESSAGING DEVICE HAVING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR INITIATING COMMUNICATION TO RECIPIENTS - A messaging device allows a user to initiate communication to recipients via a graphical user interface. In some embodiments, messages are composed by a user via a touchscreen display. Pre-existing messages may also be retrieved by the user via the display. Icons representing potential message recipients are displayed, and the user may deliver a message to a recipient by associating the message with the icon that represents the desired recipient, such as by a drag-and-drop or pop-and-hop motion. In addition, the user may indicate to which of the recipient's various electronic devices or services the message is to be delivered. In some embodiments, the user may deliver the message to a group of recipients. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271713 | DOCUMENT COLLABORATION BY TRANSFORMING AND REFLECTING A DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL - Technologies are described herein for document collaboration by transforming and reflecting a document object model. A DOM representation of a document to be shared is obtained at a host computer, transformed, and reflected to one or more participant computers. Each of the participant computers receives the DOM representation of the document and renders and displays the DOM representation locally. When the DOM representation is modified, changes to the DOM representation may also be transmitted to the participant computers, rendered, and displayed. Events occurring with respect to the DOM may also be synchronized between the host and participant computers. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271714 | IDENTIFYING MUTUAL FRIENDS IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS - The invention described herein detects an external user entering into a virtual world that includes a virtual area. In turn, the invention described herein identifies a plurality of joined users that joined each virtual area and computes a joined user weighting for each of the plurality of joined users. The joined user weightings include friend of a friend level weightings and commonality weightings. Next, the invention described herein computes a virtual area friendliness level for each of the virtual areas by aggregating each of the joined user weightings for each of the virtual areas, and provides the virtual area friendliness levels to the external user in order for the external user to select the appropriate virtual area. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271715 | COLLABORATIVE AUGMENTED VIRTUALITY SYSTEM - A system for use on a computer network | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271716 | System and method for real-time scheduling - A system and method for dynamically scheduling a meeting time in association with an instant messaging client. The system includes a chat server, a grid scheduling server, a local instant messaging client, a remote instant messaging client, and a grid scheduling client. The instant messaging client facilitates a chat session in conjunction with the chat server. The grid scheduling server generates a representation of scheduling information from a scheduling matrix including a list of times arranged transversely to a list of participants to the meeting. The grid scheduling client in conjunction with the grid scheduling server hosts a grid scheduling session in real-time on the local and remote instant messaging clients and schedules the meeting time according to real-time input from participants on the local and remote instant messaging clients. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271717 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A COMPUTER WITH EMBEDDED BROWSER - A computer executes a program, wherein said computer opens a usage window of a user interface of the program when calling said the program. In the execution of the program with an opened usage window, the computer receives usage commands for a usage part of the program from a user of the computer via an input device. The computer presents the usage commands during the input of the usage commands in the usage window, or in a usage command window of the user interface that is associated with the usage window. The computer effects the execution of a usage action corresponding with the respective usage command after the validation of the respective usage command. Furthermore, the computer receives retrieval commands from the user via the input device to retrieve additional information. The computer presents the retrieval commands in a retrieval command window of the user interface during the input of said retrieval commands. The computer retrieves the corresponding additional information from a web server after the validation of the respective retrieval command and outputs said corresponding additional information to the user via the retrieval command window, or an information window associated with said retrieval command window. The retrieval and output of the additional information is an action different from the usage action. The information window, the retrieval command window, the usage window and the usage command window are different windows. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271718 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CHARACTERIZING USER-DEFINED AREAS - A method of specifying a boundary for an area is provided, which includes receiving a first input from a first user regarding a first configuration of a boundary of an area. The first input may serve to establish an area of arbitrary and possibly irregular configuration, such as an area that is apolitical or otherwise legally undetermined. A second input may be received from a second user regarding a second boundary configuration. The second input may serve to modify the boundary of an area established by the first input. A particular configuration of the boundary based at least partially on the first and second inputs can then be determined. For example, the particular configuration of the boundary may be determined, in part, by spatially averaging the first and second configurations. In some embodiments, demographic data for an area defined by the particular configuration of the boundary may be compiled. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF GEO-REFERENCED IMAGERY - An improved system and method for analysis and display of geo-referenced imagery overlaid with information such as vegetation health, land cover type and impervious surface coverage. In one aspect, an image analysis system creates a map of a selected area of land by overlaying information extracted from an image or images onto a base map or image. In another, a spatially-indexed image database is maintained having a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of geographic locations; a user-specified geographic location is accepted through an interactive graphical user interface; a user-specified extraction analysis is accepted for application upon one or more images; a user-specified extraction analysis is automatically executed to extract overlay information from such images corresponding to user-specified geographic location(s); and extracted overlay information is overlaid on a geo-referenced image, and displayed though a graphical user interface. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271720 | METHOD FOR DERIVING INTELLIGENCE FROM ACTIVITY LOGS - Techniques for segregating one or more logs of at least one multitasking user to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task history and open task repository information, correlating the at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task history and open task repository information to determine a task associated with each of one or more actions and segregate the one or more logs based on the one or more actions, and using the one or more logs that have been segregated to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user. Techniques are also provided for deriving intelligence from at least one activity log of at least one multitasking user to provide information to the at least one user. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271721 | ORGANIZATIONAL ROLL-UP/DOWN - Information related to an industrial control system can be disclosed graphically on a visual display. To traverse through different system portions, an organizational hierarchy can be used to enable a user to roll down into deeper level or roll up into a higher level. A user can input a choice of a level to view and the level can be disclosed to the user, assuming that the user has appropriate authorization to view the level. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271722 | METHOD OF PROVIDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI), AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS TO APPLY THE SAME - A method of providing a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multimedia apparatus using the method. The method includes generating a first item, second item and line connecting the first item and the second item on a screen, and generating a third item according to user additional operations, to enable a user to manipulate items more conveniently and more intuitively. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271723 | Object display order changing program and apparatus - An icon line is displayed on a screen so as to align icons laterally. When a user slides a stick laterally based on an originating point corresponding to a point on an icon of the icon line, it is possible to scroll the icon line laterally in accordance with the stick being moved, and when a user slides a stick vertically based on an originating point corresponding to a point on an icon of the icon line, it is possible to move only the icon of the icon line in accordance with the stick being moved. Therefore, a user is allowed to easily change the display order in which a plurality of objects are displayed on the screen. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271724 | VISUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS IN A UNIFIED INTEREST LAYER - A user-activatable dashboard (also referred to as a unified interest layer) contains any number of user interface elements, referred to herein as “widgets,” for quick access by a user. In response to a command from a user, the dashboard is invoked and the widgets are shown on the screen. The user can activate the dashboard at any time, causing the dashboard to temporarily replace the existing user interface display on the user's screen. Once the dashboard has been activated, the user can interact with any or all of the widgets, and can configure the dashboard by adding, deleting, moving, or configuring individual widgets as desired. When the user wishes to return to the normal user interface he or she was working with, the user issues a command causing the dashboard to be dismissed. Once the dashboard has been dismissed, the previous user interface state is restored, allowing the user to resume normal interactions with the operating system. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271725 | System and Method for Rack management and Capacity Planning - A system and method for monitoring, at a Web browser, electrical components can include the steps of receiving, information related to electrical components, such as servers, disposed in a plurality of cabinets, a portion of the cabinets being located in a first geographic location, and a second portion of the cabinets being located in a second geographic location, remote from the first geographic location, receiving information related to the real-time characteristics of the electrical components and displaying a graphical representation of the cabinets, the components and the information related to the real-time characteristics of the electrical components. The information related to the electrical components can include which cabinet the electrical components are located, the rated current draw of the electrical component, and the rated temperature of the electrical component. The real-time characteristics of the electrical components can include the actual percentage of rated current load, the actual percentage of rated temperature, and the actual percentage power draw. Displayed views can include a cabinet view, a room view, a floor view, a building view, a state view, a country view and a world view. | 10-29-2009 |
