49th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 74 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090300479 | DATA CONVERTING APPARATUS AND DATA CONVERTING PROGRAM - A data converting apparatus includes: a display image producing section that receives a file including one or more records in each of which records print data for one or more pages is described so as to produce image data for displaying; a preview displaying section that displays an image based on the image data produced in the display image producing section, and receives a designation by a user operation as to whether or not printing on a record basis or on a page basis is required; and a print image producing section that produces image data for printing with respect to the record or page which is designated to be printed by the preview displaying section. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300480 | Media segment alteration with embedded markup identifier - A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a possible content alteration. A further embodiment feature may include a record of secondary authorization rights applicable to substitute altered content incorporated in a derivative version. Various exemplary identifier markup schemes indicative of a location or topic or category of an alterable media content component may be implemented to enable selective audio, visual, and audio/video content alteration. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300481 | SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM INCLUDING PROGRAM - A character string not to be referred to which is included in structured document data is extracted, and an XML generation unit generates a random code table. Then, the XML generation unit generates a conversion font by converting character codes of a font using the table. The character codes of a document are converted in accordance with the table. The XML generation unit embeds the font and the conversion font. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300482 | Interactive User Interface for Converting Unstructured Documents - An interactive interface facilitates the conversion of unstructured documents into XML-compliant documents. A document is parsed to identify fact items in the content of the document. A classifier associates initial labels with an identified fact items, and the fact items and associated initial labels are forwarded to a user for review and correction. An interface executing on a client computer presents the initial labels associated with fact items, and enables a user to correct the labels associated with the identified fact items. Upon receipt of corrected labels from the user, the classifier is trained to update probable associations of labels and fact items in accordance with the corrected labels. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300483 | Stylesheet conversion engine - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a browser-independent cascading style sheet (CSS) that conforms to a CSS standard, and automatically modifying the browser-independent CSS to incorporate different CSS related features of various browsers. The method further includes creating one or more CSS files customized for the various browsers. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCAL MODIFICATION OF REMOTELY SUBMITTED DOCUMENT PROCESSING JOBS - The subject application is directed to rendering a remotely submitted document processing job using secondary job processing parameters specified at the rendering device. Electronic document data, associated identification data, and initial instruction data is received via a remote client interface. Location data of a selected rendering device is received via the remote interface, and the received job data is stored in a data storage associated with the device. The device's local interface receives login data, which is tested against the identification data. A display is selectively generated of the instruction and document data based on the testing output. Modified instruction data is received via the local interface relative to the initial instruction data. The costs for rendering the document data via the device are then calculated and displayed on the local interface. Following receipt of approval data via the local interface, a rendering operation is commenced on the document data. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300485 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING WIKI CONTENT - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically generating Wiki content. Documentation files are transformed from a first markup language format to Wiki pages in a second markup language format utilized by a target Wiki. One or more style sheets are used to assist with the transforming from the first markup language format to the second markup language format. The Wiki pages are published to the target Wiki. A system for automatically generating Wiki content is also described. A transformation module is operable to transform documentation files into the Wiki pages. A publication database contains information related to the transformation of the documentation files into the Wiki pages. A publication module is operable to publish the Wiki pages to the target Wiki. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300486 | MULTIPLE-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION USING DOCUMENT CLUSTERING - Systems and methods are disclosed for summarizing multiple documents by generating a model of the documents as a mixture of document clusters, each document in turn having a mixture of sentences, wherein the model simultaneously representing summarization information and document cluster structure; and determining a loss function for evaluating the model and optimizing the model. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300487 | DIFFERENCE ONLY DOCUMENT SEGMENT QUALITY CHECKER - A system and method for checking an author's revisions to a document or an electronic communication in a multiple party communication string without checking un-authored text. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300488 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC SPELL CHECKING OF DYNAMICALLY GENERATED WEB PAGES - Systems and methods for automatically spell-checking dynamically generated web pages include: generating, by a server responsive to a request from a client, a dynamically generated web page containing at least some text; transmitting, by the server to the client, the dynamic web page; intercepting, by a process, the dynamic web page; identifying, by the process, the at least some text; executing, by the process, a spelling check on the at least some text; and outputting, by the process, at least one word identified by the spelling check as potentially misspelled. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300489 | SELECTIVE ACCESS TO A FRAME BUFFER - A method, system, and computer program display data by selectively providing access to a frame buffer. When a request for a destination location for display data is received, a determination is made as to whether the data will require further processing prior to display. If further processing is needed, a location of an external application buffer is provided. If no further processing is needed, a frame buffer is provided. Thus, improved efficiency is achieved, while still providing functionality for processing occlusions and/or composited sections of the display data. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300490 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A POSITION VIEWER FOR PREVIEWING THE DISPLAY OF AN ADVERTISEMENT - A system and method are disclosed for displaying a preview of the positioning of an advertisement within a page. An advertiser may identify a position for displaying its advertisements and a position viewer provides a preview display of the appearance of the advertisement at that position within a page. The position viewer may be a part of an interface for matching advertisements with available ad space. The automatic previewing of an advertisement in a selected position may assist an advertiser in identifying the optimal advertisement space for the advertisement. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300491 | METHOD TO ASSIST USERS IN PREVENTING ERRORS WHEN USING TYPE-AHEAD - A method and system to provide selection of entries in input fields, such as email client, includes pre-processing a list of potential addresses before the list is shown to a user by eliminating less important or invalid entries, and then displaying a list of entries for selection to the user in a format which highlights the most probable address to support selection of a “right” address. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300492 | System and method for effectively selecting functions in an electronic device - A system and method for effectively selecting functions in an electronic device includes a command database that is created for storing device commands that include specifically-defined patterns and corresponding respective device functions. Appropriate pattern input means may be utilized for detecting the patterns that are input by device users. A command manager utilizes the recognized patterns to identify corresponding device functions from the command database. The electronic device may then execute the identified device functions. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300493 | EXPLICIT USE OF USER CONTEXT OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - An approach that facilitates explicit use of user context objects in a virtual universe is described. In one embodiment, there is a user context object tool that includes a user context object retrieving component configured to retrieve the plurality of user context objects for presentation to the avatar. A user context object selection and modification component is configured to receive a user context object selection and any desired modifications made to the user context object selection. A user context object permissions component is configured to permit the avatar to interact with the virtual universe in accordance with the user context object selection. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300494 | USER ASSISTANCE PANEL - A system for providing user assistance receives a request for help content for a first component of a plurality of components displayed on a user interface page. The system generates a user assistance panel that is displayed simultaneously with the user interface page without substantially obscuring the user interface page. The user assistance panel includes the help content for the first component and a heading for a second component of the plurality of components that has associated help content. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ADAPTIVE WIZARD UTILITY FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - System and method for implementing an adaptive wizard utility for a graphical user interface (“GUI”) are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to presentation of a page of the wizard utility to a user, monitoring user activity in connection with the page; analyzing the user activity to determine a current performance designation of the user; and modifying at least one page of the wizard utility based on the current performance designation of the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300496 | USER INTERFACE FOR ONLINE ADS - A user interface may be utilized to allow a user to control display properties of online ad content on a hosting webpage (e.g., hosting ads from one domain on a webpage from a different domain). This may be accomplished by creating a cross-domain frame in the hosting webpage, which can contain the ad content. An instantiation of a user interface may be created on the hosting webpage that has an ability to control display properties of the cross-domain frame, thereby controlling display properties of the ad content in the cross-domain frame. Further, a task manager may be utilized as part of the user interface to facilitate a host of the hosting webpage to manage ad content. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300497 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FOCUSED NAVIGATION WITHIN A USER INTERFACE - A sequence of cards is stored that graphically represents available options within an information system. In response to a single user action, the sequence of cards is successively displayed within a focus area of the user interface. In response to a subsequent user action, the successive display is discontinued to display a particular card representing a selected option. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300498 | Method and System for Generating and Presenting Mobile Content Summarization - This invention involves a system and method to construct a visual representation of multidimensional data that works especially well for video. The system comprises an application on a mobile device having a screen, an assignment module assigning the media segments to the screen, a rendering module rendering the assigned media segments on the screen, a playback module playing the assigned media segments, a catalog module representing media metadata about the mobile content, a summarization module stewarding the media metadata, and a remote server storing the mobile content and the media metadata. The application retrieves the mobile content from the remote server and accesses the assignment, the rendering, the playback, the catalog, and the summarization modules. The system also comprises a method to log and analyze the browsing interactions of one or more users, and present a view of the media that reflects what is interesting to the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300499 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to generate a video signal of images including a moving picture, command transmitting and receiving module configured to transmit and receive the commands, detecting module configured to detect an event to change a display state of the moving picture from one of the full screen display and the window display to another, and outputting module configured to output a command to change a first display mode to a second display mode when the detecting module detects an event to change the window display to the full screen display, and outputting a command to change the second display mode to the first display mode when the detecting module detects an event to change the full screen display to the window display, the outputting module outputting the command through the connector via the command transmitting and receiving module. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300500 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING ICONS FOR AUDIO/VISUAL MEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus may include a processor configured to determine one or more attributes of a video clip. The video clip may comprise a plurality of video frames. The processor may be further configured to determine a video frame from the video clip based upon the one or more determined attributes of the video clip. The processor may be additionally configured to annotate a region of image data with an icon. The icon may comprise the determined video frame and an associated link to the video clip. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300501 | INTELLIGENT AGENDA OBJECT FOR A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - A system includes a memory, a display, and a processor programmed to load a configuration program and an intelligent agenda program into the memory. The intelligent agenda program is adapted to interface with a slide presentation program and respond to a plurality of user inputs to a graphical user interface of the configuration program to create an intelligent agenda. The intelligent agenda is modified when the user selects the first display option to display only the title in the outline corresponding to the currently displayed slide, a preceding title located immediately before the title, and a following title located immediately after the title. The intelligent agenda is further modified when the user selects the second display option to limit a number of displayed lines of the outline to a line limitation. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300502 | AGGREGRATION, STANDARDIZATION AND EXTENSION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING CONTACTS TO ENHANCE A TELEVISION CONSUMER EXPERIENCE - A system and method for the aggregation, standardization and extension of social networking contacts to enhance a television consumer experience are described. An embodiment of a system includes a device connected to one or more devices with social networking technology. The device is accessed by a user to invite one or more contacts to join an aggregated social network via an aggregated social networking contact list. The aggregated social networking contact list to include all contacts associated with the one or more social networking technology devices. The device to receive and store aggregated social network content and to receive main content. The device to cause the display of the stored aggregated social network content overlayed on the main content via a user interface on a display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300503 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK-BASED AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION - The present invention discloses a method and system of augmentative communication which employs a server, a network, and a client device to generate augmentative communication output on the client device. A user on the client device receives augmentative communication output by generating a request directed to the server, which the server receives through the network. The server retrieves the requested augmentative communication content from storage and outputs it to the client device through the network. In one mode of operation, augmentative communication content is outputted directly from the server to one or more means for generating perceptible output on the client device. In a second mode of operation, the augmentative communication content is provided to the client device as a set of augmentative communication pages, whereby once the client device has received the set of pages, the connection to the server is no longer needed. Thus, the present invention provides the user with augmentative communication output that is portable, accessible from multiple devices, and requires little storage space or processing power from the user's device. A network-based method and system for creating and editing augmentative communication pages is also provided. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300504 | FREE BUSY CALENDAR INTERFACE - An electronic device having access to a calendar database comprising calendar event data identifying events scheduled for respective time slots and a method of using such a device are provided. The device is configured to generate on a display a calendar events detail user interface screen that includes a plurality of fields specifying information about an event scheduled to occur at a time slot, one of the fields being an availability status field displaying an availability status for the time slot, and in which the availability status options for the availability status field are dependent on a type of a remote messaging server. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300505 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RECOVERING METHOD OF ENTRY INFORMATION THERETO, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus (web system) connected to a network to transmit and receive information is configured to monitor an entry into an information entry field (html or web page) provided from a network, to store the entry contents into a storage means (recording system) along with identification information, and to import the entry contents from the storage means for recovery on the information processing apparatus based on an entry content recovery instruction when the entry contents are lost. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300506 | MARK-UP EXTENSIONS FOR SEMANTICALLY MORE RELEVANT THUMBNAILS OF CONTENT - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates rendering of a portion of published content. A browsing session can enable navigation and display of a portion of published content. A render definition enforcer can implement a tag related to the portion of published content with at least one view-level display property, the view-level display property is at least one of a definition to at least one of display or not display the portion of published content based upon a view-level within the browsing session or a definition related to a size scale factor for the portion of published content based upon a view-level within the browsing session. The browsing session can utilize the portion of published content at a view-level in accordance to the view-level display property. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300507 | Wireless medical room control arrangement for control of a plurality of medical devices - A wireless medical room control arrangement includes a wireless controller having a wireless router. A room identifier and a device identifier are stored in the controller. A communication interface sends commands to and receives commands from the wireless controller. In response to commands from the interface, the wireless controller sends wireless control signals to operate medical devices in the room. A room monitor adjacent a doorway provides room identifiers to medical devices and wireless controllers entering the room and provides dummy identifiers to medical devices and controllers exiting the room. The room monitors may connect to a global network processor that determines the location of the medical devices in a medical facility. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300508 | METADATA-BASED ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT SELECTION - A method of accessing content stored on a digital media content storage device on which one or more content records contain metadata defining media content on the device, comprising downloading from the device to a controller unit at least some of said metadata, storing said downloaded metadata in a database accessible to the controller, and accessing content on the storage device from the controller using the database of downloaded metadata. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300509 | PROFILE AND CONSENT ACCRUAL - Consent management between a client and a network server. In response to a request for consent, a central server determines if requested user information is included in a user profile associated with a user and if the user has granted consent to share the requested user information. A user interface is provided to the user via a browser of the client to collect the requested user information that is not included in the user profile and the consent to share the requested user information from the user. After receiving the user information provided by the user via the user interface, the service provided by the network server is allowed access to the received user information, and the central server updates the user profile. Other aspects of the invention are directed to computer-readable media for use with profile and consent accrual. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300510 | Simultaneous remote and local control of computer desktop - A method for computing includes running a desktop sharing program on a local computer so as to permit a remote user to view, on a remote computer, which is connected to communicate with the local computer via a network, an image of an entire area of a display screen of the local computer and to operate the local computer by remote input via the remote computer. A local window is defined within the display screen of the local computer for running an application under control of a local user. Local inputs made via a local input device of the local computer by the local user are intercepted so that the local inputs do not interfere with operation of the local computer by the remote user. The intercepted inputs are directed to the local window so as to permit the local user to interact with the application independently of the operation of the local computer by the remote user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMLINING USER INTERACTION WITH ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Different views of are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to transition the device from one configuration to another during its use, for example from easel to laptop modes. Further the elements that comprise the graphical user interface are configured to present a summarized view of available actions and content, in order to simplify user interaction. The different views present different organizations of the interface elements and in some example display only certain ones of the modes of content in order to reduce the number of options a user must navigate to accomplish an objective. According to another aspect, methods and systems for streamlining user interaction with computer content are provided. In some embodiments, streamlining includes pre-configuring a user device based on received information. Other embodiments include presenting consistent visual representations used to navigated to views that present computer content. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300512 | PREFERENCE EDITOR TO FACILITATE PRIVACY CONTROLS OVER USER IDENTITIES - A privacy preference editor enables a user to institute privacy preferences relative to user identity information on a card-based and category-based basis. An identity selector furnishes information cards representative of user identities. The editor allows the user to set a privacy preference for each information card. Any proposed disclosure of an information card invokes its corresponding privacy preference. In turn, an agent engine evaluates the invoked privacy preference against the privacy policy of a relying party seeking the card information. The editor also permits the user to create information categories, populate the categories with a group of relevant user identity attributes, and set a privacy preference to the category. In this way, a category-specific privacy preference can be invoked by using the attribute required by the security policy as an index to the appropriate categorized group where the required attribute resides. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300513 | System and Method for Creating an Avatar - An avatar or avatar environment to visualize data may be provided within a social networking system or service, for example as part of the Internet, and/or within a desktop widget, panel, gadget, or the like. The avatar may further evolve or alter its appearance, animation, or other visual or audio characteristics in response to the data or other input such as athletic activity performed by a corresponding user. In particular, the avatar of an embodiment may respond to and provide visualization of athletic or sport performance data. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300514 | SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVE MEETING INVITEE RESPONSE STATUS - A system for visually representing an event as part of a larger schedule (e.g., calendar). The representation of the particular event may include an indicator configured to display invitee status. Functionality may also be configured to provide additional information, for example, by user interaction. In at least one instance, a user may move a mouse over the invitee status indicator to trigger a pop-up box with the additional information. Additional functionality, that may be implemented alone or in conjunction with the above exemplary embodiments of the present invention, may include the automatic execution of an activity in view of a threshold condition related to the event. For example, when an event is created, a threshold condition pertaining to one or more characteristics of the event and/or an activity may be configured. When the threshold condition is met and/or exceeded, the configured activity may be triggered. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300515 | Web server for supporting collaborative animation production service and method thereof - A web server for supporting a collaborative animation production service. The web server includes a user interface (UI) unit to provide a UI to receive direction data for each scene required for animation production in parallel to users connected to the web server, and a generating unit to combine the direction data input to the UI for each scene and generate an animation corresponding to the combined direction data. A plurality of users thereby collaborate to produce an animation in real time, making it possible to shorten the production time of the animation and produce a high quality animation. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300516 | APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION AND INTERACTION IN A VIRTUAL MEETING PLACE - An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data processing system, and a shadow module implemented within the CVE application. The CVE application provides a virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each divided into a set of zones and each having an assigned context through a user interface provided to a plurality of users through one or more client systems. The CVE provides each user with a respective avatar representation for navigating and interacting within the locations of the virtual world. The shadow module provides a first user interface element through which a first user can create and leave a shadow object representation for the first user within a zone of a subset of the set of locations when the avatar representation for the user is currently located in that zone. The shadow object representation persists in the zone after the avatar representation for the first user has navigated away from the zone. The shadow module provides a second user interface element providing a second user with one or more selectable options for corresponding with the first user when the avatar representation for the second user is located in the zone with the shadow object representation. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300517 | PROVIDING USER CONTROL OF HISTORICAL MESSAGES IN ELECTRONIC MAIL CHAIN TO BE INCLUDED IN FORWARDED OR REPLIED ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE - A method, system and computer program product for controlling which historical messages are to be included in a forwarded or replied email message. The number of email messages in a chain of email messages contained in an email message is determined. A graphical user interface is generated that contains an option for the user to select one or more historical messages, or alternatively, an option to select a number of recent historical messages, in the chain of email messages to be included in the forwarded or replied email message. The selected historical messages in the chain of email messages to be included in the forwarded or received email message is received. The forwarded or replied email message is generated that includes the selected historical messages in the chain of email messages. By using this process, the recipient can save time in identifying the relevant details in the received email message. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300518 | CONTACT GROUP DYNAMICS IN NETWORKED COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A communications terminal ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090300519 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In order to facilitate understanding of the content of a presentation in a conference, an MFP, in receipt of presentation page information from a PC operated by a presenter, transmits presentation page data specified by the presentation page information among page data for a plurality of pages included in data to PCs operated by the participants, and in receipt of requested page information from a specific participant apparatus among the PCs operated by the participants, transmits requested page data specified by the requested page information to the specific participant apparatus. As to the PC as the specific participant apparatus, upon acceptance of designation of requested page data, it transmits requested page information to the MFP, and in receipt of the requested page data from the MFP, displays an image of the presentation page data and an image of the requested page data simultaneously. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300520 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE RECORDINGS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE EVENTS - Techniques to manage recordings for multimedia conference events are described. An apparatus may comprise a recording management component operative to manage recording and reproduction operations for a multimedia conference event. The recording management component may comprise an event capture module operative to record a multimedia conference event to form a recorded meeting event. The recording management component may comprise an event entity module communicatively coupled to the event capture module, the event entity module operative to generate an entity event list for the recorded meeting event. The recording management component may comprise an event reproduction module communicatively coupled to the event entity module, the event reproduction module operative to reproduce the recorded meeting event. The recording management component may comprise an event interface module communicatively coupled to the event reproduction module, the event interface module operative to display presence information for one or more entities from the entity event list while reproducing the recorded meeting event. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300521 | APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION AND INTERACTION IN A VIRTUAL MEETING PLACE - An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data processing system, and a navigation module implemented within the CVE application. The CVE application provides a virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each divided into a set of zones and each having an assigned context through a user interface provided to a plurality of users through one or more client systems. The CVE provides each user with a respective avatar representation for navigating and interacting within the locations of the virtual world. The navigation module provides a user interface element for each user to specify a respective set of navigation settings. The navigation module automatically directs the avatar representation for each user to traverse the set of zones of a respective subset of the set of locations of the virtual world in a particular order of locations and at a particular rate for each location according to the respective set of navigation settings specified by the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300522 | INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION ELEMENT ACCESS FOR UNOPENED OBJECTS - A copy request is received that individually identifies an information element associated with a first unopened object to copy from the first unopened object. The individually identified information element is copied from the first unopened object. The information element copied from the first unopened object is stored to a memory. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300523 | System and method for embedding information in an electronic device - A system and method for embedding information onto an electronic device includes a memory device that is coupled to the electronic device for storing embedded information that the electronic device may then access and utilize. A device user initially utilizes a device ordering system to create a device order that specifically identifies the embedded information. The device order is then utilized during a device manufacturing process to image the memory device with the embedded information before providing the electronic device to the device user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300524 | AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNING DATA BINDINGS IN VISUAL DESIGNERS - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically assigning data bindings to data sources and data sets in the design surface of visual designers. A user selection is received to insert a data element into a data region on a design surface. When there is just one data source and one data set defined in the design surface, a list of fields from the one data set is displayed in a user-selectable list, and the data set is automatically assigned to the data element based upon the selected field. As the user interacts with the design surface to insert additional data elements, the additional data elements are automatically assigned to the previously-utilized data source and data set, and a list of fields from the automatically assigned data set is displayed in a user-selectable list. This saves the user from having to select a desired data set and desired data source. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300525 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING AVATAR TO INDICATE USER'S STATUS - A cellular or wireless mobile device includes a one or more sensors and a processor configured with software to receive data from the one or more sensors, calendar data and device settings, compare sensor, calendar, device settings data, and an authorization level of a requesting user to avatar selection criteria, and select an avatar based upon the comparison. By correlating sensor data, calendar data and device settings to a user's current status, the avatar selection criteria enables a processor to automatically select an avatar that reflects the user's current status. Others then can be informed of the user's current status by accessing the user's avatar. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300526 | Computer based method for creation, personalization, and fulfillment of customizable art printed on canvas - A computer based method of offering customized art to a user. The method comprises of using a collection of digital images and design elements organized in an online flash application generating a customized digital image representation of the art product. Steps include: (a) digital image selection; (b) canvas size selection; (c) canvas background color selection; (d) option to include text; (e) frame selection; and the (f) generation of a digital file ready for print consisting of the image designed through the flash application and available through an internet website and/or retail kiosk. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300527 | USER INTERFACE FOR BULK OPERATIONS ON DOCUMENTS - A user interface displays a group of related documents such that bulk operations may be performed on them without requiring the user to individually access each document to perform an action. Properties, such as a status, contributor information, submission date and submission deadline and the like are also displayed with the documents. From this information, a user may decide to open a specific document and/or version of the document for review while bulk approving the other displayed documents. A user may perform an action on all or part of the displayed documents and their versions from the user interface. In this way, the efficiency of the workflow may be increased since the user doesn't have to individually access each document to perform the action. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300528 | BROWSER EVENT TRACKING FOR DISTRIBUTED WEB-BASED PROCESSING, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF INFORMATION - A Zeetix technology may effectively present resources of any networked environment, such as the internet as a virtual computing platform. An interactive visual presentation, such as on a computing facility human interface, may provide tracking of user gestures in an intuitive, responsive, web-based direct-manipulation user interface to this virtual platform. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300529 | SCREEN EDITING APPARATUS, SCREEN EDITING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - For prescribing a state of a selection operating part having options disposed on an operating page displayed, a type attribute of the selection operating part, a display attribute of displaying or not displaying an operating part corresponding to each option of the selection operating part, and priority setting information indicating modification of setting of an option of the selection operating part, are stored, the modification being carried out while the operating page is displayed. In response to a user's operation, a selected or non-selected state of an operating part of each option, or a display attribute may be changed. When a display attribute of an option is changed, information corresponding to a type of the selection operating part having the option and a selected or non-selected state of the operating part having the option is registered as the priority setting information. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-TOUCH-BASED BROWSING OF MEDIA SUMMARIZATIONS ON A HANDHELD DEVICE - The inventive system comprises a touch screen on a mobile device and an application that defines a set of functioning components that provide the functionality for navigating media. The inventive application comprises components including event handling touches on the touch screen, presentation and layout interacting with event handling, content cache storing media and metadata, and content loading connecting to and loading the media and the metadata from a remote storage device, such that the event handling component invokes one or more of the presentation and layout component, the content cache component and the content loading component in response to various touch screen interactions. The various touch screen interactions perform setting a browser shape, setting a range, focus, zoom in and out, and/or level of detail of the media segments, moving laterally in time, resetting a view, annotating and/or viewing annotations, playing, pausing, and stopping the media summarization. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300531 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING HUMAN INPUT TO A COMPUTER - The invention provides a method for providing human input to a computer which allows a user to interact with a display connected to the computer. The method includes the steps of placing a first target on a first portion of the user's body, using an electro-optical sensing means, sensing data related to the location of the first target and data related to the location of a second portion of the user's body, the first and second portions of the user's body being movable relative to each other, providing an output of the electro-optical sensing means to the input of the computer, determining the location of the first target and the location of the second portion of the user's body, and varying the output of the computer to the display based upon the determined locations for contemporaneous viewing by the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300532 | CONVEYING PRIVILEGE ESCALATION TO USERS - Techniques, systems, and apparatuses for conveying privilege escalation to a user are disclosed. In some aspects, a privilege escalation request is initiated in a first operating environment. The first operating environment may foreshorten to reveal a second operating environment associated with the privilege escalation. The second operating environment includes a continuous visual presentation to alert the user of the privilege escalation. A user may complete one or more privileged activities in the second operating environment before returning to the first operating environment. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300533 | ETL tool utilizing dimension trees - A method and apparatus for an ETL tool utilizing dimension trees. The method may include identifying various dimensions associated with one or more databases, and creating dimension trees based on these dimensions. The method may further include creating an ETL pyramid having multiple levels, linking the dimension trees to corresponding levels of the ETL pyramid, and creating a table for each level of the ETL pyramid to store a subset of the dimension trees that is linked to a corresponding level of the ETL pyramid. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300534 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING NETWORK STATUS - A method for displaying the status of at least a portion of a CATV system comprises providing a first layer including first geographic indicia, selectively overlaying a second layer including second indicia of the CATV system in a region illustrated in first layer on the first layer, and selectively overlaying a third layer including third indicia of reports of anomalies in the operation of the CATV system equipment in a geographic region illustrated in the first layer. A display thus includes a first layer containing first geographic indicia, a second layer displaying second indicia of the CATV system in the region illustrated in the first layer, and a third layer containing third indicia of reports of anomalies in the operation of the CATV system equipment in the geographic region illustrated in the first layer. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300535 | Virtual control panel - A system that enables a user to interact with a virtual control panel using a user controlled pointing object. The system includes a portable identification element, a tracking unit adapted to capture data representing the position of the pointing object and the position of the identification element, a storage unit, storing at least one pre-defined graphical interface representing a control panel of a device, a graphics unit, generating a graphical representation of the control panel, a registering unit, registering the graphical representation of the control panel in a fixed relation to the portable identification element to produce a virtual control panel and a display unit, showing the user a view including the real world and the virtual control panel. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300536 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING IN A DISPLAY WINDOW - Navigation between a plurality of property sheets on a display of a mobile electronic device, each of the property sheets having a tab index and a layout defining a plurality of elements. One of the property sheets is a displayed property sheet and one of the elements is a current active element. Navigation includes (i) storing the tab index of the displayed property sheet as a current tab index; (ii) detecting a soft key event; regardless of which of the elements is a current active element, (iii) modifying the current tab index based on a soft key identifier of the soft key event to create an updated tab index; and (iv) displaying another property sheet of the plurality of property sheets on the display, the another property sheet having a tab index equal to the updated tab index. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300537 | Method and system for changing format for displaying information on handheld device - A method and system for changing a display format for information rendered on a handheld device based at least in part on a velocity of the handheld device recognizes that when the velocity of the handheld device that is optimally held by a stationary user in both hands in a horizontal orientation exceeds a predetermined threshold, it is generally indicative that the handheld device is being held by a mobile user in one hand in a vertical orientation. Accordingly, upon determining that the velocity of the handheld device exceeds the predetermined threshold, information rendered on the handheld device is reoriented from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation so that the information is oriented correctly from the perspective of the mobile user. Thereafter, upon determining that the velocity of the handheld device is below the predetermined velocity threshold, the information rendered on the handheld device is reoriented from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation so that the information is oriented correctly from the perspective of a stationary user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300538 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus determines if an application manager has attribute information compatible with attribute information of a selected application program, and controls the application manager which is determined to have the attribute information compatible with the attribute information of the application program to execute display processing of the application program. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300539 | ELECTRONIC BOOK WITH INFORMATION MANIPULATION FEATURES - An electronic book having various features for manipulating text or other information. The subscriber may highlight, cut and paste, copy and paste, and annotate information within an electronic book. A multiple page view feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view any plurality of pages of an electronic book, and a multiple screen feature permits the subscriber to view one or more pages on a viewer having multiple screens. A picture-in-picture feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view a page of an electronic book along with other content, such as a television program or information from another electronic book. The picture-in-picture feature may display an electronic book page as a main image wrapped around an inset image. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300540 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ANIMAL IMAGING - A computer controlled veterinary imaging and diagnostic tool, the tool being performed by execution of computer readable code by at least one processor of at least one computer system, the tool comprising a main viewing area for the presentation of one or more images; a file list viewing area for listing images which can be selected for presentation in the main viewing area; and at least one tab for selection to filter the images listed in the file list viewing area. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300541 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING WINDOWS ON A DISPLAY - A method for positioning a window on a user's display may include providing, in a window-based computing environment, an image representing a display area of a user's computer screen. This image may be divided into a plurality of regions. Each region may represent an area within the display area. The method may further include enabling a user to select a region from the plurality of regions, such as, for example, with a mouse click, keystroke, keystroke combination, or the like. The method may then include automatically moving a window, such as the active window, in the window-based computing environment to the area represented by the region. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300542 | Structured Displaying of Visual Elements - Presentation descriptions are provided to an operating system of a computing device to present outputs associated with the applications in an organized and intuitive manner to the user. The presentation descriptions provide the operating system with information about the structure and meaning of the output element. The task of organizing at least part of the output elements associated with applications is delegated to the operating system. The operating system analyzes the presentation descriptions, and organizes the output elements associated with the applications at least partly based on the presentation descriptions. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300543 | VISUAL INDICATION OF CHANGES IN THE SAME USER INTERFACE DIALOG ORIGINALLY USED TO ENTER THE DATA - A method for generating a graphical display denoting a difference between values from different invocations of dialog boxes in a graphical user interface comprising: displaying a dialog box on a display device; detecting a value that has changed in the dialog box; and displaying a previous value corresponding to the detected value; wherein the previous value is displayed in front of the dialog box, adjacent to, but not overlapping, the detected value. The previous value may be displayed with the same format as the corresponding detected value. Further information may be displayed along with the previous value, including the version number of the user interface and the name of the editor. Differences from one version of the dialog box to the next, one version to another, between multiple editing sessions, and within a current editing session may be displayed. A portion of the dialog box may be changed, by highlighting for example, to indicate a difference exists between current and previous values. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300544 | Enhanced user interface and data handling in business intelligence software - A business intelligence and reporting solution can include a databook interface that acts as both as a reporting mechanism and an interface for providing data visualization parameters. In some embodiments, the databook includes a plurality of palettes whereby visualization parameters can be specified through a drag-and-drop interaction with the databook. The databook can include a tab interface to select between data views, graphic visualizations of data currently in the databook, and a composite visualization mechanism that provides output to place one or more rows in context to other data in the databook and/or to forecast trends for one or more databook values. The databook may rely on an underlying dataset collected from multiple distinct sources, such as different databases. The solution may include a security policy restricting access to certain fields, records, and/or columns based on a user's role in an organization, data content, and/or a defined access hierarchy for different data items. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300545 | PRESENTING INFORMATION REGARDING SELECTED ITEMS - An approach is described for recording the selections made by a user and then presenting information regarding these selections to the user in various contexts. Each selection corresponds to the user's express request to receive information (such as a telephone number) that is useful in performing a transaction (such as calling a particular business entity). | 2009-12-03 |
20090300546 | Creation and suggestion of contact distribution lists - Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest that a user create a distribution list that includes those contacts. Furthermore, once a contact has been associated with a particular distribution list, these techniques may suggest that a user send a message to this distribution list in response to the user selecting the contact (rather than the list) as a destination of the message. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300547 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR ON-LINE ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTS - A system and method for recommending on-line articles and documents to users is disclosed. The method provides an article widget user interface and a full-screen widget user interfaces to allow a user to rate articles, to preview articles, to filter articles based on category, article length, or other characteristics. A recommender system is configured to provide a continually refreshing list of recommended articles to the user via the user interfaces. The system comprises a module configured to monitor the user's explicit and implicit interactions with the user interfaces, and provides a refreshed list of recommended articles accordingly. The recommender system may be configured to use a package of approaches including rule-based, content-based or collaborative filtering approaches including Slope, Co-Visitation, Mwinnow and Clustering/Co-clustering. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300548 | Multi-Display Window with Scroll Ring Input - A graphical user interface for a portable diagnostic device includes a first window area in which a navigation bar is displayed, a second window area in which data list items are displayed and a wheel menu, selectively overlaying at least a portion of the first and second window areas, in which menu items are displayed. The data list items are selected in response to commands received from a first scroll ring input device, while the menu items are selected in response to commands received from a second scroll ring input device. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300549 | RELATIONSHIP-BASED AND CONTEXT-BASED USER INTERFACES FOR EXCHANGING DATA - A system and method for presenting an interface to a user of a mobile device, the interface allowing a user to identify and select data that is to be transmitted to another mobile device. In some embodiments, the interface generated by the system allows the user to select data for transmission based on relationship associations. The relationship associations, for example, may include pre-defined groupings of data that are tailored to a specific relationship between the user and another person. Accordingly, the user may employ the interface to quickly locate data that would be appropriate to transmit given the particular relationship between the user and the person to receive the data. In some embodiments, the interface generated by the system allows the user to select data for transmission based on context associations. Individual context associations may contain a smaller subset of data corresponding to a specific relationship association. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300550 | Method and Device for Assisting Users in Reporting Health Related Symptoms and Problems - The present invention discloses a device, a method and software for mapping health related symptoms and problems with the aim of collecting and structuring information related to sick person's health related symptoms and problems. A device is disclosed which comprises hardware and a graphical user interface (GUI) for user interaction. The device also comprises software implementing an interactive questionnaire for graphically presenting health related symptoms and problems to a user and registering the user's response via the GUI, as well as software implementing a report generator for generating a report that maps health related symptoms and problems based on the response from the user. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300551 | INTERACTIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND INFORMATION-IMPARTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of imparting information includes interactively selectively displaying information to a person or user, based on the physical location of the person relative to a display screen upon which the information is displayed. A tracking system is operatively coupled to the display that selectively displays the information. The tracking system tracks the physical location of the person, and displays different information depending upon the physical location of the person. The display may include displays of virtual objects, such as cubes or other shapes. The view of the objects may be varied within the display as the user moves within physical space, varying the apparent position of the virtual objects as the user moves. The varying of the apparent position of the virtual objects may reveal information that was not visible to the user in other virtual positions (corresponding to other physical positions of the user). | 2009-12-03 |
20090300552 | APPLICATION NAVIGATION - A method for operating a user interface for switching between computer applications is provided. The method may include displaying first, second and third navigation controls. The first navigation control may include entity selectors, the second navigation control may include application selectors, and the third navigation control may include sub-application selectors. The application selectors may be associated with the entities in the first navigation control and the sub-application selectors may be associated with the application selectors. An application associated with sub-application selector may be launched upon selecting the sub-application selector. The state of an application may be stored and retrieved upon switching between applications so as to enable fast switching between applications. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300553 | Defining a border for an image - Some embodiments provide a method that provides a display area for displaying an image that includes several of edges. The method provides a border drawing tool that in response to cursor movement across the image displays a search window about the cursor. The search window specifies a region to be searched to identify edges for use in defining a border for the image. In some embodiments, the size of the search window varies based on the speed of the cursor. The search window is a square box in some embodiments and a circle in other embodiments. The search window is centered at the cursor in some embodiments. In some embodiments, the display area is also for displaying the defined border over the image. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300554 | Gesture Recognition for Display Zoom Feature - A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed that provide a computing user with an ability to engage in a multitude of operations via the entry of gestures. Computer operations may be mapped to shapes, and a comparison may take place between a user-entered gesture and the shapes to determine whether the gesture approximates at least one of the shapes. Responsive to determining that the gesture approximates at least one of the shapes, an operation associated with the shape may be executed. The operation may include a zoom operation (e.g., a zoom-in or a zoom-out operation), wherein the dimensions of the gesture may influence content to be included in an updated display. Additional adjustments may be performed to improve a resolution associated with the content included in the updated display. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300555 | WEB PAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND WEB PAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A Web page display apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a Web page; a generation unit for generating a reduced Web page by reducing the Web page so that the particular element has a width smaller than that of the display size when a user-specified particular element in a plurality of elements constituting the Web page has a width greater than that of display size of a display unit; and a display control unit for controlling the display unit to display a particular reduced element of the reduced Web page corresponding to the particular element when the particular element has a width greater than that of the display size. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300556 | Hierarchical Partitioning - Some embodiments provide a method of simulating an electrical circuit that receives a circuit description that has a set of sub-circuits. The method defines several partitions for several sub-circuits. The method then simulates the circuit using the partitioned sub-circuits. In some embodiments, the method ranks the sub-circuits prior to partitioning based on a parent-child relationship that shows how a sub-circuit is instantiated by other sub-circuits. These embodiments partition child sub-circuits first. Some embodiments provide a method of partitioning an electrical circuit that has a set of sub-circuits. For a particular sub-circuit that is instantiated from other sub-circuits, the method duplicates the particular sub-circuit into a first copy and a second copy when one port of the particular sub-circuit is connected to a voltage source in at least one instance and the same port is not connected to a voltage source in at least another instance. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300557 | OPC MODELS GENERATED FROM 2D HIGH FREQUENCY TEST PATTERNS - A method of generating a scalable OPC model for composing reticle pattern files from IC layouts using 2D test patterns is disclosed. The 2D test patterns include basic features which replicate features found in advanced ICs. Variations of feature dimensions and structure pitches provide measurement data which enables the scalability of the OPC model. A method of checking reticle pattern files for features which cannot be modeled by the scalable OPC model is also disclosed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300558 | USE OF STATE NODES FOR EFFICIENT SIMULATION OF LARGE DIGITAL CIRCUITS AT THE TRANSISTOR LEVEL - A method is provided for simulating a sequential digital circuit module given a set of input conditions and a current state for the circuit. The method comprises initiating all state nodes of the circuit module to logic values stored in the current state, initializing all sequential submodules of the circuit module to the states stored in the current state, simulating the circuit module after initialization, and after completion of the simulation step, reporting the output logic values and associated delays and storing the logic values of the state nodes and the states of the sequential modules in the next state in the circuit module, multiple value changes in the state nodes of the circuit module being recorded on the next state. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300559 | Incremental Speculative Merging - An incremental speculative merge structure which enables the elimination of invalid merge candidates without requiring the discarding of the speculative merge structure and all verification results obtained upon that structure. Targets are provided for validating the equivalence of gates g | 2009-12-03 |
20090300560 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMAL VERIFICATION OF AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN - A new and convenient methodology for proving the correctness of multiplier and multiply-accumulate circuit designs in a full custom design flow. Such an approach utilizes a basic description of the implemented algorithm, which is created in early phases of the design flow and requires only little extra work for the designer who spends most of the time in full-custom optimizations. Such an approach also defines arithmetic circuit at the arithmetic bit level and allows for the generation of a gate level netlist. Given a structural similarity between the specification and design under verification, a large amount of structural similarity between the generated netlists is obtained so that a standard equivalence checker can be utilized to verify the design against the specification. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300561 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POST-ROUTING LITHOGRAPHY-HOTSPOT CORRECTION OF A LAYOUT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that verifies an integrated circuit (IC) chip layout. During operation, the system receives a layout of an IC chip after the layout has gone through a place-and-route operation. Next, the system performs a lithography compliance checking (LCC) operation on the layout to detect lithography hotspots within the layout, wherein each lithography hotspot is associated with a local routing pattern around the lithography hotspot. Next, for each detected lithography hotspot, the system compares the associated local routing pattern against a hotspot database to determine if the local routing pattern matches an entry in the hotspot database, which stores a set of known hotspot configurations. If so, the system corrects the lithography hotspot using correction guidance information associated with the hotspot configuration stored in the hotspot database. Otherwise, the system corrects the lithography hotspot by performing a local rip-up and reroute on the local routing pattern, iteratively, until achieving convergence or given number of iterations. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300562 | Design structure for out of band signaling enhancement for high speed serial driver - A design structure is provided for a microelectronic serial driver. The serial driver is operable to transmit a differential pattern signal during a burst interval and a predetermined common mode voltage level during a second interval between adjacent burst intervals, the serial driver including at least one pre-driver and a driver coupled to an output of the pre-driver for transmitting the differential communication signal. A switching circuit is operable to switch the serial driver between a first power supply voltage level for the burst interval and the predetermined common mode voltage level, wherein the predetermined common mode voltage level is independent of variations in power supply voltage conditions and temperature conditions. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEQUENTIAL EQUIVALENCE CHECKING ON INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) DESIGNS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs sequential equivalence checking between integrated circuit (IC) designs. During operation, the system receives a first IC design and a second IC design. Each of the first and second IC designs includes a top design level and a bottom design level, and the bottom design levels include one or more sub-blocks within the corresponding top design levels. The system then verifies if each of the sub-blocks in the bottom design level of the first design is conditionally equivalent to a corresponding sub-block in the second design. Note that two designs are conditionally equivalent if the two designs can become sequentially equivalent by adding registers on the input and output ports of the two designs. The system additionally verifies if the top design level of the first design is conditionally equivalent to the top design level of the second design and if the first design is temporally equivalent to the second design. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300564 | CIRCUIT OPERATION VERIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - In order to confirm a propagation range of a signal whose signal value is fixed by a control signal to restrain switchings is within a predetermined range, it is judged by results of the logic simulation whether or not a switching restraining mode is enabled. If it is enabled, a switching probability restraint information list including the detected time and an ID of the net whose signal value is fixed is set to the net whose signal value is fixed, and then is propagated to the next net according to the results of the logic simulation. If the circuit changes are appropriated conducted, the results of the logic simulation do not satisfy the propagation condition of the switching probability restraint information list. Accordingly, the switching probability restraint information list is not propagated over the predetermined range, and no problem is detected. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300565 | METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING NODES FOR REROUTING AND DEVICE THEREFOR - A system and methods are disclosed to prioritize circuit nodes that interconnect the device components of an electronic device design for rerouting. The prioritized nodes can be used to focus effort on improving the quality of signal nodes in an efficient manner. Re-routable nodes are first identified by comparing the signal propagation time delay of each node in the design to an ideal propagation time delay of an ideal route of that node, and selecting the nodes that have a deviation from the ideal delay that exceeds a specified threshold. Once the set of re-routable nodes is identified, each node is then prioritized based on the propagation time delay of a complete path encompassing that node. These nodes can then be re-routed based upon their associated priority. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300566 | Hierarchical Partitioning - Some embodiments provide a method of simulating an electrical circuit that receives a circuit description that has a set of sub-circuits. The method defines several partitions for several sub-circuits. The method then simulates the circuit using the partitioned sub-circuits. In some embodiments, the method ranks the sub-circuits prior to partitioning based on a parent-child relationship that shows how a sub-circuit is instantiated by other sub-circuits. These embodiments partition child sub-circuits first. Some embodiments provide a method of partitioning an electrical circuit that has a set of sub-circuits. For a particular sub-circuit that is instantiated from other sub-circuits, the method duplicates the particular sub-circuit into a first copy and a second copy when one port of the particular sub-circuit is connected to a voltage source in at least one instance and the same port is not connected to a voltage source in at least another instance. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300567 | DESIGN LAYOUT OF PRINTABLE ASSIST FEATURES TO AID TRANSISTOR CONTROL - Exemplary embodiments provide a method for laying out an IC design and the IC design layout. The IC design layout can include one or more gate features placed on an active region including a first pitch (p | 2009-12-03 |
20090300568 | Bus interface design apparatus and bus interface design method - A design method of a bus interface that includes an I/F interposed between chips, includes determining a bus width of the bus interface between chips and a type of the bus interface, based on a physical constraint condition between the chips, and automatically generating a bus IP core that comprises a circuit configured in accordance with the determined bus width and the bus interface. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300569 | DESIGN METHOD AND ARCHITECTURE FOR POWER GATE SWITCH PLACEMENT - A design method places power gates or switch cells using unoccupied locations of logic cell rows. Two types of such switch cells, filler switches and sealer switches, may be provided using the unoccupied locations. In one embodiment, virtual ground voltage references to the logic cells are routed to their associated switch cells. Because conventional standard cell design and placement techniques achieve only a placement density or utilization between 70-80% (i.e., unoccupied space constitutes between 20 to 30% of the available space in each row of logic cells), by placing the power gate cells in the unoccupied space, the method does not increase the silicon real estate requirement even though the power gate cells are introduced into the design. Optimization techniques may be applied to achieve proper sizing and distribution of power gate cells, so as to avoid a performance penalty due to the power gate cells. In one embodiment, fine-grained power gating is achieved by selectively providing non-power-gated logic cells among power-gated logic cells. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300570 | INTERACTIVE HIERARCHICAL ANALOG LAYOUT SYNTHESIS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - In one embodiment of the invention, a method of synthesizing a layout of an integrated circuit chip including analog circuitry is disclosed. The method includes receiving a circuit netlist of an integrated circuit chip including analog circuitry; representing and manipulating a hierarchical analog circuit layout including device placement and net routing in response to the circuit netlist, the hierarchical analog circuit layout including a plurality of levels of layout hierarchy; and passing layout information from one level of the layout hierarchy to an adjacent level of the layout hierarchy to synthesize the layout of the integrated circuit chip. In response to user preference directives, methods and apparatus are disclosed to perform re-synthesis of analog circuit layouts in another embodiment of the invention. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300571 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FPGA REWIRING - There are disclosed a method and system for FPGA rewiring of a circuit. The method comprises: mapping the circuit into a first circuit, the first circuit being logically represented with a plurality of Look-Up Tables; rewiring the first circuit to obtain a second circuit, a mapping area of the second circuit being less than that of the first circuit; mapping the second circuit into a third circuit, the third circuit being logically represented with less Look-Up Tables than the first circuit; and routing the third circuit to generate a FPGA architecture file related to the circuit. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300572 | Method of Correcting Etch and Lithographic Processes - System and method of correcting etch and lithographic processes on a photo mask provides for performing an etch proximity correction on a layout design pattern. A first and a second intermediate layout pattern each being based on the etch proximity corrected layout design pattern are provided. An optical proximity correction on the first intermediate layout pattern is performed so as to generate a modified first intermediate layout pattern. Scatterbar generation on the second intermediate layout pattern is performed so as to generate a modified second intermediate layout pattern including scatterbars. Generating a mask layout pattern being based on the first and the second modified intermediate layout pattern is performed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300573 | MODEL-BASED PROCESS SIMULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for process simulation are described. The methods may use a reference model identifying sensitivity of a reference scanner to a set of tunable parameters. Chip fabrication from a chip design may be simulated using the reference model, wherein the chip design is expressed as one or more masks. An iterative retuning and simulation process may be used to optimize critical dimension in the simulated chip and to obtain convergence of the simulated chip with an expected chip. Additionally, a designer may be provided with a set of results from which an updated chip design is created. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300574 | Methods for Defining and Utilizing Sub-Resolution Features in Linear Topology - Regular layout shapes are placed in accordance with a virtual grate. A determination is made as to whether an unoccupied layout space adjacent to a regular layout shape to be reinforced, and extending in a direction perpendicular to the regular layout shape, is large enough to support placement of a sub-resolution shape. Upon determining that the unoccupied layout space is large enough to support placement of the sub-resolution shape, the sub-resolution shape is placed so as to be substantially centered upon a virtual line of the virtual grate within the unoccupied layout space. Also, one or more sub-resolution shapes are placed between and parallel with neighboring regular layout shapes when windows of lithographic reinforcement associated with each of the neighboring regular layout shapes permit. The sub-resolution shapes may be placed according to a virtual grate, or may be placed based on proximity to edges of the neighboring regular layout shapes. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300575 | Optimizing Layout of Irregular Structures in Regular Layout Context - Within a dynamic array architecture, an irregular wire layout region within a portion of a chip level layout is bracketed by placing first and second regular wire layout shapes on a first and second sides, respectively, of the irregular wire layout region. One or more irregular wire layout shapes are placed within the irregular wire layout region. A first edge spacing is maintained between the first regular wire layout shape and a first outer irregular wire layout shape within the irregular wire layout region nearest to the first regular wire layout shape. A second edge spacing is maintained between the second regular wire layout shape and a second outer irregular wire layout shape within the irregular wire layout region nearest to the second regular wire layout shape. The first and second edge spacings are defined to optimize lithography of the regular and irregular wire layout shapes. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300576 | METHOD FOR AMENDING LAYOUT PATTERNS - A method for amending layout patterns is disclosed. First, a layout pattern after an optical proximity correction is provided, which is called an amended pattern. Later, a positive sizing procedure and a negative sizing procedure are respectively performed on the amended pattern to respectively obtain a positive sizing pattern and a negative sizing pattern. Then, the positive sizing pattern and the negative sizing pattern are respectively verified to know whether they are useable. Afterwards, the useable positive sizing pattern and the negative sizing pattern are output for the manufacture of a reticle when they are verified to be useable. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300577 | DETERMINING COMPETENCE LEVELS OF FACTORY TEAMS WORKING WITHIN A SOFTWARE FACTORY - A method, system, and computer-readable medium for determining competence levels of factory teams are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: creating a template for an initial work packet, wherein the initial work packet is a self-contained work unit that is assembled within the software factory; creating a partially instantiated work packet by populating the template with details that describe pre-conditions and post-conditions necessary to execute the work packet; provisionally selecting a human team to complete coding of the partially instantiated work packet to create a final work packet; determining whether the human team is competent to create the final work packet; and in response to determining that the human team is competent to create the final work packet, ordering the human team to create the final work packet within the software factory. | 2009-12-03 |
20090300578 | System and Method For Developing An Application For Extending Access to Local Software Of A Wireless Device - A system and method for developing an application for subsequent deployment on a mobile device, the mobile device configured for using the deployed application to communicate over a network with a data source through a transaction server. The system and method comprising: an interface component module for providing access to a defined interface component for use in providing communication between the application and a local software configured to be resident on the mobile device; and a composer module for defining a text file containing definitions expressed in a structured definition language, the definitions describing a message section and a data section and a user interface section of the application, the composer module further for inserting handler definitions in the text file such that the handler definitions are configured for calling the interface component of the interface component module. | 2009-12-03 |