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Balakrishnan, CA
Anoop Balakrishnan, Fremont, CA US
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| 20100008648 | AUDIO ONLY PLAYBACK OF A DISK HAVING BOTH AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDINGS - A system and method for playing audio only in a disk player. The disc player is configured to read data from disks formatted according to a selected audio and video standard. The system includes a file reader to read files of audio and video files based on the audio and video standard. A stream parser identifies audio data, video data and sub-picture data. An audio decoder decodes the audio data according to the audio standard. A video stub receives the video data and leaves the video data unprocessed. A sub-picture menu processor extracts menu information. A user interface system to use the menu information to configure at least one user input to play audio-only from the disk according to the menu information. | 01-14-2010 |
Arun Balakrishnan, San Diego, CA US
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| 20120068837 | Apparatus And Method To Detect Vehicle Theft - Disclosed is an apparatus and method to detect vehicle theft. In one embodiment, a processor may be configured to execute instructions to: receive a vehicle detection signal from a vehicle detector; determine whether a vehicle is present or absent based upon the vehicle detection signal; establish an authentication credential after the vehicle is determined to present; and validate the authentication credential to indicate validated parking. If the vehicle is determined to be absent and an authentication credential to un-park the vehicle has not been validated, a notification action may be transmitted to appropriate personnel to indicate that the vehicle has been moved or un-parked without proper authentication. | 03-22-2012 |
Gopinath Balakrishnan, San Jose, CA US
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| 20100106893 | PAGE BUFFER PROGRAM COMMAND AND METHODS TO REPROGRAM PAGES WITHOUT RE-INPUTTING DATA TO A MEMORY DEVICE - A technique for efficiently handling write operation failures in a memory device which communicates with an external host device allows a page of data to be re-written to a memory array from a page buffer. The host provides user data, a first write address and a write command to the memory device. If the write attempt fails, the host provides a re-write command with a new address, without re-sending the user data to the memory device. Additional data can be received at a data cache of the memory device while a re-write from the page buffer is in progress. The re-written data may be obtained in a copy operation in which the data is read out to the host, modified and written back to the memory device. Additional data can be input to the memory device during the copy operation. Page buffer data can also be modified in place. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110141788 | PAGE REGISTER OUTSIDE ARRAY AND SENSE AMPLIFIER INTERFACE - A non-volatile storage device includes a substrate, a monolithic three-dimensional memory array of non-volatile storage elements arranged above a portion of the substrate, a plurality of sense amplifiers in communication with the non-volatile storage elements, a plurality of temporary storage devices in communication with the sense amplifiers, a page register in communication with the temporary storage devices, and one or more control circuits. The one or more control circuits are in communication with the page register, the temporary storage devices and the sense amplifiers. The sense amplifiers are arranged on the substrate underneath the monolithic three-dimensional memory array. The temporary storage devices are arranged on the substrate underneath the monolithic three-dimensional memory array. The page register is arranged on the substrate in an area that is not underneath the monolithic three-dimensional memory array. Data read from the non-volatile storage elements by the sense amplifiers is transferred to the temporary storage devices and then to the page register in response to the one or more control circuits. Data to be programmed into the non-volatile storage elements is transferred to the temporary storage devices from the page register in response to the one or more control circuits. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110141832 | PROGRAM CYCLE SKIP - A non-volatile storage system includes technology for skipping programming cycles while programming a page (or other unit) of data. While programming a current subset of the page (or other unit) of data, the system will evaluate whether the next subsets of the page (or other unit) of data should be programmed into non-volatile storage elements or skipped. Subsets of the page (or other unit) of data that should not be skipped are programmed into non-volatile storage elements. Some embodiments include transferring the appropriate data to temporary latches/registers, in preparation for programming, concurrently with the evaluation of whether to program or skip the programming. | 06-16-2011 |
Govind Balakrishnan, Foster City, CA US
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| 20100105361 | Interrupting and Resuming a Media Player - In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes playing a content file with a media player on a cellular telephone. Also, the method includes receiving an interrupt event. Moreover, the method includes saving state of the media player on the cellular telephone in the media player. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110296057 | Event Handling In An Integrated Execution Environment - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for handling input received from a common interface of a program and a runtime environment when both the program and the runtime environment are configured to consume the received input. Given that both a browser program and a media player program hosted by the browser program are configured to detect an event of a certain type, there may be a contention of whether the browser program or the media player program may act first on the detected event. The disclosed systems and techniques enable interpretation of a user's intent when the user interacts with a webpage hosting media content and when the user's input occurs over media content rendered by the media player program. Similar advantages may also be realized within the context of another execution environment, or other program, different than a browser program. | 12-01-2011 |
Harikrishnan Balakrishnan, San Ramon, CA US
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| 20120023067 | Membership Tracking and Data Eviction in Mobile Middleware Scenarios - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for ensuring coherency between user data in a client and their corresponding state in enterprise information systems (EIS) wherein data migrates and subscriptions change over time. A mobile business object (MBO) identifies an update to a subscription or a change in set membership in order to provide updates to a client device and EIS systems. Cached data is filtered for client device users who synchronize data they are interested in (i.e., subscribed to). In an embodiment, the method keeps track of set membership by remembering on a per remote identifier/business object basis the set membership for a parent business object. When set membership changes, the method sends delete notifications to the device to remove ex-members. The method recognizes common relationship types in a business scenario and handles reference-type relationships as well as containment-type relationships. The methods include key tracking and membership tracking. | 01-26-2012 |
Kannan Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA US
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| 20120047146 | VISUAL AID TO ASSIST MAKING PURCHASE BY TRACKING KEY PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for assisting users in an ecommerce environment. The method includes displaying a user interface of including products. Each of the products have associated attributes. Each of the associated attributes are displayed in the user interface with an associated selection tool. The method further includes receiving one or more selections of the selection tools indicating selection of one or more of the associated attributes. The one or more selections provide a ranking of each of the selected attributes. For each of the products, the method calculates a real-time score total and displays the real-time score total within the user interface. The calculating includes determining a weighted value for each of the products based on an aggregation of each of the selected associated attributes of the product. Further, the method includes displaying a ranked list of the products based on the determined weighted values of each of the products. | 02-23-2012 |
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Mountain View, CA US
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| 20110138106 | EXTENDING SSD LIFETIME USING HYBRID STORAGE - A hybrid storage device uses a write cache such as a hard disk drive, for example, to cache data to a solid state drive (SSD). Data is logged sequentially to the write cache and later migrated to the SSD. The SSD is a primary storage that stores data permanently. The write cache is a persistent durable cache that may store data of disk write operations temporarily in a log structured fashion. A migration policy may be used to determine how long to cache the data in the write cache before migrating the data to the SDD. The migration policy may be implemented using one or more migration triggers that cause the contents of the write cache to be flushed to the SSD. Migration triggers may include a timeout trigger, a read threshold trigger, and a migration size trigger, for example. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110208958 | COMMUNICATING USING A CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - A cloud infrastructure that communicates with computing devices is provided. The computing devices install filters on other computing devices that they wish to receive items from including pictures, messages, and documents. The filters include criteria that are evaluated on the computing devices, rather than at a server, to determine if an item may be sent to another computing device. The computing devices may then send items that match the criteria to the cloud infrastructure, and the items may be stored and queued for delivery to other computing devices. The items may be encrypted before being provided to the cloud infrastructure, and decrypted when received by the computing devices. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110295969 | TOTALLY ORDERED LOG ON APPENDABLE STORAGE - Computers are provided with a totally ordered, durable shared log. Shared storage is used and can be directly accessed by the computers over a network. Append-log operations are made atomic in the face of failures by committing provisional append ordering information onto a log. The log may comprise multiple flash packages or non-volatile memory devices, referred to as segments, although any shared storage device(s) may be used. Each log record is a multi-page stripe, where each page of a stripe is written to a different segment. Fault-tolerant protocol variants append stripes to the log, such that stripes are totally ordered in the log and each stripe is written atomically. | 12-01-2011 |
Narayanan Balakrishnan, Milpitas, CA US
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| 20120017040 | Maintaining Data Consistency in Mirrored Cluster Storage Systems Using Bitmap Write-Intent Logging - Techniques for maintaining mirrored storage cluster data consistency can employ write-intent logging. The techniques can be scaled to any number of mirror nodes. The techniques can keep track of any outstanding I/Os, data in caches, and data that has gone out of sync between mirrored nodes due to link failures. The techniques can ensure that a power failure on any of the storage nodes does not result in inconsistent data among the storage nodes. The techniques may keep track of outstanding I/Os using a minimal memory foot-print and having a negligible impact on the I/O performance. Properly choosing the granularity of the system for tracking outstanding I/Os can result in a minimal amount of data requiring transfer to synchronize the mirror nodes. The capability to vary the granularity based on physical and logical parameters of the storage volumes may provide performance benefits. | 01-19-2012 |
Rajalakshmi Balakrishnan, San Jose, CA US
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| 20090094210 | INTELLIGENTLY SORTED SEARCH RESULTS - Intelligently sorting search results includes retrieving search results according to a search. A criterion to apply to the search results to organize the search results into clusters that present content of the search results is determined. The criterion is applied to the search results, and the search results are presented in clusters. Each cluster represents a category of the criterion applied to the search results. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094211 | IMPLEMENTING AN EXPANDED SEARCH AND PROVIDING EXPANDED SEARCH RESULTS - To implement an expanded search and to provide expanded search results, a first search query generated by a user is received. A type of expansion to apply to the first search query is determined. Expanded search queries associated with the first search query are automatically generated according to the determined expansion type without intervention from the user. A search is executed on each one of the expanded search queries to retrieve search results. A second search query is received, and the second search query is one of the expanded search queries. Expanded search queries associated with the second search query are automatically generated according to the determined expansion type without intervention from the user. A search on each one of the expanded search queries associated with the second search query to retrieve search results is executed. The search results are provided for presentation to the user in modules. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094234 | IMPLEMENTING AN EXPANDED SEARCH AND PROVIDING EXPANDED SEARCH RESULTS - Implementing an expanded search and providing expanded search results comprises receiving a search query generated by a user. A type of expansion to apply to the search query is determined. Expanded search queries are automatically generated according to the determined expansion type without intervention from the user. A search is executed on each one of the expanded search queries to retrieve search results, and the search results are provided for presentation to the user in modules. A module comprises search results for one of the expanded search queries. | 04-09-2009 |
Rajalakshmi Balakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA US
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| 20120130196 | Mood Sensor - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving and recording inputs identifying a mood of a person, a mood intensity level of the mood, an activity of the person coinciding with the mood, and time of the mood. | 05-24-2012 |
Sreeram Balakrishnan, Los Alto, CA US
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| 20090192784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS TO DISCOVER NONCOMPLIANCE WITH ESTABLISHED NORMS - A computer-implemented method for analyzing documents to discover noncompliance with an established norm is provided. The method can include receiving one or more terms indicating possible noncompliance with a pre-established norm, and, based upon the at least one term, constructing at least one grammatical unit. The grammatical unit can specify a predetermined syntax and can correspond to semantic content that is indicative of noncompliance with the pre-established norm, wherein the norm can include a statute, regulation, policy, or other standard. The method can further include identifying from among multiple electronic documents each document that contains one or more grammatical units specifying a predetermined syntax and corresponding to semantic content indicative of noncompliance with the pre-established norm. | 07-30-2009 |
Sreeram V. Balakrishnan, Los Altos, CA US
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| 20080215299 | Asynchronous Hidden Markov Model Method and System - A system, method and program storage device implementing a method for modeling a data generating process, wherein the modeling comprises observing a data sequence comprising irregularly sampled data, obtaining an observation sequence based on the observed data sequence, assigning a time index sequence to the data sequence, obtaining a hidden state sequence of the data sequence, and decoding the data sequence based on a combination of the time index sequence and the hidden state sequence to model the data sequence. The method further comprises assigning a probability distribution over time stamp values of the observation sequence, wherein the decoding comprises using a Hidden Markov Model. The method further comprises using an expectation maximization methodology to learn the Hidden Markov Model. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090070100 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE GRAMMAR EVALUATION - A method, system, and computer program product for spoken language grammar evaluation are provided. The method includes playing a recorded question to a candidate, recording a spoken answer from the candidate, and converting the spoken answer into text. The method further includes comparing the text to a grammar database, calculating a spoken language grammar evaluation score based on the comparison, and outputting the spoken language grammar evaluation score. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070111 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE GRAMMAR EVALUATION - A method, system, and computer program product for spoken language grammar evaluation are provided. The method includes playing a recorded question to a candidate, recording a spoken answer from the candidate, and converting the spoken answer into text. The method further includes comparing the text to a grammar database, calculating a spoken language grammar evaluation score based on the comparison, and outputting the spoken language grammar evaluation score. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090125805 | METHODS FOR OBTAINING IMPROVED TEXT SIMILARITY MEASURES - The embodiments of the invention provide methods for obtaining improved text similarity measures. More specifically, a method of measuring similarity between at least two electronic documents begins by identifying similar terms between the electronic documents. This includes basing similarity between the similar terms on patterns, wherein the patterns can include word patterns, letter patterns, numeric patterns, and/or alphanumeric patterns. The identifying of the similar terms also includes identifying multiple pattern types between the electronic documents. Moreover, the basing of the similarity on patterns identifies terms within the electronic documents that are within a category of a hierarchy. Specifically, the identifying of the terms reviews a hierarchical data tree, wherein nodes of the tree represent terms within the electronic documents. Lower nodes of the tree have specific terms; and, wherein higher nodes of the tree have general terms. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100250580 | SEARCHING DOCUMENTS USING A DYNAMICALLY DEFINED IGNORE STRING - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for searching a plurality of documents using a dynamically defined ignore string. The ignore string may be specified by a user. An overlay index may be generated over the plurality of documents. The overlay index may include a posting list for each term in the ignore string. Each posting list may specify the documents of the plurality of documents in which the respective term occurs outside of the ignore string. The overlay index may also include a posting list that specifies all occurrences of the ignore string in the plurality of documents. Once generated, a user may search the plurality of documents while occurrences of the ignore string in the plurality of documents are ignored in text-based searches. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100306238 | PARALLEL SEGMENTED INDEX SUPPORTING INCREMENTAL DOCUMENT AND TERM INDEXING - Techniques are disclosed for generating an index that supports both incremental document indexing and incremental term indexing. Documents and search terms may be received for which an index is to be generated. From this information, an index may be generated, partitioned in a first dimension by documents to create master segments and in a second dimension by search terms to create slave segments. A request to update the index to include a new document or a new search term may be received. The new document or new search term may be added to the index without modifying the entire index. Further, document identifiers may be synchronized across all segments. Synchronization refers to maintaining consistency of document identifiers across segments, despite renumbering of document identifiers during certain operations such as merging segments. | 12-02-2010 |
Sreeram Viswanath Balakrishnan, Los Altos, CA US
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| 20080312921 | SPEECH RECOGNITION UTILIZING MULTITUDE OF SPEECH FEATURES - In a speech recognition system, the combination of a log-linear model with a multitude of speech features is provided to recognize unknown speech utterances. The speech recognition system models the posterior probability of linguistic units relevant to speech recognition using a log-linear model. The posterior model captures the probability of the linguistic unit given the observed speech features and the parameters of the posterior model. The posterior model may be determined using the probability of the word sequence hypotheses given a multitude of speech features. Log-linear models are used with features derived from sparse or incomplete data. The speech features that are utilized may include asynchronous, overlapping, and statistically non-independent speech features. Not all features used in training need to appear in testing/recognition. | 12-18-2008 |
Subramanian Balakrishnan, Cupertino, CA US
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| 20090299681 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING INFORMATION TO BE USED FOR SELECTING VALUES FOR ONE OR MORE PARAMETERS OF A DETECTION ALGORITHM - Methods and systems for generating information to be used for selecting values for parameter(s) of a detection algorithm are provided. One method includes without user intervention performing a scan of an area of a wafer using an inspection system and default values for parameter(s) of a detection algorithm to detect defects on the wafer. The method also includes selecting a portion of the defects from results of the scan based on a predetermined maximum number of total defects to be used for selecting values for the parameter(s) of the detection algorithm. The method further includes storing information, which includes values for the parameter(s) of the detection algorithm determined for the defects in the portion. The information can be used to select the values for the parameter(s) of the detection algorithm to be used for the inspection recipe without performing an additional scan of the wafer subsequent to the scan. | 12-03-2009 |
Vinod Balakrishnan, Menlo Park, CA US
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| 20090012705 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for discovering the presence of at least one source and target mobile device, automatically displaying a graphical interface to show the dataset from the source mobile device, and initiating the transmission of data between the mobile devices, is provided. The method further includes automatically receiving the dataset from the source mobile device, where the dataset is at least a representation of the data on the source device. In one embodiment, the representation is a subset of the data on the device and/or a description of the data on the mobile device. In another embodiment, a method for a navigation system to discover the presence of at least one mobile device, to automatically receive data from the mobile device, and to process the data with navigation operations, is provided. | 01-08-2009 |