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| 20090023395 | PASSIVE INTERFACE AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION FOR PORTABLE DEVICES - A universal passive interface for connecting external systems to smart devices such as cell phones and PDAs. The passive system includes a cradle for receiving a compatible smart device that connects the functionality of the smart device to a wide variety of external systems (e.g., printers, large display, input devices, etc.). The passive interface includes a USB hub, network port, and other common connector ports for peripherals and other systems. The smart device can connect to the passive system via the cradle slot, a tether, and/or wirelessly. The external systems to which the passive system serves at the interface to the smart device include, but are not limited to, large displays (e.g., television), external monitors, input devices such as mice and keyboards, external storage devices, and networks (wired and/or wireless). A wizard allows the user to configure the external systems to work with the smart device. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090023475 | SMART INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - A universal smart interface and peripheral management system for portable devices such as mobile phones. The smart system includes a connector interface that connects peripherals to a phone and/or personal digital assistant (PDA), through the smart system. The smart system includes a cradle for receiving a cell phone and interfacing the phone to external systems such as peripherals, networks and other systems through a USB hub and other suitable connector interfaces. The peripheral devices to which the smart system can interface include, but are not limited to, large displays (e.g., television), external monitors, input devices such as mice and keyboards, external storage devices, and networks (wired and/or wireless). The smart system also facilitates connectivity to large display systems such as TVs, computer displays and monitors. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20100208033 | Personal Media Landscapes in Mixed Reality - An exemplary method includes accessing geometrically located data that represent one or more virtual items with respect to a three-dimensional coordinate system; generating a three-dimensional map based at least in part on real image data of a three-dimensional space as acquired by a camera; rendering to a physical display a mixed reality scene that includes the one or more virtual items at respective three-dimensional positions in a real image of the three-dimensional space acquired by the camera; and re-rendering to the physical display the mixed reality scene upon a change in the field of view of the camera. Other methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110136541 | SMART INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - A universal smart interface and peripheral management system for portable devices such as mobile phones. The smart system includes a connector interface that connects peripherals to a phone and/or personal digital assistant (PDA), through the smart system. The smart system includes a cradle for receiving a cell phone and interfacing the phone to external systems such as peripherals, networks and other systems through a USB hub and other suitable connector interfaces. The peripheral devices to which the smart system can interface include, but are not limited to, large displays (e.g., television), external monitors, input devices such as mice and keyboards, external storage devices, and networks (wired and/or wireless). The smart system also facilitates connectivity to large display systems such as TVs, computer displays and monitors. | 06-09-2011 |
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| 20100042421 | CONTEXT BASED ADVERTISEMENT BIDDING MECHANISM - A software and/or hardware facility for managing online advertisement bidding processes is described. The facility selects advertisements for delivery to mobile device users based on advertiser bids. The advertisers may bid for presentation of their advertisements to users having certain spatio-temporal, user segment, and/or other characteristics. The facility may also select advertisements for delivery based on an estimated likelihood of a mobile device user's positive response to the advertisement. Advertiser and user feedback may also be employed to refine the process of selecting advertisements for delivery. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042469 | MOBILE DEVICE ENHANCED SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - A software and/or hardware facility for providing a mobile device enhanced shopping experience is disclosed. The facility may determine a user characteristic of a mobile device user and deliver information in response to a product query. The information may include product information, competitive pricing information, competitive product information, related product information, a product advertisement, and/or the like. Also, the product query may be based on barcode information, a barcode image, product information, a product image, and/or the like. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042470 | CONTEXT BASED ADVERTISEMENT FILTRATION - A software and/or hardware facility for filtering advertisements based on variable contexts is described. The facility may ascertain whether incoming messages are advertisements and filter messages containing advertisements. Advertisements may be filtered for deletion, storage, and/or user alerts with or without storage. The user may be alerted to incoming advertisements either upon receipt or at a later time. Filtering and notification may be based on real-time context (e.g., mood, location, time, environment, device status, etc.). In addition, filtering may also be based on message context and other contexts. User feedback may also be employed to refine filtering algorithms. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042471 | DETERMINATION OF ADVERTISEMENT REFERRER INCENTIVES AND DISINCENTIVES - A software and/or hardware facility for managing the referral of electronic advertisements is described. The facility may be configured to provide advertisements, including coupons, to a referrer and to enable the referrer to forward the advertisements to recipients. The facility also tracks recipient responses to the forwarded advertisements (e.g., redemption of coupons, interactions with the advertisement, rejections of advertisements, etc.). The facility may also be configured to provide incentives and/or disincentives to referrers based on recipient responses to advertisements. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20110074670 | Providing Input and Output for a Mobile Device - Providing input and output for a mobile device may be provided. At a mobile device, input may be received from at least one of a plurality of remote input devices. The plurality of remote input devices may be remote from the mobile device. The mobile device may have at least one local input device. The at least one of the plurality of remote input devices may have a greater form factor than the local input device. Next, the received input may be processed. The mobile device may transmit the output to at least one of the plurality of remote output devices. The plurality of remote output devices may be remote from the mobile device. The mobile device may have at least one local output device. The at least one of the plurality of remote output devices may have a greater form factor than the local output device. | 03-31-2011 |
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| 20100088390 | DATA SHARING PROXY FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Described is a technology that uses a web service as a proxy for transferring data between mobile communications devices. A short range communication link is established between a source device and a destination device. The source device sends a content identifier over the short range communication link to the destination device, that the destination devices uses to access the content, including when the short range communication link no longer exists. Also described is security for the content via authentication data (e.g., credentials) and policy associated with the content to control its access. The source device may select the destination device or may broadcast the content identifier to any number of destination devices within range. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100107219 | AUTHENTICATION - CIRCLES OF TRUST - Within a surface computing environment users are provided a seamless and intuitive manner of modifying security levels associated with information. If a modification is to be made the user can perceive the modifications and the result of such modifications, such as on a display. When information is rendered within the surface computing environment and a condition changes, the user can quickly have that information concealed in order to mitigate unauthorized access to the information. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100169134 | FOSTERING ENTERPRISE RELATIONSHIPS - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate, enrich, or nurture relationships in a business enterprise environment. In particular, the architecture can construct a set of profiles associated with entities of the enterprise (e.g., employees, teams, departments, or the enterprise) based upon a wide range of transactions (e.g., behavior, activity, productivity, relationships, explicit or implicit feedback from collaborators . . . ) relating to the entity. Based upon these profiles, the architecture can determine a set of tasks and also identify advantageous relationships, wherein the tasks and relationships are deemed to facilitate accomplishing an objective to benefit the enterprise or entity. In addition, the architecture can nurture or cultivate the advantageous relationships by suggesting suitable behavior or performing opportunistic actions. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110314024 | SEMANTIC CONTENT SEARCHING - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed that provide for document retrieval where a user can identify key attributes of potential target documents that are desirable (e.g., have a particular semantic content for the user). Further, relevant documents that comprise the desired semantic content can be retrieved. Additionally, the user can provide feedback on the retrieved documents, for example, based on key semantic concepts found in the documents, and the input can be used to update the classification. For example, this process can be iterated to improve the retrieval and precision of documents found through machine learning techniques. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20080205761 | Radical Set Determination For HMM Based East Asian Character Recognition - Exemplary techniques are described for selecting radical sets for use in probabilistic East Asian character recognition algorithms. An exemplary technique includes applying a decomposition rule to each East Asian character of the set to generate a progressive splitting graph where the progressive splitting graph comprises radicals as nodes, formulating an optimization problem to find an optimal set of radicals to represent the set of East Asian characters using maximum likelihood and minimum description length and solving the optimization problem for the optimal set of radicals. Another exemplary technique includes selecting an optimal set of radicals by using a general function that characterizes a radical with respect to other East Asian characters and a complex function that characterizes complexity of a radical. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080219556 | Radical-Based HMM Modeling for Handwritten East Asian Characters - Exemplary methods, systems, and computer-readable media for developing, training and/or using models for online handwriting recognition of characters are described. An exemplary method for building a trainable radical-based HMM for use in character recognition includes defining radical nodes, where a radical node represents a structural element of an character, and defining connection nodes, where a connection node represents a spatial relationship between two or more radicals. Such a method may include determining a number of paths in the radical-based HMM using subsequence direction histogram vector (SDHV) clustering and determining a number of states in the radical-based HMM using curvature scale space-based (CSS) corner detection. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090003705 | Feature Design for HMM Based Eastern Asian Character Recognition - An exemplary method for online character recognition of East Asian characters includes acquiring time sequential, online ink data for a handwritten East Asian character, conditioning the ink data to produce conditioned ink data where the conditioned ink data includes information as to writing sequence of the handwritten East Asian character and extracting features from the conditioned ink data where the features include a tangent feature, a curvature feature, a local length feature, a connection point feature and an imaginary stroke feature. Such a method may determine neighborhoods for ink data and extract features for each neighborhood. An exemplary Hidden Markov Model based character recognition system may use various exemplary methods for training and character recognition. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090003706 | Combining online and offline recognizers in a handwriting recognition system - Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and offline recognition is separately performed to obtain online and offline character-level recognition scores for candidates (hypotheses). A statistical analysis-based combination algorithm, an AdaBoost algorithm, and/or a neural network-based combination may determine a combination function to combine the scores to produce a result set of one or more results. Online and offline radical-level recognition may be performed. For example, a HMM recognizer may generate online radical scores used to build a radical graph, which is then rescored using the offline radical recognition scores. Paths in the rescored graph are then searched to provide the combined recognition result, e.g., corresponding to the path with the highest score. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100163316 | Handwriting Recognition System Using Multiple Path Recognition Framework - Described is a multi-path handwriting recognition framework based upon stroke segmentation, symbol recognition, two-dimensional structure analysis and semantic structure analysis. Electronic pen input corresponding to handwritten input (e.g., a chemical expression) is recognized and output via a data structure, which may include multiple recognition candidates. A recognition framework performs stroke segmentation and symbol recognition on the input, and analyzes the structure of the input to output the data structure corresponding to recognition results. For chemical expressions, the structural analysis may perform a conditional sub-expression analysis for inorganic expressions, or organic bond detection, connection relationship analysis, organic atom determination and/or conditional sub-expression analysis for organic expressions. The structural analysis also performs subscript, superscript analysis and character determination. Further analysis may be performed, e.g., chemical valence analysis and/or semantic structure analysis. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110194771 | COMBINING ONLINE AND OFFLINE RECOGNIZERS IN A HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEM - Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and offline recognition is separately performed to obtain online and offline character-level recognition scores for candidates (hypotheses). A statistical analysis-based combination algorithm, an AdaBoost algorithm, and/or a neural network-based combination may determine a combination function to combine the scores to produce a result set of one or more results. Online and offline radical-level recognition may be performed. For example, a HMM recognizer may generate online radical scores used to build a radical graph, which is then rescored using the offline radical recognition scores. Paths in the rescored graph are then searched to provide the combined recognition result, e.g., corresponding to the path with the highest score. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110229038 | Feature Design for HMM Based Eastern Asian Character Recognition - An exemplary method for online character recognition of East Asian characters includes acquiring time sequential, online ink data for a handwritten East Asian character, conditioning the ink data to produce conditioned ink data where the conditioned ink data includes information as to writing sequence of the handwritten East Asian character and extracting features from the conditioned ink data where the features include a tangent feature, a curvature feature, a local length feature, a connection point feature and an imaginary stroke feature. Such a method may determine neighborhoods for ink data and extract features for each neighborhood. An exemplary Hidden Markov Model based character recognition system may use various exemplary methods for training and character recognition. | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20100169369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MERGED MEDIA PROGRAM METADATA - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for generating a media program database having a plurality of media programs is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is comprises the steps of receiving first media program metadata from a first source, searching the Internet to find second media program metadata from a second source distinct from the first source, determining if the first media program metadata and the second media program metadata are associated with the same media program, merging the first media program metadata and the second media program metadata if the first media program metadata and the second media program metadata are associated with the same media program, and storing the merged first media program metadata and second media program metadata in the media program database. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100185646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING MEDIA PROGRAM DATABASES - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for providing list of a plurality of media programs responsive to a user search query is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting an general search query from a user computer, identifying a synonym for the general search query, identifying a category for the general search query according to the identified synonym, performing a categorical search of a media program database using the identified synonym and the identified category to obtain a search result, and transmitting the search result to the user computer for presentation on a display communicatively coupled to the user computer. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100211584 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PROGRAM GUIDE HAVING SEARCH PARAMETER AWARE THUMBNAILS - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for presenting a program guide for a video-on-demand system describing a plurality of media programs, each media program having a plurality of video frames. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting a search request from a user, the search request comprising a search parameter having a search value; searching the media program database for the search value, the media program database having first metadata associated with a first individual video frame of the media program; and providing the program guide comprising a thumbnail depicting the first individual video frame of the media program associated with the first metadata to the user if the first metadata includes the search value. | 08-19-2010 |
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| 20100132028 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING SECURITY-RELATED PROCESSING ON PACKET AND NETWORK SECURITY DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide method for implementing security-related processing on packet and a network security device. Through establishing a relationship between stream attribute information of an initial packet of a stream and security-related processing information implemented on the initial packet, when a succeeding packet of the stream is received, the previously stored relationship is acquired according to stream attribute information of the succeeding packet, the security-related processing is implemented on the succeeding packet according to the security-related processing information in the relationship. Therefore, according to the method for implementing security-related processing on packet and the network security device provided by the present invention, the process of searching for security information entries for succeeding packets of a stream is not required, the security-related processing procedure of the packet is thus accelerated, and the packet processing efficiency is improved. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100195647 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET PROCESSING - The present invention discloses a packet processing apparatus and method. The packet processing apparatus is applied to an L4˜L7 network device, including a plurality of interface processing units and a plurality of service processing units, the interface processing units are connected with the service processing units through a first connection unit; and each of the interface processing units is adapted to select, after receiving a packet from outside, a service processing unit from all the service processing units and transmit the packet to the selected service processing unit; and each of the service processing units is adapted to perform service processing to the packet after receiving the packet. The present invention improves packet processing capability and reliability of the L4˜L7 network device. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100260181 | METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING CENTRALIZED CONTROL PLANE AND DISTRIBUTED DATA PLANE - The present invention discloses a method for implementing centralized control plane and distributed data plane and that comprises the following steps: the main control unit of the main board generates control information and delivers it to the adaptation layer of the main board; the adaptation layer of the main board transmits the control information to the adaptation layer of the service board(s); the adaptation layer of the service board(s) delivers the control information to the data plane and hardware engine of the service board(s). The present discloses a program and system for implementing centralized control plane and distributed data plane. The present invention provides a software architecture using an adaptation layer to implement centralized control plane and distributed data plane to ensure high performance and good scalability of the new architecture, reduce system complexity, and keep system simplicity and efficiency. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100322239 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PACKETS - The present invention discloses a packet processing method, which applies to a high-performance and scalable flow processing system architecture. The service board performs security processing for packets received from external devices by using the firewall function before sending them to the main CPU; similarly, the service board also performs security processing for packets sent from the main CPU by using the firewall function before the main CPU sends them to external devices. The methods of the present invention utilize high performance and good scalability of the new architecture. In a network with heavy and high-speed traffic, the service board performs security processing for packets by using the firewall function and then transmits the valid packets to the main CPU. Thus, the main CPU is protected by the firewall function against attack packets. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110249674 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PACKET - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for processing a packet. An interface processing module selects one from all service processing modules as a service processing module for processing a packet; if the service processing module needs to perform tunnel processing for the packet, the service processing module transmits the packet after performing the tunnel processing; if another service processing module needs to perform tunnel processing for the packet, the service processing module transmits the packet to a service processing module needing to perform tunnel processing for the packet. According to the present invention, the packet can be processed uniformly by the service processing module, so it is not unnecessary to store session states in the service processing modules, and also not unnecessary to perform synchronization between the service processing modules, which greatly decreases complexity of processing the packet and saves system bandwidth. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252228 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENSURING PACKET TRANSMISSION SECURITY - An apparatus and method for ensuring distributed packet transmission security are provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, a main control board allocates SA information to multiple processing boards according to a pre-defined criterion, so that each processing board which receives and stores the SA information may implement IPSec processing. As such, the IPSec processing is shared by the multiple processing boards. Accordingly, when there are a large number of IPSec tunnels on one interface, the IPSec processing to the packets passing the IPSec tunnels will not completely rely on only the processing board where the interface is located. Instead, the IPSec processing is allocated to different processing boards. Therefore, the multiple processing boards effectively share the IPSec processing corresponding to multiple SAs. The efficiency of the IPSec processing is increased. | 10-13-2011 |
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| 20090193424 | METHOD OF PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS IN PIPELINE-BASED PROCESSOR AND CORRESPONDING PROCESSOR - The present invention discloses a method of processing instructions in a pipeline-based central processing unit, wherein the pipeline is partitioned into base pipeline stages and enhanced pipeline stages according to functions, the base pipeline stages being activated all the while, and the enhanced pipeline stages being activated or shutdown according to requirements for performance of a workload. The present invention further discloses a method of processing instructions in a pipeline-based central processing unit, wherein the pipeline is partitioned into base pipeline stages and enhanced pipeline stages according to functions, each pipeline stage being partitioned into a base module and at least one enhanced module, the base module being activated all the while, and the enhanced module being activated or shutdown according to requirements for performance of a workload. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090300330 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON PIPELINE - A data processing system and method are disclosed. The system comprises an instruction-fetch stage where an instruction is fetched and a specific instruction is input into decode stage; a decode stage where said specific instruction indicates that contents of a register in a register file are used as an index, and then, the register file pointed to by said index is accessed based on said index; an execution stage where an access result of said decode stage is received, and computations are implemented according to the access result of the decode stage. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100161875 | SIMULATOR AND SIMULATING METHOD FOR RUNNING GUEST PROGRAM IN HOST - A Simulator and a simulating method for running a guest program in a host are disclosed. The simulator includes: an initialization device configured for setting content of a hypervisor page table in the host, the hypervisor page table mapping a guest physical address space to a host physical address space. The simulator further includes a binary translation device configured for employing a program logical address to perform a memory access in code translation. The simulator also includes a miss handling device configured for updating a guest translation look-aside buffer by treating a miss in a host translation look-aside buffer caused by the execution of the translated code as a miss in the guest translation look-aside buffer, wherein the host translation look-aside buffer is configured to buffer entries for mapping addresses in a guest program logical address space to addresses in the guest physical address space. The simulator further includes an update tracing device configured for, in response to the update to the guest translation look-aside buffer, perform the update to the host translation look-aside buffer. Also disclosed is a method for running a guest program in a host. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100241822 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TLB - An apparatus and method for managing a translation look-aside buffer (TLB). The TLB is shared by a plurality of jobs. The method including the steps of: obtaining at least one attribute of each job of the plurality of jobs; assigning a priority level to each job according to at least one attribute of each job; and managing the related TLB entries of each job according to the priority level of each job. The present invention also provides an apparatus for managing TLB corresponding to the above method. The method and apparatus according to the present invention provide an efficient use of the shared TLB. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110055522 | REQUEST CONTROL DEVICE, REQUEST CONTROL METHOD AND ASSOCIATED PROCESSORS - A request control device, request control method, and a multiprocessor cooperation architecture. The request control device is connected to a request storage module and includes a comparing means and an identifier means. The comparing means is configured to determine if an incoming first queue unit corresponds to the same message with a queue unit that has existed in the request storage module. The identifier setting means is configured to set a save identifier of the queue unit that has existed in the request storage module to indicate not to save a state associated with the message if the first queue unit corresponds to the same message with the queue unit that has existed in the request storage module. According to the technical solution of the invention, the access to the memory caused by saving/loading the states is reduced and thereby increases the processing speed of the processor. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110161540 | HARDWARE SUPPORTED HIGH PERFORMANCE LOCK SCHEMA - A method and apparatus for lock allocation control. When a processor core acquires a lock, other processor cores do not need to constantly poll memory to check whether the required lock is released. Instead, other processor cores will be in sleep state and the next processor core needed will be selectively woken up based on predetermined rule, such that an out-of-order lock contention procedure is turned into an in-order lock allocation procedure. By selectively waking up a processor core that is in sleep state, the method and apparatus can avoid occupying a large amount of bus bandwidth, can avoid cache misses, and can save power consumption of chip. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110200040 | EXTREMUM ROUTE DETERMINING ENGINE AND METHOD - An embodiment of the invention provides an extremum route determining engine and method. The engine includes a memory for storing a path with a weight in a graph and an extremum route determining logic circuit. The logic circuit includes a path reading section for reading the path in the graph, a writing section for updating the weight of the read path according to a predetermined extremum requirement and writing the path whose weight is updated into the memory, and an extremum route determining section for determining an extremum route. The method includes reading a stored path in a graph, the path having a weight, updating the weight of the read path and writing the path whose weight has been updated into a memory, and determining an extremum route. An embodiment of the invention improves the processing speed of extremum route determination. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110246667 | PROCESSING UNIT, CHIP, COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING DATA TRANSMISSION - A processing unit coupled to a bus for accelerating data transmission and a method for accelerating data transmission. The present invention provides a streaming data transmission mode in which a plurality of data blocks are transmitted via one handshake. The present invention employs handshake save policy, when a processing unit sends a request comprising a plurality of data blocks on a bus, a cache or memory will perform address matching to judge whether there is any hit data block. If there is any hit data block, the cache or memory only needs to reply once and then start to continuously transmit the hit data blocks it possesses. Thus, a separate handshake for each data block is no longer needed. | 10-06-2011 |
