| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080228843 | Filesystem having a filename cache - A system comprising a processor, a data storage device that is accessible by the processor, and filesystem software that is executable by the processor to organize files on the data storage device are provided. The filesystem software is executable to maintain a filename cache having variable size filename entries. The filename entries may include a filename header section and a name section storing an entire filename of a corresponding file. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090115736 | SYSTEM HAVING USER INTERFACE USING MOTION BASED OBJECT SELECTION AND MOUSE MOVEMENT - A system includes a touchscreen display and an interface application. The interface application controls the touchscreen display to provide a container and a user interface control. The user interface control may be selected through manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container proximate the user interface control. The user interface application identifies a user manipulation as a mouse movement in response to manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container when the manipulation has a motion magnitude exceeding a threshold value. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090195556 | SYSTEM COMPOSITING IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - A system compositing images from different applications includes a movie clip based application, an image application, and a compositing application that is in communication with the movie clip based application and the image application. The movie clip based application defines one or more movie clip images for display. The image application provides one or more images for display with the one or more movie clip images. The compositing application operates to composite the one or more movie clip images with the one or more images of the image application for viewing on a display. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20100040346 | SYSTEM HAVING MOVIE CLIP OBJECT CONTROLLING AN EXTERNAL NATIVE APPLICATION - A system comprises a movie clip environment in which a movie clip object is defined, and a native application that is external to the movie clip environment. The native application renders an image to an off-screen surface of the system. A composition manager is responsive to communications from the movie clip object to control where the off-screen surface is to be rendered on a display screen. The composition manager may be responsive to communications from the movie clip object to direct the native application to control one or more properties of the image of the off-screen surface. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100253693 | SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATING COMPOSITE GRAPHICS RENDERING - A system aids composited graphics rendering. A script and corresponding virtual machine engine code may be stored in memory. An off-screen buffer is generated in the memory by the script. The off-screen buffer includes an extended stage having first a buffer portion. The buffer portion may include pre-rendered graphical object. An on-screen buffer may include a composition of the pre-rendered graphical objects of the extended stage. The script renders a graphical change to the on-screen buffer using independent block copying, from the extended stage to corresponding target areas in the on-screen buffer, of one or more of the pre-rendered graphics of the extended stage area affected by the graphical changes. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110107342 | PROCESS SCHEDULER EMPLOYING ORDERING FUNCTION TO SCHEDULE THREADS RUNNING IN MULTIPLE ADAPTIVE PARTITIONS - A system is set forth that includes a processor, one or more memory storage units, and software code stored in the one or more memory storage units. The software code is executable by the processor to generate a plurality of adaptive partitions that are each associated with one or more process threads. Each of the plurality, of adaptive partitions has one or more corresponding scheduling attributes that are assigned to it. The software code further includes a scheduling system that is executable by the processor for selectively allocating the processor to run the process threads based on a comparison between ordering function values for each adaptive partition. The ordering function value for each adaptive partition is calculated using one or more of the scheduling attributes of the corresponding adaptive partition. The scheduling attributes that may be used to calculate the ordering function value include, for example, 1) the process budget, such as a guaranteed time budget, of the adaptive partition, 2) the critical budget, if any, of the adaptive partition, 3) the rate at which the process threads of an adaptive partition consume processor time, or the like. For each adaptive partition that is associated with a critical thread, a critical ordering function value also may be calculated. The scheduling system may compare the ordering function value with the critical ordering function value of the adaptive partition to determine the proper manner of billing the adaptive partition for the processor allocation used to run its associated critical threads. Methods of implementing various aspects of such a system are also set forth. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110246477 | FILESYSTEM HAVING A FILENAME CACHE - A system comprising a processor, a data storage device that is accessible by the processor, and filesystem software that is executable by the processor to organize files on the data storage device are provided. The filesystem software is executable to maintain a filename cache comprising filename entries. The filename entries may include a filename header section and each filename entry identifies a filename of a corresponding file. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110313983 | OPTIMIZED STARTUP VERIFICATION OF FILE SYSTEM INTEGRITY - A computer system having a transaction based file system is disclosed. The computer system includes file system software that manages the file data and the file system structure of files stored on a persistent data storage device and maintains a transaction file that includes a plurality of transaction records. The file system software executes a startup process in which a reconstructed file system is generated in random access memory from the transaction records. The startup process may skip verification of some of the transactions. The file system software may error check at least one of the skipped transactions in response to a request to access a file identified by a file node record in the reconstructed filed system after the startup process is completed. | 12-22-2011 |