| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090109975 | SEPARATION OF DATA AND CONTROL IN A SWITCHING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network. The data packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The header portion includes routing information for the data packet. The method includes defining a data path in the router comprising a path through the router along which the data portion of the data packet travels and defining a control path comprising a path through the router along which routing information from the header portion travels. The method includes separating the data path and control path in the router such that the routing information can be separated from the data portion allowing for the separate processing of each in the router. The data portion can be stored in a global memory while routing decisions are made on the routing information in the control path. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090268740 | MEMORY ORGANIZATION IN A SWITCHING DEVICE - A network device switches variable length data units from a source to a destination in a network. An input port receives the variable length data unit and a divider divides the variable length data unit into uniform length data units for temporary storage in the network device. A distributed memory includes a plurality of physically separated memory banks addressable using a single virtual address space and an input switch streams the uniform length data units across the memory banks based on the virtual address space. The network device further includes an output switch for extracting the uniform length data units from the distributed memory by using addresses of the uniform length data units within the virtual address space. The output switch reassembles the uniform length data units to reconstruct the variable length data unit. An output port receives the variable length data unit and transfers the variable length data unit to the destination. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100309916 | IN-LINE PACKET PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for in-line processing a data packet while routing the packet through a router in a system transmitting data packets between a source and a destination over a network including the router. The method includes receiving the data packet and pre-processing layer header data for the data packet as the data packet is received and prior to transferring any portion of the data packet to packet memory. The data packet is thereafter stored in the packet memory. A routing through the router is determined including a next hop index describing the next connection in the network. The data packet is retrieved from the packet memory and a new layer header for the data packet is constructed from the next hop index while the data packet is being retrieved from memory. The new layer header is coupled to the data packet prior to transfer from the router. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110164618 | MEMORY ORGANIZATION IN A SWITCHING DEVICE - A router for switching data packets from a source to a destination in a network in which the router includes a distributed memory. The distributed memory includes two or more memory banks. Each memory bank is used for storing uniform portions of a data packet received from a source and linking information for each data packet to allow for the extraction of the uniform portions of a data packet from distributed locations in memory in proper order after a routing determination has been made by the router. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120057597 | IN-LINE PACKET PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for in-line processing a data packet while routing the packet through a router in a system transmitting data packets between a source and a destination over a network including the router. The method includes receiving the data packet and pre-processing layer header data for the data packet as the data packet is received and prior to transferring any portion of the data packet to packet memory. The data packet is thereafter stored in the packet memory. A routing through the router is determined including a next hop index describing the next connection in the network. The data packet is retrieved from the packet memory and a new layer header for the data packet is constructed from the next hop index while the data packet is being retrieved from memory. The new layer header is coupled to the data packet prior to transfer from the router. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120219001 | SEPARATION OF DATA AND CONTROL IN A SWITCHING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for switching a data packet between a source and destination in a network. The data packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The header portion includes routing information for the data packet. The method includes defining a data path in the router comprising a path through the router along which the data portion of the data packet travels and defining a control path comprising a path through the router along which routing information from the header portion travels. The method includes separating the data path and control path in the router such that the routing information can be separated from the data portion allowing for the separate processing of each in the router. The data portion can be stored in a global memory while routing decisions are made on the routing information in the control path. | 08-30-2012 |
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| 20100066849 | ADAPTIVE BINNING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method and device are described. The method includes the steps of capturing the contents a scene in a first pass ( | 03-18-2010 |
| 20110097011 | MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGE EDITING - Visual elements of a first image are changed in accordance with an image editing process to produce an edited high-resolution image and visual elements of a second image are modified in accordance with an emulator process to produce a modified low-resolution image. The emulator process produces the modified low-resolution image with visual changes relative to the second image that mimic perceived visual changes made to the visual elements of the first image by the image editing process to produce the edited high-resolution image. The emulator process is built from a set of one or more image enhancement processes in accordance with an optimization process. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110145249 | CONTENT GROUPING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method of grouping a plurality of media content is provided. The method includes converting at least a portion of the media content into at least one document object model (“DOM”) using a processor. The DOM can include a plurality of block elements, each comprising at least one content object. The method includes apportioning the content objects into a relevant portion and an irrelevant portion and extracting a set of keywords, the set comprising at least one keyword, within the relevant portion of the content objects. The method includes apportioning the relevant portion of the content objects into a related portion and an unrelated portion using at least a portion of the set of keywords and grouping the related portion of the content to provide a group of related content. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110292219 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR IMAGING SYSTEM CALIBRATION - A reference set of image features is determined from an electronic data file specifying a reference image in a reference coordinate space. Rendering information describing a physical rendering of the reference image is ascertained. Calibration-enabling data is derived from the reference set of the image features and the ascertained rendering information. The calibration-enabling data is provided to calibrate an imaging system. The calibration-enabling data may be stored. The imaging system may capture an image of the physical rendering of the reference image in relation to a capture coordinate space. An extracted set of image features may be extracted from the captured image. Respective ones of the image features in the reference and extracted sets may be matched. The imaging system may be calibrated based on matched ones of the image features and the rendering information. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120069195 | Pattern of Color Codes - A pattern includes a spatial configuration of color codes. Each color code is a unique configuration of colors selected from a number of basis colors. The color codes each include the same number of colors. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120076423 | NEAR-DUPLICATE IMAGE DETECTION - A system and a method for near-duplicate image detection performed by a physical computing system includes applying a feature determining function to a number of images, a feature being defined by a geometric shape, comparing characteristics of said geometric shapes defining said features from at least two of said number of images, and characterizing said at least two of said number of images as a near-duplicate match if a predetermined percentage of said features of said at least two images match. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120093408 | ORDINAL AND SPATIAL LOCAL FEATURE VECTOR BASED IMAGE REPRESENTATION - A local image patch identified in an image is divided into respective sub-patches of respective image forming elements. For each of the respective image forming elements in the local image patch, a respective ordinal rank of the image forming element is determined, and respective contributions of the image forming element to a particular one of the respective sub-patches containing the image forming element and to one or more other ones of the respective sub-patches neighboring the particular sub-patch are ascertained. Each ordinal rank corresponds to a respective dimension of an ordinal rank feature space. For each of the respective sub-patches of the local image patch, a respective histogram of ascertained contributions of the image forming elements in the ordinal rank feature space is built. A respective feature vector representing the local image patch is generated from the respective histograms built for the sub-patches of the local image. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120212772 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PRINT CONTENT TO A CLIENT - A request for print content is received at a network server system. The request includes variable user input. Webpage content is obtained based at least in part on the variable user input. A subset of the webpage content is identified as print content. A print-ready layout of the print content is formed and the print content in the print-ready layout is provided, via network connection, to a client in response to the request. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120246552 | PROVIDING A PARTICULAR TYPE OF UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR - Examples disclosed herein are example systems and methods to provide a particular type of uniform resource locator. In one example, a processor identifies webpage source code associated with a list of text associated with the type of uniform resource locator. The processor may identify a uniform resource locator within the identified webpage source code and provide the uniform resource locator. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20130061132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB PAGE SEGMENTATION USING ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD COMPUTATION - A system and method for an adaptive threshold Web Page segmenting is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a physical computing system having one or more processors for segmenting a Web page including a plurality of nodes includes parsing content in the Web page into the plurality of nodes using the physical computing system, obtaining feature values between each pair of nodes using the physical computing system, estimating an adaptive threshold value using the obtained feature values using the physical computing system, and segmenting the Web page by comparing the feature values associated with each pair of nodes with the estimated adaptive threshold value. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130091150 | DETERMIINING SIMILARITY BETWEEN ELEMENTS OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining smarty between first and second elements of an electronic document. The method uses a computer to calculate a plurality of measures of similarity between the first and second elements in at least two representations of the electronic document. A computer program product and system implementing this method are also disclosed. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130094780 | Replacement of a Person or Object in an Image - Disclosed herein are a system and a method that use a background model to determine and to segment target content from an image and replace them with different content to provide a composite image. The background model can be generated based on image data representing images of a predetermined area that does not include traversing content. The background model is compared to image data representing a set of captured images of the predetermined area. Based on the comparison, portions of an image that differs from the background model are determined as the traversing content. A target content model is used to determine the target content in the traversing content. The target content determined in the images is replaced with different content to provide a composite image. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130114105 | Semantically Ranking Content in a Website - Semantically ranking content in a website ( | 05-09-2013 |
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| 20080222295 | Using internet content as a means to establish live social networks by linking internet users to each other who are simultaneously engaged in the same and/or similar content - A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090165140 | System for inserting/overlaying markers, data packets and objects relative to viewable content and enabling live social networking, n-dimensional virtual environments and/or other value derivable from the content - A system by which a User can associate selectable Markers, Data Packets and/or Objects with Content. The Content may generally be distributed electronically, and the Markers allow for insertion and/or overlay of Objects when the Content is selected for viewing by a Viewer. Objects and Data Packets are generally provided by a User, Promoter, Host, Service, or other entity to convey information to a Viewer. A Service provides tools and capabilities to both the User and the Promoter to facilitate their respective actions according to embodiments of the invention, including enabling the creation of live social networks (such as those linked to a specific Service provider, a specific User group, activities by a specific Promoter, and/or to specific Data Packets) and the creation of n-dimensional Virtual Environments. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090249244 | Dynamic information management system and method for content delivery and sharing in content-, metadata- & viewer-based, live social networking among users concurrently engaged in the same and/or similar content - Disclosed are tools, methods, and systems for establishing generally live, Content-based social networks, and for concurrently sharing Content and Content-relevant information within a social network. A Service registers Viewers and/or n-Users, and provides tools that enable a Viewer to identify n-Users concurrently viewing the same or similar Content, or having an interest in the same or similar Content. A Viewer can initiate or join a Content-based social network, and can share their Content with others, or view others' Content, and interact with n-Users via any of several methods. Service tools also enable a Viewer to define and selectively block or alter objectionable material so that it is no longer perceivable in its objectionable form. The described tools, methods, and systems also enable numerous innovative approaches to generate revenue for a Service, for providers of product and/or services, for Content providers, and others. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20120124486 | LINKING USERS INTO LIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE USERS' ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SIMILAR CONTENT - A system and method that uses interne content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence. | 05-17-2012 |