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| US08819861B2 |
Nanometer-scale sharpening of conductor tips
The invention provides methods for sharpening the tip of an electrical conductor. The methods of the invention are capable of producing tips with an apex radius of curvature less than 2 nm. The methods of the invention are based on simultaneous direction of ionized atoms towards the apex of a previously sharpened conducting tip and application of an electric potential difference to the tip. The sign of the charge on the ions is the same as the sign of the electric potential. The methods of the invention can be used to sharpen metal wires, metal wires tipped with conductive coatings, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, semiconducting nanowires and semiconductors in other forms. |
| US08819858B2 |
Hardware access and monitoring control
Various embodiments described and illustrated here include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures that may be used to implement policies for hardware access and monitoring control in concert with a premises security system that controls ingress and egress of a facility. One embodiment includes identifying when certain devices are removed or decoupled from a computer and preventing one or more users of that computer from leaving a facility within which the computer is located. |
| US08819857B2 |
Apparatus and method to harden computer system
In some embodiments, a processor-based system may include a processor, the processor having a processor identification, one or more electronic components coupled to the processor, at least one of the electronic components having a component identification, and a hardware security component coupled to the processor and the electronic component. The hardware security component may include a secure non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive the processor identification from the processor, receive the at least one component identification from the one or more electronic components, and determine if a boot of the processor-based system is a provisioning boot of the processor-based system. If the boot is determined to be the provisioning boot, the controller may be configured to store a security code in the secure non-volatile memory, wherein the security code is based on the processor identification and the at least one component identification. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. |
| US08819847B2 |
Associating a unique identifier and a hierarchy code with a record
A method and system for creating a record and associating a unique identifier and a hierarchy code with the record where the record is created in response to identifying that a transmission violates an institution's policy. The record may also be passed to a reporting module which may generate a report based on the unique identifier and/or a hierarchy code. Additionally, the record may be passed to a remediation agent for handling. The remediation agent may also update the record based on actions taken by the remediation agent or updates identified by the remediation agent. |
| US08819843B2 |
Methods and apparatus for conditional access of non real-time content in a distribution system
Methods and apparatus for conditional access of non real-time (NRT) content in a distribution system. A method includes encrypting NRT content with a control word (CW) to generate encrypted NRT content, providing the CW to entitlement control message (ECM) generators, receiving ECMs from the ECM generators, wherein each ECM comprises a unique encryption of the CW to provide conditional access to the CW, and providing the encrypted NRT content and the ECMs for transmission over a distribution network. An apparatus includes a synchronizer configured to provide a CW to ECM generators and receive ECMs from the ECM generators, wherein each ECM comprises a unique encryption of the CW to provide conditional access to the CW, and a management module configured to encrypt the NRT content with the CW to generate encrypted NRT content and provide the encrypted NRT content and the ECMs for transmission over the distribution network. |
| US08819839B2 |
Microprocessor having a secure execution mode with provisions for monitoring, indicating, and managing security levels
An apparatus including a microprocessor and a secure non-volatile memory. The microprocessor executes non-secure application programs and a secure application program. The non-secure application programs are accessed from a system memory via a system bus, and the secure application program is executed in a secure execution mode. The microprocessor has a watchdog manager that monitors environments of the microprocessor by noting and evaluating data communicated by a plurality of monitors, and that classifies the data to indicate a security level associated with execution of the secure application program, and that directs secure execution mode logic to perform responsive actions in accordance with the security level. The secure non-volatile memory is coupled to the microprocessor via a private bus, and stores the secure application program. The secure application program is encrypted. Transactions over the private bus are isolated from the system bus and corresponding system bus resources within the microprocessor. |
| US08819838B2 |
Piracy prevention in digital rights management systems
A method in a multimedia device (130) including obtaining protected content having a limited exercisable right associated therewith, obtaining an extension of the limited exercisable right when a condition is satisfied, for example, when the device enters a DRM system different than the DRM system from which the protected content originated, wherein the extension of the limited exercisable right is obtained from an entity other than the multimedia device, for example, from an anomaly detector. |
| US08819837B2 |
Medical and personal data retrieval system
A system for confidentially retrieving data from a person, such as by authorized personnel. One embodiment provides a data carrier item such as jewelry, having encrypted data imparted upon the item in manner that is only intelligible after being unencrypted. Such data can be encrypted and/or invisibly disposed such that the data is not identifiable by the public, but can be quickly and accurately retrieved by authorized personnel. |
| US08819836B2 |
System and method for limiting exploitable of potentially exploitable sub-components in software components
Approaches for limiting exploitable or potentially exploitable sub-components in software components are disclosed. In certain implementations, a first software component in the component creation environment may be identified. The first software component may include a first sub-component that provides a function that is exploitable or potentially exploitable to compromise the first software component. The first sub-component may be disabled such that the function provided by the first sub-component is not available via the first software component when the first software component is executed. The first software component may be placed in the component repository after the first sub-component is disabled such that the first software component is placed in the component repository without availability of the function provided by the first sub-component. In some implementations, disabling the first sub-component may comprise removing the first sub-component from the first software component. |
| US08819835B2 |
Silent-mode signature testing in anti-malware processing
Method and computer program product for signature testing used in anti-malware processing. Silent signatures, after being tested, are not updated into a white list and are sent directly to users instead. If the silent signature coincides with malware signature, a user is not informed. A checksum (e.g., hash value) of a suspected file is sent to a server, where statistics are kept and analyzed. Based on collected false positive statistics of the silent-signature, the silent-signature is either valid or invalid. Use of the silent signatures provides for effective signature testing and reduces response time to new malware-related threats. The silent signature method is used for turning off a signature upon first false positive occurrence. Use of silent signatures allows improving heuristic algorithms for detection of unknown malware. |
| US08819834B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically generating a fuzzer that implements functional and fuzz testing and testing a network device using the fuzzer
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically generating a fuzzer for testing a network device using the fuzzer are disclosed. According to one method, a functional description of a network communications protocol finite state machine is received as input. Operation of the protocol is simulated using the functional description of the network communications protocol finite state machine to generate a set of valid conversations in the protocol. A fuzzer is generated from the set of valid conversations. The fuzzer is used to send messages to test a device under test. Responses to the device under test to the messages generated by the fuzzer are analyzed. |
| US08819833B2 |
Assured pipeline threat detection
Devices, methods, and systems for assured pipeline threat detection are described herein. One method for assured pipeline threat detection includes receiving a first set of data at a firewall from an unsecured network, moving the first set of data from the firewall to a number of virtual machines, performing a number of threat detection analyses on the first set of data in the number of virtual machines that are organized in a first assured pipeline, and sending the first set of data to a secured target network if no threat was detected. |
| US08819832B2 |
Systems and methods for performing vulnerability scans on virtual machines
Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for performing vulnerability scans on virtual machines. The systems and methods comprise a virtual asset tool that can instantiate a vulnerability scanner on a physical machine hosting a set of virtual machines. The vulnerability scanner can scan the virtual machines to identify any vulnerabilities, security flaws, or other risks, and can provide a result of the scan to the virtual asset tool. In embodiments, the virtual asset tool can examine the result of the scan to identify any vulnerabilities resulting from the scan. |
| US08819830B2 |
Virus co-processor instructions and methods for using such
Circuits and methods for detecting, identifying and/or removing undesired content are provided. According to one embodiment, a method for virus processing is provided. A data segment is received by a general purpose processor coupled to a virus co-processor and a memory via an interconnect bus. The memory includes a first signature and a second signature. The first includes a primitive instruction and a Content Pattern Recognition (CPR) instruction stored at contiguous locations in the memory and compiled for hardware execution on the co-processor. The second is compiled for software execution. The data segment is scanned by the general purpose processor by applying the second signature against the data segment. The co-processor is directed by the general purpose processor to scan the data segment by applying the first signature against the data segment by storing the data segment to the memory and indicating a request for a scan to the co-processor. |
| US08819829B1 |
Controlling network access based on application detection
This specification generally relates to controlling access of a device to a network based on the detection of a network application running on the device. One example method includes maintaining one or more application profiles, each application profile associated with one or more network activities in a network; detecting one or more network activities associated with a device connected to the network; determining that the one or more detected network activities associated with the device substantially match network activities associated with a predetermined application profile; and denying network access by the device to the network based upon the determination. |
| US08819827B1 |
Method and apparatus of performing data executable integrity verification
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of verifying an application installation procedure. One example method of operation may include receiving an application at a computer device and initiating the installation of the application on the computer device. The method may also provide executing the application during the installation procedure and creating a hash value corresponding to the executed application data. The method may further provide storing the hash value in memory and comparing the hash value to a pre-stored hash value to determine whether to continue the installation of the application. |
| US08819826B2 |
Method and system for detection of malware that connect to network destinations through cloud scanning and web reputation
A method for detecting malware includes the steps of identifying a one or more open network connections of an electronic device, associating one or more executable objects on the electronic device with the one or more open network connections of the electronic device, determining the address of a first network destination that is connected to the open network connections of the electronic device, receiving an evaluation of the first network destination, and identifying one or more of the executable objects as malware executable objects. The evaluation includes an indication that the first network destination is associated with malware. The malware executable objects includes the executable objects that are associated with the open network connections that are connected to the first network destination. |
| US08819820B2 |
Security capability reference model for goal-based gap analysis
Gap analysis is performed on security capabilities of a computer system compared to a desired or targeted security model according to one or more security requirement by providing a data structure of security capabilities of a computer system under analysis, wherein each capability is classified in a formal security capability reference model with a mean having a set of attributes and a goal; determining the security capabilities of the deployed system-under-analysis; matching the security capabilities of the deployed system-under-analysis with the security capabilities defined in the data structure; determining one or more gaps in security capabilities between the deployed system and a security reference model goal; and displaying the gaps to a user in a report. |
| US08819819B1 |
Method and system for automatically obtaining webpage content in the presence of javascript
JavaScript on webpages linked to by URLs in messages is identified and the JavaScript is extracted. The JavaScript is then subjected to a JavaScript execution and analysis process whereby the JavaScript is executed in the context of a simulated web browser. The behavior of the JavaScript is then analyzed to identify one or more of: any URLs to be redirected to; any further executable JavaScript; and any content dynamically written to the webpage. The results are then either recursed into or are recorded and used to aid in the identification of spam messages. |
| US08819806B2 |
Integrated data access
An application portal selectively provides a user selective access to data. A data access layer is included in the portal and includes a map associating the user with a permission and further associating a combination of the user and the permission with a data entity, whereby it may be determined whether the user is permitted to access data identified with the data entity. A data stage included in the portal selectively undergoes a synchronization with a remote data store, the synchronization providing data access information that is used to update the map. |
| US08819804B1 |
Distributed enforcement of browser rules
Various systems and methods distribute enforcement of browser rules. For example, one method can involve receiving, from a browser control client, information indicating that a user is accessing the Internet via a browser. The information received from the client can include a login name submitted by the user via the browser. The browser is installed on a computing device, and the browser control client is also installed on the computing device. The method can then send, to the browser control client, a set of one or more browser rules associated with the login name for enforcement on the computing device, in response to receipt of the information. |
| US08819803B1 |
Validating association of client devices with authenticated clients
A method is used in validating association of client devices with authenticated clients. An authentication request for authenticating a client is received from a client device used by a client for establishing a session with a server. The client is authenticated by an authentication device. A token is created and provided to the client device. Identification information of the client device is gathered. The identification information identifies the client device. The identification information gathered from the client device is evaluated. Based on the evaluation, it is validated that the identification information corresponds to a client device associated with the authenticated client. |
| US08819801B2 |
Secure machine enrollment in multi-tenant subscription environment
In a multi-tenant environment, machines across the Internet, belonging to a particular subscription are securely enrolled with the tenant's subscription. Authentication of the machines is delegated to each of the tenant's own on-premise authentication mechanism The trust relationship with the tenant's authentication service is used to validate the security token presented by the machine being authenticated. Once authenticated, the machine has authorization (e.g. SSL machine cert for identity, security token, etc.,) to access the subscription. Each tenant within the multi-tenant environment can provide its own level of authentication. The machine presents the security token to the multi-tenant environment for requests for resources (e.g. services/content) from a user. When a request is received from a machine to access a resource, the multi-tenant environment determines from the issued token whether or not the machine is authorized to access the requested resources. |
| US08819800B2 |
Protecting user information
A method and apparatus for protecting user information. The method includes receiving a request for accessing the user information from an application. When the request does not include an authorized token, the user is requested to temporally confirm the request for access. In response to the confirmation, a token is generated and the user on a mobile service platform is associated with the request for access by the token. The application is then allowed to access the user information based on the token associating the user with the request for accessing the user information from the application. |
| US08819796B2 |
Authentication system and method
Security is improved as compared to the security of conventional authentication systems, only by requesting a user to perform operations involving the same number of operations as that of the conventional authentication systems. When login information is registered, an authentication system (1, 1A) accepts registration of a type of a login image that composes an authentication button for initiating user authentication. When displaying an authentication page that is used for user authentication, the authentication system (1, 1A) displays buttons including the authentication button composed of the login image and dummy buttons composed of other images. The authentication system (1, 1A) performs user authentication in a case in which an operation button selected by the user is the authentication button. |
| US08819790B2 |
Cooperation method and system between send mechanism and IPSec protocol in IPV6 environment
The present invention relates to a method of embodying a cooperation system between SEND and IPSec in an IPv6 environment. The cooperation system between SEND and IPSec in accordance with the present invention includes: receiving an authentication completion report message including a first IP address of a host whose authentication is completed by the SEND; generating new authentication information corresponding to the host and storing the new authentication information in a temporary storage area, if authentication information for the host is not present in the temporary storage area, wherein the authentication information includes the first IP address; and if an authentication check request message including a second IP address is received from the IPSec, checking whether the second IP address is present in the temporary storage area, and sending the result of checking to the IPSec. The present invention allows the authentication information shared between SEND and IPSec in a mobile environment, where the network is frequently accessed, enabling IPSec secure communication at a lower cost. |
| US08819789B2 |
Method and system for using social networks to verify entity affiliations and identities
Login credentials for at least one website, such as a social networking website, are received from a user purporting to act on behalf of an entity, for example, in the context of registering the entity with a system for electronic bill payment. Social data relating to the entity is retrieved from the websites using the login credentials. The social data comprises a plurality of social connections, each reflecting a respective relationship between the entity and a respective third party. A plurality of relevant social connections comprising at least a subset of the plurality of social connections is determined, each social connection of the plurality of relevant social connections reflecting a relationship to a respective third party that is deemed to be reliable. A reliability rating of the entity is then determined based on the plurality of relevant social connections. |
| US08819784B2 |
Method for managing access to protected resources and delegating authority in a computer network
In a method, a consumer (100), being a software application or web site accessing a service provider (200) on behalf of a user, transmits (s10) to a service provider (200), being a software application or web site providing access to protected resources, a request for authorization to access by the consumer (100) on behalf of a delegatee (410) the protected resources of a delegator (420). The service provider (200) transmits (s20) to a controller (300) the request for authorization. A request token is also transmitted, which is a value used by the service provider (200) to register a requested authorization. The controller (300) determines (s30) whether the requested authorization meets policy settings governing the access to the delegator's protected resources. If so, the service provider (200) grants the authorization registered by the request token, and a third message including the request token is transmitted (s50) to the consumer (100). |
| US08819777B2 |
Method and apparatus for preventing and analyzing network intrusion
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for preventing and analyzing network intrusion. The method includes receiving by a network device an initial communication from an entity, determining the entity is not trusted based on the initial communication, and transmitting signals to the entity that are indicative of first disinformation of the network device to hide real information of the network device. |
| US08819767B2 |
Method for securing data and/or applications in a cloud computing architecture
A method for securing data and/or applications within a cloud computing architecture is provided. According to the invention, a security module is provided, the security module being administered by the user of said virtual server(s) which is/are dedicated to said user; said security module is provided with one or more security policies to be applied to the data managed by the virtual servers dedicated to said user; said security module is provided with identifiers as well as keys to access the user's dedicated virtual servers; the security module accesses the user's dedicated virtual server; the security module exports the security policies, which have been provided to it, to the dedicated virtual servers; and the dedicated virtual servers apply the security policies, which have been provided to them by the security module, to the data they manage. |
| US08819765B2 |
Security policy distribution to communication terminals
A method and arrangement for distributing a security policy to a communication terminal having an association with a home communication network, but being present in a visited communication network. The home communication network generates its own preferred security policy Ph and the visited communication network generates its own preferred security policy Pv. A communication network entity in the visited communication network combines the security policies and selects security algorithms and/or functions to apply from the combined security policy. By generating security policy vectors of both networks and combining them before the security algorithms are selected, both networks are able to influence the selection without requiring the use of signaling messages. |
| US08819764B2 |
Network security monitor apparatus and network security monitor system
A network security monitoring apparatus and a network security monitoring system manages “permitted” or “not permitted” communication between nodes based on an access policy. A network security monitoring system includes nodes 31,32,33, application server 20, router 40, and network security monitoring apparatus 10 deployed in the network. The network security monitoring apparatus 10 judges whether the nodes are permitted to communicate with other nodes in the network or not based on the access policy, and repeatedly transmits data to block the communication between nodes judged as “not permitted” at fixed time intervals until the access policy is changed from “not permitted” to “permitted”. This invention enables to block communication between nodes defined as “not permitted” for communicating with other nodes in the access policy, and to allow communication between nodes defined as “permitted” for communicating with other nodes in the access policy. |
| US08819762B2 |
System and method for auditing a security policy
Provided a computerized system and method of automated auditing a range of rules associated with an enforced security policy. The method comprises automated obtaining log records assigned to a first rule within the range of rules and logged during a counted period, each said log record comprising a unique rule identifier and recorded values of respective arguments comprised in the rule; counting a number of records matching certain recorded values and logged within certain time intervals within the counted period (counted values); and automated generating a counted log record assigned to said rule, said record comprising the unique rule identifier, the counted period, recorded values of the rule arguments and respective counted values. The method further comprises obtaining a plurality of objects engaged in said first rule; resolving a first object among said plurality of objects to a set of resolved values; matching said resolved values to the recorded values of the respective arguments, said recorded values comprised in the counted log record assigned to said rule; counting each match in accordance with respective counted value, thus giving rise to a plurality of matching values of the resolved values; and using the plurality of matching values for analysis related to usage of the first object. |
| US08819760B2 |
Methods and systems for improving low-resolution video
Systems and methods are provided for improving the visual quality of low-resolution video displayed on large-screen displays. A video format converter may be used to process a low-resolution video signal from a media providing device before the video is displayed. The video format converter may detect the true resolution of the video and deinterlace the video signal accordingly. For low-resolution videos that are also low in quality, the video format converter may reduce compression artifacts and apply techniques to enhance the appearance of the video. |
| US08819758B2 |
System and method for providing television services
A system and method are described for providing interactive television services and for switching between television programs, such as to an interactive program session from another program. An interactive server, capable of providing requested interactive video services to a set of subscribers in a given geographic area, is coupled to a network to which subscriber set top boxes are also coupled. Television programming, which may be furnished by any number of sources, is accompanied by a signal that indicates the availability of other programming, such as interactive television service related to the program being viewed, as well as information to be used in requesting such service. The user, when notified by this signal, may input to the set top box a request for a second program, such as an interactive program or application. The identity of the original program channel is stored, and a session with the video service provider is established over the network. When the session is terminated, the set top box re-tunes the television signal to the original program channel. |
| US08819757B2 |
Advanced wireless IPTV set top box
An advanced wireless IP STB is provided with multiple built-in antennas capable of capturing plural downstream transmissions simultaneously on dedicated receivers using different modem technologies without the use of wires to the home. The proposed solution facilitates the advanced wireless IP STB being able to receive multiply sourced data traffic, including, for example, IPTV, digital TV, web TV, radio web, internet chat: written, voice and video, GPS tracking locator signals, media player web support, web based video gaming, You Tube and the like video streaming, TV surveillance, video intercom surveillance, and much more. The advanced wireless IP STB is configured to be able to establish a broadband (internet) session through previously assigned or negotiated channel assignments between one or more modems and plural remote wireless infrastructures widely deployed in a municipality, such as WIMAX, LTE, WCDMA, CDMA 1×, TDSCMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 5G or the like. |
| US08819756B2 |
Open API digital video recorder and method of making and using same
A digital video recorder is disclosed. The digital video recorder includes at least one memory device, a plurality of communication access points for receiving at least one program play, an open application programming interface associated with the at least one memory device, and at least one correlation engine in communication with the open application programming interface. The plurality of applications correspondent to the open application programming interface allow a user to manipulate metadata associated with ones of the programs plays and the metadata relates to interframe interactivity with detailed aspects of the ones of the program plays. The at least one correlation engine provides for correlation among at least for the interframes of the program play to ones of the interframes of other ones of the program plays, and among the interframe interactivity to the interframes of the program play to interframe interactivity with the other ones of the interframes of the other ones of the program plays. |
| US08819754B2 |
Media streaming with enhanced seek operation
The present disclosure relates to playback of video/audio streaming media data. The media stream is available from the network at multiple bit rates. When a seek operation is performed, a playback device requests a lower bit rate media stream in order to quickly fill a playback buffer so that playback can commence more readily. After a seek start-up period is complete, the playback device can return to downloading the media stream associated with higher bit rates in order to increase the quality of the playback. |
| US08819749B2 |
Synchronization of media stream components
A method for synchronizing a plurality of components of a broadcast media stream, includes buffering streams of data samples for a plurality of components of a broadcast media stream and buffering a plurality of information packets. The stream of data samples for each of the plurality of components includes relative timing information, each information packet including timing information indicating a relationship between the relative timing information in the components and an absolute time. The method further includes performing a look-ahead action on the buffered information packets to extract timing information for each of the plurality of components; and using the extracted timing information and relative timing information to synchronize the plurality of components. |
| US08819743B2 |
Transfer of data related to broadcast programming over a communication network
A broadcast programming receiver is provided which includes a broadcast programming interface, a memory, a communication network interface, and output circuitry. The broadcast programming interface is configured to receive broadcast programming, while the output circuitry is configured to transfer the broadcast programming to an output device. The memory is configured to store data related to the broadcast programming. In one embodiment, the communication network interface is configured to receive the data related to the broadcast programming over a communication network from a second broadcast programming receiver and transfer the data to the memory. In another implementation, the communication network interface is configured to receive the data from the memory and send the data over the communication network to a second broadcast programming receiver. |
| US08819735B2 |
Presenting content
A method of presenting content to a viewer is described. The method includes: receiving a schedule of content at a client operable by the viewer, the schedule of content including a directed graph, the directed graph including a plurality of nodes, wherein each node in the plurality of nodes is connected to one or more other nodes in the plurality of nodes by one or more paths, wherein each path represents content presentable to the viewer; traversing the directed graph by following a route between nodes and along paths of the directed graph, wherein at each node the client determines a path to follow according to state information accessible by the client; and presenting content to the viewer as each path is followed. |
| US08819727B2 |
System and method for content delivery with multiple embedded messages
A digital video program is obtained. The program includes: (i) at least one broadcast segmentation message specifying at least one location for at least one broadcast advertisement, and (ii) at least one time-shifted segmentation message specifying at least one location for at least one time-shifted advertisement. The program is broadcast with at least one broadcast advertisement in accordance with the at least one broadcast segmentation message, and is made available to a subscriber at a time after the broadcasting, with at least one time-shifted advertisement in accordance with the at least one time-shifted segmentation message. |
| US08819725B2 |
Message presentation apparatus, systems, and methods
An embodiment of a dynamic messaging system receives a message presentation request from a program distributor, the message presentation request having a first identifier that identifies the receiving device and a second identifier corresponding to one of a fixed message indicator and a dynamic message indicator. In response to receiving the message presentation request identifying the receiving device and the fixed message indicator, the dynamic messaging system retrieves a fixed message from a memory of the receiving device based upon the fixed message indicator. In response to receiving the message presentation request identifying the receiving device and the dynamic message indicator, the dynamic messaging system receives a dynamic message from an information stream communicated from the program distributor. |
| US08819718B2 |
Methods and apparatus for monitoring and/or collecting viewership statistics
Methods and apparatus for collecting program viewership information are described. A viewership monitoring module is provided access to decrypted program content allowing program information to be recovered without having to capture output program content using a microphone or camera. The monitoring module is loaded onto a secure device, e.g., a home network device, such as a router used to deliver content to a secure playback device. Alternatively the secure device which performs the monitoring maybe the secure playback device. Since a user of the secure device or a company implementing the viewership monitoring process loads the monitoring module onto the secure device, the network used to deliver the secure content need not be informed of which network customers are contributing to the viewership information which is being collected. |
| US08819717B2 |
Audio based methods and apparatus for detecting a channel change event
Methods and apparatus for detecting a channel change event are disclosed. An example method identifying at least one of a first muted audio condition or a first transient audio condition in a second portion of a media signal having first, second, and third portions, the first portion occurring earlier in time than the second portion and the second portion occurring earlier in time than the third portion, and identifying, using a processor, a channel change event in response to: 1) identifying the at least one of the first muted audio condition or the first transient audio condition; 2) failing to identify a second muted audio condition or a second transient audio condition in the first and third portions of the media signal; and 3) determining that a time domain length of the second portion of the media signal is greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold. |
| US08819716B2 |
Apparatus, system, method and computer readable recording medium storing the program for related recommendation of TV program contents and web contents
Disclosure relates to an apparatus, system, and method for related recommendation of TV program contents and web contents that enable plentiful information acquisition and effective TV watching by discovering and recommending Internet web contents having a high association with the TV program contents when a TV is watched using a TV terminal connected to the Internet, and to a computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for executing the method. The apparatus includes: an user profile unit that produces and updates an user profile of a smart TV; a first information collection unit that collects first information that is TV program contents metadata from a smart TV network; a second information collection unit that collects second information that is web contents information from a web; and an integrated content database that stores third integrated information structured with correlation discovered between the first information and the second information. |
| US08819712B2 |
System and method for displaying a customized multimedia content
A system and method for displaying a multimedia content over a network is provided. The multimedia content comprises a standard-content part and a customized-content part. The customized-content part comprises one or more multimedia components. The method comprises the steps of selecting one or more of the multimedia components based on a predetermined set of preferences to obtain a multimedia component set comprising one or more multimedia components. The method further comprises customizing dynamically one or more of the multimedia components belonging to the multimedia component set based on the predetermined set of preferences. Thereafter, the method integrates the multimedia components to obtain the customized-content part. Further, the customized-content part is associated with the multimedia content and the multimedia content is displayed with the customized-content part. |
| US08819710B2 |
Optical pickup device
An optical pickup device is provided, a cover of which covering a housing is prevented from deforming. A principal surface of an optical pickup device of the present invention is covered with a cover 13. The cover 13 includes: a cover portion 13G; a hole portion 13 provided at an end in the longitudinal direction and is screwed; an engagement portion 13A provided at the other end in the longitudinal direction and is engaged with the housing; and an engagement portion 13D engaged with the opening portion of the housing in the middle part. The engagement portion 13D placed in the middle part of the cover portion 13G is engaged with the housing to prevent the cover portion 13G from bulging outward. |
| US08819706B2 |
Audio feedback for command line interface commands
A method for providing audio feedback for command line interface (CLI) commands in a computing environment. Auditory notifications are generated for indicating a completion of CLI commands. The auditory notifications are configurable by user preferences. |
| US08819704B1 |
Personalized availability characterization of online application services
The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes receiving electronic records that each correspond to an event associated with an application service of a group of application services provided by a server, wherein the application service comprises an online or web-based software application, and wherein each electronic record includes at least a time of its corresponding event, user identification information of a user of the application service, and a indicator of a status of the corresponding event. The method may also include generating application service status information for the user identified by the user identification information based on the one or more electronic records, wherein the application service status information includes status information for at least the application service, and wherein the application service status information reflects a number of errors experienced by the application service. |
| US08819701B2 |
Cloud computing monitoring and management system
A cloud computing monitoring system has an alert capturing system and a message transfer system that provides performance tracking and alert management to a local monitoring system. The alert capturing system may operate as part of a managed code framework and may capture and route alerts that may be transmitted to an operating system, as well as application exceptions and debugging information. A message queuing system may transmit the alerts to a local monitoring system, which may have a connector that subscribes to the cloud system's message queuing system. |
| US08819700B2 |
System and method for synchronous inter-thread communication
A method and apparatus configured to allow independent threads to communicate synchronously through a block of memory accessible to at least two independent threads for bi-directional communication. The method and apparatus simplify the conversion of computer code to a multi-threaded architecture by allowing threads to effectively interact through function calls and data returns. |
| US08819697B2 |
Managing actions that have no end events
A computer-implemented method for managing events that have no end events includes: determining that a first event has been generated that corresponds to a continuous action having no defined end event, the first event having an event type and being initiated by a user; determining whether at least a second event of the event type is initiated by the user within a specified time from initiation of the first event; and performing a functionality of the continuous action only if the second event is not initiated within the specified time, wherein the functionality is not performed until the specified time passes after a last initiated event of the event type. |
| US08819695B2 |
Controlling application landscapes
Various embodiments are directed to computer networks, computer systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for controlling application landscapes. The computer network may comprise an application landscape comprising a plurality of components and at least one sequence of processes which can run in the application landscape and a central control unit comprising a central control mechanism and a repository, wherein the central control unit is operable to control the application landscape and wherein the central control mechanism comprises an activation mechanism operable to check in the sequence of processes for activation in the application landscape. |
| US08819684B2 |
Synchronizing multiple threads efficiently
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of assigning a location within a shared variable for each of multiple threads and writing a value to a corresponding location to indicate that the corresponding thread has reached a barrier. In such manner, when all the threads have reached the barrier, synchronization is established. In some embodiments, the shared variable may be stored in a cache accessible by the multiple threads. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08819682B2 |
Application switching in a single threaded architecture for devices
A method and system for launching multiple applications simultaneously on a device under the control of application switching framework so that the operating system is only running one task for all the applications is provided. A single task is run under the control of an operating system. An application manager is run within the task. One or more applications are launched within the task under the control of the application manager. One of the applications is made the current application by switching, under user control, among the launched applications. A list of application descriptors is maintained for all the launched applications, and when switching, the application descriptor of one of the applications is used for displaying the application to a user on a screen. Each application descriptor contains forms of the launched applications. Each of the application descriptors contains a tree of forms with one root or parent form. A form represents an image to be displayed to the user. The image consists of text, pictures, bitmaps, or menus. |
| US08819680B2 |
Computer system for controlling the execution of virtual machines
A computer system enables two virtual machines with use of two virtual CPUs. The computer system includes a CPU that is allocated to the virtual CPU when the virtual CPU performs computer processing of the virtual machine other than timer processing; a tick CPU that is dedicated to timer processing and is allocated to the virtual CPU upon receiving an interrupt request (tick interrupt) for causing the virtual CPU to perform timer processing of the virtual machine; and interrupt controller that issues the tick interrupt to the tick CPU. |
| US08819678B2 |
Live migration of a guest from a source hypervisor to a target hypervisor
A method and system for sending early notification when a guest migrates in a virtual machine system. A guest hosted by a computer system is migrating from a source hypervisor to a target hypervisor. During the migration, the source hypervisor stops transmission of outbound packets from the guest. A signal is sent to the target hypervisor after stopping the transmission and before completing migration of the guest. The signal requests that a notification containing network addresses of the guest be sent to network devices associated with the target hypervisor. |
| US08819676B2 |
Transparent memory-mapped emulation of I/O calls
A virtual-machine-based system provides a mechanism to implement application file I/O operations of protected data by implementing the I/O operations semantics in a shim layer with memory-mapped regions. The semantics of these I/O operations are emulated in a shim layer with memory-mapped regions by using a mapping between a process' address space and a file or shared memory object. Data that is protected from viewing by a guest OS running in a virtual machine may nonetheless be accessed by the process. |
| US08819671B2 |
Facilitating software acquisition
In certain embodiments, facilitating software acquisition includes accessing a memory storing software programs. A selected software program is identified. One or more product requirements of the selected software program and one or more target parameters of a target environment for the selected software program are determined. One or more commands to install the selected software program at the target environment according to the product requirements and the target parameters are determined. |
| US08819668B2 |
Accessible limited distribution release software change catalog
A catalog for maintaining a store of public and private limited distribution release software changes in a single location. A method for distributing limited distribution release software changes to clients via a network comprises receiving a search request, authenticating the client, querying a database of limited distribution release software changes, filtering the returned data according to a screening criteria, and providing the returned data to the client. A further method receives a request from a client to develop a limited distribution release software change, develops the limited distribution release software change, adds the developed limited distribution release software change to a catalog, notifies the client, and provides an interface to the client for accessing. A system further links knowledge base entries with related limited distribution release software changes. |
| US08819667B2 |
Apparatus and method for managing subscribed data plan of communication device
A method for managing subscribed data plan of a communication device, the data plan includes a predetermined amount of Internet traffic for connecting the Internet. An end date of the subscribed data plan is set, and a time for querying residual data of the subscribed data plan is determined according to the end date. The residual data of the subscribed data plan is queried when the determined time is reached. Applications, of the communication device, which are to be updated are detected, and one or more of the detected applications are updated using the residual data of the subscribed data plan of the communication device. |
| US08819663B2 |
Acceleration of software modifications in networked devices
A method of modifying software associated with network devices includes transmitting a modification message by a first network device in response to software associated with the first network device being modified; transmitting second software identification information by a second network device in response to receiving the modification message from the first network device; providing a database comprising the first product identifier, the second product identifier, first software identification information, and the second software identification information; and modifying software associated with the second network device using the database. The first network device is associated with a first product identifier, and the second network device is associated with a second product identifier. The second software identification information identifies software associated with the second network device, and the first software identification information identifies software associated with the first network device. A corresponding computer-readable medium and system are also disclosed. |
| US08819661B2 |
Systems and methods for determining times to perform software updates on receiving devices
A monitoring system determines when a receiving device is in stand-by mode by monitoring usage of the receiving device on a daily basis. Periodic status checks are performed (e.g., every minute) and based on these status checks, it is determined what mode the receiving device was in for each half hour (or other selected interval) of the day. The middle of the longest period of the day the receiving device was determined to be in stand-by mode is determined as a desired time of day for software updates or other automated actions to occur. This process repeats every day and these determined times of day for software updates are averaged over the number of days the usage data was collected to use as the time of day going forward (based on a moving average) for software updates or other automated actions to be performed on the receiving device. |
| US08819660B2 |
Virtual machine block substitution
Techniques are described to allow substation of blocks into a virtual machine image of an executing virtual machine. A patch may be applied to a first virtual machine image. One or more blocks modified by the patch are identified and copied to a host having a virtual machine executing from a virtual machine image that is based on the first virtual machine image (prior to the patch). While the virtual machine is executing, the substitution blocks are applied (supersede) corresponding original blocks in the virtual machine image. A guest operating system in the virtual machine may either begin using an executable file in a substitution block. In addition, the guest operating system may be forced to flush from memory and cache executable code replaced by the substitution block. |
| US08819653B2 |
Automated improvement of executable applications based on evaluating independent execution heuristics
In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a first executable program optimized for an executable system based on compiling a program relative to an initial set of independent optimization metrics; determining first performance metrics based on the executable system executing the first executable program; adjusting the initial set of independent optimization metrics based on the first performance metrics to generate a second set of independent optimization metrics; and generating a second executable program, based on compiling the program relative to the second set of independent optimization metrics, for improved execution of the program in the executable system. |
| US08819650B2 |
Instantiating an interface or abstract class in application code
Mechanisms for instantiating an interface or abstract class in application code are provided. An object-oriented programming language is extended such that interfaces and abstract classes can be instantiated in application code without a concrete class specified. Metadata is defined which maps each interface or abstract class instantiation in the application code to a concrete class to be used either by the compiler at build time, or the virtual machine at runtime. Once the appropriate concrete class is determined from the metadata, the class is instantiated with a conventional class loader. The metadata may be provided, for example, as a separate file, such as a markup language file, defined with a virtual machine switch, as annotations in the application code, or the like. |
| US08819649B2 |
Profile guided just-in-time (JIT) compiler and byte code generation
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for profiling source code to enable improved source code execution. A runtime engine includes a parser, a bytecode generator, an execution controller, an interpreter, a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, and a profile generator. The parser receives source code coded in a dynamic language and parses the source code to generate parsed source code. The bytecode generator converts the parsed source code to bytecode. The interpreter is configured to interpret the bytecode when enabled by the execution controller. The JIT compiler is configured to compile the bytecode when enabled by the execution controller. The profile generator generates profile information from the bytecode and stores the profile information. The execution controller enables the interpreter or the JIT compiler to perform their respective functions based on the profile information. |
| US08819648B2 |
Control flow management for execution of dynamically translated non-native code in a virtual hosting environment
Execution of non-native operating system images within a virtualized computer system is improved by providing a mechanism for retrieving translated code physical addresses corresponding to un-translated code branch target addresses using a host code map. Hardware acceleration mechanisms, such as content-accessible look-up tables, directory hardware, or processor instructions that operate on tables in memory can be provided to accelerate the performance of the translation mechanism. The virtual address of the branch instruction target is used as a key to look up a corresponding record that contains a physical address of the translated code page containing the translated branch instruction target, and execution is directed to the physical address obtained from the record, once the physical page containing the translated code corresponding the target address is loaded in memory. |
| US08819647B2 |
Performance improvements for nested virtual machines
Nested virtual machines cooperate with one another to improve system performance. In particular, an outer virtual machine performs tasks on behalf of an inner virtual machine to improve system performance. One such task includes translation of instructions for the inner virtual machine. |
| US08819637B2 |
Fixing security vulnerability in a source code
A computer implemented method for automatically fixing a security vulnerability in a source code. The method includes obtaining identification of a code block that includes a code that sends tainted data to a corresponding sink code in the source code and automatically fixing the vulnerability by automatically performing code modification which is selected from the group of code modifications consisting of: code motion and code duplication. |
| US08819635B2 |
Confidence-based static analysis
Systems, methods and program products are provided for confidence-based static analysis, including initiating a static analysis of computer software, associating a confidence value with a first element of the static analysis, determining a current state of the static analysis, calculating an adjusted confidence value in accordance with a confidence adjustment function as applied to the current state and the confidence value associated with the first element, associating the adjusted confidence value with a second element of the static analysis resulting from a transition from the first element, and eliminating the second element from the static analysis if the adjusted confidence value meets elimination criteria. |
| US08819631B2 |
System and method for self dependent web automation
A method for web automation includes providing a self dependent automation script. The self dependent automation script includes a script model that includes instructions to be executed by a processor, and an incorporated runtime engine configured to execute the script model on the processor. The method further includes applying a runtime engine selected from a set of at least one runtime engine, the set including at least the incorporated runtime engine, so as to execute the script model. A computer program product and data processing system are also disclosed. |
| US08819629B2 |
Automatically generating documentation on application programming interfaces
Some embodiments of a system and a method to automatically generate documentation on application programming interfaces (APIs) have been presented. For instance, while a processor is building a software system from programming code including APIs, the processor may extract objects related to the APIs from comments embedded in the programming code and automatically generate documentation on the APIs using the objects extracted and templates associated with the objects extracted. |
| US08819628B2 |
Product localization device and method
A system and method for localization facilitates checking resource files in a first format out of a source code management system. Prior stored translated strings are leveraged to produce a partially translated translation memory corresponding to the resource files. Translations of strings are obtained to complete translation of the partially translated translation memory. Translated strings are stored in a database, and the translated resource files in the first format are checked back into the source code management system. |
| US08819626B2 |
Sharable development environment bookmarks for functional/data flow
An embodiment of the invention provides relative bookmarks that are sharable between developers engaged in product development utilizing integrated design environment applications. The relative bookmarks are sharable in that they can be exported, imported, activated and deactivated. The relative bookmarks are relative in that they do not rely on the original code line and contain at least function and/or data flow information, facilitating quick identification of relevant lines of code that have been previously bookmarked. The relative bookmarks can also be utilized to insert breakpoints. |
| US08819619B2 |
Method and system for capturing user interface structure in a model based software system
Method and system for capturing device-independent user interface structure in a model based software system are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one entry point is received from a user by a business system. Further, a user interface corresponding to the at least one entry point is provided. Furthermore, user interface meta-data associated with the user interface is captured. Also, at least one event associated with user interface elements is identified as a response to user actions based on the captured user interface meta-data. In addition, a pattern signature is identified in the model based software system for reuse in one or more model based software systems based on an expected behavior of the user interface when the identified at least one event occurs. Then, the identified at least one event is mapped to the identified pattern signature. |
| US08819613B2 |
Power supply circuit design system and power supply circuit design method
A power supply circuit design system according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes: a power supply voltage fluctuation deriving means for deriving a power supply voltage fluctuation characteristic as a voltage fluctuation characteristic in a semiconductor integrated circuit on the basis of design information about a power supply circuit for connecting the semiconductor integrated circuit and other components mounted on a substrate; a determination reference database including a power supply voltage fluctuation condition as a condition for which the power supply voltage fluctuation characteristic is allowed in the power supply circuit, and a change indicator for at least one of a circuit structure and operation of the semiconductor integrated circuit; a power supply voltage fluctuation determination means for comparing the power supply voltage fluctuation characteristic and the power supply voltage fluctuation condition, and determining whether the power supply voltage fluctuation characteristic satisfies the power supply voltage fluctuation condition; and a circuit structure changing means for changing at least one of the structure and the operation of the semiconductor integrated circuit in accordance with the change indicator if the power supply voltage fluctuation characteristic does not satisfy the power supply voltage fluctuation condition, and outputting design information about the changed semiconductor integrated circuit to the power supply voltage fluctuation deriving means; wherein the change indicator does not entail a change in size of the semiconductor integrated circuit. |
| US08819612B1 |
Analyzing timing requirements of a hierarchical integrated circuit design
Logic gates in a child unit of a hierarchical integrated circuit design that are visible in an abstract model of the child unit of the hierarchical integrated circuit design are marked. A hide bit is set for the marked logic gates and a modification on the child unit is performed. The marked logic gates in the child unit are preserved during modification of the child unit. The hide bit is cleared from each marked logic gate and the logic gates are unmarked when modification of the child unit is complete. |
| US08819611B2 |
Asymmetric mesh NoC topologies
Example implementations described herein are directed to a floor plan for a Network on Chip (NoC) topology that can include a plurality of on chip blocks of substantially non-uniform shapes and dimensions. An interconnection network is synthesized along with a plan for a physical layout of the interconnection network based on physical dimensions of the plurality of on chip blocks, the physical dimensions of the floorplan and relative placement information for placing the plurality of on chip blocks on the floorplan. Porosity information for the plurality of on chip blocks on the floorplan and required chip functionality may also be taken into consideration. |
| US08819608B2 |
Architectural physical synthesis
The present invention discloses methods and apparatuses to design an integrated circuit. According to one aspect, the present invention circuit design discloses an iterative process of synthesis and placement where each iteration provides incremental changes on the design of the integrated circuit. The synthesis transform is then made with accurate timing information from the placement, and the process is incrementally iterative toward the final timing enclosure of the design. The incrementally iterative approach of the present invention provides a continuous advancement from synthesis to placement and vice versa, with the incremental improvements on synthesis made with knowledge of current instance placement, and the incremental improvements on placement made with knowledge of current circuit logic. |
| US08819607B1 |
Method and apparatus to minimize clock tree skew in ICs
A method and circuit with minimized clock skews in an IC. One embodiment includes placing an application specific IP block at a predetermined location in an integrated circuit (IC), the IC having a clock network that distributes a clock signal, the clock network having one or more clock buses, each clock bus providing the clock signal to a row of logic blocks of the IC, each clock bus having one or more clock nets; determining the electrical load on a first clock driver driving a first clock net of a first clock bus providing the clock signal to a first row of logic blocks; identifying at least one other target clock driver to be coupled to the first clock net, the at least one other target clock driver driving a clock net of a clock bus providing the clock signal to a row of logic blocks other than the first row of logic blocks; selecting the at least one other target clock driver to couple to the first clock net; coupling the at least one other target clock driver to the first clock net; and verifying by one or more types of simulation the desired functional and timing performance of the affected logic blocks after connection of the compatible clock nets. |
| US08819606B1 |
Designing integrated circuits for high thermal reliability
Devices, systems and methods of this disclosure can provide integrated circuit devices operating above their specified operating temperate. The integrated circuit device can include functional blocks with power down circuitry and functional test blocks with built in self-test capabilities (BIST). The functional blocks can be implemented with timing constraint values to provide a timing margin for the device above a specified operation temperature. The functional test blocks can be implemented with timing constraint values that result in BIST failure when the device is operated above the specified operation temperature. As the temperature of the device rises above the operating temperature the functional test blocks can fail BIST prior to loss of functionality of the functional blocks. Upon BIST failure of the functional test blocks, circuitry in the functional blocks can be powered down to facilitate continued operation of the device with reduced functionality. |
| US08819605B1 |
Deriving effective corners for complex correlations
Systems and methods are described for simultaneously deriving an effective x-sigma corner for multiple, different circuit and/or process metrics for a semiconductor device. The result is an effective sigma that is representative of design intent. Some implementations account for covariance, and use joint probability as the criteria for the effective x-sigma corner (e.g., as opposed to a unique sigma level of each individual metric). Analysis results for each metric can be transformed to metric distributions in a common distribution framework, and a correlation matrix can be calculated. The transformed metric distributions can be input to a joint probability distribution set to achieve a target joint sigma level. The joint probability distribution and correlation matrix values can be used to back-calculate scaled x-sigma corners for each metric distribution. Simulation of the device can be performed at one or more of the scaled x-sigma corners. |
| US08819601B2 |
Integration of lithography apparatus and mask optimization process with multiple patterning process
The present invention relates to lithographic apparatuses and processes, and more particularly to multiple patterning lithography for printing target patterns beyond the limits of resolution of the lithographic apparatus. A method of splitting a pattern to be imaged onto a substrate via a lithographic process into a plurality of sub-patterns is disclosed, wherein the method comprises a splitting step being configured to be aware of requirements of a co-optimization between at least one of the sub-patterns and an optical setting of the lithography apparatus used for the lithographic process. Device characteristic optimization techniques, including intelligent pattern selection based on diffraction signature analysis, may be integrated into the multiple patterning process flow. |
| US08819599B2 |
Hierarchical verification of clock domain crossings
The invention provides for the hierarchical verification of clock domain crossings. In various implementations of the invention, a device design is partitioned into blocks. Subsequently, a block level clock domain crossing verification process is performed on selected ones of the blocks. Verification interface files are generated by the block level clock domain crossing process. After which, a top level clock domain crossing verification process is performed over the entire design. In various implementations, the top level clock domain crossing verification process utilizes the verification interface files to verify clock domain crossing signals between blocks. Additionally, in some implementations, blocks not verified during block level verification are verified during top level verification. With some implementations of the invention, the device design is partitioned based input from a user of the implementation. Furthermore, in various implementations, the specific clock domain crossing verification checks employed during block level verification and top level verification are specified by a user of the implementation. |
| US08819594B2 |
Handling user-interface gestures in non-rectangular regions
A technique for handling user-interface gestures in non-rectangular regions of a graphical user interface includes creating a class comprising an event handler for an onmouseover event and an event handler for an onmouseout event. The technique further includes adding each of a group of graphical elements to the class. Adding a graphical element to the class includes adding a reference to the graphical element to the class and attaching the event handlers to the graphical element. The technique then identifies a specific graphical element in the group that triggered an invocation of one of the event handlers. The technique then determines the closest border of the specific graphical element to the mouse pointer. In the event another graphical element in the group shares the closest border, the technique stops either the onmouseover or onmouseout event from propagating. |
| US08819587B1 |
Methods of managing items in a shared workspace
A method includes transmitting, from a storage system to a user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a current view representing the one or more items. The method also includes selecting, at the storage system in response to a first user input signal that identifies at least one item from one or more items that are stored at the storage system, a removal operation based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the one or more predetermined criteria include a view type of the current view. The method also includes performing, at the storage system, the removal operation with respect to the at least one item. |
| US08819586B2 |
File access with different file hosts
A file access request is received from an application. One or more file types for the file access request are identified, and one or more file hosts supporting files of the identified one or more file types are also identified. A user interface is displayed, the user interface including a hosted area. Within the hosted area, at least one of the one or more file hosts displays a portion of the user interface identifying one or more files of at least one file host that can be selected for retrieval, or one or more locations that can be selected to which the one or more files are saved. |
| US08819584B2 |
Information processing apparatus and image display method
In one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a display on which a window is displayed; a touch screen on the display; a display controller configured to display an operation screen on the display such that the operation screen is superposed on the window, wherein the operation screen generates an operation command for operating the window, based on an input operation through the touch screen; and an operation execution module configured to execute the operation command for operating the window. |
| US08819581B2 |
Information processing device and image processing device
An information processing device capable of processing navigation information is provided. A touch panel can display images and can receive a user's touch operation. An image generation section generates a navigation image including a map image and a plurality of operation button images for receiving the touch operation, the images being displayed on the touch panel. A plurality of operation button images include a first operation button image related to a navigation function and a second operation button image related to a plurality of functions other than the navigation function. The image generation section generates a first image which is obtained by combining the navigation image and the first operation button image and a second image which includes the second operation button. The first image and the second image are respectively displayed in a first display region and a second display region. The first display region and the second display region are separated by a movable boundary. |
| US08819580B2 |
Terminal apparatus and processing program thereof
In the terminal apparatus, a CPU 100 reads out a simultaneous/switch display condition that is currently employed from display control table information stored in a simultaneous/switch display condition memory section 102c, and identifies whether a screen display instruction operation instructs a switch display or a simultaneous display in accordance with the simultaneous/switch display condition that has been read out and the circumstance when the screen display instruction operation is performed. When the screen display instruction operation is identified as instructing the simultaneous display, the CPU 100 reads out the display layout condition that is currently employed from display layout table information stored in a display layout condition memory section 102d, and controls a display layout for the simultaneous display in accordance with the display layout condition that has been read out and the circumstance when the screen display instruction operation is performed. |
| US08819577B2 |
Emotional ratings of digital assets and related processing
Improved techniques are disclosed to associate emotions (or feelings) with digital assets, such as digital media assets. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface can be presented to assist a user in associating emotions or feelings with a digital asset (e.g., digital media asset). The emotions of a user can be graphically represented by images, such as icons. For example, by selecting one or more of the images or manipulating a user control in relation to the images, a user can associate (e.g., tag) emotions to a digital asset. Once digital assets are associated (e.g., tagged) with one or more emotions, operations (e.g., playlist creation, search, shuffle, etc.) can be performed based on emotions. |
| US08819575B2 |
Method and apparatus that display items according to a user gesture
An item display method and apparatus that provides an easier and faster way to locate a desired item on a display. The method and apparatus receive a user gesture on display screen, and display one or both of items of a first category and items of a second category according to the user gesture. Items of the first category and items of the second category are displayed in various ways according to associated user gestures. |
| US08819566B2 |
Integrated multi-modal chat
Solutions for providing context-driven communications mode determinations. Some such solutions use a communications hub located in a home (e.g., a user supersystem) to facilitate context-driven, multi-modal communications. For example, a tablet system may be used as a graphical communications hub in a family's home, used by the family to communicate to and from the home via multiple communications modes (e.g., family chat, family activities, user-based messaging, etc.) over one or more communications channels. Determination of an appropriate mode for communications may be driven by contextual (rather that channel-based) factors relating to the communications. |
| US08819564B1 |
Distributed discussion collaboration
The present invention relates to systems and methods for distributed discussion collaboration and making an agenda for an event over a network. In an embodiment, a system may include an aggregator configured to aggregate discussion items submitted by collaborators, and a view controller associated with the collaborators and configured to provide for display the aggregated items. A system may also include a voting module configured to receiving voting information submitted by the collaborators for the discussion items, and an ordering module configured to analyze the voting information and order the aggregated items based on the analyzed voting information. In another embodiment, a method includes aggregating discussion items submitted by collaborators and receiving voting information for the aggregated items. The method further includes ordering the aggregated items based upon an analysis of the voting information, and providing for display on a user interface the aggregated items with respective voting information. |
| US08819561B2 |
Tool for visualizing configuration and status of a network appliance
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods of providing management of network services provided by an intermediary device managing traffic between a plurality of clients and servers. The intermediary device may include one or more virtual servers managing a plurality of services. A user can invoke a visualizer tool of the intermediary device to identify a configuration and an operational status of the virtual servers and services managed by the virtual servers. The visualizer tool may also determine from the configuration two or more services having a common set of configuration properties and managed by a first virtual server. The visualizer tool may establish a service container comprising these services. The visualizer tool may display via an interface a graphical representation of the configuration and the operational status of the first virtual server and the service container identifying the common set of configuration properties of these services. |
| US08819560B2 |
Dispatching events to multiple browser windows/tabs using a single connection
An initial browser window establishes itself as a “master” window for an associated server. A master window “cookie” data structure is created by the master window to share state among the windows for the server. Through the initially created master window cookie, all subsequently created browser windows detect that a master window is currently active, determine the master window's window name, and then establish themselves as slave windows through the master window. Slave windows call into the master window to request server updates/events, and provide the master window with their respective window names for future reference, e.g. when the master window distributes updates/events received from the server to the slave windows. The master window uses only a single HTTP GET command to fetch and dispatch updates/events associated with itself and all slave windows for the server. |
| US08819559B2 |
Systems and methods for sharing multimedia editing projects
Various embodiments for sharing multimedia editing projects are described. One embodiment is a method performed at a server for sharing video editing techniques by a user. The method comprises receiving a project description file at the server, wherein the project description file is generated during editing of multimedia content by a first editing system, the project description file comprising information relating to special effect objects applied to the edited multimedia content by the first editing system. The method further comprises providing all or a portion of a timeline-based template according to the project description file, wherein the timeline-based template comprises a timeline and object type designators corresponding to the special effect objects specified by the first editing system, wherein representations of the object type designators are displayed along the timeline. The method further comprises transmitting the timeline-based template from the server to a second editing system. |
| US08819558B2 |
Edited information provision device, edited information provision method, program, and recording medium
An edited section information acquisition unit generates edited section information and edited section association information based on edit history information. Pre-edit content/post-edit content correspondence relationship acquisition unit groups consecutive edited groups based on the edited section information of the edited section information acquisition unit and generates group information. An edited section information display screen generation unit generates screen information based on the edited section information and the edited section association information of the edited section information acquisition unit, the group information, inter-group association information, section/group association information of the pre-edit content/post-edit content correspondence relationship acquisition unit, and input information of an input unit. A provision unit displays the screen information obtained by the edited section information display screen generation unit. |
| US08819556B1 |
Methods and systems for displaying format properties of crop areas
A method for cropping portions of a document comprises displaying an interactive document workspace with a cropping tool on a sub-area thereof, and rendering one or more formatting indicators spatially associated with the sub-area, the indicators indicating formatting properties of the sub-area. |
| US08819555B2 |
User interface for audio video display device such as TV
A graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio video display device (AVDD) such as a TV includes content panels which can be selected for searching for additional information related to the content underlying the content panels. A history of previous searches is maintained in memory “stacked” notionally to the left or right of the current display so that a viewer can easily review previous search results using a simple scroll command. |
| US08819554B2 |
System and method for playing media
A system, computer-implemented method, and tangible computer-readable media for media playback. The method includes receiving a request from a user to play a media asset, detecting capabilities of the playback device, detecting playback environment acoustic characteristics, optimizing media playback settings for the playback device and the playback environment characteristics, preparing the media asset for playback on the playback device, and transferring the prepared media asset to the playback device for playback. The method can further transfer optimized playback settings to the playback device. Media asset preparation can be based at least in part on the optimized playback settings. A playback profile can store environment characteristics and playback device capabilities. The method continuously detects changes in the playback environment characteristics, and optimizes media playback settings when detected changes exceed a threshold. |
| US08819546B2 |
Method and apparatus for customizing separation of customer concerns within model architectures
A method for mapping viewpoints and model levels of a first framework to a second framework includes receiving data related to viewpoints and model levels in a first format related to the first framework, mapping the received data in the first format to data related to viewpoints and model levels in a second format related to the second framework. The mapping is performed by organizing the viewpoints and the models in both the first and second formats across at least two orthogonal dimensions. |
| US08819545B2 |
Digital comic editor, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium
A digital comic editor, comprising: a data acquisition device acquiring a piece of master data of a digital comic, the master data including: an image file corresponding to each page of the comic, the image file having a high resolution image of the entire page; and an information file corresponding to each page or all pages of the comic, the information file having a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of each frame within the page; a display control device controlling display device to display an image thereon based on the image file in the master data acquired and to display a frame boundary while superimposing the same on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file in the master data; an indication device indicating a position on the image displayed on the display device; a frame addition device adding a new frame boundary to a position indicated; a frame deletion device that deletes the frame boundary from the position indicated; and an editing device updating the frame region information included in the information file based on the frame boundary added or the frame boundary deleted. |
| US08819544B2 |
Assigning a hot spot in an electronic artwork
Apparatus and methods implementing a technique for creating an electronic artwork with a hot area. For a selected layer of the artwork, a non-transparent region is identified and an action is assigned to an area corresponding to the non-transparent region, the action defining a function that will be activated when the area is selected. The technique is advantageous in computer application programs that composite images from layers and for producing HTML (HyperText Markup Language) output that refers to a corresponding composited image, where the action is a URL and the area is defined by an image map. |
| US08819543B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
An object including at least one element is moved on a document in which the object is arranged in response to an instruction from a user.In addition, if the object is moved to a boundary between two pages, at least one element that is included in the object and that corresponds to a break position of the two pages is detected.Then, a position where the at least one detected element is arranged in the document is determined so that the element is arranged in either of the documents of the two pages and an image corresponding to the document is output.In the above manner, it is possible to appropriately arranging elements in a document to output an image corresponding to the document having the elements appropriately arranged therein. |
| US08819541B2 |
System and method for converting the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specfic format for electronic publishing
A system and method that converts the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing. A “smart file and device-specific application” approach maintains the “look and feel” (design) of the source document used for print publication while typesetting for a specific device. Although this approach requires considerably more resources to create a smart file for each device-specific format, the smart file retains the unique typesetting characteristics of the printed book, is more aesthetically pleasing, and is easier to read. Furthermore, the device-specific application can render the smart file more quickly thereby eliminating any latency. |
| US08819540B2 |
Systems and methods that utilize scalable vector graphics to provide web-based visualization of a device
The present invention relates to systems and methods that employ scalable vector graphics (SVG) to view and effectuate an industrial device from a remote Web interface. The systems and methods can be utilized to retrieve an SVG XML markup language-based file associated with the device and execute the SVG file via basic ASCII drawing commands. Thus, a faceplate of an industrial device and/or other device-related information can be represented via SVG syntax and stored with the device. A user can employ a Web browser from a remote location (e.g., via a Web client) to retrieve the SVG file, wherein the file can be loaded within the Web browser and/or an open source software package. The SVG file can be executed to render an interactive graphical faceplate that can depict LEDs, alphanumeric displays, inputs/output, etc., trending mechanisms (e.g., graphs, charts, etc.), and capabilities to load parameters. |
| US08819538B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating a link to a presented web page
A technique for generating links to a web page by: presenting a web page; defining one or more other web pages to include a link to the presented web page; and placing a link on at least one of the other web pages linking to the presented web page. A prompt for an acceptance of the link may be presented to the other web pages whereby a link is not added until the corresponding acceptance of the link is received. |
| US08819530B1 |
Iterative decoder memory arrangement
The present disclosure includes apparatus, systems and techniques relating to iterative decoder memory arrangement. A described apparatus includes R banks; Q banks; circuitry configured to store R data for a current codeword in a first R bank of the R banks and store R data for a previous codeword in a second R bank of the R banks; circuitry configured to alternate among the R banks for storing current codeword R data; circuitry configured to store Q data for the current codeword in a first Q bank of the Q banks and store Q data for the previous codeword in a second Q bank of the Q banks; and circuitry configured to alternate among the Q banks for storing current codeword Q data. The apparatus can include circuitry configured to interleave read accesses among the R banks. |
| US08819528B2 |
Encoder, decoder, and encoding method
An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC are provided, which avoid lowering the transmission efficiency of information while not deteriorating error correction performance, even at termination; and an associated encoding method is provided. A termination sequence length determining unit determines the sequence length of a transmitted termination sequence added to the end of an information sequence, according to the information length (information size) and encoding rate of the information sequence. A parity calculation unit carries out LDPC-CC coding on the information sequence and the known-information sequence necessary for generating a termination sequence of the determined termination sequence length, and calculates a parity sequence. |
| US08819527B2 |
Systems and methods for mitigating stubborn errors in a data processing system
Various embodiments of the present invention provide data processing circuits that include: a data detector circuit, a data decoder circuit, and a modification circuit. The data detector circuit is operable to apply a data detection algorithm to a data input to yield a detected output. The data decoder circuit is operable to apply a data decode algorithm to a decode input to yield a decoded output. The decode input is selected between at least the detected output, and a modified version of the detected output. The modification circuit is operable to receive the detected output and to provide the modified version of the detected output. |
| US08819525B1 |
Error concealment guided robustness
Error concealment guided robustness may include identifying a current portion of a current video stream. Identifying the current portion may include identifying a feature, or a vector of features, for the current portion. An estimated vulnerability metric may be identified based on the feature and an associated learned feature weight. An error correction code for the current portion may be generated based on the estimated vulnerability metric. Error concealment guided robustness may include generating learned feature weights based on one or more training videos by generating vulnerability metrics for the training videos and identifying relationships between features of the training videos and the vulnerability metrics generated for the training videos. |
| US08819523B2 |
Adaptive controller for a configurable audio coding system
An adaptive controller for a configurable audio coding system comprising a fuzzy logic controller modified to use reinforcement learning to create an intelligent control system. With no knowledge of the external system into which it is placed the audio coding system, under the control of the adaptive controller, is capable of adapting its coding configuration to achieve user set performance goals. |
| US08819520B1 |
Method and system for forward error correction in packetized networks
An improved method for forward error correction (FEC) in packetized networks. The proposed FEC method improves upon the conventional methods by reordering packets in advance to a certain depth. This allows for dispersing losses of groups of packets. Additionally, the method provides for a dynamic change of a current FEC scheme. In order to defend packet sequences from group losses, the FEC packets are dispersed within the packet stream in such a manner that the packets of the same sequence are located as far as possible from each other. The packets are mixed for minimization of losses and effective recovery. |
| US08819517B1 |
Systems and methods for a turbo decoder in a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS)
According to some embodiments of the invention, a turbo decoder in a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) is provided, the turbo decoder comprising: a plurality of maximum a posteriori (MAP) engines; a first plurality of extrinsic memory banks and a second plurality of extrinsic memory banks; and wherein each of the first and second pluralities of extrinsic memory banks is accessible by at least one of the plurality of MAP engines, and wherein each of the first and second pluralities of extrinsic memory banks is configured to organize data according to a R×C matrix having a format similar to that of an interleaver table. During decoding, the first and second pluralities of extrinsic memory banks may be accessed for data by a MAP engine such that the first and second pluralities of extrinsic memory banks function as an interleaver or a de-interleaver of extrinsic information within the turbo decoder. |
| US08819516B2 |
Method and apparatus for storage integrity processing based on error types in a dispersed storage network
A storage integrity system in a dispersed storage network scans an address range of data slices to identify errors in one of a plurality of encoded data slices, wherein the plurality of encoded data slices are generated from a data segment using an error encoding dispersal function. When the storage integrity system detects an error, it identifies one of the encoded data slices for rebuilding. The identified data slice is rebuilt in response to the type of error. For example, when the type of the error includes a temporary error, the storage integrity system waits a predetermined time period to determine whether the error still exists prior to rebuilding the identified data slice. |
| US08819509B2 |
Integrated circuit, test circuit, and method of testing
An integrated circuit includes a storing unit; and a tester that executes a write and read test on the storing unit based on received test information including a pair of address and data, the tester including: a first retain unit that retains, when a write is made based on the test information, the first write address and the first write data used in the write; a first generator that generates, based on the first write address retained in the first retain unit, a first read address used for reading first read data from the first read address in the storing unit simultaneously with writing second write data to a second write address based on the test information; and a second generator that generates, based on the first write data retained in the first retain unit, an expected value of the first read data. |
| US08819507B2 |
Field programmable gate arrays with built-in self test mechanisms
A system and method for designing a field programmable gate array (FPGA) with built-in test mechanism includes several enhancements to traditional circular self-test path (CSTP) BIST architecture. The FPGA BIST scheme isolates primary inputs and primary outputs to improve test coverage. Multiple signature output taps are inserted at CSTP registers throughout the test path to help improve signature aliasing probability. Enhanced CSTP register selection algorithms help prevent register adjacency problems and optimize overall resource utilization for implementation. Multiple clock domains are also handled by the FPGA BIST to allow full chip implementation of the FPGA BIST. |
| US08819505B2 |
Data processor having disabled cores
A data processor having a plurality of data processing cores configured to disable cores found defective by a self-test. |
| US08819504B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device and method for operating the same
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first storage unit configured to store a plurality of first fault address information provided in a first test operation, a second storage unit configured to store a plurality of second fault address information provided in a second test operation which is performed later than the first test operation; a redundancy operation unit configured to, in performing a redundancy operation, determine the number of operation circuits corresponding to the first fault address information and the number of operation circuits corresponding to the second fault address information among a plurality of redundancy operation circuits based on address number information; and an address providing unit configured to read the plurality of first fault address information and the plurality of second fault address information, and sequentially provide the read information to the redundancy operation unit, wherein the address providing unit is further configured to detect the number of the first fault address information and generate the address number information. |
| US08819503B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining an operating condition of a memory cell based on cycle information
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for adjusting a memory parameter in a non-volatile memory circuit. On a trigger event, a parameter is determined in accordance with a circuit characteristic associated with the memory block. The parameter may be a new read level voltage to apply to a page of a memory block, or a program verify level voltage used to program a page of a memory block. On determining the parameter a command is sent to the memory circuit to apply the parameter to the page of the memory block. The method can be triggered by an event such as P/E cycle times and the condition is dynamically adjusted to extend the life of the memory circuit. |
| US08819501B2 |
Effective method and device for transmitting control information for supporting uplink multi-antenna transmission
Disclosed is a method for transmitting control information on uplink multi-antenna transmission from a base station and the method includes: transmitting DCI that schedules uplink transmission of a first data block and a second data block through a PDCCH; receiving the first and second data blocks scheduled by the DCI; transmitting information indicating ACK or NACK for the received first and second data blocks, respectively, by using a first PHICH for the first data block and a second PHICH resource for the second data block; receiving a retransmission for a negative-acknowledged data block; and transmitting information indicating ACK or NACK of the retransmission of the negative-acknowledged data block by using the first PHICH resource when the number of negative-acknowledged data blocks is not identical to the number of data blocks that the PDCCH indicates. |
| US08819497B1 |
Storage of mass data for monitoring
Disclosed are various in various embodiments are systems and methods providing for storage of mass data such as metrics. A plurality of data models are generated in the server from a stream of metrics describing a state of a system. Each of the metrics is associated with one of a plurality of consecutive periods of time, and each data model represents the metrics associated with a corresponding one of the consecutive periods of time. The data models are stored in a data store and each of the metrics is discarded after use in generating at least one of the data models. |
| US08819490B2 |
Test execution spanning cloud and local devices
A test system for a managed cloud computing environment may have a management system that may recruit devices in the cloud and outside the cloud to perform a test on a cloud based application. Each device may execute an agent that connects the device to several cloud services for messaging, data collection, and executable code storage. The management system may identify and gather the devices, then cause the devices to execute a test by sending commands through the messaging service. The devices may access executable code for the specific tasks of a test through the code storage service, and as the devices complete tasks for the test, the devices may publish results in the data collection service. The test system enables any type of scenario to be implemented, including operations that can only be performed inside and outside the managed cloud environment. |
| US08819488B1 |
Architecture for end-to-end testing of long-running, multi-stage asynchronous data processing services
One or more computers is configured to run an end-to-end test including at least a plurality of independent tests of multiple stages of an asynchronous multi-stage data processing system. One of the set of independent tests is configured to send a request for test input data from a test data repository service for a particular stage. A converted version of the test input data is obtained. A comparison of the converted version to the output of the particular stage to verify operation of the particular stage is obtained. The output of the particular stage is transmitted to the test data repository service. One or more computers is configured to provide the test data repository service. The test data repository service is configured to store in the test data storage the output of the particular stage as test input data for a next stage of the asynchronous multi-stage data processing system. |
| US08819486B2 |
Fault tolerant routing in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system
Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network muting system are provided. According to one embodiment, a failover method is provided. One or more processing engines of a network routing system are configured to function as active processing engines, each of which having one or more software contexts. A control blade is contoured to monitor the active processing engines. One or more of the processing engines are identified to function as non-hot-standby processing engines, each of which having no pre-created software contexts corresponding, to the software contexts of the active processing engines. The control blade monitors the active processing engines. Responsive to detecting a fault associated with an active processing engine the active processing engine is dynamically replaced with a non-hot-standby processing engine by creating one or more replacement software contexts within the non-hot-standby processing engine corresponding to those of the active processing engine. |
| US08819485B2 |
Method and system for fault containment
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for error containment in a system comprising detecting an error by processing an input signal by multiple processing units, and delaying at least one output signal of a processing unit to enable, in case an error has been detected, modifying at least one output signal of the processing unit that would cause propagation of the error through the system. |
| US08819484B2 |
Dynamically reconfiguring a primary processor identity within a multi-processor socket server
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically reconfiguring a primary processor identity within a multi-processor socket server are provided. Embodiments include detecting, by the service processor, a processor socket reconfiguration event corresponding to a first processor socket; disabling, by the service processor, the first processor socket of the server in response to detecting the processor socket reconfiguration event; and reassigning, by the service processor, the primary processor identity to a second processor socket of the server. |
| US08819482B2 |
Method and apparatus for distributed storage integrity processing
A distributed storage integrity system in a dispersed storage network includes a scanning agent and a control unit. The scanning agent identifies an encoded data slice that requires rebuilding, wherein the encoded data slice is one of a plurality of encoded data slices generated from a data segment using an error encoding dispersal function. The control unit retrieves at least a number T of encoded data slices needed to reconstruct the data segment based on the error encoding dispersal function. The control unit is operable to reconstruct the data segment from at least the number T of the encoded data slices and generate a rebuilt encoded data slice from the reconstructed data segment. The scanning agent is located in a storage unit and the control unit is located in the storage unit or in a storage integrity processing unit, a dispersed storage processing unit or a dispersed storage managing unit. |
| US08819477B1 |
Error handling in a network page generation environment
Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate error handling in a network page generation environment. A request for a network page is obtained from a client. The network page is associated with a network site hosted by a hosting provider on behalf of a customer. Page generation code supplied by the customer is executed by a framework in response to the request. The page generation code is configured to generate at least a portion of the network page. A customized error network page is sent to the client in response to determining that an error has occurred in the framework that executes the page generation code. |
| US08819470B2 |
Switching device, a switching device control method and a switching device control program
A switching device is comprising connectors and switching part, which is connected via the connectors to a working power supply unit, a redundant power supply unit, a battery unit and a power supply output terminal, and, in an initial state, connects the power supply output terminal and the working power supply unit, and connects the battery unit and the redundant power supply unit is connected, and in a spare state, cuts a connection between the battery unit and the redundant power supply unit, and connects the power supply output terminal and the redundant power supply unit. |
| US08819463B2 |
Electronic device, a method of controlling an electronic device, and system on-chip
An electronic device is provided, which comprises at least one processing unit (CPU) for processing at least one application, an operating system (OS) for controlling the at least one application performed by the at least one processing unit (CPU), at least one workload build-up detector (WBD) for detecting a build-up of the workload of the at least one processing unit (CPU), at least one workload decrease detector (WDD) for detecting a decrease of the workload of the at least one processing unit (CPU), and at least one power management unit (SPM) for controlling an operating frequency and/or an operating voltage of the at least one processing unit in dependence on the detected workload build-up or the detected workload decrease. |
| US08819462B2 |
Serial advanced technology attachment interfaces and methods for power management thereof
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of managing a power between a host serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) interface and a device SATA interface. The method includes first requesting to enter one of power saving states, defined by a SATA protocol, and second requesting to enter a deep power saving state if one of the host SATA interface and the device SATA interface operates at the first requested power saving state. The first requesting to enter one of power saving states and the second requesting to enter a deep power saving state are performed by one of the host SATA interface and the device SATA interface. |
| US08819461B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for energy efficiency and energy conservation including improved processor core deep power down exit latency by using register secondary uninterrupted power supply
Embodiments of the invention relate to improving exit latency from computing device processor core deep power down. Processor state data may be maintained during deep power down mode by providing a secondary uninterrupted voltage supply to always on keeper circuits that reside within critical state registers of the processor. When these registers receive a control signal indicating that the processor power state is going to be reduced from an active processor power state to a zero processor power state, they write critical state data from the critical state register latches to the keeper circuits that are supplied with the uninterrupted power. Then, when a register receives a control signal indicating that a processor power state of the processor is going to be increased back to an active processor power state, the critical state data stored in the keeper circuits is written back to the critical state register latches. |
| US08819460B2 |
Dynamic energy management
A method of dynamic energy management that includes loading an energy budget configuration stream for an instruction of a thread, loading characterization data for the thread, computing energy management settings for the instruction based on the characterization data and the budget configuration stream, and driving control signals indicative of the computed energy management settings. |
| US08819458B2 |
Information processing apparatus, program execution method, and computer program
An information processing apparatus includes: a program executing unit which interprets and executes codes of a computer program created in a procedural language in an environment with a tamper resistant performance, wherein a security attribute and an authentication key are provided in units of functions in the computer program executed by the program executing unit, and wherein the program executing unit executes authentication processing with the authentication key for executing the function, which makes it possible to execute the function based on the security attribute. |
| US08819456B2 |
Content receiving terminal, content exporting and reproducing method, and recording medium
A content exporting and reproducing method includes i) a content export step of encrypting a decryption key for content, that is used for decrypting the encrypted content, by using an encryption key for decryption key, recording the encrypted decryption key for content in the portable recording medium, and exporting the encrypted content sequentially to the portable recording medium, and ii) a content reproduction step of reading out the encrypted decryption key for content from the portable recording medium, decrypting the encrypted decryption key for content by using a decryption key for decryption key, reading out the encrypted content that has been exported to the portable recording medium, and decrypting the encrypted content that is read out from the portable recording medium, by using the decrypted decryption key for content to reproduce the content, while the encrypted content is exported to the portable recording medium sequentially. |
| US08819454B2 |
Systems and methods for transformation of logical data objects for storage
Systems and methods for encrypting a plaintext logical data object for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimization and restoring thereof. Encrypting the plaintext logical data object comprises creating in the storage device an encrypted logical data object comprising a header and one or more allocated encrypted sections with predefined size; encrypting one or more sequentially obtained chunks of plaintext data corresponding to the plaintext logical data object thus giving rise to the encrypted data chunks; and sequentially accommodating the processed data chunks into said encrypted sections in accordance with an order said chunks received, wherein said encrypted sections serve as atomic elements of encryption/decryption operations during input/output transactions on the logical data object. |
| US08819450B2 |
System and method for providing data integrity
Systems and methods for providing data integrity for stored data are disclosed. A method may include, in connection with the receipt of a read command at a storage resource, reading a data block from the storage resource, the data block including a data field, a data integrity field indicating the integrity the data field, and an encryption indicator field indicating whether the data block is encrypted with a current cryptographic key for the storage resource. The method may further include determining whether the data field is encrypted with the current cryptographic key based at least on the encryption indicator field. The method may additionally include returning at least a portion of the data block in reply to the read command in response to determining that the data field is encrypted with a cryptographic key other than the current cryptographic key. |
| US08819444B2 |
Methods for single signon (SSO) using decentralized password and credential management
A method for single sign-on (SSO) that provides decentralized credential management using end-to-end security. Credential (and other personal user information) management is decentralized in that encryption is performed locally on the user's computer. The user's encrypted credentials may be stored by the login server and/or a plurality of distributed servers/databases (such as a cloud). The login server never has access to the user's credentials or other personal information. When the user wants to use single sign-on, he enters his password into his browser and the browser submits the encrypted/hashed password to the login server for validation. Upon validation, the browser receives the user's encrypted credentials. The credentials are decrypted by the browser and provided to relevant websites to automatically log the user in. |
| US08819440B2 |
Directed signature workflow
Techniques relating to directed signature workflow of a document are described. In one instance, a process enables a publishing user to populate a body portion of a document with content. The process also allows the publishing user to populate an associated digital signature definitions portion of the document with at least one requested consuming user's name and at least one condition associated with a digital signature of the requested consuming user. |
| US08819438B2 |
Method and device for issuing a digital residence certificate
A method for issuing a digital residence certificate using a module associated with a counter. Data from the counter are continuously monitored, whereby the data are read and a consistency test is performed on the basis of a predetermined criterion. In addition, after receiving a residence certificate request, a decision is made as to whether or not the request should be fulfilled, based on the results of the continuous data monitoring. |
| US08819437B2 |
Cryptographic device that binds an additional authentication factor to multiple identities
Binding a security artifact to a service provider. A method includes generating a pseudonym for a security artifact. The pseudonym is an identifier of the security artifact to the service provider that is unique to the service provider in that the pseudonym is not used to identify the security artifact to other service providers. Further, the pseudonym uniquely identifies the particular security artifact to the service provider even when a user has available a number of different security artifacts to authenticate to the same service provider to access a user account for the user. The method further includes providing the pseudonym for the security artifact to the service provider. The pseudonym for the security artifact is bound with a user account at the service provider for a user associated with the security artifact. |
| US08819433B2 |
Message storage and retrieval
A method of obfuscating messages stored in a message store or messages received by a computing device by comparing portions of the messages to user-specified criteria and encrypting or hiding portions of the message if the criteria are matched. The obfuscated messages are stored and access thereto is controlled by only permitting authorized users or applications to decrypt or access the message. |
| US08819427B2 |
Device specific secure licensing
Device-specific secure software licensing techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a key/token pair associated with a client requesting license validation is received. It is determined whether the key/token pair matches an entry in a store of currently valid key/token pairs. An affirmative response is sent in the event the key/token pair matches a corresponding entry in the store of currently valid key/token pairs. |
| US08819423B2 |
Optical transceiver with vendor authentication
An optical receiver comprising at least one processor and a memory including at least one of an encryption key or a decryption key and at least one of encryption microcode or decryption microcode that includes processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the optical transceiver to perform the following: an act of performing an encryption or decryption operation on data received from a host computing system to thereby authenticate the optical transceiver. |
| US08819418B2 |
Communication system, vehicle-mounted terminal, roadside device
A communication system includes a certificate authority for performing authentication, a roadside device, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a first server, and a second server. The vehicle-mounted terminal transmits position information to the first server. The certificate authority acquires information about a vehicle-mounted terminal likely to appear according to place and time from the first server. The certificate authority allows the second server to verify validity of a certificate for a vehicle-mounted terminal acquired from the first server. The certificate authority generates a first list of vehicle-mounted terminals having valid certificates and a second list of vehicle-mounted terminals having invalid certificates according to place and time based on a verification result. The certificate authority transmits the first and second lists to the roadside device and the vehicle-mounted terminal. The roadside device and the vehicle-mounted terminal verify a certificate using the received first and second lists thereby reducing the certificate verification time. |
| US08819413B1 |
Method and apparatus for collaborative claim verification
A method and apparatus for providing collaborative claim verification using an identification management (IDM) system. The IDM system collaborates with at least one trusted authority that provides information to a validity database within the IDM system. The database information collected from the at least one trusted authority is used to verify a user's entered identification information i.e., a user's identity claim. Such validation through a plurality of trusted authorities can provide a statistical truth to the identity claims provided by a user. |
| US08819411B2 |
Information processing apparatus, communication system, method of controlling them, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus connected to a network via a network interface device and capable of performing encrypted communication with an external apparatus on the network. When the information processing apparatus is operating in a normal power mode, a sleep control module thereof detects whether a condition under which the apparatus shifts to an energy saving mode in which power consumption is smaller than in the normal power mode is satisfied. When the condition is detected to be satisfied, a proxy response registration module of the apparatus instructs an IPSec module of the same to request the external apparatus not to perform encrypted communication. |
| US08819410B2 |
Private electronic information exchange
Methods and apparatuses for private electronic information exchange are described herein. In one embodiment, when electronic information is received to be delivered to a recipient, the electronic information is transmitted over an electronic network with a private routing address. The private routing address is routable within a private domain, which is a subset of the electronic network. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. |
| US08819408B2 |
Document processing method and system
A document processing method and system divides a document into document pages, and encrypts the document pages by first key to obtain a plurality of encrypted pages; picks a part of words from the document pages and encrypts them by second key to obtain a Significant Word Set (SWS); picks a part of words from the picked part of words and encrypts them by third key to obtain a Most Relevant Word Set (MRWS). The encrypted pages, the SWS and the MRWS are transmits to a remote server for storage. When user search a keyword in the document, the keyword is encrypted by the second and third keys for performing two query. The first query result is decrypted to obtain the search result. The second query result is decrypted and then checked whether it is a subset of the first decrypted query result for detecting unfaithful execution. |
| US08819402B2 |
System for displaying image from mobile device on a display in a computer by booting the computer with limited operating system and relinquishing bus control to the mobile device
A mobile device such as a smart phone can be connected to the USB port of a computer such as a laptop to charge the battery of the mobile device and to synchronize data. Also, when a special button is pressed the computer enters a mobile device support mode in which the computer processor does not boot the full service O.S. but only a small O.S., with the mobile device sending demanded images and sounds to the larger display and speakers of the computer and receiving input from the more capable keyboard of the computer so that a user can use the resources of the computer in operating the typically more limited mobile device. |
| US08819400B2 |
Computer apparatus with switchable input output system
A computer apparatus is disclosed. The computer apparatus mentioned above includes a main board and an external sub-board. The main board includes a connector, a management chip, a first basic input output system and a selector. The external sub-board includes an external input output system. The management chip detects a coupling state of the main board and the external sub-board, and generates a detecting signal. The selector enables one of the first basic input output system and the external input output system and disables the other one. |
| US08819399B1 |
Predicated control flow and store instructions for native code module security
Some embodiments provide a system that executes a native code module. During operation, the system obtains the native code module. Next, the system loads the native code module into a secure runtime environment. Finally, the system safely executes the native code module in the secure runtime environment by using a set of software fault isolation (SFI) mechanisms that use predicated store instructions and predicated control flow instructions, wherein each predicated instruction from the predicated store instructions and the predicated control flow instructions is executed if a mask condition associated with the predicated instruction is met. |
| US08819397B2 |
Processor with increased efficiency via control word prediction
Methods and apparatuses are provided for increased efficiency in a processor via control word prediction. The apparatus comprises an operational unit capable of determining whether an instruction will change a first control word to a second control word for processing dependent instructions. Execution units process the dependent instructions using a predicted control word and compare the second control word to the predicted control word. A scheduling unit causes the execution units to reprocess the dependent instructions when the predicted control word does not match the second control word. The method comprises determining that an instruction will change a first control word to a second control word and processing the dependent instructions using a predicted control word. The second control word is compared to the predicted control word and the dependent instructions are reprocessed using the second control word when the predicted control word does not match the second control word. |
| US08819396B2 |
Parallel processing using plural processing modules when processing time including parallel control overhead time is determined to be less than serial processing time
A data processing apparatus includes an output unit. The output unit determines, when parallel control is performed in a data processor created in the data processing apparatus so that plural processing modules forming the data processor perform data processing in parallel, on the basis of a value representing a parallel-processing time for which at least two processing modules are operated in parallel and a value representing a control time, which is not necessary when serial control is performed so that the processing modules serially perform data processing but which is necessary when the parallel control is performed so that the processing modules perform data processing in parallel, whether a time necessary to complete data processing performed by the data processor under the parallel control would be shorter than a time necessary to complete data processing performed by the data processor under the serial control, and outputs a determination result. |
| US08819394B2 |
Instruction and logic for processing text strings
Methods, apparatus, and instructions for performing string comparison operations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a first instruction. In response to the first instruction, said execution resources store a result of a comparison between each data element of a first and second operand corresponding to a first and second text string, respectively. |
| US08819388B2 |
Control of on-die system fabric blocks
Methods and apparatus for control of On-Die System Fabric (OSF) blocks are described. In one embodiment, a shadow address corresponding to a physical address may be stored in response to a user-level request and a logic circuitry (e.g., present in an OSF) may determine the physical address from the shadow address. Other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US08819384B1 |
Method and system for embedded virtual memory management
Aspects of the disclosure provide a virtual memory management method that can reduce memory requirement and improve system performance. The method can include detecting a scenario, matching the detected scenario with a predefined scenario that includes a pre-set mapping relationship of a first module to a dynamic memory address within a first portion of a dynamic memory, and writing the first module from a static memory to the first portion of the dynamic memory at the dynamic memory address. Further, the method can include executing the first module from the dynamic memory. In addition, the method can include storing a second module at a second portion of the dynamic memory independent of the detected scenario. |
| US08819383B1 |
Non-disruptive realignment of virtual data
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for non-disruptively addressing misalignment between a virtual data format and an underlying data format. Virtual data, such as a guest operating system of a virtual machine, may be stored within a virtual structure, such as a virtual machine disk, according to a virtual data format. The virtual structure may be stored within a storage device according to a storage data format. If misalignment is detected, then a new data container may be created within the storage device. A shim, sized according to a misalignment offset, may be inserted into the new data container in order to align the new data container with the storage device. Virtual data may be migrated from the virtual structure to the new data container to achieve alignment. During the migration, the virtual data may remain available from the virtual structure (e.g., a virtual machine may still execute). |
| US08819382B2 |
Split heap garbage collection
A method and an apparatus to scan a stack for references to a heap used in executing a code via the heap are described. The heap may be allocated with fixed and varied sized slots. Each varied sized slot may be referenced by at most one fixed sized slot. Which slots are live may be identified based on the references in the stack. A fixed slot can be live if referenced by the stack. A fixed or varied slot referenced by a live slot can also be live. Varied sized slots referenced by the stack may be identified as pinned. The heap may be de-fragmented to reclaim fixed sized slots which are not live without moving live fixed sized slots and to reclaim varied sized slots which are neither live nor pinned by moving live varied slots. |
| US08819381B2 |
System and method for storing a sparse matrix
A system and method for storing and retrieving a sparse matrix from memory of a computing device while minimizing the amount of data stored and costly jumps in memory. The computing device may be an FPGA having memory and processing elements. The method comprises storing non-zero data elements of the matrix in a data array and storing their corresponding column address values in a column index array. To read this stored data from memory, each preceding value of the column index array may be compared with each current value of the column index array to determine if the data array value corresponding with the current column index array value belongs on the next row of the matrix. The method may include pre-ordering the matrix with zero-pad placeholders or creating a row increment pointer array which typically stores fewer values than the number of rows in the matrix. |
| US08819379B2 |
Allocating memory based on performance ranking
A method for optimizing memory bandwidth using bank-based memory allocation is described. The method includes receiving a request for an allocation of memory. In response to receiving the request, memory is allocated to the request based on a performance ranking of memory banks in a plurality of memory banks. A performance ranking of a particular memory bank may be based at least in part on both a busyness and a row hit ratio of the particular memory bank. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described. |
| US08819377B2 |
System and method of operating memory devices of mixed type
A memory system architecture is provided in which a memory controller controls memory devices in a serial interconnection configuration. The memory controller has an output port for sending memory commands and an input port for receiving memory responses for those memory commands requisitioning such responses. Each memory device includes a memory, such as, for example, NAND-type flash memory, NOR-type flash memory, random access memory and static random access memory. Each memory command is specific to the memory type of a target memory device. A data path for the memory commands and the memory responses is provided by the interconnection. A given memory command traverses memory devices in order to reach its intended memory device of the serial interconnection configuration. Upon its receipt, the intended memory device executes the given memory command and, if appropriate, sends a memory response to a next memory device. The memory response is transferred to the memory controller. |
| US08819376B2 |
Merging arrays using shiftable memory
A shiftable memory that supports array merging employs built-in shifting capability to produce a merged array from a first array of data and a second array of data. The shiftable memory includes a memory to store data. The memory provides the built-in shifting capability to shift a contiguous subset of the data from a first location to a second location within the memory. The shiftable memory further includes an array-merging operator to produce the merged array using the built-in shifting capability. The contiguous subset of the data includes the first array. |
| US08819370B1 |
Techniques for storage lifecycle policy management
Techniques for storage lifecycle policy management. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for storage lifecycle policy management comprising creating a version of a storage lifecycle policy, associating a unique version ID with the created version of the storage lifecycle policy, associating the unique version ID with one or more portions of backup data created during a storage management job instantiated under the created version of the storage lifecycle policy, and ensuring that one or more storage management actions performed on the one or more portions of backup data comply with the created version of the storage lifecycle policy associated with unique version ID. |
| US08819366B2 |
Data processing device, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for controlling data processing device
A data processing device has a processing unit configured to copy data stored in a first memory unit into a second memory unit on a block-by-block basis into which the data is divided by a specific size, a time measuring unit configured to measure an amount of time that the processing unit spends on copying the block and a controller configured to change the size of the block to a size smaller than the current size if the measured amount of time runs up to a specific threshold which is shorter than a timeout time. |
| US08819363B2 |
Data copying method
A method for controlling a switch apparatus connectable to a host and a storage device including first and second areas, the method includes: establishing schedule of copying data stored in the first area of the storage device into the second area of the storage device; monitoring a state of access by the host to the storage device; carrying out copying the data stored in the first area into the second area while the monitored state of the access by the host allows copying of the data from the first area into the second area; and enhancing copying, if any portion of the data remains when a time set by the schedule is expired, the remaining portion of the data from the first area into the second area. |
| US08819361B2 |
Retaining verifiability of extracted data from signed archives
The objects of an archive may be verified with a cryptographic signature stored in the archive. However, when an object is extracted, the authentication involves re-authenticating the entire archive, re-extracting the object, and comparing the extracted object with the current object, which is inefficient or unachievable if the archive is unavailable. Instead, the archive may include a block map signed with the signature and comprising hashcodes for respective blocks of the objects of the archive. When an object is extracted, the signature and block map may also be extracted and stored as objects outside of the archive. The extracted signature and block map may later be verified by authenticating the signature, verifying the block map with the signature, and matching the hashcodes of the block map with those of the blocks of the extracted objects, thus enabling a more efficient and portable verification of extracted object with extracted authentication credentials. |
| US08819346B2 |
Fast prediction of shared memory access pattern
A computer implemented method analyzes shared memory accesses during execution of an application program. The method includes instrumenting events of shared memory accesses in the application program, where the application program is to be executed on a target configuration having p nodes; executing the application program using p1 processing nodes, where p1 is less than p and satisfies a constraint. For accesses made by the executing application program, the method determines a target thread and maps determined target threads to either a remote node or a local node corresponding to a remote memory access and to a local memory access, respectively. Also disclosed is a computer-readable storage medium that stores a program of executable instructions that implements the method, and a data processing system. The invention can be implemented using a language such as Unified Parallel C (UPC) directed to a partitioned global address space (PGAS) paradigm. |
| US08819344B1 |
Shared storage access load balancing for a large number of hosts
A data processing system includes host data processors, a data storage system including data storage shared among the host data processors, and a data switch coupling the host data processors to the data storage system. The data storage system has host adapter ports coupled to the data switch. The data switch is programmed for distributing block I/O requests from the host data processors over the operable host adapter ports for load balancing of the block I/O requests among the operable host adapter ports. The shared data storage can be a file system striped across RAID sets of disk drives for load balancing upon disk director ports of the data storage system. The data processing system can be expanded by adding more data storage systems, switches for the additional data storage systems, and switches for routing block I/O requests from the host processors to the data storage systems. |
| US08819339B2 |
Non-disruptive data migration between processing systems that do not share storage
A technique is disclosed for non-disruptive migration of data between storage on hosts that do not share storage with each other. Aggregate relocation is enabled to operate between the hosts in the absence of shared storage connectivity. The technique includes mirroring an aggregate from storage of a first host to storage of a second host by using a sub-RAID level proxy in each of the first and second hosts to proxy data communications between the hosts. The proxy is used in lieu of the mirroring application in the first host having direct access to the storage devices of the second host. The technique further includes relocating the aggregate from the first host to the second host. |
| US08819338B2 |
Storage system and storage apparatus
A storage system comprises a first controller and a plurality of storage devices. The plurality of storage devices configure RAID, each of which includes one or more non-volatile memory chips providing storage space where data from a host computer is stored, and a second controller coupled to the non-volatile memory chips. In case where the first controller receives an update request to update first data to second data from the host computer, the second controller in a first storage device of the storage devices is configured to store the second data in an area different from an area where the first data has been stored, in the storage space of the first storage device; generate information that relates the first data and the second data; and generate an intermediate parity based on the first and the second data. |
| US08819337B1 |
Storage module and method for determining whether to back-up a previously-written lower page of data before writing an upper page of data
A storage module and method are disclosed for determining whether to back-up a previously-written lower page of data before writing an upper page of data. In one embodiment, a storage module receives a command to write an upper page of data to memory cells that have already been programmed with a lower page of data. The storage module determines whether a command to protect the lower page of data was previously received. The storage module backs-up the lower page of data in another area of the memory before writing the upper page of data to the memory cells only if it is determined that the command to protect the lower page of data was previously received. The storage module then writes the upper page of data to the memory cells. |
| US08819336B2 |
Nonvolatile memory system and related method of preserving stored data during power interruption
A nonvolatile memory system comprises a temporary power supply that supplies power in the event of an unexpected power interruption. The temporary power supply provides power while metadata stored in one or more buffers is compressed and transferred to a nonvolatile memory device. |
| US08819335B1 |
System and method for executing map-reduce tasks in a storage device
A system and method of providing enhanced data processing and analysis in an infrastructure for distributed computing and large-scale data processing. This infrastructure uses the Hadoop™ framework to divide an application into a large number of small fragments of work, each of which may be performed on one of a large number of compute nodes. The work may involve map tasks and reduce tasks which may be used to categorize and analyze large amounts of data in distributed systems. This infrastructure includes a cluster with a master node and a plurality of slave nodes. The slave nodes may include, or may be, intelligent solid-state drives capable of executing Map-Reduce functions. The use of intelligent solid-state drives reduces the need to exchange data with a CPU in a server. |
| US08819332B2 |
Nonvolatile storage device performing periodic error correction during successive page copy operations
Upon copying data stored on a page in a copy source block of a nonvolatile memory to a page of a copy destination block, an access control unit of a memory controller copies data stored on a page associated with a first copy method to a page of the copy destination block after error correction by an error correction control unit copies data stored on a page associated with a second copy method to a page of the copy destination block without performing the error correction by the error correction control unit according to a copy mode stored in a copy mode storage area, and changes the copy mode associated with the copy destination block to a copy mode that is different from the copy mode of the copy source block. |
| US08819324B2 |
Computer system with bridge
A computer system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a north bridge, a south bridge, a bridge and a slot. The north bridge is electrically connected to the CPU. The bridge is electrically connected to the north bridge and the south bridge, and the connector is connected to the bridge. The bridge generates a first data and a second data according to the data packages transmitted from the north bridge and adjusts the output bandwidth of the first data and the second data according to a channel control signal. The south bridge receives or transfers the first data via the bridge so as to communicate with the north bridge. The slot is electrically connected to the bridge and receives or transfers the second data via the bridge so as to communicate with the north bridge. |
| US08819319B2 |
Computer system and method for inheriting HBA identifier of PCI card
A PCI card's HBA identifier table held in an IODC in an IO slot expansion unit is read and recorded on a PCIe switch register of a PCIe switch. After a server blade is powered on so that an EFI is activated, the EFI reads the HBA identifier table recorded on the PCIe switch register and updates an HBA identifier of an HBA mounted in each PCI card. The HBA mounted in the PCI card operates with the updated HBA identifier of the PCI card. Thus, even when the PCI card is replaced by a new PCI card because of failure or the like, the new PCI card can operate with the same HBA identifier as that before the replacement. Therefore, a user does not have to register the HBA identifier of the PCI card newly in a device connected to the PCI card. |
| US08819316B2 |
Two-way raid controller with programmable host interface for a semiconductor storage device
Provided is a two-way RAID controlled storage device of a serial attached small computer system interface/serial advanced technology attachment (PCI-Express) type, which provides data storage/reading services through a PCI-Express interface. The RAID controller typically comprises multiple sets of RAID equipment coupled to one another via a hardware host connect, an adaptive host interface controller, a host connect controller, a two-way RAID controller, a disk connect controller, an adaptive disk mount controller, and a hardware disk connect. Coupled to the hardware disk connect are a set of DDR, SSD memory disk units. Further, each set of RAID equipment typically comprises a programmable host interface unit, a disk controller, a high speed host interface, a disk monitoring unit, a disk plug and play controllers, and a programmable disk mount. |
| US08819310B2 |
System-on-chip and data arbitration method thereof
A system-on-a-chip semiconductor device comprises a first master device configured to issue a request having a transaction ID, a plurality of slave devices configured to provide data in response to the request, and an interconnector configured to include a slave interface for providing the request to one or more master interfaces and for supplying response data to the first master device based on operation characteristics of the first master.An arbitration method of an interconnector transferring a plurality of response data provided from a plurality of slave devices to a master device comprises selecting one of a plurality of arbitration modes based on operation characteristics of the master device; and transferring the response data in the order determined by transfer priority corresponding to the selected arbitration mode. |
| US08819305B2 |
Directly providing data messages to a protocol layer
In one embodiment, the present invention provides for a layered communication protocol for a serial link, in which a link layer is to receive and forward a message to a protocol layer coupled to the link layer with a minimal amount of buffering and without maintenance of a single resource buffer for adaptive credit pools where all message classes are able to consume credits. By performing a message decode, the link layer is able to steer non-data messages and data messages to separate structures within the protocol layer. Credit accounting for each message type can be handled independently where the link layer is able to return credits immediately for non-data messages. In turn, the protocol layer includes a shared buffer to store all data messages received from the link layer and return credits to the link layer for these messages when the data is removed from the shared buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08819299B1 |
Method for creation of a device driver for a peripheral device
A method and apparatus may be configured to create setup information, and perform the initialization and performance of an installation of a peripheral device of an electronic device. One example method may include storing a device identification (ID) of the peripheral device, extracting data and creating a data structure from existent setup information. The method may also include replacing a device ID in the data structure with the device ID of the peripheral device, and creating and storing a setup information file from content of the data structure. The method may also include creating and passing a request to at least one of a device driver of an interface of the peripheral device and a bus that initiates the installation of the peripheral device. The peripheral device may not be connected to the electronic device. |
| US08819296B2 |
Apparatus, a method and a computer program
An apparatus includes one local input/output device; and an interface configured to interface between an application hosted by the apparatus and the local input/output device and is configured to interface between the application hosted by the apparatus and a remote input/output device hosted by another apparatus; wherein the interface has a first state in which the interface is configured to couple the application and the local input/output device but not couple the application and the remote input/output device hosted by the another apparatus; wherein the interface has a second state in which the interface is configured to couple the application and the local input/output device and to couple the application and the remote input/output device hosted by another apparatus; and wherein the interface is configured to be responsive to a proximity detection trigger. |
| US08819289B2 |
Satellite orbit data compressing method, satellite orbit data providing method, satellite orbit data decompressing method, and data compressing device
A satellite orbit data compressing method includes: determining a compression method of a parameter value on the basis of a variation tendency of the parameter value in an orbit model approximating a satellite orbit; and calculating a compressed parameter value by reducing a bit sequence representing the parameter value using the determined compression method. |
| US08819288B2 |
Optimized data stream compression using data-dependent chunking
Systems and methods for compression of data to be transmitted are described. A data stream, such as a byte code sequence, is partitioned into one or more data chunks. The data chunks can be associated with an identifier, such as a signature that differentiates one data chunk from the other. Thus, different data chunks would be identifiable through different signatures. The data chunks associated with the signatures can be compared with a repository or a history buffer. The history buffer includes a collection of previously transmitted data chunks each associated with their respective signature. |
| US08819286B2 |
Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing messaging data sets using structured data sets
In one embodiment, a plurality of data conversion modules are bound to a processing engine and a first messaging data set is provided to a conversion module from the plurality of conversion modules. The messaging data set conforms to a messaging format. A structured data set based on a first data portion and a second data portion of the first messaging data set are received and value different from the value of the first data portion is stored within a first element of the structured data set. The value of the second data portion is stored within a second data element of the structured data set. A second messaging data set is then generated based on the structured data set. |
| US08819280B1 |
Network traffic load balancing system using IPV6 mobility headers
Techniques are provided for using the mobility support features of IPv6 to allow client and server nodes to communicate without the continuing intervention of a load-balancing node that selected the server node. A load-balancing node intercepts a TCP SYN packet addressed to a virtual IP address. The load-balancing node selects a server node from among multiple server nodes, and sends the packet toward the server node. The server node sends an IPv6 packet toward the client node. The packet contains a Binding Update option that specifies the virtual IP address as a Home Address. This information causes the client node to replace destination addresses in outgoing IP packets so that packets that the client node would have sent toward the virtual IP address are sent toward the selected server node's IP address instead. Consequently, the IP packets are routed toward the selected server node instead of the load-balancing node. |
| US08819279B2 |
Method and system for providing network and routing protocols for utility services
A method and system of operating a utility node to communicate in a wireless utility network are provided. A utility node in the wireless utility network discovers at least two access points each respectively constituting an interface between a wide area network and the wireless utility network. The node discovers at least two access points constituting an interface between the two networks, registers with the discovered access points, and obtains at least two unique network addresses each respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node has registered. The node provides the at least two addresses to a back office server which is communication with the wide area network to provide the back office server with at least two routes to reach the node. The at least two routes are respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node registered. |
| US08819278B2 |
System and method for delivering alerts
A technique is provided for delivering an alert to a user. The technique includes identifying which single device of a user's multiple devices should receive the alert. A server is configured to collect device statistics about the user's devices and determine which device should receive the alert. Example device statistics include locations of the devices, last use time of the devices, statistics received from other applications that the user is accessing (e.g., email, search engine, applications, mobile apps, etc.), statistics from other users in the same location as the user, statistics from cameras, motion detectors, or proximity sensors associated with the devices, history/pattern of the user consuming previous alerts, what type of message is associated with the alert (e.g., email, SMS, picture, video, etc.), and/or whether a particular device is ON/OFF or locked/unavailable, among others. |
| US08819274B2 |
Selecting a network connection for data communications with a networked device
Selecting a network connection for data communications with a networked device, including: identifying a plurality of networks available for data communications with the networked device, each network having network connection attributes; and selecting one of the plurality of networks in dependence upon the network connection attributes and the direction of data transfer. |
| US08819273B2 |
Logical routing system
A method and system for mapping logical identifiers to physical identifiers is provided. In one embodiment, a logical routing system allows each application, or more generally entity (e.g., user of an application), to register its logical identifier to physical identifier mapping when the application starts executing on a computer. To send a message to an application identified by a logical identifier, a client program uses the registered mapping to identify the physical identifier of the computer. If an application later starts executing on a different computer, then the application can register a different mapping. |
| US08819272B2 |
Multiprocessor communication networks
A parallel multiprocessor system includes a packet-switching communication network comprising a plurality of processor nodes operating concurrently in parallel. Each processor node generates messages to be sent simultaneously to a plurality of other processor nodes in the communication network. Each message is divided into a plurality of packets having a common destination processor node. Each processor node has an arbiter that determines an order in which to forward the packets onto the network toward their destination processor nodes and a network interface that sends the packets onto the network in accordance with the determined order. The determined order operates to substantially avoid sending consecutive packets from a given source processor node to a given destination processor node and to randomize the destination processor nodes of those packets presently traversing the communication network. |
| US08819271B2 |
System and method to access and use layer 2 and layer 3 information used in communications
A system and method can be used to collect communication information including Layer 2 and Layer 3 information during normal communications between devices or other elements within a network. In a particular embodiment, the information can be generated as address resolution protocol tables and media access control tables, which are used to keep track of which elements are connected to other elements and to map network addresses to media access control identifiers. The communication information can be used in performing an action, such as servicing the system, auditing the system, checking for security breaches or policy violations, or other suitable action. |
| US08819268B1 |
Systems and methods for notification of device mirroring
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods providing event- or condition-based notifications of device mirroring responsive to one or more of changes in the physical or internal environments of a computing device, for example a mobile computing device. Moreover, some implementations may include stopping or suspending device mirroring responsive to the same. A change in the physical environment of a computing device may be determined from a change in a signal received at the device, for example a network connection signal, IR signal, or ambient light or noise level. A change in physical environment may also be determined based on a change in location or orientation of the computing device. A change in the internal environment of the computing device may include a change in the active application at the device, or a change in focus to a new application. |
| US08819259B2 |
Fast retrieval and progressive retransmission of content
Fast retrieval and progressive retransmission of content, including the steps of obtaining erasure-coded fragments by an assembling server from fractional-storage CDN servers; reconstructing a streaming content file from the obtained fragments; and streaming the reconstructed content or a transcoded version of the content by the assembling server to a client device. Wherein most of the fractional-storage CDN servers are located close to or on the Internet backbone, and streaming the reconstructed content takes at least an order of magnitude longer than obtaining the fragments and reconstructing the content. |
| US08819257B2 |
Method and device for performing communication on a bus structured network
The invention refers to a method for performing communication on a bus structured network between master device and slave devices using a bi-directional data stream DSA for secure communication and a unidirectional data stream DSI for real-time communication. According to the invention the unidirectional data stream DSI is used for a certain type of secure communication between a master device and at least one slave device. |
| US08819256B2 |
Method and system for device property for specification of vendor specific protocol features
One or more vendor extensions that may be communicated to and/or from a device that may communicate via media transfer protocol (MTP) may be specified within an extension of the MTP. The vendor extension may comprise vendor specific information such as proprietary supported features. Vendor extensions may be indicated as a device property and may be communicated to another device during initiation of communication. Supported vendor extensions may be specified in an MTP DevicePropDesc dataset as a response to a request such as a MTP GetDevicePropDesc operation. Alternatively, data from a current value field of an MTP DevicePropDesc dataset may be returned in response to a GetDevicePropValue operation. An MTP SetDevicePropValue operation may be utilized for selecting a vendor extension. However, the selection may be accepted or rejected by a device. An event may be issued to other devices when a change of vendor extension has occurred. |
| US08819254B2 |
Method and apparatus for targeted content delivery
A method and protocol for creating and configuring customized paths, such as channels, for the delivery of electronic content to a variety of devices associated with a user is provided. A content provider may create a channel for each device registered by a user by creating a provisioning Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) for each device. The user may select certain content to be delivered to a registered device via the channel. The user's device requests a list of feed URLs available to the user by accessing the provisioning URL. A content management program returns the list of feed URLs to the device and the list of feed URLs stored on the device is updated. The electronic content may be distributed through the disclosed protocol directly to the registered device if the device is active, or to a computing device for distribution to passive devices. |
| US08819247B2 |
System and method for using a first device to communicate data from a second device
A method, device and computer readable medium are provided for enabling a communication for a second device using a first device. The method comprises detecting a first connection with the first device; obtaining from the first device via the first connection, a first set of one or more addresses and a second set of one or more identifiers associated with respective ones of the one or more addresses; detecting disconnection of the first connection with the first device; deleting the first set; enabling one or more identifiers from the second set to be associated with data to be transferred to the first device; detecting a second connection with the first device; and sending the data and associated one or more identifiers to the first device to have the first device to send the communication using corresponding one or more addresses. |
| US08819245B2 |
Processor allocation for multi-core architectures
Methods, computing devices, and computer readable storage media for testing network connections are disclosed. A first processor of a plurality of processors may define a new TCP connection. The first processor may apply a hash function to determine an appropriate one of the plurality of processors to open the new TCP connection. The first processor may write data defining the new TCP connection to a queue associated with the appropriate processor. The appropriate processor may retrieve the data defining the new TCP connection from the queue and open the new TCP connection. |
| US08819243B1 |
Delivering content to mobile clients
A delivery system, media, and method for communicating content to devices are provided. The delivery system includes a services aggregator and content aggregator for processing requests from the devices. The services aggregator processes the request to identify credentials for the devices that generate the request and to identify providers of content specified in the request. The content aggregator receives the content from the identified providers and formats the content based on limits imposed by the device. Because the devices are configured to allow the services aggregator and content aggregator to perform computational-intensive tasks associated with requesting and transmitting the content, the complexity and cost of the devices are minimized. |
| US08819238B2 |
Application hosting in a distributed application execution system
In an application execution system having a plurality of application servers and an application master in an application execution system, the application master stores a plurality of applications, including a respective application, in a library for distribution among the application servers, adds a first instance of the respective application from the library to a respective application server for execution, and obtains usage information of one or more applications added to the application servers. In accordance with the usage information, the application master performs one of a predefined set of actions that includes: adding a second instance of the respective application to the plurality of application servers; and removing the first instance of the respective application from the respective application server. |
| US08819232B2 |
Method and system for managing access to a resource
The present invention relates to a method and a system for managing access to a resource, copies of which are hosted in apparatuses of one or more networks. The method comprises obtaining a list comprising a plurality of references pointing to the plurality of copies of the resource; for each of said references, determining at least one accessibility rating representing the accessibility of the corresponding copy for the given user device, and, based on the at least one accessibility rating, deciding between keeping the corresponding reference in the list or deleting it therefrom, to obtain an updated list; and selecting a reference from the updated list for the given user device to access the resource. |
| US08819230B2 |
Virtual private storage array service for cloud servers
A method for providing virtual private storage array (VPSA) service for cloud users over a computer network includes receiving parameters for the VPSA over the network and creating the VPSA from resources of server computers. Creating the VPSA includes allocating and exposing drives that meets or exceeds specified drive characteristics, drive quantity, and array redundancy criteria to virtual controllers (VCs) in the VPSA, and dedicating parts of processor/memory complexes that each meets or exceeds a specified virtual controller hardware model to the VCs. The VCs run on virtual machines on the dedicated parts of processor/memory complexes on independent server computers. The VCs discover the exposed drives, create a virtual pool from the exposed virtual drives, implement data protection on the virtual pool, create volumes from the virtual pool, expose the volumes over the network to a customer computer, and handle access requests to the volumes from the customer computer. |
| US08819229B1 |
Techniques for accessing logical networks via a programmatic service call
Disclosed are various embodiments for configuring logical networks. A client makes a request, through a service call, for creation of a logical network, including a logical network gateway and accounts for users to access the logical network gateway. In response to the service call, the logical network is created and configured, and a confirmation is provided to the client. |
| US08819223B2 |
Network component management
A network component management system includes a first network element and a second network element. The second network element is at a customer location and is configured to communicate with the first network element over a communication network. A computing device is configured to communicate with the first and second network elements over the communication network and includes a visibility tool configured to actively monitor the second network element and present a status of the second network element. The status of the second network element indicates whether the second network element is provisioned and able to communicate over the communication network. A method includes querying the network element, determining the status of the network element, presenting the status, and initiating a troubleshooting procedure if the network element is not provisioned or is unable to communicate over the communication network. |
| US08819219B2 |
Efficient service advertisement and discovery in multiple wireless networks
A local device broadcasts a first advertisement in a first wireless network via a first wireless interface, where the first advertisement includes one or more service identifiers (IDs) identifying one or more services being advertised and an availability schedule of the local device in the first wireless network. The local device broadcasts a second advertisement in a second wireless network via a second wireless interface. The local device scans in the first wireless network during an availability window of the availability schedule for a response to the first advertisement, where the broadcast of the second advertisement is disabled during the availability window. |
| US08819218B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for device level enablement of a communications protocol
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for device level enablement of a communications protocol. An adapter compatibility module determines an adapter compatibility status for a plurality of host adapters. A positive adapter compatibility status indicates that each host adapter in the plurality of host adapters is compatible with a communications protocol. A processor compatibility module determines a processor compatibility status for one or more processors. The one or more processors coordinate data transfers to and from the plurality of host adapters. A positive processor compatibility status indicates that each of the one or more processors is compatible with the communications protocol. A compatibility summary module determines a compatibility summary for the plurality of host adapters and the one or more processors. The compatibility summary indicates a positive compatibility relative to the communications protocol in response to a positive processor compatibility status and a positive adapter compatibility status. |
| US08819217B2 |
Intelligent graph walking
An apparatus, and corresponding method, for performing a search for a match of at least one expression in an input stream is presented. A graph including a number of interconnected nodes is generated. A compiler may assign at least one starting node and at least one ending node. The starting node includes a location table with node position information of an ending node and a sub-string value associated with the ending node. Using the node position information and a string comparison function, intermediate nodes located between the starting and ending nodes may be bypassed. The node bypassing may reduce the number of memory accesses required to read the graph. |
| US08819214B2 |
Click value determination with incentive schemes for website visitors and advertisers
Tools and techniques are described herein for determining click values, along with incentive schemes for website visitors and advertisers. These tools may provide a click value system that includes a click value determination unit and an incentive administration unit. The click value determination unit may compute respective click values for different visitors to a website. These click values may indicate a likelihood that the visitors may transact for particular goods or services offered through the website. The incentive administration unit manages visitor incentives provided to the visitors, and also manages advertiser incentives provided to the advertisers. |
| US08819212B1 |
Delegation of data classification using common language
An information management system delegates information classification to an external computing resource, or classifier. The intelligence required to perform classification, including a series of logic and/or rules, is provided to the classifier. The logic and/or rules are translated from a first format to a second format understandable to the classifier. The information management system discovers objects of an entity and identifies them for the classifier. The classifier collects information about the objects, applies the logic and rules to the objects, and assigns one or more categories to each object. This classification information is translated from the second format to the first format and reported back to the information management system, which may use the assigned categories to identify and map service level objectives to available service levels. After service levels are selected, the corresponding actions can be orchestrated such that the objects of the entity receive the selected services. |
| US08819211B2 |
Distributed policy service
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an approach is provided in which a policy server receives a request for a policy from a requestor. The policy server identifies an initiating virtual machine; the initial virtual machine's corresponding virtual network; and a destination virtual machine. Next, a policy corresponding to sending data from the first virtual machine to the second virtual machine is selected. The policy includes one or more logical references to the virtual network and does not include a physical reference to a physical entity located on a physical network. In turn, a physical path translation corresponding to the selected policy is identified and sent to the requestor. |
| US08819210B2 |
Multi-tenant infrastructure
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a multi-tenant infrastructure. In one aspect, a method includes establishing a plurality of tenant containers for a plurality of tenants, each tenant container being a logical separation of data and functionality for a multi-tenant application, each tenant container being isolated from the other tenant containers. A request is received from a client device. The request is determined to be associated with one of the tenant containers. The request is directed to the tenant container associated with the request. |
| US08819209B1 |
Name server property tracking
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a respective time period to send queries to each of a plurality of domain name system servers; generating a respective group of queries for each domain name system server of the plurality of domain name system servers, wherein each query in the respective group of queries is configured to cause the domain name system server to generate a respective response; for each domain name system server of the plurality of domain name system servers, sending the respective group of queries to the domain name system server according to the respective determined time period; receiving responses to the queries from the domain name system servers; and determining one or more different features for one or more domain name system servers in the plurality of domain name system servers based on the received responses. |
| US08819208B2 |
Data deletion in a distributed data storage system
In one embodiment, a method for removing unused storage units is provided. One or more storage units are referenced by multiple client addresses. The method includes constructing, on a metadata server, a filter on at least a portion of block identifiers that identify storage units currently being referenced by client addresses. The metadata server stores information on which storage unit identifiers are referenced by which client addresses. The filter is transmitted from the metadata server to a block server. The filter is used by the block server to test whether storage unit identifiers that exist on the block server are present in the filter. The block server stores information on where a storage unit is stored on the block server for a storage unit identifier. Storage unit identifiers not present in the filter and associated storage units are deleted from the block server. |
| US08819205B2 |
Content transfer system, content transfer method and home server
Provided are a content transfer system, a content transfer method, and a home server capable of backing up all backup target contents without having to transfer all backup target contents. This content transfer system includes a home storage and an online storage. The home storage transfers identifying information of a backup target content to the online storage and requests the online storage to determine the existence of a content that is identical to the backup target content upon requesting the online storage to back up the backup target content, transfers metadata to the online storage when an identical content exists in the online storage, and transfers the backup target content to the online storage in all other cases. |
| US08819203B1 |
Techniques for providing an application service to an application from an appliance-style application services platform
An application services platform includes a platform chassis, a network interface supported by the platform chassis, and a control circuit supported by the platform chassis and coupled to the network interface. The control circuit is arranged to connect to a network through the network interface, and receive an application service command from a user. The application service command gives the control circuit permission to provide an application service to an application running on a server on the network. The control circuit is further arranged to provide the application service to the application running on the server on the network in response to receipt of the application service command. The application services platform is capable of being provided in the form of an appliance-style device which is simply added as a new device on the network. |
| US08819200B2 |
Automated cluster node configuration
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to cluster node configuration and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for automated cluster node configuration. In one embodiment of the invention, an automated cluster node configuration method can be provided. The method can include assigning an initial IP address to a newly added cluster node in a cluster, identifying a hardware address for the newly added cluster node, locating an association with the hardware address in a switch in the cluster, re-configuring the assignment of the IP address based upon the located association in the switch, and requesting a reboot of the newly added cluster node with the re-configured assignment of the IP address. |
| US08819199B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a smooth transition between peer-to-peer node types
An apparatus for providing data management in a P2P network may include a processor. The processor may be configured to identify resources and communicate information to another node(s). The information may include a request to change the apparatus from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation based on the identified resources. |
| US08819195B2 |
Network connectivity wizard to support automated creation of customized configurations for virtual private cloud computing networks
A cloud computing network is implemented by defining a plurality of network connectivity features for designing a virtual private cloud computing network within the cloud computing network. Each network connectivity feature has user-definable attributes and each network connectivity feature is translatable into a set of network element configuration statements that instantiate an action particular to the network connectivity feature. Usage rules specifying how the features can be used are defined for the cloud computing network. Selected features from the plurality of network connectivity features are accepted and assembled into a template for configuring the virtual private cloud computing network. The template for configuring the virtual private cloud computing network is validated against the usage rules. The virtual private cloud computing network is implemented in accordance with the validated template for configuring the virtual private cloud computing network. |
| US08819193B2 |
Method of setting network, server apparatus using the method, and network system including the server apparatus
A method of setting a network quickly includes: storing network setting information corresponding to a network connection device included in an individual household in a database of a predetermined server apparatus; transmitting unique device information of the network connection device to the predetermined server apparatus; detecting the network setting information corresponding to the unique device information from the database and transmitting the detected network setting information to the network connection device; and performing network setting needed to form a network in the individual household by using the network setting information. |
| US08819192B2 |
Identifying keyboard inaccessible node on web page
A method and apparatus for identifying a keyboard inaccessible node on a web page. The method may include acquiring all nodes in a DOM tree of the web page; identifying a mouse operable node among all the nodes; checking whether or not said mouse operable node is keyboard navigable and whether or not said mouse operable node is keyboard operable; and extracting the keyboard non-navigable node and the keyboard inoperable node as said keyboard inaccessible node. |
| US08819191B2 |
Efficient use of dynamic host configuration protocol in low power and lossy networks
In one embodiment, each of a plurality of devices in a computer network is configured to i) transmit a unicasted dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) solicit message to a neighbor device having a route to a border router as an assumed DHCP relay without regard to location of a DHCP server, and ii) operate as a DHCP relay to receive unicasted DHCP solicit messages and relay the solicit message to the border router of the network without regard to location of the DHCP server, and to relay a DHCP reply to a corresponding requestor device. |
| US08819190B2 |
Management of file images in a virtual environment
A method, system, and computer program product provides effective management and deployment of image files within a Virtual Input/Output (I/O) Server (VIOS) cluster. An Image Management (IM) utility utilizes a discovery process to establish connections with objects in order to manage these objects. Following discovery of an ICP client, the IM utility enables creation of a virtual server partition and initiates the importing of a captured image to a VIOS cluster Storage Pool (SP). The IM utility creates logical units (LUs) within the Image Management Fileset (IMF) for each file within the captured image. The IM utility maps the LUs to the VIOS Cluster SP using unique image file handles. The IM utility configures the new storage that comprises the created LUs. The IM utility copies image files to the appropriate storage device/LU. When import/copy of the image is completed, the IM utility activates the virtual server partition. |
| US08819189B2 |
Address information providing device
An address information providing device may be provide with an obtaining unit configured to obtain address information indicating an IPv6 address, a creation unit configured to create address information for display from the address information, and a supplying unit configured to supply the address information for display to a display device. The address information for display may be information in which a prefix portion of the address information has been replaced by a particular symbol. The address information for display may be information in which a prefix portion of the address information has been omitted. |
| US08819187B1 |
End-to-end acceleration of dynamic content
A method of accelerating dynamic content between Points of Presence (POPs) and front-loading latency bottlenecks in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) may include receiving, at a first POP, a content request from a user device, where content responsive to the content request includes a first content portion that is not stored in the first POP. The method may also include determining that the first content portion is available through a second POP. The method may additionally include transmitting the first content portion through a persistent connection mesh from the second POP to the first POP, wherein the persistent connection mesh is maintained between the first POP and the second POP prior to the request for content being received by the first POP. The method may further include delivering the content responsive to the content request to the user device. |
| US08819182B2 |
System and method for updating vehicle media content
A system and method for updating media content for a vehicle. Media content for a vehicle is received through a home network. The media content is stored for playback by one or more devices of the vehicle. A selection of additional media content available through the home network listed in an index is received. The additional media content selected from the index is queued for download based on access to an available network. An available network is searched for. The additional media content is downloaded to the vehicle through the available network and the home network in response to detecting the available network. |
| US08819179B2 |
Data revision synchronization in a dispersed storage network
A method begins by a processing module determining dispersed storage (DS) units that are storing a set of encoded data slices associated with a data segment and sending a revision level check request message to each of the DS units. The method continues with the processing module receiving revision level check response messages from at least some of the DS units within a time period to produce received revision level check response messages and determining concurrency of a revision level of the set of encoded data slices stored by the DS units based on the received revision level check response messages. The method continues with the processing module initiating a revision concurrency process when less than a threshold number of encoded data slices have concurrency of the revision level. |
| US08819178B2 |
Controlling data routing in integrated security systems
An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network having remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection equipment. The integrated security system integrates into the premise network and couples wirelessly with the conventional security panel, enabling broadband access to premise security systems. Automation devices can be added, enabling users to remotely see live video or pictures and control home devices via a personal web portal or other client device. Camera management enables automatic configuration and management of cameras in the premise network. The camera management extends to remote control and monitoring from outside the firewall of the premise network to include routing of images or video from a streaming source device to a requesting client device. |
| US08819176B2 |
Intelligent map results related to a character stream
Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. |
| US08819171B2 |
Monitoring and benchmarking client performance from the server-side
A system, method, and computer product for monitoring and benchmarking client devices from a server. A server, data center, and/or cloud computing environment may monitor certain aspects of a remote desktop session. The rendering, capture, and compression of a desktop may be monitored. The time between the sending of frames to a thin client can be monitored, the network bandwidth available can be monitored and the time between sending a frame and receiving a response from the thin client can be monitored. Based on these values, a benchmark for the remote desktop experience can be determined. |
| US08819170B2 |
Communication protocols
A system for exchanging information is provided. The system includes a memory, a first communication link, and at least one processor implementing a first protocol. The at least one processor is coupled to the memory and the first communication link. The at least one processor is configured to receive, via the first communication link, a first request message including a first globally unique identifier (GUID); start, responsive to receipt of the first request message, a communication session over the first communication link; provide a first response message including the first GUID; receive, via the first communication link, a second request message including data and a second GUID; write the data to a location indicated by the second GUID; read information stored at the indicated location; and provide a second response message including the second GUID and the information. |
| US08819166B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored a networked media server
A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item. |
| US08819155B2 |
System and method for performing centralized common tasks for a set of functions
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for processing function calls using a hooking routines to perform pre-execution tasks are disclosed. A server computer receives a function call including a hooking routine and a request to run a particular function from a client computer. Based on a function group identifier and the credentials of the user or client computer, the server computer can perform various pre-execution tasks. The tasks can be common to all functions in the function group or be customized Both pre-execution tasks can be stored remotely from the client computer, so that updates to the pre-execution task can be made without the need to update computer readable code stored on the client computer. If the pre-execution tasks, such as an authorization, passes, then the server computer can execute the requested function, the server computer can reject or abort the requested function. |
| US08819151B2 |
Method for processing deferred message
A method for processing deferred messages includes a storing process, a notification process and a retrieving process of a deferred message. In the storing process, when a user presets and requires to store the deferred message, the system stores the deferred message to be sent to the user; in the notification process, when a user gets online, an IM server at the client side detects the system has stored the deferred message for the user and if the user has subscribed the deferred message notification, the system sends the deferred message notification to the client according to the setting of the system or of the user; in the retrieving process, when the client receives the deferred message notification and requests to acquire the deferred message, its IM server sends the deferred message content to the client. The present invention improves the method for processing deferred messages in the SIP/SIMPLE IM service system. |
| US08819143B2 |
Presentation layer adaptation in multimedia messaging
A multimedia message adaptation system with presentation layer adaptation, including a message parser for stripping message headers, multimedia object attachments, and presentation layer information from a message received from a sending device, a device capabilities database for maintaining multimedia device capabilities information, a multimedia adaptor for identifying the recipient device, querying the device capabilities database to determine media characteristics for presenting the multimedia objects on the recipient device, and adapting the multimedia objects for presentation on the recipient device in accordance with the characteristics, a presentation layer preferences database for maintaining multimedia object presentation preferences, a presentation layer adaptor for querying presentation layer preferences to determine preferences for presenting the multimedia objects, and adapt the presentation layer in accordance with the preferences, and a message encoder for packaging the adapted multimedia objects, presentation layer information, and message headers into an adapted message for delivery to the recipient device. |
| US08819142B1 |
Method for reclassifying a spam-filtered email message
A spam filter for changing or validating original filter classifications of email messages filtered in an email system includes a means for accessing email message data and original filter result data; a means for accessing new evidence for use in classification; and a means for recalculating a classification using the new evidence. |
| US08819139B2 |
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) login acceleration
The time required to login to a remote or virtual desktop can be reduced by caching image data in a persistent memory location in-between remote desktop sessions. For instance, image data related to an image displayed on a client device during a first virtual desktop session may be cached after terminating the first virtual desktop session. The cached data can then be used to display the same image, or a correlated image, on the client device during a subsequent remote desktop session, thereby avoiding the need to re-transport the image data over a network. In a similar manner, cached image data can be shared between multiple users sharing a common local area network (LAN) in order to improve collective virtual desktop performance. |
| US08819138B2 |
Identifying content items for inclusion in a shared collection
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing pooled collections of content items, such as photos, in a content management system. An example system can first receive, from a first user device, images uploaded to a first account at a synchronized online content management system, and cluster at least some of the images as a collection. The system can receive, from the first user, a request to share the collection with a second user having a second account at the content management system, and generate, in response to the request, a pooled collection at the content management system from the collection. The system can transmit an invitation to the second user to join the pooled collection, and, upon acceptance, link the pooled collection to the second user account so that the first user and the second user have access to images in the persistent pooled collection and have permission to contribute content to the pooled collection. |
| US08819134B2 |
Broadcast notifications using social networking systems
A notifier sends out notifications to potential viewers or listeners of a broadcast stream via social networking systems or other communication channels. The notifier stores information about a user's preferences and identity on the social networking systems. After the notifier receives a notification request from a broadcaster, the notifier commands broadcaster agents deployed in the social networking systems or in the notifier to send notification messages to users of the social networking systems registered to receive notification. The broadcaster agents function as a proxy that establishes relationships with users of the social networking systems and then sends out the notification messages to the users with established relationships. |
| US08819131B2 |
Tracing of collaborative workflows
Embodiments include a system for tracing a collaborative workflow. The system includes an event collector and a transition engine. The event collector may be configured to receive data that represents an event of the collaborative workflow. The collaborative workflow has a local workflow part and a global workflow part. The transition engine may be configured to compute a new instance state of a model of the collaborative workflow. The new instance state represents an instance of the collaborative workflow obtained through the event of the collaborative workflow. The new instance state complies with rules of a local model of the local workflow part and with rules of a global model of the global workflow part. |
| US08819130B2 |
System and method for group to group entertainment
A hardware and software platform for collaboratively reviewing prior group to group interactions while planning, producing and archiving new group to group interactions. The platform may be used to collaboratively create group to group interactions. The system may be used to link two or more stadia, movie theatres or homes so as to provide interaction between the groups at each location simultaneously as a game or other event takes place. |
| US08819129B1 |
Auto join conference
The present invention provides methods and systems for automatically managing conference calls. More specifically, a user may join a conference call by calling a universal conference call number. The user is identified and connected with a specific conference call number without requiring the user to remember the specific conference call number. |
| US08819127B1 |
Ensemble computing
Described herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for seamless interoperability between multiple computing nodes. A server computing device receives, from a first computing node in a plurality of computing nodes, a message for transmission to one or more other computing nodes, the message generated by the first computing node based upon application-specific instructions from a first application on the first computing node, where the plurality of computing nodes is defined as a virtual network at the server computing device and each computing node includes an ensemble module for communicating with the server. The server determines one or more other computing nodes in the virtual network to receive the message. The server transmits the message to the determined one or more other computing nodes, where each of the destination computing nodes formats the message into application-specific instructions for a second application on the determined node. |
| US08819120B1 |
Method and system for group communications
A group communication system is disclosed. The group communication system integrates a number of electronic communication tools to meet various communication needs among registered users. The group communication system allows a group of users to participate in communications including internal mail, message exchanging and accessing files. When a member of a group shares a file with another member or members of the group, instead of sending a copy of the file directly to the members, the file is retained in a file store remotely located. Each of the members in the group gets notified of the availability of the file for sharing, thus avoiding distributing copies of the file to the members regardless they need it or not. |
| US08819116B1 |
Providing services using a device capabilities service
Systems and method provide logic for providing a service. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method provides a service to a device based on a capability of the device. The method includes identifying a device type of a device based on information associated with the device. The method determines whether the device supports the service, based on at least the identified device type, and provides the service to the device, when the device supports the service. |
| US08819113B2 |
Remote provisioning of virtual machines
In a virtual machine environment, virtual machines may be remotely provisioned on a virtual machine host. A server application on a machine remote from a network of the virtual machine host may receive provisioning parameters for a new virtual machine through a server application such as a web application. A client application is provided within the network of the virtual machine host which receives the provisioning parameters and triggers the provisioning of the new virtual machine on the virtual machine host. |
| US08819110B2 |
System and method for real-time data transmission using adaptive time compression
A system and method is provided for real-time data transmission using adaptive time compression that is based on an estimation of network load, one or more media properties of the real-time data, and/or a battery level of the mobile device. A first embodiment provides a mobile device operable to transmit real-time data using the adaptive time compression. Another embodiment provides a wireless network operable to transmit real-time data using the adaptive time compression. Another embodiment provides a wireless network operable to determine a time compression ratio, which is used for the adaptive time compression. The time compression ratio might be sent to the mobile device for use by the mobile device in up (reverse) link transmission, or by the mobile device in down (forward) link reception, or both. Another embodiment provides a mobile device operable to enter a low power consumption mode while not actively transmitting or receiving. |
| US08819108B2 |
System and method supporting application solution composition on cloud
Disclosed is a method, computer-program product and a system to compose an application solution on a cloud-computing platform for a user. The method includes, in response to input from the user, selecting at least one predetermined template that includes a hardware and software instance of a data processing system that is implementable as an solution on a cloud platform; comparing the at least one selected template against a set of constraints; establishing an instance of a cloud based solution for the user based on the selected template; and validating the established cloud based solution against user-uploaded information such as software and workloads to ensure that the solution satisfies requirements of the user, such as both technical and financial requirements of the user. |
| US08819107B2 |
Relay apparatus, recording medium storing a relay program, and a relay method
A relay apparatus generates partial message data by assembling a package group, the packet group including, out of a plurality of packets received and related to one message, a head packet related to the one message up to a packet including, as a payload, user identification information in a header of the one message. The relay apparatus extracts the user identification information from the partial message data and identifying a user identifier from the user identification information. The relay apparatus performs a specific packet process, in accordance with the identified user identifier, on the packet group of the one message, and a packet not assembled by a packet assembling unit out of the plurality of packets. |
| US08819102B2 |
Method and system for managing message communications
A method for managing message communications includes detecting a message comprising a plurality of intended recipients and automatically initiating a forum for response communications associated with the message. The method also includes detecting response communications associated with the message and posting the response communications to the forum. |
| US08819099B2 |
Software implementation of matrix inversion in a wireless communication system
A digital signal processor is provided in a wireless communication device, wherein the processor comprises a vector unit, first and second registers coupled to and accessible by the vector unit; and an instruction set configured to perform matrix inversion of a matrix of channel values by coordinate rotation digital computer instructions using the vector unit and the first and second registers. |
| US08819098B2 |
Computation of a remainder by division using pseudo-remainders
Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for calculating a remainder by division of a sequence of bytes interpreted as a first number by a second number is provided. A pseudo-remainder by division associated with a first subsequence of the sequence of bytes is calculated. A property of this pseudo-remainder is that the first subsequence of the sequence of bytes, interpreted as a third number, and the pseudo-remainder by division have the same remainder by division when divided by the second number. A second subsequence of the sequence of bytes interpreted as the first number is appended to the pseudo-remainder, interpreted as a sequence of bytes, so as to create a sequence of bytes interpreted as a fourth number. The first number and the fourth number have the same remainder by division when divided by the second number. |
| US08819095B2 |
Fast computation of products by dyadic fractions with sign-symmetric rounding errors
A product of an integer value and an irrational value may be determined by a sign-symmetric algorithm. A process may determine possible algorithms that minimize metrics such as mean asymmetry, mean error, variance of error, and magnitude of error. Given an integer variable x and rational dyadic constants that approximate the irrational fraction, a series of intermediate values may be produced that are sign-symmetric. The intermediate values may include a sequence of addition, subtraction and right shift operations the when summed together approximate the product of the integer and irrational value. Other operations, such as additions or subtractions of 0s or shifts by 0 bits may be removed. |
| US08819089B2 |
Memory efficient representation of relational data with constant time random access to the data itself
An efficient method for storing relational data in a memory space uses B tree and B+ tree structures to store data for a database where non-identical values are stored in a string buffer and pointers to the string buffer are stored in a table buffer, and where identical data is stored only once, and each instance of that value in the database is referenced by a pointer to such identical data corresponding to the locations in the database where that identical value exists, thereby preserving physical memory and increasing the storage capacity of a fixed memory space. |
| US08819088B2 |
Implementing storage management functions using a data store system
Techniques are provided for accessing sector data. An embedded storage function is received. One or more data management functions are generated in response to receiving the embedded storage function. The one or more data management functions are invoked to retrieve the sector data from a sector table. |
| US08819080B2 |
System and method for collection, retrieval, and distribution of data
A system may include a data collector to collect data from at least one data source and to tag each group of collected data with a metadata tag. The metadata tag may include information about the collected data. The system may also include a metadata catalogue for containing a plurality of metadata tags and to allow a search for existence and a location on a network of any data corresponding to the search. |
| US08819079B2 |
System and method for defining application definition functionality for general purpose web presences
An application specification system and method are provided. The application specification system may include a computing device having a processor wherein the processor implements an information management system having a storage unit. The storage unit may have one or more cells with each cell having one or more components wherein each component defines computational and data access aspects of an application and one or more presentations wherein each presentation defines a user interface for a particular application and wherein a web presence for performing one or more applications is instantiated from a cell with one or more components and one or more applications of the web presence are defined by the one or more components of the cell. |
| US08819076B2 |
Distributed multidimensional range search system and method
A computer-implemented method is provided for managing a plurality of data objects including dimensional attributes. The method includes receiving a plurality of data objects including dimensional attributes and assigning each of a plurality of nodes to one or more of a plurality of keyspace positions of a keyspace, wherein the plurality of nodes define partitions of the keyspace. A space filling curve is applied to the dimensional attributes of each of the plurality of data objects to generate a plurality of key values which correspond to the plurality of keyspace positions, and each of the plurality of data objects is transmitted to one or more of the plurality of nodes assigned to a keyspace position corresponding to the key value of the respective data object. A system for managing a plurality of data objects including dimensional attributes is further provided. |
| US08819075B2 |
Facilitation of extension field usage based on reference field usage
A system may include presentation, to a user, of a consuming business entity including a reference field of a business object, reception of an instruction from the user to add an extension field to the consuming business entity based on the reference field of the business object, determination of a second consuming business entity including the reference field of the business object, and presentation of the second consuming business entity to the user. |
| US08819071B2 |
Personalizing service system and method based on ontology
A personalized service system and method based on an ontology is provided, in which if a user selects a personalized service while a subject or an object in a user profile ontology of user's personal information is associated with a subject or an object of a personalized service ontology through a relationship name, the system and method searches for a personalized service ontology corresponding to the selected personalized service, acquires personal information of an instance form in the user profile ontology associated with the personalized service ontology, executes the personalized service by applying the acquired personal information, and provides the user with a result of the execution. |
| US08819069B2 |
Automatic layout derivation and implementation
Embodiments are directed to determining a data insertion point in a data layout based on relative cardinalities between data objects and to determining a data insertion point in a data layout based on defined hierarchies between data objects. In an embodiment, a computer system receives a user input indicating that an additional portion of information is to be added to an existing data layout which includes multiple different data objects. The computer system accesses the data objects to determine relative cardinalities between the data objects in the data layout. The computer system determines an optimal data insertion point for inserting the additional portion of information based on the determined relative cardinalities between the data objects. The computer system also inserts the additional portion of information in the existing data layout at the determined optimal data insertion point. |
| US08819066B2 |
Employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system
A computer-implemented method of employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system can include receiving at least one tag for an artifact from a user, determining at least one attribute of the user, and storing a tag record including the tag, the attribute of the user, and an association of the tag with the artifact. |
| US08819065B2 |
Mining generalized spatial association rule
A system, method and computer program product for mining a rule including spatial information and non-spatial information by using a SAR (Spatial Association Rule) mining tool. The computing system is configured to construct an expanded spatial predicate transaction table for reference spatial objects and a generalized taxonomy for task-relevant spatial objects. The computing system is configured to run the SAR mining tool with the constructed expanded spatial predicate transaction and the generalized taxonomy. The computing system outputs, from the SAR mining tool, a set of generalized spatial association rules for the reference spatial objects. The generalized spatial association rule includes the spatial information and non-spatial information, associated with both the reference spatial objects and the task-relevant spatial objects. |
| US08819064B2 |
Method and system for data provenance management in multi-layer systems
Method, system, and programs for heterogeneous data management. Information from multiple data sources is first obtained. Data/metadata from each of the data sources is modeled based on the source and/or granularity information of the data/metadata to generate data/metadata models. The data/metadata from multiple data sources are integrated, by applying one or more processes to the data/metadata from different data sources based on the data/metadata models, to generate integrated data/metadata. A provenance representation for the integrated data/metadata is created tracing sources, granularities, and/or processes applied and archived for enabling an query associated with the integrated data/metadata. |
| US08819060B2 |
Virtual objects in an on-demand database environment
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided mechanisms and methods for implementing virtual objects in an on-demand database environment. For example, in one embodiment, mechanisms include receiving a data request at a host organization, wherein the data request specifies a first data source internal to the host organization and further specifies a second data source external to the host organization; retrieving first data results from the first data source based on the data request; retrieving second data results from the second data source based on the data request; and returning aggregated data results responsive to the data request based on the first data results and the second data results retrieved. In one embodiment, the internal data source is a multi-tenant database within the host organization. |
| US08819058B2 |
Method and system for providing enhanced business listings to multiple search providers from a single source
Methods and systems for providing enhanced listings of an entity to multiple search service provider systems from a single source system are disclosed. The single source system transmits listing identification data related to the entity to at least one provider system. The single source system receives a listing from the at least one provider system. The listing is configured to include a provider-supplied external ID. The single source system delivers an enhanced listing to the at least one provider system based on the presence or absence of the provider-supplied external ID. |
| US08819057B2 |
Dynamic storage blocks tiering
Storage management for database access, in which selected data blocks are associated with particular business operations, and in which those data blocks are disposed in response to an assessment of which of those business operations are more important, more urgent, or have a greater need to be reliable. This has the effect that overall transaction performance is improved without significantly increasing infrastructure cost. Noting the relative importance of those particular business transactions and the relative probability that those data blocks will be needed by those particular business transactions, and assuring that data blocks associated with relatively important business transactions are moved to relatively superior storage in advance of requests for access. |
| US08819053B1 |
Initiating travel searches
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving an input including an item, receiving information associated with the item, where the information includes implicit information, determining explicit information based on the implicit information, where the explicit information identifies a geographic location associated with the item, providing a travel search interface including multiple search fields, where the multiple search fields include a destination field, and pre-populating the destination field with a travel destination location associated with the geographic location. |
| US08819052B2 |
Traffic driver for suggesting stores
A system and method for providing a suggested store at or through which to purchase a product or service. When a user enters a query for a product or service into a user interface, the system may use the query as a search argument to search files to find one or more pictures illustrating information about a product or service represented by the query. The picture could illustrate where the queried product or service may be purchased. Auto-complete processes may also be used to process the query as it is being entered, to generate an auto-suggestion key word based on fewer than all the letters of the query, to use as a search argument for the search. Both the query and the auto-suggestion key word may be used as search arguments to find the relevant picture in a variety of search logic sequences to provide the picture to the user. |
| US08819046B2 |
Data query translating into mixed language data queries
Data source queries may be specified in various languages, such as SQL, XQuery, and object-oriented languages, and each language may have various linguistic features that enable different types of queries. It may be advantageous to formulate mixed language queries having portions specified in a first language and portions specified in a second language, and to provide mixed language query evaluation components that can parse portions of queries of different languages. It may also be advantageous to permit the translation of single language queries into multiple languages to be parsed by such mixed language query evaluation components. Such techniques may permit queries to utilize linguistic features and processing techniques of one language that are less efficient, less direct, or simply unavailable in another language. |
| US08819045B2 |
Systems and methods of UTF-8 pattern matching
Systems and methods are described for efficiently processing, searching and/or rewriting variable width encoded data, such as UTF-8 encoded data, will be described. Embodiments of the systems and methods modify and adapt search algorithms, such as the Horspool and Wu-Manber algorithms, to efficiently process and manage searching of variable width encoded text in large blocks of text, such as text that may be carried via a stream of packets thru a network device, such as an intermediary device. |
| US08819042B2 |
Enhanced data comparison tool
Systems and methods are illustrated for transitioning data from one data store to another data store. The transition may occur according to comparison information received through a graphical user interface. For example, the comparison information may map data or columns in a source data store to data or columns in a target data store. A score may also be generated based on a comparison of the source and target. A report may indicate a successful or failed data transition based on the score. |
| US08819039B2 |
Method and system to generate a listing in a network-based commerce system
A method and system of generating a listing in a network-based commerce system is provided. The method includes receiving listing identification data from a user, and retrieving listing data associated with the listing based on the listing identification data. Thereafter, a listing is generated that is at least partially based on the listing data and posted on the network-based commerce system. In one embodiment, the user may edit the listing data prior to posting the listing. The network-based commerce system may include a database of listing data associated with at least one of movies, music, games, books and motor vehicles. In one embodiment, a plurality of check boxes is provided each of which are associated with an attribute of the listing and the method automatically, without human intervention, checks attributes based on the listing data. |
| US08819034B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating a new event directly from a document
The application relates to the field of communications and more particularly to an apparatus and method of generating a new event from a document. In accordance with one aspect of the present application, recognized date/time references contained in a document allow a new event to be created. Such date/time references are automatically recognized and highlighted in the document. Selecting the highlighted information generates a menu selection, offering a user the ability to create a new event into which the date/time information will be inserted, along with other information extracted from the document. Specific date/time information in a document is simply correlated to a known date/time format in a lookup table, while relative terms like “tomorrow”, “today” or days of the week (ie. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.) are recognized by a date/time detector module and translated into a specific date/time. Using an embodiment of the present application, a new event can be readily generated. |
| US08819031B1 |
Media content discovery and character organization techniques
Techniques for recommending media are described. A character preference function comprising a plurality of preference coefficients is accessed. A first character model comprises a first set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a primary character. A second character model comprises a second set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a secondary character. The primary and secondary characters are associated with first and second predetermined salience values, respectively. A first character rating is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients and the first set of attribute values. A second character rating of the secondary character is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients with the second set of attribute values. A media rating is calculated based on the first and second salience values and the first and second character ratings. Media is recommended to a user based on the media rating. |
| US08819029B1 |
Tie breaking rules for content item matching
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting controlling keywords. In one aspect, a method includes determining that two or more targeting keywords for a same content item source are matched by one or more terms in a content item request, where a first targeting keyword matches the one or more terms with a more specific type of match than the second targeting keyword. If the bid associated with the second targeting keyword does not exceed the bid associated with the first targeting keyword, the first targeting keyword and the second targeting keyword are ranked based on selection scores. The targeting keywords are ranked based at least in part on the quality scores when the bid associated with the second targeting keyword does exceed the bid associated with the first targeting keyword. |
| US08819028B2 |
System and method for web content extraction
A method and system for extracting Web content is disclosed. In one embodiment, Web content in a Webpage is extracted by identifying paragraphs in the Web content based on line-break node determination. A range of text-body associated with the identified paragraphs is then identified using a maximum scoring subsequence. Further, the identified text-body is refined using a heuristic rule of substantially horizontal alignment. Furthermore, one or more titles and one or more images associated with the Web content are extracted. Moreover, the Web content including the identified paragraphs, the one or more titles and the one or more images are outputted. |
| US08819027B1 |
System and method for partitioning and indexing table data using a composite primary key
A system that implements a scaleable data storage service may maintain tables in a non-relational data store on behalf of service clients. Each table may include multiple items. Each item may include one or more attributes, each containing a name-value pair. The system may provide an API through which clients can query tables maintained by the service. Items may be partitioned and indexed in a table according to a simple or composite primary key contained in all items in the table. A composite primary key may include a hash key attribute, and a range key attribute. The range key attribute may be usable to order items having the same hash key attribute value, and to partition them dependent on a range of range key attribute values. A query request may specify a logical or mathematical expression dependent on range key attribute values and may be directed to multiple partitions. |
| US08819026B2 |
Sequential chain registry
Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking an object as it traverses a sequential chain. The relationships between the object, its movement through space and time, and the entities associated with the object at a discreet point of time are captured by a sequential chain. A unique identifier may be created that is continuously modified as the object traverses the sequential chain. The unique identifier may be used to capture relationship information between the object and its related entities and movements. |
| US08819024B1 |
Learning category classifiers for a video corpus
A classifier training system learns classifiers for categories by combining data from a category-instance repository comprising relationships between categories and more specific instances of those categories with a set of video classifiers for different concepts. The category-instance repository is derived from the domain of textual documents, such as web pages, and the concept classifiers are derived from the domain of video. Taken together, the category-instance repository and the concept classifiers provide sufficient data for obtaining accurate classifiers for categories that encompass other lower-level concepts, where the categories and their classifiers may not be obtainable solely from the video domain. |
| US08819023B1 |
Thematic clustering
A data set is clustered into one or more initial clusters using a first term space. Initial themes for the initial clusters are determined. The first term space is reduced to create a reduced term space. At least a portion of the data set is reclustered into one or more baby clusters using the reduced term space. One or more singletons are reassigned to form one or more renovated clusters from the baby clusters. A renovated theme is determined for at least some of the renovated clusters. One or more of the renovated clusters and their respective themes are provided as output. |
| US08819007B2 |
Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query; conducting a search to identify candidate answers to the input query, and producing a plurality of scores for each of the candidate answers. For each of the candidate answers, one, of a plurality of candidate ranking functions, is selected. This selected ranking function is applied to the each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the candidate answer based on the scores for that candidate answer. One or more of the candidate answers is selected, based on the rankings for the candidate answers, as one or more answers to the input query. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about the question. In an embodiment, the ranking function selection is performed using information about each answer. |
| US08819004B1 |
Ranking image search results using hover data
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for ranking images using hover data. In one aspect, a method includes determining a click count and a hover count for an image and a search query pair. The click count specifies a number of times that an image search result that includes a representation of the image has been selected when provided in response to the search query. The hover count specifies a number of times that the representation of the image has been hovered over when the image search result has been provided in response to the search query. A quality measure for the image with respect to the search query is determined. The quality measure is based on the click count and the hover count. A ranking of the image is adjusted for the search query based on the quality measure for the image. |
| US08819001B1 |
Systems, methods, and user interface for discovering and presenting important contents in a document
Computer-implemented systems and methods for discovering and presenting important information about a text object are disclosed. The system comprises a user interface for displaying important information extracted from a text object, serving as a preview of the topics, or as an automatically-generated tag or a summary of the content in the text object. The information is discovered by a method based on the grammatical attributes and occurrence information of terms in the text object, as well as in external text objects. |
| US08819000B1 |
Query modification
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for query modification. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an original query including a first limitation. First search results responsive to a modified query are obtained, where the first limitation has been omitted from the modified query. One or more common characteristics shared by two or more resources are identified. Each of the two or more resources corresponds to a different highly-ranked result of the first search results. A second modified query including the original query and a second limitation representing the one or more common characteristics is generated. Second search results responsive to the second modified query are obtained. The second search results are provided in a response to the original query. |
| US08818999B2 |
Fuzzy proximity boosting and influence kernels
A method and apparatus are provided for ranking documents according to relevancy scoring. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for receiving, from a database over a network, a document resulting from a search on a database, the document containing terms that match the search criteria. The method may calculate a standard deviation of a probability distribution function representing a distribution of the terms in the document that match the search criteria. The method may further determine relative distances between the terms in the document that match the search criteria according to the standard deviation. The method may further calculate a proximity boost value using the relative distances, and apply the proximity boost value to a base relevancy score of the document to determine a relevancy ranking. The document may then be ranked according to the relevancy ranking. |
| US08818995B1 |
Search result ranking based on trust
A search engine system provides search results that are ranked according to a measure of the trust associated with entities that have provided labels for the documents in the search results. A search engine receives a query and selects documents relevant to the query. The search engine also determines labels associated with selected documents, and the trust ranks of the entities that provided the labels. The trust ranks are used to determine trust factors for the respective documents. The trust factors are used to adjust information retrieval scores of the documents. The search results are then ranked based on the adjusted information retrieval scores. |
| US08818988B1 |
Database system having a regulator to provide feedback statistics to an optimizer
A database system includes an optimizer to generate resource estimates regarding execution of a request in the database system, and a regulator to monitor execution of a request and to adjust a priority level of the request based on the monitored execution and based on the resource estimates provided by the optimizer. The regulator is executable to further feed back statistics regarding execution of the request to the optimizer to improve accuracy of resource estimates provided by the optimizer. |
| US08818984B2 |
Method and apparatus for using tag topology
A method and apparatus for using tag topology for enhancing search capabilities, e.g., searching over the web, are disclosed. For example, the present method receives a user query contain a search term from a user. The method then generates a search result containing at least one entity, wherein the at least one entity is found based on a plurality of user provided tags that is associated with the at least one entity. |
| US08818978B2 |
Sharing item images using a similarity score
In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated to associate an item listing with one or more corresponding images. The system and method include receiving an item listing for an item from a user device. The system and method include generating a similarity score for a respective existing image associated with one or more existing item listings. The generating may be done by comparing the item listing with the existing item listings received from the user device. The similarity score may indicate a degree of similarity between the item listing and the existing item listings associated with the respective existing image. The system and method include proposing a specified number of existing images with the highest similarity scores to the user device. The system and method further include associating the item listing with one or more of the specified number of existing images accepted by the user device. |
| US08818976B2 |
Method for enhanced vehicle service
A method according to the present invention may be used to convey information to enhance customer service for a wide variety of industries, and especially the automotive repair industry. Among other things, methods of the present invention allow a service provider to supply customers with information on services provided using one or more methods of distribution and in a manner that is fast, efficient, and easy for the customer to access. The information provided to customers can be distributed in a variety of formats and stored permanently for retrieval by the customer at any time. |
| US08818975B2 |
Data model access configuration and customization
Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to publish one or more stored back end data models accessible to a user interface and a development environment; to receive a configuration context; to generate derived model attributes by filtering, according to the configuration context, back end data attributes associated with the stored back end data models; to derive a set of mapping rules based on the derived model attributes; and store the set of mapping rules to be used to direct run-time data model request transformation activity. Further activities may include receiving an end-user request from a displayed user interface, transforming the end-user request into a transformed request according to the stored set of mapping rules, and transmitting the transformed request to one of the stored back end data models. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US08818974B2 |
System and method for synchronously updating a hierarchy bridge table
A method for maintaining a hierarchy bridge table consistent with a corresponding hierarchy table includes listening for a transaction, having a start boundary and an end boundary, on the hierarchy table; and upon detecting and identifying the transaction, directing execution of an update method on the bridge table, where the update method is completed within the boundaries of the transaction using the identity of the transaction and a state of the bridge table at the start boundary of the transaction. |
| US08818973B1 |
Generation and vending of unique sequence values
Techniques for generating and vending of unique sequence values are described. Each master of a ring of masters is configured to create and vend the unique sequence values downstream to filling pools for eventual client consumption. When a ring of masters is employed, each master communicates with one another to agree on a current range of values that should next be vended. A master may then vend these values to a layer of one or more filling pools, at least of which includes or has access to persistent and non-persistent storage memories. |
| US08818971B1 |
Processing bulk deletions in distributed databases
Systems and methods for deleting non-key values from an index distributed over a plurality of computing devices maintains a non-key master list that includes the non-key values that are stored on each of the plurality of computing devices and receives a list of non-key values to delete. The systems and methods further intersect the list of non-key values to delete with the non-key master list, creating a first delete list for a first one of the plurality of computing devices that includes non-key values to be deleted that are stored on the first computing device. The systems and methods further transmit the first delete list to the first computing device and update the non-key master list based on the list of non-key values to delete. |
| US08818968B2 |
Generic lifecycle management of entity in hierarchy according to status
Lifecycle of an entity residing within a hierarchy, may be managed according to corresponding status identifiers of a ruleset referenced by an engine. At design time, particular embodiments determine a finite set of fundamental statuses common to the entities, and covering the full lifecycle of each entity. A ruleset is created comprising rules accounting for each change in the status of the entity over its lifetime within the hierarchy. The status may be indicated by status identifiers, that in some embodiments are stored within a database. During runtime, an engine receives information from the entity. The engine references the ruleset including the status identifier information, and then propagates the status change of the entity to other entities in the same or different hierarchy levels based upon the ruleset. In this manner, the lifecycle of an entity within a hierarchy can be managed according to its status. |
| US08818965B2 |
Dynamic rewrite of files within deduplication system
An original deduplication file system (DFS) file is partitioned into a first set of sections being sections including data affected by rewrite operations and a second set of sections being sections including data unaffected by rewrite operations. A new DFS file to be stored as part of a plurality of user files is created, the plurality of user files including the original DFS file and being accessible by a sequential DFS and a dynamic non-DFS, the dynamic non-DFS including a plurality of dynamic metadata files having entries pointing to corresponding sections of the original DFS files. The first set of sections of the original DFS file including data affected by rewrite operations is directly written into the new DFS file. The second set of sections from the original DFS file including data unaffected by rewrite operations is quoted into the new DFS file. The original DFS file is deleted. |
| US08818963B2 |
Halloween protection in a multi-version database system
Mitigating problems related to the Halloween problem including where update operations potentially allow the record to be visited more than once during the operation. A method includes accessing an instance of a data store operation statement. The instance of the data store operation statement is executed causing an update or delete to an old version of data store record or creation of a data store record resulting in a new version of the data store record in the case of an update or creation of a data store record and a deleted version of the data store record in the case of a delete in the data store. The instance of the data store operation statement is correlated with the new version of the data store record or the deleted version of the data store record. |
| US08818962B2 |
Proactive detection of data inconsistencies in a storage system point-in-time copy of data
Embodiments of the invention relate to testing a storage system point-in-time copy of data for consistency. An aspect of the invention includes receiving system and application event information from systems and applications associated with point-in-time copies of data. The system and application event information is associated with each of point-in-time copies of data. At least one point-in-time copy of data is selected for testing. The system and application event information is compared with inconsistency classes to determine tests for testing the point-in-time copy of data. The point-in-time copy of data is tested. |
| US08818958B2 |
Virtual safe deposit box for perpetual digital archival
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates employing a safe deposit box that allows perpetual archiving of data. An online safe deposit box can store a portion of data, wherein the online safe deposit box is hosted by a data storage service provider. An archival model component can implement the online safe deposit box for perpetual archival of the portion of data. The archival model component can ensure at least one of the following: the online safe deposit retains the portion of data for a pre-defined duration; the portion of data within the online safe deposit box is accessible solely by an authorized entity; or the integrity of the portion of data is maintained, wherein the integrity is modified solely by an authorized user. |
| US08818957B2 |
Employing user-context in connection with backup or restore of data
The claimed subject matter relates to architectures for facilitating network-accessible or local backup or restore features in a manner that leverages event-oriented contextual information associated with one or more users of the data to be backed up or restored. In particular, a first restore-based architecture can interface with an associated second backup-based architecture that hosts or maintains a backup data store in order to retrieve a version of the data file that is desired by a user. Additionally, the first architecture can obtain a log of contextual event descriptions that can be aggregated by the second architecture or obtained independently from, e.g., a social networking service or a calendar application associated with the user. Thus, in addition to displaying time and date information associated with the desired version, the first architecture can provide the user with a social context of event from the social services feeds to aid the user in distinguishing between multiple versions of the data file. |
| US08818956B2 |
Transfer of user data between logical data sites
The data transfer between data backup sites techniques include a method, a system, and/or a computer software product. In some embodiments of these techniques, the method includes determining backup data for transferring from a source data backup site to a destination data backup site based on a storage parameter, the backup data comprising data associated with a client device. The method further includes receiving a transfer parameter from the destination data backup site, the transfer parameter comprising a storage logical site available for data storage. The method further includes matching the determined backup data to the storage logical site based on a parameter selected from a group consisting of the storage parameter, and the transfer parameter. The method further includes scheduling a transfer of the determined backup data to the storage logical site based on a parameter selected from a group consisting of the storage parameter, the transfer parameter, and a schedule parameter. |
| US08818955B2 |
Reducing storage costs associated with backing up a database
Techniques are disclosed for backing up and/or restoring data. In one embodiment, a request is received to back up at least a first unit of data stored in a database. Upon determining that the first unit of data is at least partially derived from a second unit of data stored in the database, a backup may be generated that includes less than all of the first unit of data. Subsequently, the first unit of data may be fully restored from the backup. |
| US08818954B1 |
Change tracking
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for recovering databases. In some embodiments, this includes switching an active segment to change tracking mode, intercepting write related changes on the active segment while in the change tracking mode, populating a change tracking log based on the intercepted write related changes, and storing the populated change tracking log in a storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device is memory. In some embodiments, the change tracking log if flushed from memory to disk. |
| US08818950B2 |
Method and apparatus for localized protected imaging of a file system
A local imager (202) copies each allocation unit (302) occupied by a file (305) of a file system (102) to a locally-stored image file (204) within the same partition (104) as the file system (102). The allocation units (302) may be compressed as they are copied, resulting in a locally-stored image file (204) that occupies fewer allocation units (302) than the original file system (102). In addition, the local imager (202) adds a directory map (312) to the locally-stored image file (204) that associates copied allocation units (302) in the locally-stored image file (204) with names of corresponding files (305) from the file system (102). |
| US08818948B2 |
Dynamic disk redistribution
Methods and systems are disclosed to perform dynamic disk data redistribution in a database environment. The methods and systems disclosed herein provide for the transparent redistribution of data across multiple physical disks of a database while maintaining accessibility to the database. Methods and systems are also disclosed for handling requests to perform database operations on data that is in the process of being redistributed. |
| US08818946B2 |
Machine to machine (M2M) application server, XDMS server, and methods for M2M applications group management
Methods and corresponding Machine-to-Machine Application Server (M2M-AS) and XML Data Management Server (XDMS) are provided for managing groups of M2M applications running on various devices. As groups of M2M applications are formed in a network, the group information comprising identities of the groups and identities of M2M applications belonging to each group is relayed to the M2M-AS. The later further sends such information to the XDMS server for storage. Requests for group membership related to M2M applications can then be handled. When a request for group membership related to an application is received at an M2M gateway or at the M2M-AS, the request is further sent to the XMDS server, which replies back to the requestor with identities of the group(s) that comprise the given M2M application, thus enabling, for example, the requestor to communicate not only with the application, but with entire groups comprising the application. |
| US08818945B2 |
Targeted maintenance of computing devices in information technology infrastructure
Techniques, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for targeted maintenance of computing devices in a system. A method includes assessing a maintenance request to determine a class of computing devices to which the request applies, selecting a propagation mechanism applicable to the class of computing devices, generating an agent based on the propagation mechanism to carry out the maintenance request on the class of computing devices, deploying the agent on at least one computing device in the class of computing devices, and propagating the agent to additional devices in the class of computing devices. |
| US08818934B2 |
Transparent support for distributed transactions in a clustered disk-sharing database environment
A method, system and computer program product for transparent support for distributed transactions in a clustered disk-sharing database environment is disclosed. In one approach, a method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed that disassociate a transaction with a session at a first resource manger, send a request to a second resource manager for the transaction that requires access to stored transaction information from prior requests for the transaction, determine whether the second resource manager has access to transaction information for the transaction stored using the session that has been disassociated with the transaction, obtain an identity of the first resource manager in data shared by the first and the second resource managers, and request access to the transaction information at the first resource manager. |
| US08818933B2 |
Live dashboard
A computing device receives a request for data, the request including criteria for data requested to be provided to the client device. Via a service configured to retrieve the requested data, at least some of the criteria are transmitted to a staging data store that includes transactional data. Via the service, data relevant to at least some of the criteria transmitted to the staging data store is received from the staging database. The data received from the staging database is stored in a data structure included in the computing device. At least some of the data stored in the data structure is transmitted to a client device. |
| US08818932B2 |
Method and apparatus for creating a predictive model
A method for creating a predictive model is disclosed herein, including the steps of determining trends and patterns in electronic data, using at least a first machine language algorithm, refining the determination of the algorithm, searching for social models that describe the identified trends and patterns using at least a second machine language algorithm, verifying causal links, constructing at least one model about human node behavior and interactions, utilizing the social models to do at least one of the following: validate hypotheses, predict future behavior, and examine hypothetical scenarios, automatically updating predictions when new data is introduced, using probabilistic techniques to learn hierarchical structure in unstructured text, continuously updating a set of themes, examining grammatical rules of each component of text, matching grammatical constituents to semantic roles, and reorganizing data into clusters of entities with common attributes. |
| US08818929B2 |
Method and system for merging data or information
A method for merging information of high semantic level representing complex situations including several objects originating from several sensors ci, said information possibly being heterogeneous, said method including acquiring the various items of information arising from said sensors in raw form and transforming them so as to cast them into the form of conceptual graphs, a conceptual graph representing several concepts and the relations which exist between them, and being composed of entity nodes and relation nodes, with E the set of concept nodes defined on a support S, G1 and G2 two conceptual graphs defined on S, wherein the method determines a merging strategy denoted strategymerge as follows: strategymerge=fmerge◯fcomp:E×E→E∪{E×E} and said merging strategy is applied to the various items of information taking the form of graphs. |
| US08818928B2 |
Evaluating an item based on user reputation information
Evaluating an item based on user reputation information is disclosed. Sharing event data is received. A graph is materialized from the received sharing event data. User reputation scores are determined based at least in part on the graph. A score is assigned to the item based at least in part on the user reputation scores of users associated with the item. |
| US08818923B1 |
Neural network device with engineered delays for pattern storage and matching
Described is a system for searching a continuous data stream for exact matches with a priori stored data sequences. The system includes a neural network with an input and an output layer. The input layer has one neuron for each possible character or number in the data stream, and the output layer has one neuron for each stored pattern. Importantly, the delays of the connections from input to output layer are engineered to match the temporal occurrence of an input character within a stored sequence. Thus, if an input sequence has the proper time gaps between characters, matching a stored pattern, then the delayed neural signals result in a simultaneous activation at the receiving neuron, which indicates a detected pattern. For storing a pattern, only one connection for each pair of input character and output neuron has to be specified resulting in sparse coding and quick storage. |
| US08818917B2 |
Multi-social network discovery system and method
A multi-social network discovery system and method enables users to select multiple social networks comprising activity streams and to receive recommendations sourced from the selected multiple social networks. The multi-social network discovery system and method generates affinity values based on inferred affinity levels between topics, which may be associated with tags, and objects that are associated with the activity streams. The inferred affinity values may be derived from usage behaviors such as tagging and/or based on an automatic analysis of the content of the objects. The affinity values inform the selection of the objects to be recommended to a user, and the selection may be further informed by inferred affinity levels between the user and the topics. The recommendations may be tuned by the user through application of a recommendation tuning control. |
| US08818916B2 |
System and method for linking multimedia data elements to web pages
A method for linking between a multimedia data element (MMDE) and a web page. The method comprises receiving a MMDE from a source; generating a signature representative of the MMDE using a signature generator; matching the generated signature with a plurality of signatures stored in a database to find at least one matching signature; extracting a universal resource locator (URL) of a web page associated with the matching signature, wherein the URL is part of a metadata of the matching signature; and providing the URL to the source over a network. |
| US08818915B1 |
Image-customization of computer-based value-bearing items
The exemplary embodiment of the present invention will provide computer systems and methods for customizing computer-based value-bearing items, such as, for example, customizing a computer-based postage-indicia-bearing item such as exemplary image-customized computer-based postage label 1 in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, depicted in FIG. 1. With reference to FIG. 1, the exemplary customized computer-based postage label 1 will bear an image 2 that would be provided by a corresponding user, namely by the user that orders the customized computer-based postage label. The exemplary customized computer-based postage label 1 will bear a human-readable indication of the country 4 for which the postage is approved. The exemplary customized computer-based postage label 1 will also bear a human-readable indication of an amount of postage 5. The exemplary customized computer-based postage label 1 will also bear a human-readable identifier 6 and a machine-readable set of information 7. |
| US08818913B1 |
Wireless access using preexisting data connection
Wireless data access is provided for customers using a preexisting merchant data connection. An access point is used to communicate wirelessly with customer-owned or merchant-provided computing devices. The preexisting data communication link includes merchant-generated traffic, such as credit card authorization transactions or corporate electronic mail. A router is configured to combine customer-generated wireless traffic with the merchant-generated traffic and to transport the combined data over the preexisting data communication link. Further features, such as protocol conversion, are also provided. |
| US08818906B1 |
Systems and methods for performing authentication of a customer interacting with a banking platform
The invention provides systems and methods of authenticating a customer device, in conjunction with a requested interaction, the customer device associated with a customer, the method performed by an authentication entity processing portion in the form of a tangibly embodied computer. The method may include receiving data from the customer device, the data related to a requested interaction of the customer device with the authentication entity processing portion, the authentication entity processing portion maintained by an authentication entity; inputting a device attribute, from the customer device, that constitutes an observed device attribute; securing a determined device attribute; performing an authentication test including comparing the observed device attribute vis-à-vis the determined device attribute; and based on the comparing, determining whether the authentication test is passed, and (i) outputting approval of the requested interaction and a new device attribute to the customer device, if the authentication test is passed; and (ii) outputting disapproval of the requested interaction, if the authentication test is not passed. |
| US08818901B2 |
Digital rights management systems and methods for audience measurement
Digital rights management systems and methods for audience measurement are disclosed. An example method to monitor a media content presentation disclosed herein comprises configuring a media handler to present the media content presentation, automatically processing a measurement rights agreement with a digital rights manager to determine whether the measurement rights agreement authorizes monitoring of the media content presentation, when the digital rights manager determines that monitoring of the media content presentation is authorized, configuring the media handler to obtain measurement information corresponding to the media content presentation, and when the digital rights manager determines that monitoring of the media content presentation is not authorized, configuring the media handler to prevent measurement information corresponding to the media content presentation from being obtained, but not preventing the media handler from being configured to present the media content presentation. |
| US08818899B2 |
Method and apparatus for deploying and licensing wireless communication device computer software infrastructure to manufacturers
There is disclosed a system method for deploying and licensing wireless communication device computer software infrastructure. In an embodiment, the method comprises: licensing at least one compiled feature-provisioning computer program with a disclosed application program interface (API) to a licensee that is a manufacturer or distributor or seller of wireless communication devices; using the disclosed API to integrate such licensed program into wireless communication devices as offered to end users; configuring the wireless communication devices to provide notification of initial activation of the licensed program by an end user or licensee, thereby triggering collection of licensor revenue based on use of the licensed program by the end user of the device; and sharing collected licensor revenue with a licensee of the program in accordance with a revenue sharing arrangement. |
| US08818898B2 |
System and method for management and distribution of multimedia presentations
A system for delivery of content-based products. The system includes a content library which provides advanced interfaces for adding, manipulating, arranging and storing multimedia presentations, and for interacting with rich multimedia presentations. |
| US08818897B1 |
System and method for validation and enforcement of application security
A system and method for validation and enforcement of application security, wherein the user credentials and the integrity of a target application are verified before the target application is permitted to execute. |
| US08818894B2 |
Method and system for payment through mobile devices
Processing payment through a mobile device includes: receiving a command; using an upper layer application program executing on the mobile device to generate a payment request based on the command and send the payment request to be processed by a lower layer payment program, using the lower layer payment program executing on the mobile device to monitor the payment request sent from the localhost address of the mobile device via the predetermined port; in response to the payment request, using the lower layer payment program to provide an input interface for payment information in and receive the input payment information; using the lower layer payment program to connect with a payment server and pass the payment information over a network to the payment server; and using the lower layer payment program to transfer a payment processing result received from the payment server, to the upper layer application program. |
| US08818887B2 |
Computer-implemented methods, program product, and system for micro-loan product management
Embodiments of the present invention include methods, program product and systems for card and bank product management. An embodiment of a method of advancing funds to a banking customer, for example, includes establishing a line of credit with a bank through an on-line access interface with the bank, determining whether access to funds through the line of credit should occur for a customer transaction and providing one or more preselected increments of funds for the customer transaction. A cumulative amount of the one or more preselected increments, for example, can be less than a total available line of credit for a customer having an established line of credit with the bank. The method further includes decrementing the total available line of credit by the cumulative amount of the one or more preselected increments provided for the customer transaction and a predetermined fee amount for each preselected increment of funds. |
| US08818886B1 |
System and method for usage billing of hosted applications
A system, method, and computer readable medium for usage billing of one or more hosted applications serving one or more clients. The hosted applications are contained within one or more isolated environments or run without isolated environments. The system may include usage billing based on one or more of resources open, amount of data flowing through resources, number of open files, number of transactions, number of concurrent users, number of processes, CPU utilization and memory usage, The system may further include a management interface where administrators may add, remove and configure isolated environments, configure client policies and credentials, and force upgrades. If using isolated environments, the isolated environments may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system on the clients and applications within the isolated environments may run without performing an application-installation on the client. |
| US08818884B2 |
Architectural design for customer returns handling application software
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing customer returns handling. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include an Accounting process component, a Customer Return Processing process component, a Sales Order Processing process component, a Customer Invoice Processing process component, a Due Item Processing process component, a Balance of Foreign Payment Management process component, a Payment Processing process component, a Supply and Demand Matching process component, an Inventory Processing process component, a Site Logistics Processing process component, and an Inbound Delivery Processing process component. |
| US08818882B2 |
Alias identity and reputation validation engine
Methods and system for determining reputation information are provided. The method includes analyzing transactional and non-transactional information for an alias associated with an entity and determining reputation information for that alias. The reputation information is transferable across multiple domains. A user can request the reputation information about an entity prior to doing business with that entity. The reputation information is generated for merchants as well as users. The system can generate transaction risk score for every transaction to be conducted between two or more aliases. The system includes an alias identity and reputation validation server computer that receives inputs from various external systems and generated reputation information based on the inputs. Additionally, every individual user/merchant can manage his profile within the reputation database and enter some information manually. |
| US08818881B2 |
System and method for integrating a plurality of isolated components into an online auction for automatic real-time auction participant support
Disclosed is a method and system for integrating a plurality of isolated components to automatically provide real-time support to a participant in an online auction, particularly for live online auctions that may require quick decision making. An embodiment may automatically display information from the plurality of isolated components for the current item being auctioned in the online auction in a single user interface window. An embodiment may further update any information from any of the plurality of isolated components in real-time as the online auction is occurring. Examples of various isolated components that may be integrated into the single user interface window include: item history reports, third party valuation reports on the item, and the interface into the online auction. Various embodiments may have additional user interface windows concurrently monitoring/automatically integrating with different online auction locations that are concurrently auctioning different items. An embodiment may also include automatic non-decision support actions such as: requesting placing purchased items into an electronic inventory system, requesting delivery/shipping of purchased items, and/or requesting financing for a purchase. |
| US08818879B2 |
Data element specific transaction routing
Systems and methods for determining a least cost transaction scheme for a merchant is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The least cost transaction scheme may be determined at a point of sale device or at a host computer system that communicates with a point of sale device. The least cost transaction scheme may depend on a standard industrial classification (SIC) code associated with the merchant and a transaction amount. In one embodiment the transaction amount and merchant ID is sent to a host computer system. Based on the merchant ID and the transaction amount the host computer system determines a fees for a plurality of transaction schemes. From the plurality of transaction schemes, a least cost transaction scheme is selected and a user is prompted to use the least cost transaction scheme to tender the transaction. |
| US08818876B2 |
System and method for facilitating the purchase of products determined to be useful in the performance of a task
A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product. |
| US08818871B2 |
Method and system for electronic purchases using an intelligent data carrier medium, electronic coupon system, and interactive TV infrastructure
A method and a system for electronically transacting a purchase between a purchaser and a merchant are disclosed. The method includes storing accrued incentives on an intelligent data carrier medium via interactive television (DTV/STB) equipment and redeeming a discount or a value corresponding to the accrued incentives present on the data carrier medium when a purchase is made. The electronic purchase system using an electronic network contains a purchaser interactive television (DTV/STB) equipment connected to the electronic network, a fixed intelligent data carrier medium connected to the interactive television (DTV/STB) equipment for service authentication and decryption and a detachable intelligent data carrier medium connected to the interactive television (DTV/STB) equipment. |
| US08818868B2 |
Foreign currency solution
In general terms, the present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for providing a foreign currency solution. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) establishing a foreign currency account for a domestic account holder; (b) receiving a domestic currency payment for funding the foreign currency account; (c) exchanging the domestic currency payment to produce an exchanged foreign currency payment; (d) crediting the foreign currency account by the amount of the exchanged foreign currency payment; and (e) authorizing a foreign currency transaction involving the foreign currency account and the domestic account holder. Other embodiments relate to configuring a mobile device to operate as a mobile wallet, such that the mobile device includes a foreign currency account module and/or a domestic currency account module that can be used to engage in both domestic currency and foreign currency transactions. |
| US08818867B2 |
Security token for mobile near field communication transactions
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed which relate to an NFC-enabled security token that is removably coupled to a mobile device. The security token may be provisioned with the information by the mobile device, then decoupled from the mobile device and used to authenticate the user or perform a transaction at a POS terminal equipped with an NFC reader. The security token includes logic for user-controlled restrictions on allowable purchases, such as payment limits, timeouts, vendor identifiers, allowed purchases, and location-based restrictions. The security token is further equipped with “self destruct” security features, such as deactivating itself or erasing any sensitive information upon being unable to contact the mobile device for a specified duration, or being subject to an unauthorized or restricted transaction, until such time as it is re-coupled to the mobile device. |
| US08818861B2 |
Finding mobile station for device-to-device communication
According to one example, a method may comprise receiving, by an advertising mobile station in a wireless network, a master profile message from an access node, the master profile message comprising, for each of a plurality of mobile stations in the wireless network, a timing parameter and at least one profile element; selecting at least one receiving mobile station from the plurality of mobile stations based, at least in part, on comparing the timing parameter of the receiving mobile station to the timing parameter of the advertising mobile station and checking the at least one profile element of the receiving mobile station against a proposed advertisement; sending a location request message to the at least one receiving mobile station; receiving the location message from the at least one receiving mobile station, the location message indicating a location of the at least one receiving mobile station. |
| US08818858B1 |
Ensuring appearance of merchant offering in network sites
The present disclosure involves ensuring that items sold by a merchant appear in certain network pages. A network page is automatically accessed in a computing device. The network page is generated by a referral network site that displays at least one offering of an item by at least one competitor merchant. A unique identifier associated with the item is identified from the network page in the computing device. The unique identifier is stored in association with the item in a data store accessible to the computing device. The item and the unique identifier are included in a feed sent from the computing device of a merchant to the referral network site. The feed includes a listing of the item and a plurality of other items, wherein the item and the other items are offered for sale by the merchant. |
| US08818857B1 |
Advertising uniquely identifiable objects along with third party search results
An advertisement server can provide sponsored listings for uniquely identifiable objects to remote search engines. The remote search engines display the listings locally as sponsored search results. The advertisement server can verify sponsored search results remain eligible for display, in real-time with a query received by the remote search engine. The verification can be based on budget values associated with an ad campaign. |
| US08818856B2 |
Tracking location-specific ad performance
The usefulness, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are improved by allowing businesses to better target their ads to a responsive audience. For example, location information may be used in ad relevancy determination, and in attribute (e.g., position) arbitration. Such location information may be associated with price information, such as a maximum price bid, and/or with ad performance information. Ad performance information may be tracked on the basis of location information. The content of an ad creative, and/or of a landing page may be selected and/or modified using location information. Tools may be provided to enter and/or modify location information, such as location-dependent targeting information and price information. The location information used to target and/or score ads may be, include, or define an area. The area may be defined by at least one geographic reference point (e.g., defined by latitude and longitude coordinates) and perhaps additional information. |
| US08818855B2 |
System and method for aggregating information over a wide area network
A system and method is provided for aggregating information from a plurality of remote information systems, such as bulletin boards, over a wide area network, such that a reception device operating on an aggregated information system can receive message data contained on the plurality of remote information systems. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention an aggregating application operating on the aggregated information system is adapted to retrieve original message data (OMD), such as a previously posted new message, and response message data (RMD), such as a previously posted response message, from a plurality of remote information systems. This retrieved message data (i.e., OMD, RMD) can then be provided to at least one reception device communicating with the aggregated information system. In another embodiment of the present invention, the aggregating application is further adapted to receive additional original message data (AOMD), such as a new message, and additional response message data (ARMD), such as a response message responding to a previously posted message, from the at least one reception device. This received message data (i.e., AOMD, ARMD), along with the retrieved message data (i.e., OMD, RMD), is then provided to the plurality of remote information systems along with advertisement data, such that it can be provided to any additional reception devices communicating with the plurality of remote information systems. |
| US08818854B2 |
Sales promotion system supporting a plurality of sellers
A system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption provides customers making online purchases to automatically retrieve and redeem all applicable rebates and coupons during an online purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system makes purchases from merchants or manufacturers using all applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system automatically retrieves coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site and to retrieve manufacturer's and merchant's coupons prior to an online purchasing activity for subsequent submission to an online merchant during a subsequent purchasing activity. |
| US08818849B2 |
Methods and apparatus to provide incentives to deflect callers to websites
Methods and apparatus to provide incentives to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage include receiving a call from the caller, offering an incentive to the caller to terminate the call and access the webpage, and providing an address of the webpage to the caller after the caller consents to terminate the call. |
| US08818848B2 |
Systems and methods for campaign offers and rewards with offer serving engine based on digitized receipt data
A campaign offers and rewards system is provided. A receipt intelligence engine includes receipt processing that in operation extracts information about items purchased based on an image of a receipt from at least one of a shopping trip and an electronic receipt from an online or offline transaction. An analytics engine includes data intelligence coupled to the receipt processing and performs analysis of the receipt. In response to processing and analysis, an offer is then sold. |
| US08818843B2 |
Methods and apparatus to determine when to deflect callers to websites
Methods and apparatus to determine when to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage include receiving a call from the caller, determining a performance metric associated with processing the call, and determining whether to offer the caller an option to terminate the call and access the webpage based on the performance metric. |
| US08818841B2 |
Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments
Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method to monitor a monitored establishment, a survey is presented to an auditor and a user-provided survey response is received indicative of a condition in a monitored establishment that affects an accuracy of shopper count information provided by the auditor. Instructions are displayed to the auditor to sequentially move to a plurality of predetermined locations in the monitored establishment and collect a shopper count corresponding to each of the predetermined locations. The example method also involves receiving and storing each of the plurality of shopper counts. |
| US08818839B2 |
Online marketing, monitoring and control for merchants
Systems and methods of online marketing, monitoring and control for merchants are disclosed. Third party providers are crawled to obtain information about a plurality of merchants and correlate the merchant information to create a merchant database. Third party providers are monitored for merchant information, and information about the merchants is stored. Alerts are provided to subscribing merchants when an alert trigger is identified within the system or at a third party provider. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view and respond to reviews, view and maintain online listings, prepare and send consumer offers, and prepare and send communications to consumers, all directly from the system. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view information and analysis for competing merchants. An overall marketing score for merchants is prepared and displayed. The method may be performed on a server and accessed via an Internet browser and mobile device applications. |
| US08818836B1 |
Generating current order fulfillment plans to influence expected future conditions
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for dynamically generating actual fulfillment plans for a current order or a potential order so as to enhance the future fulfillment process for expected future orders is described. In some situations, actual delivery information based on one or more such actual fulfillment plans will then be provided to a customer, such as by displaying actual delivery date and/or time before or during the ordering process based on one or more actual fulfillment plans that can be or will be used to fulfill the order. A variety of types of criteria can be used to evaluate the effects of using a fulfillment plan to fulfill a current order, including criteria that consider the modeled future cost of fulfilling expected future orders, such as an overall cost of fulfilling all orders during a specified time period that is at least partially in the future. |
| US08818832B2 |
Decision support system and method for distributed decision making for optimal human resource deployment
A decision support tool which takes a high-level view of supply and demand in the realm of labor resources and produces globally-optimal recommendations for assignment of practitioners to open seats. These assignments preferably optimize a utility function composed of different business metrics and can be customizable for different organizations and priorities. |
| US08818831B2 |
Service level objective management system, service level objective management method and program
The present invention enables SLOs and their values to be determined in a system established for the purpose of providing services to users by accepting requirement values from a user with respect to desired SLOs, and presenting, as candidates which can be selected by a user, SLO groups satisfying those requirement values and SLO groups satisfying those requirement values as nearly as possible, and prompting the user to select a candidate. With this service level objective management system, an administrator inputs SLO names, SLO group names, the SLO names and target values for SLOs belonging to the SLO groups, a hierarchical relationships of the SLO groups, and the like. In addition, user-specified SLO names and requirement values with respect to those SLOs are received from user terminals. A combination specification means 94 calculates the degree to which the target values satisfy the requirement values for each combination of SLO groups, from the highest-ranked SLO group to the lowest-ranked SLO group. |
| US08818830B2 |
System and method for recommending corporate usage of personal protective equipment utilizing benchmark data
A computer implemented method of computing optimal product usage comprising storing corporate information as a floor plan containing a plurality of hierarchical levels of a corporate organization; storing benchmark data describing a current product usage for at least one application within the corporate organization; performing an analysis based on the corporate information and the benchmark data to determine an optimum usage of a plurality of products for the at least one application; and generating a product usage recommendation based on the determined optimum usage. |
| US08818829B2 |
Method and system for reporting and relating firearm discharge data to a crime reporting database
A method for utilizing firearm discharge data in a crime reporting and tracking database, includes: recording one or more discharges of a firearm; transmitting information from the discharging firearm to a crime reporting and tracking database; utilizing the transmitted information to establish relationships between the discharged firearm, committed crimes, and missing persons within the crime reporting and tracking database; and wherein the recording and transmitting is carried out by devices within the firearm. |
| US08818828B2 |
Production plan apparatus
A plurality of takeoff objectives are set based on a takeoff request with respect to a target step in production lines, at least throughput of each production line, and basic information of a production plan for each production line, production plan data satisfying the plurality of takeoff objectives is obtained, takeoff objective delay data indicating that the production plan data is delayed with respect to the plurality of takeoff objectives is obtained, and at least a degree of delay of the product is displayed based on the production plan data and the takeoff objective delay data in accordance with each of the plurality of takeoff objectives in a preset display conformation. |
| US08818826B2 |
Insurance claim association method and apparatus
A computer-based insurance claim processing system (500) provides for the formation and segregated storage of associations (510) that link various active insurance claims (506) to one another. In addition, if desired, the associations can comprise additional information regarding, for example, the nature or type of association and/or other information as a user may wish to include to inform, control, or otherwise characterize the association and/or the associated claims. |
| US08818824B2 |
Automated system for medical item dispensing, billing, and inventory management
An inventory management system manages information regarding medical items dispensed in conjunction with medical treatment of a patient at a medical facility. The system includes a first computer, an inventory access control system, inventory sensors, and inventory applications in communication with the first computer. The inventory access control system receives credential information from a user seeking access to a physical inventory space in the medical facility and controls access to the space. The inventory sensors sense the removal of medical items to be dispensed to the patient, and generate item usage information indicating the identity and quantity of the items removed. The inventory applications associate the item usage information with patient information that identifies the patient to which the medical items are dispensed, thereby generating a record indicating that the items removed from the storage structure have been dispensed to the patient identified by the patient information. |
| US08818822B2 |
Health care assessment and online provider communication
A graphical user interface provides clinical information in the form of a first health feed, patient-generated information in the form of a second health feed, and health care assessments in a third health feed. The graphical user interface may provide improved access to patient-generated information to the provider and improved access to clinical information to the patient or caretaker for the patient. Additional health feeds may include data from peripheral devices, third-party sponsored applications, or other forms of health feedback. |
| US08818821B2 |
Digital assistant appliance for assisting an operator in the manual preparation of a liquid pharmaceutical composition in a medical instrument for administering the composition to a patient, and corresponding operating method
Digital assistant appliance for assisting an operator in the manual preparation of a liquid pharmaceutical composition comprising: a memory device containing, for each active principle of the liquid pharmaceutical composition: one or more first sample images of vials containing the active principle, and one or more second sample images of syringes that can be used for transferring the active principle from the vials to the medical instrument; an artificial viewing system designed to acquire: a vial image of a vial chosen by the operator and/or a syringe image of a syringe chosen by the operator; and an electronic processing system configured in such a way as to compare the vial image with each of the first sample images for determining whether the vial chosen by the operator is incorrect, and/or compare the syringe image with each of the second sample images for determining whether the syringe chosen by the operator is incorrect, and warn the operator of an error condition in the preparation step when the vial or the syringe chosen by the operator is incorrect. |
| US08818815B2 |
Method and system for packetised content streaming optimisation
A method of determining the speech content of a packet carrying speech encoded data missing from speech segment communicated by in a packetized data stream communicated using at least one VOIP link between a server platform and a client platform, the method comprising at the client platform: receiving a plurality of packets carrying speech encoded data forming said packetized data stream; processing each received packet to determine a unique message segment identifier associated with a speech segment of the received packet; processing each received packet to determine if it contains another unique message segment identifier associated with a previously received packet carrying encoded speech data; determining if the unique message segment identifier for the received packet exists in storage means provided on the client platform, and if not, storing the received packet in association with its unique message segment identifier; processing each received packet to determine a sequence identifier; checking if the sequence identifier is contiguous in sequence with a previously received packet stored locally on said client platform, and if not, determining the speech content of one or more missing packet in the sequence sent by the server platform to the client platform by retrieving a packet from said storage means having the same unique message segment identifier as the missing packet. |
| US08818813B2 |
Methods and system for grammar fitness evaluation as speech recognition error predictor
A plurality of statements are received from within a grammar structure. Each of the statements is formed by a number of word sets. A number of alignment regions across the statements are identified by aligning the statements on a word set basis. Each aligned word set represents an alignment region. A number of potential confusion zones are identified across the statements. Each potential confusion zone is defined by words from two or more of the statements at corresponding positions outside the alignment regions. For each of the identified potential confusion zones, phonetic pronunciations of the words within the potential confusion zone are analyzed to determine a measure of confusion probability between the words when audibly processed by a speech recognition system during the computing event. An identity of the potential confusion zones across the statements and their corresponding measure of confusion probability are reported to facilitate grammar structure improvement. |
| US08818809B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generating, updating and distributing speech recognition models
Techniques for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models are described. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices with limited capabilities including business computer systems, personal data assistants, etc., which are coupled to the speech processing facility via a communications channel, e.g., the Internet. Devices with audio capture capability record and transmit to the speech processing facility, via the Internet, digitized speech and receive speech processing services, e.g., speech recognition model generation and/or speech recognition services, in response. The Internet is used to return speech recognition models and/or information identifying recognized words or phrases. Thus, the speech processing facility can be used to provide speech recognition capabilities to devices without such capabilities and/or to augment a device's speech processing capability. Voice dialing, telephone control and/or other services are provided by the speech processing facility in response to speech recognition results. |
| US08818808B2 |
Unsupervised and active learning in automatic speech recognition for call classification
Utterance data that includes at least a small amount of manually transcribed data is provided. Automatic speech recognition is performed on ones of the utterance data not having a corresponding manual transcription to produce automatically transcribed utterances. A model is trained using all of the manually transcribed data and the automatically transcribed utterances. A predetermined number of utterances not having a corresponding manual transcription are intelligently selected and manually transcribed. Ones of the automatically transcribed data as well as ones having a corresponding manual transcription are labeled. In another aspect of the invention, audio data is mined from at least one source, and a language model is trained for call classification from the mined audio data to produce a language model. |
| US08818801B2 |
Dialogue speech recognition system, dialogue speech recognition method, and recording medium for storing dialogue speech recognition program
Disclosed is a dialogue speech recognition system that can expand the scope of applications by employing a universal dialogue structure as the condition for speech recognition of dialogue speech between persons. An acoustic likelihood computation means (701) provides a likelihood that a speech signal input from a given phoneme sequence will occur. A linguistic likelihood computation means (702) provides a likelihood that a given word sequence will occur. A maximum likelihood candidate search means (703) uses the likelihoods provided by the acoustic likelihood computation means and the linguistic likelihood computation means to provide a word sequence with the maximum likelihood of occurring from a speech signal. Further, the linguistic likelihood computation means (702) provides different linguistic likelihoods when the speaker who generated the acoustic signal input to the speech recognition means does and does not have the turn to speak. |
| US08818796B2 |
Encoder, decoder and methods for encoding and decoding data segments representing a time-domain data stream
An apparatus for decoding data segments representing a time-domain data stream, a data segment being encoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain, a data segment being encoded in the frequency domain having successive blocks of data representing successive and overlapping blocks of time-domain data samples. The apparatus includes a time-domain decoder for decoding a data segment being encoded in the time domain and a processor for processing the data segment being encoded in the frequency domain and output data of the time-domain decoder to obtain overlapping time-domain data blocks. The apparatus further includes an overlap/add-combiner for combining the overlapping time-domain data blocks to obtain a decoded data segment of the time-domain data stream. |
| US08818795B1 |
Method and system for using natural language techniques to process inputs
Systems and methods are provided for utilizing natural language to process queries. The method for analyzing a linguistic input may include receiving the linguistic input, the linguistic input including at least one word, accessing prestored language data for a language corresponding to the linguistic input, converting the linguistic input into a text-possibility representations based on the received language data, determining a meaning of the text possibility based on the prestored language data, generating at least one semantic structure corresponding to the determined meaning, and determining an action to perform based on the generated at least one semantic structure. The prestored language data may be converted from multiple formats into one or more formats that can be algorithmically processed by a computational device. |
| US08818793B1 |
System and method of extracting clauses for spoken language understanding
A clausifier and method of extracting clauses for spoken language understanding are disclosed. The method relates to generating a set of clauses from speech utterance text and comprises inserting at least one boundary tag in speech utterance text related to sentence boundaries, inserting at least one edit tag indicating a portion of the speech utterance text to remove, and inserting at least one conjunction tag within the speech utterance text. The result is a set of clauses that may be identified within the speech utterance text according to the inserted at least one boundary tag, at least one edit tag and at least one conjunction tag. The disclosed clausifier comprises a sentence boundary classifier, an edit detector classifier, and a conjunction detector classifier. The clausifier may comprise a single classifier or a plurality of classifiers to perform the steps of identifying sentence boundaries, editing text, and identifying conjunctions within the text. |
| US08818789B2 |
Knowledge system method and apparatus
A method and apparatus for automating the acquisition, reconstruction, and generation of knowledgebases of associated ideas and using such knowledgebases in many application including machine translation of human languages, search and retrieval of unstructured text, or other data, based on concept search, voice recognition, data compression, and artificial intelligence systems. |
| US08818785B2 |
Method and apparatus for simulating gate capacitance of a tucked transistor device
A method for simulating a tucked transistor device having a diffusion region defined in a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode adjacent a first side of the diffusion region, a floating gate electrode adjacent a second side of the diffusion region, and an isolation structure disposed beneath at least a portion of the floating gate electrode is provided. The method includes receiving a first netlist having an entry for the tucked transistor device in a computing apparatus. The entry defines parameters associated with the gate electrode and the diffusion region. A parasitic capacitance component is added to the entry representing a gate capacitance between the floating gate and the diffusion region in the computing apparatus. |
| US08818775B2 |
Methods of designing earth-boring tools using a plurality of wear state values and related methods of forming earth-boring tools
Methods of designing an earth-boring tool are described, including calculating one or more performance parameters based on drilling conditions, a plurality of wear state values, and a set of values of other design variables. Methods of enhancing a performance parameter in the design of an earth-boring tool are also described, including calculating the performance parameter based at least partially on a plurality of wear state values and a first set of values of other design variables, calculating the performance parameter based at least partially on the plurality of wear state values and a second set of values of design variables different than the first set, and comparing the calculated performance parameters to determine which of the first and the second set is closer to a target range or value across a range of the plurality of wear state values. Related methods of forming an earth-boring tool are also described. |
| US08818773B2 |
Embroidery image rendering using parametric texture mapping
Rendering methods, systems, and computer-readable media for rendering a simulated embroidery design image based on an embroidery design are presented. Given an embroidery design comprising a plurality of stitch representations and a lighting angle for the simulated embroidery design image, embodiments process the stitch representations to determine a stitch length and lighting angle and select from a stitch image database a stitch image corresponding to the stitch length and lighting angle, and place the selected stitch on a rendering canvas in a position corresponding to the stitch position indicated by the stitch representation. When rendered, all of individual stitch image on the rendering canvas appear to be illuminated from the same direction. |
| US08818772B2 |
Method and apparatus for variance estimation in amplitude probability distribution model
A variance estimation apparatus for an amplitude probability distribution (APD) model includes: an APD curve calculation unit for calculating an APD curve of an APD model for noise of an electronic device; and a linearity determination unit for determining a linearity of a slope of the APD curve calculated by the APD curve calculation unit. The apparatus further includes a variance processing unit for selectively performing equivalent variance processing or different variance processing based on the linearity determination result obtained from the linearity determination unit. |
| US08818770B2 |
Pitch determination systems and methods for aerial roof estimation
User interface systems and methods for roof estimation are described. Example embodiments include a roof estimation system that provides a user interface configured to facilitate roof model generation based on one or more aerial images of a building roof. In one embodiment, roof model generation includes image registration, image lean correction, roof section pitch determination, wire frame model construction, and/or roof model review. The described user interface provides user interface controls that may be manipulated by an operator to perform at least some of the functions of roof model generation. In one embodiment, the user interface provides user interface controls that facilitate the determination of pitch of one or more sections of a building roof. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| US08818767B2 |
Method for assistance with the construction and validation of an avionics platform
A method for assisting the construction and validation of an avionics platform uses, on the one hand, a functional description of the platform using avionics functions, software modules suitable for executing these functions, and functional link occurrences between these modules and, on the other hand, a material description of this platform using calculation or communication items of equipment and physical links between these equipment. The method according to the invention enables to generate paths between the various items of equipment by using direct physical links and/or physical links belonging to one or more network(s), and subsequently to associate at least one such path to be each functional link occurrence. It also enables to associate to each software module an item of equipment adapted to host it. |
| US08818761B2 |
Device and method for offset compensation based on hysteresis tracking
A signal processor for removing at least one unintended signal component from an input signal (ua) is proposed. The signal processor includes a filter device (130) and a processing device (150). The filter device (130) filters the input signal (uâ) and generates a filtered signal (uf), which includes the unintended signal component to be removed. The processing device (150) generates an output signal (um), which indicates a deviation of the input signal (ua) from the filtered input signal (uf). By detecting the unintended signal component first an removing this component from the input signal (uâ), the input signal will not be manipulated directly but the unintended signal component in the input signal (uâ) will be compensated. This allows to remove the unintended component from the input signal (uâ) with less distortions of the interesting components in the input signal (uâ). |
| US08818756B1 |
Method and apparatus for predicting project outcomes
A method and apparatus are provided for predicting the outcome of a project and, if needed, increasing its likelihood of success. Numerical values are assigned to a set of predetermined factors affecting the outcome of the project. The values are assigned based on a subjective evaluation of each factor with respect to the project. The factors include the duration of the project, the performance integrity of persons involved in implementing the project, the perceived commitment of senior management to the project, the local commitment to the project and the effort required to implement the project. A score is calculated based on the values assigned to the factors. The score is applied to empirical data on prior project outcomes and scores to determine the probability of success of the project. If desired, project changes can be implemented and new values assigned to one or more factors to improve the score and increase the probability of success of the project. |
| US08818755B2 |
Container thickness measuring systems and methods
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for measuring a thickness of a container. For example, a control device may receive data indicating a surface topology of the container and based on the surface topology of the container, instruct a multi-axis positioning system to position a sensor relative to a first point of the container such that: a distance from the sensor to a surface at the first point is about equal to a predetermined distance; and the sensor direction is about normal to the surface at the first point. Data indicating the thickness at the first point may be received from the sensor. |
| US08818751B2 |
Interpreting angular orientation data
The invention relates to method and a system of interpreting angular orientation data. It is determined, whether the angular deviation of a current angular orientation (C) of a sensor device (12) from a last extreme angular orientation (L) currently decreases after having increased before up to a provisional new extreme angular orientation (P), thereby determining that the provisional new extreme angular orientation (P) is a new extreme angular orientation. Information relating to a new extreme angular orientation, such as an angular range of motion, may be output to a user. |
| US08818750B2 |
Electronic device, positioning method, and computer program product
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display module, an operation module, a communication module, an obtaining module, and a calculator. The operation module obtains operation on the display screen of the display module. The communication module communicates with another electronic device. The obtaining module obtains trace information indicating a trace of operation moving from the electronic device to the other electronic device or a trace of operation moving from the other electronic device to the electronic device based on operation on the display screen of the electronic device and operation on the display screen of the other electronic device. The calculator calculates a positional relationship between the electronic device and the other electronic device based on the trace information. |
| US08818747B2 |
Calibration of a triaxial magnetic field sensor
A method for calibrating a triaxial magnetic field sensor includes steps for determining an offset of recorded measured values of the magnetic field sensor using a superposed signal and for determining the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensor along the first measuring axes. The determination of the sensitivity includes steps for determining the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensor along a first measuring axis and for determining the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensor along the other measuring axes based on the sensitivity of the first measuring axis and the determined offset. |
| US08818746B1 |
Crack detection in thick-walled cylinders
A simple, inexpensive, and fast method of establishing if a defect does or does not exist within a thick-walled solid geometry, which is especially useful to detect if such a defect, a crack, exists within a gun barrel. With further analysis, the method allows not only the identification of the defect's presence; but, a means of establishing the size thereof—which, for example, is critical to understanding if a gun tube has a defect that would warrant its being taken out of service for the safety of its crew or removed from manufacturing. The method involves creating an acoustic vibration in the particular thick-walled, solid geometry, esp. a gun barrel, and observing the vibration pattern which results. The size of the particular defect can be ascertained by a) manually using a correlation between the magnitude of the defect and the relative changes in the decay coefficient or shifts in frequency data or (b) automatically using a Bayes maximum likelihood, statistical pattern classification algorithm and a library comprised of either the decay coefficients or the means and covariances of defect-free and cracked objects. |
| US08818740B2 |
Sensor-powered wireless cable leak detection
Techniques for leak detection are described. A leak detection module may include a plurality of wires comprising one or more collection points. The leak detection module may further include a capacitor configured to store a charge for powering the module during a power-off state and a plurality of switches to be controlled by a processor. The processor may initiate a predetermined switching sequence when a power-off state has been detected. During the switching sequence, leak detection data may be collected at the one or more collection points. The collected leak detection data may be stored in a set of registers. The leak detection module may transmit the stored leak detection data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08818739B2 |
Monitoring systems and methods for aircraft landing gear
A system and method for monitoring loads applied to aircraft landing gear structure. The method includes the step of interrogating at least one sensor positioned proximate the landing gear structure by way of data acquisition circuitry to yield strain data. The method further includes the step of instructing the data acquisition circuitry with respect to a sampling rate and data resolution for interrogation. |
| US08818737B2 |
Methods, systems, algorithms and means for describing the possible conformations of actual and theoretical proteins and for evaluating actual and theoretical proteins with respect to folding, overall shape and structural motifs
Methods, systems, algorithms and means for describing, analyzing and predicting protein folding motifs and other structures are provided. In one aspect, the Protein Folding Shape Code (PFSC) methods, systems, algorithms and means of the present invention apply generally to all of the categories of protein analysis and description, and are especially relevant to the geometric analysis and descriptions of proteins from their respective sequences or sequence portions. In a novel approach, the present inventions render analysis with respect to the alpha carbons of five-amino acid elements of a protein, utilizing available data to derive torsion angles and pitch distances, to thereby generate a series of overlapping analysis that can be expressed by a plurality of 27 vectors. Methods, systems and algorithms of the invention can be embodied in any computing device or portion thereof, and are adaptable to describe, analyze and predict the folding and other three-dimensional aspects of the structures of biomolecules such as nucleic acids, carbohydrates and glycoproteins. As yet another advantage, the present invention is adaptable as a tool for describing the conformations of many other organic molecules, and are thus especially suitable for use in the design of drugs, and the discovery and design of molecules which are to be adapted to interact with drugs. |
| US08818733B2 |
Determination of photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment parameters
A photodynamic therapy system and methods determine the amount (concentration) of a photosensitizer agent present in the target tissue. The system may also determine the tissue oxygenation. The system may also determine light dosimetry parameters based on the amount of photosensitizer in the tissue and/or the tissue oxygenation. |
| US08818729B1 |
System and method for formation detection and evaluation
Provided are a system and method for identifying planned markers while drilling a borehole. In one example, the method includes obtaining a plan containing planned markers that each corresponds to a baseline marker from an existing well. Each of the baseline markers corresponds to a waveform from a log file obtained from the existing well and is associated with a waveform representation of the corresponding waveform. Each of the planned markers is associated with an estimated true vertical depth (TVD) value. A second log file corresponding to the borehole is obtained that contains waveforms representing formation information detected within the borehole. The second log file is scanned for a planned marker based on the estimated TVD value and the waveform representation of the baseline marker corresponding to the planned marker. At least one match may be identified and reported for the planned marker. |
| US08818725B2 |
Location information exchange between vehicle and device
Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. |
| US08818723B2 |
Localization and tracking system for mobile robots
Localization and tracking system. The system includes at least one laser mounted for pointing its beam at arbitrary locations within a three-dimensional space. An object within the three-dimensional space supports a screen at its top for receiving the laser beam to create a shaped image on the screen. The shaped image on the screen is observed by a camera and computing apparatus determines the location of the object in the three-dimensional space from pointing parameters of the laser and from shape and center points of the shaped image on the screen. |
| US08818719B1 |
Method of controlling data communication between a vehicle and heterogeneous wireless networks
A method of controlling data communication between a vehicle and a plurality of wireless networks includes tracking a location of the vehicle over time to identify a known route, and tracking a signal duration for each of the plurality of wireless networks. One of the plurality of wireless networks that provides the longest signal duration for the vehicle, and which is available for data communication with the vehicle along the identified known route, is identified. When a current route of the vehicle is the same as the known route, data communication from the vehicle is connected to the available wireless network identified as providing the longest signal duration for the vehicle when moving along the identified known route. |
| US08818714B2 |
Portable navigation device and method with active elements
A portable navigation device and method are capable of presenting a destination direction to a user without resorting to visual sensation with a relatively simple configuration. Vibration elements are disposed on or in different positions of a housing. The respective vibration intensities of the vibration elements are determined on the basis of an angular difference θ between a destination direction Vn and a terminal direction Vd. The vibration elements are respectively controlled in accordance with the determined vibration intensities. The position of a vibration, which is obtained as a result of blending vibrations of the vibration elements is sensed by a user. |
| US08818712B2 |
Maritime path determination
In certain embodiments, determining maritime paths includes accessing a feasibility matrix comprising feasibility values for locations of an area. A feasibility value indicates navigability at a location. One or more non-navigable locations represent one or more barriers. Waypoints around the barriers are determined. A cost matrix comprising cost values is calculated. A cost value indicates a distance between two points of a set of points, where the set of points comprises one or more start points, one or more end points, and the waypoints. Dijkstra's technique is applied to a selected start point and a selected end point to yield a shortest length path between the selected start point and the selected end point. |
| US08818711B2 |
3D path analysis for environmental modeling
Techniques for constructing a path analysis in an area are provided. Data are received from a mobile device in an area. The data is based on a path that is traversed by the mobile device. A traversable path is then determined from the data received from the mobile device. The traversable path is superimposed on a map and the map, including the traversable path, is packaged for delivery or display to requesting devices. |
| US08818710B2 |
Method and system for providing off-road guidance
The present invention is a computer-implemented system for providing guidance information to aid a user in traveling along an off-road route. This system assumes that the route has already been determined. Also, it is assumed that the user's position and orientation can be determined, for example using existing techniques such as the global positioning system (GPS). The present invention uses a Look-Ahead-Point Finder (100) to find a point, which we refer to as a look-ahead point, located on the route ahead of the user's current location. A Guidance Message Constructor (102) and a Guidance Presenter (106) are used to present the user with guidance information directing him towards the look-ahead point. If the user is already headed towards the look-ahead point, then a Turn Analyzer (108) is used to search the route in order to find the next turn location. If the user is found to be nearing a turn, then the Guidance Message Constructor (102) and the Guidance Presenter (106) are used to give the user information about the turn including its distance and direction. |
| US08818708B2 |
Optimum driving path on full windshield display
A method to display a registered driving path image upon a transparent windscreen head-up display in a source vehicle includes monitoring an operating environment of the source vehicle, monitoring a driver registration input, determining a registered driving path image based upon the operating environment of the source vehicle and the driver registration input, and displaying the registered driving path image upon the head-up display. |
| US08818707B2 |
Method of resolving a location from encoded data representative thereof
A method, of resolving a location from an ordered list of location reference points being representative of nodes in an encoder digital map and each having attributes representative of a specific line or segment in the encoder digital map emanating from or incident at those nodes, is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes (i) for each location reference point, identifying at least one candidate node existing in a second digital map, and, using the available attributes of that location reference point, identifying at least one candidate line or segment existing in the second digital map emanating from or incident at the candidate node, (ii) performing a route search within the second digital map between: (a) at least one of said at least one candidate node and the corresponding candidate line or segment emanating therefrom or incident thereat, and (b) at least one of a candidate node for the next location reference point appearing in the list and the corresponding candidate line or segment emanating therefrom or incident thereat, and extracting from the second digital map each line or segment forming part of the route so determined between the candidate nodes, (iii) repeating step (ii) for each consecutive pair of location reference points up to and including the final location reference point appearing in the list. Preferably, the route search is a shortest path route search, most preferably operating on respective pairs of successive candidate nodes, and includes a way of ensuring that the corresponding line or segment of the first of the pair of nodes forms part of the route resulting therefrom. |
| US08818704B2 |
Navigation system with road object detection mechanism and method of operation thereof
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a road object detection for monitoring a movement of a device; determining a travel state based on the road object detection; identifying a travel sequence involving the travel state; and determining a condition inducing movement based on matching the travel sequence to a predetermined sequence for displaying on the device. |
| US08818702B2 |
System and method for tracking objects
A method for tracking an object, by generating kinematic models corresponding to the object using a computerized object-tracking system, is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a data collection module, scan data associated with an object, and generating by the module, using the scan data, a new frame F, associated with a new time t+dt and including new points X. A clustering module identifies a new group G of new points Xi of the new frame F. A data association module associates the new group G with the object based on previous information associated with the object. A tracking module determines a new kinematic model M corresponding to the object based on the new group G. |
| US08818697B2 |
Vehicles for communicating vehicle parameters to a networked server
A vehicle having a driver statistic system for interfacing with a network includes a wheel speed sensor, an engine control unit, network interface hardware for communicating with a network, and an electronic control unit communicatively coupled therebetween. The electronic control unit includes a processor and memory storing a computer readable and executable instruction set. When the instruction set is executed by the processor, the electronic control unit processes sensor signals received from the wheel speed sensor and the engine control unit to determine fuel consumption of the vehicle. The electronic control unit transmits a vehicle status signal to the network interface hardware, where the vehicle status signal is indicative of the fuel consumption of the vehicle. The network interface hardware transmits the vehicle status signal to the network. The network interface hardware further receives a vehicle performance signal from the network indicative of a driver performance ranking. |
| US08818694B2 |
Method for detecting a traffic zone
A method for detecting a traffic zone using an on-board sensor system. Objects from the surroundings of the host vehicle are detected using the sensor system. The course of the traffic lanes is derived from the performance characteristics of the objects detected by the sensors. |
| US08818685B2 |
Rotation detecting device and rotation detecting method
A rotation detecting device and a rotation detecting method determines normal rotation/reverse rotation of a rotating shaft based on a rotation signal different between the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of the rotating shaft. The rotation signal is set to have a pulse width different between the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of a crankshaft that is an output shaft of an internal combustion engine. By determining whether or not the pulse width is greater than a threshold value, the normal rotation or the reverse rotation of the crankshaft is detected. Whether or not the crankshaft is rotating normally is determined based on engine rotating speed, a cylinder in which a piston is in a predetermined position, an engine load, a starter switch, intake pressure, battery voltage, and the like. When the condition for the normal rotation is satisfied, the threshold of the pulse width is set based on a pulse width of a rotation signal measured at this time. |
| US08818683B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating a gas turbine engine
A method for operating a gas turbine engine includes coupling at least one sensor within the gas turbine engine to transmit a signal indicative of a vibration level of a rotor assembly within the gas turbine engine, detecting the vibration level of the rotor assembly based on the signal transmitted from the at least one sensor, comparing the detected vibration level to a predetermined vibration threshold, and generating an output if the detected vibration amplitude exceeds the threshold amplitude for a predetermined duration to facilitate identifying a gas turbine engine impulse event. |
| US08818682B1 |
Detecting and responding to tailgaters
An autonomous vehicle detects a tailgating vehicle and uses various response mechanisms. For example, a vehicle is identified as a tailgater based on whether its characteristics meet a variable threshold. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at slower speeds, the threshold is defined in distance. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at faster speeds, the threshold is defined in time. The autonomous vehicle may respond to the tailgater by modifying its driving behavior. In one example, the autonomous vehicle adjusts a headway buffer (defined in time) from another vehicle in front of the autonomous vehicle. For example, if the tailgater is T seconds too close to the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle increases the headway buffer to the vehicle in front of it by some amount relative to T. |
| US08818681B1 |
Detecting and responding to tailgaters
An autonomous vehicle detects a tailgating vehicle and uses various response mechanisms. For example, a vehicle is identified as a tailgater based on whether its characteristics meet a variable threshold. For example, when the autonomous vehicle is traveling at slower speeds, the threshold is defined in distance. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at faster speeds, the threshold is defined in time. The autonomous vehicle may respond to the tailgater by modifying its driving behavior. In one example, the autonomous vehicle adjusts a headway buffer (defined in time) from another vehicle in front of the autonomous vehicle. For example, if the tailgater is T seconds too close to the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle increases the headway buffer to the vehicle in front of it by some amount relative to T. |
| US08818679B2 |
Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
A vehicle control device for controlling the driving force and braking force that is applies to a vehicle to maintain a target wheel speed includes: a plurality of determination parts each of which determines the wheel speed of a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle; a calculation part that calculates the wheel speed validity threshold for each wheel based on the determined wheel speeds; a decision part that decides whether the wheel speed validity threshold calculated for each wheel is below a specific threshold speed; a setting part that resets the target wheel speed depending on the result of the decision by the decision part; and an estimation part that estimates the vehicle speed based on the determined wheel speeds. |
| US08818671B2 |
Vehicle brake control device
A vehicle brake controller is provided with a master cylinder, a wheel cylinder, a brake hydraulic actuator, a vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF controller and a pressurization rate controller. The vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF controller performs a vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF control that stops the pump motor upon the vehicle being stopped by the brake operation, and that maintains a stop state of the pump motor as is during stopping of the vehicle. The pressurization rate controller adjusts a pressurization rate of the wheel cylinder pressure to a higher value as a road surface gradient becomes larger upon resuming operation of the pump motor after the vehicle-stop-state motor-OFF control ends due to acceleration from the vehicle stop state. |
| US08818668B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
A vehicle control apparatus that performs driving assist control on an entrance ramp or an exit ramp connected to a main road having a different safe cruising speed limit than the entrance ramp or the exit ramp. The control apparatus includes a broken line detecting device that detects a broken line marked on the road and divides the main road and the entrance ramp or the exit ramp and a controller that determines a control zone of the driving assist control based on the broken line detection results from the broken line detecting device. For example, the vehicle control apparatus detects the broken line that divides a main road and an exit ramp using the broken line detecting device and starts driving assist control using the controller when it is detected that an accelerator pedal has been released. |
| US08818665B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus
A vehicle control apparatus is configured to set a desired speed of an engine to be inputted to a CVT based on a vehicle speed and an accelerator opening AP, calculate a desired output of the engine based on the accelerator opening; calculate a correction coefficient based on the vehicle speed, and calculate a corrected desired output by correcting the desired output with the correction coefficient such that the vehicle speed reaches a regulatory vehicle speed when the accelerator opening AP reaches a fully-opened position, i.e., to vary the characteristics of the accelerator opening in accordance with the vehicle speed in the vicinity of the regulatory vehicle speed. |
| US08818663B2 |
Determining oncoming clutch pressure in a transmission
Clutch pressure of an oncoming clutch may be determined during an upshift in an automatic transmission by determining when offgoing and oncoming clutches of the transmission near a speed synchronization point. Aboard a vehicle, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback control logic of for the oncoming clutch may be activated via a controller. The controller and the activated PID logic may be used to introduce a calibrated slip error between the rotational speeds of the offgoing and oncoming clutches. Engine speed is then held in a calibrated flare using the PID logic. Oncoming clutch pressure is recorded during the duration of the calibrated flare, and a control action is executed with respect to the transmission using the recorded oncoming clutch pressure, e.g., using recorded PID gains and/or a pressure/torque relationship of the oncoming clutch. A vehicle having an engine, transmission, and controller may use the controller to execute such a method. |
| US08818662B2 |
Drive train of a mobile vehicle
This invention relates to a drive train (1) of a mobile vehicle with an internal combustion engine (2) and a load device (3) driven by the internal combustion engine (2). The internal combustion engine (2) is controlled by an electronic engine control unit (4) and the load device (3) is controlled by an electronic control unit (5). A low idle speed (nuL) for the operation of the internal combustion engine at no load is stored in the engine control unit (4). The electronic control unit (5) detects a pause in the operation of the load device (3) and transmits a speed setpoint (nStandby) for standby operation of the internal combustion engine to the engine control unit (4) to operate the internal combustion engine (2) at idle during a pause in operation at the speed setpoint (nStandby), which is below the low idle speed (nuL) for standby operation. |
| US08818661B2 |
Methods for control of transmission and prime mover
A method of controlling a prime mover and a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is described. The CVT has a group of spherical power adjusters. Each power adjuster has a tiltable axis of rotation. A method of optimizing a vehicle having a drive motor and a continuously variable transmission is also described. The CVT has a plurality of spherical power adjusters, each power adjuster having a tiltable axis of rotation. A drive system having a prime mover and a continuously variable transmission can be optimized in another method. |
| US08818656B2 |
Shift-by-wire selector control system for a motor vehicle transmission
A method for operating a multi-stable shift-by wire selector control system of a motor vehicle transmission. The multi-stable shift-by wire selector control system includes a multi-stable selector which is operable by the driver of the vehicle to select a respective one of the operating modes of the transmission, an arrangement of illuminated labels indicating the selector mode and an indexing mechanism for maintaining the immobilization of the selector in its different positions. |
| US08818654B2 |
Output control apparatus of engine
Engine output control apparatus has shift range detecting section detecting shift range of automatic transmission; vehicle speed detecting section detecting vehicle speed; engine output state detecting section detecting engine output state; and controller. The controller performs (a) judgment control judging that torque converter is in a stall state if following judgment conditions (i) to (iii) are satisfied, (i) shift range is drive range, (ii) vehicle speed is equal to or less than predetermined vehicle speed, (iii) engine is in a high output state, (b) cumulation control cumulating a period of agreement of the judgment conditions if the judgment conditions are satisfied, and (c) output suppression control suppressing output of the engine if a control start condition is satisfied by cumulation of the agreement period. The control start condition is set so that as the vehicle speed becomes higher, start of the output suppression control is more delayed. |
| US08818652B2 |
Automatic steering system for an agricultural implement
An assembly for facilitating steering of an agricultural implement linkable to a work vehicle is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least a first ground-engaging wheel to engage a ground surface below a frame of the agricultural implement to support the frame above the ground surface. The assembly further comprises a positioning system for receiving a positioning signal from a positioning source. The positioning system determines a current position of the agricultural implement from at least the positioning signal, and the positioning system generates a control signal derived from the current position of the agricultural implement. The assembly further comprises a steering cylinder connected to the first ground-engaging wheel. The steering cylinder operatively connects to the positioning system to steer the first ground-engaging wheel based on the control signal. |
| US08818649B2 |
Rotation control device for working machine
A working machine swing control system is provided with an actual rotation speed sensor and a controller. The actual rotation speed sensor senses an actual rotation speed of a swing motor. The controller controls a drive torque of a drive unit, which drives the swing motor, such that a difference between a target rotation speed outputted from a swing control device and the actual rotation speed outputted from the actual rotation speed sensor is reduced to zero. The swing control system includes a correction device for correcting the target rotation speed outputted from the swing control device according to a work posture of working equipment and a work load on the working equipment. |
| US08818646B2 |
Method for controlling and regulating a motor-driven adjusting device
The invention relates to a method for controlling and adjusting a motor-driven adjusting device, especially a window lifter, a seat adjusting device or a sliding roof of a motor vehicle, comprising an anti-jamming protection. The motor drive is switched off or blocked at a value below a predetermined load limit when said predetermined load limit is exceeded. The aim of the invention is to provide a method with which the adjusting device is subjected to as little loads as possible under all operating conditions. To this end, state variables of the motor drive are continuously detected and the load actually generated by the motor drive is determined from said state variables on the basis of a mathematical model of the drive. |
| US08818645B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus
A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle causes several control target instruments to operate in cooperation, thereby controlling a behavior of the vehicle so as to approach a target behavior of the vehicle. In this case, target behaviors of several control target instruments are estimated. When a separation arises in a certain control target instrument between an actual behavior and the target behavior, operations of other control target instruments are changed according to the magnitude of the separation in the certain control target instrument. Thereby, even if an anomaly arises in one of the control target instruments, the behavior of the vehicle can be brought close to the target behavior. |
| US08818635B2 |
Electric power assisted steering apparatus
An electric power assisted steering apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:a steering mechanism, which operatively connects a steering wheel to road wheels of the vehicle;an electric motor operatively connected to the steering mechanism;a torque sensing means adapted to produce a first output signal indicative of the torque carried by a portion of the steering mechanism;a vehicle speed sensing means for producing a second output signal indicative of the speed of the vehicle;a signal processing means adapted to receive the first and second signals and to produce a torque demand signal representative of the torque to be applied to the steering mechanism by the motor; anda motor drive stage adapted to provide a drive current to the motor responsive to the torque demand signal;wherein the apparatus include at least one of the torque limiter arranged to limit the torque and the maximum rate of increase of the torque following a restart of the apparatus, the limit and rate being determined at least in part by information indicative of a state of the system prior to the restart. |
| US08818634B2 |
Control apparatus for vehicle
Lane keeping control is ended in accurate timing which does not give an uncomfortable feeling to a driver. In a vehicle 10 which is provided with a steering mechanism 200, an EPS actuator 300, and a VGRS actuator 500 and which can change a rudder angle regardless of a driver's steering input due to the cooperative control of the aforementioned mechanism and actuators, an ECU 100 performs LKA end control. In the control, in cases where a winker lever 16 is operated in a period of performing LKA control for making the vehicle 10 follow a target driving route, if the indicated direction of the winker lever 16 is different from a generation direction of generating an assist steering torque TA of the EPS actuator 300 in the LKA control, the LKA control is promptly ended. In cases where the indicated direction is equal to the generation direction, if a steering angle MAdrv corresponding to the driver's steering input exceeds a steering angle MAlka generated by the LKA control, the LKA control is ended. |
| US08818632B2 |
Detection of uncommanded motion of a steering motor
In a machine having a differential steering control system, uncommanded motion may be determined by comparing an actual speed of a steering motor to a commanded turn direction signal from an operator. Where uncommanded motion is occurring, the steering motor speed and time-rate-of-change of the steering motor speed may be used to determine a weighted steering motor speed that is accumulated over a series of sample cycles and compared to an integration limit to determine whether the operator should be warned of the occurrence of uncommanded motion. The integration limit may be based on a factor indicative of the responsiveness of the machine, such as the oil temperature. |
| US08818630B2 |
Vibration-damping control device for vehicle
A vehicular vibration damping control apparatus calculates a correction torque to suppress vehicle body sprung vibration. In outputting a correction torque command to a driving/braking torque producing device, the control apparatus outputs a hunting time correction torque command smaller than a normal time correction toque command when a state in which amplitude of the correction torque is greater than or equal to a predetermined amplitude continues for a predetermined time length, and thereafter to return an output of the correction torque command from the hunting time correction torque command to the normal time correction torque command if a state in which the amplitude of the correction torque is smaller than or equal to the predetermined amplitude continues for a first predetermined time length. The frequency of performing the vibration damping control is increased by suppressing occurrence of hunting at the time of return to the normal vibration damping control. |
| US08818628B2 |
System and method for controlling integrated network of a vehicle
The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling an integrated network of a vehicle, and more particularly, to a system and method, which separately identifies a malfunction of a plurality of communication networks applied to a vehicle and integrally controls power off and power on of the communication networks using a communication gateway. The integrated network system includes: a gateway configured to connect a plurality of networks; a plurality of vehicle networks connected to the gateway and connectable to each other by the gateway; and an Ethernet configured to transmit a signal processed in the gateway to the exterior of the gateway to analyze communication states of the plurality of vehicle networks connected to the gateway. |
| US08818626B2 |
Mobile device wireless camera integration with a vehicle
A vehicle monitoring system includes a vehicle, a mobile camera device, a transmitter or transmitting transceiver, a receiver or receiving transceiver, and an integrated vehicle cockpit display. The mobile camera device, comprising a processor and a camera, is located within the vehicle or attached to the vehicle for taking an image or video within or outside the vehicle. The transmitter or transmitting transceiver is in communication with the mobile camera device for transmitting the image or the video taken by the mobile camera device. The receiver or receiving transceiver is for receiving the image or the video, taken by the mobile camera device, from the transmitter or the transmitting transceiver. The integrated vehicle cockpit display, built into the vehicle, is in communication with the receiver or the receiving transceiver for displaying the received image or the received video taken by the mobile camera device. |
| US08818625B2 |
Damping apparatus for reducing vibrations
A damping apparatus for an automobile is provided, capable of ensuring a high level of reliability while obtaining excellent damping effect with simple configuration. The damping apparatus for an automobile that reduces vibrations of an automobile body may include an actuator that is attached to the automobile body and drives an auxiliary mass; a current detector that detects a current flowing through an armature of the actuator; a section that detects a terminal voltage applied to the actuator; a calculation circuit that calculates an induced voltage of the actuator, and further calculates at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator, based on a current detected by the current detector and the terminal voltage; and a control circuit that drive-controls the actuator based on at least one of the relative velocity, relative displacement, and relative acceleration of the actuator calculated by the calculation circuit. |
| US08818620B1 |
Systems and vehicles for determining an operational status of at least one trailer brake
Systems and vehicles for determining an operational status of at least one trailer brake are provided. A system for determining an operational status of at least one trailer brake includes machine readable instructions stored in one or more memory modules that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the system to command a trailer brake current output circuit to intermittently supply a diagnostic current to the at least one trailer brake during a trailer brake activation period, receive a sensed current signal from a trailer brake current sensing circuit in response to the command to supply the diagnostic current, and determine the operational status of the at least one trailer brake based on the sensed current signal. |
| US08818619B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining tire condition using ideal gas law
An apparatus is provided for determining a tire operating condition including a tire-based pressure and temperature sensor and transmitter and a vehicle ignition system. A vehicle-based receiver/controller receives sensor signals and state of the ignition system. The controller provides an error signal when the sensed tire pressure is less than a set threshold value Pset and resets the error signal when the sensed tire pressure is greater than a reset threshold value Prst. The receiver/controller determines the set threshold value Pset and the reset threshold value Prst as a function of a calculated warm tire pressure value Pwarm, determines a mole value N of the tire pressure, and adjusts the determined set threshold value Pset and the reset threshold value Prst in response to the vehicle ignition state and a change in the determined mole value N. A display is provided for displaying the error signal. |
| US08818617B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring battery drain and starter current
A parasitic drain tester that measures a parasitic battery drain. A current measuring circuit includes a capacitor smoothing the current distribution within the circuit, a first interface connected to a vehicle power source and the capacitor, a second interface accommodating an outside connection for communication, a first processor connected to the second interface and the capacitor, the processor communicating with the second interface and performing analysis and calculation of the data received, and a converting unit connected to the processor, converting the signal received through the first interface from a first form to a second form. The first unit is connected to the current measuring circuit, and includes a memory storing information retrieved from the current measuring circuit through the second interface, and a second processor analyzing the information received from the current measuring circuit and providing instructions to the first processor through the second interface. |
| US08818616B2 |
Programmable function key on wireless OBDII interface
A vehicle diagnostic device is provided that includes a programmable function to control a function on an emission computer workstation. The function key can be programmed to interact and manipulate with the workstation. The vehicle diagnostic device allows a user to wirelessly communicate with the workstation while located in the vehicle. |
| US08818613B2 |
Application for a communications and processing device
An application for a communications and processing device includes a computer program embedded on a non-transitory, tangible medium. The computer program includes computer readable code for establishing respective connections between the communications and processing device and a telematics unit of a vehicle, an information system of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), and an information system of a dealer associated with the OEM. The application further includes computer readable code for at least i) tailoring at least one vehicle system of the vehicle with user-selected preferences, ii) tailoring a user account associated with the vehicle, and iii) providing information pertaining to the vehicle or to a program associated with the vehicle. |
| US08818611B2 |
Method and apparatus to evaluate a starting system for an internal combustion engine
A starting system for an internal combustion engine includes a starter motor and a battery. A method for evaluating the starting system includes detecting a fault associated with the starter motor when a minimum starting system voltage during a cranking event is greater than a threshold minimum starting system voltage determined in relation to an engine acceleration parameter, and detecting a fault associated with the battery when the engine acceleration parameter is less than a minimum threshold for the engine acceleration parameter. |
| US08818606B2 |
System and method for vehicle lateral control
A method, system and computer readable medium to autonomously keep a vehicle in a lane. The method including, engaging a lane centering system configured to maintain the vehicle within the lane, at a specified lane position. Further engaging a lane keeping system when the lane centering system fails to keep the vehicle within the lane, the lane keeping system configured to return the vehicle to the lane, when the vehicle leaves or is leaving the lane. And, applying a cost function to determine the nature of engagement of the lane keeping system to return the vehicle to the lane. |
| US08818604B2 |
Drive control apparatus of hybrid vehicle
Ina drive control apparatus (1) of a hybrid vehicle, a change rate restriction value of a target engine rotational speed which is set on the basis of a vehicle speed is preset, a restriction value of the target engine rotational speed is calculated from the change rate restriction value and a previous target engine rotational speed, a target engine operation point to decide the target engine rotational speed and a target engine torque is set on the basis of the restriction value of the target engine rotational speed and the provisional target engine rotational speed, a target electric power is calculated from a difference between a target engine power which is calculated from the target engine operation point and a target drive power, and torque instruction values of a plurality of motor generators (4, 5) are calculated by using a torque balance equation including a target engine torque which is obtained from the target engine operation point and an electric power balance equation including the target electric power.Thus, even in a transient state where the operation point of the internal combustion engine (2) is changed, since the target operation point line is traced, the fuel consumption can be improved. |
| US08818603B2 |
Vehicle, control apparatus for vehicle, and control method for vehicle
A vehicle includes a first electric storage device for supplying an electric power to an electric rotating machine, a second electric storage device with a lower voltage than the first electric storage device for supplying an electric power to an electric component, a converter, and a control unit. The control unit controls the converter such that a voltage of a electric power supplied from the first electric storage device to the second electric storage device becomes equal to a target voltage. Further, the control unit sets the target voltage to a first voltage if a system stop period for a system of the vehicle is longer than a first period, and sets the target voltage to a second voltage, which is lower than the first voltage, if the system stop period is equal to or shorter than the first period. |
| US08818601B1 |
Extended-range electric vehicle with supercapacitor range extender
A vehicle includes an engine, fraction motor, final drive assembly, battery pack, and a supercapacitor module electrically connected to the battery pack. The vehicle also has first and second clutches and a controller. The clutches have opposite apply states. The first clutch connects an engine driveshaft to the motor to establish a neutral-charging mode. The second clutch connects an output shaft of the motor to the final drive assembly to establish a drive mode. The controller selects between the drive and neutral-charging modes in response to input signals. The drive mode uses energy from the supercapacitor module and battery pack to power the traction motor. The neutral-charging mode uses output torque from the engine to charge the supercapacitor module and battery pack. The clutches may be pneumatically-actuated, and the vehicle may be characterized by an absence of planetary gear sets. |
| US08818600B2 |
Methods and systems for adjusting driveline operation during an accelerator tip-out
Systems and methods for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, an engine may be operated at an idle speed while a driveline disconnect clutch separating the engine from a driveline is open in response to a reduction in driver demand torque. Engine torque may be applied to the driveline by simply closing the driveline disconnect clutch. |
| US08818599B2 |
Control apparatus for electric rotating machine
The control apparatus is for an electric rotating machine which is mounted as an engine on a vehicle together with a power conversion circuit to be connected to the electric rotating machine, and a cooling apparatus for circulating coolant to the electric rotating machine and the power conversion circuit through a circulation channel, including. The control apparatus includes a limiting means for performing a limiting operation to limit an amount of electric power supply from the inverter to the electric rotating machine each time a circulation starting timing of the coolant comes, and a terminating means for terminating the limiting operation after a lapse of a predefined period from start of the limiting operation. |
| US08818588B2 |
Parallel hybrid drive system utilizing power take off connection as transfer for a secondary energy source
A parallel hybrid vehicle system utilizing the Power Take Off connection on an automatic transmission as a transfer port for a secondary device is described for both driving modes and stationary operation. The secondary device is a battery powered electric motor providing motive power or regenerative braking in driving mode or providing power to accessories typically mounted to a conventional PTO while stationary. |
| US08818587B1 |
Systems and methods for controlling movement of propulsion units on a marine vessel
Methods and systems are for controlling movement of at least one propulsion unit on a marine vessel. The method comprises plotting a first plurality of points representing a first surface of a first propulsion unit and plotting a second plurality of points representing a second surface. The method further comprises limiting movement of at least the first propulsion unit such that the first surface does not come within a predetermined distance of the second surface during said movement. |
| US08818580B2 |
Interactive dialog device between an operator of an aircraft and a guidance system of said aircraft
The dialog device includes a display screen, on which are displayed three graphic representations, which are respectively associated with the three control axes of the aircraft, each of said graphic representations comprising a plurality of portions, each of which is associated with a guidance mode of the associated control axis, so that all the possible guidance modes of the guidance system are thus represented, this representation highlighting the fact that the guidance modes are active exclusively on a given guidance axis. |
| US08818579B2 |
Systems and methods for graphically indicating aircraft ascent and descent capabilities
Systems and methods are operable to present graphical information indicating capability of an aircraft to change altitude. An exemplary embodiment determines an altitude change capability of the aircraft; determines an altitude change capability icon based on the determined altitude change capability of the aircraft, wherein the altitude change capability icon is defined by at least a leading portion, a trailing portion, a top portion, and a bottom portion, wherein a slope of the leading portion of the altitude change capability icon corresponds to the determined altitude change capability of the aircraft, and wherein the leading portion and the trailing portion are separated by at least the top portion and the bottom portion; and communicates the altitude change capability icon to a display for presentation to the crew of the aircraft. |
| US08818578B2 |
Control device, hybrid vehicle, control method, and computer program
An electric motor can assist an engine at high conversion efficiency. A lower limit is set for the torque shared with an engine by the electric motor when the engine and the electric motor are operated together for traveling, and a hybrid ECU has an assistance control unit that implements control to a traveling mode in which the engine and the electric motor operate together, only when it is estimated that the torque shared with the engine by the electric motor is equal to or greater than the torque lower limit when the electric motor and the engine are operated together for traveling. |
| US08818577B2 |
Method and device for automatically protecting an aircraft against an excessive descent rate
A device includes means for generating and applying to an aircraft protecting orders avoiding a flight with an excessive descent rate. More specifically, the device includes components configured to perform a series of operations including measuring the current vertical speed and the current height of the aircraft and comparing these flight parameters with a safety envelope defining couples of vertical speed and height that are indicative of an excessive descent rate. If the current vertical speed and height are located in the safety envelope, a protection is triggered by generating protecting orders to remove the aircraft from the safety envelope and applying those protecting orders to control surfaces of the aircraft. |
| US08818574B2 |
Aircraft control apparatus and aircraft control system
A plurality of control channels each include a power supply, an interface that receives a manipulation signal, an arithmetic processing portion that calculates and generates an operation command signal for actuators based on the manipulation signal, and a signal determination unit that determines a control signal for finally controlling the operation of the actuators and outputs the control signal. The arithmetic processing portions respectively provided in the plurality of control channels have designs different from one another. Each of the signal determination units determines the control signal by receiving a first operation command signal generated by the arithmetic processing portion of the control channel in which that signal determination unit is provided, and a second operation command signal generated in the arithmetic processing portion of another of the control channels, and comparing the first operation command signal and the second operation command signal, and outputs the control signal. |
| US08818573B2 |
Method and device for detecting an uncontrolled movement of an aircraft control surface
A detection device determines whether an uncontrolled movement of a control surface of an aircraft is occurring. The device includes means for calculating the difference between a theoretical command and an actual command in order to form a residual value, and means for detecting an uncontrolled movement of the control surface, if a comparison value depending on this residual value is greater than a threshold value If the comparison value is greater than the threshold value during a confirmation time, then the uncontrolled movement of the control surface of the aircraft is confirmed. |
| US08818569B2 |
Vehicle communications and access
A communications and access system for a vehicle includes a vehicle module including a microprocessor and a sensor device integrated within each tire of a vehicle. The sensor device includes a tire pressure monitoring sensor and an antenna communicatively coupled to the sensor device. The antenna is configured to receive tire pressure data from the sensor device and a wireless communication from a device external to the vehicle. The system also includes another antenna communicatively coupled to the vehicle module. The other antenna receives the tire pressure data and the wireless communication transmitted by the sensor device via the antenna coupled to the sensor device. The system further includes logic executable by the microprocessor. The logic is configured to identify sources of the tire pressure data and the wireless communication, and transmit instructions to a body control module of the vehicle. The instructions are configured to perform a corresponding function. |
| US08818563B2 |
System for controlling room temperature in a building using a free energy source, an additional energy source, and predictive control
In a building which has at least two floors, an apparatus for controlling and regulating room temperature having a hierarchical structure includes a predictive device on the top level, that provides optimal control of the use of at least one free energy source, and at least one device on a lower level which is used for feedback regulation of at least one additional energy source. The predictive device uses a building model and repeatedly optimizes the energy requirement or the energy costs. The regulation strategy of the predictive device uses characteristics of a passive heat accumulator of the building. |
| US08818560B2 |
Master-slave manipulator
A master-slave manipulator includes a remote manipulation device, a slave manipulator, and a control unit. The remote manipulation device as a master gives an operating command corresponding to a plurality of degrees of freedom. The slave manipulator includes a plurality of joints corresponding to the degrees of freedom. The slave manipulator includes a redundant joint among the joints. The control unit controls operations of the joints in accordance with the operating command. The control unit calculates an orientation change of the remote manipulation device from the operating command at predetermined time intervals and selects and drives one of the joints in redundancy relationship among the joints in accordance with the orientation change. |
| US08818559B2 |
Robot apparatus and control method therefor
A robot apparatus includes a robot mechanism having a plurality of joints, and actuators that drive joint axes of the robot mechanism. The robot apparatus includes a robot controller that controls the driving of the actuators based on a cost function that is a function of torque reference inputs for the actuators. |
| US08818558B2 |
Method for controlling at least two robots having respective working spaces including at least one region in common
Methods for controlling at least two robots having respective working spaces, including at least one region in common are disclosed. The working space of each robot is modelled by defining one or more interference regions each constituted by an elementary geometrical figure. The interference regions are classified as: prohibited interference regions, defined as regions of space where the presence of the robot must without fail always be inhibited; monitored interference regions, defined as regions of space where the presence of the robot is accepted, but controlled, the robot being pre-arranged for sending a signal to the central control unit whenever it enters a monitored region and whenever it exits from a monitored region; and hybrid interference regions that are able to change between a status of monitored region and a status of prohibited region as a function of an input signal to the robot sent by said central control unit. |
| US08818556B2 |
Multi-state model for robot and user interaction
The subject disclosure is directed towards a robot device including a model that controls a robot's task-related operations to perform tasks and user-engagement operations to interact with the robot. The model controls the operating states, including transitioning from an autonomous task state to an engaged state based on current context determined from various stimuli, e.g., information received via sensors of the robot and/or learned data. The robot may seek to engage the user, the user may seek to engage the robot, or the user and robot may meet by chance in which either may attempt to initiate the engagement. |
| US08818554B2 |
Event execution method and system for robot synchronized with mobile terminal
An event execution method and system for a robot synchronized with a mobile terminal is provided for enabling a robot synchronized with a mobile terminal or a character displayed in the mobile terminal to execute an event on behalf of the mobile terminal and share experience points of the character displayed in the mobile terminal. The event execution system includes a mobile terminal and a robot synchronized with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a short range wireless communication unit which establishes a radio link with the robot, a storage unit which stores a character rearing application for bringing up a character and a behavior contents database of behaviors that a character displayed by the character rearing application conducts, and a control unit which performs synchronization with the robot by means of the short range wireless communication unit and sends, when an event occurs, an event execution command indicating the event to the robot through the radio link, and the robot includes a short range wireless communication unit which establishes the radio link with the mobile terminal, a storage unit which stores a robot displaying application for bringing up the robot and a behavior contents data base of behaviors that the robot conducts, and a control unit which performs synchronization with the mobile terminal by means of the short range wireless communication unit and controls the robot to conduct a behavior corresponding to the event indicated by the event execution command. |
| US08818553B2 |
Robot control device
Disclosed is a robot control device including a means for determining control inputs classified by state quantity for achieving respective target values of a plurality of types of state quantities of a robot, and a means for determining a synthesized control input by synthesizing control inputs classified by frequency region while determining control inputs classified by frequency region in a plurality of respective frequency regions, according to control inputs classified by state quantity. The means determines a control input classified by frequency region corresponding to any one of the frequency regions by synthesizing the plurality of control inputs classified by state quantity in a mutually non-interfering manner. The operation of the robot is controlled so that, under a variety of operating conditions of the robot, a plurality of types of state quantities are efficiently controlled to target values which correspond to the respective types of state quantities. |
| US08818551B2 |
Method and system for automatically tracking packages in automated packaging system
Methods and systems for tracking product groups associated with orders through an automated packaging system are presented. |
| US08818547B2 |
Apparatus for pre-plating truss members
A pre-plating station may include an automated pre-plating device configured to receive a cut truss member and at least partially fasten a connector plate to a portion of the truss member based on truss design data prior to communication of the truss member to a truss assembly location. |
| US08818544B2 |
Solid identification grid engine for calculating support material volumes, and methods of use
A method for calculating a support material volume, the method comprising generating a grid of cells for a tree data structure of a digital part, where the cells define a plurality of cell arrays, and pinging the cells of one of the cell arrays until a cell containing a subset of the tree data structure is reached or until each cell in the cell array is pinged, where if a cell containing the subset of the tree data structure is reached, then designating the reached cell and all remaining unpinged cells in the cell array as filled. The method also includes repeating the pinging step for each remaining cell array to determine a total filled volume, and subtracting a volume of the digital part from the total filled volume to determine a support material volume. |
| US08818542B2 |
Method and device for reducing interference in an audio signal during a call
In order to reduce interference in an audio signal during a call on a mobile communication device, a plurality of transforms of the audio signal is performed, each transform containing phase information and amplitude information of corresponding samples of the audio signal. The results of the transforms are then averaged in order to generating a compensation signal that can be subtracted from the audio signal. |
| US08818537B2 |
Software monitor and control application for use with a digital audio studio suite
A crosspoint matrix for digital signal routing and control, the matrix realized by software code includes a plurality of configurable inputs adapted to accept one or more input signals; a plurality of configurable outputs connected via signal paths to the inputs; and a plurality of variable gain control circuits described by code at each signal path intersection for enabling signal strength level adjustment. In a preferred embodiment, the matrix is a software interface inserted between a sound editing application and a sound card. |
| US08818534B2 |
Electronic apparatus with automatic orientation function
An electronic apparatus includes a first member, a second member with a first point and a second point, a processing unit, and a drive device. The drive device pivotably connects the second member to the first member. The processing unit calculates a first distance between the first point and a third point and a second distance between the second point and the third point. The processing unit controls the drive device to rotate the second member relative to the first member according to the first distance and the second distance, thus the line defined by the third point and a middle point between the first point and the second point is perpendicular to the line defined by the first point and the second point. |
| US08818533B2 |
Information processing device, communication system, and information processing method
An information processing device includes: a receiving unit that receives information to be processed that includes valid data, that has processing content information and identification information, and start information; and a control unit that controls an apparatus such that an initial processing is executed on the basis of the processing content information, and, if the identification information is included in the information to be processed, controls the apparatus such that processing that follows the initial processing is executed, and, if the identification information is not included in the information to be processed, controls the apparatus such that the processing that follows the initial processing is not executed. |
| US08818531B2 |
Distributed control system
Disclosed is a method for controlling a plurality of machines. The method includes identifying a first prerequisite operating condition for a first machine in the plurality of machines, the first machine having at least one control unit and configured to perform at least a first operation, obtaining at least one current operating condition corresponding to a second machine in the plurality of machines and if the at least one current operating condition meets the first prerequisite operating condition, performing the first operation. |
| US08818525B2 |
Lead having thin distal end portion
A deep brain stimulation lead includes a distal end portion having a length of greater than 5 millimeters and a largest outer diametric dimension of 1 millimeter or less. One or more electrodes are disposed at the distal end portion. The lead also includes a proximal end portion having one or more contacts electrically coupled to the one or more electrodes. The lead further includes a mid portion between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion. The mid portion has an outer diametric dimension of greater than 1 millimeter and is configured and positioned to be located in proximity to a burr hole of a skull of patient when the distal end portion is positioned in the brain of the patient at a location to deliver a signal to a target region. |
| US08818524B2 |
Method for detecting vagus capture
Some embodiments provide a system for delivering neurostimulation. Some system embodiments comprise a lead configured to be implanted in the body, a stimulation output circuit configured to deliver neurostimulation pulses to the vagus nerve through the lead, an EMG sensing circuit configured to use the lead to sense EMG signals from laryngeal muscle activity, and an evoked muscular response detection circuit configured to use the EMG signals sensed by the EMG sensing circuit to detect evoked laryngeal muscle activity evoked by the neurostimulation pulse. |
| US08818520B2 |
Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulator
A tibial nerve stimulation device including a percutaneous electrode for inserting adjacent a stimulation site of a patient and a neurostimulator unit attachable to a transcutaneous electrode configured to be applied to skin adjacent the stimulation site. The neurostimulator unit includes a pulse generator electrically coupled to the percutaneous needle electrode and transcutaneous electrode and a microcontroller in communication with the pulse generator for monitoring a number of available treatment credits and activating the pulse generator, each available treatment credit corresponding to a treatment session and the pulse generator operable to be activated for performing the treatment session when the number of available treatment credits is at least one. A computer system is operable to communicate with the microcontroller of the neurostimulator unit for receiving a treatment credit request and transmitting the number of treatment credits purchased to the microcontroller of the neurostimulator unit. |
| US08818518B1 |
Restoring a past configuration to a sound processor of a cochlear implant system
An exemplary method of restoring a past configuration to a sound processor includes a fitting subsystem maintaining a configuration history including data representative of one or more past configurations of a sound processor, displaying a graphical depiction of the configuration history in a graphical user interface, receiving user input requesting that a past configuration within the one or more past configurations of the sound processor be restored to the sound processor, and utilizing data representative of the past configuration in the configuration history to restore the past configuration to the sound processor. Corresponding methods and systems are also described. |
| US08818517B2 |
Information processing and storage in a cochlear stimulation system
Information can be stored in a cochlear stimulation system by determining an item of patient specific information, transferring the item of patient specific information to an implantable portion of the cochlear stimulation system, and permanently storing the item of patient specific information in the implantable portion of the cochlear stimulation system. The item of patient specific information can comprise a parameter for use in generating a stimulation current. The implantable portion of the cochlear stimulation system also can be configured to permanently store one or more items of patient specific information in an alterable fashion. Further, an item of patient specific information can be retrieved from the implantable portion of the cochlear stimulation system. Additionally, an item of non-patient specific information for use in processing a received acoustic signal can be determined and permanently stored in an external portion of the cochlear stimulation system. |
| US08818515B2 |
Voltage limited neurostimulation
Methods and systems for delivering voltage limited neurostimulation to a patient. In one aspect, a method includes initiating a flow of electrical current through a first electrode and a second electrode coupled to the patient and increasing the flow of electrical current toward a target value by increasing a voltage across the first electrode and second electrode. Prior to reaching the target value of electrical current, the method includes preventing the voltage across the first electrode and second electrode from increasing beyond a first predetermined limit; and subsequently, maintaining the voltage across the first electrode and second electrode at or within a predetermined range that does not exceed the first predetermined limit. The amplitude of the electrical current continues to increase toward the target value during at least part of a time when the voltage across the first electrode and the second electrode is maintained within the predetermined range. |
| US08818514B2 |
Methods for intravascularly-induced neuromodulation
Methods for intravascularly-induced renal neuromodulation. In some embodiments, a method can include positioning a pair of bipolar electrodes within renal vasculature of a human patient and expanding a balloon within the renal vasculature. The method can further include delivering an electric field via the bipolar electrodes. |
| US08818513B2 |
Baroreflex stimulation synchronized to circadian rhythm
An embodiment of a baroreflex stimulator comprises a pulse generator to provide a baroreflex stimulation signal through an electrode, and a modulator to modulate the baroreflex stimulation signal based on a circadian rhythm template. According to an embodiment of a method for operating an implantable medical device, comprising a baroreflex stimulation therapy is applied at a stimulation intensity using a baroreflex stimulator in the implantable medical device, and the baroreflex stimulation therapy is modulated based on a circadian rhythm template stored within the implantable medical device. Modulating the baroreflex stimulation therapy includes using the circadian rhythm template to change the stimulation intensity to mimic natural blood pressure fluctuations during the day. |
| US08818508B2 |
Dosing vagal nerve stimulation therapy in synchronization with transient effects
The present disclosure is directed to a method of using an implantable medical device. One embodiment of the present disclosure comprises delivering electrical stimulation proximate nerve tissue of a patient during a transient physiological effect period separated by a recovery period. The transient physiological effect period is when electrical stimulation has an increased level of efficacy and the recovery period is when additional electrical stimulation does not provide a beneficial physiological effect to the patient. |
| US08818506B2 |
Detection of strong static magnetic fields and MRI examination safekeeping for an implantable cardiac prosthesis
An implantable medical device detects a strong static magnetic field associated with an MRI imaging instrument and operates in a safekeeping operating mode. The device includes an electronic circuit for the detection/stimulation of a cardiac activity, a weak field sensor detecting the presence of a first magnetic field of a permanent magnet being located in proximity to the device, a strong field sensor detecting the presence of a second magnetic field of an MRI imaging instrument during the course of an MRI examination. |
| US08818504B2 |
Leadless cardiac stimulation device employing distributed logic
Systems and methods involve an intrathoracic cardiac stimulation device operable to provide autonomous cardiac sensing and energy delivery. The cardiac stimulation device includes a housing configured for intrathoracic placement relative to a patient's heart. A fixation arrangement of the housing is configured to affix the housing at an implant location within cardiac tissue or cardiac vasculature. An electrode arrangement supported by the housing is configured to sense cardiac activity and deliver stimulation energy to the cardiac tissue or cardiac vasculature. Energy delivery circuitry in the housing is coupled to the electrode arrangement. Detection circuitry is provided in the housing and coupled to the electrode arrangement. Communications circuitry may optionally be supported by the housing. A controller in the housing coordinates delivery of energy to the cardiac tissue or cardiac vasculature in accordance with an energy delivery protocol appropriate for the implant location. |
| US08818502B2 |
Method and system for regulation of endocrine and exocrine glands by means of neuro-electrical coded signals
A method and device for endocrine and exocrine gland control. The method comprises selecting neuro-electrical coded signals from a storage area that are representative of body organ function. The selected neuro-electrical coded signals are then transmitted to a treatment member, which is in direct contact with the body, and which then broadcasts the neuro-electrical coded signals to a specific endocrine and exocrine gland nerve or gland to modulate the gland functioning. A control module is provided for transmission to the treatment member. The control module contains the neuro-electrical coded signals which are selected and transmitted to the treatment member, and computer storage can be provided for greater storage capacity and manipulation of the neuro-electrical coded signals. |
| US08818499B2 |
Body fat measurement device
A body fat measurement device includes hand electrodes that contact both hands, back area electrodes that contact the surface of a trunk area of the back, foot electrodes that contact both feet, a trunk area width detection unit for measuring the width and depth of the trunk area, a body impedance measurement unit that measures the body impedance of a body using the multiple electrodes and a body fat mass calculation unit that calculates a body fat mass based on the body impedance and the width and depth of the trunk area. The back area electrodes that make contact with the surface of the back of the trunk area are provided in a fitting unit in an exposed state, as well as the trunk area width detection unit. Accordingly, a body fat measurement device can measure a body fat mass easily and accurately in a household or the like. |
| US08818498B2 |
Electroencephalogram interface system
An eyeglass-type electroencephalogram interface system is worn on the head of a user. The system includes: an output section for presenting a visual stimulation to the user; an ear electrode portion disposed at a position coming in contact with an ear of the user when the system is worn; a facial electrode portion disposed at a position coming in contact with the face below a straight line connecting an external canthus and an internal canthus of an eye of the user, such that the mass of the system is supported at the position, when the system is worn; and an electroencephalogram measurement and determination section for measuring an event-related potential on the basis of a potential difference between the ear electrode portion and the facial electrode portion based on the visual stimulation being presented by the output section as a starting point. |
| US08818495B2 |
Use of periodicity in medical data analysis
A patient management system is described that includes an implantable device for collecting one or more physiological parameter values and associated timestamps indicating the time at which the value is collected. The system is then configured to determine the periodic variation, if any, of a particular physiological parameter and use that periodicity in assessing changes in the parameter values over time. |
| US08818489B2 |
Medical device sensing and detection during MRI
A medical device includes a sensor for sensing for an MRI gradient magnetic field and a microprocessor configured to operate in a signal processing mode in which electrical signals induced by the gradient magnetic field are not counted as cardiac events. |
| US08818486B2 |
Position and orientation algorithm for a single axis sensor
A method includes generating a magnetic field in a predefined volume. A reference model is defined, which models the magnetic field at multiple points in the volume using spherical harmonics. The magnetic field is measured by a field detector, which is coupled to an intra-body probe inserted into an organ of a living body located in the volume. A cost function is defined by comparing the measured magnetic field with the reference magnetic field model within the volume. The cost function is minimized by a computation over dipole terms in a derivative over the cost function so as to find a position and orientation that matches the measured magnetic field. The found position and orientation is outputted as the position and orientation of the probe in the organ. |
| US08818485B2 |
Catheter with bendable tip
A medical probe includes a flexible insertion tube, having a distal end for insertion into a body cavity of a patient, and a distal tip, which is disposed at the distal end of the insertion tube and is configured to be brought into contact with tissue in the body cavity. A coupling member couples the distal tip to the distal end of the insertion tube and includes a tubular piece of an elastic material having a helical cut therethrough along a portion of a length of the piece. |
| US08818484B2 |
Methods of predicting musculoskeletal disease
This invention is directed to methods of predicting bone or joint disease in a subject. The invention is also directed to methods of determining the effect of a candidate agent on any subject's risk of developing bone or joint disease. |
| US08818483B2 |
Methods of making a paddle lead with a carrier and leads and systems formed thereby
A method of making an electrical stimulation lead includes coupling electrodes to a carrier. The carrier defines at least one set of perforations. The method further includes coupling the electrodes to conductors; forming a flexible paddle sheath over the carrier leaving a stimulation surface of each of the plurality of electrodes exposed; and, after forming the flexible paddle sheath, breaking the carrier along at least one of the at least one set of perforations. |
| US08818482B2 |
Electrode patch monitoring device
An electrode patch monitoring device that enables fast and accurate application is described. According to some embodiments, the electrode patch monitoring device comprises an array of electrodes for monitoring bioelectrical data that are formed on a flexible substrate. The electrode patch monitoring device may be available in a plurality of sizes, and various methods are provided for selecting an appropriate size according to the physiology of a patient. Methods for applying the electrode patch monitoring device to the patient's body are also provided. |
| US08818480B2 |
Biological information detection device
A biological information detection device includes a main body portion, a heartbeat detection portion, formed integrally with the main body portion, which has electrodes that come into contact with a biological surface, and a fixing band, detachably provided to the main body portion, which mounts the main body portion and the heartbeat detection portion to a user. A sealing portion for securing sealing of an electrical connection portion is provided in the periphery of the electrical connection portion that electrically connects the main body portion to the electrodes of the heartbeat detection portion. |
| US08818476B2 |
Reflectance and/or transmissive pulse oximeter
According to various embodiments, a medical sensor assembly may be configured to switch between transmission and reflectance mode. Such sensors may include multiple optical sensing components that may be activated or silent, depending on the mode in use. A practitioner may switch between modes based on the particular situation of the patient or based on the signal quality. |
| US08818473B2 |
Organic light emitting diodes and photodetectors
A system and method for determining physiological parameters of a patient based on light transmitted through the patient. The light may be transmitted via a broadband light source and received by a detector. The light may be selectively detected at a detector. Based on material characteristic of the detector, specific wavelengths of light are detected by the detector for use in monitoring the physiological parameters of the patient. |
| US08818465B1 |
Holder for connecting a mobile phone to the seatbelt of a vehicle and method of use
A holder for connecting a mobile phone to the seatbelt of a vehicle includes a front side which receives the mobile phone, and a back side which connects the holder to the seatbelt. The front side includes a mobile phone retainer which holds the mobile phone in the holder. The back side includes a seatbelt connector for connecting the holder to the seatbelt. The connector includes two seatbelt retainers which are shaped and dimensioned to receive the seatbelt. The holder also includes friction enhancing members which keep the holder at a desired position on the seatbelt. |
| US08818461B2 |
Headset with a pivoting microphone arm and speaker
A compact lightweight communication device 100 comprising a wireless headset 102 or wireless earset 104 can be provided for wireless communication, to a mobile phone or other wireless electronic communication device 106. The user friendly communication device 100 can have a pivotable boom 146 providing an arm with one and preferably multiple microphones 166 and 168, as well as one or mobile tactile buttons 156. The multifunction communication device can have acoustic audio transducer 134, such as a speaker 136 and/or an earbud 138 or earphone 140. The audio transducer can pivot on a pivot tube 142 comprising a pivotable stem to accommodate the left ear or right ear of the user. The boom and stem can pivot clockwise and/or counterclockwise, manually and independently or can be coupled to automatically pivot together. |
| US08818460B2 |
Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof
A mobile terminal including a first wireless communication module; a second wireless communication module; a display unit configured to display an activated screen of a specific application when the specific application is activated; a memory configured to store a control value indicating which specific wireless communication module among the first and second wireless communication modules is to be used when the specific application is activated; and a controller configured to receive an activation signal indicating an activation of the specific application, automatically activate the specific wireless communication module designated by the control value stored in the memory when the specific application is activated, and deactivate the specific wireless communication module, when the specific application is deactivated. |
| US08818459B2 |
Hands-free device
A hands-free device disposed in a vehicle identifies a speech direction of an outgoing voice when a hands-free call operation is received. The device extracts callee information from the outgoing voice provided by an occupant to identify a portable communication terminal. In particular, the portable communication terminal is identified when the callee information extracted is registered in a telephone book data of the portable communication terminal. When the speech direction of the outgoing voice is identified as a driver side, the portable communication terminal identified is linked to the driver as a driver-linked terminal. Accordingly, a call being received by a portable communication terminal that is linked to the driver is performed as a hands-free call, whereas a call being received by a portable communication terminal not linked to the driver is not performed as a hands-free call. |
| US08818458B2 |
Active link cable mesh
An active link wireless cable mesh network and a method for transmitting data in a wireless cable mesh network are provided. A plurality of end devices are connected in a mesh configuration. A data message is transmitted to a first end device via one of a plurality of antennas radiating elements which form a phased array antenna. If the message is not successfully received, the antenna radiating elements is steered to another transceiver in the mesh network to complete the transmission. |
| US08818457B2 |
Antenna having polarization diversity
A compact antenna includes a main antenna patch. A first feed point and a second feed point connect with the main antenna patch to provide current in the main antenna. Excitation of the first feed point produces polarization in a first direction along the main antenna patch and excitation of the second feed point produces polarization in a second direction different from the first direction. |
| US08818450B2 |
Electronic device with proximity-based radio power control
An electronic device such as a portable electronic device may have an antenna and associated wireless communications circuitry. A sensor such as a proximity sensor may be used to detect when the electronic device is in close proximity to a user's head. Control circuitry within the electronic device may be used to adjust radio-frequency signal transmit power levels. When it is determined that the electronic device is within a given distance from the user's head, the radio-frequency signal transmit power level may be reduced. When it is determined that the electronic device is not within the given distance from the user's head, proximity-based limits on the radio-frequency signal transmit power level may be removed. Data may be gathered from a touch sensor, accelerometer, ambient light sensor and other sources for use in determining how to adjust the transmit power level. |
| US08818449B2 |
Method and device for network selection in multiple access technologies
A method and wireless user equipment (UE) device provide the capability to store network information in a database structure on the wireless user equipment device, with the network information containing network entries arranged by radio access technology. Each network entry contains a radio access network (RAN) identification code and a core network (CN) identification code and has a priority within the radio access technology. The UE device determines a currently preferred order of access technologies and selects a network entry according to the currently preferred order of radio access technologies and the priority of network entries within the radio access technologies. |
| US08818447B2 |
Radio communication system, radio terminal, and radio communication method
A radio communication system (1) has: a radio terminal (UE); a radio base station (BS1) which transmits radio signals (RS1) to the radio terminal (UE) corresponding to the feedback from the radio terminal (UE); and a radio base station (BS2) which transmits, corresponding to the feedback from the radio terminal (UE), radio signals (RS2) to the radio terminal (UE) at the frequency and time identical to the frequency and time at which the radio signals (RS1) are transmitted. The time interval at which the radio terminal (UE) performs the feedback to the radio base station (BS1) is longer than the time interval at which the radio terminal (UE) performs the feedback to the radio base station (BS2). |
| US08818445B2 |
Power control method for interference alignment in wireless network
A power control method for interference alignment in wireless network having K transmitters and K receivers is provided. The method includes: receiving, performed by receiver n (n is an integer, 1≦n≦K−1), a power indication signal of transmitter n+1 from the transmitter n+1; determining, performed by the receiver n, power of transmitter n; and transmitting, performed by the receiver n, a power indication signal of transmitter n to the transmitter n, wherein the power of transmitter n is determined based on a residual interference of the receiver n, and the power indication signal of transmitter n indicates a minimum transmission power or a maximum transmission power of transmitter n. |
| US08818443B2 |
Base station and cellular wireless communication system
A femtocell base station collects the terminal distribution within the cell and selects terminals to represent the cell-center and the cell-edge from among the terminals within the cell. The femtocell base station also calculates maximum transmit power for the respective the cell-center and cell-edge terminals allowable by the macrocell base station. The femtocell base station sets the respective transmit power of the cell-center and the cell-edge in a range that will not exceed the maximum transmit power, adjusts the transmit power control parameter to allow control by the terminal at the power value that was set, and notifies the terminal. Communication with high throughput can in this way be attained for terminals in cells within the femtocell base station during uplink communications to the femtocell base station, and interference applied to the terminals in the macrocell base station can be suppressed. |
| US08818438B2 |
Rank indicator transmission during discontinuous reception
A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to transmit a rank indicator (RI) using one of an assigned periodic RI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start on an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a first assigned periodic RI reporting resource after the start of the on-duration. |
| US08818435B2 |
System for receiving satellite signals
System for receiving satellite signals jammed by at least one source of interference and by a thermal noise comprising means for receiving the said satellite signals, means for filtering the said satellite signals, in order to remove the disruption from the said sources of interference. The system also comprises first means for determining a first covariance matrix of the satellite signals, adding means for adding respectively a first coefficient to at least one element of the diagonal of the said first covariance matrix in order to obtain a second covariance matrix, second means for determining, on the basis of the said second covariance matrix, second coefficients used by the said filtering means. The system also comprises means for detecting a first power of the said thermal noise, third means for dynamic determination of the value of the said first coefficients, on the basis of the first power. |
| US08818434B1 |
Method and system for SMS messaging verification
A method and system for testing a SMS text messaging network is disclosed herein. The method and system allows for real-time testing of the mobile terminated (“MT”) and mobile originated (“MO”) delivery delays across the major American mobile phone carriers, and accurately measures the progress on SMS broadcasts and records when a broadcast has been completed. |
| US08818431B2 |
Transmission of a useful data object from a switching component to a mobile station
A method for transmission of a useful data object from an exchange component to a mobile station, whereby a communication network is elected, in which the useful data object is to be transmitted and the exchange component transmits the useful data object to the mobile station when it is determined that said the mobile station is hooked into the at least one communication network and it is determined that the exchange component has a delivery request for the useful data object. A mobile station, an exchange component and a telecommunication device, are further disclosed, where each is embodied such as to be able to carry out such a method. |
| US08818430B1 |
Management of message transmission in a wireless communication device
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing transmission of messages such as SMS messages. A device will determine based on access probe count history whether to transmit a message on a reverse access channel or on a reverse traffic channel, and the device will transmit the message accordingly. |
| US08818428B2 |
Apparatus and method for employing a page cycle learning mode
Apparatus and methods are disclosed to provide for a multi-SIM wireless user equipment configured for discontinuous reception (DRX) utilizing two or more subscriptions, which may be in different radio access technologies. The user equipment is configured to originate a call using one subscription, to the same user equipment over another subscription. During the duration of a blanking window, statistics corresponding to repetitions of incoming page messages are recorded and analyzed to determine repetition behavior by the network of page messages. In this way, monitoring of the paging channel can be done during fewer than all DRX cycles, combating possible collisions between DRX cycles on different radio access technologies, and enabling reduced power consumption. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. |