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| US08601610B2 |
Optical electric field enhancement element and probe using the same
An optical electric field enhancement element includes a nanorod which includes a plurality of conductive layers formed therein in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nanorod. Adjacent conductive layers are isolated from each other via an insulating layer. The nanorod exhibits an effect of enhancing an optical electric field. |
| US08601609B2 |
Friction force microscope
Provided is a friction force microscope that can measure a friction force by a cantilever in a quantitative manner. The friction force microscope includes a friction force calculating mechanism that calculates an effective probe height and a torsional spring constant of the cantilever from bending sensitivity determined from displacement information in a bending direction of the cantilever and torsional sensitivity determined from displacement information in a torsional direction of the cantilever, respectively, so as to use the calculated values for calculating the friction force. |
| US08601601B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling access restrictions for media playback
A method and apparatus for controlling access restrictions for media resource playback may include defining a user-specific content control profile authorizing one or more classes of content to be delivered to a client device, generating a media resource request identifying a first media resource associated with a first class of content and one or more attributes of the content control profile, determining whether the first class of content has been authorized for delivery to the client device based at least in part upon the one or more attributes of the content control profile, and delivering the first media resource to the client device if the first class of content has been authorized for delivery to the client device. |
| US08601600B1 |
Storing encrypted objects
Authentication credentials are received at a key server system. A service associated with the wrapped key is identified. A master key is accessed based on the identified service, the master key being associated with the identified service. The wrapped key is decrypted to generate an unwrapped key that includes the resource identifier, the resource encryption key, and the user identifier in unencrypted form. The user identifier is identified accessed from the unwrapped key. The received authentication credentials are determined to correspond to the accessed user identifier. In response to determining that the received authentication credentials correspond to the accessed user identifier, the resource encryption key are sent in unecrypted to the application server system such that the application server system can decrypt the resource using the resource encryption key in unencrypted form. |
| US08601599B2 |
Platform security apparatus and method thereof
A platform security apparatus and a method thereof are capable of protecting a mobile communication terminal from an abnormal or unintended operation of an application program installed over a platform of the mobile communication terminal. An authentication key is created with respect to each function of an application program, and the authentication key and an identifier of the application program are associated with each other and stored. An authentication process is performed by comparing an authentication key and an identifier of an application program registered as function parameters with an authentication key and an identifier of the application program which have been stored, when the application program calls the function. |
| US08601597B2 |
System and method for protecting data stored on a removable data storage device
A system for protecting data stored in a memory of a removable data storage device is provided. The system includes a personal electronic device, a removable solid state data storage device operatively coupled to the personal electronic device, and a circuit configured to alter data stored in the memory of the data storage device in response to detecting that the data storage device has been removed from the personal electronic device. |
| US08601596B2 |
Using social signals to identify unauthorized content on a social networking system
A prediction is calculated to determine whether a content item posted on a social networking system infringes on copyrights or otherwise violates the system's terms of use. The predictions are generated using social signals that are based on social information surrounding the content item, such as the density of connections between the posting user and the viewing users, the profile information of the users, and the geographical separation between the users. The content item is disabled if the prediction indicates a violation and the violation can be verified. |
| US08601592B2 |
Data management utilizing access and content information
A system for operating an enterprise computer network including multiple disparate clients, data elements and computer resources, the system including monitoring and collection functionality for providing continuously updated metadata relating to at least one of actual access, access permissions and content of the data elements and operating functionality utilizing the continuously updated metadata provided by the monitoring and collection functionality for functions other than reporting the at least one of actual access, access permissions and content or recommending changes in the access permissions. |
| US08601589B2 |
Simplified electronic messaging system
A simplified messaging system is provided. In various embodiments, the simplified messaging system receives a selection of an image representing an identification for a user that the user previously provided, receives a selection of multiple images representing a password for the user that the user previously selected, and logs the user into an electronic messaging system based on the selected images. In various embodiments, the simplified messaging system comprises a mail transport server that receives and forwards electronic messages, a mail registration server comprising an images component that stores images associated with user identifications and user passwords, and a mail client that receives a selection of an image identifying a user and multiple images associated with a password of the user, and logs the user into an electronic messaging system when the images are selected. |
| US08601587B1 |
System, method, and software for cyber threat analysis
According to certain embodiments, a cyber threat analysis system generates a network model of a network infrastructure that is used by an organization, assigns a weighting value to each of a plurality of network elements of the network infrastructure according to a relative importance of the each network element to the organization, and generates an attack vector according to a determined vulnerability of the network infrastructure. The attack vector represents one or more illicit actions that may be performed to compromise the network infrastructure. The system may simulate, using a network modeling tool, the attack vector on the network model to determine one or more resulting ramifications of one or more of the plurality of network elements due to the attack vector, and determine a criticality level of the attack vector according to the weighting value of the one or more network elements. |
| US08601585B2 |
Modification of messages for analyzing the security of communication protocols and channels
A system is used to analyze the implementation of a protocol by a device-under-analysis (DUA). The system includes a source endpoint, a destination endpoint (the DUA), and a message generator. The source endpoint generates an original message and attempts to send it to the DUA. The original message is intercepted by the message generator, which generates a replacement message. The replacement message is then sent to the DUA instead of the original message. The replacement message is deliberately improper so as to analyze the DUA's implementation of the protocol. The message generator includes a structure recognition system and a mutation system. The structure recognition system determines the underlying structure and/or semantics of a message. After the structure recognition system has determined the structure, it creates a description of the structure (a structure description). The mutation system modifies the message based on the structure description to generate a replacement message. |
| US08601579B2 |
System and method for preserving references in sandboxes
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for preserving references in sandboxes. A system implementing the method receives a document for use in a sandbox environment and passes the document to a parser, via a coordinator. The parser finds references in the document to other resources and outputs a list of references. The system passes the list of references to a verifier that verifies each reference and outputs a list of verified references. The system passes the list of verified references to the sandboxed application which extends the sandbox to include the resources on the list of verified references. In one embodiment, the system preserves references in sandboxes without the use a coordinator. |
| US08601576B2 |
Apparatus and method for spam configuration
An apparatus and a method for spam registration in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes determining whether there is a spam registration request for a number, determining whether spam registration prohibit condition not to register the number as spam is satisfied when there is the spam registration request for the number and not registering the number as spam when the spam registration prohibit condition is satisfied. |
| US08601575B2 |
Statistical method and system for network anomaly detection
An anomaly detection method and system determine network status by monitoring network activity. A statistics based profile for said network over a period is generated to analyze potentially anomalous network activity to determine if said network activity is anomalous by comparing current activity against the profile. Using the profile as a reference, the anomaly detection system and process estimate and prioritize potentially anomalous network activity based on the probability that the behavior is anomalous. The level of severity that the anomaly detection process uses to determine if an alarm is needed is based on comparing user-adjustable thresholds to the current probability. If the threshold has been breached, the user is alerted, subject to other quality checks. After a reporting cycle concludes, the anomaly detection system and process recompiles the statistics based profile to take into account the information observed in the previous reporting cycle. |
| US08601573B2 |
Facial recognition for document and application data access control
A presentation system including a computing device, a display device coupled to the computing device and an image capture device that obtains an image containing facial images of at least two individuals capable of viewing the display device, the at least two individuals including a primary user and at least one secondary user, is provided. The system also includes a recognition apparatus operably coupled to the computing device and including a permission engine, the permission engine applying a policy to a protected information element displayed on the display screen, the policy causing one or more actions to be taken based on the identify of the primary and one or more of the secondary users. |
| US08601572B2 |
Method for sharing a media collection in a network environment
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides for the accessing and playing of media files having differing associated rights such as non-DRM media files, purchased and downloaded media files, subscription download files such as tethered downloads, and subscription streamed DRM files. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method and user interface for sharing a media collection among computing devices in communication via a network. In one embodiment, the disclosed method allows access and playback, from each computing device on a network, of all media files in a media collection, regardless of their associated rights. |
| US08601569B2 |
Secure access to a private network through a public wireless network
A system, method and computer-program product for a client device to securely access a private network through a public wireless network. The system establishes a first network tunnel between the client device and a gateway of the public wireless network and then authenticates the client device with an authentication server of the private network using the first tunnel. The authentication is proxied by an authentication server of the public network. Once the authentication is successful, a second tunnel is established between the client device and a gateway of the private network for secure access by the client device to the private network. |
| US08601567B2 |
Firewall for tunneled IPv6 traffic
A NAT device and method implemented on the device for filtering tunneled IPv6 traffic is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving an IP traffic stream at an ingress network interface to the NAT, performing deep packet inspection on the traffic stream to detect the tunneled IPv6 packets, and applying a filter to the IPv6 packets. |
| US08601566B2 |
Mechanism supporting wired and wireless methods for client and server side authentication
Authentication functions are centralized in a security system to offload servers of this functionality, and to provide an end-to-end solution for secure internet transactions. The security system supports authentication functions for authenticating a server by requesting server certificates from a certificate authority, and sending server certificates to clients requesting authentication. The security system also authenticates clients by checking digital signatures, validating the client certificates, which includes checking CA signatures, checking the validity period of the signatures, maintaining a certificate revocation list (CRL), and checking client certificates against the CRL. |
| US08601565B1 |
White-list firewall based on the document object model
Some embodiments provide firewalls and methods for guarding against attacks by leveraging the Document Object Model (DOM). The firewall renders the DOM tree to produce a white-list rendering of the data which presents the non-executable elements of the data and, potentially, outputs of the executable elements of the data without the executable elements that could be used to carry a security threat. Some embodiments provide control over which nodes of the DOM tree are included in producing the white-list rendering. Specifically, a configuration file is specified to white-list various nodes from the DOM tree and the white-list rendering is produced by including the DOM tree nodes that are specified in the white-list of the configuration file while excluding those nodes that are not in the white-list. Some embodiments provide a hybrid firewall that executes a set of black-list rules over white-listed nodes of the DOM tree. |
| US08601563B2 |
Wireless tag, reader/writer, encoding system, and encoding method
An encrypted ID takes as its initial value a tag ID that constitutes an original ID of a wireless tag, and is encrypted using an encryption key each time an ID inquiry is received from a reader/writer. Another encrypted ID also takes the tag ID as its initial value, and is encrypted using an encryption key each time an ID inquiry is received. The wireless tag gives confidential variability to the ID by transmitting a combination of the encrypted ID and the another encrypted ID in reply. The reader/writer can obtain the original ID merely by decoding the two encrypted values until they match, and the decoding load does not increase even if the number of wireless tags that are reading targets increases. |
| US08601562B2 |
Policy enforcement using ESSO
A method for enforcing policies used with a computer client, the method including receiving, at policy decision point (PDP) processor, information from a single sign-on (SSO) system indicating an occurrence of an event of interest on the computer client, performing, using the PDP processor, a policy check in response to the occurrence of the event of interest, wherein a policy check result is generated, and providing the generated policy check result to the SSO system. |
| US08601561B1 |
Interactive overlay to prevent unintentional inputs
A computing device is described that outputs for display at a presence-sensitive screen a lock screen graphical user interface. The lock screen graphical user interface includes a widget region and an unlock region. The widget region includes a widget and an overlay that at least partially obscures the widget. The computing device receives an indication of a user input and determines a characteristic of the user input. In response to determining that the determined characteristic satisfies a threshold, the computing device removes the overlay from the widget region. |
| US08601559B2 |
Image output authentication system, image output authentication server, and image output authentication method
An authentication server: has user identification information and a password of that user identification information previously stored therein in association with each other; receives user identification information transmitted, the user identification information being determined from information input at and received by an image output apparatus; obtains a password received by an image transmission apparatus used by a user associated with the received user identification information, from that image transmission apparatus after that user identification information is received; determines whether the obtained password and the password stored in the authentication server in association with the received user identification information match; and, if a decision is made that the passwords match, permits the image output apparatus that had sent the received user identification information, to output an image corresponding to image data transmitted from the image transmission apparatus and stored in that image output apparatus in association with that user identification information. |
| US08601558B2 |
Pushing certificate chains to remote devices
Rather than managing a certificate chain related to a newly issued identity certificate at a terminal to which a wireless device occasionally connects, a certificate server can act to determine the identity certificates in a certificate chain related to the newly issued identity certificate. The certificate server can also act to obtain the identity certificates and transmit the identity certificates towards the device that requested the newly issued identity certificate. A mail server may receive the newly issued identity certificate and the identity certificates in the certificate chain and manage the timing of the transmittal of the identity certificates. By transmitting the identity certificates in the certificate chain before transmitting the newly issued identity certificate, the mail server allows the user device to verify the authenticity of the newly issued identity certificate. |
| US08601551B2 |
System and method for a business data provisioning for a pre-emptive security audit
Embodiments of the present invention may provide a system and method for business data provisioning for a pre-emptive security audit. In one aspect, a method embodiment may comprise the steps of identifying the business resources as expressed in business terms, ensuring that applications dealing with (parts of) the business resources are aware of the link to the resource, transmitting the information about the used business resources throughout the call stack up to the UI, making use of the highest access enforcement point possible where it can be ensured that access to the protected resource is only done through either authorized users or trusted code, and having this access enforcement point taken over by a framework to ensure adequate protection even in extensibility scenarios. |
| US08601545B2 |
Method and system for directing user between captive and open domains
A method for limiting user access to a captive domain or an open domain. The captive domain may include electronically accessible content that is selected/controlled by a service provider and the open domain may include electronically accessible content that is not completely selected/controlled by the service provider. The method may include configuring a modem or other user device in such a manner as to limit use access to the desired domain. |
| US08601544B1 |
Computer system employing dual-band authentication using file operations by trusted and untrusted mechanisms
A first machine (e.g., server VM) authenticates an untrusted second machine (e.g., new client VM) as a condition to performing or allowing a protected operation. An authentication identifier is written to a file of a file system using one mechanism, and then read from the file using another mechanism. One of the mechanisms is an untrusted mechanism employing the untrusted second machine, while the other is a trusted mechanism performed by the first machine either alone or in combination with a trusted management component that has privileged access to the file system. If the written and read values match, it can be inferred that the second machine is authentic, because the trusted management component has identified and accessed an existing file system that is also separately accessed by the second machine. |
| US08601543B2 |
Mobile terminal and control method thereof
A mobile terminal and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal selects a method of interfacing an identification device with the mobile terminal according to whether the mobile terminal enters a sleep mode. |
| US08601540B2 |
Software license management
Disclosed is a system and method for automatically managing software licenses that are specifically tied to end users. A repository located on an authentication and license checking server contains the license requirements needed for each application. The repository is searched to determine which license(s) the requester needs to get access to an application. A user authentication is combined with a license checking at the server to grant or deny access to the application. A procurement license server may also be coupled to the license authentication and checking server to order any missing license(s). |
| US08601537B2 |
System and method for data mining and security policy management
A system and method to generate and maintain controlled growth DAG are described. The controlled growth DAG conveys information about objects captured by a capture system. |
| US08601535B2 |
Mobile authorization using policy based access control
An authorization engine is provided in a remote device for mobile authorization using policy based access control. To ensure that remote devices can enforce consistent authorization policies even when the devices are not connected to the server, the remote device downloads the relevant authorization policies when the business objects are downloaded and enforces the policies when operations are invoked. The memory footprint of downloadable authorization policies is reduced to fit onto a resource-constrained remote device. A policy evaluation engine interprets and enforces the downloaded policies on the remote device using only the limited computational resources of the remote device. |
| US08601527B2 |
Wireless communication device, information processing device, wireless communication method, and information processing system
The wireless communication device includes a terminal communication transition unit for sending a transition instruction for transitioning to a state in which communication with a communication terminal is possible, a terminal communication unit that transitions to a state in which the communication with the communication terminal is possible in response to the transition instruction sent by the terminal communication transition unit, a signal generating unit for generating a transition instruction signal corresponding to the transition instruction, a transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting the transition instruction signal generated by the signal generating unit to an information processing device, a reception unit for wirelessly receiving a response from the information processing device to the transition instruction signal transmitted from the transmission unit, and a terminal communication control unit for starting to control information transmission/reception between the communication terminal and the information processing device according to the response received by the reception unit. |
| US08601520B2 |
Input and output switching device and input and output switching method
In the wireless HDMI converter, appropriate audio data input switching is performed, and, when an instruction is received, an audio data extraction unit extracts audio data from video and audio data received by an HDMI input interface from an STB, and an optical audio output interface outputs the extracted audio data to a home theater, thereby avoiding failure of wireless communication by a wireless interface or deterioration of the quality of such wireless communication. |
| US08601519B1 |
Digital residential entertainment system
The present invention is a comprehensive digital residential entertainment system. A system includes a data switch, a mass storage device, a tuner and a demodulator. The data switch has a plurality of switch ports, and the mass storage device is coupled to a switch port of the plurality of switch ports of the data switch. The tuner selects an information channel of a plurality of information channels. The demodulator is coupled to a switch port of the plurality of switch ports of the data switch and to the tuner. A Web-based graphical user interface can be provided for accessing and controlling the features and functions of the digital residential entertainment system. |
| US08601518B1 |
Vehicle display system
A vehicle entertainment system comprising media player, master unit, slave units and smart devices to control the operation of master unit and slave units. A media placed in the media player can be played and shared between master and slave units. The media can be stored in a storage device to be played at a later time. The media content is shared between master and slave units via cable or wireless communication. |
| US08601514B1 |
PC media center and extension device for a home entertainment system
Within a media center extension device, a first media signal is received from a media source and encoded into a first media stream, which is sent via a network to a personal computer media center. Within the personal computer media center, the first media stream is stored within a storage device, such as a hard disk drive. Also within the personal computer media center, a second media stream is retrieved from the storage device, which is sent via the network to the media center extension device. Within the media center extension device, the second media stream is decoded into a second media signal, which is rendered for display on a display device. |
| US08601513B2 |
System and method for commanding a controlled device
A system and method for commanding a controlled device. An intelligent navigation server detects a transition from a current state of a remote control device. A context for transition is also determined. The current state, the new current state and the context are evaluated to select a set of commands appropriate to the context and the new current state. The selected commands determine behavior options for the controlled device. The set of selected commands are sent to the remote control device. Text and/or graphical data appropriate to the new current state may also be sent to the remote control device. The remote control device may generate display data based on the selected commands to provide one or more soft buttons linked to one or more of the selected commands. The remote control device may also display the text and/or graphical data. |
| US08601510B2 |
User interface for interactive digital television
A method of controlling an interactive television includes displaying a layout on the interactive television that includes one or more visual cues to prompt a user regarding an action (click action) to be taken on an input device to activate a predetermined function (click event). The visual cues may include multiple visual cues, at least one of which is a visual cue for a cursor-based action that includes positioning a cursor with an input device, and another is a visual cue for a movement-based action that includes moving the input device. |
| US08601505B2 |
Apparatuses for global television (TV) channel sharing
An apparatus for global television (TV) channel sharing, operating as a sharing client, comprises a registration module, a TV signal receiving module, a multimedia data encoding module, and an Internet communication module. The registration module receives a network address of a subscription client from a mediation server. The TV signal receives module receiving local TV signals after receiving the network address of the subscription client. The multimedia data encoding module encodes the local TV signals into a bitstream. The Internet communication module transmits the bitstream to the subscription client corresponding to the network address via the Internet. |
| US08601501B2 |
Optical disc driving device and wiring structure
An optical disc driving device has a metallic exterior casing and an internal unit to be housed in the exterior casing. The internal unit further includes an optical pickup unit for performing recording or reproduction of information signals on an optical disc, and a printed wiring substrate on which a connector electrically connected to the optical pickup unit and serving for transmission and reception of electrical signals from and to external electronic equipment via an external-connection cable is mounted. The exterior casing has an opening for allowing the connector project outside, and the connector is connected to the external-connection cable in a direction that orthogonally crosses with a projecting direction of the connector from the opening, and the external-connection cable extends from the connector along a surface of the exterior casing. |
| US08601497B2 |
Converting a message signaled interruption into an I/O adapter event notification
One or more message signaled interruption requests from one or more input/output (I/O) adapters are converted to I/O adapter event notifications. Each I/O adapter event notification includes the setting of one or more specific indicators in system memory and an interruption request, the first of which results in a pending I/O adapter interruption request. While a request for an I/O adapter interruption is pending, subsequent message signaled interruption requests are converted to I/O adapter event notifications, but do not result in additional requests for I/O adapter interruptions. |
| US08601496B2 |
Method and system for protocol offload in paravirtualized systems
Certain aspects of a method and system for protocol offload in paravirtualized systems may be disclosed. Exemplary aspects of the method may include preposting of application buffers to a front-end driver rather than to a NIC in a paravirtualized system. The NIC may be enabled to place the received offloaded data packets into a received data buffer corresponding to a particular guest operating system (GOS). A back-end driver may be enabled to acknowledge the placed offloaded data packets. The back-end driver may be enabled to forward the received data buffer corresponding to the particular GOS to the front-end driver. The front-end driver may be enabled to copy offloaded data packets from a received data buffer corresponding to a particular GOS to the preposted application buffers. |
| US08601492B2 |
User interface for multi-channel communication
The present invention provides a user interface and method for communicating using multiple communication channels of different media types. The method includes obtaining an event communicated via an incoming communication channel, where the event corresponds to a work item available to an agent. A notification of the work item is provided via the user interface. The method includes receiving an activation of a work item object of the user interface, where the work item object is associated with the work item. The method includes issuing a command associated with the activation of the work item object to an outgoing communication channel. The user interface enables the agent to work using different communication channels while presenting a consistent interface independent of the media type of the communication channel. |
| US08601491B1 |
Universal master control station system
A system for controlling subsea components from multiple manufacturers, each having a proprietary communication interface. The system can include a client configuration processor. The client configuration processor can communicate with a client configuration data storage. The client configuration data storage can include a human machine interface client configuration tool and an engineering client configuration tool. |
| US08601483B2 |
Forecasting based service for virtual machine reassignment in computing environment
A mechanism is provided for reassigning virtual machines to resources in a computing environment. Monitoring data is collected about virtual machine request history and resource usage in a form of time series for measured indicators. Forecasted time series are computed for the measured indicators over a time window by utilizing time series forecasting. A new assignment is computed by executing a snapshot based assignment algorithm on the forecasted time series. The new assignment is used for reassignment of virtual machines on the resources in the computing environment. |
| US08601481B2 |
Workflow validation and execution
An apparatus, a computer program product and a computer-implemented method performed by a computerized device, comprising: receiving a description of a workflow, the workflow comprising a plurality of blocks, wherein each block comprises one or more instructions, the plurality of blocks comprising at least a first block and a second block, wherein the first block is adapted to output information, and the second block is adapted to receive the information wherein at least one of the plurality of blocks is associated with a ratio between a number of records input into the block and a number of records output by the block; and validating that the workflow can operate properly, using the ratio, wherein during execution, each of the first block and the second block can keep an internal state and request to receive again data previously received as input. |
| US08601480B2 |
Support of non-trivial scheduling policies along with topological properties
A system and method for scheduling jobs in a multiprocessor machine is disclosed. The status of resources, including CPUs on node boards and associated shared memory in the multiprocessor machine is periodically determined. The status can indicate the resources available to execute jobs. This information is accumulated by the topology-monitoring unit and provided to the topology library. The topology library also receives a candidate host list from the scheduling unit which lists all of the resources available to execute the job being scheduled based on non-trivial scheduling. The topology library unit then uses this to generate a free map F indicative of the interconnection of the resources available to execute the job. The topology monitoring unit then matches the jobs to the resources available to execute the jobs, based on resource requirements including shape requirements indicative of interconnections of resources required to execute the job. The topology monitoring unit dispatches the job to the portion of the free map F which match the shape requirements of the job. If the topology library unit determines that no resources are available to execute the job, the topology library unit will return the job to the scheduling unit and the scheduling unit which will wait until the resources become available. The free map F may include resources which have been suspended or reserved in previous scheduling cycles, provided the job to be scheduled satisfies the predetermined criteria for execution of the job on the suspended, have a lower priority, or are reserved resources. |
| US08601478B2 |
Division, linking and sequential execution of workflows based on the fewest number of divided partitions
A workflow executing method to execute a workflow of a plurality of steps according to a workflow definition. The method includes obtaining setting information of a user instructing execution of the workflow, which is setting information related to the execution of the workflow. The method also includes modifying the workflow definition corresponding to the workflow of which the user instructed execution, based on the obtained setting information. The method continues by dividing the workflow definition modified with the modifying unit for each workflow executing apparatus that executes the workflow definition. The method also includes executing at least one of the divided workflow definitions and sending at least one divided workflow definition to another workflow executing apparatus that executes processing based on the workflow definition, whereby workflow definitions are modified to match user settings, and the modified workflow definitions are divided to match apparatuses executing the workflow definition. |
| US08601476B2 |
Application task request and fulfillment processing
Techniques for fulfilling requests and providing results to a requesting entity. Embodiments may poll a flag to determine when a fulfillment request from a requesting entity is pending. Upon detecting the fulfillment request is pending, embodiments may retrieve the request and perform one or more actions associated with the request to produce a fulfillment result. Embodiments may then store the fulfillment result in a storage location and transmit a notification to the requesting entity to indicate the fulfillment request has been fulfilled. |
| US08601475B2 |
Download and upload of email messages using control commands in a client/server web application
The present invention relates generally to client-server architectures for allowing generic upload and download functionality between a web application at a server and a client. One exemplary method includes sending a download/upload request to a web application at the server, where the download/upload request specifies at least one file to download/upload; receiving a transmission from the server; parsing the transmission to identify a download/upload command and an associated download/upload manifest, where the download/upload manifest includes executable code that, when executed on the client, will perform the download/upload of the at least one file. |
| US08601472B1 |
Instantiating virtual appliances
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for efficiently processing information. In some embodiments, this includes selecting a service to add to a storage array, determining a virtual appliance associated with the service, and instantiating the virtual appliance. In some embodiments, instantiating the virtual appliance includes instantiating an image of the virtual appliance. |
| US08601470B2 |
Symbiotic smart peripherals
Systems and methods for augmenting the functionality of a device using a virtual machine monitor is provided. In general, in one aspect, a computer implemented method is provided. The computer implemented method includes launching a virtual machine monitor on a host device and for a peripheral device. The virtual machine monitor comprises one or more software components capable of performing actions including connecting a peripheral device to a host device, where the peripheral device memory includes peripheral device specific software and one or more available software bundles. The software components can launch the virtual machine monitor for the peripheral device and execute the peripheral device-specific software and an available software bundle on the host device. In one implementation, the computer implemented method includes connecting a peripheral device to a host device, where the peripheral device memory includes peripheral device-specific software that is executed on the host device. |
| US08601468B1 |
Web-based applications using web extents
According to one general aspect, a computer-implemented method may include sending, from a computing device to a server, a request to install a web-based application on the computing device. In various embodiments, the method may also include receiving, from the server, an installation procedure for the web-based application. In some embodiments, the installation procedure may include installing the web-based application on the computing device. The procedure may also include specifying a web extent for the web-based application. In various embodiments, the web extent may include a first web origin for the web-based application, and a second web origin for the web-based application. |
| US08601455B2 |
Repository relationship programming
Embodiments of systems, methods and computer program products are described for implementing repository relationship programming. Implementations described herein describe processes for implementing a union of concerns, integrating concerns, assembling concerns and separating concerns. |
| US08601454B2 |
Device and method for automatically optimizing composite applications having orchestrated activities
A device (D) is intended for optimizing composite applications comprising at least two orchestrated activities participating to at least one process. This device (D) comprises i) an analyzing means (AM) arranged for determining orchestrated activities contained into a composite application to be optimized and dependencies between these activities, and ii) an optimizing means (OM) arranged for determining a new orchestration between the determined activities which allows the composite application to execute requests of users in a minimal time, according to the determined dependencies and to predefined rules, and for outputting an optimized composite application based on the new orchestration. |
| US08601453B2 |
COBOL to bytecode translation
A system that translates source code of a compiled high level language into bytecode. Compiled languages are so named because their implementations are typically compilers that generate machine code. The described system takes source code of the compiled high level language and translates it into bytecode. The bytecode can be optimized with control flow analysis and method splitting. |
| US08601452B2 |
Compiler for JAVA and .NET
A computer implemented method analyzing a first code in a first managed computer language and generating intermediate code in a completed language. The intermediate code into linking code that allows the second code in a second managed runtime language to interact with the first code. |
| US08601450B2 |
Methods and systems for compiling a shading process of a 3D computer graphics
A method for a 3D computer graphics shading process compiler, utilized to generate hardware machine code corresponding to a script is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. Operation mapping code indicating an operation of the script, and argument mapping code indicating an argument associated with the operation is provided. The hardware machine code is generated by performing a bitwise OR operation to the operation mapping code and the argument mapping code. |
| US08601449B2 |
Cross-platform application framework
One set of instructions is generated in part by compiling application-specific source code. When natively executed on a platform provided by a device, the set of instructions provides an application. Another set of instructions is generated in part by compiling the same business logic source code. When natively executed on another platform provided by another device, the other set of instructions provides the same application. The business logic source code is substantially free of code specific to any platform. Moreover, the business logic source code defines substantially all application-specific functionality of the application. |
| US08601447B2 |
Open controls
One embodiment of the present invention is a method of converting a user interface. A control based class can be extended to produce a Java Server Face. The Java Server Face can be converted to create an ASP.NET user interface. |
| US08601444B2 |
Analysis and timeline visualization of thread activity
Analyzing the performance of multi-threaded applications. An analysis and visualization of thread executions is performed on a graphical timeline using samples of thread execution. This allows users to understand when their application threads are executing, what they were executing, the degree of concurrency in thread execution, and the order in which work is performed in their application. The visualizations and analysis also allow users to sample thread execution contexts using a graphical user interface, as well as the generation of execution profile reports that may be filtered for a specific time range of execution and a subset of the threads running in the application. |
| US08601434B2 |
Method and system for information processing and test case generation
A method and system for information processing and test case generation. The system includes: a pattern storage module for storing at least one resource identifier patterns, where the resource identifier patterns are extracted from a server code of a web application by analyzing the server code; a client code analyzer module for analyzing a client code generated from the server code and finding at least one event sequences matching with the resource identifier patterns; and a test case generator module for fetching a client state established from the client code, executing the event sequences on the client state, and generating a test case, where the test case includes a second resource identifier generated as an execution result of the event sequence. |
| US08601433B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating virtual software platform based on component model and validating software platform architecture using the platform
A method and apparatus for validating a component model-based software platform architecture, the method including: generating a virtual software platform having a template code describing functions of one or more components of software according to design information of a software platform and a build script having configuration variables according to a type of the software and building the generated template code; changing the configuration values of the configuration variables provided in the virtual software platform for a combination of the components; and validating a consistency of the software platform according to a result of executing the virtual software platform based on the changed configuration variables. According to the method and apparatus, by validating in advance whether it is possible to construct a normal composition of the software product, testing and manpower costs can be reduced. |
| US08601432B2 |
Service-based processes using policy-based model-to-model conversion and validation techniques
A modeling tool may be configured to generate a diagrammatic representation of a service-based process, expressed using a diagrammatic modeling language. A model converter may be configured to convert the diagrammatic representation into a formal model of the service-based process, and a model verifier configured to apply constraints to the formal model to verify an operation of the service-based process and output a verified formal model. A code generator may be configured to generate executable code therefrom for executing the service-based process therewith. |
| US08601431B2 |
Method and system for identifying software applications for offshore testing
The present invention provides a method and system for evaluating a plurality of software applications for offshore testing. A criteria model including one or more criteria for assessing the viability of offshore testing is defined by one or more tool administrators. Thereafter, one or more experts assign scores to the plurality of software applications with reference to the criteria model. One or more cumulative scores may then be calculated for each of the plurality of software applications based on the assigned scores. Further, a graph may be generated on the basis of the one or more cumulative scores. Subsequently, one or more software applications are identified for offshore testing. A transition plan for offshore testing of the one or more software applications may also be defined. |
| US08601429B1 |
Method for connecting flip chip components
An automated system and method for determining flip chip connections involves generating a first projection that includes representations of bumps arranged over a core of the flip chip and generating a second projection that includes representations of I/O pads arranged around the core. The first projection is generated by drawing a line through each bump between a location of the flip chip and an outer portion of the flip chip and marking a location where the line terminates at the outer portion with a representation of the bump. The outer portion of the flip chip is traversed, and the first projection is generated based on the order in which bump representations are encountered. The second projection is generated by drawing a line through each I/O pad between a location of the flip chip and an outer portion of the flip chip and marking a location where the line terminates at the outer portion with a representation of the I/O pad. The outer portion of the flip chip is traversed, and the second projection is generated based on the order in which I/O pad representations are encountered. Connections between bump and I/O representations are made and connecting between bumps and I/O pads determined based on the connections between bump and I/O pad representations of respective first and second projections. The determined connections can be adjusted according to a hierarchy of bump representations to reduce or eliminate congestion, e.g., by changing a sequence of or deleting bump representations. |
| US08601427B2 |
Intergrated circuit having latch circuits and using delay to fetch data bits in synchronization with clock signals
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a delay circuit connected between a source of data bits and a data input terminal of a latch circuit. The delay circuit includes a first delay section formed by connecting logic devices in series corresponding to a number of logic devices included in a clock signal path between a clock signal source and the latch circuit data input. The delay circuit also includes a second delay section having a delay time equal to an interconnect delay time corresponding to a wiring length of the clock signal path. |
| US08601426B1 |
Multi-voltage domain circuit design verification method
A level shifter physical verification system identifies missing level shifters in a multi-voltage domain integrated circuit design. The system analyzes a physical layout design data file for design to identify domains and signals that cross domains, and connected nets of devices within the IC design having one or more missing level shifters. |
| US08601425B2 |
Solving congestion using net grouping
A method, system, and computer program product for solving a congestion problem in an integrated circuit (IC) design are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A congested g-edge is selected from a set of congested g-edges. A set of congesting nets is selected, wherein the set of congesting nets cause congestion in the selected congested g-edges by crossing the selected congested g-edge. A vacancy data structure corresponding to the selected congested g-edge is populated. A subset of the set of the congesting nets is selected. The subset of the set of the congesting nets is rerouted to a candidate g-edge identified in the vacancy data structure. |
| US08601424B1 |
Programmable logic device having logic elements with dedicated hardware to configure look up tables as registers
A programmable logic device architecture having logic elements with dedicated hardware to configure the look up tables of the logic element to either perform logic functions or to operate as a register for pipelining. The programmable logic device includes a general interconnect and a plurality of logic array blocks interconnected by the general interconnect. Each of the plurality of logic blocks further includes one or more logic elements. The logic elements each include a first look up table, a second look up table, and dedicated hardware within the logic element to configure the first look table and the second look up table as a register without having to use the general interconnect. In one embodiment, the dedicated hardware includes a plurality of dedicated interconnects within the logic element to configure the two look up tables as a pair of cross coupled muxes or latches when configured as a register. |
| US08601421B2 |
Small, adaptable, real-time, scalable image processing chip
An imaging solution that uses a small, adaptable, real-time, scalable, image-processing (SMARTS IP) chip configured to function like any one of a wide range of specialized FPA imaging devices, and a method for configuring and implementing same is provided. Configuration for a wide range of applications and implementations, including ones with or without IDCA assemblies or other types of dewar/cooler structures, is disclosed. A wide range of output data formats, including all SDI-compatible image data formats, may be accomplished. Frame stacking and variable effective resolution and charge well depth levels may be accomplished in output image data based on on-chip image processing techniques. On-chip image processing algorithms may include XR™, DRC, NUC, and other similar or related techniques. Image data output compression through on-chip processing is also disclosed. |
| US08601416B2 |
Method of circuit design yield analysis
A method includes (a) generating a set of samples, each sample representing a respective set of semiconductor fabrication process variation values; (b) selecting a first subset of the set of samples based on a probability of the set of semiconductor fabrication process variation values corresponding to each sample; (c) estimating a yield measure for a semiconductor product based on relative sizes of the set of samples and the first subset, without performing a Monte Carlo simulation; and (d) outputting an indication that a design modification is appropriate, if the estimated yield measure is below a specification yield value. |
| US08601414B2 |
Automated scalable verification for hardware designs at the register transfer level
A system and methods are provided for verifying a hardware design for an electronic circuit. The method may include: providing a hardware design description for the electronic circuit; extracting a set of design constraints from the hardware design description, where the set of design constraints represents the electronic circuit in terms of signals and logical operations performed on the signals; creating an abstraction model from the set of design constraints, where the abstraction model abstracts one or more of the logical operations in the set of design constraints by replacing the abstracted logical operations with uninterpreted functions; and property checking the abstraction model in relation to one or more design properties. When a violation in the electronic circuit is detected by the property checking step, the feasibility of the violation is then checked and, if the violation is deemed infeasible, the abstraction model is refined. |
| US08601413B2 |
High-level synthesis device, high-level synthesis method, high-level synthesis program, and integrated circuit design method
A high-level synthesis device, which converts a behavior description file describing a function of an integrated circuit using a high-level language without timing description, into a hardware description file describing the integrated circuit including timing description, has: a processor; a high-level synthesis unit in which the processor converts a behavior description file having a functional portion describing the function and a control portion controlling timing, into a first hardware description file; a variable extraction unit; a loop information generation unit; a static latency extraction unit; a latency calculation circuit generation unit in which the processor generates a second hardware description file describing a latency calculation circuit which generates the latency information based on loop count and static latency; and an insertion unit in which the processor inserts the second hardware description file into the first hardware description file to generate a third hardware description file. |
| US08601412B1 |
Netlisting analog/mixed-signal schematics to VAMS
A method is provided to convert an analog mixed-signal schematic design to a digital netlist: digital blocks within the schematic design are converted to digital netlist modules; analog blocks within the schematic design are converted to analog netlist modules: at least one digital netlist module includes a first identifier for a component that is shared between at least one digital block and at least one analog block within the schematic design; an analog netlist module that corresponds to the at least one analog block within the design includes a second identifier for the shared component that is different from the first identifier; the analog netlist modules are converted to corresponding digital netlist modules; the first identifier is substituted for the second identifier in the course of translating the analog netlist module that corresponds to the at least one analog block. |
| US08601410B2 |
Methods for forming arrays of small, closely spaced features
Methods of forming arrays of small, densely spaced holes or pillars for use in integrated circuits are disclosed. Various pattern transfer and etching steps can be used, in combination with pitch-reduction techniques, to create densely-packed features. Conventional photolithography steps can be used in combination with pitch-reduction techniques to form superimposed patterns of crossing elongate features with pillars at the intersections. Spacers are simultaneously applied to sidewalls of both sets of crossing lines to produce a pitch-doubled grid pattern. The pillars facilitate rows of spacers bridging columns of spacers. |
| US08601409B1 |
Compression method and system for use with multi-patterning
A method comprises (a) providing an integrated circuit (IC) layout comprising data representing a plurality of circuit patterns to be formed on or in a single layer of an IC by multi-patterning; (b) dividing the plurality of circuit patterns into two or more groups; (c) assigning the circuit patterns within each group to a respective mask to provide mask assignment data, for forming each group of circuit patterns on or in the single layer of the IC; (d) compressing the mask assignment data; and (e) storing the compressed mask assignment data to a non-transitory machine readable storage medium for use by an electronic design automation tool configured for reconstructing the mask assignment data from the compressed data. |
| US08601408B2 |
Method and system for replacing a pattern in a layout
A received layout identifies a plurality of circuit components to be included in an integrated circuit (IC) layer for double patterning the layer using two photomasks, the layout including a plurality of first patterns to be included in the first photomask and at least one second pattern to be included in the second photomask. A selected one of the first patterns has first and second endpoints, to be replaced by a replacement pattern connecting the first endpoint to a third endpoint. At least one respective keep-out region is provided adjacent to each respective remaining first pattern except for the selected first pattern. Data are generated representing the replacement pattern, such that no part of the replacement pattern is formed in any of the keep-out regions. Data representing the remaining first patterns and the replacement pattern are output. |
| US08601402B1 |
System for and method of interfacing with a three dimensional display
An interface for a system includes a three dimensional display and a three dimensional touch screen. The interface includes processing electronics configured to receive information from a three dimensional touch screen and determine at least one of a grab and hold operation for an object displayed in three dimensional space, a zoom operation associated with a finger movement along a Z axis perpendicular to an XY plane of the three dimensional touch screen, a pick and placement operation for an object in three dimensional space, a switching operation associated with a two dimensional object getting three dimensional attributes when moved along the Z axis in a direction away from the XY plane of the screen, and a menu expansion operation associated with a finger movement along the Z axis. |
| US08601400B2 |
Retrieval and display device
A retrieval and display device includes an ascending-direction reading out section and an descending-direction reading out section, which read outs a folder name from a folder-name storing section, in response to an operating-direction signal from a storing and operation direction discriminating section and a display-linage signal stored in a display-linage section; and a mark-position changing section, which changes the position of a mark according to whether an operation is done in the ascending direction or in the descending direction. A display folder-name creation processing section places the mark on a folder name desired to be selected in the top line at the operating direction, and creates a display folder name such that the next candidate folder is displayed in the display screen. |
| US08601399B2 |
Information display
A system and method for a computer implemented display of information organizes a visual screen display to a user in such a way that the user is able to efficiently select information content, and then be presented with topical associations relating to that content. The display enables selection of a particular information segment having an association with particular information content. A selected information segment has multiple topical associations with various categories and sub-categories of information. A user may navigate to a particular segment of information content, and then be presented with a string of topically related segments, as well as with one or more connecting categories of information, which may otherwise not have been readily apparent to the particular selected segment, but for the display system and method. One or more of the information segment indicators can optionally include a publication date and/or a source identifier. |
| US08601387B2 |
Persistent interface
A user interface is described, having a search box for entering a search query. The search box and other components remain stationary when conducting a search. A toolbox is provided with links to different views for conducting category-specific searches, and the links are editable. |
| US08601383B2 |
User interface for creating a spreadsheet data summary table
A graphical user interface for creating a data summary table includes a field pane including a list of a plurality of fields, and a layout pane including a plurality of zones. The zones represent areas of the data summary table, and the layout pane allows a field of the plurality of fields from the field pane to be added to a first zone of the zones. A data summary table is updated upon the field being added to the layout pane. |
| US08601381B2 |
Rich customizable user online environment
Providing a customizable online environment for a user on a client. An instruction is received from the user for assigning a background image for the online environment. The online environment is to be rendered on a display of the client. One or more graphical elements are identified on the background image. A profile is received from the user, and the profile includes a plurality of user-customizable data each having properties associated therewith. Graphical representations are provided for the plurality of user-customizable data. Each of the graphical representations depends on and visually indicates the properties associated with each of the plurality of user-customizable data. The provided graphical representations are rendered onto a position of the background image on the online environment. The position of the rendered graphical representation depends on the properties of the user-customizable data corresponding to the graphical representation and the identified graphical elements of the background image. |
| US08601380B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying interactive preview information in a location-based user interface
An approach is provided for displaying interactive preview information in a location-based user interface. A content mapping platform determines to render, at a device, a user interface for a location-based service based, at least in part, on a field of view. The content mapping platform determines one or more items outside of the field of view and then determines to render one or more user interface objects in the user interface. The one or more user interface objects present, at least in part, preview information associated with the one or more items. |
| US08601377B2 |
System and method for maintaining context sensitive user groups
A system and method for resolving topically relevant contacts for a user is provided. One example embodiment provides for a method including acts of presenting, within a web page, a communication list with content that is presented to various user based at least in part on the users being associated with another user and the topical content of the web page. Another example embodiment provides or a system that serves web pages including a communication list with content that is presented to various users based at least in part on the user to user and user to topic associations. |
| US08601376B2 |
Virtual wiring
Disclosed is a method and system for enabling a user, through a user interface, to manage a correspondence that defines how information about a state of a first device at a first location is to be used to control a second device at a second location. |
| US08601370B2 |
System and method for organizing icons for applications on a mobile device
A method for moving icons on a display of a mobile device, either on the display or into a folder is provided. When an icon has been selected to be moved, its appearance is altered with respect to the other icons so as to provide a visual cue to the user regarding the move and the altered icon is overlaid on the other icons as it moves thereover. The icon may be displayed with a move cursor indicating where the icon will be placed if the current position is selected. A method is also provided for creating new folders on the display using a dialog box that is configured to enable a name and icon for the folder to be chosen and/or selected. Default names and folder icons may be used and alternative icons may also be presented in the dialog box to enable a preview of the choices. |
| US08601365B2 |
Data transmission and rendering techniques implemented over a client-server system
Different techniques are disclosed for generating formatted information for display on a computing device. The computing device may be configured to include at least one interface for communicating with a server system. The computing device sends a request to the server system. According to one embodiment, the request may correspond to an HTTP request for information relating to a specific HTML page or web page. A response is then received from the server system. The response can include response information having instructions and data. The instructions may include instructions for using the data to generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. The instructions then can be executed on the data to generate formatted markup information for display on the computing device. The formatted markup information can correspond to HTML data to be rendered for display on the computing device. |
| US08601360B2 |
Network-based data consolidation, calculation and reporting engine
Methods and computerized apparatus for shared business modeling involving multiple spreadsheet-based business models in a network of computers, report generation involving consolidation from at least two different spreadsheet-based business models as well as report generation involving multiple different spreadsheet-based business models are described. |
| US08601358B2 |
Buffer transfer check on variable length data
The disclosure is related to systems and methods for checking the integrity of a data transfer to or from a buffer or other data storage medium. Check values can be added to a data object in a data object based file system. From the check values, a device receiving the data object may determine an integrity or validity of the received data object based on the check values. In a particular embodiment, a hash value may be determined based on the check values. The hash value may be stored in the metadata of the transferred data object. The receiving device may re-calculate the hash value from the check values and compare it to the stored hash value to determine an integrity of the received data object. |
| US08601356B2 |
Method and circuit for BER estimation
This invention relates to a method and a circuit for estimating the bit error rate in a data transmission system. Symbols are detected (u) by a maximum likelihood detector (1), which provides path metrics of the decoded path and the best competitor at predetermined symbol positions. Absolute path metric differences (2) are calculated between the decoded path and the best competitor at said predetermined symbol positions. Events (5) are counted when an absolute path metric difference (2) is equal to one of a set of difference values. The bit error rate is estimated based on the number of counted (4) events (5). The invention further comprises a method and a circuit in which a function is applied onto said absolute path metric difference. The function maps quantized logarithms of probabilities to probabilities. |
| US08601353B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting data using repeat accumulate coding scheme in communication system
An apparatus for transmitting data in a communication system includes: a first repeater configured to repeat information bits of data to be transmitted a first repetition number of times; an interleaver configured to interleave the information bits repeated the first repetition number of times; an accumulator configured to accumulate-code the interleaved information bits; a second repeater configured to repeat the accumulate-coded information bits a second repetition number of times; a puncturer configured to puncture the information bits repeated the second repetition number of times; and a P/S converter configured to convert the punctured information bits and the information bits of the data and output RA-coded information bits. |
| US08601351B2 |
BCH decoding with multiple sigma polynomial calculation algorithms
Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) decoder architectures which execute a plurality of different algorithms to calculate an error location polynomial. The multiple algorithms may be implemented in a storage controller for increased throughput per gate count. Codewords needing up to a threshold number of corrections may be processed via a first algorithm while those with a greater number of corrections may be processed via the second algorithm. In embodiments, the Peterson-Gorenstein-Zierler (PGZ) algorithm and the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm (BMA) are executed either serially or in parallel to increase throughput of the decoder. |
| US08601350B2 |
Method, device and computer-readable storage medium for configuring an overall encoding/decoding scheme in a communications network
A method is provided for configuring an overall encoding scheme comprising a first encoding for generating first encoded packets from source packets and a second encoding for generating second encoded packets by combination of first encoded packets according to a combination scheme applied by predetermined nodes of the network. The method obtains a number N of defective paths among paths used to transmit the first and second encoded packets to at least one destination node, a path being defective if an associated quality of transmission is below a predetermined threshold. A combination scheme is selected from among at least two possible predetermined combination schemes for which a number of encoded second packets is greater than or equal to N. |
| US08601348B2 |
Error checking addressable blocks in storage
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for error checking addressable blocks in storage. Addressable blocks of data are stored in a storage in stripes, wherein each stripe includes a plurality of data blocks for one of the addressable blocks and at least one checksum block including checksum data for the addressable block. A write request is received to modify data in one of the addressable blocks. The write and updating the checksum are performed in the stripe having the modified addressable block. An indication is made to perform an error checking operation on the stripe for the modified addressable block in response to the write request, wherein the error checking operation reads the data blocks and the checksum in the stripe to determine if the checksum data is accurate. An error handling operation is initiated in response to determining that the checksum data is not accurate. |
| US08601345B1 |
Method and apparatus for searching frame alignment with false alignment protection
A method and apparatus for enhancing frame alignment using cyclic redundancy check (“CRC”) corrections are disclosed. In one embodiment, a process of frame alignment searches a predefined bit pattern within a first multi-frame structure and provides an assumed frame boundary after identifying the predefined bit pattern in the first multi-frame structure. While calculating a CRC value in response to the assumed frame boundary, the process further corrects the CRC value in accordance with a saved residue and F-bits identified by the assumed frame boundary. The assumed frame boundary is subsequently verified by comparing the calculated CRC value with embedded CRC value obtained from a second multi-frame structure. |
| US08601337B2 |
Decoding method and decoding device
In row calculation, a value which is obtained by subtracting an offset according to a minimum of the absolute values of column LLRs from the minimum of the absolute values of the column LLRs is set as a row LLR corresponding to a column of the column LLRs. |
| US08601335B2 |
Internet Protocol multicast with Internet Protocol unicast/multicast error correction
A method of delivering digital information includes joining a multicast group, and receiving a segment from a server directed to the multicast group. Further, the method further includes determining a transmission error has occurred resulting in an incomplete segment, and sending an error notification to the server requesting retransmission of at least a portion of the incomplete segment. Additionally, the method includes receiving a retransmission of the at least a portion of the incomplete segment. The at least a portion of the incomplete segment may be received through an IP unicast connection or as a multicast retransmission. |
| US08601333B2 |
Method of and an arrangement for testing connections on a printed circuit board
A method of and an arrangement for testing connections on a printed circuit board between boundary-scan compliant circuit terminals of one or more boundary-scan compliant devices mounted at the printed circuit board and comprising a boundary-scan register of boundary-scan cells of the boundary-scan compliant circuit terminals. Under control of an electronic processing unit, boundary-scan properties of the or each boundary-scan compliant device are retrieved, a list comprising boundary-scan compliant circuit terminals is displayed, and a selection of at least a first and second boundary-scan compliant circuit terminal is received. Based on this selection, a boundary-scan cell of a first boundary-scan compliant circuit terminal of a boundary-scan compliant device is operated as a driver and a boundary-scan cell of a second boundary-scan compliant circuit terminal of a boundary-scan compliant device is operated as a sensor. The driver is controlled through data provided to the boundary-scan register. Data sensed by the sensor are latched in the boundary-scan register. The driver and sensor data are analyzed for a connection between the first and the second boundary-scan compliant circuit terminals and the result of the analyses is presented. |
| US08601326B1 |
Data quality monitors
Systems and methods are presented for data quality monitoring. Data quality monitors may be created and configured to identify objects with specified data quality issues and/or property values. Objects identified by a data quality monitor can be presented to users for confirmation and resolution. Properties used by the data quality monitor to match objects may also be displayed to users. |
| US08601319B2 |
Method and apparatus for cause analysis involving configuration changes
A technique determines which configuration change(s) caused an application invocation failure of a computer application without the need for a knowledge database. To determine which configuration change is the most likely cause, the cause analysis program checks other computers that have experienced the same configuration changes. The cause analysis program checks and counts the application invocation results before and after each configuration change is done. If the same configuration changes are found in the other computers, the program checks whether each configuration change caused or cured the same problem in that computer. The program counts the similar cases for all of the computers. Subsequently, the program calculates the ratio of those instances involving a change from success to failure and the ratio of those instances involving a change from failure to success out of all instances for each configuration change. |
| US08601315B2 |
Debugger recovery on exit from low power mode
A device is configured with components to enable debugging of the device's entry into and exit from a low power mode. The device includes: core logic, debug components, and a power management module (PMM). When the device exits a low power mode in which the states of the debug components are lost, the PMM prevents the core logic from resuming processing operations until the debug components have been re-configured to their prior states. The PMM either holds the core logic in reset or alternatively withholds power to the core logic. Reconfiguration of the debug components is initiated by a connected debugger, which can set one or more control and status (CS) register values within the device. The CS register values determine when the PMM prevents the core logic processing from resuming and when the PMM enables core logic processing to resume following the device's return from low power mode. |
| US08601303B2 |
Storage system
A storage system includes: a basic apparatus for transmitting an access request through a data input line for transmitting data; and an extension apparatus for receiving an access request from the basic apparatus through the data input line, the extension apparatus including a storage for storing data and a controller for controlling the access request from the basic apparatus, wherein the basic apparatus superimposes a voltage to the data input line in accordance with the access request, and wherein the extension apparatus includes an upper input voltage detector for detecting the voltage superimposed on the upper data input line and includes a power controller for controlling the power supply to the controller on the basis of the detected voltage. |
| US08601302B2 |
Processor system in low power state retention mode with linear regulator off and switch regulator low in power management IC
A quiescent state retention mode (QSRM) permits minimal power consumption and dissipation by an electronic device while idle without producing adverse latencies to users or causing system instability. Upon a call to enter the QSRM, processes may be frozen, clocks may be gated, switching regulators may be placed in low power mode, SDRAM may be placed into self-refresh mode, caches may be flushed, IRQs may be disabled, and the system waits for interrupt to wakeup. In the QSRM, powered components include the switching regulator configured to provide power to the processor is maintained in a low power mode while the SDRAM is placed in self-refresh. |
| US08601301B1 |
System and method for adjusting an idle time of a hardware device based on a pattern of user activity that indicates a period of time that the user is not in a predetermined area
A system and method is disclosed for adjusting power consumption of a computing device. The computing device is configured with one or more sensors to sense when a user moves away and returns to the computing device. Over a period of time, the computing device determines a pattern of activity related to how long the user is normally away from the computing device during particular times of the day. The computing device may then adjust power consumption of the device or associated components during times of the day for which a pattern of activity has been determined. For example, the computing device may adjust a duration that the computing device will remain idle before power to the computing device is limited. |
| US08601298B2 |
System and method for determining optimal operating parameters for conserving power in a portable device from a hypersurface which represents optimal values of the operating parameters under various synthetic workloads
A method and system for determining optimal operating parameters for conserving power of a portable computing device may include plotting a hypersurface in a coordinate system. The method includes defining one or more axes in a coordinate system, such as a Cartesian coordinate system, that impact power consumption of a PCD and which may be held as constants when applied as workloads on CPU. Then, at least one axis is identified as an unknown or variable which may be optimized for power consumption. After the hypersurface containing optimized values is created for various workload scenarios for the PCD, workloads corresponding to the synthetic workloads described above are applied to the PCD. Workload predictors, like a DCVS algorithm, are executed by the PCD and are observed and compared to the hypersurface. Parameters for the workload predictor may be adjusted based on the values from the hypersurface. |
| US08601293B2 |
Recording/reproduction apparatus, and power supply control method of video server and recording/reproduction apparatus
According to one embodiment, a recording/reproduction apparatus includes a power source controller. The power source controller includes a determination unit, a stand-by mode execution unit, and a pause mode execution unit. The determination unit determines whether or not an event associated with at least one of recording and reproduction of the information signal occurs at start-up time. The stand-by mode execution unit executes a stand-by mode in which the power level of each of the encoder, the decoder, the recording medium, and the plurality of signal processors is controlled to be lower than a predetermined level. The pause mode execution unit executes a pause mode in which the power to each of the encoder, the decoder, the recording medium, and the plurality of signal processors is turned off, and the power level of the process controller is controlled to be lower than the predetermined level. |
| US08601290B2 |
Distributed power system processing for communication device
A system and method for managing processing resources in a communication device having a power unit with distributed processing capability. In one aspect, digital power control processors that are configured to perform power system tasks and signal processing tasks are reconfigured by reallocating the tasks among the processors in order to balance the processing loads. |
| US08601284B2 |
Secure connected digital media platform
An embodiment of the invention provides a system including a secure media device having one or more security keys stored therein. The secure media device is housed in a device that is connected to a television unit and a network. Secure application environments are housed in the device, wherein each secure application environment is operationally isolated from one another. The secure application environments receive and process information sent over the network only if the information includes a security code corresponding to the security key in the secure media device. The security code is obtained from a clearinghouse when the information satisfies predetermined criteria. More specifically, the clearinghouse receives a copy of the security key from a manufacturer of the secure media device and creates the security code based on the security key. |
| US08601283B2 |
Method for versatile content control with partitioning
In some applications, it may be more convenient to the user to be able to log in the memory system using one application, and then be able to use different applications to access protected content without having to log in again. In such event, all of the content that the user wishes to access in this manner may be associated with a first account, so that all such content can be accessed via different applications (e.g. music player, email, cellular communication etc.) without having to log in multiple times. Then a different set of authentication information may then be used for logging in to access protected content that is in an account different from the first account, even where the different accounts are for the same user or entity. |
| US08601280B2 |
Application executing apparatus and application execution method
An application executing apparatus includes a connecting unit configured to receive connection of an external storage medium that stores therein an application and first medium identification information unique to the external storage medium. A storage unit stores therein permission information associated with the application and the first medium identification information. The permission information indicates whether execution of corresponding application is to be permitted. A determining unit determines whether to execute the application stored on the external storage medium based on the first medium identification information and the application stored on the external storage medium and the permission information stored in the storage unit. An application activating unit that activates the application when the determining unit determines to execute the application. |
| US08601279B2 |
Debugging port security interface
The present invention provides a secure JTAG interface to an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). In the preferred embodiment the invention operates through the combined efforts of a Security Module (SM) comprising a state machine that controls the security modes for the ASIC, and a Test Control Module (TCM) which contains the JTAG interface. The TCM operates in either a restricted mode or an unrestricted mode, depending on the state of the SM state machine. In a restricted mode, only limited access to memory content is permitted. In an unrestricted mode, full access to memory content is permitted. |
| US08601274B2 |
Inter-vehicle communication system
A communication system for transmitting and receiving communication data together with signature data attached thereto for verifying the communication data. A transmission-side in-vehicle device of the system generates the signature data for each unit of communication data consisting of M pieces of communication data, and transmits the M pieces of divided signature data, attached to M corresponding pieces of communication data. A reception-side in-vehicle device of the system reconstitutes each unit of communication data from M pieces of received communication data, reconstitutes the signature data from M pieces of received divided signature data, and verifies the reconstituted unit of communication data with the reconstituted signature data. This can prevent significant increase in data amount of additional data in each communication frame for verifying the communication data. |
| US08601272B2 |
Signature log storing apparatus
A signature log storing apparatus includes a signature log list and a certificate list, and registers, in the signature log list, a part of signature information in generated hysteresis signature as a signature record and a part of a user certificate in the certificate list. The signature log storing apparatus further includes a trust point list and validates a signature records registered in the signature log list and registers identification information for identifying a latest signature record out of the validate signature record, evidence information for validating validity of the user certificate for a validated signature record, and a hash value of information derived by connecting the evidence information and the hash value as needed or before the user certificate expires. |
| US08601271B2 |
Method and system for power management using ICMPV6 options
A method and system that facilitates power management over an IPv6 network connection is described. A first host having an application creates a power management option for managing power management settings of one or more second hosts, which is in network communication with the first host. A neighbor solicitation request is sent with the power management option to the one or more second hosts, wherein the power management option requests the power management settings of the one or more second hosts. A table of the power management settings for each of the one or more second hosts is generated from the responses received from the neighbor solicitation request, and the power management settings are applied to the one or more second hosts. |
| US08601267B2 |
Establishing a secured communication session
The present invention relates to a method for establishing a secured communication session in a communication system between a user using an untrusted device and a server. According to the present invention the user first obtains an authentication algorithm and an encryption algorithm and then creates a session key. Next the user obtains a public key of the server and sends a personal identity number to the server for authentication by using the authentication algorithm, the personal identity number being encrypted by using the encryption algorithm and the public key of the server. The user also sends the session key to the server for encrypting purpose between the user and the server, the session key being encrypted by using the encryption algorithm and the public key of the server. |
| US08601264B2 |
Systems and methods of user authentication
Various embodiments of the invention provide enhanced authentication solutions, including without limitation methods, systems and software programs for authenticating an entity and/or for facilitating such authentication. In accordance with certain embodiments, an entity (such as a user, a computer, etc.) attempts to authenticate in order to use a resource (such as a server, an application, etc.). Merely by way of example, the entity may provide a username or some other identifier to a computer responsible for authenticating the entity. In response, the authenticating computer may transmit a challenge, such as an authentication code. In particular embodiments, the challenge may be used to derive an authentication reply, which in turn may be used to derive and/or create a password (in one set of embodiments, the authentication reply itself may be the password). The derivation of the authentication reply may also require the user to provide some sort of identification, such as a personal information code (“PIC”), biometric verification, etc. The password then may be supplied to the authenticating computer, which can, in some cases, use the username and the password to authenticate the entity. |
| US08601260B2 |
Creation of user digital certificate for portable consumer payment device
A method for creating a digital certificate for a user issued by a reliant party, where the reliant party relies on an established cryptographic infrastructure by a registration or certificate authority is described. The registration authority, typically a large financial or credit institution, has already performed the initial overhead steps necessary for a digital authentication system using a chip card. These steps include minting and distributing the chip card, establishing that the key pair and card are given to the right person, and creating the certificate library. The reliant party leverages this cryptographic infrastructure to issue its own digital certificate and certificate chain to a user already having a chip card from the registration authority. Consequently, a user can have additional digital certificates issued to him and stored at a user-specific memory in a remote certificate library without having the chip card modified. |
| US08601259B2 |
Securing data in a dispersed storage network using security sentinel value
A sentinel value is combined with a data segment, and encrypted. A digest of the encrypted combined data segment is calculated, and used in conjunction with an encryption key to generate a masked key. This masked key is then appended to the encrypted combined data segment and transmitted to an encoder. When the data segment is retrieved, the original encryption key can be recovered and used to decrypt the data segment. The sentinel value can then be extracted from the data segment and checked for integrity. The data segment can then be delivered, discarded, flagged, or otherwise handled based on the integrity of the sentinel value. |
| US08601246B2 |
Execution of instruction with element size control bit to interleavingly store half packed data elements of source registers in same size destination register
An apparatus includes an instruction decoder, first and second source registers and a circuit coupled to the decoder to receive packed data from the source registers and to unpack the packed data responsive to an unpack instruction received by the decoder. A first packed data element and a third packed data element are received from the first source register. A second packed data element and a fourth packed data element are received from the second source register. The circuit copies the packed data elements into a destination register resulting with the second packed data element adjacent to the first packed data element, the third packed data element adjacent to the second packed data element, and the fourth packed data element adjacent to the third packed data element. |
| US08601243B2 |
Communication system and its method and communication apparatus and its method
This invention relates to a communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus, the second apparatus comprising: a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to the first storage medium; communication means for communicating data with the first apparatus; edit means capable of editing the management information; and control means for making a control to transfer data stored in the second storage medium to the first storage medium by way of the communication means on the basis of the management information edited by the edit means. |
| US08601240B2 |
Selectively defering load instructions after encountering a store instruction with an unknown destination address during speculative execution
The described embodiments provide a system for executing instructions in a processor. While executing instructions in an execute-ahead mode, the processor encounters a store instruction for which a destination address is unknown. The processor then defers the store instruction. Upon encountering a load instruction while the store instruction with the unknown destination address is deferred, the processor determines if the load instruction is to continue executing. If not, the processor defers the load instruction. Otherwise, the processor continues executing the load instruction. |
| US08601238B2 |
Arithmetic processing apparatus, arithmetic processing system, and arithmetic processing method which utilize limitation information to perform enhanced arithmetic processing
An arithmetic processing apparatus includes: a plurality of processing units connected in series to each other, wherein each of the processing units includes a limitation information setting section in which limitation information, which indicates the amount of arithmetic processing that each of the processing units is to process for data of each arithmetic processing unit, is set; an arithmetic section which executes arithmetic processing on the data of each arithmetic processing unit, according to the limitation information set in the limitation information setting section, by the same program between the plurality of processing units; and a memory in which processing data subjected to the arithmetic processing by the arithmetic section is stored. |
| US08601237B2 |
Performing a deterministic reduction operation in a parallel computer
Performing a deterministic reduction operation in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes, each of which includes computer processors and a CAU (Collectives Acceleration Unit) that couples computer processors to one another for data communications, including organizing processors and a CAU into a branched tree topology in which the CAU is a root and the processors are children; receiving, from each of the processors in any order, dummy contribution data, where each processor is restricted from sending any other data to the root CAU prior to receiving an acknowledgement of receipt from the root CAU; sending, by the root CAU to the processors in the branched tree topology, in a predefined order, acknowledgements of receipt of the dummy contribution data; receiving, by the root CAU from the processors in the predefined order, the processors' contribution data to the reduction operation; and reducing, by the root CAU, the processors' contribution data. |
| US08601235B2 |
System and method for concurrently managing memory access requests
A shared memory management system and method are described. In one embodiment, a memory management system includes a memory management unit for concurrently managing memory access requests from a plurality of engines. The shared memory management system independently controls access to the context memory without interference from other engine activities. In one exemplary implementation, the memory management unit tracks an identifier for each of the plurality of engines making a memory access request. The memory management unit associates each of the plurality of engines with particular translation information respectively. This translation information is specified by a block bind operation. In one embodiment the translation information is stored in a portion of instance memory. A memory management unit can be non-blocking and can also permit a hit under miss. |
| US08601232B2 |
Memory management device, memory management method, memory management program, computer-readable recording medium recording memory management program and integrated circuit
Available capacity of a specific memory block is secured as much as possible. A termination candidate process selection unit (204) selects, for each of a plurality of memory blocks, a plurality of processes as a termination candidate process group, a termination process decision unit (206) determines whether or not the selected termination candidate process group is to be terminated with priority over a currently held termination candidate process group, a process group termination possibility determination unit (205) determines whether of not the termination candidate process group determined to be terminated can be terminated, and the termination process decision unit (206) rewrites the currently held termination candidate process group to the termination candidate process group determined to be able to be terminated, and decides the currently held termination candidate process group as a process to be terminated when selection of a termination candidate process group is ended for all the memory blocks. |
| US08601229B2 |
Secure memory access system and method
A secure memory access system and method for providing secure access to Hyper Management Mode memory ranges is presented. |
| US08601227B2 |
Methods and apparatus for demand-based memory mirroring
A method includes determining an amount of memory space in a memory device available for memory mirroring. The method further includes presenting the available memory space to an operating system. The method further includes selecting at least a portion of the amount of memory space to be used for memory mirroring with the operating system. The method further includes adding a non-selected portion of the available memory to memory space available to the operating system during operation. An associated system and machine readable medium are also disclosed. |
| US08601226B1 |
System and method for storing server images in a hosting system
Some embodiments provide a method for creating an image of a virtual machine. The method identifies a particular computer system operating as a virtual machine with a particular configuration on a hardware resource of a hosting system that includes several hardware resources. The method captures data representing the particular computer system. Capturing the data includes copying a particular section of the data, computing a checksum for the particular section of the data, and streaming the particular section with the computed checksum to a storage. |
| US08601223B1 |
Techniques for servicing fetch requests utilizing coalesing page table entries
A memory access technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes coalescing mappings between virtual memory and physical memory when a contiguous plurality of virtual pages map to a contiguous plurality of physical pages. Any of the coalesced page table entries are sufficient to map all pages within the coalesced region. Accordingly, a memory subsystem can redirect one or more pending page table entry fetch requests to an appropriate coalesced page table entry. |
| US08601221B2 |
Speculation-aware memory controller arbiter
A memory arbiter minimizes latency of memory accesses in a system having multiple processors. The memory arbiter improves overall system performance by managing the memory requests from each processor individually before those requests are sent to a central memory arbiter for handling memory requests for the shared resources from the multiple processors. The local memory arbiter buffers the memory requests from a local processor, analyzes the buffered memory requests, and optimizes the requests by reordering commands according to a rule set, and by performing write merging and prefetch squashing in certain conditions. |
| US08601219B2 |
Memory system
A memory system includes a first storing area included in a volatile semiconductor memory, a second and a third storing area included in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a controller that allocates the storage area of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory to the second storing area and the third storing area in a logical block unit associated with one or more blocks. The second storing area is configured to be managed with a first management unit. The third storing area is configured to be managed with a second management unit, a size of the second management unit being larger than a size of the first management unit. When flushing of data from the first storing area to the second storing area or the third storing area is determined, the controller collects, from at least one of the first storing area, the second storing area and the third storing area, data other than the data determined to be flushed and controls the flushing of the data such that a total of the data is a natural number times as large as the block unit as much as possible. |
| US08601218B2 |
Data caching in consolidated network repository
System(s) and method(s) are provided for caching data in a consolidated network repository of information available to mobile and non-mobile networks, and network management systems. Data can be cached in response to request(s) for a data element or request(s) for an update to a data element and in accordance with a cache retention protocol that establishes a versioning protocol and a set of timers that determine a period to elapse prior to removal of a version of the cached data element. Updates to a cached data element can be effected if an integrity assessment determines that recordation of an updated version of the data element preserves operational integrity of one or more network components or services. The assessment is based on integrity logic that establishes a set of rules that evaluate operational integrity of a requested update to a data element. Retention protocol and integrity logic are configurable. |
| US08601216B2 |
Method and system for removing cache blocks
A method for removing cache blocks from a cache queue includes detecting a first cache miss for the cache queue, identifying, within the cache queue, a new cache block storing a value of a storage block, calculating an estimated cache miss cost for a storage container having the storage block, calculating a removal probability for the storage container based on a mathematical formula of the estimated cache miss cost, randomly selecting a probability number from a uniform distribution, where the removal probability exceeds the probability number, and evicting, in response to the removal probability exceeding the probability number, the new cache block from the cache queue. |
| US08601207B2 |
Management of memory refresh power consumption
Embodiments include a system, an apparatus, a device, and a method. The apparatus includes a processor, a dynamic memory, and a hardware-implemented memory control circuit. The hardware-implemented control circuit includes a control circuit for establishing an extended refresh period of the dynamic memory based at least in part on a monitored result that indicates an occurrence of a memory loss in the dynamic memory. The hardware-implemented control circuit also includes a control circuit for causing a refresh of the dynamic memory during each of at least two extended refresh periods. |
| US08601201B2 |
Managing memory across a network of cloned virtual machines
A method and system manages memory in a network of virtual machines, including a copy of a master virtual machine (VM) memory system, the copy accessible to a memory server. The method includes determining whether a memory page requested by a clone VM memory system is fetchable from the memory server, the clone VM memory system hosted in a host memory system; if the memory page is fetchable from the memory server, fetching the memory page from the memory server; determining whether there is sufficient space in the host memory system to load the memory page; if there is insufficient space in the host memory system, evicting a selected memory page from the host memory system; and loading the memory page into the host memory system and the clone VM memory system. |
| US08601196B2 |
Connector assembly
A connector assembly includes first and second connectors, a flexible printed circuit board, first and second peripheral component interconnection express (PCIe) slots, and a jumper card. When the jumper card is plugged into the first PCIe slot, pins of the jumper card are connected to pins of the first PCIe slot for transmitting signals to the pins of the first PCIe slot and to the pins of the first connector in that order. When the first connector is connected to the second connector, signals at the pins of the first PCIe slot are transmitted to pins of the second PCIe slot. |
| US08601193B2 |
Performance monitor design for instruction profiling using shared counters
Counter registers are shared among multiple threads executing on multiple processor cores. An event within the processor core is selected. A multiplexer in front of each of a number of counters is configured to route the event to a counter. A number of counters are assigned for the event to each of a plurality of threads running for a plurality of applications on a plurality of processor cores, wherein each of the counters includes a thread identifier in the interrupt thread identification field and a processor identifier in the processor identification field. The number of counters is configured to have a number of interrupt thread identification fields and a number of processor identification fields to identify a thread that will receive a number of interrupts. |
| US08601192B2 |
Arbitration device, arbitration system, arbitration method, semiconductor integrated circuit, and image processing device
Provided is a hierarchical arbitration device wherein an arbitration device at each level of the hierarchy selects a resource use request having the highest priority and a resource use request having the second highest priority, outputting these two resource use requests to the arbitration device that is one level higher. After outputting the memory use request having the highest priority to a resource control unit as the top priority resource use request, when the arbitration device at the highest level of the hierarchy receives a signal from the memory control unit indicating receipt of the resource use request, the arbitration device then selects the resource use request having the second highest priority and outputs this resource request as the next top priority resource use request. |
| US08601191B2 |
Bus system and deadlock avoidance circuit thereof
Disclosed herein is a deadlock avoidance circuit including: a previous-transaction-information management section; a transaction-issuance-termination determination section; and a response-outputting control section. |
| US08601190B2 |
Providing multiple communication protocols for a control system having a master controller and a slave controller
A control system may be provided for a controlled system such as a drive or inverter system. To provide for control in such system, a master controller may be present to receive, via a second communication protocol from a cabinet controller coupled to the master controller, status information of a controlled device, generate control information based at least in part on the status information, and transmit the control information to the cabinet controller via the second communication protocol. In turn, the cabinet controller can generate and communicate a control packet to the controlled device via a first communication protocol. This packet can be interleaved within another message communicated from the cabinet controller to the device. |
| US08601188B2 |
Semiconductor device, control method for the semiconductor device and information processing system including the same
The core chips each include a timing control circuit that outputs a timing signal synchronized with the outputting of parallel data to the interface chip. The interface chip includes a data input circuit that captures parallel data in synchronization with the timing signal. With this arrangement, the timing to output the parallel data and the timing to capture the parallel data are both synchronized with the timing signal generated in the core chips. Therefore, even if there is a difference in operation speed between each core chip and the interface chip, the parallel data can be accurately captured on the interface chip side. |
| US08601183B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in one-to-one communication
An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in one-to-one communication are provided. A first buffer for temporarily storing file data and a second buffer for temporarily storing message data are connected to a data transmitter for transmitting data and a data receiver for receiving data, respectively or vice versa, according to a request for data transmission or reception. The buffer for storing file data and the buffer for storing message data are differently constructed, thereby reducing the waste of memories of the buffers and achieving the miniaturization and high-speed data transmission of a portable terminal device. |
| US08601170B1 |
Managing firmware update attempts
Attempts to update confirmation information or firmware for a hardware device can be monitored using a secure counter that is configured to monotonically adjust a current value of the secure counter for each update or update attempt. The value of the counter can be determined every time the validity of the firmware is confirmed, and this value can be stored to a secure location. At subsequent times, such as during a boot process, the actual value of the counter can be determined and compared with the expected value. If the values do not match, such that the firmware may be in an unexpected state, an action can be taken, such as to prevent access to, or isolate, the hardware until such time as the firmware can be validated or updated to an expected state. |
| US08601168B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method thereof
An information processing apparatus registers, in a reservation list, transmission reservation data including a transmission start time and a transmission completion time of charging counter information that is a type of operation information to be regularly transmitted according to a predetermined cycle. The information processing apparatus then registers, in the reservation list, with respect to other types of the operation information to be regularly transmitted (e.g., firmware information), transmission reservation data including a transmission start time and a transmission completion time that are determined so that the operation information is regularly transmitted in a different period than regular transmission of operation information corresponding to transmission reservation data already registered in the reservation list. The information processing apparatus controls transmission of the operation information by a regular transmission thread to a management apparatus according to the reservation list. |
| US08601166B2 |
Information processing system and information processing method for generating distribution and synchronization rules in a client/server environment based on operation environment data
In an information processing system, a client terminal includes a client process executing section issuing a request; a client execution control section generating a distribution rule based on an instruction from the server apparatus and operation environment data of the client terminal; a distributing section determining whether or not the request should be processed by the client terminal or by the server apparatus, based on the distribution rule, distributing the request to the server apparatus when it is determined that the request should be processed by the server apparatus, and returning a received processing result to the client process executing section; and a client side server process executing section executing the request when it is determined when the request should be processed by the client terminal, and notifying a processing result to the distributing section. A server apparatus includes a server side server process executing section executing the request received from the client terminal through the network and notifying a processing result to the distributing section; and a system execution control section issuing the instruction to the client execution control section based on operation environment data of the server apparatus. |
| US08601163B2 |
Methods and apparatus for transcoding metadata
Methods and apparatus for transcoding metadata are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to meter media content presented by a media consumption device comprises detecting at a metering device first metadata accompanying the media content presented by the media consumption device, receiving from a transcoder at the metering device second metadata associated with the media content presented by the media consumption device, the second metadata comprising third metadata that has been transcoded to form the second metadata, and processing the first metadata and the second metadata to meter the media content presented by the media consumption device. |
| US08601161B2 |
Address translator, message processing method and equipment
An address translator includes an SIP message detecting function. Upon detection of an SIP message, the address translator sends the SIP message to an SIP address translator. The SIP address translator extracts addresses for translation, and makes a query to the address translator. The SIP address translator translates an IP address included in the SIP message, using translation information of the address translator. Thus, an SIP communication is accomplished between terminals belonging to different regions in association of the address translator and the SIP address translator. |
| US08601160B1 |
System, method and computer program product for gathering information relating to electronic content utilizing a DNS server
A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a checksum associated with electronic content is calculated. Further, a domain name service (DNS) server is queried utilizing the checksum. In response to the query, information is received from the DNS server which relates to the electronic content. |
| US08601158B2 |
Virtual gateway router
A facility for configuring a virtual data center is described. A user such as an administrator uses a management interface to input information specifying a configuration for a virtual data center including virtual network nodes and virtual routers. In response, the facility instantiates each virtual network router needed for the configuration, such as by, for each, instantiating on commodity hardware a virtual machine running a general-purpose operating system used to provide routing services to the virtual network nodes. |
| US08601152B1 |
In-band security protocol decryptor and scanner
An in-band decryptor and scanner (IBDS) for monitoring data packets or frames of an encrypted communication session. The IBDS may reroute or process the data packets or frames prior to reaching their destination. The IBDS may be used to decrease the load on a server by decrypting, preprocessing or rerouting the incoming data without altering the endpoints of the encrypted communication session from the server and a client. |
| US08601151B2 |
Apparatus and method for receiving data
An apparatus and method for receiving data over a network are provided. The data reception apparatus may include a receiver, a congestion decision unit and a suspension session selector. The receiver is configured to receive segments of data, using sessions corresponding to data transmissions apparatuses. The congestion detection unit is configured to determine whether a network to be utilized by a corresponding segment is congested, based on a status of each of the sessions. The suspension selector is configured to select a suspension session from the sessions where the network is determined to be congested. |
| US08601147B2 |
Export of metadata streams to applications
The present invention provides a computer storage server implemented method for generating attribute streams. The storage server receives a request from an application to write data to at least one storage object, the request having a request type. The storage server then updates an attribute stream with metadata associated with the at least one storage object. The storage server also updates the attribute stream with the at least one checksum, such that the attribute stream is associated with the at least one storage object. The storage server determines the request type to be one selected from among the group consisting of an email type, a file transfer protocol type, and a hypertext transfer protocol type. Responsive to a determination that the request type is among one selected from the group consisting of an email type, a file transfer protocol type, and a hypertext transfer protocol type, the storage server verifies the application. Based on the determination of the request type, the storage server then updates the attribute stream by applying a filter among one selected from the group consisting of an email attribute stream filter, file transfer protocol attribute stream filter and a hypertext transfer protocol attribute stream filter. |
| US08601142B2 |
Adaptive network address translation binding for wireless networks
The binding of addresses and port ranges is performed by a device, based on network usage conditions. The device may determine a port block size, indicating a quantity of ports, to allocate to client devices. The device may transmit a message including an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a port range. The message may indicate that the IP address and port range is to be allocated to the one of the client devices based on an order of a first port value and a second port value in the port range, where the port range covers a quantity of ports corresponding to the port block size. |
| US08601136B1 |
System and method for managing latency in a distributed telephony network
A system and method of preferred embodiments include at a signaling gateway of a first region, receiving a communication invitation of a first endpoint from a communication provider; signaling the communication invitation to a communication-processing server in a second region; in response to communication processing of the communication-processing server, dynamically directing signaling and media of the communication according to processing instructions and resources available in at least the first and two regions; wherein dynamically directing signaling and media communication of the communication comprises selectively routing media communication exclusively through communication resources of the first region if resources are available in the first region or selectively routing media communication between the first endpoint, the gateway, and at least the communication-processing server if media resources are not in the first region. |
| US08601133B1 |
Highly scalable data center architecture with address resolution protocol (ARP)-free servers
A network device establishes a logical channel with each server device of multiple server devices, where each logical channel is not shared with another server device of the multiple server devices. The network device also determines a network loopback Internet protocol (IP) address for each server device of the multiple server devices, and associates each network loopback IP address with a corresponding logical channel. The network device further receives a packet destined for a particular server device, and provides the packet to the particular server device via the logical channel associated with the particular server device. |
| US08601131B1 |
Active element manager
Described are techniques for performing data storage system management of a data storage system. Using an active element manager component, a data storage system management operation in connection with a data storage device of the data storage system is performed, and context information is collected and provided to a target location in an external environment having connectivity to the data storage. The active element manager component provides for automatically connecting a current session associated with the data storage system management operation to the target location and receives one or more communications from the external environment. |
| US08601130B2 |
Propagating session state changes to network functions in an active set
A network function is configured to maintain a copy of a session state for an access terminal. The network function is further configured to query a session master to determine whether the session state has changed. The session master is configured to generate a response to the query that enables the network function to update the copy of the session state if the session state has changed. The access terminal may be configured to change the session state at a first network function and send a message to a second network function to indicate that the session state has been changed. |
| US08601129B2 |
Hypervisor selection for hosting a virtual machine image
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for selecting a hypervisor for hosting a virtual machine (VM) image. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of selecting a hypervisor for hosting a VM image can include selecting an application for inclusion in a VM image, determining characteristics of the application and creating a VM image with the selected application. The method also can include identifying a hypervisor hosting a different VM image with an application having in common at least a portion of the determined characteristics. Finally, the method can include deploying the created VM image to the identified hypervisor. Of note, the deployment of the created VM image can be to an identified hypervisor in a node of a cloud computing cluster. |
| US08601128B2 |
Managing hardware resources for soft partitioning
Methods and apparatus for allocating computer hardware resources of a hard partition of a computer server system to one or more soft partitions. In response to a partitioning request, a nucleus firmware instance of a hard partition may be configured to launch a separate firmware instance corresponding to each requested soft partition, and to allocate partitionable hardware resources of the hard partition to the soft partitions by allocating the hardware resources to each separate firmware instance. |
| US08601127B2 |
Method for selective service updates for communication networks
A method for performing selective updating procedure of service advertisements. In this method, a Master personal gateway (10a) chooses a Slave personal gateway (10c) to update from its service list (step 40). The Master personal gateway (10a) uses the service description stored in its service list to determine if the Slave personal gateway (10c) of PAN (21c) has the capabilities to use the service advertised (step 41). The Master personal gateway (10a) then forwards the service advertisement to the Slave personal gateway (10c) (step 42). The Slave personal gateway (10c) updates its service list and advertises the service within its PAN (21c) (step 43). |
| US08601115B2 |
Providing state information and remote command execution in a managed media device
Systems and methods for providing state information and remote command execution using Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or any other protocol that provides for authentication, presence and messaging. A device may exist within a managed or unmanaged network and sign on to a managed network and provide presence information augmented with state information to provide near real-time state information to the managed network. The network may also discover remote command support in endpoint devices to command and control the devices remotely, while traversing unmanaged networks and components. |
| US08601112B1 |
Method and system for collecting and analyzing time-series data
A system for collecting and processing time-series data from a plurality of data source computers comprises a plurality of computer-implemented partitions and a plurality of computer implemented nodes which own respective ones of the partitions. The plurality of computer-implemented partitions comprise a plurality of processes configured to produce the desired outputs. The plurality of partitions are configured (i) to permit each of the data messages to be received at an arbitrary one of the plurality of nodes, and (ii) to forward the received data message to one or more of the plurality of nodes which own respective ones of the plurality of partitions responsible for participating in producing one of the desired outputs. |
| US08601110B2 |
Switch management system and method
Methods and systems for managing a service provider switch are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for provisioning a switch with a network-based managed Internet Protocol (IP) service. A network operating system (NOS) is provided on each processor element (PE) of the switch. The NOS includes an object manager (OM) responsible for managing global software object groups, managing software object configurations, managing local software objects and groups and routing control information between address spaces based on locations of software objects. The OM performs management plane communications among software objects by way of system calls. The OM performs data plane communications among software objects by way of object-to-object channels. The switch is provisioned with a network-based managed IP service for a particular customer by pushing discrete and customized software objects representing the network-based managed IP service onto an object-to-object channel established between two of the software objects. |
| US08601108B1 |
Credential authentication and authorization in a server device
A server device is configured to perform a method for providing object class information to a management device. The method includes mapping user names included as part of entries of a database associated with the server device to a corresponding Common Information Model (CIM) object manager operating system (OS) role. The method includes receiving a management request associated with the management device, the management request having management request credential information. The method includes authenticating the management request to an operating system associated with the server device based upon the management request credential information. The method includes following authentication, authorizing the management device to a corresponding CIM object manager OS role using the management request credential information. The method includes executing a CIM object call associated with the management request using the associated CIM object manager OS role to access object class information in response to the management request. |
| US08601105B2 |
Apparatus, method and computer program product for faciliating communication with virtual machine
A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives, from a computer running a virtual machine that can be switched between an active state and a stopped state, screen information provided by the virtual machine; a display unit that displays the screen information; a judging unit that, from the screen information displayed by the display unit, based on a number of operation procedures required for a process to be performed, judges whether the virtual machine performing the process by the operation procedures is to be stopped; and a transmitting unit that transmits a signal to the computer running the virtual machine judged to be stopped for stopping the virtual machine. |
| US08601104B2 |
Using network access port linkages for data structure update decisions
A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for displaying a portion of a data structure or for obtaining an inter-core linkage in association with a tabular data object and for deciding whether to update the data structure in response to an inter-core linkage and to input received after displaying the portion of the data structure or for deciding whether to update the tabular data object in response to the inter-core linkage in association with the tabular data object. |
| US08601103B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for distributing and enforcing authenticated network connection policy
A method, apparatus and system enable distribution and enforcement of authenticated network connection policy. Specifically, in one embodiment, a wireless network may admit manageability cores (“MCs”) that include a manageability feature set, i.e., devices that do not implement the full wireless network feature set defined by IEEE standards. In one embodiment, the MCs and backend policy decision point (“PDP”) may agree upon connection policy information for the MCs, and a may utilize a mutually authenticated mechanism to deliver the agreed upon connection policy information to the MCs and Access Points (“Aps”). |
| US08601097B2 |
Method and system for data communications in cloud computing architecture
Example embodiments of the present disclosure concern a system and method for selectively intercepting communications in a cloud computing environment by receiving communications from one or more thin-client terminal systems connected via a local area network, determining one or more recipients of each received communication, and based on a determination that the one or more recipients of a communication include only thin-client terminal systems connected via the local area network, intercepting the communication and preventing the communication from being transmitted to a central server connected to the local area network via a wide area network, storing the communication, and forwarding the communication to the one or more recipients connected to the local area network. |
| US08601096B2 |
Method and system for multi-modal communication
A method and system for multi-modal communication has a terminal (102) with at least one input component (108) and at least one output component (112) coupled to a gateway (104) having a dialog manager (114). The system and method further has a content server (106) coupled to the dialog manager (114) wherein the content server (106) provides the dialog manager (114) with an encoded control command. Moreover, at least one input component (108) and at least one output component (112) are coupled to a control unit (110). The dialog manager (114) decodes the encoded control command, producing and providing a decoded control command to the control unit (110). In response to the decoded control command, the control unit (110) modifies at least one of the input components (108) and/or at least one of the output components (112). |
| US08601090B1 |
Network resource identification
A system, method and computer-readable medium for client-side processing of resource identifiers. A client request for content is returned that includes information for generating a request for translation information and a number of embedded resource identifiers. Based on the information for generating a request for translation information, the client generates and obtains translation information and processes the embedded resource identifiers to obtain resources from a service provider. |
| US08601089B2 |
Media play of selected portions of an event
A system is provided for selectively presenting a portion of an event to a user. The system includes a first device, a second device, and a network allowing communication between the first and the second device. An application at the first device displays a plurality of sub-events that characterize an event; receives an input from a user whereby the user selects a sub-event from the plurality of sub-events; sends a request to a second device, the request comprising information associated with the selected sub-event; receives media data from the second device whereby the media data represents the selected sub-event; and presents the received media data. An application at the second device receives the request from the first device, selects the media data that represents the selected sub-event from a database using the information associated with the selected sub-event, and sends the selected media data to the first device. |
| US08601088B2 |
Host device and method for accessing a virtual file in a storage device by bypassing a cache in the host device
A host device is provided comprising an interface configured to communicate with a storage device having a public memory area and a private memory area, wherein the public memory area stores a virtual file that is associated with content stored in the private memory area. The host device also comprises a cache, a host application, and a server. The server is configured to receive a request for the virtual file from the host application, send a request to the storage device for the virtual file, receive the content associated with the virtual file from the private memory area of the storage device, wherein the content is received by bypassing the cache, generate a response to the request from the host application, the response including the content, and send the response to the host application. |
| US08601085B1 |
Techniques for preferred path determination
Described are techniques for determining preferred paths. A host requests first information from each of one or more ports of a data storage system. The first information includes preferred path information for a first device visible to the host through each port. The preferred path information includes one or more parameters used by said host to perform one or more mathematical calculations to determine a preferred path for transmitting to the data storage system a data operation directed to the first device. The first information is sent from each port to the host. |
| US08601083B1 |
Content sharing with limited cloud storage
Apparatus and methods for sharing electronically rendered information between a plurality of devices over a data communications network with limited used of network data storage is described. Content may be shared automatically between members of a share group, without interactive content-sharing operations being executed by users. The embodiments include content tagging, commenting, searching, and syncing of content. Action metadata messages, that are not viewed by a user of a device, may be sent separately from content portions to notify share-group members of content to be shared. Sharing of content can be accomplished via peer-to-peer links as well as intermediary links, which may execute concurrently. |
| US08601080B2 |
Sharing email
A trust relationship may be established between a first email user and at least a second email user. At least one email message received by the second user is automatically propagated to the first user based upon, at least in part, the trust relationship. |
| US08601074B2 |
Electronic mail communication apparatus
An electronic mail receiving apparatus used in a system including an electronic mail transmitting apparatus, the electronic mail receiving apparatus, and an electronic mail server, includes: a communicating unit executes a first-kind electronic mail communication performed via the electronic mail server, and a second-kind electronic mail communication performed not via the electronic mail server; and a mail output controller configured to control an outputting unit configured to output an electronic mail received from the electronic mail transmitting apparatus. The communicating unit includes: a first information transmitting unit configured to, if a first-kind electronic mail is received by executing the first-kind electronic mail communication, transmit, to the electronic mail transmitting apparatus, reception information; and a second information transmitting unit configured to, if a second-kind electronic mail is received by executing the second-kind electronic mail communication, transmit, to the electronic mail transmitting apparatus, reception information by the communication session. |
| US08601070B2 |
Method and apparatus for individualizing nicknames in message
A method for individualizing message nicknames is provided. The method includes creating a nickname conversion table that contains a message address and the corresponding nicknames; receiving messages, converting the sender nickname or recipient nickname in the message according to the nickname conversion table; and sending the converted message out. An apparatus for individualizing message nicknames is also provided. The method and apparatus enable a user to set individualized nickname information; the nickname information can be shared by multiple terminals of a user uniformly, and can be stored in a server securely and reliably. A message server and terminal are also provided. |
| US08601069B1 |
Method and apparatus for message multicasting
A method and system for message multicasting which provides a programmable persistent header in a message to allow one message to be read by multiple target consumers and to ensure that the message passing mechanism does not delete the message until all target consumers have received it. The persistent header may have information about all target consumers and their priority to consume the message. A message parser may obtain from the persistent header identities of target consumers and the order in which they consume the message and allow target consumers to consume the message following the order. The message parser may have a counter which counts the number of consumers that have consumed the message, and keep the message in the queue until all target consumers have consumed the message. |
| US08601067B2 |
Electronic message manager system, method, and computer scanning an electronic message for unwanted content and associated unwanted sites
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for scanning an electronic message for unwanted content and associated unwanted sites in response to a request. In use, a request is received via a network to scan an electronic message prior to opening the electronic message, utilizing an electronic message manager. In addition, the electronic message is scanned for unwanted content and associated unwanted sites, in response to the request. Further, a response to the request is sent via the network. |
| US08601064B1 |
Techniques for defending an email system against malicious sources
In one embodiment, a server computer determines whether an email entering a private computer network is malicious (e.g., part of a directory harvest attack or bounce-source attack) by determining the recipient email address of the email and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the source of the email. When the server computer determines that the email is malicious, the server computer may reject the email by sending a non-deterministic response to the source of the email. The non-deterministic response may include an error message that is different from the actual reason why the email is being rejected. The rejection may be sent as an immediate reply or postponed, for example. |
| US08601061B2 |
Scheduling a meeting in real time
A method, data processing system, and computer program product for sending a notification of a meeting. An identification is made when a number of users in a plurality of users requesting the notification of the meeting is within a threshold distance. Whether the number of users is greater than or equal to a threshold number of the plurality of users needed to have the meeting is determined in response to the identification that the number of users in the plurality of users is within the threshold distance. The notification of the meeting is sent to the number of the users in response to determining that the number of users is greater than or equal to the threshold number. |
| US08601060B2 |
Real-time blogging system and procedures
An instant message is received, converted to blog-compatible information, and posted on a blog. |
| US08601059B2 |
Sharing form training result utilizing a social network
A mechanism is provided for providing trustworthiness for users of a social network for web sites. The computer listens to web browsing activities of a user, and receives feedback from the user when web browsing by monitoring user actions. monitoring user actions includes monitoring the user searching a peer-to-peer environment and search results obtained, and in response to the user selecting a first link for the search results in the peer-to-peer environment, determining a score for the first link based on the user selecting a second link for the search results. The score for the first link is provided to the users of the social network. |
| US08601056B2 |
Scalable high-performance interactive real-time media architectures for virtual desktop environments
System for providing interactive two-way real-time media in a desktop virtualization environment including a desktop virtualization server computer and a desktop virtualization endpoint device with video camera. System incorporates: instance of server software running on desktop virtualization server and providing interactive user interface functions to desktop virtualization endpoint device, instance of software accessing network; instance of endpoint software running on desktop virtualization endpoint device, instance of software accessing network; first network connection between instance of server software and instance of endpoint software, first network connection implemented using access to network comprised by instance of server software and access to network comprised by instance of endpoint software; and second network connection between instance of server software and instance of endpoint software, second network connection distinct from first network connection and implemented using access to network comprised by instance of server software and access to network comprised by instance of endpoint software. |
| US08601053B2 |
Multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers
Multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers include a plurality of chassis managed collectively to form one or more provisioned servers. A central client coordinates gathering of provisioning and management information from the chassis, and arranges for distribution of control information to the chassis. One of the chassis may perform as a host or proxy with respect to information and control communication between the client and the chassis. Server provisioning and management information and commands move throughout the chassis via an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. Alternatively, the client may establish individual communication with a subset of the chassis, and directly communicate with chassis in the subset. Server provisioning and management information includes events generated when module status changes, such as when a module is inserted and becomes available, and when a module fails and is no longer available. Each chassis includes a switch fabric enabling communication between chassis modules. |
| US08601046B2 |
Method and apparatus for calculating an N-point discrete fourier transform
Described embodiments provide an apparatus for calculating an N-point discrete Fourier transform of an input signal having multiple sample values. The apparatus includes at least one input configured to receive the sample values and a counter to count sample periods. Also included are at least two parallel multipliers to multiply each sample value, with each of the multipliers having a corresponding multiplication factor. There is at least one multiplexer to select one of the at least two parallel multipliers. An adder sums the scaled sample values and an accumulator accumulates the summed sample values. N is an integer and the at least two parallel multipliers are selectable based upon the value of N and the value of the sample period count. |
| US08601044B2 |
Discrete Fourier Transform in an integrated circuit device
Circuitry performing Discrete Fourier Transforms. The circuitry can be provided in a fixed logic device, or can be configured into a programmable integrated circuit device such as a programmable logic device. The circuitry includes a floating-point addition stage for adding mantissas of input values of the Discrete Fourier Transform operation, and a fixed-point stage for multiplying outputs of the floating-point addition stage by twiddle factors. The fixed-point stage includes memory for storing a plurality of sets of twiddle factors, each of those sets including copies of a respective twiddle factor shifted by different amounts, and circuitry for determining a difference between exponents of the outputs of the floating-point stage, and for using that difference as an index to select from among those copies of that respective twiddle factor in each of the sets. |
| US08601042B2 |
Signal processing device and method, and signal processing program
Provided is a signal processing device performing filter processing operations on an input signal using a plurality of filters to generate an output signal, including a filter processing unit configured to perform a filter processing operation on the input signal using a filter and a generating unit configured to generate the output signal by adding a correction value determined on the basis of each sign and each absolute value of each difference between each of filtered output signals obtained by the filter processing operations performed using a plurality of the above mentioned filter processing units and the input signal, to the input signal. |
| US08601038B2 |
Available-to-promise on an in-memory column store
A system and method of determining an earliest delivery date for a demand on the basis of a fact table stored in a database, where the demand indicates both a desired date and a desired quantity for items from a stock, where a fact time series is comprised by and/or deducible from the fact table, and where the fact time series comprises fact tuples indicating both a fact date and a change in quantity of stock items that occurred on this fact date. The method includes generating an aggregated time series from the fact time series by defining and/or obtaining discrete time intervals, and generating, for at least one discrete time interval, an aggregated tuple indicating both its corresponding discrete time interval and the aggregated change in quantity of stock items that occurred in its corresponding discrete time interval. |
| US08601035B2 |
Data storage space recovery system and method
A process of determining explicitly free data space in computer data storage systems with implicitly allocated data space through the use of information provided by a hosting computer system with knowledge of what space allocated is currently being used at the time of a query, is provided. In one embodiment, a File System (“FS”) is asked to identify clusters no longer in use which is then mapped to physical disks as visible to an Operating System (“OS”). The physical disks are mapped to simulated/virtualized volumes presented by a storage subsystem. By using server information regarding the FS, for those pages that are no longer in use, point in time copy (“PITC”) pages are marked for future PITC and will not be coalesced forward, thereby saving significant storage. |
| US08601034B2 |
System and method for real time data awareness
A system includes a sensor and a processor. The sensor is configured to passively read data in packets as the packets are in motion on a network. The processor is cooperatively operable with the sensor The processor is configured to receive the read data from the sensor; and originate real-time map profiles of files and file data, both from the read data from the sensor, as the passively read packets are in motion on the network. |
| US08601032B2 |
Image forming apparatus, display control method, and recording medium
An image forming apparatus is disclosed including a search request transmission unit transmitting a search request to a predetermined resource in a network, a response receiving unit receiving response information in response to the search request, and storing the received response information in a storage unit, a list screen display control unit displaying a list screen including a display element corresponding to each response information stored in the storage unit within a first predetermined time period. When the list screen is changed to another screen and then changed back again to the list screen, the list screen display control unit displays the list screen including the display element corresponding to response information stored in the storage unit after the first predetermined time period has passed. |
| US08601031B2 |
Method and system for presenting non-linear content based on linear content metadata
A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at least one metadata keyword. The system and method also may include identifying a relationship between the at least one metadata keyword and at least one non-linear content keyword. |
| US08601030B2 |
Method for a natural language question-answering system to complement decision-support in a real-time command center
System and methods provide decision support by receiving suggested actions from a decision support system and automatically determining parameters of the suggested actions to serve as input to a question-answering system. System and methods also automatically generate questions based on the parameters, automatically search a corpus of unstructured data to retrieve answers to the questions, and automatically provide impact confidence values for each answer indicating the degree of impact the answers have on the suggested actions. The systems and methods can then output the questions, answers, and impact confidence values. |
| US08601029B2 |
Data stewardship in federated multi-level master data management systems
Managing data stewardship in multi-level MDM systems may include a steward data composer that creates data steward repository for a master data management system to define relationships between data stewards and data objects for which data stewards are responsible and steward data consolidator that creates an integrated data steward repository by combining multiple data steward repositories. |
| US08601025B1 |
Techniques using a bidirectional graph for reporting to clients
Described are techniques for reporting requested information to a client. A bidirectional graph is stored in a cache. The bidirectional graph includes a first set of nodes and a second set of edges between pairs of nodes of the first set, each node of the first set representing an object in an object model of a server. Each edge of the second set between a pair of nodes of the first set represents an association between two objects corresponding to the pair of nodes. A request is received from the client. A response to the request is determined by traversing a portion of the bidirectional graph to extract first information, and filtering the first information in accordance with a usage context customized for the client. |
| US08601024B2 |
Synopsis of a search log that respects user privacy
Described is releasing output data representing a search log, in which the data is suitable for most data mining/analysis applications, but is safe to publish by preserving user privacy. The search log is processed such that a query is only included if a sufficient count of that query is present; noise may be added. User contributions that are considered may be limited to a maximum number of queries. The output may indicate how often (possibly plus noise) that each query appeared. Other output may comprise a query-action graph, a query-inaction graph and/or a query-reformulation graph, with nodes representing queries and nodes representing actions, inactions or reformulations (e.g., clicked URLs, skipped URLs, or selected related queries), and edges between nodes representing action, skip or selection counts (possibly plus noise). The output may correspond to the top results/related queries returned from a search. |
| US08601022B2 |
Auto update utility for digital address books
An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device (such as a wireless phone or PDA) with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user (i.e. people who's contact information or partial contact information is present in the user's address book application) to make corrections to their contact-related information contained in the user's address book, request reciprocal contact information from the user, deny the user access to additional or corrected contact-related information and take other actions relative to managing the contact-related information which others (users) have about them. |
| US08601016B2 |
Pre-generation of structured query language (SQL) from application programming interface (API) defined query systems
A method is provided for receiving source code that includes an application programming interface (API) defined query written to communicate with an API. The API is configured to provide access to an object relational model (ORM) for converting, during execution of the source code, the API defined query into a dynamic structured query language (SQL) query comprising SQL statements. The method also includes generating a static SQL query that includes SQL statements. The static SQL query is generated in response to the ORM and to the API, by a computer, prior to the source code being executed. |
| US08601011B2 |
Detailed data aggregation apparatus and method
A detailed data aggregation apparatus holds detailed data of a plurality of events and a transcription and replenishment rule. In the rule, a plurality of common items, which are common to different events as a minimum unit of aggregation, are defined, and a transcription instruction (for instructing to transcribe a value corresponding to an event definition item to a value corresponding to the common item) and a replenishment instruction (for instructing to replenish a value to be replenished as the value corresponding to the common item) are described, associated with each common item for each event. Regarding the held detailed data, transcribed/replenished detailed data including values corresponding to the common items is created from the respective detailed data according to the transcription instruction or replenishment instruction. The apparatus aggregates the created data in a unit of predetermined common item specified as a unit of aggregation or in a unit of combination of predetermined common items. |
| US08601010B1 |
Application management database with personnel assignment and automated configuration
A computer implemented asset management system is disclosed. The computer implemented asset management system comprises an asset data store containing information about assets that is updated at intervals. The computer implemented asset management system also comprises a personnel data store containing information about individuals and an analysis component operable to identify an association of individuals with each of the assets. |
| US08601007B2 |
Net change notification based cached views with linked attributes
Local data caching for views with linked attributes are optimized based on net change notifications. Data requests may be made periodically to a server, each request with a specific set of constraints on timestamps of entity types involved in a view and each ordered by a primary item's identifier (ID). Applying the results of these requests to a client-side cache of the view results enables the client-side cache to stay “relatively fresh” with respect to the server's data. The server may handle view data requests where all conditions on related tables' columns are applied with an “and” operation, and the specific set of conditions on the timestamps of the related items are applied to get the net changes with minimum redundancy. The server may also handle stateless view data requests limited by the number of results, and a “sort by ID” may be applied to ensure consistent results over time. |
| US08601005B2 |
Location enabled food database
A system and method described herein simplifies data entry by a subject of a structured blood glucose test as well as helps with dietary compliance by providing specific dietary suggestions to the user. The system includes a portable device configured to be possessed by the subject. The portable device has a location detection system configured to provide data indicative of the location of the subject. A food database provides to the portable device a list of food items that are limited based on foods available at the location, such as a restaurant. The portable device is configured to receive a selection from the list that is indicative of a food consumed by the subject. A blood glucose meter reads blood glucose readings from the subject. The food database is configured to store the blood glucose readings and information about the foods consumed by the subject. Compliance to a prescribed dietary regimen can be monitored by the user and/or a physician. |
| US08601004B1 |
System and method for targeting information items based on popularities of the information items
A method of selecting information items in connection with an electronic message includes selecting a plurality of information items satisfying a predefined popularity condition and identifying any one from the selected information items whose associated keyword is found in the electronic message. A set of candidate items are selected periodically based on their respective popularity metrics. The popularity metric of an information item may be its click-through rate during a predefined time period. Each candidate information item has one or more keywords and the number of the keywords found in the electronic message determines the item's relevancy to a user accessing the message. In some embodiments, the method selects a subset of the information items using user geographical information associated with a user accessing the electronic message from a client and at least one of the selected information items is set to target users at a location corresponding to the user geographical information. |
| US08601003B2 |
System and method for playlist generation based on similarity data
System, method and computer program that encompasses one or more client devices cooperating with a program host's on-line data processing center for making purchase recommendations of media items to a program participant. Accordingly, there is a transmission from a program host to a program participant of identification of at least one recommended-for-purchase media item selected based on the recommended-for-purchase media item being rated as similar to a designated media item presently contained in an inventory of a media library of the program participant. The rating of the recommended-for-purchase media item as being similar to the designated media item presently contained in the inventory of the media library of the program participant is representative of a frequency at which the recommended-for-purchase media item co-occurs with the designated media item in media libraries of others. |
| US08601000B1 |
System and method for conditionally updating an item with attribute granularity
A system that implements a scaleable data storage service may maintain tables in a non-relational data store on behalf of clients. Each table may include multiple items. Each item may include one or more attributes, each containing a name-value pair. Attribute values may be scalars or sets of numbers or strings. The system may provide an API usable to request that values of one or more of an item's attributes be updated. An update request may be conditional on expected values of one or more item attributes (e.g., the same or different item attributes). In response to a request to update the values of one or more item attributes, the previous values and/or updated values may be optionally returned for the updated item attributes or for all attributes of an item targeted by an update request. Items stored in tables may be indexed using a simple or composite primary key. |
| US08600999B2 |
System and method for efficient resource management
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for managing resources. The method includes receiving a request, within an electronic system, which corresponds to an object of a file system and accessing a local data structure. The data structure comprises information corresponding to a plurality of inode numbers. The method further includes performing the request and updating the local data structure based on the request. The updating of the local data structure is independent of a plurality of data structures of a cluster of servers. |
| US08600995B1 |
User role determination based on content and application classification
The role of a user within an organization is automatically determined based on the classification of applications and content on the user's computer. Applications and files installed on a user's computer are identified. Identified applications and files that are not indicative of the role of the user within the organization are filtered out. The non-filtered out applications are functionally classified according to associated roles within the organization, based on predetermined functional classification information. The non-filtered out files are also functionally classified, based on predetermined functional classification information concerning types of files associated with specific organizational roles. The content of files that are of types not indicative of the user's organizational role can be analyzed, and these files can be functionally classified based on their content. The functional classifications are used in determining the role of the user. |
| US08600994B1 |
Performing an outer join between a small table and a large table
A small table S is outer joined to a large table L on a join condition on a database system with a plurality B of parallel units (PUs). S and L are partitioned across the PUs. Each row in S has a unique row-id. Each row of S is duplicated on all PUs to form Sdup. On each PU, dangling rows in S that do not have a match in L under the join condition are identified and the row-ids of the dangling rows are saved in Tredis. Tredis is partitioned across the PUs. P is formed from dangling rows of S whose corresponding entries in Tredis appear in all PUs. A result is produced by unioning P and I. I is formed by inner joining non-dangling rows of S with L. The result is saved. |
| US08600992B2 |
Coordinating problem resolution in complex systems using disparate information sources
Mechanisms for correlating reported problem data from a plurality of sources of information are provided. A report of a problem in a computer system is received to thereby generate a reported problem in a problem management system. Data is collected from a plurality of sources of information in accordance with data collection rules. Content classification is performed on the collected data to classify the collected data into pre-determined classes of collected data in accordance with classification rules. Correlation of the classified data into sets of correlated data in accordance with correlation rules is performed. Each set of correlated data corresponds to a different reported problem in the problem management system. A representation of the reported problem in the problem management system is updated based on a set of correlated data corresponding to the reported problem and classifications of data within the set of correlated data. |
| US08600989B2 |
Method and system for image matching in a mixed media environment
A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides for image matching portions of a document. |
| US08600988B2 |
Distributed globally accessible information network implemented with a local information network
A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request to the root server, which in response develops a profiled information search request. The information provider of each of the distributed sites stores metadata corresponding to information content that is retrievable in response to the profiled information search request for search results derivable from the information content to which the metadata correspond. A profiled information communication link between the root server and each of the multiple distribution sites enables formation of a path for delivery of the search results to a destination site, from a site or sites represented by the metadata of the profiled information search request. |
| US08600985B2 |
Classifying documents according to readership
A system for classifying documents in a collection of documents according to their intended readerships includes: a computer configured to select a document in the collection of documents; and a computer to determine a characteristic of the selected document, the characteristic being: misleading when the document includes one or more features that are determined to be for a purpose other than reading the document; commercial when the document includes features that are presented for a commercial purpose; or personal when the document includes features of a personal opinion. A computer classifies the selected document as misleading, commercial, or personal according to its determined characteristic; and a computer repeats the steps of select document, determines a characteristic of the selected document, and classifies the selected document for additional documents in the collection. At least some documents are classified as misleading, some as commercial, and at least some as personal. |
| US08600983B2 |
Group swarm metrics and content
Methods for providing group swarm metrics and content are described herein. In different aspects, the methods may include compiling a content access metric. The methods may also include determining a threshold metric for a user. Further, the methods may include generating a notification message for the user when the compiled content access metric reaches the threshold metric. The methods may additionally include delivering the notification message to the user. The techniques described herein may enable the user to retrieve the content. |
| US08600981B1 |
Using activity status to adjust activity rankings
Configurations for processing status-related and time-related signals for activities are disclosed. A given activity can be stored in a global activity database that includes data defining two or more activities. The data for each activity includes one or more global parameters. The global parameters include a timing-related priority. The time-related signal is related to at least one time-related parameter of the one or more global parameters. An activity assistant server can update the timing-related priority of the given activity based on the time-related signal using the activity assistant server. The activity assistant server can determine a subset of the plurality of activities. The activity assistant server can determine a rank for each activity in the determined subset of the plurality of activities based at least in part on the timing-related priority. |
| US08600978B2 |
Diverse route adjustment tool
A system for and method of analyzing the diversity of a set of voice network circuits is disclosed. The system and method compile identifying information representing voice network circuits and store this information in a database. The system and method analyze the database, which represents a set of voice networks, to determine whether there are any route diversity violations. If route diversity violations exist, a violation report can be created. The violation report can include schematic diagrams of each non-diverse route with common points and also a summary of the violations. From the violation report, the nature of the correction—e.g., remote access or manual field intervention—may be determined. |
| US08600973B1 |
Removing substitution rules
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for removing substitution rules. According to one implementation, a method includes identifying a revised search query that was revised to include a substitute term of a query term; identifying search results that were generated using the revised search query, wherein each search result references a resource; determining, by one or more computers, that none of the resources referenced by a subset of the search results include the substitute term of the query term; and in response to determining that none of the resources referenced by the subset of search results include the substitute term of the query term, incrementing a no-match score for the substitute term. |
| US08600972B2 |
Systems and methods for document searching
Systems and methods are provided for document searching. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method provides keyword searching. The method may receive a plurality of noisy keywords for a document collection. A server may generate tokens for a plurality of keywords in the document collection and merge the tokens to create an index. A search query may be received. The search query may include at least one search phrase. For the at least one search phrase, an indication may be received from a user specifying to perform one of a noisy phrase search or a noiseless phrase search. The method may search the index for the at least one search phrase based on the indication received from the user. |
| US08600970B2 |
Server-side search of email attachments
An email server receives an email sent to an email account and including one or more attachments. The one or more attachments are extracted from the email into one or more temporary storage elements. Content from the temporary storage elements is indexed. The indexed content is stored along with an identifier of the email in an index corresponding to the email account. The one or more temporary storage elements is disposed of after the indexing. |
| US08600968B2 |
Predictively suggesting websites
Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods are provided for recommending websites that are relevant to a current website to which a user has navigated. A search engine is used to track a set of websites the user has visited immediately prior to the current website, while predictive model(s) are used to generate a sequence of websites that include the current website and the tracked websites. The sequence is compared against strings of websites within a browser-history log to identify matching strings, where the matching strings include the sequence and a respective candidate website. A probability of relevance is computed from a frequency that each of the matching strings has been visited within a predefined time frame. The probability of relevance for each of the matching strings is ranked against one another to distill the highest-ranked matching strings, which are parsed to extract and present the candidate websites included therein. |
| US08600963B2 |
System and method for presenting multiple sets of search results for a single query
A system and a method that manages a user query by a single interaction between a server and a client. A plurality of clients send queries for search results to a server. The server receives these queries and performs multiple searches to generate multiple sets of search results. These sets of search results are ranked, consolidated and passed to the requesting client. The client stores these multiple sets of search results. The client then displays these search results in accordance to the boundary defined by the user. This boundary defines the portions of the search results that the user desires to view. The user may re-define the boundary. The client identifies the search results corresponding to the boundary and displays them. |
| US08600962B2 |
Transaction processing device, transaction processing method, and transaction processing program
A transaction processing device including: a representative key decision portion for deciding a representative key to be any one of the keys of every record of a record group as an object for maintaining consistency in a transaction process; a log compilation portion for updating a subordinate log by adding consistence object information indicating the object for maintaining the consistency to the subordinate log other than a representative log corresponding to the representative key among the logs corresponding to every record of the record group; a log update portion for updating the representative log by writing update information for every record of the record group into the representative log; and a record update portion for updating every record by reflecting the update information written into the representative log in the every record of the record group. |
| US08600959B2 |
Computerized hazardous material response tool
A computer-based method and apparatus for identifying hazardous materials based on observable physical properties and signs and systems of exposure to the hazardous materials. The observable physical properties are obtained by preprocessing plain language data to obtain normalized descriptors and modifiers pertaining to a plurality of properties and signs and symptoms. The normalized descriptors and signs and symptoms are presented to a user in lists for comparison with a sample in the field. Once a material is identified, information can be obtained from the apparatus which is necessary for response to an incident involving the hazardous material. The preferred embodiments of the invention are particularly useful to responders to a hazardous waste incident. |
| US08600955B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring an in-memory computer system
An in-memory computing system for conducting on-line transaction processing and on-line analytical processing includes system tables in main memory to store runtime information. A statistics server can access the runtime information to collect monitoring data and generate historical data and other system performance metrics. |
| US08600953B1 |
Verification of metadata integrity for inode-based backups
Systems, methods, and computer-readable memory media for performing various methods for verification of inode metadata are disclosed. This may be done, in various embodiments, by splitting the metadata for a given inode into two or more components. Each component may then be transmitted as an inode message from, for example, a data server to a backup server. Counters may be used to determine if all messages have been received for a group of inodes. Temporary data structures may be created dynamically to aid in the verification of the inode metadata. In one embodiment, received inode metadata is used to indicate the presence (e.g., in a catalog) of an invalid reference from a child inode to its parent inode. A metadata catalog may be created and used during the restore process to “browse” a portion of the backed up data. |
| US08600950B2 |
System and method for automatically creating a media archive from content on a recording medium
A media player for creating a media archive may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include an archival component to store the media content in a storage medium. In one embodiment, the media player includes a playback component to play back the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the storage of the media content by the archival component. |
| US08600949B2 |
Deduplication in an extent-based architecture
A request is received to remove duplicate data. A log data container associated with a storage volume in a storage server is accessed. The log data container includes a plurality of entries. Each entry is identified by an extent identifier in a data structures stored in a volume associated with the storage server. For each entry in the log data container, a determination is made if the entry matches another entry in the log data container. If the entry matches another entry in the log data container, a determination is made of a donor extent and a recipient extent. If an external reference count associated with the recipient extent equals a first predetermined value, block sharing is performed for the donor extent and the recipient extent. A determination is made if the reference count of the donor extent equals a second predetermined value. If the reference count of the donor extent equals the second predetermined value, the donor extent is freed. |
| US08600948B2 |
Avoiding duplicative storage of managed content
Avoiding duplicative storage of managed content is disclosed. It is determined whether content associated with an object has been stored previously in an associated one of a plurality of storage locations used to store managed content with which the object is associated. If it is determined that the content has been stored previously in the storage location, the previously-stored content is associated with the object and the object, but not a duplicate copy of the content, is stored in the storage location. |
| US08600946B2 |
Content reproducing system and content reproducing method
Disclosed is a reproduction apparatus including a server apparatus to distribute contents and a reproduction section to reproduce the contents distributed by the server apparatus, wherein a storage section included in the server apparatus stores set information pertaining to setting of a predetermined adjustment parameter related to a reproduction of content with respect to each of the contents distributable by the server apparatus; and the reproduction section reproduces the content on the basis of the set information stored in the storage section in the content distributed by the server apparatus. |
| US08600940B2 |
Concurrently backing up data from multiple backup servers in a backup storage tier
Various embodiments of a system and method for backing up data from a plurality of backup server computers in a first backup storage tier to a backup server computer in a second backup storage tier are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the method, a group of backup data sources may be associated with a writer on the backup server computer. Each backup data source may comprise data to be backed up from one of the backup server computer systems in the first backup storage tier. The writer may keep track of the write speed at which data from the group of backup data sources is written to a target storage device, and the number of backup data sources in the group may be automatically adjusted based on the write speed. |
| US08600938B2 |
Updating elements in a data storage facility using a predefined state machine, with serial activation
A technique for updating elements in a data storage facility, including a single server or a multi-server system, such as by providing updated internal code packages to the elements. The update is performed using a fixed state machine, where the elements are updated in a coordinated manner within the constraints of the state machine. In a multi-server device, code packages are distributed to elements associated with the different servers in one traversal of the state machine, during distribute states of the state machine. The distributed code packages are activated in activate states of the state machine in multiple traversals of the state machine, so there is a serial activation. The code packages can be grouped in a flexible way by configuring an external update bundle used by the state machine. The distributing of the code is based on the grouping. |
| US08600935B1 |
Systems and methods for achieving file-level data-protection operations using block-level technologies
A computer-implemented method for achieving file-level data-protection operations using block-level technologies may include: 1) identifying an I/O operation directed to at least one data block on a primary storage system, 2) accessing a data-protection list that uniquely identifies files that are to be protected by a data-protection operation, 3) determining that the I/O operation is directed to at least a portion of at least one file identified on the data-protection list, and then, in response to the determination, 4) performing the data-protection operation on the I/O operation. Various additional methods, systems, and configured computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US08600934B2 |
Method and apparatus for a file sharing and synchronization system
A computer-implemented method is provided for managing and sharing picture files. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises providing a server platform and providing a datastore on the server platform for maintaining full resolution copies of the files shared between a plurality of sharing clients. A synchronization engine is provided on the server platform and is configured to send real-time updates to a plurality of sharing clients when at least one of the sharing clients updates or changes one of said files. A web interface may also be provided that allows a user to access files in the datastore through the use of a web browser. |
| US08600933B2 |
Multi-master attribute uniqueness
A computing device receives a request to perform a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) database operation and propagates the request to perform the LDAP database operation to a peer server to test the LDAP database operation at the peer server. The computing device executes an action on a distributed LDAP database based on a result of testing the LDAP database operation at the peer server. |
| US08600932B2 |
Telematic asset microfluidic analysis
A fluid analyzing system wherein an electronic control module is coupled with an asset and a telematics device. The electronic control module initiates the acquisition of a sample of an asset's fluid and analyzes the sample in response to an analysis trigger. An asset management system located remotely from the asset and telematics device receives the results of the fluid analysis wirelessly via the telematics device. |
| US08600928B2 |
Health and fitness management system
A health and fitness management system is provided that has a health and fitness application operating, e.g., on a smart phone, that can wirelessly communicate with an activity module worn on the user which has an accelerometer. The application accepts food and weight inputs (e.g., from the smart phone) and user activity units (e.g., from the activity unit) and develops a user intrinsic metabolism. The application includes fitness arc and health quotient graphical indicators that guide the user on health and fitness activities. |
| US08600925B2 |
Object-relational mapped database initialization
A balance is provided between automation of repetitive database creation and configuration efforts, on the one hand, and flexibility to depart from prior configurations, on the other hand, to assist developers with aspects of database initialization. An application domain includes data context instances, database connections, object models mapped by an object-relational mapper, and database initializers. Upon the first attempted runtime use of a particular database connection—data context instance—object model combination, a database initializer is invoked. Initializers may check to see if the database exists, (re)generate a database and schema based on the object model, determine whether the database is compatible with the current object model, delete the database and its schema, seed data, modify database indexes, and/or migrate an existing database, for example. A custom initializer can run developer-supplied code as desired to place the database in a known state for use by the application. |
| US08600924B2 |
Method and system to manage multiple party rewards using a single account and artificial intelligence
Systems and methods for storing a transaction history with respect to a business entity, and an incentive regarding a business entity, previously offered to an account. A desired transaction involving a holder of the account and the business entity may be generated based on the transaction history and a metric. An incentive may be generated based on an artificial intelligence program (AIP), the transaction history, and the metric. The desired transaction and the incentive may be transmitted for presentation to a holder of the account. |
| US08600921B2 |
Predicting user navigation events in a browser using directed graphs
A method and system for predicting a next navigation event are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by predicting the next navigation event. The system and method may then prerender content associated with the next navigation event. For example, the method and system may predict a likely next uniform resource locator during web browsing to preemptively request content from the network before the user selects the corresponding link on a web page. The methods describe a variety of manners of predicting the next navigation event, including examining individual and aggregate historical data, text entry prediction, and cursor input monitoring. |
| US08600915B2 |
Systems for monitoring computer resources
One embodiment of a system of the present invention for monitoring computer resources includes means for retrieving a set of resource-metric records for a predetermined time interval, means for forming a first mathematical matrix containing metric's values arranged on date-time and resource-metric axes, means for creating a second mathematical matrix containing features and a third mathematical matrix containing weights, means for building a feature relationship tree, means for generating a predicted value for the resource-metric identifier, means for determining a variance between predicted value and metric's value, and means for triggering an alert if the variance exceeds a predetermined alert threshold. |
| US08600913B2 |
Apparatus, systems and methods for online, multi-parcel, multi-carrier, multi-service parcel returns shipping management
The present invention provides a computer system (the “Return System”) that provides multi-carrier shipment rating, shipment labeling, shipment tracking, shipment tracking management reports, returns analysis and returns management reporting. In an exemplary embodiment, the Return System has three major components: 1.) A Returns Manager Subsystem that provides a user interface to each Merchant to setup the Merchant's account, setup the Merchant's return policy and rules, and to monitor the status and movement of return shipments; 2.) A Consumer Returns Subsystem that provides each consumer using the Returns System with an online user interface that leads the consumer through the returns process, displays the return policies and rules to the consumer, provides shipping document to ship the return package if appropriate, and permits the consumer to track their return shipments; and 3.) a Returns Processing Subsystem that, in the exemplary embodiment, provides background shipping and tracking functionality. |
| US08600908B2 |
Carrier selection method for logistics network
A carrier selection method for the logistics network is disclosed to evaluate the network reliability of each carrier set for choosing an optimal carrier set. The logistics network includes a start, a terminal and a plurality of routes between the start and the terminal, and a plurality of minimal paths are composed of the routes. The carrier set is composed of carriers chosen in every route of the logistics network. The carrier selection method includes the steps of choosing one carrier for transporting; distributing a demand in the minimal paths, and each carrier having a plurality of capacities and a maximal capacity; calculating a network reliability for the carrier set transporting the demand in the minimal paths according to the demand, the capacities and the maximal capacity; and executing genetic algorithm for searching an optimal carrier set. |
| US08600903B2 |
Containers for transferring products and methods for their transfer
Methods, systems, and containers for transporting products, such as medical products are disclosed. The methods and systems involve identifying an environmental condition of a place to where a product is to be shipped, identifying an environmental condition of a place from which the product is to be shipped, identifying the amount of time that the product is expected to be in transit during shipping, and determining the type of container and cooling element that should be employed to transport the product. |
| US08600902B2 |
Method and system for generating shipping labels
A system generates an encoded identifier representing shipping data associated with the first party, wherein the shipping data is associated with a transaction between the first party and a second party. The system then communicates the encoded identifier to the second party and the second party creates a shipping label including the encoded identifier. The encoded identifier is decoded by a shipping service provider thus providing the shipping data of the first party. |
| US08600896B2 |
Software updating apparatus, software updating system, invalidation method, and invalidation program
To aim provide a software update apparatus including an install module group (130) composed of a plurality of install modules. Each of the install modules has a function of receiving, from an external server (200), a replacement protection control module (121) to be used for updating a protection control module (120) having a function of verifying whether a predetermined application has been tampered with. Each of the install modules simultaneously running is verified by at least another one of the install modules simultaneously running, as to whether the install module has a possibility of performing malicious operations. If any of the install modules is verified as having the possibility of performing the malicious operations, any another one of the install modules that is verified as not having the possibility revokes the any install module verified as having the possibility. |
| US08600891B2 |
Systems, approaches and methods involving deferring debit payment for debit-card transactions
A system and method for managing a financial institution account with a transaction card used as a deferred-debit transaction card and as an automated banking card wherein debit transactions are stored by a managing computer system for a billing cycle without being automatically debited against the account until after debit transaction activity. The card user can earn credit, or interest based on deferred debits. Also, in certain instances, a limited time period is provided relative to the billing cycle, for the user to provide funds as consideration for payment against the transaction card purchases without an automatic debiting of available funds as full consideration for payment against the deferred-debit purchases. |
| US08600885B2 |
Account contribution management
An ability to expose and display a current billing amount associated with a billing account in a billing system to one or more third parties, and to link one or more payments from the one or more third parties to the billing account in an account receivable system is provided. A user may create, publish, and share a fundraising webpage, which when accessed by a third party, allows the third party to send a payment in the form of a contribution or donation. An intermediary system allows for secure communication of billing account data from the accounts receivable system to the third party, allowing the third party to interact with the accounts receivable system as if the third party is in direct communication with the accounts receivable system. |
| US08600881B2 |
System and method for uniquely identifying point of sale devices in an open payment network
A system, apparatus, and method for using a point of sale (POS) terminal as part of an electronic payment transaction. A unique number, code, alphanumeric character string, or other form of identification is assigned to each terminal manufacturer. Each terminal manufacturer then assigns a unique global identifier to each terminal they manufacture. The identifier assigned by the manufacturer may incorporate or be derived from the unique identifier assigned to each manufacturer. In the course of an electronic payment, other form of transaction, or other function or operation of the terminal, the POS terminal's unique global identifier is provided to a payment processor or other electronic payment network entity. This information, alone or in combination with portable consumer device data and transaction data, may be used to provide new services, content, and products to consumers or merchants. |
| US08600880B2 |
Method and system for providing point of sale services
A system for transmitting information between a seller and a supplier uses a web services application to interface between a seller application and the supplier's server. The web services application uses a proxy to transmit information from the web services application to the supplier's server in a secure and reliable manner. The information is transmitted via HTTP using SOAP messages that conform to WSDL. In such a manner, the web services application can transmit selected information to the supplier's server, without any need to re-key redundant information. The proxy provides various services, such as encryption/decryption, digital signing, non-repudiation services, reporting capabilities, and software updating capabilities. |
| US08600879B2 |
Method and system for effecting payment by checks through the use of image replacement documents
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computerized method for effecting payment by a check includes electronically receiving payment information for a check drawing on a checking account of an account holder, retrieving from a storage location an image replacement document template associated with the checking account in response to receiving the payment information, and generating an image replacement document representative of the check by inserting the payment information into respective fields of the image replacement document template. The payment information includes a date, a payee, a dollar amount, a legal amount, and a signature. |
| US08600875B2 |
Authentication process using search technology
Systems and methods are presented for improved authentication and risk analysis processes using search engine technology. In one potential implementation, an authorization request message is received at a payment processing network as part of a transaction between a user and a merchant. The payment processing network analyzes risk based on a search history associated with the user involved in the transaction with the merchant. A response to the authentication request is made based in part on the risk associated with the user search history. In further embodiments, a user registers with a search engine as part of a service for improved authentication, where the user accepts privacy settings allowing storage of search and transaction data by a search engine server. The search engine server passes search and transaction data to a risk analysis server for creation of risk parameters which may be used to authenticate transactions. |
| US08600873B2 |
Managed real-time transaction fraud analysis and decisioning
A system, apparatus, and method for providing real-time or pseudo real-time processing of transactions for a set of clients using a common or partially common rule base. Each client is assigned to a tier or category with the tier or category defined by specified performance criteria. In some embodiments, the specified performance criteria includes a false positive ratio (FPR). A rule for processing transactions is defined as a combination of an interval of a scoring range of a first risk assessment scoring system and an interval of a scoring range of a second risk assessment scoring system. A proposed rule is tested by determining if its performance falls within a defined range of the performance criteria when applied to data for previous transactions. If application of the rule satisfies the performance criteria, then the rule is accepted as part of the rule base for that tier or category of clients. |
| US08600872B1 |
System and method for detecting account compromises
A method of identifying a point of compromise includes accessing data stored in a data storage system, the data being associated with a plurality of identified at-risk accounts, identifying a plurality of common points of transaction, each of the plurality of common points of transaction being associated with a minimum number of the plurality of identified at-risk accounts, and identifying a point of compromise from the plurality of common points of transaction based on (i) the number of the identified at-risk accounts involved in transactions executed via each common point of transaction during a time period, and (ii) a total number of accounts involved in transactions executed via the common point of transaction during the time period. |
| US08600871B1 |
Credit and prepaid financial card
A financial card is issued to a user that is set to behave like a prepaid card as the card can only have a positive balance, and funds may be added to this balance to be spent. At any time, the user may change the financial card to behave like a credit card, thereby allowing spending on credit. Alternatively, the financial card may be issued as a credit card and may be changed to a prepaid card. The financial card has a single account number, regardless of whether it is set to behave like a prepaid card or a credit card, and regardless of whether it is switched from one operating mode to another. |
| US08600870B2 |
Distributed scoring of data transactions
A data transaction is associated with a plurality of remote data sources so that a score may be generated that characterizes the transaction. The remote data sources are polled to obtain partial scores which can be used by a decisioning system to score the transaction. In some implementations, different scoring models may be used so that the data source is notified which scoring model to use when generating the partial score. Related techniques, apparatus, systems, and articles are described. |
| US08600867B2 |
System and method for assigning responsibility for trade order execution
An embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for a sponsoring organization to: (1) utilize a rules-based computer system to capture trade orders from sub-advisors (money management firms) in order to implement a pre trade compliance review process, thereby enabling the sponsoring organization to prevent the execution of trade orders by a sub advisor that violates securities laws and/or account restrictions; and (2) determine and assign, based on expected market impact of a trade order to buy or sell securities, whether responsibility (discretion over the decisions related to how, when and with whom a trade order is executed) for executing the trade order is assigned to the money management firm for an investment portfolio or to the sponsoring organization of that portfolio. Trade orders are categorized in real-time as “high touch” (significant effort and market impact) or “low touch” (insignificant effort and market impact). |
| US08600866B2 |
System and method for facilitating unified trading and control for a sponsoring organization's money management process
An embodiment of the present invention provides a system, method, process, software and standards that enable a unified trading and control process utilized by sponsoring organizations and asset managers (money managers) for sub advised or externally managed investment portfolios as to increase control over the trading process by a sponsoring organization, enhance regulatory compliance, substantially lower trading costs and improve investment performance on a recurring basis for the shareholders and beneficiaries investing in registered and non registered mutual funds and institutional investment portfolios. |
| US08600864B2 |
Scanning based spreads using a hedge ratio non-linear optimization model
The disclosed embodiments utilize hedge ratios to determine the optimal hedge ratio and associated scanning spread. This tells traders what ratios of the quantities of products they should have in their portfolio in order to maintain the status of the portfolios as delta neutral, i.e. be delta hedged, and receive optimal margin credits therefore. |
| US08600860B2 |
Method and system to solve dynamic multi-factor models in finance
A method is for determining a factor exposure of an asset collection for each of time intervals in a period of time. For each of time intervals, an objective function which includes an estimation error term or at least one transition error term is determined. The estimation error term represents an estimation error at each time interval between a performance of the asset collection and a sum of products of each of the at least one factor exposure and its respective factor. The at least one transition error term represents a transition error at each time interval after a first time interval for each of the at least one factor exposure between the time interval and a prior time interval. For each of time intervals, the at least one factor exposure by optimizing a value of the objective function is determined. |
| US08600853B2 |
Method for structuring a transaction
In one embodiment the present invention relates to a method for structuring a transaction involving a first party having a long position in a security and a second party desiring to acquire short exposure to the security. In one example an agent or intermediary acts between the first party and the second party. In another example the first party and the second party deal directly with one another. |
| US08600851B1 |
Military benefits in financial planning
Disclosed are systems and methods for preparing a financial plan for a military member eligible to receive military benefits. The systems and methods dynamically and automatically access military parameters stored in one or more data records corresponding to the military member. The military parameters, which are indicative of the one or more military benefits received by the military member, are used to develop a customized financial plan, thereby resulting in increased accuracy and consistency to provide an improved experience for the military member. |
| US08600847B1 |
Optimal service fee discount management
In an economic relationship between a first party and a plurality of second parties in connection with provision of at least one of goods and services for a fee, costs incurred by the first party, in connection with a loss of at least some of the second parties to the relationship, are estimated. A response curve of second party loss probability versus fee is also estimated. An optimal value of a modification to the fee is determined, such that profits of the first party are maximized, taking into account the costs incurred by the first party in connection with the loss of the at least some of the second parties and the response curve of the second party loss probability versus the fee. At least one action to take in response to the determining of the optimal value is determined. |
| US08600846B2 |
System and method for financial transaction
A method and system for a P2P financial transaction can connect to a card company server via a wired/wireless communication network, and a financial card with credit card functions. The method includes closing a first contract involving monetary claim/obligation between members, reporting a first claim amount or a first obligation amount to the card company server, and recording first incoming or first outgoing amounts. The method further includes establishing a second claim amount and a second obligation amount according to a second contract, reporting the second claim amount or the second obligation amount to the card company server, recording second incoming or second outgoing amounts, adding or subtracting respectively to or from the first incoming or the first outgoing amounts, and settling final incoming or outgoing, added or subtracted amounts at regular intervals. |
| US08600844B2 |
Methods and systems for customizing inventory in an automated dispensing cabinet
A system and method for configuring a dispensing cabinet with products within an electronic catalog hosted by a wholesaler system includes a display of a user interface having a graphical representation of a dispensing cabinet for dispensing products including a graphical representation of each dispensing mechanism. A selection of a single product from a listing of products associates the selected single product to at least one dispensing mechanism and causes a change in the graphical representation of the dispensing cabinet such that the at least one dispensing mechanism is visually identified as having the selected single product associated with the dispensing mechanism. |
| US08600839B2 |
System and method for providing access to product related electronic catalog functionality
An aggregation of functionality related to a product within an electronic catalog hosted by a wholesaler web system is provided by presenting on a client computing device a webpage in which a single product is directly associated with a single access point. The single access point provides a means by which plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product are made available to a consumer. A listing of the plural wholesaler web system functions related to the single product is displayed within the webpage in response to an activation of the single access point by the consumer. In response to a selection by the consumer from the displayed listing the wholesaler web system initiates a performance of the one of the plural wholesaler web system functions so selected. |
| US08600836B2 |
System for distributing packages and channels to a device
A system for distributing packages and channels to a device includes associating weights with the packages and channels. The default ordering of packages on a device display and the default ordering of channels on a program guide is determined according to the weights. In addition, the weights may be used to differentiate functions and conditions that apply to packages and channels. |
| US08600834B2 |
Network methods and systems for processing arrangements
A floral network system and method allows for collecting, storing and retrieving data regarding the processing of personalized or custom floral arrangements linked to personal accounts for a plurality of customers. For example, a floral network method and system may store one or more close-up or detailed images of a personalized or custom-made floral arrangement for a customer along with data regarding the order, the customer, and a recipient. The next time that the customer places an order, the close-up or detailed images and data on past orders can be retrieved and viewed by the customer and used by the florist in the preparing a subsequent floral arrangement. Reminders may also be sent to the customers for important events where floral arrangements may be desired. |
| US08600833B1 |
User interest tagging
Techniques and systems may be used to generate a list of interests of a user that interacts with a catalog of items, such as by purchasing the items from a host. The host may then generate a list of interests of the user using a taxonomy that is mapped to the catalog of items and the user interaction with the items. By generating the list of interests based on user interaction with the catalog, the list of interests may be generated based on factual data rather than user opinion. However, in some instances, the user may additionally provide a self-rating for an interest that is identified by the host. In various aspects, the list of interests may be associated with a reviewer of items of the catalog. In some aspects, a reader may identify reviewers that have similar interests by comparing reviewers' interests to the reader's interests. |
| US08600827B2 |
Product recall platform apparatuses, methods and systems
The PRODUCT RECALL PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“PR Platform”) transforms recall initiation request, product identifier and purchase processing request inputs via PR Platform components into recall notification message outputs. In some embodiments, the PR Platform receives a purchase processing request including a plurality of product identifiers and preselects product identifiers that qualify for purchase processing based on at least one purchase processing rule. The PR Platform facilitates querying of a product recall database to determine if the preselected product identifiers match recalled product identifiers in the product recall database. If at least one of the preselected product identifiers match the recalled product identifiers, the PR Platform retrieves a recall message associated with the at least one of the preselected product identifiers and notification preferences associated with the purchase processing request. The PR Platform then generates a recall notification message in accordance with the notification preferences to include the recall message associated with the at least one of the preselected product identifiers. |
| US08600821B2 |
Webstore supporting multiple merchants
A technique for effecting electronic commerce using a data network is described. The data network includes a plurality of subsystems which, together, form an integrated system for receiving customer orders for selected items via a data network, fulfilling the customer orders, and delivering the ordered products to the customers. Moreover, according to a specific embodiment, the integrated nature of the system architecture of the present invention allows the on-line merchant to provide a guarantee to the customer that the ordered items will be available to be delivered to the customer at the specified delivery date, time, and location. |
| US08600819B2 |
Food product scale and related in-store random weight item transaction system with RFID
A random weight item transaction system include a scale with label RFID tag functionality, service person RFID tag functionality and customer RFID tag functionality. A slicer in proximity to the scale may include service person and bulk food product RFID functionalities. The scale may make weigh transaction data available to a computerized checkout system via a communications link or via writing the information to the label RFID tag. |
| US08600807B1 |
Method and system for electronic exchange of reward points
A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns rewards from a plurality of independent reward issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned rewards. A trading server accumulates some or all of the user's earned rewards from the reward servers and credits the accumulated points rewards into a single reward exchange account associated with the user. The user may then select an item for purchase with the accumulated rewards. The item is provided to the user in exchange for a subset or all of the rewards. Reward points may also be redeemed in exchange for services, such as the playing of a video game or Internet access. |
| US08600805B2 |
Systems and methods for generating travel packages including separately purchased travel items
A user of a personal computing device may identify multiple travel items of interest displayed for purchase by a network-based travel service. However, the user may not desire to purchase the travel items in a single purchase. Upon making a travel purchase that includes a first travel item that does not include a second travel item corresponding to the first travel item, the user may employ the network travel package service to search for second travel items corresponding to the first travel item, select from discounted travel packages including the first travel item and second travel items returned from the search, and purchase a discounted travel package. Beneficially, multiple travel items may be purchased separately while obtaining a package discount as compared to the stand-alone price of the travel items. |
| US08600802B1 |
Advertisement marketplace
A marketplace (or aftermarket) for advertisements or ad combinations is established. A first on-line advertisement is identified in which a performance of the first advertisement during a past ad campaign is above a threshold. A second on-line advertisement is identified based on a matching criterion between the first and second advertisements, in which a performance of the second advertisement during a past ad campaign is lower than the first advertisement. The first advertisement or a representation of the first advertisement and performance data of the first advertisement are provided to a sponsor of the second advertisement. |
| US08600801B2 |
Methods and apparatus to deflect callers to websites
Methods and apparatus to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage comprises receiving a call from the caller, identifying a webpage based on information characterizing the call, and providing an address of the webpage to the caller when the caller consents to terminate the call. |
| US08600798B1 |
Loan screening
A loan screening system and methods are described. One method includes monitoring loan application data as it is entered into a client application, extracting loan application data from the monitored data in accordance with a first pre-determined criteria, matching the extracted data against supplier products and displaying one or more of the matching supplier products within a client application interface. |
| US08600792B2 |
Business process visibility at real time
Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing business process visibility at real time are described herein. One or more business activity events are received at a local business activity event manager. Further, business process binding information associated with the one or more business activity events is retrieved at the business activity manager from a business process model manager. A relationship of the one or more business activity events with a business process using the business process binding is identified at the business activity event manager. Upon determination, a business process log manager is triggered for logging a business activity log of a business process instance at real time. Furthermore, the business activity log is extracted to monitor and analyze the business process instance at real time. |
| US08600789B1 |
System and method for processing offending items in a financial system
An offending item detection system is provided for analyzing and processing documents received at one or more capture sites. A physical document may be electronically captured at a capture site and subsequently transmitted to a regional or central processing system. The processing system may then analyze the captured documents to identify and flag suspected offending items such as duplicates. Suspected offending items may be removed from a processing stream and replaced by a substitute transaction to keep the financial system in balance and to reduce potential for processing backlog. In the meantime, the suspected offending item may be analyzed. If the item is a false positive, the substitute transaction may be canceled and the financial document reinserted into the processing stream. If the suspected item is a true offending item, the substitute transaction may be replaced by or converted into another transaction funded by a general suspense account. |
| US08600787B2 |
Dynamic cost analysis and overbooking optimization methods and systems
A computer based system for maximizing revenue by determining an optimal quantity of a product to be sold is disclosed. The system determines the optimal number of seats to be sold for a flight based upon the flight's capacity and forecasted costs associated with the flight. The forecasting is based upon probabilistic distribution models and takes into account passenger itinerary data, passenger and market historical data, whether a passenger has flown on a previous leg of an itinerary, and the ripple denied boarding effect of reaccommodating a denied passenger. The system evaluates the potential effect of double selling a unit of inventory (e.g., seats). Downstream inventory control, revenue management and reservations systems may use the optimization data to affect the operation of the airline. |
| US08600786B2 |
Computer-implemented system and method for managing on-street valet parking
A computer-implemented system and method for providing basic valet parking through centrally-managed parking services is provided. Motor vehicle parking spaces are managed through a server. Smart parking devices physically proximate to the parking spaces are interfaced to the server. Vehicle occupancy sensors also physically proximate to the parking spaces are interfaced to the server. Parking availability indicators associated with the parking spaces are interfaced to the server. Use the parking spaces is reserved for a valet service. A reservation request for the parking spaces is accepted through the server for use by the valet service for a period of time. Occupancy of the reserved parking spaces by a motor vehicle through the nearest vehicle occupancy sensor is sensed during the time period. Availability of each parking space is indicated through the nearest parking availability indicator throughout the time period based upon the current time and use by the valet service. |
| US08600785B2 |
Event management system with grouping feature
A system for organizing ground transportation of airline passengers arriving for an event is disclosed. The event management system includes a memory, a computer display; a data entry component that receives passenger data including names of passengers and flight information and stores the passenger data in an application specific format; and a group scheduling component that allows a user to set parameters including VIP status, time windows, vehicle types, and number of passengers allocated for vehicle type, and provides passenger groupings based on flight information and on user-set parameters. Also disclosed is a computerized method for organizing ground transportation of airline passengers arriving for an event. |
| US08600782B2 |
Automation of auditing claims
Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for automation of auditing claims. A data file is received comprising one or more auditable items, each auditable item comprising a word string having one or more words. Each word string for each auditable item is translated using one or more translation steps into a translated item description. Each translated item description is compared to a plurality of terms to generate matching information. Each translated item description is associated with an item identifier based on the matching information. Each auditable item is accepted or rejected based on the item identifier and one or more rules associated with the data file. |
| US08600781B2 |
Method, software program, and system for structuring risk in a financial transaction
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method, system and non-transitory medium for managing debt instrument. Insuring for a default of a debt is managed by establishing an insuring debt related to an insured debt of a debtor based on an insured debt amount of the insured debt. The debts can be bonds issued by a municipality. A first loss class and a second loss class can be allocated in an insuring trust. A first class holder can be entitled to a payment from the insuring debt based on a debt owed to the first class holder from an established insuring fund of the insuring trust. The insuring fund is used to insure for a default of the insured debt. If the insured debt is not in default, the payment is diverted to the first class holder. Otherwise, the payment is intercepted, and an insuring payment from the insuring fund is paid to a holder of the insured debt to cure the default. |
| US08600780B2 |
System and method for determining a cost of insurance based upon monitoring, collecting and communicating data representative of a risk's payroll characteristics
A system/method of determining a cost of workers compensation insurance for a selected period based upon monitoring, collecting and communicating data representative of a risk's payroll characteristics during said selected period, wherein the cost is adjustable by relating the payroll characteristics to predetermined actuarial rates. The system/method: determines an initial profile and a base cost of workers compensation insurance, monitors data elements representative of payroll and business status of a risk during the selected period; identifies and analyzes data elements that have a pre-identified relationship to the risk's insurability; consolidates the analyzed data elements for identifying a surcharge or discount to be applied to the base cost; and produces a final cost of workers compensation insurance for the selected period from the base cost. |
| US08600779B2 |
Advertising with an influential participant in a virtual world
Technologies are described herein for advertising with an influential participant in a virtual world. A facilitator rating is determined for each of a plurality of participants in the virtual world. The facilitator rating may indicate an influence of each of the plurality of participants on other participants in the virtual world. One or more participants are identified from the plurality of participants based on the facilitator rating. The one or more participants are utilized to provide an advertisement in the virtual world. |
| US08600775B1 |
Enhanced system and method for enhancing and supplementing the informed consent process of a patient undergoing a medical procedure
A method for enhancing and supplementing the informed consent process of a patient undergoing a medical procedure is disclosed. A plurality of interactive multi-media program segments relating to a medical procedure are presented on-line to a patient who is to undergo the procedure. The patient views the multi-media program segments which may include a review of anatomy and physiology, the disease, the procedure, pre and post-operative instructions and risks and benefits. Patients may pose written questions to their doctor. The patient's experience, including which program segments are viewed as well as the patient's interactions therewith are captured, documented and preserved. |
| US08600773B2 |
Tracking the availability of service providers across multiple platforms
Amongst other things, the availability of service providers is tracked across one or more service provider networks. A status change of the service provider is identified on one or more of the service provider networks and the other service provider networks associated with the service provider is sent data indicating the changed status of the service provider. |
| US08600770B2 |
Payment convergence system and method
A method and system is provided for convergence of multiple independent applications into a single payment vehicle. In the context of a medical procedure, the invention provides for the convergence of medical/dental insurance with at least one secondary payment source to effect payment for the entire procedure. Through the instant invention insurance benefit information can be determined and funds blocked, then secondary payment source(s) can be utilized to effect payment of the insurance co-payment amount. The use of Smart Card technology enables the convergence at the point of sale of information about multiple applications/payment sources (i.e. insurance plan and secondary payment plan) that are processed to determine the amount of payment to be received from each source. |
| US08600764B2 |
Determining an initial common scale factor for audio encoding based upon spectral differences between frames
Disclosed herein is a quantization method and apparatus of an audio encoder. The quantization method comprises calculating an absolute value of a maximum frequency spectrum of a first frame, externally received, by analyzing frequency spectrum data of the first frame, setting an initial value of a common scale factor to be used to quantize the first frame based on the absolute value of the maximum frequency spectrum of the first frame and an absolute value of a maximum frequency spectrum of a second frame, which has previously been calculated, and quantizing the frequency spectrum data of the first frame based on the set initial value of the common scale factor. Accordingly, before quantization is performed, an initial value of a common scale factor which is almost close to a value of an actual common scale factor can be previously set. |
| US08600761B2 |
Hands-free and non-visually occluding object information interaction system
Technologies are described herein for providing a hands-free and non-visually occluding interaction with object information. In one method, a visual capture of a portion of an object is received through a hands-free and non-visually occluding visual capture device. An audio capture is also received from a user through a hands-free and non-visually occluding audio capture device. The audio capture may include a request for information about a portion of the object in the visual capture. The information is retrieved and is transmitted to the user for playback through a hands-free and non-visually occluding audio output device. |
| US08600753B1 |
Method and apparatus for combining text to speech and recorded prompts
An arrangement provides for improved synthesis of speech arising from a message text. The arrangement stores prerecorded prompts and speech related characteristics for those prompts. A message is parsed to determine if any message portions have been recorded previously. If so then speech related characteristics for those portions are retrieved. The arrangement generates speech related characteristics for those parties not previously stored. The retrieved and generated characteristics are combined. The combination of characteristics is then used as the input to a speech synthesizer. |
| US08600752B2 |
Search apparatus, search method, and program
A search apparatus includes a sound recognition unit which recognizes input sound, a user information estimation unit which estimates at least one of a physical condition and emotional demeanor of a speaker of the input sound based on the input sound and outputs user information representing the estimation result, a matching unit which performs matching between a search result target pronunciation symbol string and a recognition result pronunciation symbol string for each of plural search result target word strings, and a generation unit which generates a search result word string as a search result for a word string corresponding to the input sound from the plural search result target word strings based on the matching result. At least one of the matching unit and the generation unit changes processing in accordance with the user information. |
| US08600748B2 |
System and methods for matching an utterance to a template hierarchy
A system and methods for matching at least one word of an utterance against a set of template hierarchies to select the best matching template or set of templates corresponding to the utterance. The system and methods determines at least one exact, inexact, and partial match between the at least one word of the utterance and at least one term within the template hierarchy to select and populate a template or set of templates corresponding to the utterance. The populated template or set of templates may then be used to generate a narrative template or a report template. |
| US08600743B2 |
Noise profile determination for voice-related feature
Systems, methods, and devices for noise profile determination for a voice-related feature of an electronic device are provided. In one example, an electronic device capable of such noise profile determination may include a microphone and data processing circuitry. When a voice-related feature of the electronic device is not in use, the microphone may obtain ambient sounds. The data processing circuitry may determine a noise profile based at least in part on the obtained ambient sounds. The noise profile may enable the data processing circuitry to at least partially filter other ambient sounds obtained when the voice-related feature of the electronic device is in use. |
| US08600742B1 |
Disambiguation of spoken proper names
A method is performed by a communication device that is configured to communicate with a server over a network. The method includes outputting, to the server, speech data for spoken words; receiving, from the server, speech recognition candidates for a spoken word in the speech data; checking the speech recognition candidates against a database on the communication device; and selecting one or more of the speech recognition candidates for use by the communication device based on the checking. |
| US08600741B2 |
Method of using microphone characteristics to optimize speech recognition performance
A system and method for tuning a speech recognition engine to an individual microphone using a database containing acoustical models for a plurality of microphones. Microphone performance characteristics are obtained from a microphone at a speech recognition engine, the database is searched for an acoustical model that matches the characteristics, and the speech recognition engine is then modified based on the matching acoustical model. |
| US08600740B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for context descriptor transmission
Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. Example embodiments may first remove any existing context from a digital audio signal to obtain a context suppressed signal. The context suppressed signal may then be encoded. An audio context may be selected from among a plurality of audio contexts, with the selected audio context inserted into a signal based on the encoded context suppressed signal. |
| US08600738B2 |
Method, system, and device for performing packet loss concealment by superposing data
A method, device and system to implement hiding the loss packet are provided. The provided method, device and system recover the lost frame according to the data before and after the lost frame and enhances the correlation of the recovered lost frame data and the data after the lost frame. A method and device for estimating pitch period are also provided which select a pitch period from the initial pitch period and the pitch periods corresponding to the frequencies which are one or more times higher than the frequencies corresponding to the initial pitch period as the final estimated pitch period, may improve frequency multiplication when estimating the pitch period; in addition, by tuning of the pitch period by matching the waves, the error of estimating pitch period may be reduced and the quality of the audio data may be improved. |
| US08600737B2 |
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for wideband speech coding
Methods of audio coding are described in which an excitation signal for a first frequency band of the audio signal is used to calculate an excitation signal for a second frequency band of the audio signal that is separated from the first frequency band. |
| US08600735B2 |
Directed variation of identified product features using language analysis of a knowledge base
Computer based methods, systems and interfaces for analyzing machine readable data repositories having text documents, and for generation of new product specifications, for evaluation of these specifications and for the generation of new product designs and products therefrom. Language analysis of the data repository results in a list of properties of a product being properties to be varied linked to a list of functions of the product. The property statements can be first parts of speech such as adjectives, or adjectival phrases or adjectival statements being definitions of properties of a product. The function statements can be second parts of speech such as verbs, or verb-like phrases or statements being definitions of functions. The list of property statements, optionally with related first parts of speech, linked to the respective function statements optionally with related second parts of speech are stored as a database of indexed property statements/function statement tuples. |
| US08600734B2 |
Method for routing electronic correspondence based on the level and type of emotion contained therein
A system, method, and computer program product for determining the emotional content of an electronic correspondence to route or prioritize the information, to set the expectations of a customer support worker, to flag those workers who are using inappropriate language with the customer, or to determine another best course to send the correspondence. In a preferred embodiment, a customer sends an electronic correspondence to a company via email. Emotionally charged words or symbols in each sentence are detected. The message is then given an emotional ranking which is used to determine what future action is most appropriate for the correspondence. |
| US08600733B1 |
Language selection using language indicators
An ordered list of language indicators may be obtained, wherein each of the language indicators is either user defined or system defined. Each language indicator may be ranked according to a priority of the language indicator for determining a most-preferred language for a user. A list of languages may be received that indicates the languages available in an application. The ordered list of language indicators may then be compared to the received languages, and a highest-ranked language indicator determined. The most-preferred language for the user may be selected based upon the highest-ranked language indicator. Information from the application may then be provided to the user in the most preferred language. |
| US08600732B2 |
Translating programming content to match received voice command language
One embodiment may take the form of a system for translating an audio stream of programming content. The system may include an apparatus, a processing unit configured to execute a voice recognition algorithm and one or more executable commands, a receiver coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive a voice command in a first language, a communication component coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive programming content including an audio stream in a second language, and one or more storage media storing the voice recognition algorithm. The voice recognition algorithm may be configured to translate the audio stream into a first language if the first language does not match the second language. |
| US08600731B2 |
Universal translator
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communication within a telepresence session. A telepresence session can be initiated within a communication framework that includes two or more virtually represented users that communicate therein. The telepresence session can include at least one virtually represented user that communicates in a first language, the communication is at least one of a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of graphic, a gesture, or a portion of text. An interpreter component can evaluate the communication to translate an identified first language into a second language within the telepresence session, the translation is automatically provided to at least one virtually represented user within the telepresence. |
| US08600727B2 |
Streamlined execution of emulated code using block-based translation mode
Methods and systems are disclosed, including a method for executing a non-native code stream on a computing system. The method includes forming one or more blocks of emulated mode code for execution on a computing system. Each of the one or more blocks includes a preamble and a plurality of operators ordered for execution in a predetermined sequence, wherein for a specified block the preamble defines one or more conditions required for uninterrupted execution of the operators included in the specified block. The method also includes assessing the one or more conditions associated with the specified block, and, after assessing the one or more conditions, executing each of the operators included in the specified block without assessing any of the one or more conditions between execution of the operators within the specified block. |
| US08600725B2 |
System and method for providing a static model map of behaviors in a middleware system, for use in identifying system problems
A system and method for providing a static model map of behaviors in a middleware system, for use in identifying problems. In accordance with an embodiment, the system provides a view of the system which allows for analysis of the various components. Locations within the system where a request spends its time are categorized into either “wait” or “execution” locations. The components exhibit static behaviors which affect the response time and can be predefined for different types of components and analyzed independently. In turn the behaviors can be classified as either “wait” or “execution”, each of which can be considered aspects of a component. Each aspect of a component must satisfy the same efficiency/inefficiency as defined by the requirements on the system. An aspect that does not meet the criteria is considered a “problem aspect” and is analyzed further to find the cause of the problem. |
| US08600724B2 |
Verifying a processor design using a processor simulation model
An improved method of verifying a processor design using a processor simulation model in a simulation environment is disclosed, wherein the processor simulation model includes at least one execution unit for executing at least one instruction of a test file. The method includes tracking each execution of each of the at least one instruction, monitoring relevant signals in each simulation cycle, maintaining information about the execution of the at least one instruction, wherein the maintained information includes a determination of an execution length of a completely executed instruction, matching the maintained information about the completely executed instruction against a set of trap elements provided by the user through a trap file, and collecting the maintained information about the completely executed instruction in a monitor file in response to a match found between the maintained information and at least one of the trap elements. |
| US08600722B1 |
Method and apparatus for providing program-based hardware co-simulation of a circuit design
A method and apparatus for providing a program-based hardware co-simulation of a circuit design are described. In one example, a circuit design is implemented for programmable logic to establish a design under test (DUT). A co-simulation model is programmatically generated using primitives defined by an application programming interface (API). The circuit design is simulated by configuring the programmable logic with the DUT and driving a co-simulation engine to communicate with the DUT via execution of the co-simulation model. |
| US08600715B2 |
Methods for machine emulation and process response prediction
Methods for generating predicted product values of a product produced by a machine and for predicting a process of a machine are disclosed. A method for generating predicted product values of a product manufactured by a machine controlled by programmable logic control code includes presenting a machine input fields requesting parameters associated with actuators and mechanical elements, and presenting product input fields requesting desired product properties. The method further includes receiving parameters from the machine input fields, receiving desired product properties from the product input fields, and calculating output response data by an emulation of a mechanical operation of the machine using the parameters and the desired product properties. The output response data is provided to a product model that calculates predicted product values based on the output response data provided. The method further includes presenting the one or more predicted product values. |
| US08600712B1 |
System and method for designing and simulating a fireworks show
A system and method for enabling computer users to design and simulate a fireworks show is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes storing firework data in a database, the firework data including firework specification data including parameters corresponding to attributes of a particular firework; using a processor to automatically construct in a user interface a visual firework simulation from the firework data, the visual firework simulation including visual elements that are also part of the user interface, the visual firework simulation depicting a sky field representing a location of a fireworks show and the spatial location of visual elements therein, the visual elements including fireworks, launch positions, and trajectories being simulated by the visual firework using the user interface to directly manipulate the visual elements of the visual firework simulation, including dragging the visual elements in the sky field of the visual firework simulation: using the processor to automatically adjust the firework data according to the user's direct manipulation of the visual elements; and using the processor to automatically update the visual firework simulation and the visual elements in real time in response to the user's direct manipulation of the visual elements and the adjustment of the firework data. |
| US08600710B2 |
Method of modeling thermal problems using a non-dimensional finite element method
The method of modeling thermal problems using a non-dimensional finite element method is a computerized method for modeling thermal systems that relies on the variational principle. The variational principle specifies the total potential of the system, given by a scalar quantity Π, which is defined by an integral form for a continuum problem. The solution of the continuum problem is a function that makes Π stationary with respect to the state variables. The governing equation of the problem is used to calculate the potential Π. The non-dimensional form of the potential is obtained by insertion of the defined non-dimensionless parameters. The element non-dimensional stiffness matrix and the non-dimensional load vectors are then obtained by invoking the stationarity of the non-dimensional potential Π with respect to a non-dimensional temperature vector {θ}. |
| US08600708B1 |
Systems and processes for building multiple equiprobable coherent geometrical models of the subsurface
A method, apparatus and system for, in a computing system, perturbing an initial three-dimensional (3D) geological model using a 3D vector field. A coherent 3D vector field including 3D vectors may be generated where each 3D vector of the 3D vector field is associated with a node of the initial 3D geological model and has a magnitude within a range of uncertainty of the node of the initial 3D geological model associated therewith. The coherent 3D vector field may be applied to the initial 3D geological model associated therewith to generate an perturbed 3D model. The perturbed 3D model may differ from the initial 3D geological model by a displacement defined by the 3D vector field associated with nodes having uncertain values. The perturbed 3D model may be displayed. |
| US08600706B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying crash sources in a CAD environment
Systems and methods that automatically identify causes of errors during one or more CAD processes, such as while binding external reference drawings to a host drawing and/or batch comparing sets of multiple drawings. In certain examples, a first session of a CAD program can be used to track potential crash occurrences during a second CAD program's processing of a set of drawings and dynamically replace corrupt drawings and/or broken references with blank (proxy) drawings so that the desired process can complete. Whenever the first CAD session detects a potential error event, such as when the second CAD session is interrupted for a particular length of time, the first CAD session can log the error, close the second session, and/or continue the desired process with a new CAD session. |
| US08600704B2 |
Space- and time-efficient management and summarization of data using intermediate summary structure and hierarchical multidimensional histogram
A method maintains a multidimensional histogram for a data array having a data array size, the method having a processing time substantially less than proportional to the data array size. The method involves receiving a data update that indicates a change to data in the data array; with the data update, updating an intermediate data structure having a size substantially smaller than the data array size, so that the updated intermediate data structure remains an at-least-approximate representation of the data in the data array as changed by the data update; collecting a number of substantially-largest-coefficient linear combinations of then-current data, the number being small compared with the data array size; and forming the multidimensional histogram as a histogram to an intermediate data array re synthesized from the collected linear combinations. |
| US08600698B2 |
Method and device for analyzing positions
The method and device for analyzing position are disclosed. By analyzing sensing information with at least one zero-crossing, each position can be analyzed. The number of analyzed positions may be different from the number of zero-crossings. When the number of analyzed positions is different from the number of zero-crossing, the number of analyzed positions is more than one. |
| US08600697B2 |
Extended thermal management
A method for managing thermal condition of a thermal zone that includes multiple thermally controllable components include determining thermal relationship between the components and reducing temperature of a first component by reducing thermal dissipation of a second component. |
| US08600696B2 |
Method and system for determining a reaction signal for a selected location in an information processing system following the effect of at least one input signal
A method and a device for determining a reaction signal for a selected location in an information processing system (2) in response to at least one input signal (XIn) over an application period T. The effect of an input signal (XIn) on the information processing system is determined by: a) applying input signal(s) (X) to the information processing system (2), b) detecting output signal(s) (Yout) associated with a selected location in the information processing system in response to the input signal(s) (XIn), c) forming a value set (XIn, YOut, Zt) for an output signal (YOut) at the selected location in response to an input signal (XIn) for a given time (Zt), and d) determining the reaction signal (YOutMax) for the selected location. |
| US08600693B1 |
Wireless temperature probe calibration system and method
A monitoring, tracking, and calibration system tracks temperature data and the validity of temperature measuring devices. If an item is temperature sensitive, the system permits temperature readings to be taken by a remote transmitter or other temperature measuring device and stored by a computer. A calibration device is built into the remote transmitter or attached in line to a temperature sensor and include at least one fixed value. The remote transmitter samples that fixed value periodically or in response to an instruction from the computer. The computer, in turn, compares the fixed value to a respective expected value. If the comparison indicates that the fixed value compares favorably to the at least one respective expected value, the remote transmitter is considered calibrated and functioning correctly. Otherwise, the remote transmitter is considered faulty and an error is reported so that corrective action may be taken. |
| US08600687B2 |
Signal analyzer for analyzing dynamic behavior of a target system
A signal analyzer includes a sampling unit, a filter unit coupled to the sampling unit, a computing unit coupled to the filter unit, and an output unit coupled to the computing unit. The sampling unit is operable to sample a time domain signal from a target system according to a predetermined sampling frequency to obtain a sampling signal. The filter unit is configured to perform filter processing upon the sampling signal so as to filter out harmonic frequency components from the sampling signal, thereby obtaining a fundamental frequency signal having a plurality of sample points. The computing unit is operable to compute a signal parameter set for each of temporally adjacent pairs of the sample points of the fundamental frequency signal. The output unit is configured to output information about dynamic behavior of the target system based upon the signal parameter sets computed by the computing unit. |
| US08600675B1 |
System and method for generating trajectory data for an aircraft in flight
A present novel and non-trivial system and method for generating trajectory data for an aircraft in flight is disclosed. Data representative of an aircraft's current trajectory, aircraft parameter(s), and navigation service data are received. As embodied herein, the aircraft parameter(s) may be received from more than one aircraft. An optimized flight trajectory for the aircraft is determined from a trajectory optimizing function and based upon the aircraft's current trajectory data, the aircraft parameter(s) data, and the navigation service data. Then, dispatch center trajectory data representative of the optimized flight trajectory is generated and sent to at least one user such as an aircraft system of the aircraft and/or an air navigation service provider. As embodied herein, the trajectory optimization function could be based upon cost minimization, time minimization, an operator's internal prioritization, or any combination of these. |
| US08600671B2 |
Low authority GPS aiding of navigation system for anti-spoofing
A method and apparatus for generating navigation solutions. A global positioning system based navigation solution unit; an inertial navigation solution unit; a correction unit, a limiter, and an adding unit. The global positioning system based navigation solution unit is capable of generating a first navigation solution. The inertial navigation solution unit is capable of generating a second navigation solution. The correction unit is capable of generating a raw correction. The limiter is capable of selectively modifying the raw correction to fall within a selected range of corrections to form a correction. The adding unit is capable of adding the correction to the second navigation solution to form a navigation solution. |
| US08600670B2 |
Method for managing schedule using user'S location information and system thereof
A method for managing a schedule based on a user's location information by a system for managing a schedule. The method comprises receiving a schedule including at least one of an appointment location, appointment contents an appointment time, and appointment target person's phone number from the user; registering the schedule which includes the user's location information by a schedule registration unit of the system; detecting the user's location by a location detection unit of the system; and sending a message related to the schedule or the user's location by a sending unit of the system. The sending of the message related to the schedule or the user's location by the sending unit of the system sends information of a changed appointment time and place to the appointment target person when the user changes the appointment schedule. |
| US08600669B2 |
Mobile device with on-screen optical navigation
A mobile computing device, including a main body, a processor and associated memory housed within the main body, a display screen housed within the main body and responsive to signals from the processor, an optical sensor fixed to the main body for capturing successive images and providing image signals representative of the captured images to the processor, and a navigation module associated with the processor for determining, based on the image signals, a relative movement between the main body and a reference surface and moving a pointer on the display screen based on the determined relative movement. |
| US08600667B2 |
Location based entertainment with a personal navigation device
A method of providing location based entertainment with a personal navigation device includes determining if a user wishes to start an entertainment program on the personal navigation device that provides localized entertainment and starting the entertainment program using content about a current location of the personal navigation device in response to the user wishing to start the entertainment program. |
| US08600660B2 |
Multipath modeling for deep integration
A state is added to a Kalman filter to model GPS multipath errors. The multipath states may be modeled as either a random walk model or a Gauss-Markov process. The choice of the model depends on the characteristics of the multi-path error and the GPS receiver. Adding this state to the Kalman filter to model multipath improves the navigation system's robustness when operating as a deeply integrated system when multipath is present. |
| US08600655B2 |
Road marking recognition system
Systems, methods, and programs capture an image of a periphery of a vehicle. The systems, methods, and programs, store predetermined patterns representing conditions of road markings formed on a road surface, detect a road marking on the basis of the captured image, and compare the detected road marking to the predetermined patterns. If the detected road marking matches one of the predetermined patterns, the systems, methods, and programs execute a predetermined action associated with the matching predetermined pattern. |
| US08600654B2 |
Data structure of route guidance database
A route guidance device is provided with a two-dimensional road network for a route search, a three-dimensional road network for a route guidance, and guiding line shape data. The guiding line shape data is three-dimensional guidance display data for guiding an operator to go straight through, or to make a right turn, left turn, etc. at intersections in accordance with a passage mode, or to switch lanes before entering an intersection. A link node of the two-dimensional road network is associated with the guiding line shape data through the three-dimensional road network. The route search uses the two-dimensional road network, and the route guidance uses the guiding line shape data associated with the link node acquired by the route search. The present invention can realize an instinctively understandable route guidance that follows a passage mode without increasing a load of a route search. |
| US08600646B2 |
Method for regulating an air/fuel ratio and method for recognizing a fuel quality
In a method for regulating an air/fuel ratio, and in a method for recognizing a fuel quality, a lambda sensor is provided in the exhaust of the internal combustion engine, wherein after fueling of the tank the second adaption value is first adjusted due to a deviation of the lambda signal from the target signal occurring such that the lambda signal oscillates again about the target value, wherein the second adaption value is determined as a function of the current adaption value and as a function of the currently determined quality of the fuel. In a method for recognizing a fuel quality, particularly of a mixture ratio of two types of fuel, the lambda signal of the lambda sensor is analyzed for recognizing the quality. |
| US08600643B2 |
Vehicle air compressor control systems and methods
A suspension control system for a vehicle includes a pressure increasing module and a compressor control module. In response to a startup of the vehicle, the pressure increasing module: selectively sets a pressure increase signal to a first state when an air pressure within air bags of a suspension system is less than a predetermined pressure; and selectively sets the pressure increase signal to a second state when the air pressure is greater than the predetermined pressure. In response to the startup of the vehicle, the compressor control module: operates an air compressor of the suspension system when the pressure increase signal is in the first state; and disables operation of the air compressor when the pressure increase signal is in the second state. |
| US08600636B2 |
Method for determining wet clutch temperature
A method for determining clutch temperature. The method provides an accurate real-time clutch temperature that can be used to improve shift quality and protect against failure due to clutch overheating. A counter is incremented every time the clutch exceeds a threshold temperature to track cumulative high temperature conditions. Determining the clutch temperatures includes taking account of heat generation, clutch cooling by transmission oil flow from a groove when the clutch is engaged, clutch cooling by open transmission oil flow when the clutch is disengaged, oil vaporization, and heat conduction. |
| US08600633B2 |
Gear preselect systems for a dual clutch transmission
A dual-clutch transmission (DCT) system includes a vehicle speed offset module that generates a vehicle speed offset signal based on a preselect time and a vehicle acceleration signal. A compensated vehicle speed module generates a compensated vehicle speed based on the vehicle speed offset signal and a vehicle speed. A preselect command module generates a predicted gear signal based on a comparison between the compensated vehicle speed and a shift point from a shift pattern module. The predicted gear signal, identifies a first predicted gear of a DCT. The preselect time is defined as at least an amount of time to disengage a second predicted gear and preengage the first predicted gear. |
| US08600631B2 |
Engine speed assist torque converter clutch control
A method for controlling actuation of a torque converter clutch includes monitoring a transmission input speed, comparing the monitored transmission input speed to a threshold input speed, and, when the transmission input speed is less than the threshold input speed, controlling an engine speed based upon a desired minimum engine speed. Controlling the engine speed based upon the desired minimum engine speed includes monitoring a minimum engine speed critical parameter, determining the desired minimum engine speed based upon the minimum engine speed critical parameter, comparing the engine speed to the desired minimum engine speed, and controlling actuation of the clutch device based upon a result of the comparing the engine speed to the desired minimum engine speed. |
| US08600623B2 |
Control apparatus
A control apparatus for vehicles including a first vehicle compatible with an airbag-linked emergency and a second vehicle incompatible with the airbag-linked emergency is provided. The control apparatus includes: a receiver section for receiving an airbag signal from an airbag apparatus; an abnormality determination section for determining that the airbag apparatus is abnormal when the receiver section does not receive the airbag signal from the airbag apparatus; and a control section for activating the abnormality determination section when the control apparatus is mounted to the first vehicle, and for deactivating the abnormality determination section when the control apparatus is mounted to the second vehicle. |
| US08600622B2 |
Intelligent arrangement buckle switch for seat belts
A buckle switch arrangement for a multi-point seat belt system. A restraints control module is provided to receive signals from sensors operatively associated with the vehicle seat which determine and identify seat occupancy and also to receive signals from other sensors operatively associated with the vehicle seat which sense seat belt webbing payout. The signals obtained by the restraints control module are interpreted and, based on the interpretation, a telltale device may be activated to warn the vehicle operator that a seat occupant is not in compliance with seat belt usage. |
| US08600617B2 |
Vehicle light control method and device
A vehicle light control method and device are provided for controlling a light unit of a vehicle. A control unit determines whether a vehicle speed of the vehicle detected by a vehicle speed detector is greater than zero and whether an engine rotational speed of an engine of the vehicle detected by an engine rotational speed detector is equal to zero. The control unit enables the light unit to emit light with a brightness based on the vehicle speed upon determining that the vehicle speed is greater than zero and the engine rotational speed is zero. |
| US08600616B2 |
In-vehicle instrument control device
An in-vehicle instrument control device, that controls a power source of a plurality of in-vehicle instruments operated by power from the power source provided in a vehicle, includes a plurality of operation units to operate the respective in-vehicle instruments; and a plurality of power source control units that are each provided between the operation unit and the power source, and the in-vehicle instrument, and each supply the power from the power source to the in-vehicle instrument when a predetermined operation signal is inputted from the operation unit. |
| US08600614B2 |
System and method for integrated control of vehicle control systems
A system and method for providing driving support system to a vehicle. The vehicle includes a set of control modules, having at least one operational setting, configured for electronically controlling the vehicle components. The system includes an integrated drive mode selection module having a set of drive modes for modifying the settings for each control module. A sensing system detects at least one condition associated with the driver, vehicle or surroundings. A controller determines an appropriate drive mode for the vehicle based on the condition and the output of a safety module that ensures that the drive mode is safe while driving. |
| US08600613B2 |
Method for monitoring the pressure in a wheel tire and monitoring system
A sensor module generates a momentary tire pressure signal, and a transmitting module transmits the momentary pressure information. A management module receives and processes the information and includes a first predetermined pressure value corresponding to a higher speed for the vehicle, and a second predetermined pressure value corresponding to a lower speed, the first predetermined pressure value being greater than the second predetermined pressure value. The method includes comparing the momentary pressure value to a target pressure value, the target pressure value corresponding to either the first predetermined pressure value or the second predetermined pressure value, selecting the first predetermined pressure value as the target pressure value when the momentary pressure is too low relative to the second predetermined pressure value, and selecting the second predetermined pressure value as the target pressure value when the momentary pressure is too high relative to the first predetermined pressure value. |
| US08600611B2 |
System and method for measuring fatigue for mechanical components of an aircraft and aircraft maintenance method
A system for measuring fatigue of a component of an aircraft subject to mechanical stresses includes: a plurality of stress sensors mounted on the component, each sensor being configured to detect a predetermined mechanical stress threshold and to deliver a data signal representative of exceeding of the threshold; and a mechanism for recording the data and the sensors configured to detect different stress thresholds so as to make it possible to calculate, on the basis of the data recorded by the system, an estimation of fatigue of the component due to the mechanical stresses. It is thus possible to optimize overhaul of the components. |
| US08600607B2 |
Method for allocating identifiers of wheel electronics of a tire pressure monitoring system of a vehicle to the positions of the wheels on the vehicle
The invention describes a method for allocating identifiers of wheel electronics of a tire pressure monitoring system to positions of wheels of a vehicle, the simultaneously occurring rotation speeds of the wheels, normalized on a consistently chosen rolling radius of the wheels differ during cornering because of the different positions of the wheels on the vehicle, so that the positions of the wheels can be sorted according to increasing speed of the wheels during cornering, the wheel electronics of each wheel comprising a pressure sensor, a motion sensor, a memory and a transmitter, which transmits signals to a receiver being connected to an evaluation device, which receives the transmitted identifiers and compares the distances which the corresponding wheels have traveled in a defined time span, sorts the identifiers according to the length of the distance traveled in the defined time span and allocates the identifiers to the wheel positions. |
| US08600606B2 |
Vehicle safety systems and methods
Safety systems and methods are provided for use in a vehicle with a closure that defines a pivoting range when open. The safety system includes a sensor configured to collect data associated with an object in a target zone at least partially surrounding the vehicle; and a processor coupled to the sensors and configured to selectively operate in a first mode and a second mode based on a vehicle characteristic. The processor is configured to, in the first mode, detect the object and generate a first warning based on the object; and in the second mode, detect the object and determine a collision threat between the object and the pivoting range of the closure, and generate a second warning based on the collision threat. |
| US08600603B2 |
Apparatus and method of localization of mobile robot
A localization method and localization device of a mobile robot is provided. In one aspect, characteristic information of a reference object is stored in advance to be used as a landmark for localization, and reference characteristic information is defined by utilizing the stored characteristic information and characteristic information obtained at an initial location of the mobile robot. Therefore, the accuracy of localization can be increased without the use of additional artificial landmarks. |
| US08600600B2 |
System for driving spherical wheel
Disclosed is a system for driving a spherical wheel that includes a rotating sphere having a plurality of magnetic modules and a fixed body. The fixed body has coil modules that generate a magnetic field by current and partially enclose the rotating sphere so that a portion of the rotating sphere is exposed. A support wheel disposed between the rotating sphere and the fixed body is configured to maintain a substantially constant distance between the rotating sphere and the fixed body and rotatably support the rotating sphere. A sensor provided in at least one of the rotating sphere and the fixed body is configured to measure a rotational speed and a position of the rotating sphere, and a control device is configured to receive driving signals, the rotational velocity and the position measured by the sensor and to transmit a control signal supplying a current to the coil module. |
| US08600597B2 |
Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle includes a synchronous motor that outputs torque to a first driving wheel; an induction motor that outputs torque to a second driving wheel; and an output torque changing portion that makes the synchronous motor torque smaller than the induction motor torque when torque is output to the first or second driving wheel and the vehicle speed is close to zero, and makes the synchronous motor torque larger than the induction motor torque when torque is output to the first or second driving wheel and the vehicle is moving at or greater than a predetermined speed in a direction opposite a direction in which the vehicle is being operated to move, by the torque output to the first and second driving wheels. |
| US08600596B2 |
System and method for controlling a four wheel drive vehicle
The invention relates to a four wheel drive hybrid vehicle provided with at least one power train on each wheel set, a first power train (1) including at least one heat engine, a second power train (2) including at least one electric machine, the vehicle also being provided with a friction braking system on each drive wheel and sensor (7). The control system includes: a means (9) for distributing a braking request between the friction braking system and at least one electric machine from a power train, said electric machine being capable of producing a resisting torque; a torque instruction modulation means (10) for modulating torque instructions to braking systems and power trains based on signals coming from the sensors; and a power train control means (8); the distribution means (9), the torque instruction modulation means (10), and the power train control means (8) being capable of dynamically interacting so as to output torque commands to the power trains and to the friction braking systems with a view to promoting the stability of the vehicle. |
| US08600595B2 |
Power module active current management for efficiency improvement
A vehicle includes a motor, an alternating current (AC) power bus, a power inverter module (PIM), and a controller. The PIM includes a semiconductor die assembly with semiconductor power switches arranged in electrical parallel for delivering AC power to the motor via the bus. The controller determines an operating mode of the vehicle, selects and activates a designated one of the switches during a threshold low-current state of the PIM, and selects and activates all of the switches during a high-current state of the PIM. A PIM assembly for the vehicle includes the die assembly and controller. A method for optimizing energy efficiency of the vehicle includes providing the die assembly noted above, automatically determining the operating mode, and selecting and activating one of the switches when the operating mode corresponds to the threshold low-current state, and all of the electrical switches during the threshold high-current state of the PIM. |
| US08600594B2 |
Vehicle and driving system for vehicle installation
On condition that output of a torque of not lower than a preset reference torque from a motor continues for at least a predetermined time period in a vehicle stop state with output of a corresponding torque from the a second motor based on a detected accelerator opening, a torque command of the second motor is set to decrease the output torque of said motor by a torque decrease rate, which is set according to the corresponding torque and the accelerator opening in the vehicle stop state (initial accelerator opening). After a changeover of a current crowding phase in the second motor, the torque command of said motor is set to increase the output torque of said motor by a torque increase rate, which is set according to the accelerator opening in the vehicle stop state. |
| US08600593B2 |
Electrically powered vehicle
An electrically powered vehicle is connected to an external power supply through a charge plug. A relay is interposed in an electrical path extending to a power storage device from a power feed node electrically connected to the external power supply through the charge plug. A control device operates with electric power from an auxiliary machinery power supply provided separately from the power storage device and controls opening and closing of the relay in correspondence with a period during which the power storage device is charged. None of electric power consuming components mounted on the electrically powered vehicle is connected to the power feed node. Therefore, even during a period in which the electrically powered vehicle is connected to the external power supply, all electric power consuming components can electrically be disconnected from the external power supply by turning off the relay. |
| US08600592B2 |
Homing system and method for an autonomous underwater vehicle
A submarine homing system includes an acoustic emitter configured to emit an acoustic signal comprising at least two narrow-band tones, each narrow-band tone having a respective predetermined center frequency. An acoustic receiver is configured to receive the acoustic signal from the acoustic emitter, and produce one or more receiver signals. A processor is operatively connected to the acoustic receiver. The processor is configured to process the receiver signals to calculate a direction between the acoustic receiver and the acoustic emitter. |
| US08600591B2 |
Control device and method for the operation thereof
A control apparatus has a control lever, in particular for controlling a locomotive or a traction vehicle, and a sensor device for detecting an operating position of the control lever. The sensor device has an angle measurement device which is suitable for measuring an adjustment angle of the control lever, forming a digitalized angle value. A measurement range of the angle measurement device is greater than an adjustment angle range of the control lever and an evaluation device is connected to the angle measurement device which determines the operating position of the control lever based on the digitalized angle value of the angle measurement apparatus. |
| US08600586B2 |
Stable approach monitor (SAM) system
An improved stable approach monitor (SAM) system provides an audible advisory to a pilot when an aircraft is on a final landing approach. More specifically, the SAM system compares a measured airspeed of the aircraft to a predetermined flap placard speed. If the measured airspeed exceeds the predetermined flap placard speed then the improved SAM system provides an audible advisory indicating the airspeed of the aircraft is too fast. Advantageously, this audible advisory should prevent the pilot from attempting to deploy the flaps at an excessive airspeed and in turn focuses the pilot's attention on the problem at hand, which would be to reduce the airspeed of the aircraft. Once the airspeed is equal to or below the predetermined flap placard speed, the improved SAM system may provide another audible advisory informing the pilot to commence deployment of the flaps. |
| US08600585B2 |
Multi core vehicle management countermeasures system and method
A computerized method for performing countermeasure transmission of decoy vehicle data. The method can include receiving a vehicle management data message from one of a plurality of vehicle management system components. The vehicle management data message can have data indicating at least one destination component, and the at least one destination component can include a civil transponder. The method can include transforming said vehicle management data message into a decoy vehicle management data message and transmitting the decoy flight management data message to at least one of the at least one destination component(s). |
| US08600582B2 |
Apparatus for cutting grass
The invention describes an apparatus for cutting grass comprising a lawn mower, predisposed to operate at least within a cutting area (A) delimited by a perimeter cable; a management device, suitable for propagating an electrical signal (S) through the perimeter cable; operative modules, suitable for checking the position of the lawn mower with respect to the perimeter cable; a command unit suitable for commanding a movement of the lawn mower based on the position of the lawn mower with respect to the perimeter cable. |
| US08600577B2 |
Navigation system and methods for generating enhanced search results
A navigation system and various methods of using the system are described herein. Search query results generated by the system are listed and prioritized based upon travel related information and contextual information. Intermediary locations can be accessed based upon prioritizing search queries. |
| US08600573B2 |
System and method for managing cold load pickup using demand response
A system and method for simultaneously restoring power to loads in a distribution network that experienced an outage. The pickup load on the feeder in the distribution network is estimated and the load limit on the feeder is determined. The load on the feeder is divided into groups based on the load limit. A restoration load control process is determined, and power is restored to each of the groups simultaneously based on the power restoration control process. |
| US08600572B2 |
Smarter-grid: method to forecast electric energy production and utilization subject to uncertain environmental variables
A method to forecast the energy sources and energy sinks to facilitate continuous capacity planning, regulation and control of energy state of an entity under variable weather condition is established. Energy sources of specific focus are related to renewable energy forms from wind, solar and wave that are highly dependent on prevailing weather conditions. |
| US08600571B2 |
Energy optimization system
A system for optimizing a usage of energy based on cost, carbon footprint, and/or other criteria. The usage may be optimized for the next day or more. The optimization may deal with renewable energy, grid energy and stored energy. Various inputs may be considered for optimization, which could include energy costs, weather forecasts, characteristics of renewable energy, the load and storage, and other items. The optimizer may use equipment models with numerical transfer functions to take inputs and provide optimized estimates for the next day or so of energy usage. The outputs of the models may go to an optimization algorithms module for providing an output based on the inputs. The output may provide control information for the selection and amounts of the different types of energy in a scheduled manner. |
| US08600569B2 |
Irrigation system with ET based seasonal watering adjustment
An ET based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one environmental sensor. The ET based irrigation system further includes a stand alone ET unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the weather station. The ET unit includes programming configured to calculate an estimated ET value using a signal from the environmental sensor and to automatically modify a watering schedule of the irrigation controller through the seasonal adjust feature based on the estimated ET value to thereby conserve water while maintaining plant health. |
| US08600566B1 |
Thermal management smart valve with rupture detection and isolation
The condition of a fluid piping system is monitored by multiple intercommunicative smart valves, each executing a computer algorithm that designates smart valves as critical or non-critical, compares measurement data versus simulation data, and makes decisions based on the critical-or-noncritical designations and the measurement-versus-simulation comparisons. Initial measurement-versus-simulation comparisons are made for downstream pressure, flow rate, and temperature. If a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in either the downstream pressure or the flow rate, then the algorithm compares a measurement rupture determinant versus a simulation rupture determinant; if a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in the rupture determinant, then the smart valve is closed. If a measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy is found in the temperature, then the smart valve, if non-critical, is closed; however, if the smart valve is critical, then the nearest upstream non-critical smart valve is closed. Any measurement-versus-simulation discrepancy results, at least, in an alarm or warning. |
| US08600564B2 |
Method for zone based energy management with web browser interface
A method of managing a site includes monitoring an activation of a proximity detection function of a plurality of sites, with each site having a first zone as a home zone and a second zone having a boundary that is away from the first zone. The method proceeds by displaying an indicator within a web-based GUI enabling each user of each site to activate and deactivate use of the proximity detection function. Each site can include multiple users associated with each respective site. The method proceeds by detecting the multiple users as being home or away using the proximity detection function and then altering an operating condition of a network device located at at least one of the plurality of sites in response to a last user of the multiple users leaving the first zone. |
| US08600562B2 |
Household energy management sytem
A household energy management system uses measurements of the household electricity supply to identify and to determine the energy consumption of individual household appliances. From these measurements, models can be built of the behavior of the occupants of the house, the thermal properties of the house and the efficiency of the appliances. Using the models, the household appliances—in particular heating and cooling appliances—can be controlled to optimize energy efficiency; and maintenance programs for the appliances and for the house itself can be recommended to the householder or arranged with a service company. |
| US08600561B1 |
Radiant heating controls and methods for an environmental control system
Embodiments of the invention describe thermostats that use model predictive controls and related methods. A method of controlling a thermostat using a model predictive control may involve determining a parameterized model. The parameterized model may be used to predicted ambient temperature values for an enclosure. A set of radiant heating system control strategies may be selected for evaluation to determine an optimal control strategy from the set of control strategies. To determine the optimal control strategy, a predictive algorithm may be executed, in which each control strategy is applied to the parameterized model to predict an ambient temperature trajectory and each ambient temperature trajectory is processed in view of a predetermined assessment function. Processing the ambient temperature trajectory in this manner may involve minimizing a cost value associated with the ambient temperature trajectory. The radiant heating system may subsequently be controlled according to the selected optimal control strategy. |
| US08600559B2 |
Method of controlling equipment in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning network
The disclosure provides an HVAC data processing and communication network and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, the network includes a sensor and a local controller. The sensor is configured to detect a fault condition associated with operation of a demand unit. The local controller, associated with the demand unit, is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor and to communicate the sensor data over the network. A network controller is configured to receive the sensor data via the communication network and to generate an alert in the event that the sensor data indicates the fault condition. |
| US08600555B2 |
Device, program, recording medium and method for correcting taught point
A taught point correcting device for correcting a taught point in an operation program of a robot. The device includes a judging section judging whether position data of any of a plurality of different taught points, previously taught and included in an operation program, has been corrected or not; and a data correcting section correcting, when the judging section judges that position data of a first taught point among the different taught points has been corrected, position data of a correlative taught point having a relative positional relationship with the first taught point, in accordance with a taught-point rule previously prescribing the relative positional relationship between the different taught points. The device may also include a storing section storing the taught-point rule. The taught-point rule may include a rule prescribing a distance between any two taught points among the different taught points. |
| US08600554B2 |
System and method for robot trajectory generation with continuous accelerations
A method for robot trajectory generation with continuous acceleration, Receiving a user's motion command through a motion command interface, and sending the user's motion command to Cartesian trajectory generator; Converting the user's command to a trajectory path points of robot end effector in Cartesian space; Transforming the trajectory path points of robot end effector in Cartesian space into a robot trajectory path points in a joint space; Calculating positions, velocities and accelerations of robot joints in each motion servo cycle; Comparing the positions, velocities and accelerations of the robot joints generated by a joint Trajectory Interpolator with a velocity's limit value and an acceleration's limit value of each robot joint stored in a robot parameter database respectively. |
| US08600551B2 |
Medical robotic system with operatively couplable simulator unit for surgeon training
A medical robotic system has a surgeon console which is operatively couplable to a patient side unit for performing medical procedures or operatively couplable to a simulator unit for training purposes. The surgeon console has a monitor, input devices and foot pedals. The patient side unit has robotic arm assemblies coupled to instruments and an endoscope. When the surgeon console is coupled to the patient side unit, the instruments move in response to movement of the input devices to perform a medical procedure while captured images of the instruments are displayed on the monitor. When the surgeon console is coupled to the simulator unit, virtual instruments move in response to movement of the input devices to perform a user selected virtual procedure while virtual images of the virtual instruments are displayed on the monitor. |
| US08600549B2 |
Automatic drug dispensing and dosing time reminder device
The invention relates to an automatic drug dispensing and dosing time reminder device which automatically dispenses one dose of medication at every scheduled dosage time while simultaneously reminding a patient of the dosage time through a voice and a lamp. The device uses a motor, rotating body, and position sensor to dispense medications at the scheduled dosage times. The front face of the device includes an interface to program in the scheduled dosage times. |
| US08600538B2 |
System and method for producing three-dimensional multi-layer objects from digital models
A set of two-dimensional layers is determined based on a digital three-dimensional model. An image corresponding to each of the layers is rendered on each of a corresponding number of sheets of at least partially transparent material. The sheets of material are assembled together to produce a three-dimensional structure corresponding to the digital model. |
| US08600531B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generating signatures
Signaturing methods and apparatus as described. In one example, a signaturing method includes capturing an audio signal, applying a first window function to a portion of the captured audio signal to produce a first windowed audio block, applying a second window function to the portion of the captured audio signal to produce a second windowed audio block, determining a first characteristic of a band of frequencies in the first windowed audio block, determining a second characteristic of the band of frequencies in the second windowed audio block, comparing the first characteristic to the second characteristic, and assigning a signature bit representative of the portion of the captured audio signal based on the comparison of the first characteristic and the second characteristic. Other examples are described. |
| US08600528B2 |
Real-time, packet-level quality assurance of electromechanical device control data
The present invention relates to a method and system for providing real-time packet-level quality assurance of digital data that controls an electromechanical device transmitted through a network between a transmitting computer and at least one terminal computer. Specifically, all data packets transmitted between the transmitting computer and the at least one terminal computer are passively monitored, and those data packets containing digitized data that controls an electromechanical device of a pre-determined format are selectively recorded to a database. The selectively recorded data packets are then analyzed for determining whether a current set of digitized data that controls an electromechanical device transmitted between the transmitting computer and the at least one terminal computer during a current session would lead to a harmful or undesirable outcome by the electromechanical device being controlled. Finally, the analysis results are displayed in a real-time manner to provide real-time packet-level quality assurance of the digitized data that controls an electromechanical device. |
| US08600526B2 |
Marking device docking stations having mechanical docking and methods of using same
Docking stations and docking methods are provided for use with marking devices used for marking the presence or absence of an underground facility in a dig area. The docking station may serve as a home base for storage of a marking device, for charging the battery of a marking device, for transferring data to and from a marking device, and for securing a marking device against unauthorized use and/or theft. The docking station may be a mobile docking station that is installed in a vehicle or may be a fixed docking station that is installed at a central location in the field, at a central office, at a home base facility, and the like. |
| US08600523B2 |
Control of an operation of a coordinate measuring device
In a method for controlling an operation of a coordinate measuring device, at least one operational parameter is determined. One value of the operational parameter is allocated to a plurality of components. A sequence for determining the operational parameter is provided for the majority of the components. The method for determining the operational parameter in the predetermined sequence for each component is now described. It starts with the component that is first in the sequence: i) if the value of the operational parameter is allocated to the component, the value is adopted as a value of the operational parameter that is available for the operation, ii) if no value of the operational parameter is allocated to the components, one available value of the operational parameter that was available until then still remains available, iii) if another component is provided in the sequence, the method is carried out with the component. |
| US08600522B2 |
CPR feedback method and apparatus
The present invention comprises a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) feedback device and a method for performing CPR. A chest compression detector device is provided that measures chest compression during the administration of CPR. The chest compression detector device comprises a signal transmitter operably positioned on the chest of the patient and adapted to broadcast a signal, and a signal receiver adapted to receive the signal. The chest compression detector device also comprises a processor, operably connected to the signal transmitter and the signal receiver. The processor repeatedly analyzes the signal received to determine from the signal a series of measurements of compression of the chest, and feedback is provided to the rescuer based on the series of measurements. |
| US08600514B1 |
Methods for improving mobility and controlling cartilage matrix degradation of weight-bearing articular joints
A method for improving mobility and/or the quality of synovial fluid of an affected articular joint, wherein the joint is associated with at least a first muscle group and at least a second muscle group each having an antagonistic relationship for effecting mobility of the joint through a range of motion when recruited by natural neural impulses. The method includes positioning at least two first electrodes proximate to the at least first muscle group, positioning at least two second electrodes proximate to the at least second muscle group, and applying motor-level electrical stimulation to the at least first and second muscle groups via the at least two first and second electrodes in a multiphasic pattern corresponding to a sequence of electromyographic outputs. |
| US08600512B2 |
Methods and systems for treating seizures caused by brain stimulation
Methods for treating seizures caused by brain stimulation include providing a stimulator, programming the stimulator with one or more stimulation parameters configured to treat a medical condition, applying at least one stimulus with the stimulator to a stimulation site within the brain of a patient in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters, and monitoring the patient for a seizure caused by the at least one stimulus. |
| US08600505B2 |
Implantable device for facilitating control of electrical stimulation of cervical vagus nerves for treatment of chronic cardiac dysfunction
An implantable device for facilitating control of electrical stimulation of cervical vagus nerves for treatment of chronic cardiac dysfunction is provided. A stimulation therapy lead includes helical electrodes configured to conform to an outer diameter of a cervical vagus nerve sheath, and a set of connector pins electrically connected to the helical electrodes. A neurostimulator includes an electrical receptacle into which the connector pins are securely and electrically coupled. The neurostimulator also includes a pulse generator configured to therapeutically stimulate the vagus nerve through the helical electrodes in alternating cycles of stimuli application and stimuli inhibition that are tuned to both efferently activate the heart's intrinsic nervous system and afferently activate the patient's central reflexes by triggering bi-directional action potentials. Finally, the neurostimulator includes a programmable switch configured to alter the triggering of the bi-directional action potentials in response to a magnetic signal received from outside the housing. |
| US08600503B1 |
Systems and methods for detecting ischemic events
Embodiments of the present invention relate to implantable systems, and method for use therein, that can detect myocardial ischemic events. In accordance with specific embodiments of the present invention, short-term fluctuations in cardiac intervals that follow premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are monitored. This allows myocardial ischemic events to be detected based on these monitored fluctuations. The cardiac intervals for which fluctuations are being monitored can be, for example, RR intervals. Alternatively, or additionally, short-term fluctuations in other types of cardiac intervals may be monitored. Such other cardiac intervals include, for example, PR intervals, PP intervals, QT intervals and RT intervals. |
| US08600502B2 |
Sleep state classification
Systems and methods for sleep state classification involve detecting conditions related to sleep, including at least one condition associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Additionally, a condition modulated by the sleep-wake status of the patient may be detected. A medical system that is partially or fully implantable incorporates sensors and circuitry for detecting and processing the sleep-related signals. A sleep state processor classifies the patient's sleep state based on the sleep-related signals. Sleep state classification may be used in connection with the delivery of sleep state appropriate therapy, diagnostic testing, or patient monitoring. |
| US08600499B2 |
Method and device for cardiac vasoactive therapy
A method and device for treating myocardial ischemia in which an implantable pulse generator delivers electrical stimulation to electrodes disposed near a coronary artery. The stimulation parameters may be adjusted to produce vasodilation and/or vasoconstriction of the artery. The device may be configured to operate in a vasodilation and/or vasoconstriction mode in accordance with specified entry and exit conditions. |
| US08600496B2 |
CPR analysis system and method
Disclosed is a method and computer program product for analyzing treatment of a sudden cardiac arrest victim. The method includes attaching the victim to an automatic external defibrillator, capturing treatment information about the CPR event, alerting a rescuer of treatment steps, and displaying a chest compression interface based on the treatment information. The chest compression interface may include an event log about various AED, rescuer, and background events and may be used to generate a graphical chest compression chart for simple analysis of the quality of a CPR treatment. |
| US08600495B2 |
Techniques for positioning therapy delivery elements within a spinal cord or brain
Apparatus and techniques to address problems associated with lead migration, patient movement or position, histological changes, neural plasticity or disease progression. Disclosed are techniques for implanting a lead having therapy delivery elements, such as electrodes or drug delivery ports, within a vertebral or cranial bone so as to maintain these elements in a fixed position relative to a desired treatment site. The therapy delivery elements may thereafter be adjusted in situ with a position control mechanism and/or a position controller to improve the desired treatment, such as electrical stimulation and/or drug infusion to a precise target. The therapy delivery elements may be positioned laterally in any direction relative to the targeted treatment site or toward or away from the targeted treatment site. A control system maybe provided for open- or closed-loop feedback control of the position of the therapy delivery elements as well as other aspects of the treatment therapy. |
| US08600493B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for automatic seizure monitoring
Method, apparatus and computer program product for monitoring seizure activity in brain are disclosed. At least one parameter set time series is derived from brain wave signal data obtained from a subject, wherein each parameter set sequence comprises sequential parameter sets and each parameter set comprises values for at least two signal parameters, the values being derived from the brain wave signal data. In order to reduce susceptibility to inter-subject variations and to enhance adaptability to each recording, past EEG signal data of the subject is used to determine an envelope object that encompasses the parameter points that sequential parameter sets derived from the past signal data form in a parameter space. A reference point is also determined, whose location in the parameter space depends on the past signal data. At least one new parameter point is then obtained from the subject and an evolution indicator set is determined. By examining whether the evolution indicator set fulfills predetermined location and direction criteria in relation to the envelope object and the reference point, seizure activity may be detected. The envelope object and the reference point are conditionally updated for on-line measurement. |
| US08600489B2 |
Methods and devices for accurately classifying cardiac activity
Methods, systems, and devices for signal analysis in an implanted cardiac monitoring and treatment device such as an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. In some examples, captured data including detected events is analyzed to identify likely overdetection of cardiac events. In some illustrative examples, when overdetection is identified, data may be modified to correct for overdetection, to reduce the impact of overdetection, or to ignore overdetected data. Several examples emphasize the use of morphology analysis using correlation to static templates and/or inter-event correlation analysis. |
| US08600483B2 |
Mobile in vivo infra red data collection and diagnoses comparison system
Described is a mobile in vivo infrared brain scan and analysis system. The system includes a data collection subsystem and a data analysis subsystem. The data collection subsystem is a helmet with a plurality of infrared (IR) thermometer probes. Each of the IR thermometer probes includes an IR photodetector capable of detecting IR radiation generated by evoked potentials within a user's skull. The helmet is formed to collect brain data that is reflective of firing neurons in a mobile subject and transmit the brain data to the data analysis subsystem. The data analysis subsystem is configured to generate and display a three-dimensional image that depicts a location of the firing neurons. The data analysis subsystem is also configured to compare the brain data against a library of brain data to detect an anomaly in the brain data, and notify a user of any detected anomaly in the brain data. |
| US08600482B2 |
Method and device for imaging a volume section by way of PET data
A method and a device for imaging a volume section by way of PET data are described. With the proposed solution the PET data of the volume section are acquired by way of a positron emission detector, and the MR data of the volume section are acquired by way of a magnetic resonance system. In at least one embodiment, with the aid of the MR data, PET voxels within the volume section are determined from which radiation occurring due to an annihilation is emitted. The image data are reconstructed from the PET data in that it is taken into account that the PET data are generated only by radiation from the PET voxels. |
| US08600481B2 |
Subcutaneous cavity marking device
These are subcutaneous cavity marking devices and methods. More particularly, upon insertion into a body, the cavity marking device and method enable one to determine the center, orientation, and periphery of the cavity by radiographic, mammographic, echogenic, or other non-invasive imaging techniques. Also, the device contains a bioabsorbable or non-bioabsorbable marker. The device may be combined with various substances enhancing the radiopaque, mammographic, or echogenic characteristics of the marker or the body allowing it to be observed by any non-invasive imaging techniques. This is further a method of marking a subcutaneous cavity using a bioabsorbable material and a bioabsorbable or non-bioabsorbable marker in conjunction with the material. The method also may combine any of the features as described with the device. |
| US08600471B2 |
Catheter with a sensing region for redox reactions
The present disclosure relates to catheters, for example a catheter which is adapted such that the user is able to determine whether it has been correctly positioned within 5 the subject. Also included in the present disclosure are means for detecting the position of the catheter and combinations of a catheter and processors for determining the positioning of the catheter. The present disclosure also relates to methods of determining the position of a catheter in, for example, a human or animal body. |
| US08600470B2 |
Method for detecting an analyte in blood
The methods and apparatus for detecting an analyte in blood are useful for detecting an analyte in tissue of a subject. The apparatus comprises a sensor, which comprises an elongated conductive material having a protrudent end, the protrudent end comprising an electrode that detects the presence of an analyte; a substrate affixed to the conductive material; and a support having an external surface, a proximal end, and a distal end. The conductive material is positioned on the support and the protrudent end of the conductive material protrudes beyond the distal end of the support. Optionally, the sensor is suspended within the lumen of a venous flow device. Typically, only a portion of the sensor is suspended within the lumen of the venous flow device, said portion comprising the protrudent end of the conductive material. Alternatively, the conductive material is positioned on the external surface of the intravenous infusion catheter. |
| US08600469B2 |
Medical sensor and technique for using the same
A medical sensor may be adapted to account for factors that cause irregularities in pulse oximetry measurements or other spectrophotemetric measurements. Sensors are provided with surface features that reduce the amount of outside light or shunted light that impinge the detecting elements of the sensor. The sensor is adapted to reduce the effect of outside light or shunted light on pulse oximetry measurements. |
| US08600468B2 |
Biometric information measuring apparatus and biometric information measuring system
A biometric information measuring apparatus has a storage device for storing data concerning a biometric signal or biometric information derived from the biometric signal in association with position information indicating the current location of a sensor unit of the apparatus. Since the biometric information measuring apparatus provides the position information acquired when the data on the biometric signal or the biometric information was obtained, one can know the location and behavior of a subject at the time of measurement and exactly analyze the biometric information on the subject. |
| US08600466B2 |
Living body information measuring apparatus
A living body information measuring apparatus includes an optical system for irradiating light to a subject and detecting light from the subject, a signal processing portion for acquiring information with regard to a tissue condition of the subject based on a detecting signal of light, and a position determining portion for determining an acceptability of an irradiating position of light based on the detecting signal of light. |
| US08600464B2 |
Superconducting fault current limiter
This invention relates to a superconducting fault current limiter, including: an input segment of an input transformer core and an output segment of an output transformer, each segment having a first end and a second end; a length of superconductor which forms a winding around the input segment and a winding around output segment, wherein the windings are connected in series to form a closed loop; a cryostat in which the superconductor is housed; wherein each end of the input and output segments are exposed to the exterior of the cryostat. |
| US08600460B2 |
Handheld electronic communication device including touch-sensitive display and method
A handheld electronic communication device includes a body that has an input device, and a display assembly that includes a display. The display assembly is connected to the body and rotatable relative to the body, between a first position in which a first portion of the display is covered by the body and a second portion of the display extends from the body, and a second position in which the display is displaced generally linearly relative to the first position such that the first portion and the second portion of the display are exposed. |
| US08600459B2 |
System and method providing low power operation in a multimode communication device
A system and method providing low-power operation in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example, include at least one radio module that is adapted to communicate in a plurality of communication modes. The at least one radio module may also be adapted to operate in at least a first power-save mode. At least one module may, for example, be adapted to analyze at least one non-informational aspect of a signal (e.g., a received radio signal) to determine whether a first communication network corresponding to a first communication mode of the plurality of communication modes might be available. The at least one module may then, for example, be adapted to determine, based at least in part on the determined availability of the first communication network, whether to operate the at least one radio module in a respective mode other than the first power-save mode. |
| US08600457B2 |
Sleep mode for mobile communication device
A method and apparatus for operating a mobile communication device in a sleep mode. The mobile communication device displays a time in an easily readable format at a low-light intensity, provides an alert to a user at an alarm time in a particular manner specified by the user, changes the buttons on the mobile communication device to operate as snooze buttons, and suppresses a portion of call and message notifications received by the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is in the sleep mode. The sleep mode operation is performed, at least in part, according to sleep-mode user settings chosen by the user. |
| US08600456B2 |
Uniform power save method for wireless stations
A Proxy ARP Server in an AP maintains IP/MAC bindings for associated clients. In an example embodiment, when the AP receives a proxy ARP request for a client, the AP may respond for the client. In another example embodiment, when the AP receives a proxy ARP request for the client, the AP buffers the request until the client is in an awake state. Optionally, the AP may convert the broadcast destination MAC address in the ARP request to a unicast address that corresponds to the target IP address. |
| US08600455B1 |
Power control using fast signal envelope detection
A method for controlling output signal power in a communication terminal includes determining envelopes of a communication signal to be transmitted by the communication terminal at respective first and second measurement points along a transmission chain in a transmitter of the terminal. A cross-correlation is computed between the envelopes determined at the first and second measurement points. An actual gain between the first and second measurement points is computed using the cross-correlation. An output power of the communication signal is adjusted by setting a gain of the transmitter responsively to the actual gain. |
| US08600454B2 |
Decisions on ambient noise suppression in a mobile communications handset device
A method in a communications device includes the following operations. During a call, a process automatically detects that the device has moved from an at-the-ear position to an away-from-the-ear position. Based on the detection, a noise suppressor that operates upon an uplink signal for the call is signaled to change its noise suppression performance. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US08600451B2 |
Mobile wireless communications device with reduced interfering energy from the display and related methods
A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing and includes radio frequency (RF) circuitry and a processor carried by the circuit board and operative with each other. A display connector for an LCD connector is mounted on the circuit board and adapted to be connected to a display. Display connection lines are carried by the circuit board and interconnect the display connector and processor for carrying signals from the processor to the display connector and a connected display. Filters are carried by the circuit board and connected to the display connection lines and reduce any interfering energy from the processor and display. |
| US08600448B2 |
Housing structure for a slide type mobile communication terminal
A mobile terminal includes a front body, a rear body, and a slide module connecting the front body to the rear body such that the front body is slidable with respect to the rear body, the slide module including a first slide member fixed to a front surface of the rear body and having a rail unit at both sides of the rear body, the rail unit having a specific length corresponding to a slide stroke of the front body; and a second slide member fixed to a rear surface of the front body and having a moving guide constrained to the rail unit at both sides of the rear body and slidably moved along the rail unit, in which the moving guide protrudes toward the rear body in order to receive the rail unit and cover the rail unit. |
| US08600445B2 |
Mobile communication terminal including rotary key and method of controlling operation thereof
A mobile communication terminal including an input unit configured to generate at least a first signal when selected, a display unit configured to display a plurality of menus related to an operation of the mobile terminal, and a controller configured to display an independent menu on the display unit based on the generated first signal. Further, the independent menu includes at least one menu from the plurality of menus related to the operation of the mobile terminal that is displayed on the display unit independently of an application being executed on the mobile terminal. |
| US08600444B2 |
Mobile communication terminal and control method thereof
A mobile communication terminal including a display unit, and a controller configured to display on the display unit both a first list including tasks that can be simultaneously executed and a second list listing currently executing tasks. |
| US08600443B2 |
Sensor network system for acquiring high quality speech signals and communication method therefor
A sensor network system including node devices connected in a network via predetermined propagation paths collects data measured at each node device to be aggregated into one base station via a time-synchronized sensor network system. The base station calculates a position of the signal source based on the angle estimation value of the signal from each node device and position information thereof, designates a node device located nearest to the signal source as a cluster head node device, and transmits information of the position of the signal source and the designated cluster head node device to each node device, to cluster each node device located within the number of hops from the cluster head node device as a node device belonging to each cluster. Each node device performs an emphasizing process on the received signal from the signal source, and transmits an emphasized signal to the base station. |
| US08600441B2 |
Transparent relay using dual-layer beam forming association procedures
A system and method for use in a communication system that includes at least one base station and at least one relay node (RN) for communicating with a user agent (UA), the system comprising a base station that includes a processor and an antenna assembly capable of simultaneously transmitting at least first and second layer base station beams to the UA and a relay node (RN) that includes a processor and an antenna assembly capable of simultaneously transmitting at least first and second layer RN beams to the UA, wherein the first base station beam and first RN beam superpose on each other during transmission and the second base station beam and second RN beam superpose on each other during transmission so that the RN is transparent to the UA. |
| US08600439B2 |
Mobile electronic device, cradle, method for operating a mobile electronic device, and communication system
A method for operating a mobile electronic device is disclosed. The mobile electronic device communicates through a power-line carrier communication network, if the mobile electronic device is charging at a charging cradle. The mobile electronic device communicates through a base station, if the mobile electronic device is not charging at the charging cradle. |
| US08600438B2 |
Mobile telephone with camera
A mobile telephone with a camera, a casing, a display and a keypad for entering manual commands is disclosed. The camera is permanently attached to at least a part of the keypad in a subcomponent of the casing, wherein the subcomponent within a chassis of the casing is designed in such a way that it can be swiveled about at least one axis relative to the display, and the chassis at least partly surrounds the subcomponent. |
| US08600436B2 |
Mobile assisted channel selection in devices having multiple radio transceivers
A wireless communication device includes a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to transmit/receive RF signals in a first frequency band, a second RF transceiver configured to transmit/receive RF signals in a second frequency band that may be different from the first frequency band, and a connection manager that is coupled to the first and second RF transceivers and that assists with channel selection by the first and second RF transceivers to reduce mutual interference between the first and second RF transceivers. Related methods are also disclosed. |
| US08600433B2 |
Receiver comprising selectable signal processing sub-systems
A receiver for a telecommunications system, wherein the receiver is capable of using a plurality of available alternative receiver sub-systems and the receiver comprises selection means for selecting one of the plurality of receiver sub-systems for use in processing a received signal according to conditions of the propagation channel through which the received signal was received. |
| US08600432B2 |
Methods and apparatus for leveraging a mobile phone or mobile computing device for use in controlling model vehicles
Methods and systems for utilizing a mobile computing device (e.g., such as a mobile phone) for use in controlling a model vehicle are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a mobile computing device provides various user controls for generating signals that are communicated to a radio transmitter device coupled with the mobile computing device, and ultimately broadcast to a receiver residing at a model vehicle. With some embodiments, the mobile computing device may be integrated with a controller housing which provides separate user controls, such that a combination of user controls present on the mobile computing device and the controller housing can be used to control a model vehicle. |
| US08600431B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication system, and method for connecting devices
A connected-device-information managing unit that obtains connection information that is predetermined information for connection from a connected device as a communication counterpart, holds it, and, when a communication process is completed normally, holds a parameter value used in the communication process as normal connection information which is a part of the connection information for each connected device, and a hands-free controller that performs a communication process based on the connection information. When a communication process is started with a device that normal connection information has been already stored in the connected-device-information managing unit, the hands-free controller sets a parameter based on the normal connection information to perform the communication process. |
| US08600428B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for initializing cognitive system supported by cognitive pilot channel
The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for initializing a cognitive system supported by a cognitive pilot channel, where implementation of the method includes: sending a frequency initialization request message to a CPC AP; receiving a frequency initialization response message sent by the CPC AP, where the frequency initialization response message includes CPC private resource description information; broadcasting cognitive information of a base station and description information of an uplink access channel to a terminal over a channel specified in the CPC private resource description information; receiving cognitive information of the terminal over CPC private resources, deciding a work frequency according to the cognitive information of the terminal, and sending the decided work frequency to the terminal; establishing, on the decided work frequency, a link with the terminal. |
| US08600423B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving noise power estimate in WCDMA network
Method and apparatus for improving a noise power estimate in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network are disclosed and may include calculating a total noise power estimate for a downlink channel based on a plurality of control channel bits from a plurality of different types of control channels. The plurality of control channel bits may include at least two of: dedicated physical channel (DPCH) transmit power control (TPC) bits, DPCH pilot bits, and common pilot channel (CPICH) bits. A first noise power estimate may be calculated for the downlink channel based on a plurality of the DPCH TPC bits. A value of at least one of the plurality of DPCH TPC bits may not be known when the at least one of the plurality of DPCH TPC bits is received. |
| US08600422B2 |
Locating a target unit in a wireless network
Communication between a requesting unit and target units in a wireless network is disclosed. Searching is performed to locate target units by comparing identifying information with information received by the requesting unit from a user. Calculating, in real time during a communication, an amount of time left in the communication based on speed, direction and location of the target units and the speed, the direction and the location of the requesting unit may also be performed. |
| US08600421B2 |
Method and apparatus for priority monitoring of communication groups over multiple disparate wireless networks
A client device performs a method for priority scanning of groups across multiple disparate connected networks which includes the client device creating a scan list having a designated priority group in response to user input that monitors the activity of a plurality of communication groups on a first wireless network that has a one-to-one mapping to a second plurality of logically equivalent communication groups provisioned on the multiple wireless networks. The client device also receives an indication from a communication server that a group on the scan list is active and automatically and preemptively joins the active group using resources on the first wireless network. |
| US08600419B2 |
Radio channel allocation and link adaptation in cellular telecommunication system
Methods, apparatuses, controllers, systems, and terminals can, in certain embodiments, determine a number and properties of potential interferers in a plurality of available radio channels. The properties of the potential interferers can include modulation methods used by the potential interferers. A network element responsible for channel allocation can perform channel allocation for a terminal and select a modulation method for the allocated channel on the basis of the determination. |
| US08600418B2 |
Relay station for cell information exchange between adjacent BSs over air links in cellular systems
The present invention relates to relay customer premises equipment (RCPE) for exchanging operational information and coexistence information of each cell between adjacent cells in a cellular system. The present invention enables effective control between multiple cells by directly transmitting operational information and coexistence information between cells over air links. |
| US08600414B2 |
Electronic short messaging and advertising method and means
The invention relates to an electronic short messaging and advertising method and means. In particular the invention relates to an electronic advertising method, where minimal initiative is required from the consumer. Some embodiments of the invention may also be applied to an electronic sales method. The invention may be applied for normal short messaging also. The electronic short messaging and advertising method comprises at least one subscriber terminal and uses the Internet and/or the telephony network. With the method in accordance with the invention the recipient can receive advertisements or other short messages with the shortest manipulation time possible. No navigation, browsing of inboxes, copying and/or pasting of telephone numbers needs to be done. The user is shown the message automatically, and he may delete it or receive further information on it with one single press of a dedicated key. |
| US08600412B2 |
Mobile terminal and method of transferring or receiving data using the same
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which transfers or receives data, including location information, in various ways, and a method of transferring or receiving data using the same. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a display; a communication unit; and a controller configured to receive together the message and a specific location information through the communication unit from a communication terminal, wherein the specific location information is location information excluding a current location of the communication terminal. The controller is further configured to display the message and the specific location information separately on the display such that the message and the specific location information can be identified separately from each other by a user of the mobile terminal. |
| US08600411B2 |
Methods and apparatus for controlling the transmission and/or reception of safety messages by portable wireless user devices
Safety message monitoring operations and/or safety message transmission operations are controlled for a mobile wireless communications device. The periodicity with regard to safety message monitoring and/or safety message transmissions is varied based on the environment of the mobile wireless device. The transmission power level with regard to safety message transmissions is varied based on the environment of the mobile wireless device. In some embodiments, safety message monitoring and transmission operations are disabled when the mobile device is determined to be inside a building or inside a vehicle. In some embodiments, safety message monitoring rate and safety message transmission rate is varied as a function of proximity to vehicular traffic and/or the level of detected vehicular traffic. In some embodiments, safety message transmission power level is varied as a function of proximity to vehicular traffic and/or the level of detected vehicular traffic. |
| US08600407B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying bluetooth connection between cradle and handheld data capture device
A method and apparatus for identifying a Bluetooth connection between a cradle and at least one handheld data capture device that includes a barcode reading arrangement or an RFID reader. The apparatus includes a cradle configured to accommodate a handheld data capture device detachably settled therein. The apparatus also includes a connection indicator configured to be activated, in response to a find-connection command, if a Bluetooth connection between the cradle and the handheld data capture device is identified. In some implementations, the connection indicator is on the cradle and it can be a light emitting diode, a speaker, or a vibration generator. |
| US08600406B2 |
System and method for location determination for mobile clients
A first position (104) of the mobile client is determined at least in part by utilizing first signals received from at least one first signal source. The first signal source operates in a first location determination system (114). A second position (106) of at least one second signal source (120) is determined by utilizing both the determined first position of the mobile client and second signals received from the at least one second signal source (120). The second signal source (120) operates in a second location determination system. A third position (116) of the mobile client is determined utilizing the second signal source (120). |
| US08600402B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining roles for media generation and compilation
An approach is provided for determining roles for multi-device recording. A media platform determines one or more devices for generating one or more media items of at least one subject and then determines the respective locations of the one or more devices relative to one or more focal areas of the at least one subject. Based, at least in part, on the respective locations, the media platform determines respective roles for the one or more devices for generating the one or more items. |
| US08600400B2 |
Device and method for creating data records in a data-store based on messages
Updating a data-store associated with an electronic communications device includes wirelessly communicating an electronic message. A location identifier representative of a physical location is identified within the electronic message. The physical location of the electronic communications device is measured or estimated as needed, after which validating the location identifier occurs when the measured or estimated physical location is calculated to be within a threshold distance of the physical location represented by the location identifier. Initiating creation of a new data record in the data-store is then performed, with the new data record storing at least the validated location identifier and a time identifier. |
| US08600396B2 |
Radio scheduling apparatus, radio communication system, and radio scheduling method
A radio scheduling apparatus in a radio communication system in which a modulation scheme is selected in accordance with radio quality includes radio quality acquisition means and scheduling means. The radio quality acquisition means acquires radio quality information indicative of radio quality for each mobile station. The scheduling means determines the degree of urgency for assigning a radio channel according to the radio quality, based on the radio quality information acquired by the radio quality acquisition means, and preferentially assigns a radio channel to a mobile station having a high degree of urgency. |
| US08600394B2 |
Method for assigning frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, controller for a wireless communication network and wireless communication network
A method assigns frequency subbands to a plurality of interfering nodes in a wireless communication network, wherein the number of subbands assigned to a node depends on the interference condition of the node, wherein as the node faces less interference it is assigned more subbands. |
| US08600391B2 |
Call management for location-aware mobile devices
A positioning system (e.g., GPS) integrated in, or coupled to, a mobile device determines the position of the mobile device. An availability status manager (ASM) in a vPBX acquires the position of the mobile device. The ASM can contain rules on how to route or otherwise control incoming phone calls based on availability status of one or more mobile devices in the vPBX network. When a call is received by the vPBX, the ASM determines the availability status of the receiving mobile device based on the geographic location of the receiving mobile device. The ASM then routes the call to the receiving mobile device, to another mobile device, or to a landline based on the availability status of the receiving mobile device and the availability status based rules. |
| US08600386B2 |
System and method for providing extending femtocell coverage
Femtocell coverage can be extended across a coverage area by providing a cluster of femtocell access points (FAPs). Each FAP is independently registered with a core network and provisioned with a location area code common to each FAP. At hand-in from the macrocell network, an association is made between the mobile station and the hand-in FAP, which becomes an anchor FAP for the duration of the mobile station's presence within the cluster. Calls between the mobile station and the core network are routed via a servicing FAP of the cluster and the anchor FAP. |
| US08600385B2 |
Interface establishing method in radio communication system, management apparatus and radio node apparatus in radio communication system
An interface establishing method in a handover procedure, includes: managing an occurrence status of handover for a plurality of radio node apparatuses; transmitting an establishment instruction from the management apparatus to a first radio node apparatus to establish a first link between the first radio node apparatus and a second radio node apparatus according to the occurrence status of handover, the first radio node apparatus and the second radio node apparatus being accommodated in the management apparatus; and establishing the first link between the first radio node apparatus and the second radio node apparatus based on the establishment instruction. |
| US08600383B2 |
Apparatus and method for making measurements in mobile telecommunications system user equipment
A method and apparatus for selecting cells in a mobile telecommunications system, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS) and a network of a plurality of cells of a second Radio Access Technology (RAT), the method comprising, at a user equipment device: when in UMTS mode, flagging in a neighboring cell list stored on the user equipment device information for a cell of a second RAT which is known to be unsuitable for selection. Information from the neighboring cell list information for the flagged cell may be removed, in particular for a limited period of time. |
| US08600379B2 |
Apparatus and method for improving quality of service in wireless communication system
An apparatus and a method for scanning neighbor networks in a mobile terminal are provided. In the method, the strength of a signal received from a serving station is measured. Whether to scan at least one neighbor network is determined with consideration of the strength of the signal. When it is determined to scan at least one neighbor network, the terminal switches to a power save mode, an at least one channel of the at least one neighbor network is scanned during an operation of the power save mode. |
| US08600374B1 |
Sterilizable wireless tracking and communication device and method for manufacturing
The present invention is a wireless communication device which includes a circuit board with a coating, a top housing, a bottom housing and a gasket. The wireless communication device is preferably a water-tight enclosure. A method for forming a water-proof wireless communication device is also disclosed. |
| US08600369B2 |
Remote ring tone control using USSD
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to a USSD assisted remote ring tone control service allowing a first mobile device to remotely add a ring tone and activate the ring tone of a second mobile device. A first mobile device contains a remote ring-tone control logic. The remote ring-tone control logic interacts with a USSD gateway server to send a ring tone to a second mobile device and remotely activates the ring tone. This requires authorization by a policy server which is in communication with the USSD gateway server. Once authorized, the first mobile device can upload a ring tone to a ring tone cache or find a ring tone on a network. The first mobile device then sends a URL to the second mobile device pointing to the ring tone either in the ring tone cache or elsewhere on the network. The second mobile device then downloads the ring tone. Once the download is confirmed the second mobile device activates the ring tone. The next time the first communications device makes a call to the second mobile device, the ring tone sounds through the second mobile device. |
| US08600368B2 |
Intelligent text message to speech system and method for visual voicemail
A visual voicemail system can convert visual voicemail message content to an alternate format based on the location of the recipient device, whether and how the recipient device is in motion, a priority of the message content, user preferences, or other criteria. Alternately, a recipient wireless device may also convert content to an alternate format based on the similar criteria. Content may be presented automatically to a user on recipient device based on such criteria. Content may be converted from audio to text, text to audio, or from any format to any other format. Location, motion data, user preferences, etc. may be obtained from a location based service system, a recipient wireless device, or any other source. |
| US08600367B2 |
Hands-free telephone device of a motor vehicle
A motor vehicle hands-free device includes a communication interface designed so that at least one first mobile telephone and one second mobile telephone can be connected to the motor vehicle hands-free device, in particular in parallel or simultaneously, a control device designed so that mobile telephone address book entries from the first mobile telephone and mobile telephone address book entries from the second mobile telephone can be transferred to the motor vehicle hands-free device via the radio interface, and a common address book that can be generated on the basis of the mobile telephone address book entries of the first mobile telephone and the mobile telephone address book entries of the second mobile telephone. |
| US08600366B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method
Suitable processing is performed considering a case where a confirmation notification of participation in group communication or other data communication was sent, but the notification is delayed and data communication has already ended when the notification arrives at the other party.The present communication apparatus includes a communication unit 2 for transmitting/receiving data, an input unit 3, and a control unit 7 which, when start of data communication is input from said input unit 3, sends a confirmation notification of participation of the data communication to a plurality of destinations, performs data communication with destinations which reply when receiving at least one reply with respect to the confirmation notification of participation, and performs data communication after adding other destination even after the start of the data communication when receiving a reply from the other destination, wherein when ending the data communication, the control unit 7 makes the communication unit 2 transmit an end notification of the data communication to another party from which a reply for the confirmation notification of participation is not obtained among destinations to which the confirmation notification of participation was transmitted. |
| US08600364B2 |
Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to mobile telephony devices
Systems and methods for terminating telephony communications to a mobile telephony device that is roaming outside of its native service area make use of a mobile roaming termination service. The mobile roaming termination service causes the native mobile telephony service provider that provides service to the mobile telephony device to forward incoming telephony communications directed the native telephone number of the mobile telephony device to a forwarding access number. The mobile roaming termination service receives telephony communications directed to the forwarding access number, and then terminates the telephony communication to the mobile telephony device via any one of multiple different methods. |
| US08600358B2 |
Method and system of transport mode notification on a multi-mode handheld communication device
A communications device includes multiple data transceivers, each configured for communication via a respective communication transport mode. The communication device has one or more data packets which are associated with one of the communication transport modes. The handheld communication device transmits or receives the data packet(s) via the data transceiver that is configured for communication with the corresponding communication transport mode. A user-indication of the communication transport mode of the data packet(s) is provided in accordance with the data transceiver that communicates the data packet(s). The user indication is provided on a per-data packet basis, substantially contemporaneously with the communication of the data packet(s) via the one data transceiver. |
| US08600357B2 |
Mass notification system
A method is disclosed for mass population notification of lost items. A user indicates a location in the proximity of where an item was lost and can also enter information describing the lost item and possibly upload a picture of the item. The user can select how many residents that he wants to notify about the lost item. The user's item description and contact information is processed to create a short voice message and/or text message to be delivered to the residents around the location where his item was lost. A map can be displayed to the user that graphically displays the area that is covered by the phone numbers found or an estimate of the phone number coverage selected by the user. |
| US08600356B2 |
Authentication in a roaming environment
One embodiment of the invention provides a mobile communication network architecture that includes a first base station (e.g., a first base station controller and/or a first transceiver station), a second base station (e.g., a second base station controller and/or a second transceiver station), a mobile client, and a server coupled to the mobile client via either the first base station controller or the second base station. The first base station is coupled to an authentication center that authenticates an intended user so that the user can communicate a message between the mobile client and the server via the first base station. A credential (or status) of the authentication made at the authentication center is then transmitted from the first base station to the second base station when the mobile client moves to utilize the second base station to communicate with the server. |
| US08600349B2 |
Methods and systems for obscuring network topologies
Node, computer software and method for preventing an external party (114) to map an identity of a network cell (122) of a telecommunication network (112 or 120) with a corresponding geographical location of the network cell (122). The method includes receiving at a base station (200) of the telecommunication network (112 or 120) system information from a radio network controller (203) of the telecommunication network (112 or 120); extracting, at the base station (200), the identity of the network cell (122) from the received system information; changing, at the base station (200), the identity or one of multiple parts of the identity of the network cell (122); and sending the changed identity or the one of multiple parts of the identity to a user terminal (80). |
| US08600346B2 |
Data usage forecast of mobile network
Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a method for forecasting data usage in a region covered by a cellular network. The method includes defining a first subregion surrounding a first point of interest in the region; and calculating a forecasted usage amount of the cellular network in the first subregion in a second time slot based on a first usage amount of the first subregion in a first time slot, a second usage amount of a second subregion geographically adjacent to the first subregion in the first time slot, a first probability associated with mobile devices in the first subregion migrating to the second subregion, and a second probability associated with mobile devices in the second subregion migrating to the first subregion. |
| US08600345B2 |
Vehicle data management system and method
A system and method of for establishing a connection between a vehicle and an external network includes a plurality of personal electronic devices and a transceiver. The plurality of personal electronic devices are each configured for establishing a data connection to the vehicle. Each of the plurality of personal electronic have a mobile plan that includes a data limit and an amount of data used. At least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices are selected to be in communication with the external network. Selection of at least one of the plurality of personal electronic devices is based on a corresponding amount of data available in a mobile plan for each of the personal electronic devices. |
| US08600336B2 |
Scheduling with reverse direction grant in wireless communication systems
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate increased communication channel bandwidth efficiency in association with scheduled time periods that allocate channel access to particular stations. According to various aspects, systems and methods are described that facilitate providing and/or utilizing reverse direction grants in connection with scheduled channel access. Such systems and/or method can mitigate an amount of unused channel access time after a station completes data transmission prior to an end of the allocated period. |
| US08600334B2 |
Patient leakage current limitation
A baseband receiver, consisting of a receiver input port, configured to receive a baseband signal generated in response to electrical activity in tissue of a human patient. The receiver includes a modulator, configured to modulate a local oscillator signal with the baseband signal, and an isolating device configured to receive the modulated local oscillator signal at an input port of the device and in response to generate a modulated output local oscillator signal at an output port of the device. The receiver further includes a demodulator configured to demodulate the modulated output local oscillator signal with the local oscillator signal so as to recover the baseband signal. |
| US08600333B2 |
Apparatus for mixing frequency
A frequency mixing apparatus includes a local oscillator, a signal distributor, a first frequency mixer and a second frequency mixer and a combiner. The signal distributor divides a signal generated from the local oscillator into two signals having a phase difference and outputs the two signals. The first frequency mixer has a first input port through which one of the two signals outputted through the signal distributor is inputted and a second input port connected to an RF signal. The a second frequency mixer has a first input port through which one of the two signals outputted through the signal distributor and a second input port is connected to a termination signal. The combiner combines signals respectively outputted from the first and second frequency mixers. |
| US08600332B2 |
Electronic devices having interferers aligned with receiver filters
Electronic devices contain radio-frequency receivers such as direct conversion receivers. A receiver may receive radio-frequency antenna signals from an antenna in an electronic device. The receiver may include notch filters that attenuate signals in the center of the communications channel that is being received by the receiver. An electronic device may include a clock source. The clock source may be used to clock electrical components in the electronic device. During operation, the clock source may produce radio-frequency interference signals at an associated interferer frequency. The potential for the interference signals to disrupt operation of the receiver can be reduced by configuring the electronic device so that the interferer frequency is aligned with the center of the communications channel. The clock source may be adjusted dynamically to accommodate changes in the communications channel. |
| US08600331B2 |
Radio receiver with reconfigurable baseband channel filter
A radio receiver circuit configured to receive a radio frequency signal and produce a baseband signal as an output therefrom has a channel filter having a bandwidth, the channel filter configured to receive the baseband output at a filter input and produce a filtered output at a filter output thereof. A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimator prior to or after the channel filter or both is configured to estimate a signal-to-noise ratio of the baseband signal. A filter controller is configured to receive the signal-to-noise ratio estimate and control the channel filter to adjust the bandwidth thereof in accord with the signal-to-noise ratio estimate. This process thereby assists in improving SNR after the channel filtering by varying the channel filter bandwidth. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. |
| US08600324B1 |
Circuit and method for adjusting a digitally controlled oscillator
In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of generating an oscillating signal at different frequencies. The method comprises configuring a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO). The DCO is configured to generate the oscillating signal at a first frequency, and the DCO is configured to generate the oscillating signal at a second frequency. Additionally, the DCO is configured to transition from the first frequency to the second frequency during a transition time period. During the transition time period, the DCO activates the second frequency and deactivates the first frequency during a plurality of time intervals. The time intervals for activating the second frequency and deactivating the first frequency successively increase from the beginning of the transition time period to the end of the transition time period. |
| US08600319B2 |
Feedback receiver for antenna tuner calculations
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a feedback receiver comprising a threshold comparator configured to determine if the amplitude of a baseband signal is within a selection corridor (e.g., defined by an upper and lower threshold value). If the amplitude is within the selection corridor, a feedback receiver is configured to accumulate RF signal samples (e.g., amplitude and phase samples) over a time period. The accumulated RF signal samples, which correspond to substantially constant baseband amplitude values, are then averaged. The calculated averages are utilized for impedance measurements used tune an antenna tuner to limit impedance mismatch. By limiting RF amplitude and phase sample collection to associated baseband signals having an amplitude falling within the selection corridor, substantially equal average amplitudes and phases can be achieved over a relatively short measurement period (i.e., without the need for long measurement period). |
| US08600314B2 |
System and method for scanning wireless channels
System and method for active scanning of wireless channels is described. An example method may include transmitting, by a first wireless device, a request to enter a sleep mode and a sleep mode schedule to a second wireless device, the sleep mode schedule specifying a sleep period for the first wireless device going to sleep, and scanning one or more wireless channels, by the first wireless device after transmitting the sleep mode schedule and during the sleep period, to find a third wireless device for communication with the first wireless device. The method may also include communicating, by the first wireless device, during the sleep period, with the third wireless device. Such a scan may be a passive scan or an active scan. |
| US08600312B2 |
Method and apparatus for spectral sensing
An apparatus for wireless communication includes a processing system. The processing system is configured to estimate a power spectral density of a first signal. In addition, the processing system is configured to determine a normalized correlation detector between the estimated power spectral density and a known power spectral density of a second signal. Furthermore, the processing system is configured to determine whether the first signal contains the second signal based on the normalized correlation detector. |
| US08600311B2 |
Simultaneous sensitivity testing for multiple devices in radio-frequency test systems
A test station may include a test host, a signal generator, and a test chamber. Multiple devices under test (DUTs) may be placed in the test chamber during device characterization operations. Radio-frequency signals may be conveyed from the signal generator to the multiple DUTs using a radiated arrangement through an antenna in the test chamber. The signal generator may broadcast downlink test signals. The DUTs may synchronize with the downlink test signals and measure radio-frequency performance levels while receiving the downlink test signals. The test host may direct the signal generator to gradually lower its output power level. The DUTs may be used to determine downlink sensitivity by monitoring the measured radio-frequency performance levels as the output power level of the signal generator is lowered. Downlink sensitivity testing may be performed across any desired radio-frequency bands and channels. |
| US08600307B2 |
Control device or hybrid device
The invention relates to a control device, a hybrid device, a method for operating an arrangement (A) for processing data packets, an arrangement (A) for processing data packets and to an electronic device. |
| US08600305B2 |
Method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a single feedback mixer
Aspects of a method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a single feedback mixer are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one circuit that enables generation of an output signal in response to one or more generated input signals. A feedback signal may be generated within a single feedback mixer circuit that may perform a frequency mix-down operation on the generated output signal. The generated feedback signal may be inserted at one or more insertion points in a receiver. Each of the insertion points may be located between a mixer stage of the receiver, and one or more circuits that generate a baseband signal based on the generated feedback signal. |
| US08600304B2 |
Radio controller system and method for remote devices
A system and method for remote device control are disclosed. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a radio controlled toy and a controller for controlling the toy. In some embodiments, the controller may have an input mechanism and a housing component that defines a cavity, within which may be located a wireless wide area transceiver and a wireless local area transceiver. Some controllers may also have an operating system for the controller and an application resident on the controller and operable to convert inputs received via the input mechanism into commands for the toy. The controller may have a microprocessor operable to execute the application and to cause the commands to be communicated to the toy using the wireless local area transceiver. |
| US08600302B2 |
Method for recognizing a module, apparatus for implementing the same
An apparatus for recognizing a module and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes querying whether a first short-range communication module of a correspondent device exists by a first short-range communication scheme, if the first short-range communication module exists, receiving one of vendor information and minor device information from the correspondent device, and checking whether a second short-range communication module of the correspondent device exists based on one of the vendor information and the minor device information. |
| US08600299B2 |
Transducer array imaging system
The disclosed embodiments include a method, system, and device for conducting ultrasound interrogation of a medium. The novel method includes transmitting a non-beamformed or beamformed ultrasound wave into the medium, receiving more than one echoed ultrasound wave from the medium, and converting the received echoed ultrasound wave into digital data. The novel method may further transmit the digital data. In some embodiments, the transmitting may be wireless. The novel device may include transducer elements, an analog-to-digital converter in communication with the transducer elements, and a transmitter in communication with the analog-to-digital converter. The transducers may operate to convert a first electrical energy into an ultrasound wave. The first electrical energy may or may not be beamformed. The transducers also may convert an echoed ultrasound wave into a second electrical energy. The analog-to-digital converter may convert the electrical energy into digital data, and the transmitter may transmit the digital data. |
| US08600298B1 |
Interference rejection in RFID tags
RFID tags, tag circuits, and methods are provided that reject at least in part the distortion caused to wireless signals by interference in the environment. When the received RF wave is converted into an unfiltered input (971), a filtered output (972) is generated that does not include an artifact feature deriving from the distortion. The filtered output is used instead of the unfiltered input, which results in tag operation as if there were less interference in the environment, or none at all. |
| US08600290B2 |
Hybrid band directed energy target disruption
A technique for disrupting the operation of a target containing nonlinear electronic devices generally includes generating a high frequency signal; generating a low frequency signal; modulating the high frequency signal with the low frequency signal; and emitting the modulated high frequency signal at the target. |
| US08600289B1 |
Computer systems for capturing student performance
A method of capturing student performance can be provided that includes enabling a course creator to generate assessment data related to learning assessments for an online course and to generate learning outcomes for the online course, associating the assessment data with the learning outcomes, such that at least some of the learning assessments correspond to at least some of the learning outcomes, and generating an online classroom. The method may further include providing the learning assessments to students enrolled in the online course using the online classroom, wherein the students can generate completed learning assessments, and determining, for each of the completed learning assessments, whether one or more of the learning outcomes were met by each of the students. |
| US08600288B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a first sheet stack portion, a sheet output section, and a post processing unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The first sheet stack portion is provided at an upper face of the image forming unit. The sheet output section outputs the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming unit from one side of the image forming apparatus to the first sheet stack portion. The post processing unit is provided adjacent to a lateral side of the image forming unit at an upstream side of the sheet output section to execute post processing on the sheet. A sheet subjected to post-processing by the post-processing unit is output to the first sheet stack portion from the same direction as a sheet not subjected to post-processing by the post-processing unit. |
| US08600286B2 |
Curling mechanism and image forming apparatus
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus having a conveying portion 8 includes a plurality of pre-fixing conveying belts 83 arranged in parallel to a width direction intersecting with the sheet conveying direction. The pre-fixing conveying belts convey a sheet to which a toner image is transferred by a fixing portion 9 to a fixing nip portion. The controlling portion controls a driving mechanism which moves at least one of the plurality of sheet conveying members and changes a projecting amount thereof with respect to the other sheet conveying member, and drives such that a conveying state of the pre-fixing conveying belt is obtained based on a state-setting table which is set according to type of sheet. It is possible to prevent sheet corrugated deformation as well as to solve a problem of generation of slip or distortion of a sheet caused by velocity difference between the driving portions. |
| US08600284B2 |
Configuration for an image forming apparatus having an upright recording medium storage unit
An image forming apparatus includes a recording sheet storage unit for storing recording sheets substantially in an upright position, an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording sheet conveyed from the recording sheet storage unit, and a recording sheet receiving unit for storing the recording sheet conveyed from the image forming unit substantially in an upright position. In this image forming apparatus, a paper conveyance passage for conveying the recording sheet extends upward from a lower portion of the recording sheet storage unit toward the recording sheet receiving unit. The image forming unit positioned on the paper conveyance passage comprises a fixing device and a developer unit at least including a developer carrier, and the fixing device is arranged above the developer unit. |
| US08600283B2 |
Method of compensating for errors caused by a print head using skew correction
An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units of plural colors, each including a print head including plural LED chips aligned in a main scanning direction; a screen angle selecting unit that selects screen angles for the plural colors respectively based on the amounts of skew of the plural image forming units; an image processing unit that performs image processing on input data to be expressed by pixels of the plural colors such that the pixels of the colors have the corresponding screen angles selected by the screen angle selecting unit; a correction amount determining unit that determines a total amount of skew correction based on the amount of skew detected by the skew detection unit, and determines the amounts of skew correction in the sub-scanning direction for predetermined groups of the pixels, based on the total amount of skew correction, for each of the colors. |
| US08600281B2 |
Apparatus and methods for delivery of a functional material to an image forming member
The presently disclosed embodiments relate generally to an image forming apparatus including: a) an imaging member, and b) a delivery member in contact with a surface of the imaging member, the delivery member has a surface layer comprised of an elastic material impregnated with a functional healing material, and the functional healing material is transferred onto the imaging member by diffusion through the elastic material to the surface of the imaging member. Embodiments also pertain to an improved electrophotographic imaging member including a very thin outer layer on an imaging member surface, where the very thin outer layer includes functional healing materials that act as a lubricant and/or a barrier against moisture and/or surface contaminants. The improved imaging member exhibits improved xerographic performance, such as reduced friction and deletions in high humidity conditions. |
| US08600279B2 |
Resin material, endless belt, roll, image fixing unit, and image forming apparatus
Provided is a resin material including at least one of a reaction product and a mixture of a polyimide and a polyurethane that is a polymer of an isocyanate with an acrylic resin containing a side chain having a hydroxyl group. |
| US08600273B2 |
Developing roller, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus
A developing roller including a mandrel, an elastic layer provided on the mandrel and containing a cured material of an addition curable-type dimethyl silicone rubber, and a surface layer containing a urethane resin that covers the circumferential surface of the elastic layer. The urethane resin has a structure represented by the following formula (1), and one or both structures selected from a structure represented by the following formula (2) and a structure represented by the following formula (3) between two adjacent urethane linkages. |
| US08600272B2 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus
A developing device includes a developer supplying member for supplying developer; and a developer supporting member for supplying the developer supplied from the developer supplying member onto a static latent image supporting member. The developer supplying member includes an outer circumferential portion having an electrical resistivity between 1.2×104 and 1.0×108Ω. |
| US08600271B2 |
Magnet roller, developer holder element, develop unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
A magnet roller includes a magnetic field generator being columnar, a support element being columnar, coaxially provided at both ends of the magnetic field generator, and whose diameter is smaller than that of the magnetic field generator, a level element extending along an axis of the magnetic field generator with a distance from the axis, the distance larger than the diameter of the support element, and a high magnetic power element being a main magnetic pole provided on the level element, extending long along the axis of the magnetic field generator. |
| US08600270B2 |
Developer transport substrate configuration for an image forming apparatus
A developer transport body transports a developer on a transport surface in a predetermined direction. This transport surface is composed of a first constituent surface which renders relatively large the absolute value of a charge amount of the developer due to friction, and a second constituent surface disposed in an area downstream of and adjacent to the first constituent surface and which renders the absolute value of the charge amount of the developer smaller than if the first constituent surface was disposed in the area. Therefore, when the developer is moved toward a latent-image forming surface by electrostatic force, the developer is less likely to be affected by disturbing forces other than the electrostatic force. Further, since the absolute value of the charge amount of the developer becomes smaller on the second constituent surface, adhesion of the developer to the transport surface and aggregation of the developer can be restrained. |
| US08600266B2 |
Drive transmission device and image forming apparatus including same
A drive transmission device including at least one drive source, a drive transmission member, and a drive gear train. The drive transmission member includes an engaging part that engages a first rotary body provided within a unit detachably attachable to an image forming apparatus and a gear part that engages a motor gear attached to the at least one drive source. The engaging part and the gear part are formed together as an integrated unit. The drive gear train that transmits a driving force from the at least one drive source to a second rotary body provided within the unit includes a first gear and a second gear. The first gear engages the motor gear and the second gear is attached to the drive transmission member. |
| US08600265B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging device for electrically charging the photosensitive member; an exposure device for exposing to light the photosensitive member charged by the charging device to form an electrostatic image on the photosensitive member; a developing device for developing the electrostatic image on the photosensitive member with toner to form a toner image; a transfer portion for transferring the toner image from the photosensitive member onto an image receiving member; a toner charging portion, disposed upstream of the charging device and downstream of the transfer portion with respect to a rotational direction of the photosensitive member, for electrically charging the toner remaining on the photosensitive member without being transferred onto the image receiving member; and control portion for controlling the charging device and the exposure device so that a stripe-shaped electrostatic image is repeatedly formed in substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the photosensitive member and discharges the toner, deposited on the toner charging portion, to the photosensitive member. |
| US08600263B2 |
Image forming apparatus with transport tool for separating a first roller and a second roller of a feed roller unit during transport of the image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes a main body including two first frames facing each other and a second frame bridging a gap between the first frames, an image forming unit disposed between the first frames, a feed roller unit including a first roller and a second roller supported by the second frame so as to contact the first roller in a position away from the first frame, an urging member providing an urging force to bring the first roller into contact with the second roller in a direction parallel to the first frames, and a spacer detachably attached between the main body and one of the first and second rollers near at least one of the first frames, so as to separate the first roller from the second roller or weaken a contact force between the first roller and the second roller against the urging force. |
| US08600261B2 |
Developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same
Disclosed are a developing unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The developing unit includes a partition frame provided separately from the housing of the developing unit. The partition frame is supported within the housing of the developing unit in such a manner to define a path of movement of developer within the housing through an opening formed in the partition frame. A removable sealing member is detachably arranged on the partition frame to prevent developer leakage during storage or transporting of the developing unit. The installation of the removable sealing member is made easier by the partition frame provided separately from the housing. |
| US08600257B2 |
Printing device having correcting function
A correction unit executes a correcting function for measuring at least one of position and density of a test image in response to a correction instruction and correcting an operation setting of a printing unit based on the measurement result. Print data includes correction requiring data that is required to execute the correcting function by the correction unit before an image corresponding to the correction requiring data is printed. A determining unit is configured to determine whether or not at least one of two conditions is satisfied. One condition is such that a ratio of a second numerical value represented by the correction requiring data to a first numerical value represented by the print data is less than a first reference value. Another condition is such that the second numerical value is less than a second reference value. When the determining unit determines that the at least one of two conditions is satisfied, the control unit bypasses the measurement by the correction unit even if a receiving unit receives the correction instruction. |
| US08600254B2 |
Fixing device
A fixing device includes a fixing belt including a metal layer, a pressing member to form a nip between the pressing member and the fixing belt, an induction current generating coil that faces an outer periphery of the fixing belt, and heats the fixing belt located at a nip position through a hollow inside of the fixing belt, and a coil controller supplies a high frequency to the induction current generating coil. |
| US08600252B2 |
System and method for controlling operation of a fixing device in an image forming apparatus
A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, and a driving unit. The fixing member and the pressing member define a nip portion where a toner image is fixed on a recording material. The driving unit is provided to the fixing member and the pressing member to individually control linear velocities of outer circumferential surfaces of the fixing member and the pressing member. In feed mode in which the outer circumferential surfaces sandwich the recording material to fix the image on the recording material, the driving unit drives the fixing member and the pressing member such that the outer circumferential surfaces move at individual linear velocities to reduce a feed speed difference between front and rear surfaces of the recording material. In non-feed mode, the driving unit drives either one of the fixing member and the pressing member such that another member is driven by the one member. |
| US08600250B2 |
Image forming unit and apparatus that performs stand-by charging of toner
An image forming cartridge comprises a developing unit configured to hold toner including a developing section configured to use the toner for developing and a supplying section configured to provide the toner to the developing section and a toner cartridge attachable to the developing unit, wherein the toner cartridge contains toner and supplies toner to the developing unit and the toner cartridge includes a stand-by charging unit configured to perform stand-by charge to the toner in the toner cartridge. |
| US08600245B2 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and program generating a patch image
An image forming apparatus includes: a patch-image generating unit that generates a patch image for measuring a color reproduction characteristic and correcting color, the patch image including mixed-color patch sets each including a plurality of patches each formed by overlaying a plurality of color materials so that patches having the same color and the same tone value included in the mixed-color patch sets are arranged away from each other in a circumferential direction of a photosensitive element and a distance between same tone patches, which are two patches having the same color and the same tone value, is close to (N+½) times the length of a period of uneven density which periodically occurs in the circumferential direction of the photosensitive element (N is an integer equal to or greater than 0); and an image forming unit that forms the generated patch image on a recording medium. |
| US08600243B2 |
Polarization mode dispersion compensation
An apparatus and method for correcting for the polarization mode distortion of an optical signal is described. The optical data signal to be transmitted is processed by a switch configured to place the signal into a plurality of polarization states on a periodic basis. At the receiving end of the system, a portion to the signal is coupled to a polarimeter and the wavelength-dependent state of polarization (SOP) of the received signal determined for the plurality of polarization states imposed on the transmitted signal. The data for two of the transmitted polarization states is selected to be used as the basis for correcting the SOP so as to compensate for the wavelength dependence thereof. The corrections may be applied in an optical pulse shaper. |
| US08600242B2 |
Power optimization of optical receivers
An optical receiver system is disclosed. The system includes a local oscillator, a mixer and a processor. The local oscillator is configured to generate a laser signal to indicate a selection of one of a plurality of channels. In addition, the mixer is configured to receive signals on the plurality of channels and to utilize the laser signal to distinguish the signal on the selected channel. Further, the processor is configured to maximize a power level difference between the laser signal and at least one of the plurality of channels based on a total number of the plurality of channels by adjusting the power of the laser signal input to the mixer to limit a noise penalty in the receiver system. |
| US08600239B2 |
Precise clock synchronization over optical fiber
A clock at a first network element that is connected to a second network element over first and second optical links that are physically distinct from each other is aligned using optical timing signals having different wavelengths. Transit delays between the first and second network elements may be determined using the same optical timing signals. |
| US08600234B2 |
Method and apparatus for link sharing among multiple epons
One embodiment of the present invention provides an optical line terminal (OLT) in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). The OLT includes a number of bi-direction optical transceivers. At least one bi-direction optical transceiver is coupled to an optical network unit (ONU) group that includes a number of ONUs. The OLT further includes a first downstream media access control (MAC) interface configured to provide a first downstream control signal and a splitter configured to split the first downstream control signal to a number of sub-signals. At least one sub-signal is configured to control downstream transmission of a corresponding bi-direction optical transceiver to a corresponding ONU-group. |
| US08600232B2 |
Method and device for data processing in an optical network and communication system
A method and a device process data in an optical network. At least one dedicated time slot is used for transmitting time critical information from an optical network unit towards an optical line terminal. Due to the dedicated time slot, previous long delays in channel switching are decreased or substantially avoided. |
| US08600229B2 |
Method and system for shared protection in wavelength division multiplexing loop network
The present invention discloses a method and a system for shared protection in WDM loop network. The WDM loop network comprises at least one node, and each node is divided into a multiplexing segment layer, a channel layer and a sub-wavelength layer. The method for shared protection comprises the following steps: A, the multiplexing segment layer, the channel layer and the sub-wavelength layer of each node are detected respectively; B, the detection point generates fault information when at least one of the multiplexing segment layer, the channel layer and the sub-wavelength layer goes wrong; and a controller of each node, according to the fault information, determines the protection control state of the present node and notifies the respective executor; wherein the protection control state includes service adding, service passing through, and service dropping; C, the executor of each node controls the corresponding node to switch to the protection control state determined in step B. The present invention realizes the shared protection in sub-wavelength level. |
| US08600228B2 |
Optical communication
A protected passive optical communications system includes terminals, a main head end, and a back up head end allowing communication with the terminals when a fault occurs. The main and back up head ends transmit frames that include header and payload portions to the terminals. The main head end normally transmits control instructions in the header and user data in the payload. The back up head end, in response to a fault, transmits control instructions in the payload, and a control message in the header. The control message indicates control instructions in the payload. If a control message is in the header, each terminal interprets the payload as control instructions for changing operational attribute(s) of a terminal. If a control message is not in the header, each terminal interprets the payload as user data that it forwards to external user(s) external based on an address from the user data. |
| US08600225B2 |
Electronic device, connection detection method and connection detection system
Disclosed herein is an electronic device connected to a camera main body and having an actuator, the electronic device including: a detection terminal adapted to come into contact with a terminal used by the camera main body to detect the connection to the electronic device when the electronic device is connected to the camera main body; a detection section adapted to detect the voltage of the detection terminal; a connection detection section adapted to detect the connection status to the camera main body based on the change in the voltage detected by the detection section; and a control section adapted to control the operation of the actuator based on the connection or disconnection to or from the camera main body detected by the connection detection section. |
| US08600224B2 |
Photographic wireless communication protocol system and method
A system and method for converting power control value standards during photographic wireless communication from a camera to one or more remote lighting devices. A power control value of a camera may be converted to a different standard for wireless communication and converted to another standard for delivery to a remote lighting device. Different lighting devices may utilize different standards and have conversion to those appropriate standards at the receiver side even where the lighting device standard differs from the camera standard. |
| US08600223B2 |
Integrated heater for a beverage preparation device
An integrated in-line heater for a liquid food or beverage preparation machine, in which liquid is circulated through the heater and then guided into a brewing chamber for brewing a food or beverage ingredient, for instance within a pod or capsule, supplied into the brewing chamber. An upstream part of the brewing chamber may be formed by the heater. One or more electric components may be incorporated into the heater and rigidly connected to a printed circuit board. The heater may have a tubular inner core that is eccentric with respect to a tubular or prismatic outer member which form together a helicoidal heating chamber of variable cross-section. |
| US08600221B2 |
Writing/reading control method of HD stream
The present invention provides a writing/reading control method of HD stream in a DVD recorder, by which HD broadcast signals are write in a DVD medium. The present invention includes the steps of storing a plurality of HD streams in the HDD by demodulating HD broadcast signals received from a tuner/demodulator, creating a stream file in a DVD medium to record a specific one of a plurality of the HD streams stored in the HDD, recording the specific HD stream in the stream file, opening to read the HD steam file recorded in the DVD medium, buffering the read HD stream file in the HDD, and reading the buffered HD stream file using a video decoder. |
| US08600219B2 |
Video-signal recording and playback apparatus, video-signal recording and playback method, and recording medium
Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or not a static picture extracted by the extracting means can be used as a representative picture; and setting means for setting the static picture as a representative picture in accordance with an outcome of a judgment formed by the judgment means. |
| US08600216B2 |
Data insertion apparatus and methods for use with compressed audio/video data
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for performing data insertion in compressed audio/video data streams are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to insert audience measurement data in a compressed media data stream comprises rearranging data in frames of the compressed media data stream to form contiguous sequences of skip bytes at respective locations in the frames of the compressed media data stream, the audience measurement data to be inserted in the compressed media data stream at the locations of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes, the contiguous sequences of skip bytes having respective lengths, and inserting different types of audience measurement data at the locations of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes in two different frames of the compressed media data stream based on the respective lengths of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes in the two different frames of the compressed media data stream. |
| US08600214B2 |
Portable terminal and method for managing videos therein
A portable terminal and a method for managing videos in the portable terminal are provide increased efficiency in managing videos in the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a memory for storing at least one video and a preview thereof, a controller for playing back a preview of a video corresponding to a set preview section during a video search and, upon selection of a video, playing back the selected video; and a display unit for displaying, under control of the controller, the video preview and the video that are being played back. The method for managing videos in the portable terminal includes: displaying a list of at least one video preview on a first screen during a video search; playing back, on a second screen, a preview of a video corresponding to a set preview section; selecting the video corresponding to the video preview being played back; and playing back the selected video. |
| US08600210B2 |
GI type optical fiber and method for manufacturing same
A GI type optical fiber of the present invention is a GI type optical fiber having a core component and a cladding component disposed around the outer periphery of the core component, the core component includes a polymer containing at least 55 wt % chlorostyrene monomer and a dopant, and the cladding component includes a polymer of a monomer containing at least 35 wt % methyl methacrylate. It is an object of the present invention to provide a GI type optical fiber in which chlorostyrene is used as the predominant component of the monomer that constitutes the core component, and therefore has excellent transparency and good flexibility, and allows high-speed communication. |
| US08600208B2 |
Fiber optic telecommunications module
A telecommunications module includes a plurality of adapters mounted at a front face. The adapters are provided in groups of two and are stacked extending from the top to the bottom of the module. The front face of the module defines a center portion, a right portion, and a left portion. According to one embodiment, the right and the left portions are generally angled forwardly at an acute angle relative to a line that is perpendicular to the sides of the module as they extend from the center toward the right and left sides of the module. Each angled portion defines a slope as it extends from the center portion toward the right and left sides. The angled portions define a stepped configuration as they extend from the center toward the sides. Each step in the stepped configuration defines adapter receptacles that are also angled at an acute angle with respect to a line that generally defines the slope of the angle of the right and left angled portions. According to another aspect of the disclosure, the right and the left portions of the front face are generally angled rearwardly at an acute angle with respect to a line that is perpendicular to the sides of the module as they extend from the center toward the right and left sides. Stacked adapters mounted to the angled portions have longitudinal axes that are perpendicular to slopes defined by the angled portions. |
| US08600202B2 |
Process for enhanced 3D integration and structures generated using the same
An enhanced 3D integration structure comprises a logic microprocessor chip bonded to a collection of vertically stacked memory slices and an optional set of outer vertical slices comprising optoelectronic devices. Such a device enables both high memory content in close proximity to the logic circuits and a high bandwidth for logic to memory communication. Additionally, the provision of optoelectronic devices in the outer slices of the vertical slice stack enables high bandwidth direct communication between logic processor chips on adjacent enhanced 3D modules mounted next to each other or on adjacent packaging substrates. A method to fabricate such structures comprises using a template assembly which enables wafer format processing of vertical slice stacks. |
| US08600201B2 |
Optical device with enhanced mechanical strength
An optical device implemented on a substrate (such as silicon) is described. This optical device includes a wavelength-sensitive optical component with a high thermal resistance to a surrounding external environment and a low thermal resistance to a localized thermal-tuning mechanism (such as a heater), which modifies a temperature of the wavelength-sensitive optical component, thereby specifying an operating wavelength of the wavelength-sensitive optical component. In particular, the thermal resistance associated with a thermal dissipation path from the thermal-tuning mechanism to the external environment via the substrate is increased by removing a portion of the substrate to create a gap that is proximate to the thermal-tuning mechanism and the wavelength-sensitive optical component. Furthermore, the optical device includes a binder material mechanically coupled to the substrate and proximate to the gap, thereby maintaining a mechanical strength of the optical device. |