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8601239 | 12827238 | 1 | 1. A processor, comprising: a storage unit that stores an instruction; a program counter that holds a program counter value specifying an instruction to be executed next; an instruction extension information register that includes a first area and a second area; an instruction decoding unit that decodes a first prefix instruction including a first extension information extending an instruction immediately following the first prefix instruction and writes the first extension information to the first area when the first prefix instruction is executed, and that decodes a second prefix instruction including a first extension information extending an instruction that is the first sequential instruction immediately following the second prefix instruction and a second extension information extending an instruction that is the second sequential instruction immediately following the second prefix instruction and writes the first and second extension information of the second prefix instruction to the first and the second area, respectively, when the second prefix instruction is executed; an instruction packing unit that reads out instructions from the storage unit based on the program counter value, and that generates a packed instruction including information from at least one of the first prefix instruction and the second prefix instruction and the instruction immediately following the first prefix instruction or the second prefix instruction when the instruction decoding unit decodes at least one of the first prefix instruction and the second prefix instruction; an instruction execution unit that executes the packed instruction; a register updating unit that increases the program counter value by a number corresponding to a length of two instructions when the instruction execution unit completes the execution of the packed instruction; and an instruction predecoding unit that outputs up to an instruction plus a predetermined number of instructions to the decoding unit when one first prefix instruction is among a plurality of instructions read out from the storage unit, and that outputs up to two instructions plus a predetermined number of instructions to the decoding unit when two or more first prefix instructions or one or more second prefix instructions are among the plurality of instructions read out from the storage unit. |
20120110337 | 12916348 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by a first process configured to execute an application file, the method comprising: determining whether the first process has a parent process; when it is determined that the first process does not have a parent process, terminating execution of the application file; when it is determined that the first process has a parent process, determining whether the parent process has a digital signature; when it is determined that the parent process has a digital signature, determining whether the parent process is associated with an authorized entity; when it is determined that the parent process is not associated with an authorized entity, terminating execution of the application file; when it is determined that the parent process is associated with an authorized entity, determining whether the digital signature is valid using a public key associated with the authorized entity; when it is determined that the digital signature is valid, executing the application file; and when it is determined that the digital signature is invalid, terminating execution of the application file. |
7853820 | 12256355 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for detecting at least one faulty object in a system including a plurality of objects in communication with each other in an n-dimensional architecture, the apparatus comprising: a probing unit that probes at least two lower-dimensional sub-planes of objects of said n-dimensional architecture, as units of sub-planes, to determine at least one of a faulty object and a predetermined acceptable subset of objects including said faulty object. |
20150297160 | 14405901 | 0 | 1. A method of estimating a parameter of physiological significance in the central nervous system (CNS), the method comprising: (a) providing one or more images of the brain or cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) in a subject to whom a dose of a contrast agent (CA) has been administered; (b) determining, using a computer equipped with image processing software, the concentration or relative concentration of the CA in a region or regions of interest in the brain or CSF, thereby generating concentration data; (c) describing the time-based behavior of concentrations of CA within the brain or CSF using a pharmacokinetic model that is based on a set of pharmacokinetic model parameters; and (d) fitting, using computer code, the pharmacokinetic model to the concentration data, varying one or more parameters, wherein the best fit estimates a parameter of physiological significance in the CNS. |
6151570 | 08728852 | 1 | 1. A translating apparatus, comprising: translation target range setting means for setting a range to be translated in an original text; context process range setting means for setting a context process range in the original text which is at least partially different from the range to be translated; and translation processing means for translating an original text in the range to be translated into a translated text, based on a context in the context process range. |
8560618 | 13174892 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating a queuing model, comprising: receiving, at a computing device, trace data provided in a trace log file corresponding to a server; parameterizing, using the computing device, a first Markovian Arrival Process (MAP) model based on the trace data; parameterizing, using the computing device, a second MAP model based on the trace data; defining a queuing model that models a performance of the server and that includes the first MAP model and the second MAP model, the queuing model modeling arrival of incoming requests as a stochastic process; and storing the queuing model in computer-readable memory. |
8200726 | 12348869 | 1 | 1. A method of improving at least one of speed and efficiency when executing a linear algebra subroutine on a computer having a memory hierarchical structure including at least one cache, said method comprising: determining, based on sizes, for a level 3 matrix multiplication processing in which are involved three matrices, which matrix of said three matrices will have data for a submatrix block residing in a lower level cache of said computer and which two matrices of said three matrices will have data for submatrix blocks residing in at least one higher level cache or a memory, said lower level cache being closer to a processor of said computer than said higher level cache in said memory hierarchical structure; and streaming data from said two matrices to have data residing in said at least one higher level cache or memory, for executing said level 3 matrix multiplication processing, so that said submatrix block residing in said lower level cache remains resident in said lower level cache. |
20090125524 | 11938561 | 0 | 1. A computer-implementable method for implementing correlation-based visualization of a markup language messages, said computer-implementable method comprising: receiving a markup language message exchanged over a network; applying a template to said markup language message; utilizing at least one rule to visually identify correlated messages in said markup language message in a tree structure; and outputting said tree structure. |
9615264 | 13429666 | 1 | 1. A networking system for controlling an allocation of at least one physical resource by at least one automated control within a network having a changing network state associated with a network state risk, based on a received control signal, comprising: a memory configured to store parameters of a network model, comprising a first set of stored values representing an estimate of the changing network state; an automated arbitrage agent, comprising at least one automated processor and being operationally associated with the memory and the automated communication network interface port, configured to: engage in a negotiation of an automatic arbitrage transaction based on at least (a) an analysis of the network state risk and (b) a self-interest of the automated arbitrage agent, with at least one automated counterparty, with respect to a communication of information relating to the first set of stored values, the negotiation comprising at least one automated communication through the automated communication network interface port, engage in the transaction comprising a communication of at least a portion of information defining the estimate of the changing network state through the automated communication network interface port, update the network model; and generate the control signal selectively dependent on the updated network model; and an output of the automated arbitrage agent configured to communicate at least one of the generated control signal and information dependent on the generated control signal. |
10007894 | 14805631 | 1 | 1. A system for maintaining a custodian directory, the system comprising: a memory; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, where the processor is configured to perform a method comprising: extracting identity information from a document, the identity information including a custodian identity attribute; and determining that the identity information is associated with a first custodian; searching for the custodian identity attribute in the custodian directory; creating, in response to determining that the first custodian is not in the custodian directory, a new entry for the first custodian in the custodian directory, the new entry including the identity information; updating, in response to determining that the first custodian is in the custodian directory, an entry for the first custodian in the custodian directory using the extracted identity information; and carrying out a cleanup of the custodian directory by: identifying two or more entries in the custodian directory that have at least one matching custodian identity attribute; determining a weighting factor for each field in the custodian directory, wherein the weighting factor for each respective field is based on a likelihood that the custodian identity attribute for the respective field is unique to a single custodian; generating a relationship score for the two or more entries by comparing the identity information in the two or more entries and using the weighting factors, the relationship score being a numeric score that indicates a level of similarity between the two or more entries; determining that the relationship score exceeds a confidence threshold; determining, based on the relationship score exceeding the confidence threshold, that all of the two or more entries in the custodian directory relate to a particular custodian; and merging, in response to determining that all of the two or more entries relate to the particular custodian, the two or more entries in the custodian directory. |
20140027705 | 13560935 | 0 | 1. A memristor array comprising a lower layer of crossbars; an upper layer of crossbars intersecting the lower layer of crossbars; memristor cells interposed between intersecting crossbars; and pores separating adjacent memristor cells. |
8386983 | 12853810 | 1 | 1. A method of parallel routing of a circuit design, comprising: determining placement of a netlist of the circuit design on a target device; defining a plurality of regions of the target device; assigning the plurality of regions to respective sets of processors, each set including at least one processor; performing global routing of nets of the netlist on the target device, wherein a global route of each net restricts the net to one or more possible routes through a corresponding subset of the plurality of regions; concurrently performing local routing of the netlist within the plurality of regions by the respective sets of processors, wherein within each region the local routing of the netlist is performed by only the respective set of at least one processor; wherein for local routing a net of the netlist within a first region of the plurality of regions, the net having a destination outside the first region, the local routing includes: determining possible routes from a source of the net in the first region to one or more edge-pins on a boundary between the first region and an adjacent region in the subset of regions; and communicating messages that indicate one or more of the one or more edge-pins as options for continuing a route of the net to a destination, the messages communicated from a processor of the one or more processors assigned the first region to a processor of the one or more processors assigned the adjacent region; and in response to a failure to locally route a net within a first region of the subset of the plurality of regions: shifting boundaries between two or more regions including the first region and a second region of the plurality of regions; and locally rerouting the net within one or more regions in the corresponding subset of the plurality of regions. |
20110090352 | 12580569 | 0 | 1. A method for determining a deblurred image, the method implemented at least in part by a data processing system and comprising: a) receiving a sharp image of a scene captured with a short exposure time; b) receiving a blurred image of the scene captured with a longer exposure time than the sharp image, wherein the blurred image has a higher level of motion blur than the sharp image; c) determining a blur kernel responsive to the sharp image and the blurred image; d) determining one or more reference differential images responsive to the sharp image; e) determining a deblurred image responsive to the blurred image, the blur kernel and the one or more reference differential images; and f) storing the deblurred image in a processor-accessible memory system. |
9867978 | 15585917 | 1 | 1. A method for electrically interacting with a neural tissue using an electrode array located within a ventricular compartment of a brain, the method comprising: selecting a portion of neural tissue for electrical interaction; accessing previously stored registration information regarding a location of the electrode array within the ventricular compartment of the brain; selecting one or more electrodes in the electrode array for electrical interaction based on the registration information; and interacting with the neural tissue with the selected electrodes, wherein interacting with the neural tissue comprises at least one of forming an electrical field beam distributed in a three-dimensional space using the selected electrodes and localizing electrical activity in the brain using the selected electrodes distributed in the three-dimensional space. |
20120253678 | 13495329 | 0 | 1. A downhole measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tool with diagnostic capability comprising: a. directional sensors; b. electronics processing capability; c. a mud pulse telemetry assembly; and d. a power source; wherein said downhole measurement-while-drilling tool records and transmits measured MWD recorded events to a surface recording and display system; and wherein said measurement-while-drilling tool comprises one or more printed circuit boards with firmware processors that internally record significant system diagnostic events that can be time correlated with known tool operational problems. |
8643656 | 13227865 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: configuring a shared library, stored in a memory, to be loaded into applications to intercept graphics processing unit (GPU) computation requests for different types of workload kernals corresponding to the applications; generating a power prediction and a performance prediction for at least one candidate kernel combination for execution on a GPU responsive to the GPU computations requests, the at least one candidate kernel combination pertaining to at least two of the workload kernals; and rendering a decision of whether to execute the at least one candidate kernel combination or to execute the at least two of the workload kernals pertaining thereto separately, based on the power prediction and the performance prediction. |
20120131073 | 12950560 | 0 | 1. A method of automatically extracting conceptual graphs from text files, comprising the steps of: determining a set of key terms; determining a set of relationships between the key terms; parsing, using a computer microprocessor coupled to a computer memory, one or more text files; and automatically extracting, using the computer microprocessor, one or more conceptual graphs from the text file or files based upon the set of relationships. |
9418388 | 12877810 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing third party content displayed on a page of content, comprising: receiving a first request for a page of content from a client device associated with a user; rendering at least one user-selectable third party content element on the page of content displayed to the user; receiving a selection of the at least one user-selectable third party content element; causing a third party content module associated with the at least one user selectable third party content element to be displayed on the page in a first configuration, the third party content module providing access to third party content; receiving a user modification of the third party content module, the user modification including a change in displayed position of one or more components of the third party content module from a first displayed position to a second displayed position within the third party content module; storing, in a user profile associated with the user, information corresponding to the user modification of the at least one third party content module resulting in a second configuration different from the first configuration, the information including the second displayed position within the third party content module; receiving a second request for the page of content from the client device, the second request received subsequent to the first request; and causing the third party content module to be displayed by the client device utilizing the information corresponding to the second configuration stored in the user profile by rendering the one or more components of the third party content module in the second position within the third party content module. |
20120084770 | 12898496 | 0 | 1. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage medium and comprising instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method comprising: presenting business category identifiers to a user in a computer system, each business category identifier representing one of multiple reporting content bundles for configuring a transactional application and an analytical application; receiving, in the computer system, a selection by the user of at least one of the business category identifiers; and installing in the computer system, from the selected reporting content bundle, at least one transactional content object in the transactional application, and at least one analytical content object in the analytical application. |
8621342 | 12557402 | 1 | 1. A method to configure an application server for XML applications, comprising: providing a delegation layer on an application server that is transparent to the XML applications, wherein at least one of the XML applications invokes one or more XML parsing operations; retrieving a local copy of a document type definition (DTD) file or a schema (XSD) file from a local cache of the application server; performing the one or more XML parsing operations based on the local copy; retrieving an updated copy of the DTD file or the XSD file from a remote application server if an error is detected during the one or more XML parsing operations based on the local copy; and performing the one or more XML parsing operations again based on the updated copy. |
9535963 | 14858178 | 1 | 1. A computer-system-implemented method for requesting desired information from a graph database storing a graph, the method comprising: receiving an initial query that is compatible with a first type of database that is different from the graph database; converting the initial query into a query using primitives, wherein the primitives comprise: a rule, based on edges in the graph, that expresses a relational schema in the first type of database, and information associated with a compound key that specifies a relationship between nodes, edges and predicates in the graph corresponding to a table in the first type of database; executing the query against the graph database, wherein: the graph comprises nodes, edges between the nodes, and predicates to represent and store data with index-free adjacency; and the query identifies a first edge associated with a predicate that specifies one or more of the nodes in the graph; and receiving a result in response to the query, wherein the result includes a subset of the graph. |
8606494 | 11905378 | 1 | 1. A map generation apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires information which is a target of an analysis process; a classification unit that classifies the acquired information into a plurality of types; a tentative map generation unit that selects the types provided by the classifying one by one as a type in question to generate tentative map information of the information belonging to the type in question, based on (i) the information belonging to the type in question and (ii) representative information that represents at least one type other than the type in question; and a map generation unit that generates a map image based on the tentative map information generated for the respective types, wherein the tentative map generation unit selectively uses plural pieces of representative information of a certain number of types as the representative information representing the at least one type other than the type in question so that an angle subtended by (i) a segment connecting representative information of the type in question and each of the certain number of representative information and (ii) a segment connecting the representative information of the type in question and another one of the certain number of representative information is equal to or larger than a predetermined angle. |
20070263810 | 11379988 | 0 | 1. A method of routing an incoming call, comprising: receiving an incoming call at a call center of a language interpretation provider, wherein the incoming call is made by a customer requesting language interpretation service; determining a level of skill required by the customer, wherein the level of skill required represents a minimum skill set that an interpreter of the language interpretation provider should possess in order to provide the language interpretation service requested by the customer, wherein the language interpretation service is provided during the incoming call; queuing the incoming call at a first queue that distributes incoming calls to a call center interpreter, wherein the call center interpreter is permanently connected to the call center of the language interpretation provider through a voice link; and if a customer-defined event occurs, routing the incoming call to a second queue that distributes incoming calls to a non-call center interpreter, wherein the non-call center interpreter is not permanently connected to the call center of the language interpretation provider. |
20130139151 | 13725258 | 0 | 1. A system comprising: processing and memory resources, wherein the system is configured to: generate a virtual package including a virtual application image and a faux feature block file to describe mappings to portions of the virtual application image, the faux feature block file including one or more of product boot faux feature blocks, application faux feature blocks, and feature-level faux feature blocks; host the virtual package; and, communicate byte ranges of the virtual package based in part on user input including re-prioritizing byte range downloads. |
9729615 | 14082213 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented system for enabling collaborative designing, development deployment, execution, monitoring and maintenance of an enterprise application simultaneously executed on a plurality of nodes, the system comprising: a distributed cache shared across said plurality of nodes; a load balancer configured to distribute tasks amongst said plurality of nodes; a cluster manager cooperating with said load balancer, said cluster manager configured to implement one or more clustering strategies, said cluster manager further configured to selectively activate and deactivate at least one of said plurality' of nodes, based on the tasks assigned to said plurality of nodes; wherein the cluster manager is further adapted to provide for energy conservation by switching OFF one or more hardware nodes during off peak hours with minimal load and switching ON the hardware nodes when the load increases; a data access layer to connect to a plurality of data stores using one or more persistent store adaptors, said data access layer configured to cache a plurality of application program interfaces corresponding to said enterprise application; a data management layer to provide access to business data corresponding to said enterprise application and meta-data associated with said business data; a processor configured to support Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), said processor configured to link business rules with corresponding invocation chains and object rules, said processor configured to invoke said invocation chains and object rules based on said business rules being triggered; a service container for generating business services by wiring platform services with business rules; and an application knowledge base adapted to: store knowledge related to building business entities, attributes related to the entities, relationship between entities and associated processing rules; track performance of business and platform services in production; maintain history of expected performance of different platform services; and hold information on performance benchmarks of various platform services and rale engine operations; wherein the performance benchmark information is adapted for: predicting the expected performance of platform services by adding up the performance of one or more platform services; and notifying administrators if the actual performance of the platform services in the production system is different from the excepted performance. |
3965458 | 05510092 | 1 | 1. A central processor for controlling the operation of subsystems which are interconnected on a common data bus of a telephone exchange to establish requested service between telephone subscribers, wherein the exchange includes a program memory also connected to the common data bus and containing a plurality of addressable multiple bit operational codes to be utilized by the central processor, said central processor comprising: a program address register including means for providing and storing the address in the program memory which contains an operational code to be utilized by the central processor; an arithmetic logic unit having an input coupled to said program address register for receiving the program memory address from said program address register, said arithmetic logic unit additionally having an output; a bus address register having an input coupled to said arithmetic logic unit output and having an output coupled to the common data bus for receiving the program memory address from said arithmetic logic unit and for addressing the program memory at the program memory address over the common data bus to cause the program memory to transmit the operational code over the common data bus; an instruction register having an input and an output for storing the operational code and for providing subsystem address signals responsive to the operational code; said arithmetic logic unit input also being coupled to said common data bus for receiving the operational code and said arithmetic logic unit output being coupled to said instruction register input for transferring the operational code to said instruction register, said arithmetic logic unit also having another input coupled to said instruction register output for receiving said subsystem address signals therefrom and for transferring said subsystem address signals at said arithmetic logic unit output to said bus address register for causing said bus address register to address the subsystems corresponding to said subsystem address signals for obtaining subsystem data therefrom, and said arithmetic logic unit also including means for performing logic and arithmetic functions responsive to function control signals to provide subsystem data and control signals; a bit time counter for providing sequential operational timing signals; and a control word generator coupled to said instruction register for providing said function control signals responsive to the operational code stored in said instruction register and coupled to said bit time counter for coacting therewith to provide said function control signals in proper time sequence. |
20090300496 | 12146461 | 0 | 1. A method for providing user control of online ad content on a host webpage, comprising: creating a cross-domain frame in a host webpage, the frame comprising content from a different domain than the host webpage's domain; creating a user interface on the host webpage using an application program interface; and allowing the user interface to control the cross-domain frame. |
20090281789 | 12424311 | 0 | 1. A method for updating the vocabulary of a speech translation system for translating a first language into a second language including written and spoken words comprising: adding a new word in the first language to a first recognition lexicon of the first language; associating a description with the new word, wherein the description contains pronunciation and word class information; and updating the new word and the description in a first machine translation module associated with the first language, wherein the first machine translation module contains a first tagging module, a first translation model and a first language module, and is configured to translate the new word to a corresponding translated word in the second language. |
4862283 | 07115321 | 1 | 1. Apparatus for selecting image processing by either text mode or continuous tone mode, said apparatus comprising: means for differentiating between text and continuous tone pixels, and for generating a preliminary discrimination signal; means, operable upon the preliminary discrimination signal for a pixel of interest, for creating a final discrimination signal by changing a continuous tone preliminary decision to a text decision if the pixel of interest is within a predetermined distance of a text pixel; and means for selecting (1) text mode image processing when the final discrimination signal is a text decision, and (2) continuous tone image processing when the final discrimination signal is a continuous tone decision. |
5544321 | 08474282 | 1 | 1. A method in a system of mobile and fixed computer controlled devices and mobile users for performing a multiplicity of operations, each computer controlled device and user being identifiable and locatable by the system, and having at least one allowable operation, the method establishing ownership control of at least a portion of a particular device by an identified user based on the context of the system and the environment of the particular device, the method comprising the steps of: requesting a level of ownership control of said particular device; identifying device properties of said particular device, the device properties including ownership policies; determining a present state of said particular device, including an ownership state; determining context of said particular device, including users and devices in proximity to said particular device; based on said requested level of ownership control, said present state of said particular device, and said context of said particular device, determining an ownership access of said particular device to be granted to said identified user consistent with the ownership policies of the particular device; and granting said ownership access to said identified user. |
8888598 | 11974861 | 1 | 1. A virtual game system comprising: a computerized virtual item trading system for communicating with two or more virtual game servers, wherein the two or more virtual game servers provide two or more different virtual online games, and wherein the virtual item trading system is programmed to: translate attributes of virtual items from the two or more different virtual online games to a homogenous virtual object data format using a translation module, thereby creating indexes and tags around the attributes such that the virtual items from the two or more different virtual online games are searchable by the attributes, wherein the attributes include a type of virtual item; valuate, by the translation module, the virtual items from the two or more different virtual online games based on the relative interest in the virtual items in relation to other virtual items based on transaction histories of the virtual items; convert two or more virtual currencies associated with the two or more virtual online games, by the translation module, to a common virtual currency that is common to the two or more different virtual online games, based on demand for the two or more virtual currencies outside of the two or more virtual online games; store the attributes of the virtual items in the homogenous virtual object data format in a database; receive a search query initiated by activating an icon on a trading/exchange graphical user interface provided by downloading a client application to one or more client devices or provided by a client application residing at a game server platform wherein the one or more client devices are in communication with the game server platform, the graphical user interface providing search queries for exchange, sell, and valuation requests; in response to the search query, search the database for one or more virtual items that match the type of virtual item corresponding to the search query; return a list of available virtual items and their associated values filtered to meet the type of virtual item corresponding to the search query, wherein the list of available virtual items comprises items for exchange, sale, and valuation based on the respective search query; and execute transactions for the virtual items. |
20110243450 | 12752960 | 0 | 1. A method of categorizing a material of an object in an image, the method comprising: extracting, with at least one processor, a plurality of features from the image; combining at least two of the plurality of features to generate a model comprising distributions for the at least two of the plurality of features across groups of pixels in the image; and categorizing the material of the object in the image based, at least in part, on the distributions in the model. |
9330370 | 13847517 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for updating progression of performing computer system management on a managed computer system, the method comprising: receiving, by a managing computer system, from the managed computer system, information of a change implementer and the managed computer system; searching, by the managing computer system, on a change and configuration system on the managing computer system, configuration items of the managed computer, based on the information received; searching, by the managing computer system, on the change and configuration system a change request associated with the configuration items and authorized by a change owner; determining, by the managing computer system, whether the change is found on the change and configuration system in the change requests authorized by the change owner; receiving, by the managing computer system, from the managed computer system change implementer, a command with a current date and time, the command entered by the change implementer, in response to determining that the change request is found on the change and configuration system; searching and matching, by the managing computer system, on the change and configuration system, one or more tasks in the change request, the one or more tasks started by the command and owned by the change implementer; updating, by the managing computer system, on the change and configuration system, status of the one or more tasks with start dates and times of the one or more tasks, in response to determining that the command matches the one or more tasks found in the change request on the change and configuration system and owned by the change implementer; sending, by the change and configuration system, to the change implementer on the managed computer system a warning in response to determining that a scheduled stop time for the one or more tasks has reached before completion of the one or more tasks and updating by the managing computer system on the change and configuration system the status of the one or more tasks as failed; and updating, by the managing computer system, on the change and configuration system, the status of the one or more tasks with stop dates and times of the one or more tasks, in response determining that the one or more tasks are completed within the scheduled stop time. |
8641646 | 12847922 | 1 | 1. A seizure detection device comprising: a coordinate data interface configured to receive coordinate data indicating a coordinate location of a patient; a memory configured to store the coordinate data associated with a defined location; and a seizure detector configured to detect a seizure event in the patient based on the coordinate data and body parameter data corresponding to at least one body parameter. |
9092253 | 12638345 | 1 | 1. In a computing environment, a method of monitoring performance of one or more processor caches coupled to a processor, the method comprising: executing an application on one or more processors coupled to the one or more processor caches, wherein the application utilizes one or more portions of the one or more processor caches; establishing a buffer monitor entry and at least one of a read monitor entry and a write monitor entry, each monitor entry being established on a cache line basis for a particular thread, the read monitor entry indicating whether a read monitor is to monitor a data block to determine when data is written to the data block by another thread, the write monitor entry indicating whether a write monitor is to monitor the data block to determine when data is read from or written to the data block by another thread, the buffer monitor entry indicating whether the data is buffered data or cached data, and whether data buffering has been lost for a specified transaction; determining that execution of the application has caused the read monitor, the write monitor or the buffer monitor to be reset, indicating that execution of the application has reached a potential bottleneck; determining the amount of the specified transaction that is executed after the transaction has been indicated as doomed as a result of a read, write or buffer monitor being reset, the amount of execution being determined by sampling a hardware performance counter before and after the specified transaction and subtracting the before sample from the after sample; and generating metrics related to performance of the one or more processor caches as a result of utilizing the one or more portions of the one or more processor caches, including incrementing a counter that tallies the number of times that the read monitor, the write monitor or the buffer monitor has been reset. |
20030236944 | 10179727 | 0 | 1. A method of operating a storage controller comprising: receiving data access requests containing a logical block address and a count of blocks involved in the access request; and persistently storing a record indicating whether particular logical block addresses have been accessed since creation. |
20080269571 | 12137660 | 0 | 1. A method for monitoring a plurality of individuals with a server comprising: (A) receiving data corresponding to one or more conditions from said individuals measured from a plurality of devices, wherein said devices are remotely located from said server and in communications with said server via a communications network; (B) modifying said data to highlight a population at risk of exposure to a disease by analyzing said data; (C) generating one or more reports based on said data; (D) generating one or more surveys in response to said data suggesting a link between said disease and at least one of said conditions among said individuals; and (E) transmitting said surveys to said devices. |
9310955 | 13444373 | 1 | 1. A method for providing a virtual tour, presented by a virtual avatar, of a virtual venue within a virtual environment, the method comprising: generating, by a virtual venue application implemented on a server, a virtual avatar that represents a user of the virtual venue application; moving the virtual avatar, through one or more exhibits of the virtual venue, including advancing the virtual avatar to a specific position in the virtual venue based on a gaze direction vector, each exhibit including one or more rooms, each room including one or more locations, each location including a position and an initial gaze direction vector; recording the movements of the virtual avatar through the one or more exhibits of the virtual venue; generating the virtual tour comprising a pre-defined presentation of the one or more exhibits of the virtual venue that is based on the recorded movements; displaying the virtual tour within a graphical user interface; generating a guide avatar, to serve as a tour guide of the virtual tour; displaying the guide avatar within the virtual venue using the graphical user interface; moving the guide avatar, based on the recorded movements as part of the virtual tour, including: moving within a first room of the virtual tour, pointing out an object within the first room using hand motions from a hand motion library, and advancing from the first room of the virtual venue to a second room of the virtual venue; updating the display of the virtual tour based on the movements of the guide avatar, including pausing and resuming the virtual tour; determining that one or more virtual avatars participating in the virtual tour have not followed the guide avatar into the second room within a time threshold; and automatically teleporting the one or more virtual avatars participating in the virtual tour to the second room of the virtual venue in response to the determining that the one or more virtual avatars have not followed the guide avatar within the time threshold. |
8108610 | 12255595 | 1 | 1. A method for processing an atomic operation received by an intermediate cache coupled to one or more clients and to an external memory, the method comprising: receiving the atomic operation from a client, the atomic operation including an atomic command and an atomic data payload; transmitting the atomic command to a tag look-up unit; determining whether a cache line within a data cache unit associated with the atomic command is available; incrementing a cache line reference counter associated with the cache line; and transmitting the atomic command and the atomic payload data to an arithmetic logic unit residing external to the intermediate cache for processing. |
20050210336 | 11112324 | 0 | 1. A method for performing a system capability assessment, comprising: receiving a request to perform the assessment on a computing product; determining assessment data by analyzing at least one computing product characteristic comprising at least one attribute, capability, and feature; and storing the assessment data. |
9830300 | 15288569 | 1 | 1. A hybrid programmable logic device comprising: a processor comprising fixed logic elements, wherein in the processor is disposed in a first layer; a programmable logic element disposed in the first layer; interface circuitry that delivers signal from the programmable logic element to the processor, wherein the interface circuitry is coupled to the programmable logic element using an input circuitry that multiplexes the signal, and wherein the interface circuitry comprises an interface buffer that buffers the signal from the input circuitry; and an interface port coupled to the processor that receives the signal from the interface buffer; and scheduling circuitry comprising a program instruction memory, wherein the scheduling circuitry is configured to: detect a new mode of operation for the processor; halt operation of the processor, in response to the detection of a new mode of operation; receive the signal from the programmable logic elements, wherein the signal comprises a processor instruction; and store the processor instruction in the program instruction memory. |
20150363971 | 14761803 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model, the method comprising: receiving a first set of sensed position data indicative of an orientation of a camera device at or near a time when it is used to acquire a first two-dimensional (2D) image, wherein the first set of sensed position data is provided by a sensor of the camera device used to acquire the first 2D image; receiving a second set of sensed position data indicative of an orientation of a camera device at or near a time when it is used to acquire a second two-dimensional (2D) image, wherein the second set of sensed position data is provided by a sensor of the camera device used to acquire the second 2D image; determining a sensed rotation matrix for an image pair comprising the first and second 2D images using the first and second sets of sensed position data; identifying a calculated camera transformation matrix for the image pair, the calculated transformation comprising a calculated translation vector and a calculated rotation matrix; generating a sensed camera transformation matrix for the image pair, the sensed camera transformation comprising a translation vector and the sensed rotation matrix; identifying a set of matching points of the first and second 2D images; determining whether a first error associated with a transformation of the set of matching points using the sensed camera transformation is less than a second error associated with a transformation of the set of matching points using the calculated camera transformation; and in response to determining that a first error associated with a transformation of the set of matching points using the sensed camera transformation is less than a second error associated with a transformation of the set of matching points using the calculated camera transformation, generating a 3D model using the sensed camera transformation; and storing the 3D model in an 3D model repository. |
8856731 | 13356472 | 1 | 1. An electronic system level tool system comprising: a processor; and a scalable language infrastructure executable by said processor and configured to: receive an input model, the input model comprising an expression, parse the input model and associate one or more intelligent components with the expression, the intelligent components being external to the scalable language infrastructure, forward the parsed input model to a plurality of clients, receive a request from one of the plurality of clients inquiring about the expression in the model, identify to the client of the plurality of clients an intelligent component of the plurality of intelligent components associated with the expression in response to the client inquiring about the expression, and provide the identified intelligent component to the client, wherein the intelligent component will perform a function for the expression. |
9343903 | 14203576 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for creating a virtual cloud-based environment representing, controlling, and predicting the performance of a plurality of physical energy generating and consuming devices, the instructions, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform the following steps: representing one or more physical energy generating or energy consuming devices that are configured in a physical environment each as a corresponding one or more parametric information objects; embedding in each of the one or more parametric information objects data related to energy performance characteristics unique to its corresponding physical energy device; grouping the parametric information objects that define physical interrelationships among the one or more physical devices to create a virtualized project design model; and parsing embedded parametric information from the virtualized project design model to create a first parsed data set and a second parsed data set, wherein: the first parsed data set comprises project system control application data that is read by a system control application, which acts upon and coordinates actions of the one or more physical energy devices through a virtual field bus, the virtual field bus configured in a cloud-based real time data exchange to interface virtualized project design model data with physical data associated with the one or more physical energy objects; and the second parsed data set comprises extracted energy performance data used to: create a virtualized energy performance project, the virtualized energy performance project including at least a subset of the one or more parametric information objects and an energy consumption predictive function; and represent the subset of the parametric information objects from the virtualized performance project so as to permit other parametric information objects to exchange state and control data therewith in real time. |
9219663 | 14054502 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: using one or more processors to perform the following: collecting and analyzing historic resource utilization data relating to a plurality of computing devices, the historic resource utilization data representing a load placed on a set of finite resources over a predefined period of time; generating an exponential growth model for each computing device based on analysis of the historic resource utilization data; generating a linear growth model by adjusting the exponential growth model into a linear growth model at and beyond a point having a slope that exceeds a threshold multiple of a slope at a point at an end of a most recent portion of the historic resource utilization data in the exponential growth model; and adjusting workload or capability of the plurality of computing devices based at least on the exponential growth model or the linear growth model. |
20020178436 | 09865243 | 0 | 1. A method in a data processing system for tracking relationships between programs and data, the method comprising: receiving a file access request from a program, wherein the request is received at an operating system level; and storing an association between the file and the program. |
8402052 | 12723232 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute a search method, the search method comprising: providing plural databases sharing management of plural attributes associated with an entity identifier capable of identifying an entity, each of the plural databases storing an entity identifier in association with an attribute value of one of the plural attributes and an attribute name; receiving a search request including plural search conditions, each of the plural search conditions containing a combination of an attribute name and an attribute value; separating the plural search conditions included in the search request into search conditions for individual databases in accordance with an attribute management table, the attribute management table having attribute records containing a database identifier capable of identifying one of the plural databases and an attribute name of an attribute managed in the one of the plural databases; storing, for each database, the search condition and the database identifier in a condition record stored in a condition storage; searching a search result management table by the database identifier and the search condition contained in each of the condition records, the search result management table having result records containing a database identifier of a search database, a first search condition, and a hit count representing an amount of entity identifiers found in a past search, the attribute value managed in association with the entity identifiers in the search database satisfying the first search condition; determining anterior search databases identified with the database identifiers contained in the result records, the result records containing a hit count which is less than or equal to a predetermined amount or a hit count within a predetermined lowest ranks; searching each of the anterior search databases by the search condition contained in the condition record containing the database identifier of the each of the anterior search databases to acquire a first search result including a first entity identifier, the attribute value managed in association with the first entity identifier in the each of the anterior search databases satisfying the search condition for the each of the anterior search databases; determining common entity identifiers included in common in the first search results and generating a new search condition by adding an entity identifier determined to be in common and searching each of posterior search databases to acquire a second search result including second entity identifiers, and where the posterior search database being out of the plural databases other than the anterior search databases, the attribute value managed in association with the second entity identifier in the each of the posterior search databases satisfies the search condition for the each of the posterior search database. |
8036870 | 12144524 | 1 | 1. A method of determining the behavior of an electronic system comprising electronic components under variability, the method comprising: (1) for at least one parameter of at least one of the electronic components, showing variability defining a range and a population of possible values within the range, each possible value having a probability of occurrence, thereby defining an input domain; (2) selecting inputs randomly from the input domain, wherein a probability to sample (PTS) is obtained from a probability of occurrence (PTOIR) as PTS inputdomain =(PTOIR inputdomain ) (1−gamma) , wherein gamma is a specific non-zero number in the range of about −1 to +2; (3) performing a simulation to obtain performance parameters of the electronic system, thereby defining an output domain sample; and (4) aggregating results of individual computations into a parameter/variability of the electronic system and assigning a frequency of occurrence FoO to the resulting sample being FoO outputdomain =(PTOIR inputdomain ) (gamma) , the parameter/variability and the frequency of occurrence defining the behavior, wherein the method further comprises condensing a number of possible values of at least one variability parameter by clustering the number of possible values and using a domain of these clustered values for randomly selecting inputs. |
7930488 | 12234711 | 1 | 1. A non-volatile memory sharing system, comprising: a plurality of processors comprising at least a first processor and a second processor; a non-volatile memory coupled to the first processor, the non-volatile memory for storing a plurality of program codes or data comprising at least a first program code or data for the first processor and a second program code or data for the second processor; and a processor bridge coupled between the first processor and the second processor; wherein the first processor is for executing the first program code stored in the non-volatile memory, and the second processor is for obtaining the second program code or data from the non-volatile memory via the first processor and the processor bridge. |
20090199187 | 12023617 | 0 | 1. A method to concurrently execute multiple primitive commands in a command line interface (CLI), comprising: designating each of a plurality of signal parameters for each of a plurality of primitive commands; encapsulating the plurality of primitive commands into a header CLI command; and executing the header CLI command. |
20050064879 | 10942862 | 0 | 1. A method of locating a mobile user in a wireless communication network comprising: receiving a log of call history information records of the mobile user while on a call, the call history information records each comprising at least one distance related measurement parameter; determining if the call is being routed through a repeater for each of the call history information records; determining a position estimate of the mobile user, when the call is not routed through a repeater, based on base station cell site co-ordinates and the at least one distance related measurement; and, determining a repeater modified position estimate, when the call is routed through a repeater, by modifying the at least one distance related measurement parameter to reflect signal propagation delays associated with the repeater and utilizing the modified distance related measurement parameter with the repeater co-ordinates to determine the repeater modified position estimate. |
20030023782 | 09915432 | 0 | 1. A method for pipelining DMA Write operations in a data processing system having a memory and an Input/Output (I/O) processor, said method comprising: performing a first operation to place a cache line being requested by a DMA write instruction in a weak ownership state; delaying issuing of a second operation that writes said cache line to said memory until all other cache lines requested by previously issued first operations are also in said weak ownership state; and forwarding said cache line along with said other cache lines to said memory in any order, responsive to said cache line and said other cache lines all being in said weak ownership state. |
8671371 | 13683722 | 1 | 1. A method of utilizing high level synthesis to automatically configure control logic of a hardware design for a pipelined parallel stream processor, the method comprising: obtaining a scheduled graph representing a processing operation in the time domain as a function of clock cycles, the graph comprising at least one data path to be implemented in hardware as part of said stream processor and comprising at least one input, at least one output and a plurality of parallel branches configured to enable data values to be streamed therethrough from the at least one input to the at least one output as a function of increasing clock cycle; performing, on a computing device, partitioning of said at least one data path to divide said at least one data path into a plurality of discrete regions; assigning, on the computing device, discrete control logic elements to each of said regions of said data path; and utilizing, on the computing device, said graph and control logic assigned during said high level synthesis steps to define a hardware design for implementation in hardware as said pipelined parallel stream processor. |
20160055026 | 14922979 | 0 | 1. A method for enforcing a policy associated with a virtual appliance, the method comprising: receiving a virtual appliance event request; receiving first data about the virtual appliance in response to receiving the virtual appliance event request, wherein the first data about the virtual appliance was extracted prior to initiating the virtual appliance and prior to receiving the virtual appliance event request, and the first data was stored prior to receiving the virtual appliance event request for later processing after receiving the virtual appliance event request; receiving second different data from an environment outside the virtual appliance in response to receiving the virtual appliance event request; determining whether an internal non-compliance by the virtual appliance of a first policy-based compliance scheme exists based on the first data that was stored prior to receiving the virtual appliance event request; determining whether an external non-compliance by the virtual appliance as provided in the environment of a second different policy-based compliance scheme exists based on the second different data; and in response to determining that at least one of the internal non-compliance and the external non-compliance exists, at least one of denying the virtual appliance event request, providing a notification of non-compliance, adapting the virtual appliance, and adapting the environment. |
20020024665 | 09849831 | 0 | 1. A high speed, low cost, wide spectrum plant identifier apparatus adapted to be mounted on a farm vehicle for selectively identifying plants within a field by species and for selectively applying chemicals thereto for the purposes of reducing the chemical costs and the excessive chemical application which may otherwise result in pollution problems, said apparatus comprising: a) a sensing device for receiving reflected light from a plant, said device including a diffraction element for separating the reflected light into segments of different wavelengths and a linear sensor array having elements positioned to receive the segments and to measure the relative magnitude of such segments to define a wide spectral distribution of the plant; b) a digital identifier connected to said sensing device and having a memory for memorizing a spectral distribution of light representing a first plant species from the field, and additional memory for receiving a spectral distributions of other plants from the field and programmable logic circuitry; c) said logic circuitry having a program to compare the reflected spectral distribution of other plants with the memorized spectral distribution of the first species and to provide an output indicating substantial similarity between the distributions for effecting selective application of chemicals to the plants of the first species as the associated farm vehicle traverses a field. |
6144838 | 09215685 | 1 | 1. A method for diagnostic assessment and proficiency scaling of test results for a plurality of tests, each said test having at least one item, each said item having at least one feature, the method using as input a vector of item difficulty estimates for each of n items and a matrix of hypothesized skill classifications for each of said n items on each of k skills, the method comprising the steps of: using a tree-based regression analysis based on said vector and said matrix to model ways in which required skills interact with different item features to produce differences in item difficulty, said analysis identifying combinations of skills required to solve each said item, and forming a plurality of clusters by grouping said items according to a predefined prediction rule based on skill classifications; and using a nonparametric smoothing technique to summarize student performance on the combinations of skills identified in the tree-based analysis, said smoothing technique resulting in cluster characteristic curves that provide a probability of responding correctly to items with specified skill requirements, said probability expressed as a function of underlying test score. |
9430482 | 13827750 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor, the code comprising code to cause the processor to: receive an uncompressed template definition file (TDF) in a template file format, the uncompressed TDF including an uncompressed set of attributes associated with a taxonomy tree of an online marketplace, the uncompressed set of attributes including a first attribute and a second attribute, the first attribute being at a first level of the taxonomy tree, the second attribute being at a second level of the taxonomy tree; define an association within a database table linking the first attribute with a third attribute based on the first attribute having a characteristic and the third attribute having the characteristic; define an association within the database table linking the second attribute with the third attribute based on the second attribute having the characteristic and the third attribute having the characteristic; compress the uncompressed TDF to define a compressed TDF in the template file format, the compressed TDF including a compressed set of attributes associated with the taxonomy tree of the online marketplace based at least in part on (1) the association linking the first attribute and the third attribute and (2) the association linking the second attribute and the third attribute, the compressed set of attributes including the third attribute and excluding the first attribute and the second attribute; and send the compressed TDF to a taxonomy platform such that a set of inventory data associated with a merchant is mapped, based on at least the compressed TDF, to the compressed set of attributes associated with the taxonomy tree of the online marketplace. |
8352516 | 11390614 | 1 | 1. A method for mapping objects, comprising: receiving at a mapping tool from a requesting application of multiple applications during runtime of the requesting application, a request identifying first and second objects both to be accessed and used within the requesting application, wherein the objects have defined identifiers that identify the objects and their object types, the two objects being of different types, and wherein the mapping tool is accessible to the multiple applications having different object mapping methods that indicate how to manage the objects together, the mapping tool accessible via an application interface common to the multiple applications such that each of the multiple applications can invoke the mapping tool, the mapping tool having logic generic to the multiple applications to map objects for the multiple applications with the same mapping logic; receiving from the requesting application a relationship definition for first and second objects, the relationship definition defining how the first and second objects interact with each other within the requesting application, the relationship related to a business process executed with the requesting application; dynamically generating a mapping between the first object and the second object to represent the relationship definition for the objects during runtime of the requesting application; and storing the object identifiers and the mapping in a mapping table to assign the relationship to the first and second objects within the requesting application. |
20110202227 | 12707516 | 0 | 1. A method for determining the state of health of a sub-system in a system, said method comprising: collecting fault signature test results; determining a current state of health value for the sub-system using the fault signature test results; determining current state of health values of a plurality of components in the sub-system using the fault signature test results; determining current state of health values for components in the system that cannot use fault signature test results using a first probability model and the current state of health value for the sub-system and the current state of health values of the components determined by the fault signature test results; determining predicted future state of health values for the components in the sub-system using component aging models; determining a predicted future state of health values for the sub-system using a second probability model and the future state of health value for the components; determining if the predicted state of health value of the sub-system is greater than a threshold; and determining the remaining useful life of the sub-system if the predicted state of health value of the sub-system is less than the threshold. |
20100204986 | 12765753 | 0 | 1. A method for filtering and eliminating noise from natural language speech utterances, comprising: receiving a natural language utterance from a user at a microphone array, wherein the microphone array directs a beam pattern in a direction of the user, the beam pattern including one or more nulls that notch out point or limited area noise sources; establishing parameters for a band shaping and notch filtering mechanism, the parameters established by comparing environmental noise to the signal representing the utterance; removing narrow-band noise from the signal representing the utterance using the band shaping and notch filtering mechanism, the band shaping and notch filtering mechanism optimized according to the established parameters; suppressing cross-talk and environmentally caused echoes in the signal representing the utterance using adaptive echo cancellation; removing momentary gaps from the signal representing the utterance using adaptive lossy compression; and storing a digitized representation of the signal representing the utterance in an output buffer. |
20120254836 | 13416423 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of managing a software program, the computer comprising a processor, a memory, and an input/output interface for receiving and transmitting information to and from the processor, the computer providing a development environment for developing a set of instructions executable by a system, the method comprising: receiving, by the processor, a first program containing information in machine-readable form, the information representing a first set of instructions executable by the system; creating a configuration for the system based on the received information; and generating, by the processor, a second program containing a second set of instructions executable by the system based on the configuration, wherein the second set of instructions corresponds to at least one algorithm assembled in a nested hierarchy. |
7593453 | 10788209 | 1 | 1. A method implemented in a communication device for tracking a spread spectrum signal having an associated code at a receiver, the method comprising: despreading by a despreading device a plurality of components of the spread spectrum signal using the associated code, each of the plurality of components having a different code phase than all others of the plurality of code phases; weighting each of the plurality of components with a weight value based on a phase difference between that component and a center code phase of the plurality of components; and determining a tracking error based on the weighted components. |
9021015 | 12906904 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for use with an upload server computing device, a website server computing device, and a network, the method comprising: establishing, by an authoring tool executing on a client computing device, a connection with the upload server computing device over the network; receiving, by the authoring tool, a first selection indicating whether a new account is to be created or an existing account is to be used; when the first selection indicates a new account is to be created, sending, by the authoring tool, account information to the upload server computing device for use thereby to create the new account; when the first selection indicates the existing account is to be used, sending, by the authoring tool, login information to the upload server computing device, which determines whether the login information is valid; after the new account is created or the login information is determined to be valid, obtaining, by the authoring tool, a list of applications associated with a publisher from the upload server computing device; displaying, by the authoring tool, the list of applications to a user; receiving, by the authoring tool, a second selection of one of the applications displayed; receiving, by the authoring tool, information from the user related to the selected application, the received information comprising an application identifier, a major version indicator, and a minor version indicator; building, by the authoring tool, a new virtualized version of the selected application, the virtualized version comprising an application file, the received information being incorporated into the application file when the new virtualized version of the selected application is built; uploading, by the authoring tool, the application file to the upload server computing device over the network; instructing, by the authoring tool, the upload server computing device to copy the application file to the website server computing device, the website server computing device being connected to the upload server computing device over the network; obtaining, by the authoring tool, from the upload server computing device, a ready indicator and a Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”), the ready indicator indicating whether the application file has been fully copied to the website server computing device, wherein the virtualized version of the selected application is available at the URL for download when the ready indicator indicates that the application file has been fully copied to the website server computing device; and when the ready indicator indicates that the application file has been fully copied to the website server computing device, displaying, by the authoring tool, a link to the URL to the user. |
7765490 | 09906829 | 1 | 1. A tiled interface system, comprising: at least one tile cluster as displayed on a display device; and a tile manager, as executed by a processor on said system, to manage said at least one tile cluster on said display device and to translate any of an input event into a tile cluster event, wherein said tile manager provides an area on said display as entirely covered by a two-dimensional grid of tiles, each said at least one tile cluster comprising a group of adjacent tiles in said tile grid if more than one tile is included in the tile cluster, with tiles being blank tiles at locations in said tile grid where no tile cluster has been implemented, wherein each said tile cluster comprises at least one tile and each said tile cluster corresponds to one or more predefined functions for one or more specific applications, said specific application meaning a specific task or function being an object of an interface with a user rather than meaning a function or functions within an application program that is invoked by an operating system on a computer executing said tiled interface system, said display area having said two-dimensional grid of tiles being dedicated to controlling and/or displaying information related to said one or more specific applications, as said applications have been predefined in said tile manager, such that each said specific application occupies a different area in said tile grid, as one or more tiles assigned to a tile cluster related to said specific application, wherein each said tile cluster provides a user interaction of said one or more predefined functions for said one or more specific applications respectively corresponding to that tile cluster and a display presentation of each said tile cluster has incorporated thereon a visual representation related to said one or more predefined functions of its specific application, and each implemented tile cluster has at least one tile that is always visible in said tile grid that has at least a part of said visual representation related to its predefined functions, and wherein each said at least one tile cluster is selectively presented in its entirety on a single frame of said display device using at most one said input event. |
9602590 | 14475190 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a plurality of computing nodes maintaining one or more partitions, the one or more partitions comprising a first partition; one or more memories having stored thereon computer readable instructions that, upon execution by the one or more computing nodes, cause the system at least to: process requests to access data in a partition maintained on a first computing node of the plurality of computing nodes, wherein capacity of the first computing node to process requests is limited by a first reserved amount of capacity; determine a second additional amount of capacity based at least in part on a forecasted change to the first reserved amount of capacity; calculate a first sum comprising reserved amounts of capacity for the one or more partitions, including the first reserved amount of capacity, and additional amounts of capacity for the one or more partitions, including the second additional amount of capacity; rank the first computing node relative to other computing nodes in the plurality of computing nodes, wherein the ranking is indicative of a comparison between the first sum and a second sum computed for a second computing node; and select the first computing node, from the plurality of computing nodes, for maintaining a second partition based at least in part on the rank of the first computing node relative to other computing nodes in the plurality of computing nodes. |
8259106 | 12416236 | 1 | 1. A method executable in a digital processor operable to generate a synthetic image, the method comprising: selecting, using the processor, a rank-1 lattice corresponding to points in the synthetic image to be generated; generating, using the processor, a data structure for access to data stored in points of the rank-1 lattice, the data structure comprising the number n of lattice points, generator vector g, s basis vectors, and indices of the basis vectors, wherein the basis vectors are lattice points; and generating, using the processor and the rank-1 lattice, digital output representative of a synthetic image, wherein generating output representative of the image comprises using the layout of rank-1 lattice points to represent textures of arbitrary dimension; wherein the selecting of a rank-1 lattice comprises selecting the rank-1 lattice in accordance with a maximized minimum distance function. |
20100191139 | 12361174 | 0 | 1. A method of assessing brain state of a subject comprising the steps of: acquiring electrical signals from the brain using at least one electrode channel; extracting quantitative features from the acquired signals; classifying the extracted features into one or more brain states; and computing a probabilistic index indicating the accuracy of the classification. |
20150370544 | 14308272 | 0 | 1. An application host computing device, comprising: a processor coupled to a memory and configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory to: parse assembly language code to identify a transaction block including an assignment to a memory location, the assembly language code associated with an application and output by a compiler; modify the assembly language code to insert an invocation of a plurality of functions collectively configured to facilitate persistent storage of one or more data updates associated with the assignment at run-time; and assemble the assembly language code to generate object code and link the object code with at least a run-time library comprising a definition for each of the plurality of inserted functions to generate an executable file for the application. |
7764172 | 12399965 | 1 | 1. A sensing and detection system for detecting materials of interest associated with transporting cargo by air, comprising: an illumination system of an aircraft for imposing electromagnetic energy on targets located throughout the aircraft; a sensing system of the aircraft for automatically scanning the targets for presence of materials of interest; an optical component of the aircraft for receiving photon signals representative of change information of the materials of interest; a detection component that outputs detection data indicative of the presence of the materials of interest based on the change information; and a notification component of the aircraft for generating a notification signal in response to sensing one or more of the materials of interest. |
20040133884 | 10338800 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: identifying an original instruction having a memory address in a memory block with a write permission; copying said original instruction; translating said copy into one or more translated instructions; and inserting said one or more translated instructions and a check instruction into a translation block. |
20080154985 | 11615289 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a data request at a file system from an application, the application and the file system executing on a first operating system; determining a logical block address that corresponds to the data request, the logical block address identifying a data storage location within a first data storage area; sending the logical block address to a second operating system, the second operating system incompatible with the file system; and at the second operating system, performing an action on the data storage location that corresponds to the logical block address received from the first operating system. |
20090152549 | 12327406 | 0 | 1. A memory device comprising: a memory element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a silicon layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein: the memory element is capable of being in a first state, a second state, and a third state, a first data is written to the memory element being in the first state so that a potential of the first electrode is higher than a potential of the second electrode, whereby the memory element being in the second state is obtained, a second data is written to the memory element being in the first state so that a potential of the second electrode is higher than a potential of the first electrode, whereby the memory element being in the third state is obtained, and R 1 >R 2 >R 3 is satisfied when a resistance of the memory element being in the first state is R 1 , a resistance of the memory element being in the second state is R 2 , and a resistance of the memory element being in the third state is R 3 . |
20050080771 | 10685747 | 0 | 1. A process for enhancing a search, comprising the steps of: receiving a source selection from a user; receiving results of a search; and enhancing the search results with information from the selected source. |
9870382 | 14224308 | 1 | 1. A method for retrieving data from a data structure, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer processor, a query for the data; searching, by the computer processor, for the data in an encoding dictionary of the data structure, a first copy of the encoding dictionary stored both in a main store, and a second copy of the encoding dictionary stored in a differential buffer; responsive to finding a matching value for the data in the encoding dictionary, determining, by the computer processor, a value identifier (valueID) corresponding to the matching value based on lookup in the encoding dictionary, each valueID specifying a location in a table of a corresponding record; determining, by the computer processor, all positions corresponding to the valueID in at least one attribute vector of the data structure, the at least one attribute vector stored in an index; retrieving, by the computer processor, additional valueIDs corresponding to the determined positions in other attribute vectors of the data structure; storing, by the computer processor, all of the valueIDs corresponding to the determined positions; looking up, by the computer processor, the stored valueIDs in a decoding dictionary of the data structure; and returning, by the computer processor, all results corresponding to the stored valueIDs. |
9734479 | 14184872 | 1 | 1. A method for determining an operating set point for a combined cycle power plant including a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG), a steam turbine, and a duct firing system for the HRSG, the method comprising: using digital models to model the operation and/or the performance of the gas turbine, the steam turbine and the duct firing system; correlating the digital models using an artificial neural network, the artificial neural network interacting with the digital models; simulating the operation and/or the performance of the power plant using the digital models and the artificial neural network; correcting the simulation of the operation and/or the performance of the power plant by adjusting at least one of the digital models and/or the artificial neural network; optimizing the simulation of the operation and/or performance of the power plant by simulating the operation and/or performance of the power plant using the digital models and the artificial neural network at different operating settings of at least one of the power plant, the gas turbine, the steam turbine and the duct firing system, and selecting at least one of the operating settings as being an optimal operating setting; and setting an operating set point for the power plant based on the optimal operating setting. |
9904555 | 15405173 | 1 | 1. A system on a chip (SoC) comprising: memory to store a set of instructions; and a processor core coupled to the memory and comprising a configuration bit register to store configuration bits, wherein the processor core is to: identify a region of code in the set of instructions demarcated by a first instruction of the set of instructions; determine a first metric resulting from execution of the region of code with the configuration bits set to a first value; determine a second metric resulting from execution of the region of code with the configuration bits set to a second value; and set the configuration bits to a third value to increase a performance of the processor core, decrease power consumption of the processor core, or both for subsequent execution of the region of code, wherein the third value comprises a first portion of the configuration bits for the first value and a second portion of the configuration bits for the second value, wherein each of the configuration bits indicates whether a tunable parameter for a system configuration of the processor core is enabled or disabled. |
20100257351 | 12750639 | 0 | 1. A method of maintaining the confidentiality of data provided by an organization for storage on a third party database system, the method comprising: receiving data encrypted using a first key, wherein the first key is stored on an internal network of the organization; storing the encrypted data on the third party database system; associating, on the third party database system, metadata with the encrypted data, wherein the metadata includes information usable to locate the first key; receiving a request for the encrypted data from a computing device communicating on the internal network of the organization; and sending the encrypted data with the associated metadata to the computing device. |
9177252 | 13755201 | 1 | 1. A method of constructing a composite DFA (deterministic finite automaton) using subset construction, said method comprising: compiling at least one single-rule DFA; performing a first subset construction on said at least one single-rule DFA to generate a first composite DFA, retaining subset information for said first composite DFA; compiling at least one new rule into at least one corresponding additional single-rule DFA; performing a second subset construction to generate a second composite DFA, wherein said first composite DFA acts as a first NFA (non-deterministic finite automaton) input for said second subset construction and said at least one corresponding additional single-rule DFA acts as at least one additional NFA input for said second subset construction, retaining subset information for said second composite DFA; searching said subset information for subsets containing single-rule DFA states corresponding to a rule to be deleted; deleting all single-rule DFA state references found during the search from said subset information; and deleting any composite DFA state whose subset becomes empty after said step of deleting all single-rule DFA state references. |
20110307870 | 12815546 | 0 | 1. A method executed at least in part in a computing device for debugging a software application through capture and replay of execution, the method comprising: starting the application's execution; capturing execution paths of the application; capturing a memory state of the application's execution at configurable points by a debugger; capturing an external system interaction of the application by the debugger; receiving a replay request at the debugger; and replaying the application's execution based on a requested time point after completion of capturing. |
8386466 | 12534398 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computer system, a file comprising log records generated by a data stream processing server, the log records including information pertaining to a query plan and a sequence of events executed by the data stream processing server in accordance with the query plan; generating, by the computer system, a graphical representation of the query plan based on the log records; displaying, by the computer system, the graphical representation; wherein the graphical representation depicts one or more queue objects; and as the computer system processes queue-based events reflected in the log records, the computer system modifies the graphical representation to indicate, for each particular queue object of the one or more queue objects, a current state of the particular queue object. |
20010049713 | 09809201 | 0 | 1. A method performed on a computer system having a primary storage device, a secondary storage device, a display device, and an input/output mechanism which enables a client to dynamically distribute to a server computer in a collection of server computers a task developed in a programming language compatible with each of the server computers, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a server from a plurality of heterogenous servers to process a task based upon the overall processing load distribution among the collection of server computers and the specialized computing capabilities of each server computer; marshalling parameters and data into a task request which further comprises the substeps of, determining if code and data types related to the requested task are present on the selected server, and downloading the code and related data types onto the selected server when the code or data types are not present on the selected server; invoking a generic compute method associated with the selected server which executes the task and further comprises the substeps of, providing the task as a parameter to the generic compute method, and indicating to the server that results from a computed task should be stored in a result cache on the selected server for subsequent tasks to use; and receiving the computed task back from the selected server for further processing on the client. |
7712043 | 11697593 | 1 | 1. A system for displaying and navigating hierarchically structured data, comprising: a graphical data display system for displaying a structured diagram having a plurality of nodes; a navigation system for allowing a user to launch a first viewport at a selected node within the structured diagram to view subnodes of the selected node, and to launch a second viewport embedded within the first viewport to view sub-subnodes; and a context maintenance system that maintains a visual context between each of the plurality of nodes and the subnodes within the structured diagram wherein the visual context of both the plurality of nodes and the subnodes is in a single diagram. |
20150169380 | 14570203 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented calculation method for evaluating a response time in a computer system, wherein a plurality of units of execution are run in parallel on individual processor cores while sharing internal hardware resources, the method comprising: normalizing the utilization state of the computer system with the state of parallelism of the units of execution and evaluating the utilization state; and calculating an expected value of response time in a desired state of parallelism of the units of execution from the normalized utilization state on the basis of queueing theory, wherein changes in an average single-thread performance of the units of execution according to the parallel running state are taken into account. |
20090248648 | 12056999 | 0 | 1. A computer-based method to simultaneously evaluate conjunctions of equality predicates on k fields F 1 , F 2 ,. .. F k : F 1 =L 1 and F 2 =L 2 and F k =L k of a record, said L 1 , L 2. .. L k representing values, and said fields F 1 , F 2 ,. .. F k being at offsets [S 1 , E 1 ], [S 2 , E 2 ]. .. [S k , E k ] within said record, wherein offset [X, Y] represents bits X through Y, said method implemented in computer readable program code stored in computer storage, said method comprising the steps of: (a) constructing a mask to extract values of said fields F 1 , F 2 ,. .. F k within a cell, said mask comprising a bit vector M having 1s in bits [S 1 , E 1 ], [S 2 , E 2 ]. .. [S k , E k ] and having 0s in remainder of bits; (b) constructing a value vector comprising a bit vector V having said values L 1 , L 2. .. L k at bit positions [S 1 , E 1 ], [S 2 , E 2 ]. .. [S k , E k ], respectively, and having 0s in remainder of bits; (c) for each record, R, on which said equality predicates need to be applied, evaluating if R AND M=V; and (d) outputting results of said evaluation in (c). |
20140359096 | 13921158 | 0 | 1. At a computing device including a processor and system memory, a method for configuring the computing device, the method comprising: exposing a synchronization resource that acts as a proxy for a state of a resource on a remote machine; determining a state of the remote resource; and configuring the synchronization resource when the remote resource is in a desired state. |
20130088457 | 13288818 | 0 | 1. An intelligent GUI touch control method, comprising the steps of: generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein said GUI has at least one option object, said masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to said at least one option object, said masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of said sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient; reading a sensed data array from a touch panel, wherein said sensed data array has a sensed value distribution over a touch plane, used for conveying touch information of said touch plane; and performing a weighting operation according to said at least one masking plane and said sensed data array, so as to make each of said at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value, and determine at least one target object among said at least one option object according to said at least one weighted value. |
20040064293 | 10670983 | 0 | 1. A computer-based method for reporting data network monitoring information, comprising: accessing a set of performance metric values for a network component; generating a trace comprising graph data points based on the performance metric values; for a selected histogram range of the trace, building a histogram corresponding to the graph data points; and for a user interface, generating a performance monitoring display concurrently including a graph of the trace relative to an x-axis and a y-axis and a representation of the histogram. |
20170118343 | 15397661 | 0 | 1. In a contact center, a system for processing communication events, comprising: an interaction server for managing events waiting to be routed; a routing server for routing the events; a rules engine; and a gateway server executing rules invocation logic and interacting with the rules engine; characterized in that the interaction server tracks incoming events, initiates and sends a routing request to the routing server, including a special routing object, for each event that requires conformance to business rules, the routing server, executing the routing object, sends an execution request to the gateway server, which upon receipt of the request prepares a business object model (BOM), being a set of facts upon which the rules engine executes rules appropriate to the facts, resulting in routing direction for the routing server to route the event. |
8315852 | 12125292 | 1 | 1. An information displaying apparatus comprising: a main dictionary storing section to store main dictionary information in which words to be studied are associated with respective explanation information; a sub-dictionary storing section to store sub-dictionary information in which words to be studied are associated with respective explanation information; a displaying section including a retrieval character input area, a word list displaying area to display word lists of the words to be studied respectively retrieved from the main dictionary information and the sub-dictionary information regarding a retrieval character, and an explanation information displaying area to display respective explanation information of the main dictionary information and the sub-dictionary information regarding words specified from the respective word lists displayed in the word list displaying area; a main word changing section to change a main dictionary specified word by specification of one of the words from the main dictionary word list displayed in the word list displaying area, the specification being made according to a user operation; a sub-dictionary word update displaying section to retrieve the changed main dictionary specified word as a new retrieval character from the sub-dictionary information and to update display of the sub-dictionary word list in the word list displaying area; a sub-word respecifying section to specify a first word in the updated display of the sub-dictionary word list as a sub-dictionary specified word, wherein the first word is the same as the changed main dictionary specified word, and is listed first in the sub-dictionary word list by skipping each word stored only in the sub-dictionary information in the sub-dictionary word list between the word in the sub-dictionary word list corresponding to the main dictionary specified word before the change and the word in the sub-dictionary word list corresponding the main dictionary specified word after the change; and an explanation information update displaying section to update display of the explanation information to display explanation information of the changed main dictionary specified word and explanation information of the sub-dictionary specified word, which is the same as the changed main dictionary specified word and is listed first in the sub-dictionary word list, in the explanation information displaying area. |
20120066343 | 13299723 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, from a device of a user, a request to transmit a multimedia file; automatically generating a generated content descriptor based on an analysis of the multimedia file using at least one analysis parameter; determining whether the generated content descriptor satisfies filter criteria of a profile associated with the user; rejecting the request to transmit the multimedia file when the generated content descriptor does not satisfy the filter criteria of the profile; and transmitting the multimedia file along with the generated content descriptor when the generated content descriptor satisfies the filter criteria of the profile. |
7797005 | 12456524 | 1 | 1. A program storage device readable by a wireless interactive device, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the wireless interactive device to perform method steps for enabling interactive participation by enrolled participants during activity occurring at a college campus venue attended by a plurality of persons, said enrolled participants employing the wireless interactive device having a unique signature associated therewith and capability to: (i) receive and transmit messages; (ii) accept input via a user input interface; (iii) output messages to a user output interface; and (iv) transmit said unique signature, the method comprising the steps of: enrolling at least some of said persons as enrolled participants, each being equipped with one of said wireless interactive devices; providing a wireless communication system adapted to transmit and receive messages with said interactive device; querying said enrolled participants to respond to at least one query with an answer entered through said user input interface and transmitted by said interactive device; and receiving answers entered by said enrolled participants; wherein said wireless interactive device further comprises localization circuitry adapted to transmit a location signal indicative of a physical location of said device; said method further comprises the step of detecting said transmitted location signal; and said enrolling step is effected automatically for persons attending said college campus venue and possessing a said wireless interactive device, upon detection of said transmitted location signal indicative of a physical location within said college campus venue. |
8712990 | 12726431 | 1 | 1. A method for providing a business rule repository in a memory, comprising: displaying, on a display device, a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a business rule; receiving, in a computer, via the GUI: user input relating to an input variable of the business rule; and user input relating to an action required by the business rule based on the input variable; generating program logic for the business rule, based on the input, the program logic comprising groups of text characters forming non-human-language words; generating, by the computer, a text string representation of the business rule based on the program logic, such that the non-human-lanquage words are replaced with human-language words in the text string representation; and storing the text string representation in association with the program logic for the business rule, in the business rule repository, such that the business rule may be identified via a search based on the text string representation. |
20130061078 | 13333802 | 0 | 1. A computing apparatus, comprising: a set of interconnected central processing units (CPUs), each of the CPUs embedding an operating system (OS), the OS comprising an operating system kernel, the operating system kernel being a state machine and comprising a protocol stack; and at least one of the CPUs further embedding executable instructions for allocating multiple strands to one or more other CPUs of the set of interconnected CPUs. |
20070074012 | 11528338 | 0 | 1. A microprocessor architecture comprising: a main instruction pipeline; and an extended instruction pipeline, wherein the main instruction pipeline is configured to issue a begin record instruction to the extended instruction pipeline, causing the extended instruction pipeline to begin recording a sequence of instructions issued by the main instruction pipeline. |
8260615 | 13093176 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving audio input in a target language, and a target context of the audio input; determining that a target corpus that corresponds to the target language and the target context is unavailable; receiving logged speech recognition results that correspond to an existing corpus that is specific to a given language that differs from the target language, and to the same target context that corresponds to the received target language audio input and the logged speech recognition results; generating the target corpus that corresponds to the target language and the target context by machine-translating the logged speech recognition results corresponding to the given language to the target language; and estimating a context-specific language model that is specific to both the target language and the target context using the generated target corpus. |
7555605 | 11536085 | 1 | 1. A method for operating a processor coupled to a system bus and having a cache, comprising: receiving an instruction which indicates an effective address and provides a breakpoint disable indicator; and executing the instruction, wherein executing the instruction comprises: selectively disabling data breakpoints during execution of the instruction based on the breakpoint disable indicator; determining if the effective address results in a hit or a miss in the cache; and when the effective address results in a hit, providing data associated with the effective address from the cache to the system bus without modifying a state of the cache. |
20160125043 | 14529456 | 0 | 1. A system for providing a contextual search tool that improves search results presented to a user, the system comprising: one or more memory devices; and one or more processing devices operatively coupled to the one or more memory devices, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute computer-readable program code to: receive a search from the user; determine the search results to display in a contextual search interface; display the search results in a search results section of the contextual search interface, wherein the search results comprise a list of the search results; display content in a content section of the contextual search interface, wherein the content is for at least one of the search results from the search results section, and wherein the content section and the search results section are different sections; determine dynamic contextual information based on the search from the user, wherein the dynamic contextual information comprises at least one dynamic contextual question; display the dynamic contextual information in a dynamic contextual information section of the contextual search interface, wherein the dynamic contextual information section is different from the search results section and the content section; receive contextual information input from the user, wherein the contextual information input comprises at least an answer to the dynamic contextual question; determine updated search results, updated content, and updated dynamic contextual information based on the contextual information input from the user, wherein the updated dynamic contextual information comprises at least one updated dynamic contextual question; and display the updated search results in the search results section, the updated content in the content section, and the updated dynamic contextual information in the dynamic contextual information section. |
20100002907 | 12559879 | 0 | 1. A method for creating a watermark in a target document at different stages of the target document life cycle, the method comprising: scanning the target document containing a target watermark; recovering the target watermark from the target document, the recovered target watermark indicating a template specification for describing how the watermark was merged into the target document; generating an additional watermark according to a watermark specification; updating the template specification by adding the watermark specification and associating the additional watermark with the watermark specification in the template specification; and merging the generated watermark with the scanned target document. |
7570648 | 10357280 | 1 | 1. A distributed computer data network of a service provider, the distributed computer data network comprising: a first computing node comprising a source multi-tenant unit (MTU); a second computing node comprising a first provider edge device (PE); a third computing node comprising a second PE; a fourth computing node comprising a destination MTU; wherein a data packet is communicated between the first computing node and the second computing node, the data packet including a control word having a provider destination identification corresponding to a location of the fourth computing node, wherein the data packet has a destination medium access control (MAC) address; and wherein the second computing node receives the data packet and forwards the data packet to the third computing node in response to processing the provider destination identification to determine the packet destination, and wherein operations administration and maintenance (OAM) processing is performed when the destination MAC address equals a multicast MAC address. |
20060277419 | 11503836 | 0 | 1. A method to protect stored data, comprising: performing one or more times, by a processor, the following actions: receiving from a device verification information generated using common information known to the device and to the processor; verifying the validity of the verification information using the common information; determining an authorization status of the device based on (1) the validity of the verification information and (2) the time the verification information is received by the processor; and receiving a request from the device to access the stored data; and allowing the device to access the stored data based on the authorization status at the time the request is received. |