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| 8185941 | System and method of tamper-resistant control A method of tamper-resistant control comprising reading a flag of an electronic device with firmware, the flag indicating a provision enable/disable state of the electronic device and provisioning a management processor of the electronic device to facilitate communi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185913 | Manageability platform in an unified system An unified system that comprises a host system platform that includes a host operating system, a host processor that operates to execute host system applications within the host OS. The unified system also includes a manageability platform dedicated to performing ma... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185894 | Training a virtual machine placement controller To train a virtual machine placement controller, the placement controller determines a new layout of virtual machines that is different from an existing layout of the virtual machines, according to criteria. The placement controller transmits the information relatin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185893 | Starting up at least one virtual machine in a physical machine by a load balancer A system has plural physical machines that contain virtual machines. A load balancer receives a request from a client. In response to the request, it is determined whether at least one additional virtual machine should be started up. In response to determining that ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185766 | Hierarchical power management with hot mode Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for providing power/energy control. HPM (Hierarchical Power Management) systems provide for and improve on the power management support beyond what is available in current PC notebooks and deskt... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185697 | Methods and systems for coherence protocol tuning A method and system for selectively applying one of a plurality of different memory coherence protocols are described. When an application is executed to generate a memory access transaction, a table can be evaluated to determine whether the transaction should be pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185681 | Docking Station A docking station for a computing device can include an interface for electrically connecting the docking station to a computing device. The interface may supply power from a power supply. The docking station can include a surface for attaching a pin, wherein the lo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185663 | Mirroring storage interface A mirroring device includes an interface capable of coupling a primary storage array and a secondary storage array to a network. The interface further includes a logic that monitors traffic for a network packet destined for the primary storage array and selectively ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185536 | Rank-order service providers based on desired service properties Candidate service providers for a desired service are ranked. Terms describing service requirements for a desired service are determined. Service capability documents describing the services of the candidate service providers are determined using the terms describin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185535 | Methods and systems for determining unknowns in collaborative filtering Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for determining unknowns in rating matrices. In one embodiment, a method comprises forming a rating matrix, where each matrix element corresponds to a known favorable user rating associated wit... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185348 | Techniques for monitoring a data stream Systems and methods for detecting an interesting event in a data stream. More specifically, a monitoring system is configured to monitor a data stream and establish a sensitivity parameter based on sequences generated from values in a first portion of the data strea... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185165 | Method and apparatus for adaptive power saving in a mobile computing device A mobile computing device is described that includes one or more wireless transceivers, a data traffic monitor module operative to monitor one or more wireless communications parameters, and a power management module operative to select a power mode for the mobile c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184982 | Data reporting systems and methods Systems and methods for data reporting in electronics devices are disclosed. An exemplary system may include a processor configured to encode a bit stream representing information from at least one subsystem in the electronics device. The system may also include an ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184869 | Digital image enhancement Methods and systems for enhancing a digital image include analyzing the digital image to determine if the digital image includes a facial component. Facial characteristics of the facial component are determined for each image that does include at least one facial co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184853 | Method of triggering a detector to detect a moving feature within a video stream Detectors capable of accurately detecting and tracking moving features of such as faces within a video stream are sometimes too slow to be run in real-time. The present invention rapidly scans video footage in real-time and generates a series of preattemptive trigge... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184758 | Method and apparatus for detecting electrical idle A system and method for detecting electrical idle in a receiver is disclosed herein. A receiver includes a differential receiver, an analog idle detector, and a first filter. The differential receiver receives a variable rate differential signal. The analog idle det... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184712 | Robust and efficient compression/decompression providing for adjustable division of computational complexity between encoding/compression and decoding/decompression Various embodiments of the present invention include compression/decompression methods, systems, and devices that adjust a division of a total computational complexity of compression and decompression between encoding and decoding. These embodiments include an encod... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184512 | Optical disk drive with embedded test medium Embodiments provide an optical disk drive that includes an embedded test medium for testing the optical performance of an optical head in the optical disk drive. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184394 | Transducer head assemblies and modules In one embodiment a transducer head assembly is disclosed having a head module. The head module comprises at least one media bearer element providing a media bearer surface, and a head element block having an array of head elements. The assembly further comprises a ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184357 | Display element In one embodiment, a display element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a display cell defined by a dielectric material between the first electrode and the second electrode. The display cell includes a narrower portion adjacent the first electrode a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183979 | Physical object with memory tags and apparatus for writing and using such objects A physical object is provided that comprises a base medium, such as a paper sheet, and multiple memory tags embedded in it or attached to it. At least one of the memory tags stores location data concerning a location relationship between the object and one or more o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183827 | Adaptive charger system and method A method and apparatus is used for adaptive inductive charging of a device. Charging includes detecting the presence of a device capable of receiving an inductive charge, determining a set of parameters for inductively charging the device, and transmitting an induct... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183757 | Display element In one embodiment, a display element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer on the second electrode. The dielectric layer has recess regions therein. The display element includes an opaque layer on the second electrode within each rec... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183566 | Hetero-crystalline semiconductor device and method of making same A hetero-crystalline semiconductor device and a method of making the same include a non-single crystalline semiconductor layer and a nanostructure layer that comprises a single crystalline semiconductor nanostructure integral to a crystallite of the non-single cryst... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182082 | Printer accessory module for high capacity printing A printer accessory module for coupling to a printer to increase its printing capacity. The printer accessory module includes an auxiliary media module for storing and supplying printer media; and an auxiliary ink supply station for storing and supplying ink to the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182076 | Fluid supply system A fluid supply system for a printing device is disclosed. The fluid supply system includes an ink reservoir adapting member operatively disposed within an ink cartridge. The adapting member has an open end and an end opposed to the open end. The open end is adapted ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182065 | Apparatus and methods for compensation of thermal and hydroscopic expansion effects in a low cost motion control system Disclosed are apparatus and methods for compensating for the change in length of an encoder strip due to environmental effects such as temperature and humidity. The apparatus and methods utilize two simple optical sensors spaced apart and mounted on a substrate havi... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660351 | Multi-function imaging and printing device | 05/22/2012 |
| D660350 | Multi-function printer | 05/22/2012 |
| D660228 | Power supply unit | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181180 | Managing jobs in shared file systems Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing jobs in a shared file system. One embodiment includes a method that intercepts file accesses within a job on a client to a storage device in a shared file system, detects when a file associated with th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181175 | Accounting for resource usage time by a virtual machine A technique for accounting for resource usage time by virtual machines is provided according to which a virtual machine observes a non-virtual timer to determine an elapsed non-virtual time interval during which the virtual machine performed a computation while usin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181125 | System and method for providing compliant mapping between chip bond locations and package bond locations for an integrated circuit A system and method for providing compliant mapping between chip bond locations of an IC and corresponding package bond locations is disclosed. Package design information including package bond location information relating to the IC package and IC mask data includi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181055 | Applying power to a network interface A host device capable of communicating with an external network. The host device may comprise a power-application unit and a network interface. The power-application unit may receive from a power-supply unit a first power-supply output having a first voltage level a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180793 | Access to data stored in a file system Presented is a method of operating a server to enable a client to access data stored by a file system. The method comprises: receiving from the client a request to perform an operation on the data; instructing the file system to perform a preliminary metadata operat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180751 | Using an encyclopedia to build user profiles Described are various embodiments which enable organizations to track and use knowledge and expertise of their associated individuals. An organization can use exemplary embodiments to automatically summarize the expertise of each individual from documents available ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180744 | Managing storage of data in a data structure A particular data value is represented as a group of segments stored in corresponding entries of a data structure. Additional data values represented by corresponding groups of segments are written into the data structure. A probability of overwriting segments repre... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180723 | Root cause analysis in a system having a plurality of inter-related elements A method of performing root cause analysis for use in a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, wherein at least some of the elements experience one or more abnormal conditions, comprising defining one or more conditions for more than one element sy... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180718 | Engine for performing root cause and effect analysis An engine for performing root cause analysis on a system comprising a plurality of elements in a modeled domain, the engine comprising a module loader and parser for loading modules of computer code containing computer language statements modeling elements of the sy... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180715 | Systems and methods for collaborative filtering using collaborative inductive transfer A database includes a list of members of a first group, a list of members of a second group, and ratings for at least some of the members of the second group. The database is accessed. The ratings are attributed to the members of the first group. A machine learning ... | 05/15/2012 |
