206 results about "Functional correlation" patented technology

Various methods, systems and apparatus for displaying content associated with a point-of-interest (“POI”) in a digital mapping system, are disclosed. One such method may include detecting a change in the zoom level of an electronic map displayed on a computing device, determining if the new zoom-level is at a pre-determined zoom level (e.g. at maximum zoom), identifying a POI on the map, retrieving content associated with the POI (“POI content”) and displaying the POI content. The method may further include detecting a change in the zoom, or pan, of the digital map while POI content is displayed, and removing the POI content in response. One apparatus, according to aspects of the present invention, may include means of detecting a change in the zoom level in a digital map displayed through an application (e.g. a web browser, an application on web-enabled cellular phones, etc., displaying a map generated by a service such as Google Maps®, Yahoo! Maps®, Windows Live Search Maps®, MapQuest®, etc.) on a computing device (e.g. personal computer, workstation, thin client, PDA, cellular phone / smart phone, GPS device, etc.) means of identifying a POI at the pre-determined zoom level, means of obtaining content associated with the POI, and means of displaying the POI content. POI content may be retrieved from a database (e.g. internet-based database); or, in an alternate embodiment, gathered by crawling websites associated with the POI. In one embodiment, POI content may be displayed as an image (e.g. a PNG file, GIF, Flash® component, etc.) superimposed on the digital map (e.g. as an overlay object on the map image.) In alternate embodiments, POI content may replace the digital map and may contain links to other content.

The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays, data types and organisms, as well as systems to build and add to such an infrastructure. According to various embodiments, methods, systems and interfaces for associating experimental data, features and groups of data related by structure and / or function with chemical, medical and / or biological terms in an ontology or taxonomy are provided. According to various embodiments, methods, systems and interfaces for filtering data by data source information are provided, allowing dynamic navigation through large amounts of data to find the most relevant results for a particular query.

A control mechanism for a mobile communication device includes a first mode element, a second mode element and a third mode element. Each mode element corresponds to a distinct operational mode associated with a particular function of the mobile communication device. A physical switch mechanism, which has a first physical positional state corresponding to the first mode element, a second physical positional state corresponding to the second mode element, and a third physical positional state corresponding to the third mode element, is movable between each physical positional state to select an operational mode and to enable the mode element corresponding to the selected operational mode.

A method and system are described for controlling a policy-based network. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a first policy is established within a policy server of the network, wherein the first policy includes at least a first function and a second function. The first policy is converted into at least a second policy and a third policy, wherein the second policy is associated with the first function and the third policy is associated with the second function. The second policy and the third policy are distributed within the network to at least one node. The at least one node is controlled using the second policy and the third policy.

A watch or other type of portable electronic console that employs a number of different functions in order to improve its usability. The watch may, for example, allow a user to connect the watch to one or more remote electronic devices, such as an electronic performance sensor or MP3 player. The watch then displays information related to the connected electronic devices. Still further, the watch may allow a user to control the operation of one or more connected remote electronic devices. Thus, if the watch is connected to a remote speed / distance monitor employing a calibration variable, then the watch may allow the user to adjust the calibration variable. The watch also provides a multi-tiered menu for accessing its various functions. Each operational mode in the first tier relates to a broad category of different functions of the watch, and contains one or more operational submodes in a second tier. The submodes in the second tier are for performing specific functions related to the generic category of functions identified by the first-tier operational mode. Still further, the watch allows a user to conveniently select how the information provided by the watch is displayed. Moreover, the watch includes a power save function that reduces the power consumption of the watch when it is not in use.

Applications / functions within an electronic processing device having a GPS card and antenna, such as a laptop or personal digital assistant, can be enabled only when in a specified geographic location. For each critical application / function, its accessibility is programmed to be enabled / disabled only in specified geographic regions. No additional passwords are required: access or abortion of an running program are automatic. The geographic regions can be input into the electronic processing device using GPS processing or using a graphical user interface on a map. Other methods of determining the boundaries of the appropriate geographic regions for each applications / functions are disclosed. An application / function will not be opened if the electronic device is not within the geographic region associated with the application / function. When an existing application / function is running and the user changes geographic regions, an abort message is automatically generated for those applications / functions that should not be active in the new geographic regions. A GPS card and antenna within the electronic processing device receive and process the device's current location.

A method and spread spectrum transceiver for demodulating a spread spectrum signal is disclosed. A spread spectrum phase shift keyed (PSK) modulated information signal is received within a demodulator of a spread spectrum receiver on a signal channel. The information signal includes a sequence of data symbols formed from a plurality of high rate mode chips. A precursor portion of the signal channel is Viterbi detected. A multi-state trellis is formed having a predetermined number of states. A post-cursor portion of the signal channel is feedback equalized with a finite impulse response filter having feedback taps operatively connected to a chip detection circuit that tracks high rate mode chips and a carrier loop circuit for phase and frequency tracking. The information signal is despread within a spread spectrum code function correlator.

A method for associating file activity of an application with the graphical display of the file on a screen comprises loading by an operating system an executable code of a message monitoring program adapted to monitoring a message sent by an operating system to a document display window. The message monitoring program establishes a system-wide window hook using available operating system API functions associated with one or more functions in a library of the message monitoring program. The message monitoring program library is loaded into the memory space of a newly started application program, the import table of the application is fixed with addresses of functions from the message monitoring program library, and the application's main window function is substituted with a message monitoring program window function.

A microprocessor based overcurrent trip unit which generates trip signals as an adjustable function of current and time, has a visual representation of the trip function on a front panel with 2-color LEDs associated with the trip function serving as indicators of trip conditions when red, and of a selected programmable parameter when green. The green LEDs flash to indicate parameter selected for modification in a program mode and illuminate steady in a view mode.

A video stream measurement method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, a video stream comprising plurality of timestamps located at specified intervals of the video stream. The computing system broadcasts the video stream for a user and decodes a first time stamp broadcasted during a first time period. The computing system monitors a user interaction function performed by the user and associated with the video stream. The computing system generates and transmits a report comprising a description associated with the user interaction function. The computing system receives an analysis associated with the report.

A computer system for detecting and monitoring network intrusion events from log data received from network service devices in a computer network, the computer system having discrete modules associated with a function performed on the log data received, the computer system having an event parser in communication with at least one network service device, the event parser being able to receive log data in real time from the device, the log data including information detailing a network intrusion event received from the network service device if an intrusion has occurred, the event parser being able to parse the information to create a corresponding event object concerning the intrusion event. The compute system also includes an event manager in communication with the event parser, the event parser being able to receive the event object, the event manager being configured to evaluate the event object according to at least one predetermined threshold condition such that, when the event object satisfies the predetermined threshold condition, the event manager designates the event object to be broadcast in real time, and an event broadcaster in communication with the event manager for receiving event objects designated by the event manager for broadcast, the event broadcaster being able to transmit the event object in real time as an intrusion alarm. The computer system may use a graphical user interface in communication with the event broadcaster, the graphical user interface having a display screen for displaying an intrusion alarm and the information contained within the corresponding event object received from the event broadcaster. The graphical user interface may be configured to allow a user to initiate queries and communicates with a report servlet coupled to the graphical user interface, the report servlet recalling stored event objects in response to user queries from the graphical user interface and displaying recalled event objects on the graphical user interface display screen. An application reporter coupled to the report servlet receives and processes user queries and performs searches of stored event objects within a database accessible by the application reporter. The database is configured to recall event objects in response to searches executed by the application reporter.

A computerized method is provided for electronically directing a call to a class, such that an utterance spoken by a speaker and received by a call-routing system is classified by the call-routing system as being associated with the class, such that the call-routing system includes a speech-recognition module, a feature-extraction module, and a classification module. The method includes extracting features from recognized speech; weighting elements of a feature vector with respective speech-recognition scores, wherein each weighting element is associated with one of the features; ranking classes to which the features are associated; and electronically directing the call to a highest-ranking class.

A gesture-based control method for interactive screen control includes configuring an image-capturing module to capture a sequence of images of a gesture, configuring an analyzing module to determine whether the images captured by the image-capturing module match a predefined gesture corresponding to a function of an input device, and when it is determined that the images captured by the image-capturing module match the predefined gesture, configuring a processing module to perform an operation associated with the corresponding function of the input device and to control an interactive screen to show a result of the operation performed thereby.

A method and system utilizes presence information in a device. The method and system include detecting at least one of a change in the status for the user or a change in an activity associated with a capability of the device. The detection of the activity change includes a second device communicating the activity change with a presence service. The method and system also include automatically altering the capability of the device if the change in the status is detected or automatically altering the status if the change in the activity is detected.

An electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, the housing including a mouth-end and a connection-end, a reservoir containing a pre-vapor formulation, the reservoir in the housing, a heating element in the housing, the heating element in fluid communication with the reservoir, the heating element configured to generate a vapor, and a rechargeable battery configured to power at least the heating element and any other potential power consuming element(s) such as electronic circuits. The electronic vaping device also includes a first memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions relating to an electronic vaping operating system (OS), and at least one processor configured to execute the OS computer readable instructions to execute the operating system, the operating system including a real-time kernel configured to operate the electronic vaping device, and execute object code related to electronic vaping device functionality.

Method and system for providing a fault tolerant data receiver unit configured with a partitioned or separate processing units, each configured to perform a predetermined and / or specific processing associated with the one or more substantially non-overlapping functions of the data monitoring and management system is provided.

A method of processing an image wherein one or more processing functions are executed. Firstly, the steps involved in the one or more processing functions are determined where each of the one or more processing functions can include one or more processing steps. Secondly, the resource requirements associated with each of the processing functions are determined. The resource availability for the one or more resource requirements on a client is determined. Thirdly, and finally, each of the one or more processing functions are selectively allocated to the at least one of the client and the server in the case where the client does not have the required resource availability.

A method for controlling an application based on a handwriting input includes recognizing a handwriting input received on a touch panel of a terminal; determining a symbol corresponding to the handwriting input; selecting an application capable of being associated with the symbol; and associating the symbol with a function of the application. A terminal to control an application based on a handwriting input includes a determination unit to recognize a handwriting input received on a touch panel of the terminal, and to determine a symbol corresponding to the handwriting input; and a processor configured to select an application capable of being associated with the symbol, and to associate the symbol with a function of the application.

According to an aspect of the invention, an enhanced audible feedback solution has been invented for electronic devices using an input device facilitating navigation though a plurality of available user interface input options and confirmation of a selected input option. The electronic device is arranged to define, as a response to detecting a selection of a character on the basis of a detection of a first input to an input device of the electronic device, an audio segment specific to the character. The electronic device is arranged to output the defined audio segment via the audio output means prior to a confirmation by a second input to the input device, the second input being associated with a function adding the character as part of a character sequence entered by the user.

Applications / functions within an electronic processing device having a GPS card and antenna, such as a laptop or personal digital assistant, can be enabled only when in a specified geographic location. For each critical application / function, its accessibility is programmed to be enabled / disabled only in specified geographic regions. No additional passwords are required: access or abortion of an running program are automatic. The geographic regions can be input into the electronic processing device using GPS processing or using a graphical user interface on a map. Other methods of determining the boundaries of the appropriate geographic regions for each applications / functions are disclosed. An application / function will not be opened if the electronic device is not within the geographic region associated with the application / function. When an existing application / function is running and the user changes geographic regions, an abort message is automatically generated for those applications / functions that should not be active in the new geographic regions. A GPS card and antenna within the electronic processing device receive and process the device's current location.

The present invention is directed to a rest room control system including one or more sensors configured to monitor or control a function associated with the rest room. The system also includes a controller operably coupled to the one or more sensors, and configured to receive data therefrom associated with the function, and communicate a status condition associated with the function in response thereto.

A method and apparatus for composing software are described. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining software structure data that identifies multiple application components associated with requested functionality, obtaining software logic data indicating interaction rules between the application components, storing the software structure data and the software logic data in memory, and coordinating the invocation of the application components at run time based on the software logic data.

A processor has multiple cores with each core having an associated function to support processor operations. The functions performed by the cores are selectively altered to improve processor operations by balancing the resources applied for each function. For example, each core comprises a field programmable array that is selectively and dynamically programmed to perform a function, such as a floating point function or a fixed point function, based on the number of operations that use each function. As another example, a processor is built with a greater number of cores than can be simultaneously powered, each core associated with a function, so that cores having functions with lower utilization are selectively powered down.

Techniques for conserving power by controlling program execution in a convergence device comprising a battery or other power source and at least one processor. The processor is configured to perform processing operations associated with voice call communication functions and to perform processing operations associated with data communication functions, and is operative to execute critical programs and noncritical programs. The convergence device stores, for at least a given one of a plurality of noncritical programs associated with the data communication functions, an identifier of at least one alternate capacity program capable of performing substantially the same function as the given program but having a different power source capacity associated therewith. Based at least in part on a power indicator representative of remaining capacity or another characteristic of the power source, execution of the given program may be replaced with execution of the alternate capacity program, such that an amount of power source capacity utilizable for the voice call communication functions is increased.

A processor has multiple cores with each core having an associated function to support processor operations. The functions performed by the cores are selectively altered to improve processor operations by balancing the resources applied for each function. For example, each core comprises a field programmable array that is selectively and dynamically programmed to perform a function, such as a floating point function or a fixed point function, based on the number of operations that use each function. As another example, a processor is built with a greater number of cores than can be simultaneously powered, each core associated with a function, so that cores having functions with lower utilization are selectively powered down.

A system for motion control in which an application is developed that is independent from the actual motion control hardware used to implement the system. A software system employs an application programming interface comprising component functions and a service provider interface comprising driver functions. Code associated with the component functions relates these functions to the driver functions. Driver functions are separated into core and extended driver functions. All software drivers implement the core driver functions, and optionally implement the extended driver functions. Extended driver functionality may be obtained through a combination of core driver functions.

A system and method for detecting aberrant network behavior. One embodiment provides a system of detecting aberrant network behavior behind a network access gateway comprising a processor, a first network interface coupled to the processor, a second network interface coupled to the processor, a storage media accessible by the processor and a set of computer instructions executable by the processor. The computer instructions can be executable to observe network communications arriving at the first network interface from multiple clients and determine when the traffic of a particular client is indicative of malware infection or other hostile network activity. If the suspicious network communication is determined to be of a sufficient volume, type, or duration the computer instructions can be executable to log such activity to storage media, or to notify an administrative entity via either the first network interface or second network interface, or to make the computer instructions be executable to perform other configured actions related to the functioning of the network access gateway.

A method and apparatus for composing software are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a loader to obtain software structure data identifying a plurality of application components associated with requested functionality and to obtain software logic data indicating interaction rules between the plurality of application components, a parameter index generator to parse a description file and generate an index for each parameter of the plurality of application components, a parameter mapping to map input, output and state parameters to indices that are used by application components to access the input, output and state parameters, and a scheduler to coordinate an invocation of the plurality of application components at run time based on the software logic data.