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In a cursor-based computing environment having a display, a user definable interface (UDI) is displayed upon activation by a user. The UDI has a plurality of levels each having a plurality of buttons and is displayed in a selectable position about a pointer position in a display area to reduce pointer commute. The user selects a visual appearance and shape of the UDI, and the number of buttons. The user assigns a command to each of the plurality of buttons at each of the plurality of levels by dragging and dropping from one or more applications of the apparatus.

A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Virtual infrastructures of different users share physical resources but are isolated and have their own management entities. An interface between infrastructures allows controlled relaxation of the isolation, using a gateway between virtual nets, or shared virtual storage devices. This can allow businesses to share data or applications, while maintaining control of security.

Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a streamlined computer device and a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Various views of digital media content permits users to easily and efficiently access various digital media content. Different views are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to maintain and manage digital media content libraries. According to some embodiments, the libraries comprise user digital media content and references digital media content. Functionality provided to a user can be tailored to the type of content displayed, accessed and / or managed. According to various aspects, methods and systems are provided for accessing and managing digital media libraries on a streamlined computing device with a plurality selectable I / O profiles. According to some embodiments, the methods may include displaying a GUI on a device, wherein the GUI comprises at least a plurality of views of digital media content, providing for transition between the plurality of views in response to selection of an I / O profile and in response to activation of a view selector component by a user, executing an association with the at least one of the plurality of visual representations with digital media content in response to selection, transitioning a display on the computing device to a view of the digital media content, and providing for display of user digital media content and referenced digital media content in the view of the digital media content.

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with certain principles related to the present invention enable a computing system to layer the packaging and deployment of a web service endpoint on a standard servlet component model. To define a web service endpoint, the computing system may develop a service endpoint class that implements a configured service endpoint interface. The interface and endpoint class may be packaged by the computing system into an archive file. The computing system may use the information stored in the archive file to define the service endpoint modify the archive file with class information associated with the defined service endpoint. The modified archive file may be deployed on a container operating within the computing system. Further, the computing system may produce a WSDL based description of the defined service endpoint and export the document such that a remote client may use the information contained in the document to locate and remotely invoke methods on the defined service endpoint.

A virtual web-based computing platform combining a particular network database hierarchy, graphical user interface, and integrated suite of computational tools accessible on demand, by which users gain access to an integrated Virtual Workspace for organizing emails, contacts, bookmarks, tasks, documents, notes, and all other relevant information. The network database hierarchy employs unique data structure and methods, allowing the user to centrally store and manage all data, regardless of type, as well as activities (actions taken and documented by the user). Nevertheless, the interface to said database offers a familiar folder / sub-folder “look and feel” using a tree data hierarchy, which gives a common, centralized and unified approach for storing, managing, displaying, and various types of data, regardless of object- and data-types.

A robotics process automation platform for developing and managing a workflow is provided. The platform includes development and operational databases stored in a memory, a development interface component, a control interface component, and a runner component. The development interface component is configured for creating a workflow and storing the workflow in the development database. The control interface component is configured for selecting the workflow stored in the development database and storing a copy of the workflow in the operational database. The runner component is configured for receiving instructions from the control interface component to store a copy of the workflow stored in the operational database in a memory of a virtual computing device, and downloading the workflow in the second memory. The runner component is also configured for instructing the virtual computing device to execute the workflow in association with the target application.

The Field Programmable Instrument Controller (FPIC) is a stand-alone low to high performance, clocked or unclocked multi-processor that operates as a microcontroller with versatile interface and operating options. The FPIC can also be used as a concurrent processor for a microcontroller or other processor. A tightly coupled Multiple Chip Module design incorporates non-volatile memories, a large field programmable gate array (FPGA), field programmable high precision analog to digital converters, field programmable digital to analog signal generators, and multiple ports of external mass data storage and control processors. The FPIC has an inherently open architecture with in-situ reprogrammability and state preservation capability for discontinuous operations. It is designed to operate in multiple roles, including but not limited to, a high speed parallel digital signal processing; co-processor for precision control feedback during analog or hybrid computing; high speed monitoring for condition based maintenance; and distributed real time process control. The FPIC is characterized by low power with small size and weight.

A partitioned processing system is disclosed wherein applications in a plurality of partitions can share an I / O operation program (or device driver). In one embodiment, memory is shared between the partitions to provide a communication path (interface) to the driver. In one embodiment, a computing system has a first partition including a first operating system and a first block of system memory. The computing system further has a second partition including a second operating system and a second block of system memory. An application in the first partition initiates an I / O request using an interface, and an I / O operation program in the second partition receives the I / O request. The I / O device driver then uses the interface to communicate the results of said I / O request with the application.

An access server computing system scrapes a set of records maintained by a target computing system in a database which is only made accessible over the Internet with a limited protocol query and an access challenge. The access server accesses the target computing system through an Internet browser interface based on emulating a user query made through the limited protocol, including by automatically passing locator identifier fields to retrieve a corresponding set of record which are stored in the first database.

A remote high-performance computing material joining and material forming modeling system (100) enables a remote user (10) using a user input device (20) to use high speed computing capabilities to model materials joining and material forming processes. The modeling system (100) includes an interface module (200), an application module (300), a computing module (400), and a scheduling module (500). The interface module (200) is in operative communication with the user input device (20), as well as the application module (300), the computing module (400), and the scheduling module (500). The application module (300) is in operative communication with the interface module (200) and the computing module (400). The scheduling module (500) is in operative communication with the interface module (200) and the computing module (400). Lastly, the computing module (400) is in operative communication with the interface module (200), the application module (300), and the scheduling module (500).

A method of automated deployment managed by a service provider, of a computer based business process, involves generating a model (730) of the business process including a design of computing infrastructure, and deploying the model on hardware (770) dedicated to the enterprise, with an interface for the service provider to enable ongoing management of the deployed process by the service provider. Having dedicated hardware means the location of the hardware can be arranged to suit the enterprise. This means limitations such as bandwidth or latency of WAN links, can be addressed by choosing the location of the dedicated hardware appropriately. Trust of security can also be increased compared to that of the shared data centres. The automated model driven deployment can help enable the service provider to provide such deployments on different types of hardware. The need for the enterprise to maintain specialist expertise in house is reduced.

Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include receiving data representing a query of a consolidated dataset that may include datasets formatted atomized datasets, analyzing the query to classify portions of the query to form classified query portions, partitioning the query into sub-queries as a function of a classification type for each of the classified query portions, and retrieving data representing a query result from distributed data repositories.

A portable, secure enterprise computing platform is provided by a device having a storage or memory, including a firmware module, a processor and an interface for interfacing with a host platform. The interface may be a USB interface and the device may have the form factor of a USB thumb drive. The storage may include a public partition, secure partition, operating system partition and command partition. A boot load manager in the firmware module causes the processor to load an operating system on the operating system partition and selectively enables access to the operating system by the host platform. The operating system partition may be formatted as a CDFS device such that the host platform recognizes the device as a bootable CD drive. The device provides for secure booting to the operating system partition by the host platform, without risk of corruption or malware from the host platform. A user may select from multiple operating systems. Multiple devices may be managed by a policy management application, which may assign groups of users and applications to one or more devices across an enterprise.

A method for providing translations of data retrieved from a storage system in a cloud computing environment includes receiving, by an interface object executing on a first physical computing device, a request for provisioning of a virtual storage resource by a storage system. The interface object requests, from a storage system interface object, provisioning of the virtual storage resource. The interface object receives, from the storage system interface object, an identification of the provisioned virtual storage resource. The interface object translates the identification of the provisioned virtual storage resource from a proprietary format implemented by the storage system interface object into a standardized format by accessing an interface translation file mapping each of a plurality of proprietary formats with the standardized format. The interface object responds to the request received from the second physical computing device, with a translation of the received identification.

Remoting a display. A method that may be practiced, for example, in a networked computing environment including a local computer system running one or more applications and a remote computer that displays graphical information to a user for the one or more applications at the local computer system. The remote computer includes a number of surfaces. Drawing information including drawing commands is sent to the remote computer. Meta information is sent to the remote computer defining information about which surface from among the number of surfaces the drawing information applies. Composition information is sent to the remote computer defining the display characteristics of the surface.

The invention provides a central office metaphor to computing, where features and functions are provided by a one or more servers and communicated to an appliance terminal through a network. Data providers are defined as “services” and are provided by one or more processing resources. The services communicate to display terminals through a network, such as Ethernet. The terminals are configured to display data, and to send keyboard, cursor, audio, and video data through the network to the processing server. Functionality is partitioned so that databases, server and graphical user interface functions are provided by the services, and human interface functionality is provided by the terminal. Communication with the terminals from various services is accomplished by converting disparate output to a common protocol. Appropriate drivers are provided for each service to allow protocol conversion. Multiple terminals are coupled to the network. Users can enable their unique session at any one of the terminals by inserting a “smart card” into a card reader. Removing the card disables the session. Re-inserting the card into the same or any other terminal re-enables the session.

Quantum gaps exist between an origin and a destination that heretofore have prevented reliably utilizing the advantages of quantum computing. To predict the outcome of instructions with precision, the input data, preferably a qubit, is collapsed to a point value within the quantum gap based on a software instruction. After collapse the input data is restructured at the destination, wherein dynamics of restructuring are governed by a plurality of gap factors as follows: computational self-awareness; computational decision logic; computational processing logic; computational and network protocol and logic exchange; computational and network components, logic and processes; provides the basis for excitability of the Gap junction and its ability to transmit electronic and optical impulses, integrates them properly, and depends on feedback loop logic; computational and network component and system interoperability; and embodiment substrate and network computational physical topology.

A streaming measurement agent designed to experience, measure, and report on a media stream as an actual end user would experience the stream. Preferably, agent resides transparently within a streaming media player itself so that it can monitor stream packet flows within the player as the measured streams are being played. In an illustrative embodiment, the agent comprises a performance monitoring module (PMM), which is software that resides in an interface between an existing core module and a renderer of a media player. The agent PMM intercepts each useful packet as it goes from the core to the renderer and, as a result, it is able to compute quality metrics about the playback. The agent functions “transparently” to the media player by presenting the core with an application programming interface (API) that emulates the API that the renderer normally presents to the core. Thus, when the core believes it is calling the renderer, it is actually calling the agent PMM, which can then receive all the packets from the core and process them. After computing relevant performance metrics using the packets it receives, the agent PMM calls the renderer. A set of performance agents can be managed by a service provider to enable a content provider to determine how a stream is perceived by end users.

The present invention concerns a parallel multiprocessor-multidisk storage server which offers low delays and high throughputs when accessing and processing one-dimensional and multi-dimensional file data such as pixmap images, text, sound or graphics. The invented parallel multiprocessor-multidisk storage server may be used as a server offering its services to computer, to client stations residing on a network or to a parallel host system to which it is connected. The parallel storage server comprises (a) a server interface processor interfacing the storage system with a host computer, with a network or with a parallel computing system; (b) an array of disk nodes, each disk node being composed by one processor electrically connected to at least one disk and (c) an interconnection network for connecting the server interface processor with the array of disk nodes. Multi-dimensional data files such as 3-d images (for example tomographic images), respectively 2-d images (for example scanned aerial photographs) are segmented into 3-d, respectively 2-d file extents, extents being striped onto different disks. One-dimensional files are segmented into 1-d file extents. File extents of a given file may have a fixed or a variable size. The storage server is based on a parallel image and multiple media file storage system. This file storage system includes a file server process which receives from the high level storage server process file creation, file opening, file closing and file deleting commands. It further includes extent serving processes running on disk node processors, which receive from the file server process commands to update directory entries and to open existing files and from the storage interface server process commands to read data from a file or to write data into a file. It also includes operation processes responsible for applying in parallel geometric transformations and image processing operations to data read from the disks and a redundancy file creation process responsible for creating redundant parity extent files for selected data files.

Aspects of the present invention relate to a multi-sided hand-held controller for a head-worn computing system. The hand-held computer controller includes a first user control interface on a first side of the hand-held controller, a second user control interface on a second side of the hand-held controller, and a control system adapted to detect which of the first side and second side is an active control side of the controller, positioned properly for user interaction. Following the detection, the control system can activate the active control side to accept user interactions for control of a computer.

Described is a system and method including an auxiliary display platform having an interface (API) set that provides a way for client applications running on a main computer system to interact with various types of auxiliary displays, irrespective of differences between various device implementations. Interaction includes displaying content and notifications provided by the application, and returning events to the application. In one implementation the API set comprises a set of COM objects that register and perform configuration checks of a client application, send content and notifications to attached devices, and return events from the attached devices. The application may send data to an endpoint corresponding to a communication destination (e.g., a particular auxiliary device application) and a contract (e.g., a format) for the data. The platform and API set thus provide an abstraction layer for applications to provide information independent of any particular auxiliary device implementation.

The present invention discloses a method for coordinating zero or more modelings, zero or more implementations and zero or more deployments of a computer system, including but not limited to computer systems involving sensors, actuators, or both and a system providing assistance to designers, implementers, and deployers of computer systems. The method and system including: defining one or more interfaces of one or more components; creating models for the one or more components, each of which is either a composite component model or a atomic component, model, creating the one or more composite components as instances of the composite component models creating the one or more atomic components as instances of the atomic component models creating a domain model by specifying the computational resources; and creating a deployment model by specifying one or more component-model instances and specifying which the component-model instances should be executed on which the computational resources of the domain model.

A system and method using hardware and software components enable a storage module to maintain information about an associated storage device and its content such that the information is accessible when the storage device is offline or in a low power configuration. A general-computing host system connects to the storage module via a pluggable interface to provide information to a nonvolatile memory cache on the storage module. The storage module includes a separate power source, an output display, input buttons, and a module controller. The host system includes an application and host platform for processing file-system related events to send records to the module controller to automatically update a catalog representing storage device information in the nonvolatile memory. When offline, the user may display the catalog information and use the buttons to navigate among it. The host system may also allow the user to interactively review and modify the catalog.

A system for establishing and maintaining inventories of computing environment assets comprising one or more custom collector interfaces that detect movement of assets from one environment to another, and an inventory scanner which modifies inventories for each environment based on monitored asset movements. The present invention is of especial benefit to autonomic and on-demand computing architectures.

The invention discloses a dynamic measuring method based on dependable computing and a management system. The management system interacts with a user through a user management interface of an operation system and application programs. The management system comprises a dynamic measurement control module interacting with the operation system, wherein the dynamic measurement control module controls a judgment module, an audit module and a measuring module, the judgment module obtains a latest measurement result from the audit module and judges whether the operation system is dependable or not according to a strategy, the measuring module is responsible for detecting the dependable state of the operation system in operation, the audit module is responsible for calculating, storing and reporting measurement results in a classified mode, the control module is responsible for configuring external management programs to other modules, sending system state information to the external management programs and providing access ports of trusted software special hardware for the modules. The management system works in a kernel layer, the system can guarantee integrity of the modules once starting static measurement, and credibility and safety are improved.

A system and method for a process attribute based computer network filter assigns a process attribute to a process executing on a computing device and assigns a network attribute to a network interface card (NIC) associated with the computing device. When the process desires to send a communication packet to another process on a different computing device over a network to which the NIC is connected, the process sends an application program interface (API) system call to the NIC. The API call is intercepted by a system call trap handler, which, in cooperation with a session filter driver and a network filter driver, determines the process attribute associated with the process and the network attribute associated with the NIC. If the session filter driver and the network filter driver, in cooperation with the system call trap handler, determine that the process attribute and the network attribute correspond, then the communication packet is allowed to pass to the network. Similarly, a packet received over the network is processed by the session filter driver and the network filter driver to determine whether the packet can pass to the process to which the received packet is destined.

The invention provides a matrix processor as well as an instruction set and an embedded system thereof. The matrix processor comprises an external data interface, an IRAM (intelligent random access memory), a DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and a matrix processor core, wherein the external data interface is connected with the IRAM and the DRAM of the matrix processor as well as an external memory so as to write an instruction of the matrix processor and perform data exchange with the outside; the IRAM and the DRAM are equivalent to buffers of the matrix processor; the IRAM receives an instruction sequence written by an external module; the DRAM receives a matrix or other data written by the external module as well as computing results written by the matrix processor core so that the matrix or data and the computing results are used by the matrix processor or are read by the external module so as to complete data exchange between the matrix processor and the external module; and the matrix processor core is used for fetching the instruction, decoding, computing, and writing back and controlling the computing results. The matrix processor provided by the invention can independently complete various matrix operations and other mathematical operations.

An apparatus and method for backing up computer files comprising a portable housing, nonvolatile memory within the housing, an interface on the housing for communication between the nonvolatile memory and the computing device, and a software application in the nonvolatile memory. Using the software application, files are designated on the computing device for backing up. Copies of the designated files are made by the application and stored in the nonvolatile memory. The software application may also be used to designate backed up files in the nonvolatile memory for restoration on the computing device. Copies of the designated files are made by the application and restored on the computing device.

A computing system and method for generating and selecting data mining models. The computing system comprises a computer readable medium and computing devices electrically coupled through an interface apparatus. A data mining modeling algorithm is stored on the computer readable medium. Each of the computing devices comprises at least one central processing unit (CPU) and an associated memory device. Each of the associated memory devices comprises a data subset from a plurality of data subsets. A technique is selected for generating a data mining model applied to each of the data subsets. The data mining modeling algorithm is run simultaneously, on each of the computing devices, using the selected technique to generate an associated data mining model on each of the computing devices. A best data mining model from the generated data mining models is determined in accordance with the selected technique.

A system and method for enabling the capture of visible and hidden information about files and data on a computer and rendering collected data accessible as a data file. The system and method provides an interface adapted to invoke computing platform API's to expose and capture useful information about computer resources without the need for specialized software. The interface is manifested as a graphic element or icon that can be dragged to a target object or area on the user's display screen where it collects information contained in or about a target object or area. The specification of the target and the information that should be collected from the target are configured for each instance of the icon. The system and method provides the ability for the icon to selectively connect with an object and perform a capture data from the target object without interacting with or influencing the target or the objects in the target.