3224 results about "State switching" patented technology

A memory array having memory cells comprising a diode and a phase change material is reliably programmed by maintaining all unselected memory cells in a reverse biased state. Thus leakage is low and assurance is high that no unselected memory cells are disturbed. In order to avoid disturbing unselected memory cells during sequential writing, previously selected word and bit lines are brought to their unselected voltages before new bit lines and word lines are selected. A modified current mirror structure controls state switching of the phase change material.

A dielectrophoretic display is shifted from a low frequency closed state to a high frequency open state via at least one, and preferably several, intermediate frequency states; the use of such multiple frequency steps reduces flicker during the transition. A second type of dielectrophoretic display has a light-transmissive electrode through which the dielectrophoretic medium can be viewed and a conductor connected to the light-transmissive electrode at several points to reduce voltage variations within the light-transmissive electrode.

Apparatus with accompanying subsystems and methods for developing conversational computer applications. As a user interface, the apparatus allows for a user to initiate the conversation. The apparatus also answers simple and complex questions, understands complex requests, pursues the user for further information when the request is incomplete, and in general provides customer support with a human like conversation while, at the same time, it is capable to interact with a company's proprietary database. As a development tool, the apparatus allows a software developer to implement a conversational system much faster than takes, with current commercial systems to implement basic dialog flows. The apparatus contains three major subsystems: a state transition inference engine, a heuristic answer engine and a parser generator with semantic augmentations. A main process broker controls the flow and the interaction between the different subsystems. The state transition inference engine handles requests that require processing a transaction or retrieving exact information. The heuristic answer engine answers questions that do not require exact answers but enough information to fulfill the user's request. The parser generator processes the user's natural language request, that is, it processes the syntactical structure of the natural language requests and it builds a conceptual structure of the request. After the parser generator processes the user's request, a main process broker feeds the conceptual structure to either the heuristic answer engine or to the state transition inference engine. The interaction between the main process broker and the subsystems creates a conversational environment between the user and the apparatus, while the apparatus uses information from proprietary databases to provide information, or process information, during the course of the conversation. The apparatus is equipped with a programming interface that allows implementers to declare and specify transactions based requests and answers to a multiplicity of questions. The apparatus may be used with a speech recognition interface, in which case, the apparatus improves the recognition results through the context implicitly created by the apparatus.

A system (211) and method (400) for reliable monitoring of secure applet events is provided. The system can include a Near Field Communication (NFC) modem (140) for communicating transaction events, a secure controller (200) for monitoring state transitions caused by the transaction events, and a mobile host (125) for receiving event notifications of the state transitions via an Applications Programming Interface. An NFC reader can send a Transaction Acknowledgement TACK (403) to the NFC modem to confirm a receipt of data associated with an applet event. An INFO message (405) can be included with the TACK for informing a user of secure contactless transaction status through a user interface (190) of the mobile host.

A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an initial gray level to a final gray level; storing data representing at least an initial state of each pixel of the display; receiving an input signal representing a desired final state of at least one pixel of the display; and generating an output signal representing the impulse necessary to convert the initial state of said one pixel to the desired final state thereof, as determined from said look-up table. The invention also provides a method for reducing the remnant voltage of an electro-optic display.

The invention discloses a state conversion method, and a state keeping method and device, and belongs to the technical field of communications. The method comprises the following steps: when user equipment is under an unactivated state and satisfies a first predetermined condition, converting the user equipment into an idle state from the unactivated state; when the user equipment is under the unactivated state and satisfies a second predetermined condition, keeping the user equipment under the unactivated state; and when the user equipment is under the unactivated state and satisfies a third predetermined condition, converting the user equipment into a connected state from the unactivated state, wherein the unactivated state is an intermediate state between the connected state and the idle state. The state conversion method, and the state keeping method and the device provided by the invention solve the problem that when the UE (User Equipment) receives and sends small data packet services in 4G (the 4th Generation mobile communication technology), the UE needs to switch between an RRC (Radio Resource Control) connected state and an RRC idle state back and forth to lead to signaling resources waste, thereby achieving the effects that the UE can receive and send the small data packet services under the unactivated state, and the signaling resources are saved.

A device including a display, a memory and a tap detector arranged to generate a detection signal upon detection of a tap command. The device is arranged to assume either an idle state, in which the display is inactive, or a second state, in which the display is active and displaying information stored in the memory. The device is arranged to transit from the idle state to the second state when a tap is detected i.e. upon generation of the detection signal.

Error-free state tables are automatically generated from a specification of a group of desired performable functions, such as are provided in a programming language in a formal notation such as Backus-Naur form or a derivative thereof by discriminating tokens corresponding to respective performable functions, identifications, arguments, syntax, grammar rules, special symbols and the like. The tokens may be recursive (e.g. infinite), in which case they are transformed into a finite automata which may be deterministic or non-deterministic. Non-deterministic finite automata are transformed into deterministic finite automata and then into state transitions which are used to build a state table which can then be stored or, preferably, loaded into a finite state machine of a hardware parser accelerator to define its personality.

System and method for programmatically generating a graphical program in response to state diagram information. The state diagram information specifies a plurality of states and state transitions. A graphical program generation program (GPG program), receives the state diagram information and automatically, i.e., programmatically, generates a graphical program (or graphical program portion) based on the state diagram information. The GPG program automatically includes graphical source code in a block diagram of the graphical program, which serves as a framework of the states specified by the state diagram information and the state transitions, with various “placeholders” or “containers” enabling the user to easily fill in the graphical program with source code specifying execution instructions for each state and Boolean conditions for each state transition. The specific graphical source code automatically generated depends on programming features supported by a particular graphical programming development environment with which the graphical program is associated.

According to one aspect of the invention, disclosed herein is a method of controlling a visual presentation of data to a viewer, the presentation comprising a plurality of display configuration states through which data content is presented to a viewer, the presentation being responsive to transition input to transition from a current display configuration state to a next display configuration state, the method comprising: (1) providing a plurality of transition effects; (2) for each pair of potentially successive display configuration states, associating a transition effect therewith; (3) receiving transition input indicative to transition from a current display configuration state to a next display configuration state, the transition defining a pair of successive display configuration states; and (4) during the transition from the current display configuration state to the next display configuration state, presenting to the viewer the transition effect associated with the defined pair of successive display configuration states. According to another aspect of the invention, disclosed herein is a method of controlling a visual presentation of data to a viewer, the presentation comprising a plurality of display configuration states through which data content is presented to the viewer, the method comprising: (1) providing a plurality of style guides, each style guide having a plurality of display configuration states corresponding thereto; (2) for each style guide, associating each of its corresponding display configuration states with a plurality of counterpart display configuration states in the other style guides; (3) for a presentation having a previously-defined style guide, selecting a different style guide therefor; and (4) replacing the presentation's display configuration states with their counterparts in the different style guide.

A novel method is disclosed for capturing an installed state of a conventional application and converting the captured state into a virtual application. The novel method starts with a bare machine in a known state, preferably soon after the OS was installed. Installation scripts are used to install one or more software applications along with required components and dependencies. Other artifacts can be added and configured such as files, trees, directories, entries, data, values, among others. These also may include updates to various system databases, such as the Windows registry in which certain metadata is stored. The installed applications are tested and verified to work as desired. Undesired artifacts can be deleted manually or removed by the OS. The state of the virtual machine with the installed applications is captured. The installed applications can be tested on the frozen virtual machine. If the user determines that the installed applications are working properly, a virtual machine image is prepared and then written out. The resulting output is a new populated virtual application container that encapsulates the applications installed and configured by the user. If the user determines that one or more installed applications do not work properly during testing, then the frozen virtual machine can be unfrozen and any deficiencies corrected. The virtual machine image is stored as a launch document and a set of shards. The virtual machine image represents the state of the virtual machine along with the installed applications at the time the preparation virtual machine was frozen.

Some embodiments provide a director agent, a server agent, and a specialized hand-off protocol for improving scalability and resource usage within a server farm. A first network connection is established between a client and the director agent in order to receive a content request from the client from which to select a server from a set of servers that is responsible for hosting the requested content. A second network connection is established between the server agent that is associated with the selected server and a protocol stack of the selected server. The first network connection is handed-off to the server agent using the specialized hand-off protocol. The server agent performs network connection state parameter transformations between the two connections to create a network connection through which content can be passed from the selected server to the client without passing through the director.

The invention relates to a puncturing system for generating a puncture wound for obtaining a sample of a body fluid, comprising a press-on part to be pressed onto a body part in which a puncture wound is to be generated, a triggering means, by the actuation of which a user can trigger a puncturing motion of a puncturing element after the press-on part is pressed on, and a testing facility for determining at least one test parameter on which a sample-obtaining probability depends. A securing facility is also provided that, in a locked state, locks the triggering means such that no puncturing motion can be triggered, and, in a triggering state, releases the triggering means such that a puncturing motion can be triggered by actuation thereof, whereby the securing facility is transitioned from the locked state to the triggering state by the testing facility when the test parameter determined by the testing facility meets defined minimum requirements. A signaling facility is also provided for signaling a transition of the securing facility to the triggering state and/or for signaling that the securing facility is in the triggering state. The invention also relates to a method for preparing a puncturing system for generating a puncture wound.

A wireless communication system implements various RFID-based methods for wireless communication devices and wireless network infrastructures. The communication system includes an RFID tag and a wireless communication device. The RFID tag is configured to receive an RFID interrogation signal and, upon receipt thereof, to supply one or more transition signals. The wireless communication device is configured to operate in a plurality of operational states, is coupled to receive the transition signals, and is configured, upon receipt thereof, to transition from at least a first operational state to a second operational state.

Disclosed is a method for controlling an operational state of a medium access control layer in a broadband wireless access communication system. The method includes the steps of performing an uplink access of a contention-based scheme to an access point using resources required to perform the uplink access according to the contention-based scheme when data to be transmitted in an access state is detected, and being allocated resources required to perform an uplink access of a contention-free scheme from the access point in a case of failing in the uplink access of the contention-based scheme; and performing a state transition from the access state into the traffic state in a case of having been allocated the resource required for the contention-free scheme, and performing the uplink access of the contention-free scheme to the access point using the allocated resource in the traffic state.

To execute all processing in an array section of an array-type processor, each processor must execute processing of different types, i.e., processing of an operating unit and processing of a random logic circuit, which limits its size and processing performance. A data path section including processors arranged in an array are connected via programmable switches to primarily execute processing of operation and a state transition controller configured to easily implement a state transition function to control state transitions are independently disposed. These sections are configured in customized structure for respective processing purposes to efficiently implement and achieve the processing of operation and the control operation.

In a method of high spatial resolution imaging a structure of a sample, the structure is marked with a substance. The substance is selected from a group of substances which are capable of being repeatedly transferred out of a first state having first optical properties into a second state having second optical properties by means of an optical switch over signal, and which are capable of returning out of the second state into the first state, the two states differing with regard to at least one criteria. Within areas of the sample the sample is transferred into the second state by means of the optical switch over signal with which at least one spatially limited area of the sample is purposefully omitted. An optical measurement signal is detected, which is associated with the substance in the first state and which comes out of a detection area including both the area purposefully omitted with the switch over signal and areas in which the substance has been transferred into to second state.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a user interaction system and method. The user interaction system comprises a three-dimensional interaction interface display module, a gesture recognition module, and an information arithmetic processing module, wherein the three-dimensional interaction display module is used for providing a user with a three-dimensional interaction interface; the gesture recognition module is used for capturing gesture trajectory and gesture shapes produced when the user is browsing the three-dimensional interaction interface as well as sending the gesture trajectory information and the gesture shape information to the information arithmetic processing module; when the distance between the gesture trajectory and preset spatial points is determined to meet a preset distance threshold value, and the gesture shapes are determined to meet a preset state switching condition, the information arithmetic processing module is used for determining a corresponding interaction operation command as well as sending a three-dimensional interaction result interface with the interaction operation command executed to the three-dimensional interaction interface display module; and then the three-dimensional interaction interface display module further provides the user with the three-dimensional interaction result interface.

A programming framework is provided for designing and implementing software state machines. A state machine initializer may be created that defines the states, conditions, actions, triggers, and state transitions for the software state machines. A set of user interfaces, such as graphical user interfaces, may also be provided for creating initializers. An abstract state machine object may then be created that creates an instance of a particular state machine initializer. The state machine initializer acts as a helper to the state machine object, which uses the initializer to create an array of state transition objects. Once the state machine objects creates the array of state transition objects, the state machine is ready to run. A set of programming interfaces may also be provided to define the programming framework.