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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL BROADCASTING

Application Number: 20130133008
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd,

An apparatus and method provide virtual broadcasting. A method of server operation for virtual broadcasting includes receiving a request for creation of a virtual broadcasting channel meeting a specific required condition from a first client, identifying a virtual group meeting the specific required condition, analyzing log data of second clients within the virtual group and, based on the analyzed result, providing broadcasting information meeting the specific condition, to the first ...

System and Method of Recording Television Content

Application Number: 20130133007
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP,

A method of recording television content is disclosed and includes receiving one or more television program search criteria from a set-top box device at a recurrent searching system. The method also includes storing the one or more search criteria at the recurrent searching system. Further, the method includes performing a first search of electronic program guide (EPG) data accessible to the recurrent searching system based on the television program search criteria and performing at least one ...

ANIMATED STATION IDENTIFIER IN PROGRAM GUIDES

Application Number: 20130133006
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: MICROSOFT CORPORATION,

A television program guide is displayed having a station identifier portion in a first location. A determination is made as to when a user navigates in the television program guide between past programs and future programs. In response to the user navigating in the television program guide between the past programs and the future programs, the station identifier portion is changed to a second ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM

Application Number: 20130133005
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: SONY CORPORATION,

There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content ...

METHOD FOR PERFORMING BROADCASTING PROGRAM SCHEDULE CONTROL THROUGH ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUSES

Application Number: 20130133004
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Li, Jinlong

A method for performing broadcasting program schedule control through an electronic device includes: obtaining EPG data from outside the electronic device, for use of broadcasting program schedule control, wherein the EPG data includes broadcasting schedule information of a plurality of multichannel broadcasting programs; and parsing the EPG data, and further providing a user with at least one hint through the electronic device, allowing the user to designate at least one multichannel ...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A VERSION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM BASED ON USER PREFERENCES

Application Number: 20130133003
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Buscheck, Gregory D.; Moore, Kenneth Alan; Goldschmidt Iki, Jean M.; Shah-Nazaroff, Anthony A.; Williams, Christopher D.

A method and apparatus for selecting a version of an entertainment program based on user preference includes receiving entertainment programming input, identifying multiple available versions of an entertainment program, identifying, for each of the multiple versions, a set of descriptive information regarding the respective version, accessing user preferences, and selecting one of the multiple versions for display based on a comparison of the descriptive information to the user ...

METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDATION/SELECTION OF MULTICHANNEL BROADCASTING PROGRAMS, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS

Application Number: 20130133002
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Li, Jinlong

A method for performing intelligent recommendation/selection of multichannel broadcasting programs includes: calculating a difference between a start time of each of at least one portion of the multichannel broadcasting programs and a specific time; and setting priority of each of the at least one portion of the multichannel broadcasting programs according to the difference, for use of performing intelligent recommendation/selection. An associated apparatus for performing intelligent ...

Television Receiver, Method of Controlling the Receiver, and Network Construction Device

Application Number: 20130133001
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Kato, Hirotsugu

According to one embodiment, the present invention is designed to automatically determine the language of the content distributed when connecting to the Web server so as to agree with the language configured at the initial setup. The present invention has following elements. An initial setup module maintains initial setup information that indicates at least a menu language. A setup information association process module which determines a language request signal to request a language the same ...

Video Interaction System

Application Number: 20130133000
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Kelley, Christopher Lee

Apparatus and methods are described that allow content associated with specified passages of a video program to be retrieved from a network and presented to the viewer of the video program in synchronization with the identified passages. A video waymark host that may be located in a television monitor or attached equipment such as a set-top box is disclosed. The waymark host identifies the occurrence of various points as the video is viewed and communicates this information to connected viewing ...

PROGRAMMING BASED INTERACTIVE CONTENT

Application Number: 20130132999
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: PANDEY, Siddharth

A method may include receiving an identification of a device; receiving at least one of device information, which includes a location of the device or a viewing history for the device, or preference information, which includes preferences by a user or a third party, associated with the identification of the device from the device; identifying interactive content based on the at least one of the device information or the preference information; and receiving trigger information, which includes a ...

SENDING A MESSAGE WITHIN A TELEVISION-CONTENT DELIVER ENVIRONMENT

Application Number: 20130132998
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Narasimhan, Nitya; Tungare, Aroon V.; Vasudevan, Venugopal; Wodka, Joseph F.

Subscribers to a television-delivery service can send and receive messages within a television-viewing environment. A subscriber can create a message, attach content from the television environment, and send the message to a friend, all without leaving the television environment. A television producer controls its rights to the content by allowing subscribers to select and send some content while preventing other content from being incorporated in a message. Rights can be checked at the sender ...

CONTENT INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY

Application Number: 20130132997
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Abacast, Inc.,

A method, and an associated system, for sending to a first group of recipients only the content portions of a continuity source data-flow which takes the form of ordered, successive, alternating content and non-content segments. From a methodologic point of view, the invention involves, in a manner which utilizes content-segment material buffering, delivering fully, and in correct order, to the first recipient group the material in each content segment, via steps including (a) bridging each gap ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PRODUCT INFORMATION ABOUT ADVERTISEMENT ON DIGITAL TELEVISION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF

Application Number: 20130132996
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Wu, Chen-Ming; Sung, Kung-Ming; Tsai, Bo-Chin; Hsieh, Wen-Tai; Ku, Tsun

A system and a method for displaying product information about advertisement on digital television, and a record medium thereof are provided, applicable to a server and a digital media playback device that are connected through a network. The server stores at least one piece of channel advertisement information and at least one piece of product description data corresponding to a plurality of media. The digital media playback device is used for sending an instruction of advertisement ...

SERVICE ACCESS METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM

Application Number: 20130132995
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.,

The present invention provides a service access method, device, and system, and relates to the field of television services, to guarantee multicast security of a network device. The method includes: obtaining an authorized multicast address list according to program channel list information provided by a server; receiving an Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP packet request sent by a user terminal device, where the IGMP packet request carries a multicast address; verifying the multicast ...

MEDIA CONTENT AGGREGATOR AND CONTENT RATING SYSTEM

Application Number: 20130132994
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Murphy, Daniel Patrick; Underhill, Rodney E.

Methods and systems include providing a plurality of rebroadcasting devices at a plurality of different geographic locations and controlling the plurality of rebroadcasting devices to receive local television broadcasts via their respective digital television tuners and upload the received local television broadcasts to a network server. The uploaded local television broadcasts can be received at the network server from the respective rebroadcasting devices. One or more of the uploaded local ...

TRACKING LOCAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Application Number: 20130132993
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Huchital, Jill A.; Dhawan, Rohit

The present disclosure includes a system and method for tracking local telephone numbers. In some implementations, a method of tracking local TV ads includes receiving tracking information for a TV advertisement from a plurality of geographic regions. The TV advertisement are presented in each geographic region with a local telephone number. Metrics associated with the TV advertisement are determined for each geographic region using the tracking information. One or more Web pages are populated ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BLOCKING TELEVISION COMMERCIALS AND PROVIDING AN ARCHIVE INTERROGATION PROGRAM

Application Number: 20130132992
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: International Business Machines Corporation,

An apparatus and method is disclosed for blocking specific television commercials from the viewer's television based upon the characteristics of the television commercial. In the method, characteristics from a first signal containing a television commercial received at a television are determined. The characteristics may include video and/or audio characteristics, and the characteristics may define a signature. Characteristics from a second signal, also containing the television commercial, are ...

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FREQUENCY AGILE BAND-PASS FILTERING OF BROADCAST SIGNALS

Application Number: 20130132991
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.,

Example frequency agile band-pass filtering methods disclosed herein include monitoring reception quality of a media broadcast signal received at a headend including a frequency agile band-pass filter to receive the media broadcast signal, sending a first set of commands to cause the frequency agile band-pass filter to tune to and attenuate a first channel included in the media broadcast signal, the first set of commands being sent in response to determining that the first channel is ...

Efficiently Identifying Television Stations in a User Friendly Environment

Application Number: 20130132990
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION,

An entertainment unit is configured to receive broadcast signals for a plurality of television stations may display folders. Each folder may comprise one or more as the folder. Furthermore, the entertainment unit may display one or more indications associated with one or more television stations based on content-based input from the viewer. Upon the viewer selecting a particular indication, the television station associated with that indication may be ...

Method and Device for Collecting Audience Information

Application Number: 20130132989
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Agency For Science, Technology And Research,

Various embodiments provide a method for collecting audience information of a group of users in an audience measurement. The method may include each user dividing its private information into a private portion and a predetermined number of exchange portions; each user transmitting each of its exchange portions to a respective user of the predetermined number of users selected from the group of users; each user aggregating its private portion and exchange portions received from other users of ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION

Application Number: 20130132988
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Int,

Disclosed are a system and method for recommending contents. The content recommendation method includes: receiving audio data or a fingerprint and emotion information of the audio data; extracting a fingerprint and emotion information of the received audio data when the audio data is received; extracting video information corresponding to the fingerprint and emotion information of the audio data to provide the extracted video information to a user if video recommendation is requested; and ...

OFFERING TASKS TO USERS BASED ON THEIR COMPETENCE AND ON THEIR CURRENT ACTIVITY

Application Number: 20130132987
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Narasimhan, Nitya; Vasudevan, Venugopal; Wodka, Joseph F.

The pervasive visibility of television and other screens is leveraged to present task offers to users. A task broker gives the user an incentive if he accepts and successfully performs the task. To be effective, the task broker first collects profile information about the user. Some of the profile information is used to determine what tasks are appropriate for a given user based, for example, on that user's competencies. Other profile information characterizes the user's current level of ...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK BASED ADAPTIVE STREAMING

Application Number: 20130132986
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Samant, Niranjan R.; Mack, Robert E.; Vince, Lawrence D.

A method and apparatus for streaming Over-the-Top (OTT) content on a network to subscribers is described. A digital video transport stream of an item of the OTT content is obtained via unicast streaming methods of a resolution and bit rate selected from an available set of different resolutions and bit rates for the digital video transport stream. The digital video transport stream of the selected resolution and bit rate is transmitted in the form of an IP multicast over the network to ...

System and Method of Voting via an Interactive Television System

Application Number: 20130132985
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: AT & T Intellectual Property I, L.P.,

A method includes determining, at a first computing device associated with a network, whether voting for video content is permitted from a second computing device. The second computing device is coupled to the network to receive the video content. The method further includes, in response to determining that voting for the video content is permitted from the second computing device, sending data related to a graphical user interface to the second computing device. The graphical user interface ...

Set Top Box Device and Method of Distributing Multimedia Content

Application Number: 20130132984
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.,

A method includes receiving first, second, and third content streams at a first device via a distribution system. The second content stream is selected by a second device and the third content stream is selected by a third device. The method also includes sending data to a display device to concurrently present the first, second, and third content streams and first, second, and third regions, respectively. A content control and buffer module is instructed to request a fourth content stream in ...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING USER FEEDBACK FROM DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT

Application Number: 20130132983
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Yadavalli, Srinivas Ramkumar

An apparatus for enabling feedback from a recipient of media content includes a receiver that receives a content data stream, containing media content and embedded Meta-Data, and a decoder that decodes the content data stream to extract the media content and the Meta-Data. A playback signal dependent upon the extracted content is passed to a content playback device of the content recipient. A control device interface receives a signal from a local control device operated by the content ...

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ONLINE RECOMMENDATION

Application Number: 20130132982
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: NBCUniversal Media, LLC,

A method for recommending videos is presented. The method includes generating a cross-usage matrix based upon a data of video sessions for a plurality of videos, generating a temporal matrix based upon release dates of the plurality of videos, generating a cross-temporal matrix based upon the cross-usage matrix and the temporal matrix, computing a global video rank corresponding to each of the plurality of videos based upon the cross-temporal matrix, generating a similarity score corresponding ...

Interactive Webisodic or Episodic Product Presentation and Sales System

Application Number: 20130132981
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Martin, Lauralee Bell

An interactive webisodic or episodic product presentation and sales system has a processor and tangible, non-transitory media that stores a program that when executed by the processor is configured to perform operations. The operations include receiving a request from a requesting user to play one of a webisodic or episodic presentation on a display. A webisodic or episodic presentation is then presented on a display, during which at least one of a product or service is highlighted. On the same ...

DISC LOADING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DRIVE INCLUDING THE SAME

Application Number: 20130132980
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Ahn, Cheol-woong; Baek, Sang-yun; Choi, Un-jin; Ko, Joung-sug

Provided are a disc loading device and an optical disc drive using the same. When a disc is loaded into the optical disc drive, an eject lever and a main slider may be used to facilitate an open/close operation of a door of the optical disc drive. In addition, by shutting off power to a loading roller after loading a disc, the disc is prevented from being damaged by the loading roller while the disc is being ...

System and Method for Integrated Hardware Platform for Flash Applications with Distributed Objects

Application Number: 20130132979
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Disney Enterprises, Inc.,

There are provided systems and methods for providing an integrated hardware platform to allow hardware control via an Application Program Interface (API) used by a Flash application executing in a Flash runtime environment on a host system. There is a provided a computer platform comprising a processor, a peripheral hardware, a connector device, and a memory. The memory contains an API implementation for remote methods provided by the API for the Flash application, a proxy server for enabling ...

CORRECTNESS OF EVENTS IN EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

Application Number: 20130132978
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Opher, Etzion; Malul, Elior; Inna, Skarbovsky; Tali, Yatzkar-Haham

A method of adapting an event processing component. The method comprises designating an event processing component having a plurality of event processing agents which carry out a plurality of rules to process a plurality of events, selecting at least one rules correctness requirement, and automatically adjusting, using a processor, the plurality of event processing rules to comply with the at least one correctness ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS IN DIALYSIS SYSTEMS

Application Number: 20130132977
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Doyle, Matthew J.

A system and method provide information in response to at least one current event related to a treatment performed by a dialysis system. A first number is displayed at a treatment display in communication with the dialysis system. The first number corresponds to a set of current notifications. Each current notification is generated in response to at least one current event related to the treatment. A new event is detected that is related to the treatment. The first number is increased to a ...

DEADLY EMBRACE

Application Number: 20130132976
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: LIN, KUNG YI

Systems and methods are disclosed that gather database event information that may be used by a debugger to pinpoint problems in applications that lead to inefficiencies in the database. For example, a database system may gather application-specific information from an application execution stack to include in the event log file. The application-specific information provides details as to what portion of the application resulted in the database event. The database event information may then be ...

Modeling Infrastructure for Internal Communication Between Business Objects

Application Number: 20130132975
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Klemenz, Oliver

Disclosed is an architecture that allows business objects to communicate across deployment unit boundaries. A runtime object may be defined to listen for a trigger event in an offering business object. The runtime object then assemble and communicate a message for processing by a consuming business object. User interfaces allow a user to configure a service integration definition to generate the runtime ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMING INPUT DATA STREAMS

Application Number: 20130132974
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Open Text S.A.,

A system and method for processing an input data stream in a first data format of a plurality of first data formats to an output data stream in a second data format of a plurality of second data formats. A plurality of input connector modules receive respective input data streams and at least one input queue stores the received input data streams. A plurality of job threads is operatively connected to the at least one input queue, each job thread formatting a stored input data stream to produce ...

OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTED DATA ANALYTICS FOR SHARED STORAGE

Application Number: 20130132967
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Mihailescu, Madalin; Soundararajan, Gokul

Methods, systems, and computer executable instructions for performing distributed data analytics are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method of performing a distributed data analytics job includes collecting application-specific information in a processing node assigned to perform a task to identify data necessary to perform the task. The method also includes requesting a chunk of the necessary data from a storage server based on location information indicating one or more locations of ...

COMPUTER COMPONENT POWER-CONSUMPTION DATABASE

Application Number: 20130132759
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Lathrop, Frederick L.; Nguyen, Tu G.

A computer has components having respective baseline component settings and non-baseline component settings. The computer includes storage media encoded with a program for comparing power consumption when non-baseline settings are in effect with power consumption when a baseline computer setting is in effect to determine power-consumption values to be stored in a ...

HUB DEVICE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME

Application Number: 20130132758
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA,

The hub device includes a USB hub IC; a voltage converter that converts a source voltage supplied to the Hub device into a source voltage to be supplied to the USB device/devices connected to the plurality of downstream ports, and, in a case that the USB device/devices is/or in an abnormal condition, outputs a signal notifying the abnormal condition; and a plurality of switch units that interrupts a source voltage to the USB device/devices, and outputs an overcurrent detection signal when ...

POWER-ON CONTROLLING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF

Application Number: 20130132757
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Chen, Chia-Hsiang

A power-on controlling method and system are provided. The system includes a power management unit, a voltage regulating module and a power controller. After booting a computer system, the power controller controls the power managing unit to selectively execute a discontinuous mode or a continuous mode according to a selection command, so as to control the voltage regulating module to regulate a system voltage supplied for electric elements in the computer system, thus finishing the system ...

ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR STATE RETENTION POWER GATING

Application Number: 20130132756
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Priel, Michael; Rozen, Anton; Kuzmin, Dan

An electronic circuit includes a processor having a functional mode and a low power mode, said processor comprising state flip-flops and additional flip-flops; said state flip flips are arranged to store state information about a state of the processor when the processor is in the functional mode; said state flip-flops comprise non-reset flip-flops that are arranged to store at least one non-reset value when the processor exits the functional mode; a power management circuit for providing power ...

POWER MANAGEMENT OF LOW POWER LINK STATES

Application Number: 20130132755
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Jeyaseelan, Jaya L.; Gough, Robert E.; Cooper, Barnes

A method and apparatus for intelligent power management for low power link states. Some embodiments include methods, apparatuses, and systems for a device coupled to a controller via a link; a link power management engine to alter a power state of the link based on a transaction and some knowledge of future transactions between the device and the controller; and a memory or logic to store the link power management engine. In some embodiments, the memory stores information about at least one of ...

REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION BY MASKING A PROCESS FROM A PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Application Number: 20130132754
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Hanappe, Peter

Energy savings can be obtained by masking a computationally-intensive task from a processor performance management system which selects the processor performance state based on the load on the processor (CPU). By preventing the PPM system from reacting to the computational load the application places on the processor, the time to complete execution of the application increases but the energy used by the application may be greatly reduced and thermal stress on the CPU is also reduced (preventing ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD

Application Number: 20130132753
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Priel, Michael; Smolyansky, Leonid; Rozen, Anton

An information processing device comprises a first memory, a second memory, data transfer circuitry, power gating circuitry, and a controller. The first memory comprises at least two volatile memory units The controller receives or generates a request for setting the information processing device into a reduced power mode; in response to the request, it selects specific memory units among the memory units; controls the data transfer circuitry to transfer data from the selected memory units to ...

POWER SUPPLIER OF COMPUTER SYSTEM AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF

Application Number: 20130132752
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Chen, Chia-Hsiang

A power supplier of a computer system and a power supply method thereof are described. The power supply method includes the following steps, receiving a validation code when a computer system enters a working mode from a standby mode; determining whether the validation code is in accordance with a preset code; If the validation code is in accordance with the preset code, executing a power sequence control so that the power supplier generates a plurality of working voltages required by the ...

ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD

Application Number: 20130132751
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: LU, CHI-MING; LIU, XU

An electronic display device detects whether a user is in front of a display via a camera according to a first frequency in a working mode of the electronic display device. If the electronic display device detects that the user is not in front of the display for a first predefined time period, the electronic display device enters a power saving mode by turning off the display. The electronic display device detects whether the user is in front of the display again via the camera according to a ...

ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A TIME IDENTIFIER ASSOCIATED THEREWITH

Application Number: 20130132750
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Werner, Colin Mark; Vander Veen, Raymond Paul

An electronic device includes an input device, an output device, a memory capable of storing an alert, and a processor coupled with the input device, the output device and the memory. The processor is configured to identify a current time, receive a command to switch the electronic device from a first operating mode to a second operating mode, and identify a record in a data-store. The record stores a first time identifier. The processor is further configured to identify a second time ...

ADAPTIVE POWER CONTROL

Application Number: 20130132749
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Anvin, H. Peter; Halepete, Sameer; Lawrence, Thomas; Read, Andrew; Klayman, Keith; D'Souza, Godfrey P.; Chen, Zongjian; Fleischmann, Marc

A method for controlling the power used by a computer including the steps of measuring the operating characteristics of a central processor of the computer, determining when the operating characteristics of the central processor are significantly different than required by the operations being conducted, and changing the operating characteristics of the central processor to a level commensurate with the operations being ...

Control Method for Shared Devices and Electronic Device

Application Number: 20130132748
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD., ; BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.,

The present invention discloses a control method for shared devices and an electronic device. The control method of shared devices is used in an electronic device comprising a first subsystem and a second subsystem, the electronic device having a first state and a second state, the first state being a state wherein both the first subsystem and the second subsystem are in the working state, the second state being a state wherein the first subsystem is in the non-working state and the second ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH POWER CONTROL UNIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR

Application Number: 20130132747
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA,

An information processing apparatus that is capable of reducing power consumption. A power supply unit supplies electric power to devices including first and second devices of the apparatus. A power-state-switching unit switches a power state of the apparatus among a first power state in which the power supply unit supplies power to the devices, a second power state in which the power supply unit does not supply power to the first device without supplying power from a secondary battery to the ...

BRIDGING DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF

Application Number: 20130132746
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,

A bridging device and a power saving method thereof are disclosed. The disclosed bridging device includes a connector, a connection detector and a bridging chip. The connector is operative to connect to a host and includes a power pin and a command pin. The connection detector is coupled to the power pin to determine whether the connector is floating, and, outputs a linked signal when the connection is non-floating. The bridging chip is coupled to the command pin and the connection detector. ...