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Apparatus and method for processing audio signals recorded on a medium

Patent Number: RE44231
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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This invention relates to a karaoke CD format and a device for controlling audio signals utilizing the karaoke CD format which provides a user with selective reproduction of the voice of a player. The karaoke CD format includes a CD format divided into video sectors and audio sectors. The audio sectors are further divided into a part for recording accompaniment sound and playing sound at the same time and a part for recording accompaniment sound only. There is provided record coding ...

Clock signal generation apparatus for use in semiconductor memory device and its method

Patent Number: RE44230
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A clock signal generation apparatus for generating a reference clock signal for outputting data in synchronization with an external clock signal from a semiconductor memory device, including: a clock signal generation unit for receiving an internal clock signal to generate the reference clock signal according to a control signal; and a control unit for generating the control signal based on a read command, a write command and an external ...

Semiconductor integrated circuit device

Patent Number: RE44229
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A semiconductor integrated circuit device with reduced consumption current is provided. A first step-down circuit stationarily forms internal voltage lower than supply voltage supplied through an external terminal. A second step-down circuit is switched between first mode and second mode according to control signals. In first mode, the internal voltage is formed from the supply voltage supplied through the external terminal and is outputted through a second output terminal. In second mode, ...

Electronic identification system and method with source authenticity

Patent Number: RE44220
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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An RF electronic identification system (10) is disclosed and claimed. The system includes at least one transponder encoder (14.1) for writing data into a memory arrangement (52) of a selected transponder (1.1) of a plurality of transponders (1.1 to 1.n) adapted to receive data from the at least one encoder. The system further includes at least one verifier (16) for interrogating a selected transponder (1.1) and to read data stored in ...

Semiconductor memory device for controlling write recovery time

Patent Number: RE44218
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A semiconductor memory device includes a CAS latency mode detecting means for outputting a CAS latency control signal in response to a CAS latency mode; and an auto-precharge control means for controlling timing of an auto-precharge operation in response to the CAS latency control ...

Electronic program guide with digital storage

Patent Number: 8448215
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program information. The program guide may also provide a global media library for indicating the programs stored on removable storage media used with the program guide. The guide may also allow the user to manage and maintain a user media ...

Method and system for providing complete internet anywhere with partial server processing

Patent Number: 8448214
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A method and/or system are described for providing complete Internet anywhere with partial server processing in which a request may be sent from a set-top-box (STB) to a server communicatively coupled with the STB to process a portion of a web page that is unsupported by a web browser running on the STB. The STB may receive a data stream from the server, wherein the server generates the data stream by processing the unsupported portion of the web page. The web page may be composited in the ...

Contents distribution system, contents distribution server, contents reproduction terminal, and contents distribution method

Patent Number: 8448213
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Provided is a contents distribution system including: a unit for dividing contents data stored in a contents distribution server into segments and distributing the contents data segments, the contents data being reproducible for a predetermined period of time; a unit for distributing the contents data segments by varying sizes of the contents data segments in accordance with contents processing information notified by a contents reproduction terminal; a unit for receiving and storing the ...

Combined receiver for DVB-H and DVB-T transmission

Patent Number: 8448212
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for receiving, processing and rendering transmitted content. A digital receiver capable of receiving and rendering both DVB-H and DVB-T signals may include a coupling means for connecting to another terminal for receiving program data or parameters. The digital receiver may reconfigure one or more components in order to handle the differing signal types. Such a receiver system allows a user to move seamlessly ...

Digital television signal, digital television receiver, and method of processing digital television signal

Patent Number: 8448211
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A digital television (DTV) signal for use in a DTV receiver includes an extended text table (ETT) which includes a header and a message body. The header includes a table identification extension field which serves to establish uniqueness of the ETT, and the message includes an extended text message (ETM). If the ETT is an event ETT, the table ID extension field includes an event identification which specifies an identification number of an event associated with the ETT. On the other hand, ...

Apparatus, systems and methods for rich media electronic program guides

Patent Number: 8448210
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Electronic program guide (EPG) systems and methods are operable to incorporate image information into an EPG generated at a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives an image associated with a program, processes the received image into a rich media EPG image, receives program presentation schedule information that specifies a presentation schedule of a plurality of programs, wherein the program is one of the plurality of programs scheduled for presentation, associates an identifier ...

System and method for displaying advertisements responsive to EPG information

Patent Number: 8448209
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A system and method for utilizing data stored in an EPG database for modifying advertisement information. In this way, a service provider and/or an advertiser can transmit a single advertisement to all the television stations regardless of their geographic location and other user specific information, and need not re-transmit the advertisement even if there is a change in the show's program description. When the advertisement is displayed, the correct updated information is retrieved from ...

System and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV applications that blend programming information of on-demand and broadcast service offerings

Patent Number: 8448208
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within a single hierarchy of a designated category. The blending may further include managed content relevant to the designated category, where desired. Such designated categories may include television programming categories and/or content categories. The options for linear and non-linear programming ...

System, method, mobile terminal and computer program product for providing push-to-talk chat in interactive mobile TV

Patent Number: 8448207
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An apparatus for providing an interactive service during a broadcast service includes a transmitting element and a processing element. The transmitting element is capable of communicating broadcast content of the broadcast service to a plurality of receiving terminals. The processing element is configured to at least partially control the transmitting element. The processing element is configured to communicate with a network device in order to request a program specific group for ...

Augmenting interactive television content utilizing a dynamic cloud activity guide

Patent Number: 8448206
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A server device configured to store settings information, the settings information indicating which type of operations are permitted by a user of a video client; receive a request to perform an operation associated with television content; perform a first operation to obtain program information associated with the television content when the settings information permits the first operation, the program information being a measure of popularity regarding the television content; perform the ...

System and method for providing available-channel user selectivity

Patent Number: 8448205
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Alternative-channel user selectivity is provided when a user tunes to a broadcast channel for which the desired broadcast station corresponding to such broadcast channel has been reassigned. In one embodiment, after tuning to broadcast channel in response to a user input, it may first be determined if in fact the desired broadcast station corresponding to the tuned broadcast channel has been reassigned. If so, one or more alternative broadcast channels corresponding to the desired broadcast ...

System and method for aggregating user data and targeting content

Patent Number: 8448204
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Systems and methods for aggregating user data and targeting content to users are described. User data is collected through quizzes and users are associated with a particular fictional or nonfictional character profile based on the user-submitted information. The user data associated with each character profile is aggregated to identify and recommend content for the user, such as television shows, news feed, web pages, promotions, advertisements, and the like. The invention can be used in ...

Disk device

Patent Number: 8448203
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A disk device includes a disk rotation driving unit 7 provided movably in the direction of the Y axis to a chassis 10 and immovably in the direction of the X axis thereto, a guide rail 1 supported parallel to the X axis by the chassis, and an optical pickup 2 supported by the guide rail 1 and reciprocating in a radial direction of a disk which is rotation-driven by the disk rotation driving unit 7, wherein a positioning part 8 performing the ...

Motor having a disk support member and a disk drive device having the same

Patent Number: 8448202
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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There is provided a motor including: a rotor case having a chucking device, on which a disk is mounted, press-fitted and coupled thereto; and disk support members mounted on an upper surface of the rotor case to support a bottom surface of the disk, and having each of flow path portions therebetween allowing for airflow in a space between the disk and the rotor case, wherein a push portion is disposed in at least one of the rotor case and the disk support members to accelerate the airflow ...

Integrated disk driving module

Patent Number: 8448201
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An integrated disk driving module is disclosed, the module including a base unit including an opening-formed upper plate, a lateral surface plate bent from an edge of the upper plate to form an accommodation space, and a stepping motor fixture bent from the upper plate toward the accommodation space, wherein the stepping motor fixture is integrally formed with the upper plate; and a stepping motor including a lead screw and a pivot member arranged at a distal end of the lead screw and ...

Transferred medium

Patent Number: 8448200
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A transferred medium is provided. In one exemplary embodiment a transferred medium includes a projection part projected in a transferring direction of the transferred medium from a front end part of the medium such that the projection part traverses the front end part of the medium. The thickness of a part of the projection part can be configured to be greater than the thickness of the front end part, the width of the projection part in a direction perpendicular to the transferring ...

Player and spindle motor with skirt section having resin lead-in features

Patent Number: 8448199
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A spindle motor includes a rotor made of metal including a substantially circular top surface section and a tubular skirt section arranged at a predetermined space from an outer periphery of the top surface section and a disk table of synthetic resin outsert-molded in the rotor and including a table main body section located on an outer surface side of the rotor and a rotor-inner-surface superimposing section located on an inner surface side of the rotor. First resin lead-in holes are ...

Traverse module and optical disc drive utilizing the same

Patent Number: 8448198
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A traverse module of an optical disc drive includes a base and a cover connected to the base that includes at least one spring tab integrally formed therewith. A pair of guide bars is connected to the base. A pickup head module is slidably connected to the guide bars. At least one adjusting member is movably connected to the base. The at least one adjusting member supports at least one of the guide bars and the at least one spring tab presses against the at least one of the guide bars, the ...

Optical pickup device with protrusions in a laser beam direction to shield ultraviolet light and method for manufacturing the same

Patent Number: 8448197
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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To provide an optical pickup device adapted such that for adhesion fixing of a holder for holding an LD or a light-receiving element to an optical pickup casing via an ultraviolet-curable adhesive, curing shrinkage during ultraviolet irradiation can be reduced and adhesion fixing achieved with high positioning accuracy. In a structure for adhesion fixing of a holder for holding an LD or a light-receiving element to an optical pickup casing via an ultraviolet-curable adhesive, since ...

Flexible printed circuit and electric apparatus and optical disc drive having flexible printed circuit

Patent Number: 8448196
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An electronic device including a mechanism for changing the relative positions of two circuit boards such as in an optical disc drive is provided. A flexible printed circuit electrically connected between the two circuit boards changes shape to suppress fluctuations in the transmission characteristics occurring due to contact with metal such as a case, and provides stable signal transmission. The flexible printed circuit includes at least one or more differential lines, a fixed unit affixed ...

Stacking type tray and tray developing mechanism and stacking type tray developing system

Patent Number: 8448195
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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To develop optical discs stored while being stacked and to load them to a plurality of recording/reproducing devices simultaneously. Trays for mounting optical discs are stacked to configure an optical disc transportation body, and the portions being exposed without overlapping when the stacked trays are viewed from the stacking direction are utilized as tray operation portions for handling. Supporting portions abutting against the tray operation portions inherent to respective trays in one ...

Value container propagation in development tools, business process management, and business rules management solutions

Patent Number: 8448194
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Systems and methods consistent with the invention include propagating parameter definitions between computer elements and may include at least one memory device containing computer readable instructions. Also included is a computer processor executing the instructions on the memory device to perform the steps of selecting a sub-routine to be called by a calling unit. The processor may determine whether a definition for a parameter in the selected sub-routine is known to the calling unit ...

Image forming device, information processing method, and information processing program

Patent Number: 8448193
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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In an image forming device which is capable of executing an application program, a plurality of interface providing units are arranged each providing the application program with an interface which enables the application program to use a function of the image forming device. A selecting unit selects at least one of the plurality of interface providing units as an object of use for the application program based on a result of comparison of information stored in a storage device and ...

Computer readable medium storing a universal driver, method of controlling a device and apparatus

Patent Number: 8448192
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A non-transitory computer readable medium has a universal driver executable on a computer. The universal driver includes instructions for: selecting a device for executing a function from connected devices according to an input from a user; sending a request to the operating system to set a communication port for communication with the selected device as a specified port; storing port identification information of a communication port for communication with the selected device and ...

Device driver installer and installation method

Patent Number: 8448191
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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This invention lightens a burden in development by using a generic device driver and also lightens a burden on a user by automatically performing customization suitable for a model to be installed. A client PC acquires AA from an image forming apparatus as its type ID. A generic device driver to be used is determined by extracting, from the type ID, a series ID determined by the interface. In addition, based on the value of a group ID representing a function group, the generic device driver ...

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for high reliability downloading of background assets using a manifest in a virtual world application

Patent Number: 8448190
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for predictively downloading background assets with file-not-present tolerance in a virtual world application. According to one aspect for high reliability downloading of background assets using a manifest in a virtual world application, the method includes compiling a manifest of assets potentially needed for execution by a first instance of a virtual world application (VWA), wherein each of the ...

Identifying intrusions into a network data processing system

Patent Number: 8448189
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A method, apparatus and computer instructions for handling intrusions. A tracer packet is sent back to an intruder causing the intrusion in response to receiving notification of an intrusion from a particular node in a network data processing system. Nodes in the network data processing system are notified of the tracer packet. Identification of the node is stored for use in tracing a route of the tracer packet through the data processing system in response to receiving a message from a ...

Web user interface component coordination

Patent Number: 8448188
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for Web user interface component coordination. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for Web user interface component coordination can include receiving an event indicating a state change in one of many user interface components in a user interface for a Web application and determining whether or not remaining ones of the components are active and able to receive a notification of the event. In ...

Conflict resolution apparatus

Patent Number: 8448187
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A conflict resolution apparatus automatically updates an application conflict rule specifying a conflict condition among applications when a device is installed or uninstalled. An application conflict rule storage section stores the application conflict rule. An application executing section determines, based on the application conflict rule, conflicts among a plurality of applications and executes at least one application in accordance with a result of the determination. An application ...

Parallel event processing in a database system

Patent Number: 8448186
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Techniques for processing events in parallel are provided. Multiple publishers publish events in parallel to a plurality of channels. Each channel is a queue that maintains a list of events that are awaiting to be processed by one or more slave processes. In one approach, all events that need to be persistent are published to a persistent channel, whereas all events that do not need to be persistent are published to one or more in-memory channels. In another approach, for each event, a ...

Method and system for dynamic discovery of services in a communication framework

Patent Number: 8448185
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A system for dynamic discovery of services comprises a communication framework module comprising a local service registry having service information. The local service registry is operable to be updated by the communication framework module when a message is received with updated service information relating to at least one additional communication framework module. The service information comprises a plurality of service ...

Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting

Patent Number: 8448184
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A method of and an apparatus are provided for signaling a transmission code set in data broadcasting. A client using the transmission code set signaling method includes a demultiplexer demultiplexing a packetized elementary stream (PES) packet corresponding to a program selected by a user from the broadcasting stream received by the system interface, an image decoder decoding the demultiplexed PES for images, a sound decoder decoding the demultiplexed PES for sound, and a CPU fetching ...

Presentation layer application integration

Patent Number: 8448183
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A system for interfacing data between at least a first and a second software program, the system hosting the execution of the software programs and each software program respectively executing computer instruction code, the system including: a computing device operable by a user and with which the user submits authentication data, the computing device indicating the grant of access to the user of the first and second software programs upon independent verification of the user's credentials ...

System and method for pause and resume message operations on destinations

Patent Number: 8448182
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The present invention enables messaging service users to programmatically and administratively control the system's behavior in the event of an external resource failure. A destination pause/resume feature enables the user to “pause” and “resume” the production and consumption of messages, that are newly produced or produced as a result of “in flight work” completion, on a given destination or all the destinations hosted by a single messaging service server programmatically. ...

Automated state migration while deploying an operating system

Patent Number: 8448166
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Migration of a user state from a source computing device to a destination computing device using a state migration point (SMP) is disclosed. The destination computing device may be the same as the source computing device but with a different operating system. The user state is securely stored by the SMP until the user state is restored on the destination computing device or a predetermined period of time has elapsed. Additional SMPs can be added without an architectural change. SMPs can be ...

System and method for logging operations of virtual machines

Patent Number: 8448165
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A system and method for logging operations of guest virtual machines are provided. An execution event is triggered, in response to a request to load a software module in a virtual machine. A processor sends an indication to a hypervisor that the software module is loaded in the virtual machine, in response to the triggering of the execution event. A security appliance accesses, using the hypervisor, a first memory location in the virtual machine, in response to the indication. A value is ...

SOA-registry, method and platform manager for automatic SOA application deployment

Patent Number: 8448164
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A computing system includes a service-oriented architecture (SOA) registry that includes an SOA-application description, an abstract component description, a concrete component description, and a platform description. The SOA-application description is related to the abstract component description of a component of the SOA-application. The concrete component description includes a requirement of a respective component for a target platform. The platform descriptor describes a property of ...

Deploying J2EE web applications in an OSGI environment

Patent Number: 8448163
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Web applications are deployed for execution within the existing framework of Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) when they are written in the commonly-employed Java™ (trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) language. The intended deployment of J2EE web applications is detected and the J2EE application contents are converted into appropriate OSGi bundles using a provisioner. The provisioner employs its list of available provision providers to create ...

Hitless software upgrades

Patent Number: 8448162
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Disclosed is a technique for facilitating software upgrade for a switching system comprising a first management processor and a second management processor and a set of one or more line processors, the techniques comprising receiving a signal to perform a software upgrade for a line processor from the set of line processors, and performing a software upgrade for the line processor without substantially affecting packet switching performed by the switching ...

Application tracking for application execution environment

Patent Number: 8448161
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for managing an application execution environment on a computer. One or more aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in one or more methods of managing an application execution environment comprising a cross-platform application program interface to provide services to applications that run in the application execution environment, the one or more methods including: ...

Application programming interface for identifying, downloading and installing applicable software updates

Patent Number: 8448160
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An application programming interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers to build software programs that automatically detect, download, and install desired software ...

Method and system for policy enabled programming

Patent Number: 8448159
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A system and method for allowing external execution-time adaptation of application behavior of an application in a telecommunication system without modification to the application code comprises an application having at least one break point and residing on an application server, at least one identifiable decision engine, and a listing of break points that has for each break point at least one identifier of the decision engine, such that at one of the break points, the application accesses ...

Program code generation support device and method, program execution device and method, and program code compression processing device and method and program thereof

Patent Number: 8448158
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
Inventor:

To obtain a program code generation support device, method, and the like, capable of generating a new program code, in particular, generating in accordance with an incorporating apparatus, by performing a further optimization on a program code.

The device includes storage means 6 for storing as data, an optimization rule that is composed of a conversion condition for converting data of a program code and a conversion content thereof, and code optimization means 4 that ...

Eliminating redundant operations for common properties using shared real registers

Patent Number: 8448157
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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One embodiment of a method for eliminating redundant operations establishing common properties includes identifying a first virtual register storing a first value having a common property. The method may assign the first virtual register to use a real register. The method may further identify a second virtual register storing a second value also having the common property. The method may assign the second virtual register to use the same real register after the first value is no longer ...

Systems and methods for caching compute kernels for an application running on a parallel-processing computer system

Patent Number: 8448156
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A runtime system implemented in accordance with the present invention provides an application platform for parallel-processing computer systems. Such a runtime system enables users to leverage the computational power of parallel-processing computer systems to accelerate/optimize numeric and array-intensive computations in their application programs. This enables greatly increased performance of high-performance computing (HPC) ...