Abstract: An apparatus with some embodiments is described having a protrusion to provide air flow distribution to a computing device. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a housing with one or more openings on each of the external surfaces of the housing, an air mover, and a protrusion to channel airflow to an inlet while restricting airflow from an outlet from being circulated back into the inlet. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the apparatus may be implemented on a computer system that includes one or more electronic components can generate thermal energy. Other embodiments are described.

Abstract: Techniques for linear release for a security tag are described.

Abstract: Various embodiments for providing directional commands for a mobile computing device are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may comprise a keypad arranged to operate in multiple modes including a standard mode and a directional mode such as a gaming mode, for example. The standard mode may support all of the preset and programmable commands and functions typically provided for normal operation of the mobile computing device. The directional mode may associate certain directional commands with multiple keys and/or buttons of the keypad so that most keystrokes and keystroke combinations input by a user will be interpreted as a particular directional command. The directional mode may be used when running applications which respond primarily to directional commands such as gaming applications. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Signals from multiple antennas are evaluated in a wireless device having one receiver chain and the antenna receiving the highest quality signals is selected. The signal quality from the multiple antennas may be evaluated using the short symbols in the preamble or the beacon signals and the antennas dynamically selected to improve the performance of the wireless communications device.

Abstract: A method of creating a thermal influence table to describe thermal relationships between components in a system and use of the thermal influence table in a system is described. The thermal influence matrix may be generated dynamically for a system. The matrix may be used by a thermal management policy to enable a hot device to be cooled by power management of another device in the system.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method and article to eliminate false alarms, invalid security deactivation, and internal theft are described. The apparatus may include a first input to receive a first identification code associated with an item, a second input to receive a second identification code associated with the item, and an output to provide a control signal to control the operation of a security label deactivation and detection device based on the first and second identification codes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Various techniques for encapsulation are described. A variable length frame is encapsulated into at least one fixed length codeword. The at least one fixed length codeword comprises an integer number of bytes. A first byte of the at least one fixed length codeword is a synchronization byte.

Abstract: Various embodiments are described for performing pattern matching for content based switching. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a document parser and a pattern parser. The document parser may be arranged to parse a document having transaction information and to create a document object from the transaction information. The pattern parser may be arranged to parse pattern information of a pattern for one or more elements according to a predefined pattern object data structure and to place the elements in appropriate blocks within the pattern object data structure. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Location based reminders are described. A mobile computing device may comprise a location based reminder application to set a target location for a reminder item. The location based reminder application may provide a location based reminder for the reminder item when a current location matches the target location. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to perform protocol translation for a modular system may be described wherein a first packet created in accordance with a first protocol is received, a packet type for the first packet is determined, a second protocol based on the packet type is selected and the first packet is translated to a second packet in accordance with the second protocol. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and article including a control module to manage transmission of packets in a channel of a wireless network. The control module to receive real-time information about the channel. The control module to adapt transmission of said packets based on the information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method and article to distribute media information are described. The apparatus may include a transceiver to receive digital information representing media information. The apparatus may further include a processor to couple to the transceiver, the processor to select a modulation technique based on a receiver type and an ultra-high frequency channel using a cognitive algorithm. The transceiver may transmit the media information over the channel using the modulation technique. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a data invalid signal for non-deterministic latency in memory are described. The apparatus may include a memory to determine that data to be buffered for a data burst cannot be guaranteed in time to satisfy a deterministic latency parameter. The memory may provide an indication that the data cannot be guaranteed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A desktop computer case mounted antenna apparatus for providing a diverse antenna solution for wireless network communications and computing systems employing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the antenna is mounted, at least partially, within a peripheral drive bay of the case.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to perform aging are described. A method to perform timing comprises receiving an address and retrieving an age zone value associated with the received address. A time is then determined using the retrieved age zone value. The determined time may then be associated with the received address.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for accelerating the conversion and detecting image data in pixel format into bit-plane format and bit plane format to pixel format for JPEG2000 compression and decompression is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding coefficients comprises applying one or more wavelet transforms to generate multiple coefficients, converting the pixel coefficients into bit-plane format and detecting zero bit-planes. This causes the image data in pixel to be broken into bit planes and stored in memory. If all the bits in a selected pixel plane are zero, an indication is stored in an N bit memory array corresponding to the N bit planes of the pixel code block that is processed. The indicator bits are useful in speeding up further compression.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a run length coding instruction for determining output context and decision values. Pixel coefficient bit values are used after wavelet transformation to determine output context (CX) and decision (D) values. The input is comprised of coefficient bit values (bit1, bit2, bit3, bit 4) in accordance with the scan order and the output are CX and D values. The CX and D pairs are processed together by arithmetic encoder to produce compressed data output (CD). CX selects the probability estimate to use during the coding of D.

Abstract: During high performance renormalization for video encoding, renormalization may involve detecting a leading number of ‘0’s in a range value of an input stream of symbols, a run of ‘1’s in an offset value of the input stream of symbols, and a run of ‘0’s following the run of ‘1’in the offset value. A bitstream may be outputted based on an iteration window for a number of renormalization iterations. The iteration window may comprise a bit range after the run of ‘1’s in the offset value, and the number of renormalization iterations may be based on the leading number of ‘0’s in the range value. A run of ‘1’s followed by one or more ‘0’s may be identified as a particular pattern.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method and article to perform dynamic service management for multicore processors are described. The apparatus may include, for example, a processing device having multiple types of processors to process packets. A service manager may dynamically assign executable files for multiple services to the multiple types of processors during execution of the executable files based on packets processed for each service. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to manage flow control for a network device are described.