Abstract: The present invention employs three decoupled hardware mechanisms: read and write signatures, which summarize per-thread access sets; per-thread conflict summary tables, which identify the threads with which conflicts have occurred; and a lazy versioning mechanism, which maintains the speculative updates in the local cache and employs a thread-private buffer (in virtual memory) only in the rare event of an overflow. The conflict summary tables allow lazy conflict management to occur locally, with no global arbitration (they also support eager management). All three mechanisms are kept software-accessible, to enable virtualization and to support transactions of arbitrary length.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2012
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2014
Assignee:
University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer
Inventors:
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Arrvindh Shriraman, Michael Scott
Abstract: “A computer-implemented method and system (“Legion”) for capturing and outsourcing an existing graphical user interface (“GUI”) of an application to a crowd for their collaborative real-time control using an input device are provided. A crowd refers to a dynamic pool of one or a plurality of anonymous worker of varying skill level and/or reliability. The pool is dynamic because workers are able to come and go at their leisure and no specific worker can be relied upon to be available at a given time or to continue working on a job for a specific amount of time. Mediation strategies for integrating the input of multiple crowd workers in real-time is also provided.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 10, 2012
Publication date:
January 16, 2014
Applicant:
University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer
Inventors:
Jeffrey Philip BIGHAM, Walter Stephen LASECKI, Kyle Ian MURRAY, Samuel Christopher WHITE
Abstract: The present invention employs three decoupled hardware mechanisms: read and write signatures, which summarize per-thread access sets; per-thread conflict summary tables, which identify the threads with which conflicts have occurred; and a lazy versioning mechanism, which maintains the speculative updates in the local cache and employs a thread-private buffer (in virtual memory) only in the rare event of an overflow. The conflict summary tables allow lazy conflict management to occur locally, with no global arbitration (they also support eager management). All three mechanisms are kept software-accessible, to enable virtualization and to support transactions of arbitrary length.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 16, 2012
Publication date:
July 12, 2012
Applicant:
University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer
Inventors:
Arrvindh SHRIRAMAN, Sandhya DWARKADAS, Michael SCOTT
Abstract: Enhancement of the supercontinuum generation performance of a highly-nonlinear optical fiber (HNLF) is accomplished by incorporating at least one Bragg grating structure in the HNLF. The Bragg grating results in reflecting a core-guided signal into signal which also remains core-guided. The supercontinuum radiation generated by such an arrangement will exhibit a substantial peak in its energy at the grating resonance of the Bragg grating and a region of increased radiation in a narrow wavelength band on the long wavelength side of the peak. A number of such Bragg gratings may be formed so as to “tailor” the enhancements provided in the supercontinuum radiation. Various, well-known Bragg grating modifications (tuning, chirped, blazed, etc.) may also be used in the inventive structure to enhance the generated supercontinuum.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 22, 2005
Date of Patent:
October 3, 2006
Assignees:
Fitel USA Corp., University of Rochester, Office of Technology Transfer
Inventors:
Thomas Brown, Kenneth S. Feder, Yufeng Li, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, Paul S. Westbrook
Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating, reducing or preventing diseases and infections caused by pneumococci. The methods and compositions rely on the use of a CPS-containing composition (e.g., a CPS teichoic acid polymer preparation) of S. pneumoniae and an adjuvant, which may be chemically conjugated or simply admixed. The methods and compositions are particularly useful against nasopharyngeal colonization and invasive disease due to encapsulated pneumococci.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 7, 2005
Publication date:
June 8, 2006
Applicants:
Children's Medical Center Corporation, University of Rochester Office of Technology Transfer