Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device includes a processor, a non-transitory memory coupled to the processor, the memory including a sequential list of commands, wherein the list is configured to be edited in regard to which command to be listed and to an order of commands and a receiver configured to receive an instruction to initiate execution of the commands, wherein the processor is configured to execute the commands in accordance with the order in the list based upon the instruction. The sequential list may be edited through, for example, a graphical interface of the electronic device or through a controller.

Abstract: Certain embodiments relate to an information processing apparatus and a data rescue method that makes it possible to restore an operating system while preserving certain user data on the same partition as the operating system. The system may identify a directory, prior to booting to an operating system located on a first partition, the directory comprising user files. The directory may be located on the first partition. The system may rename the user directory to a unique identifier to ensure its preservation during the recovery process.

Abstract: A hybrid disk drive transfers a data stream to or from a host at an increased data transfer rate by time-multiplexing the data-carrying capacity of the system bus connecting the host and the disk drive. A portion of the data stream is stored on a non-volatile solid state memory device in the disk drive and a portion is written to a magnetic storage disk. The portion of the data stream written to the storage disk may be written on data tracks that are separated by empty data tracks corresponding to the data stored in the non-volatile solid state memory device.

Abstract: In a disk drive, a method for servo burst-decoding demodulation that accommodates track pitch variation. Depending on the distance a read head is displaced from a read head target position, a target-based blending scheme, a position-based blending scheme, or a weighted combination of both is used to determine the position of the transducer head. When the transducer head is relatively close to the target position, the target-based blending scheme is used to decode servo bursts and calculate the exact head position. When the transducer head is relatively far from the target position, the position-based blending scheme is used to decode servo bursts and calculate head position. When the transducer head is an intermediate distance from the target position, a weighted combination of the target-based and position-based blending schemes is used.

Abstract: A servo sector address and a track address of a recording medium of a disk drive are encoded into a combined address value. The combined address value is stored in a combined address field that has fewer bits than the total bits required to uniquely encode the servo sector address and the track address. The position of a transducer head, indicated by the servo sector address and the track address, is determined by reading encoded values from two consecutive servo sectors on the recording medium and then decoding the encoded values.

Abstract: An example consumer electronic product such as a television includes a router or gateway contained within a housing of the television and a user interface for allowing configuration of settings associated with the router or gateway via one or more displays on a screen of the television.

Abstract: An example method and device for controlling a controllable device involves using a control device comprising a numeric keypad and a delimiter key. Control operations for the controllable device are respectively associated with digits of the numeric keypad and one of the control operations is initiated by pressing the delimiter key followed by the digit key associated with the one control operation. Control operations include by way of example channel tuning operations for a television, input selection operations for a television and menu screen selections.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk drive apparatus includes a disk having a plurality of tracks formed of approximately concentric patterns, a head slider reading and writing data from and to the disk, a motor driver configured to move the head slider to a target position on the disk, an electronic circuit configured to transfer the data to and from a host computer, and a power source configured to provide power to the electronic circuit based upon a position of the head slider.

Abstract: A disk drive includes a disk for storing information representing data, and a memory device. A method for writing includes locating a first data sector on a disk where a write operation fails, identifying the first data sector and a plurality of other data sectors near the first data sector as a grown defect, and storing the location of the first data sector and the plurality of other data sectors on a grown defect list. The memory device includes a list of grown defects that identifies a plurality of data sectors stored along a track between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge on a selected track as data sectors which may not be written to.

Abstract: A method for servo correction includes determining a first wedge offset reduction field value for a read element from information in a servo burst area of a wedge on a disk, storing the first wedge offset reduction field value, determining a second wedge offset reduction field value for the read element from information in the servo burst area of the wedge on the disk, storing the second wedge offset reduction field value, and estimating an offset value of the read element from a desired track on the disk using at least one of the first wedge offset reduction value or second wedge offset reduction field value.

Abstract: A wireless electronic device includes a first application to output a first packet through a first virtual interface as a wireless electronic device moves from a home subnetwork to a foreign subnetwork. The wireless electronic device also includes a second application utilizing the Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP protocol) to output a second packet through a second interface as the wireless electronic device moves from the home subnetwork to the foreign subnetwork. A common physical interface is tied to the first virtual interface and the second interface of the wireless electronic device, wherein the physical interface of the wireless electronic device receives the first packet and the second packet, and outputs the first packet and the second packet from the wireless electronic device after the wireless electronic device has moved.

Abstract: A mechanism is disclosed for displaying, on a telephone display, actions that are appropriate for a particular context when accessing a voice mail system (VMS). These actions may vary depending on the context of a user's access to the VMS. The actions are identified by text adjacent to buttons (softkeys) on the user's telephone, and are initiated when the user pushes the softkey associated with a particular action. The softkey text corresponding to a particular state of the user's access to the VMS is identified herein as a VMS softkey template. When the VMS and a telephone switch are first initialized, template information is downloaded from the VMS to the switch, and thereafter, when the VMS is accessed by a user via a telephone, runtime instructions passed between the VMS and the switch will direct the switch to display softkey templates corresponding to a particular context within the VMS.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and an apparatus for enabling a user device or a plurality of user devices to communicate with a gateway service device. The system may include at least one user device, at least one remote access device, a communication network, a central access device, and the gateway service device. The system operates such as if the gateway service device and the user device are on the same network. The data may be transmitted from the user device to the at least one remote access device where it is encapsulated to allow the data to be routed over the communication network. The central access device may receive the data and de-encapsulate the data in order to transfer the data to the gateway service device.

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a system and method in which a second application (the “keep-alive function”) sends a ping, message or other signal to a first application to prevent the first application from being timed out (hereinafter, “keep-alive input”). In an embodiment of the invention, the first application is queried as to the appropriate content and format of a timeout period restart message. The keep-alive function may be automatically executed upon the occurrence of a triggering event. The keep-alive function may, periodically or based on a timeout clock related to the first application, check the status of the first application and/or send a keep-alive input.

Abstract: A system and method of providing digitized media content from a remote server through a data network is disclosed. A local content server at the premises of the subscriber hosts an agent process and includes a memory for storing the digitized content. The digitized content may be streamed on demand to client devices through the agent process for a subscription period. However, the subscriber is prevented from otherwise accessing the digitized content from the local server. Also, the digitized content delivered from the remote server to the local server is combined with encoded data identifying the subscriber.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a portable computer, such as a laptop or notebook computer, a subnotebook computer, a personal digital assistant, a wireless phone or the like, that can be set up in a closed configuration, a laptop configuration or a tablet configuration. The portable computer may include a base unit having a primary input device, such as a keyboard or pointing device, and a display unit having a display device. The base unit and the display unit may be coupled so that the display unit can be moved relative to the base unit to place the portable computer in a desired configuration.