Abstract: An apparatus controls a temperature of a device by circulating a fluid through a heat sink in thermal contact with the device. The apparatus includes an adjustable cold input, which inputs a cold portion of the fluid having a first temperature, and an adjustable hot input, which inputs a hot portion of the fluid having a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The apparatus further includes a chamber, connected to the cold input and hot input, in which the cold and hot portions of the fluid mix in a combined fluid portion that impinges on the heat sink. The combined fluid portion has a combined temperature that directly affects a temperature of the heat sink. The cold input and hot input are adjusted to dynamically control the combined temperature, enabling the heat sink temperature to compensate for changes in the device temperature, substantially maintaining a set point temperature of the device.

Abstract: The present invention sets forth a method and system for mating a signal transmitting device and a viewing device. In one embodiment, the method includes determining presence of the signal transmitting device and the viewing device, selecting a unique code from a pre-determined group of codes assigned to the signal transmitting device, and sending the unique code to the viewing device for the viewing device to decipher data packets from the signal transmitting device.

Abstract: A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video. Spatial compositing uses a graphics unit or pipeline to render a portion (subarea) of each overall frame of digital video images. This reduces the amount of data that each processor must act on and increases the rate at which an overall frame is rendered. Optimization of spatial compositing depends on balancing the processing load among the different pipelines. The processing load typically is a direct function of the size of a given subarea and a function of the rendering complexity for objects within this subarea. Load balancing strives to measure these variables and adjust, from frame to frame, the number, sizes, and positions of the subareas. The cost of this approach is the necessity to communicate, in conjunction with each frame, the graphics data that will be rendered. Graphics data for a frame is composed of geometry chunks.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for interactive mail management of physical mail. Physical mail is received in a mailbox. An identifier is read in response to receiving the physical mail in the mailbox. The physical mail contains the identifier. Information contained in the identifier is sent to the mail recipient. The mail recipient is able to identify instructions for communicating with a sender associated with the physical mail based on the information from the identifier.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided for connecting to an external device. The electronic device includes a main body, a connector at a proximal end of the main body, a bottom case coupled to the main body at a distal end, and a top case slidably located opposite to the bottom case. The electronic device further includes a first cantilever locking arm and a second cantilever retaining arm on at least one side of the main body. The top case is slid towards the bottom case to expose the connector and the top case is slid towards the connector to cover the connector. The first cantilever locking arm includes an open locking mechanism and a close locking mechanism for maintaining the top case in an open state and a closed state respectively. The second cantilever retaining arm retains the top case on the main body.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for determining access rights to a resource managed by an application. One embodiment includes receiving a request by the application, wherein the request comprises an action a user seeks to perform on the resource. Further, the embodiment includes locating, based on the request, the resource in a structure having groupings of resources, wherein the groupings include a grouping having the resource. Typically the groupings comprise files having mappings of resources to assigned groups, and each group has an associated authorization table mapping roles or policies to users. Further still, the embodiment includes reading an authorization table associated with the grouping having the resource, and determining whether to grant the access rights for performing the action on the resource.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for receiving a postal mail item. The postal mail item is received. The postal mail item contains a radio frequency identifier identifying the sender of the postal mail item. Responsive to receiving the postal mail item in the mailbox, the radio frequency identifier of the postal mail item is scanned with a scanner to identify the sender of the postal mail item. A determination is made whether the sender of the postal mail item is in a junk mail list. The junk mail list includes a list of senders accessible to a processor in the scanner.

Abstract: A method is presented for processing names by a naming service. A naming service obtains an application name for an application along with at least one deployment attribute for a deployment of an instance of the application within a data processing system. The naming service generates an application-based name for the instance of the application; the application-based name represents a context within a naming system that is supported by the naming service, and the application-based name is a compound name that includes the application name and at least one deployment name for a deployment attribute. A deployment attribute is a metadata value, such as a deployment identifier or version identifier, that characterizes a manner in which the instance of the application is deployed within the data processing system.

Abstract: An approach to handling integrated security roles is presented. An upstream application includes one or more role-mapping requirements that correspond to an upstream security role and a downstream security role. The upstream security role is expanded by adding an upstream security role identifier in a downstream application's role-mapping table or by adding upstream user-to-role mappings to a downstream application's role-mapping table. When an upstream security role is expanded, a user assigned to the upstream security role automatically has access to role-mapped downstream applications.

Abstract: A method for integrated security roles is presented. An upstream application includes one or more role-mapping requirements that correspond to an upstream security role and a downstream security role. The upstream security role is expanded by adding an upstream security role identifier in a downstream application's role-mapping table or by adding upstream user-to-role mappings to a downstream application's role-mapping table. When an upstream security role is expanded, a user assigned to the upstream security role automatically has access to role-mapped downstream applications.

Abstract: A self testing fault detector having a line side and a load side and a conductive path there between, said apparatus is provided. The self testing fault detector includes a controller, adapted to perform periodic status tests on a protection circuit of the self testing fault detector without interrupting power to the load.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for determining access rights to a resource managed by an application. One embodiment includes receiving a request by the application, wherein the request comprises an action a user seeks to perform on the resource, and locating, based on the request, the resource in both a containment relationship graph and in a structure having groupings of resources, wherein the groupings comprise a grouping having the resource. Further, the embodiment includes traversing a vertex of the containment relationship graph, wherein the vertex comprises a generational resource of the resource, and reading an authorization table associated with a grouping having the generational resource in the groupings. Further still, the embodiment includes determining whether to grant the access rights for performing the action on the resource.

Abstract: A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video. Spatial compositing uses a graphics unit or pipeline to render a portion (subarea) of each overall frame of digital video images. This reduces the amount of data that each processor must act on and increases the rate at which an overall frame is rendered. Optimization of spatial compositing depends on balancing the processing load among the different pipelines. The processing load typically is a direct function of the size of a given subarea and a function of the rendering complexity for objects within this subarea. Load balancing strives to measure these variables and adjust, from frame to frame, the number, sizes, and positions of the subareas. The cost of this approach is the necessity to communicate, in conjunction with each frame, the graphics data that will be rendered. Graphics data for a frame is composed of geometry chunks.

Abstract: An approach is provided that allows an administrator to set a new password at a wireless access point, such as a traditional WAP or a wireless router. The wireless access point creates a message that includes the new password. The message is encrypted using the old password that was previously set for the wireless network. The encrypted message is wirelessly transmitted from the wireless access point to the active client devices (those clients currently accessing the wireless network). The clients decrypt the message using the old password that was previously provided to the clients. The clients retrieve the new password from the message. The clients construct a new message that is encrypted using the new password. The new message is wirelessly transmitted from the clients to the wireless access device and serves as an acknowledgement.

Abstract: A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video. Spatial compositing uses a graphics unit or pipeline to render a portion (subarea) of each overall frame of digital video images. This reduces the amount of data that each processor must act on and increases the rate at which an overall frame is rendered. Optimization of spatial compositing depends on balancing the processing load among the different pipelines. The processing load typically is direct function of the size of a given subarea and a function of the rendering complexity for objects within this subarea. Load balancing strives to measure these variables and adjust, from frame to frame, the number, sizes, and positions of the subareas. The cost of this approach is the necessity to communicate, in conjunction with each frame, the graphics data that will be rendered. Graphics data for a frame is composed of geometry chunks.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically altering the capabilities of a software application in response to a request from a user to perform an action in the application. Based on the user's security role, the software application is reconfigured by either granting access to the user to an existing component of the application, or if no suitable component is available, adding an external vendor component to the software application which is suitable for performing the requested action.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for migrating configuration data from an existing program to a replacement program, in response, for example, to a command by an external agent. In preferred embodiments, an existing program is modified according to the invention to add functionality to obtain pertinent configuration data from such sources available to the existing program as its internal tables, configuration files, and run-time commands, and then to write a configuration file containing configuration data formatted for use by the replacement program. The program's internal tables may often contain configuration data which is not always available to the replacement program e.g. command line parameters, data provided through receipt of messages from other programs, etc. The invention advantageously makes voluminous formatted configuration data available to the replacement program in order to expeditiously provide a basis for its initial operation after installation.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for mail notification. Physical mail is received in a mailbox. The physical mail includes an identifier indicating information about the physical mail. A presence of the physical mail is detected in the mailbox. The identifier is read in response to detecting the presence of the physical mail. A notification is sent to a mail recipient including the information in response to reading the identifier.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for interactive mail management of physical mail. Physical mail is received in a mailbox. An identifier is read in response to receiving the physical mail in the mailbox. The physical mail contains the identifier. Information contained in the identifier is sent to the mail recipient. The mail recipient is able to identify instructions for communicating with a sender associated with the physical mail based on the information from the identifier.