Abstract: An electronic entertainment center housing that organizes the mass of wiring, adapters and convertors into a user friendly arrangement that permits the insertion and removal of the electronic components supported therein, as well as the tracking of errors in the entertainment center. The housing is adapted to removably support a plurality of different consumer electronic products. There are a plurality of external I/O connection outlets of different types in the housing and there is a connections spine in the housing that includes a plurality of I/O connection outlets of different types, a plurality of electrical connector paths for connecting pairs of the outlets in the spine with each other and a plurality of electrical connector paths for connecting outlets in said spine with the external outlets in said housing.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for locating an audio segment includes an input device for transmitting an input sample indicative of the audio segment and a media player for playing audio information stored on the storage device. The system further includes a sample converter to generate a digitized representation of the input sample and a digitized representation of the audio information on the storage device. The digitized representation of the input sample may include a diphthong sequence indicative of the diphthong components of the input sample. In this embodiment, an audio converter of the system generates an audio content diphthong sequence. The system may further include a comparator configured to detect a match between the input sample diphthong sequence and a portion of the audio content diphthong sequence.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for tracking code development. One embodiment includes receiving, by a single application within an integrated development environment, a status request. Further, the embodiment includes requesting, by the single application, data, responsive to the status request, from at least one management tool in communication with the single application. The embodiment also includes passing the data from the at least one management tool to the single application. Finally, the embodiment includes generating, by the single application, a status report based on the data. Additional embodiments include publishing the status report, wherein the publishing may be audio, visual or both, configuring an interface for the status report, and storing one or more versions, including the most current version, of the status report.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for assisting in testing a section of code during code development. One embodiment includes identifying a section of code for testing, and retrieving historical test data and current bug data from one or more databases for the section of code. The historical test data includes test results, for example, for previous test scripts written for the section of code, and the bugs recorded against the previous versions of the section of the code. The current bug data, for instance, includes the current bugs and what developer(s) wrote the current section of the code. The embodiment also includes analyzing the historical test data and the current bug data to yield an estimate of errors remaining in the section of code. Finally, the embodiment includes displaying the estimate, whereby the estimate assists in scheduling and test scripting for the section of code.

Abstract: If RF transmission repeater units could be mounted in as many automobiles as possible, particularly automobiles owned by drivers residing in low population regions, the likelihood would increase that there could be established wireless transmission paths between a wireless telephone unit and cellular array base stations, including a set of at least one automobile mounted repeater unit intermediate and independent of said wireless telephone unit and said base station. With enough automobiles with mounted repeaters travelling in the remoter regions, there would be a reasonable likelihood that such sequential sets of repeaters connecting to base towers of adjacent cellular arrays could be randomly established. The situation could occur that two or more alternate paths could be establishable between a cellular telephone and cell base stations via two different sets of repeaters.

Abstract: A system that will enable the sender of the E-mail to control the redistribution of the message tasks that are to be redistributed by the receiver of the E-mail. More particularly, the present invention comprises enabling the sender of E-mail to specify conditions for the redistribution of an E-mail message sent to a receiving display terminal in combination with an implementation enabling this sender to track the redistribution of the sent E-mail message and apparatus enabling the sender to change the redistribution of the E-mail message. According to the invention, initially, there is an implementation enabling a user at the terminal receiving the sent E-mail message to redistribute the sent E-mail message subject to the conditions specified by the sender. The sent E-mail message specifies tasks divided out of the sent E-mail message to be assigned, respectively, to subsequent receivers of the redistribution messages by such messages.

Abstract: A user is provided with a simple inexpensive and interactively intuitive implementation of selectively turning spam off his receiving E-mail terminal. An E-mail distribution system for eliminating nuisance electronic mail, e.g. spam, from mail sent to said receiving terminals from sending locations remote from such terminals. Respective conventional addresses are assigned to each of the receiving terminals and there is a conventional implementation for addressing mail respectively to each of these receiving terminals. An implementation respectively at each of the receiving terminals enables the user to modify the receiving terminal address to include the designation of a server intermediate the sending location and apparatus at the intermediate server identifies and eliminates nuisance electronic mail. A routing function routes to the intermediate server, electronic mail addressed to the receiving terminal with the modified address.

Abstract: An implementation for giving the guest carrying the pager ancillary information in a short range guest pager system, including a localized short range RF transmitter and portable wireless receiving pager with an activatable page indicator. The implementation comprises a pager housing supporting the pager indicator adapted to receive removable memory means in which the ancillary information is stored. There is a display in the housing with interactive user input means to the pager for selectively activating the display of the ancillary information, and display controller means in said housing for controlling said display of this ancillary information.

Abstract: A system, method, and related computer program for storing digital camera data directly onto a detachable USB storage key in the digital camera. The present invention allows a user to store digital photographs taken with a digital camera directly onto the USB storage key and transfer said storage key and the data contained thereon to another computer controlled instrument, such as a PDA, camcorder, personal computer, or a second digital camera, without the use of a cable. The digital camera has a slot for operatively receiving a memory card for storage of digital photographs to be taken by said camera. The digital camera has a USB connection slot formed in the body of the camera adapted to receive a USB storage key. The USB key drive in the camera is accessible through said USB connection slot. A separatable USB storage key received in said USB connection slot and connected to said USB key drive stores data from said camera on the USB key.

Abstract: A system, method, and related computer program for visually displaying the contents of a USB storage device, wherein a USB storage device is inserted into a computer controlled instrument and a special storage area in the storage portion of the computer controlled instrument holds low resolution bitmaps of stored images. These low resolution bitmaps contain such data as directory listings, which can be displayed on an LCD without the inconvenience or difficulty of the current method of displaying such information. Low resolution images with stored files as bitmaps are automatically updated. The present invention functions via a small LCD screen and its controller, which is added to the USB storage key and allows for the display of the contents stored on the USB storage key. The present invention allows a user access to the listing of the contents stored on a USB storage key without having to plug in the USB storage key into a computer controlled instrument.

Abstract: Systems, methods and media for updating a knowledge management system are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for determining or updating a reference count of an object are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving an indication of a request to modify an object, determining if the request includes a change to a hyperlink included in the object, and updating the reference count for the linked object in response to any change in the hyperlink. Further embodiments include receiving an indication of a request to delete an object having a reference count, determining whether other objects link to the object based on the reference count, and deleting the object in the event that no other objects link to the object. Objects may include HTML pages, files, documents, etc.

Abstract: A system, method, and related computer program for expanding storage capacity of portable electronic equipment via wireless communications device. The portable electronic equipment can be a such equipment as a digital camera, MP3 player, personal computer, as well as a digital wallet. The present invention provides a wireless communications device for expanding the storage capacity of portable electronic equipment having limited storage capacity via the receiving means in the device, and means in the equipment for transferring stored data to the device. The device is then able to convert the data into a form suitable for wireless transmission to a receiving storage facility. The storage facility is able to wirelessly return data in said form back to the device, and the device is able to reconvert the returned data into the original form of the data. There is also a caching file system for retaining shadowed memory data in the wireless communications device to lessen delays in wireless communication.

Abstract: An audio transmission system and an associated method are disclosed, the system includes a transmitting device suitable for converting an audio signal to a digitized signal, a receiving device suitable for receiving transmissions from the transmitting device, and a phonetic analyzer suitable for comparing the digitized signal to a set of digitized signals stored in a first dictionary. The phonetic analyzer is adapted to transmit, in lieu of the digitized signal, an index value associated with the digitized signal to a receiving device in response to detecting a match between the digitized signal and one of the first dictionary entries. The phonetic analyzer is further adapted to assign an index value to the digitized signal and to store the digitized signal and its corresponding digitized signal in an entry of the first dictionary in response to detecting no match between the digitized signal and any of the first dictionary entries.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for determining the shape of a three dimensional object. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus includes an array of sensors and elastic connections between the sensors within the array. When placed over a three dimensional object, the array of sensors deforms to conform to the surface topology of the three dimensional object. The sensors are connected to a data processor in which the data from the sensors is taken to construct a three-dimensional representation of the actual physical three dimensional object.

Abstract: A World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive Web display stations having a Web Service distribution system formed by the combination of a registry of platform independent Web Services available as integratable Web Service modules distributable over the Web from registered suppliers to requesting users, an implementation enabling suppliers to register said integrated Web Service modules being offered by said suppliers for distribution to users at said Web station, an implementation enabling users of said Web Services to request distribution of such services to their respective Web stations, an implementation enabling said suppliers of said Web Services to bill user provided with said Web Services to bill requesting users for said Web Services provided over the Web, and an implementation enabling third parties to track said distribution and said billing via the Web.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for interaction between a client device having a common interface and a server device having an interface. One example embodiment includes the client device receiving user interface descriptions, in the form of xml files, from the server device, wherein the user interface descriptions comprise commands and options for possible actions on the interface of the server device. Further, the example embodiment includes mapping of the commands and options to pre-configured inputs on the common interface, thereby producing mapped inputs. Further still, the example embodiment includes transmitting a selected one of the mapped inputs from the client device to the server device for the server device to execute the selected one of the mapped inputs, that is, the underlying command or option associated with the mapped input.

Abstract: Instead of alphanumeric passwords, the entry of answers to questions that have obscure answers known only to the user is solicited. However, it is recognized that even items of obscure information could be found out by identity thieves. Therefore, many of such questions are set up, and then one or more of such questions are randomly selected to prompt the user seeking entry. This should thwart the hacker who might have come upon any one of such items of obscure information. The stored user database of questions and answers for protecting access to a secured entity may be carried on a card, such as a smart card. This portable card would include means for storing data representative of a plurality of questions requiring obscure answers known only to the user of the card.

Abstract: The creator or author of the Web document or page at the Web site source of the page is enabled to prioritize all of the hyperlinks to other Web documents embedded in the Web page in order to optimize the needs, such as the business needs of the host. The prioritization is applied in the determination of the order in which the Web documents linked to the activated embedded hyperlinks in the Web document are to be accessed. The system is implemented through the inclusion of a hypertext markup language tag associated with each of the prioritized hyperlinks indicative of the priority level of the associated hyperlink. The implementation for designating a priority level for each of the hyperlinks may be enabled to change any previously designated priority levels for said hyperlinks. Such changes in any previously designated priority levels could be made applicable to the priority levels in previously distributed copies of said Web document.

Abstract: A cache system for a computer. In a preferred embodiment, a DFI-cache (Dynamic Frequent Instruction cache) is queried simultaneously with a main cache, and if a requested address is in either cache, a hit results. The DFI-cache retains frequently used instructions longer than the main cache, so that the main cache can invalidate lines while still enjoying the benefits of a cache hit when next accessing that line.

Abstract: Accessing the individual components of a planned product via Web searching that provides a product optimized to the purchaser's, i.e. the developer or builder's needs. Prompting a purchaser, e.g. a developer of a computer system, to make a sequence of a plurality of interactive data entries at a Web display station defining the values of a respective set of attributes selected by the purchaser for each of the components in the planned system, together with searching on the Web for sources of components having attributes satisfying purchaser defined values.