Abstract: An apparatus with display and base for media cases and/or packaging is provided. This includes, but is not limited to, the cases or packaging for DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, CDs, video or computer games, and VCR tapes. The apparatus, called a “Personal Marquee,” is capable of holding an individual case standing upright such that a substantial portion of the cover of the case is visible to the user. The artwork on the apparatus is designed to evoke the sense of the facade of a classical movie theater with its “Now Showing” marquee. The media display includes a base for support, an upright section for holding the media case, and a riser if necessary to accommodate cases of different sizes. The upright is attached to the base or is integral with the base and has an opening in front through which the media case is visible.

Abstract: A control system, method and computer program are provided for communicating control information in a control system. The control system includes a master controller and a plurality of devices. Each of the plurality of devices have a number of channels. Each channel has an identifying number and a plurality of channel states. The method includes at least initially directing one or more messages sent to and from each device to the master controller, sending a first type of control message from the master controller to respective devices, and sending a second type of control message and a third type of control message from the master controller to respective devices. A control message of the first type directs the respective device to place one of its channels in a specified channel state. A control message of the second type directs the respective device to set the level of a specified parameter to a certain value, and a control message of the third type comprises a character string of variable length.

Abstract: A system and a method for integrating and adopting a service-oriented architecture that utilize such semantic searching. A exemplary system includes an application discovery and semantic analysis software tool. The application discovery and semantic analysis software tool includes a discovery engine that discovers application services, an application resource catalog that stores the discovered application services as software constructs in an application services ontology, and a semantic inference engine that semantically analyzes the software constructs in the application services ontology to determine relationships between the application services and enable more efficient searching of the discovered application services.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for relating computing systems. A plurality of applications form a plurality of solution domains, where each solution domain represents at least a portion of one or more computing systems. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications. The system, method, and computer program also generate a plurality of meta-ontologies associated with the solution domains. The system, method, and computer program further generate a meta meta-ontology, which combines the meta-ontologies. Each ontology includes one or more ontology elements, which represent application components. The application components include, e.g., application services and/or parameters, such as input parameters and output parameters for the associated application. Each meta-ontology includes one or more meta-ontology elements, which represent one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program describe a relation ontology. The system, method, and computer program generate an Web Ontology Language (OWL) document associated with a meta-ontology. The system, method, and computer program also insert one or more statements into the OWL document describing a meta-ontology element of the meta-ontology. The one or more statements define the meta-ontology element as a super class of two or more related ontology elements. The two or more related ontology elements are associated with at least one ontology.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program relate a plurality of applications in a computing system. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications. The system, method, and computer program also generate a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies. Each ontology includes one or more ontology elements, which represent application components. The application components may include application services and/or parameters for an associated application service. The parameters may include input parameters and output parameters for the associated application service. The meta-ontology includes one or more meta-ontology elements, which represent one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.