Network Layout And Operation Interface Patents (Class 715/969)
  • Patent number: 12206952
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating for display an interactive interface based on user history are provided. A first media asset and second media asset share a common attribute but are displayed with different display properties because the first media asset is included in the viewing history of the user while the second media asset is not. This display property may include moving the first media asset to a different portion of the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ADEIA GUIDES INC.
    Inventors: Craig Pearlman, Camron Shimy
  • Patent number: 12061815
    Abstract: A method for locating a hard disk applied in a server which governs many hard disks including some making use of one HD slot by an expander customizes the SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) custom page of an expander of a JBOD device, and obtains and stores information of the JBOD device through the expander. The server further obtains information of a hard disk to be located, and obtains information of the JBOD device hosting the hard disk to be located according to the information of the hard disk to be located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Yuan, Shi-Qi Chen
  • Patent number: 12045548
    Abstract: A method and computing system operable for displaying a first routing diagram on a display. The first routing diagram is a member of a first set of routing diagrams that includes multiple different routing diagrams. Displaying the first routing diagram includes displaying a user-selectable control and a first portion of a particular routable component within the first routing diagram. The user-selectable control corresponds to a location of the display where a first terminal connected to the particular routable component or a second terminal connected or connectable to the first terminal is displayed. An additional function include determining, by a processor, a selection of the user-selectable control occurs while the first routing diagram is displayed on the display. A further function includes displaying, on the display in response to determining the selection of the user-selectable control occurs, the second routing diagram with a second portion of the particular routable component highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mitchell Repair Information Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michel B. Alberry, Lester B. Johnson, Thomas A. Southward, Thomas W. Tipps, Michael S. Knize, John P. McGraw, Robert Pilz, Bryan Keithley Romero
  • Patent number: 12009977
    Abstract: A system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform, a server device disposed in the platform, and a client device. The database may contain representations of configuration items, such as computing devices and software applications associated with the managed network. The server device may provide a graphical user interface including a sequence of panes to the client device. The sequence of panes may include an identifier pane, an identification rules pane, and a reconciliation pane. Each pane may include data entry fields that are operable to define a new class of configuration item. The server device may receive, by way of the graphical user interface, a definition of the new class that uniquely identifies configuration items of a particular type using at least the attributes. The server may store, in the database, the definition of the new class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivian Tero, Chinna Polinati, Madhavi Puvvada, Purushottam Amradkar, Manish Gupta, Brandon Trudel, Guarav Yakhmi, Jesus Antonio Castro Cisneros, Viral Shah
  • Patent number: 11972180
    Abstract: A method and computing system operable for displaying a first routing diagram on a display. The first routing diagram is a member of a first set of routing diagrams that includes multiple different routing diagrams. Displaying the first routing diagram includes displaying a user-selectable control and a first portion of a particular routable component within the first routing diagram. The user-selectable control corresponds to a location of the display where a first terminal connected to the particular routable component or a second terminal connected or connectable to the first terminal is displayed. An additional function include determining, by a processor, a selection of the user-selectable control occurs while the first routing diagram is displayed on the display. A further function includes displaying, on the display in response to determining the selection of the user-selectable control occurs, the second routing diagram with a second portion of the particular routable component highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitchell Repair Information Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michel B. Alberry, Lester B. Johnson, Thomas A. Southward, Thomas W. Tipps, Michael S. Knize, John P. McGraw, Robert Pilz, Bryan Keithley Romero
  • Patent number: 11836664
    Abstract: In a threat management platform, a number of endpoints log events in an event data recorder. A local agent filters this data and feeds a filtered data stream to a central threat management facility. The central threat management facility can locally or globally tune filtering by local agents based on the current data stream, and can query local event data recorders for additional information where necessary or helpful in threat detection or forensic analysis. The central threat management facility also stores and deploys a number of security tools such as a web-based user interface supported by machine learning models to identify potential threats requiring human intervention and other models to provide human-readable context for evaluating potential threats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Karl Ackerman, Russell Humphries, Mark Anthony Russo, Andrew J. Thomas
  • Patent number: 11614968
    Abstract: Computer systems and methods for managing resources are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Carlos Alejandro Kade, Anne Marie Morissette, Vijay Kumar, Caroline Bandiera, Adriann Teresa Coe
  • Patent number: 11604826
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a search engine for a video recorder. One embodiment of the present invention operates in an environment that includes one or more set-top boxes connected to or integrated within one or more output devices. The set-top boxes are used to transfer shows from a broadcast input source to one or more types of storage devices and to play back the shows from the storage devices to the output devices, either in a delayed-live fashion or at a later time of the user's choosing. The set-top box displays a graphical user interface (GUI), which gives the user the ability to watch and/or record timeslot based programming, to order on-demand programming, and to playback previously recorded shows that reside on a local or remote storage device. A search engine is added to the GUI that lets the search for shows and receive results in an enhanced manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Haig H. Krakirian, Geoffrey Z. Ombao, James A. Bumgardner
  • Patent number: 11593709
    Abstract: A reconfigurable workbench pipeline for robotic process automation (RPA) workflows is disclosed. Different workbench pipelines may be built for different users. For instance, a global workflow (e.g., a receipt extractor) may be built and used initially, but this workflow may not work optimally or at all for a certain user or a certain task. A machine learning (ML) model may be employed, potentially with a human-in-the-loop, to specialize the global workflow for a given task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: UiPath, Inc.
    Inventors: Prabhdeep Singh, Tony Tzeng, Alexandru Cabuz
  • Patent number: 11528195
    Abstract: A system for constructing and storing procedures for troubleshooting computer networks. A user can design and add troubleshooting steps, via a GUI, to define the procedure including annotations. Each step is configured to take an action on the network. The order of the steps can be re-arranged via the GUI. The procedure can be stored and re-executed by another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NetBrain Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingping Gao, Guangdong Liao, Feng Gan, Chaoxiang Cheng
  • Patent number: 11488227
    Abstract: Techniques for topology based interoperability determination for an information technology (IT) infrastructure are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a replacement notification for an element of an IT infrastructure. A topology subgraph corresponding to the element is generated based on a topology graph of the IT infrastructure. A plurality of replacement candidates for the element is determined. A respective interoperability subgraph based on the topology subgraph is generated for each replacement candidate of the plurality of replacement candidates. A recommended replacement candidate is selected from the plurality of replacement candidates based on the generated interoperability subgraphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qi Cheng Li, Lijun Mei, Hao Chen, Xin Zhou, Chuang Gan
  • Patent number: 11405760
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to utilizing hardware and software to control and record environmental and other data obtained from sensors and other devices, placed throughout a facility, and analyzing and displaying the information in a detailed status report of the environmental conditions inside facility, and once analyzed, the software can provide recommendations to implement measures that increase the efficiency of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: EtaVision Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Lingle, Michael Conaboy, Patrick Boehnke, Kaveh Asalian
  • Patent number: 8935772
    Abstract: A double firewalled system is disclosed for protecting remote enterprise servers that provide communication services to telecommunication network customers from unauthorized third parties. A first router directs all connection requests to one or more secure web servers, which may utilize a load balancer to efficiently distribute the session connection load among a high number of authorized client users. On the network side of the web servers, a second router directs all connection requests to a dispatcher server, which routes application server calls to a proxy server for the application requested. A plurality of data security protocols are also employed. The protocols provide for an identification of the user, and an authentication of the user to ensure the user is who he/she claims to be and a determination of entitlements that the user may avail themselves of within the enterprise system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Carol Y. Devine, Gerald A. Shifrin, Richard W. Shoulberg
  • Patent number: 8910084
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for representing a hierarchical dataset as graphical elements in a configurable data visualization having at least one graphical attribute. At least one aggregate function of a plurality of aggregate functions are determined. Aggregate values of the hierarchical dataset for each hierarchical depth level is determined. The aggregate function is used to determine the aggregate values. The data visualization based on the aggregate values is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Helfman, Joseph Goldberg
  • Patent number: 8849840
    Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for automatically searching data in multiple data fields are described. A user can view data retrieved from a database and formatted based on a layout. While viewing the data, the user can perform a search using one or more search terms. A system can automatically examine the database and identify on which tables and on which data fields of the tables to perform the search. The system can identify searchable tables and data fields by analyzing the database schema as well as characteristics of the tables and data fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oleg Zaydman, Christopher Crim, Clay Maeckel, Galt Johnson, Stephen Iremonger
  • Patent number: 8832556
    Abstract: A structured query language interface provides access to information stored in a social network system. The interface allows third party systems to treat the information stored in the social networking system as a distributed database. The social networking system acts as an expandable distributed database that can add additional fields or categories of data associated with its members. The information provided in response to a structured query may be subject to multiple levels of access control including, business logic rules applicable to users of the social networking system or privacy limitations set by individual users. The social networking system uses a scripting language to extract the information and apply business logic rules to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Arieh Steinberg
  • Patent number: 8700646
    Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for displaying data in formatted views using reference files are described. In some implementations, a database application program can generate a result set using one or more queries. The result set can contain actual data from a database and metadata. The metadata can contain references to data records in the database, the references can include identifiers that can identify the data records. When a user saves a database report file, the user can save at least a part of the result set using the identifiers instead of the queries and layouts. Thus, the result set can be saved as a reference file. When the database application program opens the saved reference file, the database application program can reproduce the result set using the stored references without running all of the queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Brad, Christopher Crim, David McKee, Stephen Iremonger, Toufic Milan
  • Patent number: 8689107
    Abstract: A system and method for aggregating IP flows in a telecommunication network is disclosed. A multi-protocol flow representing packets captured from the telecommunications network during a selected time period is displayed on a user interface of a network monitoring system. The multi-protocol flow is highlighted on the user interface display if any session records within the multi-protocol flow do not meet operator-defined criteria. The user interface detects a user's selection of the multi-protocol flow and displays a plurality of protocol-specific flows that are within the multi-protocol flow. The user interface detects the user's selection of one of the protocol-specific flows and displays a plurality of session flows that are within the selected protocol-specific flow. Any session records that do not meet operator-defined criteria are highlighted on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Dong, Sanchu Han, James Eric Wilson
  • Patent number: 8665751
    Abstract: A network upgrade tool identifies at least one new digital subscriber line (DSL) path pre-provisionable elements associated with the at least one new DSL path. The tool provisions the identified pre-provisionable elements prior to transition from at least one existing DSL path to the at least one new DSL path; receives a notification that physical network changes associated with a target digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) have been made; and provisions non-pre-provisioned elements following receipt of the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag K. Mishra, Ashis Sarkar, Senthilkumaran Kulandaivelan, Joseph R. Manning, Dhaval V. Thaker
  • Patent number: 8443295
    Abstract: Existing statistics reporting methods tend to be inflexible and difficult for operators to understand and use effectively. A graphical user interface is provided whereby operators are able to view a state/event model of an automated system and using that graphical user interface make changes to existing statistics, define new statistics and analyze existing statistics. As a result of user inputs made at this graphical user interface changes are effected in a statistics reporting application in order to generate actual values of the statistics. In some embodiments Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used to provide the state/event model and extensions to UML are described which improve the ability to create and modify definitions of statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D'Arcy, Tony McCormack, Noel Griffin, Michael Hartman
  • Patent number: 8365082
    Abstract: A computer tool allows a user to manipulate displayed content of a web page by a user device. The computer tool may be used to implement a collapsing, foldable browser that allows users to customize web content. The computer tool receives an indication of a user defined first portion of the content of a web page displayed by a browser, determines a remaining portion of the content of the web other than the first portion; and renders only the first user defined portion on a display screen of a display associated with the user device. An attribute may be associated with the first portion and displayed in proximity to the first portion to provide functions to manipulate the first portion within the display screen of the display associated with the user device. A menu may be associated with the attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Savnor Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Alexander R. Skirpa
  • Patent number: 8321435
    Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for automatically searching data in multiple data fields are described. A user can view data retrieved from a database and formatted based on a layout. While viewing the data, the user can perform a search using one or more search terms. A system can automatically examine the database and identify on which tables and on which data fields of the tables to perform the search. The system can identify searchable tables and data fields by analyzing the database schema as well as characteristics of the tables and data fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oleg Zaydman, Christopher Crim, Clay Maeckel, Galt Johnson, Stephen Iremonger
  • Patent number: 8312389
    Abstract: Techniques for visualization of decision logic are provided. In one aspect, the techniques can be implemented by providing a control within a graphical user interface to a user. The control can display a plurality of graphical user interface elements corresponding to linked nodes within a hierarchical structure. An input identifying a selected graphical user interface element within the control can be generated by a user. A selected node within the hierarchical structure can be identified based on the selected graphical user interface element. In response to a request from a user, modifying an appearance of a subset of the linked nodes within the hierarchical structure based on a desired visualization criteria, the linked nodes within the hierarchical structure and the selected node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fair Isaac Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart L. Crawford, Gaurav Chhaparwal, Navin Doshi, Kashyap Babu Rao Kolipaka, Sergei Tolmanov, Michael Steele, Megan Thorsen
  • Patent number: 8286100
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for representing data values of a dataset as a plurality of graphical elements in a data visualization. A data table of the dataset may be linked with web-accessible information using a first content identifier. The first content identifier includes a first substring. The data visualization for the dataset is generated based on a first configuration. A selection of a graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements in the data visualization is received through a first user interface. The first substring is substituted with an identifier of the selected graphical element, generating a second content identifier. The requested web-accessible information based on the second content identifier is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Helfman, Joseph Goldberg
  • Patent number: 8135484
    Abstract: A property of connection relationship information for identifying an internal/external connection of each point is registered in a part DB 1. When the part is one basic part representing a standard configuration article, an anchor ID is registered in the part DB 1 or a product DB 2. Part group extracting unit 4 extracts parts constituting a system from a design drawing generated by drawing generating unit 3 and a group of parts connected at the connection point for each basic part assigned with the anchor ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Toshiya Yamazaki, Toshiro Okada, Takeo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7944855
    Abstract: A network upgrade tool creates an upgrade project designating a source digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM), a target DSLAM, and an upgrade type and determines whether the source DSLAM and target DSLAM are eligible for upgrade based on the upgrade type. At least one new digital subscriber line (DSL) path associated with the target DSLAM is identified when the source DSLAM and target DSLAM are eligible for upgrade. Pre-provisionable elements associated with the at least one new DSL path are identified and the identified pre-provisionable elements are provisioned prior to transition from at least one existing DSL path to the at least one new DSL path. A cutover selection is received that indicates that physical network changes associated with the target DSLAM have been made and non-pre-provisioned elements are provisioned following receipt of the cutover selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag K. Mishra, Ashis Sarkar, Senthilkumaran Kulandaivelan, Joseph R. Manning, Dhaval V. Thaker
  • Patent number: 7669139
    Abstract: An apparatus and program product utilize a displayed pictorial representation that depicts the actual physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components in a physical computer system to facilitate the collective management of the underlying hardware components. Typically, within such a pictorial representation, a selected status is displayed for multiple of such hardware components, thereby permitting hardware components sharing common attributes or characteristics to be identified in an efficient and intuitive manner, as well as to permit collective management operations to be performed on all selected hardware components. In addition, a pictorial representation may be dynamically generated to represent the physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components within a plurality of computers. In connection with such dynamic generation, the plurality of computers may be accessed to identify the plurality of hardware components that are resident in such computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Bradley James Lory, David Walter Mead, Chee Peh, Steven Edward Royer
  • Patent number: 7640018
    Abstract: A method for planning a telecommunication network for radio apparatuses includes a plurality of cells distributed over a geographical area, each of which has a set of elementary areas of territory called pixels adapted to receive a radio signal irradiated by a fixed radio base station in which for each cell is determined a service area of the location of the pixels of the cell in which the network is able to provide predetermined services to the mobile apparatuses located therein. The pixels belonging to the service area pertaining to a predetermined cell are identified according to a criterion for selection in succession based on the values of a sorting function, which is a function of the quantity of traffic pertaining to the pixels being examined, and the resulting service area is computed as a set of the pixels of the cell progressively selected in a manner that the sum of the contributions of the individual pixel does not exceed a predetermined limit value of the load factor of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Indro Francalanci, Loris Stola
  • Patent number: 7565610
    Abstract: A method and apparatus displays time-based performance information for network objects to facilitate identification of a root cause of one or more triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Li, Lee W. Sapiro
  • Patent number: 7512894
    Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method utilize a displayed pictorial representation that depicts the actual physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components in a physical computer system to facilitate the collective management of the underlying hardware components. Typically, within such a pictorial representation, a selected status is displayed for multiple of such hardware components, thereby permitting hardware components sharing common attributes or characteristics to be identified in an efficient and intuitive manner, as well as to permit collective management operations to be performed on all selected hardware components in addition, a pictorial representation may be dynamically generated to represent the physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components within a plurality of computers. In connection with such dynamic generation, the plurality of computers may be accessed to identify the plurality of hardware components that are resident in such computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Bradley James Lory, David Walter Mead, Chee Peh, Steven Edward Royer
  • Patent number: 7469382
    Abstract: A method and computer network for managing an intentional community, such as a continuing care residential retirement community. Such a community includes members who have rights to use physical resources such as facilities and services that are managed by a management entity of the intentional community. The members are able to interact with management and outside vendors with a graphical user interface that represents the community, and perhaps vendor sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Gerontological Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Leslie Dwight
  • Patent number: 7363594
    Abstract: A workflow manager which executes software having one or more channels configured to communicate events-based messages between processes. Events are associated with transitions between states, which mark the progress of an order. An event remains in an associated channel for a period until is retrieved by a peripheral system or expired. When retrieved by a system, the event may trigger a task or process. The workflow manager further includes an event editor, coupled to the workflow manager and configured to retrieve a selected event for editing by a user. The event editor includes a graphical user interface allowing a user to define, monitor, or modify a workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: John Wright, Tracy Packham
  • Patent number: 7356770
    Abstract: Presented is a graphical interface for managing at least reservations and jobs within a compute environment such as a cluster or a grid. A user can graphically view reservations and jobs in the environment and interact with the interface to modify and create reservations with a view of the current status of the resources, available resources and graphically see how proposed changes, additions or modifications of reservations would affect the environment. The invention may comprise a graphical user interface, a computing device for operating the graphical user interface, a computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to utilize the run the graphical interface, and methods of interacting with the user through the graphical user interface. Disclosed are various graphical windows that present in different ways past resource consumption, a current time and future resource predicted usage based on at least one of jobs running and reservations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Cluster Resources, Inc.
    Inventor: David Brian Jackson
  • Patent number: 7293241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation on a user interface in order to select a feature by combining object fields. Bars, where at least one of them is scrollable, have object fields which overlap and combine each other when scrolled or put to a visible focus area in the user interface at the cross point of the bars. Object fields in the focus area select a feature connected to a combination of fields, which is chosen by a confirmation action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tomas Törnqvist, Hans Marmolin, Kristofer Lindblom, Jakob Lindblom, Bengt Ahlström
  • Patent number: 7191028
    Abstract: An electronically controlled apparatus of the present invention includes: an input-output section, which electronically processes and outputs input data; a control section, which electronically controls the input-output section according to operating status data of each component of the input-output section; a managing section, which monitors the operating status data of each component of the input-output section, so as to store and manage the operating status data with corresponding time information of the operating status data; and a processing section, which creates graphic display of the operating status data in a given time scale according to the operating status data and the time information. With the electronically controlled apparatus, it becomes easier to manage regular inspections and replenishing expendables, without lowering an activity rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nomura, Syouichirou Yoshiura, Tsutomu Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 7107534
    Abstract: A storage area network management and configuration system is provided. The system includes an enterprise network that has a plurality of computer systems, and some of the plurality of computer systems include a server component, some include a client component, and some include both the client component and the server component. The system also includes a storage enclosure that is connected to a computer system having at least the server component. A graphical user interface window is provided by the client component, and the graphical user interface provides a graphical representation and icon links to configuration tools for controlling the drives and arrays of the storage enclosure. In one aspect, the enterprise network can include a plurality of storage enclosures that are connected to selected computer systems that are part of the enterprise network and that have the server component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.
    Inventors: Anke T. de Jong, Larry L. Cornett, David A. Holzer, John G. DeBriere, Peter J. Nicklin, R. Michael Reese, Valerie E. Fife, Johnny C. Nichols, Chooi P. Low, Kit Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 7073124
    Abstract: When the drafting operation with a display drafting apparatus and the generating operation with a control program schema generator proceed concurrently or separately, a step of temporarily storing the device of interest for display can be omitted to enhance the drafting efficiency. Conventionally, drafting the display was conducted in such a way as to temporarily store (memorize, or store with the file) a device of a controller for use, set up the specifications of the display at steps of selecting a display component, selecting display mode and function, and then call back the temporarily stored device to perform the operation of selecting the device symbol and number. This invention starts with the selection of a desired device, as such, there is no need of the temporary storage, resulting in enhanced drafting efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Suetsugu, Masayuki Maeda, Michiaki Isobe
  • Patent number: 7024635
    Abstract: A method for modeling a computing architecture is provided. Computing layers of the computing architecture are identified, wherein each computing layer represents a functional layer of the computing architecture. Computing systems of the computing system are identified. Computing layers implemented by the computing system are identified. Stacked bars are displayed to represent the computing layers. Second bars orthogonal to the stacked bars are displayed to represent the computing systems, wherein each second bar extends through a portion of the stacked bars an amount corresponding to the computing layers implemented by the computing system represented by the second bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corp.
    Inventors: Jai Menon, Donna Hodges
  • Patent number: 7010753
    Abstract: Permitting or prohibiting a drop is executed at the beginning of the drag-and-drop action initiated by the user, by mouse-clicking on the object to be dragged, for example. Thus, the drag-and-drop action is shown as a visual drop permission or prohibition in the relevant drop areas, such as a visual queue, for example, check mark, etc. In the preferred embodiment, and upon initiation of the action, the surface components display which areas, parts, elements or substructures can or cannot accept a given object or data element before a mouse pointer, arrow or cursor reaches or moves over the relevant areas, parts, elements or substructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Windl, Helmut Fritz, Larry Constantine
  • Patent number: 6996778
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying information related to a plurality of resources in a network environment. The system uses web technology to receive and store information related to back-end resources and to provide a framework by which client computer systems can manage the plurality of back-end resources in a uniform manner. In accordance with one method, a request is received to display object information from different network resources. In response, attribute and task information is retrieved from the appropriate different network resources and this information is displayed. A graphical user interface (GUI) displays information related to network resource objects. The GUI includes a console displaying a tool zone and a work zone. A module is displayed in the work zone having an object zone displaying a list of objects and a task zone displaying a list of tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Vij Rajarajan, Kishnan Nedungadi, Brijesh Bhatia, Casey Kiernan, Mel MacMahon, Anandha Ganesan, James Johnston, Lauren Gallagher, Kevin Hodge, Tom Martino, Cary Rohwer, Andrew Hayes, Annette B. Hall, Audrius Zimnickas
  • Patent number: 6973357
    Abstract: A method and configuration system are used for producing an application-specific functional module from a predefined functional module for a programmable controller. In this context, a marking device is useable to mask out subfunctions of the predefined functional module, so that just the software code for those subfunctions which is required in order to satisfy the functionality of the application-specific functional module are readable into the programmable controller. In this case, it is simultaneously necessary to ensure that only that software code which is not imperatively required for calculating a result for at least one of the unmarked subfunctions is masked out and is therefore not read in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Humpert, Dieter Kleyer
  • Patent number: 6910843
    Abstract: Cover authoring systems and methods for automatically composing a final content layout for a cover, including spinal content formatted to accommodate the width and height dimensions of the book spine, are described. By automatically computing the typeface parameter values based upon the selected visual fit model, this cover authoring scheme enables users to avoid the time consuming, laborious and expensive process of manually composing the final cover content layout with a conventional graphics program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chit Wei Saw, Hui Chao, Giordano B. Beretta