| 7028308 |
Methods for automatically installing, maintaining, and repairing device driver through the internet and system thereof |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A method that automatically downloads a device driver through the Internet when installing a peripheral device to a host, a method for fixing errors in the device, and a system thereof. A first embodiment... |
| 7020881 |
System for receiving description information from a network device and automatically generate a control panel at a controller for controlling the device |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A control device for controlling a network device connected to a network. The control device comprises a communication interface adapted to receive description information of the network device from the... |
| 6999913 |
Emulated read-write disk drive using a protected medium |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A read-write hard disk drive is emulated using a hard disk drive image file on a protected medium such as a CD-ROM, a written disk sector database, and file system filters. A file system filter intercepts... |
| 6966063 |
IEEE set top box device driver |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A device interface for use in a receiver/decoder for a broadcast digital television system in which received signals are passed through a receiver to the receiver/decoder and then to a television set.... |
| 6959438 |
Interface and related methods for dynamically generating a filter graph in a development system |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A system is presented including a plurality of sources, and an interface, selectively coupled to the plurality of sources, to generate and implement a development project of processing chains, wherein... |
| 6871350 |
User mode device driver interface for translating source code from the user mode device driver to be executed in the kernel mode or user mode |
| Mar-22-2005 |
A user mode device driver interface (UMDDI) is disclosed. The UMDDI is preferably implemented in Windows.RTM. NT.RTM. version 5.0 and similar systems. The UMDDI allows a device driver to execute in user-mode... |
| 6851116 |
System for optimally distributing processing performance of Av apparatus |
| Feb-1-2005 |
To provide a system which is capable of automatically selecting an optimum function from a plurality of connected AV apparatus and of constructing an optimum utilization. An audio-video managing system... |
| 6845508 |
Stream class driver for computer operating system |
| Jan-18-2005 |
A stream class driver for use in a computer operating system functions together with a minidriver. The minidriver is associated with a particular design for an adapter, which is a hardware device that... |
| 6834390 |
System and related interfaces supporting the processing of media content |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A software enabled, matrix switch is presented wherein a scalable plurality of inputs, coupled to media content sources, provide media content which is recursively routed through select media processing... |
| 6826762 |
Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware-specific driver layer |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A Radio Interface Layer (RIL) is disclosed. The RIL comprises an API set which provides a level of abstraction between the radio on a cell phone and the software of the cell phone. The API set of RIL is... |
| 6798530 |
Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for printing object optimized images using virtual printers |
| Sep-28-2004 |
Rather than implementing a printer as a single set of rendering parameters, a printer can be implemented as a "meta-printer" that comprises one or more virtual printers. The virtual printers define different... |
| 6788428 |
Data printing system and method generating intermediate printing data for another application to change the printing data |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system for printing data includes a printer to print the data and a terminal to process the data with a first application. The terminal includes an intermediate module operated under control of an operating... |
| 6779181 |
Micro-scheduling method and operating system kernel |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A scheduling method implemented in an operating system kernel for supporting multimedia applications is provided. The micro-scheduling method includes the steps of determining a performance parameter by... |
| 6754796 |
Frameworks for implementation of java heaps |
| Jun-22-2004 |
Techniques for implementation of Java heaps are disclosed. The techniques can be implemented in a Java virtual machine operating in a Java computing environment. A Java heap potion comprising two or more... |
| 6732365 |
Application interface to a media server and a method of implementing the same |
| May-4-2004 |
According to the present invention, a media manager is provided which incorporates an application program interface (API) for converting high-level generic commands into device-level commands for output... |
| 6728787 |
System and method for locating and installing device drivers for peripheral devices |
| Apr-27-2004 |
A destination computer reads a device identification and a network address from a peripheral device connected to the destination computer. A device driver, corresponding to the device identification, is... |
| 6715061 |
Multimedia-instruction acceleration device for increasing efficiency and method for the same |
| Mar-30-2004 |
The present invention proposes a multimedia-instruction acceleration device for increasing efficiency and a method for the same, which uses instruction strings having a floating-point value check field... |
| 6714998 |
Distributed processing system and its control method |
| Mar-30-2004 |
This invention has as its object to reduce network traffic when a remote copy process is done using network devices. To achieve this object, a computer (13) acquires stub drivers (610, 612) from image... |
| 6671749 |
Peripheral driver installation method and system |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A method for locating and installing peripheral drivers has steps of creating a driver profile, creating a resources profile, and of looking to potential driver sources on a prioritized list for drivers... |
| 6643721 |
Input device-adaptive human-computer interface |
| Nov-4-2003 |
A computer user interface and method for its operation are disclosed. The interface uses a new architecture that allows it to adapt readily to the type of input device being used to operate the computer.... |
| 6604235 |
Operating system upgrading |
| Aug-5-2003 |
Methods for upgrading the operating system of an appliance and/an one or more applications run by the appliance. The method can be used to reload existing software, to add an operating mode to the appliance,... |
| 6584510 |
Computer and a method of operating a computer |
| Jun-24-2003 |
A method of operating a computer having an audio device driver (ADD) for driving a soundcard (1), and an application manager (AM) for interfacing the ADD with an audio compression manager (ACM) to facilitate... |
| 6513049 |
Data processing method, recording medium, and data processing apparatus |
| Jan-28-2003 |
Message passing is suitably performed even if there are a plurality of server objects, and even if a processing request is received and a processing result is returned by a different server object. When... |
| 6405255 |
Mixing and splitting multiple independent audio data streams in kernel space |
| Jun-11-2002 |
A method and an apparatus for securely mixing and splitting multiple audio data streams and determining the order of processing the audio streams. A audio server and an audio device driver are in kernel... |
| 6397263 |
String command parser for message based systems |
| May-28-2002 |
A logical device that is coupled to a computer can be controlled using string commands. The logical device requires flags and a data structure to operate properly. A string command with tokens for operating... |
| 6393496 |
Operating system and network independent application program interface for use in an intelligent communication device |
| May-21-2002 |
An application interface for an intelligent communication device. The intelligent communication device is connected to a network with at least one server connected thereto. The intelligent communication... |
| 6353765 |
Electronic apparatus power supply control method and recording medium |
| Mar-5-2002 |
An electronic apparatus controls a single or a plurality of objects. The electronic apparatus, which serves as a node, has an attribute information database that stores attribute information of object... |
| 6308253 |
RISC CPU instructions particularly suited for decoding digital signal processing applications |
| Oct-23-2001 |
A reduced programmable controller for an extensible digital signal processing architecture supports particular instructions to facilitate common digital signal processing operations. These instructions... |
| 6304918 |
Object interface control system |
| Oct-16-2001 |
An object interface control system that provides a mechanism for identifying the functionality available at an interface separately from the interface itself. A COM implementation provides a new function... |
| 6292443 |
Information recording apparatus and method for playing a plurality of information recording mediums |
| Sep-18-2001 |
An optical disc drive control apparatus according to the present invention comprises a disc drive into or from which various optical discs are inserted or ejected. The system includes a first memory for... |
| 5991836 |
System for communicating real time data between client device and server utilizing the client device estimating data consumption amount by the server |
| Nov-23-1999 |
An improved method and apparatus for providing multimedia communication between and client device and a server. The improved method and apparatus allows for communication of information, such as audio... |
| 5889990 |
Information appliance software architecture with replaceable service module providing abstraction function between system library and platform specific OS |
| Mar-30-1999 |
An architecture for an information appliance adapted for a specific application supports a variety of appliance personalities, relying on a single core technology. The information appliance comprises an... |
| 5832263 |
System and method for in-place modification of information recorded in read-only storage using modifiable non-volatile storage associated with an agent |
| Nov-3-1998 |
A system and method for allowing modification of information recorded in a read-only storage, including CD-ROMs, ROMs, read-only network directories, read-only files, and WORM media and devices (after... |
| 5668996 |
Rendering CD redbook audio using alternative storage locations and formats |
| Sep-16-1997 |
A CD-based application program must often be run in conjunction with its associated CD. Described herein, however, is a method that allows such an application program, without any modifications, to render... |
| 5630175 |
Surround sound system for general purpose computer using dual sound cards |
| May-13-1997 |
A stereo computer system with resources to produce and record surround sound channels. Such surround sound channels are played or recorded using an audio card added to the computer system, which audio... |
| 5615401 |
Video and audio data presentation interface |
| Mar-25-1997 |
Presentation of digital video and audio data in a computer system. Am application program may call upon a driver program to manipulate streams of video and audio data, including commands to present the... |
