Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Mobitv, Inc.

Tivo Corporation

Adeia Media Holdings LLC

David Lowell

James Roseborough

Gavin Peacock

Aravind Nallan

Ian Farmer

Monica Tran

Yoshio Frank Turner

Gopalakrishnan Janakiraman

Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti

Jose Renato Santos

Caroline Tice

Todd Allen Stiers

Yasushi Saito

Caroline M Tic

Mechanisms are provided for allowing a mobile device to dynamically obtain program guide data. A mobile device having the capability of playing media streams is configurable to dynamically request program guide structure information followed by program guide content information. In one example, the program guide structure information allows a user to begin navigating the program guide data in an active and dynamic manner. Program guide content information including data such as program titles, times, icons, and links are then downloaded and displayed as needed. Potentially limitless amounts of program guide data can be provided on a mobile device. Program guide content information can be provided in a generic manner while allowing user layout customization. Program guide information can also be preemptively provided to a mobile device based on a variety of criteria.

Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic program guides on mobile devices

Techniques and mechanisms are provided for sending targeted content and data to mobile devices. Location information associated with a device is determined. In some instances, the location information is manually entered. In other instances, the location information is determined automatically from characteristics associated with the device. Location information can be obtained from global positioning system (GPS) data, cell-site triangulation, Internet Protocol (IP) address detection, etc. Content and advertising can be provided in a location relevant manner to the mobile device.

Methods and apparatus for providing media on mobile devices

Mechanisms are provided for allowing improved selection of program guide information. Program guide information includes channel, time, and program listing information. In particular examples, each program listing is associated with a time slot having beginning time slot boundary and an end time slot boundary. Program listing information can be viewed even after a current time passes an end time slot boundary. In some examples, program listing information may be removed after a predetermined period of time or after a predetermined period of disuse.

Intelligent program guide time slot selection

A virtual machine monitor is interposed between computer hardware and an operating system at runtime. Hardware that is already virtualized can be devirtualized at runtime.

Interposing a virtual machine monitor and devirtualizing computer hardware at runtime

A virtual machine monitor can be used to commence virtualization of computer memory at runtime. The virtual machine monitor can also be used to devirtualize computer memory at runtime.

Runtime virtualization and devirtualization of memory by a virtual machine monitor

A virtual machine monitor can be used to commence virtualization of an I/O device of a computer at runtime. The virtual machine monitor can also be used to devirtualize an I/O device of a computer at runtime.

Runtime virtualization and devirtualization of I/O devices by a virtual machine monitor

A client device is configurable to operate as a proxy for server operations. In particular examples, a back-end server performs transactions with a target server such as a vending server by using the client device as a proxy to allow transactions through the client device. The client device obtains from a back-end server logic information for communicating with the target server. The client device need not be configured with logic information to locate and communicate with any particular target entity.

Proxy operations on client devices

Migrating a process between separate logical address spaces involves saving information on a state of a process running in a first logical address space in machine memory mapped to the first logical address space, remapping the machine memory containing the saved information to a second logical address space, and recovering the process in the second logical address space from the saved information.

Process migration

Online computer maintenance is performed on at least one node. A virtual machine monitor is run; a first operating instance is run on the virtual machine monitor; and a second operating system instance is run on the virtual machine monitor as a substitute for the first instance. The maintenance is performed with respect to one of the instances while using the other of the instances.

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