International Business Machines Corporation

Motorola Corporation

Xm Satellite Radio Inc.

Gary J Morse

Stephen P Thompson

Robert Nathan Nelms

Hagai Ohel

Paul D Marko

Frederick Loring Kampe

Thomas L Klein

Kenneth Philip Greene

Disclosed are a device and method for securely storing and organizing SDARS content on a portable player. SDARS audio content is stored on a private partition of the device not available to a client PC. Shadow files are stored on a public partition of the device. The shadow files contain metadata related to the corresponding SDARS audio and a reference to the SDARS audio on the private partition. Playlists can be organized on the device intermixing stored SDARS content with DRM and non-DRM protected media content. Downloading of purchased or subscription-based media files based on observed or received SDARS content is facilitated. Digital Rights Management features are included to control authorized actions with respect to SDARS content. Firmware updates are performed using encrypted firmware unique to the particular device to thwart firmware hacking.

System and method for securely storing and organizing SDARS content with DRM and non-DRM protected media content, and for facilitating obtaining purchased or subscription-based media based on received SDARS content

A communication management system ( ) for personalized mobility management of wireless services includes at least one wireless communication device ( ), a mobility aware content server ( ), and a wireless communication system ( ). The mobility aware content server ( ) sends a location specific content ( ) to the wireless communication system ( ) in response to a current location ( ), a movement speed ( ), and a movement direction ( ) of the wireless communication device ( ). The wireless communication system ( ) is coupled to the mobility aware content server ( ), and, upon receipt of the location specific content ( ) from the mobility aware content server ( ), transmits the location specific content ( ) to the wireless communication device ( ).

Communication management system for personalized mobility management of wireless services and method therefor

An updateable message encoder/transmitter (100) has a processor (109) for encoding messages and message updates. A message includes an origination time (191), a version number (410) and an update lifetime indicator (424), and a message update includes the origination time (191) and the version number. A transmitter (120) broadcasts the message and the message update message receiver/decoder (130) receives the message and the message update, a processor (212) processes the message to determine when the message update is being received. The processor checks the update lifetime indicator of the message indicated by the message update to determine if the message to which the message update is intended can be updated. A comparator compares the origination time of the message with the origination time of the message update to determine if the message update is an out-of-sequence message update.

System and method for including origination time and update lifetime

A technique is for receiving variable length messages in a selective call receiver (68) having a processor (110) coupled to a memory element (86). The selective call receiver (68) is configured to receive a signal transmitted in a standard protocol format comprising an address portion (14) and a message portion (16). First, second, third, and fourth configuration values are stored within the selective call receiver (68) from which determinations are made, respectively, whether the selective call receiver (68) is permitted to process sub-address information (22, 24) included within the message portion, whether said selective call receiver (68) is permitted to receive a particular sub-address included in the message portion, whether said selective call receive (68) is permitted to process a processor command (26) included in the message portion, and whether said selective call receiver (68) is permitted to receive and process a particular processor command included in the message portion.

Embedded protocol

A method and apparatus for increasing efficiency in displaying characters on a display within the data processing system. A plurality of processes for displaying characters on the display in a data processing system are provided. Each of the processes requires a different amount of processor resources to display characters on the display. One of the processes is selected such that the selected process provides a more efficient display of characters on the display than other processes. Characters may be displayed by caching font data in system memory of the data processing system. Glyph bitmaps for a particular character may be moved from the cache to a graphics adapter utilizing a permanent move instruction available in the CPU. Characters are moved to the graphics adapter on a fixed scanline basis, either encompassing the entire width of the character or the entire string of characters on a line.

Method and apparatus for optimizing the display of forms in a data

A video random access memory is disclosed that performs a block write function for an opaque pattern color expansion. The video RAM, or VRAM, uses an input buffer for receiving and holding video input information. A first color register is coupled to the input buffer and holds a first color value. A second color register coupled to the input buffer is used to hold a second color value. A gate multiplexor couples to both first color register and the second color register with a color selection register being used to gate which color value from the first color register or the second color register should be asserted. A write control logic selects which color values are to be displayed. A third or mask register is coupled to the input buffer and the write control logic such that, based upon data from the input buffer, the mask register selects which pixel location is to be changed based on the color value selected by the color selection register as received from the write control logic.

Video display control system having block write with opaque pattern

A method and system for increasing efficiency in the display of characters on a display within a data processing system, wherein the data processing system includes a system memory and a graphics adapter, the system memory having a page mode. A plurality of characters are stored in the system memory as a plurality of glyph bitmaps. Each character has a width, and each glyph bitmap for a character is arranged as a plurality of scanlines such that each of the scanlines includes the width of the character. Selected glyph bitmaps are transmitted from the system memory to the graphics adapter, wherein an occurrence of breaks in the page mode are minimized when the selected glyph bitmaps are moved from the system memory to the graphics adapter, increasing efficiency in displaying characters on a display.

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Gary J Morse