Adobe, Inc.

Palmsource Inc.

Mobitv, Inc.

Access Company, Ltd.

Access Systems Americas, Inc.

Palm, Incorporated

Tivo Corporation

Adeia Media Holdings LLC

Abobe Inc.

Gavin Peacock

James Roseborough

David Lowell

Aravind Nallan

Ian Farmer

Monica Tran

Rupen Chanda

Ryan Robertson

Stephane Maes

Mark Edward Shepherd

Mark Kruger

Michael James Andrew Smith

George Comninos

Sedat Akkus

Lavanya Raghunath

Jeffrey Charles Hawkins

Michael J Smith

David Kammer

Seth John Walker

Srinivas Annam

Rishit Shah

Jacob Aaron Surber

Jian Zheng

Glenn Ruehle

Brent Getlin

Adam Hampson

Antti Piira

Thomas Reilly

Nayoung Kim

Cynthia Kaschub

Glade Miller

Regis Nicolas

Angus Ward Davis

Adam Ross Cath

René Pourtier

Alain Basty

Werner Leland Sharp

Denis Berger

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

As digital assets are created and shared, design components that comprise those digital assets are curated, organized, and tracked so as to allow meaningful relationships to be established between shared assets and design components. The tracking that underlies such relationships is provided by metadata associated with a given design component. This metadata may include information such as an asset identifier that identifies a source digital asset from which the design component was extracted; a version identifier that identifies a version of the source digital asset; an author identifier that identifies an author of the source digital asset; and a layer identifier that can be used to reveal the context in which the design component was derived from the source asset. This metadata allows relationships to be established between a design component and the digital assets that incorporate that design component, thus facilitating asset and component tracking and update notification broadcasting.

Digital asset and design component tracking in a collaborative environment

Method and systems of visually depicting instrumented and sampled data are provided. A first stream of instrumented data, the instrumented data collected via execution of code contained in a user-scriptable engine. Then a second stream of sampled data is received, the sampled data collected by monitoring execution of code contained in scripts executed by the user-scriptable engine. Then an aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data and an aggregated version of a portion of the sampled data are simultaneously displayed in one or more viewing regions. Then user interaction with an object pertaining to the aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data is received. In response to the receiving user interaction with the object pertaining to the aggregated version of a portion of the instrumented data, the aggregated version of the portion of the sampled data is caused to change to depict a different aggregated version of a portion of the sampled data.

Method and system of visually combining profiling data from instrumentation and sampling

Techniques for sharing style information between different applications and/or devices are provided. A document is displayed in a first window of a first application. The document includes user-selectable portions that each comprises at least one style information item. A menu is displayed in a second window. The menu provides a mechanism to store at least one style information item from the user-selectable portions. In response to a user selecting a user-selectable portion, menu options are provided in the menu to store at least one style information item for the selected user-selectable portion. The menu options are determined based on the style information item corresponding to the selected user-selectable portion. In response to the user selecting a menu option, the style information item corresponding to the selected menu option is stored.

Cloud-based inter-application interchange of style information

Method and systems of visually depicting hierarchical data are provided. The hierarchical data includes data pertaining to a plurality of categories, the hierarchical data further including data pertaining to a plurality of subcategories of at least one of the plurality of categories. Multiple viewing regions may then be displayed simultaneously on a display, each viewing region depicting a different view of the hierarchical data, objects displayed in each viewing region being color-coded with a different color for each category, such that an object corresponding to a first category in a first viewing region is displayed in an identical color as an object corresponding to the first category in a second viewing region.

Method and system of visually depicting hierarchical data through selective colorization

Techniques for sharing design elements between different applications and/or devices are provided. A design element is received from a first application as multiple representations, each of the multiple representations corresponding to a complementary storage format for the design element based on a design element type. The design element is stored as the multiple representations in a centrally stored library, the centrally stored library being shared among a plurality of applications. An indication to use the design element in a second application may be received. At least one of the multiple representations may be returned, as determined by the second application.

Cloud-based storage and interchange mechanism for design elements

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for caching during media content rendering. In one aspect, a method performed by data processing apparatus includes receiving a request to load a digital image object for rendering; generating a first object from the digital image object; and managing the first object in a cache memory using a management object that is added to and removed from the cache memory along with the first object. In another aspect, a system includes a display device; a computer storage medium containing a cache memory; and a processor programmed to manage caching of data objects to be rendered using management objects that are cached along with the data objects, where at least one of the management objects includes a reference to a corresponding data object and an interface through which release and restoration of the corresponding data object is effected.

Reconstructable digital image cache

Method and systems of visually depicting rendering data are provided. rendering data pertaining to rendering, by a display engine, of display objects in a display zone for a selected frame is accessed. Then, for the selected frame, a heat map is generated based on rendering data corresponding to the selected frame, the heat map containing a plurality of heat objects, each heat object corresponding in proportional size and location to a different display object in the display zone, each heat object displayed in a color having an intensity proportional to an amount of computational resources taken by the display engine to render the corresponding display object. Finally, the heat map is displayed.

Method and system of visualizing rendering data

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

Techniques and systems are disclosed for managing computer resources available to multiple running instances of a media player program. The methods include monitoring consumption of computing resources of multiple running instances of a media player program to render respective media content in a graphical user interface of a computing device. The graphical user interface associated with an additional program configured to render additional content, different from the media content, to the graphical user interface. The additional program can be a browser. The methods further include instructing the multiple instances to reduce respective portions of the computing resources consumption upon determining that a requested increase in computer resources consumption of the media player program would cause the computer resources consumption of the media player program to exceed a first predetermined level.

Media player instance managed resource reduction

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 method including loading multiple instances of a media player program to render respective media content in respective visible portions of a graphical user interface of a computing device, the graphical user interface associated with an additional program configured to render additional content, different than the media content, to the graphical user interface; determining that a first of the multiple instances of the media player program takes precedence over a second of the multiple instances of the media player program; and modifying an allocation, associated with processing media content by the second of the multiple instances of the media player program, in accordance with a rendering limitation associated with the computing device.

Media player instance throttling

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Gavin Peacock