Intel Corporation

Intel Corporatoin

Ramanathan Ramanathan

Peter S Adamson

In an interactive broadcasting system, television programming may be broadcast with interleaved web content information. The progress in broadcasting the web content information over one or more transports and over one or more channels within those transports, may be monitored to provide a time based indication of what content has been broadcast. In one embodiment, markers may be inserted into the data transmission flow and a method may be utilized to associate a handle with a particular marker. A method may be called which obtains the handle and another method may be utilized to invoke the handle to obtain current information about broadcast transmissions. This information may be used within a broadcast encoder or may be provided to a content provider, for example, through a log-in server.

Confirming video transmissions

An interactive transmission system having a data management module that identifies at least one transmission characteristic of at least one transmitter module. The transmitter module transmits data over a transport medium. The data management module modifies its behavior based on the identified at least one transmission characteristic.

Transmission communications management

A method and apparatus for monitoring encrypted communications in a network comprising: establishing a network monitoring digital contract with a network monitoring element, establishing a network use digital contract with a first and a second network element; and transmitting decrypting information to the network monitoring element for decrypting encrypted communications between the first network element and the second network element per terms in the network monitoring digital contract and the network use digital contract.

Method and apparatus for monitoring encrypted communication in a network

A computer-implemented method of providing access to a first application in a graphical user interface is described. For a first window having the current focus, a determination is made as to whether the first window is associated with the first application. A menu icon is placed within a title bar of the first window if the first application is not associated with the first window. A menu associated with the first application is provided if the menu icon is selected. A method of proportionate placement of the menu icon when resizing or switching between windows is also described. A computer implemented method of repositioning a menu icon is provided to maintain proportional location of the menu icon when switching from a first application window to a second application window or when forming a second application window by resizing the first application window. A new location, d, for the menu icon is computed from d=l*D/L wherein l represents the length of the second application window title bar, L represents the length of the first application window title bar, and D represents the distance from the menu icon to an end of the first application window title bar. The menu icon is then located at the distance, d, from a corresponding end of the second application window title bar. These methods help ensure ready access to an application in a graphical user interface regardless of focus changes, window position, window movement, or window resizing.

Relocatable menu icon for accessing an application in a graphical user

A method of handling errors in complex inheritance hierarchies. A complex inheritance hierarchy is derived so as to have a single common ancestor, the base class, at the top of the hierarchy. The base class has an error handler class nested inside to handle errors occurring in the hierarchy. When an error occurs in a class in the hierarchy, an error message is pushed on a stack accessible by the error handler subject to certain conditions. In one embodiment, the conditions include either the recoverability of the error, the severity of the error, or both. In an embodiment in which a condition is recoverability, an error that is successfully recovered does not require an error message be pushed on the stacks as no further handling is required. If an error message is pushed on the stack, an error signal is then returned to the calling class. Unless the error is such that it can be recovered or ignored, the error will be propagated to the application, making an initial call to the hierarchy, with each class along the way adding its own error message to the stack within the base class.

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Ramanathan Ramanathan