Intel Corporation

Robert T Adams

Vaughn Scott Iverson

John Whitley Richardson

Rohan G Coelho

Thomas R Gardos

David E Dent

Jeffrey N Kidder

Chihuan Michael Lin

Vincent R Slyngstad

Seckin Unlu

Sherman Janes

Kenneth E Rhodes

Nelson Kidder Jeffrey

Iverson S Vaughn

A method and apparatus for interactive communication between a first application program and a second application program over a network having delays. The first application program receives a message from the second application program. The message contains a previous state and one or more projected or future states of an object corresponding to the second application program. Each projected state includes a plurality of possible scenarios, each scenario including an associated probability value indicating a probability of the scenario. An updated state of the object corresponding to the second application program is determined based on the received message and displayed.

Communication technique for interactive applications over a network with

A method and apparatus for protecting user privacy by providing an inaccurate measure of network systems automatically initiates one or more non-user requested accesses to one or more network systems. The data received from the host system corresponding to the one or more non-user requested accesses is then automatically ignored.

Method and apparatus for protecting user privacy by providing an

A browser for requesting and receiving documents from a network includes a cache which stores a plurality of documents and has a user-defined storage limit. At least one of the plurality of documents stored in the cache is designated as a keep document. When a document is requested and received from the network, it is stored in the cache. The cache then determines whether the amount of storage used by the cache exceeds the storage limit. If the storage limit is exceeded, the cache deletes the oldest documents not designated as keep documents until the amount of storage used by the cache is within the storage limit.

Internet browser that includes an enhanced cache for user-controlled

A method and apparatus for masquerading online is provided. A user supplies one or more transformation factors by selecting aspects of a stored user profile or by specifying desired attributes directly. The transformation factors are subsequently used to disguise the user's identity by generating suggested masqueraded output or by altering the user's input based upon the transformation factors. User input is received that is to be transmitted. The user input is then transformed into a masqueraded user output. The resulting masqueraded user output conforms to the transformation factors while maintaining the same basic meaning as the original user input. The masqueraded user output is then transmitted in place of the original user input.

Method and apparatus for masquerading online

Method and apparatus of mutual exclusion for executing protected code in a computer system. If an interrupt occurs during the execution of protected code, then the computer system is reconfigured to exclude interrupts having a lower priority than the current exclusion level and the interrupt is either deferred (if it has a lower priority than the current dessired exclusion level) or serviced (if it has a priority higher than the current desked exclusion level). In some embodiments, for computer systems which use a programmable interrupt controller (PIC), the PIC is reprogrammed. In other systems using a software-controlled interrupt handling, the kernel of the operating system is informed of the change in exclusion level. In summary, the system is only configured to a new exclusion level if an interrupt actually occurs, and thus, the latency resulting from reconfiguration is not incurred if an interrupt is not generated during the execution of the protected code.

Mutual exclusion for computer system

Graphical, video, and audio dam is integrated into a single processing environment. The present invention employs an integrated graphics/video controller (IVC) which interfaces with application software through a graphics API and a video API. The IVC receives graphics commands through the graphics API and video commands through the video API. A mask driver produces information from the graphics commands including clipping information, graphics information and mask information. A blender uses the mask information, the graphics information, and the clipping information for combining or compositing graphics images with video images. The video commands of the video command stream provide functions for configuring the operation of the IVC. These functions include commands for loading software video decoders in a decoder block within the IVC. Video data transferred to the IVC via the video API may be encoded in a variety of different formats. The present invention provides a means for dynamically loading a plurality of different video decoders through a video command interface to a video decode block both within the IVC. Each of the independent decoders within the decode block contain processing logic for decoding a particular type of video data to produce a uniform type of decoded video data which is provided to the blender. The blender receives the decoded video data and combines the video data with graphics data as defined by the mask information, the clipping information, and the graphics information.

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Robert T Adams