International Business Machines Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yudong Yang

Hong-Jiang Zhang

Yan Li

Haibo Lin

Hang Jun Ye

Jin-Lin Chen

Liu Tao

Yu Meng Li

Yi Zhao

Yonghua Lin

Qiang Liu

Tao Zhou

Li Hui Guo

Yan Qi Wang

Wen Bo Shen

You Zhou

Hong Hua Song

Yu Li

Wei Xie

Weikai Xie

Guohui Lin

Yanqi Wang

Wenbo Shen

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for lowering I/O power of a computer system and a computer system. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for lowering I/O power of a computer system, comprising: buffering a plurality of ways of data to be sent to a bus; encoding each of the plurality of ways of data buffered from n bits to n+m bits based on an encoding rule, wherein n and m are both an integer larger than or equal to 1, the encoding rule is used to lower code switching frequency; and sending the plurality of ways of data encoded to the bus.

Method and apparatus for lowering I/O power of a computer system and computer system

A method, apparatus, and system for monitoring the state of a fluid transport pipe. In one embodiment, there is provided a method of monitoring the state of a fluid transport pipe, the method including: causing a monitor to move along with a fluid inside the fluid transport pipe, the monitor including an elastic gas container and being configured to adjust the volume of the elastic gas container based on ambient pressure of the elastic gas container; and measuring and recording, by the monitor, one or more types of environmental data inside the fluid transport pipe for determining the state of the fluid transport pipe. In other embodiments, there are further provided an apparatus and system for monitoring a state of a fluid transport pipe.

Monitoring state of fluid transport pipe

A combinational computing apparatus and method. The combinational computing method includes the steps of: receiving a first setting relating to multiple groups of input data and a second setting relating to a combinatorial mode among multiple groups of input data, obtaining the data combination of the multiple groups of input data according to the first setting and the second setting, and performing a desired calculating operation on the data combination.

Combinatorial computing

Rule based combinatorial computing for map/reduce platform

A co-processor system and a method for loading an application to a local memory of a co-processor system. In the method, re-locatable code and descriptive data are copied from a loading region to a non-loading region. An executable image to be loaded is loaded using the re-locatable code copied to the non-loading region according to the descriptive data. The local memory includes a loading region and a non-loading region, the loading region stories a loader and descriptive data of an executable image to be loaded of the application, and the loader includes re-locatable code. A system is provided for carrying out the steps of the method. In accordance with the system and method of the present invention, flexibility of co-processor system application development is improved without occupying additional storage space.

Method and system for loading application to a local memory of a co-processor system by using position independent loader

A method and apparatus in a data processing system. The apparatus includes a performance event record generation component for generating a performance event record according to the system clock for a performance event monitored in the data processing system and a performance event record storage component for storing the performance event record generated by the performance event record generation component. The method in a data processing system according to the present invention includes the steps of: generating a performance event record based on the system clock for a performance event monitored in the data processing system; storing the generated performance event record; and arbitrating the storage conflict when multiple performance event records are generated at the same time in the step of generating a performance event record, in order to determine the storage order of the performance event records.

Detecting and recording performance events in a data processing system

By understanding a website author's intention through an analysis of the function of a website, website content can be adapted for presentation or rendering in a manner that more closely appreciates and respects the function behind the website. Various inventive systems and methods analyze a website's function so that its content can be adapted to different client environments, e.g. devices, network conditions, or user preferences. A novel function-based object model automatically identifies objects associated with a website, and analyzes those objects in terms of their functions. The function-based object model permits consistent, informed decisions to be made in the adaptation process, so that web content is displayed not only in an organized manner, but in a manner that reflects the author's intention.

Function-based object model for use in WebSite adaptation

A method and system for building an embedded software package for a target system including creating a cross-compiling stub in the target system, wherein the stub accesses a compiling tool at a remote location, starting a software package building process at the target system, and intercepting a compiling command coming from said software package building process and forwarding the compiling commands to said remote compiling server using the cross-compiling tool stub so that a source file will be compiled by a corresponding cross-compiling tool in the remote compiling server. The method and system allow a developer of software for an embedded system be able to start a software package building process on the target system as in the native compilation situation, and have the actual compiling of the source file in the software package be performed by cross-compiling tools in another computer with high performance.

System and method for building software package for embedded system

Methods and systems for generic adaptive multimedia content delivery are described. In one embodiment, a novel framework features an abstract content model and an abstract adaptive delivery decision engine. The abstract content model recognizes important aspects of contents while hiding their physical details from other parts of the framework. The decision engine then makes content adaptation plans based on the abstracted model of the contents and needs little knowledge of any physical details of the actual contents. Thus, under the same framework, adaptive delivery of generic contents is possible.

Methods and systems for adaptive delivery of multimedia contents

A directional information delivery method and system, wherein a wide-angle electromagnetic wave transmitter is attached on each object for transmitting channel identification that indicates the transferring channel of the information of the exhibited item attached with the wide-angle electromagnetic wave transmitter to a specified area in wide angle, while each portable client device is provided with a directional electromagnetic wave receiver. When a user points the client device he/she to an object, it can receive the electromagnetic wave from that exhibited item. Then, the client device obtains a channel identification from that electromagnetic wave, and establishes a connection with an information delivery sub-system based on the obtained channel identification to obtain information about that exhibited item from the channel and to render that information. In this way, a user can select simply by pointing at the exhibited item with the client device, thereby accurately obtaining the information about the exhibited item of interest.

Directional information delivery system and method

Function-based object model for use in website adaptation

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