72 results about "Context manager" patented technology

A speech center coordinates speech services for a number of speech-enabled applications performing on a computer system. The speech center includes a conversation manager that manages conversations between a user and the speech-enabled applications. The conversation manager includes a context manager that maintains a context list of speech-enabled applications that the user has accessed. If the user speaks an utterance, the context manager determines which speech-enabled application should receive a translation of the utterance from the context list, such as by determining the most recently accessed application.

A method and system for handling roaming mobile nodes in a wireless network. The system uses a Subnet Context Manager to store current Network session keys, security policy and duration of the session (e.g. session timeout) for mobile nodes, which is established when the mobile node is initially authenticated. Pairwise transit keys are derived from the network session key. The Subnet Context Manager handles subsequent reassociation requests. When a mobile node roams to a new access point, the access point obtains the network session key from the Subnet Context Manager and validates the mobile node by computing a new pairwise transient key from the network session key.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved diagnostic reading and workflow in a healthcare environment using rules-based context management. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of information sources, wherein each of the plurality of information sources includes information. The system also includes a rules engine including at least one rule governing at least one of availability and presentation of information. In addition, the system includes a context manager for obtaining information from the plurality of information sources based on a query and filtering the information based on the at least one rule. In an embodiment, the information sources include an information system and / or an imaging system, for example.

A gateway has a stack with a bearer adaptation layer and an HTTP client. The gateway may be connected by an HTTP link to an origin server and by a bearer interface to a mobile network. It may also be connected by an HTTP link to a WTA server. A context manager is a user on the stack and supports interfaces to allow access to external entities in a versatile manner. An event manager captures events including billing events and writes to an event log and to a billing log. A management entity provides overall control and sets configurations for the event manager.

A vault controller in an electronic business system includes a dispatcher for servicing browser requests initiated by a user for conducting business with an enterprise or organization using a vault process. The dispatcher further responds to a secure depositor receiving requests from other vault processes running in the controller. The request is in the form a URL containing an application domain / local context and application name. The request is detected and processed by event creator which forms an event object definitive of the request in the URL. An event handler parses the event object and enters a vault system application registry to locate the application in a shared memory. The location of the application is passed to a server pool, which assign a processing thread to handle the request. The thread engages a context manager which decrypts and imports application domain, application function and local context information from external storage to process the request. The application is located in the shared memory and the request implemented. The context manager encrypts and exports the processed information to external storage and provides a return code in the response to the user. The return code is used to locate the context information in a subsequent request by the user. The requests received from other vault processes through the secure depositor are handled in like manner to the user request. After execution of a user request, the vault process loops for some defined time during which other requests are received from the user. The absence of requests causes the vault process to shut down and store the variables for the next user request which retraces the steps of the original request.

A system and method for facilitating remote access of an application available via a stateless protocol is provided. Such applications are typically accessed via the World Wide Web portion of the Internet (the “Web”) using a browser application and an HTTP protocol. The system can include one or more components for caching data associated with the remote access, the data comprising state and / or user specific information. The state and / or user specific information can be stored in a user context object (UCO). One or more user context objects can be managed by a user context manager that facilitates locating user context objects and reclaiming memory associated with user context objects that are no longer necessary to support remote access of the application accessed via a stateless protocol.

A system and method is provided for evaluating security threats to an enterprise network. The relative severities of security threats are determined, based in part, on the context of each threat within the enterprise network and in relation to the operation of a business. As a result, it is possible to prioritize security threats having the greatest magnitude and also threats that are directed against the most valuable business network devices. The invention comprises a plurality of network agents operating on a plurality of network devices for generating event messages. The event messages contain security data and are forwarded to an event manager for analysis. The event manager comprises an event correlator and an asset context manager. The event correlator detects security threats from the interrelationships between the security data contained in the event messages. In addition, the asset context manager utilizes business context knowledge specific to a particular business or business unit to determine a threat priority based on the importance of the threatened network device to the operation of the business.

Certain examples provide systems and methods for medical diagnostic collaboration. An example system includes a conversation manager to facilitate a first conversation between a first device and a second device. The conversation manager manages a plurality of conversations based on respective conversation identifiers assigned to each of the plurality of conversations. The example system also includes a collaboration session manager to facilitate, via the first conversation, a collaboration session between the first and second devices, which allows a user of the first device and a user of the second device to view, share, and comment on a medical study. In addition, the example system includes a context manager to manage context information to describe a state of the medical study as it is displayed on the first device to synchronize a state of the medical study displayed on each of the first and second devices.

A context management and administration system includes a context manager, which manages the context of plural applications programs, and an administration suite, which oversees and manages the manager. Context administration can include setting up and maintaining subject data definitions, intervening in context manager operations, providing security functions to protect sensitive context information against tampering by unauthorized users, etc.

A method for extending a portal by a recommender framework that involves providing a portal having a plurality of recommendation engines plugged into the portal via interfaces. Portal users' interaction behavior data are passed to the plurality of recommendation engines, and recommendations are retrieved from the recommendation engines via the recommendation manager. Recommendations for a user are correlated to a context in which the user is currently acting by a context manager, and recommendations for the user are calculated by the recommendation engines based on the users' interaction behavior data received by the recommendation engines via the recommendation manager and merged transparently to the user based on pre-determined weightings assigned to each of the plurality of recommendation engines. A recommendation to be presented to the user is determined based on the user's interests and preferences identified according to pre-defined user and context models.

In a service providing system, a plurality of application users can work together in real time, and an application can be created which can handle a plurality of protocols. In the system where the web-AP and SIP server environments are cooperative with each other, a web-AP execution server executing a web application associated with a web context is connected to a web context manager managing a context of the HTTP protocol. A SIP-AP execution server is connected to a SIP context manager managing a context of the SIP protocol for executing a SIP application associated with a SIP context related to a web context. A handler manager passing a message between HTTP and SIP handlers is connected to the web-AP execution server. The web and SIP context managers have cooperation managers working together.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved medical workflow and interfacing in a healthcare environment using a unified interface framework. In an embodiment, the system includes a unified user interface allowing access to a plurality of medical components, wherein the unified user interface coordinates the plurality of medical components to provide unified access and display of information from the plurality of medical components. The system may also include a context manager, such as a rules-based context manager. The system may further include a plurality of perspectives for organizing the plurality of medical components and interactions within the unified user interface. One or more of the medical components may include a user interface accessible by the unified user interface, wherein the access is transparent to a user. The unified user interface may allow access to the plurality of medical components via a single sign-on.

A system and method for facilitating remote access of an application available via a stateless protocol is provided. Such applications are typically accessed via the World Wide Web portion of the Internet (the “Web”) using a browser application and an HTTP protocol. The system can include one or more components for caching data associated with the remote access, the data comprising state and / or user specific information. The state and / or user specific information can be stored in a user context object (UCO). One or more user context objects can be managed by a user context manager that facilitates locating user context objects and reclaiming memory associated with user context objects that are no longer necessary to support remote access of the application accessed via a stateless protocol.

A method and apparatus for improved context transfer in heterogeneous networks is presented. Context information is collected from source entities in a first access network by a context transfer manager and transmitted to a context transfer manager of a second access network which forwards the context information to target entities therein, in one of the context transfer managers at least a part of the context information is translated from a format supported in the first access network to another format supported in the second access network. The method may be carried out proactively preceding a handover or reactively following a handover. In one embodiment, context transfer within one access domain is performed directly between access routers, whereas context transfer between different access domains is performed via the context managers. In another embodiment, beacons from access points are counted in order to determine candidates for a pending handover.

A system and method to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a radiologist. A context manager for managing the display of multi-patient contexts. In an embodiment computer software operates as a context manager and correlates the context of at least one information container with at least one image container. A graphical container displaying information about a patient, as opposed to an image, may be an information container. A graphical container displaying images of a patient, as opposed to information, may be an image container. In order to minimize occurrences of a user viewing information about a first patient and images of a second patient, and mistakenly believing the information and images belong to the same patient, a visual indicator may be displayed over images that are out-of-context with the information displayed. The visual indicator may be a watermark to alert a user of a difference in context.

A deterministic microcontroller includes a plurality of blocks of cache memories formed on the same integrated circuit as the microprocessor unit. A corresponding plurality of hardware contexts for the microcontroller is provided by the plurality of sets of hardware registers. A context manager controls the selection of the hardware registers such that contexts are changed within one bus cycle and a plurality of hardware contexts are provided. The deterministic microcontroller includes a configurable input / output interface that is programmable to handle any one of a plurality of interfaces that embedded applications might have, including communication protocols and bus interfaces, data acquisition from multiple sensors and actuators, and controls of various motors.

Standardized support for management of contextual relationships, which includes specification of the context hierarchy, association of relationships with a particular context, and derivation of transitive dependencies, is provided with a Context Manager service. The Context Manager provides a programmatic interface for defining contexts and the relationships therein. The Context Manager saves the relationship facts in one or more context stores, which are organized by contexts. The Context Manager interfaces with the Ontology Manager that processes queries on relationships with respect to a given set of contexts. The Context Manager provides a high-level abstraction for relationship management in a context. Developers of business solutions can then focus on the core business logic, without worrying about the details of storing and inferencing relationships.

In a system-on-chip (SoC) including a processor, a method is provided for stashing packet information that prevents cache thrashing. In operation, an Ethernet subsystem accepts a plurality of packets and sends the packets to an external memory for storage. A packet descriptor is derived for each accepted packet and is added to an ingress queue. Packet descriptors are transferred from the ingress queue to an egress queue supplying the packet descriptors to a processor. A context manager monitors the fill level of packet descriptors in the egress queue. In response to monitoring the fill level, the context manager stashes packets from the external memory into a cache, where each stashed packet is associated with a packet descriptor in the egress queue. Packet descriptors are transferred from the ingress queue to the egress queue in response to a number of packet descriptors in the egress queue falling below the fill level.

The invention relates to an arithmetic decoder based on context self-adaptive binary, wherein said decoder comprises an arithmetic decoder controller, a data interface, a mark subscript, a context subscript increment counter, a context manager, a decode engine and a mark detector; the controller is used to command external modules, the communication between nearby information and grammar element value, to simplify the interfaces of whole decoder; the data interface is used to communicate code flow with outer space, to reduce the communication times between decoder and external code flow; the mark subscript and the context subscript increment counter can quickly calculate out the mark subscript and context subscript increment; and the decode engine can realize the decode at several modes, to save the hardware consumption and accelerate the decode.

Described embodiments provide a media controller for processing one or more data transfer requests received from at least one host device. The media controller includes a buffer to receive data of a data transfer request from a communication link and a command parser to generate one or more contexts corresponding to the data transfer request. The one or more contexts are stored in the buffer. At least one queue of the media controller includes a regular context queue for queuing regular-priority contexts, and a high-priority context queue for queuing high-priority contexts. A context manager coordinates processing of regular-priority contexts and high-priority contexts of the at least one queue based on context boundaries, wherein, when a context is processed at a context boundary, data corresponding to the processed context is data is transferred between the communication link and at least one of the buffer and the at least one storage media.

A context management and administration system includes a context manager, which manages the context of plural applications programs, and an administration suite, which oversees and manages the manager. Context administration can include setting up and maintaining subject data definitions, intervening in context manager operations, providing security functions to protect sensitive context information against tampering by unauthorized users, etc.

Certain embodiments present a system for managing access to patient data in a clinical information system that uses software applications, and a context manager that facilitates the sharing of context among the applications. The system has one access point, or a computer workstation terminal, allowing for user interaction with said at least two software applications. A centralized database stores information relating to patient data and user attempts to access patient data by the software applications. A first context identification module assigns a context label to each access attempt, and a second context identification module assigns a context label to data gathered by the software applications. An auditor regulates relationships between the software applications manager and provides a user interface enabling access to the centralized database. The auditor identifies impermissible application tasks based on rules and identification labels, and prevents access to impermissible application tasks through the user interface.

A Mobile Ethernet Protocol that is used to logically extend a “home VLAN”, through an Ethernet / IP “campus network”, to mobile nodes on “foreign subnets”. The network architecture used for Mobile Ethernet is hierarchical and includes a Subnet Context Manager per subnet and a central Campus Context Manager. The protocol is generally based on the standard Mobile IPv4 protocol, but includes significant extensions to standard Mobile IP including using an 802 address as the permanent MN identifier, rather than an IP address, encapsulating and sending Ethernet frames through IP tunnels, and configuring a single Mobile Ethernet HA to provide access to multiple home VLANs wherein Home VLAN bindings for MNs are dynamically established. A MN does not need to be configured with a permanent IP address.

A method and system are provided for providing a physical object for a web site in response to a user request. The system includes a staging server having a logical content store for storing logical content and a staging server context manager including a rendering component for rendering a physical object from the logical content. The system additionally includes a web server for seeking the requested physical object, the web server includes a web server context manager for seeking the requested physical object from the staging server and for returning the requested physical object to the requester.

Standardized support for management of contextual relationships, which includes specification of the context hierarchy, association of relationships with a particular context, and derivation of transitive dependencies, is provided with a Context Manager service. The Context Manager provides a programmatic interface for defining contexts and the relationships therein. The Context Manager saves the relationship facts in one or more context stores, which are organized by contexts. The Context Manager interfaces with the Ontology Manager that processes queries on relationships with respect to a given set of contexts. The Context Manager provides a high-level abstraction for relationship management in a context. Developers of business solutions can then focus on the core business logic, without worrying about the details of storing and inferencing relationships.

The different advantageous embodiments provide a system for positioning data within a network comprising a knowledge manager, a canonical model manager, and a context manager. The knowledge manager is configured to process a query across a number of resources to generate a result. The canonical model manager includes a number of models used to identify relationships between types of information within the number of resources and the query. The context manager is configured to manage the context of the query and the relationships identified by the canonical model manager to position the number of resources for access by the knowledge manager.

A method, apparatus, and system to concurrently render independent images for display on one or more display devices. In an embodiment, a graphics-rendering engine concurrently renders independent images for display on multiple display devices. A graphics context manager stores in a first memory area and restores from the first memory area information describing a first rendering context associated with a first independent image. The graphics context manager stores in a second memory area and restores from the second memory area information describing a second rendering context associated with a second independent image.

A system and method for context management which addresses the above problems while isolating the context management functions from the other functional code found on the server system. The context management system includes a context manager component which stores and retrieves name-value pairs describing the context in which the current request is being processed. In doing so, three types of context data are distinguished: static, dynamic, and transient. The context manager stores context data regarding each of a user's sessions and page flows, and returns context data in response to requests from the server system. Using this context data, the server system can then interact with the user in a manner appropriate to the user's context.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved diagnostic reading and workflow in a healthcare environment using rules-based context management. In an embodiment, the system includes a plurality of information sources, wherein each of the plurality of information sources includes information. The system also includes a rules engine including at least one rule governing at least one of availability and presentation of information. In addition, the system includes a context manager for obtaining information from the plurality of information sources based on a query and filtering the information based on the at least one rule. In an embodiment, the information sources include an information system and / or an imaging system, for example.