Implementing performance-dependent transfer or execution decisions from service emulation indications

• US 20080235002A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D., Wood, Lowell L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,874,425 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45504 Abstract machines for programme code execution, e.g. Java virtual machine [JVM], interpreters, emulators

Abstract

A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software; and signaling a decision whether to transfer any of the data to a second emulator at least partly as a result of the first emulation environment hosting the software.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media configured to bear a device-detectable implementation of a method including at least

obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software; and

signaling a decision whether to transfer any of the data to a second emulator at least partly as a result of the first emulation environment hosting the software.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media comprise:

an antenna-containing semiconductor chip.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media configured to transmit one or more instructions for obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media comprise:

a portable module including at least a visual display configured to be operable while the portable module is held or worn.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more of an image projection module or a touch screen.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media include at least one of a repeater, a communication satellite, or another active module configured to accept first and second portions of the device-detectable implementation sequentially.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform one or more of optical image scanning or auditory pattern scanning upon the device-detectable implementation.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform linguistic pattern scanning upon the device-detectable implementation.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

circuitry for using an encoding constraint in at least some of the device-detectable implementation.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media configured to bear at least one of a special-purpose instruction sequence, a special-purpose-circuit design, or an information-bearing static attribute as a portion of the device-detectable implementation.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media bearing an implementation access service operated to access a remote server running another implementation as a portion of the device-detectable implementation.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a first portion of the one or more physical media transmits a portion of the device-detectable implementation before a remainder of the one or more physical media transmits a remainder of the device-detectable implementation.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media include at least one of an integrated circuit, a data-holding element, a lens or other light-transmissive medium, a signal-bearing conduit currently bearing at least a portion of the device-detectable implementation, or a bus or other configuration of two or more transmission media in mutual isolation.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

a power line operated to transmit content of the device-detectable implementation between at least two terminals.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a first medium of the one or more physical media bears a first portion of the device-detectable implementation while a second medium of the one or more physical media bears a second portion of the device-detectable implementation.

16. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media are configured at least (a) by causing a communication channel in the one or more physical media to bear a first portion of the device-detectable implementation;

and (b) by causing another channel of the one or more physical media to bear a second portion of the device-detectable implementation.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media have borne the device-detectable implementation.

18. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more static markings indicative of the device-detectable implementation.

19. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

a magnetoresistive random access memory configured to receive the device-detectable implementation.

20. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising at least one of a satellite dish or other signal-reflective element, a transducer, an antenna, or a receiver operated to receive the device-detectable implementation.

21. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media bearing a device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of

obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software; and

signaling a decision whether to transfer any of the data to a second emulator at least partly as a result of the first emulation environment hosting the software.

28. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform linguistic pattern scanning upon the device-detectable output.

34. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

a power line operated for transmitting content of the device-detectable output between at least two terminals.

38. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more static markings indicative of the device-detectable output.

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41. A first method comprising:

performing a reception of or a transmission of one or more instructions in relation to a second method that includes at least;

obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software; and

signaling a decision whether to transfer any of the data to a second emulator at least partly as a result of the first emulation environment hosting the software.

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