Apple's abstract: The present invention is a system and method that monitors upgrade availability for computer information on a user's computer and allows the user to determine which of the available upgrades will be downloaded to the user's computer and installed. The upgrade availability for computer information on the user's computer is monitored in the background, without user-intervention when the user connects to a network, such as the Internet. If any such upgrades are available, a flag is set to notify the user of such upgrades. The user is notified of any available upgrades when computer information is accessed for which an upgrade is available, and given a choice of whether or not to download the available upgrade(s). The downloaded upgrade(s) may then be installed by an installation means. In this manner, the present invention allows for the user to download only those upgrades desired by the user.
[url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,016,891]Patent 7,016,891[/url]: System and method for performing context checks.
This was originally filed on June 26, 2005.
Apple's abstract: A system and method is described which provides for context checking of an operating environment. A context manager controls the execution of context checks requested by applications or processes. In one embodiment, the context check modules are defined as self-contained modules located in a database. When the data base is opened, these modules are loaded and registered with the context manager. Upon occurrence of certain user actions, the context manager will issue an event to cause the appropriate modules to perform a context check of certain context of the environment. The resulting context information is stored in memory by the context manager and provided to the applications by the context manager when needed. One advantage is that the context checks performed can be changed simply by adding or deleting modules from the database. In other embodiments, context checking functions can also be provided by providing context files, which are loaded at initiation of the context manager and are independent of the database utilized, and by providing certain highly repeatable functions within the function of the context manager itself.
[url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,015,921]Patent 7,015,921[/url]: Method and apparatus for memory access
This was originally filed on De. 31, 2001
Apple's abstract: An apparatus, in a data processing system having at least one host processor with host processor cache and host memory, includes a chip interconnect, a cache coherent interface coupled to the chip interconnect wherein the cache coherent interface provides cache coherent access, a cache non-coherent interface coupled to the chip interconnect wherein the cache non-coherent interface provides cache non-coherent access to the host memory, and a compute engine coupled to the chip interconnect and coupled to the cache coherent interface and coupled to cache non-coherent interface wherein the compute engine issues a memory access request. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
[url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,015,919]Patent 7,015,919:[/url] Virtualization of graphics resources
This was originally filed on Jan. 8, 2002
Apple's abstract: Graphics resources are virtualized through an interface between graphics hardware and graphics clients. The interface allocates the graphics resources across multiple graphics clients, processes commands for access to the graphics resources from the graphics clients, and resolves conflicts for the graphics resources among the clients.
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