Unless the underlying technology improves the functioning of the hardware, is implemented by novel computer operations or relates to a concept not already generally known, the risks and costs of seeking patent protection may far outweigh the questionable rewards.
It could result, however, when the software patent achieves some new result not previously attainable, requires novel computer operations to operate or improves the functioning of the hardware itself.
We start from a detailed and general model of the energy consumption of the nodes, which is a function of the hardware characteristics of the transceivers, the coding technique, the radio transmit powers, and the dynamics of the wireless channel.
Shapiro says the key innovation the team has come up with is moving a large number of functions out of the hardware itself and into the cloud.
The optimum size of these patches is a function of the specific hardware and has been obtained experimentally for three different hardware platforms.
But almost certainly, games will only be one of the functions of the new hardware; as Major Nelson's reference to TV and entertainment suggests, Microsoft is likely to push the new console as an all-in-one living room solution, offering streaming video, television and music services as well as social media.
Furthermore, the function and composition of the hardware system are designed.
Yet when we rely on a computer to generate part of a proof, we appear to rely on the proper functioning of computer hardware and on the correctness of a computer program.
The role of the middleware layer is twofold: first, to provide an abstracted and standard view of supported operational services (in particular, separated from the functioning of sensor hardware), and second to enable service and resource discovery management within a WSI.
The constituent components of a hardware system are inherently concurrent and the relative time ordering of the hardware activities is critical to the correct functioning of complex hardware system.
