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PORTABLE COMPUTING [7 records]

Record 1 2026-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
CONT

A container is a lightweight, standalone and executable software package that includes everything needed to run a piece of software, including the code, runtime, libraries and system tools. You can think of a container as a portable unit that guarantees your application will run quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
DEF

Unité de logiciels qui regroupe le code d'une application avec les fichiers de configuration, les bibliothèques et les dépendances dont elle a besoin pour s'exécuter.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

A collaborative system has been developed that allows a group of users to collaboratively control the graphical pointer in order to collaboratively answer questions or otherwise respond to prompts... The collaborative system comprises the Central Collaboration Server(CCS) that is in communication with the plurality of portable computing devices, each portable computing device running a Collaborative Intent Application(CIA), such that the plurality of individual users, each user interacting with one of the plurality of computing devices, can provide user input representing a user intent(i. e. the will of the user).

OBS

collaborative system: designation validated by Canadian subject-field experts from Concordia University, Dalhousie University, Laval University and Microsoft Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

Les principales entités présentes [incluent] l'utilisateur (U) ou plus généralement les utilisateurs pour les systèmes collaboratifs; chacun d'eux est muni de trois canaux, [c'est-à-dire] visuel, audio et kinesthésique/haptique.

OBS

système collaboratif : désignation validée par des spécialistes canadiens de l'Université Concordia, de l'Université Dalhousie, de l'Université Laval et de Microsoft Canada.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

Trabajar con un modelo espacial puede alimentar una amplia gama de estilos de colaboración diferente en el mismo sistema colaborativo, por ejemplo podemos tener espacios en los que los usuarios pueden colaborar sincrónicamente y en otras pueden hacerlo en distinto tiempo.

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Record 3 2003-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A local area network that allows for portable computing without cable, and transmits data over radio and infrared links.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Le WLAN sert soit à établir un réseau sans fil, soit à élargir un réseau filaire existant avec un réseau sans fil supplémentaire. Ce système permet d'assurer une liaison (par micro-ondes là aussi) quel que soit l'emplacement physique des machines équipées d'un tel dispositif.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
DEF

En zonas en las que resulta muy complejo el tendido de cableado, o bien donde se precisan accesos móviles, las LAN inalámbricas sustituyen este medio de transmisión por enlaces vía radio, infrarrojos, etc.

OBS

Las coberturas varían según la tecnología utilizada aunque, genéricamente, puede hablarse de alcances de hasta 100 m en interiores de locales y de hasta 1 km en áreas abiertas.

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Record 4 2002-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
CONT

Java--an architecture-neutral and portable programming language--provides an attractive and simple solution to the problem of distributing your applications across heterogeneous network-based computing platforms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
CONT

Quant à Java, il s'agit d'un langage de programmation à part entière. Il a été inventé dans les laboratoires de SUN par Bill Joy et James Gosling. L'objectif premier de ce langage était de définir un langage de programmation portable sur toutes les plates-formes existantes (1990).

OBS

Indépendant de la machine et qui peut passer d'un ordinateur à l'autre.

Spanish

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Record 5 1996-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiotelephony
DEF

The portable wireless computing device that can roam from site to cell while communicating with the MDBS via CDPD. An end system that accesses the CDPD network through the airlink interface

CONT

The channel stream comprises a forward channel from MDBS [mobile data base station] to Mobile End System (M-ES), and a reverse channel from M-ES to MDBS ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiotéléphonie
CONT

La disposition des canaux comprend un canal aller entre la SBSMD [station de base du service mobile de données] et la station mobile (M-ES) et un canal retour entre la station mobile (M-ES) et la SBSMD

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Office Automation
CONT

Valeri Ward was a pioneering telecommuter at O’Donnell Property Services when she linked into the office network during a maternity leave.... Portable computing today is a different world. The trend in business is that the office is disappearing... which makes PC networking or LAN cards and adapter cards for multimedia computing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Bureautique

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Office Automation
CONT

Portable computing today is a different world. The trend in business is that the office is disappearing... which makes PC networking or LAN cards and adapter cards for multimedia computing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Bureautique

Spanish

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