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A magnetic stripe card manual swipe reader (MSR) unit capable of attaching to and communicating with a conventional personal digital assistant (PDA) from various manufacturers, using only the electrical power available as supplied by the PDA device, and capable of effective electrical power management and conservation operations. Additionally, this PDA attachable MSR unit is capable of recognizing multiple magnetic encoding formats and data record formats and converting said formats to a standardized output format, includes the capability of updating and adding new formats while in field service, and is readily allows verifying card data and encoding sensitive material prior to transmission to the PDA. These custom formats can then be used to fulfill current needs in age verification, law enforcement, security, and numerous other applications.

An automated food preparation system is described. It allows precise, automated control of the food preparation process, and has the ability to perform an automated cleanup. It comprises at least one manipulator to process and move ingredients, a control system, an autonomously accessible ingredient storage system, and at least one cooking receptacle.

The invention relates to digital rights management, and proposes the implementation of a DRM agent (125) into a tamper-resistant identity module (120) adapted for engagement with a client system (100), such as a mobile phone or a computer system. The DRM agent (125) is generally implemented with functionality for enabling usage, such as rendering or execution of protected digital content provided to the client system from a content provider In general, the DRM agent (125) includes functionality for cryptographic processing of DRM metadata associated with the digital content to be rendered. In a particularly advantageous realization, the DRM agent is implemented as an application in the application environment of the identity module. The DRM application can be preprogrammed into the application environment, or securely downloaded from a trusted party associated with the identity module. The invention also relates to a distributed DRM module, with communication between distributed DRM agents (125, 135) based on usage-device specific key information.

A modular and customizable virtual reality headset system comprises an optional mobile device case, a support module, a device module with a dock for a mobile device or for the mobile device case, and a lens module. The modules preferably removably attach together with nesting extensions and a removable plug that extends through aligned holes defined by the extensions. The support module comprises one or more walls, optional corners, and optional edges. The system further comprises control and processing components, one or more input devices, a comfort module, and a strap. Additional features include a microphone, headphones, a camera, a display, communication components, motion sensors and movement trackers, filters, battery chargers, and warning devices. The basic components of the VR headset system and the optional features and components are preferably all customizable and upgradeable to match the user's aesthetic preferences and technical requirements.

Systems and methods for performing token transactions are provided. In one embodiment, the invention provides for processing token transactions, including receiving an encrypted password for a debit card transaction, wherein the password was secured using encrypted debit-card information, decrypting the password using encrypted debit-card information for the debit card, recreating the password using actual debit-card information for the debit card, and forwarding the recreated password for subsequent transaction processing. The invention is suitable for implementation with other types of tokens in addition to debit-card tokens as well. The invention can be implemented in a scenario where the password includes a PIN block that is created by combining a clear or encrypted PIN for the token with token information.

A switch fabric system comprises a first chassis for receiving a plurality of line cards each having a plurality of ports and at least two switch fabric cards wherein each line card comprises a plurality of link ports for linking the line card with the switch fabric card. Each switch fabric card provides a switching bandwidth. The system comprises a management unit for managing the traffic on the switch fabric cards wherein the management unit removes the traffic from one switch fabric card if the one switch fabric card is to be removed while the other switch fabric card operates and transfers the traffic to the other switch fabric card.

An interface is provided for a device having a touch screen such as a smart phone or tablet computer that extends the touch screen input to areas outside the touch screen area. The interface has a housing which attaches to the device. One or more input controls are mounted on the housing. The controls can be joysticks, buttons, touch pads, levers, triggers, keyboards, etc. Conductive pads are connected to the housing and and capacitively interact with the touch screen. The interface contains circuitry that transmits an electrical or capacitive signal from the user's manipulation of the controls to the conductive pads in order to activate selected areas of the touch screen. The housing may be made in multiple pieces to connect to different sides of the touch screen device.

A hand-held diagnostic tool is designed to operate and easily upgrade software applications developed for automotive diagnostics. The diagnostic tool, which communicates with a plurality of motor vehicle control units, provides application upgrades and/or modifications and/or new algorithms that are developed/adapted via remote updating. The tool comprises full diagnostic capability capable of receiving diagnostic data from a motor vehicle for storage, analysis and/or further data transfer to a remote device. The tool may further comprise wireless capability to perform data transfer operations. Remote updating is accomplished through a number of external ports on the tool that facilitate modem, Ethernet and wireless communications, including point-to-point protocol connection to the Internet.

The invention discloses a device, a system and a method for realizing intelligent household application. The device comprises an intelligent household gateway, a family control center and terminal agent equipment, wherein the intelligent household gateway is used for being connected with the terminal agent equipment to finish signaling transfer between the family control center and the terminal agent equipment and transmit the transferred signaling to the family control center or the terminal agent equipment; the family control center is used for executing an intelligent household control logic according to the received user command or the preallocated task, transmitting the command to local terminal equipment through the intelligent household gateway via the terminal agent equipment, and realizing an intelligent household service through the local terminal equipment; and the terminal agent equipment is used for connecting the local terminal equipment to allocate identifiers to the local terminal equipment and finishing underlying protocol transfer between the intelligent household gateway and the local terminal equipment. The invention can realize intelligent household application on the basis of uniformly controlling the terminal equipment.

The invention relates to an intelligent home information management system, which comprises a remote back-stage management center, a TCP/IP network system, a terminal system, a server and a local area network, wherein the terminal system comprises a terminal set and a terminal platform software system; the terminal set comprises a terminal master control module, a data packet module, a call module, a multimedia processing module, an audio and video coding and decoding module, an interface module, a terminal communication module, a driver processing module, a database and network file system application module, and an acquisition module; the remote back-stage management center comprises a master control module, a communication module, a database module, an upgrade processing module, a multimedia processing module, a magnetic card and safety management module, a management and alarm module, a call management module, a message module and a state detection module; and a multimedia integrated system master chip can realize the output of various paths of different signals. The intelligent home information management system has the advantages of high intelligent degree, high compatibility and expandability, and simple equipment operation.

A display apparatus for receiving broadcasting includes a display unit configured to display an image thereon, a cover which partially covers the display unit, at least one signal connector which is configured to connect to a portable signal processing module that is located outside the cover and processes a signal to be displayed by the display unit, and receives the signal processed by the signal processing module, and a timing controller (T-con) configured to control a display timing of the signal received by the at least one signal connector.

A portable satellite receiver includes a tuner, an antenna, and an amplifier. The portable satellite receiver has a protective housing enclosing the tuner, antenna, and amplifier. The portable satellite receiver is configured to interface with an accessory device through a communication link such that the accessory device receives audio signals from the portable satellite receiver over the communication link.

An system and method for providing software upgrades to components of a vehicle, wherein the labor, time and expense of providing the upgrades are minimized. In one embodiment, a network is installed in the vehicle, wherein the network comprises a transmission medium and one or more network devices coupled thereto. The network devices are addressable using IP addresses or object terminology. Data, software or service upgrades may be provided to the devices coupled to the network. The data, software and services may be delivered to the network through a first device, such as a wireless communication device, and then transmitted through the network to the device which is to be upgraded. The network may join an external network which is configured to query the in-vehicle network and/or automatically download data to the in-vehicle network.

The present invention permits a speech application design tool to dynamically acquire information for runtime components, such as Reusable Dialog Components (RDCs). More specifically, a user can identify a library available to the runtime environment that includes runtime speech components. Runtime components can be imported into an integrated development environment (IDE) that includes the software design tool. The tool can discover configuration grammars, audio, and data models associated with the imported components. When previously developed application code has been loaded into the tool, versions of components associated with the previously developed application will be compared and synchronized with the library components. Differences can be flagged by the tool, which facilitates a component upgrading process. Otherwise, a palette within the tool will be populated with the imparted components, which can be used when authoring a new application.

The invention relates to a telecommunication technology, in particular to an IP call center and a realization method for a video call service, which is used to realize a call center and a video call service. A call center realized based on the Internet protocol comprises a SoftACD, a CTI platform, an IP-IVR/MS, an Agent and An AS; the realization method for a video call service of the IP call center comprises that: the SoftACD submits a received video call access request to the CTI platform, the CTI platform instructs the SoftACD to route the call access request to the IP-IVR/MS and prompts the IP-IVR/MS for the arriving of a call; the SoftACD initiates a call to the IP-IVR/MS, a video media channel is established between the IP-IVR/MS and a user terminal through the SoftACD, the IP-IVR/MS plays and prompts multimedia information through the video media channel and plays selected multimedia information to the user according to user keypresses.

A hybrid propulsion system includes a main diesel engine for driving the marine turbine and an electric motor. The electric motor has a nominal output that constitutes at least 20% of the nominal output of the main diesel engine. The electric motor remains continuously switched on and maintains, together with a variable-pitch propeller, the main diesel engine at a favorable operating point. The combination of the main diesel engine and the electric motor also allows for a more economical design or operation of the propulsion system.

A computer-based method to facilitate detecting wheel imbalance, a tire pressure problem, or excessive tread wear on tires of a moving vehicle is disclosed. The method includes collecting (e.g., from an accelerometer of a mobile personal computing device) data that represents vibration that results, at least in part, from the vehicle's motion, and determining, with a computer-based processor, whether the moving vehicle has wheel imbalance, a tire pressure problem, and/or excessive tire tread wear based at least in part on the vibration data produced by the accelerometer (and, possibly other data), where the mobile personal computing device and the accelerometer are moving with the vehicle when the data is being collected.

A method for predicting the structure variation and properties of band steel in hot rolling procedure features that its system is composed of the preprocessing module for reading the technological parameters needed by hot rolling from database, the heating module, rolling module, cooling phase-change module and mechanical performance module for simulating the hot rolling procedure and predicting the final structure performance, and the post-precessing module for displaying the final result.

A local area network based control system for model railroad layout control that may be readily modified, upgraded, dynamically reconfigured or expanded with minimum physical or functional interruption to the operation of the model railroad layout. This allows for the expansion and improvements to the layout control system to be effected with least effort, time and risk of failure.

The present invention discloses a double-computer backing up implementation method, which contains respectively increasing communicating interface on two servers of realizing double-computer backing up, through signalling exchange of main server and standby server to realize two servers main using and standby state switch, through main using server synchronous transmitting service data to standby server to realize two servers data synchronization. The present invention also discloses double-computer backing up system including main using server, standby server and client-side. The present invention provided is free from operation system restriction, capable of operation in different kinds of operation system platform, by software to realize without increasing the hardware cost. The present invention provided system is free from server hard ware restriction, any two kinds server capable of consisting of double-computer standby system with fine compatibility, available single machine system capable of convenient updating to double-computer standby system without sharing storage medium and saving space.

A multi-processor architecture for a network device that includes a plurality of barrel cards, each including: a plurality of processors, a PCIe switch coupled to each of the plurality of processors, and packet processing logic coupled to the PCIe switch. The PCIe switch on each barrel card provides high speed flexible data paths for the transmission of incoming/outgoing packets to/from the processors on the barrel card. An external PCIe switch is commonly coupled to the PCIe switches on the barrel cards, as well as to a management processor, thereby providing high speed connections between processors on separate barrel cards, and between the management processor and the processors on the barrel cards.

The invention relates to a technique for dynamically loading processor application programs and a hardware system for realizing the technique. The system mainly comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) 11, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor 17, a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) 16, a FLASH memory 13, a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) 12, an interface chip14 and a power module 15, wherein fixed programs in the FLASH memory 13 comprise a DSP bootstrap program, a DSP management program and a plurality of FPGA and DSP application programs. A method for implementing the system has the characteristics that: dynamic loading and on-line updating of the FPGA application program and the DSP application program are realized by using the management program; the jump among the bootstrap program, the management program and the application programs is realized by the DSP technique so as to complete the dynamic loading function; and the FPGA is taken over bythe CPLD so as to configure a bus and the FPGA application program is loaded by combining the DSP.

The invention discloses a method, a device and a system for realizing the upgrading of the software of stacking equipment, in the technical proposal of the invention, indication information is sent to the main equipment of the stacking equipment through network management equipment, the main equipment can control the assistant equipment of the stacking equipment to carry out the copy and allocation of upgrading the version of the software according to the indication information so as to efficiently improve the efficiency of the upgrading of the stacking equipment, so the upgrading of software of the stacking equipment can be realized more conveniently and quickly so that the problem that mistakes often happen to stacking equipment caused by complex upgrading process can be avoided.

The invention provides a base-station radio-frequency automatic test system which comprises a radio-frequency analyzer, a network analyzer, a signal source, a power meter, a severer equipped with automatic test software and a radio-frequency unit comprising coaxial radio-frequency switches as well as filters and attenuators of different specifications. The base-station radio-frequency automatic test system is arranged inside a large-size test cabinet. The operation of the system is under the centralized control of a high-performance workstation. The test software is designed to complete various base-station test items specified in the standard according to user's needs. The base-station radio-frequency automatic test system covers the whole range of the test of various radio-frequency parameters of base station of various communication systems, and maximizes the degree of test automation. Additionally, the base-station radio-frequency automatic test system has the advantages of wide coverage, full test types, high automation degree, easy operation, friendly interface, flexible configuration, convenience for updating along with the modification of the standard, automatic correction function, high test accuracy, and capability of networking several scattered labs via a local area network (LAN) and achieving the effect of test data sharing.

The invention discloses a self-learning video fire detection method. According to the technical field, the method comprises the steps as follows: a batch of fireworks images are collected, the backgrounds of the images are removed and tags are added, and the images are taken as a seed data set; data samples for a specific application environment are automatically generated using the seed data and a collected video; the data samples are trained through an online learning algorithm to get fire and smoke detectors; a front end sends an acquired suspected fire image to a detection server to judge whether there is a fire; and in the running process, the detection server gets new samples constantly to update the detectors online. Compared with the prior art, the method has the following advantages: the method can be used in all kinds of scenarios, and can adaptively improve the performance and reduce the rate of false report; and suspected area extraction and fire identification are separated, and fire identification can be conducted remotely or even be deployed at the cloud, which makes the whole system more convenient to upgrade and maintain.

The present invention relates to an output characteristic control method of welding machine. Said method includes the following steps: 1. preselecting correspondent welding method and presetting correspondent parameter; 2. judging that the welding operation is started or not; 3. electric arc is ignited or not; 4. judging that the welding proces is stable or not, namely, is identical to the preset parameter or not, and according to the concrete welding process adaptatively regulating welding machine output to obtain required output characteristics; and 5. judging state of welding gun with and combining welding mode, judging that the arc is blown out or not, otherwise, repeating step 4 to step 5.

The invention discloses a welding method for high-performance weather-resistant steel which is at the Q345qENH-Q420qENH level and used for bridges. Welding connectors selected according to specific chemical components, mechanical properties, welding connector corrosion-resistant indexes, applicable technological conditions and different plate thickness specifications of the high-performance weather-resistant steel which is at the Q345qENH-Q420qENH level and used for bridges are in the type of a butt joint and a T-shaped connector (including a corner connector); a welding method includes submerged automatic arc welding, solid wire argon-rich gas protection semi-automatic welding, flux-cored wire CO2 gas protection semi-automatic welding and shielded metal arc welding; and preheating temperature before welding is determined according to different plate thicknesses. The welding method comprehensively covers the connector types and the plate thickness specifications of the bridge steel structure; the technical scheme is high in practicability; the implementation effect totally meets the technological requirements of structural steel for existing bridges and relevant standards in the steel bridge manufacturing field; and the welding method can be used for welding the high-performance weather-resistant steel which is at the Q345qENH-Q420qENH level and has a great effect on prompting popularization of high-level weather-resistant bridge steel.

The invention discloses an automatic control system of a gas jet impact drying machine, and belongs to the technical field of drying machines. The system comprises a programmable touch display screen (1), a single chip microcomputer (2), a weighing sensor (8), a temperature and humidity sensor (11), an air inflow / moisture discharging electromagnetic valve (13), a temperature controller (3), a heating pipe (15), a temperature sensor (16), a frequency converter (4) and a centrifugal fan (17). According to the automatic control system, in a drying process, the functions of automatic weighing of materials, moisture content detection, drying temperature precise controlling, drying temperature automatic regulation, drying air speed automatic conversion and the like can be achieved, the problem that the materials need to be weighed relying on manual work when the moisture content in a product is obtained in the drying process is solved, labor intensity of operating staff is reduced, meanwhile the quality of drying products can be effectively guaranteed, and automatic and intelligent level of gas jet impact drying equipment is improved.

The invention provides a module combined refrigerator which comprises a refrigeration system and an electric control system, wherein, the refrigerator is composed of a mainframe room and two or more cold rooms, and the mainframe room and the cold rooms are independent and separated from each other; the cold rooms comprise door bodies and insulation boxes; the mainframe room is internally equipped with two or more refrigeration system interfaces and electric control system interfaces, and the cold rooms are internally equipped with refrigeration system joints and electric control system joints which are correspondingly connected with the refrigeration system interfaces and the electric control system interfaces in the mainframe room; and the mainframe room is equipped with a compressor, a condenser, a capillary tube and a main controller, and the cold rooms are equipped with evaporators. By means of a plurality of combined module units in the mainframe room, the module combined refrigerator can simultaneously meet the combined use requirements for a refrigerating room, a cold room, a soft-freezing room, a wine cabinet and the like, thus meeting the personalized need of customers, reducing development expense, shortening design and production cycle, saving warehousing floor space, and facilitating storage and transportation.

The invention provides a data management device based on the semiconductor storage medium, which is used for accepting and executing control commands of at least one processor, and performing data access operation to at least one storage medium. The data management device comprises an external communication interface unit communicated with at least one processor; an external storage interface unit for performing data access to at least one storage medium; and a controlling unit for controlling the operation of the external communication interface unit and the external storage interface unit. The invention also provides a data management method. The organizational management is performed to the semiconductor storage media in various electronic products by using the data management device, the data management device can be compatible with the prior and future continuously promoted various semiconductor storage media, the upgrading is simple, and the updating of the semiconductor storage medium is adapted without changing the interface design; the purpose that the external communication interface adopts logical mapping for addressing is realized; the implementing is easy and the large-scale production is convenient.