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Inventory maintenance is improved for a system of one or more vending machines by providing one or more vending machines with unique identifiers, and means for collecting and transmitting information concerning goods dispensed and other status to a remote location where processing means provide an efficient service schedule.

Apparatus and methods implement aggregation frames and allocation frames. The aggregation frames include a plurality of MSDUs or fragments thereof aggregated or otherwise combined together. An aggregation frame makes more efficient use of the wireless communication resources. The allocation frame defines a plurality of time intervals. The allocation frame specifies a pair of stations that are permitted to communicate with each other during each time interval as well as the antenna configuration to be used for the communication. This permits stations to know ahead of time when they are to communicate, with which other stations and the antenna configuration that should be used. A buffered traffic field can also be added to the frames to specify how much data remains to be transmitted following the current frame. This enables network traffic to be scheduled more effectively.

A method and apparatus for controlling inter-cell interference in an evolved Node-B for a cellular communication system with a frequency reuse factor of 1 are provided. The apparatus includes a bitmap generator for receiving scheduling information from evolved Node-Bs of a plurality of neighbor cells, and for generating scheduling information including its cell's bitmap information for the resource allocation using the received neighbor cells' scheduling information, and a scheduler for scheduling the resource allocation for UEs in its cell based on the scheduling information provided from the bitmap generator and power allocation information of the UEs in its cell.

A method of managing resources of a histological tissue processor, the tissue processor comprising at least one retort (12, 14) selectively connected for fluid communication to at least one of a plurality of reagent resources (26) by a valve mechanism (40), the method comprising the step of: nominating resources according to one of: group, where a group nomination corresponds to a resource's function; type, where a type nomination corresponds to one or more attributes of a resource within a group; station, where a station nomination corresponds to a point of supply of a resource.

This invention relates to a proposal for power headroom reporting for uplink component carriers for which no uplink resource allocation is scheduled by the eNodeB. The user equipment (UE) calculates a virtual power headroom for the non-scheduled uplink component carrier, based on a virtual uplink resource assignment pre-configured by the UE and eNodeB. According to one embodiment the maximum transmit power of the UE is set to a pre-configured fixed value. Alternatively, the maximum transmit power is calculated by the UE considering the power reduction, while the uplink transmission power is set to zero. The virtual power headroom is then transmitted to the eNodeB, which in turn can infer therefrom the pathloss and / or power-per-resource-block for the non-scheduled uplink component carrier and may also infer the power reduction used by the UE. This allows a more accurate scheduling of future uplink transmissions on said non-scheduled uplink component carrier.

A biometric terminal uses a fingerprint reader for authentication of a person. If a match cannot be made, the terminal provides a second opinion by matching other biometric information such as by a voice segment or by a video clip or still picture of the person. The system or terminal may optionally remotely authenticate employees in an interactive voice response (IVR) system, with a second opinion provided by human intervention if the IVR system is unable to confirm a match.

Inventory maintenance is improved for a system of one or more vending machines by providing one or more vending machines with unique identifiers, and means for collecting and transmitting information concerning goods dispensed and other status to a remote location where processing means provide an efficient service schedule.

An apparatus for controlling an operation of a plurality of communication layers in a layered communication system has means for providing a property of the communication channel, a storage element for storing a first plurality of sets of parameters defining different operation modes of a first communication layer of the plurality of communication layers and for providing a second plurality of sets of parameters defining different operation modes of a second communication layer of the plurality of communication layers, a selector for selecting a first set of parameters from the first plurality of sets of parameters and for selecting a second set of parameters from the second plurality of sets of parameters in dependence on the channel property and an optimization goal and means for providing the first set of parameters to the first communication layer and the second set of parameters to the second communication layer. Therefore, an efficient exploitation of communication resources can be achieved.

The invention provides a task scheduling device in a multimode distributive system. The task scheduling device comprises a new task pool, a task filter, a task filtering pool and a task dispatcher, wherein the new task pool is used for storing new tasks, and the new tasks at least comprise new tasks in which task marks are added; the task filter is used for filtering out tasks with empty marks from the new tasks stored in the new task pool; the task filtering pool is used for storing the tasks with empty marks, filtered by the task filter; and the task dispatcher is used for predicting a model according to task completion time by aiming at each task stored in the task filtering pool so as to predict the completion time for executing the task on each processing node in the node processing set, and allocating the task to the processing node with shortest predicted completion time.

Aspects of the present invention may be found in a system and method to effectively schedule and configure video and audio conferences. In one embodiment, the system comprises a server and one or more audio / video conferencing devices interconnected through a public or private data network. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface (GUI) provides for an intuitive means to graphically view and configure one or more conferences, participants, and conference call configuration settings.

A production and inventory control for a manufacturing facility is provided that facilitates and coordinates improved planning and execution of such facility in a supply chain with a focus on providing an improved and robust planning, production and inventory control, even in the presence of uncertainty. This may include Optimal Planning that can balance the need for low inventory, low cost (i.e., high utilization of equipment and labor), and efficient on-time delivery. The result of such planning is not a schedule per se but a set of parameters that form a dynamic policy that generates an evolving schedule as conditions (demand, production) materialize. An Optimal Execution applies the dynamic policy resulting in a manufacturing system that is robust enough to accommodate moderate changes in demand and / or capacity without the need to reschedule. Optimal Execution may also involve a “Capacity Trigger” that detects when the assumptions regarding demand and capacity used to determine the dynamic policy are no longer valid. The Capacity Trigger also may provide a Trigger Signal to the planner indicating the need for either more or less capacity.

This present invention provides a teleconferencing method and system in which that places the contact responsibility on the conference host, rather than passively requiring individuals to connect to the conference. This invention creates a participant profile for each potential conference participant. The user profile would include a primary point of contact, such as an office telephone, and secondary choice, such as a home office telephone, cellular telephone, or text capable Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). As the system proceeds through the options, in the event the participant is not reached, a message appropriate to that media (voicemail, text message, etc.) can be left as a reminder. Further, the invention would provide to all participants any softcopy materials deemed critical by the leader of the meeting, in a format based on user preferences also contained in the profile database.

Systems and methods for scheduling jobs in a multiprocessor machine are disclosed. The status of resources in the multiprocessor machine is periodically determined. The status indicates the resources available to execute jobs. This information is accumulated by the topology-monitoring unit and provided to the topology library. The topology library also receives a candidate host list which lists all resources available to execute the job being scheduled based on non-trivial scheduling. The topology library unit generates a free map F indicating the interconnection of the resources available to execute the job. The topology monitoring unit matches jobs to the resources available to execute the jobs, based on resource requirements including shape requirements indicative of interconnections of resources required to execute the job. The topology monitoring unit dispatches the job to the portion of the free map F which matches the shape requirements of the job.

A “high availability” system comprises one or more switches under the control of multiple control processors (“CPs”). One of the CPs is deemed to be “active,” while the other CP is kept in a “standby” mode. Each CP generally has the same software load including a fabric state synchronization (“FSS”) facility. The FSSs of each CP communicate with each other. The state information pertaining to an active “image” is continuously provided to a standby copy of the image (“standby image”). The CPs' FSSs perform the function of synchronizing the standby image to the active image. The state information generally includes configuration and operational parameters and other information regarding the active image. By keeping the standby image synchronized to the active image, the standby image can be rapidly transitioned to the active mode if the active image experiences a fault and continue where the previous active image left off.

A new television broadcast model called a Broadcast Market Exchange (BMX) eliminates the inefficiency in spectrum usage, providing maximum flexibility in delivering content through either VHF (for fixed location receiving devices) or UHF (optimized for mobile receiving devices) transmission / propagation. In conjunction with the BMX, a wireless communications system architecture is provided to enable a broadcast augmentation channel. The augmentation channel provides supplementation of the Quality of Service (QoS) of a one way User Datagram Protocol (UDP) delivery environment. The augmentation channel may be comprised of one or more physical delivery mechanisms (wired or wireless), but can be effectively unified for increasing QoS and or scalable levels of service (additional essence) to improve the user experience.

A method and apparatus for scheduling uplink data transmission for a UE in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. A serving Node B and at least one non-serving Node B are included in an active set of a UE located in a soft handover region. The UE receives a dedicated scheduling grant from the serving Node B by dedicated scheduling and a common scheduling grant from the at least one non-serving Node B, controls an uplink data rate not to exceed a previous uplink data rate during a predetermined validity duration, if the common scheduling grant indicates a rate-down, and transmits uplink data at the controlled uplink data rate.

Fixed-cycle latency accesses to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are designed for read and write operations in a packet processor. In one embodiment, the DRAM is partitioned to a number of banks, and the allocation of information to each bank to be stored in the DRAM is matched to the different types of information to be looked up. In one implementation, accesses to the banks can be interleaved, such that the access latencies of the banks can be overlapped through pipelining. Using this arrangement, near 100% bandwidth utilization may be achieved over a burst of read or write accesses.

A method and system for scheduling the servicing of data requests, using the variable latency mode, in an FBDIMM memory sub-system. A scheduling algorithm pre-computes return time data for data connected to all DRAM buffer chips and stores the return time data in a table. The return time data is expressed as a set of data return time binary vectors with one bit equal to “1” in each vector. For each received data request, the memory controller retrieves the appropriate return time vector. Additionally, the scheduling algorithm utilizes an updated history vector representing a compilation of data return time vectors of all executing requests to determine whether the received request presents a conflict to the executing requests. By computing and utilizing a score for each request, the scheduling algorithm re-orders and schedules the execution of selected requests to preserve as much data bus bandwidth as possible, while avoiding conflict.

Systems and methods which provide a modular processor framework and instruction set architecture designed to efficiently execute applications whose memory access patterns are irregular or non-unit stride as disclosed. A hybrid multithreading framework (HMTF) of embodiments provides a framework for constructing tightly coupled, chip-multithreading (CMT) processors that contain specific features well-suited to hiding latency to main memory and executing highly concurrent applications. The HMTF of embodiments includes an instruction set designed specifically to exploit the high degree of parallelism and concurrency control mechanisms present in the HMTF hardware modules. The instruction format implemented by a HMTF of embodiments is designed to give the architecture, the runtime libraries, and / or the application ultimate control over how and when concurrency between thread cache units is initiated. For example, one or more bit of the instruction payload may be designated as a context switch bit (CTX) for expressly controlling context switching.

The invention discloses an energy consumption perception-based side cloud collaborative dynamic unloading scheduling method. The method comprises the following steps: establishing an edge cloud collaborative system model with a plurality of IoT devices, an edge server and a cloud data center; constructing a communication model, a calculation overhead model and a task dependence model; constructinga cost function of the task unloading decision and a corresponding constraint condition thereof; dynamically obtaining a task unloading strategy by using a reinforcement learning method; and dynamically scheduling the tasks according to the dependency relationship among the tasks to realize energy consumption perception-based side cloud collaborative dynamic unloading scheduling. The method is used for solving the problem that a conventional algorithm cannot effectively obtain a task unloading strategy in an Internet of Things scene with a dynamically changed wireless network state, and meanwhile, the method can effectively reduce the execution energy consumption of a calculation task.

Techniques for minimizing coprocessor “starvation,” and for effectively scheduling processing in a coprocessor for greater efficiency and power. A run list is provided allowing a coprocessor to switch from one task to the next, without waiting for CPU intervention. A method called “surface faulting” allows a coprocessor to fault at the beginning of a large task rather than somewhere in the middle of the task. DMA control instructions, namely a “fence,” a “trap” and a “enable / disable context switching,” can be inserted into a processing stream to cause a coprocessor to perform tasks that enhance coprocessor efficiency and power. These instructions can also be used to build high-level synchronization objects. Finally, a “flip” technique is described that can switch a base reference for a display from one location to another, thereby changing the entire display surface.

The invention discloses a queue scheduling method, which relates to the queue scheduling technique and is proposed to improve the unreasonableness of the current scheduling when a plurality of queues are converged. The adopted technical proposal is as follows: A. a data packet queue is configured with parameters to determine a scheduling mode of the queue; B. the characteristics of the data packet are extracted, and according to the characteristics, the property of the queue which the data packet belongs to is determined, and the data packet is fallen under the queue corresponding to the property of the queue, and then the queue is arranged into an active queue link table according to the priorities; C. the activity queue link table is configured with resources according to the queue properties and the queue priorities and then the queue is scheduled according to the resources configured. The invention fully takes all kinds of application scenes into consideration, which can better converge a plurality of scheduling algorithms. The same program codes in all the scheduling algorithms are omitted when realizing, which is convenient for development and maintenance.

The invention discloses a multi-agent-based platform scheduling intelligent sorting model structure. Steel material logistics distribution belongs to heavy-duty transportation in transportation and needs special handling equipment and large-scale transportation vehicles. In a distribution and loading process, the loading efficiency and sequence (platform scheduling) of vehicles are directly related to distribution aging. Platform scheduling is a multi-constraint combination optimization complex system. Reasonable ordering and optimization are essential. According to the invention, a multi-agent technology is used to research real-time vehicle scheduling decisions; a combination optimization complex system using a platform-based scheduling ordering system and multi-agent algorithm design as multiple constraints is constructed; a multi-agent technology provides a new solution for the research of real-time vehicle scheduling decisions to improve the efficiency of freight operations; the optimal solution is acquired; an auxiliary vehicle identification technology is used to carry out whole-process monitoring on distribution vehicles; efficient vehicle scheduling and precise handling are realized; and precise steel material distribution is realized.

Disclosed are a method for scheduling bundling in a wireless access system and an apparatus for same. In particular, the method includes the steps of: transmitting bundled downlink control information (DCI), including a plurality of pieces of downlink control information, to a terminal through a single physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and transmitting downlink data to the terminal through a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH) scheduled by the bundled DCI.