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An automated meter reading network system to collect utility usage data from multiple utility meters having utility meter sensors, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system includes multiple meter data collectors each in communication with one or more utility meters to collect utility usage data and forming a wireless communications network. The system also includes a host computer in communication with the meter data collectors either directly or through multiple field host data collectors which can be connected to the host computer through a wide area network. The system also includes a meter data collector program product at least partially stored in the memory of the host computer to manage the communication network. The meter data collector program product is adapted to analyze signal strength between nodes and to dynamically adjust the power level settings of the individual nodes to enhance network performance.

Model-based application management architecture. A developer can describe an application or service in terms of its constituent components. Desired states can be described in terms of functionality, configuration, security, and performance. The description is employed at application installation to configure management services, which services help to ensure availability of the application through automatic management actions, such as configuration management, problem detection, diagnosis, and recovery.

A battery monitoring apparatus that senses battery conditions such as low battery charge, end of battery capacity, and end of battery life, and responds by taking actions such as sending messages to a remote site and / or powering down. A rechargeable battery is coupled to one or more power-consuming electrical components, including battery monitoring equipment. The battery monitoring equipment senses battery charge. In response to a low-battery-charge condition, the battery monitoring equipment transmits a battery status message to a remote site and powers-down some of the electrical components. Whenever the battery nears the end of its capacity, the monitoring equipment powers down all electronic components and awaits the application of external power. The invention also tracks the time required for the battery charge to deplete. Charge duration decreases over time, and whenever it reaches a predetermined minimum, the battery monitoring equipment transmits a representative status message to the remote site.

A hierarchal data management system for a storage device includes an entity relationship discover to generate meta data from a business object, a file manager to create a partition based on the metadata, a data mover to generate a logical partitioning key and to store the logical partitioning key in the metadata for the partition. The file manager includes a data management policy to define a data class and a storage policy to map the data class to the storage device to form a partition table.

Systems and methods for managing RF spectrum use by two or more network computing wireless communication technologies operating in the same wireless communication environment.

A method and equipment for determining the transmission resource of channel quality indicator are disclosed. They are applied in Time Division Duplex TDD system and Half Duplex-Frequency Division Duplex HD-FDD system when Discontinuous Reception DRX operation is adopted. The method includes the following steps: determining the location of the downlink subframe where the start point of monitoring Physical Downlink Control Channel PDCCH in DRX cycle is located; determining whether the transmission resource used for transmitting the Channel Quality Indicator CQI is an uplink subframe previous to the determined location or one or more uplink subframes after the determined location. Availability of the CQI information when performing downlink schedule is guaranteed, and the transmission resource used for transmitting CQI can be effectively saved.

A product development scheduler uses a distributed, constraint based system for modeling allocation of resources. All resources for all active development projects are provided at a central location, so that resources are not allocated twice across different projects. Real time availability of resources allows accurate modeling, and changes in resource status are reflected by the scheduler. Availability of materials are tracked through the supply chain to ensure true availability for planning purposes.

The invention relates to an enzyme-linked immune analysis method and a fully-automatic enzyme-linked immune analyzer. The analyzer comprises a rack component, a washing component, a sample adding / reagent adding component, a heating and temperature control component, a fluid path system, an input and output device, an optical measurement component and a control system, wherein the rack component comprises a rack soleplate; a pillar is arranged on the rack soleplate; a lower fixed plate and an upper fixed plate are arranged on the pillar from bottom to top in sequence; a circular reaction plate is arranged between the lower fixed plate and the upper fixed plate; the circular reaction plate is connected with the upper fixed plate and the lower fixed plate through a central shaft; a first motor is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the lower fixed plate; and the first motor is used for driving the circular reaction plate to rotate through a first transmission mechanism. When in use, the enzyme-linked immune analysis method and the fully-automatic enzyme-linked immune analyzer can carry out the detection of corresponding projects without wasting reagent through only one sample; and detection reagents need not to be respectively contained in different reagent bottles, so that the operation is very convenient, and the operation error is not easily caused, thereby ensuring the accuracy of the detection results.

A hierarchical content distribution system includes a seeding server, a plurality of geographically distributed content platforms, and a distribution controller, all interconnected by a communications network. The seeding server initially receives content files for distribution to various content platforms that provide for the persistent storage of the content files. Each content platform includes a content file server responsive on-demand to requests for the transfer of content files. The distribution controller autonomously monitors the transfers of content files and selectively issues transfer directives to the content platforms to modify the distribution of content files among the content platforms. The content file servers respond to received transfer directives by issuing requests for the transfer of the directive identified content files, thereby conforming the specific distribution of content files to an optimal distribution pattern as determined by the distribution controller based on usage patterns.

The present invention relates to a system and method for a digital data collection software in which a handheld electronic device collects and integrates one or more forms of data for outcome reporting. The various modules within the software can provide a patient-friendly and / or physician-friendly user interface for collecting various forms of data. The data collection templates, standardized reports and surveys can comprise consecutive predefined or custom questions or checklists, where the answers may be entered by using touch screen features, nested in menus or submenus, 3D virtual anatomical models, audio and / or visual cues. A permanent record can be generated from the collected data, where the permanent record can be synchronized for later manipulation such as optimization of the data collection template, production of reports or data analysis. All permanent records can desirably have redundant storage and compliant encryption methods.

Transparent hypervisor pinning of critical memory areas is provided for a shared memory partition data processing system. The transparent hypervisor pinning includes receiving at a hypervisor a hypervisor call initiated by a logical partition to register a logical memory area of the logical partition with the hypervisor. Responsive to this hypervisor call, the hypervisor transparently determines whether the logical memory is a critical memory area for access by the hypervisor. If the logical memory area is a critical memory area, then the hypervisor automatically pins the logical memory area to physical memory of the shared memory partition data processing system, thereby ensuring that the memory area will not be paged-out from physical memory to external storage, and thus ensuring availability of the logic memory area to the hypervisor.

A hierarchical content distribution system includes a seeding server, a plurality of geographically distributed content platforms, and a distribution controller, all interconnected by a communications network. The seeding server initially receives content files for distribution to various content platforms that provide for the persistent storage of the content files. Each content platform includes a content file server responsive on-demand to requests for the transfer of content files. The distribution controller autonomously monitors the transfers of content files and selectively issues transfer directives to the content platforms to modify the distribution of content files among the content platforms. The content file servers respond to received transfer directives by issuing requests for the transfer of the directive identified content files, thereby conforming the specific distribution of content files to an optimal distribution pattern as determined by the distribution controller based on usage patterns.

An improved method and mechanism for performing rolling upgrades to distributed software installations is disclosed. The present approach eliminates or minimizes extraneous downtime when performing a rolling upgrade, thereby improving performance an availability for users of the software installation. A rolling upgrade can be performed by defining a private symbolic link for each member that is upgraded to reference the upgraded version of the software installation.

The invention provides users of either a unified messaging mailbox or simple plain text storage mailbox, with media and device sensitive methods and apparatus to convert messages from one medium to another (when necessary) taking into account the type of target device (for example, cell phone, PDA, pager, etc.), being used to access a stored message Additionally, the invention provides methods and apparatus for determining target device type and for summarizing message content based on target device type.

A distributed gateway for controlling computer network data traffic dynamically reconfigures traffic assignments among multiple gateway machines for increased network availability. If one of the distributed gateway machines becomes unavailable, traffic assignments are moved among the multiple machines such that network availability is substantially unchanged. The machines of the distributed gateway form a cluster and communicate with each other using a Group Membership protocol word such that automatic, dynamic traffic assignment reconfiguration occurs in response to machines being added and deleted from the cluster, with no loss in functionality for the gateway overall, in a process that is transparent to network users, thereby providing a distributed gateway functionality that is scalable. Operation of the distributed gateway remains consistent as machines are added and deleted from the cluster. A scalable, distributed, highly available, load balancing network gateway is thereby provided, having multiple machines that function as a front server layer between the network and a back-end server layer having multiple machines functioning as Web file servers, FTP servers, or other application servers. The front layer machines comprise a server cluster that performs fail-over and dynamic load balancing for both server layers.

Method for self-optimized interworking between a first radio access network of a first type of radio access technology and a second radio access network of a second type of radio access technology. The first radio access network includes a first base station. The second radio access network includes a second base station. Measuring signals indicative for availability characteristics of the second base station, transmitting the signals indicative for the availability characteristics of the second base station from the user equipment to the first base station, generating a map of the coverage of the first and second radio access networks based on the signals indicative for the availability characteristics of the first and second base stations, wherein the map includes the information about the availability characteristics of the first and second base stations for interworking, and self-optimized interworking between the first and second base stations based on the map of coverage.

A cloud platform system is configured to ensure the availability and extendibility of application services, enable multi / hybrid cloud integration management, and construct, operate, and manage an enterprise cloud enabling efficient development and operation.

An improved automatically updated timestamp for database systems is disclosed. The automatically updated timestamp can be provided in a hidden timestamp column for a table, where the value of the timestamp column can be retrieved with a query that calls the column by name. Optionally, the timestamp column can be provided for each table in the database system to ensure its availability to applications. For cases where a timestamp for each row in a table is not desired, an automatically updated timestamp can be provided for a data page. This timestamp can be retrieved from an update timestamp recorded on disk and in the buffer pool or from a log relative byte address. Although this is a page-level timestamp, its use may be desirable for infrequently updated tables or where space on the disk and buffer pool is at a premium.

A system and method is provided for monitoring a status of a plurality of products, such as prepared food, located in product locations within stations throughout a restaurant. The status of each product indicates whether that product exists in a particular storage location, and whether that product has exceeded its shelf life or hold time. The storage time which has elapsed for each product is automatically counted and compared to the hold time. A cook time, which is that duration of time required to cook a particular product, is also maintained for each of the products. The status indicates when additional product should be cooked in order to have new product prior to the expiration of existing product by indicating when the hold time less the cook time has elapsed. The status also indicates which product is the oldest to facilitate the transfer and use of the oldest product first. A transfer of one product to another product location automatically transfers the corresponding elapsed storage time with that product.

Keys (e.g., decryption key, authentication key) are stored in a non-volatile memory of a display unit. The keys are retrieved in encrypted form into an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit decrypts the keys and uses the keys. As the keys are available in decrypted form only within the integrated circuit and potentially only during use, the keys may not be available to unauthorized third parties.

An improved method and mechanism for performing rolling upgrades to distributed software installations is disclosed. The present approach eliminates or minimizes extraneous downtime when performing a rolling upgrade, thereby improving performance an availability for users of the software installation. A rolling upgrade can be performed by defining a private symbolic link for each member that is upgraded to reference the upgraded version of the software installation.

A system and method for providing fast and effective drying for inundated wireless telecommunications handsets by a combination of technologies that induce a negative pressure atmosphere together with controlled thermal energy at levels that is significant yet relatively harmless to handset components and memory. The combination is such that the embodiments generally restore full handset functionality (to the extent recoverable) within thirty minutes from activation of the particular station for treatment of an inundated handset. Related business methods of the embodiments include the derivation of revenue through licensing and marketing agreements with service center owners or the operators of other retail establishments such as courier mail centers.

The invention discloses an integrity check method for a large video file. A data file is subjected to integrity check based on a mini disk (MD) 5 algorithm. The method comprises the following steps of: extracting a target MD5 fingerprint of the large video file, comparing the target MD5 fingerprint with a source MD5 fingerprint and determining that the file integrity condition is normal if the target MD5 fingerprint and the source MD5 fingerprint are the same, and is characterized in that: the large video film target MD5 fingerprint extraction comprises the following steps of: microchannel memory mapping, intelligent data slicing, parallel extracting of MD5 fingerprints of the sliced data and MD5 fingerprint synthesizing. The integrity check method has the advantages of overcoming the defects of long consumed time and low efficiency of checking the large video file by using the conventional MD5 code, rapidly and efficiently checking whether the file has the problems such as packet dropout, tampering, virus infection and the like and ensuring the integrity and usability of the data file.

A fit element for a helmet for minimizing helmet movement on the head of a wearer is described. An embodiment of the fit element includes a base portion and an integrated stretchable material. The base portion includes at least one attachment leg, a right side arm and a left side arm, wherein the attachment leg is substantially perpendicular to the right and left arms. The base portion may also include attachment points for connecting to an interior rear area of a helmet, and advantageously has at least one cut-out section along its length to permit flexing. In an implementation, at least a portion of a lower edge of the middle section of the base portion has a curved shape for facilitating entry or the wearer's head into a helmet.

Media content, including content suitable for streaming, is distributed to and accessible over a communications network by computer nodes within a peer storage network of computer nodes hosting respective content stores. Discrete portions of a content file are multiply distributed to and persisted in a distributed set of the content stores existing within the storage network such that various content stores persist subsets of the content file portions. A computer node retrieves the discrete portions of the content file from the various distributed content stores, depending on node availability, the particular discrete portions there available, and node and network performance factors sufficient to maintain a minimum quality of service, thereby enabling streaming presentation of the content file on the requesting computer node.

The present invention discloses a method and system for transmitting multi-carrier uplink data at a network side. The method comprises: whenever setting up or adding a multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell, a radio network controller notifying a NodeB dominating the multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell of carrier identifier information of a carrier corresponding to the multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell; and whenever receiving data transmitted by a terminal using a multi-carrier high-speed uplink packet access technique in the multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell via the carrier, the NodeB carrying the carrier identifier information of the carrier bearing the data in enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frames when constructing the enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frames, and transmitting the constructed enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frames to the radio network controller. The present invention can avoid the problem of confusion of the received data from different carriers.

A device and a method to generate electricity on board an aircraft, including plural generators and plural air-conditioning units having an outside air intake. This device includes a control to command air-conditioning units as emergency generators and a storage device.

A method and apparatus for storing transactional information in persistent memory. In one embodiment, the invention features a persistent volatile memory and an intermediary program in communication with the persistent volatile memory. The intermediary program receives transactional information and stores the information in the persistent volatile memory. A computer uses the intermediary program to enable the contents of the persistent volatile memory to remain unaltered during a failure of the computer. Additionally, the intermediary program may determine whether the transactional information meets a predetermined criteria before storing the information in the persistent volatile memory.

Systems for the production of graphene oxide sheets are provided. The systems include electro-deposition and spray deposition techniques. The graphene oxide sheets may be used as pre-cursors for the formation of porous graphene network (PGN) anodes and lithiated porous graphene (Li-PGN) cathodes. The method of making PGN electrodes includes thermally reducing a pre-cursor sheet of graphene oxide to provide a PGN anode and exposing the sheet to lithium or a lithium-containing compound to produce a Li-PGN cathode. The Li-PGN cathode and PGN anode may be combined with an electrolyte to provide an “all-carbon” battery that is useful in various applications, such as automotive applications.