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This invention describes a method for a new methodology for improving a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transport format allocation in communication systems (e.g., mobile phone networks) using, e.g., a network element such as a node B. As CQI (channel quality indicator) reports made by a user terminal) are time stamped in a sense that they correspond to a given reference period, the Node B is able to determine what time instant in the past the given CQI report corresponds to. As the Node B scheduler knows a history of HS-DSCH (high speed downlink shared channel) transmission, it is able to determine how much HS-DSCH power was transmitted during the time corresponding to the received CQI report. Based on this information, it determines the bias required to the CQI reports received at different times to improve an accuracy of the allocated HS-DSCH transport format.

Techniques to schedule activities. In one method, a request to book an appointment for an activity in a particular schedule is initially received. In response, time slots available in the schedule for booking the activity are determined, and a set (all or a subset) of the time slots is provided as possible appointment choices. The time slots in the set are temporarily locked. A next set of time slots or more time slots may be requested (if the time slots provided are not acceptable or desirable), in which case additional time slots may be provided. Thereafter, a selection for one of the time slots is received. In response, the activity is booked in the selected time slot and previously locked time slots are released. The locked time slots may also be released if no selection is received after a particular amount of time.

Tracking forms allow tracking of the completion status and implemented quality standards of a building construction project. A tracking form is prepared for one or more tasks requiring completion at the construction site. Each task is assigned two components on its tracking form: a quality control indicator form, which contains one or more quality control indicators indicating whether certain quality standards are met; and a completion indicator, which indicates the completion status of a task. The completion status may be a discrete binary value, or may instead be a continuous value. Preferably, the workers performing the tasks complete each task's quality control indicator form and completion indicator during design and construction as milestones relating to the task are completed, or at the end of some predetermined time period. The completion indicators relating to the tasks are logged so that the completion status of the project may be monitored, and the information recorded on the quality control indicator forms may be sampled and checked to verify that construction quality standards are being met.

Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by improving the scheduling of execution of jobs for or by network-connected devices, thereby enabling the job execution process to scale more easily, efficiently, and effectively to support large numbers of devices and/or users. Examples of jobs include, but are not limited to, distribution of resources (including software, configuration information, images, and other types of content) to a device, fetching a device's inventory information, backing up a device's contents, and so forth. Jobs are programmatically scheduled based upon a specified time internal, according to a class of the requester. Only if an earliest start time after which the job may be executed for this requester has been reached will the job be executed; otherwise, the job execution is delayed. The disclosed techniques lessen the need for additional servers to handle spikes in processing load, reduce the likelihood of reaching system overload, and reduce the likelihood of cascading failures that may occur when systems are overloaded.

A lightweight radio/CD player for vehicular application is virtually “fastenerless” and includes a case and frontal interface formed of polymer based material that is molded to provide details to accept audio devices such as playback mechanisms (if desired) and radio receivers, as well as the circuit boards required for electrical control and display. The case and frontal interface are of composite structure, including an insert molded electrically conductive wire mesh screen that has been pre-formed to contour with the molding operation. The wire mesh provides EMC, RFI, BCI and ESD shielding and grounding of the circuit boards via exposed wire mesh pads and adjacent ground clips. The PCB architecture is bifurcated into a first board carrying common circuit components in a surface mount configuration suitable for high volume production, and a second board carrying application specific circuit components in a wave soldered stick mount configuration. The major components and subassemblies are self-fixturing during the final assembly process, eliminating the need for dedicated tools, fixtures and assembly equipment. The major components and subassemblies self-interconnect by integral guide and connection features effecting “slide lock” and “snap lock” self-interconnection. The radio architecture includes improved push buttons employing 4-bar living hinge linkage and front loaded decorative trim buttons.

A self-configuring distributed packet switch which operates in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) and time division multiplexed (TDM) modes is described. The switch comprises a distributed channel switching core, the core modules being respectively connected by a plurality of channels to a plurality of high-capacity packet switch edge modules. Each core module operates independently to schedule paths between edge modules, and reconfigures the paths in response to dynamic changes in data traffic loads reported by the edge modules. Reconfiguration timing between the packet switch modules and the channel switch core modules is performed to keep reconfiguration guard time minimized. The advantage is a high-capacity, load-adaptive, self-configuring switch that can be distributed to serve a large geographical area and can be scaled to hundreds of Tera bits per second to support applications that require, very high bandwidth and a guaranteed quality of service.

The invention discloses a province-level power distribution network operation monitoring system based on network-wide data. The monitoring system comprises a three-layer structure: an information integration layer, a platform layer and an application layer. The information integration layer mainly collects basic and operation data of a distribution network and provides online and offline power distribution network operation data to the platform layer through an information interaction bus. The base platform layer mainly gathers and summarizes various data of the distribution network and provides corresponding services to the application layer. The application layer mainly, under the support of the platform layer and based on network-wide equipment and the operation data, carries out operation monitoring, index monitoring and data analysis on the power distribution networks of the whole province. The operation monitoring system has the advantages of realizing province/ city/ county three-level power distribution network production and marketing and the like data integration, establishing an information integration platform, monitoring the operation states of the power distribution networks of the whole province in a concentrated manner, monitoring various data and index in the power distribution networks, and facilitating operation management of the power distribution networks of the whole province.

The invention relates to methods for determining the interference variability of a precoding matrix set, and the use of same for purposes of scheduling and precoding matrix set selection. The precoding matrix set used by an interferer base station is evaluated by the mobile terminal which experiences the intercell interference from the interferer base station. The mobile terminal is informed about the precoding matrices of the precoding matrix set used by the base station. The mobile terminal measures the radio channel to the interferer cell, and then estimates based on the measured radio channel and with the knowledge on the particular precoding matrices of the precoding matrix set, the interference variability of the precoding matrix set. The interference variability may be reported to the serving base station of the mobile terminal, and thus considered for scheduling decisions by the serving base station referring the mobile terminal.

A method and apparatus for relining, repairing or reconstructing existing infrastructure pipeline systems that are new, structurally deficient or experiencing an excessive amount of exfiltration or infiltration, or converting new or damaged pipelines into dual-containment pipelines. A plurality of stock, high density polyethylene lining pipes having a cylindrical cross-section with a diameter up to 36 inches and lengths of 40-50 feet are joined together to a job specific length. The lining pipe is then heated to its flex temperature and gradually deformed to a reduced diameter. At the job site, the deformed lining pipe is inserted into the existing pipe and a controlled, pressurized environment is created therein for a period of time dependent on the pipe's length. Pressurized steam is first inserted to provide heat and internal pressure to expand the pipe. Then, compressed air is inserted to cool the pipe while maintaining the internal pressure to complete the expansion and set the pipe. When converting to dual-containment pipelines, the deformed pipe will have a plurality of spacers attached thereon such that the existing and deformed pipes are axially aligned and have an annular space therebetween.

The invention discloses a data analysis system and a data analysis method. The data analysis system comprises a to-be-scheduled task generation module, a to-be-scheduled task storage module, a task scheduling module and a task processing module, wherein the to-be-scheduled task generation module is used for generating collected data into tasks to be scheduled according to pre-defined task parameters; the to-be-scheduled task storage module is used for storing the generated tasks to be scheduled; the task scheduling module is used for loading the tasks to be scheduled and calling the corresponding task processing module according to task type; the task processing module is used for generating a corresponding Hive structured query language (SQL) sentence according to an analysis requirement in the tasks, and sending the corresponding Hive SQL sentence to a Hadoop-based data warehouse server; and after data which are returned by the server are received, accomplishing data analysis of the tasks. The data analysis is performed on the bottom layer of the data analysis system by using a Hadoop system, and the tasks can be comprehensively managed on the top layer of the data analysis system by using the task scheduling module, so a data analysis flow can be simplified by using the Hadoop system, and a system for conveniently scheduling and managing the tasks is provided.

The present invention relates to a heating element controller 100 for a liquid heating system arranged to determine the duty cycle of a heating element 106 and modulate the timepoint of heating initiation by the heating element 106 in dependence upon an expected duration of completing the heating process and upon a required time at which the heating process is to be completed, wherein said expected duration is determined in dependence on said duty cycle. The invention extends to a heating element controller comprising means for computing a fouling parameter and means for controlling the operation of the heating element in dependence upon the fouling parameter. The invention extends to a system for heating liquids comprising at least one heating element associated with a liquid vessel, and preferably the heating element is moveable in the vessel, or alternatively the system for heating liquids may comprise a plurality of heating elements.

Systems and methods for monitoring medical procedures. Particular embodiments relate to monitoring medical procedures performed in operating room environments through the use of various types of sensors.

The invention discloses an intelligent public transportation system with unmanned driving and field return charging functions.The intelligent public transportation system comprises a management platform, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a network traffic control system, a user terminal, a charging station management terminal and a cloud data management terminal.The vehicle-mounted terminal comprises an unmanned intelligent driving system, an automatic charging electricity receiving system, a vehicle status monitoring system, an identity information recognition system and a charging system, all of which are connected with the management platform.The unmanned intelligent driving system and the vehicle status monitoring system are both connected with the cloud data management terminal.The identity information recognition system and the charging system are both connected with the user terminal, and the identity information recognition system is connected with the charging system.The charging station management terminal is connected with the cloud data management terminal.The electric vehicle technology and the unmanned driving technology are combined, a cloud data analysis and intelligent management system achieves a special vehicle use operating mode, and on the premise that safe vehicle use is guaranteed, an individual, intelligent and green public transportation means is provided for a user.

The invention discloses a vehicle monitoring system based on Beidou system. The invention is characterized in that the system is composed of a Beidou ground monitoring centre, a Beidou navigating and locating satellite and a Beidou vehicle-mounted system, wherein the Beidou navigating and locating satellite is dependent on current satellite system built by Beidou network system. The Beidou vehicle-mounted system comprises a Beidou terminal and a train network. The train network is a current TCMS system, wherein the TCMS system comprises a vehicle dragging sub-system, a vehicle braking sub-system, a vehicle signal sub-system and a vehicle broadcasting sub-system. The TCMS system is communicated with a Beidou terminal via an RS232 interface to provide vehicle state information to the Beidou terminal on one hand, and to receive Beidou navigating and locating information, time service information and control instruction from the ground monitoring centre on the other hand so as to control the operation of the vehicle. The Beidou terminal is communicated with the locating satellite. The locating satellite is used for transmitting the locating information and vehicle state information to the ground monitoring centre. The centre is used for transmitting the information to all ground monitoring terminals so that the operated vehicle can be monitored and all operated vehicles can be monitored and controlled.

A system and method of reporting and displaying field survey data related to particular features located at remote sites that includes generating GPS data related to a feature with a handheld device, generating at least one image of the location, entering text data related to the location on the handheld device, and uploading the GPS data, image and text data into a database located at a central location. The photograph can be optionally transferred wirelessly from a camera to the handheld device. In particular, the transfer can be on a wireless network (WiFi). Data can be post-processed at the database location before entry into the database. GIS maps and reports can be made from the processed data for use in a project. These maps and reports can be placed on a web server for access by authorized personnel. The maps can contain an aerial photograph of the remote sites with symbols representing features overlaid on the aerial photograph. Each feature on the map can be linked to the GPS data, image data and text data related to that feature.

A scheduling engine for optimally scheduling the allocation of a set of service providers to a defined set of service points includes a service point mechanism for collecting and processing a plurality of service point data elements, and a service provider mechanism for collecting and processing a plurality of service provider data elements. A generic multi-layer scheduling mechanism generates allocation schedules for allocating the set of service providers to the set of service points irrespective of nonlinearity or dependence amongst said plurality of service point data elements and said plurality of service providers data elements. The generic multi-layer scheduling mechanism employs a heuristic algorithm for use of an objective function relating to said plurality of service point data elements and said plurality of provider data elements and said control parameters that describe what is important to the customer and generating therefrom an optimal allocation schedule.

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.

An automated system for drop-off and pick-up for repair, return or exchange of tangible items including a secure drop-off/pick-up area for the items, a computer and software to manage the data for the system, and a user interface to facilitate automated notification for responsive communication between the user and the service provider to describe service or repair required, provide quotations, request and receive additional information and notify the customer on completion of the service and scheduled maintenance using automated voicemail recording, and/or text messaging through a cellular telephone, email, PDA or iPhone using a web based applet.

System and method for optimizing polymer production scheduling. The system includes an input, operable to receive optimization input information, a model of a polymer production system including one or more transition models representing transition behavior of the polymer production system, an optimizer, operable to execute the model using the received optimization input information to generate an optimized polymer production schedule, e.g., by solving an objective function subject to constraints, e.g., to minimize/maximize costs/profits and/or to minimize order times, and an output, operable to output the generated optimized polymer production schedule, wherein the optimized polymer production schedule is usable to manage polymer production with a polymer production system. In further embodiments, the system may include a controlled polymer production system and an advanced process control coupled to the controlled polymer production system, where the optimized polymer production schedule is usable to control the advanced process control for improved polymer production operations.

A method for coordinated transmission in a plurality of cells of a wireless communication system, wherein a user equipment triggers coordinate transmission of a plurality of cells if it detects an interference condition between signals received by the plurality of cells, the user equipment detecting the interference condition based on a radio quality metric dynamically set by the network and triggering coordinate transmission by transmitting a trigger signal to at least a cell of the plurality of cells. A radio equipment and a user equipment for use in a wireless communication system can implement coordinated transmission with the method.

A method for presentation of media objects of a multimedia presentation document (104) in a device (105) for presentation of such documents. The media objects are stored in storage means (102), which are remotely located from said device (105) and connected to a network infrastructure (103). The method comprises the steps of: providing said multimedia presentation document with metadata relating to properties of the media objects; processing said metadata in the presentation device (105); determining when to fetch each of said media objects from the storage means (102) to the presentation device (105) via the network infrastructure (103) based on said processing; fetching the media objects from the storage means (102) at the determined moments and presenting the fetched media objects in the presentation device (105). The invention also relates to a multimedia presentation system, a multimedia presentation document, a computer program product and a multimedia presentation device.

The invention discloses a realization method and a device for intelligent home unified platform on the basis of a UPnP protocol. The realization method comprises the following steps: applying a unified naming manner to (Universally Unique Identifier) UUID of singlechip UPnP equipment; and binding the UUID of the UPnP equipment and the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to a UUID+URL format character string. The device provided by the invention integrates an Internet of Things terminal, a cloud computer, cloud storage equipment, a remote control terminal and a singlechip UPnP equipment manufacturer inquiry terminal; and a singlechip UPnP equipment user controls the singlechip UPnP equipment, and the singlechip UPnP equipment manufacturer obtains the information of the singlechip UPnP equipment through accessing the URL. According to the method and device provided by the invention, through a singlechip, the Internet of Things terminal accesses a network, and the cost of building intelligent family network is greatly reduced. Moreover, the method provided by the invention is a method through which the UPnP equipment manufacturer can effectively track the product information.

The invention provides a wind turbine bearing fault diagnosis method based on PCA and KNN density algorithm. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining vibration signals of a wind turbine bearing under different working states; carrying out pretreatment on the vibration signal data; calculating time domain and frequency domain statistical parameters of each sample, and constructing a characteristic matrix of the wind turbine bearing signals; carrying out dimensionality reduction on the multi-characteristic matrix of the wind turbine under different working states by utilizing a PCA algorithm, extracting characteristic input and serving the input as a training sample set of a fault diagnosis model; carrying out modeling on training samples through a support vector machine (SVM); carrying out optimization on parameters of the support vector machine through the KNN density classification algorithm; and displaying the final diagnosis result in a human-computer interaction interface. The method can accurately carry out classification on fault types, thereby improving wind turbine bearing fault classification precision; and the method provides guarantee for safe and reliable operation of the wind turbine, so that power grid dispatching can be optimized, and safe, stable and economical operation of the power grid is realized.