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A check processing system and method comprising utilizes an image scanner that produces an electronic image of a check upon scanning of the check. The system and method receive the electronic image of the check from the image scanner, receive point-of-sale data generated at a point-of-sale, determine a monetary value of the check from the electronic image of the check, and reconcile the determined monetary value of the check with the point-of-sale data so that the check is correlated with a transaction that occurred at the point-of-sale.

The invention belongs to the technical field of enterprise management and provides a small and medium-sized enterprise supply chain financial platform on the basis of could computing. The small and medium-sized enterprise supply chain financial platform is characterized in that a cloud platform abandons complex authorization configuration and master data management and completes system initialization setting in a guide mode; the cloud platform dynamically integrates user identity authentication services of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system in a private cloud according to different identities of accessing users so as to control data access permissions; user functions of the cloud platform are flexibly customized as required by an enterprise user in the ERP system so as to adapt to the access requirements in different user environments; the small and medium-sized enterprise supply chain financial platform comprises a system application module, a small and medium-sized enterprise financing module, a credit risk control module, a small and medium-sized enterprise information management module, an receivable and payable management module, a general ledger management module and an asset management module. The small and medium-sized enterprise supply chain financial platform has the advantages that the small and medium-sized enterprise supply chain financial platform is simpler and more practical, is convenient to use, can select the functional modules by the self according to the requirements of enterprises, is low in cost and is suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for seamlessly updating a cloud-based security service. A dispatcher virtual machine (VM) executing in a cloud data center receives network requests sent from clients located in a remote enterprise location to untrusted remote sites, and routes this network traffic through a chain of security service VMs that analyze the network traffic. During operation, the dispatcher VM determines that an existing security service VM in the chain needs to be upgraded to an updated version, and instantiates an updated chain of security service VMs that includes this updated version. The dispatcher VM then seamlessly transfers the flow of network traffic from the initial chain to the updated chain to seamlessly update the cloud-based security service without interruption. Upon determining that the updated version is operating correctly, the dispatcher VM halts and deallocates the previous version and any other unneeded portions of the initial chain.

The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for providing a cloud-based security service. During operation, a dispatcher virtual machine (VM) executing in a cloud data center receives a network request from a remote enterprise client. The dispatcher VM executes multiple docker containers, including a set of ingress docker containers that decode the request and then forward it to a session router docker container that in turn forwards the request to a set of security service VMs. After these security service VMs have analyzed the contents of the request and determined that the request is valid and permitted, a SNAT docker container then sends the request out to an untrusted network to be serviced.

The present invention 10 discloses a portable, self-draining utility bucket 12. The motorized drainage system of the present invention 10 comprises a bucket 12 on wheels 14, a draining pump assembly 16 which incorporates an electrical motor 18 and a retractable cord assembly 20. The wastewater from the bucket 12 is pumped through the drain hose 22 and dispensed into a sink 24. This eliminates any need to lift the bucket 12 in order to drain it, which saves pain and hard work, and eliminates possible injury at work. An on/off switch 26, a ground fault interrupter circuit breaker (GFI) 28, a clip-on fill hose 30, and a conventional mop strainer 32 are also provided. The present invention has three designs for domestic, commercial and hospital applications.

An energy-efficient device for refining a glass melt to produce a glass and/or a glass ceramic is provided. The device includes a refining crucible defined at least by lateral walls with a metallic lining as a melt contact surface, so that a melt refining volume is defined by a base surface, a top surface and a circumferential surface; at least one heating device that conductively heats the lining by an electric current in the lining, so that the melt is heated through the lining, the heating device and the lining are connected to one another by a feeding device. The feeding device establishes contact with the lining so that an electric current runs from the top surface to the base surface or from the base surface to the top surface, at least in sections of the lining.

The invention discloses a WiFi position fingerprint positioning method based on weighted chi-square distances. According to the method, a reliable and stable fingerprint database is established, and positioning accuracy and effectiveness of positioning can be effectively improved. The method comprises the following steps of: S1: in an offline measurement stage, establishing the fingerprint database; S2: in an online positioning stage, according to a signal strength vector of each wireless access point AP, which is acquired by to-be-positioned points, calculating weighted chi-square distances of signal strength vectors of the to-be-positioned points and a fingerprint vector in the fingerprint database; S3: carrying out sorting from big to small on the weighted chi-square distances obtained by calculation, and selecting K reference points (K represents the number); and S4: according to position coordinates of the reference points, estimating position coordinates of the to-be-positioned points. The method adopts a variance filtering method in the offline measurement stage, so that noise values in signal strength values received at the reference points can be effectively removed, and accuracy of fingerprints in the fingerprint database is improved.

A system and method for assessment of a brain status of a subject are disclosed. The brain status comprises a brain disease induced brain dysfunction. An occurrence and/or stage of the brain disease induced brain dysfunction in the subject is determined. The system comprises an apparatus that is adapted to determine the occurrence and/or stage of the brain disease induced brain dysfunction in the subject from random speech of the subject. The apparatus (200) comprises units that are operatively connected to each other, which comprises a unit (205) for registering the speech of the subject over a period of time; a unit (206) devised for analyzing the registered speech and configured to determine a pause component of the speech; and a unit that is adapted to determine the occurrence and/or stage of the brain disease induced brain dysfunction from the pause component, wherein said pause component is an accumulated pause time of a total time of said speech correlated to said occurrence and/or stage of said brain dysfunction.

The invention relates to a new financing mode method based on alliance chain supply chain finance. The method includes: the information of an enterprise unit is collected and integrated to obtain theindustrial data; then the industry data is evaluated; the risk control guarantee institution receives the financing demand application from the platform, obtains the enterprise data, inspects and evaluates the enterprise offline, and determines whether the financing conditions are met; if the financing requirements are conformed, the guarantee contract is signed, the enterprise pays the related expenses, and the platform generates the digital certificate of bill contract according to the purchase information; block chain records are formed after a purchaser bill contract digital record is issued; the trading rules stipulate that the number of bills and contracts deposited shall be paid to the platform party in advance, and the supplier shall deliver the goods; after the purchaser accepts the goods correctly, the bill contract number certificate is transferred from the platform to the supplier for collection. The method combines the use of a risk-controlled guarantee mechanism and a combined method such as a compensation fund or insurance in advance to realize the purpose of disintermediation, reducing financing cost and improving efficiency.

A laser cutting tool with protective enclosure assembly for manipulating a workpiece on a movable platen includes a frame, a top protection assembly, a middle protection shield, a bottom protection assembly and a laser torch head. The top protection assembly, middle protection assembly, and bottom protection assembly are removably mounted to the frame such that they form a cavity enclosing only substantially the laser torch head.

The invention discloses a method for providing added value function for mobile phone payment, relating to functional departments of a service cloud end, a merchant, consumers, banks, industry and commerce, commodity price, quality inspection, tax and the like. By utilizing the technologies of digital certificates, mobile phone payment, computer programs, cloud computation and the like, consumption rights and interests browsing and checking processing procedures are intervened before the mobile phone application program of a mobile terminal confirms payment, and the processing procedures are realized through coordinating the business application program of communication network and business terminal and cloud service program at a cloud side by the mobile phone application program of the mobile terminal, thereby helping consumers protect the consumption rights and interests while realizing mobile phone mobile payment, further helping the consumers claiming electronic invoices, and even further, being capable of helping the consumers conduct personal charge without input.

The present invention discloses a crowdfunding based credit-debt chain processing method and system, and relates to the technical field of information management. The method and system solve the technical problem that credit-debt payments of a large number of non-closed credit-debt chains cannot be realized in the prior art. The technical scheme comprises: step 1, storing information of main bodies with credits and debts in a database; step 2, for two nodes, i.e., an initial end debtor and a tail end creditor, of each chain, deeply traversing a credit-debt table in the database to match crowdfunding nodes in the chains, and matching the credit-debt chains to find an optimal chain; and step 3, using a minimum credit-debt amount in the optimal chain as a payment amount.

The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for optimizing data transfer costs for cloud-based security services. During operation, an intermediary computing device receives a network request from a client located in a remote enterprise location that is sending the network request to a distinct, untrusted remote site (e.g., a site separate from the distinct locations of the remote enterprise, the cloud data center, and the intermediary computing device). The intermediary computing device caches a set of data associated with the network request while forwarding the set of data to the cloud-based security service for analysis. Upon receiving a confirmation from the cloud-based security service that the set of data has been analyzed and is permitted to be transmitted to the specified destination, the intermediary computing device forwards the cached set of data to the specified destination.

The invention provides an obstacle detection method and device, equipment and a computer storage medium. The obstacle detection method comprises the steps: data collected by a plurality of sensors atthe same moment are obtained, wherein the multiple sensors are mounted on a vehicle; the data collected at the same moment are combined, and a data set corresponding to the moment is obtained; and obstacle detection is conducted according to the data set, and obstacle information is obtained. The financial cost can be reduced, the information amount of the data can be enriched, the obstacle detection step can be simplified, the problem that the data in different formats are fused unsuccessfully is avoided, and thus safety of vehicle traveling is improved.

A method is described for assembling at least two parts made of silicon carbide based materials by non-reactive brazing in an oxidizing atmosphere, each of the parts comprising a surface to be assembled, wherein the parts are placed in contact with a non-reactive brazing composition, the assembly formed by the parts and the brazing composition is heated to a brazing temperature sufficient for completely or at least partially melting the brazing composition, or rendering the brazing composition viscous, and the parts and the brazing composition are cooled so as to form, after cooling the latter to ambient temperature, a moderately refractory joint. The non-reactive brazing composition is a composition A consisting of silica (SiO₂), alumina (Al₂O₃), and calcium oxide (CaO), or a composition B consisting of alumina (Al₂O₃), calcium oxide (CaO), and magnesium oxide (MgO), and, before heating the assembly formed by the parts and the brazing composition to the brazing temperature, a supply of silicon in a non-oxidized form is carried out on the surfaces to be assembled of the parts to be assembled, and/or on the surface layers comprising the surfaces to be assembled of the parts to be assembled, and/or in the brazing composition.

The invention is a method and system of implementing option interests in real property. The owner of the property receives funds from an investor, which can be used to provide the property owner with income for living expenses or to use to lower the property owner's financing costs. In exchange for each payment, the property owner grants the investor a call option to purchase coupled with a put option to sell a fractional interest in the real property at some future date. The value of the investor's fractional share will increase along with the value of the property, allowing the investor to participate in rising property values. The owner does not pay interest on the monies received, leaving the cash flow for other purposes.

The invention provides a virtual resource scheduling method. The method can be applied to a financial financing system for core enterprises to perform financing authority management on supply chains of the core enterprises. The method comprises the following steps: establishing an authority mapping table of the virtual resource occupying party and the virtual resource requesting party; wherein theauthority mapping table records a virtual resource requester having a resource occupation relationship with a virtual resource occupation party and a request authority of the virtual resource requester; wherein the request permission comprises a request permission, and the virtual resource requester with the request permission can propose a virtual resource allocation request to the virtual resource provider based on the virtual resource occupation relationship. According to the method, financing authorities are set for multiple suppliers of the same core enterprise, so that the core enterprise shields suppliers without financing authorities, such as inferior suppliers or special suppliers with confidentiality, when performing factoring or receivable pledge financing confirmation on the suppliers.

Method and system for transferring digital currency from a payer to recipient comprising receiving an identifier of data describing the first entity. Retrieving an entry from a block chain based on the received identifier. Authenticating the entry using a public key of the second entity. Extracting the data describing the first entity from the retrieved entry. Authenticating a block in the block chain containing the entry using a public key of a third entity. If the authentication of the block in the block chain is successful then transferring digital currency from a payer to a recipient, wherein the first entity is the payer or the recipient, and wherein transferring digital currency from the payer to the recipient comprises the payer. Obtaining wallet public key data associated with therecipient. Generating, using at least the wallet public key data, a currency public key for the amount of digital currency to be transferred to the recipient. Generating transfer data comprising at least the currency public key data and a value for the amount of digital currency to be transferred to the fourth entity.

The invention discloses a hierarchy cascade short process copper smelting device and process. The device comprises one multi-component furnace and two elemental furnace which are rotary horizontal cylindrical furnaces, wherein a shell is a steel plate; a lining is a refractory material; the furnace body is supported on a base through two carrier rollers; a motor is arranged at one end of one carrier roller; the furnace body can rotate along the axis through gear drive; 1-40 spray guns are arranged at the bottom of the furnace and are arranged in a single row or multiple rows; the furnaces are connected by adopting a chute and the one multi-component furnace and two elemental furnaces are arranged in a hierarchy cascade mode in the shape like a Chinese character pin. The hierarchy cascade short process copper smelting device has the advantages of simple structure, reasonable design, energy conservation and environment friendliness and has high popularization and application values.