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The present invention relates to a communication system and method and, more particularly, to a fault tolerant network element for providing fault tolerant call connections in the event of a failure of, for example, a Gatekeeper or other part of a network. Calls set up across a network consume large amounts of resources both throughout the network and at the devices which form the end points of the network. Therefore, even though a call connection may be supported, in the event of the failure of a network element, it is often the case that there is an ungraceful failure or use of resources throughout the network. Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention provides a method for preserving a connection context at a first layer of a communication protocol; the communication protocol comprising a second, higher, signalling layer in which, in response to a switch-over from an active host to a standby host in the event of failure of the former, the connection is terminated in response to receipt of a signalling layer signal other than a disconnect or terminate signal.

A device (10, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90) is used to apply an electric pulse or spike to a patient to treat the patient. The device can have a series of preset treatments programmed therein. A user can select a treatment from menus displayed on a display (100). The impedance of the skin and underlying tissue to be treated can be measured prior to the treatment to locate active areas on the skin for treatment. The impedance measurement can be made at a sufficiently low level to avoid treatment of the patient that could cause a change in the impedance. A phase detector can be used to isolate the capacitance value in the impedance. The charge delivered to the patient can be measured and the device can adjust the charge as the skin impedance varies during treatment to deliver uniform charges to the skin. A variety of probes can be used with the device, with the device automatically detecting the type of probe attached. Multiple electrodes can be used on the probe, which allows the active areas in contact with the probe to be identified prior to treatment to allow the treatment to concentrate on the active areas.

An apparatus and method for transferring a message from a calling party to an unavailable telephonically called party. The method comprises the steps of inititating a call to the called party over a communications channel, identifying that the called party is not available and instructing the calling entity to record the message at the calling entity and after recording to transmit the message to the called entity as a data message via a data channel for reception by the called entity. The system reduces the use of the voice / telephone communications networks by allowing a voice message to be transmitted through data channels, reducing the amount of voice traffic on the voice communication lines. The fact that the original voice message was actually stored with the calling entity after the telephone voice communication had been discontinued is transparent to both the calling party and the called party. Greetings for the called party can be stored at a messaging system of the calling entity.

A method allows the selection of a user-preferred visited mobile network for a roaming mobile terminal of a subscriber of a home network. The method includes, at the home network, the steps of receiving information on the location of the roaming mobile terminal, and receiving from the roaming mobile terminal service information including at least a choice of a service and controlling the selection of the visited mobile network for the roaming mobile terminal on the basis of the received service information and location information.

In sophisticated semiconductor devices including copper-based metallization systems, a substantially aluminum-free bump structure in device regions and a substantially aluminum-free wire bond structure in test regions may be formed on the basis of a manufacturing process resulting in identical final dielectric layer stacks in these device areas. Moreover, reliable wire bond connections may be obtained by providing a protection layer, such as an oxide layer, after exposing the respective contact metal, such as copper, nickel and the like, thereby providing highly uniform process conditions during the subsequent wire bonding process. The number of process steps may be reduced by making a decision as to whether a substrate is to become a product substrate or test substrate for estimating the reliability of actual semiconductor devices. For example, nickel contact elements may be formed above copper-based contact areas wherein the nickel may provide a base for wire bonding or forming a bump material thereon.

A system and method for extending the implementation of one or more Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) such that each user can be placed in the IPS traffic path to create secure containment areas at a granular level, port types and port counts are increased, and higher network connection speeds are supported. In different embodiments of the invention, traffic load is balanced across two or more IPSs, enabling enhanced availability during system failures, replacements or updates. IPS performance is improved by enhancing traffic management of “trusted” (e.g., pass-through) and “known bad” (e.g., discarded) traffic flows and decreasing configuration task workloads. Other embodiments of the invention include, but are not limited to, extending the implementation of proxy devices, virtual private networks (VPNs), session border controllers (SBCs), firewalls, protocol gateways and other bump-in-the-wire systems.

Suspendable candidate link group determining device 204 determines a suspendable candidate link group consisting of communication links whose communication in an upper layer is suspended, and outputs it. Link-incapable-of-handling-suspension excluding device 205 removes a communication link to an adjacent relay apparatus incapable of handling a suspended status from the communication link group of suspendable candidates output by the suspendable candidate link group determining device 204 based on information stored in link suspension manager 203, to obtain a communication link group to be suspended, and outputs information indicating the communication link group to be suspended. Suspension device 206 releases communication resources for a lower layer for each communication link for the communication link group to be suspended, which is indicated by information output from the link-incapable-of-handling-suspension excluding device 205.

Systems and methods are provided for interactive construction of an object boundary by minimizing a sum of costs, including costs associated with inconsistency of the image data and costs associated with undesired curve shape properties. A particle filter optimization algorithm is implemented that incorporates a variable strength, intrinsic preference for boundary smoothness. The particle filter generates alternative sequences of random moves, constructed in parallel, to avoid becoming stuck in local minima. Approximate optimization algorithms are utilized, keeping computational burden low, freeing resources to analyze intrinsic costs associated with local curvature. In one embodiment, a user may construct a curve by launching a particle stream, and by choosing visually satisfactory locations on the stream from which to relaunch particles. The user can also provide other input, such as drop down dams to redirect the stream at T-junctions. Additionally, a facility is incorporated to break the smoothness constraint automatically at corners of the object boundary.

System and methods are provided to promote effortless automatic recognition of common sight words. A subject performs a game-like task that generates novel non-verbal visual stimuli that triggers visual attention shifts that enhance foveal and parafoveal recognition of non-verbal and verbal stimuli laterally presented in the right or left visual field. The present invention engages a shared motor-perceptual-cognitive neural network involving oculomotor, visuo-motor and selective executive cognitive behaviors on both brain hemispheres. The present invention has applications to a wide range of non-verbal pre-orthographic visual processes and early lexical processes, not only contributing to enabling reading fluency to dyslexics, reluctant and slow readers, but also to beginning readers. The present invention has wide applications in learning disabilities and normative individuals learning to read.

A system and method for automatically providing real-time transaction-progression status updates in a telecommunications-networking environment are provided. The transaction requires several substeps to complete. As these substeps are completed, statuses corresponding to the completions are sent to one or more user interface. An embodiment of the method includes receiving a transaction that involves performing multiple subprocesses, generating a set of status indicators as the various subprocesses complete, and dynamically broadcasting the indicators to multiple devices (or a single device).

The invention discloses a multi-channel data collection control circuit and method for a satellite. The multi-channel data collection control circuit comprises multi-channel electronic switches, a voltage collection chip and an FPGA control module, and the FPGA control module is used for achieving switching of channels of the multi-channel electronic switches, control over the voltage collection time sequence work, data smoothing operation and the data storage and reading function. The hardware circuit formed by the FPGA control module, the multi-channel electronic switches and the voltage collection chip is used for replacing the complex software function, the collection function and the data processing and storage function can get rid of control of a processor, the resources of a CPU are effectively released, collection time is saved, and process control is more stable. An independent system for achieving collection modularization and control process intellectualization is achieved, and the far-reaching significance in satellite-borne integration of a satellite system is achieved.

A method allows the selection of a user-preferred visited mobile network for a roaming mobile terminal of a subscriber of a home network. The method includes, at the home network, the steps of receiving information on the location of the roaming mobile terminal, and receiving from the roaming mobile terminal service information including at least a choice of a service and controlling the selection of the visited mobile network for the roaming mobile terminal on the basis of the received service information and location information.

The invention discloses a reading and self-timekeeping clock system for a satellite-borne computer real-time clock. The reading and self-timekeeping clock system comprises a processor interface module, a register module, a time service and timing control module, a latching module and a timekeeping module, wherein the processor interface module is used for conducting communication with all processors in real time, the latching module is used for latching a current moment, and the timekeeping module is used for realizing accumulation of nanosecond values, microsecond values and second values. According to the reading and self-timekeeping clock system, a hardware mode is adopted to realize time management, the accuracy, stability and reliability of satellite time management are greatly improved, and therefore the performance of a control system for a satellite is improved. By means of the reading and self-timekeeping clock system, time for a CPU to participate in timekeeping and control is saved, delay of software timekeeping is shortened, CPU resources are effectively released, and the utilization rate of the CPU of the whole system is increased.

The invention discloses an RIB rendering compressed file FPGA compression / decompression system and hardware decompression method. The system includes a client which is used to transfer the RIB rendering compressed files to a compression module. The compression module transfers the RIB rendering compressed files to a pre-processing module from the client through WAN to compress the RIB rendering compressed files from the client to the server end. RIB rendering compressed files are transferred to FPGA hardware decompression module through the WAN after being compressed with a batch by the compression module. The compression data is read by the FPGA hardware decompression module to realize the hardware decompression of RIB rendering compressed files and output the decompression results to theserver end. The server end is used to access the rendering unit to complete subsequent rendering tasks. The system improves the speed of decompression and reduce the power consumption required for the decompression process.

The invention belongs to the field of cloud computing resource management. The invention relates to a sandbox management system based on OpenStack. According to the cloud platform safety initialization method provided by the invention, safety initialization and safety delivery of various test sandboxes in a big data test field are realized by adding a trusted third party, so that the initial control right of the sandboxes is safely transferred to the trusted third party from a platform operator, and integrity verification of the sandboxes is realized. The method has the advantages that in thetraditional cloud service providing process, the trusted third-party platform independent of the cloud service provider is added, and the safety and fairness of the whole cloud service renting processare improved. By separating mirror image making and deployment from a management cluster and comparing a mirror image ID recorded by a trusted third party with a mirror image ID to be registered by acloud service provider, it is ensured that a mirror image file is not tampered and other functions are not added; by adding the initialization module and the integrity check module, safety initialization, safety delivery and later corresponding account management and authority management of the sandbox are guaranteed, and the sandbox cloud service behavior guarantee method is a cloud service behavior guarantee scheme supporting privacy protection.

The invention relates to a device and to a method for the packet-based access of classical ISDN / PSTN subscribers to a switching system. The convergence of packet-based networks and TDM networks leads to a situation where classical analogous and ISDN subscribers and private branch exchanges have to be accessed via packet-based transmission methods. Especially for the case of a failure of, for example, the subscriber terminals TNE or switching system-related devices or intervening communication paths, it must be made sure that substitute connections can be made and stable connections can be maintained. This problem is solved by the present invention by providing a peripheral adaptation device, integrated into the periphery of the switching system, and being suitable for the adaptation of the messages used on the interface between subscriber terminal and peripheral adaptation device, to the requirements of the plurality of peripheral devices associated with the TNE port. Furthermore, software functions are provided for treating the failure of, for example, the subscriber terminal, the one peripheral adaptation device or one of the associated peripheral devices of the switching system. The interaction of said failure treatment software functions controls the substitute connection and restart of failed peripheral devices, peripheral adaptation devices and communication paths to subscriber terminals.

To install in a simple operation a resource to control a device set up at a desired position, the present invention specifies position information indicating the installed position of the device, obtains device information indicating the device installed to the installed position corresponding to the specified position information, obtains storing information for specifying a stored location of the resource for controlling the device in accordance with the obtained device information, and causes a data processing apparatus to perform an installation of the resource based on the obtained storing information.

The invention provides a digital twinning-based vehicle depot rapid departure control method and system, and the method comprises the steps: taking vehicle depot line equipment, including a track unit, a turnout, a vehicle stop and the like, as physical objects, and building corresponding line equipment digital objects; and establishing a digital object of the train by taking the train as a physical object. By constructing a data transmission channel, real-time data transmission is established between the physical object and the digital object, and data synchronization between the physical object and the digital object is ensured. And constructing a digital twinborn body of the vehicle depot, and synchronizing, monitoring, analyzing and controlling the real-time states of equipment such as lines and trains of the vehicle depot. According to the method, the train protection distance is established under the conditions of the position relation between trains, the position relation between the trains and turnouts and the position relation between the trains and other obstacle points, the train target speed distance curve is calculated in combination with the train protection distance, the train traction braking performance and the line condition, and operation control is conducted. And the driving efficiency of the vehicle depot is improved while the driving safety is ensured.

Methods of and apparatuses for controlling the distribution of data block in a peer-to-peer network and adjusting the distribution of data block in an user equipment end are provided. The system disclosed herein is able to calculate and evaluate the usage of the stream data block based on the present distribution of the data block. The backup of the data block is able to be adjusted, such as increasing the number of backups or deleting the files or backups based on the usage of the files, so that the system resource is able to be optimized. This method can provide high concurrent and efficient customer service capability and highly improve the usability and reliability of the stream media data.

System and methods are provided to promote effortless automatic recognition of common sight words. A subject performs a game-like task that generates novel non-verbal visual stimuli that triggers visual attention shifts that enhance foveal and parafoveal recognition of non-verbal and verbal stimuli laterally presented in the right or left visual field. The present invention engages a shared motor-perceptual-cognitive neural network involving oculomotor, visuo-motor and selective executive cognitive behaviors on both brain hemispheres. The present invention has applications to a wide range of non-verbal pre-orthographic visual processes and early lexical processes, not only contributing to enabling reading fluency to dyslexics, reluctant and slow readers, but also to beginning readers. The present invention has wide applications in learning disabilities and normative individuals learning to read.

System and methods are provided to promote effortless automatic recognition of common sight words. A subject performs a game-like task that generates novel non-verbal visual stimuli that triggers visual attention shifts that enhance foveal and parafoveal recognition of non-verbal and verbal stimuli laterally presented in the right or left visual field. The present invention engages a shared motor-perceptual-cognitive neural network involving oculomotor, visuo-motor and selective executive cognitive behaviors on both brain hemispheres. The present invention has applications to a wide range of non-verbal pre-orthographic visual processes and early lexical processes, not only contributing to enabling reading fluency to dyslexics, reluctant and slow readers, but also to beginning readers. The present invention has wide applications in learning disabilities and normative individuals learning to read.

The present invention relates to a novel interchangeable lockable catheter having a cap, the cap locking onto a junction hub or base, and encasing at least one lumen proximally to the junction hub of a multi-lumen catheter, PICC line and the like. The interchangeable lockable catheter's cap and base may be made of more than one piece, and provide a locking mechanism sufficient to deter tampering, while providing a low profile, comfortable, sanitary, and efficient means of closing off lumens for patients leaving the treatment area.

The invention provides an anti-jamming multichannel data transmission method based on capacity prediction. The method comprises a data receiving part and a data transmitting part; and a multistage caching structure and an active DMA (Direct Memory Access) technology are adopted, and a capability prediction mechanism is combined. According to the technical scheme of the invention, interaction information among a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a peripheral is reduced, the occupation of bandwidths is reduced, CPU resources are released, and chip resources are saved, so that jamming among each piece of virtual equipment of the multifunctional peripheral is avoided, and the transmission bandwidth of each piece of virtual equipment is ensured.

In sophisticated semiconductor devices including copper-based metallization systems, a substantially aluminum-free bump structure in device regions and a substantially aluminum-free wire bond structure in test regions may be formed on the basis of a manufacturing process resulting in identical final dielectric layer stacks in these device areas. The number of process steps may be reduced by making a decision as to whether a substrate is to become a product substrate or test substrate for estimating the reliability of actual semiconductor devices. For example, nickel contact elements may be formed above copper-based contact areas wherein the nickel may provide a base for wire bonding or forming a bump material thereon.

A system and method for extending the implementation of one or more Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) such that each user can be placed in the IPS traffic path to create secure containment areas at a granular level, port types and port counts are increased, and higher network connection speeds are supported. In different embodiments of the invention, traffic load is balanced across two or more IPSs, enabling enhanced availability during system failures, replacements or updates. IPS performance is improved by enhancing traffic management of “trusted” (e.g., pass-through) and “known bad” (e.g., discarded) traffic flows and decreasing configuration task workloads. Other embodiments of the invention include, but are not limited to, extending the implementation of proxy devices, virtual private networks (VPNs), session border controllers (SBCs), firewalls, protocol gateways and other bump-in-the-wire systems.

There is provided a method, comprising: receiving a serial code and an associated value, accessing a first database storing active serial codes each associated with an active value, wherein the first database is accessed for each received serial code when the serial code is active and when the serial code is inactive, and the first database is accessed for each received serial code when the associated value is active and when the associated value is inactive, when no match is found, accessing a second database storing invalid serial codes each associated with an invalid value, matching the received serial code to a certain invalid serial code, and providing the invalid value associated with the certain invalid serial code, wherein a client terminal is unable to distinguish between the provided invalid value and an active value otherwise returned for a positive match between the serial code and the active serial codes.

A disposable, virus-trapping membrane, and a corresponding method to remove viruses from solution are described. The membrane includes a disposable, micro-porous filter membrane and a ligand immobilized on the membrane. The ligand irreversibly and selectively binds viruses. The ligand also has a pKa sufficiently high to repel antibodies via electrostatic charge repulsion.

The present invention relates to a configuration system for configuring and ordering a chemical separation system, which configuration system comprises a configuration tool, a database comprising data relating to chemical separation hardware modules and the linkage of said hardware modules. Said configuration system enables a user in real-time to obtain a customized configuration of the chemical separation system. The present invention also relates to a method of selling a customized chemical separation system using said configuration system. The present invention system and method considerably shorten the time required for customizing a chemical separation system.

The invention discloses a control system for computer events. The control system comprises an association relationship establishment, a man-machine operation module, an identity recognition module, an association event acquisition module, an event simulation module, and an event execution and confirmation module. The control system for computer events has following beneficial effects: based on different identity information, permission settings of association events are achieved so that safety of the system is improved and leakage or loss of information is avoided; each event can be simulated before execution so that misoperation of a user can be avoided to the large extent; at the same time, all confirmed association events can be executed by one click so that the frequency at which the system is connected with a database when the computer system processes the association events is reduced and processing efficiency of the association events can be improved; and system resources are released.

One embodiment of the invention sets forth a computing system for performing cryptographic computations. The computing system comprises a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, and a driver. The central processing requests a cryptographic computation. In response, the driver downloads microcode to perform the cryptographic computation to the graphics processing unit and the graphics processing unit executes microcode. This offloads cryptographic computations from the CPU. As a result, cryptographic computations are performed faster and more efficiently on the GPU, freeing resources on the CPU for other tasks.