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The invention concerns a software development tool for embedded computer systems, and is based on a repository of configurable, pre-programmed software components, together with associated tools for user selection and configuration of the components and a code generator for extracting relevant source code based on the configuration settings. Each software component, called embedded system infrastructure component (ESIC), is a self-contained object comprising a modular code base and associated configuration structure related to an infrastructure function in a hardware-independent, non-operating-system software infrastructure for an embedded computer system. For each ESIC, the configuration tool enables user configuration of the infrastructure function based on the configuration structure of the ESIC to match the requirements of the target application. For each ESIC, the code generator utilizes the configuration settings to extract source code for the infrastructure as a subset of the modular code base. This approach provides fast, efficient and flexible development of embedded system software infrastructures.

The present invention discloses a complete speech recognition system having a training button and a recognition button, and the whole system uses the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) architecture for the design, and also uses the modular design to divide the speech processing into 4 modules: system control module, autocorrelation and linear predictive coefficient module, cepstrum module, and DTW recognition module. Each module forms an intellectual product (IP) component by itself. Each IP component can work with various products and application requirements for the design reuse to greatly shorten the time to market.

An automated software production system is provided, in which system requirements are captured, converted into a formal specification, and validated for correctness and completeness. In addition, a translator is provided to automatically generate a complete, robust software application based on the validated formal specification, including user-interface code and error handling code.

A navigation system suitable for use in a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an interior reflective element. A database at a site remote from the vehicle includes map data and / or directory data. A global-positioning system receiver is operable to receive signals from satellites external to said vehicles. A transceiver is operable to engage in a wireless communication with a remote transceiver located at a site remote from the vehicle to received data derived from the database. A user input allows a user to input a destination. The system responds to an input of a destination by wirelessly communicating the destination to the remote transceiver and downloading directions. A display that displays turn-by-turn instructions to the destination during the road journey based on the downloaded directions and on the signals received by the global-positioning system receiver. The turn-by-turn instructions may include (i) direction, (ii) when to turn, and / or (iii) how far until the turn. The navigation system preferably includes a short-range wireless communication link.

An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a reflective element. An information display is at the interior rearview mirror assembly and displays information for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. The information display may be located behind the reflective element and viewable through the reflective element by the driver of the vehicle. The mirror system includes a handheld device having a position locator and being capable of establishing a geographical position of the handheld device. The information displayed by the information display is derived at least in part via a wireless communication link with the handheld device. The information display may include a display of turn-by-turn information for viewing by the driver of the vehicle. The information display may comprise a video screen.

A semiconductor device with a sheet-like insulating substrate (101) integral with two or more patterned layers of conductive lines and vias, a chip attached to an assembly site, and contact pads (103) in pad locations has an encapsulated region on the top surface of the substrate, extending to the edge of the substrate, enclosing the chip, and having contact apertures (703) at the pad locations for external communication with the pad metal surfaces. The apertures may have not-smooth sidewall surfaces and may be filled with solder material (704) to contact the pads. Metal-filled surface grooves (710) in the encapsulated region, with smooth groove bottom and sidewalls, are selected to serve as customized routing interconnections, or redistribution lines, between selected apertures and thus to facilitate the coupling with another semiconductor device to form a package-on-package assembly.

A system for collecting and reporting sensor data in a communication network includes a microprocessor coupled to a memory and an electronic storage device. The microprocessor receives sensor data from sensors, and stores the sensor data for each sensor in the electronic storage device. The microprocessor also receives, via the communication network, a data reporting instruction defining a data reporting technique corresponding to the sensor data associated with one or more of the sensors. The data reporting instruction is stored in the electronic storage device, and the microprocessor transmits, to a trust mediator over the communication network, at least a portion of the sensor data based on the data reporting instruction. The trust mediator maintains an acceptable level of security for data throughout the communication network by adjusting security safeguards based on the sensor data.

A method and apparatus for fabricating a semiconductor device are disclosed. The method attaches semiconductor chips (130) on a sheet-like insulating substrate (101) integral with two or more patterned layers of conductive lines and vias and with contact pads (103) in pad locations. A mold is provided, which has a top portion (210) with metal protrusions (202) at locations matching the pad locations. The protrusions are shaped as truncated cones of a height suitable to approach the pad metal surface in the closed mold cavity. The substrate and the chip are loaded onto the bottom mold portion (310); the mold is closed by clamping the top portion onto the bottom portion so that the protrusions are aligned with the contact pads, approaching the pad surface. After pressuring encapsulation compound into the cavity, the mold is opened; the encapsulated device has apertures to the pad locations. Any residual compound formed on the pads is removed by laser, plasma, or chemical to expose the metal surface.

A business and software method to cost-effectively optimize product and / or service development portfolios, to reduce time to market, and to better integrate and align product or service strategy with brand strategy. The business and software method includes defining in detail the product and service attributes that characterize the ideal customer experience, categorizing the attributes, assigning a numerical value of importance to the attributes, and applying those values to statistical analysis of each assessed product development initiative in terms of alignment with ideal experience and potential competitive impact relative to the resources and risks required to bring each initiative to market. A prioritization for product development resource allocation is developed based upon these analyses. The prioritization is presented in the form of decision intelligence tools for an organization to use and reach informed judgments concerning resource allocation to develop, maintain, or optimize a given product or service portfolio. The decision intelligence tools serve to improve business performance, increase market impact, and build brand equity for products and services of a given organization by improving alignment between what the organization promises customers and what it actually delivers.

Method and probe device for quality measuring in IP streaming of audio, video, or a synchronized mix of both, performing:receiving a streaming media flow at a user's end,measuring at least one network parameter which indicates QoS and / or QoE,extracting frames from the streaming at the user's end,analyzing the frames at the user's end by searching for determined errors and delivering at least a quality parameter defined by certain results of said searching;correlating each measured network parameter and each delivered quality parameter at the user's end and returning the results to the IP network operator though a control and configuration interface.The operator uses the control and configuration interface to configure at the user's end how to perform the correlation between the parameters, taking into account in said correlation the user's preferences described by an ontology.

An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a reflective element. An information display is at the interior rearview mirror assembly and displays information for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. The information display may be located behind the reflective element and viewable through the reflective element by the driver of the vehicle. The mirror system includes a handheld device having a position locator and being capable of establishing a geographical position of the handheld device. The information displayed by the information display is derived at least in part via a wireless communication link with the handheld device. The information display may include a display of turn-by-turn information for viewing by the driver of the vehicle. The information display may comprise a video screen.

In an electrical system having a chassis with at least one chassis slot for receiving a chassis electrical device, and at least one connector board with at least one board slot thereon for receiving a connector board electrical device therein, respective memory is provided for storing vital product parametric data associated with the at least one chassis slot, the at least one connector board slot, and the respective electrical devices. The stored vital product parametric data can be accessed by the electrical system to check compatibility.

A method of designing, modelling or fabricating a communications baseband stack, comprising the steps of: (a) creating a description of one or more of the following parameters of the baseband stack: (i) resource requirements; (ii) capabilities; (iii) behavior; and (b) using that description as an input to software comprising a virtual machine layer optimised for a communications DSP in order to generate an emulation of the baseband stack to be designed, modelled or fabricated.

A system for challenge-response authentication is provided by receiving, from an external terminal over a communication network, a request for access to a service. A plurality of objects is presented to a user via a display. A plurality of codes is received over the communication network, each of the plurality of codes corresponding to one of the plurality of objects. The plurality of codes are matched to a plurality of alphanumeric characters according to a predetermined table. An alphanumeric string is generated from the plurality of alphanumeric characters and the alphanumeric string is compared to a user identifier stored in a database. Based on the comparing, a determination is made as to whether to grant the user access to the service.

Methods and apparatus provide a means to rapidly develop and modify prototype surface coverings for customer review and approval, and fill the commercial pipeline while more conventional production equipment is obtained, installed and tested. The present apparatus to rapid prototype and fill the commercial pipeline includes a digital printing system to print a film and a press for laminating and embossing the printed film to a substrate. The press uses an embossing plate or roll, which is made from ebonite or by three-dimensional printing equipment. These plates and rolls can be produced within two or three days or less.

A semiconductor device with a sheet-like insulating substrate (101) integral with two or more patterned layers of conductive lines and vias, a chip attached to an assembly site, and contact pads (103) in pad locations has an encapsulated region on the top surface of the substrate, extending to the edge of the substrate, enclosing the chip, and having contact apertures (703) at the pad locations for external communication with the pad metal surfaces. The apertures may have not-smooth sidewall surfaces and may be filled with solder material (704) to contact the pads. Metal-filled surface grooves (710) in the encapsulated region, with smooth groove bottom and sidewalls, are selected to serve as customized routing interconnections, or redistribution lines, between selected apertures and thus to facilitate the coupling with another semiconductor device to form a package-on-package assembly.

A “push” based publication model in which messages are sent automatically to communicate event related data to other system applications when an event occurs that causes a change to a persistent data store. A shadow table stores records relating to information stored in the main table. Each record is assigned a sequentially ordered identification code. A high water mark table stores the identification number of the last message published for a group of messages, and thus points to where publication last stopped. By using sequentially ordered codes, it is readily apparent from a gap in the sequence codes whether a record / message is missing. The shadow table may be configured as an Index Ordered Table to eliminate a query “hop” from the index table to the shadow table. The persistent store is queried to identify changes in persistent store structure, and the message structure is modified automatically to reflect any changes.

A multi-level framework that allows an application to be developed independent of the chip or board, and any dependency is built in as part of the framework of the field programmable device (FPD). According to one embodiment, a field programmable device (FPD) comprises at least one hardware design language (HDL) application core with at least one component virtual interface respectively coupled to the HDL core, wherein the HDL core and the component virtual interface form a component, and wherein the component virtual interface has a plurality of pre-defined interfaces for communicating with the core. The component is hardware independent of the FPD. There is a target platform interface coupled to the component virtual interface wherein the target platform interface incorporates hardware specific information. A framework manager is coupled to the target platform interface and communicates with at least one operating system.

A tool for distributed software development maintains a pool of software modules. A module manager manages submissions to and downloads from the pool. The module manager can be a computer system with programming and resources suited for managing the pool. Developers and users can access the module manager via a computer network such as the internet, or via other transmission mechanisms. A developer intending to submit a module to the pool can specify access conditions associated with the module, and transmit information needed to access the module. The module manager can add the access information and access conditions to the pool. A developer or user intending to access a module from the pool can identify a desired module. The module manager can then determine if the intended access complies with the access conditions associated with the desired module. If it does, then the module manager can transmit the access information.

The invention discloses a supply chain control method and system and a storage medium. The method comprises: using a sales prediction model, and sales prediction data is obtained based on sales sourcedata information; utilizing the supplier evaluation model and obtaining supplier comprehensive scoring information based on the supplier source data information; A purchase prediction model is facilitated, and a purchase prediction result is obtained based on the purchase source data information, the sales prediction data and the supplier comprehensive scoring information; obtaining a finished product and raw material inventory prediction result by utilizing the inventory management model and based on the inventory source data information, the purchase prediction result and the sales source data information; according to the supply chain control method and system and the storage medium, the overall operation efficiency of the supply chain can be improved, and direct guidance can be provided for finished product and raw material inventory control; after an abnormal event occurs, the probability of occurrence of abnormality in other links can be predicted, early warning is given in time, the operation cost of the supply chain is reduced, and the operation efficiency of an enterprise is comprehensively improved.

Systems and methods consistent with concepts of the present embodiment of the inventive concept provide mechanisms for database migration from one database (source database platform) platform to another (target database platform). The target and source databases can be any relational databases including, without limitation, Oracle, SQL Server (Microsoft), DB2 UDB (IBM), Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and the like. The inventive methodology will work well for migration of any relational database that implements SQL language from one platform to another. A feature of the invention is the provision of a virtual engine enabling the running of an original application on a migrated database.

Certain example embodiments described herein relate to security systems and / or methods for cloud computing environments. More particularly, certain example embodiments described herein relate to the negotiation and subsequent use of Trading Partner Agreements (TPAs) between partners in a Virtual Organization, the TPAs enabling resources to be shared between the partners in a secure manner. In certain example embodiments, TPAs are negotiated, an algorithm is executed to determine where an executable is to be run, the resource is transferred to the location where it is to be run, and it is executed—with the TPAs collectively defining a security policy that constrains how and where it can be executed, the resources it can use, etc. The executable may be transferred to a location in a multipart (e.g., SMIME) message, along with header information and rights associated with the executable.

A system, method and apparatus for management of clinical studies to facilitate the tracking of the studies by personnel involved in the study, such as managers, coordinators, and vendors, wherever they are located, as well as placing orders, and receiving financial information, the invention being suitable for managing clinical trial documentation in connection with the pharmaceutical industry, and for facilitating communications and delivery of clinical data and documentation between clients who initiate a clinical study and a vendor who may, for example, provide data capture, data packaging, and submitting the study documentation to the appropriate authority, such as, for example, the FDA or WHO.

A system for securing a mobile financial transaction using an adaptive security policy is provided by presenting, via an external terminal, an input request associated with a vertex of the security policy. User input is received via the external terminal in response to the input request. A rule associated with the vertex is retrieved from a database. An edge is selected from a plurality of edges associated with the vertex according to the retrieved rule. A communication session of the external terminal is routed to a subsequent vertex via the selected edge.

An imaging technology for fuel cells is based on x-ray microscopy. A metrology system images the electro-chemical interaction areas of solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFC) in-situ. This system takes advantage of both the penetrating power and elemental absorption contrast of hard x-ray radiation to image the internal interaction areas in a SOFC. The technology can further take advantage of the strong dependence of the x-ray absorption on material type and energy to distinguish the four major material types: cathode, electrolyte, air, and low-Z contaminants such as sulfur.

A method and system for supply chain product and process development collaboration. The supply chain is comprised of at least one project, each project having a part (or family of parts), a supplier of the part, and a customer. The system may include a data storage and retrieval device operably connected to a processor. The system's functions include collaboration tools and security based on the users' project roles. The method uses a methodology that ensures certain requirements are met prior to satisfying the methodology. The system and method of the present invention ensures that current, applicable methodologies are applied to a specific part and allows for collaboration between the customer and supplier during all phases of the project. Because all projects in a supply chain are present, a user can navigate throughout the supply chain. The supply chain's reporting functions permit determination of potential performance risks and the source thereof.

A system for securing a trusted communications channel for a mobile financial transaction is provided by receiving, from a user via an external terminal, a request for an access control entitlement to complete a financial transaction. A total risk level associated with the financial transaction is computed. A required trust score is determined based on the total risk level. User identification data associated with the user is received from one or more data sources. The user identification data is validated. A user trust score associated with the user is computed based on the validated identification data. The user trust score is compared to the required trust score. The access control entitlement is transmitted to the user via the external terminal if the user trust score is greater than or equal to the required trust score.