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A system and method providing home and small business owners to monitor and manage one or more appliances. This enables a use to understand in detail their electrical consumption, to make informed decisions based on factual data about energy-saving upgrades to their current systems/appliances, and to provide Internet-based surveillance and control of systems for prevention of freezing, breakdown, or possible fire-related losses, including possible loss-of-life. The system and method includes through the use of Internet based computer software and databases, a hardware interface with electrical circuit panel(s) or fuse boxes in communication with the software and databases and optional wireless outlet monitoring units in communication with the software and databases. The databases being formed and created by the system and method for determining performance of appliances.

A method, a device and a computer program product for determining an electromagnetic near-field of a field excitation source of an electrical system are provided, in particular for analysis and/or optimization of an antenna radiation, of a cross-talk problem, of a signal reflexion/transmission, of a stray field, of an irradiation problem or the like. The method includes defining electrical and magnetic properties of the material distribution of the system, defining at least one field excitation source, and determining the electromagnetic near-field components within at least one and in particular all partitions by solution of the Maxwell's equations of the near-field, where each near-field component of each partition can be represented by a linear position of M predetermined ansatz functions P_i orthogonal to one another with regard to a scalar product and weighted with field coefficients v_i, and the spatial and/or time derivative of the near-field component can be determined as a linear position of these ansatz functions P_i weighted with derivative coefficients w_i, and where each coefficient w_i can be determined from a quantity of previously determined field coefficients v_i and derivative coefficients w_i, so that the determination effort of the near-field of the system rises in substantially linear manner to the number N of partitions in the domain under consideration and to the number M of ansatz functions P_i used in the linear position.

A method and apparatus for processing and digital recording video signal where transmitters for generating video signals receive an external synchronizing signal for synchronizing the transmitters. A recorder receiving the video signals has a switch sequentially connecting the transmitters to a digital video recorder. Code signals corresponding to identification codes allotted to video signals are generated. An injection circuit mixes code signals into video signals. The digital video recorder has a copy including circuit for time and date signal generating, for compressing the received signals and outputting them with the extracted codes and time and date of recorder signals to a memory storing those signals in endless cascaded rotation. Freshly stored signals replace the oldest signals stored in cascade. An alarm data signal for triggering the alarm state of the apparatus is received and the video signals recorded during the alarm state are recorded.

An electronic apparatus forming a sensor, an actuator or a control is described comprising a control engine and an integrated bus interface. The apparatus can be connected via the bus interface to a data bus for the communication of the apparatus with at least one further apparatus forming a sensor, an actuator or a control and connected to the data bus. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a device-specific definition engine in which parameters required for the communication, function and/or configuration of the electronic apparatus are stored, with the device-specific definition engine being present in a device-specific format and the parameters being able to be accessed via the control engine. In accordance with the invention, a universal definition engine is provided which is present in a device-independent, standardized format and in which all the parameters of the electronic apparatus required for the communication, function and configuration and additional parameters characterizing the electronic apparatus are stored. Furthermore, the device-specific definition engine can be generated automatically from the universal definition engine.

A disk drive system, includes a head, a controller for controlling an operation of the head, at least one feedback filter coupled in relation to the controller, and a mechanism for keeping a function of the at least one of the feedback filter active during any of an absence of a valid position error signal (PES) and a position error signal being unavailable due to a defect during an operation of the head.

The invention relates to a method for updating a driving program of equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: sequentially searching and downloading the driving program of the equipment from a driving program downloading address of a driving program server and an equipment supplier according to an identifier of the equipment, and automatically updating the driving program of the equipment in a gateway; and simultaneously transmitting Ethernet signals and RS485 bus signals on an Ethernet twisted pair through a cable multiplexing technology. With the adoption of the method provided by the invention, an adaptive type intelligent home system can automatically accord with different intelligent home standards; the driving program is automatically upgraded or updated according to the demands of household appliances; and the interconnection among the intelligent household appliances with different standards can be kept. Therefore, the variation of each gateway and the variation of intelligent terminals inside each gateway can be conveniently managed by using a network in future, so that the intelligent home system has high expandability.

A method of driving an electrowetting display device that includes a display element having a cavity; a first fluid and a second fluid within the cavity, the first fluid being immiscible with the second fluid; a surface facing the cavity; and a first electrode. The display device includes a control system for applying a voltage to the first electrode to provide a display state in response to a signal level of the voltage, wherein the control system is arranged to configure the signal level throughout a display period such that the second fluid adjoins at least a minimum area of the surface, the minimum area being greater than a zero area. The method includes applying at least one display signal level during the display period, the at least one display signal level configured such that the first fluid and the second fluid adjoin the surface throughout the display period.

The invention discloses a SpaceFibre plug and play-based satellite-borne network management method, belonging to application field of satellite-borne space buses. The method comprises the steps that aSpaceFibre bus network is constructed at first, and a SpaceFibre plug and play communication protocol is designed; then a network manager sends a device static port scan packet to routers, and a physical address of the network manager and a connection relationship of a router and another router are determined; finally, each order of router forwards a static scan packet to each terminal device toparse and reply, and the network manager receives a reply packet and then determines a physical address of each terminal device; the network manager monitors the bus network in real time and initiatesdynamic network scanning, identifies the quantity of routers and a connection state of every two routers automatically, and updates a network topological structure map after the device is plugged orunplugged; and the network manager controls the terminal device to send a data packet to the network manager. Network addressing is easy and convenient, fewer system space resources are used, the system performance is improved, and unnecessary workload is saved.

The invention relates to an installation method of a driven program of equipment. The method comprises the steps of: sequentially searching and downloading the driven program of the equipment from drive program download links from a gateway, a driven program server and an equipment supplier according to each identification of the equipment, and automatically installing the drive program to the gateway; and transmitting an Ethernet signal and an RS485 bus signal simultaneously through an Ethernet twisted pair by using a cable multiplexing technology. With the adoption of the installation method, an adaptive intelligent home system can be automatically applicable to different intelligent home standards, and the drive program can be automatically upgraded or updated according to the appliance requirement, and therefore the interconnection and intercommunication among intelligent appliances with different standards can be kept. A convenience is provided for managing the variation of each gateway and the variation of an internal intelligent terminal in each gateway through a network in future, and thus the high expansibility is provided for the intelligent home system.

A method of printing a print pattern onto a substrate with a print head comprises a plurality of nozzles, where the print head has a rectangular active print head area which includes all of the nozzles. The active print head area is delimited by four sides defining a primary and a secondary direction. The method comprises i) decomposing the print pattern into a plurality of print pattern segments that have dimensions along the primary and secondary direction which are smaller than the dimensions of the active print head area along the primary and secondary direction; ii) assigning each print pattern segment to exactly one nozzle; iii) causing each nozzle to print the print pattern segment assigned to said nozzle. The print head is moved during printing of each print pattern segment within an area that is smaller than said active print head area.

Systems and methods for communicating with bi-nodal network elements are provided. A single address is shared between both nodes of a bi-nodal network element. When packets are transmitted from either one of the nodes of the bi-nodal network element, the single address is employed as the source address of the packet. When packets are transmitted to either one of the nodes of the bi-nodal network element, the single address is employed as the destination address of the packet.

The present invention provides a network addressing method, device and apparatus. The method includes the following steps that: nodes in a first network which server as parent nodes separately recordlower-level node tree structures and the unique identification information of each node in the node trees, nodes in the first network which serve as child nodes record the unique identification information of the parent nodes; a source node of a message or a node that receives the message judges whether itself is the destination node of the message according to the destination node identificationinformation of the message, if the source node of the message or the node that receives the message is the destination node, a current addressing flow is terminated, otherwise, the source node of themessage or the node that receives the message judges whether the destination node of the message belongs to a lower-level node tree of the source node of the message or the node receiving the message; and if the destination node of the message belongs to the lower-level node tree of the source node of the message or the node receiving the message, the source node of the message or the node receiving the message forwards the messages to a child node that can arrive at the destination node, otherwise, the source node of the message or the node receiving the message forwards the message to a parent node or a second network connected with the source node of the message or the node receiving the message. With the network addressing method provided by the present invention adopted, a situationthat hundreds of millions of IoT devices are to access a network can be well handled.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, a system and equipment for operating a media resource. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving an HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) message for operating a media resource, which is transmitted by a client terminal, wherein the HTTP message head comprises an operating command and a logic uniform resource identifier (URI), and the logic URI corresponds to the media resource; and operating the media resource corresponding to the logic URI according to the HTTP message. In the embodiment of the invention, by distinguishing different media resources by the logic URI, a resource addressing way is simplified; in addition, the corresponding operation is carried out on the specific media resource by the operating command and thelogic URI which are carried by the HTTP message head, thereby simplifying the operating process on the resources and improving the processing efficiency and retractility of the whole framework of thesystem.

A network element is described. In one embodiment includes receiving a packet from the host in the first domain at the network element in the first domain, the packet including a destination address to the host in the second domain, the destination address being formed by replacing an Interface Identifier of an IP address by a second domain label and a shortened Media Access Control (MAC) address, the second domain label identifying the second domain. A routing label and the shortened MAC address are attached to the received packet, and the packet is sent on a label switched path indicated by the label to the second domain.

A system and methodology is presented for definitive routing of letters, packages and other physical deliveries to a user's preferred address by reference to personal universal address. The object of the invention is to allow recipients to centrally control and confirm the desired receiving address for various types of deliveries, by creating a user-managed database linking physical addresses to secure personal communications addresses, such as cell phone numbers and electronic mail addresses.

An embodiment of the invention provides a multicast packet transporting method, a station device and a service set system and relates to the field of communication. The multicast packet transporting method, the station device and the service set system are capable of simplifying addressing modes when multicast packets are received, so that electricity is saved. The multicast packet transporting method includes: receiving VHT-SIG-A1 (very high throughput signal A1field) in a data packet; judging multicast identification of the VHT-SIG-A1, and if the multicast identification indicates that the data packet is a multicast packet, and using a belonging multicast address to match part of multicast addresses of the multicast packet in the VHT-SIG-A1; and if the belonging multicast address is unmatched with part of the multicast addresses of the multicast packet, quitting receiving of the multicast packet. The multicast packet transporting method, the station device and the service set system in the embodiment are used for transporting the multicast packets.

A power distributor having a first controller and having a number of connection modules which are connected thereto and are intended to be mounted on a supporting rail. The connection module has a number of lateral coupling contacts for the electrical and/or signalling contact connection to at least one further connection module which is attached or can be attached to the particular connection module, wherein a base resistor is connected in each case between two coupling contacts inside the module in such a manner that the base resistors of the attached connection modules form a resistor chain which is connected in series. The connection modules are each equipped or can be equipped with an actuatable circuit breaker. The circuit breakers have a second controller inside the circuit breaker for recording a voltage dropped across the respectively associated base resistor.

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus for inputting a plurality of rectangular images each composed of n×n pixels and outputting line-by-line image data in which one line is composed of n×n×m pixels. A line buffer stores n lines of image data, each line is composed n×n×m pixels. The apparatus generate a write address for writing a rectangular image to the line buffer memory and a read-out address for reading line-by-line image data out of the line buffer memory, and changes over a method of generating the write address between a first write-address generating method and a second write-address generating method whenever m rectangular images are written to the line buffer, and changes over the read-out address between a first read-out-address generating method and a second read-out-address generating method whenever n lines of image data are read out of the line buffer.