3476 results about "Collection methods" patented technology

A predictive model, for example, a neural network, evaluates individual debt holder accounts and predicts the amount that will be collected on each account based on learned relationships among known variables. The predictive model is generated using historical data of delinquent debt accounts, the collection methods used to collect the debts in the accounts, and the success of the collection methods. In one embodiment, the predictive model is generated using profiles of delinquent debt accounts summarizing patterns of events in the accounts, and the success of the collection effort in each account. In another embodiment, the predictive model includes a mathematical representation of the collector's notes created during the collection period for each account.

In order to more precisely grasp actual audience situations of a user through accumulation of broadcast reception qualities in combination with audience information in a mobile terminal, this mobile terminal 2 has a wave receiver 21 for receiving a broadcast wave, a signal reproducer 22 for acquiring a broadcast signal by demodulating the broadcast wave received by the wave receiver 21, and thereafter reproducing the broadcast signal, a level measuring part 24 for measuring a reception level of the broadcast wave received by the wave receiver 21, an information generator 28 for generating audience information containing an audience time being a time of reproduction by the signal reproducer 22, and the reception level at the audience time measured by the level measuring part 24, and an information transmitter 30 for transmitting the audience information generated by the information generator 28.

A method of gait data collection, the method comprising collecting movement data, determining from the data a movement parameter that includes a third order derivative of position, comparing the movement parameter with a threshold value, and counting at least a near fall if the movement parameter exceeds the threshold value.

Maintenance entities may be defined between customer and provider flow points to allow performance management to take place on an Ethernet network. The maintenance entities may be defined for access link, intra-domain, and inter-domain, and may be defined on a link or service basis. The maintenance entities may be used to monitor performance within a network or across networks, and may be used to monitor various performance parameters, such as frame loss, frame delay, frame delay variation, availability, errored frame seconds, service status, frame throughput, the number of frames transmitted, received or dropped, the status of a loopback interface, the amount of time a service has been unavailable, and many other parameters. Several management mechanisms may be used, and the measurements may be collected using a solicited collection method, in which a responses are required and collected, or an unsolicited collection method in which a response is not required.

An electronic gaming system has at least one table having a plurality of electronic player interaction areas (EPIA's) spaced preferably about the table so that a gaming player may locate oneself in front of a respective EPIA to play a game. The gaming system preferably has a host console that communicates with each EPIA preferably via a server for managerial control of the plurality of tables. Preferably, a software-based administrator tool operates through a user interface for the creation of at least one gaming profile type by the deletion, editing and creation of various gaming rule parameters. A software-based house collection tool operates similarly to the administrator tool for creating a plurality of house collection profiles that may then be assigned to various game profiles. House collection methods whether performed manually through a human dealer or via the software based house collection tool, preferably include: a pot collection method that is a function of the final pot amount, preferably the betting round reached and the number of players in the game; a time collection method having the option to pay prior to each time interval or optionally pay for extended periods of time; and a hand collection method where each player pays a house collection prior to each hand.

A consumer pays their bills using a bill payment service that reports actual payment information to a consumer reporting agency repository. The consumer requests the bill payment service to send their payment information to the CRA repository each month on their behalf to show they pay their bills on time when applying for credit. The bill payment service reports actual bill payment to the CRA reports on behalf of its customers requesting the reporting service. All bill payment data maintained in the CRA repository is maintained securely and will not be released without the consent of the consumer. The bill payment data maintained in the repository is used to report a credit score in addition to the payment data being reported, which occurs only when the consumer authorizes the release of the data.

A packet forwarding device equipped with a statistics collection device and statistics collection method for high speed ports at a low cost while maintaining the required statistical accuracy for each flow. In order to collect a statistic flow with the required accurate statistic information this device contains a high speed flow table, a flow table made up of many flow entries, a search decision table to decide whether to search the high speed flow table or large volume flow table; and the table to be searched is decided when a packet is received. The accuracy of the statistic information for the flow requiring accurate statistic information is guaranteed by the high speed flow table. Further by setting the large volume flow table and sampling rate as needed, statistic information for many flow entries can be collected with a sufficient flow of sampled statistic information, without lowering packet forwarding performance.

Liquid film 7 is formed on the surface of a porous body 2 provided with a hydrophobic layer 6a and hydrophilic layer 6b, by moving thereon an ionic liquid having a selective absorption capacity of specific gas, and the specific gas within the gas to be processed is absorbed into the liquid film 7 by bringing pressurized gas to be processed into contact with the liquid film 7. The specific gas is, for example, a carbon dioxide gas and the ionic liquid is, for example, an imidazolium salt. The specific gas absorbed into the liquid film 7 is passed through the porous body 2 by use of a difference in pressure, and is collected on a low pressure side 11. The specific gas absorbed into this liquid that has been collected is separated into gas and liquid by a separator 8, and the specific gas is released and collected.

The invention discloses a Bluetooth remote control parking space lock-based parking reservation fee collection system and a method thereof. The parking reservation fee collection system includes Bluetooth remote control parking space locks installed on parking spaces, an application module (APP) applied to a mobile communication terminal, and a cloud service platform applied to the server. The Bluetooth remote control parking locks can send keys through mobile phone Bluetooth communication to achieve lock lifting and lock descending functions. In the application module (APP), the specific locations of reservable parking spaces can be displayed through a map or a drawing of the interior of a parking lot; unoccupied parking spaces can be reserved online through the APP; unlocking keys sent by the cloud services platform can be received through the APP, so that lifting and descending operation can be performed on the parking space locks; and the payment of parking fees can be completed through mobile phone mobile payment. In the cloud service platform, user registration and login services are provided according to the APP; parking space information reservation services are provided for the APP; parking space states in a database are updated; the equipment numbers and unlocking keys of parking space locks of parking spaces which are successfully reserved are transmitted to the APP; parking duration and cost are calculated; and the parking space states are updated. The invention also discloses a parking reservation fee collection method of the parking reservation fee collection system.

The invention discloses a fingerprint collector, a liquid crystal terminal device and a fingerprint image collection method. On the basis of the principle of pin-hole imaging, an ultra-thin fingerprint collector of any size can be formed and further combined with a liquid crystal display screen to achieve the function of fingerprint collection. The liquid crystal terminal device comprises a liquid crystal display assembly which at least comprises a liquid crystal plate and a backlight module. The backlight module at least comprises a reflective piece and a back plate, one or more imaging holes are formed in the reflective piece and/or the back plate, and photovoltaic conversion sensors are arranged on the positions corresponding to the imaging holes. Structural improvement is carried out on the liquid crystal display screen according to the principle of pin-hole imaging so that the liquid crystal display screen can be used for fingerprint collection and can support the terminal device to finish screen unlocking, account number verification and other operations needing personal identify identification through fingerprint recognition.

Provided is a system for verifying a vehicle for sale on a smart phone. The system includes a VIN decoder capable of decoding a VIN to determine the vehicle year, make, and model of the vehicle for sale. The system further includes a defect predictor and defect database configured to identify defects in vehicles having similar characteristic data to the vehicle associated with the VIN. A computer readable medium is downloadable onto the smart phone to configure the phone to communicate information corresponding to a captured image of the VIN from the vehicle to the VIN decoder. The computer readable medium further configures the smart phone to receive a signal including the characteristic data of the vehicle associated with the VIN, and defects identified by the defect predictor. The computer readable medium further configures the phone to display the received characteristic data and defects.

A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which collect new words for addition to a lexicon for an agglutinative language. In the method, a log of queries submitted to a search engine is obtained. The log of queries is sorted to obtain sorted queries. The sorted queries are then filtered using a plurality of heuristic criteria to obtain a candidate list of new words. Words from the candidate list of new words are then added to a lexicon.

Provided is a computer system in which a plurality of virtual machines operate on a host computer. The host computer has a time subtraction table for storing the time subtraction with the respective virtual machines, and a log collection unit for collecting the logs of the respective virtual machines. The log contains a time stamp which shows at least the log output time. The log collection unit corrects the time stamp of the logs collected from the respective virtual machines based on the time subtraction stored in the time subtraction table. According to this computer system, the logs of the virtual machines operating in a time series that is different from the time series of the host computer can be collected upon integrating the time series of the virtual machines and the host computer.

The invention discloses an urgent collection method based on the credit score and an urgent collection device thereof. The urgent collection method comprises the steps of collecting urgent collection object credit information, processing the collected credit information, establishing a credit risk scoring model, predicting the overdue debt collection probability and performing the targeted urgent collection strategy. The risk level can be automatically judged according to the urgent collection score result so that the urgent collection strategy of the client can be reasonably determined, the urgent collection effect can be enhanced and the bad debt loss can be reduced. Data mining acts as the analysis technology so that the modeling time can be saved and the data support can be provided for the urgent collection industry. Besides, user information can also be updated in real time, the urgent collection risk score can be more accurately predicted, the most appropriate urgent collection strategy can be performed and the urgent collection task efficiency can be enhanced.

The invention discloses a bioremediation method for soil polluted by heavy metals. The bioremediation method comprises the following steps of: adding earthworm feeds into the soil polluted by the heavy metals, turning the soil, uniformly mixing, and putting earthworms into the soil and cultivating the earthworms; after the earthworms are cultivated for 28 to 35 days, collecting earthworm excrements in the upper layer soil, collecting adult earthworms by adopting a natural lighting method, and retaining young earthworms and earthworm eggs in the soil; planting plants by adopting a hedge planting method, cradling the parts of the plants growing for 78 to 90 days, which are positioned above the ground, and removing the whole plants after the plants grow for another 50 to 70 days; collecting the adult earthworms and the earthworm excrements for 1 to 3 days by adopting an outdoor collection method every 28 to 35 days during planting of the plants; and after the whole plants are removed, collecting all the adult earthworms and the young earthworms by adopting the natural lighting method, and collecting the earthworm excrements and the earthworm eggs. The soil is subjected to remediationby combining animals, plants and microorganisms according to a proper remediation sequence and a remediation period, so that the bioremediation method is economic, environment-friendly, easy to operate, high in remediation efficiency and easy to popularize, and is particularly suitable for mild or moderate copper, cadmium and lead combined polluted soils.

The related distributed system log collection method comprises: receiving log data or file from every business module periodically or aperiodically to gather into new log file for storage; when receiving log collection command with collection condition, transmitting proper log file to the appointed device. This invention has no effect on system performance, and can extract log message efficiently.

The embodiment of the invention provides a human face image collection method and device. The method comprises the steps: receiving a to-be-detected human face image; and evaluating the quality of the to-be-detected human face image through employing at least one type of trained depth convolution network. According to the invention, the method and device can accurately evaluate the quality of the to-be-detected human face image through employing the trained depth convolution network, thereby facilitating the improvement of the accuracy of human face recognition.

The invention relates to a fingerprint collection system comprising a fingerprint sensor, a scanning controller, a sensing unit driving circuit, an image output unit and a mode control circuit. The fingerprint sensor comprises a fingerprint sensing unit array, an antenna metal frame and a radiofrequency driving circuit; the fingerprint sensing unit array includes multiple sensing units, and the radiofrequency driving circuit drives the antenna metal frame to transmit radiofrequency signals. The scanning controller is used for selecting at least part of the sensing units of the fingerprint sensing unit array to serve as effective sensing units for sensing fingerprints and converting the same into electric signals. The sensing unit driving circuit is used for providing time-sequence signals needed for work of the effective sensing units. The image output unit is used for converting electric signals into digital fingerprint image information and outputting the information. The mode control circuit is used for controlling the sensing unit driving circuit to send different time-sequence signals to change working modes of the fingerprint collection system. The working modes at least include a capacitive collection mode and a radiofrequency collection mode. The fingerprint collection system has wide application range and has good collection and recognition effects in various application fields.

The invention discloses a comprehensive collection method and a device with three-state data of electrical parameters: steady state, fault recorder data and dynamic data, and the device is characterized in that the device consists of a high-precision time synchronization module, a synchronous sampling pulse module, an alternating current signal conditioning module, an A/D sampling module, a direct current signal conditioning module, a voltage frequency conversion module, a switch quantity signal conditioning module, a signal processing module, a recording module and a high-speed network communication module, etc. The method and the device have the advantages that: the use of the high-precision time synchronization module and the high-performance signal processing and the communication technologies can realize the synchronous collection of the three-state data of the electrical parameters, complete the functions of monitoring, fault recording, phase angle measurement and power quality analysis, etc., improve the data processing capability and the sampling precision, improve the real-time property of an automatic system of a substation, simplify the design, the manufacture and the operation of secondary equipment of the automatic system of the substation and greatly reduce the construction cost and the maintenance cost of the substation.

A trace file collection system for implementing a trace file collection method for a soft error collection of one or more trace files associated with a data processing device. The method involves a periodic retrieval of an error log from the data processing device, a comparison of two or more retrieved error logs, and a retrieval of the trace file(s) from the data processing device based on the comparison of the two or more retrieved error logs indicating an occurrence of one or more soft errors within the data processing device.

A software metric collection method facilitates bidding and project management transactions. The system and method permit a contractor to solicit bids from one or more interested bidders for an open project in an efficient and cost effective manner and to select a suitable bidder based on bid amount and stored software metric data reflecting past performance accrued by each bidder based on past completed projects. The system and method further enable the contractor upon designation of the successful bidder to track and manage the pending project through the collection and analysis of software metrics procured during the undertaking of the project. In this manner, the system and method provide the contractor with competitive pricing from bidders, while ensuring a high level of quality, performance, and timeliness in the resulting product or service where reliability and quality are critical issues for the contractor.

The invention discloses an offline payment and collection method and an offline payment and collection device for mobile terminals. The payment method comprises the following steps that a first mobile terminal transmits payment information to a second mobile terminal through a near-field wireless communication function and receives identity information returned by the second mobile terminal, wherein the payment information comprises payment amount and a first negotiation key, and the identity information comprises a second negotiation key of the second mobile terminal; the first mobile terminal performs key negotiation according to the first negotiation key and the second negotiation key of the second mobile terminal and establishes a safety link based on the near-field wireless communication with the second mobile terminal; and the first mobile terminal transmits the encrypted payment amount to the second mobile terminal through the safety link. According to the payment method, the mobile terminal does not need to depend on external factors in the process of performing offline payment, and the operation is safe and rapid.

Based on Multi-Agent consultations wireless sensor network data collection methods, according to the network layer structure of clusters distributed tasks agents, active agents through consultations within the cluster and the cluster service agents consultations to determine the cluster so that agents within the cluster of data collection between the data path and the return path, users interested in the data Distributed processing within the network, access to the information. One form of software services agents and enable agents, the combination of hardware and software initiatives agents, agents and active agents switching, consultation and Acting Regional memory so that it can increase the network's live dynamic performance, multi-agent collaborative completion of a combination of timing of data collection. Compared to traditional data, polymerization method takes place of data transmission network to short the Acting interactive information in the network, data from the main polymerization processing model into the network, such as computing model.