181 results about "Computer appliance" patented technology

An Internet-coupled transaction service has a link to a computer appliance coupled to a merchant site, the computer appliance operated by a person who has selected one or more products or services to purchase at the merchant site, and who has selected, through the merchant site, the transaction service to arrange payment, and software executing from a computer-readable medium accessible to the service. The transaction service, via the software verifies the identity of the person, determines a credit worthiness for the person, and the score being sufficient, arranges payment to be made to the merchant on behalf of the person, and arranges repayment terms with the person for the payment to the merchant.

A computerized method for controlling or connecting a plurality of computer appliances in a networked control system comprised of control center, computer appliance and peripherals for the purposes of establishing an automated framework and technical devices for intelligent integration of two or more applications, logic rules, data repositories and/or services together to automate, manage, synchronize or monitor knowledge or business solutions in real-time. The control center, computer appliances or peripherals can store and process structured or unstructured data; the control center is communicating with each appliance or periphery across a communication network; the control center can determine when an appliances or peripheral requires maintenance or update; the control center controls the current inventory of computer appliances and peripherals; the control center can add or reinitialize a new computer appliance or peripheral; the computer appliance can also add peripherals. A user can interact with the control center, computer appliance or a peripheral to perform monitoring, management or analysis functions.

A computerized method for facilitate and orchestrate the exchange and integration of data assets and data consumers, with or without computer appliances, automated framework comprised of technical devices for enabling integration of one or more of data assets including data streamer, structured data repository, unstructured data repository, 3rd party application, ontology, sensor, service provider, text, image, video, voice, and data consumers including human user, web portal, email, repository of data, reporting warehouse, 3rd party application, workflow, analytics process, model, ontology index, problem solver, decision system, mobile device, sensor, wearable computer. The automated framework can be one of asynchronous messaging-based, asynchronous near real-time, synchronous real-time; computer memory is used for storing applications for distribution to data consumers. The framework provides encryption, authentication, rights and roles controlling data assets, or data consumers. A user can interact with the framework to perform monitoring, management or analysis functions.

The present system and method enables the automatic detection and identification of authorized users within proximity of a computing apparatus and, after verifying, using biometric detection and analysis, that the user is authorized to access the target, providing the user with such access. The system comprises a computer appliance target requiring authentication of a user in order to access the target, including software stored on and executing from the target, a biometric input device, and a transceiver enabling short-range wireless communication with other wireless capable devices; a database accessible to the target; and a beacon device associated with the user, including at least a transceiver and a locally stored encrypted identity token associating the device with the identity of the user; wherein the transceiver on the target periodically scans for the beacon device within the short-range, and upon detection, establishes communication with the beacon device and requests the identity token, the beacon device receives the request and sends the identity token back to the target which decrypts and validates the token by comparing token data with stored token data in the database and upon successful decryption and validation of the identity token, the software initializes a biometric test input to positively identify the user in possession of the beacon, wherein the software of the target attempts to match the biometric input with second biometric input of the user stored in the database and upon a successful match, unlocks the target and allows the user to operate the target.

A system includes: a computerized appliance having a processor; and software executing on the computerized appliance from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing: establishment of a communication session over a network between two or more end communications appliances; detection and recording of at least media channel capabilities on individual end communications appliances connected in the session; service of media channel toggle options to end communications appliances; detection of media channel toggle option selections made by users operating the end communications appliances; and implementation of the media channel toggle option or options selected for individual communications sessions.

A computer device may include logic configured to configure carrier aggregation for a user equipment serviced by the base station device; activate a secondary component carrier for the user equipment; determine that a quality level for the secondary component carrier is lower than a quality threshold; and de-activate the secondary component carrier for the user equipment, in response determining that the quality level is lower than the quality threshold. The logic may be further configured to detect a problem associated with the primary component carrier for the user equipment; determine whether a better primary component carrier is available, in response to detecting the problem; switch to the better primary component carrier, when the better primary component carrier is available; and de-configure carrier aggregation for the user equipment, when the better primary component carrier for the user equipment is not available.

A thumb drive comprises on-board memory for storing digital information, a male USB connector coupled to the on-board memory for connecting to a USB port of a computer appliance, internal control elements for managing MP3 player functions for the thumb drive, a display for displaying downloaded song titles, user-operable controls for selecting and playing songs recorded as audio files in the on-board memory as audio output at an output connector, a Bluetooth™ compatible transmitter for transmitting selected data and audio output to external Bluetooth™ compatible devices, and an extension/retraction mechanism coupled to the connector for extending the connector from an enclosure of the drive and for retracting the connector when not in use.

The invention discloses a network distribution method and apparatus, a storage medium, a terminal and a home appliance. The method comprises the following steps: causing a first home appliance in more than one home appliance to be distributed with networks to obtain first identity information and a first key of a to-be-connected router, and to connect to the router according to the first identity information and the first key so as to accomplish the network distribution of itself; and causing the first home appliance to separately send the obtained first identity information and a first key to the other home appliances excluding itself in the more than one home appliance so as to perform network distribution on the other home appliances. The scheme can overcome the defects of troublesome operation process, long time and poor user experience in the prior art, and can achieve the beneficial effects of simple operation process, sort time and good user experience.

A community-based moderation system for online content has a computerized server connected to the Internet network and executing software (SW) from a machine-readable medium, a queuing function of the SW for queuing items for moderation, a recruiting function of the SW for recruiting potential moderators from an online community via the Internet, an interactive interface generated by the SW and displayable on computer appliances of recruited moderators, for displaying items for moderation and controls for carrying out moderation, and a reporting function associated with the interactive display enabling the moderator to report results of moderation.

A system for programming a programmable device having an interface for a portable memory medium has an interactive interface executable on a stand-alone computer appliance for creating a program for the programmable device, a portable memory medium, and a downloading mechanism for transferring the created program to the portable memory medium.

The present invention is directed to non-disruptive generation of core files for a computer appliance without rebooting the computer appliance. In an embodiment of the invention, the computer appliance is analyzed. A determination is made as to what core file generation options will be non-disruptive to the computer appliance. The tradeoff is evaluated between options that will generate core files which are more useful in diagnosing potential problems with the computer appliance and options which will generate core files which are less disruptive. A procedure is determined which will generate the core file without disrupting the computer appliance. Resources are allocated to utilize in generation of the core file. The procedure is then executed and a core file is generated without disrupting the computer appliance.

The present invention is directed to an automatic generation of a support collateral as well as to an automatic generation of core files. In one embodiment, a support collateral is automatically generated when a core file is generated. The support collateral is information used to support diagnosis of potential problems. A computer appliance further includes a framework of rules organized by a subsystem. A subsystem is a functional component of the computer appliance. Rules are evaluated when an inflection point is encountered. An inflection point is a critical point in processing where processing is interrupted. A core file is generated for the computer appliance when indicated to do so by a rule.

The invention discloses a checking and diminishing method of computer virus in the computer appliance domain, which is characterized by the following: basing on computer virus checking and diminishing method of data flow through matching the virus feature data with the checked and diminished data flow (internal memory mode or file generation data flow); containing internal memory checking and diminishing virus method and file checking and diminishing virus method; providing the identification of new variant of known virus or partial new virus without updating or less updating; analyzing and extracting binary code of known virus as virus feature to find new variant of virus or new virus in the internal memory mode or file; extracting the file feature automatically (if the internal memory mode corresponds to the file)to generate new file virus feature; updating the virus database automatically; finishing checking and diminishing task through scanning the new variant of known virus and partial new virus and other all duplicates.

A computer appliance including a front-end interface communicating with a client computer, a back-end interface communicating with a storage, a compressor receiving native next generation sequencing (NGS) data from an application running on the client computer via the front-end interface, the application being programmed to process native NGS data, adding a compressed form of the native NGS data into a portion of an encoded data file or data object, and storing the portion of the encoded data file or data object in the storage via the back-end interface, and a decompressor receiving a portion of an encoded data file or data object from the storage via the back-end interface, decompressing the portion of the encoded data file or data object to generate therefrom native NGS data, and transmitting the native NGS data to the client via the front-end interface, for use by the application running on the client.

A manufacturing process management (MPM) computer device is provided. The MPM computer device is configured to store an engineering bill of materials for a product to be assembled including a first plurality of parts, store a manufacturing bill of materials for the product to be assembled including a second plurality of parts and a status, receive a request from a user to change the status of the manufacturing bill of materials, compare the first plurality of parts with the second plurality of parts, determine whether the first plurality of parts matches the second plurality of parts based on the comparison, if the comparison matches, change the status of the manufacturing bill of materials, and if the comparison does not match, prevent the status of the manufacturing bill of materials from changing.

The invention relates to an operation and maintenance method, system and device of power equipment, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: an operation andmaintenance server receives an operation and maintenance request carrying an equipment identifier of power equipment reported by a power equipment inspection terminal; determining a power equipment maintenance end according to the equipment identifier, and sending the operation and maintenance request to the power equipment maintenance end for the power equipment maintenance end to respond to theoperation and maintenance request to obtain maintenance information; receiving maintenance information sent by the power equipment maintenance terminal; acquiring historical maintenance information ofthe power equipment based on the equipment identifier; and according to the maintenance information and the historical maintenance information, updating the inspection period of the power equipment,and sending the updated inspection period to the power equipment inspection end, so that the power equipment inspection end inspects the power equipment according to the updated inspection period. Byadopting the method, relevant adjustment can be performed on the inspection period according to the maintenance information of the power equipment and the historical maintenance information, so that the operation and maintenance efficiency is improved.

An interface circuit configured to connect between (a) a broadcast receiver tuner and associated circuitry for the receiving and processing of broadcast radio frequency signals, and (b) a general purpose computer device programmed with software demodulation code configured to engage a general purpose processor in signal demodulation functions, the interface circuit comprising: a data interface comprising a packetisation buffer connected to receive (i) digital signal sample data from a signal path of the tuner and associated circuitry and (ii) indications of control settings which are applied to one or more configurable components during taking of the sample data, said packetisation buffer being operable to construct packets comprising blocks of sample data and header information carrying said control settings indications; a control interface configured to receive control instructions from tuner control code running on the general purpose computer device; and a microcontroller operable to receive the control instructions from the control interface and distribute corresponding control settings to configurable components of the tuner and associated circuitry, said microcontroller also being operable to supply indications of relevant control settings to said packetisation buffer.

A system for integrated performance measurement environment comprises a plurality of composite data from a plurality of composite data sources, wherein the plurality of composite data further comprises a plurality of structured data, a plurality of unstructured data, and a plurality of signal data; an extract transform load module; a database receiving the plurality of composite data from extract transform load module and storing the plurality of composite data as the plurality of stored data; a business logic module; at least one graphical user interface; a set of graphical presentations of a plurality of processed data comprising charts, graphs, reports, and tables, and a combination thereof on a computer device; and at least one network; and methods performing the same including extracting, transforming, and loading composite data into the system, retrieving data in accordance with rules in metrics catalog and business intelligence blocks, drilling down the metrics catalog and business intelligence blocks, and collaborating over the system and method thereof.