131 results about "Connected object" patented technology

In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) collects local state information from a plurality of minimalistic connected objects (MCOs) in a computer network, the local state information for each MCO comprising a corresponding neighbor list and a selected next-hop for the respective MCO, where one or more of the MCOs are configured to select their next-hop without any self-optimization. The DIA may then analyze a current routing topology, which is the combined result of the selected next-hops, in comparison to a computed optimal routing topology, and (optionally) in light of required service level agreement (SLA), to determine whether to optimize the current routing topology. In response to determining that the current routing topology should be optimized, the DIA may transmit a unicast routing instruction to one or more individual MCOs to instruct those individual MCOs how to optimize the current routing topology, accordingly.

Provided is a process of operating a zero-knowledge encrypted database, the process including: obtaining a request for data in a database stored by an untrusted computing system, wherein the database is stored in a graph that includes a plurality of connected nodes, each of the nodes including: an identifier, accessible to the untrusted computing system, that distinguishes the respective node from other nodes in the graph; and an encrypted collection of data stored in encrypted form, wherein: the untrusted computing system does not have access to an encryption key to decrypt the collections of data, the encrypted collections of data in at least some of the plurality of nodes each include a plurality of keys indicating subsets of records in the database accessible via other nodes in the graph and corresponding pointers to identifiers of the other nodes.

Techniques for grouping related objects such as documents and files using quantum clustering are disclosed. A method may include constructing a feature-object database of multiple objects. The feature-object database may have quantized selected features as keys. A connected objects database maybe built. Clusters of connected objects may be identified in the connected objects database. The clusters of identified objects may be evaluated to determine groups of related objects. The method may be implemented on a computing device.

Techniques for grouping related objects such as documents and files using quantum clustering are disclosed. A method may include constructing a feature-object database of multiple objects. The feature-object database may have quantized selected features as keys. A connected objects database maybe built. Clusters of connected objects may be identified in the connected objects database. The clusters of identified objects may be evaluated to determine groups of related objects. The method may be implemented on a computing device.

The method and apparatus of the present invention identifies the logical components of a message, determines the conversational relationships among messages and then structures and formats the core components into a single document to facilitate efficient assimilation of the structure and content of the contained conversations. The message analysis technique delineates the material to be retained and omitted using a combination of a recursive descent analyzer and a single weighted finite state machine for the core process.

The time required to send firmware update data to a printer or other peripheral device is shortened without changing the communication speed. A server sequentially reads records of source data in a first format, deletes blocks of consecutive blank data that are contained in the object data in records of the first format and are longer than the management data in a second format, and segments the object data before and after the blanks, connects the object data in records of the first format into units of a certain length, generates management data for the segmented object data and generates management data for the connected object data to produce target records in the second format, and sends the update data composed of the target records of the second format to the printer. Records of the first format written in ASCII code are binary converted, and binary records in the second format are sent to the printer.

Techniques for managing network-connected objects are provided. In some examples, code for accessing a network-connected object may be received. The code may be configured to enable generation of an application programming interface method. In some aspects, account information associated with a user may be stored. A particular method call corresponding to the application programming interface method may be received from a computer device of the user. The particular method call may include a request to access the network-connected object. In some examples, the request to access the network-connected object may be authenticated based at least in part on the account information. Additionally, in some examples, an instruction to the network-connected object may be provided over a network if the request is authenticated.

Navigating hierarchical levels of a design using graphical preview images. In one aspect, a method for providing a preview image for a design includes causing a display of a main image depicting a first portion of the design, the design organized into multiple hierarchical levels, each level having a different amount of abstraction of graphical information of the design. A preview image smaller than the main image is displayed, portraying a second portion of the design at a different hierarchical level than the first portion. The preview image is receptive to a selection causing the second portion to be displayed as the main image. Some embodiments allow the preview image to include one or more hotspots that cause a display of another preview image at a different hierarchical level, or to show a connected object connected to a probed first object.

System and apparatus for providing service of view presentation focusing on automatically tracked object to service users, where each service user has individually specified target object of interest. The system comprises a field overviewing device to provide high resolution field overview image and to support object tracking and positioning; a telescopic mast device to support variable filed overviewing configurations and to provide a mobile system platform; and a computerized view presentation service center to provide individually specified target object view presentation to connected service users via a networked communication device. The system further comprises focused object viewing device to provide individual target object tracking in focused view presentations. A mobile platform for the focused object viewing device, like robot or drone, can advance such target object tracking and viewing presentations in more dynamic environments. The system may further comprise camera arrays to provide high-dimensional dynamic object view presentation.

A topology of connected nodes can be arranged into a compact layout so that the difference between the width and the height of the layout is minimized. The topology of connected nodes can be arranged into a compact layout so that the aspect ratio of the width and the height is optimized toward a preferred value. A preferred width can be calculated and the connected nodes can be arranged so that the difference between the actual and preferred width of the compact layout is minimized.

The invention relates to a double-mode type full-variable valve driving system for a four-cylinder internal combustion engine, belonging to the field of the variable valve driving system of the internal combustion engine. The double-mode type full-variable valve driving system mainly comprises a mode converter, a driving circulator, a forward oil supply device, a reverse oil supply device, valve driving mechanisms of all cylinders, a forward high-speed valve, a reverse high-speed valve, an oil tank, oil pipes and the like. The invention provides the mode converter and the driving circulator with a three-layer embedding type structure according to the number of the engine cylinders and the ignition sequence, not only can achieve the purpose that all inlet (exhaust) valve driving mechanismscan be completely and flexibly driven by only using two electromagnetic valves to realize a variable valve event required by a driving mode of the internal combustion engine as a power source and a braking mode of the internal combustion engine as a consuming source, can be used as a gas distributing system and an auxiliary braking system of the internal combustion engine, realizes powerful functions with extremely-low cost, can be applied to natural gas-suction type or turbo-supercharging type internal combustion engines by only needing to exchange a communication object of the two oil pipes, and is good in model adaptability and wide in application range.

The invention discloses a U-net based generation adversarial network based digital substration angiography DSA imaging method and device. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, obtaining aplurality of groups of radiography frames and original data corresponding to the subtraction frames; secondly, establishing a U-shaped structure convolutional network, coding and extracting featuresof different scales, and decoding and recovering corresponding features by using a skill connected object, wherein the network inputs a radiography frame and outputs a corresponding subtraction frameto reduce the dependence of DSA generation on a background frame so as to remove motion artifacts generated by motion of a patient; then, by means of generative adversarial training, alternately training the generator and the discriminator, and enhancing the quality of generated digital blood vessel subtraction. According to the method, the motion artifacts in the digital substration angiography (DSA) can be effectively removed, the data quality can meet the requirements of clinical analysis, diagnosis and the like, the DSA imaging quality is improved, and the influence caused by motion of a patient is reduced.

Methods of communication in a wireless communication network having a plurality of connected objects, a gateway and a central server. These elements communicate with one another via messages sent and received on frequency channels. A channel is reserved for the periodic transmission of tag messages by the gateways, thereby allowing the organization and optimization of the network usage and communication time.

The invention belongs to the field of electric equipment charging and particularly relates to a charging facility and an automatic authentication method and system of a to-be-charged object. The present invention aims to solve the problem that the charging facility has a complicated new energy vehicle authentication process and thus the user's charging experience is poor in the prior art. The authentication method mainly comprises the following steps of obtaining the SSID of a connected object in a WIFI region; comparing the obtained SSID with a legally-registered SSID; activating an authentication module when the obtained SSID is matched with at least one legally-registered SSID; and performing authentication of the to-be-charged object through the authentication module. Preferably, the connected object is a charging pile, and the to-be-charged object is an electric car. With the authentication method, when the electric car enters the WIFI region, the authentication module can be automatically activated to perform authentication of the electric car, so that the operation process is simplified, and the charging experience of the user is greatly improved.

In a decorative object connectable to a connected object, a connecting member includes a fixing portion at an end of the connecting member, and the fixing portion is connected and fixed to a stylish decorative object with a specific shape, and another end of the connecting member is a stop portion, and a connecting portion is disposed between both ends, and a stop portion of the connecting member is passed through a connecting hole of the connected object, and stopped by both ends and positioned onto the connected object, and the stylish decorative object includes a light emitting element.

The invention relates to a foam two-sided adhesive tape, which belongs to the technical field of an adhesive tape. The foam two-sided adhesive tape comprises a foam basal plate, an adhesive coating and a release film, wherein longitudinal through holes are formed between the upper surface and the lower surface of the foam basal plate, the foam basal plate comprises the following components in parts by weight: 100 parts of PMMA, 28 to 35 parts of polyurethane, 18 to 23 parts of fluorine rubber, 1.5 to 3.2 parts of light stabilizer, 5 to 11 parts of mesoporous nano TiO2 and 20 to 30 parts of foaming agents. The longitudinal through holes are formed in the foam basal plate, so that adhesive forms a complete lattice system, the connection performance of the adhesive tape is improved, and the connected object is more stable and reliable. The foam basal plate which is light in weight, good in shock resistance and excellent mechanical performance is adopted as the base material of the adhesive tape, so that the prepared adhesive tape is high in strength, good in flexibility, high in impact resistance and applicable to the manufacturing of more precise instruments and equipment.

A connector capable of facilitating the insertion of a connected object, and obtaining a sufficient contact force. Contacts are held by a housing including a receiving space into which is inserted FPC. An actuator is mounted in the housing in a manner pivotally movable between open position for inserting FPC into the space, and closed position for holding FPC therein. The contacts have respective seesaw-type beams having one ends thereof formed with portions for contact with FPC, and the other ends thereof formed with power point portions for receiving the turning force of the actuator. The actuator has pressing portions for pushing downward the power point portions when open, to thereby lift them to move the contact portions out of the space, and cam portions for pushing upward the same when closed, to thereby push them downward to cause the contact portions to enter the space.

The invention provides an automatic spherical camera tracing method, comprising the steps of, acquiring an image; acquiring a motion vector of an image; determining a motion state of the spherical camera; performing binaryzation of a scene image; segmenting connected objects in the motion vector; analyzing and tracing the segmented connected objects; and tracing a target object. The method of the invention uses the motion vector to assist in segmenting foreground objects. With respect to a macroblock of N*N pixels, pixels which need to be treated are 1 / N*N of pixels of an original image. And for application of automatic tracing, only one object needs to be traced at a time, and the method can satisfy the requirement already, so hardware load can be reduced largely. The method is suitable for an embedded platform with poor hardware efficiency, and the spherical camera can run more fluently without an extra signal processing integrated circuit. Even if the target object suddenly accelerates, decelerates, is covered by barriers or overlaps with another object, a good tracing effect can be guaranteed.

The invention discloses a determination method, system and device for a connected object of a user terminal to solve a problem, which exists in the prior art, that because the transmission capacity of a returning link does not match the load of a connected link, networks are congested or transmission resources are in idle. The method includes: a network side determining a transmission capacity value of the returning link of an RN system and a load value of a corresponding connected link; and the network side sending instruction information to the user terminal according to the determined transmission capacity value and load value. The instruction information is used for instructing the user terminal to adjust an RN cell selection metric, which is obtained through measurement, according to a preset RN-cell selection-metric adjustment rule and determining the connected object of the user terminal according to an adjusted RN cell selection metric, wherein, the RN-cell selection-metric adjustment rule is that a difference value, which is obtained by subtracting the load value from the transmission capacity value, is in positive correlation with the adjusted RN-cell selection metric.

A method is provided for assistance in authentication of a user, implemented within a payment-services providing server. The method includes a phase of collecting at least one piece of operating information relative to at least one connected object preliminarily associated with the user; and a phase of managing a transaction involving bank data of the user and a merchant, comprising the following acts: processing the at least one piece of operating information collected during the phase for collecting, delivering at least one piece of data representing a level of trust associated with the transaction, and transmitting the level of trust associated with the transaction.

An adaptive synchronous watermark method based on image connectivity includes converting original grey scale image to be two-valued image, obtaining connecting through image, mapping it into grey scale image, selecting relatively big gravity as reference point to embed watermark and ensuring adaptive synchronization of watermark by utilizing unchanged topology and stable gravity of image.

The present invention concerns a method for securing data transmitted by a data source (2) of a connected object (1) against attacks affecting a control circuit (4) of the connected object (1), the connected object (1) also comprising an electronic signature circuit (6) and a communication bus (8) connected to the control circuit (4), connected to the electronic signature circuit (6) and connected to the source (2), wherein the method comprises the following steps implemented by the electronic signature circuit (6):detecting (602) a first datum (M) transmitted by the source (2) on the communication bus (8);detecting (606) a second datum (M′) to be signed, on the communication bus, the second datum having been transmitted (404) by the control circuit (4) on the communication bus (8) after detection of the first datum (M) by the control device (4);verifying (608) coherence between the detected data (M, M′),signalling (610) an error (E), if any, as a function of a result of the verification.

The invention provides an automatic configuration management system for network security. The automatic configuration management system comprises a configuration connection module and a daily operation module, wherein the configuration connection module is connected to an object to be scanned, wherein the object to be scanned comprises a combination of two or more of the following objects: network equipment, electronic equipment, a system and a database; the daily operation module is used for carrying out operation processing on the connected object to be scanned, wherein the operation processing at least comprises the following steps of: scanning a configuration file in the object to be scanned, positioning clauses with configuration defect in the configuration file, and carrying out security configuration repair on the clauses with configuration defect. The automatic configuration management system provided by the invention is capable of scanning a combined object, correctly positioning the improperly configured position in the combined object, and meanwhile, carrying out security configuration repair on the clauses with configuration defect (namely, improper configuration) of the combined object, so that the combined object conforms to the standard requirement of the configuration, and security of operation of the configuration file of the combined object is greatly improved.

In a direction control valve, a bottom face of an insertion hole of a first movable member is at a predetermined distance from a second movable member with respect to a first axial direction when communication between a first communication switching port and a communication object port is made and communication between a second communication switching port and the communication object port is broken. The bottom face contacts and pushes the second movable member in a second axial direction opposite to the first axial direction after the first movable member moves in the second axial direction by the predetermined distance while the first and second movable members move in the second axial direction to switch a port communicating with the communication object port from the first communication switching port to the second communication switching port.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for memory garbage collection via object grouping are disclosed. Normative objects are allocated in a non-native memory referencing respective one or more native objects in a native memory. The non-native objects are grouped into non-native object groups based upon information regarding object references associated with respective ones of the native objects. Objects in respective ones of the one or more non-native object groups are provided one or more references to other said objects of the non-native object groups to create connected object groups. Unused ones of the connected object groups are detected. And objects of the detected unused ones of the connected object groups are de-allocated.

The invention discloses an intensive multifunctional continuously-variable valve driving system for a four-cylinder internal combustion engine, and belongs to the field of internal combustion engine variable valve driving systems. The intensive multifunctional continuously-variable valve driving system mainly comprises oil feeders, a cycle selector, a mode converter, two-position two-way valves, an air valve driver and the like. According to the designed cycle selector, a variable valve event required by the driving mode and the braking mode of the internal combustion engine can be achieved simply through the two oil feeders and the two two-position two-way valves, and a strong function is achieved with extremely low cost. The air valve closing process is not limited by the operating stages of the oil feeders, an air valve early closing event required by the idling and medium-low load of the internal combustion engine is met, and the oil consumption and emissions of the internal combustion engine in actual application are fully reduced. The intensive multifunctional continuously-variable valve driving system can be applied to a naturally suction type internal combustion engine and a turbocharging type internal combustion engine only by exchanging the communicated objects of two oil ports in the mode converter, and is good in type adaptability and wide in application range. All the components of the system are connected through oil pipes, and the system can be arranged on an actual machine type conveniently.