62 results about "Current practice" patented technology

A system and method for making a decision of whether to carry additional fuel on an aircraft for a particular flight based on a forecast, such as for low visibility and ceiling. Preferably, observations-based probabilistic forecasts are utilized. The forecast probability of the weather at the planned aerodrome being below a prescribed minimum level is calculated using statistical regression analysis of past data. An optimal probability is estimated using cost parameters on an individual flight bases. If this forecast probability is greater than the optimal probability for a particular flight, then extra fuel is carried by that flight. This is in contrast to current practice whereby the same categorical forecast is applied to all flights. The combination of improved short-term forecasts and identification of optimal forecast probabilities minimizes the financial impact of errors and weather forecasts on airline operations thereby providing a superior financial outcome.

A computer implemented method, computer program product and data processing system, for identifying common structures shared across a plurality of formatted text documents. The common structure is presented as a sequence of landmarks, each of which has a starting and ending marker to describe the borders of text. The common structure is identified by counting the occurrences of repeating text segments across documents. Frequently co-occurred adjacent segments become candidates for markers of landmarks. In addition, styling information of textual content within a landmark is extracted and mapped to rules. The rules are used to merge and summarize content from multiple documents, which gives an advantage over current practice of content concatenation.

The invention provides a piano and a piano interactive practice device. The piano interactive practice device comprises a piano keyboard detection sensor array, a signal processing unit and a display unit, wherein the piano keyboard detection sensor array is used for detecting the pressed state of the piano keyboard and generating a state detection signal of the piano keyboard; the signal processing unit is connected with the piano keyboard detection sensor array, and is used for receiving the state detection signal of the piano keyboard, providing a keystroke tip to prompt the current note to be played according to the playing content of the current practice program, comparing the state detection signal of the piano keyboard with the note to be played to judge whether a practicer is rightly playing or not, and obtaining playing judgment information; the display unit is connected with the signal processing unit, and is used for displaying playing content information of the practice program and displaying the playing judgment information. The piano interactive practice device adopts the piano keyboard detection sensor array to detect the piano keystroke state in real time and to process the fed back keystroke variation information, and adopts the display unit to prompt and rectify playing, so that the resource utilization rate of teachers is improved, and the educational cost is reduced.

Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying, analyzing, and adopting opportunities for optimizing clinical processes within clinical facilities. An optimized practice process model may be defined for a particular clinical procedure, setting forth an optimal clinical process. In addition, critical levers may be identified within the optimal clinical process, representing the activities that have the greatest impact on outcomes. Clinical facilities may collect current measures for the critical levers, and the current measures may be compared against an optimal, benchmark, and/or target measure. Based on the comparison, opportunities for clinical process optimization may be identified. Those opportunities may then be analyzed and prioritized for adoption into a facility's current practice. Clinical processes within healthcare facilities may be further improved by continuously monitoring facility data and identifying further opportunities of optimization. Further, collected data may be used to refine the optimized practice process model, allowing for further optimization.

It is not possible to maintain extremely tight synchronization of the time keeping clocks of the networked nodes comprising a distributed filesystem. However, when multiple client systems access the same file from different remote locations, a distributed consistency mechanism must ensure that all file read and write requests are only serviced from the latest version of the file. The current industry practice is to disable client-side caching when a concurrent write sharing condition arises (multiple clients active on the file and at least one of them writing). This forces all requests to flow through to the file server and consistency is maintained since all requests are then serviced from the same file image. The current practice sacrifices performance and scalability to maintain consistency. This document discloses methods for projecting and maintaining temporary filesystem timestamps that allow file read and write requests to be serviced from remote cached file images while still providing the same file consistency as the current industry practice. The temporary filesystem timestamps are updated to real filesystem timestamps whenever the client-side cache communicates with the file server.

A set of tools for the process generally known as “paintless dent repair” for removing a class of dents in automobile body panels is modified to have interchangeable handles with a range of positions relative to the working end of the tool. Thus, permitting the modified set of tools to be comprised of many fewer individual tools than is the current practice in the art.

The invention discloses a method for distributing a plurality of power control instructions via the virtual scheduling, which is characterized in that the invention comprises the following steps: step1: the base station collocates the service sources and continuously distributes power control instructions; step 2: the base station distributes the confirmed or disconfirmed message to the terminal.The method can make full use of the current practice of transmitting one power control instruction within a transmission time interval to realize the distribution of a plurality of power control instructions within a longer transmission time interval, which increases the power control accuracy and system throughput and is conducive to realization within the framework of the prior technology.

Schedulers, Planners, and Maintenance Supervisors in an Industrial facility can use the user interface of the present invention to extremely quickly move work order schedules, status planning, and manage resources. Additionally, key performance indicators or metrics on performance on how well the organization is doing is also cumbersome if not impossible in the current practice in these industrial organizations. The variables of this management include worker, crew, Work Order, Dates, Planning Status, planner, dates, etc. (see tech manual and summary sheets). The invention operates by interfacing with the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) database in a thoroughly interactive process. The local program constructs a parallel database and reads and feedbacks to the CMMS database frequently to stay current and accurate.

A system and method are provided to maximize the number of participants submitting proposals for requirements of all sizes and to increase transparency in property selection to aggregate more data regarding potential lease properties earlier than current practice, qualify candidate properties for lease, expedite and standardize a request for proposal (RFP) process to use the increased transparency to include not just rent, but other costs and lease provisions respecting candidate lease properties, and negotiate a lease for a target candidate property. Additionally, the system and method preferably enable a simultaneous reverse auction process with various potential Lessors on either or both the financial or qualitative lease terms and conditions increasing the outcomes for the Client Operator/Lessee.

Methods for staining a selected tissue with a dye, stain or pigment that is attuned to absorb the energy from a radiant energy source are disclosed. The radiant energy source can be sufficient to destroy or combust radiated tissues. The dye or stain can enhance absorption of incoming radiant energy, which results in increased destruction of stained tissues and decreased destruction of underlying tissues. This method provides clinicians with the ability to selectively mark a tissue for destruction, while leaving wanted tissues generally intact. A clinician may dispense the stain with a pen and directly stain selected biological tissues, similar to the current practice of drawing current incision guides, followed by radiating the stained area with a laser that produces a wavelength that the stain readily absorbs. Optionally, a radiant energy opaque substance that can be applied adjacent the stained treatment area to protect against accidental or incidental exposure to wanted tissue. Also optionally, an oxidizing substance may be applied with the stain to further enhance the effect of this method.

In the MPEG2 Advanced Audio Coder (AAC) standard, Temporal Noise Shaping (TNS) is currently implemented by defining one filter for a given frequency band, and then switching to another filter for the adjacent frequency band when the signal structure in the adjacent band is different than the one in the previous band. The AAC standard limits the number of filters used to either one filter for a “short” block or three filters for a “long” block. In cases where the need for additional filters is present but the limit of permissible filters has been reached, the remaining frequency spectra are simply not covered by TNS. This current practice is not an effective way of deploying TNS filters for most audio signals. We propose two solutions to deploy TNS filters in order to get the entire spectrum of the signal into TNS. The first method involves a filter bridging technique and complies with the current AAC standard. The second method involves a filter clustering technique. Although the second method is both more efficient and accurate in capturing the temporal structure of the time signal, it is not AAC standard compliant. Thus, a new syntax for packing filter information derived using the second method for transmission to a receiver is also outlined.

The present invention is a method for controlling APP authentication of installed software. First, judge whether the software is allowed to be installed through the name of the software installation package, and only execute the installation action when the installation is allowed. The method of software authentication, the current method is to install the software first, and then perform black and white list matching. If the installation is not allowed, then uninstall the software. This method of software authentication of installation, matching, and uninstallation has high security Hidden danger, in order to prevent bad APP from being installed on the control mobile phone, uninstall or crack the control APP, the invention ensures that malicious software will not be installed on the mobile phone through software authentication, ensuring the safe use of the mobile phone, and has higher security.

A new method to strip metals from organic solvents in a manner that allows for the recycle of the stripping agent. The method utilizes carbonate solutions of organic amines with complexants, in low concentrations, to strip metals from organic solvents. The method allows for the distillation and reuse of organic amines. The concentrated metal/complexant fraction from distillation is more amenable to immobilization than solutions resulting from current practice.

Schedulers, Planners, and Maintenance Supervisors in an Industrial facility can use the user interface of the present invention to extremely quickly move work order schedules, status planning, and manage resources. Additionally, key performance indicators or metrics on performance on how well the organization is doing is also cumbersome if not impossible in the current practice in these industrial organizations. The variables of this management include worker, crew, Work Order, Dates, Planning Status, planner, dates, etc. (see tech manual and summary sheets). The invention operates by interfacing with the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) database in a thoroughly interactive process. The local program constructs a parallel database and reads and feedbacks to the CMMS database frequently to stay current and accurate.

The invention provides a network flow control method which is applied to a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps: real-timely obtaining the current practice running time of a program, running at the background, of the mobile terminal; comparing the current practical time with a preset background running time of the program; when the current practical running time is not less than the preset background running time, controlling the program to stop background running, otherwise, controlling the program to maintain the background running state. Therefore, when the current practical running time of the background running program of the mobile terminal is not less than the preset background running time of the program, the background running program of the mobile terminal stop the background running, so as to solve the problem that the mobile terminal network flow is wasted as the background running program of the mobile terminal is not switched to the front end running for a long time, which in turn saves the network flow of the mobile terminal.

The use of recycled materials can have significant economic value. With the increasing quantity of recycled material used in viscoelastic materials, especially asphalt mixture, understanding how they interact with original materials to produce a mixture that performs successfully, becomes critical. Currently, the technology to determine the effect of additives on the performance of asphalt mixture is lacking. The present invention relates to a new unified methodology for mechanical testing of asphalt mixture and other viscoelastic materials that improves the current practice in speed, convenience, and accuracy. A new improved specimen mounting method on Dynamic Shear Rheometer (DSR), a new recovery method for fine portion of asphalt mixture, and three new tests for the performance of recovered material using DSR is disclosed. The new methods provide performance grading of asphalt mixtures that is new to the industry and provide necessary tools for determining the effect of recycled materials on performance.