49 results about "Database machine" patented technology

A process which provides electronic access to pre-paid funds for cash or payment for goods and services. A card is issued to a customer with a value selectable by the customer. The card has a magnetic stripe with an encoded card number including a bank identification number (BIN) and an account number. The central card processor establishes a zero balance database including the card numbers, but with blank fields for the customer data and the value of the account. When a customer purchases a card, the sales agent transmits to the central database computer which fills in the blanks in the database, activating the account, and transmits an acknowledgement signal back to the sales agent. The customer can immediately use the card in ATM or other remote terminals to acquire cash or purchase goods and services. The customer inputs a PIN number which is provided with the card, or a customer selected alternative PIN number.

A system and method for managing energy consumption of a building system includes a source of actual energy consumption data, a source of actual weather data, and a database correlating discrete weather data values with expected energy consumption values for at least one component of the building system. A computer accesses the actual weather data, actual energy consumption data and database, wherein the computer compares the expected energy consumption values with actual energy consumption data and generates an output based on the comparison. The expected energy consumption values are generated for the discrete weather data values using an energy consumption model that functionally relates discrete weather data values and design information for the building system component.

A column-store database computer system responsive to database requests for the update and retrieval of data from within a stable data table providing for the storage of database tuples within a column-store organized database structure. A positional delta tree data structure is implemented in the memory space of the computer system and is operatively coupled in an update data transfer path between a database engine interface and the stable data table. The positional delta tree data structure includes a differential data storage layer operative to store differential update data values in positionally defined relative reference to database tuples stored by the stable data table.

An event stream processing device capable of processing larger numbers of events while simultaneously responding to queries. This is achieved through sequential storage of data, the maintenance in memory of information pertaining to the most recent events for each entity monitored and the aggregation of file read / write requests in a single thread which is capable of optimising the execution of those requests.

A system and method for automating the transfer of real estate. A centralized server or servers are connected to a distributed computer network that is connected between a plurality of client computers. A real estate record is created on the centralized server and information is received on the server from a plurality of sources including real estate databases, computer input devices, facsimile equipment, and electronic mail systems. The centralized server is integrated with a multiple listing service wherein information can be automatically exchanged therebetween. Fax or email communications may include documents for storage on the server. The fax or email sender enters a record identifier wherein the server recognizes the record identifier and determines whether it matches an existing real estate record. If so, the server converts the document to digital form if necessary and saves it to the matching real estate record.

A journal mechanism for a database allows simultaneous deposits on multiple journal arms. According to a first embodiment, a journaling system maintains the time-order of interdependent deposits on the journal, but does not necessarily maintain the time-order of deposits that are independent of each other, thereby providing multiple simultaneous deposit points on the journal. The first embodiment provides excellent scaling of journal functions as processors are added to a database computer system. According to a second embodiment, a journaling system maintains the time-order of deposits on the journal, but allows a group of deposits known as a "bundle" to span multiple journal arms, thereby providing multiple simultaneous deposit points on the journal. The second embodiment provides good scaling while providing compatibility with known database systems. The present invention thus relieves contention for the journal that exists as the number of processors increases in a database system.

This invention concerns a database computer system and method for making applications recoverable from system crashes. The application state (i.e., address space) is treated as a single object which can be atomically flushed in a manner akin to flushing individual pages in database recovery techniques. To enable this monolithic treatment of the application, executions performed by the application are mapped to logical loggable operations that can be posted to the stable log. Any modifications to the application state are accumulated and the application state is periodically flushed to stable storage using an atomic procedure. The application recovery integrates with database recovery, and effectively eliminates or at least substantially reduces the need for check pointing applications. In addition, optimization techniques are described to make the read, write, and recovery phases more efficient. Atomic flush sets, whether generated from cyclic flush dependencies or otherwise, can be broken apart. This enables an ordered flushing sequence of first flushing a first object and then flushing a second object, rather than having to flush both the first and second objects simultaneously and atomically.

The system, method, and program of this invention provides a secure configuration of a digital certificate for a printer. The printer has a unique encryption key stored in it at manufacturing time. This key is also recorded in a database, securely controlled by a certificate authority, and the key is associated with the printer by model and serial number. The printer sends a message requesting a digital certificate to the certificate authority. In the message request, the printer sends the model number and serial number of the printer in the clear, i.e., not encrytped, which is needed by the certificate authority to look up the unique encryption key in the database. The message request also contains an encryption, using the built-in key, of some of the same information that was sent in the clear. The database needs the information in the clear to get the key. Then, the database uses the key from its database to decrypt the encrypted part of the message, and compares it to the part of the message that was sent in the clear. If it matches, then the program operating with the database knows that the message has not been tampered with and that the printer is who it says it is. The database machine then creates the digital certificate and encrypts the certificate with the key from its database corresponding to that printer. The encryption key is a secret key only known by the printer and the database. The encrypted certificate is sent to the printer and stored in the printer for use in authenticating itself to others.

A method of operating a data collection and analysis system. An exchange computer receives customer identification data associated with a customer. A quantitative analysis algorithm determines whether the exchange computer has received an amount of customer identification data sufficient for the customer to be uniquely identified, and if so, then a linking service computer or a plurality of remote database computers perform a qualitative analysis algorithm with the customer identification data to determine if the customer identification data is sufficient for the customer to be uniquely identified. If the qualitative analysis algorithm passes, then customer information may be retrieved from the remote databases and collated and analyzed at the exchange computer. The customer may automatically register with reward programs using already-entered user information. A data analysis embodiment enables offers to be generated that are tailored towards specific users.

A system and method for knowledge based development of interior models for configurable spaces, including passenger vehicles includes a database containing rules and parameters, a computer-aided design system, a user interface, and programmatic logic allowing aspects of the vehicle to be automatically changed upon a change initiated by a user, to maximize space and maintain compliance with the rules and parameters.

A pulse laser for therapeutic use including a housing sized to be hand held by an operator. All components of the pulse laser are located within or on the housing. Thus, the present invention is a completely hand held stand alone unit which may be operated without a tethered connection to any apparatus located outside of the housing. The components located within the housing or on the housing include a laser light source, a control circuit configured to cause the laser light source to emit pulsed laser light, and a power supply. The wavelength of light produced by the laser light source may be about 635 nm. The control circuit of the therapeutic pulse laser may provide for multiple user selectable pulse rates. The therapeutic pulse laser may include a semiconductor switch in electrical communication with the control circuit and the laser light source. Ideally, the semiconductor switch will provide for active sourcing of current to the laser light source and active draining of current from the laser light source. The therapeutic pulse laser may also include an apparatus allowing for the exchange of digital information between the pulse laser and an external apparatus such as a database, computer, or second pulse laser unit.

Information warehouse table data is updated through a full outer join between warehouse tables and source tables in response to a single query language command statement of a relational database computer language. The single command statement comprises table mapping instructions for updating the warehouse tables that define matching conditions, delete instructions, archive instructions, and update instructions. The full outer join inserts rows in the warehouse tables for source table data rows that do not have corresponding matching rows in the warehouse table. Data rows in the warehouse tables without corresponding matching source table rows are deleted if a value of a parameter in the warehouse table system is set to delete; updated if the parameter is update; and updated with archive values and a new table row inserted with existing values if the parameter is archive.

The invention discloses a large plane panel deformation control and restoration method based on local rigidity enhancement. The method includes the following steps that: (1) process connectors are mounted to enhance the local rigidity of a large plane panel and inhibit the deformation of the large plane panel; (2) process ball head centre measurement data are recorded in a database computer, and the large plane panel is then taken down and hoisted away; (3) each axis of numerically controlled positioners and settling devices are controlled to settle and support the large plane panel, and the current positions of the numerically controlled positioners are uploaded to an integrated management system computer; (4) according to the restoration data sent by the integrated management system computer, a control system computer instructs the numerically controlled positioners to move to restore the large plane panel. The method has the following advantages that: (1) by mounting the process connectors, the local rigidity of the large plane panel is enhanced and the deformation of the large plane panel is inhibited; (2) the numerically controlled positioners move to restore the large plane panel; (3) toolings become equipment, and the system is easy and reliable to operate; (4) the positioning efficiency is increased by multiple times.

An analytic system includes a communication interface that connects to a client device. A front-end cluster acquires user billing and consumption data from one or more utility database machines and acquires geographic information system data. A geocoding server converts selected data rendered by the front-end cluster into geographic coordinates. The front-end cluster is configured to render comparisons of a user's utility usage to peer group usages.

A computer system for managing agricultural sales involving a salesperson and a first grower is provided. The computer system includes a database. The computer system also includes a processor. The processor is programmed to store historical sales data for the first grower in the database. The historical sales data includes a prior purchase of a first agricultural product by the grower. The processor is also programmed to identify a second agricultural product appropriate for the first grower based at least in part on the historical sales data. The processor is further programmed to create a task for the salesperson. The task is related to engaging the first grower regarding the second agricultural product. The processor is also programmed to display the task to the salesperson for engaging the first grower.

One or more databases for use in computer program application support and maintenance. An inventory of computer program applications (“application inventory”) is arranged in a multilevel hierarchy having descending levels. Line of business level, application level and technical module level. A support and maintenance work authorization and authorized workgroup are set at the line of business level, and requests for work are set at the application level and below. Automatically relates business functions to computer programs to determine performance of applications within business functions. The databases also include timesheets, each timesheet having time data recorded by a skilled person in a workgroup for work on a ticket. Computer system and methods utilizing the databases are also provided.

An apparatus for assisting a user in scheduling a plurality of facilities for a survey includes: a storage device having a first database of entries representing facilities, geographical locations of facilities, and data representing ranking factors; a second database representing surveyors; a computer processor configured to estimate the time it would take for each of the facilities to be surveyed and to calculate a ranking for each of the facilities formed from ranking factors and to select a subset of facilities based on the ranking; a display unit capable of representing the subset; and, a human-machine interface configured with the processor to enable the user to select at least a facility from a subset and add it to a tour list and to schedule an order in which the facilities in the tour list will be visited by a surveyor from the second database. Related methods and systems are also described.

A method for performing business control task notification is proposed. The method comprises processing a combination of one or more databases and one or more user profiles to generate a schedule template and receive a request for a schedule. A computer program product compares attributes of the request for the schedule to a user profile and a schedule template to identify one or more events of the schedule template to be accessed from one or more of a plurality of distributed databases and forms a query to be sent to the one or more distributed databases. The query is sent to a particular database among the plurality of distributed databases. The computer program product receives a positive response to the query, indicating that the particular database contains a first event for the schedule, and the event. In response to receiving the event, the schedule is created. The schedule is stored. One or more current events in the schedule requiring a notification are identified, and the notification is sent to a destination.

A method and a system of electronically identifying and verifying an individual utilising at least one biometric features of the individual is disclosed. The method includes the steps of activating an access apparatus with a means to capture at least one biometric feature of an individual in a secure manner using dynamic encryption, capturing the biometric feature of an individual wherein key features of biometric raw data are extracted, encrypting in a dynamic manner the biometric features, transmitting the encrypted data of the biometric feature to at least one server; and verifying the biometric features captured in the fruit step with a pre-stored biometric feature in the server. Wherein upon positive identification and verification of the individual access is given to an auxiliary means such as but not limited to access to secured doors, database, computer network and servers.

An apparatus, and methods of making and using, to interface with a knowledge providing user and a knowledge acquiring user(s) to provide knowledge in a domain, the apparatus in the form of a embodied computer processor, the computer processor implementing instructions on a non-transitory computer medium disposed in a database, the database in communication with the computer processor, the apparatus comprising: (1) a communication portion that provides communication between the computer processor and electronic user devices; (2) the database that contains a knowledge core; and (3) the computer processor, the computer processor performing processing including: (a) interfacing with the knowledge providing user, having knowledge in a domain area, so as to input first content related to the domain; (b) inputting second content from external sources; (c) combining the first content and the second content so as to generate combined content; (d) processing the combined content using a first neural network and generating an output content; (e) processing the output content using a second neural network, and based on the processing in the second neural network, identifying whether second output from the second neural network is a good pattern or a bad pattern; (f) performing an encapsulation process on patterns that were determined to be good patterns so as to generate encapsulated patterns; (g) compiling the encapsulated patterns to generate a compiled pattern and storing the compiled pattern in the knowledge core; and (h) interfacing with the knowledge acquiring user to retrieve the compiled pattern from the knowledge core, based on interface with the knowledge acquiring user, and present the compiled pattern to the knowledge acquiring user, and the compiled pattern being presented in combination with other compiled patterns provided in the knowledge core.

The invention provides a dam observation data transmission system and method. The dam observation data transmission system achieves a universal dam monitoring data transmission method through combination of a computer system, the internet network and a network isolating device. On the aspect of hardware, the dam observation data transmission system is composed of a large dam end internal network database computer, network isolating equipment, a large dam end external network data transmission server, network transmission equipment, a large dam central end data receiving server, a large dam central data server set and the like, and the communication path redundancy configuration of important equipment guarantees the reliability of the system.

The present invention relates to a turnkey system that gathers, qualifies and distributes customer lead information to manufacturer dealers and retailers resulting in an increased rate of return on investment for a marketing campaign. The method comprises at least three steps for collecting, qualifying, and delivering customer leads to retailers and dealers for contact in accordance with purchase horizons. Step 1 is the collection of potential leads and entry into a data base. Step 2 is computer sorting the lead database into qualified and non-qualified leads based upon specifically enumerated factors. Step 3 is the timely delivery of the sorted leads to geographically compatible retailers / dealers for solicitation in accordance with purchase horizon information gathered.

The invention discloses a bandwidth network resource realizing remote information safe transfer and control system, which is composed of lead end device, center server, rear end device and bench client end device, wherein the lead end device is installed in different places, which collects different video information to convert video information into digital signal with software compression technique; the lead end device connects data bank information with different information of non-public net; lead end device links up common PSTN telephone network; the lead end device connects the center server through ADSL bandwidth network, which uses INTERNET internet to transfer various kinds of information and control orders; the center server is used for receiving control order from client end, which controls lead end device through INTERNET internet and receives kinds of information from the lead end device through INTERNET internet; the rear end device is installed between center server and client end device, which convers video information from lead end device which is received by center server into video information in analog signal form with video information; the convered information is sent to the client end device.

The invention discloses a database machine room complex path planning system and a planning method thereof. The method comprises the steps that a global path planning system searches an optimal collision-free path from a starting point to a target point according to a path planning index under the condition that environmental information is known; for an existing path planning algorithm, a proper operation mode is selected according to the environment where a robot is located, so that the robot can stably run in the environment; a local path planning system focuses on considering the current local environment information of the robot under the condition that the environment information is completely unknown, and further detects the path environment through multiple sensors, so that the robot has good obstacle avoidance capability, and further obtains the position and geometrical property information of an obstacle; and a hybrid path planning system is combined with the global path planning system and the local path planning system, so that automatic adjustment is performed in known and unknown states, the stable operation of the system under complex path planning is further improved, and the delay response of the system is reduced.

The invention relates to the technical field of steel rolling auto-control, and in particular to a data exchange device for a steel rolling process control system and a WinCC interface, and a communication method thereof. The data exchange device comprises a PLC, a process machine with a network employing an SOCKET communication mechanism, a database machine and at least two HMIs, wherein the initial parameter output end of the database machine is electrically connected together with the initial parameter input end of the process machine by a conductive wire. The data exchange device disclosed by the invention is of a double-layer structure, and the inner layer establishes an OPC server at a human machine interface end by virtue of a multithread technology and based on an OPC protocol, so as to perform data reading-writing, and the outer layer establishes SOCKET communication with the process machine based on a TCP / IP protocol, in this way, a thread mutex mechanism is established to realize a parallel processing effect; the data exchange device is fast in transmission speed, high in reliability and efficiency, simple and convenient to operate, capable of completely meeting the working need of 7*24-hour line-rolling, and basically free from no increase of system burden.

Information warehouse table data is updated through a full outer join between warehouse tables and source tables in response to a single query language command statement of a relational database computer language. The single command statement comprises table mapping instructions for updating the warehouse tables that define matching conditions, delete instructions, archive instructions, and update instructions. The full outer join inserts rows in the warehouse tables for source table data rows that do not have corresponding matching rows in the warehouse table. Data rows in the warehouse tables without corresponding matching source table rows are deleted if a value of a parameter in the warehouse table system is set to delete; updated if the parameter is update; and updated with archive values and a new table row inserted with existing values if the parameter is archive.

The invention provides a hospital intelligent pre-examination three-in-one method, a hospital intelligent pre-examination three-in-one device and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of medical safety. The problems that in the prior art, programs are redundant, triage is not intelligent and the like are solved. The device comprises a database, an APP and a computer terminal and comprises the following steps: S1, scanning a two-dimensional code of a pre-examination questionnaire, receiving and registering the pre-examination questionnaire filled by a doctor, collecting and storing the pre-examination questionnaire by the database, analyzing the content of the pre-examination questionnaire according to big data in the database, and classifying patients into three risk levelsof red, yellow and green; S2, checking the health code, the body temperature and the pre-check questionnaire table of the doctor-seeing person, and guiding the doctor-seeing person to go to a corresponding doctor-seeing area according to the danger level; and S3, enabling an intelligent propaganda and education system to push the treatment process, the medical knowledge and the patient nursing knowledge through an official account or an APP. The method has the advantages of multiple functions and the like.

Techniques for implementing cross in-database machine learning are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises training a machine learning model in a first database instance using a machine learning algorithm and a training dataset in response to receiving a request to train, serializing the trained machine learning model into a binary file in response to the training of the machine learning model, recreating the trained machine learning model in a second database instance using the binary file in response to receiving a request to apply the machine learning model, and generating an inference result by applying the recreated trained machine learning model on the inference dataset in the second database instance.