1199 results about "Embedded software" patented technology

The “first apparatus” disclosed is an ergonomic, removably-attachable biometric user authentication module, attachable onto a wristwatch band (or other surface) directly proximate to a user. This first apparatus includes (1) an attaching subsystem (e.g., bendable tabs, Velcro™ straps, etc.); and (2) a biometric authentication subsystem module. The first apparatus attaches onto any convenient “target” surface, but wristwatch bands are ideal for many users. The invention method, is a secure wireless protocol for communicating “successful biometric authentication” messages from the first apparatus, to a verification transceiver/reader (a “second apparatus”) which grants or denies user(s) access to transaction(s) and/or controlled resource(s), facilities, etc. The transceiver/reader is an “access governance” device that ensures only authorized users can access controlled (e.g., financial, physical, logical, etc.) resources. The system of the invention combines these first and second apparatuses and this method, plus includes embedded software for granting user access to controlled resources.

An electronic apparatus executes communication with a serer via a network. The device includes a informing unit configured to inform the server of software configuration information indicative of a current configuration of embedded software that is installed in the electronic apparatus, to request update list information from the server, the update list information indicating of a latest program module that can be installed in the electronic apparatus and another program module that is necessary for execution of the latest program module, a downloading unit configured to download from the server a plurality of program modules including the latest program module and the another program module, based on the update list information that is transmitted from the server, and an updating unit configured to execute an updating process for updating the embedded software, using the downloaded plurality of program modules.

A portable hand-held endoscopy system adapted for interchangeable use with a variety of endoscopes. The system includes an endoscope having a first end and a second end, the first end having an eyepiece and the second end having a viewing end, the endoscope further having a coupler for coupling to a light source; and a battery operated unitary digital camera having an optical input, viewing screen, digital signal processor, memory with embedded software for processing data from the processor and for displaying an image on the viewing screen, and a coupler having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end includes a connector for removably connecting to the eyepiece, and the second end is coupled to the optical input of the digital camera. The video display is rotatable and pivotable about several different axes of rotation and a pivot point spaced distally from the main camera body. An ergonomic camera housing is provided, including a bulbous gripping region and two opposing forefinger accepting regions, facilitating a trigger-like grip and use of the camera by a physician. Redundant controls for moving video and still image capture facilitate ease of use by the physician as the camera and associated endoscope are held in a variety of orientations.

A system for pre-authenticating a magnetic stripped card or smart card holder for a non-checking account transaction at the point-of-sale that includes a database that contains sensitive data, corresponding to digital photographic images of said account holders that employs a pre-authentication process whereby all account holders undergo a meticulous comparison with their submitted data against a plethora of objective public, private and internal databases culminating in a video displayed image at some point in the future enabling a merchant to make a visual comparison of the account holder either on site or during a mail order or telephone order transaction corresponding to the pre-authenticated image to prevent identity theft. While the invention has been described with respect to particular illustrated embodiments, those skilled in the art of technology to which the invention pertains will have no difficulty devising variations which in no way depart from the invention. For example, while the illustrated embodiments have been described in connection with physical links, it will be appreciated that a wireless architecture could be employed to like effect. In addition the modem illustrated in the embodiments could be replaced by embedded software in a magstripe reader or access devices that might also include smart card readers as well as in the video phone and still be employed to like effect. Furthermore voice input/output devices could be deployed during data capture at the front end. The present invention has been described with several embodiments, a plethora of changes, substitutions, variations, alterations, and transformations, and modifications may be suggested to one skilled in the art, and it is intended that the present invention encompass such changes, substitutions, variations, alterations, transformations, and modifications as fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

The invention discloses an intelligent industrial security cloud gateway equipment system and method. The industrial cloud security gateway equipment and method is characterized in that upper cloud data is encrypted and added with data classification identifiers and time stamps, and decryption, security scanning and multiple security authentication access control are carried out on data on downlink intelligent equipment, so that interconnection, protocol conversion, and multi-directional transparent and real-time transmission among cloud equipment, enterprise datacenter equipment and various intelligent equipment on an industrial field can be achieved. An intelligent industrial cloud security gateway is embedded intelligent equipment comprising various serial ports, communication interfaces for a field bus and field intelligent equipment such as the industrial Ethernet, communication interfaces for wireless mobile communication and wired Internet cloud equipment, wireless or wired local area network interfaces for Bluetooth, broadband and the like, an Ethernet switch, a GPS module, and embedded software. The intelligent industrial cloud security gateway can systematically prevent user data leakage and network virus attacks, is core equipment of a secure and reliable intelligent industrial cloud service system, and can serve intelligent industrial manufacturing.

The present invention provides a testing method of embedded software, firstly, recording operation of object machine to generate test script; then resetting recorded script. Programming pile program on the object machine, the pile program recording operating steps, data for parameter set and operating result of operator; transmitting to computer; testing program kept to script after receiving recorded data; repairing the value part in the script to parameter; establishing data corresponding to database file storage parameter on computer; running the testing program; testing the program script, reading data corresponding to the parameter database to replace parameter at the same time; analyzing the script and input in the object machine; the pile program analyzing and executing command in the script; returning the running result to computer and analyzing and output. The invention generating automatic testing use script by recording the object machine reduces workload of programming automatic testing use, improves the testing efficiency.

A method and system for communicating with computer system peripheral devices, wherein Instant Messaging software is embedded within a peripheral device and the peripheral device uses the embedded software to communicate with a computer system responsive to an event. In one embodiment the peripheral device uses the embedded software to send out Instant Messaging messages responsive to a status of the peripheral device or an event. In another embodiment the peripheral device uses the embedded software to receive and process at least one Instant Messaging message from a user, application program or other device, and to responsively take action to the at least one message. According to the present invention a device may use the embedded software to create the Instant Messaging message responsive to a characteristic of the output job or a status of the device.

The invention discloses a software testing automation framework (STAF)-based fault injection automation testing platform and an STAF-based fault injection automation testing method for a high-end fault-tolerant computer, and relates to a fault injection technology. The invention provides a fault injection automation testing platform and a fault injection automation testing method, which are applicable for the high-end fault-tolerant computer. The method is implemented by adopting an embedded software distributed testing environment. An application layer in software is an application program operated in general control end service, manages data and information in an automation testing process by utilizing a relational database and a file system, and provides a friendly graphic interface; a proxy layer is operated between the application layer and a realization layer to realize task proxy, and takes charge of executing an automation testing task submitted by a user from the interface; and the realization layer packages the communication among an automation testing control server and testing proxies of various platforms, and executes specific operations of various automation tests. The STAF-based fault injection automation testing platform is a distributed and automatic fault injection platform which is constructed on the basis of an open source automation testing tool STAF, and can integrate various software fault injection tools.

The invention discloses a dynamic trusted measurement method and a safe embedded system. The method comprises the following steps that: S1. a hardware layer redesigns a trusted BIOS (Basic Input Output System) by a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip and traditional hardware, a trust chain is transferred to an application program from the TPM security chip, trusted BISO, a trusted OS (Operating System) kernel and an embedded software stack to realize the trusted starting of a dynamic trusted measurement module (DTM); S2. an application layer measurement request module generates measurement request information according to a suspicious event from safety equipment and a local security strategy requirement, the measurement request information is formatted, and the measurement request is sent to the DTM of a kernel layer to activate the DTM; and S3. the DTM carries out trusted measurement to a system progress or module and responds. According to the dynamic trusted measurement method, the complex real-time attack can be effectively detected and defended, the attack on an internal physical layer can be actively detected and defended, and a safe embedded system platform can be realized.

Satellite downstream porting interface API. A novel solution is presented to support various integrated and non-integrated functional blocks within the front-end of a satellite receiver STB (Set Top Box) system. Embedded software, running on an integrated microprocessor within a single chip STB device, is implemented to govern various devices within the satellite STB system. The embedded software may control operational parameters of an external LNB (Low Noise Block) on a satellite dish employed by a user; this may include controlling the polarization of the LNB as well as the associated voltages levels employed by the LNB. The embedded software may also direct the tuning frequency and cut-off frequency of 1 or more SDSs (integrated downstream satellite receivers) receiving output from the satellite dish. The embedded software may also direct many of the various operational parameters of 1 or more SDSs including modulation, code rate, and/or symbol rate of received signals.

A system and method for simulating a networked system for testing of embedded software on an emulated hardware device. The system provides for automated generation of a simulated hardware and facilitates testing of embedded software response to simulated error conditions created by the simulated hardware. Communications from the embedded software are intercepted at a low software level and redirected from the emulated hardware device to the simulated hardware.

The present invention generally relates to a communication protocol converter to allow a legacy device utilizing IPv4 to operate across the network using IPv6. In a first embodiment of the invention, two modular Ethernet connectors are placed side-by-side. A first modular connector receives IPv4 Ethernet data which is converted to a raw data signal. The data is transmitted from the first modular connector to a second modular connector by a bidirectional data line. The second connector receives the raw data, and a raw data-to-Ethernet conversion is completed providing output at IPv6. The present invention utilizes the form factor structure of the Ethernet connectors, so that the entire electronic circuitry is contained within the connectors to complete the conversion. An alternate embodiment incorporates the connectors into a single housing and the conversion is completed internally by a microprocessor and embedded software. A method of IPv4 to IPv6 conversion is additionally disclosed.

The invention relates to a visualization automatic generation method of embedded software test data and a system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: adopting a de facto industrial standard--universality and flexibility of a unified modeling language (UML), performing real-time expansion on the UML, and introducing a scene technology to realize automatic generation of the embedded software test data in a visualization manner. The developed automatic test data generation system can automatically transform the test data into a test script required for a specific test platform, and running of the test script can drive the test for running to realize automatic testing for the embedded software.

The invention relates to the performance optimization of repeater equipment in communication field. The remote-updating and version-switching method of the repeater equipment embedded software comprises the following steps: 1) an OMC or OMT command is received in real time, if the command is an update command, go forward to step 2; if the command is a version-switching command, skip to step 5; and if the command is not received, skip to step 6; 2) an update document data packet is received from the OMC or OMT, and the received update document data packet is stored in a download process-memorizing region; 3) a download process code in the download process-storing region is programmed into the application process region of a singlechip; 4) the code data of the application process region is read byte by byte and written into a new version process-storing region; 5) when a currently running process is a new version process, a process code in an old version process-storing region is programmed into the application process region of the singlechip, otherwise, the process code in the new version process-storing region is programmed into the application process region of the singlechip; and 6. the monitor mode of the application process is executed. The method can realize the remote updating and the switching between the new process version and the old process version.

The invention relates to a method for additionally arranging a sensor on an earphone to adjust the state of a mobile terminal, which comprises the following steps of: 1, additionally arranging the sensor on the earphone to judge whether the earphone is worn on the ear of a user and detect the action of 'taking off the earphone' and 'putting on the earphone'; and 2, embedding software into a system to perform corresponding operation according to the state of the mobile terminal. The method has the advantages of improving user experience and saving the electricity of the mobile terminal.

An E-mail message enhancement apparatus is preferably implemented through a sequence of program instructions. On the sender side, creation software implements a data format that allows for differing types of content, such as visual images, audio, multimedia, and functional attributes such as links to a sender's home page on the world wide web. Furthermore, in addition to such content in the E-mail message, there is included header information, including the E-mail address of the sender, and recipient executable embedded software that ensures the recipient will be able to view contents and perform the functional attributes that make up the E-mail message.

An apparatus and method implemented in hardware and embedded software that improves performance, scalability, reliability, and affordability of Storage Area Network (SAN) systems or subsystems. The apparatus contains host computers (application servers, file servers, computer cluster systems, or desktop workstations), SAN controllers connected via a bus or network interconnect, disk drive enclosures with controllers connected via network interconnect, and physical drive pool or cluster of other data storage devices that share I/O traffic, providing distributed high performance centrally managed storage solution. This approach eliminates I/O bottlenecks and improves scalability and performance over the existing SAN architectures. Although this architecture is network interconnect (transport) neutral, additional improvements and cost savings could be made by utilizing existing, of the shelf, low latency and high speed hardware such as Advanced Switching (AS) or Myrinet networks as a transport for data, Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and other commands and messages. Using AS or Myrinet network as a replacement for Fiber Channel (FC) would significantly reduce the cost of such SAN systems and at the same time boost performance (higher data transfer rates and lower latencies). This invention is about defining hardware and software architectural solution that is specifically designed to eliminate I/O traffic bottlenecks, improve scalability, and reduce the overall cost of today's SAN systems or subsystems. This innovative solution, in addition to it's performance superiority compared to the existing solutions, should also provide 100% compatibility with the all existing Operating Systems (OS), File Systems (FS), and existing applications.

Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal having an embedded system for software download and a method for software download. The embedded system comprises a first memory including a code area for storing operation code of the mobile communication terminal, a data area for storing user data, and an area for storing a file system for managing the data area, a second memory for storing the least amount of code required for software download when software is upgraded, the operation code and the file system, and a control unit for booting the embedded system on the basis of the second memory when the software is upgraded, and then storing a downloaded current version of the software module in the data area of the first memory using the file system.

The invention discloses a remote embedded software upgrading technique by using an embedded boot sector Bootloader software upgrading technique to be combined with a communication protocol carrier. The remote embedded software upgrading technique comprises three stages: startup, operation and detection in a first stage, upgrading program transmission in a second stage, and execution of an application program in a third stage. The boot sector Bootloader technique is combined with other communication protocols, such as a general packet radio service (GPRS), a transmission control protocol (TCP)/internet protocol (IP), PROFIBAS and other protocols so as to realize remote software transportation. A boot sector Bootloader firmware protocol of an information system is integrated to reasonably and stably realize software transportation and one-to-many or fixed-point upgrading, and solve the compatibility problem of software upgrading with standard protocol interfaces. Meanwhile, the self-verification and retransmission function of a standard communication protocol is utilized to ensure the reliability of the software upgrading and improve the upgrading success rate and the antijamming capability in severe environments.

A simulation testing method for partition application software of an embedded system comprises five steps: step one, building a testing model; step two, generating testing configuration information and a virtual partition code according to the testing model; step three, writing a testing script, and writing a response action for an allocated event occurring during the testing process; step four, performing testing on a partition application to be tested; and step five, collecting and analyzing the testing data. The simulation testing method for the partition application software of the embedded system can be implemented in a development and integration test phase of a partition embedded software applicationand can test or verify the execution sequence, the scheduling performance and the interface communication function of the partition embedded software application. The technical scheme of the simulation testing method for the partition application software of the embedded system comprises the steps of utilizing a calculation and storage unit of a core operating system, simulating the dynamic behaviors of other partition applications on line through a virtual partition mode, and exerting testing actuation to the application to be tested and receiving response. The simulation testing method for the partition application software of the embedded system has a broad application prospect in the technical field of software testing.

The invention belongs to the technical field of network remote video monitoring, and relates to a method for remotely monitoring videos and controlling a cloud platform through an Android phone. The method solves the problems that in the prior art, the portability is poor, monitored images are not smooth, and the remote video monitoring cannot be widely applied. The method comprises the following steps that firstly, the Android phone is initialized, embedded software A is installed at the client side Android phone, and an access account number and a password of a corresponding monitoring terminal web camera are input into the a welcome page of the embedded software A; secondly, the embedded software A receives, analyzes and plays data of a video shot by the monitoring terminal web camera; thirdly, the web camera cloud platform is remotely controlled by touching a web camera cloud platform motion control button in a home page of the embedded software A to enable the web camera cloud platform to move; fourthly, the alarm function of the monitoring terminal web camera is set and started through the embedded software A, alarm information is monitored, and a mailbox is automatically logged into and the alarm information is displayed after the alarm information is received.

This invention relates to a embedded software test program including the following steps: 1. coding test background program capable if generating or dispatching testing routine library 2. the background program sends down the testing routine via its communication port 3. adding pile programs in the test software which processes received testing routine data by the pile programs and presets data and state needed to be collected from surrounding hardware ports 4. the pile program collects operation results of the test software and feed it back to the background 5. the background computer compares the routine operation result with that of the preset to be counted and displayed.