1256 results about "Equipment/device" patented technology

An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for visually constructing and rapidly delivering distributed applications. The system includes a virtual appliance apparatus and a composite appliance apparatus, as well as a system for virtualizing hardware resources and for provisioning, executing and scaling distributed applications.

A system for originating connectivity fault management (CFM) frames on non-CFM aware switches is disclosed. In the disclosed system, an OAM (Operations Administration and Management) proxy networking device connected to a core Ethernet network operates with one or more CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) devices to which it is communicably connected to support CFM out to the CPE devices without requiring that the CPE devices themselves implement CFM functionality. The OAM proxy networking device generates Connectivity Check (CC) frames, Loopback reply frames, and Linktrace reply frames for MEPs (Maintenance End Points) or MIPs (Maintenance Intermediate Points) contained in communication ports on the CPEs. These CFM frames generated by the OAM proxy networking device are then sent within messages from the OAM proxy networking device to the appropriate CPE. When the CPE device receives a message from the OAM proxy networking device containing one of these CFM frames, it checks the operability of a communication port indicated by the message. If the port is operable, the CPE device extracts the CFM frame from the message and originates it through the OAM proxy networking device into the core Ethernet network. The OAM proxy networking device further operates to process Connectivity Check frames received from the core Ethernet network and addressed to the CPE devices by maintaining an MEP connectivity database. As a result, these received Connectivity Check frames are dropped without forwarding to the CPE devices.

A method and system to be utilized for the provision of a True Video-on-Demand service to paying subscribers of a communication network. The typical T-VoD-specific objectives are accomplished by the optimization of the content distribution efficiency, by the enhancement of the content request options, by the improvement of the content access capabilities, and by the substantially improved handling of content information units. The system and method provides a wide selection of video titles stored on a high-speed high-capacity video object depository within the network. A plurality of video object accessible and transmittable at substantially improved transmission rates are stored temporarily on subscriber equipment devices and enable controllable and dynamic display and interaction including full VCR-like capabilities.

Systems and methods for detecting unauthorized use of a user equipment device are provided. An instruction is transmitted, using communications circuitry of a handheld device, to the user equipment device directing the user equipment device to display a unique identifier associated with the user equipment simultaneously with media content. An image of the media content and unique identifier simultaneously displayed on a display screen coupled to the user equipment device is captured using camera equipment of the handheld device. The image is automatically processed with the handheld device to extract the unique identifier from the image. The extracted unique identifier is cross-referenced, using the handheld device, with user account information associated with the user equipment device to determine whether use of the user equipment device is unauthorized.

Systems and methods for allowing a user to access media guidance application settings from any given mobile device and centralize the settings using a media equipment device are provided. One or more mobile devices may be detected with a media equipment device. The media equipment device may receive mobile media guidance application settings from the detected mobile devices. The media equipment device may replicate a mobile media guidance application for each of the detected mobile devices based on the received settings. Access to the replicated mobile media guidance applications associated with the detected mobile devices may be provided on the media equipment device. Changes to the settings of the replicated mobile media guidance applications associated with the detected mobile devices may be tracked and transmitted to the corresponding mobile device. The mobile device may modify a mobile media guidance application based on the changes received from the media equipment device.

Systems, methods, and software for allowing interaction between consumer appliance devices and security systems are provided herein. An exemplary method may include allowing various interactions of a user with a consumer appliance device to generate n signal, such as a panic signal, causing various forms of security systems to escalate the signal to obtain help. Another exemplary method involves allowing the device, when placing the panic signal, to involve back end systems related to the security system to provision access to an emergency service provider (i.e., 911 provider) “just in time,” eliminating the need for costly pre-provisioning. Another exemplary method involves various sensors of the security system to communicate with consumer appliance devices to improve the performance, usability, or efficiency of the consumer appliance device or related systems.

An apparatus for agent based monitoring software-as-a-service information technology service management. Proxy clients are installed on network equipment devices belonging to a customer. Each proxy client includes discovery module(s) to discover network equipment devices on at least one private network of the customer, a discovery reporting module to transmit information identifying the devices discovered by the discovery modules to a server using web services, and monitoring module that monitors network equipment device(s) according to monitoring definition(s) configured by the customer to collect information of those network equipment devices, receives monitored information from monitoring agents installed on different network equipment devices, and transmits the information collected and the received monitored information to the server using web services. Each of the monitoring definitions identifies which of the network equipment devices to monitor and defines parameter(s) of the monitoring.

A data transmitting method is disclosed. In transmitting A/V data stream in a transmitting device of a wireless network, the present invention includes transmitting the A/V data stream having a first data format to a receiving device, if a quality of a channel for carrying the A/V data stream to the receiving device is changed, deciding to change a data format of the A/V data stream to be transmitted to the receiving device into a second data format, and transmitting the A/V data stream having the second data format to the receiving device.

An audio/video (A/V) device having a volume control function for external audio reproduction units by using volume control buttons of a remote controller is provided. The A/V device includes speakers, an audio output port for externally outputting an audio signal, an audio signal processing unit for reproducing and amplifying the audio signal and applying the amplified audio signal to the speakers or the audio output port, a memory unit for storing volume control values, and a control unit for applying to the audio signal processing unit any of the volume control values stored in the memory based on whether the external audio reproduction unit is plugged in the audio output port. The control unit controls the audio signal processing unit to adjust the volume control values for the audio output port by the volume control buttons when the external audio reproduction unit is plugged in the audio output port.

A method and apparatus is provided for authenticating a component (450) for use in a device (100). The device (100) has a predetermined challenge and a predetermined response associated with the predetermined challenge stored in a memory (122). The method detects whether the component (450) has been coupled to the device (100). If the component (450) has been detected (206), the predetermined challenge is provided to the component (208). The device (450) then determines whether a component response has been received from the component within a predetermined response time (210). If a component response is received within the predetermined response time (210), it is compared to the predetermined response (212). The component is disabled (214) if either the component response is not received within the predetermined response time (210) or the component response is received within the predetermined response time (210) but the component response is not equivalent to the predetermined response (212). The component is enabled (216) if the component response is received within the predetermined response time (210) and the component response is equivalent to the predetermined response (212).

An automated transaction machine (20) with a cross-vender software and hardware platform architecture. The machine includes a computer (22) and a plurality of transaction function devices (32) in operative connection with the computer. The machine further includes a plurality of device driver components (38) that generally correspond to each of the transaction function devices. The device drivers are operative responsive to communication from an XFS layer (28) to control the operation of the transaction function devices. The machine further includes a terminal application (22) and an ODS layer (26). The ODS layer includes a plurality of ODS components (36) that generally correspond to the device drivers and/or transaction function devices. The ODS components responsive to the terminal application are operative to have the device drivers control the operation of the transaction function devices through communication with the XFS layer.

Disclosed is a method for registering devices on an Internet of things platform. The method comprises the following steps: a user terminal sending a broadcast packet in a local area network so as to obtain the devices supporting an agreed protocol in the local area network; the user terminal receiving equipment device sent by the devices supporting the agreed protocol in the local area network, wherein the equipment information comprises physical identification codes; the user terminal sending the physical identification codes to the Internet of things platform; the user terminal receiving equipment accounts and equipment passwords corresponding thereto which are generated according to the physical identification codes and are returned by the Internet of things platform, wherein the equipment accounts and the equipment passwords are used by the devices for registering the Internet of things platform so as to enable the devices to communicate with the Internet of things platform; and the user terminal sending the equipment accounts and the equipment passwords to the corresponding devices. The method provided by the invention provides a foundation for communication between a user end and the devices. Besides, the invention further discloses an apparatus for registering devices on an Internet of things platform.

An apparatus and method for providing a ubiquitous entertainment environment for a user to browse, search, preview, purchase, and use multimedia content easily and in a convenient location. The user can use the selected multimedia contents by connecting a portable storage unit to at least one of a plurality of multimedia equipment devices interfaced with the portable storage unit.

Embodiments of machines, systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products certify oil and gas well equipment. Embodiments identify a selected well equipment device, a device test specification, and testing sequences to be performed by a corresponding testing apparatus. Embodiments select a testing sequence responsive to the selected device. Embodiments control the testing apparatus for the selected testing sequence so that the corresponding testing apparatus performs the sequence responsive to the device test specification. Embodiments generate testing data for the selected testing sequence and link the testing data for the selected testing sequence to the device identifier for the device so that a certificate can be generated. Embodiments generate a certificate for the selected device responsive to the testing sequences having been performed upon the selected device and link the certificate for the selected device to the device identifier so that the certificate can be readily recalled.

Methods and apparatus for varying one or more internally generated voltages of a memory device based on the temperature of the memory device are provided. The device temperature may be measured directly, for example, via an on-chip temperature sensor, or may be supplied as bits in a mode register containing temperature information.

The present invention is directed to provide a computing system comprises plurality of apparatii mounted on the wall or floor adjacent to or embedded inside the LAN jack or a main power outlet. The apparatii are connected at the back side through Ethernet cable, optical fiber or main lines to the building LAN and connected at the front side through cables or wirelessly to display, keyboard, mouse or other peripheral devices. In a typical embodiment of the present invention power to the computing apparatus is supplied through the LAN cable. Another embodiment of the present invention utilizes a wall or floor mounted housing part comprising of an integrated LAN connector. This common housing enables easy installation of the said computing apparatus module and plurality of other compatible devices that may be plugged into that same housing.

This method and apparatus may activate removable or portable media devices (or accounts associated therewith), such as flash drives, USB drives, external hard drives, thumb drives, memory cards of various formats (SD, CF, xD, Memory Card Duo), SIM cards, other phone cards, or other devices containing a writable and/or readable memory. The devices may be activated after purchase based on a communication between a central processor and a device or device user. Further, this method and apparatus may activate an account related to a media device at a point-of-sale (“POS”), and may later activate the device by communicating with an account activation processor. Activation and deactivation of the device (or account) may further be based on a confirmation or cancellation of a purchase transaction associated with the device, such as a purchase of the device.

A processing space contains an array of operational transistors interconnected by circuit and signal pass transistors that when supplied with selected enable bits will structure a variety of circuits that will carry out any desired information processing. The Babbage/von Neumann Paradigm in which data are provided to circuitry that would operate on those data is reversed by structuring the desired circuits at the site(s) of the data, thereby to eliminate the von Neumann bottleneck and substantially increase the computing power of the device, with the apparatus conducting only non-stop Information Processing on a steady stream of data and code, with no repetitious Instruction and data transfers as in the normal computer being required. A code is defined that will identify the physical locations of every transistor in the processing space, which code will then enable only selected ones of the pass transistors therein so as to structure the circuits needed for any algorithm sought to be executed. The circuits so structured, operating independently of and in parallel with every other circuit so structured, are then restructured after each step into another group of circuits, so that almost no transistor will ever “sit idle,” but all of the processing space can be devoted entirely to information processing, thereby again to increase enormously the computing power of the device. The apparatus is also super-scalable, meaning that an Instant Logic Apparatus built around that processing space could be built to have any size, speed, and level of computer power desired.

A method of transmitting setting data from a terminal device to a plurality of target devices is provided. The method includes the steps of selecting the plurality of target devices from among a plurality of devices in accordance with a selection condition, preparing new setting data to be set to the plurality of target devices, and transmitting the new setting data to the plurality of target devices.

The invention discloses an automatic bias control method and device for a parallel connection MZI type IO electrooptical modulator. The parallel connection MZI type IO electrooptical modulator comprises a main MZI formed through parallel connection of an I-path sub MZI and a Q-path sub MZI, light paths of the I-path sub MZI, the Q-path sub MZI and the main MZI are provided with a Q-path phase modulation electrode, an I-path phase modulation electrode and a pai/2 phase modulation electrode respectively, and optimal bias voltages of the Q-path phase modulation electrode, the I-path phase modulation electrode and the pai/2 phase modulation electrode of the parallel connection MZI type IO electrooptical modulator are obtained respectively; disturbance is applied to the Q-path phase modulation electrode, the I-path phase modulation electrode and the pai/2 phase modulation electrode of the parallel connection MZI type IO electrooptical modulator in sequence, and whether the optimal bias voltages need to be adjusted or not is determined according to average light power feedback of the parallel connection MZI type IO electrooptical modulator. The debugging equipment device is simple, and the debugging process is rapid and efficient.

The present invention relates to a method for controlling the pressure supplied by a CPAP device. The method comprises repeated measurement of a respiratory air flow during operation of the device and determining at least one respiratory event from the measured time-dependent behavior of the respiratory flow, the respiratory event representing an indication that the pressure supplied by the CPAP device is too low. Furthermore, the method comprises a slow, quasi ramp-like lowering of the pressure supplied by the CPAP device as long as no respiratory event is detected. Furthermore, the invention relates to a CPAP device for carrying out such a method and to a storage medium with a corresponding program.

Systems and methods for providing interactive content during writing and production of a media asset are provided. A script of a media asset that includes natural language textual annotations that define uniquely interactive content and timing contingencies during which to display the interactive content may be received. After the media asset corresponding to the script is produced, computer language instructions may be generated based on the natural language annotations. The computer language instructions and the media asset may be stored on a master storage medium. The media asset and computer language instructions may be transmitted to a media equipment device. Playback time codes may be transmitted with the media asset. When a playback time code corresponds to an event that identifies interactive content, the media equipment device may display the interactive content represented by the computer language instructions during a time interval defined by the computer language instructions.