777 results about "Event monitoring" patented technology

Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting an alarm condition. The alarm thresholds may be user defined. A threat thermostat controller determines a threat level used to control the connectivity of a network used in the industrial application.

Systems and methods for detecting, monitoring, and/or treating neurological events based on, for example, electrical signals generated from the patient's body are disclosed. Various embodiments of the invention include a system for predicting occurrence of a neurological event in a patient's body. The system may include an implant configured to be placed in the body and detect signals indicative of an activity that precedes the neurological event, and a processing unit configured to process the detected signals so as to predict the neurological event prior to the occurrence.

An event monitoring and logging system, including apparatuses and methods, for instrumenting an on-line application program, or service, for generating and communicating events upon the occurrence of certain conditions during the execution thereof, for monitoring generated events in real and near-real time in accordance with configurable rules, for generating and communicating selected alerts to appropriate personnel upon the exceeding of configurable thresholds, for logging generated events and related information in data files and databases for subsequent analysis, and for producing reports related to such instrumentation and generated events.

The present invention provides a system that integrates requests and responses thereto for Operation and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) that comprise many discrete and non-inclusive systems with disparate interfaces. The integration of these systems poses a complex problem. Moreover, costs of licenses, maintenance fees, and training for day-to-day use are prohibitively expensive. The present invention is an open and inclusive system that interfaces easily with existing OSS/BSS systems to provide visibility into all network elements and events. It is an advanced, multi-vendor management system designed to increase efficiency and productivity and reduce network administration costs by providing an integrated system for monitoring, troubleshooting, and managing the network. The present invention has as an objective to unite different systems under one common platform. The present invention collects and manipulates information centrally, within a single system, enabling critical data to be shared seamlessly between applications. This provides for Data Consolidation, Data Extendibility, and Reduced Cost. In addition, this solution is robust, as it is expandable and considerate of new systems and technologies as they emerge.

An interactive sporting event monitoring system includes a determiner for determining whether video blanking interval data is present in a selected television channel, and a decoder for decoding video blanking interval data from the selected television channel. The video blanking interval data from the selected television channel comprises a number of channels of sporting-event audio information, and the decoder associates each of the plurality of channels of sporting-event audio information with a corresponding channel identifier. Each channel identifier distinguishes a corresponding channel of sporting-event audio information from other channels of sporting-event audio information. The interactive sporting event monitoring system further includes a user input for accepting a user-specified channel identifier from a user, and a monitor for placing the channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user. The video blanking interval data may further include telemetry data.

The invention discloses a multisensory robot used for family intelligent monitoring service. The robot comprises a main control device, wherein the main control device is externally connected with a camera, a sound collector, a cellphone alarm device and a loudspeaker; the main control device is also externally connected with a chassis moving device and a head gesture device; the chassis moving device consists of a chassis controller, a motor driver, an obstacle avoiding sensor and a smoke sensor; the chassis moving device is provided with a lithium battery and wheels required by a mobile platform; the main control device sends a control command to the chassis controller by a serial port to control the corresponding action of a motor and process an obstacle avoiding signal; the head gesture device consists of three steering engines and one relay; and the main control device sends a control command to a head controller by a serial port to control the head and the eyeballs of the robot to rotate and control the mouth of the robot to open and close. The multisensory robot is used for the family intelligent monitoring field, can be used for multisensory fusion and can realize the multifunction family monitoring such as face identification and anomalous event monitoring.

A method and system for provides a user with an ability to capture a sample of an experiential environment and deliver that sample to an interactive service to trigger one or more predetermined events. In exemplary embodiments of the invention such triggered events include the delivery of information and services to the user, the execution of tasks and instructions by the service on the user's behalf, communication events, surveillance events and other control-oriented events that are responsive to the user's wishes. In other exemplary embodiments of the invention, the triggered events include transaction-oriented events, entertainment events, and events associated with enhancements to human ability or function.

An application installation and removal system and method comprising: an operating system for controlling and maintaining resources on a computer; and an event monitor configured detect availability of an new software to be installed on the client; receive a list of new software on the client; perform installation of the software on the client wherein performing installation comprises creating a record of all user defined applications on the client immediately prior to performing the installation in a log file; installing the new software on the client; rebooting the client after the installation of the new software on the client; resorting all the user defined applications recorded in the log file to the same state as the user defined applications were prior to the installation of the new software.

Methods and systems for reporting performance data for application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided. A method includes receiving a subscription request from a subscriber for a particular API of a plurality of APIs, and monitoring performance of the particular API for a predetermined event that includes a change in at least one of performance status for the particular API and one or more various measurements of performance of the particular API. The method further includes comparing the predetermined event to a table or database of information that includes notification and alert rules for the particular API that specify notification policies for various predetermined events, and when the predetermined event matches at least one of the notification and alert rules, sending, by the computer system, a notification or alert to the subscriber based on the notification policy for the at least one of the notification and alert rules.

The invention discloses an LED street lamp control system based on an electric power carrier communication technology, which is in a three-layer network structure comprising a single lamp controller, a centralized controller and a management center, wherein the single lamp controller takes a singlechip as a core to be in charge of controlling a street lamp and collecting street lamp working parameters; the centralized controller adopts embedded system design, operates a power line carrier technology and carries out group or single control on street lamps in areas according to preset illumination strategy and assistant illumination intensity control strategy; the management center is mainly composed of a personal computer PC and street lamp system management software to display lamp street state (luminance, voltage, current and power) information; and a GPRS wireless transmission technology or Internet network is used for realizing the remote management of the street lamp switch and luminance regulation. Thus, by using the system, operations such as scheduling events, data record reading, event monitoring, warning response and the like can be realized, and historical data can be inquired.

Enhanced monitoring for an event candidate, as performed by a master node in a wireless node network with a server and at least one ID node, generally has the master node detecting a first signal broadcast by the ID node; identifying the event candidate as a first sighting event when detecting the first signal; generating and reporting event data representing the first sighting event (e.g., an ID node identifier, timing, and signal strength information); identifying the event candidate as a sporadic event related to the ID node when (1) there is no identified first benchmark checkpoint event related to the ID node and (2) there is no detected subsequent signal broadcast by the ID node within a gap time period from when the latest signal from the ID node was detected; generating and reporting event data representing the sporadic event (e.g., timing and signal strength information) if the master node identifies the sporadic event; determining a signal strength average value for certain subsequent successive ID node signals including the first signal as long as an elapsed time between each of the subsequent successive signals is less than the gap time; identifying the event candidate as a first benchmark checkpoint event representing the state of the ID node based upon the signal strength average value; and generating and reporting event data representing the benchmark checkpoint event (e.g., timing and signal strength information).

Embodiments of the invention provide systems, software and methods for monitoring events on a computer. In a set of embodiments, a monitoring application monitors events on a monitored computer. Each of the monitored events may be analyzed, and based on the analysis, some or all of the monitored events may be collected. A variety of rules may be used in analyzing events. In some cases, collected events can be queued, for example, by storing a representation of each collected event in an event cache. When connectivity with a monitoring computer is available, a connection with the monitoring computer may be established, and/or the queued events may be transmitted to the monitoring computer. In a particular set of embodiments, the monitoring application is designed to avoid detection by a user of the monitored computer.

A mechanism is provided for configuring offline player behavior within a persistent world game. A player agent for an offline player includes an event monitor that monitors for events that occur in a persistent virtual world maintained by a game server. When a game event occurs that triggers an offline player rule, the player agent may generate game events on behalf of the offline player. The player agent may also receive messages from an offline player. The messages may include commands for adding, removing, or editing offline player rules. A message may also include a command to view a list of rules or fire a one-time execution of a rule upon receipt. Therefore, a player may contribute to the persistent virtual world even when offline by sending commands using a messaging client or Web browser.

A system for event detection and reporting has primary sensors for producing raw data from observing the proximate area, one or more processors for the primary sensors, for processing the raw data to produce output, a centralized controller to which each of the processors is connected, for receiving the output, a security network for communicating between the sensors, the controller, and one or more remote terminals, the security network having an alarm, and a plurality of auxiliary sensors for providing secondary sensor information to the one or more processors wherein the controller provides an alarm to the remote terminals through the security network if an event has occurred. A method of event detection has the steps of receiving a control command, alarm message and sensor information, determining if an event has occurred, and sending alarm messages and filtered sensor information to remote terminals if an event has occurred.

The invention discloses a distributive dynamic load management system and distributive dynamic load management method. The system consists of distributive processing clusters with dynamic load management function and P2P (Peer to Peer) complete equal frameworks. The processing clusters are not provided with central nodes controlled intensively but are provided with a plurality of processing nodes. Each processing node can independently provide distributive arbitral dynamic load management capacity and the nodes are completely same in right and dynamic load management function but same or different in event processing capacity. Each processing node is a control core of the dynamic load management system, and is provided with four modules, namely an event processing module, an event monitoring module, an event issuing module and a dynamic load management module. According to the system and the method, distributive dynamic load management can be realized under a distributive network environment, so that system load transfer fluctuation caused by change of data processing request hot spots and system load balance during node dynamic change can be effectively solved. The robustness of the system can be effectively ensured when the processing nodes of the distributive cluster system are overloaded under the P2P environment.

The invention relates to a network security situation assessment method, in particular, a Bayesian network-based multi-step attack security situation assessment method. The method includes the following steps that: multi-step attack generating patterns are mined through association analysis, so that an attack graph can be constructed; a Bayesian network is established according to the multi-step attack graph, attack wills, probability of success of attacks and the accuracy of event monitoring are defined as the probability attributes of the Bayesian network; based on the event monitoring, a multi-step attack risk is calculated according to the posterior reasoning and cumulative probability of the Bayesian network; and the security situations of a host and the whole network are quantitatively assessed according to a hierarchical quantitative assessment method. With the method of the invention adopted, the problem of lack of correlation analysis in a network security situation assessment process can be solved. According to the method of the invention, monitoring events are taken into risk assessment, and a network security situation assessment model is accurately established, and therefore, the effectiveness and real-time performance of the method of the invention can be enhanced.

A system and method for configuring an event-based process are disclosed. A configuration module receives input describing an event-based process or modifications to an event-based process. For example, the configuration module receives as input a graphical depiction of one or more states and state transitions that comprise at least a portion of the event-based process. Using the received input description, the configuration module generates executable data, such as data formatted as an event processing language, corresponding to the input. The executable data is then communicated to an event engine which executes the executable data to implement the event-based process or modifications to an event-based process corresponding to the received input. One or more aspects of the execution of the event-based process may also be visualized, and graphically modified, though an event monitoring module.

The field of the invention relates to interactive computer systems and more particularly to systems and methods for simulating a particular user's behavior in an interactive computer system. In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a simulator configured to simulate a user interacting with a computer program. The simulator includes a learning mode of operation and a simulation mode of operation. During the learning mode, the simulator is configured to monitor the user's interaction with the computer program for one or more events and analyze one or more current circumstances during the occurrence of the one or more events. The simulator is further configured to record one or more user inputs in response to the occurrence of the one or more events, store the one or more user inputs in one or more data fields, and associate the one or more data fields with the one or more events and the one or more current circumstances. During the simulation mode of operation, the simulator is configured to monitor the computer program for the one or more particular events, retrieve the one or more data fields associated with the one or more particular events, analyze one or more current circumstances upon the occurrence of the one or more particular events, and invoke one or more simulated inputs based on the value of the one or more data fields in response to the occurrence of the one or more events and the one or more current circumstances.

A system and method for performance monitoring including instance life cycle event monitoring is disclosed. A performance monitoring system may correlate performance data to application instance life cycle events. Changes in performance at an instance level, application level or tier level may be related to application instance life cycle events such as creation, migration and destruction. In one embodiment, a performance monitoring method may include collecting performance data for one or more application instances, detecting one or more instance life cycle events associated with the one or more application instances, correlating the performance data to the one or more instance life cycle events, and storing the correlated performance data.