1066 results about "Extension method" patented technology

A scalable method, system, and apparatus for non-intrusively auditing and improving security assessments includes capturing, storing, presenting, displaying, inspecting, monitoring, and analyzing data flow in client-server security assessments and/or network/infrastructure security assessments. The invention provides interested parties with a mechanism to non-intrusively audit in real-time the vulnerability test effort, as well as review, replay, and analyze all aspects of the security assessment during and after the test. For web application assessments, the data capture includes one of the following or some combination: an intermediary with all data passing through the intermediary; a sniffer that can passively extract all data being communicated between the application and tester; and a plurality of computing modules (e.g., software, appliances, etc.) installed in the tester environment or within the application system environment (e.g., software installed on the tester's computer, or on the computer where the intermediary is running, or software installed on the application systems proxy or web server, or an appliance in either environment) for storing, processing, analyzing, reporting, and displaying the data.

Fast, scalable methods and devices are provided for layer four switching in a router as might be found in the Internet. In a first method, a grid of tries, which are binary branching trees, is constructed from the set of routing filters. The grid includes a dest-trie and a number of source tries. To avoid memory blowup, each filter is stored in exactly one trie. The tries are traversed to find the lowest cost routing. Switch pointers are used to improve the search cost. In an extension of this method, hash tables may be constructed that point to grid-of-tries structures. The hash tables may be used to handle combinations of port fields and protocol fields. Another method is based on hashing, in which searches for lowest cost matching filters take place in bit length tuple space. Rectangle searching with precomputation and markers are used to eliminate a whole column of tuple space when a match occurs, and to eliminate the rest of a row when no match is found. Various optimizations of these methods are also provided. A router incorporating memory and processors implementing these methods is capable of rapid, selective switching of data packets on various types of networks, and is particularly suited to switching on Internet Protocol networks.

A volume provider unit in a computer system detects a logical block address of a read or write I/O accessing a logical volume of a storage device from a host. According to the logical block address fetched, a storage domain of the logical volume is dynamically expanded. Moreover, the storage domain of the logical volume is reduced or expanded according to an instruction of a logical volume capacity reduction or expansion from a host commander part to a volume server.

A method and apparatus for omni-directional image and 3-dimensional data acquisition with data annotation and dynamic rage extension method is capable of omni-directionally photographing, acquiring 3-dimensional images photographed by cameras having each different exposure amount in connection with the direction of height of an object, extending dynamic range, and generating an geographical information by entering an annotation such as photographing location and time into the photographed images, which can be connected with other geographical information system database. The apparatus includes one or more multi camera module(s) which are stacked and formed multi layers in the direction of height for acquiring 3-dimensional images and extending dynamic range of the 3-dimensional images, wherein each multi camera module includes a plurality of cameras symmetrically arranged with a specific point in a plane.

The invention discloses a mobile robot path planning method based on an improved RRT* algorithm. The method introduces a target biasing strategy into a standard RRT* algorithm so as to reduce the randomness of sampling points; provides an avoidance step length extension method in order that a random tree can reasonably stay away from an obstacle area and avoids falling into a local minimum; and smoothes a path obtained by the improved RRT* algorithm by using a reverse sequence connection method smoothing strategy, so as to reduce the direction-changing operations of the robot and achieve the stable movement of the robot. Compared with an original standard RRT* algorithm, the improved RRT* algorithm has a better planned path and takes less time.

A system and method for distributing data (e.g., imaging data such as pixels, or 3D graphics data such as points, lines, or polygons) from a single or a small number of data sources to a plurality of graphical processing units (graphics processors) for processing and display is presented. The system and method provide a pipelined and multithreaded approach that prioritizes movement of the data through a high-speed multiprocessor system (or a high-speed system of networked computers), according to the system topology. Multiple threads running on multiple processors in shared memory move the data from a storage device (e.g., a disk array), through the high-speed multiprocessor system, to graphics processor memory for display and optional processing through fragment programming. The data can also be moved in the reverse direction, back through the high-speed multiprocessor system, for storage on the disk array.

Embodiments of the invention provide a scalable method for analyzing a network. The method includes generating a data trace representative of the network, determining a topology for the network from the data trace, and sequentially analyzing each frame in the data trace to determine at least one of network errors, warnings, and metrics. The analysis of each frame generally includes analyzing a first protocol layer of the frame with a first expert engine, determining if a second protocol layer is present in the frame, passing the frame to a second expert engine, and passing the frame to additional expert engines if the frame contains additional protocol layers.

An endoluminal prosthetic assembly includes a trunk body including first and second elongated branches. The trunk body and elongated branches include a bifurcated body lumen formed therein. The assembly further includes an extension cuff including a cuff branch and an access port. The extension cuff, cuff branch, and access port include a bifurcated cuff lumen formed therein. A portion of the extension cuff is retainably positioned within the trunk body. A portion of the cuff branch is retainably positioned within one of the elongated branches. The cuff lumen is in communication with the body lumen. A method of extending an endoluminal prosthetic assembly deployed in a bifurcated vessel is also provided. The assembly includes a trunk body including first and second elongated branches. A portion of a compressed extension cuff is positioned within the trunk body and the first elongated branch. The compressed extension cuff is expanded into operable engagement with the trunk body and the first elongated branch.

Method and apparatus are disclosed for flow control over Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) data links. A method of negotiating such flow control between two PPP peers is disclosed, along with methods for operating flow control across a PPP link. In one embodiment, flow control frames carry an IEEE802.3x MAC control frame payload—the PPP implementation repackages such frames as MAC control frames and passes them to a MAC, which performs flow control. In another embodiment, flow control frames allow flow control commands to be applied differently to different service classes such that PPP flow can be controlled on a per-class basis.

Systems, methods and devices for improving the performance of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers are disclosed. In particular, the improvement of the ability to calculate a satellite position or a receiver position where a receiver has degraded ability to receive broadcast ephemeris data directly from a GNSS satellite is disclosed. Correction terms can be applied to an approximate long-term satellite position model such as the broadcast almanac.

An embodiment of the invention provides a path planning method for robot fast collision avoidance. The method comprises using a BBRrt algorithm and a collision detection algorithm based on the convex set theory, extending alternatively from initial configuration and target configuration to opposite configuration form two balance RRT trees, quickly finding, in a configuration space, a collision-free motion path connecting the initial configuration and the target configuration, effectively passing through a narrow channel and avoiding collision with obstacles in the environment, making full use of a multi-step expansion method and a balance extension method with an inspiring purpose, and thus effectively improving the convergence and repeatability of the RRT algorithm. Based on the convex set theory, a convex hull fast collision detection algorithm constituted by a linear inequation group is provided, and the efficiency and performance of a collision detection module in the path planning method for collision avoidance can be improved. The method provided by the invention can be extended to high-dimensional robot multi-tree RRT path planning.

The invention discloses a short text characteristic expanding method based on a semantic atlas. The method includes the steps: performing subject modeling by the aid of a training data set of a short text, and extracting subject term distribution; reordering the subject term distribution; building a candidate keyword dictionary and a subject-keyword semantic atlas; calculating comprehensive similarity degree evaluation of candidate keywords and seed keywords based on a link analysis method, and selecting the most similar candidate keywords to finish expanding the short text. Compared with a short text characteristic representation method based on a language model, the method is simple to operate and high in execution efficiency, and semantic correlation information between the keywords is sufficiently used. Compared with a traditional short text characteristic representation method based on a word bag model, the problems of data sparseness and semantic sensitivity are effectively relieved, and the method is independent of external large-scale auxiliary training corpus or a search engine.

Methods and systems are disclosed for staggered address mapping of memory regions in shared memory for use in multi-threaded processing of single instruction multiple data (SIMD) threads and multi-scalar threads without inter-thread memory region conflicts and permitting transition from SIMD mode to multi-scalar mode without the need for rearrangement of data stored in the memory regions.

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for analyzing defects associated with a software development project. Descriptions of defects identified during the testing of a software product may be stored in a data structure. One or more of the defects may be identified as data defects. If data defects are determined to be the dominant class of defects in the data structure, the data defects may be analyzed to determine a cause for one or more data defects. For example, the focus areas affected by the defects, the trends over time of the defects, the particular types of the data defects, the stability of the system, etc. may be analyzed to determine a cause for the data defects. Therefore, corrective measures may be taken based on the identified cause of the one or more data defects.

Methods and systems for accessing information in and loading encrypted information to memory. A processor provides virtual address information to a memory management unit. In response, the memory management unit retrieves a key tag and physical address information corresponding to the virtual address information. The memory management unit then sends the key tag and physical address information to the processor. The processor then determines whether a memory location corresponding to the physical address information is encrypted based on the key tag, and retrieves a secret key using the key tag based on the determining. Thereafter, information read from the memory location is decrypted using the secret key.

A multi-channel surround sound expansion method is proposed. First, a two-channel stereo sound is read and then expanded into a Front L channel, a Front R channel, a Front M channel, a Rear L channel and a Rear R channel sound signals by means of the Hafler technique. Next, the sound reverberation technique is used to let the Rear L channel and Rear R channel sound signals generate sound with echo/reverberation. Finally, the Rear L channel and Rear R channel sound signals are delayed by a first time value, and the Front M channel sound signal is advanced by a second time value to emphasize the front sound field and the human voices, thereby producing a 3D sound field surrounding a listener.

A scalable method and system are provided for connecting, tracking and facilitating warranties, recalls, maintenance, repair and upgrade/replacement and purchase of new products within a community of large-scale, homogeneous building inventories (LSHBI) or units over a communications network. The method includes providing a database of electronic data at a computer site. The data includes building product data that uniquely identifies building products common to and contained within each housing unit in a community of subscribing building units. The electronic data also includes service provider data that identifies service providers for the building products and warranty data that identifies warranties and warranty dates for at least one of the building products and services provided by the service providers. The method further includes analyzing the electronic data to determine whether an action to facilitate the maintenance, repair or replacement of at least one building product is to be performed.

The invention relates to the field of voice technologies, in particular to a self-adaptive denoising method based on sub-band noise analysis. The method includes the steps that firstly, framing and short time frequency domain transformation are conducted on input time domain audio signals with noise, and then frequency domain audio signals with noise are generated; secondly, a noise energy spectrum of the frequency domain audio signals with noise is estimated through a minimum value tracking method; thirdly, the posterior signal to noise ratio and the prior signal to noise ratio of the noise energy spectrum are calculated; fourthly, through a nonlinear gain extension method, denoising gains of all time frequency units are calculated through the posterior signal to noise ratio and the prior signal to noise ratio; fifthly, smoothing filtering is conducted on the denoising gains of all the time frequency units to reduce tone quality distortion; sixthly, the denoising gains act on all the time frequency units of the audio signals with noise in the first step, and then denoised frequency domain audio signals are acquired; seventhly, short time frequency domain inverse transformation is conducted, and then the final denoised time frequency audio signals are acquired and output. According to the method and system, stable noise in target signals can be greatly lowered.

The invention provides an interface expanding method and device for a tablet personal computer. The device is embedded in a tablet personal computer, and comprises an interface, a voltage detecting unit, an impedance detecting unit, a charging detecting unit, and a central processing unit, wherein the interface is used for inserting a cable; the voltage detecting unit is used for detecting whether voltage is input in a power supply pin (VBUS), if not, informing the impedance detecting unit, if yes, informing the charging detecting unit; the impedance detecting unit is used for detecting the impedance between a signal identification pin (ID) and a grounded pin (GND) of the interface after the notice sent from the voltage detecting unit is detected; the charging detecting unit is used for detecting whether a digital positive pin (DP) and a digital minus (DM) pin are in a short circuit or open circuit; the central processing unit is used for determining the type of the cable inserted in the interface according to the impedance value detected by the impedance detecting unit or the result detected by the charging detecting unit, and controlling the associated parts in the tablet personal computer to perform corresponding operations. With the adoption of the method and the device provided by the invention, the cables in various types can be connected on micro USB (universal serial bus) interfaces or mini USB interfaces without using an external expanding apparatus.