1750 results about "Functional requirement" patented technology

The invention relates to: A medication delivery device and a method of making such a device. The object of the present invention is to provide a handy medication delivery device that may be easily adjusted to the different needs of a given user in different situations and to the different needs of different users, and which is economic from a production point of view. The problem is solved in that it comprises a basis module (1) and one or more replaceable modules (2, 3, 4, 5, 6), each of which is adapted to cooperate mechanically and / or electronically with the basis module to provide a specific function, and the basis module includes resources that are jointly used by the replaceable modules. This has the advantage of providing a rational concept for economically supplying high quality, mass-produced devices capable of being customized to individual users' needs for functionality by avoiding the duplication of key components. The invention may be used in injector type, medication pump type, inhaler or spray type devices for delivering a discrete dose or a continuous dose of a medication to a user.

A system and method for allocating resources in a cloud environment includes providing an abstraction layer between a cloud environment and one or more data centers by generating a virtual hypervisor as an application programming interface. Responsive to a workload request by the one or more data centers, resources are partitioned and virtual machines are instantiated in the one or more data centers using the virtual hypervisor such that non-functional requirements of the workload are addressed at the abstraction level using the virtual hypervisor.

A system and method for allocating resources in a cloud environment includes providing an abstraction layer between a cloud environment and one or more data centers by generating a virtual hypervisor as an application programming interface. Responsive to a workload request by the one or more data centers, resources are partitioned and virtual machines are instantiated in the one or more data centers using the virtual hypervisor such that non-functional requirements of the workload are addressed at the abstraction level using the virtual hypervisor.

Methods and apparatus for use in controlling the loading of wireless access points (APs) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) in support of legacy terminals are disclosed. The WLAN has at least a first AP and a second wireless AP adjacent the first wireless AP. An indication which indicates whether a loading of the second wireless AP is greater than a predetermined threshold is identified. When the indication indicates thai the loading is greater than the predetermined threshold, a first nominal radio frequency (RF) transmission power of the first wireless AP is increased in order to increase a first RF coverage area of the first wireless AP. A second nominal RF transmission power of the second wireless AP is correspondingly reduced in order to reduce a second RF coverage area of the second wireless AP. In response, some of the mobile communication devices initially operating with the second wireless AP are switched to operate with the first wireless AP in order to reduce the loading of the second wireless AP. The techniques may be embodied in a centralized approach where transmission control equipment of the WLAN controls each wireless APs in this manner, or alternatively in a distributed non-centralized approach where each wireless AP acts independently and autonomously in the same or similar manner. Preferably, the techniques do not require the functional requirements of mobile devices to modified and therefore are suitable for use with existing legacy devices.

The invention relates to a robot man-machine interaction method based on user mood and intension recognition. User mood recognition is carried out by combining human body biological information such as breath, the heart rate and the dermal electricity with facial expression recognition. The user intension is recognized through different kinds of physical sensor information such as pressure, photoelectricity and temperature. Intelligent control and decision making are carried out according to the user mood and intention recognition results. A corresponding execution mechanism of a robot is controlled to complete limb movements and voice interaction. By means of the robot man-machine interaction method based on user mood and intension recognition, the robot can understand the user intension more thoroughly, know the metal changes of a user, meet the functional requirement for emotion care for the user, and better participate in the life of users such as the old people and children.

A dynamic spinal stabilization component which supports the spine while providing for the preservation of spinal motion. The component is selectably attachable to a bone anchor for implantation in a bone of the spine. The component and bone anchor provide load sharing while preserving range of motion and reducing stress exerted upon the bone anchors and spinal anatomy. The dynamic spinal stabilization component includes a deflectable post connected by a ball-joint to a threaded anchor. Deflection of the deflectable post is controlled by a centering spring. The force / deflection properties of the dynamic bone anchor may be adapted to the anatomy and functional requirements of the patient. The dynamic spinal stabilization component may be used as a component of a dynamic stabilization system which supports the spine while providing for the preservation of spinal motion.

A fast and reliable technique for tuning multivariable model predictive controllers (MPCs) that accounts for performance and robustness is provided. Specifically, the technique automatically yields tuning weights for the MPC based on performance and robustness requirements. The tuning weights are parameters of closed-loop transfer functions which are directly linked to performance and robustness requirements. Automatically searching the tuning parameters in their proper ranges assures that the controller is optimal and robust. This technique will deliver the traditional requirements of stability, performance and robustness, while at the same time enabling users to design their closed-loop behavior in terms of the physical domain. The method permits the user to favor one measurement over another, or to use one actuator more than another.

A method performed in an Information Technology (IT) development environment and an associated computer system. Business requirements are translated into functional requirements. An abstract IT structure is generated by translating the functional requirements into the abstract IT structure.

The invention relates to a broadband wireless signal covering network based on a passive optical network structure. The network comprises a first fiber power divider / wave combiner, a plurality of user terminal units, an optical wavelength multiplexing / de-multiplexing device, a second fiber power divider / wave combiner and a broadband photoreceiver, wherein the first fiber power divider / wave combiner allocates light carrier signals of a light emitter to a plurality of fiber power dividers; a plurality of the user terminal units correspondingly receive the light carrier signals of the fiber power dividers, emit the light carrier signals to air and receive user uplink RF signals through antennas; the optical wavelength multiplexing / de-multiplexing device collects user uplink optical signals of a plurality of the user terminal units and transmits the signals to the uplink direction; the second fiber power divider / wave combiner collects the user uplink optical signals and transmits the signals to the uplink direction; and the broadband photoreceiver converts the received multi-wavelength user uplink optical signals into multi-bandwidth broadband RF signals and sends the signals to upper layer equipment. The broadband wireless signal covering network solves the problem of realizing broadband wireless communication for large-scale indoor multiuser, strengthens the adaptability to the horizontal dynamic change of uplink optical signal power and can adapt to the functional requirement of various wireless communication systems.

The method according to the invention is based on a configuration model of a part of an electrical power distribution network, describing a totality of possible configurations of appliances. The configuration model is used to systematically produce (2) all the possible configurations which satisfy a predetermined set of functional requirements, in which case each possible configuration may have at least one associated characteristic value, and a solution configuration is defined which optimizes this characteristic value. It is thus possible to produce an optimum configuration automatically, without any need for expert knowledge about the appliances used in the configuration. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, a simulation model for simulation of a technical response of the solution configuration is produced automatically (3). It is thus possible to test one or more solution configurations by simulations (4), without any need for expert knowledge about the characteristics and simulation models of the appliances used in the solution configuration.

A dynamic spine stabilization component suitable for use in stabilizing of the spine. The component is selectably attachable to a bone anchor for implantation in a bone of the spine. The dynamic spinal stabilization component includes a deflectable post connectable to a bone anchor. Deflection of the deflectable post is controlled by a compliant member. The force / deflection properties of the deflectable post may be adapted to the functional requirements and anatomy of the patient. The dynamic spinal stabilization component, when secured to a bone anchor, provides load sharing while preserving range of motion and reducing stress exerted upon the bone anchor and spinal anatomy.

The invention relates to an electric pressure cooker, and the electric pressure cooker comprises a cooker cover assembly, a cooker body assembly, an inner cooker, an electric heating device and a control device. The electric pressure cooker is characterized by also comprising a water adding device, wherein the water adding device is arranged in the cooker body assembly, communicates with the inner cooker through the cooker cover assembly, is connected with the control device, and consists of a water pump and a guide pipe; one end of the water pump is connected with a water source through the guide pipe; the other end of the water pump communicates with the inner cooker through the guide pipe; and the water pump is connected with the control device. By using such a structure, the flow rate of the water pump is controlled through intelligently controlling the time; the effect of adding the water according to function requirements is achieved; and the problem of poor cooking effect caused by improper control on the water adding amount due to insufficient experience when a customer cooks by using the electric pressure cooker or an electric rice cooker can be effectively solved.

Methods and apparatuses for power distribution improve and can standardize electrical connections between electrical cables and the multitude of electrical switches, receptacles, and fixtures of known technology. The invention can include modular hardware components such as junction boxes, electrical devices, adaptors, a / b switches, etc. that simplify both installation and inspection requirements at the job site. Optional color coding can facilitate proper wiring of the components. The invention allows field wiring to be completed more quickly and accurately thereby advantageously reducing associated costs and increasing safety.

A method and appertaining system provide that an integrated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) repository stores functional and non-functional requirements and associated data and results of associated with software services across the software lifecycle, thereby permitting access at a common point or in a common way by a user to all relevant information about the software service at least during the development, testing, and run-time stages of the software service. Thus, all design documents, testing requirements and results, and run-time policies and contracts can be provided in a common location to facilitate development in the service oriented architecture.

A system and a method for implementing a virtual data center. In which, the functions to be performed by a computer, and the access the computer equipment is required to have to the storage and network facilities, are decoupled from the hardware, and instantiated dynamically on any suitable computer equipment, without any manual intervention. In a virtual data center, all the physical resources are virtualized and arranged dynamically, to meet the functional requirements of the data center.

The invention provides an automatic interface test system, which comprises an interface code acquisition unit used for acquiring the codes of tested interface programs; an interface element information read unit used for reading interface element information including interface element names, interface element types and service function requirement information from the codes of the tested interface programs; a test case generation unit used for generating interface test cases according to the business function requirement information; a test case execution unit used for running the test cases and responding to the functional requirements in the running of the test cases as well as acquiring the responding results of the functional requirements; a test result output unit used for acquiring expected verification results of the test cases from the running test cases, comparing the responding results of the functional requirements with the expected verification results for uniformity, and outputting uniform or nonuniform test results. The test efficiency of the automatic interface test system is significantly improved by comparing the test with the automatic interface test system with manual test.

A modelling system to provide a computer based business process for an enterprise, allows the enterprise to input values for a plurality of non functional requirements (760) for the deployment, and allows at least some of the values to be varied independently of others of the values, and creates a design of software application components (770) and a design of computing infrastructure (780), for running the software application components, so that the business process operates according to the values input for the non functional requirements of the business process. By modelling the underlying computing infrastructure, it becomes feasible to create models with greater certainty that they will deploy successfully, and with greater predictability of how well they will meet given non functional requirements. This enables more freedom to be allowed to vary the values of these non functional requirements and get greater customisation to suit the needs of the enterprise.

A method and apparatus for thermally simulating a circuit over a network is provided. Techniques are provided for designing a circuit that satisfies user-specified functional requirements received over a network. Based on the specified requirements, components and a topology for constructing the circuit are automatically determined. The components determined during this operation have operational values such that, when the components are arranged according to the topology to form the circuit, the circuit satisfies the user-specified functional requirements. One or more web pages that identify the components are then delivered to the browser over the network. The component and topology information may be used to generate a schematic diagram that is delivered in a web page to the user over the network. The user may thermally simulate the designed circuit. Many characteristics of the board may be adjusted to provide an accurate thermal simulation. The user may place an order over the network for one of the components, a kit of all of the components, a custom made circuit made from the components, and / or a prefabricated circuit that is functionally similar to the one that was designed.

The invention relates to a monitoring system for power transmission and transforming equipment, in particular to a capacitive equipment dielectric loss angle online monitoring system. The system is characterized by at least comprising a microprocessor, a leakage current signal acquisition module, a GPS synchronization module, a wireless communication module, an A / D sampling unit, and a frequency measurement sampling unit; in structure, a centralized management mode is used, a wireless data transmission technology and an Internet network technology are applied, and a layered distributed structure is achieved; according to the functional requirements, the invention divides the system into a monitoring layer, a control layer and an information layer. The manufacturer and operating management department (client) can visit the system in different places by only installing browser software and thus easily achieve remote maintenance and monitoring.

A system for automatically creating a desired software application design. In response to an input to create a desired software application design, functional requirements for the desired software application design are retrieved. Then, non-functional requirements associated with each retrieved functional requirement are retrieved. In addition, software models associated with the retrieved functional requirements are retrieved. Further, software patterns associated with the retrieved non-functional requirements are retrieved. Then, the retrieved software models are transformed into software code for the desired software application design. Also, the retrieved software patterns are applied to associated code sequences in the software code to automatically create an architecture for the desired software application design. Finally, the architecture for the desired software application design is outputted for use by a user. The decisions made during the software application design process are also captured for analysis for future improvement of the desired software application design.

The invention provides a framing method of the receiver front-end of multimode satellite navigation, which discloses a frontend chip of the receiving RF of multimode satellite navigation which is applicable to a plurality of satellite navigation systems. The method of the invention comprises six modules which are a multimode PF frontend low-noise amplifier / mixer group of monolithic integrated and completed type, a reconfigurable image rejection filter, a band-variable gain amplifier, an analog-to-digital converser, a configurable frequency synthesizer and a multimode control logic module. The reconfigurable module can realize the distribution of functional parameters according to the requirement through the multimode control logic management, causing the working performance to be optimized and meeting the functional requirement on the RF front end of the receiving platform of multimode satellite navigation. The framing method of the invention requires no external supporting accessories and has the advantages of being easy to carrying out cascade connection with preceding and backward stages, high gain, small noise coefficient and good integration. The invention is applied to the current communication and navigation positioning equipment for receiving multimode satellite navigation signals, has a wide application range and quite remarkable economic benefit, is largely on demand, supports the integration making use of multimode satellite navigation positioning information, improves positioning precision and has large social benefit.

Orders of the block link exchange are signed by users, the quantities are generally not totally matched, and according to regulations, when prices with signatures meet transaction requirements, the transacted quantity is cumulatively no more than the signature quantity, the matching order for the same price on the same server is ordered according to a time order of entering the server. If to-be-matched users are respectively located in multiple areas with certain network time delay, apart from a unique whole network matching center, multiple area matching centers can also be added, the users can assign an area matching center for being matched, each user can only assign (requiring a signature) a certain server in a certain area for matching the transaction, and if a matching server needs to be replaced, the order needs to be canceled and then the order is posted again. The transaction records transacted in the area matching centers are sent to the whole network matching center, and the transaction records can be directly written to a new block in the block chain without matching by the whole network matching center.

The invention discloses a networked power telecontrol communication method, which is used for solving the problems of the one-transmission multi-reception and information forwarding of power telecontrol information. The method adopts a technical scheme that: models of an IEC 61850 standard, such as common data models, data models, dataset models, selection control-prior-to-report-and-operation models and the like, are taken as bases, functional requirements of the power telecontrol communication are combined and then an IEC 61850-based power telecontrol communication model is established so that communications in a substation and between the substation and a control centre adopt IEC 61850, an MMS and Ethernet as a unique communication standard, a unique communication protocol and a unique communication platform so as to realize interoperations among different firm IEDs. The networked power telecontrol communication method radically solves the problems of the one-transmission multi-reception and information forwarding of the telecontrol information puzzling the field of power telecontrol for a plurality of years, and realizes the interoperations among the different firm IEDs and the unified configuration and management on equipment.

The invention relates to a power system energy efficiency public service cloud platform based on cloud computing. A three-layer framework is adopted in the energy efficiency public service cloud platform and comprises an energy efficiency service Iaas layer, an energy efficiency service Paas layer and an energy efficiency service application Saas layer. The energy efficiency service Iaas layer is an infrastructure level service layer and is used for providing virtual resources, mapped through the virtual technology, for a network, a server and database physical facilities in the cloud platform. The energy efficiency service Paas layer is a platform level service layer and used for providing the execution environment of cloud middleware resources, a distributed parallel platform and application service software for power consumers. The energy efficiency service application Saas layer is a software level service layer and used for providing software services of energy efficiency services based on Web access for users. According to the energy efficiency public service cloud platform, acquisition and monitoring of energy efficiency information and diagnosis and analysis of user energy efficiency parameters are achieved through the energy efficiency service application Saas layer. By means of the framework mode, management objects and function requirements can be quickly expanded and upgraded, and user energy management efficiency is improved.

A method and system for engineering discovery. A block diagram of a system can be further refined by building a basic search query listing the functional requirements for block. The search query can be expanded by selecting one or more saved rules. A database can return components or subsystems that meet the criteria from the basic search query or the expanded search query. One or more candidates can be chosen from the answer set and assigned to the block. A system-constraint-based selection can compare combinations of the candidate components against a set of predefined criteria to indicate the components to be used for the system which meet those criteria. The design of the system can be accomplished by using generic descriptions rather than blocks.

Technology for supporting personal sports performance moves from laboratory to field use only as and if instrumentation is designed both to meet its specific function(s) and to least hinder the athlete's performance. Even a standard wristwatch degrades an athlete's optimal motions when an athlete reads it while training or competing. This invention details a casing and strap (more specifically said casing's and strap's interacting shapes' and attachments' form, lie, and linkage), and controls, for a display for monitoring / sensory and / or feedback / reporting sports instrumentation, which meet both the sports instrumentation's and athlete's functional needs, as the casing and strap place the display and control diagonally across yet flush with the athlete's forearm.