508 results about "Functional system" patented technology

A services provision system provides information services over one or more communications networks and has a software infrastructure divided into domains. Each domain has an intelligent software agent and this community of agents sits in a computing environment represented in each domain by a DPE kernel. The community of agents co-operates to provide service and service management functionality to a user. At least one of the agents is reconfigurable to change the functionality the system makes available. Reconfigurability is based on the use of a plurality of reusable software modules, the agent reconfiguring by selecting a new combination of modules. The software modules themselves incorporate rules, or policies, which determine process steps offered by the modules at run-time. These policies are external to the modules and may be loaded at run-time, allowing dynamic modification to functionality of the system. The system as a whole offers functionality associated with using services, providing them and managing them and the reconfigurability allows it to offer the different types of functionality in an efficient way. It also allows access control to functionality at different levels with particularly good security against fraudulent use.

A method of controlling vehicle functions is provided that includes receiving at a service provider, security data from a vehicle function system. The security data is related to a security code required to activate one or more functions controlled by the vehicle function system. The method also includes receiving a vehicle function request at the service provider from a remote device. The vehicle function request indicates a request to activate a particular function of a vehicle. In addition, the method includes sending a vehicle function command from the service provider to a mobile wireless device. The vehicle function command is adapted to cause the mobile wireless device to transmit a wireless signal to activate the particular function of the vehicle and the vehicle function command includes the security code or authentication information related to the security code.

Computer processes for carrying out almost any process may be defined as a series of steps using a plurality of standardized user-interface screens. These standardized interface screens may be linked together in predetermined orders to implement on a client computer activities for which the standardized screens are appropriate to accomplish a pre-defined process. Any number of computer processes may be developed and deployed using the standard interfaces. The computer process automatically takes a user from screen to screen, prompting the user to review or provide information or take appropriate action. Processes may be represented using metadata. Metadata may provide data to a screen rendering process running on a user's workstation with details on how to render one of a plurality of standard screens in a manner which is specific to a particular process. Metadata may be provided to define the steps of the process for enabling navigational capabilities. Metadata may stored in a database and communicated by a process server to a client computer, which acts as a user's workstation. This client-server system architecture allows maintenance of the computer processes in a central location and remote management of their use within a network. Furthermore, any number of application-specific computer processes may be made available and distributed to users without detailed programs for those processes having to be stored at each user workstation. Furthermore, basic interface functions with legacy databases and back-end systems may be provided to each user workstation in a network through the server system.

System and method for sub-second data replication. The present invention provides the ability to replicate database transactions made on one computer to one or more local or remote computers instantly, utilizing the database management system's transaction log for the replication. The present invention intercepts transactions being sent to a database's transaction log and interprets and copies the transactions to one or more replica servers, as well as to the original existing database transaction log. This enables real-time reporting without taxing the transaction system, real-time backup and immediate disaster recovery, by offloading said activities from the transaction server to a replica server that synchronized with the transaction server in real-time. The system comprises a central server and a set of source and destination agents that can reside all in a local system, or can be remotely connected such as through a TCP / IP networks The central server controls a series of loadable modules to perform specific functions in the system, and an agent that runs on every machine in the system that has a relational database management system running. The agent is either a source agent, gathering data from a source database server, or a destination (or target) agent, applying the data to the destination database, or both a source and destination agent.

A system and method of managing security policies in an information technologies (IT) system are provided. In an example, the method includes receiving an input indicating a high-level security policy for the IT system, the received high-level security policy relating to non-functional system attributes for the IT system and received in a format that is not machine-enforceable at an enforcement entity of the IT system. A functional model for the IT system is determined, where the functional model indicates functional system attributes of the IT system. At least one pre-configured rule template is loaded, and at least one machine-enforceable rule is generated in a manner compliant with the received high-level security policy by iteratively filling the at least one pre-configured rule template with functional system attributes indicated by the functional model. After the generating step, the at least one machine-enforceable rule can be distributed (e.g., to an enforcement entity, an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), etc.). In another example, the receiving, determining, loading, generating and distributing steps can be performed at a policy node within an IT system.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distributing fault indications and maintaining and using a data structure indicating faults to route traffic in a packet switching system. In one embodiment, a packet switching system detects faults and propagates indications of these faults to the input interfaces of a packet switch, so the packet switch can adapt the selection of a route over which to send a particular packet. Faults are identified by various components of the packet switching system and relayed to one or more switching components to generate a broadcast packet destined for all input ports (i.e., to each I / O interface in a packet switch having folded input and output interfaces). Other embodiments, generate one or more multicast or unicast packets. The I / O interface maintains one or more data structures indicating the state of various portions of the packet switching system. In one embodiment, an output availability table is maintained indicating over which path a particular destination may be reached, as well as a link availability vector indicating which output likes of the input interface may be currently used. Using these as masks against possible routes in a fully functional system, the packet switching component (e.g., I / O interface) can identify which routes are currently available for reaching the destination of the received packet. These routes can then be selected between using one of numerous deterministic and non-deterministic methods.

To provide an integrated information communication system without using dedicated lines or the Internet, ensuring communication speed, communication quality, communication trouble countermeasures in a unified manner, wherein security and reliability in communication is ensured. The system is comprised of an access control apparatus for connecting a plurality of computer communication networks or information communication equipment to each, and a relay device for networking the aforementioned access control apparatus, the system having functions for performing routing by transferring information by a unified address system, and is configured such that the aforementioned plurality of computer communication networks or information communication equipment can perform communications in an interactive manner.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a boot progression scheme for reliably initializing a system. A boot progression data structure is maintained to indicate which of multiple boot images should be initially loaded upon startup of the system. During a boot phase, the boot progression data structure (e.g., a stack or other data structure) is modified to indicate a next boot image to use upon a next startup of the system. If the boot image provides a functional system, then the boot progression data structure is updated to once again indicate to boot with this image, and possibly removing references to other boot images. Otherwise, a reset or restart operation is performed to boot using another image. In this manner, a remote system can be upgraded across a network, and should the upgrade not perform correctly, the system reverts to a previous boot image.

The invention provides a remote comprehensive monitoring system for the transformer substation operating environment. The remote comprehensive monitoring system for the transformer substation operating environment comprises a power environment monitoring system (1), a video monitoring system (2), a fire alarm and fire extinguishing system (3), an auxiliary device control system (4), an SF6 monitoring and alarm system (5), a security alarm system (6), a entrance guard control system (7), a linkage configuration system (8) and an extendable-function system (9). All the systems are connected to a comprehensive monitoring platform (14) through an IP communication network. The invention further provides a linkage control method of the remote comprehensive monitoring system. The method comprises the step of linkage of the power environment monitoring system (1), the video monitoring system (2), the fire alarm and fire extinguishing system (3), the auxiliary device control system (4), the security alarm system (6), the entrance guard control system (7) and the alarm system. The remote, real-time, automatic and intelligent comprehensive monitoring system for the transformer substation operating environment and the linkage control method of the remote comprehensive monitoring system are provided, and the labor productivity and the competitiveness are improved.

A versatile personal emergency, especially medical emergency, communication system includes a user-carried portable communication unit having a single button, which when depressed by the user, wirelessly sends a call request signal to a base unit. The base unit initiates a telephone call through a dial-up network to an emergency response center and places an operator at the emergency center in wireless voice communication with the portable unit when the call is connected. The telephone number of the emergency responder to be called is stored in the system. A program is used to set up the system to a selected one of a central monitoring station and a 911 operator. Voice messages are stored in the system and are used to advise the user of the status of the call, and to provide the user with verbal confirmation that functional systems of the base unit are operating properly. The units are programmable selectively by phone, voice or computer.

A micro-optic light emitting array has a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers focused with micro-optics. The present invention also provides a laser printbar assembly having of a plurality of such micro-optic light emitting arrays and a xerographic printing system including the laser printbar imager assembly which emits a plurality of laser light beams, a photoreceptor for receiving emitted light and for holding a toner image, and xerographic developer for exposing areas of the photoreceptor to emitted light from the printbar imager assembly. Also provided is a laser multifunction system having the laser printbar imager assembly of the invention including a plurality of micro-optic light emitting arrays as described above.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for producing high titer preparations of recombinant AAV ("rAAV") virions. The compositions of the present invention include AAV helper function systems and host cells. The present invention also includes methods of using AAV helper function vectors that effect the production of only small amounts of the long forms of Rep protein, and rAAV virions produced by such methods.

Disclosed herein are electrochemical fabrication platforms for making structures, arrays of structures and functional devices having selected nanosized and / or microsized physical dimensions, shapes and spatial orientations. Methods, systems and system components use an electrochemical stamping tool such as solid state polymeric electrolytes for generating patterns of relief and / or recessed features exhibiting excellent reproducibility, pattern fidelity and resolution on surfaces of solid state ionic conductors and in metal. Electrochemical stamping tools are capable high throughput patterning of large substrate areas, are compatible with commercially attractive manufacturing pathways to access a range of functional systems and devices including nano- and micro-electromechanical systems, sensors, energy storage devices, metal masks for printing, interconnects, and integrated electronic circuits.

Disclosed is a computer-implemented system for facilitating generation of a computer-executable financial trading strategy, the system being adapted to provide a graphical user interface for defining a financial trading strategy by arranging interconnectable building blocks into a diagram on a drawing pane provided by the graphical user interface, each building block representing a functional system component of the financial trading strategy; wherein the system includes a plurality of types of functional system components, wherein the drawing pane includes a corresponding plurality of sub-panes, and wherein the system is configured to provide functionality for a user-controlled placement of building blocks into the sub-panes corresponding to the respective types of building blocks.

A self-propelled harvesting machine such as a combine harvester has multiple working units for processing crop picked up from a field, a driver assistance system for the sensor-supported control of the working units, an environmental sensor system for detecting environmental information and spatial areas of applicability located in the environment of the harvesting machine. The driver assistance system has a memory for storing data and a computing unit for processing data, including the data stored in the memory. A functional system model for at least one part of the harvesting machine is stored in the memory. The computing unit functions as a characteristic control on the basis of the system model and autonomously determines machine parameters of at least one working unit and specifies these to the particular working unit.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that logs the use of privileges in a distributed computing environment. The distributed computing environment includes a database system, one or more client applications, and a unified security management layer between the database system and the one or more client applications. During operation, the system receives a request from a client application to execute a business function in the distributed computing environment. The system determines a privilege associated with the requested business function, and logs that the request is associated with the privilege. The system then checks, in the unified security management layer, whether a user associated with the request is associated with a role that has the privilege. If the user is associated with a role that has the privilege, the system performs the requested business function. By checking and logging privilege access in the unified security management layer, the system facilitates tracking privilege use for the database system and the client applications in a single entity, thereby enabling security managers to more easily audit privileged operations in the distributed computing environment.

The invention discloses a digital city management data sharing system based on cloud calculation, which comprises an application system and a safety function module, wherein the application system comprises a city management service module and a city management service expansion module; the application system is used for sending a safety request to the safety function module, and receives a safety processing result fed back by the safety function module at the same time; the application system sends an assistant management request to an auxiliary functional system, and receives an assistant management result fed back by the auxiliary functional system at the same time; the application system further sends a calculation request to a cloud calculation service center, and receives a calculation result fed back by the cloud calculation service center at the same time; and the safety function module is used for monitoring and maintaining safety of an operating system, a database, application software and an application system account, and alarms when discovering a potential safety hazard. By separating service processing and data processing, the digital city management data sharing system based on cloud calculation reduces the problems that the service processing unit is not familiar to system functions, service process and data processing, and is difficult in maintenance.

In a control and management system for automobiles, a central processor in the system connects traditionally unrelated vehicle subsystems together to realize synergistic functions such as smart driving, automatic parking, etc. A master interface having a display is employed in the system to help a user control and manage the vehicle functions.

A communication system for a vehicle includes a server that includes a real time operating system, at least one cabin function application that runs on the real time operating system, and at least one in-flight entertainment application that runs on another operating system on top of the real time operating system. Thus, an in-operation entertainment system is capable of providing audio and / or visual content to a large number of locations in a cabin of the vehicle, and a cabin function system is capable of providing various cabin applications, e.g., lighting level control, attendant calling, air conditioning control, etc. at different locations in the vehicle cabin in a manner that is isolated and prioritized over the entertainment system.

First pad electrodes for connection to leads and second pad electrodes for an internal interface, are provided over a main surface of a first LSI chip. Third pad electrodes of a second LSI chip and the second pad electrodes of the first LSI chip are respectively electrically connected to one another by wires. Circuits required as for a system LSI, which are not included in the first LSI chip, are placed over the second LSI chip, to implement a desired function used as for a system LSI by the two LSI chips. The system LSI is easily implemented by a semiconductor device wherein a plurality of LSI chips are sealed with a resin.

A conditioning composition is used in functional systems (personal care and household care compositions) that has a nonionic hydrophobically modified cellulose ether (HMCE) having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) with a lower limit of 400,000 and an upper limit of 2,000,000 and a hydrophobic substitution lower limit of 0.6 wt % and an upper limit amount which renders said cellulose ether insoluble in a 5 wt % solution of surfactant and less than 0.05% by weight soluble in water and wherein the cellulose ether provides conditioning benefit to the functional system substrate. This composition has at least one active functional system ingredient.

A system includes a physical analysis module, a cyber analysis module, and a determination module. The physical analysis module is configured to obtain physical diagnostic information, and to determine physical analysis information using the physical diagnostic information. The cyber analysis module is configured to obtain cyber security data of the functional system, and to determine cyber analysis information using the cyber security data. The determination module is configured to obtain the physical analysis information and the cyber analysis information, and to determine a state of the functional system using the physical analysis information and the cyber analysis information. The state determined corresponds to at least one of physical condition or cyber security threat. The determination module is also configured to identify if the state corresponds to one or more of a non-malicious condition or a malicious condition.

The present invention provides an electrochemical fabrication platform for making structures, arrays of structures and functional devices having selected nanosized and / or microsized physical dimensions, shapes and spatial orientations. Methods, systems and system components of the present invention use an electrochemical stamping tool for generating patterns of relief and / or recessed features exhibiting excellent reproducibility, pattern fidelity and resolution on surfaces of solid state ionic conductors and in metal. Electrochemical stamping tools of the present invention are capable high throughput patterning of large substrate areas and, thus, enable a robust and commercially attractive manufacturing pathway to a range of functional systems and devices including nano- and micro-electromechanical systems, sensors, energy storage devices and integrated electronic circuits.

A reduced odor composition is composed of a functional system such as household care, personal care or pet care products and at least one cationic polygalactomannan or a derivative of cationic polygalactomannan having a cationic degree of substitution (DS) lower limit of about 0.01 and an upper limit of about 3.0 and weight average molecular weight (Mw) having a lower limit of 200,000 and an upper limit of 2,000,000 a concentration with a lower limit of 0.005 wt % and an upper limit of 10 wt %, and a trimethylamine content of less than 25 ppm, wherein the composition, at an alkaline pH, has no discernible amine odor.

An aqueous based functional system contains a stable fluid polymer suspension (FPS) thickening agent of a polysaccharide, polyethylene glycol (PEG), and hydrated thickening silica. The functional systems may be formulations of personal care excluding oral care, household care, oil field servicing fluids, Civil Engineering servicing fluids, paper coatings, construction fluids, ceramic glazes, foods, firefighting retardants, mineral processing, aqueous based coatings, building materials, construction, pharmaceuticals, medical care, paper making process, and paper coating. The FPS provides to the functional system comparable or better rheology and viscosity properties as compared to when using similar thickening agents in dry, solid form. A method of preparing the aqueous based functional system is also provided by adding a sufficient amount of a stable FPS that is compatible with the functional system to the system to thicken the functional system.

Methods, devices and systems for the planning and execution of computer-assisted robotic surgery are provided. The methods include methods to collect information about bones and prostheses, use the information to create virtual models and simulations, optionally receive input based on user discretion in generating the cut file, and to generate instruction for the execution of cut paths during the surgery. The system and devices include computers and peripherals and set-ups to link the components together into functional systems.

The present subject matter is directed to systems and methods for automating the testing of multi-function systems, such as naming registration systems and the like. A method of testing a registry, and the like, may include providing a command phrase including an add command and at least one function that includes an artificial attribute for a domain added by the add command. The command phrase may specify an operation, a protocol, and an object. The operation may include at least one of add, delete, or update domain. The protocol may include at least one of RRP and EPP. One or more parameters associated with the command phrase may be provided and may include an expected response code and / or a variable. One or more additional parameters that are associated with the command phrase may be determined and a database may be accessed to provide the one or more additional parameters. The command phrase, the one or more additional parameters, and / or the one or more additional parameters may be translated into an XML command and the XML command transmitted to the registry, or the like. A response from the registry may be evaluated to determine potential problems with database.

Transitioning to a suspend to RAM sleeping state while also protecting against power losses while sleeping is provided. System state context data is saved to non-volatile storage and components in the computer system prepare to transition to a suspend to disc sleeping. A transition to the suspend to RAM sleeping state is then effected. Alternatively, after the system context is saved and the components are prepared to transition, the system may wake to a working state. The components may be directed to prepare for transitioning to a suspend to RAM sleeping state, and then the BIOS may be directed to execute the transition. In either embodiment, if power to the system is lost while the system is in the suspend to RAM system state, then the system may resume to a working state by reading the context file stored to non-volatile storage.

The invention provides an intelligent building district management system based on the Internet of things. According to the intelligent building district management system, districts formed in an intelligent building on the basis of factors such as the building structure, the building function, environmental conditions and man-made division serve as units, district dependence is determined on a perception layer of the Internet of things for multi-type function nodes such as a building device management system, information service facilities, security facilities and an environmental monitoring system, system integration is carried out based on the districts to form district integration sub-systems, and data transmission sharing and mutual linkage of various types of building functional systems are achieved within district coverage. On an application layer of the Internet of things, condition monitoring and task command issuing are carried out through an information and control center of the intelligent building with the districts as targets, and the various building functional systems in the districts are redeployed by the district integration sub-systems to conduct collaboration responses according to commands of the information and control center.

The invention belongs to the technical field of multi-axis motion control, and discloses a method for designing an SoC (System on Chip) core system and realizing inter-core task communication, which comprises the following steps of: constructing a dual-core system and completing transplantation of an equipment driver; performing communication based on a shared memory; aiming at different communication tasks, utilizing the shared information to carry out multi-task communication. The system for realizing the design of the SoC core system and the inter-core task communication under the MP architecture comprises: an SoC minimum system used for completing the management and distribution of system shared resources, analyzing a control time sequence, completing the communication between units, and communicating with a platform interface at the same time; and A platform interface which is used for completing servo driving, system monitoring and IO control functions. The multi-axis motion control platform has a complete use function, the real-time performance and synchronous control of the system meet the use requirements of motion control, and the multi-axis motion control platform can beused for robot real-time communication and multi-axis synchronous control.