192 results about "Geographic distribution" patented technology

A wireless communications network includes a reconfigurable array of access points for linking wireless devices in an infrastructure mode. One or more of the access points are mobile. The mobile access points in the network can be repositioned to change the geographic distribution of the bandwidth coverage provided by the wireless network. The mobile access points may be repositioned to redistribute available network bandwidth heterogeneously according to the demand for bandwidth in local areas and to meet quality of service standards.

This method relates to the generation of manipulation requests of an initialization and administration database of a server cluster comprising several nodes interconnected between each other by at least one data transmission network. It comprises steps of generating from a logical distribution of the nodes of the cluster, from a geographical distribution and from a hardware definition of the nodes of the cluster at least one set of profiles of the nodes and of the data transmission network; defining an addressing policy of the nodes of the cluster; allocating from the set of profiles and according to the addressing policy, at least one address to each node of the server cluster and generating a set of parameters of the cluster; and generating from the set of parameters of the cluster and of the addresses of its nodes, at least one file of manipulation requests of the database.

Methods for insurance of online presence (202) and/or data (200) are described. An insurer (302) contracts with an insured entity (304) in an agreement (308) under which a premium (310) is paid for insurance coverage. The premium is calculated (306) using a pure premium method (400) or a loss ratio premium method (402), in a manner that depends on factors such as expected virus scan results (404), expected data recovery time (406), expected geographic spread (408), use of multiple recovery methods (410), and other information regarding the insured entity's business and the technical protection services (206) to be used. In some embodiments, the technical protection services are provided under the agreement by a third party technical services provider (300). Systems, signals, and configured media are also described.

Polling questions and a fixed set of answers are provided in a first form of media with an expected geographic distribution. A standard graphical user interface with a predefined set of user-selectable icons is provided in a second form of media such as a bidirectional wireless communications device such as a cellular phone. The user interface allows a user to respond to polling questions with a simplified entry such as by scrolling to one of the icons and selecting. Response to a polling question may be confirmed and an incentive may be provided such as a cash or service reward or results of the poll.

Methods and systems utilizing the data provided by a non-contrast-enhanced CAC scan that is left unused by the “whole-heart” Agatston or volume scores. Agatston and volume scores summarize overall coronary calcium burden, but do not show the number of vessels involved, the geographic distribution of the lesions, the size and shape of the individual lesions and the distance of the lesions from the coronary ostium. The methods and systems described herein extract and use the enhanced information provided by 3-D CAC scan data and significantly increases its clinical predictive value by providing vessel and lesion specific CAC scores which are superior to the whole-heart Agatston and volume scores in predicting obstructive Coronary artery disease (CAD).

A geographically distributed storage system including a global Peer-To-Peer (P2P) ring and a local P2P ring. The global P2P ring includes all storage nodes and the local P2P ring includes a group of the storage nodes. Each of the group of storage node belongs to the global P2P ring and the local P2P ring and each storage node includes global and local management information. The global management information includes a node table for managing topology information of a network connecting the group, a metadata table for managing locations of stored data objects, and a global routing table for managing routing in the global P2P ring. The local management information includes an object management table for managing stored data objects in the group, a Logical Unit (LU) management table for managing logical units in the group and a local routing table used for managing routing in the local P2P ring.

The present invention is directed to a sensor network that includes a number of sensor units and a base unit. The base station operates in a network discovery mode (in which network topology information is collected) in a data polling mode (in which sensed information is collected from selected sensory units). Each of the sensor units can include a number of features, including an anemometer, a rain gauge, a compass, a GPS receiver, a barometric pressure sensor, an air temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a level, and a radiant temperature sensor.

A centralized travel packaging system retrieves available vendor offered travel products from airline, hotel, car rental companies, etc., as well as associated pricing, time restrictions, use restrictions, class, availability, rules, and description(s). Travelers, agents and distributors search the centralized travel packaging system for possible package matches based on the traveler's criteria. The system compiles packages either in advance or interactively with the requestor using an intelligent matching mechanism retained within the centralized travel packaging system. The matching method uses requestor criteria and additional criteria such as geographic distributions, type of product, time considerations, cost, defined restrictions, expert travel packaging knowledge base, and distribution channel limitations to match vendor offered travel products. Upon selection of a package, the system processes the request for purchase to include cost determination, commission schedules and payment. Packages are reformulated if offered products become unavailable or restrictions or traveler criteria change. Vendors of travel products are able to control available inventory by submitting travel product offerings with restrictions for consideration in the centralized travel packaging system.

A system comprises an advertiser coupled to a network and having a web property to advertise; an advertisement campaign management system coupled to the network, the advertising campaign management system having a geographically distributed set of servers for storing an advertisement for the web property, criteria indicating when presentation of the advertisement is desired by the advertiser, and a bid for the presentation of the advertisement when the criteria are met; and an advertising channel coupled to the network for requesting ad content from the advertisement campaign management system and for receiving the advertisement from the advertisement campaign management system in response to the request for ad content.

A method and a system are described for directing a client to the most optimal, most available Web site or to the most optimal content in a distributed content environment, using an Internet Site Selector, which is an Internet appliance that optimizes the performance of domains hosted on mirrored, geographically distributed Web sites. The system includes various components including the Internet Site Selectors which co-locate with each Web site. The method comprises a number of steps including sending client requests to a primary or main site, redirecting by an Internet Site Selector coupled to the primary or main site the modified client requests to all other participating Internet Site Selectors. Several modes and deployments of the Internet Site Selectors, including geographic site selection, multiple Internet Site Selectors at each Web site, Internet Site Selector grouping, Internet Site Selectors in content routing are described.

The present application is directed to an Autonomous Vehicle Enhancement System (AVES) and method for monitoring and managing a virtual or existing fleet of autonomous vehicles in a transportation network and dispatching the autonomous vehicles to users. The AVES includes an AVES Central Operations Center (COC) that communicates with AVES vehicle equipment installed in the autonomous vehicles and AVES applications installed on computing devices accessible by the users. The AVES improves the operating efficiency of a transportation network by monitoring the condition of autonomous vehicles, optimizing the geographical distribution of the autonomous vehicles and optimizing assignment of the autonomous vehicles to users requesting services. The AVES COC monitors and controls the autonomous vehicles via the AVES vehicle equipment. The AVES COC communicates with the users via the AVES applications to provide services to the users. The AVES vehicle equipment and the AVES applications installed on the computing devices communicate with each other to fulfill user request for services.

The invention segments detector input according to the time and the level of activity in different geographic regions of a locality. In one embodiment of the invention the detector input is comprised of video stream from one or more cameras to identify activity in the video. In one embodiment of the invention the detector input is comprised of sensor outputs such as RFID, pressure plates, etc. Various embodiments of the invention include identifying boundaries based on the level of activity. In embodiments of the invention, the boundaries can be used to select time dimensions. In one embodiment, by recognizing time dimensions with distinctive activity patterns, systems can better present overviews of activity over time.

The invention relates to an access and integration method of an isomerous database for modal multiplexing under the gridding condition. In the method, first, a virtual database for the modal multiplexing is used to describe various database resources and provide an overall uniform view of the isomerous database resource; then, through the resource register way, the resource provider confirms the mapping relation between the database mode of the isomerous database and the database mode of the virtual database, through inquiring about a mapping method, an inquiry request based on the virtual database is converted into an inquiry request based on the real database resource, the service of the virtual database is used to provide a uniform interface for accessing the isomerous database to the resource user; finally, under the gridding condition of including the isomerous database resource, the whole course from the register to the use of the database resource is realized, the integrated course of the isomerous database resource is finished through a gridding application service result, thereby ensuring that the developer of the gridding application service can make use of the service interface of the virtual database to obtain the integrated information from the isomerous database resource. The invention has good practicability, the resource provider can finish most register work automatically only by using a client program; the resource user can obtain the needed isomerous database resource through the uniform interface of the virtual database without needing to concern the geographic distribution, the database mode, the semantic information, etc. of the real database resource.

A system and method are provided for optimizing maintenance of a geographically distributed data processing system. The method comprises selecting a primary territory having associated operating hours, identifying maintenance hours that exclude the operating hours, and selecting a maintenance time within the available maintenance hours. The midpoint of the maintenance hours may be selected as the maintenance time, or activity distribution data may be analyzed to select a maintenance time corresponding to a low activity time.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and device for determining the deployment position of a micro base station, and aims to fast and accurately find a position which is the most suitable for the deployment of the micro base station. The method comprises the following steps of: counting the geographic telephone traffic distribution of a geographic region to be analyzed based on a positioning algorithm; recognizing N telephone traffic hotspots, with relatively more telephone traffic, of the geographic region, wherein N is a natural number; and searching for the position suitable for the deployment of the micro base station around the telephone traffic hotspots, and associating the telephone traffic hotspots with the position. The device comprises a telephone traffic counting module, a telephone traffic hotspot recognition module and a searching and association module.

There is disclosed a system that enables an efficient and flexible way to provide automated rating and underwriting based on a specific set of rules. The system includes a software running on a centralized or distributed computing system and accessing different databases. The software system can be access by insurance carriers and their agents located in one single location or distributed geographically.

Workforce management enables enterprises to obtain best return on investment on workforce. Human capital forms a major investment in software services companies and effective management of these human resources has a greater impact on the overall profitability of such companies. Manual approaches for workforce management may lead to less optimal utilization of resources. A system for skill management of knowledge workers involves (a) obtaining the skills of a resource on joining; and (b) tracking the skill enhancements and additional skills acquired by the resource subsequently. The factors that largely affect the skills of a resource are qualification of the resource, trainings undergone by the resource, and projects executed by the resource. These aspects are represented using a common dictionary describing software development processes and relevant domains. Such a representation and an up-to-date skill information enables a near-optimal allocation of right resources to meet the requirements of new projects. An overall network based skill management system comprising a plurality of interconnected local skill management systems with a central skill manager helps in achieving a near-optimal utilization of resources distributed geographically.

Audiovisual performances, including vocal music, are captured and coordinated with those of other users in ways that create compelling user experiences. In some cases, the vocal performances of individual users are captured (together with performance synchronized video) on mobile devices, television-type display and/or set-top box equipment in the context of karaoke-style presentations of lyrics in correspondence with audible renderings of a backing track. Contributions of multiple vocalists are coordinated and mixed in a manner that selects for visually prominent presentation performance synchronized video of one or more of the contributors. Prominence of particular performance synchronized video may be based, at least in part, on computationally-defined audio features extracted from (or computed over) captured vocal audio. Over the course of a coordinated audiovisual performance timeline, these computationally-defined audio features are selective for performance synchronized video of one or more of the contributing vocalists.

Methods and systems are provided for characterizing market distribution for a business having multiple business representatives. The business is considered to be in competition with one or more competitors, each of which also has multiple representatives. Locations are determined both for the business representatives and for the competitor representatives, and these locations are used to populate one or more databases. A locator identification is assigned to each distinct location and used as a pointer within the databases. The locator identification may be unique to specific street addresses, permitting improved analysis of the market information, particularly analysis derived from the geographical distributions of the business representatives and of the competitor representatives.

A method comprises providing a first set of geographically distributed pods for storing account information on a first set of advertisements associated with web properties associated with a first set of geographically distributed users; enabling the first set of users to update the account information on the first set of pods, each user being associated with at least one advertisement and a particular pod that is not the most distant pod from the user; recognizing that the first set of pods cannot satisfy a user demand threshold; coupling an additional pod for storing additional account information on a second set of advertisements for a second set of users; enabling the second set of users to update the additional account information, the additional pod being not the most distant pod from the second set of users; receiving a content request; and identifying a particular advertisement based on the content request.

A geographical distribution of business representatives is managed by their assignment to geographical units. The assignments are stored on a storage device and a graphical interface permits changes in accordance with management determinations. The graphical interface includes a map on which an area is traced to define a closed geographical area. Any geographical units within the closed geographical area are identified. After the geographical units are identified, their stored characteristics are modified in response to an instruction from a user.

The invention provides an intelligent disaster situation evaluation system. Data collection is performed by satellites through remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicles through aerial photography, ground and underwater robots and fixedly installed detection equipment; a disaster integral evaluation system is built by combining a GIS (Global Information System) technology; historical, natural environment and social economic background data relevant to the disaster is collected and stored; the integral analysis and evaluation are performed on the disaster occurring possibility, geographical distribution, dangerous degree and the like in the region; meanwhile, the disaster situation information in the disaster scene is collected; disaster situation evaluation and disaster relief decision support are provided; and the industrial popularization and application is convenient.