694 results about "Goal system" patented technology

Improved techniques are disclosed for permitting a user to employ more human-based grammar (i.e., free form or conversational input) while addressing a target system via a voice system. For example, a technique for determining intent associated with a spoken utterance of a user comprises the following steps/operations. Decoded speech uttered by the user is obtained. An intent is then extracted from the decoded speech uttered by the user. The intent is extracted in an iterative manner such that a first class is determined after a first iteration and a sub-class of the first class is determined after a second iteration. The first class and the sub-class of the first class are hierarchically indicative of the intent of the user, e.g., a target and data that may be associated with the target. The multi-stage intent extraction approach may have more than two iterations. By way of example only, the user intent extracting step may further determine a sub-class of the sub-class of the first class after a third iteration, such that the first class, the sub-class of the first class, and the sub-class of the sub-class of the first class are hierarchically indicative of the intent of the user.

Methods and apparatus for deep learning-based system design improvement are provided. An example system design engine apparatus includes a deep learning network (DLN) model associated with each component of a target system to be emulated, each DLN model to be trained using known input and known output, wherein the known input and known output simulate input and output of the associated component of the target system, and wherein each DLN model is connected as each associated component to be emulated is connected in the target system to form a digital model of the target system. The example apparatus also includes a model processor to simulate behavior of the target system and/or each component of the target system to be emulated using the digital model to generate a recommendation regarding a configuration of a component of the target system and/or a structure of the component of the target system.

A system and method to support electronic gaming in an electronic network includes an event server that provides restricted access to various types of game services. One or more system users may utilize corresponding wireless portable user devices for connecting to the event server to thereby gain access to the foregoing game services as game participants. The system users may thereby utilize the user devices to access the event server for accessing appropriate gaming services and related information. In addition, a source system user may utilize a source user device to perform a transfer procedure for transferring ownership rights of an electronic certificate related to the electronic gaming to a target system user through a target user device. The foregoing transfer procedure may be conducted through the event server, or may occur directly from the source user device to the target user device.

Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is configured to process a copy of the log and consistency point entries to replicate data in a replication volume, the replicated data being a copy of the application data on the source system. When the replicated data represents a known good state of the application, as determined by the consistency point entries, the destination system(s) may perform a storage operation (e.g., snapshot, backup) to copy the replicated data and to logically associate the copied data with a time information (e.g., time stamp) indicative of the source system time when the application was in the known good state.

The present invention is directed to a system and methods for targeted advertisement and event promotion. The system comprises a web-based application which enables event promoters to create, execute and manage event promotional campaigns using advertisements, targeted promotional messages, target user search tools, session tracking tools, campaign analytical tools, event pricing tools, reporting tools, embedded calendar applications and other tools and services provided by the system. The system combines these tools to enable promoters to communicate with and market events to highly targeted audiences utilizing a wide array of communication tools. Furthermore, each promotional or advertisement campaign enriches and grows promoter's target user list thus continually enlarging the overall group of trusted and targeted system users.

Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is configured to process a copy of the log and consistency point entries to replicate data in a replication volume, the replicated data being a copy of the application data on the source system. When the replicated data represents a known good state of the application, as determined by the consistency point entries, the destination system(s) may perform a storage operation (e.g., snapshot, backup) to copy the replicated data and to logically associate the copied data with a time information (e.g., time stamp) indicative of the source system time when the application was in the known good state.

A time series of optical tomography data is obtained for a target tissue site in a human (or animal), using an optical wavelength, such as near infrared, at which hemoglobin is absorptive, to observe properties of the vasculature of the human. The data may be compared to baseline data of a corresponding tissue site, e.g., from a healthy human, or from another, corresponding tissue site of the human. For example, a suspected cancerous breast of a human may be compared to a known healthy breast to detect differences in the vasculature. Measures may be made of flow, oxygen supply/demand imbalance, and evidence of altered regulation of the peripheral effector mechanism. The function of the target tissue site may be analyzed, along with the coordinated interaction between multiple sites of the target system. A provocation may be administered to identify surrogate markers of an underlying state or process.

Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or otherwise copied data that has been moved from the destination system to secondary storage. Access is further provided to the replication data in a manner that is transparent to the user and/or without substantially impacting the base replication process. In order to distinguish stub files representing migrated replication data from replicated stub files, priority tags or like identifiers can be used. Thus, when accessing a stub file on the destination system, such as to modify replication dath or perform a restore process, the tagged stub files can be used to recall archived data prior to performing the requested operation so that an accurate copy of the source data is generated.

System and method for creating an application system installer. A root deployable for an application system is received, and programmatically analyzed to determine a root deployer. The root deployer is programmatically analyzed to determine zero or more deployables, and one or more files-to-install. For each respective deployable, a respective deployer is programmatically determined that analyzes the respective deployable to determine any further deployables and files-to-install. This process is repeated for each of the further deployables until all deployables for the respective deployable have been determined and analyzed, and all files-to-install have been determined. The application system installer is then generated using the determined files-to-install, where the installer is operable to programmatically deploy the application system onto a target system to perform the function. Determining zero or more deployables may also include determining one or more supporting sub-installers, where the installer is then generated using the determined files-to-install and supporting sub-installers.

Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or otherwise copied data that has been moved from the destination system to secondary storage. Access is further provided to the replication data in a manner that is transparent to the user and/or without substantially impacting the base replication process. In order to distinguish stub files representing migrated replication data from replicated stub files, priority tags or like identifiers can be used. Thus, when accessing a stub file on the destination system, such as to modify replication data or perform a restore process, the tagged stub files can be used to recall archived data prior to performing the requested operation so that an accurate copy of the source data is generated.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing companion services to customer premises equipment (CPE) using an IP-based service infrastructure. The infrastructure allows IP-enabled devices such as tablet PCs, smart phones, PDAs, and laptop computers to provide supplementary services to target systems and devices located at customer premises. Target systems and devices (CPE) may be TVs, PCs, set-top boxes, digital video recorders, or other electronics. An embodiment is disclosed which allows a mobile device to provide companion services to a television through a link with a set-top box in a cable TV network using the Internet.

The present invention provides for systems and methods that recognize source and target devices and automatically identify, transfer, and convert user profiles, user settings, data, applications, and other information from the source device with its source operating system to the target device with its target operating system. The system surveys both the source device and the target device to ensure that each device has the appropriate resources and configuration to support the migration. Objects to be migrated are then identified, transferred to the target system and converted as necessary to create a similar environment on the target device as the previous environment on the source device. The post transfer integrity of the target device is then analyzed to ensure that the target system continues to work for its intended purpose and to further ensure that the migrated environment is also operational on the target device.

Systems and methods for systems migration are provided. A migration engine to perform system migration operations is provided. One or more processors may be configured to execute instructions to perform one or more of the following. Information indicative of one or more migration candidates corresponding to one or more system components in a source system may be collected. A migration strategy may be determined at least partially based on the information indicative of one or more migration candidates. The one or more migration candidates may be mapped to one or more system components of a target system. One or more scripts configured to copy system data and/or application data corresponding to the one or more system components in the source system for migration to the target system may be generated. One or more storage media coupled to the one or more processors may retain the instructions.

Disclosed is a method for controlling activation/deactivation of two kinds of operation modes of an MMMB mobile terminal during handover between different types of systems. To control the activation/deactivation, a system controller instructs the mobile terminal to activate/deactivate the operation modes or provides activation/deactivation conditions to the mobile terminal. In particular, when the mobile terminal in communication is situated in a border cell neighboring a target system, the mobile terminal activates target system-related modules and then performs handover into the target system according to predetermined conditions after the passage of a predetermined time period. Such a handover method minimizes time required for performing handover, prevents deterioration of call quality during the handover, and saves power consumption of the mobile terminal.

System and method for installing software using component dependency analysis. A list indicating an initial set of sub-installers is received, each sub-installer including respective software components and installation software for deploying the components onto a target system. The initial set of sub-installers includes one or more user-files sub-installers and one or more supporting sub-installers. The initial set of sub-installers is programmatically analyzed (e.g., re dependencies) to determine additional sub-installers. An application system dependency file is generated based on the analysis, and an application system installer generated based on the sub-installers and the application system dependency file. The installer is executed to programmatically deploy the application system onto the target system, where executing includes programmatically analyzing the target system, application system dependency file, and user-specified deployment options (entered via a user-interface) to determine an installation set of sub-installers, each of which is executed to deploy respective components onto the target system.

An autonomous weapon system including weapon (9) and weapon mounting system (7, 8) operable to point the weapon (9) in accordance with input control signals. The weapon system includes a sensor (2) to acquire images and other data from a target zone and an image processor (3) to process acquired image data and identify potential targets (1) according to predetermined target identification criteria. Targeting system (4, 5) provides input control signals to the weapon mounting system (7, 8) to point the weapon (9) for firing at potential targets (1). A control system operates targeting system (4, 5) and fires the weapon (9) at selected targets (1) according to a predetermined of rules of engagement. The rules of engagement include combat, peacekeeping or policing scenarios. Remotely located operator (10) may amend the rules of engagement, or override the control system as required.

A source computer system with one instruction set architecture (ISA) is configured to run on a target hardware system that has its own ISA, which may be the same as the source ISA. In cases where the source instructions cannot be executed directly on the target system, the invention provides binary translation system. During execution from binary translation, however, both synchronous and asynchronous exceptions may arise. Synchronous exceptions may be either transparent (requiring processing action wholly within the target computer system) or non-transparent (requiring processing that alters a visible state of the source system). Asynchronous exceptions may also be either transparent or non-transparent, in which case an action that alters a visible state of the computer system needs to be applied. The invention includes subsystems, and related methods of operation, for detecting the occurrence of all of these types of exceptions, to handle them, and to do so with precise reentry into the interrupted instruction stream; by “precise” is meant that the atomic execution of the source instructions is guaranteed, and that the application of actions, including those that originate from asynchronous exceptions, occurs at the latest at the completion of the current source instruction at the time of the request for the action. The binary translation and exception-handling subsystems are preferably included as components of a virtual machine monitor which is installed between the target hardware system and the source system, which is preferably a virtual machine.

A system and method is shown for enabling a plurality of computers and associated computer resources, some or all of which may be of heterogeneous configuration, to cooperatively process various applications such that the execution is transparent to the user regardless of where the application is actually executing. This distributed applications architecture performs an information distribution service between multiple transaction processing systems by working with a transaction processor via communication channels to other hosts within the network and a dialog manager which uses a transaction processor interface to communicate with the transaction processor. The architecture employs a map service which provides an editor to create the maps for the application panels, a compiler to generate the maps into a linkable form, and a linkable interpreter which translates the linkable form into the screen presentation format for that platform. To distribute an application, the source code for the procedures, view and panels are moved as a block to the new system. This is possible because once the application source code is complete, all application logic, user interface control tables, view definitions, and other application-specific tables for one transaction definition are packaged by the present invention in a single load module on the system where the application will reside. The load module is then compiled using the target system's compiler, link editor, and bind process. Thus, all environment-dependent variations of import/export are automatically integrated with the application at load module bind time, requiring no source code changes.

A personal nutrition system is disclosed. The system uses data collected during the purchase of food items at a grocery store or over the Internet. The system tracks the dietary purchase history of a consumer and determines rates of consumption for a variety of different nutrients. Based upon these rates of consumption and goals provided by the consumer, the system suggests changes to the diet both in terms of rates of consumption and alternative food items. Data collected by the system is optionally provided to a third party which use the data to provide highly targeted marketing and consumer incentives.

Stubbing systems and methods are provided for intelligent data management in a replication environment, such as by reducing the space occupied by replication data on a destination system. In certain examples, stub files or like objects replace migrated, de-duplicated or otherwise copied data that has been moved from the destination system to secondary storage. Access is further provided to the replication data in a manner that is transparent to the user and/or without substantially impacting the base replication process. In order to distinguish stub files representing migrated replication data from replicated stub files, priority tags or like identifiers can be used. Thus, when accessing a stub file on the destination system, such as to modify replication data or perform a restore process, the tagged stub files can be used to recall archived data prior to performing the requested operation so that an accurate copy of the source data is generated.

Computer security threat management information is generated by receiving a notification of a security threat and/or a notification of a test that detects intrusion of a computer security threat. A computer-actionable TMV is generated from the notification that was received. The TMV includes a computer-readable field that provides identification of at least one system type that is effected by the computer security threat, a computer-readable field that provides identification of a release level for a system type, and a computer-readable field that provides identification of the test that detects intrusion of the computer security threat for a system type and a release level, a computer-readable field that provides identification of a method to reverse the intrusion exploit of the computer security threat for a system type and a release level, and a computer-readable field that provides identification of a method to remediate the vulnerability subject to exploit of the computer security threat for a system type and a release level. The TMV is transmitted to target systems for processing by the target systems.

Methods and apparatus to transform attribute data about assets in a source system data model into attribute data about the same assets in a target system data model. The first step is to extract the necessary attribute data from attribute data collected about inventory assets of a business entity needed to populate the attributes in objects representing those inventory assets in a target system data model. Transformation rules are written which are designed to make all conversions necessary in semantics, units of measure, etc. to transform the source system attribute data into attribute data for the target system which has the proper data format. These transformation rules are executed on a computer on the extracted attribute data and the transformed attribute data is stored in an ER model. In the preferred embodiment, the transformation rules are object-oriented in that transformation rules for subtypes can be inherited from their parent types or classes. An export adapter which is capable of invoking the application programmatic interface of the target system CMDB is then used to export the transformed attribute data stored in the ER model to the target system CMDB. A heuristic method to create self-consistent data blocks without exceeding a maximum size limit involves loading instances of entity types and all related instances in the order of decreasing connectivity metric.

A system and method are provided for coordinating concurrent processing of a plurality of messages communicated over a network between a source system and a target system. The plurality of messages are configured for including a pair of related messages having a common first unique message identifier and at least one unrelated message having a second unique message identifier different from the first unique identifier. The system and method comprise an input queue for storing the plurality of messages when received and an output message queue for storing the plurality of messages during message processing. The output message queue includes a plurality of execution streams for facilitating concurrent processing of the at least one unrelated message with at least one of the pair of related messages. The system and method also include a sequencer module coupled to the output message queue for determining using the first and second unique identifiers which of the plurality of messages are the pair of related messages and which of the plurality of messages are the at least one unrelated message. The sequencer module is further configured for identifying a sequence order for the pair of related messages according to a respective sequence indicator associated with each of the related messages, such that the sequence indicators are configured for use in assigning a first position in the sequence order for a first message of the pair of related messages and for use in assigning a second position in the sequence order for a second message of the pair of related messages. The system and method also have a registry coupled to the sequencer module and configured for storing a pending message status indicator for the first message in the output message queue, wherein the sequencer module inhibits the progression of processing through the output message queue for the second message until the pending message status for the first message is removed from the registry while facilitating concurrent processing of the at least one unrelated message though the output message queue.

The present invention is a wireless communication system and method. In an exemplary embodiment, the wireless communication system includes a destination system and a source network. The source network provides network services to the destination system. Further, a plurality of mobile nodes are communicatively coupled with each other for allowing data packets to be transferred between the source network and the destination system. In addition, at least one firewall is communicatively coupled with the destination system and at least one of the mobile nodes included within the plurality of mobile nodes for monitoring data packet exchange between the source network and the destination system. The at least one firewall utilizes at least location as a controlling parameter for regulating data packet exchange as the at least one mobile end node moves into areas associated with varying degrees of threat.

A method of and system for directing targeted advertising or transmitting information to end users, using wireless or mobile media, including cellular media, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and system interconnects (a) advertisers or sponsors, (b) wireless device users (“system users”), and (c) wireless telecommunications companies (“telecoms”), via (d) an intermediary or “hub entity.” The hub entity maintains and controls computer operated software and data bases to direct specific advertising or information to targeted system users; collects subscription fees and distributes advertising fees; and determines the effectiveness of various advertising or information transmitted to specific system users. The method can further be customized for application as an information provider, alert notice or security warning system. In other embodiments the method and system may be applied to work with the membership of an organization, such as credit card companies' cardholders, an insurance companies' policy holders, employees, tenants, or other local, national, or world-wide groups or organizations.

Migration management is provided for a shared memory logical partition migrating from a source system to a target system. The management approach includes managing migration of the logical partition from the source system to the target system by: transferring a portion of logical partition state information for the migrating logical partition from the source system to the target system by copying at the source system contents of a logical page of the migrating logical partition into a state record buffer for forwarding to the target system; forwarding the state record buffer to the target system; and determining whether the migrating logical partition is suspended at the source system, and if not, copying at the target system contents of the state record buffer to paging storage of the target system, the paging storage being external to physical memory managed by a hypervisor of the target system.

A data archiving system according to the invention performs offline backup of data stored at a target system connected to a network. To minimize downtime of the target system, the data is archived at a low level of abstraction, e.g., at the block level, rather than at the file system level. The offline backup is accomplished by closing open files and application, and rebooting the target system with an archiving operating system that manages the data backup process. After the target data has been archived, the target system is rebooted with the normal operating system.

A control system and method generate joint variables for motion or posing of a target system in response to observations of a source system. Constraints and balance control may be provided for more accurate representation of the motion or posing as replicated by the target system.

Methods and systems for remotely monitoring and tuning the performance of one or more target systems are provided. According to one embodiment, a separate tuning server receives data, such as profiling data, that has been collected regarding a target system. Then, if based on the data it is determined that performance attributes of the target system can be improved, the performance of the target system is dynamically tuned. Depending upon the circumstances, the target system may be caused to replace an application component of a program being executed by the target system with a new application component, which may be contained within an image chosen from a set of pre-built images or built and compiled by the tuning server specifically for the target system. In some cases, the dynamic tuning of the performance of the target system may involve making a change to a configuration file on the target system.

An assurance system for creating and evaluating a virtual application environment that emulates and evaluates a target system. Information such as network configuration, interface information, and software packages or subsystems are imported into the virtual application environment. The assurance system may be used for purposes of testing, and delivering comprehensive reports of the likely results on the target system based on results from the virtual application environment, including such things as configuration changes to the environment, environment load and stress conditions, environment security, software installation to the environment, and environment performance levels among other things.