383 results about "Housekeeping" patented technology

A re-programmable non-volatile memory system, such as a flash EEPROM system, having its memory cells grouped into blocks of cells that are simultaneously erasable is operated to perform memory system housekeeping operations in the foreground during execution of a host command, wherein the housekeeping operations are unrelated to execution of the host command. Both one or more such housekeeping operations and execution of the host command are performed within a time budget established for executing that particular command. One such command is to write data being received to the memory. One such housekeeping operation is to level out the wear of the individual blocks that accumulates through repetitive erasing and re-programming.

An automated system and method are provided for interacting with hotel information and hotel services using client terminal devices. The client terminal devices may be located in hotel guest rooms, at the front desk, or in public areas throughout the hotel. The user may be automatically authenticated or the user may be prompted to enter authentication information. Upon authentication, the user is provided with a plurality of icons for obtaining information regarding accounting services, scheduling a banquet, concierge services, engineering services, front desk services, general manager services, housekeeping services, meeting room services, restaurant services, room service, security services, wake-up call services, outside call services, dial a guest services, guest services, or other services.

The invention discloses a method suitable for categorizing and recommending e-commerce commodities and information. A product attribute is taken as a categorization form of the existing e-commerce website. According to the method for application, the commodities and information message are categorized through a crowd attribute or personal characteristic information. The method comprises a crowd category list, a crowd category tag, a recommendation commodity and recommendation information list corresponding to the crowd category tag, a replacement button by which a user can perform other selections, and a commodity replacement list. The invention also discloses a system suitable for categorizing and recommending e-commerce commodities and information, the above method is realized through a recommendation categorization server of the system, and the system comprises management modules and management units for managing the above functions. The categorization and recommendation method based on the crowd attribute and the personal characteristic information comprising sex, age, occupation, hobbies and interests and the like can be used for providing the user with more individual housekeeping services, and can be used for providing e-commerce enterprises with marketing which is much more accurate.

Disposable mini-applications are executable software items whose activation, deactivation and deletion in a mobile terminal are defined by trigger parameters and rules. Trigger parameters may include, but are not intended to be limited to, location, time, stored user data and the like. Rules are one or more trigger parameters needed to effect one of the foregoing actions. In one embodiment, a housekeeping means monitors for data that corresponds to the parameters and satisfies the rules, and performs a variety of housekeeping functions relating to the disposable mini-applications. The deletion of the disposable mini-application clears memory space associated with storing and executing the disposable mini-application, and thus, makes that space available for other purposes.

Highly asymmetrical nature of digital video allows a single Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) like device to support the transmission over a thousand individual high-quality IP packetized video data channels terminating into low cost cable modem units. A Video Modem Terminating System (VMTS) unit handles housekeeping information. As the amount of upstream housekeeping data are small, even for 1000 simultaneous TV channels, the data can be inserted into the digital video cell streams and packaged within IP packet envelopes. The VMTS unit is equally effective for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Microsoft Media 9 and other digital encoding of video and audio signals.

The data rate at which DMA transactions are processed by a General Purpose Computer System can be significantly improved by directing housekeeping type transactions directly to the CPU bus and by directing data type transactions directly to Shared Memory. By assigning memory address ranges to particular I/O devices and by programming PCI Interface Logic on a System Controller to detect these ranges and to direct DMA requests directly to either the CPU bus or to the Memory Controller depending upon the address range detected, the speed with which DMA transactions can be processed is enhanced.

A backup and recovery maintenance process useful, for example, in enterprise network systems having diverse application and data storage formats is disclosed. The process implements batch backup and recovery routines, in which critical backup files are generated and stored in accordance with standardized naming conventions. The process continuously monitors scheduled backup routines that each may be automatically performed at various intervals across the network, including traditional end-of-day backups, and further conducts integrity checks and housekeeping of stored backup files and transaction logs.

The inventive system includes a content server that communicates with access programs on a plurality of client computers. The access programs monitor the URIs input into the web browser program on each computer. When a URI is detected, or when certain housekeeping tasks must be performed, the access program transmits a request for content referencing that URI, or that housekeeping task, to the server. The server searches a data store such as a database and returns relevant data to the access program, which data is displayed on the client computer. In addition to viewing existing content, the user can submit new content, which content becomes part of the data saved in the database. When the user switches to a new website or webpage the process is repeated and data related to the new website or web page's URI is displayed.

A digital data system comprises a plurality of links for passing messages between nodes, which may be end points such as memory or processing units, or intermediate or branch points such as routers or other devices in the system. A link level flow control is implemented by control symbols passed between adjacent nodes on a link to efficiently regulate message burden on the link. The control symbols may be embedded within in a message packet to quickly effect control on a link—such as reducing data flow, requesting retransmission of corrupted data, or other intervention—without disruption of the ongoing packet reception. A control symbol may be recognized within the packet by a flag bit, a marker such as a transition in a signal, or a combination of characteristics. The control symbol may be a short word, having a control action identifier code at defined bit positions to indicate the desired link-level control function. A node receiving the control symbol implements the designated control action while maintaining packet order data (such a bit positions and byte counts), and applying message housekeeping processing (such as error checking) as though the control symbol were absent. The control symbol is thus embedded in a manner such that a receiving node need not receive a complete message, or even a complete packet, before acting on the control symbol. The beginning and end of the interrupted packet, meanwhile, are handled as a single message packet, and are processed by the receiving node in properly-aligned bit positions, allowing message flow to continue along the link without interruption. Thus, retransmission of the affected packet or message is not required. The result is that control operations dictated by the embedded control symbol are effected immediately and without slowing down communications.

A solid state drive that uses over-provisioning of NAND flash memory blocks as part of housekeeping functionality, including deduplication and coalescence of data for efficient usage of NAND flash memory devices and maintaining sufficient numbers of erased blocks to promote write performance.

The invention discloses a digital home platform, which includes an application function module, a platform management module, a database module, one or more external interface modules, one or more service interface machine modules, and the platform management module communicates with the user terminal module through the communication module Connected, the platform management module is connected with the business interface module, the business interface module at least includes a video housekeeping interface module and a smart home interface module, and the external interface module is connected with the external management platform module. The invention provides a digital home platform, which adopts modular design, centralizes data storage, and conducts information interaction through standard interfaces, effectively solving the phenomenon of "information isolated islands". Access, business management and business separation, when introducing new services, only need to connect to the new service engine, it has the advantages of easy expansion, low cost, good business linkage, high safety factor, and simple operation.

The present invention concerns a method for the quantification of a target nucleic acid in a sample comprising the following steps: (i) determination of the amplification efficiency of the target nucleic acid under defined amplification conditions, (ii) amplification of the target nucleic acid contained in the sample under the same defined reaction conditions, (iii) measuring the amplification in real-time, (iv) quantification of the original amount of target nucleic acid in the sample by correction of the original amount derived from step (iii) with the aid of the determined amplification efficiency. The efficiency correction of PCR reactions according to the invention for the quantification of nucleic acids can be used for absolute quantification with the aid of an external or internal standard as well as for relative quantification compared to the expression of housekeeping genes.

The invention provides an employee empowerment method based on a housekeeping service. According to the method, at least one set of monitoring equipment, at least one family host machine, at least one commercial tenant terminal and a cloud server are supplied, wherein the monitoring equipment comprises a fingerprint switch, monitoring equipment and door lock equipment; before a housekeeping worker comes to a family, a housekeeping company sends a worker fingerprint and facial image information which are pre-stored or acquired by the commercial tenant terminal and detail information of the worker to the cloud server through the commercial tenant terminal, then sends to the family host machine and finally transmits to the monitoring equipment; the fingerprint switch acquires the worker fingerprint information; the monitoring equipment acquires the facial image information of the worker; an image identification engine of the monitoring equipment compares whether the facial image information and the fingerprint information of the worker are the same as those acquired by the commercial tenant terminal; and the door lock equipment unlocks a door or informs a user of unlocking the door through mobile equipment if the facial image information and the fingerprint information of the worker are the same as those acquired by the commercial tenant terminal. According to the method, a phenomenon that the user only can make a traveling plan according to the arrangement of the housekeeping company is avoided; and the housekeeping worker can enter the family and performs the housekeeping service through a subscription empowerment mode.

A system for testing software may include a driver, dispatcher and one or more executors. One or group of test cases may be provided to the testing system. Each test case includes one or more actions and may be in the form of an XML document. Each action may be dependent on or independent of previous or following actions. In preparation for executing the test case one or more times, system initialization is performed. One or more iterations of the test case may be executed and housekeeping tasks may be performed in preparation for executing the next test case. Executing an iteration of a test case includes initialization in preparation for executing the iteration, performing the actions that test the software and validating the results (including comparing the actual result with an expected result and making entries to a log) and performing local cleanup (i.e., cleanup relevant to the iteration).

The present invention relates to a household appliance for performing a housekeeping task. The household appliance comprises a data input device (16) adapted to remotely sense a property in a sensing area (18), and a controller (22) coupled to the data input device and adapted to control an operation of the household appliance in accordance with the sensed property.

A bank of processing units is connected to a number of LANs via a bank of MAC controllers. An interconnect switch allows any of the processing units to access any of the MAC controllers. A housekeeping processor periodically detects faults in the connectivity of the processing units to the LANs. When a fault is detected, a redundant processing unit is assigned to be connected to the LAN. If a fault still exists, then a redundant MAC controller is assigned to the redundant processing unit. The MAC address of the previous MAC controller is reassigned to the redundant MAC controller.

The invention relates to a satellite signal simulation technology and a virtual instrument technology, and discloses a housekeeping software simulation test system based on technology of a virtual instrument. The housekeeping software simulation test system comprises an industrial personal computer, an analog/digital signal input and output card, a serial port card, a CAN (Controller Area Network) bus card, and an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) high-speed transmission card, wherein the industrial personal computer is connected with the cards, and the cards are connected with a housekeeping computer. The simulation test system functionally comprises a satellite separation module, a direct remote control module, an analog quantity telemetering module, a remote control digital input module, a telemetering reception and analysis module, a programmable command receiving module, a GPS (Global Position System) second signal module, a time reference module, a CAN data simulation module, a data transmission module and a serial port communication module. The housekeeping software simulation test system is formed by frame type hardware, and is programmed by the flexible software modules. Compared with the prior art, the housekeeping software simulation test system has the beneficial effects of being simple in structure, convenient to operate, short in development period, being widely suitable for various types of housekeeping software, and meeting flexibly-changed dynamic tests and nonstandard signal tests.