307 results about "Indicator value" patented technology

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes collecting cache-efficiency-indicator values of an at least one cache fragment during operation of a database system over a period of time. Providing approximation-function-parameter values for the collected, cache-efficiency-indicator values, an approximation function representing a relation between a cache-efficiency-indicator and the size of a respective cache fragment. The method continues by providing a set of workload windows based on the approximation-function-parameter values. Next, providing a workload-window information for the set of workload windows, the workload-window information including at least one approximation-function-parameter value representing each determined workload window. The method further includes storing the workload-window information for a comparison based on current, cache-efficiency-indicator values and the workload-window information.

A model of battery reserve life that a function of a SOH indicator is adaptively modified responsive to intermittent capacity tests of a battery, e.g., based on reserve life estimates generated responsive to the capacity tests. The SOH indicator for the battery is monitored to generate SOH indicator values, and estimates of reserve life are generated from the generated SOH indicator values according to the adaptively modified model of reserve life. For example, a capacity test may be performed responsive to detection of a change in reserve life as estimated by the model of reserve life, and the model of reserve life may be modified responsive to the capacity test. The battery reserve life model may, for example, express reserve life as a function of a float voltage, a float current, a temperature, a charge/discharge cycling, an impedance, a conductance, a resistance, and/or a coup de fouet parameter. The invention may be embodied as methods, apparatus and computer program products.

A method for detecting and predicting refrigerant level includes the steps of determining an estimated value for a parameter indicative of refrigerant level and comparing that estimated value to an actual value. The difference between the actual and estimated value provides a refrigerant charge indicator value. The charge indicator value is indicative of the amount of refrigerant contained within the system. A change value is combined with the charge indicator value to provide a prediction for the future value of the charge indicator value. This future value is determined based on a rate of change and charge indicator value over a selected period of time.

A method and system for wellness monitoring using one or more wellness indicator inputs and values is provided. One or more wellness indicator monitoring devices may be provided for measuring wellness indicator input. The wellness indicator monitoring devices may have one or more sensors and a microcontroller in communication with the one or more sensors. One or more servers may communicate with the one or more wellness indicator monitoring devices over a network. A processor may be configured to manipulate the wellness indicator input, and one or more output device may create a desired output based on the wellness indicator values.

The invention relates to a method for detection of respiration of a patient comprising the following steps: emitting an electromagnetic signal towards the patient; receiving a reflected electromagnetic signal reflected from the patient; converting the reflected electromagnetic signal, yielding a first signal; phase-shifting the reflected electromagnetic signal and converting the phase-shifted reflected electromagnetic signal, yielding a second signal; determining a first vector being defined by the time derivatives of the first signal and the second signal, for a common first point in time; determining a second and vector being defined by the time derivatives of the first signal and the second signal, for a common second point in time; and calculating the scalar product of the normalized first vector and the normalized second vector as an indicator value for a change from expiration to inspiration of the patient or vice versa. A change from expiration to inspiration of the patient or vice versa is preferably indicated if the indicator value is below a threshold value, preferably below a value of 0. In this way, a possibility for contactless remote respiration monitoring of a patient based on the Doppler radar principle is provided which is reliable and easy to handle.

A system and method for displaying layered data, such as data with a hierarchical relationship is provided. A flat tree view control is provided that indicates the level corresponding to individual data items without indenting data items. Colors or grayscale shading is applied to each data item to indicate the item's level within the hierarchy. Items within the same level use the same color or shading. When an item is selected by the user it is expanded or collapsed depending on whether the layers below the selected item already appear on the display screen. Additional level indicator values and level indicator bars can be used to further indicate the level of data items. A data item can also be highlighted to indicate a particular attribute corresponding with an individual data item.

Methods and apparatus for modifying a user interface as a function of the detected emotional state of a system user are described. In one embodiment, stress analysis is performed on received speech to generate an emotional state indicator value, e.g., a stress level indicator value. The stress level indicator value is compared to one or more thresholds. If a first threshold is exceeded the user interface is modified, e.g., the presentation rate of speech is slowed. If a second threshold is not exceeded, another modification to the user interface is made, e.g., the speech presentation rate is accelerated. If the stress level indicator value is between first and second thresholds, user interface operation continues unchanged. The user interface modification techniques of the present invention may be used in combination with known knowledge or expertise based user interface adaptation features.

Methods and systems for monitoring a heart failure or transplant rejection status of a patient including use of a device or system to collect intramyocardial electrogram (IMEG) signals from the patient at different times automatically when a detected activity level of the patient is below a preset threshold level for a predetermined amount of time, and use of a device or system to generate a status indicator value proportional to a combination of parameters extracted from at least a portion of the collected IMEG signals. Methods and systems can also include measuring time delay values between IMEG signals collected from different locations in the patient. The IMEG signals can be collected from the right ventricular septum and the right ventricular apex of the patient or from the right and left ventricular myocardium of the patient.

Techniques to protect from open enhanced federation user enumeration are described. An apparatus may include a network interface operative to establish connections. The access edge server may further include an open enhanced federation (OEF) module communicatively coupled to the network interface. The OEF module may be operative to manage connections between multiple federated networks. In one embodiment, for example, the OEF module may comprise a peer authentication module operative to determine whether a peer making the request is an untrusted peer domain. The OEF module may further comprise a peer tracking module operative to retrieve a total request number and a total limit number associated with the untrusted peer, and compare the total request number with the total limit number to form a threat status indicator value. The OEF module may also comprise a peer authorization module operative to authorize the request based on the threat status indicator value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Method and apparatus for a base station engaging in transmissions via at least a media access layer with a user entity is disclosed. The base station transmits data to the user entity over a high speed scheduling channel and a high speed packet data scheduling channel. The base station has a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entities cooperating with a scheduler for transmitting frames from at least the base station to the user entity for a given HARQ process. Each HARQ entity receives either a not acknowledge signal or an acknowledge signal or detects a discontinuous transmission for a given HARQ process. The base station transmits a next data indicator to the user entity. The user entity has at least one buffer associated with a given HARQ process. The buffer stores and performs incremental combining of received data relating to data from the base station. The buffer is capable of being flushed.

A method for a base station is disclosed. The method begins by awaiting a scheduling instruction and scheduling of download data. If the outcome from previous media access transmission or transmissions is detected as a discontinuous transmission the next data indicator is set to the value previously used. Otherwise the next data indicator value is toggled. Data for the given HARQ process is transmitted.

Techniques and systems for channel prediction in wireless networks. A base station receives a succession of channel indicators from each of a plurality of mobile units, each channel indicator being received from each mobile unit once per timeslot. A channel predictor uses the channel indicators to generate a channel condition prediction for each mobile unit, the channel condition prediction being based on a balanced estimate using the most recent channel condition indicator and the mean of the succession of channel indicators. A weight is computed based on a gradient of the succession channel indicator values and used to assign relative emphasis to the most recent channel condition indicator and the mean channel condition indicator in order to give greater emphasis to the most recent indicator during slowly changing conditions and greater emphasis to the mean indicator during rapidly changing conditions.

The invention relates to a water body experiment apparatus and a water body experiment method. The apparatus comprises a sediment release unit, a culture unit, a control unit, a water body controlling system, and a water quality monitoring system. The sediment release unit, the culture unit, and the control unit are sequentially arranged adjacently. Each two adjacent units are connected with a baffle, such that an experiment box body with the three units communicating with each other is formed. The water body controlling system is used for regulating physical and chemical indicators of water body in the experiment apparatus. The water quality monitoring system is used for detecting the physical and chemical indicator values of water body, sediment, plankton and/or submerged aquatic plants in the experiment apparatus. According to the invention, sediment sampling, sediment pollutant releasing, and algae and submerged plant growing are effectively combined. With the apparatus, sediment release effect of different water environments can be simulated, and influences of different ecological projects (environmental-protection dredging projects and submerged aquatic plant restoration projects) upon water body eutrophication and water body pollution can be quantitatively studied.

Methods and apparatus are provided for configuring the granularity of key performance indicators that are available from a monitored component. A granularity of a key performance indicator provided by a monitored component can be configured by creating a plurality of instances of a statistics collector object, wherein each instance of the statistics collector object collects information for a different context of the key performance indicator; updating an indicator value for a corresponding instance of the statistics collector object when an activity occurs for the context of the key performance indicator; and providing the indicator value for a given context of the key performance indicator to a monitoring object. The configurable granularity can be specified by the product, for example, using an application programming interface.

A base station selects a maximum rate option indicator value for an uplink communications segment, e.g., uplink traffic channel segment, and transmits the selected indicator value, e.g., as part of the assignment message. The maximum rate option indicator value indicates to the wireless terminal a maximum allowed data rate option that the wireless terminal is permitted to use for the corresponding assigned uplink communications segment, the wireless terminal determining the actual uplink rate option used. Each uplink data rate option corresponds to: a number of information bits to be communicated in an uplink communication segment, a coding rate, and a modulation method. Some embodiments include multiple types of maximum uplink rate option indicators, e.g., a first type using a single bit and a second type using at least three bits. Different modulation methods are, in some embodiments, used for communicating the different types of maximum uplink rate option indicators.

The invention relates to a method of optimizing an alignment strategy for processing batches of substrates in a lithographic projection apparatus. First, all substrates in a plurality of batches of substrates in the lithographic projection apparatus are sequentially aligned and exposed using a predefined alignment strategy. Then, alignment data is determined for each substrate in the plurality of batches of substrates. Next, at least one substrate in each batch of substrates is selected to render a set of selected substrates including at least one substrate in each batch. In a metrology tool, overlay data for each of the selected substrates is determined. Then, overlay indicator values for a predefined overlay indicator are calculated for the predefined alignment strategy and for other possible alignment strategies. In this calculation, the alignment data and the overlay data of the selected substrates is used. Finally, an optimal alignment strategy is determined, the strategy being defined as alignment strategy among the predefined alignment strategy and the other possible alignment strategies with a lowest overlay indicator value.

In a method to support the diagnosis and/or therapy of a pathological change of a blood vessel of a patient, in particular in the context of coronary heart disease at a first point in time of a pixel-based or voxel-based first image is acquired with the blood vessel of interest by an imaging method, a determination is made from the first image of a quantity of existing non-calcified plaque and a quantity of existing calcium-rich plaque, a determination of a first indicator value is made from the quantities of the different plaque types that represents a measurement of the quantity and the composition of plaque present in the blood vessel at the first point in time, a comparison of the first indicator value is made with at least one limit value stored in a storage of a data processing device, and dependent on the comparison, a presentation is made on an output unit associated with the electronic data processing device of either a proposal for a measure to be undertaken on the patient, or a proposal for no measure.

The invention discloses a parking space detection method and a system thereof and relates to a wireless sensor network technology. The parking space detection system disclosed in the invention comprises a data management center and a parking space detection node apparatus, wherein the data management center is used to send data to the parking space detection node apparatus, receive a determination result of whether there is a vehicle parked in a parking space uploaded by the parking space detection node apparatus and carry out management on the parking space according to the received determination result; the parking space detection node apparatus is used to receive the data sent by the data management center, determine a signal strength indicator (RSSI) value according to frequency spectrum information of the received data, combines the current determined signal strength indicator value and a historical record data updating RSSI threshold, compares the current determined signal strength indicator value with the updated RSSI threshold, determine whether there is the vehicle in the parking space and upload the determination result to the data management center. The invention also discloses a parking space detection method. By using technical scheme of the invention, the parking space can be accurately measured and cost is reduced.

To detect faces contained in an image with changing position, inclination and orientation of a face to be detected, an indicator value for each position, inclination and orientation is calculated, which indicates probability of a partial image at the position being a face image having the inclination and the orientation. Then, the partial images having the indicator values not less than a first threshold are extracted as candidates. When a predetermined evaluation value indicating reliability of a certain candidate having a predetermined inclination and a first orientation is not less than a predetermined threshold value, another candidate having the predetermined inclination and a second orientation is discriminated as being a true face. When the candidates having the indicator values not less than a second threshold are discriminated as being true faces, the second threshold is lowered for another candidate having the predetermined inclination and a second orientation for discrimination.

A method, a system, electric devices applying the method, and computer programs implementing the method are provided. According to the invention, a second set of information is communicated between electric devices over a wireless proximity interface, the second set of information being associated with a second user application of the second electric device. A correspondence indicator value characterizing the readiness of a first electric device and the second electric device to execute at least one command associated with a first user application and the second user application is evaluated on the basis of a first set of information and the second set of information, wherein the first set of information is associated with a first user application of the first electric device. On the basis of the correspondence indicator value, a decision is made whether to execute the at least one command.

The invention regards a method for assisting a driver of a vehicle by computationally predicting a future movement behaviour of a target vehicle. The method comprises steps of acquiring data describing a traffic environment of a host vehicle, computing a plurality of future movement behaviour alternatives for a target vehicle, by predicting movement behaviour of the target vehicle based on the data describing the traffic environment. The prediction step calculates a probability that the target object will execute a movement behaviour and information relating to future behaviour of the target vehicle is output. The method estimates a global scene context and adapts the predicted behaviour based on the estimated global scene context. The adaptation of the behaviour prediction is performed by at least one of adapting indicator values in situation models employed by a context-based prediction, by adapting a result of the context-based prediction and adapting the overall prediction result.