398 results about "Information mapping" patented technology

A method supporting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) between a subscriber station and a base station in a broadband wireless access communication system including. The method includes the steps of: transmitting at least one H-ARQ enabled uplink burst from the subscriber station to the base station; generating ACK/NACK information according to the received HARQ enabled uplink burst at the base station; mapping the generated ACK/NACK information to a bitmap at the base station; transmitting the bitmap through a downlink information from the base station to the subscriber station.

A computerized workflow management method and system to provide operational support for complex multi-step processes, having particular utility in supporting operations involving securitizations for which periodic valuation and distribution computations, disbursements and reporting must be set up and executed. The invention permits unification of manual operations and operations performed by legacy software, even if implemented with database structures different from the workflow management system, automated quality control, workflow status display and automatic updating of workflow status records. The method of workflow management involves creating an underlying database structure for recording the processing steps and other information required for each transaction, entering the necessary setup information by selection from lists of pre-stored information about processing functions, associated workflow events and milestones for the queues, mapping the data structures of the subsystem databases and the workflow management database to provide transparent interfacing and convenient manual entry of data were necessary, displaying for the user the workflow status of all transactions for which he or she is responsible, permitting menu driven initiation of required actions and automatically updating the database records for the universe of deals being managed by the system.

Method, system and computer product for analyzing business risk using event information extracted from natural language sources. In this invention, articles each containing qualitative business event information relevant to a target business entity are retrieved. A structured events record of details for the qualitative business event information is extracted from the articles. The structured events record is applied to a business risk model that uses temporal reasoning to map qualitative business event information to business risk. The business risk model determines the business risk of the target business entity based on temporal proximity and order of the qualitative business event information in the structured events record.

A transactional data communications system and method communicates information within an enterprise having a process control system and a plurality of information technology systems that are communicatively coupled to the process control system via a web services interface and a transactional information server. The system and method generates transactional process control information and formats the transactional process control information based on an extensible markup language input schema to form formatted transactional process control information. The system and method sends the formatted transactional process control information to the transactional information server via the web services interface and maps the formatted transactional process control information to an extensible markup language output schema associated with one of the plurality of information technology systems to form mapped transactional process control information. The system and method then sends the mapped transactional process control information to the one of the plurality of information technology systems.

The invention discloses a system and a method for accessing a third party application based on a cloud platform. The method comprises the steps of receiving a cloud platform account and cloud platform password information, wherein the cloud platform account number and the cloud platform password information are input by a user, and displaying applications provided by the cloud platform to the user; according to the third party application selected by the user, querying a stored binding information mapping table, acquiring third party application account information and access token information corresponding to the third party application and cloud platform account information, or third party application account information and encrypted third party application password information corresponding to the third party application and the cloud platform account information, and sending the third party application account information and the access token information, or the third party application account information and the encrypted third party application password information to a third party application server; receiving authentication approval information returned by the third party application server, pulling the third party application from the third party application server and displaying the third party application to the user. With the application of the invention, the operation complexity of the frequent login of the user is reduced, and the security of the access to the third party application of the user is improved.

Various embodiments of systems and methods for performing volume-based incremental backups are disclosed. A method may involve generating a snappoint of a volume. The snappoint indicates which portions (e.g., blocks or extents) of the volume have been modified between a time at which the snappoint was generated and a time at which a subsequent snappoint was generated. The method may also involve accessing information mapping the file to the volume and, if the snappoint identifies as having been modified any blocks of the volume to which the file maps, copying those blocks from the subsequent snappoint to the backup device. Portions not identified as having been modified by the snappoint are not copied. Program instructions implementing such a method may be stored on a computer accessible medium.

Disclosed is a Quality-of-Service (QoS) Support method in a mobile communication system including an access terminal, an access network for performing packet data communication with the access terminal, a packet control function for controlling transmission and reception of packet data between the access network and the access terminal, and a packet data service node for exchanging packet data with the packet control function. The access terminal maps a requirement based on an application characteristic to an IP QoS parameter, generates a resource reservation protocol message, and transmits the resource reservation protocol message to the packet data service node. The packet data service node maps IP QoS information to be transmitted to the access terminal to QoS information needed in the access network, and transmits the mapping result to the access network via the packet control function. The access terminal receives data including QoS information from the packet data service node, and performs communication according to the QoS information.

The invention provides an intelligent production system and method based on edge calculation and digital twinning, which belong to the field of intelligent production. The intelligent production system comprises a physical system, an edge digital twinning node, a digital twinning management control system, a production manufacturing simulation system, an order system and an AI algorithm model base. The method comprises the steps that intelligent sensing equipment acquires physical production line information in real time and transmits the physical production line information to the edge digital twinning node; the edge digital twinning node constructs an equipment model, predicts equipment faults and service life, and carries out visual display; and the digital twinning management control system generates simulation analysis operation of production equipment scheduling, optimizes a production scheduling strategy according to a simulation result of the production manufacturing simulationsystem, and sends a production scheduling instruction to the physical system. According to the invention, the calculation burden of the terminal processor is reduced, the time delay is reduced, the information mapping efficiency and the working efficiency of the whole intelligent production system are improved, and the equipment fault monitoring, prediction and maintenance at the edge side are realized.

The present invention provides a method, and corresponding apparatus, for use of emoticons in IM applications by using sensory information captured by a device. Such information can include video, still image, and/or audio information. In one embodiment, based on a trigger to the system, multimedia input is captured, and relevant features are extracted from it. The extracted information is interpreted, and the interpreted information is mapped onto one or more specific pre-existing emoticons. These specific emoticons are then inserted into the IM communication via an IM API. In another aspect of the present invention, new emoticons are created based on the multimedia information captured. This can include generation of realistic emoticons based on the expressions on the user's face. Animated emoticons can also be created.

The invention discloses content metadata storing, inquiring method and managing system in content delivery network (CDN). In the CDN, nodes, except the CDN central node, are provided with hash functions, and the hash functions stored in each node define the corresponding relationship between content indentifying information and the address information of nodes in an autonomous system to which the mode belongs; when a new content is delivered to the nodes except the CDN central node, the node receiving the new content sends the metadata of the new content to the storing node for storage after mapping the identifying information of the new content to the address information of one storing node according to natively stored hash functions. The managing system is characterized in that in the CDN, the content metadata provided by each autonomous system is dispersedly stored in nodes of the autonomous system in the mode of distributed hashing table (DHT).

A mobile software application may issue an alert when a user is not achieving a heath objective based on track movement of a mobile computer system that is running the application and being carried by the user and physical characteristics of the user. The software application may map information about the physical characteristics of the user to a user model and determine the energy being expended by the user based on the user model and movement information provided by the mobile computer system. The software application may determine the frequency of steps taken by the user by: bandpass filtering a time domain signal that is representative of the movement, transforming the filtered time domain signal into a frequency domain signal, and equating the step frequency with the frequency of the highest peak in the frequency domain signal.

An input interface system for mapping data packets, each comprising a header portion and a payload portion, from at least one source to at least one destination. An interface method and system between asynchronous data packet flows and synchronized switching systems, which utilize a global common time reference. The synchronized switching systems utilize a time frame switching method based on predefined switching schedules that are responsive to a global common time reference, where the global common time reference is divided into a plurality of contiguous periodic time frames. The asynchronous data packet flows are routed according to information contained in the packets' header. The interface method and system maps the header information of the asynchronous data packet flows to respective time frames that match the predefined switching schedule over the synchronized switching system. The interface system can aggregate multiple asynchronous data packet flows into a single pre-defined switching schedule over the synchronized switching system.

A new and unique method and apparatus are provided for communicating information between two nodes, points or terminals in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment or other suitable network environment, featuring one or more steps for creating an association between multicast transmission scheduling and multicast internet protocol (IP) and ethernet addresses within a multicast transmission period, and mapping multicast transmission start times using the multicast IP or ethernet address information. The apparatus may take the form of a wireless local area network (WLAN) or other suitable network having the two nodes or points that communicate information between the same based on the association and mapping, as well as the first or second node, point or terminal in such a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment, or other suitable network environment. The first or second node, point or terminal may include an access point or a station (STA).

The invention discloses an advertisement classification method and system based on a webpage characteristic. The method comprises the following steps of: extracting the webpage characteristic information from the webpage sample information and extracting the advertisement characteristic information from the advertisement sample information; mapping the webpage characteristic information and the advertisement characteristic information to a common characteristic space by use of a transfer learning method to obtain the webpage sample information and advertisement sample information mapped to the common characteristic space; training a classifier based on the webpage sample information mapped to the common characteristic space and a current training set, and classifying the advertisement sample information according to the trained classifier to obtain a classification result; establishing a link network between the webpage and the advertisement according to the historical release and click data of the advertisement sample information so that the classification result is transmitted along the link network and the corrected classification result is obtained; and updating the training set according to the corrected classification result. Through the invention, existing mark data can be sufficiently utilized, and a large amount of repeated work is avoided.

A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, is performed by a terminal, may comprise the steps of: determining the number of coded symbols according to the payload size of uplink control information to be transmitted; and mapping the uplink control information to an uplink resource according to the determined number of the coded symbols, wherein the number of the coded symbols is determined by using a parameter selected according to the payload size of the uplink control information to be transmitted.

An intellectual property (IP) brokering system and method (0110) incorporating an expert system permitting a customer (0120) to automate and optimize the use of IP agents (0130) to affect customer product realization (0140) is disclosed. The present invention in some preferred embodiments permits a customer to define a knowledge database with background and customer sensitivities as well as a requirements database for a given product to be created. This information is then mapped to available technical resources and design architectures by the expert system that then generates an optimized execution plan based on available resources. The disclosed invention permits global optimization of the customer requirements by coordinating disparate IP agents in a unified fashion to achieve an optimal utility function with respect to the desired customer product. The system as disclosed may include a wide variety of optimization algorithms and additionally may permit feedback to the customer to allow recursive optimization to occur. The methods as disclosed herein within a variety of preferred systems contexts permit IP to be brokered and granularized by allowing projects to be fractured according to system functionality and subsequently brokered out for optimal cost realization via a globally-connected IP resource acquisition and coordination system. The present invention is particularly well suited for application as a management element in a counter terrorism information technology system to minimize the impact and social disruption associated with terrorist events.

A method of transmitting control information in a carrier aggregation system is provided. The method includes: transmitting bandwidth information of a component carrier; configuring downlink control information including an additional indication field and an information field; mapping the downlink control information in any one of containing units having a plurality of predetermined different bit sizes in accordance with the bandwidth information; and transmitting the downlink control information mapped to any one of the containing units, wherein the information field is any one of a plurality of control information formats applicable to the component carrier, and the additional indication field includes information indicating a specific control information format to which the information field corresponds among the plurality of control information formats. Accordingly, the number of blind decoding attempts of a user equipment can decrease in a carrier aggregation system. Therefore, power consumption of the user equipment can decrease, and a decoding rate can increase.

An apparatus and method of mapping a short message service (SMS) information from a first communications system to a corresponding message in a second, different cellular system is claimed. SMS information having a format required by the first communication system is received. The SMS information is mapped into a format required by the second communication system. Additional information is appended, if necessary, or information is removed as being extraneous information, if necessary, as required by the second communication system.

An interface method and system between asynchronous data packet flows and synchronized switching systems, which utilize a global common time reference. The synchronized switching systems utilize a time frame switching method based on predefined switching schedules that are responsive to a global common time reference, where the global common time reference is divided into a plurality of contiguous periodic time frames. The asynchronous data packet flows are routed according to information contained in the packets' header. The interface method and system maps the header information of the asynchronous data packet flows to respective time frames that match the predefined switching schedule over the synchronized switching system. The interface system can aggregate multiple asynchronous data packet flows into a single pre-defined switching schedule over the synchronized switching system.

A system (3) for configuring and managing communication devices that include non-volatile memories includes a user interface (31) for providing a configuration and management interface for a network administrator, one or more service modules (35) for generating configuration information, and a configuration manager (33) for managing the configuration information. The user interface includes a parser (312) for parsing configuration commands or management commands issued by the network administrator. The configuration manager includes a command builder (334) for mapping the configuration information provided by the service modules to the configuration commands, and a command loader (332) for loading respective configuration files containing the configuration commands from the non-volatile memories of the communication devices. A related method for configuring and managing communication devices is also disclosed.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, in particular to a method, a system and equipment for transmitting and receiving uplink information, which are used for solving the problem that uplink channels/signals in neighboring subframes collide in partial single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbols due to unaligned uplink transmission time for carriers in different time advance (TA) groups. The method comprises the following steps of: determining that the uplink carrier reserves K SC-FDMA symbols in the current uplink subframe so as not to transmit the uplink information by user equipment with a plurality of uplink TA groups, and mapping the uplink information to be transmitted on other SC-FDMA symbols except the K SC-FDMA symbols reserved in the current uplink subframe so as to transmit the uplink information. By the method, system and equipment for transmitting and receiving the uplink information, the problem that the uplink channels/signals in the neighboring subframes collide in the SC-FDMA symbols due to unaligned uplink transmission time for carriers in different TA groups can be solved.

A system of and method for communicating control information between two or more entities over one or more backplane connections is described. The control information is stored in a layer of the packet above the physical layer and the packet is then communicated over the one or more backplane connections. A system of and method for performing load balancing over one or more backplane connections is also described. Control information for a packet is mapped into one or more identifiers of one or more of a plurality of backplane connections, and the packet is then communicated over the one or more identified backplane connections. A system of and method for extending the number of ports of a switch is further described. A first switch coupled to a second switch and having a greater number of ports than the second switch is provided. An identifier of a port of the first switch is stored in a layer of the packet above the physical layer. The packet is then communicated between the first and second switches.

Provided are a communication method and system that combine the 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a data rate higher than that of the 4G system. The present disclosure is based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology and can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety related services). A method is provided that enables the terminal and the 5G network to check each other's capability information to achieve interworking between network slices defined differently by different mobile network operators. The method for providing network slice information of a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN) in a wireless communication system includes generating mapping information by mapping first slice information for a visited public land mobile network (HPLMN) of a user equipment (UE) and second slice information for the VPLMN connected to the UE when roaming, and transmitting, to the UE, information corresponding to a slice requested by the UE, the information selected based on the mapping information.

A computing system in which a software component executing on a platform can reliably and efficiently obtain state information about a component supported by the platform through the use of a shared memory page. State information may be supplied by the platform, but any state translation information needed to map the state information as supplied to a format as used may be provided through the shared page. In a virtualized environment, the state translation information can be used to map the value of a virtual timer counter or other component from a value provided by a virtual processor to a normalized reference time that will yield the same result, regardless of whether the software component is migrated to or from another virtual processor. Use of a shared page avoids the inefficiency of an intercept into a virtualized environment or a system calls in native mode operation.

A virtual coupon service system is provided. The virtual coupon service system includes: an information acquiring unit acquiring member identification information of a member who wants to purchase a product for which the coupon is valid, and coupon information regarding the product; an information registering unit mapping the member identification information to the coupon information, and registering the result of the mapping; a coupon service providing unit acquiring the member identification information and a product code of the product, determining whether the member identification information is registered with the information registering unit, determining whether at least one coupon information mapped to the member identification information is associated with the product code, if the member identification information is registered in the information registering unit, providing a coupon service if the at least one coupon information includes the product code.

The invention discloses a visible camera communication system employing LED lamp MIMO array configuration. A transmitter employs the MIMO array configuration, and each LED lamp wick is provided with an independent FSOOK modulation drive power supply. The transmitter is provided with an LED-ID data modulation mapper connected with the FSOOK modulation drive power supplies. The interior of the LED-ID data modulation mapper is provided with an information mapping table in a preset manner, and the LED-ID data modulation mapper enables serial binary LED-ID data to be modulated into a plurality of parallel FSOOK frequency signals according to an information mapping rule, enables the signals to be mapped to the plurality of independent FSOOK modulation drive power supplies, and drives all lamp wicks to flicker at different frequencies. A receiver employs a CMOS image sensor with a roller shutter mechanism for photographing an LED array light source, and the exposure time needs to be selected during photographing, so as to prevent excessive exposure from causing high light noise interference. A light source forms a plurality of stripe images with different dark and bright stripe widths on the CMOS sensor, and the receiver obtains the complete image composed of a plurality of stripe subimages, and then carries out the decoding of the image.

Conventional C2 coding and interleaving for multi-track data tape in LTO-¾ do not support recording data onto a number of concurrent tracks which is not a power of two. Higher-rate longer C2 codes, which do not degrade error rate performance, are provided. An adjustable format and interleaving scheme accommodates future tape drives in which the number of concurrent tracks is not necessarily a power of two. A data set is segmented into a plurality of unencoded subdata sets and parity bytes are generated for each row and column. The parameters of the C2 code include N₂ as the least common multiple of the number of possible tracks to which codeword objects are to be written. COs are formed from N₂ C1 codewords, mapped onto a logical data track according to information within headers of the CO and modulation encoded into synchronized COs which are written to the tape.

The invention relates to a mobile node positioning algorithm based on integration of a sensor network and a cellular network. A PAD ID floor information mapping table is first formed and stored in a backend server of the cellular network. After entry into a wireless sensor network, a mobile terminal first broadcasts a positioning request to peripheral sensor nodes and communicates with nodes in the sensor network by use of a 64-bit address directly. When receiving the positioning request, a node sends position and PAN ID information to the mobile terminal. After receiving replies from a plurality of beacon nodes, the mobile terminal extracts, from Respond information, the PAN ID information, coordinate information of the beacon nodes and received signal strength RSSI which are integrated into positioning information. The mobile terminal sends the positioning information to the backend server of the cellular network and sends out a command to start the positioning algorithm. Through the positioning algorithm, the backend server of the cellular network finally determines the floor, room information and the coordinate of the mobile terminal. According to the invention, the energy consumption and the network burden of the wireless sensor network are significantly reduced.

A method of modifying an Internet browser interface to provide shopping assistant functionality facilitating on-line shopping at a supported merchant Internet site. A wallet created in accordance with the present invention comprises a database having various user data stored therein under certain predetermined field names. A supported merchant data file identifies a plurality of supported merchants and enables the modified browser interface to determine when a shopper has navigated to a supported merchant web site. For each supported merchant, a rules and mapping file is created that may be used in connection with the wallet to map user-provided information in the wallet to corresponding fields in the merchant's check-out web page. When a user navigates to a supported merchant web site and desires to purchase merchandise and/or services from that merchant, the wallet automatically fills out the merchant's check-out web page(s), thereby simplifying on-line shopping and particularly, the check-out process.

The invention discloses a gesture control man-machine interactive system based on WiFi.The gesture control man-machine interactive system comprises a signal collecting module, a signal processing module, a gesture action extraction module and an action command mapping module, wherein the signal collecting module obtains channel state information (CSI) of a physical layer containing user' action from WiFi signals; the signal processing module processes collected signals, and the processing comprises donoising, filtering and smoothing operation; the gesture action extraction module performs gesture action information extraction according to signals obtained from the signal processing module; the action command mapping module is used for obtaining gesture action data from the gesture action extraction module and mapping the data to be corresponding computer operation instructions.By means of the WiFi signals, users do not need to wear any specially-made equipment; through the collection of the channel state information of the physical layer, the extraction and identification of gesture information contained in the channel state information and the mapping to be the corresponding computer operation instructions, human interaction is performed.The cost is low, and the system has low coupling performance and scalability.