358 results about "Integrated approach" patented technology

Mobile systems and methods that overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech-based interfaces for telematics applications through the use of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and local or remote command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The invention creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command. The invention may organize domain specific behavior and information into agents, that are distributable or updateable over a wide area network. The invention can be used in dynamic environments such as those of mobile vehicles to control and communicate with both vehicle systems and remote systems and devices.

Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and / or commands and execute the queries and / or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.

The present invention, known as The Collaboration Portal (COPO), relates generally to the field of automated entity, data processing, system control, and data communications, and more specifically to an integrated method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits for communities of users. It provides a framework for provisioning computer-accessible benefits for communities of users, and can efficiently and robustly distribute the processing in behalf of those users over a decentralized network of computers. The field of the invention generally encompasses enabling appropriate and desired communication among communities of users and organizations, and providing information, goods, services, a works, opportunities, and connections among users and organizations.

Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and / or commands and execute the queries and / or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.

One aspect of the present invention includes a configuration of a storage management system that enables the performance of deduplication activities at both the client (source) and at the server (target) locations. The location of deduplication operations can then be optimized based on system conditions or predefined policies. In one embodiment, seamless switching of deduplication activities between the client and the server is enabled by utilizing uniform deduplication process algorithms and accessing the same deduplication index (containing information on the hashed data chunks). Additionally, any data transformations on the chunks are performed subsequent to identification of the data chunks. Accordingly, with use of this storage configuration, the storage system can find and utilize matching chunks generated with either client- or server-side deduplication.

A platoon model allows improved prediction of preceding vehicle future state. In this context, the preceding vehicle is a vehicle immediately ahead of the host vehicle, and the dynamic state of the preceding vehicle was predicted based on data received from one or more vehicles in the platoon. The intelligent driver model (IDM) was extended to model car-following dynamics within a platoon. A parameter estimation approach may be used to estimate the model parameters, for example to adapt to different driver types. An integrated approach including both state prediction and parameter estimation was highly effective.

A system and method for detecting scene changes in a sequence of video frames utilizing a combination of a plurality of difference metrics including an interframe difference metric, a histogram difference metric and an interframe variance difference metric, as well as adaptive threshold level selection methods to dynamically select appropriate threshold levels for each of the difference metrics. The interframe and histogram difference metrics are used to identify abrupt scene changes and the interframe variance difference metric is used to identify gradual scene changes. The identified gradual and abrupt scene changes are validated by applying a plurality of conditions.

The invention discloses a large-scale building information model and a three-dimensional digital city integration method, and belongs to the field of spatial information technology. Interactive construction is carried out on the building information model on the basis of construction drawings, then the building information model is converted into a building component information model through spatial and semantic information mapping, a building component information base is established, and integrated application of building component information is carried out in three-dimensional digital city scenes. A large-scale indoor spatial structure data source is provided for a three-dimensional digital city, and the utilization rate of data is improved; internal spatial structures of buildings and external environments are displayed integrally. The building component information model with consistent semantic and spatial information is established, various sensors in the buildings can be integrated, and useful supports are provided for smart city application.

The present invention relates to an integrated method and system for preventing and solving problems relating to pests of any kind on a site, in a building, in a process, installation or in an area. The system involves complete digitalizing and automation of all functions necessary in order to control the pests such as surveillance, registration, alarms, regulation and remedial actions as well as generating reports etc. The aim is to make the overall effort against the pests more effective by means of fully automating all processes to the furthest possible extent.

Disclosed are a method and a system for the secure delivery of requested, valuable and / or time sensitive packages by authorized delivery agencies, without requiring that the recipient be present. Generally, in accordance with the present invention, a package is delivered to a specially designed receptacle such as a bin or a specially designed mailbox. The receptacle accepts the package if it is an expected package delivered by the expected delivery agency. Two specific implementations of the present invention are disclosed herein. The first has minimal impact on the order and delivery infrastructure existing in the world today. The second implementation is a more integrated approach, but requires that sales and delivery entities implement the interfaces to the secure package delivery bin solution.

Described are use of clustered intelligent method of using video analytics, event driven systems and policy management for integrated approach to implement safe environment, such as a “Safe City” or “E-City,” supporting improvement in security and energy savings. The exemplary “Safe City” environment uses streaming video technologies, multi-function open source software, and high compression capabilities. Surveillance data of a predetermined geographical area may obtained using a computing arrangement, analyzing the surveillance data to detect at least one of a predetermined activity and a predetermined behavior of a entity within the predetermined geographical area, and adjusting at least one operation within the predetermined geographical area based on the at least one predetermined activity and predetermined behavior of the entity.

Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with clear, concise displays of the dynamic relationship between ANP and RNP, mode and aspect of flight and related procedures, intersecting flight paths, and current actual flight path deviation from a predefined flight path during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing. For example, an enhanced IAN display may include NPS-type deviation scales to show RNP / ANP relationships and predetermined RNP markers to alert the pilots and flight crew members that the FMC has transitioned from an NPS display for RNAV (LNAV / VNAV) flight procedures to an enhanced IAN display for a non-precision (non-xLS) approach and / or landing.

The invention relates to an intelligent household nurse system and a multi-network single point access integration method. The invention can be used for the fields such as intelligent building household and huge risk operation, etc. The invention comprises a center controller, a robot terminal performer, a remote control terminal and an equipment terminal performer. The invention can facilitates PDA, computers or mobile phones to help the user to implement remote household through Internet or the mobile phone networks of GSM, CDMA and 3G when nobody is at home. A moveable small robot can look around each corner of a house, collect signals such as temperature signals, etc., collect family images and voice information and implement emergency disposal of sudden events. When being used for the operations implemented under toxic, harmful and dangerous environments, the invention can substitute for the user to collect image information and switch power supply under the dangerous environment. The small robot also can be used for survey and the operations of heavy-current switch quantity and analog quantity power output and particularly be used for the rescue and pipeline operation.

A platoon model allows improved prediction of preceding vehicle future state. In this context, the preceding vehicle is a vehicle immediately ahead of the host vehicle, and the dynamic state of the preceding vehicle was predicted based on data received from one or more vehicles in the platoon. The intelligent driver model (IDM) was extended to model car-following dynamics within a platoon. A parameter estimation approach may be used to estimate the model parameters, for example to adapt to different driver types. An integrated approach including both state prediction and parameter estimation was highly effective.

A method of use of a UMTS telecommunications network, comprising utilizing UMTS signalling to indicate changes in an IP sub-network. To register a Mobile Terminal (MT) or to update its location within the network, signalling relevant to the IP domain is transmitted with UMTS signalling in an integrated approach. This reduces the number of signalling messages that are required and minimizes delays.

A system is provided for unified management of power, performance, and thermals in computer systems. This system incorporates elements to effectively address all aspects of managing computing systems in an integrated manner, instead of independently. The system employs an infrastructure for real-time measurements feedback, an infrastructure for regulating system activity, component operating levels, and environmental control, a dedicated control structure for guaranteed response / preemptive action, and interaction and integration components. The system provides interfaces for user-level interaction. The system also employs methods to address power / thermal concerns at multiple timescales. In addition, the system improves efficiency by adopting an integrated approach, rather than treating different aspects of the power / thermal problem as individual issues to be addressed in a piecemeal fashion.

Equipment failures are diagnosed using an integrated approach of case-based reasoning (CBR) and statistical reliability analysis. The method outputs a single list of suggested failed components, ranked by an overall probability of failure, and their associated past solutions from the case base. The overall probability of failure is calculated using the combined logic of case based reasoning and statistical reliability analysis. The method is typically used in a real-time decision support system to aid equipment diagnosis by a maintenance technician working in the field.

The invention discloses an intelligent building energy source epcglobal network and an integration method of the intelligent building energy source epcglobal network. The intelligent building energy source epcglobal network comprises a distributed energy source production subsystem, an energy storage subsystem, a building terminal energy source application subsystem, an energy source transmission and distribution subsystem and an intelligent energy source service subsystem, wherein the distributed energy source production subsystem is used for producing needed cold-and-thermal electric energy, and conveys the cold-and-thermal electric energy to the energy storage subsystem through the energy source transmission and distribution subsystem, the energy storage subsystem carries out storage and optimal configuration on the energy sources according to monitoring and feedback of the intelligent energy source service subsystem to the building terminal energy source application subsystem, then the cold-and-thermal electric energy is conveyed to the building terminal energy source application subsystem, and the intelligent energy source service subsystem carries out collection, input, output, regulation and control on energy consumption signals in the whole process, and finally enables the amount of the cold-and-thermal electric energy source produced by the distributed energy source production subsystem to be matched with the requirement of the building terminal energy source application subsystem, and optimized operation of the intelligent building energy source epcglobal network is achieved.

Methods and systems provide an integrated approach to respiratory and cardiac monitoring, diagnosis and / or therapy. A medical system includes one or more cardiac electrodes coupled to an external respiratory therapy device. The cardiac electrodes sense cardiac electrical activity that is used to generate an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Cardiac events, such as arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and / or ischemia, may be detected based on the sensed cardiac electrical activity.

Equipment failures are diagnosed using an integrated approach of case-based reasoning (CBR) and statistical reliability analysis. The method outputs a single list of suggested failed components, ranked by an overall probability of failure, and their associated past solutions from the case base. The overall probability of failure is calculated using the combined logic of case based reasoning and statistical reliability analysis. The method is typically used in a real-time decision support system to aid equipment diagnosis by a maintenance technician working in the field.

The present invention is directed to an integrated process and system for cosmetic vehicle repair. The invention provides a process and a system to produce repair formulas, repair estimates, and repair scheduling. The present invention is particularly directed to a process and a system for repairing coating defect of a vehicle.

Affordable commercial service platforms in space focusing on customer affordability, quality microgravity services, innovation and combining five emerging space technologies. The invention provides an integrated approach to microgravity services in orbit. First, the reusable launch vehicle (RLV) offers affordable transportation services, platform reboost, and eliminates platform subsystems of propulsion, RCS, liquid storage / resupply, and the like. Second, deployable structures are not heavy for the launch, but expand in orbit. Third, orbital phone networks offer customers control of unmanned experiments. Fourth, an enhanced robotic system transfers payloads. Fifth, manufactured thin film solar cells in orbit offer advantages including weight / cost reductions. The orbital service platform has a low initial cost, expands as the market demands, is repairable, offers quality unmanned microgravity, leads to production facilities using similar hardware and offers numerous affordable commercial services.

A modular formulation of model predictive controller is proposed by this invention (400). The modular formulation offers a robust model predictive controller with unified method of tuning. Explicit use of material and energy balance provides stable and robust performance (412). Use of economic based tuning offers a unified tuning method (411). The unified tuning method establishes consistency of control actions resulting from the steady state optimization and the dynamic control (400). Further, a method for formulating and tuning integrated optimization and control using multiple modular model predictive controllers is presented in this invention (100). The method incorporates a direct and explicit method of integration of a number of modular model predictive controllers. The integration of the modular controllers is achieved seamlessly without requiring any further tuning adjustments (200). The resulting integrated system of multiple modular predictive controllers performs robustly, permitting each of the modular model predictive controllers to perform its role in the context of the state of operation of rest of the system. The proposed integration can be made to include lower level modular controllers or at same level controllers or both (300).

The present invention relates to gene therapy systems designed for the delivery of a therapeutic product to a subject using replication-defective virus composition(s) engineered with a built-in safety mechanism for ablating the therapeutic gene product, either permanently or temporarily, in response to a pharmacological agent—preferably an oral formulation, e.g., a pill. The invention is based, in part, on the applicants' development of an integrated approach, referred to herein as “PITA” (Pharmacologically Induced Transgene Ablation), for ablating a transgene or negatively regulating transgene expression. In this approach, replication-deficient viruses are used to deliver a transgene encoding a therapeutic product (an RNA or a protein) so that it is expressed in the subject, but can be reversibly or irreversibly turned off by administering the pharmacological agent; e.g., by administration of a small molecule that induces expression of an ablator specific for the transgene or its RNA transcript.

The invention discloses an intelligent life centralized management integrated method, device and platform. The intelligent life centralized management integrated method comprises the steps that a device or a user or an organization has access to the intelligent life centralized management platform through an information centralized access device; the information centralized access device invokes a security centralized management and control device to perform security authentication on the device or the user or the organization; when the device or the user or the organization passes the security authentication, the information centralized access device transmits information or an instruction to an information centralized processing device to perform analysis and processing, and an automatic mode or a manual intervention mode is set or started according to strategies; an information transmission device transmits the instruction or the information to the device or the user or the organization so that control on the device can be achieved, or users can check the environment and the device operation status. By means of the intelligent life centralized management integrated method, device and platform, a unified, concise and centralized management interface is provided, information on the device and the environment can be acquired in real time, integrated management on home life and social life can be achieved, and normative and standardized development of the intelligent home industry is promoted.

The invention provides a hypersonic speed guided missile multi-field coupling dynamics integrated simulation analysis method, which comprises the following steps of: establishing a coupled structural motion equation; improving an aerodynamic heating calculation method; improving an unsteady aerodynamics calculation method; establishing an integrated simulation analysis technique process; designing a relationship between an integrated simulation analysis operation model and data; and realizing an integrated simulation analysis system. Compared with the prior art, the aerodynamic heating calculation method and the unsteady aerodynamics calculation method are improved; various techniques of flutter analysis, thermal flutter analysis, pneumatic servo elastic analysis and thermal pneumatic servo elastic analysis are integrated; and an effective integration method for integrally solving and optimally designing a high-speed winged missile all-missile combination body coupling dynamics problem is provided.

Disclosed is a method, system and service for developing an end-to-end process for managing acquisitions including, developing strategies and identify an appropriate company for acquisition, managing a transaction and negotiating a deal, integrating an acquired acquisition, and tracking performance against defined business case targets and milestones.