137 results about "Joint Implementation" patented technology

Methods and apparatus of the invention allow the coordination of resources of mobile computing devices to jointly execute tasks. In the method, a first gesture input is received at a first mobile computing device. A second gesture input is received at a second mobile computing device. In response, a determination is made as to whether the first and second gesture inputs form one of a plurality of different synchronous gesture types. If it is determined that the first and second gesture inputs form the one of the plurality of different synchronous gesture types, then resources of the first and second mobile computing devices are combined to jointly execute a particular task associated with the one of the plurality of different synchronous gesture types.

Methods and apparatus of the invention allow the coordination of resources of mobile computing devices to jointly execute tasks. In the method, a first gesture input is received at a first mobile computing device. A second gesture input is received at a second mobile computing device. In response, a determination is made as to whether the first and second gesture inputs form one of a plurality of different synchronous gesture types. If it is determined that the first and second gesture inputs form the one of the plurality of different synchronous gesture types, then resources of the first and second mobile computing devices are combined to jointly execute a particular task associated with the one of the plurality of different synchronous gesture types.

An affiliation manager provides each of typically hundreds of users with a calendar of appointments and a task list each including icons for capturing time and expenses accrued by the user when attending a particular appointment or performing a particular task. A subset of collected captured time and expenses may be transferred to each requesting client for use by independent accounting systems. Management of appointments and tasks from a central database promotes collaboration among users, simplifies sharing of schedule information among users, and provides context for data entry. Each user may create any number of affiliations, each affiliation describing affiliations of the user in numerous projects, organizations, employments, and activities. Each user may admit other users to share his or her affiliations, thereby promoting collaboration of many users for jointly attending meetings and jointly performing tasks. Context permits automatic intuitive association of email, chat messages, notes, and documents to records for persons, locations, resources, appointments, tasks, and projects for integrated affiliation management services. Requests for queries and forms are interpreted according to the context in which the user issued the request. Requests are made via a common set of icons and links on each item of a list provided by a prior query.

Joint execution type compound orders can be processed in an anonymous trading system comprising a plurality of broker nodes each of which includes an order matching functionality and a market distribution functionality. Trader agent nodes are connected to a number of dealer terminals grouped in trading floors and also to a broker node. Joint execution orders are entered as hit orders and are all matched by the broker during the hit or the order is cancelled. If matches are made the taker's trading agent does not complete any of the deals marking up the order until it knows that all the deals are executable. The system may be used to allow traders to hit bids and offers in currency pairs synthesized from other currency pairs. In this arrangement the dealer enters a simple order in the synthetic currency and the taker's trading agent converts it into a joint execution order.

Systems, methods, and related computer program products for controlling one or more HVAC systems using a distributed arrangement of wirelessly connected sensing microsystems are described. A plurality of wirelessly communicating sensing microsystems is provided, each sensing microsystem including a temperature sensor and a processor, at least one of the sensing microsystems being coupled to an HVAC unit for control thereof. The plurality of sensing microsystems is configured to jointly carry out at least one shared computational task associated with control of the HVAC unit. Each sensing microsystem includes a power management circuit configured to determine an amount of electrical power available for dedication to the at least one shared computational task. The at least one shared computational task is apportioned among respective ones of the plurality of sensing microsystems according to the amount of electrical power determined to be available for dedication thereto at each respective sensing microsystem.

Systems, methods, and related computer program products for controlling one or more HVAC systems using a distributed arrangement of wirelessly connected sensing microsystems are described. A plurality of wirelessly communicating sensing microsystems is provided, each sensing microsystem including a temperature sensor and a processor, at least one of the sensing microsystems being coupled to an HVAC unit for control thereof. The plurality of sensing microsystems is configured to jointly carry out at least one shared computational task associated with control of the HVAC unit. Each sensing microsystem includes a power management circuit configured to determine an amount of electrical power available for dedication to the at least one shared computational task. The at least one shared computational task is apportioned among respective ones of the plurality of sensing microsystems according to the amount of electrical power determined to be available for dedication thereto at each respective sensing microsystem.

An encoder achieves improved encoding efficiency by initially limiting consideration of the potential modes (block sizes) to a prescribed sub-set and by performing mode estimation jointly with mode decision-making. An initial sub-set of modes is considered and an estimation of the motion for each block in the sub-set is made to establish a best motion vector. A distortion measure is also made for each sub-set. From the distortion measure, a determination is made whether or not to estimate the motion for other block sizes. If not, then an encoding mode is chosen in accordance with the estimated motion. In this way, motion estimation on all possible block sizes need not be undertaken.

Systems and methods for jointly performing encryption and error-correction coding offer advantages, especially in the presence of noise. According to one embodiment, a method for encryption and transmission of information includes: inserting at least one encryption key element into source data elements that are to be communicated, yielding an extended information sequence; encoding the extended information sequence using an error-correcting code, yielding an extended codeword; removing at least one element of the extended codeword, leaving a punctured extended codeword; and transmitting the punctured extended codeword across a medium. According to another embodiment, a system for decrypting information includes: means for receiving input data that includes error-correction code with missing elements and with errors, the missing elements being based on a key, the key already known on the receiving side of said transmission; and means for automatically decoding said input data based on the key to recover a message despite the errors.

A first home automation control device is configured to control a first electrical appliance and to communicate via a peer-to-peer network with a second home automation control device which is configured to control a second electrical appliance. When the first home automation control device discovers the presence of the second home automation control device, the first home automation control device negotiates with the second home automation control device to determine a goal. The first home automation control device and the second home automation control device then jointly execute a task to achieve the goal. The goal may be an energy savings goal.

A system and method are described for an Internet of Things (IoT) gas pump or charging station implementation. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: an automotive IoT device to be integrated within a vehicle of a user; an IoT service comprising IoT device authentication and management logic to authenticate the identity of the automotive IoT device integrated within the vehicle; an Internet of Things (IoT) hub to be communicatively coupled to a gas pump or charging station, the IoT hub to establish a communication channel with the IoT service, the IoT hub further comprising a local wireless communication interface to establish a local wireless communication channel with the automotive IoT device, the automotive IoT device to establish a secure communication channel with the IoT service through the IoT hub; the IoT service to authenticate the automotive IoT device and responsively transmit a command to the IoT hub authorizing use of the gas pump or charging station.

The invention provides an error compensation model and an algorithm of a high precision pressure transducer. The invention uses an oven and a standard pressure source to collect the output data of the transducer under N temperature spots and M pressure spots to constitute an N*M matrix; a sensor output mathematical model is established, and the thermal compensation coefficients a(T), b(T), c(T) of the sensor output function, and the electrical null of the sensor under different temperatures are fit according to the collected data: U0(T)=f(T), and the parameters are written into a microprocessor; when the invention is used, the electrical null U0 of the restoration record transducer is clicked at the time point of zero pressure, and U0(T) is calculated through the information of the collected temperatures (T), and the time shift of the sensor within the use and compensation intervals is calculated out: delta=U0-U0(T); the microprocessor calculates the conditioner microprocessor output by collecting the information of the output signal (U) of the temperature transducer (T) and the pressure transducer according to the compensation formula: P=a(T)(U-delta)<2>+b(T)(U-delta)+c(T). The invention combines the design and production technologies of pressure sensors, the signal conditioning technology and the computer technology to achieve rectification of the pressure transducer in the wide temperature range. The pressure signal characteristic and effect is excellent.

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique providing an optimized way to allocate and access memory across a plurality of thread / data lanes. Specifically, the device driver receives an instruction targeted to a memory set up as an array of structures of arrays. The device driver computes an address within the memory using information about the number of thread / data lanes and parameters from the instruction itself. The result is a memory allocation and access approach where the device driver properly computes the target address in the memory. Advantageously, processing efficiency is improved where memory in a parallel processing subsystem is internally stored and accessed as an array of structures of arrays, proportional to the SIMT / SIMD group width (the number of threads or lanes per execution group).

An affiliation manager provides each of typically hundreds of users with a calendar of appointments and a task list each including icons for capturing time and expenses accrued by the user when attending a particular appointment or performing a particular task. A subset of collected captured time and expenses may be transferred to each requesting client for use by independent accounting systems. Management of appointments and tasks from a central database promotes collaboration among users, simplifies sharing of schedule information among users, and provides context for data entry. Each user may create any number of affiliations, each affiliation describing affiliations of the user in numerous projects, organizations, employments, and activities. Each user may admit other users to share his or her affiliations, thereby promoting collaboration of many users for jointly attending meetings and jointly performing tasks. Context permits automatic intuitive association of email, chat messages, notes, and documents to records for persons, locations, resources, appointments, tasks, and projects for integrated affiliation management services. Requests for queries and forms are interpreted according to the context in which the user issued the request. Requests are made via a common set of icons and links on each item of a list provided by a prior query.

A method and apparatus for signal acquisition in an OFDM receiver relies on a preamble training sequence to synchronize the receiver in time (e.g. determining the start of a frame) and in frequency (carrier frequency offset compensation). The preamble training sequence has a periodic structure and the method and apparatus perform a cross-correlation technique using a matched filter to achieve time synchronization and / or frequency synchronization and / or channel estimation, the latter being especially useful in multi-antenna receivers for diversity combining purposes. Many advantages derive from performing at least two and preferably all three operations jointly, in terms of latency, hardware complexity, and length of training sequence required to achieve satisfactory convergence on all counts. The periodicity of the training sequence is exploited to reduce considerably the main filter complexity and optionally dynamically adjust carrier offset compensation throughout the filtering process, thus improving the quality of all final estimates (carrier frequency offset, time synchronization, and channel).

A novel apparatus for and a method of data transmission whereby an input data stream is distributed over a plurality of physical channels within a logical channel group. Transmission of data over the channel group appears as transmission over a single logical channel having a bandwidth approximately equal to the sum of the physical channel bandwidths. The physical channels making up the logical channel group may have different bandwidth capacities. The invention comprises a method of data unit distribution among a plurality of physical channels including the consideration of the bandwidth capacities of the individual physical channels in implementing the distribution algorithm, and the capability of reproducing the order of the transmission of the data units on the receiving side without the need for additional fields or modification of existing fields of the data units. The method of the present invention performs an algorithm whereby the transmitter and the receiver only need to decide to transmit / receive a data unit using the current channel or to switch to the next channel in the channel pool (i.e. the channel group). This decision is made considering the value of a bandwidth parameter and current ‘credit’ counter associated with each channel.

An assembly includes multiple adjoined rotor sections each having multiple poles and multiple void rows therethrough that are radially distributed in each of the poles. The rotor sections are skewed in a circumferential direction. The assembly also has multiple conductive rings that substantially surround one of the void rows. A method of assembly and electric machines and vehicles using the assembly are also disclosed. Aspects reduce torque ripple in electric machines and allow for encoderless / sensorless operation in an electric machine using the rotor assembly. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.

An apparatus and method are provided for simply estimating joint channel and Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) to efficiently estimate a channel impulse response associated with a spatially selective transmission channel occurring in a mobile radio channel, and performing efficient beam forming using the simplified joint channel and DOA estimation are provided. A receiver estimates the total interference power using power for each interference signal, estimates a spectral noise density, calculates steering vectors considering predetermined DOAs, and jointly calculates optimal weight vectors for each DOA of each user by applying the interference power and the spectral noise density to the steering vectors. The beam forming reduces implementation complexity of a TDD system such as a TD-SCDMA and increases beam forming efficiency in a mobile environment by efficiently using spatial diversity.

Joint execution type compound orders can be processed in an anonymous trading system comprising a plurality of broker nodes each of which includes an order matching functionality and a market distribution functionality. Trader agent nodes are connected to a number of dealer terminals grouped in trading floors and also to a broker node. Joint execution orders are entered as hit orders and are all matched by the broker during the hit or the order is cancelled. If matches are made the taker's trading agent does not complete any of the deals marking up the order until it knows that all the deals are executable. The system may be used to allow traders to hit bids and offers in currency pairs synthesized from other currency pairs. In this arrangement the dealer enters a simple order in the synthetic currency and the taker's trading agent converts it into a joint execution order.

A cryptographic method is implemented in a white-box implementation thereof. The method comprises applying a plurality of transformations (802) each replacing an input word by an output word, and applying a diffusion operator (804) to a concatenation of a plurality of the output words for diffusing information represented by the output words among the output words. A key (806) to the cryptographic method comprises information representing the diffusion operator. The diffusion operator satisfies a property that a change of one bit in an input to the diffusion operator corresponds to a change of more than one bit in an output of the diffusion operator.

A development suite for generating files, such as DRM-protected files, using white-box cryptography. The suite consists of a code generation tool, a data transformation engine, and a white-box data generation tool, and a white-box library. In the white-box cryptography context, the data transformation engine is used to protect the boundary between the cryptographic operation and the surrounding code. In particular, the data transformation engine is used to apply data transformations to the inputs to and outputs from the cryptographic operations. If the user specifies that transformations are required via a white-box parameterization file, the code generation tool puts the information specified by the user into a form the data transformation engine understands, namely as qualifiers on data variables and function prototypes. The data transformation engine then applies the specified transformations, and passes information to the data generation tool regarding which transformations were chosen.

The invention belongs to an electronic product reliability technology and relates to an electronic product reliability accelerated test method based on failure physics. The electronic product reliability accelerated test method is characterized by comprising the following steps: building a digital prototype model of an electronic product; analyzing a thermal stress state and a vibration stress state; determining a failure mechanism of the electronic product; determining a failure physics model of the electronic product; providing temperature conditions for reliability accelerated test; calculating accelerated test time; calculating the vibration conditions of the reliability accelerated test; evaluating test implementation and test results. The electronic product reliability accelerated test method provided by the invention has the benefits that the transfer effect of stress in a product structure can be considered, the accuracy of the model is improved, and further, the test result accuracy is improved.

A communication system that allows communication devices to synchronize the transfer of data to allow the devices to wirelessly and efficiently communicate in a star or mesh network. The communication system operates in the presence of other communication systems noise sources using a spread spectrum frequency hopping transmission scheme to efficiently generate adaptive frequency hopping patterns that are unique to the members of the wireless network based on a network identification code. The communication system employs a predictive retrieval of data for transmission from one device storing the data to a requesting device. A communication device transfers communication from a first network to a second network when the device has been moved beyond the range of the first network, where the second network is in communication with at least one other member device of the first network.

The invention discloses a full-flow model rule commercial bank personal loan overdue collection management system and belongs to the software development technology field. With the computing aid of an IT system, the repayment condition of each loan is identified through a loan risk control model; the system automatically judges the most reasonable way of loan collection and can effectively process overdue transactions through collection implementation, collection adjustment supervision, collection historical inquiry and collection statistical report standardization and intelligent management modules so as to push forward collection works according to different layers and with specific purposes, and therefore, the safe collection of credit funds can be ensured. With the full-flow model rule commercial bank personal loan overdue collection management system of the invention adopted, the production of a collection process model and the collection of customer activity data can be realized; and data are accumulated, and therefore, customer overdue behavior analysis can be performed, and customer overdue conduct rules and collection rules are updated.

According to example configurations as described herein, a workflow management application receives a set of interconnected flowchart elements defining a workflow. A particular flowchart element in the workflow represents a task to be jointly executed by one or more resources such as a computer, person, etc. To execute the particular flowchart element, the workflow management application obtains a list. The list can be dynamically generated during execution of the particular flowchart element. The list specifies the multiple users that are to jointly execute the task. The workflow management application can provide notification to the multiple users that the task is to be jointly executed by the multiple users. Additionally, the workflow management application provides, to each of the multiple users, a link to a user interface. The user interface provides further information to the multiple users and indicates details of how to carry out the task.

The present invention discloses a billing implementation method based on a software defined networking evolved packet core (SDN EPC) network, said method comprising: a controller receiving billing rules sent by a billing rule generator, and binding the corresponding relationship between its own flow table and the billing rules; the controller engaging in table-entry setting for the flow table having billing rules bound thereto, and sends the post-setting flow table to a universal gateway (UGW); the controller receiving statistical results for the operations-occupied flow rate and / or occupation duration, which are based on the flow table and which are reported by the UGW, and, in accordance with the statistical results and the flow table billing rules, engaging in the billing of operations. The present invention also discloses an SDN EPC network-based billing implementation system.

According to one embodiment, an integrated circuit (100) includes a programmable portion (102) and a communication portion (104). A programmable portion (102) may include logic circuits that are configurable by a user. A communication portion (104) may include one or more circuit blocks designed to perform predetermined serial data communication functions. According to one embodiment, a communication portion (104) may include a block converter (218) that can encode / decode input data words into output data words, and a scrambler circuit (220) for scrambling / de-scrambling data according to a predetermined scrambling polynomial value. Different scrambling polynomial values may be selected from an operation control store (206) to provide a variety of different scrambling / de-scrambling functions. The inclusion of a communication portion (104) may reduce the size and / or increase the speed of an integrated circuit over conventional approaches that may synthesize serial data communication functions from programmable logic circuits.

A method includes the steps of receiving a signal indicative of data bits, and performing per survivor processing-iterative timing recovery (PSP-ITR) on the received signal to generate probabilities of the data bits. To perform PSP-ITR on the received signal, the signal can be processed using a per survivor processing-soft decision algorithm (PSP-SDA) which jointly performs timing recovery and equalization in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. The soft decision algorithm (SDA) can be, for example, a Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek, and Raviv (BCJR) algorithm or a Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm (SOVA) modified in accordance with the concepts of the present invention such that it is configured to implement per survivor processing (PSP) to jointly perform timing recovery and equalization.

A circuit and a method are given, to realize a very efficient driver device for igniters or squibs as used e.g. in airbag applications. Special attention has been turned to include secure and always reliable operating features into the device and at the same time to reach for a low-cost implementation with modern integrated circuit technologies. Controlled firing operation and sophisticated diagnostic mechanisms are realized. These design features have been acquired by use of current mirror circuit principles for the switching devices where appropriate and with special regard to production cost. Current trimming and limitation to secure values are part of the solution.