252 results about "Mainframe computer" patented technology

The invention also includes methods of issuing an account authorization to a UET card, a method of transferring transactional and account information between a UET card and a personal computer or a mainframe computer, a method of using the UET card as a remote terminal for a mainframe computer, and a method of conducting an electronic transaction.

A system and method for representing, storing and retrieving real-world knowledge on a computer or network of computers is disclosed. Knowledge is broken down into permanent atomic “facts” which can be stored in a standard relational database and processed very efficiently. It also provides for the efficient querying of a knowledge base, efficient inference of new knowledge and translation into and out of natural language. Queries can also be processed with full natural language explanations of where the answers came from. The method can also be used in a distributed fashion enabling the system to be a large network of computers and the technology can be integrated into a web browser adding to the browser's functionality.

A universal electronic transaction card (“UET card”) is capable of serving as a number of different credit cards, bank cards, identification cards, employee cards, medical cards and the like. The UET card includes storage elements, an input interface, a processor, a display, and a communications interface. In a preferred embodiment, the UET card stores transactional information to eliminate paper receipts and includes security features to prevent unauthorized use. The UET card may also be used to replace conventional currency and traveler's checks, and may be configured to store and display promotional information, such as advertising and incentives. A communications interface unit (“CIU”) may be provided to interface between the UET card and a personal computer, automatic banking terminal (commonly referred to as ATM machines) and/or an institutional mainframe computer. CIU devices may include electrical contact for recharging a UET card. A system of utilizing the UET card is also provided which includes UET cards and CIU devices which enable the transmission of information between point of sales (or point of transactions) computers and the UET cards. The system further includes point of sales computers configured to communicate with the UET card and with service institution computers. The invention also includes a health care management system utilizing UET cards. In the health care management system, all medical information for a patient may be stored in the UET card so that when a patient receives services from a health care provider, that health care provider connects the patient's UET card to the health care provider's computer system and can then obtain all pertinent medical information concerning the patient, including the patient's medical history, insurance information and the like. In addition, the treatment or services provided by the health care provider are stored in the patient's UET card. The invention also includes methods of issuing an account authorization to a UET card, a method of transferring transactional and account information between a UET card and a personal computer or a mainframe computer, a method of using the UET card as a remote terminal for a mainframe computer, and a method of conducting an electronic transaction.

In one aspect, a system for implementing a copy number variation analysis method, is disclosed. The system can include a nucleic acid sequencer and a computing device in communications with the nucleic acid sequencer. The nucleic acid sequencer can be configured to interrogate a sample to produce a nucleic acid sequence data file containing a plurality of nucleic acid sequence reads. In various embodiments, the computing device can be a workstation, mainframe computer, personal computer, mobile device, etc.

The computing device can comprise a sequencing mapping engine, a coverage normalization engine, a segmentation engine and a copy number variation identification engine. The sequence mapping engine can be configured to align the plurality of nucleic acid sequence reads to a reference sequence, wherein the aligned nucleic acid sequence reads merge to form a plurality of chromosomal regions. The coverage normalization engine can be configured to divide each chromosomal region into one or more non-overlapping window regions, determine nucleic acid sequence read coverage for each window region and normalize the nucleic acid sequence read coverage determined for each window region to correct for bias. The segmentation engine can be configured to convert the normalized nucleic acid sequence read coverage for each window region to discrete copy number states. The copy number variation identification engine can be configured to identify copy number variation in the chromosomal regions by utilizing the copy number states of each window region.

A method, system, computer system, and computer program product that use application requirements, business priorities, and compatibility and dependency among applications to allocate resources among those applications in a clustering environment. A workload policy engine is aware of the resources available within each cluster, as well as the capacities of those resources. Multiple instances of the workload policy engine can be run in different clusters. The workload policy engine can be used in conjunction with disaster recovery products as well as with provisioning software so that new machines can be provisioned in and out of a cluster dynamically, such as in a blade environment. Furthermore, the workload policy engine can be used in conjunction with dynamic repartitioning capabilities provided by different hardware platforms for large computer systems, as well as with performance monitoring software.

A sketch-based change detection technique is introduced for anomaly detection and other applications that can benefit from having a quick and efficient change detection mechanism. The technique is capable of detecting significant changes in massive data streams with a large number of network time series. As part of the technique, we designed a variant of the sketch data structure, called k-ary sketch, uses a constant, small amount of memory, and has constant per-record update and reconstruction cost. A variety of time series forecast models are implemented on top of such summaries and detect significant changes by looking for flows with large forecast errors. Heuristics for automatically configuring the forecast model parameters are presented. Real Internet traffic data is used to demonstrate that the sketch-based change detection method is highly accurate when compared with per-flow analysis, and can be implemented at low computation and memory costs. The results validate using the technique as a building block for network anomaly detection and traffic measurement in large computer networks.

The invention provides a method and system of implementing a high performance “non-RACF external security-manager product,” which maintains and translates a merged single source of authorizations to both mainframe and Microsoft Windows Active Directory (AD) systems. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating at a server computer access information for a mainframe computer indicative of mainframe authorization for a set of users, receiving from the mainframe computer information indicative of an authorization request, the information indicative of the authorization request identifying a user trying to access the mainframe computer, and sending at least a portion of the access information from the server computer to the mainframe computer, the portion of the access information including mainframe access information for the user.

A reconfigurable multi-processor computing system including a plurality of configurable processing elements each having a plurality of integrated high-speed serial input/output ports. Interconnects link the plurality of processing elements, wherein at least one of the integrated high-speed serial input/output ports of each processing element is connected by at least one interconnect to at least one of the integrated high-speed serial input/output ports of each other processing element, thereby creating a full mesh network. The full mesh network is located on a processor card, multiples of which may be grouped in a shelf having a backplane card with a shelf controller card for providing cross-connects between processor cards. Multiple shelves may be interconnected to form a large computer system.

The present invention discloses a method for quickly and easily authenticating large computer program. The system operates by first sealing the computer program with digital signature in an incremental manner. Specifically, the computer program is divided into a set of pages and a hash value is calculated for each page. The set of hash values is formed into a hash value array and then the hash value array is then sealed with a digital signature. The computer program is then distributed along with the hash value array and the digital signature. To authenticate the computer program, a recipient first verifies the authenticity of the hash value array with the digital signature and a public key. Once the hash value array has been authenticated, the recipient can then verify the authenticity of each page of the computer program by calculating a hash of a page to be loaded and then comparing with an associated hash value in the authenticated hash value array. If the hash values do not match, then execution may be halted.

A method, apparatus and system for restarting an emulated mainframe IOP, such as a failed or hung emulated mainframe IOP within an emulated mainframe commodity computer. The method includes a rescue process that polls a home location for Restart Request information. In response to receiving Restart Request information, the rescue process is configured to shut down the existing emulated mainframe IOP, start a new emulated mainframe IOP, and reset the home location. The Restart Request information can be provided to the home location by the mainframe computer being emulated. Alternatively, the rescue mechanism can use an interface management card instructed to restart the commodity computer hosting the failed or hung IOP, e.g., from a maintenance service and/or a maintenance program residing in an active commodity computer coupled to the commodity computers hosting one of several emulated mainframe IOPs.

A method and a system by which to achieve authentication intrusion detection so as to effectively detect and prevent unauthorized access to and use of a local computer system, or the like, and take appropriate measures. The local system authentication process is redirected to an authenticator broker system (i.e. a secondary authentication system) that makes use of the local system authentication process paths and the local system authenticator file. The authenticator broker system includes an authenticator broker system file having stored therein secret authenticators of prospective users, a mapping file to assign a replacement identifier for the identifier entered by a particular user at the local system and redirected to the secondary system, and a decoy authenticator file to assign a decoy authenticator for the secret authenticator entered by the user and originally stored in the local system authentication file. It is the decoy authenticator that is captured and unknowingly used by the intruder to give away his or her presence. By way of example, the authenticator broker system may be a mainframe computer that is responsible for authentication and access control with respect to a local computer system.

A system for planning and verifying off-site disaster recovery plans as well as implementing alternate fall back operations in the event of a disaster. The system includes at least one primary mainframe computer having an inboard catalog component, a primary emulated device controller connected to the primary computer, and a primary virtual tape system connected to the primary computer. A primary virtual tape system catalog is connected to the primary virtual tape system. A disaster recovery administrator using remote management tools maintains user and resource profiles and controls configuration of the primary emulated device controller and the primary virtual tape system. A disaster recovery facility includes at least one customer virtual tape system including a virtual tape system catalog component, a terminal emulator in communication with a disaster recovery mainframe computer and a disaster recovery virtual tape system having a virtual tape system catalog in communication with the disaster recovery mainframe wherein customer virtual tape system images are mirrored on the disaster recovery virtual tape system and catalog information from the customer virtual tape catalog is mirrored on the disaster recovery tape system of the disaster recovery facility.

Users of Mainframe computers running under IBM's MVS operating systems have a need to merge migrate data from multiple smaller DASD devices (disk volumes) to larger DASD devices, and/or to migrate data in order to combine data set extents. A method is disclosed for migrating data where a volume merge is involved, and/or when combining of extents is desired, that minimizes the down time of applications using the involved data while satisfying MVS rules for volume and catalog meta-data files as well as data extent limitations. The method may be implemented such that source and target volumes need not be in like manufacturer DASD devices.

Building and testing complex electronic products especially large scale computer systems are handled with control remaining with the owner of the design while a contract manufacturer does the basic manufacturing processes and testing. Nearly all levels of testing are accomplished without sharing high level descriptions of the end product or its features by providing only low level files for test functions. A tester used by the contract manufacturer to exercise the testing function for multiple circuit boards and that tester has numerous features that make it more useful and efficient. The tester has a computer system in it to run the tests using the low level files, and mimics the platform into which the boards will eventually become inserted. Various features provide additional ease of use and functionality.

A system and method for verifying charges on a customer bill includes a computers for downloading, from a mainframe computer, to a local server billing data associated with a customer account, populating a database with a portion of the billing data, performing pre-calculation functions on another portion of the billing data and populating the database with results of the pre-calculation functions, displaying predetermined categories of information stored in the database, calculating the taxes for each of several charges in the billing data and storing tax results in the database, and comparing the tax results with tax information on the customer bill.

A method and system for diagnosing data-processing system performance. Initially, unique audible sounds are associated with particular performance indicators within the data-processing system. Thereafter, performance indicators are identified, one or more of which indicate data-processing system performance. A diagnostic is then periodically run to detect performance indicators within the data-processing system. A unique audible sound is then generated associated with a particular performance indicator, in response to detecting the status of particular performance indicator via the diagnostic, such that potential data-processing system failures may be recognized by identifying the unique audible sound. The unique audible sound may be continuously generated at varying durations and volumes to indicate the presence of system failures. A trained user, accustomed to particular audible sounds, can identify and diagnose system failures by analyzing unique audible sounds generated by the data-processing system. The frequency and duration of each particular sound may be designated and subsequently altered by the user. The performance indicators may be composed of fault modes, one or more of which may presage data-processing system failures. In addition, the data-processing system itself may be composed of a computer system, such as a personal or mainframe computer.