694 results about "Monitoring features" patented technology

Various systems and methods for detecting design and process defects on a wafer, reviewing defects on a wafer, selecting one or more features within a design for use as process monitoring features, or some combination thereof are provided.

An apparatus is described that associates categorization information with network traffic to facilitate application level processing through processing of network traffic in accordance with provisioned rules and policies. The apparatus includes a plurality of microcode controlled state machines, wherein at least one microcode state machine processes at least one input data field using a hash function to generate a hash identifier. This embodiment further includes a distribution circuit that routes input data to the plurality of microcode controlled state machines, such that at least one individual microcode controlled state machine applies a rule to the input data to produce the at least one input data field, and to produce modification instructions based on the hash identifier. This embodiment further includes a first circuit that appends the hash identifier to the input data to produce modified input data based on the modification instructions, and that routes the modified input data in accordance with an output routing strategy. Advantageously, the apparatus provides an architectural framework well suited to a low cost, high speed, robust implementation of flexible, advanced network security and monitoring features and network traffic analysis.

A monitoring function-equipped dispensing system and a method of monitoring the dispensing system wherein conditions in a pipeline can be identified accurately and precisely by not only optically measuring conditions in the pipeline, but performing other measurements reinforcing the former. The system comprises: one or more translucent or semi-translucent pipelines; one or more pressure regulating units which respectively regulate the pressures in the pipelines; an elevating / lowering unit which enables the pipelines to be elevated / lowered; a pressure measuring unit which measures the pressures in the respective pipelines when operation instructions are given to the pressure regulating unit; an optical measurement unit which optically measures the conditions of the pipelines above the container disposition area, when operations based on operation instructions including operation instructions to the pressure regulating unit are completed; and a monitoring unit which judges the conditions in the pipelines based on the operation instructions and measurement results of the pressure measuring unit and the optical measurement unit so as to obtain monitoring results that associate the judged results with respective pipelines and the operation instructions.

A method and system for interconnecting peripherals, processor nodes, and hardware devices to a data network to produce a network bus providing OS functionality for managing hardware devices connected to the network bus involves defining a network bus driver at each of the processor nodes that couples hardware device drivers to a network hardware abstraction layer of the processor node. The network bus can be constructed to account for the hot-swappable nature of the hardware devices using a device monitoring function, and plug and play functionality for adding and, removing device driver instances. The network bus can be used to provide a distributed processing system by defining a shared memory space at each processor node. Distributed memory pages are provided with bus-network-wide unique memory addresses, and a distributed memory manager is added to ensure consistency of the distributed memory pages, and to provide a library of functions for user mode applications.

A video surveillance system includes multiple video cameras. The surveillance system is configured with an arrangement to separate the surveillance functions and assign different surveillance functions to different cameras. A master camera is assigned the surveillance of large area surveillance and tracking of object movement while one or more slave cameras are provided to dynamically rotate and adjust focus to obtain clear image of the moving objects as detected by the master camera. Algorithms to adjust the focus-of-attention are disclosed to effectively carry out the tasks by a slave camera under the command of a master camera to obtain images of a moving object with clear feature detections.

A power strip adapted to support power status reporting as well as the issuing of commands to control functional operations of the appliances. The power strip may receive a command from a remote control (for example transmitted via radio frequency or wired connection) and, in turn, issue a corresponding command (for example transmitted via infrared) to one or more appliances to cause the one or more appliances to perform a functional operation.

The invention claimed herein is a Multifunctional, All-in-one, Detachable Wrist Wireless Mobile Communication Device, which can be worn on the wrist, and used with a wireless earpiece for wireless communication needs. This device has a screen and / or buttons to operate the device, is detachable from its base if needed to be used like a regular mobile phone. This multifunctional device has all the mobile communication functions / features / capabilities such as audio, video, camera, media playback, secured wireless (or with an option to plug in) media / data storage capability, secured video / audio house / business / child monitoring features, dual solar charging and AC / DC / car charging capabilities, speaker phone capabilities, and GPS and satellite reception capabilities. All the features mentioned above and described in the specifications eliminates the need to carry a separate MP3 player, or headphones, or flash drive, as all this features are built in this device. By wearing this device, the user does not need to carry a separate mobile device that falls and gets damaged, or is lost or stolen or forgotten in cars and at home, and neither does the user need to locate the device in purses, pockets, or retrieve from holders to answer calls like most mobile phones in the market today. The device also comes with an option to be detached and hanged around the neck with the hanging device claimed herein, if preferred over wearing it on the wrist. It is a convenient, practical, all-in-one, next generation communication device that is readily available on the wrist to use, and thus is the all in one solution for all the communication / media / technology needs of today, and tomorrow.

The present invention discloses a plug-and-play network digital image display apparatus plugged into an existing power socket at home or office through a built-in or external powerline to Ethernet adapter and connected to a webcam through a powerline installed at home or office, so that the webcam in a certain room can send captured video and audio signals to the network digital image display apparatus in another room through the powerline, and the network digital image display apparatus plays the image and sound, without the need of installing an additional network cable to achieve the plug-and-play function at the power socket for the environmental dynamic monitoring function. The invention also discloses a plug-and-play image monitoring system, such that a user situated at a place other than a home or an office still can use a personal computer to monitor the home or office through the Internet.

The present invention is directed toward providing a system for monitoring events occurring on a networked browser while the browser is processing web page-based transactions and information, wherein the data from the monitoring process is sent to a computer other than the browser on which the transactions are executing and other than the computer from which the transaction was downloaded. Exemplary embodiments of the invention are directed toward a system and method for invoking a monitoring function on a network computer, including the steps of accessing a web page from a web server, updating the web page by inserting a script tag in the web page, wherein the script tag includes location information for a function for monitoring events on a network computer other than the web server, and storing the updated web page on the web server. An alternate embodiment is directed toward a system and method for monitoring events on a network computer, including the steps of downloading a web page from a web server to a client browser within a network, wherein the web page includes a script tag identifying a location of a monitoring function; retrieving the monitoring function based on information in the script tag; invoking the monitoring function to monitor an event on the client browser; and sending monitored data to a measurement computer, wherein the measurement computer is a computer other than the web server.

The invention discloses a microservice architecture span process tracking-oriented monitoring system and method. The system mainly includes a data collection module, a data transmission module and a data storage module. The data collection module adopts dynamic AOP technology to embed monitoring logic code into a common component without the need for modifying service code, and ensures transparency of a monitoring function to an application system. The data transmission module adopts an asynchronous manner based on a message queue, uses message middleware to realize accessing and transmissionof monitoring data, mitigates the problem that speeds of both data transmission and data processing are not synchronized, and also reduces coupling between the data collection module and the data storage module at the same time. For data storage, a user transaction request is used as a unit to record situations, which contain multiple service spans, for the one transaction request. The monitoringsystem uses a column-type model database for data storage.

A method and system for operating a mini-grid including one or more power generation sources and one or more loads independently from a utility grid is provided, where the mini-grid is disconnected from the utility grid in response to a power disruption over the utility grid. A universal interconnect device forms a connection between the mini-grid and the utility grid. In the disconnected state, the mini-grid operates independently from the utility grid, such that the power generation sources of the mini-grid supply the loads. Frequency and voltage regulation are provided by the universal interconnect device through a monitoring function performed by a controller in conjunction with at least an energy storage device, which can absorb or generate power as needed.

A network computer system for providing security that includes a monitoring function for the network computer system utilizing compartments that can be logical or separate physical hardware, at least one outside server for an untrusted computer network, e.g., global computer system, at least one proxy server, at least one inside server, wherein the at least one outside server is able to read and write software code to the at least one proxy server and the at least one proxy server is able to read and write software code to the at least one inside server, wherein the monitoring function can read and execute software code from the at least one outside server, the at least one proxy server and the at least one inside server. There is a top / down security function to prevent access to higher compartments.

A mobile phone with monitoring functions, a monitoring system and a monitoring method thereof are disclosed. The mobile phone monitoring system includes at least a mobile phone, a monitoring unit, a control unit and a predetermined abnormality reaction unit. The mobile phone serves as the mainbody of the monitoring system. The monitoring unit is used for capturing the signal data of a specified area. The control unit is used for generating a triggering signal in response to an abnormal situation. The predetermined abnormality reaction unit is used for generating a preset abnormal signal. The mobile phone monitoring system combines the mobility of a mobile phone with the monitor abnormality reaction of a monitoring system to substantially enhance the capability and feasibility of monitoring tasks.

Methods, apparatus and systems for memory access obscuration are provided. A first embodiment provides memory access obscuration in conjunction with deadlock avoidance. Such embodiment utilizes processor features including an instruction to enable monitoring of specified cache lines and an instruction that sets a status bit responsive to any foreign access (e.g., write or eviction due to a read) to the specified lines. A second embodiment provides memory access obscuration in conjunction with deadlock detection. Such embodiment utilizes the monitoring feature, as well as handler registration. A user-level handler may be asynchronously invoked responsive to a foreign write to any of the specified lines. Invocation of the handler more frequently than expected indicates that a deadlock may have been encountered. In such case, a deadlock policy may be enforced. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

A method for performing a monitoring function for an application that passes messages between two or more endpoints, comprising: receiving a message including transaction data, the transaction data including data relating to transport of the transaction data; storing the message and transaction data in respective message data and transaction data buffers in a data store; storing status and semantic information associated with the message in the data store; receiving a signal selecting one or more module instances to define the monitoring function, each module instance for independently performing a respective aspect of the monitoring function, each module instance having related module instance data stored in a respective module instance data buffer in the data store, each module instance having a respective service access point for accessing the data store, each service access point having related service access point data stored in a respective service access point data buffer in the data store, each module instance independently accessing one or more of the message, transaction, module instance, and service access point data buffers to process data contained therein to perform its aspect of the monitoring function; and, initiating operation of the one or more module instances in accordance with a schedule defined by one or more routing rules, the one or more routing rules for routing a pointer to the message, as stored in the message data buffer, between the one or more module instances to thereby perform the monitoring function.

An apparatus is described that facilitates network security and network traffic monitoring through processing of network traffic in accordance with provisioned rules and policies. The apparatus includes a set of microcode controlled state machines, each of which includes a computation kernel operating in accordance with microcode stored in a control store. A distribution circuit routes individual network traffic segments derived from input network traffic to the set of microcode controlled state machines, so that at least one of the microcode controlled state machines applies a rule encoded in the microcode to the individual network traffic segments to produce modification instructions. A circuit performs a modification of the input network traffic based on the modification instructions from the at least one microcode controlled state machine to produce output network traffic. Advantageously, the apparatus provides an architectural framework well suited to a low cost, high speed, robust implementation of flexible, advanced network security and monitoring features, traffic management, and integration of devices within a system.

A method and apparatus are provided for customizing and monitoring multiple interfaces, such as, multiple IEEE 1149.1 standard joint test access group (JTAG) interfaces and implementing enhanced fault tolerance and isolation features. A first interface is connected to a pair of master sources. A second interface is connected to a plurality of target interfaces; and a third interface is provided for a plurality of predefined control signals. A pair of redundant selectors is provided for coupling a select signal to the first multiplexer for selecting one of the plurality of target interfaces. A pair of redundant ATTENTION monitor functions is provided for monitoring ATTENTION signals for each of the plurality of target interfaces

Machine data is collected from multiple sources of an operating environment such as an information technology system, factory floor, or the like, into a data intake and query system, in one embodiment. Metrics representative of the environment are included in or derived from the data. Users may interact with an interface to depict a representation of various metrics and interdependencies and that depiction is reflected in a computer storage model. Changes to the computer storage model based on the user interaction may also result in automatic changes to control information reflected in the computer storage model that directs the processing of various monitoring functions associated with the metrics.

An apparatus is described that facilitates selective mirroring through processing of network traffic in accordance with provisioned rules and policies. The apparatus includes a port included in a set of at least one port, wherein each port in the set receives input traffic, a data processor that processes input data from the set of at least one port to generate mirrored data, based on rules with bitwise granularity across a header and a payload of the input data, and a mirror port selectable from the set of at least one port that transmits output traffic corresponding to the mirrored data. Advantageously, the apparatus provides an architectural framework well suited to a low cost, high speed, robust implementation of selective mirroring that enables flexible, advanced network security and monitoring features and network traffic analysis.

The inventions relate to computer-implemented methods, computer programs, computer program products, computers, and data structures for providing process monitoring functionality. A process object comprising at least one task object is defined. For said task object, at least one activity status is defined and rules within said process object are provided. The rules define a process object status based on said at least one activities status. The rules are executed on said at least one activity status of said at least one task object to determine said process object status.

Methods, apparatus and systems for memory access obscuration are provided. A first embodiment provides memory access obscuration in conjunction with deadlock avoidance. Such embodiment utilizes processor features including an instruction to enable monitoring of specified cache lines and an instruction that sets a status bit responsive to any foreign access (e.g., write or eviction due to a read) to the specified lines. A second embodiment provides memory access obscuration in conjunction with deadlock detection. Such embodiment utilizes the monitoring feature, as well as handler registration. A user-level handler may be asynchronously invoked responsive to a foreign write to any of the specified lines. Invocation of the handler more frequently than expected indicates that a deadlock may have been encountered. In such case, a deadlock policy may be enforced. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

An apparatus is described that provides security and monitoring in a networking architecture. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a physical layer interface that includes a physical layer receiver and a decoder for converting physical layer data from the physical layer receiver to data link layer information, wherein the decoder processes input data corresponding to the physical layer data based on rules conditioned on higher layer information to generate output data corresponding to the data link layer information; and a controller for provisioning the physical layer interface. Advantageously, the apparatus provides an architectural framework well suited to a low cost, high speed, robust implementation of flexible, advanced network security and monitoring features, traffic management, and network traffic analysis.

In a laser based curing apparatus, the acts both as the curing light and the excitation source for a Raman spectroscopic sensor. The spectroscopic sensor provides real-time, in situ, non-invasive curing status monitoring via Raman spectroscopy. The spectroscopic information can be further used to control the operation parameters of the laser to achieve the optimum cure result.

A purposed-device management platform monitors a network of mobile devices dedicated to a single purpose. The single purpose may be to function as a point-of-sale terminal at a retail shop or a plurality of retail shops. Other networks may be directed to other purposes, such as customer service, digital signage security, resource management, testing and an educational function. Each device is monitored by the management platform, which may include a variety of functions and applications to accomplish the goals of the single purpose. Monitoring functions may include device and application performance statistics and may alert the platform or the local user when a malfunction occurs. Geolocation monitoring may determine whether the device has been moved in an unauthorized manner. The platform may cause the device to cease functioning, lock up, or revert to factory / default settings when the device is moved or when another restriction is violated.

The invention discloses a mobile monitoring system and a monitoring terminal thereof. The terminal comprises a processor and a camera, a GPS tracker, a wireless remote-control unit, a first wireless communication module, a pick-up and a control interface which are connected with the processor, wherein the GPS tracker comprises a GPS module and a second wireless communication module, which are mutually connected and are both connected to the processor; the processor comprises a long-distance monitoring module; and the long-distance monitoring module presets monitoring numbers and is used for answering and switching on a voice access of the pick-up and calling parties automatically when the second wireless communication module receives calls and called numbers are the monitoring numbers. The mobile monitoring system can realize real-time monitoring and give full play to the monitoring function of the terminal, and simultaneously, information processed by the monitoring terminal can be stored to a server of a monitoring platform.

A portable generator is provided with a remote power source connection, and optionally also provided with remote control and / or monitoring features. The portable generator's control panel is partially or entirely removable from the portable generator. A short pigtail with a weatherproof multi-pin connection connects to the generator's wiring harness. The multi-pin connector on the pigtail allows the panel to be removably connected to the pigtail and the generator to be removably connected to an interconnecting cord. A longer interconnecting cord connects the removable panel to the generator, and transmits the power to the remotely locatable panel, along with transmitting any desired control aspects such as on, off, start, or circuit breaker re-set commands, and / or transmitting any desired monitoring information such as voltage, amperage, gas level, oil level, frequency of the generated power, circuit breakers, or operating time. But preferably the removable panel has all the power outlets supplied by all the electrical power generated by the portable generator.