5150 results about "Network module" patented technology

In one embodiment according to the principle of this present invention, a communication IC embeds a plurality of network function modules; at least one hardware module interface provides a plurality of interfaces where a plurality of hardware modules can be coupled, said hardware modules comprise secret keys corresponding to their functionalities: a second memory device stores a plurality of software modules and at least one software key, said software key corresponds to at least one function of said software modules: a general network module couples to said bus and comprises general module key corresponding to their functionalities in the system: and / or a first memory device stores at least one hardware key, said hardware key corresponds to at least one of said network function modules. By varying the combination of said hardware modules, network function modules, general module key, and software modules that are configured and enabled or disabled by said secret keys, hardware key, general module and software key, the network may expand or contract according to the need of a networking environment on a single platform.

An apparatus, system, and process are disclosed for dynamically determining a best network service for an electronic computing device. A network query module queries two or more active networks to determine the network characteristics, such as bandwidth, security level, and cost, of each network. A service level module determines a service level associated with each active network. The service level is determined based on an algorithm using the network characteristics of each network. A best network module determines the best network from the active networks based on the service levels of each network, and a network connection module dynamically connects the electronic computing device to the best network. The network selection apparatus may also maintain and use a profile module to store default, user-defined, application, and network profiles. A dynamic switching module may dynamically switch between active networks as the service levels of individual networks are re-evaluated and the network characteristics of each network change.

A packet switch router that processes downstream digital information to provide dedicated bandwidth to each subscriber destination in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network. The router includes a network module that terminates a network connection, a switch that forwards data from the network module, and a channel module. The channel module includes a switch interface, a cell processing engine, one or more modulators, and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter network. The switch interface forwards packetized data from the switch to the cell processing engine. The cell processing engine organizes the packetized data into multiple data streams, encapsulates data in each data stream into data cells, and multiplexes the data cells into a multiplexed cell stream. Each modulator is configured to modulate a multiplexed cell stream into an analog signal. The RF transmitter network up converts and combines a plurality of analog signals into a combined electrical signal for transmission.

Briefly, and in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a modular device for providing wireless services and a network of such devices. The modular device may include one or more modules including, but not limited to, a module for providing cell phone services, a module for providing conditioned power to other modules included in the modular device, a module for presenting wireless networking services, a module for bridging to other modular devices arranged in a network, a module for monitoring physical phenomena such as air quality, a module for providing public services such as public service announcements, and a module for storing data. Some embodiments include an integrated enclosure.

Financial transaction data comprising payment on any one of multiple financial transaction types are processed with an adapter layer that receives an incoming data message relating to a financial transaction initiated by a payer and operates on the incoming data message to produce adapted data relating to the financial transaction, and a processor that receives the adapted data and determines transaction routing to direct the adapted data to a processing network module that requests authorization by an issuer, responds to authorization by initiating request for settlement and payment on the financial transaction to a transaction payee, and responds to payee query requests by providing non-payment data to an external payee.

In one embodiment of a networking module, a first block receives a serial digital media signal, and provides a parallel digital media signal based on the serial digital media signal. A second block, operative with the first block, stores the parallel digital media signal in a corresponding slot in an outgoing frame, and sends the outgoing frame in response to receiving an incoming frame.

A battery monitoring system for simultaneously managing the batteries in 100 or more remote locations, each of said locations comprising a battery string with 100 or fewer cells, said system comprising:a. an individual battery monitor operatively engaged with at least one of said cells;b. a network access module in communication with said battery monitor, said network access module comprising a modem compatible with an M2M data communication protocol, said protocol comprising assigning a variable IP address to said network access module modem upon initiation of a connection to a battery manager; andc. said battery manager comprising a fixed IP address that can be connected to via said M2M data protocol upon said initiation of said connection,wherein said network access module is programmed to periodically transfer battery monitor data, including ohmic measurements, to said battery manager at a frequency of not less than once per week and with a total rate of data transfer of not more than 1 Mb per month.

Various methods of manufacturing a lighting apparatus and embodiments of a modular networked lighting apparatus are disclosed. One method defines a mechanical form factor with a minimum set of electrical connections for a networking module, builds a subassembly of the networked lighting apparatus, the subassembly comprising attachment points compatible with the mechanical form factor for the networking module and contacts for the minimum set of electrical connections for the networking module, installs a networking module into the subassembly of the networked lighting apparatus, the networking module compatible with a selected networking protocol for the networked lighting apparatus, completes the final assembly of the networked lighting module, and marks the networked lighting apparatus to indicate the selected networking protocol for the networked lighting apparatus. In some embodiments, the lighting apparatus may function without the networking module installed. One embodiment of the modular, networked light bulb has means for supporting and holding an electronics module conforming with a predetermined form factor in place, and means for allowing the electronics module to control at least a brightness level of the at least one LED. The modular networked light bulb may have a networked controller conforming with the predetermined form factor used as the electronics module. The networked controller is able to connect to a network and may be positioned and held by the means for supporting and holding an electronics module.

The invention provides a cloud mode streaming media service platform which comprises a navigation module, a data module, a control module and a content distribution network module. The navigation module is used for judging various types of terminals, accessing the terminals to the cloud mode streaming media service platform according to the types of the terminals and transmitting requested data stream to the terminals; the data module is used for storing video data; the control module is used for transmitting the video data to the terminals through content distribution networks according to requests of the terminals; and the content distribution network module is used for accessing the terminals to a closest server with requested contents in the data module through the navigation module. Through the realization of system architecture and service flow, the invention provides the cloud mode streaming media system platform which can meet demands of various terminal users for streaming media.

A hand held radio host includes circuitry for selectively providing power to radiating transceiver elements and non-radiating application elements according to a plurality of power modes of operation to achieve desired effects and in a way that saves power and extends battery life. In one embodiment of the invention, the hand held host operates in one of three modes. In a full power mode, any selected application element, as well as all transceiver elements, are powered on at the same time. Thus, for example, a cell phone module, a wireless personal access network module, a wireless local area network module, and one of a pager / short message service message module may all be powered on at the same time to receive corresponding messages, calls, data sessions, etc.

Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a system includes a switch fabric and a line interface / network module, multiple virtual routing engines (VREs) and a virtual services engine (VSE) coupled with the switch fabric. The line interface / network module receives packets, steers ingress packets to a selected VRE and transmits egress packets according to their relative priority. VREs determines if a packet associated with a packet flow requires processing by the VSE by performing flow-based packet classification on the packet and evaluating forwarding state information associated with previously stored flow learning results. The VSE includes a central processing unit configured to perform firewall processing, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering and anti-virus processing. If the packet is determined to require processing by the VSE, then the packet is steered to the VSE for firewall, URL filtering and / or anti-virus processing.

An ad hoc emergency interoperability communication network is established by providing universal temporary incident area network modules that communicate with each other on an open network, with the network being established when vehicles containing the temporary incident area network modules are within range of each other.

A distributed mediation network and method of employing such is provided, having a plurality of different types of network module. Each module has a non-reciprocal path therethrough for network traffic and the distribution of network traffic across the network is managed by an autonomic control plane.

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for modeling a joint language-visual space. A textual query to be evaluated relative to a video library is received from a requesting entity. The video library contains a plurality of instances of video content. One or more instances of video content from the video library that correspond to the textual query are determined, by analyzing the textual query using a data model that includes a soft-attention neural network module that is jointly trained with a language Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) neural network module and a video LSTM neural network module. At least an indication of the one or more instances of video content is returned to the requesting entity.

Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for transparent recovery of transport connections. The method includes collecting a state associated with a first connection between a first server and a remote server via a first network socket and transmitting the state from a first networking module to a second networking module. The method includes storing the state, opening a second network socket based on failure of the first networking module, intercepting outbound packets associated with a request to initiate a second connection between the first server and the remote server via the second socket, modifying the intercepted packets based on the state, and transmitting the modified packets to the remote server to elicit an acknowledgement to maintain the first connection. The method includes receiving packets associated with the acknowledgment from the remote server, and modifying the received packets to acknowledge the request to initiate the second connection.

The invention discloses a modified local sensitive hash vehicle retrieval method based on multitask deep learning. A multitask end-to-end convolution neural network is used to identify a vehicle model, a vehicle system, a vehicle logo, a color and a license plate simultaneously in a subsection parallel mode. A network module for extracting vehicle image example features based on a characteristic pyramid and an algorithm by using a modified local sensitive hash sorting algorithm to sort the vehicle characteristics in a database, and a cross-modal text retrieval method when a retrieval vehicle image can not be acquired are included. The multitask end-to-end convolution neural network and the modified local sensitive hash vehicle retrieval method are provided, the automation level and the intelligence level of vehicle retrieval can be improved effectively, little storage space is used, and image retrieval requirements in a big data era are met by using a quicker retrieval speed.

The invention provides a method for detecting an X-ray mammary gland lesion image based on feature pyramid network under transfer learning. The method comprises the steps: 1, establishing a source domain data set and a target domain data set; 2, establishing a deformable convolution residual network layer by a deformable convolution and extended residual network module; 3, establishing a multi-scale feature extraction sub-network based on a feature pyramid structure through a feature map up-sampling and feature fusion method in combination with a deformable convolution residual network layer;4, establishing a deformable pooling sub-network sensitive to the focus position; 5, establishing a post-processing network layer to optimize a prediction result and a loss function; and 6, migratingthe training model to a small sample molybdenum target X-ray mammary gland focus detection task so as to improve the detection precision of the network model on the focus in the small sample image. According to the method, a transfer learning strategy is combined to realize focus image processing in a small sample medical image.

Financial transaction data comprising payment on any one of multiple financial transaction types are processed with an adapter layer that receives an incoming data message relating to a financial transaction initiated by a payer and operates on the incoming data message to produce adapted data relating to the financial transaction, and a processor that receives the adapted data and determines transaction routing to direct the adapted data to a processing network module that requests authorization by an issuer, responds to authorization by initiating request for settlement and payment on the financial transaction to a transaction payee, and responds to payee query requests by providing non-payment data to an external payee.

A packet switch router that processes downstream digital information to provide dedicated bandwidth to each subscriber destination in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network. The router includes a network module that terminates a network connection, a switch that forwards data from the network module, and a channel module. The channel module includes a switch interface, a cell processing engine, one or more modulators, and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter network. The switch interface forwards packetized data from the switch to the cell processing engine. The cell processing engine organizes the packetized data into multiple data streams, encapsulates data in each data stream into data cells, and multiplexes the data cells into a multiplexed cell stream. Each modulator is configured to modulate a multiplexed cell stream into an analog signal. The RF transmitter network up converts and combines a plurality of analog signals into a combined electrical signal for transmission.

A device may include a first network module to capture network data at a first location in a network and a second network module to capture network data at a second location in the network different from the first location in the network. The device may include a control module to receive control commands relating to the first network module and the second network module. The control module may forwarded the control commands to the first network module and the second network module. The control module may receive the captured network data from the first network module and the second network module.

A system for transferring content includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a network module provided within the WLAN or a cellular network to alert users of available content in the WLAN and handle user requests made for content when a user has access to the cellular network. The network module, which may comprise an interworking function, delivers the content to the user through the WLAN when the user is present in a coverage area of the WLAN. The invention allows a user to view the programs available for download and request a specific program using a relatively low speed network, such as a cellular network, and download the program through a high speed network, such as a WLAN.

The invention claims to protect a character recognition system and method based on the combination of a neural network and an attention mechanism, the system comprising: a convolution neural network feature extraction module, which is used for spatial feature of character image; The spatial features extracted by the convolution neural network are input to the bi-directional long-short memory network module, and the bi-directional long-short memory network can extract the sequence features of characters. The extracted feature vectors are semantically encoded, and then the attention weights of feature vectors are assigned through the attention mechanism, so that the attention is focused on the feature vectors with higher weights. In the decoding part of the model, the features extracted fromattention and the prediction information of the previous time are used as the inputs of the nested long-short memory network. The purpose of using the long-short memory network is to keep the temporal characteristics of the eigenvectors and make the attention points of the model constantly change with time. In the decoding part, the features extracted from attention and the prediction informationof the previous time are used as the inputs of the nested long-short memory network. The invention can more accurately detect the text area in the natural scene, and has good detection effect on thesmall target text and the text with small tilt angle.

The present invention provides an adaptive infotainment device, comprising a display unit, a processing module, and a network module. The processing module is coupled to the display unit to decrypt and process the multi-media content. The network module is coupled to the processing module to receive the multi-media content and selecting paths and accessing nodes. The network module collects the usage log to be processed by the processing module to generate an accumulated user profile to be fused with user default information in a user default unit coupled to the processing module to generate at least one threshold value so that the display unit is capable of displaying the processed multi-media content according to the threshold value. Hence, the user's network behavior can be learned by combining the pre-determined preferences and the past usage preferences so as to generate the most favorable displaying means to enhance the convenience for browsing information.

A system and method for controlling information output based on user feedback about the information is provided that comprises a plurality of information sources providing information. The information sources may be electronic mail providers, chat participants, or page links. At least one neural network module selects one or more of a plurality of objects to receive information from the plurality of information sources based at least in part on a plurality of inputs and a plurality of weight values during that epoch. At least one server, associated with the neural network module, provides one or more of the objects to a plurality of recipients. The objects may comprise electronic mail messages, chat participants viewers, or slots within a link directory page. The recipients provide feedback about the information during an epoch. At the conclusion of an epoch, the neural network takes all of the feedback that has been provided from the recipients and generates a rating value for each of the plurality of objects. Based on the rating value and the selections made, the neural network redetermines the weight values within the network. The neural network then selects the objects to receive information during a subsequent epoch using the redetermined weight values and the inputs for that subsequent epoch.

The invention provides a neural network module comprising an input layer comprising one or more input nodes arranged to receive input data, a rule base layer comprising one or more rule nodes, an output layer comprising one or more output nodes, and an adaptive component arranged to aggregate selected two or more rule nodes in the rule base layer based on the input data. The invention also provides an adaptive learning system comprising one or more of the neural network modules of the invention. The invention further provides related methods of implementing a neural network module an adaptive learning system, and a neural network computer program.

A shipping package (1) comprises an enclosure for receiving content within, a closure (14) for sealing the enclosure, a label comprising shipping information, a network module (380), a sensor module (382), and a battery module (384). The battery module provides power to the network module and the sensor module. The sensor module (382) providing location information to the network module, the network module transmits a shipping status message to an external device.

A digital music system and method. There is a server and a player in wireless data communication over a local network according to a publicly available data format and a publicly available communication protocol. The server and / or player include: an accessory module, a self-configuration module; a control module, a database module, a network module, a streaming server module, a stream source module, a data translation module, a zone control module, and a stream pulling module. The server module receives a first array of media meta-data; contrasts the first array with a second array corresponding to accessible music; and orders access to an inaccessible media file from a media vendor.

A modular aircraft information system is provided for communicating information onboard an aircraft. The modular aircraft information system includes a backplane and a network router module, and may include an avionics interface module. The backplane is capable of receiving at least one COTS device such that the COTS devices can be electrically coupled and / or decoupled to the backplane. The network router module can interface with at least one avionics device. The network router module is in electrical communication with the backplane and the avionics interface module such that the network router module is capable of passing communications between the COTS devices and the avionics devices when the COTS devices are electrically coupled to the backplane. The network router is also capable of isolating the backplane from the avionics devices such that the COTS devices, when electrically coupled to the backplane, are at least partially isolated from the avionics devices.

The invention discloses an intelligent pork freshness detecting device, and comprises a gas-collecting module (1), an image collecting module (2), a neural network module (3) and a computer (4), which are connected mutually through a leading wire. The gas-collecting module (1) collects a released ammonia gas (NH 3 ) and a hydrosulfuric acid gas (H 2 S) during the metamorphic process of the pork; the image collecting module (2) collects a diagnostic information of a relative gray-scale value (H, S, I) of a diagnostic wavelength of a specific element during the metamorphic process of the pork; H, S, and I are respectively a brightness, a chrominance and a saturation; the released ammonia gas and the hydrosulfuric acid during the metamorphic process of the pork, and the relative gray-scale value of H, S and I are inputted in the neural network module (3). The grade of the freshness of the pork is gained through the interfusion of a plurality of data, and can be displayed on the screen of the PC computer (4). The invention has the advantages that the fast detecting on site can be achieved, and the freshness of the pork can be identified expediently, quickly and effectively.

A system and method for use in data analysis are provided. The system comprises a data processing utility configured to receive and process input data, comprising: plurality of neural network modules capable for operating in a training mode and in a data processing mode in accordance with the training; a network training utility configured for operating the neural network modules in the training mode utilizing selected set of training data pieces for sequentially training of the neural network modules in a cascade order to reduce an error value with respect to the selected set of the training data pieces for each successive neural network module in the cascade; and an abnormality detection utility configured for sequentially operating said neural network modules for processing input data, and classifying said input data as abnormal upon identifying that all the neural network modules provide error values being above corresponding abnormality detection thresholds.