93 results about "Operational Problem" patented technology

Aspects of the present invention may be seen in a carrier network, employing the disclosed techniques and system. The network may be capable of conducting remote diagnostics of mobile handsets. The carrier network may have infrastructure to determine when known problems may occur in mobile handsets and determine how often they occur. In an embodiment of the present invention, when a customer reports in problems to a customer care representative, the carrier network may track such problems, install bug fixes or remotely diagnose the problem. The configuration parameters may be retrieved, analyzed and modified. When a customer reports errors or operational problems, the carrier may verify them or determine the nature and characteristics of such problems.

A dynamic diagnostic plan generator arranges diagnostic test procedures related to a vehicle symptom or operational problem in a sequence based on a probabilistic Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). The diagnostic plan generator also tracks a vehicle state, and provides instructions for test preparation steps and instructions for performing the diagnostic test procedures. The plan generator further generates schematic illustrations of the diagnostic test procedures, and creates a diagnostic data structure containing information related to the diagnostic test procedures. In addition, the diagnostic plan generator sends and receives information regarding actual failure mode occurrences, for example, to and from a central database. Furthermore, the diagnostic plan generator facilitates the creation of failure mode tests by an expert diagnostics author.

A reverse failure analyzer determines a group of diagnostic test procedures related to a particular vehicle component from a pool of diagnostic procedures, and then identifies the specific failure modes of each of the diagnostic test procedures. The reverse failure analyzer further associates the specific failure modes with the respective vehicle component associated with each of the diagnostic test procedures, and the symptoms associated with each of the diagnostic test procedures to the correlated vehicle components and failure modes. In addition, the reverse failure analyzer can cross-reference various vehicle components that can be the root cause of a particular symptom or a vehicle operational problem. Furthermore, the reverse failure analyzer can receive observed symptoms regarding a particular test subject vehicle and correlate the observed symptoms to the vehicle components that can cause the symptoms based on the results of reverse failure analyses.

A diagnostic test sequence optimizer includes a diagnostic test selector that determines a group of diagnostic test procedures related to a specific symptom and vehicle type from a pool of diagnostic procedures. A failure mode analyzer then selects one or more factors that can affect resolution of a vehicle operational problem and performs a failure mode analysis to quantify a comparative utility of the individual tests, and a factor weighter assigns a weight to each of the factors. A vehicle receiver receives information regarding the history of the test subject vehicle, and a sequence optimizer places the diagnostic test procedures in an optimized sequence in accordance with the comparative utilities of the individual diagnostic procedures, user preferences and a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis compiled by the manufacturer of the vehicle.

The disclosed sulfur recovery system and process avoid some of the operational problems of conventional Claus plants and processes by replacing the reaction burner and furnace tube of a conventional Claus plant with a more efficient short contact time catalytic reactor assembly containing a SPOC™ catalyst that operates efficiently at elevated temperatures. Such Claus plant modification also reduces or avoids the negative effects of hydrocarbons, CO2 and ammonia in Claus sulfur plant feeds, and permits efficient processing of dilute to concentrated H2S feeds. The disclosed modification makes possible the expansion of Claus plant capacity at lower cost.

A method and system for detecting defects to railway wagon wheels and to the rail. A method for detecting a wheel flat, or an event that may cause a wheel flat to develop on a railway wagon, including the steps of a) monitoring at least the longitudinal and vertical acceleration of said railway wagon, and b) concluding that a wheel flat has developed, or that there is a risk of developing a wheel flat, if a specific acceleration pattern is monitored, said pattern comprising a longitudinal acceleration above a first threshold followed by a vertical acceleration above a second threshold. A system for detecting a wheel flat of at least one wheel of a railway wagon and the use of an acceleration sensor mounted on the sprung part of a railway wagon for estimating the wheel flat size of a wheel of the railway wagon.

Methods and arrangements for managing interrupts in a processing system are disclosed. The method can determine an indication of an interrupt request from a peripheral entity, identify the peripheral entity associated with the indication, count occurrences of the indications; and flag the peripheral entity in response to the counted occurrences. When the counted occurrences reach a predetermined number in the predetermined time interval, interrupts from the peripheral entity can be ignored or the entity can be identified as having possible operational problems.

The present invention relates to an improvement for gas phase olefin polymerization process under two or more different flow regimes. The process involves adding a mixed electron donor system to a reactor having two or more different flow regimes, wherein the mixed electron donor system comprises at least one selectivity control agent and at least one activity limiting agent. The invention is particularly well suited for reactor systems which include a regime characterized by having a low-velocity or high-solid holdup, which have been reported to have operational problems such as particle agglomeration and formation of polymer “chunks”.

One or more embodiments identify server management actions for resolving problems associated with one or more nodes in information technology infrastructure. In one embodiment, a node-ticket record for an information processing node associated with at least one problem ticket is generated. A set of node-ticket clusters is queried based on the node-ticket record. Each of the set of node-ticket clusters maps a set of server management actions to set of historical node-ticket records associated with the node-ticket cluster. The set of server management actions was previously performed to resolve at least one operational problem associated with at least one information processing node. At least one set of server management actions associated with at least one of the set of node-ticket clusters corresponding to the node-ticket record within a given threshold is identified based on the querying.

The improved perforation gun of the present invention includes an outer gun barrel, which is used in conjunction with an inner movable charge carrier or an inner movable sleeve to trap virtually all of the debris created by the firing of the perforation gun. This elimination of debris reduces costly operational problems in both gravel pack and horizontal well completions. It also improves the production from a perforated underground hydrocarbon bearing formation since there is no debris to potentially cause plugging in the well or subsequent production lines.

The invention discloses a method and a device for management of a virtual machine. The method for the management of the virtual machine includes that information about the state of the virtual machine of a server can be collected, and the information, reported by the server, about the state of the virtual machine is received; and then the state of the virtual machine is determined based on the collected and received information about the state of the virtual machine, and the virtual machine is managed based on the determined state. Through the method, the information about the state of the virtual machine can be collected in a real-time mode, operational problems caused by inconsistency between the server and virtual machine states are avoided, and the effect that the server can effectively manage the virtual machine in real time is achieved. Warning messages can be sent out when various types of anomalies show up in a system, so that a user can be prevented from misoperation without knowing about a situation; and based on an intermediate state, a series of judgments and processing tasks can be performed to attempt to restore the virtual machine to be back in the state before a failure.

An integrated development environment (IDE) includes a runtime environment and user interface. A user of the IDE specifies an application component to be monitored, and metrics for the specified application component are transmitted by the IDE runtime environment to a data collector belonging to the IDE user interface for display to the user. In addition, support is offered for the separation of operational concerns from business logic, allowing developers to control the operational aspects from a policy manager of the IDE user interface. Using the policy manager, developers invoke policy agents to add predefined code segments to applications, saving the developer from having to recode the same operational logic each time an application is updated to contain a new policy related to business logic.

A diagnostic test sequence optimizer includes a diagnostic test selector that determines a group of diagnostic test procedures related to a specific symptom and vehicle type from a pool of diagnostic procedures. A failure mode analyzer then selects one or more factors that can affect resolution of a vehicle operational problem and performs a failure mode analysis to quantify a comparative utility of the individual tests, and a factor weighter assigns a weight to each of the factors. A vehicle receiver receives information regarding the history of the test subject vehicle, and a sequence optimizer places the diagnostic test procedures in an optimized sequence in accordance with the comparative utilities of the individual diagnostic procedures, user preferences and a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis compiled by the manufacturer of the vehicle.

The present invention relates to an improvement for gas phase olefin polymerization process under two or more different flow regimes. The process involves adding a mixed electron donor system to a reactor having two or more different flow regimes, wherein the mixed electron donor system comprises at least one selectivity control agent and at least one activity limiting agent. The invention is particularly well suited for reactor systems which include a regime characterized by having a low-velocity or high-solid holdup, which have been reported to have operational problems such as particle agglomeration and formation of polymer “chunks”.

A dynamic diagnostic plan generator arranges diagnostic test procedures related to a vehicle / power tool / patient symptom or operational problem in a sequence based on a probabilistic Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). The diagnostic plan generator also tracks a vehicle / power tool / patient state, and provides instructions for test preparation steps and instructions for performing the diagnostic test procedures. The plan generator further generates schematic illustrations of the diagnostic test procedures, and creates a diagnostic data structure containing information related to the diagnostic test procedures. In addition, the diagnostic plan generator sends and receives information regarding actual failure mode occurrences, for example, to and from a central database. Furthermore, the diagnostic plan generator facilitates the creation of failure mode tests by an expert diagnostics author.

An event clustering system includes an extraction engine and a signalizer engine. The extraction engine is in communication with a managed infrastructure. In operation the extraction engine receives messages from the managed infrastructure and produces events that relate to the managed infrastructure. The events are converted into words and subtexts that are used to group the events into clusters relating to failures or errors in the managed infrastructure physical hardware. The managed infrastructure supports the flow and processing of information. The signalizer engine determines one or more common characteristics of events and produces clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the managed infrastructure. Membership in a cluster indicates a common factor of the events that is a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware of the managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information. In response to production of the clusters of events one or more physical changes in a managed infrastructure hardware is made.

A scanning printer including a scanner unit having an adjustable scanning light output may be adjusted by determining a minimum response for each pixel and a maximum response for each pixel when scanning a calibration document and setting the light output to correlate to a maximum response value. The scanner unit may include a reference plate for internal and routine performance adjustments which include comparison of initial and operational response to the reference plate. Performance adjustments may be designed to account for and overcome various typical operational problems encountered with frequent use.

The invention relates to a store operation data management system, comprising: a Web system, which is used for inputting operation data related to the store and processing the operation data to generate an operation report; a server used for storing the operation data input by the Web system and the generated operation report; a client end used for establishing a communication connection with theserver to read the operation data and the operation report stored in the server. The system of the present application performs cross-analysis and comparison on each operation data of the store; withthe complete and comprehensive data analysis system, operators can understand the store performance at all levels, and then evaluate performance, and find operational problems and solve the problems.

Sources of operational problems in business transactions often show themselves in relatively small pockets of data, which are called trouble hot spots. Identifying these hot spots from internal company transaction data is generally a fundamental step in the problem's resolution, but this analysis process is greatly complicated by huge numbers of transactions and large numbers of transaction variables to analyze. A suite of practical modifications are provided to data mining techniques and logistic regressions to tailor them for finding trouble hot spots. This approach thus allows the use of efficient automated data mining tools to quickly screen large numbers of candidate variables for their ability to characterize hot spots. One application is the screening of variables which distinguish a suspected hot spot from a reference set.

A communication system and method for monitoring operation of a system in a facility and for sending out repair request has a monitoring device coupled to a system in the facility to be monitored. The monitoring device sends a notification signal when an operational problem is monitored. A receiving device is used for receiving the notification signal sent from the monitoring device. A client communication system is utilized for entering information for a repair order for the operational problem monitored. A repair maintenance server is coupled to the first computer system. The repair maintenance server receives the repair order information and sends bid requests to designated repair vendors. A plurality of vendor computer systems is coupled to the repair maintenance server for repair vendors to submit bids for the repair order. The repair maintenance server will select a vendor and notify the vendor of a winning bid.

The invention provides a temperature measurement system with a self-calibration function, which can automatically calibrate the actual temperature measuring device through the communication protocol, avoiding the problem of cumbersome operation caused by the standard calibration box; further, the actual temperature sensor performance has been improved.

The invention relates to a method and system for coordinating and automating the processes of IP traffic offload in transport technology, minimizing the operational problems associated with the configuration of IP and transport layers. The system consists of two main components, a transit traffic management module integrated into a network operator and a routing module for generating new links integrated into each of the IP network nodes.

An event clustering system that has an extraction engine in communication with a managed infrastructure. A signalizer engine includes one or more of an NMF engine, a k-means clustering engine and a topology proximity engine. The signalizer engine determines one or more common characteristics or features from events. The signalizer engine uses the common features of events to produce clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the managed infrastructure. Membership in a cluster indicates a common factor of the events that is a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information. A feedback signalizer functor is provided that is a supervised machine learning approach to train to reproduce a situation. In response to production of the clusters one or more physical changes in a managed infrastructure hardware is made, where the hardware supports the flow and processing of information.

The invention relates to a root hair cutting and soil clearing device for onion and garlic crops. The device includes a horizontal flip bar located at the side of the rhizome gravity center parabolicdrop locus away from root hairs, wherein a lower side of the flip bar is an input end of an attitude adjusting soil clearing conveying mechanism, the attitude adjusting soil clearing conveying mechanism includes at least one pair of cylindrical drums supported on a frame, and outer circular surfaces of the cylindrical drums have a set of axially-spaced brushes arranged in the spiral feeding direction. The device is advantaged in that ingenious and simple mechanism setting is adopted, a series of operational problems such as reliable flipping of the rhizome of onion and garlic crops, preliminary position correction, symmetrical alignment, downward root hair carding, flexible transfer, as well as clearing of the soil attached to the bottom of the fruit, and forced root hair clamping and cutting are properly solved, attitude change and stable transfer of the onion and garlic crops are realized to complete mechanized root hair cutting and soil clearing, and thereby the foundation is laid for development of harvesters for Bulk rhizome crops such as onions and garlic.

An adequate operation and performance of a refrigerant system includes the steps of adding a refrigerant that is different from the original refrigerant, into the refrigerant system should any operational problems be observed during operation of the refrigerant system. As an example, should the refrigerant system be cycling frequently, a lower pressure refrigerant may be added or replace, partially or fully, the refrigerant the system being initially charged with. By making this change, the present invention can, for example, lower the provided system capacity, and hence reduce the amount of cycling. Additionally, conditioned space comfort and system reliability would be improved. Further, changes over time, such as the degradation of the heat exchanger performance, and their negative effect on system operation can be alleviated by such a refrigerant substitution.

Disclosed is an unmanned aerial vehicle-based intelligent artificial limb replacing method. The unmanned aerial vehicle-based intelligent artificial limb replacing method comprises the following steps that a processing device acquires record information of a joint position sensor mounted inside a first artificial limb and analyzes whether the first artificial limb has operational problems according to the record information; if so, a positioning device positions the first artificial limb to acquire position information; the processing device controls to start an unmanned aerial vehicle and to connect an unmanned aerial vehicle with a second artificial limb; the processing device shoots images through a first camera and analyzes whether connection is completed according to the images; if so, according to the position data, a navigation device plans an optimal flight line and transmits the optimal flight line to the unmanned aerial vehicle; after transmission is completed, the processing device shoots images of surroundings through the second camera and analyzes whether the unmanned aerial vehicle arrives according to the images; if so, the processing device controls the first artificial limb to break from a connecting fastener and connects with a sensor to detect whether the second artificial limb is connecting with the connecting fastener; if so, the processing device controls the connecting fastener to enter a fixing state.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an embedded beacon light device suitable especially for an airport, with operational problems (surge voltage, operation temperature of light-emitting diodes, and partial light out of a plurality of light-emitting diodes) solved on a light source consisting of the plurality of light-emitting diodes. ŽSOLUTION: The embedded beacon light device ML is provided with a beacon light main body 10 provided with a metal light body 10A and buried in a roadbed, an input terminal 20 arranged at the beacon light main body 10, a light source consisting of the plurality of light-emitting diodes 31 arranged at the metal light body 10A of the beacon light main body 10 to be connected to the input terminal 20, and a surge absorption circuit 50 arranged at the metal light body 10A so as to absorb surge entering from the input terminal 20 and with its grounding terminal connected to the metal light body 10A. A plurality of the light bodies are connected in series with a constant-current alternate-current power source CCR. Ž