161 results about "Personal service" patented technology

Autonomous personal service robot to monitor its owner for symptoms of distress and provide assistance. The system may include sensors to detect situations before they affect people such as smoke, heat, temperature and carbon monoxide sensors. The system can provide security for the home. The PRA may comprise features such as a medicine dispenser and blood pressure cuff. Features such as broadband internet, MP3 player, reading lights and eye glass tracker provide butler type capabilities that enable the system to appeal to markets beyond the elderly and infirmed. The system may also include an X10 transmitter/receiver to automatically control various household lights and appliances. Equipping the system with a robot arm enables the robot to fetch items, turn on and off wall switches and open the refrigerator.

A wireless intelligent personal server includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver, a memory for storing electronic files, a set of embedded machine language instructions, a central processing unit (CPU), a first interface for a display device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a second interface for a wireless telephone. The RF receiver receives downstream data transmitted over a downstream wireless communications channel. The CPU executes the machine language instructions to process the downstream data and, thereby, either update an existing target electronic file stored in the memory, so that the target electronic file reflects changes made to a source electronic file, or create a new electronic file in the memory. A display device may be brought into communication with the wireless intelligent personal server, via the first interface, to access the electronic files stored in the memory. The wireless intelligent personal server may also transmit an upstream signal over an upstream wireless communication channel, such as by using a wireless telephone, in communication via the second interface. The upstream signal may acknowledge receipt of the downstream data, or it may include upstream data reflecting changes to the electronic files stored in the memory made by the display device.

A system and method to provide social and graph credit scoring, valuation and monetization. The valuation and monetization system provides users, service providers and other agents with a credit scoring and rating system. An application programming interface provides a platform for integration of all types of financial, business and personal services into the logic and classification infrastructure. A graph assets and collateralization clearinghouse creates a secure platform for collateralization. The graph assets information database provides core classification services for ranking, indexing, and content analysis. In a specific embodiment a financial services provider utilizes the social credit scoring, valuation and monetization platform to process and approve qualified credit line applicants. Approval is primarily based on graph and valuation metrics provided by the system and includes an e-commerce and social metrics real time analysis for knowledge of an applicant's future and present risk profile, including credit and graph properties risks.

A system for accurately detecting the presence of a person in a shower by combining presence detection technology, such as an infrared sensor in the showerhead, with a mechanical height adjustment of the showerhead, so that the optimal distance between the sensor and showering person can be maintained for persons of different heights. Alternative embodiments include an electronic control unit to provide power consumption management and safety features. When the electronic control unit is combined with presence detection to predict the identity of a showering person, personal services customized for the identified person are provided. An alternate embodiment teaches a process for intelligently conserving water by intelligently blocking water flow at appropriate times, based on predictable behavior of a contemplated showering person.

An integrated aircraft interior module includes one or more ceiling panels, sidewall linings, decompression ventilation provisions, and overhead stowage compartments including cabin air distribution ducting, personal service units. The sidewall linings, overhead stowage compartments and other interior structure integrated items attach to existing aircraft structural provisions.

A system and method of the present invention pertains to a mobile social networking application intended to be used by the members of a social network as a tool for trading personal services and offering services between each other. The system allows each user to automatically locate other users located within specified radius and offering services that the user desires to benefit from. Each user creates a profile that includes user's personal information such, as for example, name, gender, address, phone number, hobbies, college information, and more importantly the list of services the user can offer and services that the user is looking to receive or benefit from.

The invention discloses a vehicle body control device, comprising a position detection module, an identification module and a vehicle body control module, wherein the position detection module is used for detecting seat positional information of each passenger in a vehicle; the identification module is used for acquiring identification information of the passenger at each seat position; the vehicle body control module matches the identification module and the positional information, acquires vehicle usage habit information of each passenger according to the identification information of each passenger, and controls electrical load of the vehicle respectively according to the vehicle usage habit information of each passenger and the corresponding positional information. The vehicle body control device can provide personal services for each passenger in the vehicle, meeting the requirement of each passenger for riding comfort. The invention also discloses a vehicle body control system and a vehicle, as well as a control method of the vehicle body control device.

The present invention relates to a person's personal preferences. These personal preferences are detected or determining according to several different systems and methods and based on these preferences personal services are provided to the person. Certain embodiments of the invention utilize a “so-called” smart card, including a card with EMV contacts, for determining those preferences and/or for providing services.

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for personal service integration on a network. A personal service monitors and stores user requests for services. The stored user requests are processed to determine usage patterns. The personal service processes the usage patterns to determine future requests and/or to determine how to fulfill a request. The personal service processes the request.

A dialog management system has an incoming dialog manager (2) for receiving customer information. It automatically updates a profile database and passes data to a segmentation manager for (3) for dynamically determining a current customer segment. In real time, a segmentation decision is used by a feedback manager (10) to generate questions for the customer. Thus the managers (2, 3, 10) operate in a real time cycle involving the customer to gather data and assist the customer as if a personal service were being provided.

The present invention relates to a person's personal preferences. These personal preferences are detected or determining according to several different systems and methods and based on these preferences personal services are provided to the person. Certain embodiments of the invention utilize a “so-called” smart card, including a card with EMV contacts, for determining those preferences and/or for providing services.

A method and a system for responding to a service request sent to a transportation service, determining one or more alternatives as a transportation device for the user and selecting a personal transportation device. An automated transportation system according to the invention comprises: an elevator group comprising a plurality of elevators, a passenger terminal device for reserving elevators for use by passengers, an elevator group control system responsive to the passenger terminal device for controlling the elevators. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: entering a personal service request via the terminal device, determining on the basis of the service request at least one alternative as a transportation device for the user, and selecting via the terminal device one of the alternatives as the transportation device.

An arrangement of at least one personal service unit in a vehicle, wherein at least one rail is arranged on the vehicle side, the rail includes at least one lead. The personal service unit includes at least one electricity collector which is arranged in a manner such that the electricity collector conductively contacts the at least one lead of the rail in the installed condition of the personal service unit in the vehicle.

A provider computer announces content to the provider computer and establishes a secure connection to a VPN server. Requests for the content are received in one protocol (HTTPS) from the consumer computer and forwarded to the VPN server in a less secure protocol (HTTP) by a protocol conversion proxy, which then forwards the request to the provider computer. A public URL and secure URL may be associated with the same content. The public URL is announced to a consumer computer. A public server receives the public URL and returns the secure URL, which consumer computer uses to establish a secure connection to the provider computer. Upon the secure URL being compromised, a new secure URL is associated with the public URL. The source IP addresses of requests for the public and secure URLs may be compared to determine whether the secure URL is compromised.

The invention discloses a mobile communication multimedia gateway system and a multimedia processing method thereof, which define an open media information source collection interface protocol and an open media information portal for displaying or playing on the client side in the media information collection layer and browsing layer The navigation interface realizes the unified access to a variety of different specifications and different standards of media collection terminals and the transmission of multimedia information such as images, audios, and videos, and is adapted for display or playback on various terminals. It has strong versatility and good adaptability Features make it extremely convenient for different media collection devices to access, and at the same time, users' browsing is no longer restricted by harsh terminals. The system and method of the present invention can be applied to various industries and personal services.

The invention is suitable for the field of financial IC (Integrated Circuit) card individualization and provides financial IC (Integrated Circuit) card long-distance individualized method and system. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving a data request from an individualized client and processing a data request generating task; obtaining a card creating data file from a data preparing system according to the task; searching a card creating data file storing menu at fixed time to find out the card creating data file and converting the card creating data file into a card creating data file with a standard format; obtaining a corresponding compiled individualized script from a database and executing; and converting the card creating data file with the standard format into an individualized instruction to generate the card creating data file to be sent to the individualized client. According to the financial IC card long-distance individualized method and system disclosed by the invention, an industrial application is uniformly managed in an individual server and a step of synchronously updating each card creating mechanism after application updating is avoided. Moreover, data safety management requirements can be met.

A system, method and platform for multi-party characteristics and requirement matching and timing synchronization. One aspect of the invention relates to the plurality of users, such as consumer and provider, and provider's system parameters (820) or attributes (810, 820, 830, 840) that actualize the event or service. In some cases, the platform can obtain data from the user's network such personal service network (120), location provider network (110), or application device network (130) or capture user's requirements through other availability, recommend a match and allocation of the match on the provider's system parameters (820) upon confirmation from the users. It caters for time variant and estimation, compensation and adaptation of the user's characteristics with other users in the system. It minimizes loss time and maximizes utilization of the actors to the actualization of the event.

A portable terminal stores a first URL which specifies personal information of a user stored in a personal server, and transmits the first URL to a settlement device. The settlement device serves as a network access port for the portable terminal. The personal server is a server which manages personal data of the user that is identified by the first URL, and communicates with the settlement device and a service server via a network. The service server is a server for performing processing identified by a second URL. The service server executes the processing thereof by communicating with the settlement server and personal server via the network. Thus, the user can receive various types of services. Accordingly, a service providing system can be used with a portable terminal that does not hold any personal information therein.