166 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 method and apparatus providing network content distribution using a personal server approach is disclosed. A receiving client is provided with a personal server that can select, aggregate, and organize one or more channels of content in a virtual display space of the client. Selection, aggregation, and organization information is stored only locally. Raw data representing content is stored at a logically separate server across a network. Periodically the personal server requests updated content from the server and stores the content in a local channel database. The personal server synthesizes or generates one or more electronic documents containing the content, based on user-defined virtual space specifications and page organization information. The personal server then presents the electronic documents to a browser or other client element. Unlike past approaches that involve distributing fully formatted content to clients, the personal server can receive raw data, replace tokens in the raw data with other content, obtain embedded channel data, and render pages locally, using a conventional browser, without requiring use of a proprietary viewer, and without sending channel selections and other personal information across the network to an untrusted server.

The proposed invention is an apparatus and method that enables video communication through a studio that is placed in a public location whereby a studio user records a performance, presentation, or an interview. In one embodiment, information seekers with special interests may view interviews or presentations recorded by studio users pertaining to subject matter relevant to that special interest. In one embodiment, a performance is recorded and uploaded to the Internet where the general public locates and views the performance. In an alternative embodiment, the performance is rated.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

A novel portable multimedia device for improving client experiences in a personal services industry can be detachably mounted to a tool used by the service provider, such as a hair clipper for a barber. The device comprises a processor, data storage, memory, video display and speakers, as well as a data input module, and can accommodate a library of electronic media files. Optionally, the device can include a camera, telephone, GPS, and other functions including credit card processing and bar code reader. Also provided are methods of using the device for professional service providers, for example barbers, hairstylists, or others. Also provided is a universal mounting system for portable electronic devices that comprises a retaining member and a mounting member for mounting to a variety of mounts including handles, clips, suction cups, goosenecks, flexible joints, magnetic mounts, and key rings.

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.

A personal server is provided for use with a mobile device, such as a cellular telephone. The personal server provides services to the user of the mobile device and to others authorized by the user, but to no other users. The personal server may be a home PC of the user of the mobile device. The personal server may serve as a proxy server for a shared server that provides services to the mobile device. The personal server may relay messages between the mobile device and the shared server. The personal server may store, log, filter, and perform other processing on the user's personal data, such as messages transmitted by the mobile device and / or the shared server. The personal server may aggregate messages received from a plurality of shared servers. A non-personal server may perform additional services, such as configuring the personal server and temporarily storing data if the personal server becomes inaccessible.

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.

Methods and apparatus for providing individual customized content delivery features and services to service subscribers are described. Individual service subscribers are issued devices such an RFID chip or IR device such as a remote control capable of transmitting service subscriber identification signals and / or records. A set top box detects signals used to identify individual subscribers and determines a subscriber identifier corresponding to each of the identified subscriber(s) and / or receives service profile record and / or service preference information from the user device. Service and / or other customer records corresponding to detected service subscriber(s) are used to determine what services and / or features are to be provided, what program channels may be accesses, what recorded programs corresponding to a subscriber may be accessed and, in some embodiments, service preference information such as personal preferences / settings relating to program guide presentation.

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.

The invention discloses a personal credit information sharing system and method based on a block chain. The personal credit information sharing system based on the block chain comprises a block chaincluster, an enterprise service module, a personal service module, an information management module and a supervision module. The system is characterized in that the information management module is used for carrying out user information management comprising real-name authentication according to identity card information of a personal user and generation of a unique identity ID of the personal user through a hash algorithm and BASE64 code, creating assets on the block chain cluster, managing the assets on the block chain cluster and carrying out real-name authentication on the personal user; the enterprise service module is used for carrying out authentication on an enterprise user and distributing a login credential to an authenticated enterprise while providing relevant operation of thepersonal information for the enterprise user according to the authority provided by the supervision module, wherein the login credential comprises a private key and a digital certificate. The system and the method can be widely applied to the fields of banks, credit, games, electronic commerce and the like.

A system for aggregating and disseminating in-case-of-emergency (ICE) medical information to medical units. The system includes an ICE medical record server that stores medical records of respective subscribers, and automatically receive updates from health service entities visited by subscribers. When contacted by emergency dispatchers or first responders, the server sends subscribers medical information to first responders, emergency management agencies directly, via a dispatcher, or via a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system. The medical information may be arranged, emphasized, and / or filtered in a manner relevant to the on-going emergency. A communication device may wirelessly receive the medical information and pre-populate a pre-hospital care form with the information, which may be further orally annotated by the first responder. The completed PCR may then be sent to a PCR server for subsequent access by medical units that subsequently treat the subscriber. The medical server may further assist a public health agency to disseminate emergency information to selected subscribers, responders, and public health alerting systems. An ICE personal server for storing important personal documents is also disclosed. A PCR server is also disclosed that can disseminate aggregate PCR information in near real-time to an emergency management agency (EMA) system for developing incident response plans during a wide area emergency.

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.

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 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 relates to a multi-user cloud platform task scheduling method supporting a bandwidth guarantee, and belongs to the field of network virtualization. According to the multi-user cloud platform task scheduling method supporting the bandwidth guarantee, a user makes a request for virtual resources needed by a task according to personal service needs and sends the request to a cloud platform; after receiving the task request of the user, the cloud platform searches the number and distribution positions of virtual machines for existing tasks, and then constructs a resource allocation network according to the virtual resource request of the new task and the virtual resource allocation conditions of existing related tasks; the quantity of the virtual resources actually needed by the task is calculated and scheduled, and an optimal scheme is selected; finally, whether the virtual resources are allocated is determined. Through the multi-user cloud platform task scheduling method supporting the bandwidth guarantee, aimed at the virtual resource request of the user and according to the existing resource use conditions of the cloud platform, the task scheduling scheme occupying the least resources can be calculated and the resource utilization rate of the cloud platform is improved.

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.