139 results about "Physical element" patented technology

Physical objects may be employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based gaming. Displays subsystems may provide a changeable or selectable virtual game layout with demarcations appropriate to a selected game. A sensor subsystem may detect physical aspects of game related pieces (e.g., playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles) as well as media (e.g., identity media, financial media). All gaming functions may occur through interaction with a playing surface, as well as functions such as order food, beverages and services. Automated tracking of players, dealers and games may be realized along with bonusing and promotions.

A content usage control system comprises a copyright holder system, content server, license server and user system. The ACL setting section of the copyright holder system sets a license ACL expressed as a structure by a combination of logic sums and logic products of a plurality of partial licenses for the content, based on the user ID and a plurality of physical element IDs including media used in the user system, and stores the license ACL in an access control list. The license server controls the usage of the content by the user utilizing the access control list.

Physical objects may be employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based gaming. Displays subsystems may provide a changeable or selectable virtual game layout with demarcations appropriate to a selected game. A sensor subsystem may detect physical aspects of game related pieces (e.g., playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles) as well as media (e.g., identity media, financial media). All gaming functions may occur through interaction with a playing surface, as well as functions such as order food, beverages and services. Automated tracking of players, dealers and games may be realized along with bonusing and promotions.

Graphic elements and graphic displays are provided for use in a process environment to display information to one or more users about the process environment, such as the current state of device within a process plant. The graphic elements and display may be associated with various logical and physical elements within the process plant during configuration of the process plant, and may be configured and downloaded to the hardware within the process plant along with other configuration items, such as control routines. In particular, the graphic elements and graphic displays may be created and stored in a library, and may then be configured by being associated with various logical or physical entities within the plant. During the configuration process, the graphic elements and graphic displays may be associated with areas, equipment, process modules, control routines or control strategies of the plant as defined elsewhere in the plant configuration, or may be associated with interfaces or display devices, to define the hardware on which the graphic displays will execute during runtime, as well as to define the process entities to which these displays will be bound for display purposes. Still further, each of the graphic displays may be defined with a role or a functional use, such as an operator view, a maintenance view, etc., and these roles may be used to defined the proper access and use of the graphic displays within the runtime environment.

Physical objects may be employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based gaming. Displays subsystems may provide a changeable or selectable virtual game layout with demarcations appropriate to a selected game. A sensor subsystem may detect physical aspects of game related pieces (e.g., playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles) as well as media (e.g., identity media, financial media). All gaming functions may occur through interaction with a playing surface, as well as functions such as order food, beverages and services. Automated tracking of players, dealers and games may be realized along with bonusing and promotions.

A system for a communication infrastructure in a network including at least one connected system (CS) and at least one network risk management network element (SW), wherein the network acts as a virtual network comprising at least one virtual network element, and wherein the at least one virtual network element takes over the roles of existing network elements comprising at least one of a switch, a router, a firewall and an intrusion prevention system (IPS), and wherein the virtual network is comprised of physical elements that work together to form the network's infrastructure.

The invention disclosed herein generally concerns a lid for disposable or reusable beverage containers which facilitates access to the contents for addition of condiment and which enhances the users sensory perception of the state of such contents, without removal of the lid. The lid of the invention combines various sensory elements to simultaneously enhance the user's sensory responses of taste, smell, touch and sight during drinking with the beverage cup lid in place. The sensory elements comprise openings, transparent materials, shape and media, through which liquid and vapor can pass, and through which heat can, conduct or convect. In addition to the elements already described, the beverage cup lid of the invention comprises a physical element that allows the addition and stirring of condiments while the lid is fully installed on the cup. The invention disclosed herein integrates multiple elements of a press and lock on a beverage cup lid. The shape of the lid of the invention provides a thin rim simulating the thickness of a cup without a lid or a non-disposable ceramic or glass mug or cup. The lid disclosed herein provides a well deep enough to avoid contact between the nose and the lid in the drinking position, thereby allowing the user's head to remain more upright while drinking.

The presented cell phone-enabled doll companion allows a child novel ways to self-select and self-execute applications while requiring no intervention or supervision from the parent. Further, it provides learning, entertainment and safety by integrating cell phone communication, education, entertainment, alert and monitoring systems. While providing a convenient means of communication between the child and parent, the system allows surveillance of a child's real-time environment, GPS monitoring and SIDS / health monitoring. The functionality and the physical elements of the system are programmable through installation of applications downloadable from an application store. Various options for parental access to a configuration interface to modify settings and download applications are provided, including via a cell phone, a website, customer service call center and / or the doll companion touch screen.

Extensible Multi-Dimensional Framework (EMDF) is a system engineering framework for designing, developing and managing enterprise information technology systems. It includes two parts: multi-dimensional architecture framework (MDAF) and three-dimensional unified process (3DUP). MDAF includes comprehensive concepts for modeling an enterprise information technology system. 3DUP provides an iterative system development process. EMDF addresses an enterprise information technology system as a single entity. By projecting this entity on intertwined MDAF dimensions through the 3DUP lifecycle, all logical or physical elements encompassed in the entity will be exposed and captured in well-organized artifacts defined in MDAF. These elements are then prioritized and scheduled in a set of agile iterations. The iterations will be planned in parallel projects implemented by multiple development teams. During a long-term system development lifecycle, some elements may change. The dimensions included in MDAF provide a flexible framework to adjust system architectures, iterations and projects in order to adapt to such changes. The key deliverables of EMDF include an adaptive-to-change quality-focused architecture, optimistic agile iterations, and a market-centric business-driven risk-mitigating process.

A physical element may be caused to appear to interact with an image displayed on a computer display screen. The position of the element with respect to the display screen may be determined automatically. The user can then manipulate the element to cause an image, which may appear to be connected to the element, to be altered. Therefore, the user gets the impression that the element is capable of interacting and altering an image displayed on the display screen.

The creation of multiple recoverable units within a database allows a database partition to be reconstructed during maintenance and disaster recovery operations. A method of creating a recovery unit includes partitioning a database into at least two recovery units. A primary catalog of metadata relating to the logical elements of a database such as tables, indexes, and file groups is created. A secondary catalog of metadata relating to the physical elements of a database such as pages, files, B-Trees, and log streams is created for each recovery unit. The primary and secondary metadata catalogs are linked such that only one log stream is associated with any one recovery unit. A single recovery unit may then be exercised to perform recovery or maintenance operations while the remaining recovery units of the database remain online.

The method consists in the fact that from at least one external source (3) electromagnetic energy is conducted to at least one hollow electrode (1) with elements (14) locally increasing the density of electromagnetic energy, by which, inside the cavities of the electrode (1) and / or at its orifice and in the external environment an intensive discharge is generated. The plasma jet consists of at least one hollow electrode (1) of conductive or conductive and dielectric material with at least one element (14) locally increasing the density of electromagnetic energy inside the hollow electrode (1) and / or at its orifice and / or outside, which consists of a design element (12) and / or a physical element (17) acting in the transversal and / or the longitudinal direction with respect to the streaming working medium (5) and is further constituted by at least one source (3) or electromagnetic energy attached via the impedance adapting member (4) consisting of a system of regulatory transformation and transfer elements, onto the conductive part of the hollow electrode (1).

A method and system are provided for provisioning a circuit in a data network without manual intervention. A network management module receives an order for provisioning the circuit and then, based on the order, transmits a request to a legacy logical element module to configure a logical circuit in one or more network devices in the network. The network device may be a switch. The circuit may be a frame relay circuit or an ATM circuit. A method and system are also provided for maintaining a network circuit in a data network. The network circuit includes both a logical circuit and a physical circuit. A legacy physical element module sends a request for logical circuit data to a legacy logical element module through a network management module in communication with the legacy physical element module and the legacy physical element module. Based on the request, the legacy logical element module retrieves the logical circuit data from one or more network devices in the network and transmits the data to the legacy physical element module through the network management module. Upon receiving the logical circuit data, the legacy physical element module troubleshoots the physical circuit to maintain the network circuit.

A method and system are provided for provisioning a circuit in a data network without manual intervention. A network management module receives an order for provisioning the circuit and then, based on the order, transmits a request to a legacy logical element module to configure a logical circuit in one or more network devices in the network. The network device may be a switch. The circuit may be a frame relay circuit or an ATM circuit. A method and system are also provided for maintaining a network circuit in a data network. The network circuit includes both a logical circuit and a physical circuit. A legacy physical element module sends a request for logical circuit data to a legacy logical element module through a network management module in communication with the legacy physical element module and the legacy physical element module. Based on the request, the legacy logical element module retrieves the logical circuit data from one or more network devices in the network and transmits the data to the legacy physical element module through the network management module. Upon receiving the logical circuit data, the legacy physical element module troubleshoots the physical circuit to maintain the network circuit.

Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking the content of building information models. Embodiments include various computer-implemented methods for the tagging of BIM information, and for the monitoring of modification events involving BIM information. In addition, activities involving physical elements associated with BIM information are tracked. Providers of BIM content can tag content prior to distribution, enabling an internet-based service to track usage, enabling improved service to consumers of that BIM content. Designers can tag BIM content and BIM elements for tracking during the useful life of a building. Internet based messaging protocols can be used for communication between web services, client services and client applications. Monitoring and communication services function unattended. The system includes integration with BIM design applications, as well as stand-alone, end user system applications and browser interfaces. Analytic tools can be used to report on the tracking data.

A method and system are provided for obtaining logical performance data for a network circuit in a data network. The network circuit includes both a logical circuit and a physical circuit. A legacy physical element module sends a request for logical performance data to a logical element module through a network management module in communication with the legacy physical element module and the legacy physical element module. Based on the request, the logical element module retrieves the logical performance data from one or more network devices in the network and transmits the data to the legacy physical element module through the network management module. Upon receiving the logical performance data, the legacy physical element module uses the performance data to troubleshoot the physical circuit. The network device may be a switch. The circuit may be a frame relay circuit or an ATM circuit.

A virtual environment, including at least one virtual element representing a component of an item is generated. The virtual environment is mapped to a physical environment that includes a physical mockup of at least a subset of the item. The virtual environment is provided to a display. The at least one virtual element is displayed in relation to the physical element according to the mapping.

Physical objects may be employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based gaming. Displays subsystems may provide a changeable or selectable virtual game layout with demarcations appropriate to a selected game. A sensor subsystem may detect physical aspects of game related pieces (e.g., playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles) as well as media (e.g., identity media, financial media). All gaming functions may occur through interaction with a playing surface, as well as functions such as order food, beverages and services. Automated tracking of players, dealers and games may be realized along with bonusing and promotions.

The present inventive subject matter relates to an automated, consumer-driven, pre-production, seasonal vaccine reservation system for facilitating the efficient production, distribution, and / or administration of health-critical, long-production-lead-time seasonal vaccines, or other pharmacological agents, whereby use of such a consumer-driven vaccine reservation system provides a highly effective means for substantially ensuring or guaranteeing that consumer demand for seasonal vaccine can be fully and consistently met, but without subjecting the producers of vaccine and / or other cognizant parties associated with the healthcare industry to undue financial risk. In addition to the physical elements comprising such a consumer-driven vaccine reservation system, the present invention also represents various unique operational methods for accurately matching seasonal vaccine supply with seasonal consumer demand, thereby substantially facilitating production, distribution, and / or timely administration of vaccine.

A method and associated system for effectively increasing the number of antenna elements within a multi-element antenna system through computation of a response of “virtual” antenna elements located along an antenna array. The physical elements of the array are positioned sufficiently near each other to enable synthesis of a polynomial or other mathematical expression characterizing the response of the array to receipt of an incident waveform. Values of the responses associated with the virtual antenna elements of the array may then be determined through evaluation of the synthesized polynomial or other expression. The resultant array response values associated with the virtual and physical elements of the array are then provided to an associated receiver for processing.

A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for illustrating progress in achieving a goal of a system modeled by a computer program. In one embodiment, the invention is evidenced by a method comprising the steps of displaying a widget wherein the widget comprises a center portion representing a category of data represented by the computer program and the category of data includes n data points that must be fulfilled to achieve the goal and an outer portion, comprising a segment representing each one of the n data points; and updating the widget to represent each of the n data points that has been fulfilled by delineating each segment representing a fulfilled data point requirement from each segment representing a non-fulfilled data point requirement.

A method and system for generating a bitstream view of a programmable logic device (PLD) design are disclosed. The present invention allows for the correlation of a physical circuit description (e.g., one or more of a PLD design's essential configuration bits) and a logical circuit description (e.g., one or more of the logic elements that make up a PLD design), which can also be viewed as correlating one or more of the physical elements of the design's implementation in the PLD with one or more of the design's logical elements.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a controller that partitions a media library for multiple host applications can, for each partition, assign a base element address for an element type and associate physical element addresses for elements of an element type with an index value. For a partition, the logical element address corresponding to a physical element address for an element can be determined by adding the index number associated with the physical element address to the base element address for that element type. The physical element address corresponding to a logical element address for an element can be determined by subtracting the base element address for the element type from the logical element address for the element. The result of subtracting the base element address from the logical element address is an index value for which the associated physical element address can be found.

Disclosed is a method of and a system for establishing a logical-model based understanding of a legacy application. The method comprises the steps of providing a physical data model of the legacy application, said physical data model having a plurality of physical elements; establishing a logical data model for the legacy application, said logical data model having a plurality of logical model elements; and establishing links between said logical model elements and said physical elements. One of said physical or logical elements is selected, and said links are used to identify all of the physical or logical elements that are linked to said selected one of said elements. The preferred system may include a component for browsing and navigating the physical data model, logical data model, or the links between them, a component to answer queries about the application expressed using the logical data model, and a component to create a relational data model to support the migration of data stored in legacy databases (including flat files) to relational databases.

The creation of multiple recoverable units within a database allows a database partition to be reconstructed during maintenance and disaster recovery operations. A method of creating a recovery unit includes partitioning a database into at least two recovery units. A primary catalog of metadata relating to the logical elements of a database such as tables, indexes, and file groups is created. A secondary catalog of metadata relating to the physical elements of a database such as pages, files, B-Trees, and log streams is created for each recovery unit. The primary and secondary metadata catalogs are linked such that only one log stream is associated with any one recovery unit. A single recovery unit may then be exercised to perform recovery or maintenance operations while the remaining recovery units of the database remain online.

The presented cell phone-enabled doll companion allows a child novel ways to self-select and self-execute applications while requiring no intervention or supervision from the parent. Further, it provides learning, entertainment and safety by integrating cell phone communication, education, entertainment, alert and monitoring systems. While providing a convenient means of communication between the child and parent, the system allows surveillance of a child's real-time environment, GPS monitoring and SIDS / health monitoring. The functionality and the physical elements of the system are programmable through installation of applications downloadable from an application store. Various options for parental access to a configuration interface to modify settings and download applications are provided, including via a cell phone, a website, customer service call center and / or the doll companion touch screen.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for handling status commands direct to a partitioned media library that comprises establishing a set of initial logical element addresses for a set of physical element addresses with each initial logical element address corresponding to a physical element address of an element assigned to a library partition, assigning a set of new logical element addresses for the set of physical element addresses in response to a command from a host application (e.g., a MODE SELECT command) and determining a corresponding physical address for a received element address based on the set of new logical element addresses.

A system and method of using a multi-layered network model for analyzing the survivability of network services. The model is defined in terms of layers, connections, entities, physical processing elements, physical network elements, and physical infrastructure elements. Network services are modeled by sets of communicating entities at the application layer that are connected by connections at the underlying layers. The generality of the model constructs enable the construction of models of complex networks and services that can involve multiple layers of communication protocols, network elements, processing elements, and failover / backup mechanisms. The service survivability of a network is analyzed by projecting the failure of a set of physical elements onto the model and then determining the proportion of service affected at the application layer.

Improving a distributed network environment. A method includes determining physical element properties of physical elements in a virtualized network topology. The method further includes determining gateway placement on a first physical element of the virtualized network topology. The method further includes determining utilization of physical elements in the virtualized network topology. Based on the physical element properties, gateway placement, and utilization of physical elements in the virtualized network topology, the method further includes determining an improved virtualized network topology to improve use of physical elements in the virtualized network topology

In a system and method for playing a game in conjunction with viewing an event, predictions are made regarding elements of the event, and physical activity simulating an element of the event is performed. The event may be a televised sporting event such as a football game. Predictions are preferably made before the event. Points are awarded for each correct prediction and for achieving a selected objective in physical activities, e.g., propelling a ball to a target. A referee's score sheet may be kept for recording actual results. Awards may be provided for each portion of the event, e.g., quarters, for the physical activities and for of the entire game. Equipment for the physical activity, prediction sheets, referee score sheets, a tote board, a rule book, markers for setting up the physical elements of the game and a container for the game system may further comprise the game system.