35 results about "Physical infrastructure" patented technology

The Automated Bill Presentment and Payment system is an information and payment processing system which enables secure electronic processing of invoices and payments between parties who do not have an existing electronic business or payment relationship (e.g. bank direct debit) and who cannot, or prefer not to, use electronic means (internet or telephonic credit card) for payments. It utilises existing physical infrastructure (ATMs or call centres) and payment processing highways for presenting invoices and making payments. It increases the privacy, reliability and security of payments while reducing the cost of processing invoices and payments by eliminating the mailing and processing of invoices and cheques as well as the registration of credit card information through telephone operators or automated telephone answering systems.

A system for simulating interdependencies between a plurality of infrastructure models includes a first infrastructure data model that models a first infrastructure, a second infrastructure data model that models a second infrastructure, a simulation engine including a society of software agents and adapted to automatically produce, in response to a first change in the infrastructure data model, a second change in the infrastructure data model, and a user interface permitting a user to interact with the simulation engine. The system is adapted to simulate interdependencies between different critical infrastructure models as well as interdependencies between an infrastructure of one infrastructure category and an infrastructure of a different infrastructure category. Infrastructure categories include behavioral infrastructures, relational infrastructures, and physical infrastructures.

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses where a controller can automatically manage a physical infrastructure of a computer system based on a plurality of system rules, a system state for the computer system, and a plurality of templates. Techniques for automatically adding resources such as computer, storage, and/or networking resources to the computer system are described. Also described are techniques for automatically deploying applications and services on such resources. These techniques provide a scalable computer system that can serve as a turnkey scalable private cloud.

Systems and methods relating to improved security in cloud computing environments are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a method for provisioning physical geographic location of a physical infrastructure device associated with a hypervisor host is provided. Further, the method may include performing processing to obtain initial geo location data of the device, determining verified geo location data of the device by performing validation, via an attestation service component, of the initial geo location data to provide verified geo location data, and writing the verified geo location data into HSM or TPM space of the hypervisor host.

A system (100) for dynamic orchestration is provided, the system configured to be used for embedding a virtual network into a physical infrastructure, the system comprising: a decision component (DC) which is configured to evaluate a performance of at least one orchestrator (O₁, O₂, . . . , O_n) based on at least one parameter (P₁, P₂, . . . , P_n), and which is configured to settle on a recomposing of the orchestrator (O₁, O₂, . . . , O_n) based on the evaluated performance and, which is configured to provide a recomposing signal (RS₁, RS₂, . . . , RS_n) when the recomposing is settled; and a recomposing component (RC) which is configured to execute the recomposing of the orchestrator (O₁, O₂, . . . , O_n) when the recomposing signal (RS₁, RS₂, . . . , RS_n) is received.

There are provided systems and methods for ensuring compliance with mandated pre-operative policies and procedures to prevent wrong site surgeries. In an embodiment, at least two operating room personnel perform a pre-operative assessment prior to a scheduled surgical procedure. The at least two participants to the pre-operative assessment provide some indicia of their personal identity as a form of attestation to their respective participation in the pre-operative assessment. Upon verifying the submitted indicia of personal identification information received from each of the at least two operating room personnel participants to the assessment, critical operating room lighting fixtures and critical outlets are switched from an initialized disabled state to an enabled state to permit activation by the operating room personnel to allow the procedure to run its normal course. In another embodiment, a recording device is activated prior to the start of a pre-operative assessment. At least two participants perform a pre-operative assessment while the recording device is activated. The recording device is then de-activated at the conclusion of a pre-operative assessment. Responsive to the de-activation of the recording device, operating room lighting fixtures and critical outlets are switched from a disabled state to an enabled state. Accordingly, a failsafe method is provided for ensuring strict compliance with the performance of the pre-operative assessment in a timely manner. The system and method is dependent upon a repeatable obligatory behavior that is easily implemented and can be added to existing physical infrastructure at a very low cost.

A system for selectively moving computer equipment to a naturally cooled underground data center. In one aspect of this disclosure, the system includes at least one movable pod for mounting computer equipment. The pod is electrically connected to a power and communications source to provide power and communications to the computer equipment mounted in the pod. The pod is mounted on a vertical conveyor that is driven by a motor to selectively move the pod to and from the underground data center.

Systems and methods described herein are directed to a template based deployment system providing settings across platform and physical infrastructures. The infrastructure can involve a server, storage, and a network. The platform can include various types of operating systems. A management server may be configured to manage various system elements, server virtualization and platform deployment. The management server may use policies based on a platform template, server profile, host storage profile, and host network profile. Infrastructure configurations may be determined by the management server, according to the platform type, and platform option settings in the platform template. The management server deploys the infrastructure and platform on top of the infrastructure using platform template and images.

The invention relates to a data management system and method based on cloud computing, and the data management system comprises a first data center and a second data center, which form an active-active data center; each of the first data center and the second data center comprises a cloud computing information service layer, a cloud computing basic platform layer and a virtualization infrastructure layer; the virtualization infrastructure layer comprises a physical infrastructure, a virtualization abstraction device, a plurality of virtual machines and a virtualization management platform; thevirtualization abstraction device is used for virtualizing the physical infrastructure and managing the physical infrastructure by taking a virtual machine as a unit; the cloud computing basic platform layer comprises a server cluster, a distributed file module, a distributed database management module, a distributed data processing module, a database and data analysis module and a service bus. Software and hardware resources and information are placed on the cloud computing platform to be managed in a unified mode, resource integration is achieved, the resource utilization rate is increased,operation and maintenance management is facilitated, and the system availability is high.

The present disclosure relates to a modular and portable system architecture which enables Edge Cloud physical infrastructure building blocks to be portable and managed from a software platform with personnel at the field that will move the building blocks assisted from the platform in order for the system supply capacity to be able to follow the geographically distributed user process and storage demand. By this arrangement and operation, the overprovisioning CAPEX needed from operators to support the fluctuations of system capacity demand from location to location is minimized while at the same time minimizing the OPEX costs of service and maintenance of the system.

The invention provides an AMF based on MEC and an identity authentication method, construction method and device thereof. The identity authentication method comprises the steps that an AMF entity receives an identity authentication request sent by at least one terminal; the AMF entity selects one terminal from the at least one terminal as a two-way authentication terminal; the AMF entity performstwo-way authentication with the bidirectional authentication terminal; the AMF entity performs one-way authentication on other terminals except the two-way authentication terminal in the at least oneterminal by using the success result of the two-way authentication, wherein the AMF entity is constructed according to the following mode: selecting edge physical infrastructure and constructing an AMF entity on the edge physical infrastructure by using network function virtualization (NFV). Conventional authentication and key agreement standards are simplified, and low-delay secure access authentication is performed on the terminals based on edge computing in the scene that the plurality of terminals authenticate the same service network at the same time, so that signaling overhead is reduced, and network congestion is avoided.

Systems and methods include obtaining overlay telemetry data from a plurality of overlays, wherein each overlay is an application and there is a corresponding telemetry adaptor for each overlay; obtaining underlay telemetry data from one or more underlays, wherein each underlay includes physical infrastructure for supporting one or more of network, compute, and store functions for the plurality of overlays; analyzing the overlay telemetry data and the underlay telemetry data via a Key Performance Factor (KPF) model that correlates one or more of the plurality of overlays and the one or more underlays together; responsive to an anomaly or a threshold crossing based on the KPF model, performing a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to identify a root cause of the anomaly or the threshold crossing; and mapping one or more actions with associated priorities to the root cause utilizing one or more remediation modules each associated with an overlay.

Technology is configured to facilitate monitoring of operational parameters and maintenance conditions of physical infrastructure. Some embodiments relate to an arrangement of hardware and software that are configured to perform monitoring of physical infrastructure operational parameters via a first set of sensor devices, and periodically write data to a blockchain, in combination with a second set of sensor devices that are configured to monitor for defined maintenance conditions, which are also written to the blockchain. This is preferably used as a means to drive determination of a reliability/availability measure for the infrastructure, and/or automatedly perform payment transactions for maintenance operations.

Provided is a method for monitoring a blockchain including the following steps: evaluating a characteristic of a physical infrastructure on which the blockchain is based; comparing the determined evaluation to a predetermined parameter; and outputting a signal if the evaluation is less than the predetermined parameter.

Systems and methods for route finding in networks and/or in a network of networks. A server is communicatively coupled to a datastore, which hosts a model of an industry of Internet infrastructure as a graph. Nodes of the graph represent physical infrastructure components that make up various networks that, collectively, interconnect with one another, infrastructure components that house the physical infrastructure components, and entities owning and/or operating any of these equipment and facilities. Edges of the graph, which are preferably directed in nature as defined by labels, represent the relationships between the physical infrastructure components. The server hosts and employs a route- finding application that utilizes the graph to search for an optimal path between nodes of the graph responsive and according to user-specified criteria.

The invention provides a method and a device for realizing multimode coexistence of a heterogeneous information system of a data center. In the operation mode, a general service is called in the general information system, and the information service is provided by using the general computing resources and the general storage resources; in a hosting mode, a relay mode and an index mode, special services in respective special information systems are called, and information services are provided by using respective special computing resources and special storage resources; the operation mode and the management mode share an application bearing environment and a physical infrastructure of the industry shared data center area to complete deployment; the relay mode and the index mode are deployed based on respective department-specific data centers and respective physical infrastructures. The method comprises the following steps: enabling a user to submit a service application to a web portal, wherein the service application comprises physical resource demand information; determining a corresponding deployment application mode based on the physical resource demand information; and providing a corresponding service in the corresponding deployment application mode for the user.