1315 results about "Plug and play" patented technology

A home automation system and method for automatic control of controlled devices throughout a home. A unique architecture of occupancy sensors includes entry/exit sensors for detecting movement through doorways that separate rooms in the home, room motion sensors for detecting room occupancy, spot sensors to detect occupancy of specific locations within the rooms, and house status sensors to detect the status of certain parameters of the home. A central controller communicates with the sensors and controlled objects over a communications network, where the sensors and controlled objects can be added to the system in a ‘plug and play’ manner. The central controller controls the controlled objects in response to the entry/exit sensors, room motion sensors, spot sensors and the house status sensors. This control is accomplished by assigning each room to one of a plurality of room occupancy states, and to one of a plurality of room modes for creating desired room atmospheres using the controlled objects, which both dictate how the controlled objects are controlled by the central controller. The room modes travel from room to room as the occupant moves throughout the home, and multiple occupants can be using different room modes as they move about the home. The controlled objects also have controlled object states, which are used by the central controller to control the controlled objects.

A room occupancy sensor, a home automation system and a method for automatic control of controlled devices throughout a home. A unique architecture of occupancy sensors includes entry/exit sensors for detecting movement through doorways that separate rooms in the home, room motion sensors for detecting room occupancy, spot sensors to detect occupancy of specific locations within the rooms, and house status sensors to detect the status of certain parameters of the home. A central controller communicates with the sensors and controlled objects over a communications network, where the sensors and controlled objects can be added to the system in a ‘plug and play’ manner. The central controller controls the controlled objects in response to the entry/exit sensors, room motion sensors, spot sensors and the house status sensors. This control is accomplished by assigning each room to one of a plurality of room states, which dictate how the controlled objects are controlled by the central controller. The controlled objects also have controlled object states, which are used by the central controller to control the controlled objects. The room occupancy sensors have a sensitivity that is automatically adjusted based upon temperature measurements, and the number and timing of occupancy detections.

A system, method and computer program product for automatic response to computer system misuse using active response modules (ARMs). ARMs are tools that allow static intrusion detection system applications the ability to dynamically increase security levels by allowing real-time responses to detected instances of computer misuse. Several classes of ARMs exist which allow them to interface with several types of network elements found within a computing environment (e.g., firewalls, web servers, Kerberos severs, certificate authorities, etc.). The ARMs, once defined, are deployed in a "plug and play" manner into an existing intrusion detection system within a computing environment. A user (e.g., system administrator) may then configure the ARMs by linking them to specific computer misuses. Upon receipt of an instance of the computer misuse from the intrusion detection system, each ARM linked to the misuse collects pertinent data from the intrusion detection system and invokes a response specified by the ARM class and the collected pertinent data.

A speaker includes at least one transducer and at least one memory device. The at least one transducer is adapted to receive an audio signal. The at least one memory device is adapted to store data related to the speaker. A method includes reading data from a memory device of at least one speaker. An audio signal is provided from an audio system.

The inventive methodology provides an integrated plug and play solution designed to protect home networks against spam, phishing emails, viruses, spyware as well as other similar threats. The described content filtering appliance can be used for processing of web and email traffic implemented and can be deployed as a stand-alone appliance. In one implementation, the content processing appliance utilizes backend content filtering provided by a remote scanning service accessed via a network. The system employs network level analysis and translation of content and executes various procedures to handle the network traffic. In an embodiment of the invention, the appliance is provided with an automatic remote updating capability, wherein the software and data used by the appliance can be updated remotely via a network. Finally, the appliance may also implement parental controls.

A Web platform web-application framework in which functional block components are loaded as library elements at the time a website is accessed provides increased quality, accuracy and consistency of the website by enabling website management without a need for third party editors. Look and feel aspects of the website are loaded as library elements which are separate from content objects. Functional components stored as elements within a dictionary minimize redundant labor required to develop and deploy websites while providing extended functionality from a library of “plug and play” web components. Loading functional components as dictionary elements allows for seamless integration into the web-applications framework and other components. The web-application framework also identifies web visitor identifier information that is used to customize the displayed web page to the visitor's location.

Systems, methods, and devices are described for an application independent DEX/UCS interface (AIDI). The AIDI is a “plug and play” DEX/UCS solution that removes the requirement for developers to know the structure, function, and format of DEX/UCS transaction sets and to make the DEX/UCS process independent from the existing business logic of many mobile applications.

A full-featured authentication framework is provided that allows for the dynamic selection of authentication modalities based on need and/or environment. The framework comprises a server responsible for handling requests for data and services from the other components, a logon module, a user administration tool and a system administration tool. The authentication framework may be used in a multi-biometric environment or one that contains a combination of any other authentication techniques. The system is built on a BioAPI framework and uses common data security architecture. A primary feature of the system of the present invention is the facilitation of the installation of authentication modalities, possibly from numerous vendors, thereby allowing for plug-and-play of new biometric functionality and additional core data security modules with no extra programming effort.

An automated processing system, particularly for use in biotechnology, which is modular in construction and allows for a wide variety of instruments to be inserted and/or removed without having to reprogram the system and methods of using such a system. This may be called "plug and play" functionality. The system may be portable without disassembly and have a generally vertical arrangement so as to utilize less useful lab space than a horizontally arranged system.

A reconfigurable interface device for providing access to a plurality of fieldbus networks. The interface device includes a reconfigurable circuit which provides access to a selected fieldbus network from among several optional fieldbus networks. According to an embodiment, the reconfigurable circuit includes a plurality of media units, each media unit providing access to one of the several optional fieldbus networks, and a switch unit coupled to each of the plurality of media units, the switch unit activating a media unit corresponding to the selected fieldbus network, and deactivating remaining media units. A reconfigurable control device is provided for controlling and monitoring a plurality of fieldbus networks. The control device includes a host, having a server and non-volatile memory, and a reconfigurable interface device having a reconfigurable circuit. The non-volatile memory stores firmwares for reconfiguring the reconfigurable circuit in accordance with each of the several optional fieldbus networks.

Disclosed are spools, fiber optic assemblies, and methods for use with a lashing machine or other suitable deployment for routing the fiber optic cable toward the subscriber allowing the craft to quickly and easily deploy the fiber optic cable in the field. The fiber optic assemblies may include a spool, at least one fiber optic cable disposed on the spool, and a fiber optic connector. In one embodiment, the spool includes a first spool flange and a second spool flange that include notches that overlap at angular positions for allowing the spooling of fiber optic cable off the same. In another embodiment, the fiber optic connector is attached to the spool for plug and play connectivity of the spool. In other embodiments, a splitter may be attached to the spool for splitting the optical signal.

A new sensing technology for chemical/biomolecular sensors is provided. One such sensor detects molecular hydrogen (H₂) using nanoelectronic components. A tiny, low-cost nanosensor chip can offer: (i) performance that matches or exceeds that of existing technology, (ii) plug-and-play simplicity with both digital and analog control systems, and (ii) the small size and low power consumption needed for wireless integration.

A method and system for interconnecting peripherals, processor nodes, and hardware devices to a data network to produce a network bus providing OS functionality for managing hardware devices connected to the network bus involves defining a network bus driver at each of the processor nodes that couples hardware device drivers to a network hardware abstraction layer of the processor node. The network bus can be constructed to account for the hot-swappable nature of the hardware devices using a device monitoring function, and plug and play functionality for adding and, removing device driver instances. The network bus can be used to provide a distributed processing system by defining a shared memory space at each processor node. Distributed memory pages are provided with bus-network-wide unique memory addresses, and a distributed memory manager is added to ensure consistency of the distributed memory pages, and to provide a library of functions for user mode applications.

The invention provides an improved storage area network (SAN) of the type having a digital data processor, e.g., a host, in communication with one or more storage devices, e.g., a LUN and, further, of the type having a plug-and-play (PNP) manager that generates an event in response to a change in status of at least one of the storage devices. The improvement is characterized by at least a selected process, that executes on the host (or other digital data processor) and that references at least a selected one of the storage devices using a previously assigned logical identification, e.g., a LUN ID. The improvement is further characterized by the selected process responding to an event generated by the plug-and-play by querying for information the storage device (or an interface thereto) with respect to which the event was generated. From that information, the process generates a logical identification for the device.

A modular communications, command, and control system with plug-and-play connectivity, utilizing configurable independent base stations and portable handsets that preferably have similar components and functionality so as to be interoperable. The system utilizes an open system interconnection architecture preferably having fully integrated layers permitting inter-operability with adaptive applications and inter/intra-linking with external appliances and/or apparatuses. Optionally, the system may be utilized to perform extended information handling/processing, networking, personal assistance, industrial, commercial, medical, military, and/or security functions.

The invention discloses a method for automatic correction and tiled display of plug-and-play large screen projections. The method comprises the steps as follows: adaptively generating a checker pattern with a certain resolution ratio, projecting by projectors in sequence, capturing by cameras, carrying out feature detection and identification on complicated projection surfaces or checkers under the illumination condition with a multi-feature detection method based on color and geometry, and creating a Bezier curve function to represent a corresponding relation of points between projector images and camera images; and obtaining effective display areas for screen projection with a quick approach method, determining a corresponding relation of the projection contents of the projectors and the display areas, carrying out geometrical distortion on the images to be projected for geometrical correction, and calculating weight values of pixels in projection overlapping areas with a distance-based nonlinear weight value distribution method for fusion of edge brightness. According to the invention, a plurality of projection images of irregular surfaces can be aligned and seamlessly spliced, and the whole method is simple and easy to use, higher in autonomy and better in seamless splicing performance.

A document delivery network server having a set of integrated functions including sending, receiving, routing and filing of FAXes and e-mails to other users which achieves numerous advantages over the prior art. The document delivery system is based on a client/server model having both analog and digital Fax line capabilities. The server side provides very highly integrated systems functionality based on industry standard, commercially available hardware and a mix of industry standard and proprietary software components including integrated FAX/modem modules, an embedded OS, embedded plug-and-play driver sets, embedded e-mail gateways, an embedded FAX archive, embedded back-up/restore, proprietary high efficiency line utilization and highly efficient load balancing.

The present invention discloses a plug-and-play network digital image display apparatus plugged into an existing power socket at home or office through a built-in or external powerline to Ethernet adapter and connected to a webcam through a powerline installed at home or office, so that the webcam in a certain room can send captured video and audio signals to the network digital image display apparatus in another room through the powerline, and the network digital image display apparatus plays the image and sound, without the need of installing an additional network cable to achieve the plug-and-play function at the power socket for the environmental dynamic monitoring function. The invention also discloses a plug-and-play image monitoring system, such that a user situated at a place other than a home or an office still can use a personal computer to monitor the home or office through the Internet.

A system, method and computer program for an apparatus is described. An apparatus is a very convenient, plug-and-play, ultra small, smart device that lets the end-users to host their websites at computer peripheral port. When said device is plugged in one of the computer peripheral ports: Universal Serial Bus (USB), Secure Digital Input and Output (SDIO), Compact Flash (CF), Cardbus, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI-Express and ExpressCard; it shall function as a dedicated web hosting device powerful and robust enough to handle web hosting functions for Personal Home Page, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Files Server, Streaming media, Common Gate Interface (CGI) scripts, Active Server Pages, or Game Server.

The present invention relates to a device and method for seamlessly internetworking local area networks utilizing the Universal Plug and Play protocol with wide area networks utilizing the Internet Multimedia Subsystem architecture. The network communication device includes a universal plug and play (UPnP) interface and an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) interface. Circuitry is communicatively coupled to the UPnP interface and the IMS interface, wherein the circuitry associates an UPnP session key with an associated electronic equipment for allowing communication between the one or more associated devices and the associated electronic equipment.

The present invention discloses an integrated universal simulation test system for electric network scheduling and electric quantity collection, a telemechanical terminal is connected with a test control device through an instation network, an electrical energy remote terminal is connected with a plurality of electric energy meters. The simulation test system is provided with a portable computer, and has a function of processing the remote measurement, remote signaling, remote control data of an automatic SCADA system and electric energy meter data of a electric quantity collection terminal simultaneously or separately; a specification analysis function of the automatic SCADA system and electric quantity collection system; the specification is an usual specification, or is added with a plug-in card mode. By means of the technical scheme, the system has stable operation and perfect functions; the system is portable and is flexible to be employed; the system has high reliability and well expandability, openness, compatibility, and excellent maintainability and easytouse; it is capable of expanding and modifying the specification expediently, and it is capable of plugging and playing.

A method architecture for extending universal plug and play (UPnP) beyond a local area network is presented. This method includes a mobile device proxying agents. The mobile device proxying agents translate messages between UPnP and session initiation protocol (SIP) formats and sessions.

The invention relates to the technical field of home networks. A home network based on the present UPnP standard (Universal Plug and Play) allows data to be interchanged between network subscriber stations. A UPnP standard may have one or more control point devices. To allow profile information such as user profile or network profile to be interchanged, the invention proposes providing a control point device firstly with an expanded device ascertainment service which can be used to find the other control point devices in the network and also with one or more additionally implemented profile services which allow the other control point devices in the network to be notified about change to profile information on a control point device.

A multimedia service apparatus and method for multimedia service providers outside home to UPnP devices inside home using a home gateway and a service gateway platform is provided. In the multimedia service apparatus and method, the home gateway and the service gateway platform such as an open service gateway initiative (OSGi) service platform are used inside a home so that the multimedia service providers outside home can provide a multimedia content on a home network to a universal plug and play (UPnP) audio/video (AV) MediaRenderer following a UPnP AV structure based on UPnP, to reproduce or store the multimedia content in a UPnP AV MediaServer. The multimedia service apparatus includes: a UPnP AV (audio/video) device connected to a home network by the multimedia service provider of an external network; and a gateway device providing a multimedia service to the UPnP AV device using the service gateway platform.

Some embodiments provide a method for providing a layer 2 (L2) bump-in-the-wire service at a gateway device (e.g., a layer 3 (L3) gateway device) at the edge of a logical network. The method, in some embodiments, establishes a connection from a first interface of the gateway device to a service node that provides the L2 service. The method also establishes a connection from a second interface of the gateway device to the L2 service node. The method then sends data messages received by the gateway device that require the L2 service to the service node using the first interface. Some embodiments provide a method for applying different policies at the service node for different tenants of a datacenter. Data messages received for a particular tenant that require the L2 service are encapsulated or marked as belonging to the tenant before being sent to the service node. Based on the encapsulation or marking, the service node provides the service according to policies defined for the tenant.

A novel method and software system design are presented for interchanging sensors from different vendors in a plug and play manner to drive mission critical applications within a sensor based architecture, policy based framework, event-based architecture. This technique is applicable to sensors directly attached to a computer, or sensors attached to a network, or sensors attached to a controller node which is attached to a network or directly attached to a computer.

A chromatography and fluidic device with connections capable of automated component changing, diagnostic leak and current sensing. The chromatography-electrospray device contains a chromatography column, a pre-column, a spray emitter, or other fluidic component imbedded within one or more inserts. The inserts are robotically placed in receiving hardware, and a “plug and play” compression fitting connection mechanism makes the fluidic seals in an automated fashion. A plurality of sensors capable of detecting leaks is situated in the device near leak-prone regions. The electrospray emitter has a current sensing electrode in proximity of the electrospray region, capable of detecting the electrospray current. In conjunction with an electronics system, these sensors allow for system and component diagnostics. The diagnostic information may then be used for manual or automated system repair.

An asynchronous, distributed, and calibrated apparatus provides a composite display from a plurality of plug-and-play projectors. The apparatus comprises a plurality of self-sufficient modules. Each module comprises at least one plug-and-play projector of the plurality of plug-and-play projectors. A camera is coupled to the projector. A software or firmware controlled, computation and communication circuit is coupled to the projector and executes a single-program-multiple-data (SPMD) calibration algorithm that simultaneously runs on each self-sufficient module to generate a scalable and reconfigurable composite display without any need for user input or a central server.

A remote access system connects a server computer with one or more client computers, where devices are connected locally at the client computers. The devices are recognized by the client computers and a device driver is provided for each connected and recognized device. A virtual driver is created at the server computer from information specific to the device, such that the virtual driver acts as an actual driver to an application on the server computer. The application through the virtual driver is able to recognize and provide commands to the connected device.

The invention discloses a nonsymmetrical 5-freedom combined robot, including fixing frame, three length regulators, moving platform and positioning head; the top of the first length regulator is set on the fixing frame through the hinge composed of two homocentric rings from inner to outer and the end of the first length regulator is rigidly linked with the moving platform; the tops of the second and third ones are set on two sides of one end surface of the fixing frame, symmetrically, through the hinges composed of two fork structures, respectively, and their ends are hinged with the moving platform; the positioning head is linked with the bottom of the moving platform. Its advantages: module design to realize plug and play (PnP); few moving components to reduce the possibility of interference between components during moving; the end executive component can realize 5-freedom motion, having performances of high speed, precision and rigidity and characters of large working space.