1007 results about "Recovery function" patented technology

The Electric Power Converter has the qualifications for an uninterruptable power supply, battery management, energy conversion, micro-grid formation, Power Factor Correction including Total Harmonic Distortion correction in real time. Uninterruptable power supply's use is for always-on, real-time, all-time, reduced distortion with functions of load reduction and management during peak load events. The Electric Power Converter as well has the ability to provide maintenance for most types of batteries including charging and discharge regiments to increase the overall lifetime of a battery, the maintenance, incorporating restorative functions that can refurbish dead batteries or can further increase the overall efficiency and useful function of weaker/aged/defective batteries. Energy conversion capabilities allow for the conversion of AC or DC to AC or DC with high efficiency and ability to actively vary the frequency in accordance to the required parameters. The Electric Power Converter is able to establish and sustain a micro-grid with multiple and varying sources of power generation and load conditions. The Electric Power Converter is achieving dynamic, real-time, interactive Power Factor Correction (PFC) function with advanced voltage harmonic distortion correction with a high efficiency ratio. The Electric Power converter is designed to function with the emerging Smart Grid technologies and provide an overall higher level of operating efficiency and higher quality of electrical power.

A method and apparatus is presented that allows rapid switching between multiple operating system environments on a single computer, through the use of a Super Operating System operating between the computer system's firmware level and a plurality of bootable operating systems and applications. Relevant data, such as hardware controls, bootable operating systems, and applications software, are grouped onto physical partitions in physical memory. Combinations of compatible partitions can be assigned to a cabinet to create a virtual computer system. A given partition is assignable to multiple cabinets. By operating above the virtual computer systems, the Super Operating System uses the suspend and resume functions of the power management support functions to suspend and hybernate one operating virtual computer system, while activating and operating an alternate virtual computer system on the same computer.

A distributed system provides for separate management of dynamic cluster membership and distributed data. Nodes of the distributed system may include a state manager and a topology manager. A state manager handles data access from the cluster. A topology manager handles changes to the dynamic cluster topology. The topology manager enables operation of the state manager by handling topology changes, such as new nodes to join the cluster and node members to exit the cluster. A topology manager may follow a static topology description when handling cluster topology changes. Data replication and recovery functions may be implemented, for example to provide high availability.

The invention relates to a network-based PB level cloud storage system and a processing method thereof. The network-based PB level cloud storage system comprises a main control server, a storage server cluster and a client side which are operated through an internal exchange, wherein the main control server is used for providing the directory information and the meta data information for a cloud storage client side and monitoring the storage server cluster; the storage server cluster comprises a plurality of storage servers used for data storage; the client side is used for providing the virtual disc service for a cloud storage client machine, submitting an operation request of the cloud storage client machine to a virtual disc to the main control server and reading/writing the file data from the storage server, and a client-side module is arranged on the cloud storage client machine. The invention is easy to expanded and is convenient to manage, solves the problem of storage island, can construct a cloud storage file system provided with the dynamic load balancing capability and the online backup and automatic recovery functions and capable of being expanded on demand on a general-purpose low-performance PC (personal computer) cluster.

A services broker provides session suspend and resume capabilities to a computer-supported multi-user session made up of associations between a plurality of participants and the services broker. The services broker includes: a memory; an input/output subsystem for transmission of session data and for communicating with the plurality of participants; a processor, operatively connected to the memory, for carrying out instructions. The instructions cause the processor to: receive a trigger event from at least one of the plurality of participants, the trigger event for resuming a suspending session; verify that the suspending session can be resumed; transmit a resume request to the plurality of participants; and re-establish associations among the plurality of participants. Additionally, the services broker will transmit a stored session state and stored session data to at least one environmental device for resuming the suspended session at the point where the suspended session ended. The services broker also carries out instructions for suspending a joint session.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using a register checkpointing mechanism to resolve multithreading mis-speculations. Valid architectural state is recovered and execution is rolled back. Some embodiments include memory to store checkpoint data. Multiple thread units concurrently execute threads. They execute a checkpoint mask instruction to initialize memory to store active checkpoint data including register contents and a checkpoint mask indicating the validity of stored register contents. As register contents change, threads execute checkpoint write instructions to store register contents and update the checkpoint mask. Threads also execute a recovery function instruction to store a pointer to a checkpoint recovery function, and in response to mis-speculation among the threads, branch to the checkpoint recovery function. Threads then execute one or more checkpoint read instructions to copy data from a valid checkpoint storage area into the registers necessary to recover a valid architectural state, from which execution may resume.

An apparatus for reducing data unavailability time after a loss of main power in a storage controller is described. The controller backs up its volatile memory containing posted-write data to a non-volatile memory upon detecting a loss of main power. The controller continues to provide battery power to the volatile memory to sustain the posted-write data. If the battery is able to supply power to the volatile memory until main power is restored, the controller foregoes restoring the posted-write data to the volatile memory from the non-volatile memory. By not incurring the restore time, which may be substantial if the volatile memory is large since read rates from volatile memories are typically slow, the data unavailability time is reduced. The selective restore feature is user-disableable and also includes a brown-out timer for allowing a user to specify how long to battery-power the volatile memory if the feature is enabled.

Embodiments of the present invention provide backup and restoration functions for a storage device of a PCI-Express (PCI-e) type that support a low-speed data processing speed for a host. Specifically, embodiments of this invention provide backup and restoration functions for one or more (i.e., a set of) semiconductor storage devices (SSDs). In general, the present invention provides an alarm unit and a secondary power supply coupled to a backup controller. The backup controller is coupled to a backup storage device. When a primary power supply is deactivated (e.g., fails), an alarm unit and the secondary power supply is activated. In response to this activation, the backup controller will backup any data stored on any SSDs of the storage system (as well as any data stored in main memory of the storage system or in main memory of any host server connected thereto). When the primary power supply is reactivated, the secondary power supply (and the alarm unit) is deactivated, and all data backed up is restored to its original source.

A method for providing an application cluster service (APCS) with fault-detection and failure-recovery capabilities. This method is composed of the steps of nodes clustering, invoking and detecting applications, fault-recovery of applications, detection of nodes, and node replacement. This method is applicable in a clustered environment to detect if a slave node is failed by sending a heartbeat periodically from a master node; and to detect if the master node still exists by checking if the master node stops sending the heartbeat (i.e. the master node may be failed).

The invention discloses a cluster fault tolerance system, a device and a method. The system includes: a remote checkpoint server which is used to respond the remote checkpoint request from a faulty node and execute the checkpoint operation; a node faulty checking module which is used to monitor the operating system of a local node and the running state of an assigned process and to trigger a remote checkpoint; and a communication system checkpoint module which is used to realize the checkpoint of the communication device and support the recovery function of communication breakpoint. The invention provides localized fast fault restoration for the parallel processing cluster, has a lower overhead and good expansibility, and makes ideal availability for the cluster system with ten billions and hundred billions calculation scale.

The invention discloses a temperature control dehumidification system and a temperature control dehumidification method for the fresh air of a radiation air conditioner. The system comprises an air duct system, a radiation water circulation system and a cooling system, wherein the air duct system comprises a fresh return air treatment air duct and an exhaust air heat recovery air duct, which are independent; a pre-cooler/pre-heater and a temperature control heat exchanger are integrated corrugated finned type internally-threaded coiled pipes, and are connected with a radiation water inlet/outlet pipeline to form the radiation water circulation system; one stage of evaporator is used for direct evaporation, and two stages of condensers are connected in parallel to form a double-stage condensation cooling compression system. The system can be combined with the radiation air conditioner to independently control temperature and humidity, and besides a conditioning treatment function of a conventional dehumidification system, the system also has an exhaust air heat recovery function; a household compression cooling air conditioner is combined with the dehumidification system to realize cooling in summer, heating in winter and humidification in transition seasons; the running energy consumption is greatly lowered, and the shortcomings of dehumidification incapability and high condensation rate of the radiation air conditioner are overcome.

The invention provides a baseline updating method. The baseline updating method includes: detecting a first frame capacitance value; setting a baseline according to the first frame capacitance value; detecting a current capacitance value of a touch screen, and calculating a difference value between the capacitance value and the baseline; when the difference value between the capacitance value and the baseline is smaller than a negative noise threshold, starting a first timer for timing; if the difference values within a first time range are smaller than the negative noise threshold, updating the baseline according to the capacitance value to activate an extreme value recovery function of the baseline; judging whether the touch screen is touched or not according to the difference value between the current capacitance value and the updated baseline; and if judgment shows that the touch screen is touched, deactivating the extreme value recovery function of the baseline to enable the baseline not to be updated when the difference value between the current capacitance value and the updated baseline is smaller than the negative noise threshold again. By the aid of the baseline updating method in the embodiment, the touch screen is applicable to various operating environments while the operating speed of the touch screen is unaffected, and a certain waterproof effect can be achieved.

A data backup apparatus for a computer data system includes a unit housing in a standard form factor, within which is provided one or more disk drives and a removable media drive as well as an interface. In one embodiment, the removal media is magnetic tape cartridges that are selectively insertable and removable to and from a tape drive as the removable media drive. In embodiments with a single hard drive, the drive is divided into two partitions, a first partition with active data interchange with the computer data system and a second partition for data duplication, or mirroring. Data backup operations are performed by reading the duplicate or mirrored data from the second partition. Multiple disk systems are described, as well as systems utilizing optical removable media and solid state or memory cartridge removable media. A restore function is provided which operates independently of the host computer to which the device is connected to restore backed-up data regardless of the operational condition of the host computer.

The invention relates to a module and a method for LINUX host computing environment safety protection, which belong to the field of computer system safety, and solve the safety threats to an LINUX host. The module comprises an executable file protection module, an anomalous detection module and an inner core key data structure protection module, wherein the executable file protection module is used for registering, canceling, completeness protection functions of an executable program, and carrying out completeness detection before the operation of any program so as to ensure the process safety of a user state loaded in an internal memory; the anomalous detection module is used for setting up a process lawful action set, extracting process actions in a system during the operation process, and jugging whether the process action is anomalous or not through being matched with a normal action so as to prevent the process from being infected by a rogue program; and the inner core key data structure protection module is used for providing the backup, completeness detection and recovery functions of the inner core important data structure in the operating system, detecting whether the inner core important data structure is modified or not during the operation process, and recovering the important data structure according to the previous backup if the inner core important data structure is modified. The module and the method can completely and effectively protect the operation environment safety of the LINUX host.

The invention discloses a heat-exchange system with the waste heat recovery function for dry clothes condensation and a clothes dryer. The heat-exchange system comprises a waste heat recovery device, a condenser and a water-collecting box, wherein the waste heat recovery device comprises two groups of airflow air ways, i.e. a damp and hot-air air way and a waste heat recovery air way; the two groups of airflow air ways form a heat-exchange structure; and damp and hot air passes through the damp and hot-air air way of the waste heat recovery device, the condenser and the water-collecting box in sequence and then passes through the waste heat recovery air way of the waste heat recovery device to finish water heat recovery. An air outlet of the clothes dryer is communicated with the damp and hot-air air way of the waste heat recovery device through an air outlet duct and is then communicated with an air inlet through an air inlet duct after the damp and hot air passes through the condenser and the water-collecting box in sequence and then passes through the waste heat recovery air way of the waste heat recovery device to finish the waste heat recovery; a filter is arranged in the air inlet duct; and a drying fan and a heating device are arranged in the air inlet duct. The heat-exchange system has the beneficial effect that the electric energy and the time are saved by utilizing waste heat, and the clothes drying efficiency is improved.

Disclosed herein is a sample-processing system that can improve total system processing efficiency, and reduce a sample-processing time, by establishing a functionally independent relationship between a rack conveyance block with rack supply, conveyance, and recovery functions, and a processing block with sample preprocessing, analysis, and other functions. A buffer unit with random accessibility to multiple racks standing by for processing is combined with each of multiple processing units to form a pair, and the system is constructed to load and unload racks into and from the buffer unit through the rack conveyance block so that one unprocessed rack is loaded into the buffer unit and then upon completion of process steps up to automatic retesting, unloaded from the buffer unit. Functional dependence between any processing unit and a conveyance unit is thus eliminated.

The present disclosure provides timing recovery in optical systems in the presence of chromatic dispersion (CD), polarization mode dispersion (PMD), and polarization dependent loss (PDL) and to optimization of equalization settings based upon timing recovery moment strengths. A stable timing point may be determined in the presence of PMD and PDL impairments, even when the direct estimate of timing becomes unreliable. This determination may be performed entirely in the digital domain providing precise, predictable performance. Also, the present invention utilizes a monotonic relationship between the timing metric and CD setting error to provide directed search in setting the CD equalizer thereby reducing significantly the overall search effort in optimizing CD equalizer settings. This utilizes computations already performed by the transceiver for timing recovery function yielding a computational advantage over competing methods.

A method and computer operating system is disclosed to provide redundant hardware and software from multiple compatible computer operating systems and servers of a proprietary organization connected by a communication medium or connected on the Internet as a computer network as requested from said multiple servers by a specific host computer operating system per a transfer protocol.

The invention discloses a downhill auxiliary driving device for an electrically-driven automobile, and a control method. The downhill auxiliary driving device comprises a switch module, a target speed module, a speed control module and a braking force distribution module, wherein the switch module is used for starting or stopping the downhill auxiliary driving device according to operations of a driver and the traveling condition of the automobile; the target speed module is used for recording an instantaneous speed when the downhill auxiliary driving device is started by the switch module, as a target speed,; the speed control module is used for calculating target braking torque required for maintaining the target speed according to a difference value between a current real-time speed and the target speed; and the braking force distribution module is used for controlling power recovery of a drive motor so as to provide braking torque the same as the target braking torque. According to the downhill auxiliary driving device disclosed by the invention, the braking torque in a downhill gliding process is produced through the kinetic energy recovery function of the drive motor, so that energy consumed through friction braking is reduced, and the driver can conveniently control and change the speed in the downhill gliding process through operations the same as ordinary driving habits.

A simulator for accurately simulating a deterioration amount and a recovery amount of transistor characteristics, by which a semiconductor device can be designed with high reliability, and the method are provided. When a gate voltage of a negative level (a negative bias voltage) “Vg” is applied to a gate of the transistor, characteristics of the transistor are deteriorated. When application of the negative level gate voltage “Vg” is terminated (when applying a bias free voltage), the deteriorated transistor characteristics are recovered. In a deterioration period and a recovery period, a logarithm “log(t)” is obtained for an application time “t” of the gate voltage, a deterioration amount ΔP_D(t)=C_D+B_D·log(t) is calculated by using constants C_D and B_D depending on the negative bias voltage, a recovery amount ΔP_R(t)=C_R+B_R·log(t) is calculated by using constants C_R and B_R depending on the bias free voltage, and the deterioration amount (ΔP_D), the recovery amount (ΔP_R) and a basic deterioration amount (X_D) are summed up. Preferably, passage of time is divided, and a deterioration amount and a recovery amount are obtained for each time zone by using different deterioration and recovery functions for each time zone.

An information record and playback apparatus has a user information acquisition unit for acquiring user information of the user using the apparatus at present; a record unit for recording the acquired user information and playback stop position information on a record medium in relation to each other; and a playback start control unit for selecting the playback stop position information corresponding to the acquired user information from among the playback stop position information read from the record medium and resuming playing back the record medium based on the selected playback stop position information.

A method and system are disclosed for encapsulating SCSI protocol for data transmission between two or more nodes across a packet-based network. The method of the present invention includes the steps of, at each node in the network, identifying all other available nodes on the network, and the remote devices attached to those nodes; representing one or more of the attached remote devices such that they are made available to the node's local hosts; encapsulating the I/O phases between one or more local hosts and one or more of the remote devices; and repeating the encapsulating step for subsequent I/Os between one or more hosts and one or more devices. The step of encapsulating I/O phases between a local host and a remote device can further comprise encapsulating task management functions, error recovery functions and normal I/O processing functions. Each node can be a Fibre Channel-to-SCSI router.

The invention discloses a system for automatically testing stability of an application program interface and a method. The system comprises an operation controller, a monitor and log generator, a use case generator, a use case template library and an operation strategy library, wherein the operation controller is respectively connected with the monitor and log generator, the use case generator and the operation strategy library; the use case generator is connected with the use case template library; according to a backstage interface type of the application program, the operation controller is used for reading a test strategy of the operation strategy library, calling the use case generator to generate a test use case, reading the above test use case for test operation finally, and monitoring operation of the test strategy and a restoration function in the case of abnormal test. The system can automatically generate the test use case for the application program backstage interface, the test use case coverage is wide, the strategy can be self defined for operating the test, an automatic test operation function is provided, and a detailed test log can be generated automatically.

A method and apparatus for providing local data persistence for a Web server application. A Web page provided to a client application (e.g., a Web browser) by the server application contains a data entry area as well as a save button and a restore button. When the user actuates the save button, the Web page dynamically creates a new page that contains the data to be saved and a message prompting the user to save the new page in a user-designated location by using the file-saving function of the Web browser. The user may then close the original Web page, and the new page will remain saved locally. The user may then return to the original Web page and actuate the restore button to repopulate the original Web page with the data that has been saved locally. The save page contains a script function which becomes active when the page is loaded to perform the desired restoration function.

This invention presents a novel receiver architecture for full-duplex multi-level PAM systems. The receiver employs an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) that has a sample rate flexibly specified as (N_s+1)/N_s baud rate where N_s is an integer equal or greater than 1. A fractional-spaced echo canceller is used to cancel the echo at the ADC output. The use of a fractional sampling rate higher than the baud rate also enables the timing recovery function be implemented in the digital domain and hence eliminates the need of using the complex analog phase selection circuit. The receiver is also capable of fast, blind start-up by use of a decision feedback equalizer with unity main tap and a soft level slicer. The timing phase can be optimally located using a derivative channel estimator. Once the “eye-open” condition is achieved, the channel equalization is switched to the use of linear equalizer coupled with an error feedback equalizer to alleviate the error propagation problem associated with the decision feedback equalizer.