436 results about "Resource Provider" patented technology

An apparatus and method are disclosed for enabling controlled access to resources at a resource provider server. The invention may encrypt or decrypt a portion of a uniform resource identifier (URI), according to a stateless method for hiding resources and/or providing access control support. Upon receipt of a URI having an encrypted portion, the invention decrypts the encrypted portion using a predetermined key to obtain a decrypted segment, extracts additional information from the decrypted segment and forms a decrypted URI, before the decrypted URI is forwarded to a resource producer server. The invention may also encrypt a URI from a resource provider server before it is sent to a client in response to a client request.

Access permission can be assigned to a particular individually executable portion of computer executable code (“component-specific access permission”) and enforced in connection with accessing the services of a service provider by the individually executable portion (or component). It should be noted that least one of the individually executable portions can request the services when executed by a dynamically scalable computing resource provider. In addition, general and component-specific access permissions respectively associated with executable computer code as a whole or one of it specific portions (or components) can be cancelled or rendered inoperable in response to an explicit request for cancellation.

The invention discloses a method and system for accessing to a slice network. The method comprises the steps that a resource manager receives a network slice establishment request sent by a third-party application, and sends a resource customization request to a virtual resource provider according to performance and/or function parameters carried in the establishment request; and a virtual resource provided by the virtual resource provider is received, a network slice is established for the third-party application, and identification information is distributed to the established network slice.

In private equity and debt funding operations, resource providers define electronic data collection templates to be filled in by prospective resource consumers to form semi-homogeneous profiles. Providers and/or consumers can assign themselves and/or selected third parties various individualized levels of permissions to access and to perform activities on the profiles. Providers can organize profiles into portfolios to further manage the data. All accesses and activities, such as changes to the data, are tracked and recorded in logs useful for audit purposes.

The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for recommending optimal consumption of a variety of resources that may be consumed by a consumer. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon resource-consumption statistics gathered by a plurality of sensors, consumer's resource-consumption behavior, consumer-defined criteria, resource availability, and a cost of consumption. The recommendation may include a recommendation on how the consumer may lower resource consumption costs. The recommendation may further include optimal consumption considering consumption trends of a plurality of consumers living in a geographical proximity. The recommendation may include optimal usage of a consumer's vehicle such that the vehicle may consume the least amount of energy. The recommendation may further include offer(s) of credit/incentives by resource providers to consumers in exchange for less consumption of resource, alternative consumption of resources, and any combination thereof.

Routing apparatus for a telecommunication system includes a telecommunications user apparatus arranged to generate a request for a telecommunications delivery service, to receive a plurality of telecommunications delivery service offers and to select one of them. The system also intends a plurality of telecommunication service supply apparatuses each arranged to receive one of the request to generate an offer signal specifying a proposed delivery service and to receive an acceptance signal indicating acceptance thereof and, on receipt thereof, to generate a service provision invitation. The system further provides a plurality of resource supplier apparatuses each representing a communications resource arranged to communicate with each of said service supply apparatuses. The resource supplier apparatus is arranged to receive an invitation to determine whether the telecommunications resource they represent would contribute to the provision of the corresponding service; and, if so, to signal this to the service supply apparatus. The service supply apparatus is arranged, on the basis of signals from the resource supplier apparatus to select the route subsequent to the offer of the service.

A system includes at least one server and at least one host computer coupled to a communication network. A memory card wallet includes a content addressable memory that stores server identifiers, such as URLs, and user information associated with the resource provider, such as user identification numbers and passwords. The user inserts the memory card wallet into the host computer, and instead of entering user identifiers and passwords, the memory card wallet can provide such information to the server. When the user enters a server identifier that matches a server identifier stored in the content addressable memory, the memory card wallet provides the user information associated with the matched sever identifier.

The invention relates to an access and integration method of an isomerous database for modal multiplexing under the gridding condition. In the method, first, a virtual database for the modal multiplexing is used to describe various database resources and provide an overall uniform view of the isomerous database resource; then, through the resource register way, the resource provider confirms the mapping relation between the database mode of the isomerous database and the database mode of the virtual database, through inquiring about a mapping method, an inquiry request based on the virtual database is converted into an inquiry request based on the real database resource, the service of the virtual database is used to provide a uniform interface for accessing the isomerous database to the resource user; finally, under the gridding condition of including the isomerous database resource, the whole course from the register to the use of the database resource is realized, the integrated course of the isomerous database resource is finished through a gridding application service result, thereby ensuring that the developer of the gridding application service can make use of the service interface of the virtual database to obtain the integrated information from the isomerous database resource. The invention has good practicability, the resource provider can finish most register work automatically only by using a client program; the resource user can obtain the needed isomerous database resource through the uniform interface of the virtual database without needing to concern the geographic distribution, the database mode, the semantic information, etc. of the real database resource.

A system and method that standardizes, automates, and facilitates the process of identifying, evaluating, selecting, and managing product and service resources for both individual and business resource users within specific industries. In one embodiment, this resource management system includes a web-based or other computer server with at least one database containing data related to product and service resources within a specific industry that can be searched and queried by the user, and at least one resource management system application that contains business rules and industry-specific or user-based criteria, qualitative and/or quantitative resource evaluation standards, and/or other guidelines or reference points, that, when applied to the product and service resource data, generates a resource-related selection, recommendation, rating, ranking, descriptive result, or other action or result that helps the user understand the resource options and the relative merits of the resource options for the user's particular needs, based in large part upon resource criteria chosen by the user, so that the user can make intelligent, informed, efficient, and timely decisions in sourcing, selecting, and managing these product and service resources. In this embodiment, the combination of unbiased industry-specific database information, unbiased industry-specific criteria and/or evaluation standards, and industry-specific search and querying capabilities, accessible on demand by the user, provides the user with a more accurate, precise, higher quality result that is reliable, immediately actionable, and can save the user time, money, and undesirable product or service performance results and/or customer service experiences. In another embodiment, this resource management system may further include software components that provide interactive communication and/or transactional capabilities for users and/or providers of the product and service resources, thus further facilitating the resource management process for both resource users and resource providers in a specific industry.

Systems, methods, and devices to provide simple adaptive automated resource management of a resource system (such as but not limited to electricity, natural gas, water, data, bandwidth allocation, access to information, etc.) on a local basis, based on automatically detecting, measuring and combining time-varying resource provider preferences, resource market conditions, resource supply source conditions, environmental conditions and resource system impact on the environment, together with resource user locations, user priorities and preferences, and information about other conditions that may be relevant to the operation of the resource management system in order to optimize performance of the resource system to better meet or approach defined goals, and to measure and display the results achieved by the resource management system compared against those goals.

When a user enters a resource provider location with a portable communication device, the portable communication device provides an indication to a transaction processing system that the portable communication device is currently at the resource provider location. At a later time when the user conducts a transaction with a portable transaction device, the fact that the user's portable communication device had been detected at the resource provider a short time ago is taken into account as a positive indicator that the transaction is not fraudulent. By verifying that both the portable communication device and the portable transaction device are present at the resource provider, the risk of approving a fraudulent transaction from a stolen portable transaction device can be reduced.

The invention provides a method of determining a language of communication from a processor controlled device. In one case, the language of communication is derived from language of communication information retrieved from the processor controlled device, such as, for example, GPS information. In one implementation, the method includes: determining a geographical location of the processor controlled device; determining the language of communication based on the geographical location information; and transmitting the language of communication from the processor controlled device to a resource provider. Resources from the resource provider are received by the processor controlled device in the language of communication of the processor controlled device.

A system, method and software permitting the publication of resource availability information and the management of reservation requests therefor are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a resource provider provides authorization, availability, descriptive, linking and criteria information for a resource available for reservation presented on a publicly accessible web site. Users permitted to access to the data can browse and search the published resource related data and request appointments with or reservations of the listed resources. Resource providers are permitted to actively or automatically manage reservations and appointments requesting their resources. Available on a publicly accessible web site, resource providers may also control and define access limitations for various groups of viewers.

A computer implemented method to provide allocation of one or more computing resources for a consumer computing component, each resource having a resource type and being provided by one or more resource providers, and the consumer having associated a quantity of tradeable value constraining an extent of resource consumption.

The invention discloses a vehicle networking oriented computing task unloading method. In order to improve the benefit of computing resource providers during computing task unloading and to ensure thecompletion delay of computing tasks to a certain extent, the invention provides an unloading scheme for the computing tasks of the roadside UE by adopting the computing resources of the base stationside MEC server and the computing resources of the road traveling vehiclethe communication delay of the task, the computing time delay and the computing processing queue processing rate and queue length are taken into the decision-making reference factors, the mathematical model of Markov decision is used to analyze the change of the state, and the depth learning algorithm is used to obtain an optimal strategy space, that is, the corresponding state adopts the corresponding behavior, which maximizes the revenue of the resource provider and ensures the time delay requirement of the user's computing task to a certain extent.

A method and system for authenticating requests for accessing network resources are described. Network address information may be associated with a network resource user. An authenticator may maintain the associated network address information. The authenticator may receive, from a requesting party, a request to authenticate the network resource user, where the request may include a network address identifier. The network resource user may be authenticated based on the network address information and the network address identifier. The authentication determination may be forwarded to the requesting party for purposes of controlling access to a network resource of a network resource provider in response to an access request made by the network resource user.