1006 results about "Service Interface for Real Time Information" patented technology

A communication system providing telephony communication across combined circuit switched and packet switched networks, such as a telephone network and the Internet, which are connectable to terminals, such as telephones and computers, for selective communication therebetween. The communication system includes an authorization and account control object in the packet switched network, multiple gateways between the circuit switched and packet switched networks providing controlled connectivity between those networks, and an information retrieval object in the packet switched network, wherein the authorization and account control object maintains a substantially real time record of user accounts and usage, and the information and retrieval object provides substantially real time retrieval of selected information from the authorization and account control object. The retrieval object provides on demand to terminals which provide authentication for access to an identified account information regarding that account. The information regarding the account is substantially real time information including information with respect to communications in progress which are chargeable to the account which has been authenticated. The authorization and account control object is preferably a unitary logical object having distributed instances thereof handling multitudinous accounts of widely separated terminals. The retrieval object provides isolation of the authorization and account control object permitting simultaneous multitasking by the authorization and account control object and the retrieval object respectively.

A communication system providing telephony communication across combined circuit switched and packet switched networks, such as a telephone network and the Internet, which are connectable to terminals, such as telephones and computers, for selective communication therebetween. The communication system includes an authorization and account control object in the packet switched network, multiple gateways between the circuit switched and packet switched networks providing controlled connectivity between those networks, and an information retrieval object in the packet switched network, wherein the authorization and account control object maintains a substantially real time record of user accounts and usage, and the information and retrieval object provides substantially real time retrieval of selected information from the authorization and account control object. The retrieval object provides on demand to terminals which provide authentication for access to an identified account information regarding that account. The information regarding the account is substantially real time information including information with respect to communications in progress, which are chargeable to the account which has been authenticated. The authorization and account control object is preferably a unitary logical object having distributed instances thereof handling multitudinous accounts of widely separated terminals. The retrieval object provides isolation of the authorization and account control object permitting simultaneous multitasking by the authorization and account control object and the retrieval object respectively.

The present invention relates to one- or two-way Direct-To-Home (DTH) satellite communications systems which broadcast high bit rate wideband television and multimedia content to user terminals located within a desired coverage area and, more specifically, a single or multi-transponder Direct-To-Home satellite communications system in which a high bit rate wideband data stream is comprised of real-time, statistically multiplexed information and non-real-time information that is transmitted to a subscriber media gateway device for storage and later-use. The user terminal contains a specially designed receiving system and may contain a transmitter for transmission of a return data channel to the Broadcast Center.

Methods and systems for displaying advertising or other promotional information to users via mobile devices. In particular, methods and systems that target advertisements using real-time information including location-based, defined geolocation territory rights (e.g., GeoEstate rights) and weather-related information.

Methods, systems, and arrangements facilitate information interexchange between a telecommunications network and an information service provider (InfSP). For example, a business-to-business (B2B) engine includes one or more logic modules for interfacing with the telecommunications network and with the InfSP. The B2B engine facilitates the reporting of, e.g., realtime information from the telecommunications network to the InfSP. This realtime information may include subscriber unit location and may be acquired and / or reported based on a mapping data structure in, e.g., the B2B engine. The data structure maps a service class to one or more parameters that dictate or provide guidance with respect to which parameters are relevant, as well as their respective values, and a mechanism for achieving the stipulated parameters. The mechanism may include specific network nodes / entities as well as frequency of acquisition to thereby enable location-tailored content data and / or services to be provided to a subscriber.

Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be pre-selected by the traveler. The system ensures consistent and quality data are produced and issued to the traveler.

A navigation system using a wireless paging network and a traffic information providing method in the navigation system. The navigation system has a traffic information management server, a paging server and a navigation terminal. The paging server broadcasts real-time information including traffic information and living information (e.g., breaking news) and the navigation terminal provides traffic information with the real-time information to a user. Therefore, no extra communication charges are imposed and real-time traffic information and other living information (e.g., breaking news, incident information, etc.) are provided together with route guidance information.

A Business-to-Business (B2B) engine, apparatus and method for facilitating information interexchange between a telecommunications network and an information service provider. The B2B engine includes an interface module for interfacing with the telecommunications network and with the information service provider. The interface module allows the B2B engine to receive realtime information from the telecommunications network and provide the realtime information to the information service provider. The B2B engine includes a processor that controls the operation of the B2B engine and at least one application module interconnected to the processor that enhances the monitoring and realtime information retrieval of mobile terminals within the telecommunications network. The B2B engine also facilitates the reporting of the realtime information within the telecommunications network to the information service provider, thereby enabling content data and / or services to be provided to the mobile terminal.

An energy services bridge interposed between one or more energy service providers and an energy distribution network operator manages a plurality of diversified energy consumer service plans so as to be compliant with the physical and technical constraints of the transmission / distribution gird. The energy services bridge further conveys real-time information regarding the state of the transmission / distribution grid to the plurality of energy service providers enabling active management of the service plans and correspondingly active management of the transmission / distribution grid.

The predominant way of customizing and tailoring services on the Internet is the use of cookies. The invention in this disclosure is to use the http header in an http get request as a distribution mechanism of anonymized and unique metadata between the user and the web server, and then for the web server to interrogate an information storage system hosted in the cloud or in a server to get real-time information, classification, categorization of that device in real time. The invention allows the web server to customize the service for that particular session using that information. This two-tiered distribution platform on the internet can be used for a wide range of applications such as advertising, security, authentication, emergency altering, children's privacy in a reliable, robust and trust-worthy way compared to the use of cookies, and the invention is universal and works with any Internet connected device.

The present invention provides a system and technique for initiating, conducting, and managing real-time surveys, in the context of a real-time discourse, such as Internet chat, to provide dynamic, real-time survey results. A surveyor initiates a survey by filling out an electronic form which is processed and submitted to a sorting component of the invention. The invention imposes an additional layer of functionality upon a Live Information Selection and Analysis tool which gathers, summarizes, and indexes chat messages in a real-time discourse. The sorting component matches the collected real-time chat messages from the LISA tool with correlating submitted survey queries to provide raw real-time survey results which are converted into a viewable format for submission to the surveyor. The present invention makes it possible to initiate, conduct, and manage multiple surveys simultaneously to provide accurate, dynamic, real-time survey results within the context of a real-time discourse.

In one form of the invention, a process of sending real-time information from a sender computer (103) to a receiver computer (105) coupled to the sender computer (103) by a packet network (100) wherein packets (111,113) sometimes become lost, includes steps of directing (441) packets (111) containing the real-time information from the sender computer (103) by at least one path (119) in the packet network (100) to the receiver computer (105), and directing packets (113) containing information dependent on the real-time information from the sender computer (103) by at least one path diversity path (117) in the packet network (100) to the same receiver computer (105).Other forms of the invention encompass other processes, improved packets and packet ensembles (111,113), integrated circuits (610), chipsets (DSP 1721, MCU), computer cards (1651), information storage articles (1511,1611), systems, computers (103,105), gateways (191,193), routers (131,133), cellular telephone handsets (181,189), wireless base stations (183,187), appliances (1721,1731,1741), and packet networks (100), and other forms as disclosed and claimed.

Systems and methods to accelerate transactions made via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes: a data storage facility to store information associated with past payment transactions and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats, and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. After a payment request identifying the phone number is received in the interchange, the common format processor is to determine whether to skip mobile communications with a mobile phone at the phone number to confirm / authenticate the request, based on real time information about the current transaction, the historical transaction data related to the phone number, and other data such as social graph data related to the user of the phone number.

The invention relates to a real-time information processing method in bus dynamic dispatching, which is specially used for dynamic dispatching of bus single or area multi-line of the ground. The real-time information comprises vehicle positioning information and passenger flow information; acquiring equipment comprises a GPS vehicle-mounted terminal and an IC card POS machine terminal; a processing method comprises the following steps: acquiring and transmitting real-time information; processing and preprocessing real-time information; carrying out secondary processing to the acquired data; taking relevant technologies of ITS and the computer of the bus vehicle positioning technology, the bus passenger flow acquisition technology, the network communication technology, WebGIS and the like as support, acquiring real-time information of ground bus line operation, carrying out processing on the real-time information, calculating operating state of vehicle delay time, section passenger flow, load factor and the like, and carrying out vehicle bunching recognition; and using a Kalman filtering model to predict the arrival time and delay time of the bus vehicle, and providing decision basis for dynamic dispatching measures.

The high reliable smart parallel energy storage tank charge / discharge system is composed of one or multiple identical Smart Energy Storage Unit. And each Smart Energy Storage Unit comprises an Energy Storage Management Module, an Energy Storage Device, a Sensor Switch Device and a Smart Identifier and Transmission Interface. All the historical records and real time information for charge / discharge condition of Smart Energy Storage Unit can upload to external connected equipment via the External Equipment Interface. To operate in coordination with an External Energy (Electric Power) Source, under any one Smart Energy Storage Unit served as the controller, this management system can carry out an effective charge / discharge management. When the Smart Energy Storage Unit which is in charged of the charge / discharge managing failed and cannot operate, the other normally operated Smart Energy Storage Units can automatically detect the situation and replace the role of charge / discharge management immediately so as to accomplish a high reliable charge / discharge management system.

The invention relates to a vehicle comprehensive information system based on the third-generation (3G) mobile communication, comprising a server and a vehicle-loaded terminal communicating with each other via a 3G network. The vehicle-loaded terminal comprises a vehicle bus interface module, a 3G mobile communication modem module and an embedded-type control module, and the server comprises an information receiving module, an information storage module, a function module and an information issuing module. The vehicle bus interface module is accessed to an inside control bus of a vehicle through an OBD interface, obtains the vehicle running information and transmits the information to the embedded-type control module; the embedded-type control module obtains and processes the vehicle running information and communicates interactively with the server through the 3G mobile communication modem module connected with the embedded-type control module; the information reception module receives the information of the vehicle-loaded terminal transmitted by the 3G network; the information storage module stores the information of the information receiving module and the application information; the function module is used for realizing the application functions of vehicle positioning, map navigation, real-time path plan, theft prevention of vehicles and the like; and the information issuing module is used for transmitting information provided by the server to the vehicle-loaded terminal.

The preferred embodiment provides an ultra-wide band radio frequency real-time location system (RTLS), synchronized with a GPS location system to provide reliable location data, in and around concrete and steel superstructures to a BIM graphic model system, to gather and display worker location data and coordinate its display for use. The RTLS system continuously locates each participant through the use of an active RFID tag and / or GPS location device, which may be placed in a personnel badge and verified. The location system logs the participant locations in a database for real-time information retrieval and upload into a BIM display system.

The invention discloses an unmanned plane autonomous flight cloud control system. The system comprises a ground control station, a cloud server, an unmanned plane device and an aerial photography device. Real-time autonomous flight of an unmanned plane involves establishment of a course planning control analysis module based on real-time information, the ground control station carries out preliminary automatic planning of a course by use of flight coordinate scope information, in case of low-attitude flight, aerial photography data acquisition is carried out on landform space information by use of the aerial photography device, the information is transmitted to the cloud server by use of a 4G network through the ground control station, three-dimensional real-time visualization space modeling of aerial photography data is carried out by use of a cloud processing technology, through combination with a DEM and space topology relation, real-time course correction is carried out on an unmanned plane task flight preliminary course, flight control signals are returned to an autopilot, and thus autonomous flight of the unmanned plane is realized.

A bidirectional communication method allowing real-time information sharing among clients on an Intranet through a server on the Internet in disclosed. After establishing two connections between the server and the client through an HTTP proxy, one of the two connections is set to a downstream connection using GET method of HTTP to allow real-time data transfer from the server to the client. Thereafter, the other of the two connections is set to an upstream connection using POST method of HTTP to allow real-time data transfer from the client to the server. After having set the upstream connection and the downstream connection, data cells are transferred between the server and the client through the upstream connection and the downstream connection.

The invention discloses a chronic disease management method with the functions of real-time data processing and real-time information sharing and life style intervention information. The chronic disease management method comprises the following steps: S1, equipment transmits various acquired data to a remote module; S2, the remote module transmits the various data to a cloud module; S3, a real-time communication module transfers the data to a real-time processing module after performing initial processing on the data; S4, the real-time processing module performs real-time calculation to obtain an index state result; S5, the index state result is sent to a real-time warning module; S6, real-time information is sent to a sharing module; S7, the sharing module shares the data according to a configured sharing strategy. The chronic disease management method has the beneficial effects that real-time receiving and processing of various different sensor data are realized, real-time compatibility of the various sensor data is supported, real-time automatic sharing between the real-time information, the forecasting condition and the warning condition of a patient and set receivers is realized, and coordinated management is enhanced.

The invention relates to cluster server intelligent dispatching method and system. The cluster server intelligent dispatching system comprises a group of cluster servers, a state database, an IP (Internet Protocol) address database and a DNS (Domain Name Server) server, wherein the group of cluster servers are respectively provided with a feedback program used for collecting the real-time information of the operating states of the servers; the state database is connected with the group of cluster servers and used for recording the real-time information of the operating states of the servers according to the real-time information of the operating states of the servers, wherein the real-time information is collected by the feedback programs; the IP address database is connected with the state database and used for recording the IP address of each server, the geographic position of the IP address of the corresponding server and the information of network operators; and the DNS server is connected with the IP address database, used for distributing same domain names to the cluster servers providing same services, scoring each server in real time according to the operating states inside the state database and the IP information of accessors to obtain the scoring grades of the servers and providing network services for users by selecting an optimum server IP.

A captive portal technology for registering and authenticating attendees, and for collecting the personal-preferences and social-profile details of individuals participating in a live-event in real-time, is disclosed. Wi-Fi connections within the live-event location are used to register and authenticate the individuals onto a proxy server. Once registered and authenticated, the proxy-server enables a monitoring main server to collect and store the preferences, activities and social profile of the individual in a dedicated database. The authentication provides the individual access to the web for social networking, blogging and other activities at the live-event site. Authorities of live-events are thereby able can identify the individual participants and their habits to provide real time information to improve ticket sales methods, provide incentives, on-site purchase capability and focused advertisements relating to the live-event to improve the live event experience of each individual.

A system and method is provided for generating and using purchase strategies based on the price, performance, and / or other information related to cloud services to optimize the selection of such services. The purchase strategies may comprehensively describe various cloud services in real-time so that customers may purchase cloud services using up-to-date, real-time information. The purchase strategies may, for example, describe pricing, performance, availability, and / or other attributes of various cloud services. A purchase agent may use the purchase strategies, one or more purchase rules, and / or other information to generate a purchase specification that specifies one or more cloud service instances that should be purchased. The purchase agent may leverage unique properties of spot instances to make favorable purchase decisions. For example, the system may determine bid prices that should be made to obtain certain spot instances.

An Ethernet communications system for a power monitoring system includes an Ethernet communications device having a processor, a communications interface capable of gathering, under control of the processor, real-time information from one or more slave devices. The processor and communications interface are operative for presenting the real-time information in a format useable by Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages.

Provided are a method and an apparatus (1) for continuously establishing a boundary for autonomous driving availability, in a vehicle (2) having autonomous driving capabilities and comprising remote sensors (3) for acquiring vehicle surrounding information (4) and vehicle dynamics sensors (5) for determining vehicle dynamics parameters (6), as well as a vehicle (2) comprising such an apparatus (1). At least one of a positioning arrangement (7) that provides map data with associated information; a route planning arrangement (8) that enables route planning; a vehicle driver monitoring arrangement (9) that provides driver monitoring information (10); and a real time information acquiring arrangement, that acquires at least one of traffic information (11 a) and weather information (11 b). The boundary is calculated based on a planned route and at least one of vehicle surrounding information (4), vehicle dynamics parameters (6), driver monitoring information (10), map data, traffic information (11a) and weather information (11b), for the planned route. Changes in the calculated boundary are output to a human machine interface (13) arranged in the vehicle (2).

A real time information manager which processes raw data from data providers, such as feeds of current information about financial product offerings, is provided. Raw data objects received from various data providers are analyzed, formatted, and a current version of each unique data object is stored in an object storage pool. Information about the state of each objects is transmitted on a particular output data channel in accordance with the type of object. A subscriber process can access one or more of the data channels and utilize the broadcast data. In one configuration, one or more client managers are provided which subscribe to particular data channels and serve as an intermediary between the real time information manager and sets of clients.

Mapping information can be generated and provided to a user to identify preferred routes and estimated travel times to traverse the preferred routes. The mapping information is initially generated based on mapping data obtained in a historical database. The mapping data can be retrieved based on the routes, the time and the date information. Thus, the preferred routes and travel times are identified and determined based on historical information, as well as distance and speed limit information. In addition, real-time information can be received from various sources, analyzed and then provided to a user to augment or update the mapping information.

The invention discloses an SIM / USIM distribution system, and card distribution, card release and card switching methods thereof. The distribution system comprises a card distribution strategy engine, a matching table and a card distribution switch; the card distribution strategy engine obtains, unbinds and recovers the best matching result about a current mobile terminal and a target SIM / USIM card according to calculation of real-time information of a current user and the mobile terminal, and the card distribution strategy engine updates a matching record item of the matching table; and the card distribution switch establishes or disconnects a data path between a virtual SIM / USIM module in the mobile terminal and the target SIM / USIM card in a far-end SIM / USIM entity card library according to the matching table. A matched or unmatched SIM / USIM card can be automatically, flexibly and dynamically adjusted according to the user real-time information, a relative effective service is provided for a user, and an SIM / USIM card resource is reasonably used.