55 results about "Service utilization" patented technology

A method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. According to one embodiment, a method may include dynamically predicting utilization of a web services computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, and dependent upon the dynamically predicted utilization, setting a price associated with utilization of the web services computing resource occurring during the given interval of time. The method may further include providing the price to a customer.

An improved method and system for accessing wireless data services that reduce messaging and enable roaming subscribers to access data services are described. A wireless communication system in accordance with the present invention includes at least a service control point and a gateway system (e.g., a Gateway Generalized Packet Radio Service Serving Node (GGSN)) that is coupled to a data network. To obtain access to data services, a wireless subscriber unit establishes communication with a gateway system and requests data services from the gateway system. In response to the request, the gateway system queries the service control point regarding authorized data services for the subscriber unit. If the gateway system receives a negative reply from the service control point, then the gateway system denies access to the data services by the subscriber Unit. However, if the gateway system receives a positive reply from the service control point, then the gateway system enables access to the data services by the subscriber unit. In a preferred embodiment, the gateway system tracks the requested data services utilizing pre-defined resource units. In one embodiment, the gateway system tracks service utilization by periodically querying and receiving a reply from the service control point after each pre-defined resource unit has been utilized. In this embodiment, the service control point updates an account balance of remaining resource units in response to receiving the queries and informs the gateway system when data access should be denied.

A mechanism for controlling the hardware resources on a blade server, and thereby limiting the power consumption of the blade server is disclosed. The enforceable hardware resources that are controlled include the base frequency of the central processing unit (CPU) as well as power to individual banks of physical memory, for example dual-inline memory modules (DIMMs). The hardware resources are tuned in dependence on actual server utilization such that applications running on the blade only have the allocated hardware resources available to them. Deactivated hardware resources are powered off and are so ‘hidden’ from the operating system when they are not required. In this manner, power consumption in the entire chassis can be managed such that all server blades can be powered on and operate at higher steady-state utilization. The utilization of the powered on resources in a blade center is also improved.

A mechanism for controlling the hardware resources on a blade server, and thereby limiting the power consumption of the blade server is disclosed. The enforceable hardware resources that are controlled include the base frequency of the central processing unit (CPU) as well as power to individual banks of physical memory, for example dual-inline memory modules (DIMMs). The hardware resources are tuned in dependence on actual server utilization such that applications running on the blade only have the allocated hardware resources available to them. Deactivated hardware resources are powered off and are so ‘hidden’ from the operating system when they are not required. In this manner, power consumption in the entire chassis can be managed such that all server blades can be powered on and operate at higher steady-state utilization. The utilization of the powered on resources in a blade center is also improved.

A cloud computing system includes an initial request reception unit, a request reception unit, and a transmission unit. The initial request reception unit receives a connection request from a device. In a case where the device has tried to access a request reception unit, the request reception unit receives a service usage request and service identification information from the device and determines whether a back-end processing unit is present that both corresponds to the device and is configured to execute the service. If present, a service utilization preparation completion screen is transmitted to the device. If not present, an instance generation instruction is sent to a management unit and instruction to launch an instance generated to execute the service is sent. After the instance is launched and the back-end processing unit is realized, the service utilization preparation completion screen is transmitted to the device.

A system and method of increasing the efficiency of overall power utilization in data centers by integrating a power management approach based on a comprehensive, dynamic model of the data center created with integrated environmental and computational power monitoring to correlate power usage with different configurations of business services utilization, with the techniques of CPU level power management

In a service providing system, a plurality of information acquiring computers for acquiring informations are connected via a network to a plurality of information providing computers for providing information. A service providing computer for executing an information providing service with respect to apparatuses for acquiring information is interposed between a plurality of in information acquiring apparatuses and a plurality of information providing apparatuses. The service providing computer receives a content of a request of the information acquiring computer, and determines a sort of information to be provided with a user based upon a quality of this request content, individual information and past historical information of the user, and also various sorts of conditions when the request is received. The service providing computer requests at least one of these information providing computers to provide the information. The information obtained from the request result is integrated by the service providing computer to be transmitted to the information acquiring computer.

To make it possible to provide other services even at the time of executing an online game and to communicate with a player receiving the other services in an online game space.Each game terminal receives comics distributions from a comics server and music distributions from a music server, even while executing the online game over its own browser. The game server administers the game participation of each game terminal and the utilization of various services (e.g., comics distributions, music distributions, mails or chats) by using a service utilization database. The game players can communicate with each other in the game space by the knock function in accordance with the service utilizations under the control of the game server.

The invention relates to a predictive form calling-out algorithm based on a dynamic statistics process, a switch dialing method and device. The device includes a data input module, a predictive form calling-out algorithm module, a switch, a dynamic statistics module, a data storage module, and a data output display module. The data input module inputs initialization parameter data to the predictive form calling-out algorithm module. The predictive form calling-out algorithm module is connected to the switch for information interaction. The dynamic statistics module is connected to the data storage module and receives the data of the data storage module. The dynamic statistics module counts the statistics data with different frequencies and transmits the data to the predictive form calling-out algorithm module. At the same time the data display is performed through a data output interface. According the invention, statistics and prediction are carried out according to dialed historical data, the dialing number next moment is dynamically determined, the service utilization rate is improved when a target phone call loss rate is not exceeded as far as possible, and optimizing balance is reached and the artificial dialing is completely replaced.

Provided are a utilization apparatus, a server apparatus, and a key utilization system which enable the utilization apparatus to control deletion of the old key without using a secure clock and allow encrypted communications irrespective of whether the accessed server has updated its key or not. In key utilization system 1, one or more server apparatuses 5-1 to 5-n each provide service to an apparatus having an apparatus key corresponding with a server key. Update apparatus 2 distributes an update server key to each server apparatus and a new apparatus key to key utilization apparatus 3. CRL distribution apparatus 4 distributes to key utilization apparatus 3 a CRL indicating one or more server apparatuses which have completed key-updating. Key utilization apparatus 3 holds both the old and new apparatus key, judges whether the server apparatuses monitored using the CRL have completed key-updating, and if affirmative, deletes the old apparatus key.

A technique for efficiently and accurately minimizing costs associated with services provided by a plurality of service providers (SPs) that bill for their services based on a tiered cost structure. Target tiers are generated based on the utilization of the SPs' services and the SPs' cost structures. Utilization of the SPs' services is monitored. A momentary target utilization rate (MTUR) is generated for each SP based on the cumulated utilization of the SP's service and the SP's target tier. Utilization of the SPs' services is distributed based on the generated MTURs in a manner that minimizes cost. If the utilization of the SPs' services indicates the MTURs have been exceeded, new target tiers and MTURs are generated and utilization of the SPs' services is redistributed among the SPs in a manner that minimizes cost.

A method and health information exchange system for health and human care providers providing shared community health information records on individuals and their related household members in a secured relational database that is fully HIPAA compliant are disclosed. The system gathers a broad range of medical, epidemiological, and demographic information on individuals and their related household members visiting disjointed and unassociated health and human services providing care in a predefined region. The database is accessible to authorized subscribers via a secure private web site in real time, and allows for the tracking of service utilization of the individuals and their related household members in the predefined region to help ensure that the individuals and their related household members are receiving the necessary care from the variety of disjointed and unassociated health and human services.

A system and method of increasing the efficiency of overall power utilization in data centers by integrating a power management approach based on a comprehensive, dynamic model of the data center created with integrated environmental and computational power monitoring to correlate power usage with different configurations of business services utilization, with the techniques of CPU level power management.

A technique for providing a service availability indication to a user terminal is described. In a method realization, the technique comprises providing a data structure representative of user terminals and of inter-terminal relationships derived from one or more communication parameters pertaining to communications between the user terminals. Additionally, for at least some of the user terminals service utilization information for each of a plurality of services is provided. The technique further includes selecting, for at least one user terminal and from the plurality of services, a service not used by the at least one user terminal, wherein the service selection is based on the service utilization information provided for user terminals having a predefined association with the at least one user terminal as determined by the inter-terminal relationships, and sending a message indicative of the selected service to the at least one user terminal.

The invention discloses a client upgrading method. A server acquires service client information when service upgrading is needed; the server determines versions of service client application programs, needed to be updated, of service clients according to the service client information; the server sends the service client application programs of different versions to corresponding service clients; and the service clients receive the service client application programs to upgrade. By the aid of the technical scheme, different upgraded service client application programs can be selected according to conditions of different service clients when services are upgraded, grayscale upgrading is realized, and user experience in service utilization can be improved.

The invention discloses a micro-service combination deployment and scheduling method under multi-objective optimization. The method comprises the steps of obtaining resource center related data, micro-service related data and user related data; establishing a multi-objective optimization model of micro-service combination deployment and scheduling; adopting a multi-objective optimization algorithmNSGA-III to solve the multi-objective optimization model; calculating a micro-service quantity vector needing to be started by each resource center; and deploying and scheduling the microservices ofthe resource center according to the microservice quantity vector. According to the invention, a detailed multi-objective optimization model of the combined scheduling problem of the micro-service isconstructed; the model is solved through an improved NSGA-III (Non-Sequential Genetic Algorithm-III); and the obtained result is decoded to obtain a micro-service combination deployment strategy. Experiments prove that compared with a traditional deployment strategy, the micro-service combination deployment strategy provided by the invention has the advantages that the calculation and storage resources, the load balancing rate and the actual service utilization rate in a resource center are greatly improved.

The invention provides an inter-process CPU resource balance scheduling method. A plurality of CPUs and a plurality of service processing modules for processing various services of a plurality of processes are arranged on a host, and the service processing modules correspond to one or more operating system processes; and the step of allocating resources for the plurality of CPUs and achieving the aim of balancedly processing services of the modules comprises: collecting data streams of various service processing modules and data stream backlog information, referring to CPU utilization rate ranges which the various service processing modules allow to occupy and regulate on agreement in advance, and calculating reasonable CPU utilization percentages of the various service processing modules under the current condition; and aiming at the short supply of the CPU resources of the host, dynamically balancing the CPU resource allocation of the various service processing modules on the host, and achieving the aim of balancedly processing the services of the various modules. When the data streams are surged in large quantity instantly or the CPU resources are in short supply, the method can make the time that a single service utilization record pass an operation support system reduce by about 10 percent in the prior hardware level.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a realization method for a supplementary service. With the method, a success rate of supplementary service utilization by a user can be improved and the user experience effect can be enhanced. The method comprises: a terminal initiates a supplementary service request message; the terminal inquires a current IP multi-media subsystem (IMS) service state according to the supplementary service request message; if the IMS service state corresponds to a first threshold value, the terminal executes a supplementary service corresponding to the supplementary service request message by a packet switching (PS) domain; and if the IMS service state corresponds to a second threshold value, the terminal executes a supplementary service corresponding to the supplementary service request message by a circuit switching (CS) domain. In addition, the embodiment of the invention also provides a terminal. The supplementary service can be used normally with the two kinds of channels of the PS domain and the CS domain; and thus the success rate of the supplementary service usage is improved.

A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, calculate the average number of servers that executed an application in a previous time period, decide whether the current number of servers that execute the application is less than the average number of servers, and, if so, power on the average number of servers. The application is then distributed across the average number of servers. In an embodiment, the server is powered on by increasing the clock speed of the processors associated with the servers. In an embodiment, a determination is periodically made whether the response time of the application is greater than a threshold, and, if so, the servers are powered on and the application is distributed across the servers. In an embodiment, a determination is periodically made whether the response time of the application is less than a threshold, and, if so, servers are powered off and the application is distributed across the remaining servers.

A system and method of increasing the efficiency of overall power utilization in data centers by integrating a power management approach based on a comprehensive, dynamic model of the data center created with integrated environmental and computational power monitoring to correlate power usage with different configurations of business services utilization, with the techniques of CPU level power management.

When a print server apparatus receives a service utilization request that includes setting identification information, printing device identification information, and service provision unit identification information, the print server apparatus transmits to a device management server apparatus print setting data identified based on the setting identification information, the printing device identification information, and location information indicating a location of the service provision unit identified based on the service provision unit identification information. The device management server apparatus creates a screen for setting print setting information of a function that can be executed by the printing device based on configuration data about the printing device identified based on the printing device identification information and the print setting data, associates the location information with a predetermined object included in the screen, and transmits the screen.

It is equipped with information inquiry means which inquires for service utilization information regarding user's utilization of network on the occasion of receiving a multimedia transmission service by communication server through network, circuit switch communication means and packet switch communication means which communicate with communication server accounting situation monitor means which monitors a use situation of each communication means and, and multimedia transmission service request means which requests for a multimedia transmission service by communication server, on the basis of service utilization information acquired by information inquiry means and result information monitored by accounting situation monitor means, and can receive an optimum multimedia transmission service, responsive to a utilization situation of each communication means.

The invention discloses a communication network early-warning analysis system based on big data analysis. Through adoption of SOAs, backbone transmission networks are divided into a network control and data collection layer, a platform layer and a management application layer; different levels of backbone transmission networks are managed comprehensively; through system interconnection between SOAs, information transverse sharing and application coordination of the different levels of backbone transmission networks are realized between the same levels and between upper and lower levels of a communication management system; through synthesis of the resume information, machine account information and service utilization information of the communication management system, according to level distribution of communication network resource occupation, the utilization condition of the resources is comprehensively analyzed from various aspects such as optical fiber resources, multiplexing section resources and channel resources; the resource utilization condition data of communication devices and communication optical fibers is stored in real time; through analysis of communication resource occupation of different levels, comprehensive analysis is carried out on existing massive history operation and maintenance data through utilization of a big data technology; and potential hidden dangers possibly existing in the communication network can be predicted in advance.

The present invention discloses a method for delivering services quality in an LTE network, which is characterized in that: when an LTE wireless access network receives the services quality information, in the event the wireless network can not satisfy the current services quality demand, then by utilizing the services quality information received, through services quality information negotiation in or within labels; the services quality information negotiated already is returned back to the LTE PCN. In the LTE network, through the QoS negotiation mechanism of the invention, when the LTE network can not meet the current services quality demand, according to self resources conditions including resources availability and loading conditions etc., QoS parameters for the current services is renegotiated, ensuring the success rate of the UE services utilization, and improving the trust of the user.

The invention provides a data management platform based on cloud computing, comprising a data management collection module, a data management storage module and a data support service module. The invention forms the unified collection of information resources, unified storage management, unified utilization management and application system management based on platform and shared information resources, forms the corresponding technology and management standard of the platform, and guarantees the effective service utilization of government information resources. At the same time, through the standard cloud platform technology under the exchange of shared services model, the data management platform can achieve unified storage of government data on the public cloud platform, unified maintenance and flexible service, improve the security of existing government data storage and efficient use of capacity, complete more in-depth data mining and other work, to create more value.

A service distribution device is provided that, when acquiring services to be used in an information terminal mounted in a vehicle or used in its passenger compartment, recognizes service availability beforehand, thereby improving usability of the services. A service distribution device includes an information correlation unit for correlating information that denotes service utilization conditions in relation to travel condition of the vehicle with the services. The service distribution device distributes to an information terminal the information that denotes the service utilization conditions correlated by the information correlation unit along with contents of the relevant service so that the information and the contents can be visibly displayed on a display unit in the information terminal.

The inventive embodiment discloses a self-service realization method, which includes: selecting needed self-service in a self-service platform, wherein, the self-service includes short message service, automatic voice service, wireless network service, network service and at least two kinds of service in USSD; the self-service platform interacts with a self-service server, in order to realize self-service, according to the selected self-service server. The inventive embodiment also discloses a self-service platform. The invention provides with a plurality of self-service modes for selection on the same self-service platform, with no need of short message code, phone number, WAP or WEB address to be remembered by users, with the advantages of simple and convenient usage, self-service utilization rate increase, manual service utilization rate decrease and operator service resources utilization efficiency improvement.

The invention discloses multiservice frequency assignment method and system for a dual-mode terminal. The method is used for reasonably assigning cable digital television network frequency bandwidth for the DVB / IP (digital video broadcasting and internet protocol) digital television dual-mode terminal and guaranteeing normal service of terminal multi-services. The method includes: when a frequency management unit assigns a certain service-type frequency for the terminal, searching tuner status information and service utilization information corresponding to the dual-mode terminal, and assigning proper frequencies for services of the dual-mode terminal; if an idle turner in the dual-mode server occurs, assigning a frequency meeting the service demanded bandwidth for the dual-mode terminal; and if no idle turner in the dual-mode terminal occurs, switching a service on the original frequency and a newly applied service to a same frequency, and returning frequency switching information. The tuner status information includes tuner number, frequency information locked by tuners, and service information corresponding to the tuners.

A cloud computing system includes an initial request reception unit, a request reception unit, and a transmission unit. The initial request reception unit receives a connection request from a device. In a case where the device has tried to access a request reception unit, the request reception unit receives a service usage request and service identification information from the device and determines whether a back-end processing unit is present that both corresponds to the device and is configured to execute the service. If present, a service utilization preparation completion screen is transmitted to the device. If not present, an instance generation instruction is sent to a management unit and instruction to launch an instance generated to execute the service is sent. After the instance is launched and the back-end processing unit is realized, the service utilization preparation completion screen is transmitted to the device.

The invention discloses a system for inviting multi-grid platform generally, comprising a task manager, a storage manager, a registration manager and a safety manager. The invention realizes the general task visit of the grid programming environment and grid public support platform of China educational science research and completely improves the integration and utilization rate of grid resource. The registration manager manages each target system, maintains the topology structure of grid, allows the grid node to register to registration service and coordinates the load balance of each node. The storage manager provides uniform grid data storage management, abstracts basic data operations such as storage data and provides a uniform, simple and complete storage space service for users. The task manager executes the task submitted by users, firstly obtaining input data from user data space, then generating performing script designated platform according to the submitting task, and the result is returned to the user space after performing script. The safety manager safely detects and controls the service utilization.