37 results about "Servicing Facility" patented technology

A customer driven process of diagnosing and repairing a vehicle. The process involves temporarily providing a customer with a diagnostic tool that can receive vehicle diagnostic signals from a vehicle on-board computer. The customer then uses the tool to upload diagnostic signals from the car, and returns the tool to the automotive parts / service facility. The vehicle diagnostic signals are communicated to a console, which then accesses a database(s). The database(s) includes information relating to the vehicle malfunction, the repairs needed, and the parts required to complete those repairs. The process also allows automatic scheduling of repairs and purchasing of parts from the automotive parts / service facility. Upon payment of any prescribed fees, the process outputs report information to the customer.

This invention is a method and system for reserving a facility or service after the cancellation of an initial reservation for the facility of service. The system for this invention comprises a reservation center that contains reservation information about multiple facilities and services that available for use. This information includes times, quantity and quality of the facilities and services that are available. Also included in this reservation center is information about the users that are interested in reserving and using the currently reserved facility or service. The system of the present invention also includes remote devices that the potential users possess. The reservation center will use a particular remote device for a corresponding use to alert the user there has been a cancellation and that the facility or services is available for use by the alerted user. The primary user and all backup users can use the Internet capabilities to communicate with the reservation center.

The invention relates to multi deck passenger aircraft, having passenger cabins and / or service facilities arranged on the upper and lower deck and inner load bearing cell structure provided within aircraft body. The present invention is also directed toward methods for manufacturing derivative multi deck aircrafts. Energy absorbing, floatable cargo containers (24) attached to fuselage belly. External fuel tanks (26) displaced on the top of fuselage. Center wing region of the fuselage is using for arranging rows of seats and service facilities. Addition seating configuration for narrow and wide bodied aircraft is provided. Multi deck seating configuration significantly reduces per passenger operating cost over existing technology. Less fuel per passenger is required since there is less airframe weight and wetted area per passenger. Due to the lower overall cost per passenger seat within the multi deck seating structure, the net profit and return on investment in the aircraft are also increased.

The present invention relates to management of machine servicing, particularly, but not only, aircraft engine servicing. When a machine is received in a service facility for one of a plurality of predefined reasons, repair and / or maintenance procedures known to correspond to that reason are identified and a workscope defining work to be performed is generated. It is desirable (but not required according to the present invention) to identify what parts and / or tools will be needed to carry out the repair and / or maintenance procedures. It is additionally desirable to permit the parts and / or tools to be ordered or otherwise requested in anticipation of carrying out the defined work. The workscope can be enhanced by taking into account work (required or not) that is customarily performed for a given client. A cost estimate corresponding to the workscope may also be generated, and may also be modified according to client-specific parameters such as the nature of the client's service contract

A method for use in a distributed system for processing a knowbot program that has the ability to move from node to node in the distributed system. In the method, an operating environment in each of the nodes provides service facilities useful to the knowbot program. And,.in the operating environment, a supervisor process is run that enables the knowbot program to make use of the service facilities but does not permit direct access by the knowbot program to facilities of the operating environment.

Systems and methods are described for automatically providing remote self service facilities administration over an Internet protocol (IP) network or over a direct circuit (DC) network. To such ends, a system provides self service use of services of a provider network remotely from the provider network. A remote site kiosk is places in a remote site network with an Internet connection, the remote site kiosk having encryption support via a remote site tunneling endpoint for communications with the Internet and self service applications which communicate through the remote site tunneling endpoint. A data center with an Internet connection to a provider network and to the remote site kiosk, with encryption support via a data center tunneling endpoint to securely receive and forward communications over the Internet between the remote site kiosk and the provider network.

A method and system for servicing keyless vehicles is provided. The keyless vehicles include security systems that permit operation of the keyless vehicles if the security system receives a unique security signal from a smartphone. The method includes receiving a service request and unique first security data information from a customer concerning a location of a first keyless vehicle that requires service. An authorized person is transported to the first keyless vehicle in a second keyless vehicle. A customer's smartphone is provided with unique second security data whereby a customer can enter and operate the second keyless vehicle utilizing the customer's smartphone. The authorized person drives the first keyless vehicle to a service facility utilizing a second smartphone that is configured to generate a security signal to permit operation of the first keyless vehicle.

An airport surface collision-avoidance system (ASCAS) (18). An exemplary system includes sensors (e.g., radar) (26) at light modules (30) about an aircraft (20), with user interface devices (44-48) located with airport ground personnel and in the cockpit of the aircraft. The system helps to avoid collisions on the airport surface, i.e., during taxiing clear of airport buildings, during taxiing close to airport buildings, during gate operations (push-back and standing), etc. The system includes components for communicating sensor information to ground service equipment (tug tractor, baggage cart, refueling truck, etc.). The system can determine possible collision for any part of the aircraft (wingtip, tail assembly, engine cowl, fuselage, door, etc).

The present invention enables the collection by credit / debit card payment of customer co-pay and self-pay charges via an integrated point-of-service transaction management system and method. The system and method of the present invention may assist health care facilities in the collection of co-pay and self-pay charges at the time service is rendered. The present invention can be implemented anywhere cash, checks, credit cards or debit cards are accepted for payment.

Embodiments include receiving data defining customer characteristics, facility capabilities and financial data for an automobile service facility, generating a computer model of the service facility based on the customer characteristics, facility capabilities, and financial data, and calculating one or more quantitative indications of expected facility performance based on the model. Computer experiments may be conducted to identify one or more service facility characteristics that have an impact on service facility efficiency or revenue. Computer experiments may result in the derivation of one or more quantitative expressions interrelating one or more of the service facility characteristics that have an impact on service facility efficiency or revenue. Based on one or more aspects of the foregoing, aspects of the service facility may be changed in an attempt to improve efficiency or revenue.

The invention relates to the technical field of new energy automobile charging control, and discloses a charging operation service system based on a terminal intelligent monitoring function and a management method. The system complete real-time monitoring of a charging site through a field and / or remote system, the field operating scheduling and tide distributing functions are completed on the basis of field strategies or remote instructions, and the system is applicable to operating and monitoring of a super-large scale charging system. The system is suitable for achieving large-scale and standardized charging basic service facility construction, meanwhile, a data channel and an instruction channel are broken through, effective management and control over the system are achieved, and a foundation is laid for building and using large-scale charging facilities in the future.

The invention discloses a taxi intelligent transportation service facility based on an intelligent trading system platform, which consists of a road network system, a transportation service intelligent trading system, a traffic prediction system, and an intelligent dispatching system, wherein, the road network system provides road network services for the other three systems in the facility, the transportation service intelligent trading system provides automatic trading services for passengers and taxi drivers, the traffic prediction system provides self-adaptive reference path services for occupied taxis, the intelligent dispatching system carries out architecture according to an extended cellular automata, the basic component unit of the extended cellular automata is a structure cell, and the intelligent dispatching system mainly provides intelligent dispatching navigation services for vacant taxis.

A system for providing remote diagnostic and maintenance services to a process plant includes a database and a server, both of which are located remotely from the process plant. The database includes a plurality of applications. The server includes a data collection unit, an analysis unit, and a control unit. The data collection unit collects data associated with the process plant via a communication link, such as the Internet. The analysis unit analyzes the collected data to detect a condition associated with the process plant. In response to the detected condition, the control unit automatically implements one or more of the applications by automatically executing one or more of the applications remotely and determining parameters to be communicated to the process plant, automatically downloading one or more applications to the process plant via the Internet, and / or activating a web page that provides information for guiding an operator located at the plant in correcting the detected condition.

The invention relates to a point of sale (POS) query system and method. The POS query system comprises a server, a POS management terminal and a POS query terminal, wherein the POS management terminal comprises a POS server; and the POS query terminal comprises a controller, a communication device, a display and a positioning device. The positioning device is a high-precision positioning device or a common-precision positioning device; and the high-precision positioning device is capable of positioning the vehicles onto lanes. According to the system and method, the conditions that the POS supply is insufficient and service cannot be provided as service facility maintenance are considered, the positions and lanes of the vehicles are considered, and the automatic query of POS with best vehicle running distance and running time is considered, so that the best POS capable of providing commodities or services can be found more correctly.

The invention relates to a service facility for providing remote diagnostic and maintenance services to a process plant. A system for providing remote diagnostic and maintenance services to a process plant includes a database and a server, both of which are located remotely from the process plant. The database includes a plurality of applications. The server includes a data collection unit, an analysis unit, and a control unit. The data collection unit collects data associated with the process plant via a communication link, such as the Internet. The analysis unit analyzes the collected data to detect a condition associated with the process plant. In response to the detected condition, the control unit automatically implements one or more of the applications by automatically executing oneor more of the applications remotely and determining parameters to be communicated to the process plant, automatically downloading one or more applications to the process plant via the Internet, and / or activating a web page that provides information for guiding an operator located at the plant in correcting the detected condition.

The invention discloses a biogeographic optimization method for the emergency service facility location problem. The method comprises the following steps: setting an initial value of each variable, and randomly initializing suitability vector Xi of each habitat; calculating habitat suitability f(Xi), corresponding species number si, immigration rate and emigration rate; judging whether the habitat needs to carry out immigration operation according to the migration rate; if the habitat needs to carry out the immigration operation, selecting a characteristic component xij to be immigrated to the habitat according to the immigration rate, and selecting a habitat k as an immigration object according to the emigration rate of the other habitats, and replacing corresponding position of a habitat i with the corresponding position of the selected habitat k; calculating probability P (si) of the number of species accommodated in the habitat, calculating mutation rate m(Xi) by utilizing the probability P (si), and judging whether each component of the habitat i has mutation operation based on the mutation rate m(Xi); and detecting whether a stop condition is met, and if not, continuing execution, or otherwise, outputting the current optimal solution. Compared with a conventional optimization method, the method has better optimization performance.

Modular service unit (10A) comprising a pair of elongate light fittings EACH comprising a reflector housing (14) having one or more light tubes (24). Either a bridging plate, or an intermediate housing (26), is releasably attached to or supported by adjacent longitudinal side edges (34) of each reflector housing (14), and forms a structural part of an auxiliary service facility. The auxiliary service facility can include, for example, air conditioning ducts or diffusers (17A), fire alarm detectors, fire sprinklers with flexible pipe connections, speakers, security sensors, and secondary light fittings. A plurality of modular service units may be incorporated in a suspended ceiling.

The invention provides a water area channel service facility. The service facility is next to a water area channel in arrangement, and comprises the following functional areas: an oil supply area, a fresh water supply area, a repair dock, a medical care station, a domestic waste treatment area and a berthing navigation system, wherein the oil supply area is used for providing oil supply for ships;the fresh water supply area is used for providing fresh water and / or materiel supply for the ships; the repair dock is used for maintenance service for the ships; the medical care station is used forproviding medical and / or nursing services for personnel of the ships; the domestic waste treatment area is used for collecting ship berthing wastes; the berthing navigation system is used for guidingthe ships to go in and out of the service facility. According to the water area channel service facility disclosed by the invention, the ships can perform oil water and living material supply, maintain ship faults and provide services such as living medical treatment and the like for the personnel on the ships without pulling out the channel, idle work of passing ships is reduced to the greatestdegree, the transport efficiency is improved, and the transport cost is reduced.

The embodiment of the invention provides a city municipal compressive service facility. The city municipal compressive service facility comprises a plurality of modularized infrastructure modules; the modularized infrastructure modules at least comprise one of a business utilization module, a manual interaction module and a man-machine interaction module. The city municipal compressive service facility provided by the technical scheme can be directly used for regions including city municipal infrastructure construction, municipal matched infrastructure construction and the like; the facility can be rapidly constructed by adopting a splicing manner so that the time is saved and the influences on the public are reduced. Meanwhile, the city municipal compressive service facility with the structure can be randomly spliced according to the requirements so as to be adapted to different regions.

The invention discloses a resource provision method for the problem of service composition in a cloud-integrated wireless-fiber hybrid access network, which includes three stages. The first stage: Decompose the comprehensive service request into a variety of basic services, collect the user's comprehensive service request, the price issued by each service facility, the total amount of resources, and the basic consumption of basic services per unit, and aim at the minimum cost for users according to the market mechanism Construct an auction model; the second stage: design an algorithm based on the auction model, find out the resource provision plan and the corresponding unit basic service pricing strategy that achieves the minimum user cost; the third stage: verify that the designed algorithm has incentive compatibility and time complexity low-level features. The present invention plans the interaction between service facilities and users into an auction model, enabling users to obtain services at a minimum cost, and at the same time allowing service facilities to actively participate in cloud services after receiving certain rewards, thereby providing users with various cloud services more efficiently.

A server device (5), which is a servicing proposal period adjustment device, is connected to an air conditioner (2) and a servicing facility terminal (10) installed at a servicing facility for providing servicing of the air conditioner (2), said device comprising an operation state collection unit (41), a candidate date and time computation unit (45), a transmission unit (46), and a cleaning request unit (47). The operation state collection unit (41) collects an operation state signal from the air conditioner (2). The candidate date and time computation unit (45) determines a plurality of candidate dates and times on the basis of the operation state signal. The transmission unit (46) transmits to a communication terminal (7) a cleaning suggestion signal which indicates the plurality of candidate dates and times. The cleaning request unit (47) transmits to the servicing facility terminal (10) a request date and time which is selected by the communication terminal (7) from among the plurality of candidate dates and times.

An MSP platform provides contingent healthcare worker recruiting and shift assignation in a multilayered process of job order broadcasting, competency matching, proposals from healthcare agencies aka vendors, screening, compliance management, and onboard of each candidate. Each staff profile submitted has to go through multilayered review, approval, and orientation process. Additionally, each healthcare worker's calendar, credential, and compliance have to be managed across multiple employers to prevent scheduling conflict and compliance violations, and guaranteeing full visibility of all healthcare workers across the entire supply chain. MSPs (Managed Service Providers) have the ability to service a large number of facilities on whose behalf the MSPs generate job orders for contingent workforce, and manage fulfillment using suppliers (aka vendors) mapped to the facility being serviced. The supplier ecosystem is a cohesive block that may be shared across all MSPs, and several such MSP ecosystems should be allowed to coexist in the system. Suppliers can be tiered by geography allowing a large vendor network to track demand from one or more healthcare facilities across a single location or a group of vendor locations. Additionally, a facility that is part of an MSP should also be able to work directly with all suppliers either in conjunction with or independent of an MSP. Both long term assignments referred to as ‘Travel’ position, and on-demand shift assignments referred to as ‘Day-to-day’ position are serviceable under this centrally available software commonly referred to as ‘Software as a Service’.

The invention relates to a hotel service facility maintenance management system and method. The problems that in the prior art, the hotel service implementation management effect is poor, and the overhaul and maintenance process is tedious are solved. The system comprises equipment maintenance recording devices arranged in all hotel rooms, the equipment maintenance recording devices are connected with a maintenance data platform through a data network, the maintenance data platform is in data connection with maintenance reminding equipment worn on the wrist of a maintainer, and the maintenance data platform is connected with an accessory collecting and supplying platform. The equipment maintenance recording device is provided with an identity verification assembly, and the other side of the equipment maintenance recording device is provided with an audio and video communication structure. The system has the advantages that real-time tracking of equipment use conditions of all rooms in hotel management is facilitated, the equipment use conditions are known in time, and the replacement and maintenance processes of service implementation are simple and convenient.

The invention belongs to the field of freeway service facility design and discloses a method for setting freeway service facility intervals in a high attitude area. The method comprises the steps of establishing a driver fatigue model; determining initial fatigue intervals and deep fatigue intervals; determining an initial interval range of service facilities of a second type; obtaining a vehicle oiling request, correcting the initial interval range of the service facilities of the second type, and obtaining a final interval range of the service facilities of the second type; determining an initial interval range of service facilities of a third type; obtaining drivers' requirements of going to the toilet and truck requirements, correcting the initial interval range of the service facilities of the third type, and obtaining the corrected interval range of the service facilities of the third type; and determining a final interval range of service facilities of a first type and a final interval range of the service facilities of the third type according to the final interval range of the service facilities of the second type and the corrected interval range of the service facilities of the third type, so that the service facilities in the high attitude area can genuinely meet the traffic operation requirements.

The invention discloses a transport vehicle capable of climbing cylinders. The transport vehicle comprises a support mechanism, a plurality of supporting wheel mechanisms and a control mechanism. The support mechanism is of a regular hollow structure with the even number of sides not smaller than six, and a hanging support is fixed to the outer wall of the support mechanism. Every two adjacent inner corners of the support mechanism are provided with one supporting wheel mechanism. Each supporting wheel mechanism is provided with two tires, and the moving direction of the tires is perpendicular to the plane where the support mechanism is located. The control mechanism is located in the support mechanism. The transport vehicle has the functions of climbing upwards and moving downwards along the cylinders and cylinder-like articles, and has certain bearing capacity. The transport vehicle can be used for workshop logistics transportation and can help wire maintenance workers to transport servicing facility rods and the like along a telegraph pole.