341 results about "Software maintenance" patented technology

Methods and apparatus to support dynamic allocation of traffic management resources in a network element. Shared pools of traffic management resources comprising an aggregation of local line card resources distributed across the line cards or a network element maintained by apparatus software. Incoming packets are classified into subscriber flows using a hierarchical classification scheme. In view of subscriber services and flow application types, traffic management resources are dynamically allocated from the shared pools, and traffic management policies associated with the subscriber services and application types are applied to the subscriber flows via the allocated resources. In response to detecting a subscriber flow has terminated, the allocated resources are release and made available to be dynamically re-allocated to subsequent subscriber flows.

An apparatus and method for receiving daily data feeds of news article text and news images, extracting from the articles both the text content and the formatting directives used in the newspaper layout, restructuring the formatting directives into organizing directives for Web pages, storing the text content and the organizing directives in a database, storing the news images in an image library, retrieving the text content and organizing directives from the database in a pattern which may be made significantly different from the pattern in which they were stored, and combining them with Web page templates to produce a Web-readable news publication. The Web-readable publication appears each day in synchronization with the daily paper news publication, and may be delivered on any schedule or cycle of news publication. Editorial maintenance programs facilitate skilled modification and enhancement of the content and appearance of the Web-readable publication. Classified advertisements and death notices are accommodated in the Web-readable publication. Customized electronic mail summaries of news are delivered to subscribers. The cost of news delivery and software maintenance is low.

A system and method for generating language-translated versions of software include a parsing engine to scan original-language versions of software, and detect textual string or other expressions which may require translation for other countries or markets. After testing for prior translation, those strings may be converted to appropriate expressions in other languages, and for instance stored in paired-memory or other format. Users may download the original version of the software, and then install run-time, language-specific resources to tailor the software to their market or country. The run-time, language-specific resources may be or include resource-only dynamic link libraries (dlls). In embodiments the target language into which translation may be made may be automatically detected using the regional settings of the user's machine, or otherwise. Because translation resources for various sets of languages may be generated before the release of the original code, software products may be deployed in various markets and countries at the same time as the original code. Staggered release of localized versions of a software product in one country after the other is therefore not necessary, and software maintenance is made more efficient.

A data processing apparatus and method are provided for controlling access to secure memory by virtual machines executing on processing circuitry. The processing circuitry executes hypervisor software to support the execution of multiple virtual machines on the processing circuitry. A memory system is provided for storing data for access by the processing circuitry, the memory system comprising secure memory for storing secure data and non-secure memory for storing non-secure data, the secure memory only being accessible via a secure access request. Address translation circuitry is responsive to an access request issued by a current virtual machine specifying a virtual address, to perform an address translation process to identify a physical address in the memory, and to cause a modified access request to be issued to the memory system specifying the physical address. A trusted virtual machine identifier is maintained and managed by the hypervisor software, with the hypervisor software setting the trusted virtual machine identifier if the current virtual machine is to be trusted to access the secure memory. Accordingly, in response to the access request issued by the current virtual machine, the address translation circuitry is only able to cause the modified access request to be issued as a secure access request specifying a physical address within the secure memory if the trusted virtual machine identifier is set. By such an approach, the hypervisor software is able to support multiple virtual machines at least some of which have access to secure memory under conditions controlled by the hypervisor software.

A method for performing diagnostics or software maintenance on a vehicle comprises storing components of configuration files in a central processing system. An update of the configuration files is requested for the vehicle from a central electronic data processing system based on a user request. The requested update of components of configuration files are received from the central electronic data processing system based on a comparison of a record of the vehicle-installed configuration files and target configuration information on configuration files stored at the central electronic data processing system.

A system and method for managing work flow in a hospital emergency department providing care for a plurality of patients are disclosed. The system includes a server, one or more portable wireless communication devices and application software that can run on the server. The application software maintains a database or other information storage means having information about the plurality of patients and providing communications with the one or more communication devices. Communications are provided in an automatic, persistant and redundant manner. Metrics and efficiency ratings are also provided.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing aircraft software parts. A connection is established between a portable data processing system and a source through a ground network. Uplink commands are retrieved from the source through the established connection. Aircraft software parts corresponding to the uplink commands are retrieved from the source through the established connection. The retrieved aircraft software parts are stored in a portable data processing system. The portable data processing system is disconnected from the ground network. The portable data processing system is connected to an aircraft network in an aircraft. An uplink command is issued from the uplink commands to the aircraft network through an on ground component in the portable data processing system. A stored aircraft software part corresponding to the uplink command is sent to the aircraft network through the on ground component.

The disclosed software upgrade method and system with less hardware resource, better server efficiency and less maintenance load comprise: obtaining current version information by an access server to decide whether upgrade, and returning the upgrade-decision result to the client through the server; to upgrade, receiving the request, obtaining upgrade information, downloading and installing upgrade program and/or compressed package. This invention reduces cost for enterprise.

The invention provides a metadata-based business document customization method and a device, wherein, the method comprises the following steps: step A, through a page template design tool, developing and mapping the documentation and form static HTML page template interface, extracting the page control elements from the page template interface, storing the page control elements into a database and outputting the page metadata of the documentations; step B, designing a business documentation model and extracting the documentations to generate the business documentation metadata; step C, designing a service model, developing the atomic service and assembling the atomic service to generate the service metadata; and step D, according to different business requirements, customizing the business documentations, and assembling the page metadata, the documentation model metadata and the service metadata into a business documentation correlation realization model. The invention can meet the characteristics of the variability of the business documentations, improve the software development efficiency and reduce the software maintenance costs.

A remote asset control system for optimized asset performance under a variety of circumstances, such as network communication path failures, software maintenance, software faults, hardware faults, hardware maintenance, computer system maintenance, computer system failure, undetected data errors, configuration errors, human error, power outages, malicious network attacks, and the like, having a means to create, modify, and delete asset policies, an object oriented asset policy inheritance scheme that generates composite asset policies, an asset policy transference and caching scheme, condition driven asset policy enforcement, permission-based asset policy mechanism for throttling energy or water consumption, asset replacement simplification, query capability to enumerate actual asset deviance as compared to the currently enforced composite asset policy, real-time control asset policies, atomic activation and deactivation of asset policies, which are part of the policy inheritance hierarchy, ensuring composite policy integrity, and multi-tiered telemetry caching and transference.

A common gateway architecture designed to be generic across different types of network elements and different network protocols, permitting network elements to be added incrementally without recompilation of the entire network element manager, thus reducing overall software maintenance overhead.

A computer implemented method and apparatus for managing aircraft software parts. An aircraft software part management apparatus comprises a library, a receiving module, a proxy server, an onboard electronic distribution system on an aircraft, and a portable software maintenance tool. The library on the ground data processing system stores and manages aircraft software parts for aircraft. The receiving module is capable of receiving the aircraft software parts from suppliers and sending the aircraft software parts to the library. The proxy server is in communication with the library and is capable of distributing software to a plurality of aircraft clients. The onboard electronic distribution system is an aircraft client and is capable of receiving aircraft software parts for the aircraft from the library through the proxy server. The portable software maintenance tool provides an alternate route to send the aircraft software part to the onboard electronic distribution system for the aircraft.

Data is transferred between two software programs. Electronic data maintained by server software is read with browser software. A document is formed from the electronic data. The data consists of a group of objects. The document is presented on the screen of a data processing device with the browser software. In addition, the electronic data is transferred between the objects of the document read by the browser software and a server software as a background run performed by a script based software language on the browser software.

The invention discloses a method for editing image-text units based on a script, comprising the steps of: presetting a user interface template containing configuration structure information of the image-text units; defining a script grammar rule for the set user interface template through an extensible markup language; editing a script analysis code for the defined script grammar rule; dispatching the script analysis code to edit the script grammar rule, and typesetting the image-text units in the set user interface template; and encapsulating the typeset user interface template to form script allocation file information. The method disclosed by the invention can be used for improving the software development efficiency and reducing the software maintenance cost.

A method and system for performing one-to-many synchronization using a central server and also using downloadable client software. The system includes a central server, e.g., a web server or an enterprise server, that synchronizes with multiple electronic devices including, for example, a personal digital assistant, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a cell phone, a pager, etc. Before the data synchronization takes place, and after the electronic device initiates communication with the server, the server downloads client software to the electronic device. The client software allows the electronic device to perform data synchronization with the server. After the synchronization is complete, the client software may be removed from the electronic device. The server data is located in one place and can be accessed from any location using almost any electronic device and the data can be readily protected. The invention provides geographically independent synchronization for the same device. The invention reduces the amount of metadata required to perform synchronization, eliminates slow synchronizations and also operates on standard or pre-existing data structures. The shared client software technique also reduces software maintenance and administrative issues and is helpful for application service providers (ASPs).

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, a system and a computer program product for analyzing the effect of a software maintenance patch on configuration items of a CMDB. One embodiment, directed to a method, is associated with a CMDB containing information that relates to configuration items (CIs) included in one or more managed configurable systems. The method includes the step of generating a manifest that defines a target system, and contains a description of a maintenance patch disposed to update one or more specified software components. The method further includes using information contained in the manifest to search the CMDB, in order to detect each configurable system in the CMDB that corresponds to the definition of the target system, and contains at least one CI that includes at least one of the specified software components. For a given CI that includes at least one of the specified software components, an identification is made of every other CI in the CMDB that would be affected, if the maintenance patch was used to update each specified software component of the given CI.

The invention discloses a component running status acquiring and conversion method of software dynamic evolvement, belonging to the software maintenance technical field, including following procedures that: the realization source codes, the component protocols and the internal operation logics of the new and the old versions of the component are analyzed, the internal structure logic representation models of the component are built respectively; compared with the two logic representation models, the corresponding member variables and syntactic structures are identified, the detailed description of the relativity between the new and the old versions of the component is returned, the component status information which needs to be acquired and converted to the new version is defined; the logic representation model of the new version of the component is modified, the interface method is increased in order to export and store the running status information of the old version; in addition, the interface method is increased in order to import and convert the status information; based on the modified logic representation model of the new version of the component, the source codes of the new version of the component are regenerated. The method of the invention can effectively acquire and convert component running status information and realize the status conversion function of the dynamic evolvement support system.

The invention relates to the field of civil aviation services, in particular to an extensible graphical rule application system which comprises a front end rule editing module and a rear end control module. The front end rule editing module provides a graphic interface which is high in interaction and fast in response so that users can edit rules on the graphic interface; the rear end control module is used for carrying out rule graph effectiveness verification, rule graph compiling and data storage, and provides an extension interface so that technicians can quickly develop a new subsystem rule compiler. Through the visual and highly available graphic interface, civil service rules are conveniently set and managed, using experience can be improved, service operation and software development efficiency is improved, and software maintenance cost is lowered.

A method and system for performing diagnostics or software maintenance on a vehicle comprises a data processor for performing a particular task. A resource monitor is arranged for determining if resource consumption of the data processor for the respective particular task exceeds a threshold amount of resource consumption. A loop counter is arranged to increment a loop counter in a data storage device associated with the data processor if the resource consumption for the respective particular task exceeds the threshold amount. A poison task module is capable of designating the particular task as a poison message if the data processor has been rebooted a maximum number of times as indicated by the loop counter.

The invention provides an automatic detection and positioning method for a memory error in a source code. The method comprises the steps of firstly using a compiler for carrying out lexical analysis and grammatical analysis on the source code, and constructing a symbol table and an abstract syntax tree; then through traversing the abstract syntax tree, carrying out source code transformation on a node which may produce the memory error, and finally compiling and executing the source code subjected to transformation, wherein a program can automatically judge the occurrence of the memory error, and accurately reports a source code position corresponding to the error. The automatic detection and positioning method for the memory error in the source code provided by the invention can be used for accurately automatically detecting and positioning the memory error so as to realize more comprehensive error detection, better compatibility, better platform universality, more accurate source code positioning, and higher runtime performance and efficiency, so that the quality of software and the efficiency of software maintenance are improved.

A system and method for evaluating network content over a communications network include at least one storage unit operable to store and/or maintain a plurality of forum facilities that are each independently associated with a network location containing network content, a processor operable to execute software maintaining and controlling access to the forum facilities for plural users, and a an input/output device to provide an interface for users to operate the software for retrieving and viewing the forum facilities from the storage unit while simultaneously retrieving and viewing network content from selected network locations via the communications network. Forum facilities include user generated content received from at least one user regarding network content available at selected network locations.

A scheme for performing secure communications in a wireless local network. In one aspect of the invention, software hosted on a host processing unit maintains multiple queues. A networking module adapted to communicate with the host processing unit includes corresponding FIFO buffers to service the queues. The networking module also comprises an arbiter and a security engine. The arbiter is responsible for determining which queue is to be serviced next contingent upon a priority scheme. The security engine preferably incorporates a cipher performing encryption and decryption in a sequential or chain mode. Once one of the queues is granted by the arbiter, the security engine fetches data from the granted queue and then encrypts or decrypts the data using the cipher.