356 results about "Space management" patented technology

In an information recording medium for recording and reproducing data thereon on a sector-by-sector basis, the recorded data being managed as at least one file by using a file structure, the file structure includes unused space management information for identifying a used region and an unused region. At least one defective region is registered as an unused region in the unused space management information, the at least one defective region being a region on the information recording medium which is incapable of proper reproduction of the recorded data.

A wireless control system that operates in Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands that employs one or more variable power dual modulation radio frequency transceiver-controllers that are capable of receiving and / or transmitting signals and communicating with each other over a configurable range, from short to long range. The wireless control system is suitable for use in a wide range of medical, industrial, agricultural, military and commercial applications, including, for example, the management of irrigation systems, manufacturing processes, security systems, sewage treatment and handling systems, hospital management systems, tracking systems, ground telemetry systems, environmental monitoring systems for agriculture, viticulture, pipelines and dams, HVAC management systems, water, gas and electrical metering, parking meters, asset and equipment tracking, traffic control, fire protection, public space management, intruder detection and biological research.

A multi-unit automated space management and communication system for use in association with a structure having a plurality of units. The system includes circuitry that monitors various utility related aspects of each of the plurality of units. The system further includes an automated subsystem disposed in each one of the plurality of units. This subsystem includes at least one appliance, at least one communication medium means, at least one interface means for connecting the at least one appliance apparatus into a signal exchanging relationship with the at least one communication medium means, at least one communication source, operably connected to the at least one communication medium means. The system further includes an external communication interface linking the automated subsystem to the monitoring means in a signal-exchanging relationship. The system still further includes data storage circuits.

The invention belongs to the field of wireless communication, and particularly relates to a self-upgrade method for equipment in a remote online monitoring system. The method is characterized in that: each piece of terminal equipment performs self-upgrade and self-maintenance through the remote online monitoring system consisting of a terminal table tool, a data acquisition unit and a background server based on a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). The method mainly comprises the following steps that: the background server manages an application program and version information; the data acquisition unit periodically inquires a version log and downloads a new version program; the data acquisition unit realizes self-upgrade and upgrades the terminal table tool; and after the new version program is updated successfully, skipping is performed and an old version program is still kept for later use. In the method, the GPRS, storage space management, a file sub-package mechanism, a transmission response mechanism, a mode for continuous transmission at break-points and an IAP (Internet Access Provider) program programming mode are combined, and the accuracy and reliability of data transmission are ensured; and under the condition of not influencing normal use of a user, the equipment upgrading and maintaining problems of large quantity and wide distribution are solved quickly and efficiently.

A directional antenna system is disclosed in which a plurality of RF nodes are provided for cooperatively forming a directional antenna array for transmitting and receiving wireless signals between a wireless client at a predetermined position in space. One or more network interface assemblies are provided for exchanging signals between the plurality of RF nodes and a network. Preferably, the plurality of RF nodes are distributed in space with respect to each other and the network interface assembly. The network interface includes a beamformer for applying a plurality of antenna weighting factors to the respective RF nodes, for introducing phase differences in the respective transmitted and received wireless signals that produce a directional steering vector for the wireless signals. In one embodiment of the invention, a processing arrangement is provided for deriving an array manifold, which includes a respective plurality of antenna weighting factors corresponding respectively to distances between each of the plurality of RF nodes, for producing the directional steering vector for the wireless signals. In another embodiment of the invention, a subspace beamforming arrangement is provided for building a covariance matrix from sampled values of a wireless client signal at each RF node, and deriving dominant eigenvectors corresponding to each RF node. The dominant eigenvectors are used as the respective antenna weighting factors for producing the directional steering vectors for the wireless signals.

An improved method, system, and a computer program storage device (e.g., including software embodied on a magnetic, electrical, optical, or other storage device) for management of compressed main memory allocation and utilization which can avoid system abends or inefficient operation that would otherwise result. One feature reduces (and ultimately eliminates) all unessential processing as the amount of available storage decreases to a point low enough to threaten a system abend. In another example, the amount of current memory usage is determined as well as one or more of: an estimate of an amount of allocated but unused memory; a determination of the amount of memory required for outstanding I / O requests. The compressed memory is managed as a function of the current memory usage and one or more of the other measured or estimated quantities. The compressed memory can be managed by maintaining a set of dynamic thresholds; estimating the amount of storage that can easily be freed (used but available) and the amount of storage that is committed (allocated but unused). The estimate of committed storage can include: the current storage utilization; and an estimate of storage committed to new pages (based on the number of new pages granted), the times at which this was done, the estimated compression ratio, and estimates of residency times in the cache.

A retractor for use in surgical operations comprises a pair of blade assemblies which are adapted to open about a set of axes that are not parallel to a third spatial axis. The retractor further comprises a pair of arms, which are adapted to move the pair of blade assemblies apart from one another in the third spatial axis. In operation, the blade assemblies are closed to assume a low profile, inserted into a relatively small incision, and stretched apart from each other, thereby stretching the skin about the incision to form an aperture longer than the incision. The blade assemblies are then opened by rotating the blades about the set of axes, thereby stretching the skin around the incision in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction (i.e. the direction of the incision.) The retractor thus forms an aperture for passage of surgical instruments and viewing of the surgical field by surgical personnel. In some embodiments, the retractor features a pair of removable handles that may be removed from the arms during surgery in order to afford the surgeon improved space management about the incision. In specific embodiments, the invention provides a method of performing an operation, e.g. a spinal operation, on a patient using the disclosed retractor.

Disclosed is a geographic information system which comprises a multithreading client and a multithreading server cluster. The multithreading client includes at least one user interface, at least one client coordinator, map data, at least one map manager, at least one client-side spatial analyzer, at least one cache manager, at least one data requester, and at least one information communicator. The multithreading server cluster includes: at least one servlet, at least one image accessor, at least one map configuration mechanism; at least one data storage access mechanism, at least one data source manager, and at least one server-side spatial manager.

The present invention is directed toward methods and systems for data de-duplication. More particularly, in various embodiments, the present invention provides systems and methods for data de-duplication that may utilize storage reclamation. In various embodiments, data de-duplication may be performed using data storage reclamation by reconciling a list of all active tags against a list of all tags present within the object store itself. Any tags found to be in the object store that have no corresponding active usage may then be deleted. In some embodiments additional steps may be taken to avoid race conditions in deleting tags that are needed by incoming data. In some embodiments the object store may request the lists. In other embodiments, a runtime list, in which each new tag is entered as they are returned from the object store. In another embodiment the object store may maintain this list directly.

A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In one embodiment a system for allocating resources amongst a plurality of database servers sharing resources comprises: an input module for receiving user input for allocating resources shared amongst a plurality of database servers and establishing thresholds for utilization of resources at each database server; a monitoring module at each database server for monitoring local resource utilization at each database server and sending a request for balancing resources to a second database server when local resource utilization reaches an established threshold at a first database server; and a load balancing module for receiving the request for balancing resources and determining whether to adjust resources allocated to the first database server and the second database server in response to the request.

The invention discloses a parking space management system based on a mobile communication network and a parking charge method, belonging to the technical field of garage management. The parking space management system is connected with an access system and an access control management system and comprises a communication module, a parking space scheduling module, a payment module and an access control module, wherein a mobile terminal sends a parking request to the parking space management system; the parking space management system allocates parking space for the mobile terminal and carries out verification, controls the access control management system to open the access of the garage after passing the verification and starts parking charge of the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal sends a leaving request to the parking space management system when leaving; and the parking space management system generates the charge information of the mobile terminal number and sends the charge information to a charging system to deduct fees, sends the fee deduction information to the mobile terminal and notifies the access control management system of opening the access of the garage. The invention can self complete parking charge management via the mobile terminal and has the characteristics of convenient operation, safety and high efficiency.

Publishers define relationships between their own content items (e.g., World Wide Web pages) and content items created or maintained by other publishers. A central namespace manager provides grouping labels that publishers insert into their content items. Content items having matching grouping labels are identified as related. Different classes of grouping labels can be used to define different types of relationships, and multiple classes of grouping labels can co-exist. Grouping labels are made available to an information server such as a search server, which uses the labels in identifying content items related to a currently displayed content item.

A method of symbol combining and incremental redundancy for link adaptation and code space management was proposed. In order to reduce constraints on the Walsh codes allocation, MCS level change, as well as frame duration change for the initial transmission and re-transmissions, a “rate matching” stage is proposed between the Turbo encoder and block interleaver on the transmitter. In the initial transmission, the Turbo encoded symbols are interleaved with or without any puncturing or repeating (i.e. puncture / repeat factor is set to 1). The coded symbols are also stored in the memory for possible retransmissions. In the re-transmission, the transmitter first determines the number of Walsh codes available for this user and MCS level and frame duration according to the C / I feedback values from MS. The stored coded symbols are then punctured or repeated according to “rate matching factors”. On the receiver side, “rate matching factors” can be derived from the number of code channels, MCS level and frame duration of current re-transmissions and initial transmission. Then, de-puncturing / de-repeating is performed before coded symbol combining. A similar rate matching based IR / symbol combining scheme can be used to design different IR using different rate matching algorithms. It has low implementation complexity and is easily made backward compatible.

A framework for in-memory space management for content management database systems is provided. A per-instance in-memory dispenser is partitioned. An incoming transaction takes a latch on a partition and obtains sufficient block usage to perform and complete the transaction. Generating redo information is decoupled from transaction level processing and, instead, is performed when block requests are loaded into the in-memory dispenser or synced therefrom to a per-instance on-disk structure.

The invention discloses a virtual machine storage space management method. In the method, virtual storage free block information is directly acquired by a storage balloon agent module which is deployed in a virtual machine, and the acquired virtual storage free block information is transmitted to a storage balloon daemon process module which is deployed in a virtual machine monitoring unit layer; and the storage balloon daemon process module partially or totally releases a physical storage space corresponding to the virtual storage free block information and labels virtual storage blocks corresponding to the released physical storage space to be unavailable. The invention also discloses a corresponding system and physical host. Due to the method, the service condition of the virtual storage space can be acquired in real time, the massive reading / writing operation of a storage system can be avoided, and the method is suitable for virtual storage systems in a dynamic allocation format and a pre-allocation format.

The invention provides a parking space management system based on a position, which comprises an information sending unit, an information acquisition unit, an information pushing unit and an information display unit, wherein the information sending unit is used for controlling a terminal to send parking space information request based on an appointed geographic position to a server; the information acquisition unit is used for acquiring the parking space information corresponding to the appointed geographic position according to the received parking space information request; the information pushing unit is used for controlling the server to transmit the parking space information to the terminal, and the information display unit is used for controlling the terminal to receive and display the parking space information. Correspondingly, the invention further provides a parking space management method based on the position. Due to the technical scheme of the parking space management method, the problem that a user can not master the parking space information, so that vehicles line up to be parked at certain parking lots can be solved, and parking spaces of adjacent parking lots are empty. According to the parking space management method, the user can be guided to reasonably choose stalls, and the distribution of the parking space resource is optimized.

The invention discloses a protecting method and device of privacy information. The method includes that a space management module establishes normal space and at least two privacy space; a privacy information management module sets privacy information which each privacy space correspondingly protects and a concealing mode of the privacy information; a display control module determines whether the information is privacy information or not in a scene which requires to display information, and if the information is not the privacy information, the information is displayed; if the information is the privacy information, whether current space is the privacy space which the privacy information belongs to or not is further determined, if the current space is the privacy space which the privacy information belongs to, the privacy information is displayed, and otherwise, the privacy information is concealed according to the concealing mode which the privacy information corresponds to. By means of the protecting method and device of the privacy information, safety of user privacy information in data processing equipment can be improved.

Method and system for performing a namespace operation in a distributed file system. The file system is disposed on a plurality of partition servers, and each partition server controls access to a subset of hierarchically-related, shared storage objects. Each namespace operation involves a namespace object and a target object that are part of the shared storage objects. Namespace operations received at each partition server are serialized. In response to an unlink namespace operation, a reference in the namespace object to the target object is removed, and after removal the target object is modified in accordance with the unlink operation. In response to a link operation, the target object is modified consistent with the link operation. After modification of the target object, a reference to the target object is inserted in the namespace object.

A method of managing a plurality of operable wall panels in a room equipped with an overhead track system from which the panels suspend and in which the panels are movable to selectively partition the room, the track system including a reading portion. The method comprising providing an identification tag on each of the plurality of panels, each identification tag having panel information, and wirelessly communicating between the identification tag of each of the plurality of panels and a controller, wherein the controller being operable to receive and transmit panel control data comprising the panel information.

A large scale multi-user, multi-touch system with a specialized zone-based user interface including methods for space management and spatial apportioning of audio cues. The system comprises a multi-touch display component fabricated in dimensions sufficient for at least a plurality of users and for displaying projected images and for receiving multi-touch input. The apparatus includes a plurality of image projectors, a plurality of cameras for sensing multi-touch input and the apparatus includes interface software for managing user space. The interface software implements techniques for managing multiple users using the same user interface component by allocating physical spaces within the multi-touch display component and coordinating movement of displayed objects between the physical spaces. Embodiments include a plurality of audio transducers and methods for performing audio spatialization using the plurality of audio transducers corresponding to the physical spaces, apportioning of volume levels to the audio transducers based on movement of a displayed object.

A method and an apparatus for performing memory space reservation and management are provided, wherein the method is applied to a server system. The method includes: providing a mount point at a file system of a server in the server system, and creating a file at the mount point to occupy partial memory space of a physical memory; mapping the file to a section of virtual memory addresses to prevent any swap operation from being applied to the partial memory space; and updating file information of the file into a memory space management list to dynamically manage the partial memory space.

Space within an IMS database can be managed during loading or updating of the database. After an IMS database is loaded, a space management program can assume control from the IMS program for a period of time. During this period of time, the space management program obtains memory addresses of IMS control blocks built by the IMS program and further obtains information about the IMS database. When the IMS program attempts to insert data into the IMS database, either during loading or updating of the database, the space management program reassumes control from the IMS program. The space management program selects a storage location for the data to be stored, and modifies the IMS control blocks to indicate the storage location selected. The space management program may also insert the data into the storage locations selected. Control is then passed back to the IMS program. If segments are to be inserted into the IMS database, and such segments are to be split, then the space management program selects two storage locations for the components of the split segment to be stored. The storage locations selected by the space management program are selected based on IMS database user preferences.

The invention provides a terminal. The terminal comprises a counting unit for counting one or more messages of a document in the terminal, and a processing unit for judging if the document needs to be deleted based on the message and preset deletion conditions. The invention also provides a storage space management method. Through the technical scheme of the invention, whether the document in the terminal needs to be deleted can be judged automatically based on the preset condition and use habits of a user, so that the user can management documents in the terminal better, and utilization rate of the storage space of the terminal is improved.

The invention discloses a wide area file system and an implementation method, and relates to the technical field of file systems. The implementation method for the file system is applicable in a wide area. According to the system, an event-driven module receives an operation request, whether a file exists in a local cache is inquired through a cache management module according to the node number of the requested file, if yes, the file is accessed from the cache, if not, the path name, in a server end database, of the file is inquired according to the node number and through a node management module, then the file and the meta-information of the file are obtained according to the information of the operation request and through an event processing module and are sent to the cache management module, and finally, the cache management module stores the file and the meta-information of the file into the local cache. The wide area file system and the implementation method do not rely on a bottom file system, it is only needed that the bottom file system can be shared, the space management function of the cache is provided, and the resource utilization rate of the system is increased.

An information retrieval system and method are provided for minimizing the number of blocks searched in a cell before recording a new record in the table and determining which block can be assigned if a table has space available to store a new record in the case an additional block should be associated with a cell. Dimensions for a table are identified, and at least one block in the table is associated with a dimension value for each dimension, where each block comprises contiguous storage pages. The block can be further associated with a cell; this associated cell has a unique combination of dimension values comprising an dimension value for each of the dimensions. A unique associated bit list for each dimension value for each dimension has a unique corresponding list entry for each block associated with that dimension value, and a unique associated bit list for each cell has a unique corresponding list entry for each block associated with that cell.

The invention is concerned with the method that processes the virtual space management to the NAND flash memorizer: establishes mapping table, maps the virtual series useable logical block on the non-series useable physical block, saves the mapping table in the managing module of the virtual space, elides the error block managing part of every non-correlated programming module in order to get the better logical block, the logical space managing module provides the corresponding error block mapping mechanism and finds out the corresponding physical block number function according to the logical block number. The invention can avoid the error block processing problem of several software modules in the mobile phone terminal repeatedly, and also avoid the complex processing when two terminal programs that can not run synchronously both can visit the error block.

The invention relates to a solid state disk (SSD) and a space management method thereof. The method includes: when available space in a redundancy are cannot satisfy the set condition, failing at least one logic unit number (LUN) in the data area of the solid state disk; releasing the logic block address (LBA) mapping relations in the failed LUNs; using the storage space mapped to the LUNs with the released LBA mapping relations as the available space of the redundant area; wherein the LBA mapping relations are the mapping relations between the LBA of the effective data written into the data area and the physical addresses. By the method, when the available space of the redundancy area cannot satisfy the preset condition, at least one LUN of the SSD can be failed, the LBA mapping relations of the failed LUNs can be released to increase the available space of the redundancy area, and the service life of the SSD is prolonged by failing part of the data area of the SSD.

Publishers define relationships between their own content items (e.g., World Wide Web pages) and content items created or maintained by other publishers. A central namespace manager provides grouping labels that publishers insert into their content items. Content items having matching grouping labels are identified as related. Different classes of grouping labels can be used to define different types of relationships, and multiple classes of grouping labels can co-exist. Grouping labels are made available to an information server such as a search server, which uses the labels in identifying content items related to a currently displayed content item.