124 results about "Stream management" patented technology

A computerized workflow management method and system to provide operational support for complex multi-step processes, having particular utility in supporting operations involving securitizations for which periodic valuation and distribution computations, disbursements and reporting must be set up and executed. The invention permits unification of manual operations and operations performed by legacy software, even if implemented with database structures different from the workflow management system, automated quality control, workflow status display and automatic updating of workflow status records. The method of workflow management involves creating an underlying database structure for recording the processing steps and other information required for each transaction, entering the necessary setup information by selection from lists of pre-stored information about processing functions, associated workflow events and milestones for the queues, mapping the data structures of the subsystem databases and the workflow management database to provide transparent interfacing and convenient manual entry of data were necessary, displaying for the user the workflow status of all transactions for which he or she is responsible, permitting menu driven initiation of required actions and automatically updating the database records for the universe of deals being managed by the system.

A system for allowing the sharing of content available on the screen of a first user's mobile device with a second user, collectively comprises: i) A Screen Casting Engine, suitable to capture the screen of a first mobile device operating as a streamer device, and to send it to other mobile devices or computers over wireless network; ii) Stream Management Circuitry provided in said streamer device, which is suitable to direct the captured screens to multiple targets; iii) Key and touch injection engine, which is suitable to capture key events from a player mobile device or PC, and to send them back to the streamer; and, optionally iv) Social feedback software which allows two phone users to interact—one holding the streamer phone, and the other viewing his display by running a player.

Apparatus, systems and methods for pre-processing, analyzing, and storing genomic data through a scalable, distributed analysis system across a network is presented.

This document describes, among other things, a router providing service-enabled multicast forwarding for a flow-based architecture. Services are enabled using inbound / outbound policies from Access Control Lists (ACLs). In a first mode, per-flow services are not enabled, and flows are aggregated for efficiency. In a second mode, per-flow services are enabled, and control information for an outbound interface (OIF) is shared across all multicast flows that do not have per-flow service enabled. A flow management scheme for these modes allows dynamic multicast membership updates while reducing disruption of active flows. This supports a large multicast OIF list and a high rate of multicast “Joins” and “Leaves”. This provides scalability and performance, such as desired for deploying multicast for broadband subscriber applications.

Mechanisms are provided to manage media stream transmissions at a content server. A content server detects that a user on a device such as a mobile device has stopped playing a live media stream. The content server maintains information associating the user with the media stream and time information. When the content server detects that a user wishes to resume playing a media stream, the user can continue viewing the media stream from where stoppage occurred. In many instances, the content server stores many hours of live media stream data and allows a user to select a particular starting point.

A client device presents streaming media and includes a stream manager for controlling streams, a request accelerator for making network requests for content, a source component coupled to the stream manager and the request accelerator for determining which requests to make, a network connection, and a media player. The request accelerator can accelerate a download rate using a plurality of TCP connections. A target download rate can vary among HTTP requests. The TCP receiver window size for a given TCP connection might be based on the target download rate for that TCP connection and / or a current estimated round-trip time for the current TCP connection multiplied by a multiplier rate, wherein the multiplier rate is within a range bounded by the target download rate for the current TCP connection and a rate that is higher than the target download rate by a predetermined amount.

A flow authority control system of the workflow management system, wherein a character management module comprises a dynamic character management module consisting of sub-modules for managing the flow starter character, the flow manager character, the flow handler character, and the flow operation. A workflow execution service module receives the flow request from the client side, when the flow request is to start a new flow, then setting the flow starter character and the flow manager character, when the flow request is to obtain the current flow task, then calling the correspondent dynamic character sub-modules, setting the flow executors of the next link, when the flow request is to obtain the flow operation right, calling the dynamic character management sub-modules to obtain the flow operation that the designated characters are entitled to use, merging the flow operation results, endowing the flow operation right to the user according to the result concentrated data. By adopting the dynamic character module to control the flow authorization mechanism, the flow right control becomes more flexible and strict.

A network communication system includes one or more talkers that may communicate data streams to one or more listeners over a network, such as an Ethernet Audio / Video Bridging network. Before transmitting a new data stream, a talker may request a reservation for bandwidth through a controller that is configured to manage and / or control the flow of data streams over the network. If there is not enough bandwidth, then the controller may determine whether any existing data streams may be transmitted at lower bandwidths to make available enough bandwidth for the new data stream. Alternatively, the controller may determine whether any existing data streams having lower priorities than the new data stream may be terminated to make available enough bandwidth for the new data stream.

A method and apparatus for scheduling digital TV programs are provided. In the method of scheduling digital TV programs, if a user sets a timer preprogramming or reminder function on a segment basis using segment meta-data of a program to be broadcast, the timer preprogramming or reminder function is performed when the broadcast time of the at least one selected segment is reached. The apparatus includes an input stream management unit, which obtains TV program schedule information and segment information from a digital TV broadcast stream and transmits the TV program schedule information and the segment information to a segment database, and a schedule management unit, which manages a schedule of a digital TV program, including timer preprogramming and reminder function, in response to a user's timer preprogramming command. The user can timer preprogram a desired digital TV program on a segment basis without help from an external server. In addition, the user can view the desired digital TV program exactly on a segment basis without missing any part of the program and without help from an external server. Moreover, a memory space of a storage device can be efficiently reserved by timer preprogramming only a desired portion of the digital TV program.

A people stream management system with a Bluetooth positioning function is a positioning system established through Bluetooth transceivers in an environment where a traditional GPS and other positioning systems can not conduct receiving. The people stream management system can conduct people stream management within the range where the Bluetooth transceivers are distributed, and can also be connected with an existing people stream positioning device of a traditional positioning system to achieve seamless people stream management. The people stream management system comprises a central control unit, multiple preset Bluetooth transceivers, a positioning unit and a staff map unit. The positioning unit is established in the central control unit and used for receiving Bluetooth signals of all the Bluetooth transceivers to establish Bluetooth coordinates, wherein the Bluetooth signals are emitted by electronic devices worn by field staff. The staff map unit is established in the central control unit and can establish a corresponding relation between Bluetooth coordinates and actual geographic positions of mobile phone wearing staff through the Bluetooth coordinates established by the positioning unit, and therefore actual geographic position points represented by the Bluetooth coordinates can be known.

Video data streams are routed between capture nodes and display nodes connected to one another through a high-bandwidth network switch and controlled by a stream manager connected to the switch. The stream manager negotiates a highest quality stream that can be processed by both the capture node and the one or more display nodes receiving the stream and that does not exceed available bandwidth through the switch. The stream manager includes a user interface by which a user can specify which of a number of video signals is to be displayed in what position within a display wall.

A DVB / IPTV dual-mode interactive business protection system comprises a client end subsystem, a front end subsystem, an authentication authorization subsystem, a subscriber management system, a program stream management system, and a program information management system; the client end subsystem, the CA front end subsystem and the authentication authorization subsystem are the main portion; the subscriber management system, the program stream management system, and the program information management system belong to a peripheral auxiliary system. The DVB / IPTV dual-mode interactive business protection system supports DVB and IPTV video scrambling, provides a controllable scrambling depth control strategy and adaptive scrambling of program content, and supports more than three secret key management modes; secret key length selection above 128 bits and distributed packaging of large size content are realized; the protection system supports safety and business monitoring of the content based on digit watermarking. The DVB / IPTV dual-mode interactive business protection system supports DVB / IPTV dual modes, introduces secret key update batch processing strategy and a distributed authentication authorization scheme, provides secret key real time update and distribution in a million user scale, reduces system overhead, enhances whole secret key updating capacity, improves system safety, and provides a flexible changeable protection mechanism for pay TV business.

A stream manager provides a way of redirecting and managing messaging and information access in a packet network environment. The stream manager can include a computer-based router or server that behaves as if it were a gateway for a sub-network of destination site servers, and the stream manager is linked to a packet network, such as the Internet. The stream manager receives over the packet network a message from a user's host server initiated by a user and intended for a destination site. The message bears an address for the stream manager which is provided to the host server by the address server for the packet network, such as a server utilized as part of the domain name system. The stream manager determines the availability of at least one destination server at the destination site to receive and process the message. If a destination server at the destination site is available to receive and process the message, the stream manager selects a destination server from those available, and initiates the routing of the message to the selected destination server. If a destination site is unavailable, the stream manager may report that to the host server, along with other information (such as customer care or promotional information).

Mechanisms are provided to manage media stream transmissions at a content server. A content server detects that a user on a device such as a mobile device has stopped playing a live media stream. The content server maintains information associating the user with the media stream and time information. When the content server detects that a user wishes to resume playing a media stream, the user can continue viewing the media stream from where stoppage occurred. In many instances, the content server stores many hours of live media stream data and allows a user to select a particular starting point.

A stream manager provides a way of redirecting and managing messaging and information access in a packet network environment. The stream manager is linked to a packet network, such as the Internet. The stream manager receives over the packet network a message from a user's host server initiated by a user and intended for a destination site. The message bears an address for the stream manager which is provided to the host server by the address server for the packet network, such as a server utilized as part of the domain name system. The stream manager determines the availability of at least one destination server at the destination site to receive and process the message. If a destination server at the destination site is available to receive and process the message, the stream manager selects a destination server from those available.

A data processor for executing branch prediction comprises a queuing buffer (23) allocated to an instruction queue and to a return destination instruction queue and having address pointers managed for each instruction stream and a control portion (21) for the queuing buffer. The control portion stores a prediction direction instruction stream and a non-prediction direction instruction stream in the queuing buffer and switches an instruction stream as an execution object from the prediction direction instruction stream to the non-prediction direction instruction stream inside the queuing buffer in response to failure of branch prediction. When buffer areas (Qa1, Qb) are used as the instruction queue, the buffer area (Qa2) is used as a return instruction queue and the buffer area (Qa1) is used as a return instruction queue. A return operation of a non-prediction direction instruction string at the time of failure of branch prediction is accomplished by stream management without using fixedly and discretely the instruction queue and the return destination instruction queue.

The invention discloses a network service stream management method and network service stream management equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving a service stream requested by a user, and identifying the service attribute information of the service stream; generating a signaling message corresponding to the service stream according to the service attribute information of the service stream; and forwarding the service stream and the signaling message in a network, so that a node forwarding the service stream in the network can correspondingly manage the service stream according to the signaling message. The embodiment of the invention identifies the service stream, and transmits the service attribute information of the service stream by adopting the signaling message, so that the node in the network can effectively manage the service stream according to the service attribute information.

The invention provides a code stream control method and system, a code stream management method and system, and a terminal device. The code stream control method comprises the following steps: receiving a network data packet, and counting data attributes used for calculating the performance indexes of a communication network of the network data packet; evaluating the performance indexes of the communication network according to the counted data attributes, and recording a frame sequence number of a currently played data frame in the network data packet; feeding back the evaluated performance indexes and the frame sequence number of the currently played data frame to a sending end; and judging whether frame transmission delay is within a predetermined reasonable range in a communication process of a receiving end and the sending end according to the frame sequence number of the currently played data frame fed back by the receiving end, and if so, adjusting the performance indexes of the sending end, so that the performance indexes of the sending end are table. By adoption of the code stream control method, the rationality of bandwidth evaluation is guaranteed to prevent overlarge fluctuation and avoid the pressure to the bandwidth by the overlarge instant code rate in a real-time screen sharing process, and the end-to-end delay is effectively reduced as well.

A method for improving an information technology process of a business comprises the steps of selecting an administrative value stream having a series of steps, preparing a current state value stream map corresponding to the administrative value stream, preparing a future state value stream map based on lean concepts to create a future state administrative value stream, and defining a future state information technology process of the administrative value stream using learning cycles.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media utilize a stream manager (101) to efficiently scan stream (105) based data (103). A stream manager (101) receives (801) data (103) from a stream (105). The stream manager (101) makes (807) received data (103) serially available to a plurality of modify scanners (109) in a specific order, and makes (809) received data (103) available in parallel to a plurality of read-only scanners (111). The stream manager (101), responsive to data (103) having been released by each modify scanner (109) of the plurality and by each read-only scanner (111) of the plurality, transmits (515) released data (103) to a destination (113).

A stream manager provides a way of redirecting and managing messaging and information access in a packet network environment. The stream manager is linked to a packet network, such as the Internet. The stream manager receives over the packet network a message from a user's host server initiated by a user and intended for a destination site. The message bears an address for the stream manager which is provided to the host server by the address server for the packet network, such as a server utilized as part of the domain name system. The stream manager determines the availability of at least one destination server at the destination site to receive and process the message. If a destination server at the destination site is available to receive and process the message, the stream manager selects a destination server from those available.

The invention discloses a method and a system for realizing flexible workflow. The method realizes flexible support at two stages of flow definition and example operation of the workflow. According to the invention, a flow definition tool generates activity definition with flexible feature on the basis of a jbpm executable flow language frame; a flow engine analyzes and deploys a flow definition file with the flexible feature; and operation of modifying and redeploying the flow definition, hanging up the flow example by the flow engine, storing context, modifying, recovering and the like are realized by aiming at different flexible modification points and execution points of the service flow and the required different processing results. The invention is flexible support combining two stages of flow definition and flow example execution, and has the advantages of realizing support on the dynamic change of the service flow by a workflow management system widely, quickly and effectively from a more fundamental level and the like.

The invention provides a method for managing traffic streams used in mobile internet. Under the precondition that compatible standard moves IP protocol, mobile nodes are permitted to be out of the home proxy and main home address, at the same time, a plurality of distribution-typed home proxy server DHPs and distribution-typed home address DHoAs exist, and the position management in which the traffic stream is taken as granularity and the transmission route control are realized. MN can select DHP for different traffic streams dynamically, the DHP which provides service for each traffic stream is selected near a communication node of the corresponding opposite end, therefore, end-to-end delay in the communication of the mobile node and the communication node of the opposite end is shortened effectively. MN realizes the switching in which the traffic stream is taken as granularity and transmission route control in the process of movement. The introduction of DHP greatly reduces the dependency on HA by MN, thus not only reducing the congestion in home network and HA load, but also reducing the influence on MA by the possible failure and fault on the home network and HA, at the same time, the network domain in which CN is located can monitor and control the traffic streams conveniently.

This invention provides a method for data drive in a working flow management system including: 1, a data drive task: defining an ordinary variable to a data required variable to form a data drive task and setting a data request queue on the task, 2, data connection: sending data request to the data request queue of data drive nodes, 3, realization of a working flow engine and a data driving sub-flow formed by configuring data request variables on the starting nodes of the sub-flow and a data request queue is set on it, which drives flows based on the data of a working flow in operation to alter directions of flows and decide numbers of task flow examples or examples of sub-flows dynamically in a working flow example.

A method and computer program product for scheduling product lots through operations of a manufacturing line. The method including: selecting a sequential subset of a set of sequential operations required to manufacture the lots; partitioning the product lots into designated lots and non-designated lots; and generating a release schedule for each of the non-designated lots into one or more operations of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations; generating a release schedule for each of the designated lots into each operation of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations such that for each designated lot a total amount of time measured from completion of a first operation of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations through start of a last operation of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations does not exceed a target amount of time for the designated lots.

The invention discloses an attendance check roll call statistical system. The attendance check roll call statistical system comprises a mobile application side and mobile devices, data information such as personnel group range marks, range member information, a territorial scope and wireless communication information transmission frequency are edited in the mobile application side; in the application process, upgrading is carried out so that a management application side in a management device can automatically receive wireless communication signals sent by mobile application sides in other mobile devices, the management application side in the management device receives the wireless communication signals to directly achieve a successful attendance check roll call, wireless communication signals sent by mobile devices out of the territorial scope cannot be received by the management application side in the management device so that the management application side in the management device can show that the mobile devices are not checked for attendance in a roll call mode, and therefore attendance check roll call statistics of personnel is achieved. Compared with the prior art, the attendance check roll call statistical system is simple in structure, convenient to install, low in cost, free of network connection, applicable to various places, flexible in use, and rapid and accurate in roll call operation; in addition, collected information can be updated regularly or in real time, the situation of entry and attendance of registered personnel can be learned about according to changes of information, people stream management can be more scientific, and the implementation basis is provided for subsequent control measures.

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter, the active message stream capable of communicating active application messages; brokering, by the server, establishment of a backup message stream to the subscribing client device from a backup feed adapter, the backup message stream capable of communicating backup application messages representing duplicates of the active messages; receiving the active messages in messaging middleware of the subscribing client device; receiving, in response to a failover, the backup messages in the messaging middleware; and administering, by the messaging middleware, the backup messages in dependence upon an active stream source identifier, an active stream source sequence number, a backup stream source identifier, and a backup stream source sequence number.

Mechanisms are provided to manage media stream transmissions at a content server. A content server detects that a user on a device such as a mobile device has stopped playing a live media stream. The content server maintains information associating the user with the media stream and time information. When the content server detects that a user wishes to resume playing a media stream, the user can continue viewing the media stream from where stoppage occurred. In many instances, the content server stores many hours of live media stream data and allows a user to select a particular starting point.

A method and computer program product for scheduling product lots through operations of a manufacturing line. The method including: selecting a set of sequential operations required to manufacture the lots; partitioning the product lots into designated lots and non-designated lots; and generating a release schedule for each of the non-designated lots into one or more operations of the set of sequential operations; generating a release schedule for each of the designated lots into each operation of set of sequential operations such that for each designated lot a total amount of time measured from completion of a first operation of the set of sequential operations through start of a last operation of the set of sequential operations does not exceed a target amount of time for the designated lots.

The invention discloses a streaming media quantum stream data block structure and an encryption and decryption method. The method comprises the following steps: first step, slicing continuous streaming data into quantum data slices (the formula is described in the specification), wherein a content mark i and a sequence mark j are provided; second step, encrypting j as r by using a data encryptionalgorithm; third step, merging (the formula is described in the specification) quantum streams corresponding to a group of r into a quantum stream data block; and fourth step, storing the quantum stream data block in a randomly allocated cloud storage device and a backup device, wherein encryption algorithms and keys thereof and storage and backup addresses of the quantum stream data block are stored in a quantum stream management database. When a user wants to download reading contents, an index file is obtained from the management database, the quantum stream data block is downloaded according to the data storage address, the sequence mark j corresponding to the r is decrypted by using the encryption algorithms and the keys, the (the formula is described in the specification) is restored, and a data file is reorganized and restored in sequence.