291 results about "System definition" patented technology

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatic configuration and management of a virtual private network operating over a public data network, and a method and apparatus for delivery of the configuration parameters to client interface equipment participating in the virtual private network. The system defines allowed connections between client and server gateway devices, and the parameters associated with the virtual private network. The system defines methods and apparatus for automatic startup, configuration, and shutdown of nodes of the resulting virtual private network based on factors such as the presence of a configuration carrier device. The present invention also describes a class of pseudo-interface mechanism that can hide the complexity of the underlying system from client devices incorporating the present invention, via a conventional network device interface.

A system and method for managing a plurality of stock option accounts each for a plurality of participants. The system invokes a particular option plan defined in the system that governs the transaction choices available to each participants The governing option plans are defined by the sponsoring company in terms of grant, vest and expiration date for the option contracts, and are defined in the system via a database of option holding information for each participant and an axiomatic rule system defining the criteria under which a given participant can exercise given options under the particular plan. The system implements the plans for multiple client companies providing several distinct modes for option exercise by the participant. The system preferably also allows for disbursement of proceeds in a currency different than that in which the underlying security for the option is traded, real time execution of the option transaction, and / or simulating the outcomes of different manners in which the participant may exercise vested options and the resulting economic outcome (disbursement, taxes, transaction fees).

A method and system is provided to analyse receiver indicia of location for a set of at least one receivers to determine whether a receiver has an erroneous indicator of location. The embodiment may take further steps to confirm whether or not inappropriate usage has occurred. The method and system includes identifying a first indicia of location for a set of one or more receivers, identifying a second indicia of location for one or more receivers from the set, and determining if the first and second indicia of location are mutually inconsistent. Indicia of location include indicators of receiver location, inventory state, communication path and definition on systems. The method and system may optionally include action to report or correct the location error.

A system and method for creating a social interaction network by generating a search request at a client device; transmitting the search request to a server; generating a user interface template specially configured for display on the client device; gathering static assets for the user interface template; gathering dynamic assets responsive to the request; merging the static assets and the dynamic assets into the user interface template; and transmitting the user interface to the client device. The gathering step is involves gathers the dynamic assets based upon user defined, system defined and partner defined matches.

A method and system for targeting advertisements. Advertisements are selectively sent to user terminals based on a user classification. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system defines matches between user classifications and advertisement classifications. User data is collected from a plurality of sources. A system according to the present invention classifies a user, transmits media content to a user terminal, and inserts the advertisement into the media content if a match has been defined between the user classification and the advertisement classification.

A method and system for providing a magnetic transducer is described. The method and system define a magnetoresistive sensor in a track width direction, provide hard bias material(s) adjacent to the sensor in the track width direction, and provide sacrificial capping layer(s) on a portion of the hard bias material(s). The sacrificial capping layer(s) have a first height in a stripe height direction. The method and system also provide a mask for defining a stripe height of the sensor. The mask covers at least part of the sensor and has a second height in the stripe height direction. The second height is less than the first height. The method and system define the stripe height of the sensor while the mask covers the sensor. The sacrificial capping layer(s) are configured to prevent removal of the portion of the hard bias material(s) while the stripe height is defined.

This disclosure describes systems and methods for detecting and quantifying transmission delays associated with distributed sensing and monitoring functions within a ventilatory system. Specifically, the present methods and systems described herein define an event-based delay detection algorithm for determining transmission delays between distributed signal measurement and processing subsystems and a central platform that receives data from these subsystems. It is important to evaluate and quantify transmission delays because dyssynchrony in data communication may result in the misalignment of visualization and monitoring systems or instability in closed-loop control systems. Generally, embodiments described herein seek to quantify transmission delays by selecting a ventilator-based defining event as a temporal baseline and calculating the delay between the inception of the defining event and the receipt of data regarding the defining event from one or more distributed sensing devices.

The system provides a computer based presentation synchronized to a broadcast and not merely to an event. The system includes a customizable interface that uses a broadcast and a plurality of secondary sources to present data and information to a user to enhance and optimize a broadcast experience. The system defines templates that represent a customizable content interface for a user. In one embodiment, the templates comprise triggers, sources, widgets, and filters. In one embodiment the system receives the closed captioning feed (cc feed) of a broadcast and mines the text of the cc feed to identify keywords and triggers that will cause the retrieval, generation, and / or display of content related to the keywords and triggers. The system can also use speech recognition to supplement, or to replace, the cc feed and identify key words and triggers used to initiate content.

A method and system of selectively communicating with one or more devices within pre-defined geographical zones is disclosed. A plurality of geographical zones is defined, each zone being defined by latitude and longitude attributes. A plurality of devices is associated with each geographical zone with which a portable device can communicate, the portable device having data representative of the plurality of geographical zones. The portable device also has a ground positioning unit receiver to obtain geographical coordinates of the portable device. If the portable device determines that its location is within one of the plurality of geographical zones, the portable device communicates with the devices in associated with the geographical zone.

The subject invention provides a system and / or method that facilitates executing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) process by employing a reader application markup language (RAML) schema that provides a portable format to setup and deploy such RFID process. A schema component can receive RFID data relating to an RFID architecture wherein a RAML schema can be created based at least upon such RFID data (e.g., discovered readers including settings and / or configurations). The RAML schema can include a sub-system definition (e.g., containing the definition of server state and entities in such server) and a process definition (e.g., containing process related entities and inter-relationships).

A technique of monitoring the cache footprint of relevant threads on a given processor and its associated cache, thus enabling operating systems to perform better cache sensitive scheduling. A function of the footprint of a thread in a cache can be used as an indication of the affinity of that thread to that cache's processor. For instance, the larger the number of cachelines already existing in a cache, the smaller the number of cache misses the thread will experience when scheduled on that processor, and hence the greater the affinity of the thread to that processor. Besides a thread's priority and other system defined parameters, scheduling algorithms can take cache affinity into account when assigning execution of threads to particular processors. This invention describes an apparatus that accurately measures the cache footprint of a thread on a given processor and its associated cache by keeping a state and ownership count of cachelines based on ownership registration and a cache usage as determined by a cache monitoring unit.

Graphical user interface for filtering a population of items. The graphical user interface may be implemented as a method on a system comprising a computer server or other computing device. The system defines a library of available criteria to be used in filtering a population of items to identify items of interest. Each criterion has a graphical representation. The system receives an indication of at least one of the criterion to be applied to the population as a filter and also accepts an indication of a tier of the filter to which the selected criterion is to be associated. The system identifies a list of items of interest satisfying a current set of criteria defining the filter. A graphical representation of the filter is displayed by the system while it is being constructed by the user. In one embodiment, the items are securities such as stocks.

A method for controlling the operability and functionality of an electronic device with an electronic device detection system begins by determining whether an electronic device is located within the vehicle and proximate to an operator of the vehicle. The electronic device detection system defines a restricted zone in which electronic device use is partially or fully prohibited and a safe zone in which all or some of the functionality of electronic devices is enabled. Once it is determined that an electronic device is in use and within a restricted zone, a determination is made as to whether any usage prohibition conditions are satisfied. If usage prohibition conditions are satisfied, then particular functions of the electronic device may be disabled in a restricted zone. If prohibition conditions are not met, the electronic device may be totally enabled, partially enabled to allow certain functions, or the electronic device is never disabled.

The present invention provides a policy specification framework to enable an enterprise to specify a given insider attack using a holistic view of a given data access, as well as the means to specify and implement one or more intrusion mitigation methods in response to the detection of such an attack. The policy specification provides for the use of“anomaly” and “signature” attributes that capture sophisticated behavioral characteristics of illegitimate data access. When the attack occurs, a previously-defined administrator (or system-defined) mitigation response (e.g., verification, disconnect, de-provision, or the like) is then implemented.

A system and method or accurate location identification of a mobile cellular telephone in an indoor environment in case of emergency are provided. The system comprises elements of a distributed antenna system (DAS) and at least one location identification unit (LIU) coupled to the DAS and operative to extract the location of the mobile cellular telephone from RF signals obtained from the DAS. The LIU includes a receiver operative to receive the signals, preferably from a base unit (BU) of the DAS, and a processor operative to process the signals. The LIU obtains parameters of the emergency call that define a tuning window from an external system, and, using the tuning window, identifies a remote hub unit (RHU) of the DAS with the highest signal energy at the tuning window as the RHU through which the call was acquired. The location of the mobile cellular telephone is then determined as being in the area covered by this RHU.

A system, computer program product and method for dispatching work items in a virtual machine operating system. The virtual machine operating system defines first and second virtual machines. First and second work queues are created in a memory. The first virtual machine assigns a first work item to the first work queue and a second work item to the second work queue. The first virtual machine schedules work items from the first work queue for execution by the first virtual machine. The first and second work items originate from the first virtual machine. The first and second work queues are directly accessible by the first virtual machine. The second virtual machine assigns a third work item to the first work queue and a fourth work item to the second work queue. The second virtual machine schedules work items from the second work queue for execution by the second virtual machine. The third and fourth work items originate from the second virtual machine. The first and second work queues are directly accessible by the second virtual machine. The first virtual machine is not able to schedule work items from the second work queue, and the second virtual machine is not able to schedule work items from the first work queue. A shared work queue in shared memory is also disclosed.

The system and method of the invention automatically provide appropriate configuration and control software to a hardware system consisting of multiple target hardware modules. A system controller is connected to the target hardware modules and to a repository that stores a set of software modules. Each software module includes configuration and control information for a particular target hardware module. When a particular software control and configuration scheme for at least a portion of the target hardware modules is to be implemented in the hardware system, software modules corresponding to the particular software control and configuration scheme are selected and associated with a system definition file that is also stored in the repository. When the system definition file is invoked by the system controller, the system controller executes the associated software modules thereby providing the particular software control and configuration scheme to appropriate target hardware modules. When the particular software control and configuration scheme needs to be updated, one or more software modules of the system definition file may be replaced with an updated version without reconfiguring the hardware system.

The invention discloses wireless information releasing searching communicating application system which can delaminate according to district. It includes customer access, wide area network, server, and data bank. The customer access is accessed into the internet by Wi-Fi AP or Wi-Fi subset which has user certification, signature, deciphering key. The information is divided into country, city, sector, and hot spot. In addition, the system defines identity certification, accessing control, and wireless information transmission protocols etc. Thus the invention can be used to build unified commercial Wi-Fi network in whole country or all over the world to supply data communication platform for the user.

A method and system for creating and following drill links in a report are disclosed. A relational abstraction of a data store is defined, the definition including a plurality of views, scalar or aggregate fields associated with the views, and relations between the views. A report is generated that includes at least one drill link associated with a sequence of one or more relations originating at a base view of the relational abstraction. Upon selecting a drill link contained in a first report, information about the drill link is extracted from the report, and the extracted information and the destination view associated with the drill link are used to create a second report.

Sensors around the periphery of the remote control unit detect contact with the user's hand. A trained model-based pattern classification system analyzes the periphery sensor data and makes a probabilistic prediction of the user's hand size. The hand size is then used to control a mapping system that defines how gestures by the user's thumb upon a touchpad of the remote control unit are mapped to the control region upon a separate display screen.

The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems, including a method for creating and incorporating an optimization solution into a workload placement system. An optimization model is defined for a workload placement system. The optimization model includes information for optimizing workflows and resource usage for in-memory database clusters. Parameters are identified for the optimization model. Using the identified parameters, an optimization solution is created for optimizing the placement of workloads in the workload placement system. The creating uses a multi-start approach including plural initial conditions for creating the optimization solution. The created optimization solution is refined using at least the multi-start approach. The optimization solution is incorporated into workload placement system.

The subject invention provides a system and / or method that facilitates executing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) process by employing a reader application markup language (RAML) schema that provides a portable format to setup and deploy such RFID process. A schema component can receive RFID data relating to an RFID architecture wherein a RAML schema can be created based at least upon such RFID data (e.g., discovered readers including settings and / or configurations). The RAML schema can include a sub-system definition (e.g., containing the definition of server state and entities in such server) and a process definition (e.g., containing process related entities and inter-relationships).

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for bookmarking and tagging content items such as media files with user-defined tag information and system-defined tag information based on file types. Utilizing tag information, a user of a bookmarking and tagging service provider can easily search for and retrieve links to media files having specific tag information, even if the media files are located at geographically disparate sites. A user may also retrieve the media files using web feeds.

A system for managing the end to end lifecycle of a virtualization environment within an appliance includes a set of installation tools and an administration portal. A reference architecture for an appliance defines technology layers of an appliance. A partner ecosystem defines a delivery model of an appliance to a customer. A setup wizard tool is installing and configuring management software components, infrastructure software components, and application images on an appliance. An environment management module completes the installation and configuration of the management software components of a virtualization environment and provides ongoing management of the infrastructure software and management software components. An image management module stores the configuration of the application images and provides ongoing management of the application images. A catalog management module maintains a library of the application images. A user subscriptions module maintains a record of user subscriptions to the application images in the library.

The present invention comprises an application distribution and metrics system as well as an application monetizing system (ADMS). The ADMS incorporates a cross-platform application distribution system and a usage-based and ad-based monetizing system which allows for fine-tuned usage-based pricing schemes to be created based on system-defined metrics and developer-defined metrics, seamless integration of ad-based monetizing, third party participation in monetizing efforts, and a flexible revenue allocation process.

Anonymous communication features in a sender based routing network are provided. A single system-defined communication address is associated with a first user and a second user in lieu of the real communication addresses of the users. A communication from the real communication address of the first user is routed to the real communication address of the second user based on the single system-defined communication address and a unique identifier associated with the sender. Anonymous communications may then take place between the two users without actual knowledge of either user's real communication address.

A disclosed system (and method) is configured to receive an instruction to transition from a first view to a second view. The first view and the second view include two or more visual elements. The system receives data corresponding to visual elements in the first view and visual elements in the second view. The system groups the visual elements to include visual elements moved out between the first view and the second view, visual elements retained from the first view in the second view, and visual elements moved into the second view. The system retrieves a system defined transition style for rendering the visual elements between the first view and the second view. Using the groupings the system transitions the first view to render the second view through application of the transition style on the groups of visual elements.

Access to system and user defined entities (objects, data items, or the like) is managed by a content manager. A privilege grants a user an ability to access system such controlled entities. An item is an atomic user data entity stored in the CM library server. A privileges table is used to store system and user defined privileges. A privilege is represented by a row in the table. Each privilege has a unique privilege code, with codes 0 to 999 reserved to store system-defined privileges and codes beyond 999 open for user-defined privileges thus allowing application specific privileges to be added without limit.

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically linking items with multiple attributes to multiple levels of folders within a content management system. The present system extends automatic linking to support multiple levels of folders and multiple attributes. One feature of the present system is to supplement the implementation of the automatic linking plan without user involvement so that the user is not required to know the rules for creating or nesting folders. A system defined attribute is used to indicate that the folder item was created by the present system. In addition, the present system automatically moves an item from one folder to another when the item is changed to a different type if the item was first added to the folder by the present system. When an item's attributes are changed or the item is redefined as a different type, the item is re-indexed. The present system then changes the item's link from the original folder to a new or different folder that matches the item's new attributes or definition. If no correspondence folder exists for this customer, the present system creates a new folder with the proper attributes. If the result of removing an item from a folder results in an empty folder and if the folder was originally created by automatic linking, the present system deletes the empty folder. When the present system creates a new folder, the “automatic linking” rules for that item type are checked by the present system. This process is executed recursively.

A database API is presented that can expose data of non-native data-types, i.e., types that are unknown at API design-time. A broad type-system is used that is understood by both a server and a client. The API can dynamically discover, at run-time, data types that were defined using this broad type-system. The API can retrieve metadata that references a non-native data type in a client type library. A retrieved instance of the non-native data type, in serialized form, may be deserialized using the metadata.