872 results about "Time parameter" patented technology

Methods, systems and computer readable code for travel planning are provided. According to some embodiments, a travel planning engine schedules a plurality of activities within one or more time intervals and generates a travel plan, where each activity is associated with a physical location and optional time parameters. Alternatively or additionally, the travel planning is implemented by receiving manual travel planning directives through a user interface. According to some embodiments, the activities are scheduled so as to satisfy specific constraints and/or travel benefit parameters. According to some embodiments, the travel plan includes information about traveling between relevant locations. Some embodiments of the present invention include a method of comparing and/or presenting a plurality of travel options, wherein each travel option is associated with a respective mode of transportation. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method or computer readable code for customizing a travel itinerary for a traveler. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method or computer readable code for presenting information about pricing of at least three targeted travel services on a single screen including a plurality of distinct bundling combinations.

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates management and navigation of various data objects by making use of a unique time-line based navigation tool. In particular, objects can organized into a plurality of bands based on their respective subject matter. Each band can be created to designate a particular topic. Objects are organized within the appropriate bands based in part on a time parameter such as a time or date that the object was created, for example. The navigation tool allows a user to navigate or browse through the bands and objects according to a desired time parameter or range of time. Zooming and other browsing options are available to the user to view objects of interest at varying levels of detail. The objects are represented as ASCII thumbnails that are operational. Thus, the content of any object can be modified directly via the thumbnail.

A navigation system and method incorporating the use of a navigation system that provides alternate routes to an initially selected route based upon updated, real time parameters. The system is provided with user preference data that is used when developing the initial route and alternate routes. The system may be programmed to only provide alternate routes if a predetermined improvement in efficiency is potentially available.

A disk drive is disclosed which executes a rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm for selecting a next command to execute out of a plurality of pending commands. The RPO algorithm comprises a first phase and a second phase. The first phase of the RPO algorithm is executed relative to a first priority and in response to at least one non-real-time parameter. The second phase of the RPO algorithm is executed relative to a second priority higher than the first priority and in response to at least one real-time parameter.

A system and method for synchronizing remote copies within a multiple storage network apparatus, incorporates the steps of receiving a plurality of timestamps, comparing the timestamps with a plurality of timestamps stored in a remote copy table, updating a synchronize time value stored by a synchronized time parameter, and receiving a synchronized time stamp, wherein the value associated with the received timestamp is ulterior to the value of the synchronized time stored by the synchronized time parameter. Further, a system and method for synchronizing secondary storage subsystems, incorporates the steps of collecting a plurality of synchronous timestamps from a plurality of secondary storage subsystems, comparing the plurality of collected synchronous timestamps with a synchronize time parameter, updating a remote copy time table, issuing a remote copy queue request, receiving status information about a secondary storage subsystem starting host, and synchronizing the secondary storage subsystem.

Systems and methods are disclosed for condition and location monitoring of mobile entities. One embodiment of a system may comprise a sensor system that measures at least one real time parameter associated with the mobile entity and compares the measured at least one real time parameter to at least one predetermined threshold to determine at least one condition of the mobile entity. The system may also comprise a situational awareness (SA) beacon having a global position satellite (GPS) device that determines a location of the mobile entity and a transceiver, wherein the SA beacon periodically transmits location information and condition information via the transceiver to a central control for display.

A meter data management system includes one or more application servers configured to receive, validate and estimate received meter data. The one or more application servers may include various memory/media elements for storing raw and transformed meter data as well as software in the form of computer-executable instructions, which are executed by a processor to implement a variety of functions, including establishing a mapping between the plurality of external devices and a plurality of preconfigured processing workbins (e.g., collections of meter channels in the same time zones), transforming the received meter data into a plurality of data files identified by timing parameter and workbin, validating data provided in each data file, estimating missing or invalid data, and automatically writing validated (and optionally estimated) data as import files to a database server. Such clean data files are then imported to one or more dedicated databases installed on the database server.

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates management and navigation of various data objects by making use of a unique time-line based navigation tool. In particular, objects can organized into a plurality of bands based on their respective subject matter. Each band can be created to designate a particular topic. Objects are organized within the appropriate bands based in part on a time parameter such as a time or date that the object was created, for example. The navigation tool allows a user to navigate or browse through the bands and objects according to a desired time parameter or range of time. Zooming and other browsing options are available to the user to view objects of interest at varying levels of detail. The objects are represented as ASCII thumbnails that are operational. Thus, the content of any object can be modified directly via the thumbnail.

The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one wellsite, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method steps include obtaining a plurality of real-time parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed about the oilfield, wherein the plurality of real-time parameters comprise at least one selected from a group consisting of real-time flow rate data and real-time pressure data of the wellbore, configuring a gridless analytical simulator for simulating the underground reservoir based on the plurality of real-time parameters, generating real-time simulation results of the underground reservoir and the at least one wellsite in real-time using the gridless analytical simulator, and performing the oilfield operation based on the real-time simulation results

The invention provides one or more consortia of networks that identify and share information about users and/or user devices interacting with the consortia. User devices may be identified, at least in part, by a delta of time parameter between a user device used and a reference time. Other parameters may be analyzed to identify a computer user and/or device and noteworthy transactions. The invention may be used for identity-based applications such as network security, the detection of fraudulent transactions, identity theft, ratings-based communities and law enforcement.

A data processing device including a microcontroller and configured to communicate with at least one remote system distributed on a network. The data processing device and the remote system are adapted to store a plurality of parameters identifying a user account belonging to a subscriber. The data processing device comprises a one-time parameter comprising the active account attached to the device designed for a one-time use, and a permanent parameter identifying an account attached to the data processing device, the permanent parameter being deactivated. The one-time and permanent parameter are stored in the at least one remote system, and the microcontroller is programmed to: use the one-time parameter to logon to the network when the data processing device is switched on; and exchanges the one-time parameter with the permanent parameter, upon successful logon to the network, the permanent parameter becoming the permanent active account. The first device and the at least one remote system store a parameter identifying a current active account attached to a second data processing device to replace, and upon successful logon to the network, a program automatically stored in the first device sends an activation request for exchanging the plurality of parameters from the old for the new one in the at least one remote system, with the current active account being deactivated.

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates management and navigation of various data objects by making use of a unique time-line based navigation tool. In particular, objects can organized into a plurality of bands based on their respective subject matter. Each band can be created to designate a particular topic. Objects are organized within the appropriate bands based in part on a time parameter such as a time or date that the object was created, for example. The navigation tool allows a user to navigate or browse through the bands and objects according to a desired time parameter or range of time. Zooming and other browsing options are available to the user to view objects of interest at varying levels of detail. The objects are represented as ASCII thumbnails that are operational. Thus, the content of any object can be modified directly via the thumbnail.

A dispensing apparatus for hot beverages is provided with means (4,5) to filter hot pressurised water through ground edible ingredients such as coffee, tea or herbal remedies in a chamber, means (17,18,20) of monitoring real-time data concerning brewing parameters; a controlling unit (16) comprising means of storing data, means of comparing the real-time data to a set of stored data and/or threshold parameters, stored in the controller's memory associated with the brewing system, to determine whether a correction to the parameters should be made, and means (8,9,24) of altering at least one of the relevant brewing parameters, when required to bring said real time parameter in line with said recorded parameter to obtain consistent high quality of the dispensed beverage.

A method and a system for accessing data in a computer-based data processing system is described. The method comprises the steps of initiating and maintaining data access nodes in a variable access structure. Each access node is provided with references to other access nodes and/or to data items representing an object, each data item carrying only the amount of information which is relevant for its purpose. The data items or the references are provided with a time parameter thus enabling version control and the possibility to handle static or slowly changing data and frequently changed and updated data in a corresponding manner. The access nodes comprise access control parameters for access control from a safety point of view as well as for enabling different views of the access structure and underlying data and objects.

The method comprises: setting up a program recommendation list comprising the program name parameter, channel parameter, play time parameter and loving grade parameter. Said program name parameter is used for saving the program name; the channel parameter is used for saving the play channel corresponding to the relevant program; the play time parameter is used for saving the play time of relevant program; the loving grade parameter is used for saving the loving grade of user for the relevant program; starting up the program recommendation to search the program whose play time matches the current moment program; recommending the matched program to users according to a sequence of loving grade.

A method of configuring power tool electronics in a hand-held power tool (10) having sensor means (20) for acquiring measurement data, a control unit (50) for processing measurement data and for controlling power tool functions, and a data transmission unit (30), includes transmitting data between the data transmission unit (30) and an evaluation location (62) by means of a mobile wireless network, with the power tool electronics being awakened from a quiescent mode (70) and activated at a time stored as a time parameter in a control program, retrieving a configuration file provided by the evaluation location (62) by the data transmission unit (30) via the mobile wireless network, and checking the response received from the mobile wireless network to determine whether or not it contains a new configuration file. If a configuration file was received, the parameters contained in the configuration file are implemented (77) in the control program for the power tool electronics. The power tool electronics is then returned to the quiescent mode (70) again.

A method of distributing educational content over a network is disclosed. Educational content is divided into topics and the topics are split into smaller educational units. Professionals reviewing the material for accreditation purposes choose particular units to study and are subject to minimum and maximum time parameters. The partitioning of educational topics allows advertisers to deliver episodic advertising over an extended time period.

The invention relates to an intelligent monitoring, repair and control method of a lead-acid battery pack and a system thereof. In the invention, full-range real-time parameter detection, repair, analysis, control, display and external communication overall monitoring are carried out on charge and discharge processes of the lead-acid battery pack, battery performance and repaired battery. The system can enable a repair instrument to automatically repair the battery by automatically sending a repair command to a lower computer. If the battery is judged to stay in a replacement state, the battery is indicated not to be used any longer and needs to be replaced with a new one. If the battery is judged to stay in an abnormity state, people must learn about specific circumstances on site.

In a networked data processing system, the updating of timing parameters is carried out via a process in which the detection of the loss of communications with the network is not immediately employed as an indication of parameter invalidity but rather the process employs a system specific delay which permits actions such as server or link recovery to occur without necessitating the declaration of timing parameter invalidity.

The invention provides an online anomaly monitoring and diagnosis method and system. The method comprises the steps that the causal relation and conditional relation among all signals are defined based on a directed graph model; based on definitions of the signals by the directed graph model, the signals in acquired historical data are classified, and a training set of the historical data is established to perform model training and determine model parameters; and based on real-time data theoretical values of the signals in real-time data obtained after the real-time data acquired through online monitoring is input into a trained model, whether the signals in the real-time data are abnormal is determined. The system adopting the method and a computer readable medium storing a program executing the method are also included. Through the method, the system and the computer readable medium, a complete logic relation and casual relation are constructed for the whole process of industrial production and operation through the directed graph model, and more reasonable, more correct, more accurate and efficient production online anomaly diagnosis prediction is realized in combination with machine learning.

The invention discloses a cellphone based dynamic two-dimension code access control system. The cellphone based dynamic two-dimension code access control system comprises a cellphone and an access control device with a two-dimension code identification module, a two-dimension code application module is arranged in the cellphone, a binary string code is generated through twice encryption calculation of a preset secret key, a time parameter and the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) code of the cellphone, and a two-dimension code image generated by the binary string code is used as a key for opening the door; the two-dimension code image is obtained through scanning of the two-dimension code identification module, and the IMEI code for opening the door and the key generation time are obtained through identification and decoding, the door is opened after verification, and the key which is used for opening the door this time is abolished. The cellphone-based dynamic two-dimension code access control system has the characteristics that one key only can open the door once and can not be copied, the security is high, and the cellphone is used as the carrier of the key to achieve carrying convenience.

The invention relates to a PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) control method for an elastic integral BP neural network based on RBF (Radial Basis Function) identification, which comprises the following steps: determining the structure of the BP neural network and determining an initial value; determining the structure of an RBF identification network; sampling; positively calculating the BP network and calculating the output of a PID control system; calculating the RBF identification network; revising the parameters of the identification network; and revising the weighting coefficient of the BP netural network. The invention has the advantages that the BP neural network is combined with the traditional PID control to form an intelligent neural network PID control system; no accurate mathematical model is required to be established; the change of the parameters of the controlled course, the parameters of the automatic setting control and the parameters of adapting to the controlled course can be automatically identified; and the method is an effective measure for solving the problems of difficult parameter setting, no real-time parameter adjustment and weak robustness of the traditional PID control system.

A system and method for maximizing a vehicle's fuel efficiency preferably without inconveniencing the driver, includes maximizing a ratio of a real-time parameter proportional to engine load or engine power to fuel flow or air flow rate referred to herein as the P/F ratio. This ratio is calculated to evaluate engine fuel efficiency. With the system and method, the throttle is operated incrementally to increase or decrease the throttle in a manner to maximize the P/F ratio, thus maximizing fuel efficiency, in a pulse phase. The system and method implement an on and off pulse width modulation (“PWM”) style of control to modulate engine power and acceleration to achieve the speed that the driver desires, based on the position of the accelerator pedal. When the desired speed is achieved, the throttle is released and when the speed drops a sufficient amount, the throttle is re-engaged to reach the desired speed again. When the throttle is disengaged or when the driver releases the accelerator pedal, the system and method implement a glide phase, where the vehicle coasts without use of fuel or in neutral with very limited use of fuel and minimum engine drag.

A method and measuring tool are presented for automatic control of photoresist-based processing of a workpiece progressing through a processing tool arrangement. Spectrophotometric measurements are applied to the workpiece prior to being processed, spectral characteristics of the workpiece are measured, thereby obtaining measured data indicative of at least one parameter of the workpiece that defines an optimal value of at least processing time parameter of the processing tool to be used in the processing of said workpiece to obtain certain process results. This data is analyzed to determine data indicative of the optimal value of said at least processing time parameter, and thereby enable calculation of a correction value to be applied to said processing time parameter prior to applying the processing tool to the workpiece.

The invention provides a wireless lighting control system with a lighting control device and a method thereof. The lighting control device is connected in a wireless communication manner for being communicated with a receiving unit. A wireless transmitting module is used for transmitting a lighting control command, a scene control command and a program control command to a wireless receiving module so that stage lighting is switched in lighting or extinguishing, lighting or extinguishing time, brightness and lighting colors according to a digital multichannel transport protocol (DMX512) of a lighting control standard protocol and a control architecture of a stage lighting set is simplified, wherein the lighting control command carries a lighting or extinguishing parameter, a lighting or extinguishing time parameter, a brightness parameter and a lighting color parameter.

A dummy debugger program is installed within the user computer system. The dummy program is registered with the operating system as a debugger and may also be registered as a system service as if it is a kernel mode debugger. The dummy debugger program may have the name of a popular debugging program. Dummy registry keys are created that are typically used by a debugger to make it appear as if a debugger is present within the operating system of the user computer. Dummy program folders or dummy program names are created to make it appear as if a debugger is present within the operating system of the user computer. API calls are intercepted by using API hooks and modified to always return a meaningful value indicating that a debugger is present. Malware performing any checks to see if a debugger is present will be informed that a debugger is present and will then shutdown, sleep, terminate, etc. Or, in order to trick malware into thinking that an emulator is present, any API call is intercepted and the sleep time passed in is raised by a couple of milliseconds. Malware will determine that the time parameter passed in is not equivalent to the elapsed time from before the API call to after the call and the malware will determine that an emulator is present and will terminate.

A weather-based activity advisor that provides activity recommendations to a user based on location and a time parameters. The activity recommendations are based on assessments of the desirability of potential activities such as weather-based index values. The weather-based activity advisor may present recommended activities, facilities offering the activities, information about the activities, and information about weather conditions influencing the desirability of the activities. The activity advisor may also present supplemental information such as advertisements and related web links.

The invention discloses a system based on unit operation state real-time online monitoring. Online monitoring, data collection, data analysis, data processing, fault diagnosis and energy efficiency management of various data of a pump station are mainly studied. Data of all obtained state parameters is monitored according to the state, a feature value reflecting the unit operation state is extracted, the unit breaking down is diagnosed according to the feature value, and therefore the fault reason, portion, type, character, serious degree and development trend are determined, and maintenance is guided. According to energy efficiency management, the real-time data of all the obtained state parameters is monitored according to the state, efficiency calculation, economic indicators calculation and scheduling plan optimizing comparison are comprehensively carried out in combination with economic factors and market price factors of pump station operation, and therefore target optimization of energy efficiency management setting is achieved.

The invention relates to the monitoring and the diagnosis of operation states of a boiler, in particular to a system and a method for diagnosing leakage of a pressure-bearing pipe of a boiler. The system for diagnosing the leakage comprises a monitoring device, a storing device and a judging device; the monitoring device comprises a plurality of sensors which are arranged at each monitoring pointof a boiler unit and used for sensing and recoding operation parameters of the boiler unit in real time; the storing device is used for storing the operating parameters of the boiler unit in the normal working state; the judging device is communicated with the monitoring device and the storing device and can receive the real-time parameters from the monitoring device and judge whether leakage occurs to the pressure-bearing pipe of the boiler by comparing the real-time parameters with the parameters of the monitoring device. The invention is characterized in that when the real-time parameter from the monitoring device is higher than or is lower than that of the storing device in the normal working state and reaches a preset threshold value, the judging device judges that leakage occurs to the pressure-bearing pipe.

The invention discloses a power lithium battery model parameter identifying and dump energy estimating method. The method includes the steps of firstly, establishing a state space equation of a two-order impedance-capacitance model of a lithium battery; secondly, establishing a regression model of the relation of an end voltage and open circuit voltage and a current; thirdly, conducting parameteridentifying based on an iterative learning recursive least-squares method on the regression model; fourthly, conducting identifying based on the iterative learning recursive least-squares method on experimental data meeting the discharge current conditions in the parameter identifying process in the third step to obtain prediction errors, and conducting converging through the prediction errors toobtain a nonlinear function in parameters of the state space equation and a parameter set; fifthly, verifying the battery model precision formed by the nonlinear function and the parameter set obtained in the fourth step; sixthly, collecting current and voltage data, and estimating the dump energy through expanded Kalman filtering. The model parameter identifying precision is high, the dump energyestimation value error is small, and good application prospects are achieved.