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A communication system, method and standards for convergence solution to prevailing communication technologies & concepts includes rich client enabled, service oriented distributed information computation and communication (ICC) framework. The distributed network comprises of plurality of clients at specified level of operation in the framework architecture essentially following TFHL networking standards for secured information management identified as NetAlter framework and said distributed framework (NetAlter) comprising of the Service Browser Application for accessing the ICC framework contents in plurality of ways including peer to peer, offline, online etc. irrespective of operating system in use and location parameter. The business method under proposition thereof is essentially based on the browser software following the clustering logic involved therein comprising the explorer for administrative functions and information management assuring secure, piracy free and faster application for communication which forms computational grid wherein connected member to utilize the frameworks' computational resources to the supercomputing extent.

A method for executing a video conference is provided that includes receiving one or more audio streams associated with a video conference from one or more end points and determining an active speaker associated with one of the end points. Audio information associated with the active speaker may be received at one or more media switches. One or more video streams may be suppressed except for a selected video stream associated with the active speaker, the selected video stream propagating to one or more of the media switches during the video conference. The selected video stream may be replicated such that it may be communicated to one or more of the end points associated with a selected one of the media switches.

A method for executing a video conference is provided that includes receiving one or more audio streams associated with a video conference from one or more end points and determining an active speaker associated with one of the end points. Audio information associated with the active speaker may be received at one or more media switches. One or more video streams may be suppressed except for a selected video stream associated with the active speaker, the selected video stream propagating to one or more of the media switches during the video conference. The selected video stream may be replicated such that it may be communicated to one or more of the end points associated with a selected one of the media switches.

A wireless communication system for a transportation vehicle such as, for example, an aircraft, bus, cruise ship, and train, is presented. The wireless communication system includes an information source containing data content including text, audio and video media, a plurality of wireless interfaces, a plurality of individually identifiable electronic devices coupled to the plurality of wireless interfaces and a wireless local area network (LAN) access point. The wireless LAN access point is coupled to the information source and wirelessly coupled to the plurality of wireless interfaces. In operation, the wireless LAN access point receives data content from the information source, converts the data content into a wireless transmission format and selectively distributes the formatted data content to the plurality of wireless interfaces such that the formatted data content is accessible by at least a selected one of the plurality of individually identifiable electronic devices.

A method for executing a video conference is provided that includes receiving one or more audio streams associated with a video conference from one or more end points and determining an active speaker associated with one of the end points. Audio information associated with the active speaker may be received at one or more media switches. One or more video streams may be suppressed except for a selected video stream associated with the active speaker, the selected video stream propagating to one or more of the media switches during the video conference. The selected video stream may be replicated such that it may be communicated to one or more of the end points associated with a selected one of the media switches.

The invention discloses a method for downloading a media file in a content distribution network and a client. By means of method, the client can normally receive a service when a bandwidth changes, and burden is not brought to file management; and the method is easy to implement. The media file is partitioned into a plurality of virtual fragments according to fixed duration. The method comprises the following steps: the client downloads the primary index of media contents requested by a user for broadcasting, from a server, wherein secondary index addresses for media files at different code rates in specific to the media contents are recorded in the primary index; the client selects a code rate and downloads the secondary index of a media file at the selected code rate from the server according to the contents of the primary index, wherein the secondary index comprises the first address of the media file and time information relevant to the virtual segments in the media file; and the client downloads a corresponding media file from the server according to the secondary index and records the quantity of downloaded virtual segments according to the time information in a media file downloading process.

A hierarchical data storage system including a policy based migration engine to select a migration policy and migrate data from a first set of removable storage media, such as tape cartridges, to a second set of removable storage media in accordance with the migration policy. The hierarchical data storage system further includes a control unit including a processor, a host interface to couple the processor to a host, a library manager interface to couple the processor to an automated tape library, a storage device interface to couple said processor to a storage device, and a memory unit.

A method for executing a video conference is provided that includes receiving one or more audio streams associated with a video conference from one or more end points and determining an active speaker associated with one of the end points. Audio information associated with the active speaker may be received at one or more media switches. One or more video streams may be suppressed except for a selected video stream associated with the active speaker, the selected video stream propagating to one or more of the media switches during the video conference. The selected video stream may be replicated such that it may be communicated to one or more of the end points associated with a selected one of the media switches.

An analytical computing environment for large data sets comprises a software platform for data management. The platform provides various automation and self-service features to enable those users to rapidly provision and manage an agile analytics environment. The platform leverages a metadata repository, which tracks and manages all aspects of the data lifecycle. The repository maintains various types of platform metadata including, for example, status information (load dates, quality exceptions, access rights, etc.), definitions (business meaning, technical formats, etc.), lineage (data sources and processes creating a data set, etc.), and user data (user rights, access history, user comments, etc.). Within the platform, the metadata is integrated with all platform services, such as load processing, quality controls and system use. As the system is used, the metadata gets richer and more valuable, supporting additional automation and quality controls.

A mobile device user interface method activates a camera module to support a video chat function and acquires an image of a target object using the camera module. In response to detecting a face in the captured image, the facial image data is analyzed to identify an emotional characteristic of the face by identifying a facial feature and comparing the identified feature with a predetermined feature associated with an emotion. The identified emotional characteristic is compared with a corresponding emotional characteristic of previously acquired facial image data of the target object. In response to the comparison, an emotion indicative image is generated and the generated emotion indicative image is transmitted to a destination terminal used in the video chat.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for performing video conferencing is provided that includes an I-frame injector element operable to intercept I-frame requests from one or more end points and to attempt to service the I-frame requests such that at least a portion of the requests are prevented from propagating back to an originating sender. In more specific embodiments, when a receiver endpoint sends a fast video update (FVU) request upstream, it is intercepted by the I-frame injector element and rather than passing the FVU request to the sender the I-frame injector element replaces a next P-frame from the sender with an I-frame, whereby the I-frame is constructed so that when decoded, it matches the P-frame that it replaced. In still more detailed embodiments, the I-frame injector element operates in one of three modes that are associated with bandwidth parameters.

A method and arrangements for managing user data stored in a database of a communications system where the database is managed by a main controller is disclosed. In the method a user is first authenticated, where after an application entity can manage user data in the database that associates with the user and an application by communicating data between the application entity and a second entity connected to the communications system.

The invention discloses a project planning management system based on a building information model. The building information model is three-dimensionally visible. The project planning management system comprises the four functional modules including a project profile module, a data entry module, a data query module and a design scheme demonstration module. The project profile module is used for entering and querying basic information in the earlier stage of a building project, and the basic information contains the project site, the project scale, the preliminary idea about the project and information of project surroundings; according to the preliminary idea about the project, the conceptual design result is demonstrated through a three-dimensional mass building information model, the design concept and the design thought of a designer are demonstrated through the three-dimensional building information model, and basic information of the conceptual design result is demonstrated through the three-dimensional mass building model according to the project scale.

The invention relates to a network video recorder cluster video monitoring system and a method. The system comprises a network encoder, a plurality of network video recorders (NVR) and an NVR manager, wherein the network encoder, the NVR manager and each NVR are all connected with an IP network; each NVR supports a network storage protocol that the network encoder can directly access to audio / video data thereon so as to directly store the audio / vide data output by the network encoder in an encoding manner in the NVR; the NVR manager is composed of a mapping module and a monitoring module, the mapping module is stored with the mapping relationship between the network encoder and each NVR, and the monitoring module monitors and manages the audio-video data received by each NVR; and each NVR receives the audio-video data encoded by the network encoder by the IP network under the control of the NVR manager, records, responses to access requests from a client side or the network encoder, and queries or replays or stores the recording data. The system can manage the NVR in a cluster manner, solves the problems of performance and storage bottlenecks simultaneously and improves the whole system performance.

The present invention relates to a method for managing the transmission of data frames in a station of a wireless network and a station using said method. It applies to the stations of a wireless network of the 802.11 type. According to the invention, for each data frame, a frame descriptor is generated, the descriptors of the data frames to be transmitted during the contention-free time slot or the ATIM window are stored in at least one memory of the station, and the descriptors of the data frames to be transmitted during the contention slot are stored in a memory. Then, during the contention-free slot or the ATIM window, the frames whose descriptors are stored in the memory are sent, followed by the frames whose descriptors are stored in the memory during the contention slot.

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

The embodiment of the invention discloses a data storage method and a data storage device, which are applied to the technical field of data storage. The data storage method comprises the following steps: acquiring semantic information contained in a file to be stored by analyzing the file to be stored, wherein the semantic information is used for indicating the attribute information of the file to be stored; decomposing the file to be stored into at least two semantic data blocks according to the semantic information and acquiring content identifiers of the semantic data blocks, wherein the content identifiers are used for indicating the content information of the semantic data blocks; storing the at least two semantic data blocks and a first mapping relationship between the information of the file to be stored and the content identifiers, wherein the information of the file to be stored is used for identifying the positions of the semantic data blocks; and storing the semantic data blocks and a second mapping relationship between the content identifiers and the storage positions of the semantic data blocks. Therefore, the file searching efficiency is improved, and the data management and retrieval are convenient.

The present invention discloses a dialogue method of an intelligent customer service robot and a knowledge base management system of the intelligent customer service robot. The method comprises: presetting one or more question and answer pairs in a knowledge base, and collecting statistics of association degrees among the question and answer pairs; searching for a corresponding question and answer pair in the knowledge base according to a question raised by a visitor; providing an answer in the question and answer pair for the visitor; and furthermore, by using the question and answer pair as a basic question and answer pair, providing an associated question in an associated question and answer pair corresponding to the basic question and answer pair for the visitor according to the statistical association degrees among the question and answer pairs. Therefore, communication efficiency is greatly improved, and big data of the knowledge base and algorithm management are used to assist the user to obtain a desired result more quickly, and user experience is better.

The invention discloses an IndexR real-time data analyzing library. The IndexR real-time data analyzing library realizes a structure data format which can be arranged in a distribution environment, can be subjected to parallel processing, is provided with an index and is of a rank type. On the basis of the data format, a data warehouse system is built through the IndexR; mass data sets can be subjected to rapid statistical analysis (OLAP) on the basis of Hadoop ecology; the data can be imported in real time, moreover, the zero delay of querying is realized. The IndexR is deigned to solve the problems such as slow analyzing under a big data scene, data delay, and complex system. According to the IndexR real-time data analyzing library, the data is stored in HDFS; the Zookeeper is used for communicating and negotiating in the cluster; the Hive is used for conveniently managing partitioned data; the data can be rapidly imported in real time through Kafka; an outstanding distributive querying engine Apache Drill is used in a querying layer.

A recording medium, such as a high-density and / or optical recording medium including segment information recorded thereon, and apparatus and methods for recording to and reproducing from the recording medium, in order to improve data protection, data management and / or reproduction compatibility.

The invention provides a class synchronization system based on the wireless network. The class synchronization system based on the wireless network comprises a wireless router, an all-in-one computer, a mobile terminal and a server side. The method adopted in the class synchronization system comprises the monitoring step, the judging step and the outputting step. In the monitoring step, the picture information of a brush panel of the mobile terminal is monitored in real time, and a picture synchronization order is sent to the server side to request for the synchronous displaying. In the judging step, whether the picture of the brush panel changes or not is judged, wherein if yes, a screen synchronization processor packages the coordinate pixel points and the corresponding color values of the changing parts in real time and transmits the coordinate pixel points and the corresponding color values of the changing parts to the server side to be processed, and synchronization picture information is generated. In the outputting step, the synchronization picture information is output to the all-in-one computer to be displayed. The screen picture of the mobile terminal can be synchronized to the all-in-one computer to be displayed in real time, the consumption on the CPU, the internal storage and the wireless network flow is reduced, the speed and running efficiency are high, and the synchronization picture is fluent.

A method of semi-continuous currency processing using separator cards to separate currency stacks in a batch of currency fed into a currency processing machine. This currency processing method uses separator cards that facilitate the continuous processing of individual currency stacks without the necessity of stopping the process between each currency stack. The separator cards used contain features that allow for a positive delineation between individual currency stacks and the association of account data with each individual currency stack and its accompanying separator card as it is processed by the currency processing machine.

An exemplary system for managing the deployment of a seismic data acquisition system uses a module configured to execute a plurality of task in the field by receiving one or more seismic devices. The module may include a power source that provides electrical power to the seismic devices. The module may also include a processor programmed to retrieve data stored in the seismic devices, perform diagnostics, facilitate inventory and logistics control, configure seismic devices and update data or pre-programmed instructions in the seismic device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).

Systems and methodologies are provided for data visualization, retrieval and management of a logically ordered list by a selective multi level expansion of pivot point data. Such pivot points can represent hierarchy expansion designators to a subsequent level, which can include user created groups / clusters of data. The present invention facilitates data management by advantageously combining; the logical order of data with relevance criteria that can indicate importance of the data to a user. The logical order of the data can be a user friendly order that is easily recognizable and independent of the relevance criteria.

The invention relates to an electronic product quality automatic detection method based on a knowledge graph, and belongs to the field of electronic product quality detection and knowledge graphs. Themethod comprises the steps of constructing a domain knowledge graph and realizing a quality detection method; constructing a product domain knowledge graph through related standard literature and technical specification of the electronic product. The electronic product quality detection process is detected from four aspects. The process comprises the steps of adopting an ontology modeling methodto manage a mode layer of the knowledge graph; constructing a data layer on the basis of the mode layer; extracting entities and entity relationships from a plurality of heterogeneous data sources byadopting a Bi-LSTM + Attention + CRF method. The data fusion generally adopts a similarity calculation method. A data layer stores knowledge in a Neo4j graph database by taking facts as units. The product quality detection is carried out by utilizing a product standard domain knowledge graph, and a front-end module is added and is used for directly querying quality detection data.

The invention relates to a patient monitoring system comprising at least one monitoring unit (24) for monitoring the physiological status of a patient and a host system (14) comprising a network of access points (16, 18, 20) for wireless reception of physiological status data. Each monitoring unit (24) is provided to transmit physiological status data to the access points at selected points of time, together with time related data indicating the expected point of time of the next data transmission. The invention further relates to a respective method for monitoring the physiological status of a patient.

The invention relates to an intelligent and quick fault diagnosis instrument for a bearing and a diagnosis method thereof. The fault diagnosis instrument comprises a data acquisition device and a data processing device which are connected with each other. The data acquisition device comprises a vibration sensor. The data acquisition device acquires a vibration analog signal of a processed bearing based on the vibration sensor. The data processing device acquires the vibration analog signal through a plurality of preset frequencies and obtains a plurality of sets of vibration time domain signals, and then the data processing device performs a series of processing analysis on each vibration time domain signal for finally determining a fault part. The intelligent and quick fault diagnosis instrument and the diagnosis method thereof can generate a clear fault description which comprises a bearing fault development period, a bearing damage part and bearing damage degree. The intelligent and quick fault diagnosis instrument and the diagnosis method further have advantages of high intelligence degree, and low dependence for a professional skill and experience of an operator.

A system and method for providing a three-dimensional object on a display of an electronic device when the electronic device is in an idle mode. The three-dimensional object enables a user to both view and manipulate more material than would otherwise be available while the device is in an idle mode. The three-dimensional object can be customized by the user so that material of particular interest to the user appears when the device is in the idle mode.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing access to data based on information associated with a physical location of a user. These mechanisms and methods for managing access to systems, products, or data based on information associated with a physical location of a user can enable improved data management efficiency, enhanced data management accuracy, decreased data management costs, decreased licensing costs, increased security, additional marketing opportunities, etc.