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A method for allocating a processing resource among multiple inputs includes defining a sequence of multiplexing iterations, each such iteration including a first plurality of windows, each such window containing a second plurality of time slots. A respective weight is assigned to each of the inputs, and each of the inputs is allotted one of the time slots in each of a respective number of the windows in each of the iterations, the respective number being determined by the respective weight. Each of the inputs is then provided with access to the processing resource during the time slots allotted thereto.

A method and apparatus for preserving loop fairness. Some embodiments include a dynamic half-duplex feature. One aspect includes a communications channel system and method for preserving loop fairness that includes a first channel node having one or more ports, each port supporting and attached to a fibre-channel arbitrated-loop serial communications channel. One of the ports will arbitrate for control of that port's attached channel, wherein control of the channel loop, once arbitration is won, a fairness-preserving apparatus causes control of the communications channel to be released based at least in part on whether a predetermined amount of use has occurred between the first port and the communications channel. In some embodiments, the predetermined amount of use includes a transfer of a first predetermined amount of data. In some embodiments, release of control of the channel is inhibited if less than a second predetermined amount of data remains to be transferred.

In a data transmission apparatus which performs a bit rate control in accordance with a state of a network, whether a bit rate is changed is determined based on a predetermined probability. By determining a probability value which is used to change a bit rate of each terminal in such a manner that a value obtained by averaging bit rates of all terminals in a communication system becomes a desired bit rate, a control with less fluctuations in bit rate is possible in each terminal, and the quality of real-time communication of, e.g., sounds / image can be improved. Further, the fairness with other control systems such as TCP can be realized.

A unique ID 35 by which a distribution region can be identified is attached to a use-permission certificate 33 distributed in different regions. Different terminal devices send unique terminal device IDs to a data management device. Based on these IDs, the region in which the terminal device is installed is determined. IDs attached to use-permission certificates are sent by the terminal devices to the data management device through a communication network. Based on these IDs, the distribution regions of the use-permission certificates are determined. If the determined terminal device installation region and the use-permission certificate distribution region match, the use of data by the terminal device is allowed.

A system and method for dynamically establishing lightpaths in an optical telecommunications network. The system implements tokens which are used to advertise the availability of receivers downstream. The tokens notify a source when a transmission fails. The tokens also include lightpath reservations and indicate priority of reservations. The innovative system preferably comprises a ring topology with chords that connect non-contiguous nods of the ring.

Disclosed are systems and methods for online community management. The disclosed system allows for automatic identification and punishment of players exhibiting bad sportsmanship through a combination of automatic detection schemes and a peer reporting scheme. In addition to the sportsmanship check, the disclosed system also provides automatic checks for identifying potential cheaters and generating a potential cheaters list for review by admin staff. As a result of either classification system, players found to be either bad sports or cheaters are not allowed to participate in play with the general pool of players, but instead must play in an alternate pool. For extremely harmful conduct, players may be banned from the online community.

A talent contest management platform provides an interface for artists to submit video presentations and fans to view the video presentations through the Internet to allow fans to vote to select artist talent contest winners from plural contest stages, each stage having an associated content genre. A voting system accepts fan votes over predetermined time periods, such as through plural contest rounds, until finalists picked by voting perform for a final vote round, such as by a live webcast. The voting system ensures a fair and fraud-free contest winner selection by tracking fan registrations, monitoring fan votes and analyzing voting results to detect and address voting fraud.

The invention relates to a client server, an intelligent terminal, an online game system and a method, wherein the client server communicates with a client and a main server and comprises a local database, an adjustment module and a local logic module; the local database is used for storing information from the client; the adjustment module is used for judging whether a request from the client can be processed locally at the client serve; and the local logic module is used for processing the request from the client when the judgment module judges that the request from the client can be processed locally at the client serve, and is also used for synchronizing the information stored in the local database to the main server. The invention can be used to relieve the load of the main server of an online game and prevent plug-in and other cheating means.

A talent contest management platform provides an interface for artists to submit video presentations and fans to view the video presentations through the Internet to allow fans to vote to select artist talent contest winners from plural contest stages, each stage having an associated content genre. A voting system accepts fan votes over predetermined time periods, such as through plural contest rounds, until finalists picked by voting perform for a final vote round, such as by a live webcast. The voting system ensures a fair and fraud-free contest winner selection by tracking fan registrations, monitoring fan votes and analyzing voting results to detect and address voting fraud.

An apparatus for grouping a plurality of stations in a multi-transmission environment includes an SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) measuring unit configured to measure SNR values of the stations existing in the multi-transmission environment. Further, the apparatus includes a grouping unit configured to group the stations into several subgroups depending on the SNR values, wherein a leader is defined in each subgroup. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) intended for each subgroup and form different A-MPDU (Aggregated MAC Protocol Data Unit) for each subgroup separately to send to each subgroup in a multicast transmission.

A method for dynamically matching-generating key word base search engine technique includes using search engine to match and generate multiple search key word for Internet knowledge information at concrete webpage and website, dynamically varying the sequencing parameter in following with using said key word to click concrete knowledge information by Internet user and then using public judgment as a search attribute to raise search accuracy.

Systems and methods for improving Long Term Evolution (LTE)-WiFi coexistence in a network, including configuring one or more LTE nodes for asynchronous access and synchronous transmission to bridge LTE and WiFi access modes. A channel is reserved for LTE transmission in the one or more LTE nodes, and a supplementary WiFi module is provided in the one or more LTE nodes for sensing the channel for occupancy and for broadcasting a reservation signal on the channel prior to the LTE transmission. Contention window sizes are scaled linearly by increasing the contention window sizes proportionally to a subframe collision rate to maintain throughput fairness to the WiFi, and synchronous transmission from the one or more LTE nodes to one or more User Devices (UEs) is performed by activating the unlicensed carrier for a reserved time period.

Disclosed is an access node monitoring control apparatus for monitoring a plurality of access node devices that each include one or more interface cards corresponding respectively to a plurality of users. This apparatus includes SLA information storage means for storing information about reliability-related SLAs signed by the users; fault information receiving means for receiving information about faults in a device used to provide communication services to the users; fault history storage means for storing a history of faults indicated by the information received by the fault information receiving means in association with the users affected by the faults; and next maintenance operation determination means for determining the next maintenance operation in accordance with information about a currently faulty device, information about an SLA for a user affected by a fault in the faulty device, and a fault history associated with the user.

The embodiment of the invention provides a blockchain processing method based on instant messaging message records. The method is applied to a blockchain node, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving instant messaging message records sent by a client node and / or an instant messaging server; and storing the received instant messaging message records in respective corresponding blockchain databases with other blockchain nodes. By adoption of the blockchain processing method based on instant messaging message records provided by the invention, multi-party joint supervision of instant messaging interaction behaviors reflected by the instant messaging message records can be realized, that is, the witness of the instant messaging interaction process is formed, thereby realizing information equivalence of various parties in an instant messaging network, and the fairness of the instant messaging network can be effectively maintained.

[Subject] To provide a rechargeable battery type chair warming method, a rechargeable battery type chair warming device and a rechargeable battery type heatable chair that enables warming of chairs and wheelchairs used at schools, arenas, or camping sites by attaching a rechargeable battery by individuals who use the chairs, respectively.[Resolution Means] A heat generating unit is placed in a seat and / or back seat rest of a chair, and if an individual who uses the chair attaches a rechargeable battery to a power supply unit, power is supplied from the rechargeable battery, and the heat generating unit can be warmed up. The heat generating unit is structured by covering a heating element with a thermal conduction material, and the heat generating unit is attached to an existing chair or is originally incorporated into a seat or a back seat rest of a chair. The power supply can include a power switch and a volume control for temperature control in addition to a socket for attaching a rechargeable battery.

The invention discloses a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform based on cloud computing. The platform comprises a cloud platform control end, preset software examples, at least one user, a service layer, a facility layer and a storage layer, the service layer is used for facing the users, receiving requests of the users and feeding back information to the users, the facility layer is connected with the service layer and used for receiving requests of the service layer and opening the software examples according to the requests, and the storage layer is connected with the facility layer and used for storing data mirroring generated when the software examples are used by the users. The platform has the advantages that the high-maturity SaaS platform based on Open Stack simultaneously supports a PC (personal computer) and various mobile terminals and is high in expandability, safe, reliable and low in cost, by the aid of the platform, the users can seamlessly use services of the software examples only through web pages without contacting with the software examples, software cracking is fundamentally prevented, and fairness of a software industry is maintained.

A handover-source base station transfers a data packet destined to a mobile device received from a base station control device to a handover-destination base station as an inter-base-station transfer packet during a stopping period for which the handover-source base station stops a wireless transmission of a data packet to the mobile device. The handover-destination base station calculates a wireless transmission priority for the inter-base-station transfer packet based on a station retention time in the handover-destination base station and an estimated value of a retention time in the handover-source base station.

A dynamic bandwidth allocation method with a punishment mechanism applicable in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) is provided. The method utilizes GATE message, report message format, and different data types of a multipoint control protocol (MPCP) to order various queues to make the queues have priority and transmit them sequentially in transmission. Meanwhile, the method can fairly allocate the bandwidth and reduce the delay time of queue according to an appropriately designed punishment mechanism and bandwidth allocation principle, so as to fulfill the requirements of Quality of Service (QoS).

An auction system between a seller and a bidder via a communication network, for calculating a proper price of a viatical and life settlement policy based on the amount of insurance carried by an insured, the estimated remaining life of the insured, an insurance premium due to be paid by the insured, a commission fee of an investment trust institution and the annual interest of the policy, for preventing the policy from being set at an illegally low price and allowing the insured to sell the policy at an optimized market price while maintaining a fair trade. Whether or not already-distributed key information is used for login, charges can be withdrawn from a trade account available for online settlement, and it is possible to confirm whether a seller or bidder has carried out an illegal action, so that troubles such as unpaid fees can be greatly reduced.

A device that queues and transmits data packets is described. This device includes: a queue configured to store data packets awaiting transmission; a controller configured to dynamically determine an order in which the data packets are transmitted from the queue; and a transmission mechanism configured to transmit the data packets from the queue in the determined order. The transmission order is determined using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sequence numbers and / or TCP timestamps contained in the data packets in the queue in order to provide increased utility without reducing existing fairness between independent data streams.

A data-processing method and system generally comprises identifying a plurality of hardware resources associated with a data-processing apparatus, time-slicing the plurality of hardware resources. Thereafter the plurality of active hardware resources can be allocated among a plurality of active hardware resources associated with the data-processing apparatus, thereby allowing a limited number of hardware resources to service a larger number of physical devices associated with the data-processing apparatus. An appropriate hardware resource can be selected from among the plurality of active hardware resources utilizing one or more swapping algorithms.

A packet transfer device includes: an address conversion unit that allocates a global address to a plurality of private addresses of the plurality of private networks and converts address information and a port number included in a header of a received packet;a transfer unit that transfers a packet having the address information and the port number which are converted by the address conversion unit; and a session restriction unit that manages a number of sessions between a user terminal in the plurality of private networks and a device in the global network for each predetermined group and, when the number of sessions is greater than a number of available sessions which is set to each group, restricts the session of the user terminal which belongs to the group having the excess number of sessions.

The invention discloses a method for realizing anti-external hanging of online games, and the method comprises the following steps: 1) a server end sends challenge information to a client randomly and waits for the client to respond; (2) after receiving the challenge information, the client runs script codes of the challenge information which is sent by the server end in a virtual machine, and sends the result to the server end; 3) after receiving challenge response returned by the client, the server end compares the challenge response with an expected result at the server end, if the result is in accordance with the expected result, the game client is thought to be legal and trustable; if not, the game client is thought to be illegal and not trustable. By using the method, the existing or potential external hanging can be attacked effectively so as to reliably safeguard the interests of normal users and game companies.

The invention relates to a wireless-sensing-network autonomous routing method. The wireless-sensing-network autonomous routing method comprises the following steps of step1, constructing a network topology for a wireless sensor network; step2, in the wireless sensor network, dividing a monitoring area, selecting a cluster head node in each area according to an optimum signal to noise ratio strategy and establishing a cluster group in the area after the cluster head node is selected; and step3, establishing a routing table between the cluster head node and a member, collecting residual energy information of cluster members, calculating an energy threshold according to the information and carrying out cluster head rotation according to the threshold. The method has advantages that node energy consumption is reduced and a network life cycle is prolonged; network congestion is reduced so as to guarantee network fairness; and information transmission reliability is increased.

The invention is adaptable to the technical field of network games and provides a method and a device for preventing utilizing plug-in in network games. The method includes acquiring network game transaction data of game players, determining the game players who rank first Nth on the basis of degree of transaction activity and have plug-in characteristics as valued plug-in according to the network game transaction data, and finally processing the valued plug-in by a preset processing manner. N is larger than or equal to 1. By the method, the valued plug-in can be avoided effectively, transaction outlet is blocked, the plug-in behavior during the network game playing can be reduced and even eliminated, and thus, fairness and security of the network games are maintained.

A method or system or apparatus provides improved data handling. In one aspect, destination scheduling is performed by scheduling polling rather than scheduling data emissions. In particular aspects, a scheduler assigns a weight and sequence number to each destination and tracks a port segment count and schedules polling of ports using these parameters.

A dynamic bandwidth allocation method with a punishment mechanism applicable in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) is provided. The method utilizes GATE message, report message format, and different data types of a multipoint control protocol (MPCP) to order various queues to make the queues have priority and transmit them sequentially in transmission. Meanwhile, the method can fairly allocate the bandwidth and reduce the delay time of queue according to an appropriately designed punishment mechanism and bandwidth allocation principle, so as to fulfill the requirements of Quality of Service (QoS).

A game management method is for executing a competition game among a plurality of client terminal devices. Players are identified before the start of the game. If an occurrence of an unusual end of the game is judged during the game, it is judged whether or not the unusual end is an unauthorized end of the game due to an unauthorized operation by the player and it is judged whether or not a penalty is to be given to the player having ended the game in an unauthorized manner. By judging with high accuracy whether or not the unusual end of the game was caused by the unauthorized operation by the player, unauthorized operations of players are suppressed and fairness is better maintained among honest players.

A router for performing queue management for packet transmission is provided, which includes a first storage unit for storing and outputting packets input to request transmission from a source device to a destination device; a second storage unit for storing information on the packets stored in the first storage unit; and a packet-processing determination unit for determining whether the input packets are to be stored in the first storage unit, based on whether there is a available storage capacity in the first storage unit, and updating information on the packets into the second storage unit.