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Methods and systems can provide for unified processing of merchant transactions over various payment channels over which the transactions originate, such as in-person retail transactions and e-commerce transactions. For example, transactions can be received from payment channels through different payment channel-specific interfaces. The transactions from the various payment channels can then be sent to an entry point module that centrally manages the transactions. An orchestrator can then identify payment channel-agnostic transaction services to be applied to the transactions. This can allow for a unified end-to-end encryption implementation across a merchant's enterprise, reducing management costs and improving overall security. Similarly, universal tokenization services, payment and fraud management can be provided across a merchant's entire enterprise.

Disclosed is a novel system and process for presenting a customized chatbot. The transaction in one example is a sales transactions. Information is retrieved that is associated with the user or customer. The information includes demographic information of the user or behavioral information of the first party, or a combination of both. A chatbot is presented on the system of the user as of a messaging window of a web page document of an entity selling a good or a service. The messaging window is customized to the end user based on the demographic information of the first party, or the behavioral information of the first party or a combination of both. The messaging window is customized to include one or more of an initial greeting, an appearance of the messaging window, and a picture of an agent.

Disclosed is a novel system and process for launching a messaging window such as a chat bot, especially in a mobile platforms such a smart phones and tablets. The process begins with displaying a web page with webpage contents in a browser window with a primary top bar and a display window. In response to receiving user input to scroll the webpage contents of the browser window are scrolled in a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, or a combination thereof. Also, a secondary top bar, as a previously invisible graphical element within the webpage contents of the web page is now displayed in substantial position and with the substantially the same appearance to look like the primary the top bar. In response to receiving user input in the vicinity of the secondary top bar, the system triggers a presentation of a messaging window or chat window.

The present system comprises a transmitting apparatus for digital broadcast which includes an original signal generating section, delaying section, information amount reducing section, and transmitting section. A receiving and reproducing apparatus for digital broadcast includes a signal reception front stage unit for receiving a high quality signal and a low quality signal, mode determining section and reproducing section composed of a delaying section and selecting section for selectively reproducing the high quality signal and the low quality signal. By employing time diversity, the transmitting apparatus sends the low quality signal having a smaller bandwidth and the high quality signal so that the low quality signal has a preceding time lag relative to the high quality signal, and the receiving apparatus reproduces broadcasting programs. Utilizing the frequency band for broadcast effectively, many broadcasting programs can be increased, and the investment for providing a gap filler can be minimized.

The invention discloses a method based on multilevel filtering face recognition. The method comprises the following steps of: collecting a face image of a detected man through an image collection system on a user terminal; automatically detecting and partitioning an exact position of a face from the collected face image by a face detection and positioning system, and performing intelligent indication and image quality real-time monitoring on a face image collection process through an automatic and real-time face image quality detection system; extracting characteristic points from the face image of the user terminal according to an image quality detection threshold value, and generating corresponding target face templates; and performing real-time comparison on a face to be recognized which is detected by a client and a known face database based on a multilevel filter searching algorithm through a background server, finding out the face template having the highest matching score, judging according to a preset threshold value of the system and determining identity information of the shot man in real time. The invention also provides an intelligent identity recognition and safety monitoring system based on a multilevel face filtering and searching technology with high reliability and flexibility.

A system that facilitates opening of a bank account by banking personnel for a customer. The account opening system includes an automatic rate determination feature that uses customer information, account information and other criteria to determine an account interest rate. The rate determination system may also mediate rate negotiation between a personal banker and the customer by limiting the increase in rate awarded by the personal banker. An auditing system assigns numbers to a series of profiles, each describing a request to open an account. Profiles to be audited are determined by generating random numbers that fall within the range of assigned profile numbers. Random number generation is repeated until a threshold percentage of profiles have been selected for auditing. The account opening system includes a system for tracking the progress of the account application and for organizing information recorded by the personal banker during interactions with the customer.

A method, system, computer program product, and data structure for trading in which a standardized contract is traded. The contract obligates a buyer and a seller to settle the contract based on a price of the contract at a first effective date. The contract is traded through an exchange that guarantees payment to the buyer of any amount owed to the buyer from the seller as a result of the contract and that guarantees payment to the seller of any amount owed to the seller from the buyer as a result of the contract. The price of the contract is determined based on preselected notional cash flows discounted by at least one point on an interest rate swap curve obtained from a preselected swap rate source.

In one aspect, the invention is a system and method for improving vehicle operating conditions through the monitoring and adjustment of tire pressure in response to changing conditions. The system improves commercial vehicle productivity by reducing tire and fuel expenses, improving traction when needed, and reducing tire-induced shock-load damage to the vehicle axles and chassis. In another aspect, the invention is a tire management system, comprised of a tire inflation and deflation system positioned onboard said vehicle and operationally controlled by an onboard microprocessor-based control unit or by a remote centralized control-unit.

The invention discloses an intelligent parking induction system and a method. The intelligent parking induction system comprises an information collection system, a communication network, a central control system, an Internet and a user terminal, wherein the information collection system is connected with the central control system by the communication network, and the central control system is connected with the user terminal by the Internet. By adopting the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the use rate of a parking lot can be greatly enhanced, the traffic jam of a city is reduced, the wastage of parking resources is avoided, and the management cost is lowered; and moreover, the satisfaction degree of a user can be enhanced, and a positive action is provided for improving the traffic condition of the city and the service level of a parking lot industry.

The invention discloses an intelligent inspection system and an inspection method for an electric transmission line by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The intelligent inspection system comprises an inspection mission planning system, a dispatching system, a monitoring system, an inspection result processing platform and mobile branch stations, wherein the inspection mission planning system communicates with the inspection result processing platform and the dispatching system respectively; the inspection result processing platform and the dispatching system communicates with the monitoring system respectively; the monitoring system is connected and communicate with the mobile branch stations. The inspection method has the benefits that factors of the inspection unmanned aerial vehicle, inspection equipment, an inspector, and the like accessing the dispatching platform through a dispatching terminal can be dispatched effectively to realize equipped configuration of unmanned aerial vehicle inspection resource; the usage rates of personnel and equipment can be improved; the no-load rate and vacancy rate of the inspection equipment are reduced; through centralized monitoring of condition information inspected by the unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle inspection dispatching personnel can master unmanned aerial vehicle inspection in the large effectively; the service life of the unmanned aerial vehicle is prolonged.

An apparatus for electrocardiogram measurement including a first non-conductive pad. A first and second electrode are disposed on the first non-conductive pad. The first electrode represents any one of V4, V5, or V6 and the second electrode is either (i) positioned on the subject below the first electrode in order to represent left leg (LL) or (ii) is placed on a line on the subject defined by the V4, V5, and V6 precordial positions in order to represent any one of V4, V5, or V6 not represented by the first electrode. The apparatus includes a second non-conductive pad. A third electrode is disposed on the second non-conductive pad. The third electrode is a right arm (RA) electrode that is for positioning at a position that is on or close to the right arm of the subject. Each electrode is adapted for electrical connection with the skin in order to receive and transmit electrical impulses. The apparatus further includes an electrical connection that connects each electrode disposed on the first and second non-conductive pads to an electrocardiological measuring apparatus. The electrocardiological measuring apparatus is capable of measuring a first lead and a different second lead without user intervention.

Methods and apparatus for storing and reviewing wound data are shown using a digital datasheet, or wound electronic medical record (WEMR). The WEMR is preferably presented via a single page containing all data that should be considered by a wound healing provider, as predetermined by protocol. This includes, but is not limited to, fields for: a digital photograph of the wound; a graph of the wound healing rate (length, width, depth and area over time); wound and other treatments including current systemic medications, along with a patient identifier and review / approval indicator. This may also include hematology and chemistry laboratory data; radiology and pathology images along with their associated reports; ambulation status and other history; and microbiology data including sensitivities. The WEMR is implemented via a wound database system, which includes templates and policies for rapid report generation and tools for protocol mapping. A particular WEMR page may be designed for electronic or paper review and approval by a treating physician, thus permitting comprehensive but efficient review of all relevant wound data, whether for a personal or remote consult, real-time or otherwise. When teaching or doing studies, patient identifier information can be masked while still enabling review of large but detailed data sets for a variety of wound and patient criteria.

The invention provides an application releasing method. The method comprises the following steps: user requests sent by a client side are received, the user requests comprise a uniform resource locator requiring to access; the user request information is processed according to the user request information and application configuration information obtained from a configuration server, and the processing comprises the following steps: if a present user accords with the conditions of entering a gray release version, the uniform resource locator required by the present user is rewritten; and the processed uniform resource locator is transmitted to an application, and the version in which the present user enters is confirmed by the application according to the processed uniform resource locator and configuration information of the application. The invention further provides an application releasing system for achieving the application releasing method. According to the application releasing method and the application releasing system, uniform control and management to application gray level releasing are achieved, and time and cost of the application gray level releasing are saved.

Methods and apparatus for efficiently writing data to and reading data from multi-state memory cells. According to one aspect of the present invention, a memory system includes a first storage element, a data source, a first element, a second element, and a ripple clock. The data source provides a plurality of bits to be stored in the first storage element, and the first element receives a first bit from the data source, and also clocks the first bit into the second element. The first element then receives a second bit of the plurality of bits from the data source substantially while the first bit is being stored into the first storage element. The ripple clock enables access to the first element and the second element such that the first bit and the second bit may be pipelined.

The invention relates to a cold-chain logistics management system which comprises a monitoring center system and a vehicle-mounted intelligent terminal, wherein the monitoring center system and the vehicle-mounted intelligent terminal are linked with Internet through a GPRS network; an architecture of the monitoring center system is based on the B / S application mode, and the monitoring center system is provided with a server and connected with a client through a communication network; and the vehicle-mounted intelligent terminal transmits collected vehicle driving information to the monitoring center system, the server carries out background processing and provides the information for a system user, the system user emits a command through an IE browser of the client, and the command is sent to the vehicle-mounted intelligent terminal through the GPRS network, thereby realizing the dispatch of a task, the scheduling and the management work of vehicles. The cold-chain logistics management system can coordinate communication and business transactions between multiple enterprises and units in the cold-chain logistics industry, lead a manufacturer and a logistics enterprise to share business records and detected data, realize queries according to roles and levels, lead the manufacturer to well protect products thereof and lead the logistics enterprise to enhance the management and improve the working quality.

The invention provides an intelligent parking lot management system which comprises an entrance and exit management and charging system, a location and navigation system, a parking stall control system, a data communication system, a data service system, an administrative client system and a network function service system. The invention also provides an intelligent parking lot management method which comprises car entrance / exit management, client return and car-search management and car location and navigation methods. According to the invention, intelligent parking lot management automation can be realized, and a parking lot can be managed highly efficiently and accurately. Thus, costs of manpower and material resources are saved greatly.

The invention discloses a building method of a digital copyright tracing system based on a block chain and a cloud platform. The method comprises the following steps: designing a general framework of the digital copyright tracing system based on the block chain and the cloud platform; building a block chain consensus mechanism, wherein nodes in the block chain reach a consistent consensus on the aspects of node reliability and data real-time performance; designing a digital content storage way based on the block chain and the cloud platform, wherein the block chain stores a Hash function value formed after dimension reducing processing of digital content, and the cloud platform saves digital content on which a digital content producer performs a digital signature with a private key; building a digital content transaction platform based on the block chain to perform a registration transaction and an authentication transaction of the digital content; and building a digital content copyright tracing model, and performing tracing by using a chain-style relation of a Hash chain in the block chain. Through adoption of the method, safe and effective propagation of digital products can be realized, and the problem that digital content copyrights cannot be traced is solved.

The invention discloses a wireless network slice based resource management method, and relates to the technical field of an access network of wireless communication technologies. The resource management method specifically comprises the steps that the current network is divided into a plurality of different wireless network slices according to characteristics of all access services in the current network; a centralized upper layer wireless resource manager allocates a special second-layer wireless resource manager for each slice according to a transmission mode, resource demand conditions and service performance indexes in each slice and performs centralized resource allocation, each second-layer wireless resource manager is responsible for monitoring service operating conditions and resource utilization conditions inside each slice in the running process of the network, and meanwhile, resource adjustment among the slices is performed through distributed interfaces so as to meet dynamic changes of the service performance. According to the invention, a centralized and distributed combined two-layer resource allocation method is adopted, available resources are allocated for the slices in a centralized mode so as to reduce the complexity of resource allocation, and meanwhile, distributed resource coordination among the slices reduces the resource management cost.

To analyze traffic at an application level, a stream according to TCP or SCTP is required to be reconstructed and to be analyzed. When a packet is transferred to analyzing equipment using a port mirroring function with which a router and a switch are provided, transferred traffic volume increases and exceeds the throughput of the analyzing equipment. As only a part of packets configuring a stream is transferred to the analyzing equipment in transfer to the analyzing equipment using a packet sampling function, analysis at the application level is impossible. To solve the problem, when a packet communication unit recognizes a stream start packet, samples a stream initiated by the packet on a condition and at a rate respectively determined beforehand and generates a condition for copying the packet based upon information of both ends of the stream included in the packet, packets sampled in units of stream can be transferred to the analyzing equipment.

An interactive geospatial data provisioning application presents a graphical user interface operable to present a map of geographic regions and corresponding geospatial data sets available. The user selects the area of interest by panning and zooming over the mapped regions corresponding to the available geospatial data sets. The application identifies geospatial data sets within the area of interest. By analyzing the attributes available in the identified geospatial data sets, the geospatial data application determines the operations applicable to the data sets. A set of transformation rules computes the operations available for a particular selection of geospatial data sets. The application presents the available operations, and the user select the geospatial data operations to apply from among the available operations. The geospatial data application applies the selected operations to the identified geospatial data sets to generate the resulting output geospatial data set, or product, for rendering on a user output display.

The invention provides both interfaces of SAN and NAS, prevents data miss even when a trouble occurs and makes it possible that an arbitrary number of NAS interfaces access the same file system with high performance. A storage system includes multiple interfaces for external connection, multiple disks accessed from multiple interfaces, and a shared memory accessed from multiple interfaces. The multiple interfaces are block interfaces executing disk block I / O request, and file interfaces of file servers executing file I / O request. A file system in the file servers is constructed in a part of the disks, and a log storage area holding change log of the file system, and a management file server information storage area holding information of managing file server performing exclusive access control of file system and management of log storage area are formed in the shared memory.

In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a novel method, system, process, and computer program is provided that synthetically replicates a plain vanilla IR Swap through a future as well as to create a more fungible interest rate swap in the spot market. The forward start interest rate swaps of the present invention consist of a consecutive series of futures that value a forward start interest rate swap to start on a settlement date. The futures replicate the floating-rate payment terms for the interest rate swap that is being synthetically replicated. The spot interest rate swap is a standardized interest rate swap that is fungible.

A system and method of problem determination and resolution utilizes enhanced problem classification, and effectively categorizes any problem a user experiences by leveraging all available data to recognize the specific problem. Historical problem data is labeled with the cause of that problem and is analyzed to learn problem patterns. The historical problem data is classified into a predefined hierarchical structure of taxonomies by using an incremental online learning algorithm. The hierarchical structure and learned patterns are utilized to recognize problems and generate the root cause of the problem when given a new set of monitoring data and log data.

The invention discloses an intelligent water resource control platform based on cloud computing and an expert system. The platform comprises a site measurement and control station, an internet of things data transmission system and a cloud computing service platform, and is characterized in that the control platform carries out automatic real-time collection on water resource information of a water supply water source, underground water, a water intake, a boundary control fracture surface and a sewage draining exit and site equipment operating condition information through the site measurement and control station, and real-time data preprocessing is achieved by means of an additionally installed site intelligent controller; internet of things data transmission equipment is adopted in the internet of things data transmission system to sent data of the measurement and control station to the cloud computing platform, and data support is provided for water resource management and advanced applications; the cloud computing service platform achieves real-time monitoring on water resources, monitoring on operating condition and remote on-line maintenance on site monitoring equipment and applications on water resource service, and a water resource decision is utilized to support the expert system to achieve assessment, early warning and emergency commanding of the water resources. The cloud computing and the Internet of things technology are applied to the platform, so measurement and control data are timely and efficiently processed, the intelligent computing technology is applied so that intelligent assessment and early warning of the water resources can be achieved, and safety of the water resources is guaranteed to a great extent.

The invention discloses a management system used for locating and tracking of areas inside and outside a prison, and belongs to an area locating system. The management system comprises a UWB locating subsystem, an RFID locating subsystem, a door control system, a terminal identification device and an application management server. The application management server is used for running locating and tracking platform software which is mainly used for calculating the current position of the terminal identification device according to the time when UWB label signals reach UWB locating base stations, a unique identification ID of RFID electronic labels and the number of an antenna; through the combination of the UWB locating method and the RFID identification locating method, the terminal identification device simultaneously integrating UWB and RFID can arbitrarily switch between indoor locating and outdoor locating and get located, and therefore locating management to prisoners is convenient; by the utilization of the characteristics of UWB locating and the characteristics of RFID identification locating, the locating precision of the effective areas is controlled to be within 30cm. Meanwhile, the management system is simple in structure, can also be used in other places which are the same with the prison in requirement, and is wide in application range.

The invention discloses a patrolling result data processing system and method used for unmanned aerial vehicle patrolling. The system comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle, a plurality of ground monitoring stations and a patrolling result processing platform, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is used for patrolling a power transmission line, shooting image information of the power transmission line and transmitting the image information to the ground monitoring stations; the ground monitoring stations are used for communicating with the unmanned aerial vehicle, reading flight state data and patrolling result data of the unmanned aerial vehicle and sending the collected information to the patrolling result processing platform; the patrolling result processing platform is used for reading the flight state information and the patrolling result data of the unmanned aerial vehicle from the ground monitoring stations, and carrying out defect diagnosis on the patrolling result data and carrying out CRUD and playing management on defects diagnosed through defect diagnosis. Image defect identification information and image files are stored separately, corresponding defect information is associated with images during defect displaying, and positions, annotation or instructions and the like of the defects of the power transmission line in a patrolled image are displayed, so that efficient and quick processing of the patrolling result data of the unmanned aerial vehicle is achieved.

The invention discloses an intelligent luggage barrow of an airport. The intelligent luggage barrow is characterized in comprising a main body frame, a control panel, a deep visual identification device, a control box and a chassis driving device, wherein the main body frame comprises a luggage load bearing device and a functional frame; the functional frame comprises two supporting rods and an advertising space panel arranged between the two supporting rods; a small part luggage frame is arranged between the supporting rods on the top; two sides of the top end of each supporting rod are provided with panel supporting frames; the control panel is embedded into the panel supporting frames on two sides and is fixed by bolts; the deep visual identification device is fixed on a rear plate of the small part luggage frame; the chassis driving device is arranged on a wheel axle, and the supporting rods above the chassis driving device are riveted with the control box; a control system is integrated in the control box. According to the intelligent luggage barrow, functions including autonomous navigation, intelligent following, voice interaction, service consultation, on-line entertainment, convenient shopping, automatic weighting, forbidden article detection, automatic conversation, one-key recovery, kid missing prevention, automatic printing of boarding checks and the like are combined, and the intelligent luggage barrow of the airport can lead intelligent, fashionable, relaxed and convenient brand-new airport service experience.

The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for a card payment instrument providing that a share of program profits above a pre-designated level is returned to participating recipients at pre-designated intervals such as annually. Participants respond to an offer to participate in the mutual benefit program. After admission to the program, the card issuer tracks the performance according to the desired performance metric for the participants. At certain intervals, such as yearly, the card issuer reports out the financial performance for the period. If the performance exceeded the pre-designated threshold performance, then returns are distributed to participants according to a share methodology. The share methodology can provide that returns are allocated among participants according to various criteria, such as based on non-financial criteria including: periods of inactivity and financial criteria including: spending volume, finance charges, and so forth.

An Internet on-line insurance policy service system that facilitates real-time automated communication of policy information, adjustment of policy parameters, calculation and communication of resulting policy quotes, and implementation of policy changes, while obviating insurer personnel involvement and supervision of the communication. The system comprises a plurality of software modules relating to on-line real-time communication of existing policy information, testing of a wide range of variations in policy parameters, computing and communicating changes in policy premiums that would result from such variations, communicating desired changes in policy parameters and implementing desired policy changes. Other modules relate to communication of claims information and the providing of on-line forms.

The invention disclose a micro-emulsification type stainless steel cutting fluid belonging to metal-cutting lubricant technical field to solve the problems that the existing cutting fluid can not be commendably used in cutting process of stainless steel and can endanger the health of the workers. The micro-emulsification type stainless steel cutting fluid comprises 20-40 wt% water, 5-20 wt% paraffin base mineral oil or naphthenic base mineral oil, 1-15 wt% non-ionic surfactant of alkyl phenol polyoxyethylene ether or fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether, 5-10 wt% chloroparaffin, 1-10 wt% petroleum sodium sulphonate and hardship or alkenyl succinic acid rust preventive, 5-25 wt% mixing alkyol amine of mono ethanolamine and trieanolamine, 5-15 wt% oleic acid, 2-10 wt% polyatomic alcohol lauric acid ester or polyatomic alcohol oleic acid ester, 0.1-0.5 wt%.benzotriazole, and 0.1-0.5 wt% methyl silicone oil anti-foam agent. The micro-emulsification type stainless steel cutting fluid is specially used in the cutting process of the stainless steel.