100 results about "Application service provision" patented technology

A system and a method for developing Internet-hosted business applications composed of web services and software for use in such environments where applications and application components interoperate to perform requested business functions. The system and method of the present invention utilize a software development application services provider module (DASP), an Instantiatior module, a Builder module, an Applications Service Provider (ASP) Infrastructure Platform (AIP) module, and a hosted production environment module. The system and method of the present invention seeks to maximize the use of prior work to eliminate repetition and reduce development cost and development time. With each new project the library and experience increases. The system and method of the present invention can use developers and testers situated in diverse locations so that a larger pool of skilled people can be employed, the work can be done around the clock by using people all over the globe, and the costs can be reduced by directing work to people in countries with lower labor rates. The system and method of the present invention increases efficiencies and reduces costs to all parties by partnering the developers with third parties who are brought in at the beginning of development.

The invention discloses a user portrait construction method. The method comprises the following steps: first crawling various data of an internet through distributed crawlers, and fusing and getting through to form a mass knowledge base; obtaining internet surfing logs and matching the internet surfing logs with the knowledge base to generate user base labels; constructing user attribute labels by combining the specific customer relation management (CRM) data and geographic position data of telecom operators; and carrying out weight and attenuation factor processing on the label data to generate user base portraits, and generating user portraits which accord with the industry applications and externally providing services by combining the characteristics of the industry users and the personalized data mining of the industry costumer data. The method has the advantages of providing accurate whole network user portraits for the customers, fully utilizing the internet data and providing convenience for the application services such as user analysis, product recommendation and accurate marketing.

A residential access node (RAN) running a RAN platform 112 which includes means for interfacing a plurality of peripheral equipment such as analog (POTS) phones 114, standard televisions 116, computers 118, IP telephones 120, and high definition televisions 122 to a packet data network 100. The Network Access Provider RAN platform 124 manages sessions among Customer Premises RAN platforms 112 and Application Service Provider RAN platforms 110 over high bandwidth connections. The Customer Premises RAN platform 112 also determines the number and type of data packets entering or departing via the packet data network 100. Such an architecture allows for the efficient transfer of services (data content) from Application Service Providers to individual network access subscribers by seamlessly accommodating various data types and providing an integrated metering and billing mechanism managed by the Network Access Provider.

The invention disclosed here is aimed at enabling a trusted third party to manage user opt-ins which would enable growth of personalized information services, that is, enabling trusted business relationships between three types of entities—an end-user, an information source / provider, and an application service provider / developer—so that they can have a controlled, secure and private exchange of sensitive and / or confidential information. The inventive system has modes of operation recommended based on various conditions, enabling a secure exchange of private information between personal information repository owners and application services providers to enable deliver of personalized services. One mode is Durable Subscription Management, which is used when per transaction approval is not needed, that is, when an end-user has given permission to access data for a given or predefined period of time. A second mode is Per-Transaction Subscription Management Without Logs and a third mode is Per-Transaction Subscription Management With Logs.

The invention provides an OpenFlow network flow control method for the QoS assurance of an application. The OpenFlow network flow control method comprises the following steps that: a user requests a service from a server; the server sends a QoS request message to an SDN controller; after receiving the message, the controller calculates an optimal transmission path for the server according to a network resource use condition and reserves a resource; and simultaneously, the transmission state and the network link condition of the server are monitored when the server transmits a QoS data flow, such that a QoS flow is transmitted reliably and stably. A required network resource is provided for an application service by strictly assuring the QoS transmission of the application service and utilizing the service difference to network resource requirements; therefore, the QoS of the application is effectively ensured; and simultaneously, the network resource is utilized effectively.

The invention concerns a method and apparatus for facilitating the provision of health care services using, for example, an application service provider. One embodiment of the invention concerns a physiological testing unit, a RFID tag and a RFID transceiver. The RFID tag communicates with the RFID transceiver. In response, a determination is made regarding whether the physiological testing unit is to be enabled to process physiological data of a patient. If the physiological testing unit is to be so enabled, the physiological testing unit is enabled to process the physiological data of the patient.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to application-service provision by application-service-provider centers to remote application-service consumers, including small businesses, medium-sized businesses, and other similarly-sized institutions and organizations, as well as to users of individual computers, such as home computers. Rather than executing applications at an application-service-provider center, the applications are instead distributed to remote client sites for execution by virtual machines controlled and managed by an application-service-provider center. Execution of the applications by virtual machines at remote client sites alleviates constraints and bottlenecks associated with communications between client computers and remotely executing applications, while providing management capabilities and security that allow the application-service center to manage application execution as if the remotely executing applications were executing within the application-service center.

Successor versions of an application service provision runtime library of an application service provision apparatus are provided with corresponding update services to facilitate upgrade of applications to selected ones of the successor versions on request. In various embodiments, a dispatcher of the application service provision apparatus is provided with complementary functions to coordinate the servicing of the upgrade requests. In some embodiments, each of the update services is equipped to upgrade the application from an immediate predecessor version of the runtime library. In other embodiments, each of the update services is equipped to upgrade the application from any predecessor version of the runtime library.

A system and method for providing video and / or audio on-on demand service to owners of video and / or audio program rights for offering digital versions of those programs to web site visitors. The method or system is an Application Service Provider (ASP) model, whereby the services are provided to the video and / or audio owners over the World Wide Web and where no specifics software need reside with the video and / or audio owners. Video and / or audio programs from the owners, once converted to an appropriate digital form, are streamed over the Internet or other IP networks for viewing in real-time direct from a remote device having video and / or audio servers that store the digital programs by viewers who have purchased the right to view them. Customizable metadata is utilized to thematically and contextually identify the digital file. This metadata is searchable by a person seeking digital files for download. E-commerce transaction processing is provided on behalf of the video and / or audio owner, and revenue is appropriately conveyed to the owner and / or the web site.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a method and apparatus for integration of radiology information into an Application Server Provider DICOM Image Archive and / or Web Based Viewer. A preferred embodiment includes a medical information source that includes medical information in a medical information format, a medical image source that includes medical images in a medical image format, a data center for storing medical images and medical information in at least one format, and an interface for transmitting images and medical information between the medical information source and the medical image source and the data center. In a preferred embodiment, the interface simultaneously transmits both medical images and medical information in different formats.

Some embodiments include a method of operating an avatar server. The method can include implementing an application service avatar in an avatar server that has at least an intermittent network access to an application service server for providing an application service to client applications. The avatar server can establish a service group by maintaining profiles of one or more end-user devices connected to the avatar server to access the application service. The avatar server can provide a localized application service by emulating at least a subset of functionalities provided by the application service to the end-user devices, for example, by locally processing, at least partially, a service request from at least one of the end-user devices at the avatar server. The avatar server can asynchronously communicate with the application service server to complete the service request.

An electronic education service module identifies a target education topic for a user and obtains user profile information associated with the user from a database communicatively coupled to the electronic education service. A plurality of tasks to provide the target education topic are identified based on the identified target education topic and the obtained user profile information. Execution of actions by application service providing modules, other than the electronic education service, to carry out the identified tasks is requested to provide the target education topic to the user.

The present technique involves remote processing and comparison of medical diagnostic images obtained over a period of time. A remote processing system is provided to match and subtract the medical diagnostic images, which may be received from users and gathered from remote image storage systems. Users are able to interact with the remote processing system through uniform interfaces, which may be disposed at medical institutions to provide platform independent interaction with, and remote processing by, the remote processing system. The technique also uses compression routines to facilitate network transfers of images between the uniform interface and the remote processing system.

Techniques are provided for use in accordance with relates to computing utilities. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a method for use in a computing utility, wherein the computing utility comprises a plurality of application service provider systems and a utility controller, and each application service provider system comprising an application controller, comprises the following steps. An application request to one of the plurality of application service provider systems is obtained. Then, in response to the application request, at least one of: (i) the application controller of the application service provider system to which the application request is directed computes a value of a business metric associated with a resource action; and (ii) the utility controller computes a value of a business metric associated with a resource action.

An application service provision apparatus is provided with one or more components to perform a dispatching and a shared resource monitoring function to allow applications be hosted with multiple versions of a hosting service runtime library in a more efficient manner. The dispatching function, upon receipt of a request for service for an application, determines if the version of the runtime library required is known. If not, the dispatching function turns to the latest version of the runtime library to determine the version required. In one embodiment, the required earlier versions are loaded only on an as needed basis. The shared resource monitoring function, upon detecting aggregated allocation of a shared resource reaching a pre-determined threshold, requests consumers of the shared resource to provide tracked last used times of their allocations. In response, the monitoring function selects a number of the allocations for release, and instructed the shared resource consumers accordingly.

A lock administration system for self-powered locks is provided. The system comprises an ASP (application service provider) server operationally connected to the Internet and configured to store lock system related information, at least one client module configured to control the generating of shared secrets for encrypting and decrypting, and the generating and the encrypting of lock access data packets using a token, transmit the data packets to the ASP server using public networks, receive an encrypted status packet from the ASP server using public networks, control the decrypting of the status packet and send information regarding the decrypt status packet to the ASP server using public networks and at least one lock configured to receive data packets from the ASP server via public networks, decrypt the data packets and send an encrypted status packet to the ASP server using public networks.

An electronic arranger is provided to a user that receives a request to arrange an event from the user. Additional information related to the user and / or the event is obtained by prompting the user for the additional information and / or obtaining the additional information from a database communicatively coupled to the electronic arranger. A plurality of tasks needed to arrange the event are identified based on the request to arrange an event and the obtained additional information. Providers are selected for the identified tasks and execution of actions by application service providing modules associated with the selected providers that are communicatively coupled to the electronic arranger are requested to carry out the identified tasks.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a comprehensive energy service platform system based on distributed architecture. The system comprises an energy collection layer for colleting various energydata in real time; an intermediate layer is a fog node intermediate based on edge computation and is used for processing various energy data collected by the energy collection layer so as to obtain local fog node cooked data, and providing the cooked data to a distributed cloud center with a decentralized top layer; a top layer cloud center performs aggregation processing according to a clustering rule to obtain aggregated data, and provides support for mass data high-speed and high-concurrence access and micro application service. The scheme disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can realize the following conditions: fog node self-creation system based on edge computation, and in-place application; and meanwhile, the decentralized distributed cloud center performs cluster collection and full-network N+1 synchronous backup, and provides cloud fog system mass data nearby fast response and concurrence access.

The invention relates to an intelligent service shop application method and relates to an application method for the Internet of Things. The intelligent service shop application method includes the steps of synthesizing various information resources and establishing four virtual platforms and a management support system. The four virtual platforms include a virtual heterogeneous terminal platform, a broadband ubiquitous network platform, a virtual information integration platform and a virtual service synthesizing platform, wherein the virtual heterogeneous terminal platform interacts with humans and things directly and acquires, outputs and displays information of the Internet of Things by means of different information input or output equipment; the broadband ubiquitous network platform organizes bottom information resources acquired by the virtual heterogeneous terminal platform for providing virtual information fundamental structure for the upper structure; the virtual information integration platform acquires and organizes various open information and integrates information for providing wide information foundation for various application services by means of classifying, adapting and mediation; and the virtual service synthesizing platform provides various information and services by means of information integrated by a virtual information synthesizing platform. The management support system for intelligent service shops comprises a service operating system and a safety assurance system. The four virtual platforms build an integrated and open service environment.

The invention analyzes relationships between factors, within a patient population, to identify autonomic dysfunction patterns. Patient test results are then compared with the identified patterns to determine the patient's autonomic function. The invention can continually amend the patient population with new test results to create increasingly accurate normative data sets from which a patient's autonomic function can be more accurately assessed. The invention may apply this concept in an application service provider model. An embodiment of the invention may use a novel method of identifying ECG R-waves. The method locates R-waves by searching for maximum slope values, in signals, that exceed threshold values. Another embodiment of the invention entails a non-provocative HRV test whereby certain time domain and frequency domain factors are analyzed to determine a patient's autonomic function.

A flow diagnostic system (100) for a flow sensing element and impulse line (104). A pressure transmitter (102) coupled to the impulse lines (104) provides digital pressure data to a control system (112). The control system (112) provides the pressure data and real time clock readings to a diagnostic application (130,132 or 134). The diagnostic application (130,132 or 134) calculates a difference between current pressure data and its moving average. A condition of the primary element or impulse lines is diagnosed from a current pressure data set relative to an historical data set. The application can run on the control system (112), a remote computer (122) or an ASP application service provider (126).

The invention discloses a real-time data updating method, device and system, which relates to the field of computers. The method comprises the steps that real-time data provided by an application service are acquired; for each designated object of the application service to which each first subscriber is directed, the real-time data of each designated object are extracted from the real-time data; according to the real-time data of each designated object, a real-time data message is sent to each corresponding first subscriber; the first subscriber forwards the real-time data message to a client corresponding to the subscriber through long connection; and the client carries out rendering demonstration according to the real-time data message. According to the invention, the number of states, which is maintained on the server side, of the each client is reduced, and the real-time data message is pushed; the resource consumption of the server is reduced; the client side can acquire new real-time data without frequent refreshing; and the resource consumption of the client is reduced.

A device management apparatus for a home network system includes: a local device manager for controlling and managing device initialization, software maintenance, device status monitoring and device event alarm management for adaptive middleware devices in the home network system; and a local device agent for performing device initialization, software maintenance, device status monitoring and device event alarm management for each adoptive middleware device under control and management of the local device manager. The local device manager provides a Universal Middleware Bridge (UMB) device to the adaptive middleware device or application service in a form of a Virtual Device Type (VDT) device.

The invention discloses a content-network-linked dual acceleration method. The method comprises the following steps that: a content acceleration service is provided for an application service selected by a user by a CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) node server; a network acceleration request aiming to the application service selected by the user is sent to a strategy control server by the CNC node server; a network acceleration strategy aiming to the application service selected by the user is sent to a network service control device after the network acceleration request is received by the strategy control server; and the content acceleration service is provided by the network service control device for the application service selected by the user after the network acceleration strategy is received by the network service control device. The invention further discloses a content-network-linked dual acceleration system. According to the content-network-linked dual acceleration method and the content-network-linked dual acceleration system, the linkage and the cooperation between the network and the content can be realized, the service supplying and capacity guaranteeing of an operator can be effectively improved, and the user service experience is improved.

The invention discloses a satellite ground station monitoring and management architecture based on micro-service, and the architecture comprises an application layer which is used for providing various applications, completing the creation and management of ground tasks, monitoring and real-time alarm of equipment, checking the execution state of the tasks, completing the system configuration management, data query and maintenance, and carrying out the statistics of the operation condition of a ground station; a gateway layer which is used for providing load balancing coordination and data forwarding functions of a unified access server for the outside; and a service layer which is packaged by various basic service application interface API components required for completing system services, is used for providing service component support for application services, and performs management on each service function. Different development environments can be configured among the services in the micro-services, the development speed is high, deployment is simple, the product online speed can be increased, and good expansibility is achieved.

The invention provides a middleware system for interactive value-added service based on an IP set-top box. A first application layer comprises a signaling service control module and an apolegamic functional module; the signaling service control module provides reversible transmission protocols for information transmission and communication service, and the apolegamic functional module provides functional support for application service. A second application layer builds and processes the messages of the interactive application service; the messages include a message head and a message body; the message head contains message type information, session attribute information and at least one of the following information: equipment attribute information, capacity description information and auxiliary parameter information; the message body includes service logic and / or service content of the application service. A dynamic scalable interface description layer comprises an interface for the second application layer to access to the first application layer. The second application layer acquires corresponding functional supports of the application service from the signaling service control module and the functional module. The invention in addition provides a relevant method.