1198 results about "Co operative" patented technology

A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the same media are used with platforms having higher security capabilities. A control object (or set) defines plural rights management rules for instance, price for performance or rules governing redistribution. Low capability platforms may enable only a subset of the control rules such as controls on copying or marking of played material. Higher capability platforms may enable all (or different subsets) of the rules. Cryptographically strong security is provided by encrypting at least some of the information carried by the media and enabling decryption based on the control set and / or other limitations. A secure "software container" can be used to protectively encapsulate (e.g., by cryptographic techniques) various digital property content (e.g., audio, video, game, etc.) and control object (i.e., set of rules) information. A standardized container format is provided for general use on / with various mediums and platforms. In addition, a special purpose container may be provided for DVD medium and appliances (e.g., recorders, players, etc.) that contains DVD program content (digital property) and DVD medium specific rules. The techniques, systems and methods disclosed herein are capable of achieving compatibility with other protection standards, such as for example, CGMA and Matsushita data protection standards adopted for DVDs. Cooperative rights management may also be provided, where plural networked rights management arrangements collectively control a rights management event on one or more of such arrangements.

A plurality of co-operative and complementary software programs are implemented in a web-enabled high speed computer system to remotely monitor, manage and modify the operational and functional parameters of a plurality of implanted medical devices (IMDs). The system utilizes virtual electrophysiologist module (VEM), chronic monitoring module (CMM) and prescription program module (PPM) programs to effect specific therapeutic and diagnostic methods for managing the IMDs, remotely on a conditions and real-time basis. The modules enable remote and continuous monitoring, management and maintenance of the IMDs by identifying critical medical events, determining optimal clinical settings and upgrading performance parameters based on prescriptive data. The modules are implemented in a data center having high-speed computers operating in a web-enabled environment. The modules and the IMDs communicate through wireless communications system via a programmer or an interface medical unit (IMD).

A data replication management (DRM) architecture comprising a plurality of storage cells interconnected by a fabric. Flexibility in connectivity is provided by configuring each storage cell port to the fabric to handle both host data access requests and DRM traffic. Each storage cell comprises one or more storage controllers that can be connected to the fabric in any combination. Processes executing in the storage controller find a path to a desired destination storage cell. The discovery algorithm implements a link service that exchanges information related to DRM between the storage controllers. The DRM architecture is symmetric and peer cooperative such that each controller and storage cell can function as a source and a destination of replicated data. The DRM architecture supports parallel and serial “fan-out” to multiple destinations, whereby the multiple storage cells may implement data replicas.

A sling assembly including a surgical sling configured to be implanted during a surgical sling procedure. The sling includes first and second regions and a central portion. The sling assembly further includes a removable sheath assembly situated about the surgical sling. The removable sheath assembly includes first and second upper sheaths. The first upper sheath is configured to be situated about the first region of the surgical sling, and the second upper sheath is configured to be situated about the second region of the surgical sling. The removable sheath assembly further includes a lower sheath. The lower sheath is configured to be situated about the central portion of the surgical sling and to be in cooperative association with both the first and second upper sheaths.

In a first aspect the present invention provides a screw-capped tube for holding a liquid material therein, the tube having an open mouth at one end only which is adapted to be closed by the screw cap with an inner end of the screw cap extending into the open mouth of the tube, an opposing end of the cap to the inner end of the cap being provided with a circular cylindrical recess extending thereinto and whereof the cylindrical wall of the recess is free of splines, an outer circumferential surface of the cap being provided with a spline whereby the cap is adapted to co-operatively engage with a spline of a tool that will fit on to said opposite end of the cap for rotation of the cap by co-operative engagement of the spline of the tool with the spline of the cap. This arrangement increases versatility and ease in de-capping and re-capping of the tubes. Further aspects also assist with this and / or improve seal efficiency and help to avoid the need for O ring sealing for cryogenic uses and other uses.

A medical regimen can be administered with a diagnostic and medication delivery system. In one form the system includes a medication delivery pen with a controller and a monitor for monitoring a characteristic of a bodily fluid with a controller. A case includes a compartment for removably storing the medication delivery pen and the monitor. The case includes a communications link for establishing communication between the controller of the pen and the controller of the monitor. The medication delivery pen and monitor are operable in a first mode cooperative with one another and in a second mode independent of one another.

The present invention generally relates to units of engines and more particularly to units containing a unique combined-cycle (combustion-detonation) “counter-rotation, anti-gyration, gyroscopic,” turbine fan-jet / free-piston engine configuration for induced air supercharging and boosting the performance of novel Ramjet engines or Ramjet engine configurations by improving internal air-stream dynamics. These dynamics are the result of co-operative air stream intermixing through convergent, supercharge-attenuated, inducted, compressed, tuned, pre-heated ambient air. Achieved through the varying of the geometric structural form and the utilization of unique engines and air induction and propulsion conformations, aided with supplemental air, fuel, oxygen and optiomal water and electrolyte charging.

A method and system provide for the cooperative charging of electric vehicles. By using power line communications, chargers of the electric vehicles who are serviced by the same distribution transformer can form self-contained local area networks due to the nature of power line communications (PLCs). Alternatively, or in addition to the PLCs, other communication networks, such as the Internet and local area networks, may be used as part of the communications infrastructure for the chargers. After the chargers of the electric vehicles are coupled to one another through power line communications or traditional communications networks, they can form a logical token ring network. According to this token ring network, a predetermined number of tokens can be assigned within the token ring network for permitting chargers with tokens to charge respective electric vehicles while chargers without tokens must wait until they receive a token to initiate charging.

There is provided a battery powered golf cart with selectable dual operative modes, walk-behind / ride-on modes, including three units: a drive / riding unit, a golf bag support unit, and a front caster wheel assembly. The three units are interconnected for cooperative association in the two operative modes by a bar linkage system, having two stable positions.

There is provided a battery powered golf cart with selectable dual operative modes, walk-behind / ride-on modes, including three units: a drive / riding unit, a golf bag support unit, and a front caster wheel assembly. The three units are interconnected for cooperative association in the two operative modes by a bar linkage system, having two stable positions.

The invention relates to a double-camera automatic coordination multi-target eagle eye observation system and an observation method thereof. The system comprises a hardware platform, a wide angle camera, a pan / tilt / zoom (PTZ) camera, a processor and a multi-channel video acquisition card. The observation method comprises the following steps of: calibrating two cameras to obtain an angle that a moving camera rotates and aligns with any position of the wide angle camera; detecting moving targets from the wide angel camera, and tracking and marking; selecting a target; controlling the PTZ camerato zoom and track if the target moves fast; amplifying the target if the target moves slowly; positioning interested characteristics; and secondarily amplifying and observing an interested region. The system has the advantages of low cost, simple implementation and the like, and can be widely applied to multi-target video tracking fields such as robots, intelligent transportation, video monitoring and the like.

A method detects for an event of a key of a keyboard. Key events include a make event executed when a key is depressed, a break event executed when a key is released, and a repeat event executed while a key is depressed for longer than a repeat threshold time. The touchpad is deactivated upon detection of the make event, and deactivated upon detection of the break event when not receiving input. The touchpad is reactivated immediately after a deactivation interval has elapsed. The touchpad is normally activated, and temporary deactivation is followed by reactivation.

The invention relates to a cooperative frequency spectrum perception method in a cognition wireless system. An existing cooperative frequency spectrum perception method is unable to effectively resist attracts of malicious users. The method of the invention comprises: firstly conducting the energy detection to a main user signal by each user, sending the energy detection result to a control center, reading out the creditability of each user from a user creditability data pack, and obtaining the weight parameter of each user in the cooperative perception after the normalization treatment, and comparing the local perception result with a decision threshold of a system after multiplying the local perception result with the weight parameter of the related user, if the compared result is larger, meaning that a target frequency brand is currently used by the main user, or the target frequency brand is not currently used by the main user if smaller. The method of the invention has the simplicity and the practicability of a linear cooperative perception algorithm, overcomes the weaknesses of being unable to resist malicious node attacks in the existing method, and lightens the affects of the malicious nodes to the perception performance of the whole cognition wireless system.

A magnetic fastener including a first detachable fastening member and a second detachable fastening member, said first and said second detachable fastening members respectively include a first and a second magnetic coupling surfaces which are magnetically attracted towards each other along an axial magnetic coupling direction, said magnetic fastener including guarding means adapted to resist relative lateral movements between said first and said second magnetic coupling surfaces when said first and said second fastening members are under magnetic coupling, said first and second fastening members include co-operative catching means adapted to resist disengagement of said first and second fastening members generally along said axial magnetic coupling direction when said first and second fastening members are simultaneously under magnetically coupling and subject to lateral tensions applied transversally to said axial magnetic coupling direction.

An in-space spacecraft servicing system (10) includes a servicing spacecraft (22) and a propellant module (24). The servicing spacecraft includes a client servicing system (136), as well as navigation avionics (108) for independent flight operation and a servicing propellant tank (170). The propellant module moves the servicing module from an upper stage drop off location and releases it in proximity to a client spacecraft (16) for a servicing mission. It has a propellant tank (172) with capacity for multiple missions and is used to refill the servicing spacecraft's propellant tanks between missions. Either or both the servicing spacecraft and the propellant module may have navigation avionics. The servicing spacecraft also has a universal docking adaptor (70) for different client spacecraft, and can convert a client spacecraft from non-cooperative to cooperative.

An in-space spacecraft servicing system (10) includes a servicing spacecraft (22) and a propellant module (24). The servicing spacecraft includes a client servicing system (136), as well as navigation avionics (108) for independent flight operation and a servicing propellant tank (170). The propellant module moves the servicing module from an upper stage drop off location and releases it in proximity to a client spacecraft (16) for a servicing mission. It has a propellant tank (172) with capacity for multiple missions and is used to refill the servicing spacecraft's propellant tanks between missions. Either or both the servicing spacecraft and the propellant module may have navigation avionics. The servicing spacecraft also has a universal docking adaptor (70) for different client spacecraft, and can convert a client spacecraft from non-cooperative to cooperative.

A method and system provide for the cooperative charging of electric vehicles. By using power line communications, chargers of the electric vehicles who are serviced by the same distribution transformer can form self-contained local area networks due to the nature of power line communications. After the chargers of the electric vehicles are coupled to one another through power line communications, they can form a token ring network. According to this token ring network, a predetermined number of tokens can be assigned within the token ring network for permitting chargers with tokens to charge respective electric vehicles while chargers without tokens must wait until they receive a token to initiate charging.

For cooperative transmission in a broadband wireless communication system, an apparatus and operating method of a Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a cooperative transmission REQuest (REQ) message which includes at least one of information designating a cooperative Mobile Station (MS), a pilot pattern of the cooperative MS, a variable determining a permutation pattern, and an orthogonal code of the cooperative MS, from a control station, allocating a resource of a predefined Coordinated MultiPoint transmit / receive (CoMP) zone occupying part of a frame, to at least one cooperative MS designated by the cooperative transmission REQ message, and communicating with the at least one cooperative MS according a cooperative transmission scheme using the resource of the CoMP zone.

The present invention provides a grounding bushing assembly essentially comprising a first bushing section, a second bushing section, select pivot structure, select latch structure, and select ground conductor attachment structure. The first bushing section, second bushing section, select pivot structure, select latch structure, and select ground conductor attachment structure are all preferably constructed from electrically conductive materials for allowing electric charges to migrate through the material. The first and second sections each comprise an arc length intermediate the section ends, which are lengths together function to cooperatively form an annular, dual-sectioned, grounding bushing. The resulting grounding bushing comprises an inner annular surface, an outer annular surface, a conductor inlet end, a conductor outlet end, and unique ground conductor attachment structure. The present invention enables an installer thereof to install the same in cooperative association with a ground conductor either before or after electrical connections are finalized.

A cargo lift system employs multiple unmanned lift vehicles acting as vertical lift generating machines. An autonomous control system controls coordinated movements of the cooperating unmanned vertical lift generating machines. A coupling system connects the cargo load to each of the plurality of unmanned vertical lift generating machines. The plurality of unmanned vertical lift generating machines are separated from each other by a distance through spacing by individual onboard flight computers in the lift generating machines or by rigid or semi-rigid connections between the lift generating machines.

A data processing apparatus and method are provided for managing multiple program threads executed by processing circuitry. The multiple program threads include at least one high priority program thread and at least one lower priority program thread. At least one storage unit is shared between the multiple program threads and has multiple entries for storing information for reference by the processing circuitry when executing the program threads. Thread control circuitry is used to detect a condition indicating an adverse effect caused by a lower priority program thread being executed by the processing circuitry and resulting from sharing of the at least one storage unit between the multiple program threads. On detection of such a condition, the thread control circuitry issues an alert signal, and a scheduler is then responsive to the alert signal to cause execution of the lower priority program thread causing the adverse effect to be temporarily halted, for example by causing that lower priority program thread to be de-allocated and an alternative lower priority program thread allocated in its place. This has been found to provide a particularly efficient mechanism for allowing any high priority program thread to progress as much as possible, whilst at the same time improving the overall processor throughput by seeking to find co-operative lower priority program threads.

The invention discloses a method for configuring an uplink reference signal (SRS) of multipoint cooperative transmission. The method comprises the following steps of: intercommunicating information among cells of a subset B of a cell set A and configuring SRS resource for multipoint cooperative transmission user equipment CoMP UE in the cells of a cell set B according to an agreement, wherein the SRS resource of the CoMP UE and the configured SRS resource of other UE in the cell set A are orthogonal; and sending SRS resource configuration information of the CoMP UE in the cell set B to the CoMP UE by at least one cell of the cell set B. The invention also discloses a device for configuring the SRS of the multipoint cooperative transmission.

The invention relates to a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative formation flying management system and method. The multi-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative formation flying management system comprises a mission planning module, a route planning module, a formation assembly module, a formation maintenance module and a formation reconstruction module, wherein the mission planning module is used for setting a mission type for unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative formation, and the mission type comprises a cooperative patrolling mission, a cooperative detection mission, a cooperative target searching mission and a cooperative target tracking mission; the route planning module is used for generating a flying route in the process of executing the mission for multi-unmanned aerial vehicles;the formation assembly module is used for controlling the multi-unmanned aerial vehicles to reach respective assembly points and controlling the multi-unmanned aerial vehicles to return respective start points; the formation maintenance module is used for controlling the multi-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative formation to maintain fixed flying formations; and the formation reconstruction moduleis used for reconstructing geometric formations of the multi-unmanned aerial vehicle. A formation flying management decision, the route planning and formation control of the multi-unmanned aerial vehicle in complex environments and special conditions of incomplete communication, dynamic topology and the like are realized, the mission execution efficiency and effect of the multi-unmanned aerial vehicle are improved, and the management is safe and reliable.

The invention provides a cooperative node unit selection method and a device, relating to the wireless communication field which adopts multi-node unit joint transmission, wherein, the cooperative node unit selection method comprises the following steps: acquiring signal status information of the candidate node unit; selecting a single or a plurality of performance parameters to serve as performance indexes from the signal status information; sorting the candidate nodes directly according to the single performance parameter if the single performance parameter is selected as the performance index; calculating the comprehensive performance index of the candidate node unit according to a plurality of performance parameters and sorting the candidate nodes according to the comprehensive performance index of the candidate node unit if a plurality of performance parameters are selected as performance indexes; selecting the cooperative node unit from the candidate node units according to the sorting results. The invention not only optimizes the selection mode of the cooperative transmission node unit and improves the quality of services provided to users, but also improves system performance.

A cooperative system and an associated method are provided for resolving a distressed shipment during transport by a carrier, where the distressed shipment includes one or more parcels rendered temporarily undeliverable by an exception event while in transit from a shipper to a consignee. The inventive method involves the shipper in the task of contacting the consignee for the additional information necessary to resolve the shipment. The system creates a cooperative of participating shippers and carriers, working together to complete a shipment and thereby avoid the delay and expense associated with a premature or unnecessary return.

Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving space-time block coded data in a wireless communications system with co-operative relays. A source node transmits RF signals representing first and second sets of data symbols in respective first and second channels (in time frequency code or any combination) of a wireless communications system, the first and second sets of data symbols being for transmission from separate antennas respectively according to a space-time block code. A relay node receives the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the first channel and transmits RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the second channel. A destination node received the RF signals representing the second set of data symbols from the source node and the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols from the relay node. This enables decoding of the received RF signals representing the first and second sets of data symbols according to the space-time block code.

The invention relates to a multi-intersection signal lamp cooperative control method based on deep reinforcement learning, which comprises the following steps of: 1) establishing a multi-channel tensor capable of reflecting the original traffic state of the traffic network according to the actual condition of the multi-intersection traffic network; 2) establishing a multi-intersection cooperativecontrol neural network model according to the obtained multi-channel tensor of the multi-intersection traffic network; 3) training the established multi-intersection cooperative control neural networkmodel by adopting a method of combining simulation learning and reinforcement learning to obtain a trained multi-intersection cooperative control neural network model; and 4) inputting the phase information of the current multi-intersection into the trained multi-intersection cooperative control neural network model to obtain a cooperative control output result of the current multi-intersection signal lamp. The method can be widely applied to the field of multi-intersection signal lamp cooperative control.