622 results about "Data capacity" patented technology

A method and apparatus for efficiently managing the allocation of available data capacity on a physically shared digital network among devices connected to that network is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing the ongoing timely movement of data on the shared network such that precise long-term data rates are achieved between attached devices with minimal additional buffering. The invention further comprises a method and apparatus which allows the use of any remaining network capacity for non time-critical data movement without the need for centralized access management.

Audio signal processing enhances audio watermark embedding and detecting processes. Audio signal processes include audio classification and adapting watermark embedding and detecting based on classification. Advances in audio watermark design include adaptive watermark signal structure data protocols, perceptual models, and insertion methods. Perceptual and robustness evaluation is integrated into audio watermark embedding to optimize audio quality relative the original signal, and to optimize robustness or data capacity. These methods are applied to audio segments in audio embedder and detector configurations to support real time operation. Feature extraction and matching are also used to adapt audio watermark embedding and detecting.

Audio signal processing enhances audio watermark embedding and detecting processes. Audio signal processes include audio classification and adapting watermark embedding and detecting based on classification. Advances in audio watermark design include adaptive watermark signal structure data protocols, perceptual models, and insertion methods. Perceptual and robustness evaluation is integrated into audio watermark embedding to optimize audio quality relative the original signal, and to optimize robustness or data capacity. These methods are applied to audio segments in audio embedder and detector configurations to support real time operation. Feature extraction and matching are also used to adapt audio watermark embedding and detecting.

A system for data backup includes a storage device, a backup storage device, and an intermediate storage device. Backup procedure is performed on-line and copies data blocks from the storage device into the backup storage device. When a write command is directed to a data storage block identified for backup that has not yet been backed up, the identified data storage block is copied from the storage device to the intermediate storage device, the write command is executed on the identified data storage block from the storage device, and the data storage block is copied from the intermediate storage device to the backup storage device. In case of an error accessing a block on the storage device, the block is marked as invalid. The intermediate storage device can be external to a file system of a computer that includes the storage device, or can be located in the storage device, or can be a separate partition of the storage device, or can be a file within a file system. The system suspends a write command to the storage device during the data backup process if the intermediate storage device has reached a selected data capacity; and copies a selected amount of data from the intermediate storage device to the backup storage device.

A method and medium tangibly embodying the method of constructing a lookup table of modes for encoding data for transmission in a wireless communication channel from a transmit unit to a receive unit by using at least one quality parameter of the data and its first-order and second-order statistical parameters to arrange the modes in the lookup table. The first-order and second-order statistical parameters can be determined from a simulation of the wireless communication channel or from field measurements of the wireless communication channel. The modes in the lookup table are ordered by a target value of a communication parameter such as PER, BER, data capacity, signal quality, spectral efficiency, throughput or another suitable communication parameter set to achieve a desired quality of service. The quality parameter selected is conveniently a short-term quality parameter such as signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or power level. During use adjustments depending on the instantaneous condition of the channel can be used to tune the lookup table.

A system for data backup includes a storage device, a backup storage device, and an intermediate storage device. Backup procedure is performed on-line and copies data blocks from the storage device into the backup storage device. When a write command is directed to a data storage block identified for backup that has not yet been backed up, the identified data storage block is copied from the storage device to the intermediate storage device, the write command is executed on the identified data storage block from the storage device, and the data storage block is copied from the intermediate storage device to the backup storage device. In case of an error accessing a block on the storage device, the block is marked as invalid. The intermediate storage device can be external to a file system of a computer that includes the storage device, or can be located in the storage device, or can be a separate partition of the storage device, or can be a file within a file system. The system suspends a write command to the storage device during the data backup process if the intermediate storage device has reached a selected data capacity; and copies a selected amount of data from the intermediate storage device to the backup storage device.

A method and apparatus for emulating a magnetic tape storage device with a conventional, unmodified magnetic disk storage device. I / O output requests for the emulated magnetic tape storage device are intercepted to determine whether they involve a virtual tape resource that comprises a magnetic disk storage device. Tape requests to such a resource are converted into one or more conventional magnetic disk storage requests to effect an analogous operation. The size of the virtual tape resource can be reduced below the normal data capacity for the emulated tape storage device.

Differential modulation schemes encode a data channel within host signal or noisy environment in a manner that is robust, flexible to achieve perceptual quality constraints, and provides improved data capacity. Differential arrangements enable a decoder to suppress host signal or other background signal interference when detecting, synchronizing and extracting an encoded data channel. They also enable the incorporation of implicit or explicit synchronization components, which are either formed from the data signal or are complementary to it.

Differential modulation schemes encode a data channel within host signal or noisy environment in a manner that is robust, flexible to achieve perceptual quality constraints, and provides improved data capacity. Differential arrangements enable a decoder to suppress host signal or other background signal interference when detecting, synchronizing and extracting an encoded data channel. They also enable the incorporation of implicit or explicit synchronization components, which are either formed from the data signal or are complementary to it.

Sparse signal modulation schemes encode a data channel on a host image in a manner that is robust, flexible to achieve perceptual quality constraints, and provides improved data capacity. The host image is printed by any of a variety of means to apply the image, with sparse signal, to an object. After image capture of the object, a decoder processes the captured image to detect and extract data modulated into the sparse signal. The sparse signal may incorporate implicit or explicit synchronization components, which are either formed from the data signal or are complementary to it.

The free region of a capacity pool is managed in a capacity pool structure management table stored in a memory, and if a capacity of a storage region that is to be assigned newly to a virtual volume by a processor is equal to or greater than a capacity of a free region of the capacity pool, or if the capacity of the free region of the capacity pool after assignment of a storage region to a virtual volume is less than a prescribed threshold value, then the data of at least any one virtual volume in the capacity pool, is migrated to another storage module, and the storage region of a HDD that was assigned to the virtual volume in question is added to the free capacity of the capacity pool, as a free region.

A method and apparatus for efficiently managing the allocation of available data capacity on a physically shared digital network among devices connected to that network is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method and apparatus for managing the ongoing timely movement of data on the shared network such that precise long-term data rates are achieved between attached devices with minimal additional buffering. The invention further comprises a method and apparatus which allows the use of any remaining network capacity for non time-critical data movement without the need for centralized access management.

A wireless broadband communications system and method that achieves reduced latency for high priority data when multiplexed with lower priority data for transmission over a TDD point-to-point radio link. The system prepares multiple data streams for transmission over a TDD radio link by buffering multiple data streams containing high and low priority packets in separate queues based upon their corresponding priority level. Each packet in the higher priority queues has a specified size, and a header defining the type of service provided and the packet destination. Next, the packets in the lower priority queues are fragmented to a reduced size based upon the data capacity of the link. The high priority packets and the fragmented, low priority packets are arranged in a sequence such that the high priority packets are transmitted first, and the low priority packets are transmitted when no data is buffered in any high priority queue.

The invention provides a method of automatically matching incoming call number or incoming short message number and a communication terminal. The method of automatically matching incoming call number or incoming short message number includes: step A: whether the incoming call number or incoming short-message number is in a local telephone book is judged; step B: if the incoming call number or incoming short-message number is not in the local telephone book, the incoming call number or incoming short-message number is taken as parameters, and the matching can be automatically carried out at a network server visited at the background; step C: the matching result is displayed onto the communication terminal. The invention sets a network phone book on the server, so that the communication terminal automatically takes the incoming call number and incoming short message number as the parameters, visits the server to finish matching and displaying on the communication terminal, which has the functions of large data capacity of the phone book, avoiding loss, telephone and short message nuisance authentication.

Embodiments of the invention relate to wireless communications networks, and more specifically to method and apparatus relating to wireless backhaul for cellular wireless systems. Increasing data capacity of cellular wireless systems places increasing demands on the capacity of the two way connection, known as backhaul, between a cellular base station and a telecommunications network such as the PSTN backhaul, since this is the connection that has to convey the wireless-originating traffic to its destination, often in an entirely different network. Known backhaul links include leased lines, microwave links, optical fibre links or radio resources for relaying backhaul traffic between base stations. The fixed line solutions are expensive to implement and maintain, while the radio solutions suffer from interference from transmissions between base stations with transmissions from user equipment to base stations which are not communicating with other base stations. In embodiments of the invention, the relaying of access data between base stations utilises radio resources other than radio resources used by transmissions from user equipment within an area of contiguous wireless coverage. The benefit of this approach is that it provides a means of avoiding interference between inter-base station transmissions and user equipment to base station transmissions.

Continuous data protection is performed as two parallel processes: copying a data block from the storage device into the backup storage device (creating initial backup) and copying the data block to be written to the data storage into the incremental backup. When a write command is directed to a data storage block, it's intercepted and redirected to the backup storage, and data, which is to be written in accord to the write request, is written to the incremental backup on the backup storage. If write command is also directed to a data storage block identified for backup that has not yet been backed up, the identified data storage block is copied from the storage device to the intermediate storage device, the write command is executed on the identified data storage block from the storage device, and the data storage block is copied from the intermediate storage device to the backup storage device. In case of an error accessing a block on the storage device, the block is marked as invalid. The system suspends a write command to the storage device during the initial data backup process if the intermediate storage device has reached a selected data capacity; and copies a selected amount of data from the intermediate storage device to the backup storage device.

This invention achieves data capacity efficiency via data de-duplication and maximizes a power-saving effect by disk operation control. In a storage system, when data is received from a computer, a value representing the bit string for the data is calculated and whether or not a value identical to the calculated value is stored in a data management table is judged. If it is judged that an identical value is not stored, the received data is registered in the data management table and stored, based on a group management table, in disk device(s) associated with a logical unit number of a logical unit constituting an active group. Meanwhile, if it is judged that an identical value is stored, the received data is stored in disk device(s) based on the group information managed in the group management table and the management information managed in the data management table.

The number of users and data capacity of wireless systems are increased by employing apparatus and method for increasing the number of spreading codes available in the system by providing a mechanism to reuse the already allocated spreading code or use the codes that may correlate to those already being used within the same sector / cell. This, in return, provides capacity improvement proportional to the number of added base station (BS) antennas for each cell. An antenna null steering technique for code allocation maintains the cross correlation properties of the codes only for the desired user and to obtain a gain in capacity improvement.

The invention provides a data storage method and a data storage device. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining data to be stored into a solid-state hard disk from a memory; caching the data into a magnetic hard disk in a data structure being a log structure merging tree; executing a merging operation on the data cached in the magnetic hard disk; and when the volume of the data cached in the magnetic hard disk reaches the preset volume, storing the merged data into the solid-state hard disk. By using the method or the device provided by the invention, the write amplification problem generated during the updating of small-particle-size data can be solved; and the service life of the solid-state hard disk is prolonged.

A wireless communication apparatus is capable of increasing data capacity that can be transmitted and reducing power consumption by reducing the amount of control signal to be transmitted, and capable of increasing system capacity by reducing interference with respect to other wireless communication apparatuses. In this apparatus, control information extraction section (105) extracts information indicating the number of CQI's contained in control information. Reception quality measuring sections (113-1 to 113-n) measure reception quality of each sub-carrier within a communication band. CQI generating section (114) generates CQI's for some of the sub-carriers of superior reception quality within the communication band. Multiplexer (122) multiplexes CQI's, sub-carrier number information generating the CQI's, and ACK signals or NACK signals. The SC selecting section (127) then selects the number of sub-carriers from a base station apparatus of superior reception quality allocated using the CQI quantity designation information.

An encoding data processing apparatus is operable to introduce a visible watermark into a compression encoded video image represented by a compression encoded bit stream having a predetermined format. The format of the compression encoded bit stream provides image frames, which are represented by macroblocks, each macroblock representing a block of pixels from the image frame. The macroblocks are formed into groups of macroblocks which are contained in fixed portions of the compression encoded bit stream, the fixed data portions being able to accommodate a predetermined fixed amount of data. The encoding data processing apparatus being operable to parse the compression encoded bit stream to identify spare data capacity in each frame provided from each of the fixed data portions as a result of the fixed data portion not being completely filled with the macroblocks. The encoding data processing apparatus is operable to determine whether an additional amount of data required to represent the visible watermark can be accommodated in each image frame. If the additional data can be accommodated, the encoding data processing apparatus is operable to change selected macroblocks in the image frame to represent the visible watermark, to generate a bit pattern representing the macroblocks in the original image frame which have changed, and to insert the additional data into the fixed data portions of the image frame. A visibly watermarked bit stream can therefore be produced in which the watermark changes on a frame by frame basis, if the frames can accommodate the data required to represent the watermark. In one example the visible watermark represents a time code.

This invitation discloses a method of encoding / decoding a color QR (Quick Response) code. The method maintains the reliability and robustness of a standard black and white QR code, and employs a lossless compression algorithm to make the data capacity of a color QR code much larger than the data capacity of other colored two-dimensional code of a same kind. In addition, encoding colors are not required to be the most distant from each other in an RGB color space in order to enhance color resolution. A process of encoding / decoding a color QR code does not require color space transfer, i.e., color information loss can be avoided. Color QR cod decoding has no special requirements for ambient lighting, and does not need to utilize reference colors as a palette, thereby greatly reducing computational complexity, and obtaining 100% decoding accuracy.

The present invention provides a layered two-dimensional code which can be considerably improved in the data capacity thereof without increasing the area thereof by integrating a plurality of two-dimensional codes by a predetermined correlation and expressing it as one two-dimensional code, a method of creating the layered two-dimensional code, and a method of reading the layered two-dimensional code. The layered two-dimensional code is formed as a surface layer by layering a plurality of code layers (for example, code layers 1, 2, and 3) each having information cells (1a′, 1a″, and the like) arranged in a two-dimensional matrix and by integrating the plurality of code layers. An index information code 1c essentially including the information of an RGB value of each code layer is included at one part of the surface layer. When the information cells (1a′ and 1a″) of the code layers 1 and 2 are superposed one upon the other at a position thereof corresponding to the surface-layer information cell 1a, the color of the surface-layer information cell la is obtained by executing an additive color mixture of the color of the code layer 1 and that of the code layer 2.

There is provide a technique which can contribute to reduction of data capacity of image data read from an original document in an image reading apparatus, and can contribute to realization of a flexible image processing to meet user's requests. There are included a first image reading unit to read an image in monochrome from an original document at a first resolution, a second image reading unit to read an image in color from an original document at a second resolution lower than the first resolution, a position information acquisition unit to acquire position information indicating, in respective image data read by the first and the second image reading units from the same original document, corresponding positions of respective pixels on the original document, a color information acquisition unit to acquire color information indicating colors of the respective pixels in the respective image data, and a storage unit to associate the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit with the color information acquired by the color information acquisition unit with respect to the pixel corresponding to the position information and to store them in a specified storage area.

Data capacity efficiency is improved by de-duplicating data assigned with a code that is different for each data.A storage apparatus comprising a flash memory control device equipped with one or more flash memory modules, wherein the flash memory module comprises at least one flash memory chip for providing a storage area, and a controller for controlling writing / reading of data including user data and a guarantee code accompanying the user data to and from the storage area provided by the flash memory chip, wherein the controller respectively divides a plurality of the data having the common user data into the user data and the guarantee code, stores one of the user data in an area of a predetermined unit of the storage area, and links and stores each of the guarantee codes accompanying the plurality of user data in an area of a predetermined unit of the storage area.

Sending a single data stream from a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint, wherein both of the sending endpoint and the receiving endpoint each have multiple physical interfaces connecting the sending and receiving endpoint to multiple networks, respectively, is provided. The single data stream is partitioned into multiple data packets. A physical interface is designated on the sending side and the receiving side in accordance with a data capacity throughput of each of the multiple physical interfaces. Different portions of the partitioned data packets are then sent over different ones of the multiple physical interfaces in accordance with the designation. The single data stream is then reconstructed by combining received partitioned data packets into the single data stream in accordance with header information. An acknowledgment is sent to the sending endpoint indicating an amount of data received on each multiple physical interface, including any changes in the data capacity throughput.

The invention discloses a vehicle network integration technology-based electric vehicle charging system and an implementation method thereof. The electric vehicle charging system comprises an electric vehicle network mobile computing terminal, which establishes a connection with an intelligent electric network via a power line carrier modulation and demodulation module, is connected with a cloud computing remote service platform, and uploads vehicle information of electric vehicles to the cloud computing remote service platform; the cloud computing remote service platform transmits charging information to positioning practicable charging station information and the electric vehicle network mobile computing terminal; electric vehicles are in information interaction via vehicle-mounted electric vehicle mobile computing terminals; and a microwave power transmission device is arranged in a charging station. The implementation of the invention is based on an electric vehicle technology integrating a vehicle intranet and a vehicle outer net; the vehicle intranet is large in information transmission capacity, is communicated with transport facilities via the wireless communication manner of a power line carrier; and the real-time performance of communication on the premises of multiple networks and larger data capacity is ensured.

A method and program for encoding and decoding color barcodes to increase their data capacity. The encoding steps include determining a shape and a color for each data cell to encode digital data, wherein a combination of the shape and the color for the data cell is chosen from a plurality of combinations of shapes and colors in accordance with a value of the digital data to be encoded, and coloring a subset of the plurality of pixels in each data cell in accordance with the shape and the color for the data cell determined above. The decoding steps include segmenting the data cells in a color barcode, recognizing a shape formed by a subset of pixels in each data cell and the color of the shape, and obtaining digital data from a combination of the recognized shape and color in each data cell.

The invention discloses a data backup method based on an Erasure coding and copying technology. When data to be stored exceed the maximum capacity of a storage source, the data are stored in a distributed way after being divided so as to improve the storage efficiency. Meanwhile, check codes of divided data subblocks are calculated and stored, and the damaged data subblocks are restored by utilizing an Erasure code under the condition that partial data subblocks are damaged, thereby ensuring the integrality of original data. The original data are backed up by a copying method, and meanwhile, the amount of generated data copies is confirmed according to parameters such as the amount of storage servers, and the like. Finally, the metadata information of the generated data copies is stored in a copy database so that a user can restore the original data through inquiring the copy database and utilizing the data copies when a data disaster happens. a data dividing and copy creating technology is used for better solving the problem of data backup in a data capacity disaster, thereby not only improving the storage efficiency of the data, but also ensuring the integrality of the data.