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The present invention relates to a system and method for extending the coverage area and communication capacity of a spread-spectrum based wireless network. The system comprises a unique dual-scale, asymmetrical cellular architecture for a wireless network, wherein the communication uplink is based on a macro-cellular system, and the communication downlink is based on a micro-cellular system. Through the user of remote downlink transmitters in the micro-cellular system, the present invention provides a cost effective solution for increasing communication capacity, extending coverage area, and providing high speed communication downlink.

The present invention relates to a system and method for extending the coverage area and communication capacity of a spread-spectrum based wireless network. The system comprises a unique dual-scale, asymmetrical cellular architecture for a wireless network, wherein the communication uplink is based on a macro-cellular system, and the communication downlink is based on a micro-cellular system. Through the user of remote downlink transmitters in the micro-cellular system, the present invention provides a cost effective solution for increasing communication capacity, extending coverage area, and providing high-speed communication downlink.

A touch sensor device is provided that uses a flexible circuit substrate to provide an improved input device. Specifically, the present invention uses a touch sensor controller affixed to the flexible circuit substrate, which is coupled to a sensor component to provide a flexible, reliable and cost effective touch sensor suitable for a wide variety of applications. In one embodiment the touch sensor uses a flexible circuit substrate that provides relatively high temperature resistance. This allows the touch sensor controller to be affixed using reliable techniques, such as various types of soldering. The sensor component can comprise a relatively low-temperature-resistant substrate that can provide a cost effective solution. Taken together, this embodiment of the touch sensor provides reliability and flexibility at relatively low cost.

A scheme to reduce the problem of radio interference between wireless devices such as MTC devices in a multi-RAT scenario. Wireless devices are configured (S10) for interference reporting in accordance with their capabilities. Information is collected, not only on interference measurements reported by the wireless devices, but also on device signatures (S12) and transmission patterns (S14) for the purpose of attributing interference, suffered by a reporting device, to one or more offending devices (S16). One or more mitigation techniques is then applied to the offending device and / or the reporting device (S20-S24). The scheme provides an additional stability mechanism for existing interference mitigation and co-existence schemes by using device management and avoiding potential conflicts across diverse systems. Under the assumption that geographically co-located devices are all using a common service platform, the centralised algorithm permits more efficient solutions than existing interference mitigation solutions.

Selection of certain views of a multidimensional database to materialize may be accomplished using an efficient and effective solution. A set of all potential views may be stored in a structure. A path in the structure may then be traversed in an indicated direction through the structure, the path including two or more potential views and beginning at an indicated view. Then two or more immaterialized views in the path may be compared to each other to determine which immaterialized view is the optimum choice for maximizing benefit if selected to be materialized. Then the traversing and comparing may be continually iterated through, each iteration utilizing an indicated direction different than the last, each iteration also utilizing an indicated view set at the optimum choice determined by the last iteration, the iterating continuing until it converges on a single view. That single view may then be selected for materialization.

The present invention proposes effective solutions for the design of Virtual Memory Management for applications with dynamic data types in an embedded (HW or SW) processor context. A structured search space for VMM mechanisms with orthogonal decision trees is presented. Based on said representation a systematic power exploration methodology is proposed that takes into account characteristics of the applications to prune the search space and guide the choices of a VMM for data dominated applications. A parameterizable model, called Flexible Pools, is proposed. This model limits the exploration of the Virtual Memory organization considerably without limiting the optimization possibilities.

The invention relates to a table parsing method and device in a document image. The method comprises: detecting a table area in a to-be-parsed document image by using a pre-trained table detection model; detecting an internal character block included by the table area by using a pre-trained character detection model; determining a spatial structure of the table; and according to the spatial structure of the table, carrying out character identification on the character block in each table cell to obtain an editable structural data by parsing. The table parsing method and device can be applied to various tables like a lined table, a line-free table, or a black-and-white table and a simple and effective solution is provided for table parsing in the document image.

The invention discloses a 3D printing manufacturing method for a large-size part, which comprises the following steps: a) cutting a model of a to-be-manufactured large-size part into a plurality of sub-part models in a preset size scope; b) manufacturing and finishing the processing and forming of all sub-parts by adding materials on the basis of the sub-part models; c) jointing and fixing all the sub-parts, thereby forming the large-size part. According to the invention, the 3D printing device in insufficient effective processing size can be used for manufacturing the large-size part, the property and the whole size precision of the large-size part after being cut and spliced can be ensured, and a quick and efficient solution is supplied to the manufacturing of the sample or end product of the large-size parts in various fields.

The invention provides a method and apparatus for the reproduction of color images by multi-color dithering. Multi-color dithering is an extension of bi-level dithering for halftoning an input image using as primary colors an arbitrary number of inks. The inks may comprise standard inks or non-standard inks such as non-process color inks, opaque inks, metallic inks, variable color inks and fluorescent inks. Multi-color dithering provides a solution for creating artistic multi-color dithered images, whose screen elements are made of artistic color screen shapes such as micro-letters, symbols and ornaments. When printed at high resolution and at high registration accuracy, multi-color dithering using large dither arrays incorporating artistic dither shapes provides an effective solution for preventing counterfeiting. The use of non-standard inks offers additional protection. Multi-color dithering also offers a solution for printers requiring that all inks are printed side by side, without overlaps.

Embodiments of the present invention provide devices and methods that allow a continuous connection to be maintained between a medical device that is capable of communicating over a cellular network and a sensor network. Medical devices that are capable of communicating over a cellular network represent one form of assistive technologies for the home that can allow senior citizens to remain at home for longer, improve the quality of life, and provide more cost-effective solutions than residential care. Removing a SIM card (subscriber identity module, a removable smart card for cell phones that securely stores the service-subscriber key used to identify a mobile phone) from a cellular communication device requires the device to be powered down. However, powering down a medical device can result in a loss of important data.

A stand alone Redundancy Management System (RMS) provides a cost-effective solution for managing redundant computer-based systems in order to achieve ultra-high system reliability, safety, fault tolerance, and mission success rate. The RMS includes a Cross Channel Data Link (CCDL) module and a Fault Tolerant Executive (FE) module. The CCDL module provides data communication for all channels, while the FTE module performs system functions such as synchronization, data voting, fault and error detection, isolation and recovery. System fault tolerance is achieved by detecting and masking erroneous data through data voting, and system integrity is ensured by a dynamically reconfigurable architecture that is capable of excluding faulty nodes from the system and re-admitting healthy nodes back into the system.

The invention provides a pupil center-corneal reflection (PCCR) based sight line evaluation method in a sight line tracking system, belonging to the field of man-machine interaction. With specific to the main problems on user head motion limits and individual calibration in the traditional PCCR, the invention provides a method for compensating head positions under the conditions of a single camera and a single light source, which realizes the analysis compensation for influences of head positions variation to a pupil center-corneal vector, establishes an individual difference conversion model and further simplifies a calibration process to be a single-point process. Accordingly, a novel sight line evaluation method is developed; and in the method, the requirements of precise sight line evaluation on minimum hardware are decreased to be the single camera (uncalibrated) and the single light source, complex system calibration is unnecessary, natural head-motion sight line evaluation is realized, and user calibration is simplified to be single-point calibration. All links in the method meet the instantaneity requirements, and an effective solution to the sight line tracking system oriented to man-machine interaction is provided.

An apparatus that is able to detect the position of a catheter. The apparatus utilizes a catheter filled with electrically-conductive physiological saline and a connector for establishing an electrical connection between the saline of the catheter and an input of a controller. The controller includes at least one output connectable to a standard ECG lead connector, wherein the controller includes circuitry for generating a low impedance output signal. The controller provides an output which replicates the input a standard ECG patient lead connector is configured to receive. The apparatus provides a more convenient and cost effective solution for providing specialized ECG functions without having to replace a hospital's existing ECG beside monitoring equipment.

Method and system for a wet / wet differential pressure sensor based on microelectronic packaging process. A top cap with a hole can be attached to a topside of a MEMS-configured pressure sense die with a pressure sensing diaphragm in order to allow sensed media to come in contact with the topside of the pressure sensing diaphragm. An optional constraint with a hole for stress relief can be attached to a backside of the pressure sense die. Adhesive and / or elastomeric seals and / or solder can be utilized to seal the pressure sense die allowing sensed media to come in contact with both sides of the pressure sensing diaphragm without coming into contact with wirebonds and other metallized surfaces. The MEMS-configured pressure sense die can also be bonded to a substrate with standard die attach materials. Such microelectronic packaging processes yield a high performance and cost effective solution thereby providing wet-wet pressure sensing capability.

The present patent application discloses a USB token that advantageously mimics a human interface device such as a keyboard in interacting with a host computer, thus removing the need for pre-installation of a dedicated device driver. This is accomplished by requiring the host computer to direct the input of the attached human interface devices of the keyboard type, including the USB token, exclusively to the program interacting with the USB token, by using cryptographic algorithms based on a shared secret, which require less data to be transferred than PKI-based algorithms, and by employing an efficient encoding scheme that minimizes the time needed to exchange information with the USB token, and minimizes the probability of generating ambiguity with input that might legitimately be generated by other attached human interface devices. By using only symmetric encryption and the low-speed USB protocol, a single low-performance processor may be used, which results in a more cost-effective solution than PKI USB tokens emulating the combination of smart cards and smart card readers or USB tokens presenting themselves to the host computer as mass storage devices. The overall security is increased by adding a second authentication factor consisting of a static password entered by the user, and by limiting the number of valid token response that can be generated or retrieved in a usage session.

We propose a class of mechanisms to support a new style of synchronization that offers simple and efficient solutions to several existing problems for which existing solutions are complicated, expensive, and / or otherwise inadequate. In general, the proposed mechanisms allow a program to read from a first memory location (called the “flagged” location), and to then continue execution, storing values to zero or more other memory locations such that these stores take effect (i.e., become visible in the memory system) only while the flagged memory location does not change. In some embodiments, the mechanisms further allow the program to determine when the first memory location has changed. We call the proposed mechanisms conditional multi-store synchronization mechanisms.

An apparatus comprising a contactless battery synchronous power and a battery management system (BSP-BMS) is disclosed. This system includes a battery monitoring unit for monitoring the state of the batteries and a synchronous power unit for controlling the intensity and direction of current during both, charging and discharging processes, including one or several opto-inductive discs for the wireless energy transfer and fast and a lightweight communication scheme. The full system disclosed in this invention is very small in size, lightweight, cost effective and reliable due to its scalable structure, easy parallelization of current control elements and paths, and local and reliable opto-inductive coupling. The invention is aimed at universal, fast and automated charge processes and internal stored energy management for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) but it can be an effective solution for manned electric vehicles like electric bikes, electric motorcycles or other electric powered vehicles.

Different from conventional equalizers, the output of an SAIC (Single Antenna Interference Cancellation) linear equalizer in GSM / EDGE wireless communication systems is a real signal combined from two real FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter outputs. Each of the FIRs separately uses the real and imaginary components of the ½π de-rotated received signal as input. The real-valued output of the SAIC equalizer creates difficulty to estimate and correct the frequency errors due to receiver LO and Doppler shift. Disclosed is an efficient and effective solution to the estimation and correction of the frequency error through an assistant signal generated by two additional FIR filters. The assistant signal and the SAIC equalizer output are used to estimate the frequency error, which is combined with the SAIC equalizer output and the assistant signal to give the frequency error corrected SAIC equalizer output.

The invention discloses a network online monitoring system for a transformer substation. The network online monitoring system comprises a network monitoring device, a monitoring plug-in component for a switchboard of the transformer substation and a monitoring plug-in component for network messages of the transformer substation; the network monitoring device is applicable to the intelligent transformer substation, and the monitoring plug-in component for the switchboard of the transformer substation and the monitoring plug-in component for the network messages of the transformer substation realize a network monitoring function; the network monitoring device comprises a special interface card for multiple network communication interfaces, a main CPU (central processing unit) control panel and relevant control and communication interfaces; the monitoring plug-in component for the switchboard of the transformer substation acquires a state of the network management switchboard and displays data warning and abnormity information in real time; the monitoring plug-in component for the network messages of the transformer substation acquires the network transmission messages of the transformer substation and displays message abnormity information and variation of data states of the messages in real time. The network online monitoring system has the advantages that the network online monitoring system can be used for monitoring and warning display for a communication state of a network in the intelligent transformer substation in real time, and important processed state information can be directly transmitted into the monitoring system for the transformer substation, so that the transformer substation can be monitored in a unified manner, and an effective solution is provided for problems of incapability of visually monitoring network information in an existing intelligent transformer substation in real time, difficulty in tracking procedure abnormality and difficulty in analyzing shortcomings of an intelligent device.

An automated support system includes a database of statistics used to calculate and store the solution ratings. The database is connected to a decision-making module that selects appropriate solutions. A known computer operation-related problem is stored in the database. The problem is represented by a set of parameters of a user computer system. Any given set of parameters defines a problem existing on the user(s) computer system. A solution formed by the solution adding module is represented by a special file. The selected solution is automatically executed on the user computer system and operation-related problem is solved. The effective solution is assigned rating stored in the solution database.

The invention discloses a time sequence classification early warning method for a storage device. The method comprises the steps of collecting storage device parameters in real time; cleaning data; performing ARIMA time sequence analysis; and performing logistic regression analysis and early warning mechanism output. Under the background of a big data environment, time sequence prediction analysisis performed by adopting an ARIMA model according to historical data and hard disk SMART information obtained by statistics; the correlation between a SMART eigenvalue and a fault rate of the storagedevice is analyzed; and an eigenvalue more suitable for a Logistic model is selected out to perform classification prediction. A machine learning method is adopted for predicting the fault rate of the storage device, so that the problems of classification singleness and low early warning intensity in final prediction of the storage device are solved, the defects of hysteresis, low accuracy, pooractual early warning effect and difficult application to the big data environment for a disk early warning mechanism in the prior art are overcome, the occurrence probability of each early warning intensity can be predicted, and an effective solution is provided for real-time operation maintenance and monitoring in a data center environment.

A wastegate for a turbocharger wherein the valve is provided with a horn to provide a more progressive, optimally near linear, curve of turbocharger boost-to-valve opening than possible with the typical flat wastegate valve. The addition of a three-dimensional horn in the flow path is a far more cost-effective solution to acquire linear flow than an approach involving very finite, accurate control of the valve position.

The invention discloses a method and a system for protecting an account, preventing an order from being tampered and preventing a fishing attack based on a graphical two-dimensional code. Double-link data is used for authentication; and two links comprises a first link for authentication from a personal computer (PC) client to a user name and a static password of an application server, and a second link for authentication through an authentication service from the client based on a mobile terminal to the application server. The system comprises the mobile terminal, the PC client, the application server, an authentication system server and an authentication system disaster backup server. The invention has the advantages that: authentication is performed on the application server by being combined with the graphical two-dimensional code information of the mobile terminal and the application server according to the double-link data of information transmitted between the application server and the mobile terminal, so that a brand new effective solution is provided for preventing the fishing attack, preventing the order from being tampered and preventing a number from being stolen; the network security is improved greatly; and the invention has relatively high practical value and practical significance.

A formulation is described for straightening hair comprising alkanoic acids and a diluent, wherein the diluent is advantageously present at greater than 5% by volume, and more preferably greater than 20% by volume. The inventive formulation is acidic and does not use an effective amount of an alkaline hair-straightening agent to perform the hair straightening function. Instead, the step of hair straightening is accomplished by applying the non-alkaline formulation to the hair and then either leaving the formulation in the hair without rinsing or rinsing the formulation out of the hair followed by optional shampooing and / or conditioning. Consequently, a safe and surprisingly effective solution is provided for hair-straightening including hair-straightening maintenance, relaxation of curl, and reduction of frizziness (e.g., in humid weather).

The invention provides a web vulnerability scanning method and device based on an infiltration technology. The scanning device comprises a client, a Web browser, a scanning host and a Web server which are sequentially connected and is characterized in that the scanning host comprises a control platform, a scanning mode setting module, a scanning module and a vulnerability library, a scanning modeis set in the scanning mode setting module by a user through the control platform, a scanning depth is extended from a first-class scanning to a second-class scanning or even a deeper scanning in thescanning module, and finally, a target website is scanned by using the vulnerability library and a test report is given. By virtue of the complete crawling-based website security vulnerability scanning method, improvements on a further treatment (strengthening the depth of detection) after vulnerabilities are detected and the flexibility of a detection mode are realized, and a comprehensive and effective solution is provided for system / network vulnerability scanning and processing.

Every secure Website provides Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connectivity to prevent user's confidential information from network sniffers. However, in recent times keyboard sniffing has become the preferred mode of stealing user information. Keystrokes capturing is a security hole in front of SSL, for which there is no effective solution. The invention describes a novel method of securing user information from all types of software and hardware keyloggers. The method requires no software installation on user's PC, and comprise of remote executable application embedded on a Web page.

An integrated advertising or messaging system that may target various socio-economic groups, as a function of time, weekday, traffic conditions and weather is provided. The system may offer real time interactions with receivers, to provide additional information or the ordering of goods or services. The concept yields optimising and cost effective solutions to the communication between transmitter (advertiser) and receiver (consumer).

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for the identification of data elements. A user input is received, comprising a data element and a context in which the data element is being used. The user input is sent to a terminology database. A list of entries is received, each entry having a first unique identifier (UID) and a second UID. The first represents a concept associated with the data element, and the second represents a specific description of the concept associated with the data element. A user input is received selecting an entry. The UIDs corresponding to the selected entry are directly associated with the data set. In some implementations, directly associating the UIDs with the data set comprises generating markup code comprising the UIDs. The invention lays the groundwork for a more efficient solution for the features / requirements related to versioning, updating, and translation in the realm of hypertexts.