522 results about "Error prevention" patented technology

A patient care monitoring system and method employ active RFID devices integrated with digital processing, memory and timing circuitry for patient identification, care giver identification and for identification of each prescribed treatment, procedure, medication and general and / or special care action. At the point-of-care, each care action identity device will match directly with the targeted patient identity device or issue an error warning to prevent mistakes. The patient identity device will also interact with an associated sensor network to proactively prompt care givers to provide general care actions, such as altering a patient's laying position, changing bed pan / clothing / bed sheet, etc. for invalid patients. Also the patient identity tag will furnish periodic records of every care action, mistakes, remedies, care givers' identities and time and date for a central processor of a healthcare facility to monitor the quality of patient care. Such record can also be potentially accessed via the Internet by the responsible regulatory agencies, accreditation associations, insurance firms and even patients' families to ensure patient care is meeting the standards as well as medical billing accuracy.

An address at which a writing error occurs is held, and after a completion of a series of writings, the data of the held address is read. Then, a faulty-block processing is performed only for the addresses, for which it is determined that retry of writing is required, thereby preventing an increase of faulty-blocks. This can suppress the problem that when a writing is performed in a particular flash memory, a writing error frequently occurs and a large number of faulty blocks occur.

In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for automatically preventing errors in computer software. The method includes storing the computer software in a code repository; executing a plurality of software verification tools to verify the computer software, wherein each of the plurality of software verification tools automatically generates one or more test cases; generating verification results responsive to executing the plurality of software verification tools and the automatically generated test cases; processing the verification results for generating an objective criterion of quality of the computer software; and customizing the scope of one or more of the plurality of verification tools responsive to the objective criterion of quality of the computer software.

In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for automatically preventing errors in computer software. The method includes storing the computer software in a code repository; executing a plurality of software verification tools to verify the computer software, wherein each of the plurality of software verification tools automatically generates one or more test cases; generating verification results responsive to executing the plurality of software verification tools and the automatically generated test cases; processing the verification results for generating an objective criterion of quality of the computer software; and customizing the scope of one or more of the plurality of verification tools responsive to the objective criterion of quality of the computer software.

A pointing device and method include a pad occupying a region, a raised border at a perimeter of the region and an object slidably movable on the pad for contacting the border. A detecting device is configured to detect a physical contact by the object at any position on the border wherein contact with the border generates a signal indicating a contact position on the border.

A glasses type display that is connected to an information communication terminal via a wire line or a wireless line, in which the operation by the user is made simple by preventing error operation and the power consumption is decreased by not consuming the unnecessary power, is provided. The glasses type display provides lenses, a main frame, side frames, a microphone, a speaker(s), open and closed state detecting sensors, wearing state detecting sensors. When the user opened the side frames, the open and closed state detecting sensors react, and the wearing state detecting sensors become the on state. When the user put on the glasses type display, the lenses automatically become the on state by that the wearing state detecting sensors detected the wearing state. And when the reaction from a part of the wearing state detecting sensors was turned off, caused by some vibration, the lenses are not immediately turned off. Therefore, an error operation is avoided. When the side frames were closed, the lenses were turned off automatically by the operation of the open and closed state detecting sensors. Therefore, the unnecessary power consumption is avoided.

A system and methods are provided for operating and building graphically XML processing programs, guiding the user in development of the program, preventing and detecting development errors as the program is being designed, ensuring that the program is valid, i.e. satisfies required input and output constraints at all times, i.e. from the time it is developed to when it is deployed in a production environment, ensuring the automated change management if the internal logic of the Web service, or data sources called by the service or the schema that underlies the Web service are modified. The system includes a graphical XML Programming system where XML processing programs are built and represented in a graphical fashion, a real-time metadata computation and visualization method for each selected execution point in the visual program that provides guided programming, error prevention and detection, and change impact analysis and change management, and, an automated execution path exploration method that enables overall program validation and error identification. The system and methods allow a user to reduce by at least a factor of 2 the costs of development and maintenance of reliable XML processing programs such as Web Services.

Embodiments comprise a plurality of computing devices that dynamically intercept process application I / O errors. Various embodiments comprise two or more computing devices, such as two or more servers, each having access to a shared data storage system. An application may be executing on the first computing device and performing an I / O operation when an I / O error occurs. The first computing device may intercept the I / O error, rather than passing it back to the application, and prevent the error from affecting the application. The first computing device may complete the I / O operation, and any other pending I / O operations not written to disk, via an alternate path, perform a checkpoint operation to capture the state of the set of processes associated with the application, and transfer the checkpoint image to the second computing device. The second computing device may resume operation of the application from the checkpoint image.

A mobile communications terminal and a method for preventing an input error of a key input unit are provided. The mobile communications terminal includes a touch sensor unit for sensing a key that is input by touching a keypad region in order to output a key input signal corresponding to the key and a controller adapted to determine a key input according to either a priority between multiple keys from which key signals are received or whether a received key signal was generated inadvertently.

A mobile communications terminal and a method for preventing an input error of a key input unit are provided. The mobile communications terminal includes a touch sensor unit for sensing a key that is input by touching a keypad region in order to output a key input signal corresponding to the key and a controller adapted to determine a key input according to either a priority between multiple keys from which key signals are received or whether a received key signal was generated inadvertently.

A mitigation enablement module for a computer that improves application reliability. When performing memory management operations, the mitigation enablement module and associated memory manager selectively use mitigations that are intended to prevent an application bug from cause an application error. The memory manager may selectively apply mitigations for each of one or more applications based on the likelihood that such mitigations are successful at preventing bugs from causing application errors. The likelihood is determined from historical information on whether the mitigations, when applied, prevented bugs from causing memory operations that could cause application errors. This historical information can be gathered on a single computer over multiple invocations of the application or may be aggregated from multiple computers, each invoking the application. The determined likelihood may then be used to determine whether or for how long to apply the mitigation actions for memory operations requested by the application.

The invention provides a real-time three-dimensional reconstruction key frame determination method based on position and orientation changes. The method is achieved through four steps of current frame positioning, positioning quality evaluation, view difference calculation and judgment on whether key frames are inserted or not. The method has the advantages that the key frames are high in quality, speed and stability, and the insertion of a wrong frame can be effectively prevented by judging the positioning quality of image frames; meanwhile, the view difference concept is put forward, it is ensured that each inserted key frame includes certain new image information through the corresponding view difference threshold values, redundancy between the key frames is effectively reduced, and burdens on map establishment are reduced.

A method and system for error prevention and recovery of voice activated navigation through a menu having plural nodes provides situation dependent utterance verification by relating confirmation to utterance determination confidence levels. In one embodiment, a high confidence level results in implicit confirmation, a medium confidence level results in explicit confirmation and a low confidence level results in a concise interrogative prompt of a single word that requests the user to repeat the utterance. In situations where voice recognition is difficult, dual modality with DTMF navigation is provided as an option for menu selections.

Whether the comparison value of temporarily stored data which is read out from a flash memory by a host system exceeds a threshold value related to a bit error or not is checked, and if the comparison value exceeds the threshold value, the temporarily stored data which is read out is rewritten into the flash memory. If the temporarily stored data has an error, the error is corrected by an error correction part and then the data is rewritten. The threshold value includes, e.g., the number of readouts, the number of bit errors and the number of accumulated occurrences of bit errors. The present invention is suitable for prevention of bit errors due to read disturb and can recover the bit data which changes with time, and therefore makes it possible to improve the reliability of the flash memory by preventing occurrence of bit errors.

The disclosure presents a system and method for preventing pharmacy errors for a prescription. The system and method receives prescription data comprising medication data and direction data for the delivery of medication identified within the medication data for the prescription, transmits the prescription data to a pharmacy computer memory associated with a pharmacy prescription entry and fill computer. The system and method further compares, at the pharmacy entry and fill computer, the direction data for the prescription to error prevention keyword data for the medication data, wherein the error prevention keyword data is stored in an error prevention keyword database associated with the pharmacy entry and fill computer and the pharmacy computer memory. A possible directions error message is transmitted to a display of a communication device for viewing by pharmacy personnel in response to the comparison. The disclosure also presents a system and method for preventing internal pharmacy errors for a specialty prescription. The system and method receives prescription data comprising medication data for a prescription, and transmits the prescription data to a pharmacy computer memory associated with a pharmacy prescription entry and fill computer. The pharmacy entry and fill computer compares the medication data for the prescription to specialty prescription data stored in a specialty prescription database. The system and method further transmits first specialty prescription dispensing task information to a display of a communication device for viewing by pharmacy personnel, and for preventing the pharmacy personnel from dispensing the prescription without performing the first specialty prescription dispensing task, in response to the comparing step.

A fluid delivery assembly transfers fluid from a first fluid-filled container filled to a second fluid container. The fluid delivery assembly includes a tube extending through a tube length between a base end which is fixedly secured to one of the first and second fluid containers and a distal end. The tube has an inner surface defining a tube contour. The fluid delivery assembly also includes a mating yoke secured to the other containers. The mating yoke defines a body periphery correlating to the tube contour such that the mating yoke in the one fluid containers is received within the tube and is capable of moving along the tube length until the first and second fluid containers are in fluid communication. Another aspect of this invention is it incorporates a container which eliminates the need for an exposed needle to draw the medicine out of the container.

The organism authenticating apparatus 71 of this invention comprises a means that fixes the position of a hand or a finger of a hand, an infrared ray radiating means 97 that radiates infrared rays, an infrared ray image input means 91 that is placed at the opposite side of said hand or said finger of a hand with regard to said infrared ray radiating means, an organism recognizing means that recognizes that the organism is live, a processing means that processes data that are inputted by said infrared ray image input means so that it collates them with image data that are registered in advance and an output means that outputs the result of processing carried out by said processing means. By using this invention, it becomes possible to obtain a clear blood vessel pattern image by a compact size apparatus by using an infrared ray source and by capturing the passed-through infrared ray image of the organism, and it becomes possible by using an organism recognizing means to prevent false authentication.

The technical scheme of the invention is a dynamic time bending distance fault section locating method based on time sequence compression. The method comprises the steps: carrying out the preprocessing of the fault record data collected by a feed line terminal device, wherein the preprocessing operation comprises the extraction of the initial value and extreme values of the record data and the changes of the record data, and obtaining a new time sequence of the record data; transmitting the time sequence to a main station, solving the similarity of zero-mode currents of two adjacent feed lineterminal devices via a dynamic time bending distance algorithm through the main station, and determining a fault section. The beneficial effects of the invention are that the data size, compared withan original time sequence, is reduced by a half or more, thereby greatly reducing the communication cost; for a high-frequency signal, the dynamic time bending distance algorithm is stronger in synchronization error prevention capability and signal amplitude response capability than a correlated coefficient method; the method provided by the invention is higher in robustness, and does not need the strict time synchronization.

The invention aims at providing an NC-operation error preventing technology. A standard calibration block is arranged on the worktable of an NC machine tool, an operating check procedure for checking block feed before a workpiece processing procedure is increased, so that automatic detecting can be realized for tools and coordinate system setting through simple system macro procedure calling, thereby avoiding economic loss caused by misoperation in the NC process. The development of error-checking subroutine is mainly based on application system parameters, system variables and counting and logic computing, breaking away specific processing parts, thereby having generality for all parts on a specific machine. Error-checking subroutines are stayed in the system of the CNC machine tool, thereby just simply calling is needed for processing any parts.

Provided are a method and an apparatus for accurately detecting positions of eyes in an input face image. The method includes extracting a symmetric face region from a face image based on magnitude and phase of gradient in each pixel of the face image; detecting available eye positions based on brightness information of the extracted face region; verifying regions around each of the detected eye positions with a classifier which determines whether an input image is an eye image using information obtained by supervised learning on sample images. According to the present invention, faulty eye detection is prevented by removing obscuring elements such as illumination, glasses and hair from an input face image. Also, eye coordinates can be extracted more accurately using an eye classifier.

The present invention is a roller construction module having an error prevention structure, comprising a base; a roller disposed in said base; two terminals at two opposite ends of the base to be electrically connected with a metal ring in the roller; a first and a second plungers on the bottom surface of the base; a post between the first and the second plungers; a third plunger on the position at the opposite side to the post on the bottom surface; and a first and a second protecting rods at two opposite ends near the third plunger. Based on the above-said structure, the switch at the left or the right side of the roller construction module can be respectively activated, and another switch, at the middle area of the mobile device, can be prevented from being activated simultaneously so that error prevention is achieved.

Provided are a communication system and a method of restoring the communication system. The communication system includes a master device for transmitting a reference clock through a clock line, transmitting and receiving data through a data line, and requesting and receiving input data and error detection data, and a slave device for detecting human touch input data, transmitting and receiving the data in synchronization with the reference clock or generating and transmitting the input data, and transmitting the error detection data in response to the request for error detection data. Here, the master device compares stored error detection data with the received error detection data and initializes the slave device when the stored error detection data is not the same as the received error detection data. Therefore, in the master-slave communication system capable of automatic restoration from a malfunction and the method of restoring the communication system, a master device recognizes malfunction of a slave device having a volatile storage due to its surroundings, initializes the slave device, and thus can restore the slave device to its normal operating state.

The present invention provides a highly sensitive inspection technology that prevents false detections. The present invention includes means for detecting an image of an entire chip. Using this image, inspection regions are defined based on criticality. Detection sensitivities can be set for each of these inspection sensitivities. Alternatively, false detections can be eliminated in post-inspection processing by recording characteristic values used to evaluate defects, e.g., concentration differences, in the inspection results. Furthermore, by providing a system that allows sharing of inspection conditions and the like needed by multiple inspection devices, the time required for determining inspection conditions can be shortened and stability and reliability can be monitored.

Erroneous detection of a failure in spite of the absence of failure on the route on account of a communication delay is to be prevented. A node device detects a failure on the route to a remote node device is detected by a failure to receive a packet from the remote node device after the elapse of a determined detection time. The node device sets “remote system transmission interval x detection multiplier” to be a first detecting time on the basis of a packet transmission interval determined by negotiation with the remote node device. It also sets the sum of “remote system actual transmission interval x detection multiplier” and “tolerable delay time” to be a second detecting time. The first detecting time and the second detecting time are compared, and what is longer is determined as the detecting time to be applied to actual operation.

A system and methods are provided for operating and building graphically XML processing programs, guiding the user in development of the program, preventing and detecting development errors as the program is being designed, ensuring that the program is valid, i.e. satisfies required input and output constraints at all times, i.e. from the time it is developed to when it is deployed in a production environment, ensuring the automated change management if the internal logic of the Web service, or data sources called by the service or the schema that underlies the Web service are modified. The system includes a graphical XML Programming system where XML processing programs are built and represented in a graphical fashion, a real-time metadata computation and visualization method for each selected execution point in the visual program that provides guided programming, error prevention and detection, and change impact analysis and change management, and, an automated execution path exploration method that enables overall program validation and error identification. The system and methods allow a user to reduce by at least a factor of 2 the costs of development and maintenance of reliable XML processing programs such as Web Services.

Systems and methods are provided through which compare instructions in computer code are eliminated partially resolving the predicate of the compare instructions. Partially resolved predicates are used to reduce the number of compares generated during the prediction phase of the compiler. In a partially resolved predicate, the predicate name is defined along the same paths as the fully resolved predicate counterpart, but it can be used to guard a subset of the instructions of the fully resolved predicate name. A partially resolved predicate is generated for predicate names which are only valid in a restricted control flow region. One or more of the control flow edges are ignored when computing control dependence. The predicate name relies partially on the actual ignored control flow edge to prevent incorrect usage of the predicate name.

A system (100) and a method (500) for managing boot errors. When errors occur during boot, the errors may be recorded in non-volatile storage (115). The errors in the non-volatile storage (115) may be retrieved, decoded, and displayed in a form more understandable to the user. Also, tie errors may be analyzed to efficiently detect and correct the causes of the errors. In addition, the analysis may be used to prevent errors altogether.