3215 results about "External application" patented technology

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing a virtual assistant to at least one party of a communication. The virtual assistant is injected into the communication, for example, by a VXML engine. The operation of the virtual assistant is controlled by one or more software modules that are obtained from a proxy node. The software modules allow commands received from or destined for the party to be interpreted. The virtual assistant may optionally be customized based on a selection of the one or more supported external applications. The proxy node provides at least one method for the party that allows the party to access functionality provided by at least one external application. The proxy node interprets signals from the virtual assistant; converts the signals from the virtual assistant into commands for the external application; and converts one or more of commands, messages and data from the external application into signals understood by the virtual assistant.

A PDF file is received from an external application and key information from the PDF file, concerning a PDF document contained in the PDF file, is extracted. The extracted key information is compared with analogous reference information stored for previously received PDF documents to determine a status for the received PDF document, which is provided to the external application from which the PDF file was received. The received PDF document is a duplicate if all the extracted key information matches analogous reference information, is an updated document if certain but not all the extracted key information matches analogous reference information, or is a new document if at least certain extracted key information does not match analogous reference information. If the PDF document is a duplicate document, processing of the PDF file is returned to the application without storing any extracted key information as reference information. If the PDF document is an updated document, certain extracted key information is stored to update the reference information and processing of the PDF file is returned to the application. If the PDF document is new, all extracted key information is stored as reference information and processing of the PDF file is returned to the application.

An agent accessory tool which enables integration of a Web-type application operating within a browser area and general application operating outside browser area is provided. The agent accessory tool includes an agent program interlocking by HTTP incorporated in a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as PC) of each of a plurality of clients, and a Web server having a CGI interface for executing communication software and an external application of the HTTP concerned to each client PC through a communication line. In this agent accessory tool interlocking with the integrated application on the Web server by the HTTP, the agent program accesses various data of a CGI program through the Web server under input conditions, and music and images to each client. When, as a result, the data are updated from previous access data or in conformity to predetermined conditions, an accessory tool including an avatar (digital actor) is caused to appear on the display of the PC of the client, and is also caused to conduct a predetermined action / reaction so as to transmit the existence of information, the non-conformity to the predetermined conditions, and music and images to each client. As a result, the agent accessory tool operates integrally with the Web application by accessing the Web server, without booting the browser software.

A copy method creates a copy-on-write relationship between specified source data and an original image cache for updates from a designated host application. This copy-on-write relationship involves, responsive to at least a first update of each item of source data, writing an original image of said updated item of data and its associated address to the original image cache. An application outboard of the designated host application is utilized to copy all source data to secondary media without regard to whether the data has been updated since creating the copy-on-write relationship. A specified amount of data is copied from the original image cache to the secondary media. The secondary media therefore contains contents of the source data as of the moment of forming the copy-on-write relationship.

A technique and apparatus to provide status tracking of presence and / or location of a mobile, wireless device to a requesting entity even outside of a particular wireless system. This allows wireless service providers the ability to monitor and log changes in the status of mobile stations within and / or outside their networks. Embodiments are disclosed wherein presence and / or location information is provided to entities outside of a particular servicing wireless network using the mechanisms of call processing components of a mobile network (e.g., call setup procedures), and using standard mechanisms currently available to any appropriately conforming Mobile Switching Center (MSC) element. In one disclosed embodiment, a wireless chat tracking system is implemented which utilizes a change in mobile registration status to automatically notify a chat group system outside the wireless network of current status information activity regarding a relevant device, e.g., registration activity or inactivity timeout. In the wireless chat automatic status tracking system, a registration notification (REGNOT) message is either explicitly forwarded or copied to an external IP based application (e.g., to a mobile chat group system). The change in mobile registration is communicated via a suitable signaling link (e.g., SS7, TCP / IP, etc.) between a Home Location Register (HLR) and the chat group system. Therefore, instead of a conventionally closed system using SS7 messages, REGNOT messages are pushed out over TCP / IP connections to external applications (e.g., chat servers) to automatically notify the external system of the location of a particular user.

A system, apparatus and method for allowing external applications to post information to, and / or retrieve information from, a local clipboard associated with another device that is exposed as a service towards the external applications. The local clipboard of a computing device is exposed towards external applications as a service. A request is received from the external application indicating that a transfer of information between the exposed local clipboard of the computing device and the external application is requested. The information is transferred between the local clipboard of the computing device and the external application in response to the request.

A network equipment is dedicated to radio access networks of different types connected to a backbone network to which is coupled at least one application equipment including at least one external application adapted to exchange data with at least one internal application installed on multimode mobile terminals and further comprising at least two network interfaces adapted to be connected to radio access networks. The equipment comprises management means adapted to transmit to a designated terminal a control software module adapted once installed to provide a proxy interface function between internal and external applications adapted each time that it receives a transaction request designating an external application from an internal application of the terminal to determine which of the network interfaces of the terminal is suited to the transaction as a function of control information and routing information and then to instruct the operating system of the terminal to transmit the transaction request to the designated external application via a transport level connection between the determined network interface and the application equipment containing the external application.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicinal preparation for treating bone fracture, which is prepared from 84 raw medicinal materials such as radix astragali, Chinese angelica, rehmanniae vaporata, rehmanniae praeparatum, suberect spatholobus stem, human placenta and the like. The medicament can be made into an oral preparation and external application preparation. A preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing an aqueous extract of the raw medicinal materials, and preparing an oral solution and a spraying agent from the aqueous extract; and preparing extracting pulvis from the aqueous extract, and preparing granules, pills, medicinal granules, tablets or capsules from the extracting pulvis. Raw medicinal powder also can be ground into raw powder pulvis which can be prepared into the granules, the pills, the medicinal granules, the tablets or the capsules, or the raw powder pulvis is prepared into external application ointment. In addition, the raw medicinal materials also can be infused to form medicinal liquor. The Chinese medicinal preparation has good curative effect on bone fracture diseases of different types, is mainly used for treating different types of fracture, muscles and bones breakage, traumatic injury, new and old incised wound and gunshot wound, bleeding and blood stasis which are caused by traumatism and other symptoms, and has the obvious curative effect on rheumatoid arthritis. The Chinese medicinal preparation is prepared from pure Chinese medicaments, and has convenient use, safety, reliability, no toxic or side effect and long-term use.

A microphone circuit assembly for an external application processor, such as a programmable Digital Signal Processor, may include a microphone preamplifier and analog-to-digital converter to generate microphone signal samples at a first predetermined sample rate. A speech feature extractor is configured for receipt and processing of predetermined blocks of the microphone signal samples to extract speech feature vectors representing speech features of the microphone signal samples. The microphone circuit assembly may include a speech vocabulary comprising a target word or target phrase of human speech encoded as a set of target feature vectors and a decision circuit is configured to compare the speech feature vectors generated by the speech feature extractor with the target feature vectors to detect the target speech word or phrase.

An intelligent sensor device and a method for controlling an intelligent sensor device are provided. In one example, the sensor device includes a memory; a radio frequency communicator configured to receive signals from and transmit signals to an external device having an external application; a radio frequency controller configured to control the radio frequency communicator; a processor; a process controller configured to instruct the processor to load one or more scripts into the memory; one or more sensors; and a sensor driver controller configured to activate one or more appropriate sensors based on a request received from the external application, wherein the process controller is further configured to instruct the processor to execute an appropriate script based on the request received from the external application.

A host agnostic integration and interoperation system. The host agnostic integration and interoperation system includes an open platform interface and the associated conventions that define the roles of and direct operations between a host and a service application running on an external application server and allow the host to discover and integrate the functionality provided by the service application. The open platform interface employs a limited number of easily implemented semantic methods allowing a host to expose and integrate the ability to view, edit, or otherwise manipulate a document using the host supported functionality of the service application from a standard user agent. The host agnostic integration and interoperation system handles user authentication at the host using an access token and establishes a trust relationship between the host and the external application server using a lightweight but secure proof key system.

A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.

Methods and apparatus are provide for developing a virtual assistant for at least one party of a communication. A developer provides one or more virtual assistant software modules that control an execution of the virtual assistant; and also provides a set of proxy methods that are called by the virtual assistant software modules to provide one or more desired functions. The developer may optionally be presented with a library containing one or more virtual assistant software modules or proxy methods. The developer can optionally revise the one or more virtual assistant software modules or proxy methods selected from the library, for example, based on a selection of one or more supported external applications.

A method and system for testing a software application. A description of a test suite for testing the software application being tested (ABT) is inserted into a test database. The ABT is invokes multiple external software applications during execution of a test script of the test suite. Each external application invoked by the ABT is replaced by a corresponding simulator during execution of the test script. Output data to be returned to the ABT by each invoked simulator is inserted into the test database, after which each test script of the test suite is executed. The executing includes: sending a request, by the ABT to each simulator invoked in each test script, for requested data; and receiving, by the ABT, the requested data from each simulator invoked in each test script. The received requested data includes the output data that had been inserted into the test database.

The invention relates to a plant stress-resistant inducer, which takes Chitosan oligosaccharide solution as an effective active component. The invention adopts Chitosan oligosaccharide to induce crops to resist drought, waterlog, cold and freeze. Leaves of the crops are sprayed with the Chitosan oligosaccharide or roots of the crops are irrigated with the Chitosan oligosaccharide in order to induce the stress resistance (drought, waterlog, cold and freeze resistance) of the crops. By inducing the leaves of the crops, the content of resistant enzyme is increased in different degrees; the praline content is obviously increased; the opening degree of stomata obviously declines; the chlorophyll content is obviously increased; and the stress resistance of the crops is improved. The external application of the Chitosan oligosaccharide can improve the stress resistance of the crops, is free from toxicity, causes no environmental pollution, and is simple in usage.

A method and system for event-driven network management. A network management application is configured to detect a network event generated by an external application and to execute an action in response to detecting said network event, wherein the network management application is configurable to receive information describing the network event and the action. The network event is monitored for. In response to detecting the network event, the action is executed.

A copy method is disclosed to provide a duplicate copy of source data where the duplicate copy is consistent with the source data as of a designated time. The method includes creating a copy-on-write relationship between specified source data and an original image cache, utilizing an application outboard of the designated host application to copy all items of source data and their associated locations to a secondary data object without regard to whether the items source data have been updated since creating the copy-on-write relationship, and copying a specified amount of contents of the original image cache to the secondary data object. The specified amount includes contents of the original image cache as of completion of the utilizing operation. In addition, the method includes permitting copy-on-write relationship to continue during the utilizing operation and during at least part of the copying operation.

A device is described that can be used to treat acne and certain skin defects quickly, accurately, and economically by the controlled application of NON-radiofrequency electrical energy. This economical hand-held device is to be used by patients alone or with under the consultation of a physician. Spot application of the tip by the patient for only seconds with or without a conductive gel or liquid adjunct allows electrical energy access below the surface of the skin without creating significant epidermal damage. This electron flow through the base of the lesion to be treated unique to this device; in the instant invention, the electron flow is diametric across the tip dimensions between the electroconductive tip elements, but taking the path of least resistance, that being through the depth of the acne lesion to be treated. The invention also pertains to attendant methods for enhancing the energetic effects of the electrical delivery device via concurrent external application of organic and inorganic, chemicals and materials.

The invention relates to a dynamic network content grabbing method and a dynamic network content crawler system. The dynamic network content grabbing method comprises the following steps of: submitting an access request for a target network, and acquiring a target webpage comprising one or more dynamic contents; extracting the dynamic content in a specific area in the acquired target webpage; judging whether each extracted dynamic content exists in cache, if so, not processing the dynamic content, and if not, advancing to the next step so as to grab the dynamic content; locally solidifying the dynamic content through rendering so as to generate a static content which corresponds to the current content of the dynamic content; and analyzing the static content, extracting a target content, locally saving the target content and caching the dynamic content in the cache. According to the network content grabbing technology, the content in the specific area in the webpage can be customized and grabbed, the rolling news and other dynamic rolling contents are timely grabbed, and the network content grabbing technology can serve as a search engine and a content provider of other external application.

The present invention relates to an extract of a processed herbal medicinal plant and a composition for skin external application which contains the extract. More specifically, the composition for skin external application contains an extract of processed herbal medicinal plant, prepared through a method comprising the steps of: (a) processing an herbal medicinal plant by a process of boiling, steaming, roasting, baking or heating the medicinal plant or a combination of two or more of these processes; (b) obtaining an extract of the processed medicinal plant. The composition shows an improved antioxidant effect.

A method of decoding, composing and rendering a scene. First information is obtained, the first information including a part of a MPEG-4 BIFS scene description stream and at least one coded MPEG-4 media stream. The first information is decoded by invoking a BIFS scene decoder and one or more specific media decoders that are required by the scene. Second information is obtained, the second information including a second part of a BIFS scene description stream that contains a reference to an external application. The second information is decoded by invoking the BIFS scene decoder and an external application decoder. An integrated scene is composed, the integrated scene including one or more decoded MPEG-4 media objects and one or more external application objects specified in the decoded scene descriptions streams. The composed integrated scene is rendered on a display.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and article of manufacture for adjusting a language model within a voice recognition system, based on text received from an external application. The external application may supply text representing the words of one participant to a text-based conversation. In such a case, changes may be made to a language model by analyzing the external text received from the external application.

The invention discloses a microgrid energy management system capable of realizing load management. The energy management system comprises a man-machine interaction module, a prediction module, a system analysis module, a dispatching and control module, and a system management module. The system performs collection and monitoring on information of the output power of a distributed power generation unit (including a wind turbine generator, a photovoltaic array and a diesel engine set), the charging-discharging states of a storage battery, the load power, the electric energy quality information of unit nodes, and the like, then carries out data analysis and processing under the condition of satisfying electrical characteristic constraint conditions of operating conditions and physical equipment, formulates a corresponding optimal control strategy according to the current microgrid operating condition and external application requests, coordinates and manages the operations of the distributed power supply, the load and other modules in the microgrid system, optimizes the energy flow and utilization of the microgrid system, outputs by using renewable resources, supplies electric energy capable of satisfying the required quality to user load at the lowest operating cost, and realizes the system optimization and dispatching.

An improved technique for particle separation is provided. A serpentine structure is utilized in a continuous fluid flow environment to allow for suitable separation of particles to occur in a manner that does not require external application of forces to initiate the separation. The geometry of the serpentine structure and associated forces generated in connection with fluid flow therein suffice.

The invention relates to lotion for treating female vagina inflammation, aiming at providing lotion which has obvious clinical curative effect for treating gynecologic inflammation, has small side effect to the body and does not destroy the self defense function of the human body. The invention has the technical scheme that the lotion is external-application lotion prepared from the following raw materials according to parts by weight: 10 to 20 parts of coptis root, 10 to 20 parts of yellow-corktree bark, 10 to 20 parts of baikal skullcap root, 20 to 40 parts of cnidium fruit, 20 to 40 parts of broom cypress fruit, 5 to 15 parts of dried alum, 20 to 40 parts of cordate houttuynia, 20 to 40 parts of kuhseng, 20 to 40 parts of wild chrysanthemum flower, 20 to 40 parts of radix gentianae, 20 to 40 parts of smilax glabra rhizoma, 10 to 20 parts of stemona root, 20 to 40 parts of zanthoxylum, 20 to 40 parts of dandelion, 15 to 25 parts of radix sileris, 20 to 40 parts of borax, 10 to 20 parts of peppermint, 20 to 40 parts of angelica, 20 to 40 parts of radix arnebiae seu lithospermi and 10 to 20 parts of licorice. The invention is suitable for clinically common gynecologic inflammation.

The present invention provides compounds having an agonistic activity to the cannabinoid receptor, which is represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 is optionally substituted C1-C8 alkyl and the like; R2 is C1-C6 alkyl; R3 is C1-C6 alkyl and the like; or R2 and R3 taken together with the adjacent carbon atoms may form an optionally substituted 5 to 10 membered non-aromatic carbon ring; R4 is hydrogen and the like; G is a group selected from the groups shown by the formula and the like: wherein R5 is hydrogen and the like; X1 is a single bond and the like; X2 is optionally substituted C1-C8 alkylene that may be replaced by one or two groups of -O-, or -N(R6)-, wherein R6 is hydrogen, and the like; X3 is a single bond and the like; a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions, atopic dermatitis treating agents, and anti-pruritus agents, especially anti-pruritus agents for oral use and for external application, which each contains the said compound as an active ingredient.

The process of text generation / creation is automated. The text to be processed is used as seed for the text generation process. The text to be processed can be in any language and can be passed to text generation process through any internal / external application or process, through speech technology or through manual entry. At the first step, word(s) are extracted from the text. Each word is considered as seed and this seed is grown up into different word(s) / sentence(s) lists according to the selected criteria. The generated lists are then processed and combined / jointed through a simple mechanism to generate text. This generated text then can be saved, analyzed, filtered or searched on the internet, intranet, extranet, in database(s) or in user defined data repositories again according to the criteria selected by the user or by some external application or process.