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A data acquisition and delivery system for performing data delivery tasks is disclosed. This system uses a computer running software to acquire source data from a selected data source, to process (e.g. filter, format convert) the data, if desired, and to deliver the resulting delivered data to a data target. The system is designed to access remote and / or local data sources and to deliver data to remote and / or local data targets. The data target might be an application program that delivers the data to a file or the data target may simply be a file, for example. To obtain the delivered data, the software performs processing of the source data as appropriate for the particular type of data being retrieved, for the particular data target and as specified by a user, for example. The system can communicate directly with a target application program, telling the target application to place the delivered data in a particular location in a particular file. The system provides an external interface to an external context. If the external context is a human, the external interface may be a graphical user interface, for example. If the external context is another software application, the external interface may be an OLE interface, for example. Using the external interface, the external context is able to vary a variety of parameters to define data delivery tasks as desired. The system uses a unique notation that includes a plurality of predefined parameters to define the data delivery tasks and to communicate them to the software.

The present invention provides a system for booting an intelligent device with an embedded-type operating system obtained through an external interface disposed in the intelligent device, wherein the system includes an initialization module stored in a read-only memory provided in the intelligent device, the initialization module being executed in a processor disposed in the intelligent device and connecting to an external location through the external interface, and a server having a memory media which stores a boot agent module and an embedded-type operating system at the external location, the server sending the boot agent module to the intelligent device through the connection in response to a request from the initialization module, wherein the boot agent module is loaded into a runtime memory in the intelligent device and executed by the processor, the boot agent module then retrieving an embedded-type operating system image from the external location in the sever, whereupon the embedded-type operating system image is loaded into the runtime memory and executed by the processor.

A method of treating a patient for ventricular tachycardia using a wearable defibrillator includes monitoring the patient for a predetermined condition via one or more electrodes on the defibrillator, sending a message to the patient in response to the predetermined condition, activating the defibrillator so that the defibrillator delivers defibrillation energy to the patient, and storing at least one of the results of the monitoring, sending and activating steps in a memory on the defibrillator. The method also includes downloading information stored in the memory of the defibrillator to a base station having an external interface, and transmitting the information downloaded from the memory of the base station to an external location via the external interface of the base station.

A system and method for authorizing certain aspects of network based transactions between a customer and a merchant is disclosed. The system utilizes an account code for identifying rights to use an account identified by an account number, and a database for storing the account number, account code, and a Signature Phrase. The Signature Phrase is stored when rights to use the account have been positively identified. The customer can complete an e-commerce transaction using the customer's account by providing a Signature Phrase without the Signature Phrase or account code actually residing in the database or being provided to the merchant. The account code, account number, and Signature Phrase may be received through one or more external interfaces with the customer. In some embodiments, the database stores the account number, account code, and the Signature Phrase in a hashed format.

Hypervisor-based intrusion prevention platform is provided. The hypervisor-based intrusion prevention platform comprises a virtual network intrusion prevention system (vIPS) framework which obtains internal information of a virtualization system from a hypervisor and performs security control on the hypervisor in response to the result of intrusion detection carried out by using the internal information of the virtualization system, a hypervisor security application programming interface (API) module which provides an API used by the vIPS framework to access the hypervisor, an administrator account management and authentication module which manages an administrator account of a vIPS and authenticates the administrator account, an environment setting management module which manages environment setting values of modules within the vIPS, and an external interface module which provides an interface for system control and security control.

An apparatus and method for ejecting fluid from a fluid delivery system. The fluid delivery system has a pneumatic assembly that when triggered injects gas into a hydraulic assembly, which in turn ejects fluid through an external interface. An electronic interface displays various measurements, for example, how much fluid has been ejected and if the hydraulic system is closed the pressure of the system. The pneumatic assembly can also be depressurized such that fluid can reenter the hydraulic assembly through the external interface.

A single integrated circuit includes first and second data processors operating on different instruction sets independently operating on disjoint programs and data. The single integrated circuit preferably includes an external interface, a shared data transfer controller and shared memory divided into plural independently accessible memory banks. The two data processors are preferably a digital signal processor (DSP) and a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor. The DSP and RISC processors are suitably programmed to perform differing aspects of computer image processing.

A system and method associated with the movement of a limb. In one example, the system, such as a prosthetic or orthotic system, includes an actuator that actively controls, or adjusts, the angle between a foot unit and a lower limb member. A processing module may control movement of the actuator based on data obtained from a sensor module. For instance, sensing module data may include information relating to the gait of a user and may be used to adjust the foot unit to substantially mimic the movement of a natural, healthy ankle. The system may further accommodate, for example, level ground walking, traveling up / down stairs, traveling up / down sloped surfaces, and various other user movements. In addition, the processing module may receive user input or display output signals through an external interface. For example, the processing module may receive a heel height input from the user.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to stacked memory modules. In one embodiment of the present invention, a memory module comprises at least one memory-controller layer stacked with at least one memory layer. Fine pitched through vias (e.g., through silicon vias) extend approximately perpendicular to a surface of the at least one memory controller through the stack providing electronic communication between the at least one memory controller and the at least one memory layers. Additionally, the memory-controller layer includes at least one external interface configured to transmit data to and from the memory module. Furthermore, the memory module can include an optical layer. The optical layer can be included in the stack and has a bus waveguide to transmit data to and from the at least one memory controller. The external interface can be an optical external interface which interfaces with the optical layer.

Manufacturing all-silicon force sensors, such as capacitive pressure sensors (100, 200) that have long term stability and good linear sensitivity, and can be built into of a pneumatic tire. The sensors include buried electrical feedthrough (112b) to provide an electrical connection into a sealed silicon cavity (108). The buried feedthrough consists of a conductor (112b) in a shallow groove (106) in a substrate (102), communicating between the sensing cavity (108) and an external contact area (110). The sensor designs also feature a method for forming a silicon-to-silicon fusion bond (SFB) wherein at least one of the two surfaces (152, 252) to be has a tough silicon surface unsuitable for good SFB joints because it was bonded heavily boron-doped by means of diffusion. The method of this invention includes preparing each doped surface (152, 252) for SFB by polishing the surface with a Chemical-Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process. The sensor designs can also include optional reference capacitors (141, 241) on the same chip (100, 200) as the sensing capacitor (140, 240). The reference capacitors (141, 241) are insensitive to pressure (force), but respond to ambient temperature changes in the same way as the sensing capacitor. Suitable external interface circuits can utilize the reference capacitors (141, 241) to pull out the majority of ambient temperature effects.

A configurable directional 2D router for Networks on Chips (NOCs) is disclosed. The router, which may be bufferless, is designed for implementation in programmable logic in FPGAs, and achieves theoretical lower bounds on FPGA resource consumption for various applications. The router employs an FPGA router switch design that consumes only one 6-LUT or 8-input ALM logic cell per router per bit of router link width. A NOC comprising a plurality of routers may be configured as a directional 2D torus, or in diverse ways, network sizes and topologies, data widths, routing functions, performance-energy tradeoffs, and other options. System on chip designs may employ a plurality of NOCs with different configuration parameters to customize the system to the application or workload characteristics. A great diversity of NOC client cores, for communication amongst various external interfaces and devices, and on-chip interfaces and resources, may be coupled to a router in order to efficiently communicate with other NOC client cores. The router and NOC enable feasible FPGA implementation of large integrated systems on chips, interconnecting hundreds of client cores over high bandwidth links, including compute and accelerator cores, industry standard IP cores, DRAM / HBM / HMC channels, PCI Express channels, and 10G / 25G / 40G / 100G / 400G networks.

A multi-mode IC is provided for operating in a first mode such as an ISO mode in accordance with International Standards Organization 7816 (ISO 7816) protocol, and a second, non-ISO mode, such as a USB mode in accordance with Universal Serial Bus (USB) protocol. The multi-mode IC is preferably in a smart card and includes a microprocessor and an external interface. The external interface comprises a voltage supply pad, a ground pad, a first set of pads for the first mode, and 2 second set of pads for the second mode. The first set of pads preferably include a reset pad, a clock pad and an input / output pad in accordance with the ISO 7816 protocol, and may also include a variable supply voltage pad in accordance with the ISO 7816 protocol. The IC further includes a mode configuration circuit for detecting a mode condition on one pad of the first set of pads, and configuring the IC in the ISO mode or the non-ISO mode depending on the result. Once the IC is configured in a particular mode, it will operate in only that mode until the next power-on reset sequence.

Aspects of the present invention relate to the projection of imagery from a head-worn computer, wherein a projector with x-y mirror control and a laser are mounted in the head-worn computer and positioned to project a raster style image onto a nearby surface.

A communication device includes a structural, external interface (e.g., a USB interface) for connecting to a computing device, a wireless interface for making a wireless connection to a second computing device, and a memory or storage component for storing and embedding software for a variety of applications. The communication device provides wireless printing without the need to install a device specific printer driver each time at each new printer and without compromising security or privacy. The communication device also enables transferring of files and data wirelessly from one device to another.

A programmable processor that comprises a general purpose processor architecture, capable of operation independent of another host processor, having a virtual memory addressing unit, an instruction path and a data path; an external interface; a cache operable to retain data communicated between the external interface and the data path; at least one register file configurable to receive and store data from the data path and to communicate the stored data to the data path; and a multi-precision execution unit coupled to the data path. The multi-precision execution unit is configurable to dynamically partition data received from the data path to account for an elemental width of the data and is capable of performing group floating-point operations on multiple operands in partitioned fields of operand registers and returning catenated results. In other embodiments the multi-precision execution unit is additionally configurable to execute group integer and / or group data handling operations.

A system and method associated with the movement of a limb. In one example, the system, such as a prosthetic or orthotic system, includes an actuator that actively controls, or adjusts, the angle between a foot unit and a lower limb member. The actuator preferably selectively locks during a desired phase in a gait cycle of the limb and minimizes friction against a rotor of the actuator. A processing module may control movement of the actuator based on data obtained from a sensor module. For instance, sensing module data may include information relating to the gait of a user and may be used to adjust the foot unit to substantially mimic the movement of a natural, healthy ankle. The system may further accommodate, for example, level ground walking, traveling up / down stairs, traveling up / down sloped surfaces, and various other user movements. In addition, the processing module may receive user input or display output signals through an external interface. For example, the processing module may receive a heel height input from the user.

The invention discloses a digital multimedia information transmission platform, which comprises an acquisition system, a manufacturing system, a media resource system, a management system and a release system, wherein the acquisition system consists of control equipment, outside network material receiving server and an foreign signal, studio signal and magnet tape material acquisition and collection subsystem; the manufacturing system consists of a program editing system, a program examination system, a background packing and synthesizing system and a resource manager; the media resource system consists of a media resource cataloging and searching work station, a transcoding server, a database server, a storage management and migration server and a system management working station; the management system consists of a uniform user identification system and a network management system; the release system serving as an external interface module of a multimedia center encrypts finished products in multiple formats and executes related release according to outside service demands; and the platform is an integrated production line of digital media contents and also a digital media resource comprehensive service system platform and can realize overall media resource sharing.

A gigabit Ethernet adapter provides a provides a low-cost, low-power, easily manufacturable, small form-factor network access module which has a low memory demand and provides a highly efficient protocol decode. The invention comprises a hardware-integrated system that both decodes multiple network protocols byte-streaming manner concurrently and processes packet data in one pass, thereby reducing system memory and form factor requirements, while also eliminating software CPU overhead. A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a plurality of protocol state machines that decode network protocols such as TCP, IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), PPP, Raw Socket, RARP, ICMP, IGMP, iSCSI, RDMA, and FCIP concurrently as each byte is received. Each protocol handler parses, interprets, and strips header information immediately from the packet, requiring no intermediate memory. The invention provides an internet tuner core, peripherals, and external interfaces. A network stack processes, generates and receives network packets. An internal programmable processor controls the network stack and handles any other types of ICMP packets, IGMP packets, or packets corresponding to other protocols not supported directly by dedicated hardware. A virtual memory manager is implemented in optimized, hardwired logic. The virtual memory manager allows the use of a virtual number of network connections which is limited only by the amount of internal and external memory available.

In one embodiment, a memory system is disclosed. The memory system has at least one memory chip having an address and data interface coupled to an internal address and data bus, and a memory controller and interface chip also having a an address and data interface coupled to the address and data interface of the at least one memory chip via an internal address and data bus. The at least one memory chip, the memory controller and interface chip and the internal address and data bus are disposed within a common chip package. The memory controller and interface chip has an external interface configured to be coupled to a standard memory bus via external contacts of the common chip package.

A system for booting an computing device with a windowing operating system obtained from an external memory media via an external interface, wherein the system includes an initialization module stored in a read-only memory provided in the computing device, the initialization module being executed in a processor disposed in the computing device and establishing a data connection to the external memory media through the external interface, and an external device in which the external memory media is disposed, the external memory media storing a windowing operating system at an external location, the external device sending the windowing operating system image from the external memory media to the computing device via the external interface in response to a request from the computing device, the request being based on memory geometry information of the external memory media, wherein the windowing operating system image is received by the computing device, loaded into a runtime memory in the computing device and then executed by the processor in order to boot the windowing operating system in the computing device.

A method for using a SIM-based firewall to filter and regulate events that may occur in a wireless device or SIM card may include: reading configuration settings; registering with a wireless device, and starting timers; detecting an event; determining whether the event matches criteria for allowance; and, if the event matches, allowing the event. If the event is not allowed, the method may then comprise terminating the event; determining whether to notify the external interface; and potentially transmitting an indication to the external interface. Indications may also be transmitted to a remote system that the event was detected and / or blocked.

Techniques are provided for updating best path based on real-time congestion feedback. A method comprises monitoring packets received from an internetworked system, wherein the packets are received on one of a plurality of external interfaces of a networking device; detecting that a received packet includes real-time information that signals a present or pending congestion condition on a path from the external interfaces of the networking device to the internetworked system; notifying a control logic of the real-time information; receiving from the control logic control information defining a change in one or more paths from the external interfaces to the internetworked system; and changing the one or more paths from the external interfaces to the internetworked system. Examining ingress traffic on external interfaces of an internetworked system can cause changes to routes, routing policies and PBRs in routers of the first internetworked system in response to real-time congestion.

A modular and tileable sensor array with routing in the interposer carrying the signals from the sensors to the integrated circuits. In one embodiment a large area modular sensor array assembly includes one or more tileable modules coupled together. The tileable modules have a plurality of transducer cells forming a sensor, an interposer coupled on a first side to the plurality of transducer cells by a plurality, one or more integrated circuits coupled to a second side of the interposer, wherein the interposer is configured to form the connection of at least some of the transducer cells to the integrated circuits, and one or more input / output connectors coupled to the interposer and providing an external interface.

The invention discloses a network slice manager and a management method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The manager comprises a creation module, an expansion module, a deletion module, a user request table, a network slice parameter table, a network slice state table and a plurality of external interfaces, wherein the creation module is respectively connected with the user request table and the network slice parameter table; both the expansion module and the deletion module are respectively connected with the network slice parameter table and the network slice state table; the creation module is connected with a core network, an access network, a physical resource pool and a user by the external interfaces; the expansion module is connected with an existing network slice and the physical resource pool by the external interfaces; and the deletion module is connected with the existing network slice by the external interface. The management method of the manager comprises three parts of creation, expansion and deletion of the network slice. According to the network slice manager and the management method thereof, which are disclosed by the invention, the network slice which meets requirements can be created according to user demands, and a utilization rate of the network slice is effectively maximized, so that a utilization rate of network resources is improved.

Provided is a satellite simulation system based on component-based satellite modeling. The system includes: a user interface unit for receiving simulation control commands and data and parameter required for simulation from a user; a satellite model unit for individually storing information dependant on the satellite, characteristics of the simulation object model and parameter information based on the characteristics, and performing simulation upon receipt of simulation control commands; and a simulation kernel unit for creating a schedule control command for simulation control of the satellite model unit, the onboard simulation unit and the external interface unit by the control command receiving / transmitting from / to the control command / telemetry to satellite control system, performing control and collecting and managing simulation results.

A mechanism is provided in which a secure chip for performing cryptographic and / or other functions is able to securely access a separate random access memory externally disposed with respect to a secure chip boundary. Addressing of the external memory is controlled so as to define certain regions therein which receive and store only encrypted information from the chip. Other regions of the external memory are set aside for the receipt and storage of unencrypted information. Access to the external memory is provided through a controlled interface which communicates with internal chip hardware which operates to control the flow of communication between various internal components such as cryptographic engines, data processors, internal memory of both the volatile and the nonvolatile variety and an external interface which provides the only other access to the chip. The internal chip hardware with which the external memory interface communicates is implemented as a combined ASIC and programmable hardware circuit, wherein the programmable hardware circuit is also securely configurable.

The invention relates to an electric energy information acquisition integrated platform, which includes a field terminal layer, a communication network layer, and a master station application layer. The field terminal layer can realize collection and remote transmission of field data in terms of different user types classified according to field user characteristics. The communication network layer can realize remote data transmission and load control administration by using hybrid networking technology. The master station application layer includes a database system, a front end processor system, an operation master station, a data analysis system, a WEB system, an automatic task system, and an external interface system; and can realize comprehensive electric energy information acquisition of six types of objects including an upper gateway, a lower gateway, a distribution / transformation gateway, high voltage users, lower voltage users and resident users, and realize operational administration and data analysis application function. The invention can realize metering of overall process including online of a power plant, power transmission / transformation, power distribution, and transmission to user, and information concentration acquisition, integrated storage management and distributed application of an examination gateway in an integrated platform.