214 results about "Global time" patented technology

An improved system and method of fairly and securely enabling timed-constrained competitions over the Internet among millions of competitors while compensating for the variable network communication latencies experienced by client machines used by the competitors. The system employs globally time-synchronized Internet information servers and client machines in order to synchronize the initial display of each invitation to respond (e.g. stock price to buy or sell, query to answer, or problem to solve) on a client machine so each competitor can respond to the invitation at substantially the same time, regardless of his or her location on the planet, or the type of Internet-connection used by his or her client machine. Also, by using globally time-synchronized client machines, each competitor's response is securely time and space stamped at the client machine to ensure that competitor responses are resolved within microsecond accuracy.

System and method for packet messaging and synchronization through a packet based display interface includes using a multiple packet transport protocols, translating packet messages between protocols and achieving time code synchronization with a packet protocol between multiple devices in a multimedia network. A packet based display interface includes a dual data transport module to communicate packet messages using first and second packet transport protocols across a bidirectional link and a media transport module to communicate video packets across a unidirectional link. A method for communicating packet messages between source and slave devices in a multimedia network includes translating messages between different packet transport protocols. An apparatus for synchronizing a sink device to a source device includes a counter module configured to be adjusted based on a received source global time code value and a transport module to transmit a sink global time code value to the source device.

An improved method and system for identifying individual users accessing a web site. A web site server is able to identify distinct users by using a unique identifier associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. The unique identifier comprises an Internet address, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) address, and a time value associated with each client computer system requesting access to the web site. On starting up a web browser, an application program or browser plug-in may synchronize the internal clock included with the client computer system with a global time standard. The synchronized time value may be based on an event associated with the client computer system, such as the start of a web browser. A web site server may determine the uniqueness of the client computer system by comparing unique identifier records of users accessing the web site. A user may be identified as distinct if no matching record exists in the database. Multiple client computer systems having a common Internet address may be identified by using this method. Users privacy is also protected as the unique identifiers are erased when the client computer system's user exits the web browser or powers down the computer.

A network resource allocation system and method of the same are provided according to the present invention. The system and method are applicable to a wireless mesh network, the method including: programming traffic of connections between routers; exchanging data between neighboring routers, thereby enabling the routers to perform dispersive network resource allocation according to the exchanged data; checking a local time window and a global time window for expiration by the router; and, under the condition of local performance deterioration or local traffic variation, activating a local routing adjustment mechanism by the router, wherein, if global performance deterioration currently exists, then activating a global optimization mechanism by a central controller, and, if not, then resetting the global time window. Accordingly, the present invention is capable of perceiving the traffic status of each connection between routers, thereby efficiently directing traffic to various channels and wireless transceivers.

A method of automatically classifying images in a consumer digital image collection, includes generating an event representation of the image collection; computing global time-based features for each event within the hierarchical event representation; computing content-based features for each image in an event within the hierarchical event representation; combining content-based features for each image in an event to generate event-level content-based features; and using time-based features and content-based features for each event to classify an event into one of a pre-determined set of semantic categories.

The invention discloses a video content description method by means of space and time attention models. The global time structure in the video is captured by means of the time attention model, the space structure on each frame of picture is captured by the space attention model, and the method aims to realize that the video description model masters the main event in the video and enhances the identification capability of the local information. The method includes preprocessing the video format; establishing the time and space attention models; and training and testing the video description model. By means of the time attention model, the main time structure in the video can be maintained, and by means of the space attention model, some key areas in each frame of picture are focused in each frame of picture, so that the generated video description can capture some key buy easy neglected detailed information while mastering the main event in the video content.

A method is provided for synchronizing time in an unsynchronized vehicle controller area network system. A master control unit receives a global time from a time synchronization source. The master control unit estimates a respective time delay in transmitting messages by electronic control units on each controller area network bus. The time delay is a difference between a time when a message is generated by a respective electronic control unit for transmission on a respective controller area network bus and a time when the message is transmitted on the respective controller area network bus. The global time is adjusted for each respective controller area network bus based on the estimated time delays associated with each respective controller area network bus. Global time messages from the master control unit are transmitted to each electronic control unit that include the adjusted global times for an associated controller area network bus.

Techniques are described herein that may be used to invalidate all entries in a table. For example, the table may be a flow cache. For example, an expiry time may be associated with one or more entries in the table. The expiry time of an entry may be initially set to the sum of the system time, the expiry time of the protocol associated with the entry, and a global time variable. To check if the entry is expired at any time, the current system time may be added to the global time variable and if the result is greater than the expiry time in the entry, then the entry is expired. To invalidate all the entries, the global time variable may be incremented by a large amount which may equal the maximum expiry time of all protocols. This may cause all entries to expire. New entries may be added using the new incremented value of the global time variable and will hence not expire.

A global time reckoning system simultaneously indicates local time and global time. The global time reckoning system can be practiced with standard clock timer drivers, including electromechanical and digital clock motors, in combination with a novel global time system clock face to allow a user to reckon time locally or anywhere on the globe without time zone conversion calculations. The global time system clock face has multiple time scales, at least one of which is driven by the clock drive in cooperation with an hour indicator (e.g., an hour hand). The global time system clock face simultaneously displays global time (relative to any location on the globe) and local time. Additionally, the global time reckoning system, with the appropriate clock timer driver is adaptable to indicate a number of other global time related information, including sunrise / sunset, days of the week, lunar phase and solstices / equinoxes.

A system and method are provided for adaptive synchronization of timing information provided in communications messages transmitted between independently clocked communication nodes of a wireless communications network. The system and method include measures for collecting timestamps of messages generated by a plurality of the nodes, each timestamp being generated by one of the nodes relative to a local time reference thereof. A pairwise clock error is computed for at least one pair of nodes based upon a plurality of network messages passed therebetween. A global time reference is adaptively established for the timestamps responsive to the pairwise clock error. A plurality of mapping factors are defined each for translating from one local time reference to the global time reference. The mapping factors are selectively applied to corresponding ones of the timestamps.

An enhanced interactive television broadcast is disclosed wherein an audio / video broadcast is viewed on a first display system, and an “enhancement” to the broadcast is simultaneously viewed or experienced on a second, separate display system. The “enhancement” is synchronized to the broadcast, and delivered to a user as a code fragments, such as a JavaScript message. URLs are not required. Portions or elements of a web page are reduced to single code fragments, rendered client-side upon receipt. The invention implements Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize the client's application clock to global time. Messages, or JavaScript code fragments, are time-stamped and evaluated based on the client's application clock.

Synchronization is maintained among a plurality of network devices having local clocks that participate in a network. A first packet is broadcast from a first network device to other network devices that participate in the network. The first packet includes a global time reference derived from the local clock of the first network device. The clocks of the network devices that receive the first packet are adjusted to be closer to the local clock of the first network device. A first network local time reference and a second network local time reference may be maintained for a device that participates in a first network and a second network. A free running clock is maintained on the device. The difference between the free running clock and a first network global time reference is determined. A first network offset is calculated to account for the difference between the free running clock and the first network global time reference. The difference between the free running clock and a second network global time reference is determined. A second network offset is calculated to account for the difference between the free running clock and the second network global time reference.

The invention discloses an elastic wave forward simulation technology based on the space-time dual-variable grid, comprising the following steps: determining the stability conditions of the target area and the background area according to the speed parameter and the elasticity parameter of the underground medium aiming to the known earthquake geological model so as to calculate the size of the space grids with different dimensions and perform the discretization process to the speed field; obtaining the space arbitrary precision difference formula of the grid point variables with different dimensions by using the Taylor's formula and the finite difference technology, which is the arbitrary even order accuracy space difference formula of the space constant grid operator and the space variable grid operator, and calculating the wave field values of the precise division area, the rough division area and the middle transitional belt area by using the deduced space difference formula; in the wave field extrapolation process of the time layer, using different time sampling intervals to different grid division areas and meet the partial stability condition, obtaining the wave field value of the precise grid point in the precise time layer and the wave field value of the rough grid point in the global time layer; in each global time layer, transmitting the wave field value of the precise grid division area to the rough grid division area, thereby obtaining the space wave field value of the whole speed field at the said moment; performing the wave field extrapolation on each time layer by the said method and obtaining the forward simulation record of single cannon. The partial stability condition of the shallow layer can be met, so as to avoid the frequency dispersion noise.

The invention, which relates to the intelligent traffic industry, discloses a high efficient and real-time analytical method of vehicle fake license suspicion and an apparatus thereof. According to the invention, all data for fake license analyses are stored in a memory; it is maintained that each vehicle is corresponded to only one record during the processing process and the total amount of the data is controlled; and it is determined whether a vehicle a fake licensed one by calculating whether a time difference of the same vehicle between two checkposts is less than a time threshold between the two checkposts, so that it can be rapidly and accurately determined whether there is fake license suspicion. Because distance between checkposts are various and the speed limits are different, time for driving a distance between each two checkposts is different from others; therefore, the shortest time for passing through the two checkposts can be determined by calculating a time threshold between the two checkposts; and the determination result is more reasonable than an arranged unified global time threshold. Moreover, a memory analytical mode is used to replace a traditional Oracle database query analytical mode; therefore, efficiency is high and operability is strong; and an operation burden of the Oracle database is reduced.

A method of automatically classifying images in a consumer digital image collection, includes generating an event representation of the image collection; computing global time-based features for each event within the hierarchical event representation; computing content-based features for each image in an event within the hierarchical event representation; combining content-based features for each image in an event to generate event-level content-based features; and using time-based features and content-based features for each event to classify an event into one of a pre-determined set of semantic categories.

The invention provides a hierarchical structure based wireless sensor network time synchronization method. According to the hierarchical structure based wireless sensor network time synchronization method, gateway nodes and aggregation nodes are distributed in a monitoring site in advance and sensor nodes are carried by operators; the gateway nodes send hierarchy establishment broadcast data packages with time stamps; the aggregation nodes and the sensor nodes within the communication distance range extract hierarchy information after receiving the data packages, hierarchies of the aggregation nodes and the sensor nodes are changed by adding one to the current hierarchies, and local clocks are modified according to the time stamps; the gateway nodes are served as global time after network hierarchies are built, the timed polling sends time synchronization data packages to aggregation sub-nodes and the aggregation nodes synchronize the local clock time and the global time through the time synchronization algorithm; the sensor nodes perform time synchronization on the local clocks by intercepting time synchronization mutual data package information. The hierarchical structure based wireless sensor network time synchronization method achieves high accuracy time synchronization and improves the wireless sensor network channel utilization rate and the network life cycle.

The invention provides a microblog-oriented dynamic topic detecting and evolution tracking method and belongs to the technical field of intelligent information processing. The method includes the steps of 1, establishing a distributed crawler to acquire microblog data; 2, pre-processing the microblog data; 3, performing Chinese word segmentation to remove stop words, and acquiring a word set VOC; 4, subjecting the microblog data to LDA (latent Dirichlet allocation) clustering in each time interval so as to extract latent topics; 5, screening out microblog hot topics in each time interval; 6, subjecting the hot topics of a global time to hierarchical clustering to acquire inter-topic aggregation and differentiation relations; 7, visualizing a topic evolution process according to the inter-topic aggregation and differentiation relations. The method has the advantages such that topic word distribution of an event in different times and a fine-grained topic of a same topic in different times are mined under low time complexity, efficiency is high, and robustness is high; the method has greater practical value.

A method of keeping global time in a wireless network, the method comprising the steps of: using a first 802.11 chip set to read a Time Synchronization Function (TSF) to provide an initial time base; using an interconnected clock control circuit to read the TSF time directly from the 802.11 chip set and to implement a local clock based on time values read from the TSF function.

A system and method to synchronize independent local clocks in multi-core processing system are disclosed. A shared counter or a shared memory / file is provided to establish a partial happened-before relationship (e1<e2 in the happened-before order if we know that the event e1 happened before the event e2) and a synchronizer device is utilized to generate a global time of events in threads or processes. The synchronizer device estimates each clock's start time and approximates elapsed time between events in threads or processes by executing an all-pair shortest-path algorithm

A method is provided for synchronizing time in an unsynchronized vehicle controller area network system. A master control unit receives a global time from a time synchronization source. The master control unit estimates a respective time delay in transmitting messages by electronic control units on each controller area network bus. The time delay is a difference between a time when a message is generated by a respective electronic control unit for transmission on a respective controller area network bus and a time when the message is transmitted on the respective controller area network bus. The global time is adjusted for each respective controller area network bus based on the estimated time delays associated with each respective controller area network bus. Global time messages from the master control unit are transmitted to each electronic control unit that include the adjusted global times for an associated controller area network bus.

Method and system for routing fiber channel frames using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The method includes, inserting a time stamp value in a fiber channel frame that is received at a receive segment of the fiber channel switch element; determining if a timeout occurs after a frame arrives at a receive buffer; and processing the frame if the timeout occurred. The method also includes, determining if a delta time value, which provides an accumulated wait time for a frame, is present in frame data; subtracting the delta time stamp value from a global time stamp value and using the resulting time stamp value to determine frame timeout status in the fiber channel switch element. A timeout checker circuit declares a timeout after comparing a time stamp value that is inserted in a fiber channel frame with a programmed time out value and global counter value.

A method and apparatus for enabling a network security service and network security infrastructure to detect, identify, mitigate, neutralize, and disable worms through distributed worm probes that can be linked to centralized monitoring systems for emergency response process is disclosed. The worm probes track packets with destination unreachable errors on a per source IP address basis. In one embodiment, when the number of such errors exceeds a predefined local threshold, e.g., within a predefined local time period at a worm probe, the count of such errors as well as the source IP address will be sent to all other worm probes in the network as an alert. When the number of such errors exceeds a predefined global threshold, e.g., within a predefined global time period, traffic from the endpoint device with the identified source IP address will be blocked to prevent that endpoint device from spreading worms further.

A system and method for efficiently storing traces of multiple components in an embedded system. A system-on-a-chip (SOC) includes a trace unit for collecting and storing trace history, bus event statistics, or both. The SOC may transfer cache coherent messages across multiple buses between a shared memory and a cache coherent controller. The trace unit includes a trace buffer with multiple physical partitions assigned to subsets of the multiple buses. The number of partitions is less than the number of multiple buses. One or more trace instructions may cause a trace history, trace bus event statistics, local time stamps and a global time-base value to be stored in a physical partition within the trace buffer.

Techniques are described herein that may be used to invalidate all entries in a table. For example, the table may be a flow cache. For example, an expiry time may be associated with one or more entries in the table. The expiry time of an entry may be initially set to the sum of the system time, the expiry time of the protocol associated with the entry, and a global time variable. To check if the entry is expired at any time, the current system time may be added to the global time variable and if the result is greater than the expiry time in the entry, then the entry is expired. To invalidate all the entries, the global time variable may be incremented by a large amount which may equal the maximum expiry time of all protocols. This may cause all entries to expire. New entries may be added using the new incremented value of the global time variable and will hence not expire.

A system and method to synchronize independent local clocks in multi-core processing system are disclosed. A shared counter or a shared memory / file is provided to establish a partial happened-before relationship (e1<e2 in the happened-before order if we know that the event e1 happened before the event e2) and a synchronizer device is utilized to generate a global time of events in threads or processes. The synchronizer device estimates each clock's start time and approximates elapsed time between events in threads or processes by executing an all-pair shortest-path algorithm.

The invention discloses a distributed integrated modular avionic system hybrid dynamic reconfiguration system and method. The distributed integrated modular avionic system hybrid dynamic reconfiguration system at least comprises a first operation module, a second operation module, a third operation module, a fourth operation module, a fifth operation module, a first TTE exchanger and a second TTE exchanger, wherein the first operation module, the second operation module, the third operation module, the fourth operation module and the fifth operation module are connected through the first TTE exchanger and the second TTE exchanger, and the first TTE exchanger and the second TTE exchanger execute the TTE protocol. According to the protocol, in the communication process, a global clock is adopted for starting data receiving and transmitting, and the operation of each TTE exchanger and each operation module is only related with the global time. One operation module is set as the main reconfiguration management module to manage the remote reconfiguration work of the whole system in a uniform mode, and another operation module is set as the backup module.

A recording medium, method, and apparatus for reproducing text subtitle streams are disclosed. A microcomputer initially reads a set of PlayItems and a SubPlayItem included in a PlayList which is recorded on a recording medium, and it further reads synchronization information included in the SubPlayItem. Each PlayItem is configured to reproduce at least one main AV stream, and the SubPlayItem is configured to reproduce a text subtitle stream. The synchronization information indicates a presentation start time of the SubPlayItem on a global time axis of the PlayList. When the PlayList is randomly accessed at a random access time on the global time axis, the microcomputer calculates a corresponding access time on a time axis of the SubPlayItem. Then a text subtitle decoder decodes for presentation a dialog presentation segment with the closest dialog start time after the corresponding access time on the axis of the SubPlayItem.

An enhanced interactive television broadcast is disclosed wherein an audio / video broadcast is viewed on a first display system, and an “enhancement” to the broadcast is simultaneously viewed or experienced on a second, separate display system. The “enhancement” is synchronized to the broadcast, and delivered to a user as a code fragments, such as a JavaScript message. URLs are not required. Portions or elements of a web page are reduced to single code fragments, rendered client-side upon receipt. The invention implements Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize the client's application clock to global time. Messages, or JavaScript code fragments, are time-stamped and evaluated based on the client's application clock.

The present invention discloses a data scheduling and transmitting method supporting a time trigger mechanism in a FC switch, including the steps as follows: performing parameter configuration for a port of the switch according to a virtual channel strategy; 2. judging whether a data frame is time trigger data or event trigger data after the port of the switch receives the data frame, and entering a time trigger buffer region if the data frame is the time trigger data; 3. querying the message cycle and the time migration according to a virtual link number after the time trigger data enters the time trigger buffer region, judging whether the data frame is valid or not according to the current global time, and putting the data frame in a port buffer region if the data frame is valid and transmitting a schedule request to a scheduler; 4. responding the schedule request by the scheduler at the given time; 5. and switching on a crossbar switch by the switch after the schedule success so as to complete the data exchange and transmission. The method meets the requirements of high bandwidth and real-time performance for communication transmission in the airplane avionics system.

The disclosure relates to a converter control unit or power system stabilizing unit for counteracting oscillations in electric power systems that is equipped and employed to provide and processes information for system-wide monitoring, protection, control and metering. It comprises means for synchronized (e.g. via GPS or another absolute / global time reference) sampling of voltages and / or currents, means for down-sampling in order to decrease the number of samples, and means for calculating phasors, i.e. time stamped amplitude and phase angle of the voltages and / or currents.