1087 results about "Management information systems" patented technology

A Software Fault Management (SFM) system for managing software faults in a managed mobile telecommunications network. The SFM system includes an Intelligent Management Information Base (I-MIB) comprising a Management Information Base (MIB) and a Knowledge Base (KB) having a functional model of the managed network and a trouble report / known faults (TR / KF) case base. The SFM system also includes an intelligent multi-agent portion having a plurality of agents which process the software faults utilizing the functional model from the I-MIB, case-based information, and other management information. The I-MIB and the intelligent multi-agent portion are compliant with Telecomunications Management Network (TMN) principles and framework. Fault management is both proactive and reactive. The SFM system is made independent of technology-specific implementations by representing the underlying switch design knowledge in a modular and changeable form which is then interpreted by the intelligent multi-agent portion. A clear separation is maintained between the generic procedural inference mechanisms and agents, and the specific and explicit models of the different network elements of a mobile telecommunications network.

A multimedia data distributing system comprising an ID issuing center side device and a multimedia data distributor side device for distributing multimedia data as electronic data to a purchaser of the multimedia data. The multimedia data distributor device includes: an attribute information transmitting unit that transmits attribute information of the electronic data indicating the multimedia data to be distributed, to the ID issuing center side device; a watermark information embedding unit that embeds information specifying the ID number transmitted from the ID issuing center side device in response to the attribute information transmitted to the attribute information transmitting unit, as an watermark information in the electronic data indicating the multimedia data to be distributed; and a distribution unit that distributes the electronic data indicating the multimedia data, in which the information specifying the ID number is embedded as the watermark information by the watermark information embedding unit, to the purchaser of the multimedia data. The ID issuing center side device includes: an ID number generating unit that generates a unique ID number and registering the generated ID number in a database in a manner to correspond to the attribute information transmitted by the distributor of the multimedia data; and an ID number transmitting unit that transmits the information specifying the generated ID number to the multimedia data distributor device.

A vehicle fleet management information system for identification of location and direction of movement of each vehicle in the fleet in real-time and automatic communication directly with management offices to report its location and heading, and status of predetermined events in which the vehicle may be engaged. One example is a cement delivery truck which monitors location, speed and status information such as start pour, pouring, end pour, wash and leave job, and automatically transmits this information with a management office without requiring affirmative action by the vehicle operator.

The invention relates to a network management method wherein: a service management equipment holds the mapping of services and virtual networks as management information; a managed server sends an advice to a VLAN management equipment when its status changes; and the VLAN management equipment receives the advice and refers to the information contained in the advice to thereby identify the managed server and the connection port of a network switch, and configures a virtual network belonging to the identified port of the network switch. The method alleviates the task of reconfiguration associated with the adding or deleting of servers.

Systems and methods for network service management, wherein the internet service management system includes one or more components which collectively enable an administrator to obtain a site-wide view of network activities on servers such as web servers, FTP servers, e-mail servers, domain name servers, etc. In addition to collecting information relating to web server latency and processing time, the internet service management system may collect actual user transaction information and system information from end users on client computers. The internet service management system may provide domain summary information for a domain, or it may provide management information organized by "categories" according to how a site manager wants to view and manage his business; e.g., byline of business (books, auctions, music, etc.), by site function (searches, shopping cart, support, quotes, sales automation), or most any other categorization customers may choose.

Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of discussion herein, assume that a virtual machine (VM) represents each of these environments. In one particular embodiment, a systems management partition (SMP) is created inside the VM to provide a persistent and resilient storage for management information (e.g., logical and physical VM metadata). The SMP can also be used as a staging area for installing additional content or agentry on the VM when the VM is executed. Remote storage of management information can also be used. The VM management information can then be made available for pre-execution processing, including policy-based compliance testing.

Disclosed is the technology for dynamic and intelligent generation of dialog recommendations for the users of chat information systems based on multiple criteria. An example method may include receiving a speech-based user input, recognizing at least a part of the speech-based user input to generate a recognized input, and providing at least one response to the recognized input. The method may further include identifying at least one triggering event, generating at least one dialog recommendation based at least in part on the identification, and presenting the at least one dialog recommendation to a user via a user device.

A management information base (MIB) for a multi-domain network address translator provides management objects for configuring and controlling the multi-domain network address translator. The MIB includes management objects for defining a domain-specific source address filter range, which is a range of addresses used to detect domain-specific packets that require domain-specific network address translation forwarding. The domain-specific source address filter management objects include a beginning address, a prefix length, a domain indicator, and a domain-specific translation pool indicator. The MIB also includes management objects for defining a domain-specific translation pool, which is a range of addresses from which domain-specific translation addresses are selected for domain-specific network address translation forwarding. The domain-specific translation pool management objects include a beginning address, a prefix length, and a domain indicator.

A method to communicate agricultural product information to a user includes receiving, at a management information system, a request for agricultural product information. The request includes an agricultural product identifier. An agricultural product record, identified utilizing the agricultural product identifier, is then accessed and retrieved from a database at the management information system. The agricultural product record includes agricultural product data collected on the chain of custody of the agricultural product. The agricultural product data, as contained within the record, is then communicated to a user responsive to the request. The communication of the request, and the response, may be performed via the Internet as web-based communications.

The present invention relates to a method of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, e-business and for transaction of other data communications having associated transaction data for use with a universal server by wirelessly networking a plurality of portable digital devices to an electronic commerce terminal. The system can also effectuate electronic commerce and interactive advertising at the point of sale. Vending equipment can be networked to each other through a first network, programmable and accessible by a PC, server, point of sale (POS) system, property or management information system (PMS / MIS), and networked to a second network. Complete control of a vending machine's functionality including usage, control, diagnostics, inventory, and marketing data capture can be effectuated locally or by remote connection to the network. Remote connection to the network includes Internet type connections, telecommunication (telephone, ISDN, ADSL), VSAT satellite, and other wire and wireless transmission.

In one embodiment, a Management Information Base (MIB) is dynamically loaded on a managed network device that is managed by a managing network device using a management application. Initially, one or more network management objects are identified. The identified one or more network management objects are then included in the MIB. Thereafter, a policy file to be associated with the MIB is defined. Consequently, the MIB is loaded on the managed network device along with the associated policy file.

A server has management information including correspondence information between a physical storage region and a virtualized storage region, so as to provide a virtualized storage region. The server includes a unit for using the management information to provide a virtualized storage region to another host and a unit for instructing the control of the storage regions based on the virtualized storage region to a controller for a storage device for providing the physical storage region. Moreover, the controller includes a unit having whole or a part of management information including the correspondence information and performing the control of the storage device based on the virtualized storage region in response to the instruction.

The invention relates to an information system integration method for power network manufacture control macrozone and management information macrozone which belongs to the technical field of power network control and management systems. The method includes coding for power network devices uniformly; a comprehensive data platform is established, consisting of a first data platform and a second data platform arranged in the power network manufacture control macrozone and the management information macrozone; the model, graphs and real time data as well as historical data of the power network manufacture control macrozone are transmitted into the first data platform and stored into a first data platform database; a mirror image of the first data platform database is set up on the second data platform; the management information data of the power network management information macrozone are transmitted into the second data platform; the first data platform database and the management information data are integrated and then displayed by the second data platform carries out conformity. The method practically realizes the integration on the information systems of the power network manufacture control macrozone and the management information macrozone, thereby improving the information using efficiency of each system of the power network and promoting the automatization of the power network dispatching and the information management level.

According to one embodiment, a storage medium comprises an encrypted content, key management information which is updated whenever necessary and includes a media key block including encrypted media keys obtained by encrypting a media key which is a base of an authentication key used for mutual authentication with another apparatus by using different device keys, and first and second application keys which encrypt the title keys for each application of the content and are alternately updated and encrypted when the key management information is updated.

In a case where a failure has occurred in one of fabric management mechanisms, nodes resume data I / O communications without degrading performance and without changing the data I / O communication path between the nodes by switching control to the other one of the fabric management mechanisms. The fabric management mechanisms share management information with each other. When a failure occurs in either of the fabric management mechanisms, an E_Node that belongs to the domain, in which a failure has occurred, logs into a normal fabric management mechanism via a newly created management-use communication path. The normal fabric management mechanism allocates an N_Port_ID on the basis of a virtual FC domain number that has been allocated to a switch.

Systems and methods utilizing a portal on a single computer platform for improving risk assessment and business reporting are disclosed. The portal integrates at least two financial information resources such as, for example, an electronic credit report (eCR) database, an electronic know your customer (eKYC) database, a client business management information system, and a customer profitability system large area network. The eCR database includes a link to an exposure database, a credit rating database, and / or an intelligence database. The eKYC database includes an anti-money laundering scoring module, and / or a standard KYC form or an enhanced KYC form.

Methods and systems for structured communications between business planners to capture and profile a planning and management method as well as tasks, results, and performance indicators for tracking the achievement of a business strategy, goal, or mandate are outlined for an enterprise or an enterprise and its partner organizations. The systems and methods can be used to accelerate the configuration of management information systems and / or enterprise information systems in accordance with those profiles for the purposes of planning, delivering and managing programs and services.

An automatic service discovery approach allows a network management system to discover service managed objects from the network, eliminating the need for a user or other management application to provide such information. As a result, a network management system can automatically perform network-level or services level discovery of objects and services for which network components have no understanding. Embodiments are applicable, for example, in the context of management of packet voice (VoIP, VoATM) and metro Ethernet (TLS service) domains, as well as other domains.

The invention provides a network online examination management information system and relates to a computer management system. The system is provided with a student examination unit, a system administrator unit and a teacher test paper management unit under a B / S (browser / server) network architecture, wherein the student examination unit realizes online test paper finishing, test score query and personal password modification operation; the system administrator unit realizes teacher information maintenance, student information maintenance, test question bank maintenance and online examination management operation; and the teacher test paper management unit comprises a subject manager module and a course teacher module, wherein the subject manager module can carry out test question adding, test question deleting and test question modification operation, and the course teacher module can carry out test paper organization, generated test paper checking, test paper evaluation and scored or unscored test paper checking. According to the system, examination cost is reduced; the problem of workload of examination work is solved; paper-free examination is realized; the problems of examination cheating and test paper revealing do not exist; and answer safety and examination fairness are ensured.

A method of managing resources of an information system relative to clients of the system. A quality of service (QoS) message is received from a client expressing QoS requirements as parameter values. A contract is established with the client for quality of service based on the one or more parameter values. One or more resources of the system are allocated to the client based on the contract. This method enables uniform resource management and polymorphic resource allocation across multiple middleware platforms.

A method for selectively providing access to voice and data networks by use of intelligent hardware. The present invention provides security measures for controlling access to a network connection. An electronic device communicatively coupled to intelligent hardware initiates a request to access a network. The request is received at the intelligent hardware communicatively coupled to the network and configured to allow access to the network according to predetermined criteria. Provided the request satisfies the predetermined criteria, the electronic device is provided access to the network. The predetermined criteria may include placing geographic restrictions (e.g., the room the port is located in), temporal restrictions (e.g., weekend or nighttime restrictions), and user class restrictions (e.g., visitor restrictions or low-level employee restrictions) on specific ports of the intelligent hardware. In one embodiment, a central control site manages the predetermined criteria. In one embodiment, the present invention controls access to a corporate Intranet. In one embodiment, the intelligent device has specific access port serial number. The present invention provides a method of easier management of information systems.

A computer chassis compliant with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface includes a central baseboard management controller (CBMC) and at least one computer board set. The computer board set includes a microcontroller that operates simultaneously as a satellite management controller to receive system management requests from the CBMC and to provide system management information to the CBMC, and as a local baseboard management controller to receive system management information about the computer board set and to provide the system management information about the computer board set to the computer board set. The computer board set detects a local event, which is entered in a local system event log. The satellite management controller determines if the event was requested by the CBMC, and if so, transmits a corresponding event message to the CBMC. The local baseboard management controller determines if local action is required and performs the local action.

The invention provides a data storage device and a method of updating management information, capable of dealing with management information in a highly reliable manner so that information is not easily lost when an error occurs. File management information such as a FAT serving as address management information in a flash memory is stored in a management information area of the memory, a pair of blocks is assigned as blocks for use to store data of the FAT, and writing of updated FAT information is performed by alternately using the two blocks of the block pair such that previous FAT information is retained in one of the two blocks of the block pair, and updated FAT information is written in the other block of the block pair, whereby, even when an error occurs in the middle of the process of writing the updated management information, a process using the retained previous FAT information is possible.

Methods, systems, apparatus, and software for providing information from one or more data feeds to a user are provided. In some embodiments, the methods provided by the invention include obtaining at least one putative feed; confirming that the putative feed is a feed; extracting at least a portion of content from the feed or data related to the content from the feed; processing the extracted content or the data to produce a synthetic feed; and presenting the synthetic feed to the user. In more specific embodiments, the putative fee is selected from the group consisting of: RSS feeds and Web syndication feeds. In still more specific embodiments, the portion of the content or data related to the content is selected from the group consisting of: blog posts, podcasts, videos, and Web pages.

An architecture for a management information system includes a backend that services information requests from a front end. The backend retrieves data from management information base(s) (MIBs) and prepares a response to the information requests. The backend maintains a cache of data recently retrieved from the MIBs and uses the cache to retrieve data, instead of making additional requests to the MIBs. The responses may be prepared from cache data only, MIB data only, or a combination of both. The back end is preferably maintained on a same segment of a network as the MIBs. Multiple MIBs may be queried from the back end, and the backend may coordinate with back ends on other segments of the network.

For the purpose of providing timely and efficient maintenance services even when a system includes machines that are not covered by maintenance services, in a system comprising a center server (202) for customer management and a client terminal (104) owned by a customer, communicatably connected to each other via a network (50), the client terminal (104) stores management information including lease contract information (S2) and issues an event to the center server (202) in accordance with the content of the collected management information (S14). The center server (202) analyzes the content of the event received from the client terminal (104) (S22) and makes a notice of the content of the analyzed event (S24).