90 results about "Procedure device" patented technology

Methods and systems are provided for capturing usage data from a user computer, processing a subset of such data to form output, and offering access to selective views of such output, such as to assist a company's management in monitoring computer usage in a work environment. The output may be processed and viewed according to software application, device, or specified user. The output, or a report generated therefrom, may be accessible in differing degrees to individuals having appropriate levels of permission.

A method, system, and computer program device manages group collaboration on projects, where the projects incorporate associatively filed electronic information. A team of users associated with the project is optionally dynamic and re-definable. A plurality of items are associated with a project; the present invention provides for automatic integration with different native applications supporting the items. Items and / or projects can be associated with more than one project. One or more embodiments of the present invention provide, for example, that a team member can send messages automatically addressed to other team members on the project. Optionally, team members can also attach items in the project to emails to be sent to individuals not on the team.

The present invention provides intravascular embolic protection apparatus including a blood filter element having an accommodating passageway adapted to permit passage of a procedure device therethrough and to substantially seal against passage of particles between the embolic protection apparatus and the procedure device by accommodating to a size and shape of the procedure device. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method of performing an endovascular procedure on a patient including the steps of delivering an embolic protection apparatus to a location within a vascular lumen of the patient; passing a procedure device through an accommodating passageway of the apparatus, the accommodating passageway accommodating to a size and shape of the procedure device; performing the endovascular procedure; and removing the procedure device from the patient.

Devices, systems, and methods are provided for accessing the interior of the heart and performing procedures therein while the heart is beating. In one embodiment, a tubular access device having an inner lumen is provided for positioning through a penetration in a muscular wall of the heart, the access device having a means for sealing within the penetration to inhibit leakage of blood through the penetration. The sealing means may comprise a balloon or flange on the access device, or a suture placed in the heart wall to gather the heart tissue against the access device. An obturator is removably positionable in the inner lumen of the access device, the obturator having a cutting means at its distal end for penetrating the muscular wall of the heart. The access device is preferably positioned through an intercostal space and through the muscular wall of the heart. Elongated instruments may be introduced through the tubular access device into an interior chamber of the heart to perform procedures such as septal defect repair and electrophysiological mapping and ablation. A method of septal defect repair includes positioning a tubular access device percutaneously through an intercostal space and through a penetration in a muscular wall of the heart, passing one or more instruments through an inner lumen of the tubular access device into an interior chamber of the heart, and using the instruments to close the septal defect. Devices and methods for closing the septal defect with either sutures or with patch-type devices are disclosed.

Decision information systems, methods, and computer programs for better informing decisions to use multiple drugs in drug delivery devices, including implantable devices, for drug administration. Executable computer programs and logic embodying methods of the invention can calculate consistent multiple drug mixture amounts and drug delivery flow rates. One program accepts user input indicating a desired first drug dose rate, an initial first drug concentration, a desired second drug dose rate, an initial second drug concentration, and the reservoir size of the drug delivery device. The program method calculates a first drug amount and a second drug amount to combine in a mixture as well as a first drug true concentration in the mixture. The drugs can be mixed consistent with the physician's instructions using the program output. The first drug true concentration can be entered into a programmer device as the only drug concentration entered. Another program calculates a consistent first drug, second drug, and diluent amount to be added to a mixture for injection into a fixed flow rate, implantable drug delivery device. Methods preferably output true concentrations and dose rates for all drugs to be added and most preferably show all calculations used to arrive at the flow rate and mixture amount calculations. Yet another program receives a new desired drug dose rate for a previously filled device. The program accepts the existing mixture volume and true drug concentrations for a partially depleted device and calculates a new mixture flow rate to achieve the desired dose rate using the existing mixture. The methods can be implemented as executable computer programs in programmer devices, general purpose computers, servers, handheld computers, and personal digital assistants.

Physical (or prior virtual) machine volumes can be converted to virtual machines at a virtual machine host while the physical machines are running. In one implementation, a volume shadow copy service can be used to create an application (and / or file system)-consistent snapshot of one or more physical machine volumes while the one or more volumes are running. The snapshot data can then be transferred to a mounted virtual hard disk file (dynamic or fixed) at a virtual machine host. Operational information (e.g., boot record, system registry, drivers, devices, configuration preferences, etc.) associated with the virtual hard disk file and the operating system(s) within the virtual machine can then be modified as appropriate to ensure that the corresponding virtual machine is bootable and functional at the virtual machine host. The virtual hard disk file can then be un-mounted, and used as a new virtual machine.

In a method for monitoring the flow of execution of a series of instructions of a computer program, a sequence of instructions are transmitted to the processor to execute the monitored program. These instructions are analyzed, and the result of the analysis are verified by referring to reference data recorded with the program. The reference data can include a value predetermined in such a way as to correspond to the result of the analysis produced during the monitoring process only if all the instructions have been actually analyzed during the program flow. The invention also concerns a device for monitoring the program execution, a program device, and a programming device operating according to the monitoring principles.

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for constraining the behavior of embedded script in documents using program instrumentation. In one embodiment, the method comprises downloading a document with a script program embedded therein, inspecting the script program, and rewriting the script program to cause behavior resulting from execution of the script to conform to one or more policies defining safety and security. The script program comprises self-modifying code (e.g., dynamically generated script).

A method, system, and computer program device provides layered access and / or supervisory oversight and management of projects and items, and the projects incorporate associatively filed electronic information. Optionally, layered access includes peer groups of individual users, with access across multiple projects. A plurality of items incorporate the electronic information, and are associated with a project, and optionally the items have different corresponding native applications.

Devices, systems and methods are provided for performing intra-lumenal medical procedures in a desired area of the body. Thrombectomy systems and methods of performing medical procedures to re-establish the intravascular flow of blood are provided for the treatment of ischemic disease states.

A computer-readable storage medium storing a dataset sorting program is provided to sort records in a dataset into a plurality of destination groups according to a given key item specification. An item value extractor creates an item value list for every record. Then a frequent tree builder builds a frequent tree from the item value lists by finding patterns of item values that appear more often than a threshold specified by a given growth rate parameter. Each item value pattern is a leading part of an item value list with a variable length. A destination group mapper associates each node of the frequent tree with one of the plurality of destination groups. A record sorter traces the frequent tree according to the item value list of each given record, and upon reaching a particular node, puts the record into the destination group associated with that node.

Provided are a method, system, and program for managing memory options for a device such as an I / O device. Private addresses provided by logic blocks within the device may be transparently routed to either an optional external memory or to system memory, depending upon which of the optional memories the private address has been mapped.

The XAM architecture that specifies a software program instrumentation and data collection method and system is disclosed. The XAM architecture includes definition of a measurement type hierarchy, the definition of an XAM API that adapts an application program to a local XAM library, and a message protocol, based on XML, through which the XAM library is configured by, and sends collected data to, an XAM services process. Predefined measurement types include primitive measurement types and aggregate measurement types, the latter allowing for significant decrease in data transmission overheads between the XAM library and the XAM services process because of data filtering and processing by XAM library routines.

Devices and method are provided for ultrasound transmission without the need for external couplants, such as gels, which are typically used in conventional ultrasound procedures. In particular, ultrashields are provided for use with ultrasound probes, wherein the ultrashields have specialized layers to provide an uninterrupted pathway of acoustic conductance from the probe to the surface of the body throughout the procedure while introducing minimal to no attenuation of ultrasound wave transmission. In addition, combinations of ultrashields and probe covers are provided to provide additional features such as a microbial barrier.

A method for determining the number and location of instrumentation probes to be inserted into a program is disclosed. The method advantageously inserts the minimum number of probes that are required to obtain execution coverage for every node in the program's control-flow graph. In addition, the method requires only type of node marking and one bit to store each probe, and does not require the assignment of weights to arcs or nodes of the control-flow graph. In the illustrative embodiment, the nodes of a control-flow graph are partitioned into non-empty sets, where each non-empty set corresponds to a super nested block of the program.

A method of preparing and displaying a cumulative presentation and a presentation system are provided. A listing of available individual presentation files is provided through a user interface. Each of the presentation files comprises a plurality of presentation slides. A user is queried through the user interface to select presentation files from the available individual presentation files for inclusion in a cumulative presentation in a selected presentation order. A listing of presentation files selected by the user is displayed in the user interface. In response to a first command received from the user, a first slide from a first presentation from the cumulative presentation is provided to a display device for display thereon. In response to a second command received from the user, a second slide from the cumulative presentation is provided to the display device for display thereon.

The invention provides a tire tread winding method and a system thereof. The method comprises the steps as follows: a rubber sheet is extruded from an extruding machine, and then is cooled by a rubber-sheet cooling roll; a plastic film is stuck to the rubber sheet through a laminating mechanism at the same time; the film rubber-sheet is rolled up by a winding mechanism, and then is turned over or preserved; the film rubber-sheet roll is unreeled by adopting a center unreeling machine; then the plastic film and the rubber sheet are separated through a film and rubber-sheet detaching mechanism, and the plastic film is collected; the rubber sheet is delivered to a twister for tread winding. The system thereof comprises a first working-procedure device and a second working-procedure device; according to the production and the transportation direction of the rubber sheet, the first working-procedure device comprises the extruding machine, the rubber-sheet cooling roll as well as the laminating mechanism, and the winding mechanism in accordance with the installation positions; the second working-procedure device comprises the center unreeling machine, the film and rubber-sheet detaching mechanism, and the tread twister in accordance with the installation positions. The tire tread winding method and the system thereof increase the utility ratio of the extruding machine, the quality of the rubber sheet, and the winding quality.

Disclosed is an electronic record system which dispenses with complicated operations using a menu and a button and handwriting input operation like paper writing can be achieved. A system is established and is provided with: an input / output unit device capable of inputting / outputting data by the direct writing on a display screen with a pen; and a control / arithmetic device connected to the input / output unit device and reflecting the data inputted on the display screen to the screen. In this system, an electronic record in the form of strip-shaped sheet with an infinite length extending in the longitudinal direction is displayed, data is directly inputted from the display screen as a stroke data, the inputted characters are converted into the character data by the use of a character recognition engine and the converted data is used as data format available in a secondary use such as a data search, and various functions are driven by a predetermined pen operation.

A tree is used for representing relationships between various entities and, in an embodiment, may be used for conducting transactions. In an embodiment, the tree may be dynamically updated at run time and / or each time an agent accesses the tree by, for example, conducting a transaction or requesting new information. An application running on a server may be used for accessing a database and generating a display language tree (which may be a tree written in a display language such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Extensible Markup Language (XML)). The application sends the display language tree to the agent's appliance where the display language tree is displayed. In an embodiment, nodes having different interrelationships, such as aggregation relationships and association relationships, may be handled differently from one another even if the same type of parent / child relationship is displayed in an image of the tree to the agent.

The embodiment of the invention belongs to the technical field of transmission and relates to a synchronous rail driving system and an annular production line. The synchronous rail driving system comprises a cabinet and a table surface assembly. The table surface assembly comprises an annular supporting frame, and a driving device, an annular guide rail, positioning devices and slide block assemblies which are arranged on the annular supporting frame. The annular production line comprises the synchronous rail driving system. According to the synchronous rail driving system, by additionally arranging the positioning devices on the basis of a synchronous belt, the slide block assemblies can be subjected to secondary positioning and locking, accordingly, the purpose of precise positioning isachieved, external equipment can be further effectively connected with the system, different procedure devices are applied to the system simultaneously to form the annular production line, different procedures of workpieces are effectively completed, the production cost is greatly saved, and the production cycle is greatly shortened.

To provide an accessing device which allows reliable protection of important data. A memory accessing device has a file system device which manages a logical memory space and a driver device which maintains a correlation information between the logical memory space and a physical memory space and which physically accesses a flash memory based on the correlation information. The flash memory is physically divided into a plurality of strings. The file system device manages the memory space by dividing the memory space into a plurality of partitions each of which is set to one of RO and RW. The driver device specifies a permission type to write the data in a string by correlating each string to a single logical partition.

The invention discloses a quality tracing system and method of expansion valves. The quality tracing system of the expansion valves comprises five hosts, wherein the hosts and working procedure devices are mutually connected, each host stores a production line Excel configuration table for each production line of the expansion valves, the production line Excel configuration tables of the hosts are the same, each production line Excel configuration table comprises working procedure parameter information including chain working procedure numbers in a built-in mode, and continuous numbering is carried out on the chain working procedure numbers according to the sequence of production line working procedures. Quality tracing of each expansion valve is achieved through a product and employee serial number, a production line number, a station number and each production line Excel configuration table. The quality tracing method of the expansion valves is characterized in that a working procedure chain is achieved, the working procedures and stations are traced, the production status of each employee is traced, and working procedure information is called to carry out judgment of quality. According to the quality tracing system and method of the expansion valves, due to the characteristics of different expansion valves, working procedure configuration is carried out through the production line Excel configuration tables, the characteristic that the production working procedures are related in a previous-and-next mode is taken into consideration, error control of production is achieved through the working procedure chain, and quality tracing is achieved through bar codes and radio frequency identification.

In an information processing system, a host apparatus and a device are communicatively connected such that the host apparatus serves as a master and the device serves as a slave. The device is configured to establish a power-saving mode, when any command is not received from the host apparatus for a prescribed time period. A device driver is provided in the host apparatus. The device driver is configured to transit from a normal state to a suspended state when an operation command for operating the device is not received from an application running in the host apparatus for a prescribed time period, and to transmit a dummy response to the application, when an inquiry command is received from the application while the device driver is placed in the suspended state, without notifying the inquiry command to the device.

The invention discloses a method for upgrading a program of an Internet of Things device, which relates to the technical field of the Internet of Things. An upgrade sending device and an upgraded receiving device are connected in a wireless or wired manner; the upgrade sending device stores a new program to be upgraded, and sends the new program to be upgraded to the upgrade receiving device through a wired communication interface or a wireless communication interface for upgrading the program of the upgrade receiving device. The upgrade receiving device receives the new program code through the wired communication interface or the wireless communication interface, and upgrades the new program and process exceptions of program update through the internal program upgrade startup mechanism,the program upgrade code copy and erase mechanism, the new program startup confirmation mechanism, and the upgrade failure error handling mechanism. The invention can be conveniently realized throughthe CmdAdd command address to upgrade a new program for a designated upgrade accepting device or upgrade a new program for all the program devices.

A method and programmed apparatus for cutting graphics from substantially-identical sheets with graphics and registration marks printed thereon using a plotter and controlled cutter and sensor movable over the sheets, including: (1) sensing work-surface positions of the marks of a sheet and calculating an expected work-surface position for each such mark based on the work-surface positions of other marks of the sheet; (2) classifying each mark as active or inactive based on a first error criterion and applying the classification to corresponding marks of a subsequent sheet, the active marks being fewer than the total number of printed marks; (3) sensing the work-surface positions of the active marks of the subsequent sheet; and (4) cutting the graphics from the subsequent sheet based on the sensed positions of the active marks, thereby reducing the time for accurate cut-processing of the subsequent sheet.

The invention relates to a removing technology of aflatoxin in corn oil, and belongs to the technical field of oil processing. The removing technology comprises the following steps: selecting and storing corn germs; treating the selected corn germs to obtain crude oil; sequentially carrying out alkali refining, dewaxing, decoloration and deodorization on the crude oil, as so to finally obtain the finished product, namely, corn oil, wherein a compound adsorbing agent is adopted during decoloration; the compound adsorbing agent is a mixture of activated clay, attapulgite and activated carbon. According to the removing technology, aflatoxin removal and the whole corn oil producing process are organically combined, so that the aflatoxin content in the corn oil is decreased, and substances and procedure devices are not externally added; the removing technology is environment-friendly and safe; the original nutritional components in the corn oil are maximumly reserved.

A method of recording, updating, and accessing a person's medical history over time includes the steps of maintaining the person's medical history in a portable memory device that includes both the medical history and a program that stores medical records in a secure database in the portable memory device, updates the medical records in the secure database, and provides access to the medical records in the secure database. The program is executable using any electronic device having a processor that is capable of accessing the portable memory device. Using the method, a person is able to record, update, and access that person's medical history without the need for special software, and without the need for access to a website or to a database of medical records, that is external to the memory device.

The invention discloses a solar cell process traceability method. The method comprises the following steps: a code printing device is arranged behind a silicon wafer appearance and electrical propertydetection procedure device, the code printing device enables a recognition code to be on the silicon wafer, a code reading device is arranged on other procedure devices in a silicon wafer process, the code reading device reads the recognition code of each silicon wafer, correspondence with the process parameters in the current procedure is carried out, and all data in the procedure are finally connected to a manufacturing execution system and are stored. According to the solar cell process traceability method, through a laser coding and code reading and recognition system, the silicon wafer appearance and electrical property detection information and the cell process monitoring information are subjected to effective single matching, and thus, effective traceability on the cell process information is realized. Through the traced information, the raw material quality condition and the process condition of each cell can be mastered, on one hand, a direction is provided for technical improvement, and on the other hand, a solid foundation is laid for the cell quality, and the working efficiency is enhanced, and the production cost is reduced.