260 results about "Renewal time" patented technology

Described are various mechanisms and techniques for influencing or controlling a content update schedule for a content-based software application on a mobile device. A content server issues one or more commands to the mobile device that establish a content update schedule for the mobile device. The mobile device then performs content update sessions with the content server based on that schedule. During any one or more refresh sessions, the content server delivers another command to establish a new content update schedule. This system provides the advantage of allowing the content server to regulate how frequently the mobile device retrieves new content.

A method, system, and computer program product for monitoring service tickets for information technology (IT) service providers to ensure that levels of service regarding resolving problems identified by a customer are met is provided. In one embodiment, a monitoring server inspects a service ticket in a database to determine a deadline for when a problem associated with the service ticket must be resolved. The server then determines a deadline approaching alert time. This deadline approaching alert time is a time at which a help desk user must be notified that the deadline for resolving the problem must be met is approaching. The server then alerts the help desk user that the deadline for resolving the problem is approaching when the deadline approaching alert time is reached. If the problem is not resolved by the deadline, the server periodically alerts the help desk user when times for status updates, which have been specified by a level of service agreement for updating the customer of the status of resolution of problems that have past deadline, are approaching, thereby ensuring that the IT provider meets its obligations to the customer.

A system, method, and program for maintaining data consistency among updates to data storage areas are provided. Each update has an update time the update was made. There are multiple groups of data storage areas. For each group, updates to the data storage area in the group are stored in a journal for storing updates to the group, wherein there are multiple journals. An indication is made in a memory area for each group of a group update time comprising a most recent update time of the updates in the group. The update time for each update in the group is not greater than the group update time. A determination is made of a minimum group update time across all the groups. At least one update is applied to storage if the update time for the update does not exceed the minimum group update time. The data storage areas may be partitioned among a plurality of computer systems, and may be maintained in at least one primary and secondary storage. The data storage areas may also comprise volumes, with each group including at least one volume. The groups of updates may also be maintained in a journal.

There is provided, in a computer processing system, an apparatus for managing object data. The apparatus includes a changed objects manager for creating and managing a changed objects list that at least identifies the objects that have changed based on time of change. The changed objects list is associated with a plurality of time buckets. Each of the plurality of time buckets is associated with a respective date and time period and with object change records for objects having a timestamp falling within the respective date and time period. Each of the object change records is associated with a unique object identifier and the timestamp for a corresponding one of the objects. The timestamp specifies a date and a time corresponding to a latest one of a creation time or a most recent update time for the corresponding one of the objects.

A journal write unit writes journal data into a third storage device. The journal data includes an identifier of a logical volume in a first storage device into which data has been written, information of a location in which the data is stored in the logical volume, update time which is current time acquired from a timing mechanism, and the data. A second write unit refers to update time of the journal data stored in the third storage device, selects journal data for which a difference between current time acquired from the timing mechanism and the update time is longer than a detection time stored in the third storage device, and writes the data into a place indicated by the location information, in a logical volume in the second storage device in the order of update time in the selected journal data.

A method and apparatus for an application aware traffic shaping service node positioned between the access and core networks is described. One embodiment of the invention enforces a per subscriber, per application traffic policy for network traffic between one or more subscribers communicatively connected through an access network and a set of one or more service providers communicatively connected through a core network. According to another embodiment of the invention enforcement of the per subscriber, per application traffic policy comprises classifying the network traffic into application level subscriber flows, maintaining real-time statistics on the application level subscriber flows and overall network element congestion, updating, in real-time, the per subscriber, per application traffic policy based on the real-time statistics and restricting bandwidth and dropping packets on the application level subscriber flows as necessary to enforce the per subscriber, per application traffic policy. Another embodiment of the invention is a passthrough mode where the data traffic is transmitted by the traffic in the same manner as received by the traffic shaping service node. Yet another embodiment of the invention is a combined service node with integral edge routing and traffic aggregator.

The invention discloses a data organization method for a change oriented spreadsheet application. In one embodiment, the valid updates to cells and the update times are stored with the cell positions as the primary index, and the valid updates to the same cell are arranged in the order of time. In another embodiment, the valid updates to cells are stored with the update time points of the valid updates of the cells as the primary index, and all the valid updates at the same valid update time point are arranged into an update table, the update table having the same cell structure as the spreadsheet file. In yet another embodiment, data structures organized in both manners are maintained at the same time.

A training circuit for training a tap coefficient of an adaptive equalizer that performs error calculations in a training process and updating of the tap coefficient in a time area and thereby makes the tap coefficient converge stably in a short time.

In a method for automatically rejuvenating a component of a distributed data processing environment while minimizing the disruptive effects of the rejuvenation, a usage history for a distributed data processing environment is stored. The usage history describes multiple levels of overall usage of the distributed data processing environment over time. Also, health data relating to at least one component of the distributed data processing environment is received, and, in response, the health data is automatically utilized to determine a failure time within which that component is likely to require rejuvenation. In response to determining the failure time, the usage history is automatically utilized to identify an optimum rejuvenation time. In response to identifying the optimum rejuvenation time, that component is automatically rejuvenated according to the optimum rejuvenation time. In an illustrative embodiment, the optimum rejuvenation time is identified by ascertaining a minimum level of overall usage within the failure time. The usage time that corresponds to the minimum level is utilized as the optimum rejuvenation time.

A computer program and apparatus that minimize the time required to update installed programs to a new version. Upon receipt of a request for updating old version software to a new version, a version information collector first obtains version information describing specified new version software. Then a processing time calculator calculates update processing times for a full update process, a partial update process, and a copy & update process, based on the obtained version information about the new version software, as well as based on version information describing the old version software. A process selector compares the calculated update processing times and selects the fastest update process. Then an updating unit executes the selected fastest update process to update the old version software to the new version software.

Provided are a method and apparatus for receiving and providing data. The method of receiving data includes: receiving first information including information about a first interval of a plurality of media data generated by encoding content in different qualities; acquiring renewal time information indicating a point of time for a first file to be renewed by using the first information; and receiving second information comprising information about a second interval of the plurality of media data based on the renewal time information.

A content transmitter distributes contents. An update information management unit manages update information on the update of the contents distributed by the content transmitter. An identifier generator generates notifying identifiers containing the update information managed by the update information management unit. The update information contains the update time of each content or a time period until each content is updated. A beacon transmitter transmits, as beacon, the notifying identifiers generated by the identifier generator.

A journal write unit writes journal data into a third storage device. The journal data includes an identifier of a logical volume in a first storage device into which data has been written, information of a location in which the data is stored in the logical volume, update time which is current time acquired from a timing mechanism, and the data. A second write unit refers to update time of the journal data stored in the third storage device, selects journal data for which a difference between current time acquired from the timing mechanism and the update time is longer than a detection time stored in the third storage device, and writes the data into a place indicated by the location information, in a logical volume in the second storage device in the order of update time in the selected journal data.

A system and method for scheduling employee shifts. Two types of users generally utilize the system to post and view schedules, managers and workers. A manager may define shifts for work areas and post the shifts so workers may obtain their schedule and know when to work. Workers may retrieve the schedule from any network enabled device located anywhere. Worker unavailability times and requests for schedule changes may be made remotely by the worker at any network enabled computing device. Managers may accept or reject requests and utilize employee unavailability times to schedule workers to a shift and readily observe conflicts and schedule around these conflicts using a schedule screen that shows the workers, their unavailability times and scheduled times. Time and wage summaries may be updated directly on the screen when changes to the shifts are made to allow a manager to minimize wages for a shift or work area.

Fair share scheduling to divide the total amount of available resource into a finite number of shares and allocate a portion of the shares to an individual user or group of users as a way to specify the resource proportion entitled by the user or group of users. The scheduling priority of jobs for a user or group of users depends on a customizable expression of allocated and used shares by that individual user or group of users. The usage by the user or group of users is accumulated and an exponential decay function is applied thereto in order to keep track of historic resource usage for a user or group of users by one piece of data and an update timestamp.

According to the present disclosure, an energy meter installed at each energy consumer receives in advance a new firmware from a remote server, and updates its own firmware at a future time. The energy meter may receive update time information designating a future time when downloading the firmware, or may execute the update in response to update execution instruction from the remote server once the firmware is downloaded. The firmware update may be executed for each module unit. Communication traffic can be dispersed because the download is given to each energy meter in advance before a time firmware or firmware module update is to be executed. A large load is prevented from being loaded to the remote server at once. It is easy to manage or control a plurality of energy meters because the update can be executed in a lump.

Data broadcast over different channels may be updated in a digital broadcast receiving device. The device may include a receiver unit, a processor, memory instructions embodied in the memory for execution on the processor. The instructions may be configured to implement the method for updating data broadcast over different channels. A first digital broadcast signal may be received over a first channel. The receiving device may be tuned to a second channel at a predetermined time to receive a second digital broadcast signal. Selected data may be extracted from the second digital broadcast signal and stored or utilized with the receiving device. An update schedule may be generated for data transmitted with a digital broadcast signal. A broadcast time for an update packet may be determined from a packet header. A schedule packet may be generated containing the broadcast time and broadcast before the update packet.

When a schedule is updated, a check is performed to determine whether matters concerning the updated schedule are included in a To Do List, in which all processes to be performed are registered, and a schedule list. When there is an associated undertaking, added to a task table is a notification task for notifying a user and reminding him of the existence of that undertaking. Then, a notification process for reminding the user of the schedule for the pending undertaking is performed under appropriate conditions.

A system automatically updates a patient medication administration schedule in response to a healthcare worker entering data into an information system identifying a time at which a medication was administered to the patient. A medication administration information system comprises a processor for maintaining a schedule identifying a first nominal time for administering a first medication to a patient. The first medication is scheduled for administration to the patient subsequent to administration of a second medication to the patient. The processor updates the schedule by re-calculating the first nominal time for administering the first medication to the patient to provide a re-calculated time in response to received information identifying at least one of, (a) a late administration of the second medication to the patient and (b) an early administration of the second medication to the patient. The late and early administration being relative to a second scheduled nominal time for administering the second medication to the patient. A display generator initiates generation of data representing at least one display image including the re-calculated time for administering the first medication to the patient.

Certain aspects of a method and system for adaptive preprocessing for an encoder may comprise filtering received video data using one or more spatial and / or temporal filtering parameters. The spatial and / or temporal filtering parameters may be adaptively updated to achieve a targeted bitrate based on statistical analysis of received video data and encoder feedback. The statistical analysis of received video data may comprise analysis of statistical inputs such as an encoding standard of the received video data, an average quantization factor, an input noise level, an average picture luma level, a motion vectors histogram, and a content type detection of the received video data. The spatial filtering parameters may be adaptively updated during an I frame of the received video data and the temporal filtering parameters may be adaptively updated per frame of the received video data.

The invention provides a multi-task management method and terminal equipment, aiming at solving the problems in the prior art that the switching between foreground and background applications can be realized after certain time so that user experience is influenced and equipment cannot be applicable to certain application scenes relatively well. The terminal equipment provided by the invention is used for detecting a triggering instruction for triggering to display a pre-set running interface which corresponds to at least one application run on the background respectively; after the triggeringinstruction is detected, a running interface list is displayed in a first region of a display screen; the running interface list comprises at least one pre-set running interface corresponding to at least one application. According to the method provided by the invention, the running condition of background applications can be checked through a multi-task management interface by a user, without theneed of switching the application run on the background to the foreground, so that the switching time and updating time of the application can be saved, and furthermore, the waiting time of the useris reduced and the user experience is improved.

The invention discloses a unidirectional synchronization method of internet website data. According to unidirectional synchronization method provided in the invention, data recordings of internet website data are classified according to sizes, update frequencies, real-time requirements of user access; and various data synchronization strategies are given to each classified data. The given strategies comprise a short-period caching strategy, a real-time updating strategy, an increment updating strategy, and a background increment updating strategy. According to the invention, the latest updating time of each data recording is used as a basis for determining whether the synchronization is needed to be carried out or not, so that great adaptability is allowed. Moreover, the background increment updating strategy is especially suitable for continuous synchronization of mass data; and data flow minimization and maximization of data synchronization efficiency can be given consideration well according to the background increment updating strategy.

There is provided, in a computer processing system, an apparatus for managing object data. The apparatus includes a changed objects manager for creating and managing a changed objects list that at least identifies the objects that have changed based on time of change. The changed objects list is associated with a plurality of time buckets. Each of the plurality of time buckets is associated with a respective date and time period and with object change records for objects having a timestamp falling within the respective date and time period. Each of the object change records is associated with a unique object identifier and the timestamp for a corresponding one of the objects. The timestamp specifies a date and a time corresponding to a latest one of a creation time or a most recent update time for the corresponding one of the objects.

The invention provides a ring protection processing method, comprising the steps of: starting a timer for each node and regularly inquiring about address updating state of each port; when node processing link is switched, setting the address updating state of an to-be-updated port as an address updating preparing state; and the timer finds the address updating state of the port is an updating preparing state and then makes port updating processing, according to the link type and the comparative result of the difference between the current time and last updating time of the to-be-updated port and the address updating protection time. And the invention quickly updates MAC address table of a port when making link switching, reducing number of hardware operating times and raising hardware efficiency, and fully using link resources, thus meeting the requirements of highly real-time services for ring protection systems.

An improved automatically updated timestamp for database systems is disclosed. The automatically updated timestamp can be provided in a hidden timestamp column for a table, where the value of the timestamp column can be retrieved with a query that calls the column by name. Optionally, the timestamp column can be provided for each table in the database system to ensure its availability to applications. For cases where a timestamp for each row in a table is not desired, an automatically updated timestamp can be provided for a data page. This timestamp can be retrieved from an update timestamp recorded on disk and in the buffer pool or from a log relative byte address. Although this is a page-level timestamp, its use may be desirable for infrequently updated tables or where space on the disk and buffer pool is at a premium.

The invention discloses a method for updating an index page, comprising the following steps of: reading the relevant information of an index page from an index page database according to a predetermined cycle, wherein the relevant information of the index page comprises any one or more of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the index page, the page change probability of the index page within each predetermined time slot, the page fingerprint of the index page and the last updating time of the index page; determining whether the index page is needed to be updated at present according to the relevant information; and when the determination result is yes, updating the index page according to the relevant information. Accordingly, the invention also discloses a device for updating an index page. The method and the device of the invention, by updating the index page based on the probability and in different time slots, are capable of accurately predicting the change time points of the index page, reducing the updating time delay, improving the timeliness and enhancing the user experience.

A method for using a change-recording feature to perform more effective backups includes generating an initial point-in-time copy of source data residing in a storage device. The method may then perform an initial backup of the initial point-in-time copy. As changes are made to the source data, the method may record changes made to the source data after the initial point-in-time copy is generated. These changes may be stored as incremental change data. At some point, the initial point-in-time copy may be updated using the incremental change data. In order to perform an incremental backup of the updated point-in-time copy, the method may query the incremental change data to determine which changes were used to update the point-in-time copy. The method may then perform an incremental backup of the updated point-in-time copy by backing up the changes designated in the incremental change data.

The invention discloses a data renewing method and device, and belongs to the technical field of databases. The method includes the steps of inquiring about whether history data corresponding to first data identification are stored in an internal storage after obtaining a data renewing request; renewing the history data stored in the internal storage according to renewing data if the history data are stored in the internal storage; recording the renewing time, and renewing the renewing state corresponding to the renewing time into the state that the history data are not renewed to the database; renewing data stored in the internal storage into the database every other preset period, wherein the difference between the renewing time of the data and the current time reaches a threshold value and the renewing state of the data is not renewed to the database state. After the data renewing request is obtained, the data renewing request is renewed into the internal storage, the data in the internal storage are synchronized into the database every other preset time, frequent access to the database and severe file fragments caused to the database are avoided in an application scene where renewing is frequent, and the performance of the database is improved.

A server connected to a plurality of clients, the server including: a server interface unit to notify the clients of an update plan; a scheduling unit to generate an update schedule for each client transmitting a request for time assignment when the request for time assignment is received from each client notified of the update plan; and a control unit to support an update for each client according to the update schedule. Accordingly, the update of the clients connected to the server can be easily performed.