148 results about "Resource efficiency" patented technology

Improved techniques for modifying a playback rate of an audio item (e.g., an audio stream) are disclosed. As a result, the audio item can be played back faster or slower than normal. The improved techniques are resource efficient and well suited for audio items containing speech. The resource efficiency of the improved techniques make them well suited for use with portable media devices, such as portable media players.

A method, system and computer program product for providing a service to multiple tenants of an application. Responsive to receiving from a client of a tenant a request, a tenant context of the tenant is bound to the request. With respect to an access to an isolation point of the application in the request, the access to the isolation point is redirected to a partition based on the tenant context bound to the request. The partition may be pre-established for the tenant with respect to the application. Hence, it is possible to provide a multi-tenant solution in a convenient, fast, and cost-effective way, and, in turn, to achieve resource sharing to a greater extent and enhance the resource efficiency.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly relates to a method for transmitting a small-sized control signal (also known as “small data”) using a control plane in a MTC (machine-type communication) service in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, MTC data is encapsulated in an existing control procedure or control message or the like, on a control signal, without performing packet data bearer setup, and the control signal having the encapsulated MTC data is sent between a network and a terminal, thereby optimizing network resource efficiency and reducing the wireless channel load.

The present invention provides methods and systems to enable fast, efficient, and scalable means for fingerprinting textual information using word runs. The present system receives textual information and provides algorithms to convert the information into representative fingerprints. In one embodiment, the fingerprints are recorded in a repository to maintain a database of an organization's secure data. In another embodiment, textual information entered by a user is verified against the repository of fingerprints to prevent unauthorized disclosure of secure data. This invention provides approaches to allow derivative works (e.g., different ordering of words, substitution of words with synonyms, etc.) of the original information to be detected at the sentence level or even at the paragraph level. This invention also provides means for enhancing storage and resource efficiencies by providing approaches to optimize the number of fingerprints generated for the textual information.

A method and computer program product is provided that, in various embodiments, may provide a measure of efficiency of resources used in medical treatment plan options. A normalized Relative Resource Value (RRV) may be obtained that measures the level of resources required to satisfy a “normal” case for a particular aspect of medical care. Applying this value against actual costs allows ranking and / or comparison of health care providers relative to one another on the basis of the price or resources applied or utilized. Moreover, applying the RRV against the quality of outcome allows comparison and ranking of providers on overall value. The invention may be applied to the components of medical care comprising, inter alia, acute inpatient, non-acute inpatient, outpatient, professional office-based care including scheduled outpatient, and pharmacy / prescriptions. The normalized RRV obtained under various embodiments of the invention may measure resource use for medical treatment plan options / resources independent of price. The RRV may be relative across, as well as within, each of the components of medical care. Thus, provider profiling generally as well as profiling across treatment plan options based on efficiency generally is within the scope of various embodiments of the invention. Moreover, providers may be compared based on efficiency for specific conditions, as well as across conditions, across treatment plan options and across components of care using various embodiments of the invention.

A system configuration and techniques for optimizing schedules and associated use predictions of a multiple resource planning workflow are disclosed herein, applicable to environments such as radiologist scheduling in a teleradiology workflow. In one embodiment, a series of computing engines and components are provided to allow detailed forecasting and the generation of customized recommendations for scheduling and other resource usage scenarios. This forecasting can factor resource efficiencies, changes in resource demand volume, resource specialties, resource usage preferences, expected future events such as the removal or addition of resources at future times, and other resource availability or usage changes. The forecasts may be further enhanced through the use of historical data models and estimated future data models. Additionally, a calendar and other tools may be presented through a user interface to allow forecast and scenario customization based on selection of a series of future dates.

A method and apparatus for resource allocation in a multi-carrier wireless communication system enables transmission using smaller resource units and achieves efficient transmission of data channels with very low data rates, scheduling a greater number of user equipments without additional control channel overhead while maintaining compatibility with the resource allocation scheme of legacy user equipments. Thus, one cell controls a larger number of user equipments. In addition, as multiple user equipments are scheduled using a single control channel, resource efficiency is increased.

Methods and apparatus minimize message latency time by dynamically controlling an amount of message bundling that occurs in a computer network application. Unbundled messages are allowed while a bottleneck resource, such as a network link, is lightly utilized, but the amount of bundling is progressively increased as the message rate increases, thereby progressively increasing resource efficiency.

The invention discloses a method for real-time reserving of a parking space of a parking lot based on parking space prediction and parking selection. The method comprises the steps: carrying out the long-time prediction of unoccupied parking spaces of a parking lot nearby a destination in preset arrival time, and carrying out the selection of the parking lot under the consideration of the occupancy of the parking spaces, parking charge and walk distance of the parking lot, so as to select a to-be-reserved parking lot. In order to solve a problem that long-time parking space prediction may cause the insufficient precision, a system will carry out the short-time prediction of the to-be-reserved parking lot in a travel process, and finally confirm the reserving. The method can iron out the defects that a conventional strategy has no unoccupied parking space risk and is low in resource efficiency, facilitates the increase of probability that there is still an unoccupied parking space when a user arrives at the parking lot, reduces the parking searching, improves the utilization efficiency of public parking resources, and improves the urban intelligentization level.

Various embodiments are described herein to address the need to have a method and apparatus that improve the resource efficiency of inter-PDSN (142 to 141) dormant mode handoffs. Promptly after the completion of signaling (218) for PPP connection establishment and MIP registration (if supported), as required for an inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff, an access network (AN) 121 expedites the release of communication resources such as the wireless traffic channel, the SCCP connection, and the A8 bearer connection. Thus, in an inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff the packet data session of an MS (101) is promptly transitioned back to the dormant packet data state. This enables communication resources to be freed for other calls and / or handoffs in a more timely manner than is enabled today.

The present invention provides methods and systems to enable fast, efficient, and scalable means for fingerprinting textual information using word runs. The present system receives textual information and provides algorithms to convert the information into representative fingerprints. In one embodiment, the fingerprints are recorded in a repository to maintain a database of an organization's secure data. In another embodiment, textual information entered by a user is verified against the repository of fingerprints to prevent unauthorized disclosure of secure data. This invention provides approaches to allow derivative works (e.g., different ordering of words, substitution of words with synonyms, etc.) of the original information to be detected at the sentence level or even at the paragraph level. This invention also provides means for enhancing storage and resource efficiencies by providing approaches to optimize the number of fingerprints generated for the textual information.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for scheduling items in a system, such as, but not limited to a computer or communications system. An item is identified and processed. A processing amount (e.g., token bucket, deficit, or any other measure of allowed processing) is decreased by a value. A resource bucket is reduced by a first amount if the processing of the item was efficient (e.g., the processing equaled or exceeded a threshold amount or any other measure or determination.) Otherwise the resource value is decreased by a second amount. A determination is made whether the processing amount and the resource bucket allow the item to be further processed. In one implementation, the first amount is one and the second value is approximately one-half of the resource value. In one implementation, the item represents a queue and the processing of the item includes sending one or more packets. In one implementation, the item represents a process, thread, or information stream.

A system configuration and techniques for optimizing schedules and associated use predictions of a multiple resource planning workflow are disclosed herein, applicable to environments such as radiologist scheduling in a teleradiology workflow. In one embodiment, a series of computing engines and components are provided to allow detailed forecasting and the generation of customized recommendations for scheduling and other resource usage scenarios. This forecasting can factor resource efficiencies, changes in resource demand volume, resource specialties, resource usage preferences, expected future events such as the removal or addition of resources at future times, and other resource availability or usage changes. The forecasts may be further enhanced through the use of historical data models and estimated future data models. Additionally, a calendar and other tools may be presented through a user interface to allow forecast and scenario customization based on selection of a series of future dates.

The invention provides a power control method in an uplink (a reverse link) of a wireless communication system. The core of the method is as follows: a user (a mobile station ) dynamically carries out power control and adjusts transmission power by path loss (or large scale fading value comprising path loss, shadowing fading, serial gain, penetration loss)measured by a DwPTS and by the different value of path loss between the strongest interference zone and a service zone. The method provided by the invention dynamically adjusts power control parameters, carries out power control and adjusts emission power of the user (the mobile station) according to a position of the user, appropriately reduces emission power of marginal users, thus reducing interference generated by the marginal users (the mobile station), optimizes the resource efficiency of a system and improves the performance of the system under the premise of not losing fairness.

The invention discloses a heterogeneous wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network file sharing system and a file transmission acceleration method. In a heterogeneous wireless fusion network access environment, factors such as an access network type, a terminal node downloading rate, an inter-node network distance and round-trip time are comprehensively combined for the characteristics of a fusion network, and a seed node is selected by utilizing an optimization theory in engineering to provide an acceleration method for a file sharing service of a terminal on the basis of an extended P2P-Bittorrent protocol. A proper seed node is selected, and a network service with high data traffic and a heavy load is transferred into an idle network, so that the load balance of the whole network structure is realized, and the resource efficiency of a plurality of heterogeneous fusion networks is optimized.

The invention discloses a method for recovering tin by centrifugal concentration, belonging to the technical field of metal ore concentration. The method comprises the following steps of: recovering and enriching a tin resource from a tin-containing ore by using a high-speed centrifugal concentrator together with a shaking table; performing pretreatment or not performing treatment according to the milling characteristic of a tin ore; entering the high-speed centrifugal concentrator for rough gravity concentration; enriching to obtain a tin rough ore concentrate; removing tailings; and selecting the tin rough ore concentrate by using the shaking table to obtain a tin ore concentrate. The method has the advantages of high process specificity, high resource efficiency, remarkable economic benefit, small investment, small floor area and the like.

The invention discloses a container-based cloud computing platform task processing method, A system and an application method thereof, the invention utilizes the container arrangement technology to identify the syntax definition in the parsing calculation task based on the programming syntax, Thus, the processing of the cycle in the computing task and the processing of the dependency relationshipamong the computing tasks are realized. The computing results are transmitted to the data warehouse after the running of the container of the computing subtask Ai to complete the processing of the cloud computing platform task based on the container. The invention is directed to users with certain programming ability, The invention provides parallel and serial running algorithm task support, solves the problem of interdependence among computing sub-tasks, and can process the computing sub-tasks according to the user-defined tasks of its own business, and complete the business processing by combining the computing sub-tasks with the existing container resource orchestration scheduling, which can effectively improve the practicability of the platform and optimize the resource efficiency of the platform.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly relates to a method for transmitting a small-sized control signal (also known as “small data”) using a control plane in a MTC (machine-type communication) service in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, MTC data is encapsulated in an existing control procedure or control message or the like, on a control signal, without performing packet data bearer setup, and the control signal having the encapsulated MTC data is sent between a network and a terminal, thereby optimizing network resource efficiency and reducing the wireless channel load.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an establishment method for network slices. The method comprises the steps of receiving demand information of a user for establishing the network slices; judging whether to share existing slices or not according to the demand information and specification, state and strategy information of various existing slices; when it is judged that the existing slices are shared, matching shared target slices in various existing slices according to the demand information, and taking the shared target slices as the network slices of the user; and when it is judged that the existing slices are not shared, establishing the network slices for the user according to the demand information. When the network slices are established for the user, the suitable slices are preferentially matched in the existing slices and are taken as the shared slices for the user to use; the problem that a great deal of network resources are occupied due to establishment of excessive network slices can be effectively prevented; existing resources are utilized fully and reasonably; the network resource efficiency is effectively optimized; and a utilization rate of the network resources of the system is improved. The embodiment of the invention also provides a corresponding realization device. The method has relatively high practicability. The device has the corresponding advantages.

The invention relates to an adaptive load balancing energy consumption optimization method and system in a spectrum flexible optical network, which is designed in order to effectively improve the spectrum resource efficiency of the optical network and reduce the energy consumption of the optical network. Different linear rate and modulation format combinations are adopted for each connection request so as to bear bandwidth requirements of the connection request, and the weight of each optical fiber link is dynamically adjusted according to a distance-adaptive load balance adjustment method so as to enable the connection request to select a lightly-loaded optical fiber link to act as a transmission path. According to the invention, some short-distance optical fiber links are avoided from being selected by excessive connection requests to result in congestion, thereby improving the resource efficiency of the spectrum flexible optical network, and realizing high energy consumption efficiency.

Various embodiments are described herein to address the need to have a method and apparatus that improve the resource efficiency of inter-PDSN (142 to 141) dormant mode handoffs. Promptly after the completion of signaling (218) for PPP connection establishment and MIP registration (if supported), as required for an inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff, an access network (AN) 121 expedites the release of communication resources such as the wireless traffic channel, the SCCP connection, and the A8 bearer connection. Thus, in an inter-PDSN dormant mode handoff the packet data session of an MS (101) is promptly transitioned back to the dormant packet data state. This enables communication resources to be freed for other calls and / or handoffs in a more timely manner than is enabled today.

The invention relates to an electronic classroom terminal management system and a corresponding management method. The system comprises a server side used for storing user information, communicating with student sides and teacher sides and performing course exclusiveness judgment. The method includes that students and teachers login respectively; the teachers initiate requests of starting an attendance mode; the server side starts the attendance mode after exclusiveness judgment. By the electronic classroom terminal management system and the corresponding management method, the teachers and the students can know which students login but access to wrong wireless networks and which students do not login or be offline during teaching midway; effectiveness in data connection is guaranteed, so that the objective that the lessons are given to multiple classes by one broadcast domain is achieved; effectiveness is maintained during moving of the teachers and the students; basic management communication is realized through TCP (transmission control protocol) connection, so that wireless spectrum resource efficiency is improved; management operation during classroom teaching can be recorded, broadcast and analyzed.

Methods and apparatus are provided for efficiently implementing an application specific processor. An application specific processor includes a data path and a control path. A control path is implemented using processor components to increase resource efficiency. Both the data path and the control path can be implemented using function units that are selected, parameterized, and interconnected. A tool uses the selected function units and interconnection information to provide data for implementing the application specific processor. Missing function units or interconnections can be identified and corrected.

The present invention relates to a method for increasing standby time of mobile terminal and device thereof, and more particularly in a mobile terminal that performs voice and / or data communication by switching between at least two networks using different protocols, and method for increasing standby time using an access history and the device thereof. According to the present invention, the minimized hybrid operation can increase the standby time of the mobile terminal. Also, by minimizing hybrid operation of a plurality of IS-856 mobile terminals, the resource efficiency of the EV-DO network can be maximized.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a forwarding service chain generation method and a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO). The method is applied to a network function virtualization (NFV) system. The NFV system comprises the network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), and at least one virtual function module. The virtual function module is deployed on at least one physical machine. The method comprises the steps that the NFVO obtains forwarding service chain generation information, wherein the forwarding service chain generation information comprises forwardingrelationship information, deployment relationship information and physical machine resource usage information; and a forwarding service chain is determined according to the forwarding service chain generation information, wherein the resource efficiency and the forwarding efficiency of the NFV system under the forwarding service chain satisfy a preset condition at the same time. Under the condition that a physical topology is not sensed by an application, the relatively high resource efficiency and forwarding efficiency can be obtained at the same time.

The invention provides a special reference signal optimization method suitable for an LTE (long-term evolution) cell of an indoor channel. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, selecting an indoor channel parameter; calculating an interval of a reference signal on a time domain according to the indoor channel parameter; and calculating the interval of the reference signal on a frequency domain according to the indoor channel parameter. According to the characteristics of the indoor wireless channel, the arrangement mode of the special reference signal in the LTE cell is optimized by utilizing a related calculation, so that the resource efficiency of the system is improved at the premise of ensuring the performance of the system. Therefore, the entire performance of the system is improved.

Disclosed is a method for configuring a ranging channel in various frame structures and using the same in a communication system. A ranging channel is effectively configured according to a data structure, namely, frame structure, transmitted and received between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, and ranging information is transmitted therethrough to thereby improve performance of a communication channel and resource efficiency. In the wireless communication system, a ranging channel is configured by using a time interval, such as an idle time, an idle symbol, an RTG, a TTG, and the like, not actually used for transmission of data or a signal in a data structure, namely, in a frame structure, transmitted and received between an MS and a BS, to transmit ranging information, so the channel performance and resource efficiency can be improved.

The invention provides a modularized cloud computing system. The modularized cloud computing system comprises a cloud center and a local terminal which is in communication connection with the cloud center, wherein the cloud center comprises a cloud computing management center and a software module cloud management center; the cloud computing management center is used for dynamically allocating cloud computing resources, managing a session and managing cloud storage resources; the software module cloud management center is used for managing and maintaining a software module; and the local terminal is used for managing local computing resources and local storage resources. Compared with the prior art, the modularized cloud computing system has the advantage that computing resources are separated from software module resources, so the problems of low module resource efficiency, high maintenance cost, high storage resource occupation and the like are solved.

A plant-cultivation method and system that aids automation of farms / lawns, home-farms, roof-farms and similar conveyor-based farms.The plants are held on the conveyor preferably the whole of their life. The conveyor is operated such that the plants repeatedly visit the same processing resource(s) throughout their life. Repetitive plant processes are automated and centralized including watering, nutrient-feed, pruning, inspecting, treatment, harvesting, etc.Eliminates duplicate resources. Multiple types of plants can be grown simultaneously. Applicable to lawns and eliminates noisy gasoline mowers.Converts building-roofs and walls into fully automated lawns / farms. Home & building owners farm on their building and enjoy the organic harvest and optionally sell to neighbors. Saves on the building energy costs, farming resource capacity and the fossil fuel usage.Helps farming in non-fertile lands.Increases green-house resources efficiency.Adaptable with hydroponic, aquaponic or aeroponic farming methods.