1021 results about "Technical systems" patented technology

An apparatus for providing a control input signal for an industrial process or technical system having one or more controllable elements includes elements for generating a semantic space for a text corpus, and elements for generating a norm from one or more reference words or texts, the or each reference word or text being associated with a defined respective value on a scale, and the norm being calculated as a reference point or set of reference points in the semantic space for the or each reference word or text with its associated respective scale value. Elements for reading at least one target word included in the text corpus, elements for predicting a value of a variable associated with the target word based on the semantic space and the norm, and elements for providing the predicted value in a control input signal to the industrial process or technical system. A method for predicting a value of a variable associated with a target word is also disclosed together with an associated system and computer readable medium.

Techniques, systems and apparatus for automatically generating schema using an initial documents constructed in an XML compatible format are disclosed. A method involves providing an initial XML document that and analyzing the XML document to identify the XML data structures in the document and generating a data framework that corresponds to the data structure of the XML document. The data items of the initial XML document are analyzed to determine data constraints based on the data items of the initial XML. Schema are then generated based on the data framework generated and the data constraints determined from the raw xml data. These principles can be implemented as software operating on a computer system, as a computer module, as a computer program product and as a series of related devices and products.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system includes an MMR user, a MMR computer, a user printer that produces a printed document, a networked media server, an office portal, a service provider server, an electronic display that is electrically connected to a set-top box, a document scanner, a network, a capture device, a cellular infrastructure, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology, Bluetooth® technology, infrared (IR) technology, wired technology, and a geo location mechanism. The MMR system of the present invention provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types, such as printed paper as a first medium and a digital photograph, digital movie, digital audio file, or web link as a second medium. Furthermore, the MMR system of the present invention facilitates business methods that take advantage of the combination of a portable electronic device, such as a cellular camera phone, and a paper document.

A system and method for automatically creating performance models of complex information technology (IT) systems. System components and elements are subject to periodic monitoring associated with performance thresholds. A continuity analysis is performed by synchronizing testing functions associated with the predetermined system performance thresholds. Resulting data is accumulated and data mined for component and functional relations within the IT system. Models of the system may then be adapted with results generated from the analysis.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides for multi-tier image matching.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides for document fingerprint matching.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides for image matching portions of a document.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the mixed media document may also include hotspot images that uniquely identify a user associated with the mixed media document. Such individualized mixed media documents are used to identify users of the mixed media document, when orders for products or services are made using the mixed media documents through the MMR system.

A firewall rule generation method, a load balancing rule generation method, and a wrapper generation method, for an Information Technology (IT) system, associated computer program products, and an associated processes for integrating computing infrastructure. The firewall rule generation method generates firewall rules allowing data transmission between a computer and a client, and subsequently assigns the firewall rules to firewalls of the IT system. The load balancing rule generation method assigns a load balancing mechanism to a load balanced group to which execution of an application is assigned, wherein the load balanced group has servers therein. For a client and computer having a communication protocol therebetween that is not allowed by a security policy, the wrapper generation method generates a communication protocol wrapper that opens a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection between the client and the computer such that the TCP connection is allowed by the security policy.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system provides for position-based image matching.

A system and method are provided for monitoring processes of an information technology (IT) system. In one example, the system comprises a monitor agent configured to collect performance and availability metrics associated with a host machine, a network, an operating system, a database or an application; a data loader, wherein the monitor agent is further configured to transmit the metrics to the data loader; an escalation server configured to receive and manage alerts generated by the monitor agent, and further configured to group an alert entering the escalation server into a resource group; and an analysis tool including an analysis tool application configured to assist a system manager in visualizing and understanding the performance of the information technology system through the use of a visual graph, a performance report, a real-time operating status or a system health report.

The invention provides a method for predicting a dolomite reservoir. The method includes acquiring seismic attributes of a target stratum, increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of the seismic attributes, adopting the seismic attributes with the signal-to-noise ratio increased to perform post-stack wave impedance inversion; adopting the seismic attributes with the signal-to-noise ratio increased to perform pre-stack elastic parameter inversion; adopting the results of the post-stack wave impedance inversion and / or the pre-stack elastic parameter inversion to predict the dolomite reservoir of the target stratum. By an effective predicting method technical system of seismic data quality evaluation, pre-stack depth processing, post-stack attribute analysis and post-stack wave impedance inversion lithologic identification, pre-stack attribute analysis and pre-stack elastic parameter inversion of a high-quality reservoir and hydrocarbon detection of the dolomite reservoir, the dolomite reservoir can be effectively predicted.

An architecture and method for bill presentment using a web-based tool is disclosed. A common architecture collects billing data from multiple business technology systems and present the billing data on a bill. A user-friendly tool allows internal billing personnel and system administrators to configure the content and format of a bill before presenting it to customers. A method provides external customers with drilldown ability, enabling them to view both summary and detailed billing data and related information necessary to understand and pay the bill.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one embodiment, an MMR document is retrieved based on recognition of a paper document. Responsive to a comparison of the paper document and a virtual multimedia document, a set of actions is displayed to a user. Responsive to a user selection, the user-selected action is performed. In another embodiment, a captured list of names is used to assist a user with labeling a media file.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system includes an MMR user, a MMR computer, a user printer that produces a printed document, a networked media server, a service provider server and a capture device. The MMR system of the present invention provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types, such as printed paper as a first medium and a digital photograph, digital movie, digital audio file, or web link as a second medium. The MMR system includes a MMR brokerage network having a customer, an MMR broker, an MMR service bureau and an MMR clearinghouse. The MMR brokerage network allows these entities to interact to provide a unified point of business access for the customer who wants to add MMR functionality to a document. More specifically, the MMR technology may be used to provide advertising associated with documents and MMR hotspots. Furthermore, the MMR system of the present invention facilitates business methods that take advantage of the combination of a portable electronic device, such as a cellular camera phone, and a paper document. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including: a method for operation of a MMR brokerage network, a method for layout independent MMR recognition, a strip fragment candidate generation process, and a page candidate accumulation process.

A user emulation module is operable to emulate generating a feature by a user by issuing graphical user interface based commands in a computer aided design system associated with either a source technical system or a target technical system. An associated pattern recognition module is operable to analyze a parametric feature definition from the source technical system and identify one or more parametric feature definitions in the target technical system that achieve an equivalent result.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system includes a method, system, and computer program product for adding a hotspot to an imaged document. A source document is converted to an imaged document, from which features are extracted. Hotspots are added to the imaged document, and the imaged document, hotspot definitions, and the feature representation are stored.

Extensible Multi-Dimensional Framework (EMDF) is a system engineering framework for designing, developing and managing enterprise information technology systems. It includes two parts: multi-dimensional architecture framework (MDAF) and three-dimensional unified process (3DUP). MDAF includes comprehensive concepts for modeling an enterprise information technology system. 3DUP provides an iterative system development process. EMDF addresses an enterprise information technology system as a single entity. By projecting this entity on intertwined MDAF dimensions through the 3DUP lifecycle, all logical or physical elements encompassed in the entity will be exposed and captured in well-organized artifacts defined in MDAF. These elements are then prioritized and scheduled in a set of agile iterations. The iterations will be planned in parallel projects implemented by multiple development teams. During a long-term system development lifecycle, some elements may change. The dimensions included in MDAF provide a flexible framework to adjust system architectures, iterations and projects in order to adapt to such changes. The key deliverables of EMDF include an adaptive-to-change quality-focused architecture, optimistic agile iterations, and a market-centric business-driven risk-mitigating process.

A system and method for automatically creating causal association models of complex information technology (IT) systems. System components and elements are subject to periodic monitoring associated with performance thresholds. Numerical data indicating component state information is converted to Boolean attributes by use of defined or discovered thresholds. Resulting data is accumulated and data mined for component relations within the IT system using association rules induction methods. Models of the system may then be adapted with results generated from the analysis to accurately reflect causal relations among various system components.

A system for analyzing conversations or speech, especially “turns” (a point in time in a person's or an animal's talk when another may or does speak) comprises a computer (100) with a memory (105), at least one microphone (115, 120), and software (110) running in the computer. The system is arranged to recognize and quantify utterances including spoken words, pauses between words, in-breaths, vowel extensions, and the like, and to recognize questions and sentences. The system rapidly and efficiently quantifies and qualifies speech and thus offers substantial improvement over prior-art computerized response systems that use traditional linguistic approaches that depend on single words or a small number of words in grammatical sentences as a basic unit of analysis. The system and method are useful in many applications, including teaching colloquial use of turn-taking, and in forensic linguistics.

A method for Fault Tree Map generation employs to transformation of Fault Trees of production installation, specific installation, technical system (Hardware and integrated Hardware / Software) to new Fault Tree diagram (Fault Tree Map), which permits drastically compact the Fault Tree depiction and facilitates performing of the Fault Tree qualitative analysis, including evaluation of combination of latent failures and evident failures, repeated events and critical events position influence, and failure propagation potentiality, besides facility of localization of each Fault Tree logical Gate and relevant failures in the fault tree printed report. Generation takes place using special symbols, which permit to reflect the Fault Tree logic, present all Fault Tree failures with graphically identification of the failure type, and show the failure repetition and also the failure critically (importance) to Fault Tree Top Event probability. The method presents exceptional advantages to analysis of large-scale, extended Fault Trees, allowing vastly decrease the time of analysis and elevate the analysis quality and Fault Tree perception, including for specialists, who are not the Fault Tree authors.

A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and / or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system includes a content-based retrieval database configured with an index table to represent two-dimensional geometric relationships between objects extracted from a printed document in a way that allows look-up using a text-based index. A ranked set of document, page and location hypotheses can be computed given data from the index table. The techniques effectively transform features detected in an image patch into textual terms (or other searchable features) that represent both the features themselves and the geometric relationship between them. A storage facility can be used to store additional characteristics about each document image patch.

The invention provides an industrial area atmosphere VOCs (volatile organic compounds) automatic monitoring / prewarning / tracing system and method, relating to the technical field of atmosphere VOCs monitoring / prewarning / tracing. The industrial area atmosphere VOCs automatic monitoring / prewarning / tracing system is composed of a plurality of atmosphere VOCs automatic monitoring systems 1, a server 2, a client 3, a mobile terminal 4 and the like which constitute the sites and are connected with each other. The method comprises the following steps: setting a plurality of atmosphere VOCs automatic monitoring system sites; preliminarily establishing an atmosphere VOCs emission source spectrum library; transmitting atmosphere VOCs and weather data to the server through the site; monitoring in real time or instantly starting the tracing technical system, and carrying out tracing calculation by the server; logging on a data display platform by the client; and quickly receiving and displaying pollution source information by the mobile terminal. The system and method implement real-time monitoring and high-concentration prewarning on VOCs emission, implement quick identification and diagnosis, enhance the technical level and management efficiency for environmental protection management to cope with atmosphere peculiar smell complaints of residents and peculiar smell sources, and provide technical and material basis for implementing intelligent cities and intelligent management in China.

A system and method to generate a Universal Identification Number (UIN) for every human being on the planet, and its RFID application to uniquely verify the identity, and apparatus for biosensor integrated device receiving GPS or cellular signals to determine location, and transmitting data through radio signals to identify, track, monitor, and rescue humans. UIN database comprising of public, health, and confidential data, protects privacy by hiding the sensitive information and providing the required information only to authorized agencies on ‘need to know’ basis, like medical emergency data to authorized hospitals for advance preparedness to save lives or to law enforcement agencies when authorized under specific circumstances. UIN secures credit, debit and ATM card transactions through additional code verification and fulfills a pending need for technological system to eliminate child abduction, identity fraud, credit card theft, terrorism, and helps in saving lives of people.

A control device is provided for a technical system (17), e.g. for a shift-by-wire vehicle transmission. The control device includes a control (actuating) element, e.g. a rotary knob (1), with at least two shifting positions. The control element (1), itself, can rotate without limitation, whereas the control device has at least one stop device (2, 3), which can be adjusted in a controlled manner and which limits the angle of rotation (W) of the control element (1).

A system, a control unit, and a method for controlling operation of a technical system are provided. The technical system includes a plurality of sensors. The method includes receiving first sensor data from a first sensor of the plurality of sensors. The method includes detecting a first sensor anomaly based on failure of the first sensor to generate the first sensor data. The failure of the first sensor includes generation of anomalous first sensor data. The method also includes validating the first sensor anomaly based on a comparison between the first sensor data and a virtual first sensor data. Thereafter, a control command is generated to the technical system by replacing the virtual first sensor data in lieu of the first sensor data when the first sensor anomaly is validated.

A method for verifying correctness of an Information Technology (IT) structure instance D of an IT structure R, a method for detecting an unauthorized change in an operating instance X of an IT structure R, a method for verifying conformance of an IT structure to an IT delivery environment, associated computer program products, and associated processes for integrating computing infrastructure. The method for verifying correctness of an IT structure instance D determines whether a reverse specification RD for D differs from R. The method for detecting an unauthorized change in an operating instance X of an IT structure R determines whether authorized changes in R have occurred. The method for verifying conformance of an IT structure to an IT delivery environment verifies compliance of the IT structure relating to: product standard compliance, compliance of software elements of the IT structure primitive composition, software application type compliance, and network traffic compliance.

The present invention provides a fault diagnosis device for optimizing maintenance measures in a system, in particular a flying object. The diagnosis device has a storage unit for storing diagnosis rules, which each have a fault condition indicating the presence of a fault, and a fault conclusion formed by logical combinations of potential fault causes of the respective fault. Furthermore, a logic unit is provided, which logically combines those stored fault conclusions whose associated fault conditions are met and, on the basis of the combined fault conclusions, determines a logical diagnosis result having at least one fault cause hypothesis. A calculation unit subsequently calculates an occurrence probability for each fault cause hypothesis of the logical diagnosis result determined.

A method for the computer-aided regulation and / or control of a technical system is provided. In the method, first a simulation model of the technical system is created, to which subsequently a plurality of learning and / or optimization methods are applied. Based on the results of these methods, the method best suited for the technical system is selected. The selected learning and / or optimization method is then used to regulate the technical system. Based on the simulation model, the method can thus be used to train an initial controller, which can be used as an intelligent controller, and is not modified during further regulation of the technical system.

The invention relates to a finger slide identification unlocking method for a touch screen and relates to a technique which allows an operator to be identified according to one multi-point slide performed by the operator on an electronic screen before unlocking. A system using the technique comprises a touch screen, an unlocking program and a gesture feature database. The unlocking program tracks slide features of multiple fingers of an operator on the touch screen, compares the calculated features with the gesture feature database, unlocks when the calculated features conform to gesture features of an authorized operator, and remains locking if not.