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20080320472 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING INSTALLATION CONFIGURATION FILES FOR SOFTWARE - The present invention provides methods and systems for dynamically generating configuration files used in installing software distributions and software installation testing. In particular, the present invention employs a framework comprising an API to discover and monitor an inventory of distributions, a set of templates for the configuration files, and plugins that may be selectively invoked to customize the configuration files. When performing installation testing, a server will access the distribution inventory and select appropriate templates that are to be part of the test. The server will then automatically generate the installation configuration files from the templates. The server may also execute one or more plugins that customize the configuration files as desired. Small client applications run on the target machines of the installation tests and are used to download the configuration files and the distributions. The present invention may also employ a scheduling service to coordinate the operations of the server and target machines. | 12-25-2008 |
20080320473 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING INSTALLATION CONFIGURATION FILES FOR SOFTWARE - The present invention provides methods and systems for dynamically generating configuration files used in installing software distributions and software installation testing. In particular, the present invention employs a framework comprising an API to discover and monitor an inventory of distributions, a set of templates for the configuration files, and plugins that may be selectively invoked to customize the configuration files. When performing installation testing, a server will access the distribution inventory and select appropriate templates that are to be part of the test. The server will then automatically generate the installation configuration files from the templates. The server may also execute one or more plugins that customize the configuration files as desired. Small client applications run on the target machines of the installation tests and are used to download the configuration files and the distributions. The present invention may also employ a scheduling service to coordinate the operations of the server and target machines. | 12-25-2008 |
20100306359 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MAINFRAME RESOURCES IN PRE-BOOT ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the management of mainframe resources in a pre-boot environment. According to embodiments, a network management platform, for instance a platform equipped or compatible with pre-boot discovery and management tools such as the known pre-boot execution environment (PXE), can integrate a set of mainframe-based virtual machines using a pre-boot management engine. The pre-boot management engine can reside in or communicate with the mainframe operating system, and present a set of resources to the network management platform to allow the platform to include time-sliced or other virtual machines or resources, into the pre-boot protocol. According to embodiments, for instance, the set of virtual machines can be assigned temporary or pseudo media access control (MAC) or other hardware identifiers, so that the network management platform can view individual mainframe-based virtual machines as having a network connection and thereby receive similar boot commands to hardware-based client machines. | 12-02-2010 |
20110239214 | Mechanism for Utilizing a Virtual Machine Cloud for Automated Test System Deployment - A mechanism for utilizing a virtual machine cloud for automated test system deployment is disclosed. A method of embodiments of the invention includes selecting a master image used to initialize one or more virtual machines (VMs), providing a list of repository definitions and test packages to the one or more VMs, and receiving test results from executing the test packages on a computer system of the VM defined by the master image, wherein the computer system includes an operating system and one or more software applications. | 09-29-2011 |
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20090222226 | Method and Apparatus for On-Line Compressed Sensing - A typical data acquisition system takes periodic samples of a signal, image, or other data, often at the so-called Nyquist/Shannon sampling rate of two times the data bandwidth in order to ensure that no information is lost. In applications involving wideband signals, the Nyquist/Shannon sampling rate is very high, even though the signals may have a simple underlying structure. Recent developments in mathematics and signal processing have uncovered a solution to this Nyquist/Shannon sampling rate bottlenck for signals that are sparse or compressible in some representation. We demonstrate and reduce to practice methods to extract information directly from an analog or digital signal based on altering our notion of sampling to replace uniform time samples with more general linear functionals. One embodiment of our invention is a low-rate analog-to-information converter that can replace the high-rate analog-to-digital converter in certain applications involving wideband signals. Another embodiment is an encoding scheme for wideband discrete-time signals that condenses their information content. | 09-03-2009 |
20100241378 | Method and Apparatus for Compressive Parameter Estimation and Tracking - We have developed a new method and apparatus for tracking and estimating parameters of locally oscillating signals from measurements that approximately preserve the inner product among signals in a class of signals of interest. Random demodulation, random sampling, and coset sampling are three prime examples of these techniques. | 09-23-2010 |
20100302086 | COMPRESSIVE SENSOR ARRAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A compressive sensor array (CSA) system and method uses compressive sampling techniques to acquire sensor data from an array of sensors without independently sampling each of the sensor signals. In general, the CSA system and method uses the compressive sampling techniques to combine the analog sensor signals from the array of sensors into a composite sensor signal and to sample the composite sensor signal at a sub-Nyquist sampling rate. At least one embodiment of the CSA system and method allows a single analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and single RF demodulation chain to be used for an arbitrary number of sensors, thereby providing scalability and eliminating redundant data acquisition hardware. By reducing the number of samples, the CSA system and method also facilitates the processing, storage and transmission of the sensor data. | 12-02-2010 |
20110025870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSIVE IMAGING DEVICE - A new digital image/video camera that directly acquires random projections of the incident light field without first collecting the pixels/voxels. In one preferred embodiment, the camera employs a digital micromirror array to perform optical calculations of linear projections of an image onto pseudorandom binary patterns. Its hallmarks include the ability to obtain an image with only a single detection element while measuring the image/video fewer times than the number of pixels or voxels—this can significantly reduce the computation required for image/video acquisition/encoding. Since the system features a single photon detector, it can also be adapted to image at wavelengths that are currently impossible with conventional CCD and CMOS imagers. | 02-03-2011 |
20110215856 | Method And Apparatus For Automatic Gain Control for Nonzero Saturation Rates - A method for automatic gain control comprising the steps of measuring a signal using compressed sensing to produce a sequence of blocks of measurements, applying a gain to one of the blocks of measurements, adjusting the gain based upon a deviation of a saturation rate of the one of the blocks of measurements from a predetermined nonzero saturation rate and applying the adjusted gain to a second of the blocks of measurements. Alternatively, a method for automatic gain control comprising the steps of applying a gain to a signal, computing a saturation rate of the signal and adjusting the gain based upon a difference between the saturation rate of the signal and a predetermined nonzero saturation rate. | 09-08-2011 |
20110241917 | Method And Apparatus For Signal Reconstruction From Saturated Measurements - A method for recovering a signal by measuring the signal to produce a plurality of compressive sensing measurements, discarding saturated measurements from the plurality of compressive sensing measurements and reconstructing the signal from remaining measurements from the plurality of compressive sensing measurements. Alternatively, a method for recovering a signal comprising the steps of measuring a signal to produce a plurality of compressive sensing measurements, identifying saturated measurements in the plurality of compressive sensing measurements and reconstructing the signal from the plurality of compressive sensing measurements, wherein the recovered signal is constrained such that magnitudes of values corresponding to the identified saturated measurements are greater than a predetermined value. | 10-06-2011 |
20120213270 | Method and Apparatus for Compressive Imaging Device - A new digital image/video camera that directly acquires random projections of the incident light field without first collecting the pixels/voxels. In one preferred embodiment, the camera employs a digital micromirror array to perform optical calculations of linear projections of an image onto pseudorandom binary patterns. Its hallmarks include the ability to obtain an image with only a single detection element while measuring the image/video fewer times than the number of pixels or voxels—this can significantly reduce the computation required for image/video acquisition/encoding. Since the system features a single photon detector, it can also be adapted to image at wavelengths that are currently impossible with conventional CCD and CMOS imagers. | 08-23-2012 |
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20160004390 | Method and System for Generating a Smart Time-Lapse Video Clip - An electronic device with a display, processor(s), and memory displays a video monitoring user interface including a video feed from a camera located remotely from the client device in a first region and an event timeline in a second region, the event timeline including event indicators for motion events previously detected by the camera. The electronic device detects a user input selecting a portion of the event timeline, where the selected portion of the event timeline includes a subset of the event indicators. In response to the user input, the electronic device causes generation of a time-lapse video clip of the selected portion of the event timeline. The electronic device displays the time-lapse video clip, where motion events corresponding to the subset of the event indicators are played at a slower speed than the remainder of the selected portion of the event timeline. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005280 | Method and Device for Processing Motion Events - The disclosed embodiments include an electronic device with a display, processor(s), and memory. The electronic device displays a user interface on the display, the user interface including video information corresponding to a camera, the video information including a field of view of the camera. The electronic device receives user identification of a spatial zone within the user interface, the spatial zone corresponding to at least a portion of the field of view of the camera; and forgoes user notification of subsequent motion events involving the spatial zone. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005281 | Method and System for Processing Motion Event Notifications - The disclosed embodiments include a system for processing motion events. The system obtains a video stream from a camera, the video stream corresponding to a field of view of the camera and obtains identification of a spatial zone, the spatial zone corresponding to at least a portion of the field of view of the camera. For each motion event detected in the video stream: (1) the system determines whether the motion event involves the spatial zone; and (2), in accordance with a determination that the motion event involves the spatial zone, the system suppresses a first user notification for the motion event. | 01-07-2016 |
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20120241677 | VARIOUS METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR A RADIANT-HEAT DRIVEN CHEMICAL REACTOR - Heat-transfer-aid particles entrained with 1) biomass particles, 2) reactant gas, or 3) both are fed into the radiant heat chemical reactor. The inner wall of a cavity and the tubes of the chemical reactor act as radiation distributors by either absorbing radiation and re-radiating it to the heat-transfer-aid particles or reflecting the incident radiation to the heat-transfer-aid particles. The radiation is absorbed by the heat-transfer-aid particles, and the heat is then transferred by conduction to the reacting gas at temperatures between 900° C. and 1600° C. The heat-transfer-aid particles mix with the reactant gas in the radiant heat chemical reactor to sustain the reaction temperature and heat transfer rate to stay within a pyrolysis regime. The heat-transfer-aid particles produce a sufficient heat surface-area to mass ratio of these particles when dispersed with the reactant gas to stay within the pyrolysis regime during the chemical reaction. | 09-27-2012 |
20130247448 | OPTIMIZATION OF TORREFACTION VOLATILES FOR PRODUCING LIQUID FUEL FROM BIOMASS - Generation of a liquid fuel product in an integrated multiple zone plant is discussed. Syngas components are supplied to a methanol (CH3OH) synthesis reactor from outputs of a first zone containing a torrefaction unit and a second zone containing a biomass gasifier that are combined in parallel and that thermally decompose biomass at different operating temperatures. Char particles of the biomass generated in the first zone are fed to the biomass gasifier in the second zone. Gasoline is produced via a methanol to gasoline process in a third zone, which receives its methanol derived from the syngas components fed to the methanol synthesis reactor. The gasoline derived from biomass is blended with condensable volatile materials including C5+ hydrocarbons collected during the pyrolyzation of the biomass in the torrefaction unit in the first zone in order to increase an octane rating of the blended gasoline. | 09-26-2013 |
20130247454 | VARIOUS METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR INTERNALLY HEATED RADIANT TUBES IN A CHEMICAL REACTOR - A radiant heat chemical reactor is configured to generate chemical products including synthesis gas products. Two or more tubes in the radiant heat chemical reactor separate an exothermic heat source, such as flames and gas from a regenerative burner, from the endothermic reaction of the reactant gas occurring within the cavity of the refractory vessel. The exothermic heat source heats a space inside the tubes. One or more feed lines supply chemical reactants to the cavity area between an inner wall of the cavity of the refractory vessel of the chemical reactor and the two or more tubes that are internally heated located with the cavity. | 09-26-2013 |
20140341785 | RADIANT FOUNTAIN ARCHITECTURE CHEMICAL REACTOR - A chemical plant includes a radiant heat-driven chemical reactor having generally concentric reactor tubes with an inner tube and an outer tube located inside a cavity of a thermal receiver. Particles of biomass, or natural gas, and an entrainment gas are fed into the inner tube near a bottom of the tube. The biomass and the entrainment gas flow upward through the inner tube into an upper plenum, and then flow downward through an annular space between the inner tube and the outer tube. The concentric reactor tubes and the thermal receiver are configured to cooperate such that heat is radiantly transferred by primarily absorption and re-radiation to drive the biomass gasification reaction or natural gas reformation reaction of reactants flowing through the reactor tubes in the vertical sections of the reactor, and turbulent flow and mixing of the reactants occurs in the upper plenum part of the reactor. | 11-20-2014 |