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20100235527 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING COMMUNICATION STATE USING ACCELEROMETER DATA - Techniques for communicating with a user on a network include receiving acceleration data that indicates acceleration of a mobile network node associated with a user of a network. The user is a living user of the network, such as a human user, or a vehicular user of the network, such as a satellite, plane, ship, automobile or robot. A communication state for the user is determined based at least in part on the acceleration data. The communication state indicates a type of network communication suitable for communicating with the user. Network communications with the user are based on the communication state. Among other uses, such techniques allow a network communicating with a human through a mobile node carried by the human to infer from stopped or unusual motions when the human's ability to receive or act on communications is impaired or otherwise affected. | 09-16-2010 |
20110145832 | TECHNIQUES FOR ALLOCATING COMPUTING RESOURCES TO APPLICATIONS IN AN EMBEDDED SYSTEM - Techniques for allocating computing resources to tasks include receiving first data and second data. The first data indicates a limit for unblocked execution by a processor of a set of at least one task that includes instructions for the processor. The second data indicates a maximum use of the processor by the set. It is determined whether a particular set of at least one task has exceeded the limit for unblocked execution based on the first data. If it is determined that the particular set has exceeded the limit, then execution of the particular set by the processor is blocked for a yield time interval based on the second data. These techniques can guarantee that no time-critical tasks of an embedded system on a specific-purpose device are starved for processor time by tasks of foreign applications also executed by the processor. | 06-16-2011 |
20120102214 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING COMMUNICATION STATE USING ACCELEROMETER DATA - Techniques for communicating with a user on a network include receiving acceleration data that indicates acceleration of a mobile network node associated with a user of a network. A communication state for the user is determined based at least in part on the acceleration data. The communication state indicates a type of network communication suitable for communicating with the user. Network communications with the user are based on the communication state. Among other uses, such techniques allow a network communicating with a human through a mobile node carried by the human to infer from stopped or unusual motions when the human's ability to receive or act on communications is impaired or otherwise affected. | 04-26-2012 |
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20080240078 | Path shortening in a wireless mesh network - In one embodiment, a method includes a mesh point receiving mesh advertisement messages from advertising mesh points of a wireless mesh network having a mesh portal with a wired connection to a wired network. Each mesh advertisement message specifies a corresponding metric for reaching the mesh portal and has a corresponding signal strength indicator. An ordered group of parent access points, ordered based on the respective metrics, is generated from among the advertising mesh points, starting with a first parent access point having a corresponding optimum metric for reaching the mesh portal and independent of the corresponding signal strength indicator. A registration message is sent to each of the parent access points identifying a corresponding specified priority based on a corresponding position in the ordered group, for use by the corresponding parent access point in selecting a minimum interframe spacing for forwarding a wireless packet received from the mesh point. | 10-02-2008 |
20090168681 | MECHANISM FOR WIRELESS MULTICAST - In an example embodiment, a system in which multi-destination packets are sent either as multicast packets or replicated and sent as unicast packets to each member of a multicast group. Determining whether to send multicast packets or replicated unicast packets can be based on which technique achieves higher throughput and/or lower latency. | 07-02-2009 |
20100161800 | Reserving Network Resources During Scheduling of Meeting Event - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request for scheduling a meeting event between client endpoint devices in an Internet Protocol (IP) based network, the meeting event having a starting time and duration, the meeting event requiring identifiable network resources from the network; determining whether the network will have available network capacity to supply the identifiable network resources during the meeting event; and selectively reserving the identifiable network resources for the meeting event, from the available network capacity, based on determining the network will have the available network capacity during the meeting event. | 06-24-2010 |
20120093037 | PATH SHORTENING IN A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method includes a mesh point receiving mesh advertisement messages from advertising mesh points of a wireless mesh network having a mesh portal with a wired connection to a wired network. Each mesh advertisement message specifies a corresponding metric for reaching the mesh portal and has a corresponding signal strength indicator. An ordered group of parent access points, ordered based on the respective metrics, is generated from among the advertising mesh points, starting with a first parent access point having a corresponding optimum metric for reaching the mesh portal and independent of the corresponding signal strength indicator. A registration message is sent to each of the parent access points identifying a corresponding specified priority based on a corresponding position in the ordered group, for use by the corresponding parent access point in selecting a minimum interframe spacing for forwarding a wireless packet received from the mesh point. | 04-19-2012 |
20120159459 | OPTIMIZING SYMBOL MANIPULATION LANGUAGE-BASED EXECUTABLE APPLICATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving an application that describes functions according to a prescribed symbol manipulation language, the prescribed symbol manipulation language a non-Turing complete language that does not permit partial functions and describes the functions independent of any attribute of any computing system; identifying, in the application, a distribution annotation that identifies a candidate element in the application, the candidate element configured for execution in a distributed computing operation by a distributed computing system comprising two or more distributed computing devices; generating one or more variants of the application based on executing a nondestructive transformation of the application relative to prescribed equality axioms, at least one of the variants containing a corresponding semantically-equivalent variation of the candidate element; and selecting one of the variants as an optimization for execution of the application by the distributed computing system relative to prescribed metrics. | 06-21-2012 |
20120265750 | AD HOC GEOSPATIAL DIRECTORY OF USERS IN A DISTRIBUTED AND DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM BASED ON OPTIMIZING SYMBOL MANIPULATION LANGUAGE-BASED EXECUTABLE APPLICATION - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving from a user interface, by a computing device, a request for execution of at least one lambda function in an operation of a geospatial application, the geospatial application having lambda functions for operating on one or more entities of an ad hoc geospatial directory accessible by the computing device, the lambda functions having strongly typed definitions according to a prescribed symbol manipulation language that is a non-Turing complete language, that does not permit partial functions, and that is independent of any attribute of any computing system; optimizing execution by the computing device of the operation on the ad hoc geospatial directory; and the computing device returning to the user interface a response to the request based on the optimizing execution of the operation, the response including a data structure including at least one of the lambda functions for a corresponding at least one of generating a query of the ad hoc geospatial directory, modifying a state of at least a first of the entities, or accessing the first of the entities. | 10-18-2012 |
20120331472 | AD HOC GENERATION OF WORK ITEM ENTITY FOR GEOSPATIAL ENTITY BASED ON SYMBOL MANIPULATION LANGUAGE-BASED WORKFLOW ITEM - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving from a user interface, by a computing device, a request for execution of at least one lambda function in an operation of a geospatial application, the geospatial application having lambda functions for operating on at least one of a workflow item or one or more entities of an ad hoc geospatial directory, the workflow item including at least one of the lambda functions for a workflow in the geospatial application; and executing by the computing device the at least one lambda function to form, in the geospatial application, a work entity that associates the workflow item with one of the entities, the work entity defining execution of the workflow on the one entity. | 12-27-2012 |
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20080199067 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING IMAGE RESOLUTION USING MICR CHARACTERS - A system for determining the image resolution of a check image using MICR characters. The disclosed system includes an extracting system for extracting a magnetic ink code recognition (MICR) code line from the document image, wherein the extracting system provides coordinate values for each of a plurality of MICR characters in the MICR code line; a calculating system for calculating a set of resolution values based on the coordinate values of the MICR characters; and a statistical analysis system that calculates a representative resolution value from the set of resolution values. | 08-21-2008 |
20080232648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SORTING DOCUMENT IMAGES BASED ON IMAGE QUALITY - A document processing system and method for using image quality to sort documents. The document processing system comprises: a document sorting system that designates a destination pocket for each document based on data gathered from each document; a document imaging system that captures an image of each document; and an image quality analysis system that analyzes each image and causes any document having an unacceptable image to be redirected to an unacceptable destination pocket. | 09-25-2008 |
20080247605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SORTING DOCUMENT IMAGES BASED ON IMAGE QUALITY - A document processing system and method for using image quality to sort documents. The document processing system comprises: a document sorting system that designates a destination pocket for each document based on data gathered from each document; a document imaging system that captures an image of each document; and an image quality analysis system that analyzes each image and causes any document having an unacceptable image to be redirected to an unacceptable destination pocket. | 10-09-2008 |
20090116725 | GRAY SCALE IMAGE CLEANING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A gray scale image cleaning algorithm for improved check code line OCR. An image processing system for processing a gray scale image is provided that includes: a system for generating a first thresholded black white image from the gray scale image; a system for generating a second thresholded black white image from the gray scale image, wherein the second thresholded black white image is generated with a higher threshold value than the first thresholded black white image; and a system for logically combining the first and second thresholded black white images to generate a composite image. | 05-07-2009 |
20100260408 | ELECTRONIC ENDORSEMENT OF CHECK IMAGES - A system and method for applying an endorsement to an electronic image of a bank check. A system is described that includes: an imaging system for generating an endorsement image representing an action taken relative to processing the bank check; a halftone system for converting the endorsement image into a digitally halftoned endorsement image; and a positioning system for placing the digitally halftoned endorsement image onto the electronic image of the bank check. | 10-14-2010 |
20140193063 | DUPLICATE CHECK IMAGE RESOLUTION - A system and method for comparing digital images, such as checks images used by banks, includes receiving and processing the images to be compared, including scaling the images to a common resolution, as well as filtering them to remove spot noise, background pels, and other non-information carrying elements. One or more regions of each image are selected for comparison. The selected regions are compared to one another by subtracting the pels of one image from the other's pels. A determination is made of whether the two or more images are duplicates of one another, or depict a substantially identical subject, based on the results of the subtractions. Furthermore, the amount of filtering and scaling may be adjusted to enhance the effects of the system to take advantage of common characteristics that may be known or detected in a particular set of images to be compared. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198968 | DUPLICATE CHECK IMAGE RESOLUTION - A system and method for comparing digital images, such as checks images used by banks, includes receiving and processing the images to be compared, including scaling the images to a common resolution, as well as filtering them to remove spot noise, background pels, and other non-information carrying elements. One or more regions of each image are selected for comparison. The selected regions are compared to one another by subtracting the pels of one image from the other's pels. A determination is made of whether the two or more images are duplicates of one another, or depict a substantially identical subject, based on the results of the subtractions. Furthermore, the amount of filtering and scaling may be adjusted to enhance the effects of the system to take advantage of common characteristics that may be known or detected in a particular set of images to be compared. | 07-17-2014 |