Patent classifications
H04L67/34
Fleet management system for portable maintenance tools
An industrial service device fleet management system implements an organized and easy to use methodology to manage the digital content stored on each of a plurality of portable or stationary devices used in a plant, such as portable maintenance devices, to assure that each of the portable devices receives or implements only the content that it is supposed to have and is upgraded at the appropriate time to include new content, features, etc. The fleet management system includes a memory for storing information related to the fleet of portable or stationary devices including device identifications, device descriptions, end user names and privileges, the current content of each of the portable devices, and templates defining configuration parameters for the portable or stationary devices. The system also includes a content downloader that obtains, stores, and downloads content (such as software and firmware upgrades, additional features, applications, drivers, knowledge articles, etc.) for execution or display in various ones of the portable or stationary devices, includes a content decider module that analyzes when and if various ones of the portable or stationary devices should be provided additional or new content, and includes a notification system that notifies users of the portable or stationary devices of the need to upgrade or provide new content to the portable or stationary devices.
Communication enabled circuit breakers
Communication enabled circuit breakers are described. Methods associated with such communication enabled circuit breakers are also described. The communication enabled circuit breakers may include one or more current sensors. The one or more current sensors may be disposed in a clip. The clip may be coupled to a line side phase connection, and the clip may be shielded to attenuate signals.
Optimized deployment based upon customer locality
The deployment of content and computing resources for implementing a distributed software application can be optimized based upon customer location. The volume and geographic origin of incoming requests for a distributed software application are determined. Based upon the volume and geographic origin of the incoming requests, content and/or one or more instances of the distributed software application may be deployed to a geographic region generating a significant volume of requests for the distributed software application. Content and/or instances of a distributed software application might also be speculatively deployed to a geographic region in an attempt to optimize the performance, cost, or other attribute of a distributed software application.
Wireless connection validation techniques
In general, techniques are described for remotely monitoring, controlling, and/or adjusting configuration settings related to network access points located within a rental property. In some implementations, rental data that indicates a property that has been rented for a specified rental period is received. Sensor data collected by one or more sensors of the property during the specified rental period is obtained. A current occupancy of the property during the specified rental period is determined from the sensor data. Network data indicating network activity over a network access point of the property is obtained during the specified rental period. The network access point is configured during the specified rental period based at least on the network activity indicated by the network data and the current occupancy determined for the property from the sensor data.
System and method for distributed device configuration and authorization
A system for distributed device management includes a group of devices. Each device in the group of devices communicate with one or more other devices in the group of devices over one or more network channels, and each device in the group of devices includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit of each device in the group of devices manages one or more devices in the group of devices, authorizes a new device to join the group of devices, and synchronizes data with the new device and with one or more devices in the group of devices over the one or more network channels.
CAN bus protection systems and methods
CAN bus signal format inference includes: extracting candidate signals from training CAN bus message traffic; defining one or more signals, each signal being a candidate signal that matches structural characteristics of a matching data type and each signal being assigned the matching data type; and generating an inferred CAN bus protocol with which the defined one or more signals conform. Signals are extracted from CAN bus message traffic using the inferred CAN bus protocol, an anomaly in an extracted signal is detected, and an alert is generated indicating the detected anomaly. In another aspect, a transport protocol (TP) signal is extracted and analyzed to determine a fraction of the TP signal that matches opcodes of a machine language instruction set, and an anomaly is detected based at least in part on the determined fraction exceeding an opcode anomaly threshold.
SCALABLE APPLICATION-AS-A-SERVICE ENVIRONMENT AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH
A computerized method of managing a computer remote session operation, comprising providing a server for hosting application execution; configuring a number of predefined user accounts with low security permissions on said server, where said user accounts are not tied to any specific real user; Whenever a remote user requests to start a remote session, finding an available user account not currently in use on said computer, allocating it for the remote session and marking it as unavailable for subsequent session requests; Generating a one-time password for said user account; Communicating the assigned user account identifier and temporary password to client component on the user's side, either directly or through an intermediate broker; causing the client component to connect to the server using said user account identifier and temporary password; and, upon termination of the remote session, deleting the assigned user account's data and marking it as available again.
MODULAR FIRMWARE UPDATE
An apparatus of a data center, a computer-readable medium, a method and a system. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: access first information corresponding to a firmware (FW) payload, the FW payload to identify a server FW component; access second information corresponding to FW update metadata, the FW update metadata to indicate one or more dependencies of a FW update of the server FW component; perform a validation of the one or more dependencies against corresponding server information; and in response to a determination of a success of the validation, communicate with an execution engine to cause execution of the FW update on the server.
MANAGEMENT OF DATA AND SOFTWARE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Management of data and software for autonomous vehicles. In an embodiment, sensor data is received. The sensor data is collected by one or more sensor systems of one or more vehicles, and submitted by a first user via at least one network. The sensor data is automatically analyzed to detect any problems with the sensor data and to enhance the sensor data, prior to publishing a description of the sensor data in an online marketplace. A graphical user interface is generated that comprises one or more screens of the online marketplace, via which a second user may view the description of the sensor data and purchase the sensor data for download via the at least one network.
SAMPLE SEPARATION NETWORK WITH SIMPLY CONNECTABLE SAMPLE SEPARATION DEVICE
A sample separation network includes a server node, a plurality of client nodes coupled with the server node, a plurality of sample separation devices coupled with the server node, wherein each of the sample separation devices includes device-specific control software configured for controlling specifically the respectively assigned sample separation device, wherein at least one of the server node and the client nodes includes generic control software configured for generically controlling sample separation devices in a non-device-specific way, and wherein at least one of the server node and the client nodes and the sample separation devices is configured for loading device-specific control software from a sample separation device to at least one of the server node and the client nodes upon connection of said sample separation device to the sample separation network.