Generation, distribution, storage, redemption, validation and clearing of electronic coupons
    32.
    发明授权
    Generation, distribution, storage, redemption, validation and clearing of electronic coupons 失效
    电子优惠券的生成,分发,存储,赎回,验证和清算

    公开(公告)号:US07013286B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-03-14

    申请号:US09475217

    申请日:1999-12-30

    IPC分类号: G06F17/60

    摘要: A method and system generates, distributes, stores, redeems, validates and clears electronic manufacturer coupons and electronic store coupons. A coupon mint generates unforgable blank digital coupons. The promoter of the offer then writes the terms and conditions and other details of the offer, on blank coupons to customize these. These customized coupons are digitally signed by the promoter and distributed to potential customers. A customer may either present these coupons electronically for redemption to an online store, or print these coupons and present them to a conventional offline store. The store may check the authenticity of a coupon by verifying the digital signature and also verifying if the coupon has not been used earlier by contacting a verification center. The store collects all redeemed coupons and sends these to manufacturer for clearing. The verification center verifies that the coupon is authentic and has not already been used before.

    摘要翻译: 方法和系统生成,分销,存储,赎回,验证和清除电子制造商优惠券和电子商店优惠券。 优惠券薄荷产生不可阻挡的空白数位优惠券。 报价的推动者随后将空白优惠券的条款和条件以及报价的其他细节写入定制。 这些定制优惠券由促销者数字签名并分发给潜在客户。 客户可以以电子方式将这些优惠券呈现给在线商店,或者打印这些优惠券并将其呈现给传统的离线商店。 商店可以通过验证数字签名来检查优惠券的真实性,还可以通过联系验证中心来验证优惠券是否更早被使用。 商店收集所有兑换的优惠券,并将其发送给制造商清算。 验证中心验证优惠券是否可信,以前尚未使用。

    Differential rewards with dynamic user profiling
    33.
    发明授权
    Differential rewards with dynamic user profiling 有权
    差异奖励与动态用户分析

    公开(公告)号:US06571216B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-05-27

    申请号:US09483603

    申请日:2000-01-14

    IPC分类号: G06F1760

    摘要: A methodology and system allows a plurality of reward scheme owners to give differential rewards, through a plurality of reward distribution agents, to various users based on the user profile. The reward scheme owner may be a seller, a manufacturer, a sales promotion agent or even an intermediary. Similarly, the reward distribution agent may be an on-line or a physical retailer, a broker, a seller or an intermediary. Also the users may be consumers, businesses, brokers or other intermediaries. In one specific case, a reward scheme owner defines a plurality of reward schemes, including at least one differential reward scheme giving different rewards to different users. The reward scheme owner communicates these to a central reward scheme database server. The reward scheme owners may or may not advertise these schemes. The user visits an online or a physical store. The store acting as a reward distribution agent dynamically profiles the user, queries the central reward scheme database server if the user profile meets the criterion for one or more rewards and offers the applicable rewards to the user. The store later receives reimbursement for the rewards offered to various users, from the reward scheme owners. This methodology and system may be used for offering targeted or differential discounts on different products and services, offering different promotional schemes on different combination of products, giving loyalty points, electronically distributing prizes, free samples, product warranties, tie-in promotions, cross selling, up selling, premiums, memberships, card discounts, organizing contests, sweepstakes, games and offering other similar rewards.

    摘要翻译: 一种方法和系统允许多个奖励计划所有者通过多个奖励分发代理根据用户简档给予各种用户不同的奖励。 奖励计划所有者可以是卖家,制造商,促销代理或甚至中介。 类似地,奖励分发代理可以是在线或实体零售商,经纪人,卖方或中介。 用户也可能是消费者,企业,经纪人或其他中间商。 在一个具体情况下,奖励计划所有者定义了多个奖励方案,包括给予不同用户不同奖励的至少一个差别奖赏方案。 奖励计划所有者将其传达给中央奖励计划数据库服务器。 奖励计划所有人可能会也可能不会宣传这些计划。 用户访问在线或实体店。 作为奖励分发代理的商店动态地描述用户,如果用户简档满足一个或多个奖励的标准并向用户提供适用的奖励,则查询中央奖励方案数据库服务器。 该商店随后从奖励计划所有者收到向各种用户提供的奖励的报销。 该方法和系统可用于为不同的产品和服务提供有针对性的或差异化的折扣,为不同的产品组合提供不同的促销方案,提供积分,电子分发奖品,免费样品,产品保证,促销活动,交叉销售 ,销售,保费,会员卡,卡片折扣,组织比赛,抽奖,游戏,并提供其他类似的奖励。

    Method and System for Identifying Sources of Operating System Jitter
    35.
    发明申请
    Method and System for Identifying Sources of Operating System Jitter 失效
    识别操作系统抖动源的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20090122938A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-05-14

    申请号:US11939913

    申请日:2007-11-14

    IPC分类号: H04L7/00

    摘要: A method for tuning performance of an operating system, the method comprising identifying all sources of operating system jitter; measuring the impact of each of the operating system jitter source; and tuning performance of the operating system, preferably by use of different approaches/techniques, which could include removing the sources of operating system jitter and/or delaying their execution and/or smoothening their execution over a longer period of time. Computer program code and systems are also provided.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于调整操作系统性能的方法,所述方法包括识别操作系统抖动的所有来源; 测量每个操作系统抖动源的影响; 并且优选地通过使用不同的方法/技术调整操作系统的性能,其可以包括在更长的时间段内去除操作系统抖动的源和/或延迟其执行和/或平滑其执行。 还提供计算机程序代码和系统。

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SUB-SYSTEMS OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE
    36.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SUB-SYSTEMS OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE 有权
    用于管理通信设备的子系统之间的通信的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20080186146A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-08-07

    申请号:US12025753

    申请日:2008-02-05

    IPC分类号: H04Q5/22

    摘要: A method and system for managing communications between sub-systems of a communication device. The sub-systems include a Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) and a Baseband Integrated Circuit (BBIC). The BBIC includes a processing engine, a state machine module and an interface module. The method includes initializing a Digital Radio Frequency Third Generation (DigRF3G) interface between the RFIC and the BBIC. The processing engine is kept functionally inactive during the initialization process of the DigRF3G interface. Further, the method includes exchanging one or more packets between the RFIC and the BBIC.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于管理通信设备的子系统之间的通信的方法和系统。 子系统包括射频集成电路(RFIC)和基带集成电路(BBIC)。 BBIC包括处理引擎,状态机模块和接口模块。 该方法包括初始化RFIC和BBIC之间的数字射频第三代(DigRF3G)接口。 处理引擎在DigRF3G接口的初始化过程中保持功能无效。 此外,该方法包括在RFIC和BBIC之间交换一个或多个分组。

    Method and apparatus for frame synchronization
    37.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for frame synchronization 有权
    帧同步方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07388881B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-06-17

    申请号:US11067968

    申请日:2005-02-28

    IPC分类号: H04J3/22

    CPC分类号: H04L7/10 H04B1/7073

    摘要: A system for receiving and handling a scrambled input data signal that includes a preamble with a start of frame delimiter (SFD) initiates an SFD search on the scrambled input data, thereby attempting to save an initialization period. The initialization period may be of the order of 7 uS, and its saving results in improved timeline management enabling antenna diversity and the possible use of high performance algorithms. The system may use two parallel paths for signal processing, each having an SFD detector and a descrambler. If the detected SFD is short, then the second path is disabled, and if it is long, then the first parallel path is disabled. Alternatively, the first path can be used for a finite period of time (for e.g., 40 symbols) and if the SFD is still not detected, the first path is disabled, and the system uses only the second path.

    摘要翻译: 用于接收和处理包括具有帧定界符(SFD)开始的前同步码的加扰输入数据信号的系统启动对加扰输入数据的SFD搜索,从而尝试保存初始化周期。 初始化时间可以是7μS的量级,并且其保存导致改进的时间线管理,使天线分集和可能使用高性能算法。 系统可以使用两个并行路径进行信号处理,每个路径都有一个SFD检测器和一个解扰器。 如果检测到的SFD短,则禁用第二条路径,如果长度不等,则第一条并行路径被禁用。 或者,第一路径可以用于有限的时间段(例如,40个符号),并且如果尚未检测到SFD,则禁用第一路径,并且系统仅使用第二路径。

    Adaptive incremental checkpointing
    38.
    发明申请
    Adaptive incremental checkpointing 失效
    自适应增量检查点

    公开(公告)号:US20060129610A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-15

    申请号:US11008525

    申请日:2004-12-09

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30

    CPC分类号: G06F11/1451

    摘要: A method, apparatus and computer program product are disclosed for incrementally checkpointing the state of a computer memory in the presence of at least one executing software application at periodic instants. A secure hash function is periodically applied to each partitioned contiguous block of memory to give a periodic block hash value. At each periodic instant, a block hash value for each block is compared with a respective preceding block hash value to determine if said memory block has changed according to whether said block hash values are different. Only changed memory blocks are stored in a checkpoint record. The memory block sizes are adapted at each periodic instant to split changed blocks into at least two parts and to merge only two non-changed contiguous blocks at a time.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种方法,装置和计算机程序产品,用于在周期性时刻在存在至少一个执行软件应用的情况下递增地检查计算机存储器的状态。 周期性地对每个分区的连续的存储器块应用安全的散列函数以给出周期性的块哈希值。 在每个周期性时刻,将每个块的块哈希值与相应的先前块散列值进行比较,以根据所述块哈希值是否不同来确定所述存储块是否已经改变。 只有更改的内存块才被存储在检查点记录中。 存储器块大小在每个周期性时刻被适配,以将改变的块分成至少两个部分,并且一次仅合并两个未改变的连续块。

    Decision feedback equalizer design with interference removal and reduced error propagation
    40.
    发明申请
    Decision feedback equalizer design with interference removal and reduced error propagation 有权
    决策反馈均衡器设计,具有干扰消除和减少的误差传播

    公开(公告)号:US20050254571A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-11-17

    申请号:US11121455

    申请日:2005-05-04

    IPC分类号: H03D1/04 H03K5/159 H04B1/707

    CPC分类号: H04B1/7097

    摘要: A method for designing a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) that handles packet based input data signals uses an inter symbol interference (ISI) removal loop and an inter chip interference (ICI) removal loop which is nested inside the ISI loop, for maximum interference removal and limited error propagation. The DFE may use a feed forward filter and a series connected chip-flow control buffer for receiving the input data signals. The DFE of the invention has application in 802.11 b PHY and 802.11 g PHY scenarios and any application involving a DFE with the need for minimum error propagation. Taught herein is a combined weighted DFE with erasure provision and interference removal in an optional two step mechanism. An article comprising a computer storage medium to execute the DFE design method is also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 用于设计处理基于分组的输入数据信号的判决反馈均衡器(DFE)的方法使用嵌套在ISI环路内的码间干扰(ISI)去除环路和芯片间干扰(ICI)去除环路,以实现最大干扰去除 和有限的误差传播。 DFE可以使用前馈滤波器和串联连接的芯片流控制缓冲器来接收输入数据信号。 本发明的DFE具有在802.11b PHY和802.11g PHY场景中的应用以及涉及需要最小误差传播的DFE的任何应用。 这里介绍的是一种组合加权DFE,具有可选的两步机制中的擦除设置和干扰消除。 还公开了一种包括用于执行DFE设计方法的计算机存储介质的物品。