摘要:
A system and method for computing a value movement forecast for a financial measure collects publications related to the financial measure. Keyword expressions related to the financial measure are obtained. Linguistic analysis is performed on the publications to identify significant word expressions from the publications, identify characteristic variables based on predetermined characteristics of the keyword expressions and the significant word expressions, and compute values for the characteristic variables based on the predetermined characteristics of the keyword expressions and significant word expressions. A forecasting function is created based on the characteristic variables and the values. Values for the characteristic variables are then computed by performing linguistic analysis on another set of publications, and the forecasting function is evaluated on these values to compute the value movement forecast for the financial measure.
摘要:
An integrated communications control device integrates the telecommunications environment of a small office with an interface to the telephone network. The device is a stand alone unit including a programmable control processor configured by a user based on the telephonic equipment within the office and the user's needs. The device is utilized to control telephone and data communications within the office. The device interfaces with a computer allowing the user to configure the system and create a customized telephonic environment using the personal computer. Alternatively, the device may be integrated into the PC with a plug-in card. Standard telephone interfaces are provided for interfacing to telephonic equipment such as telephones, modems and facsimile machines. Additionally, an ISDN interface allows the device to interface with and communicate over the ISDN, thereby providing a gateway to the PSTN. A display provides users with current operational status of the system. The display also includes input buttons which allow the user to make real-time configuration adjustments. Alternatively, the display includes an audio interface wherein the user is prompted and enters responsive data through the input buttons or the personal computer. Alternatively, the user provides responsive data using spoken commands interpreted by the device. Intelligence is resident within each device allowing the device to control and monitor telephonic traffic for a single user within an office over the equipment coupled within the system. This localized intelligence also allows a plurality of such devices, each at different offices, to be linked in a network environment, wherein multiple users can each have their own device and yet be linked together in a virtual office. This virtual office provides such standard office capabilities as message and call transfers between respective control devices and users at remote locations. The ISDN interface also allows the device to place multiple calls simultaneously over a single ISDN line.
摘要:
A system and method is disclosed for real-time data and voice transmission over an internet network. A PSTN voice packet is received and digitized at a network gateway. A destination gateway and destination transmux is identified and a destination gateway address and a destination transmux address are appended to the digitized voice packet. The voice packet is received at an originating transmux and broken into gateway subpackets. The gateway subpackets are aggregated and the destination transmux address is removed from the gateway subpackets. The transmux voice packets are then transmitted over the network to a destination transmux, where they are broken into transmux subpackets. The subpackets are sorted and aggregated by a destination gateway address, and the destination gateway addresses are then removed. Voice packets are received from the destination transmux by a destination gateway and converted to analog voice packets and transmitted to a destination PSTN.
摘要:
A mechanism for providing one or more passive state machines behaving in the same manner as an active state machine so that one of the passive machines will take over operation from the active machine if the active machine becomes inoperative. The active machine, in addition to responding to each excitation, sends the same excitation to a first passive machine, which accumulates the excitations and waits until the expiration of a first time T1 to “pseudo” respond to the excitation. That is, the first passive machine responds to excitations as does the active machine, but its responses are discarded. Similarly, the first passive machine, upon each pseudo-execution, sends the same excitation to a second passive machine, which accumulates the excitations and waits until the expiration of a second time T2 to pseudo respond to the excitation; and the second passive machine, upon each pseudo-execution, sends the same excitation to a third passive machine, which accumulates the excitations and waits until the expiration of a third time T3 to pseudo respond to the excitation, and so on.When an active machine becomes inoperative, another mechanism replaces the active machine with a passive machine. All passive machines are in a circle and each is assigned a number that variously increases in one direction around the circle, e.g., clockwise. Each participant, a passive machine that may become an active machine, compares its number to the two numbers of the two neighbors, and if the number of that participant is smaller than both numbers of its neighbors, then that participant becomes active.