Abstract:
Electronic processing of the paper air waybills improves the speed and reduces the cost of providing air waybills. Enhanced services available for e-freight air waybills include automatic locking of the air waybills and automatic export quality assurance. E-freight air waybills may be identified by special handling codes such as e-Freight Air Waybill with Paper Document (EAP) and e-Freight Air Waybill without Paper Document (EAW). Additionally, an air waybill history may be created for the e-freight air waybills. The history may include freight waybill (FWB) messages and freight negative acknowledgement (FNA) messages related to the e-freight air waybill.
Abstract:
A system and method in a computer system for integrating software development tools and applications into the computer system in order to build, deploy and maintain enterprise business process applications in a heterogeneous development framework. Integration of the applications and software development tools are achieved through integration of the key elements of the computer system which are business models, domain models and components. In the process of integration the origin of a first newly developed/modified/existing business model is traced to a first newly developed/modified/existing domain model and these models are linked together. Next, the constituent components of a second newly developed/modified/existing domain model are traced to a newly developed/modified/existing set of components created and linked together. The system also involves recovery of constituent components from a newly developed/modified/existing system in a first heterogeneous environment and those constituent components are reconstructed into usable components inside a third newly developed/modified/existing domain model and are linked together. The process also involves recovery of a fourth newly developed/modified/existing domain model from a second heterogeneous environment and linking it to a second newly developed/modified/existing business model.
Abstract:
A system for recognizing objects is comprised of: 1) a camera that has a lens which is uncovered; 2) a housing which encloses the camera, and has a window for the lens; 3) a rotating means, which is inside of the housing and which carries the camera, for receiving electronic control signals and rotating the camera at different angles in response thereto; and, 4) a control means for generating the electronic control signals such that the rotating means selectively points the camera lens -a) through the window at any one of several predetermined angles, and b) inside of the housing at the surface for calibrating the camera. With this system, the objects that are recognized can be human faces at different heights relative to the window in the housing. By pointing the camera lens inside of the housing, the lens is protected from damage even though it is not covered; and a calibration surface inside of the housing enables the camera to be calibrated while the lens is protected.
Abstract:
A system and method for transforming specialized data files of a first computer system into industry-standard byte-stream files usable for a second system or other systems. First and second programmatic interfaces of the first system can take the specialized format native data files and transform them into standard formatted byte-stream data files for placement in a storage media of a second computer system which can then be initiated to use a CD Writer package to cause the data files to burned onto a CD-ROM. This CD-ROM can then provide the byte-stream data file for use in many different types of platforms.
Abstract:
An object-oriented apparatus in the memory of a computer system for propagating source code locations into objects in a compiler. The apparatus has three types. The first is a source object type, of which each object identifies a source location and, where inlining has occurred, a list of inlined source locations. The second type is a source mark object type, of which each object identifies a source object to be related to new compiler objects, and whose construction using a source object starts the use of the source object for propagation into new compiler objects, and whose destruction ends the use of the source object for propagation. The third type is a source mapped base type for a compiler object that relates the compiler object to a source object, and whose default construction relates the compiler object to the source object of the most recently constructed source mark object.
Abstract:
A multi-clock pulse synchronizer circuit with and IN-section receiving and storing prescribed in-pulses and input clock signals and responsively outputting intermediate pulses; and an OUT-section for receiving and storing the intermediate pulses, synchronous with certain output clock signals and processing them to generate certain output-signals, for better avoiding metastability.
Abstract:
A method of processing documents involving: transporting the documents at high speed unidirectionally and without pause along a prescribed transport path past at least one image-lift site; scanning the entirety of respective document faces at the sites with illumination from a light-source; providing a light-guide along a path between the light-source and the sites; providing an energy-shaping gate, disposed at each of the sites and acting to channel the imaging illumination energy there; and providing a heat-dissipation stage disposed operatively adjacent the light source and acting to extract infra-red energy therefrom and dissipate it so as to shield the sites; this heat-dissipation stage comprising an infra-red extraction unit arranged and adapted to remove a substantial part of the infra-red energy projected along a prescribed beam-path from a high-intensity spectral source; the extraction unit comprising: a selective reflector interrupting the beam path and adapted to divert infra-red energy as an infra-red beam along a second path; and an associated infra-red dissipation unit including multi-blade surfaces; disposed within an enclosure, adapted to receive the infra-red beams and to trap them and convert them to surface heat; these surfaces being arranged in an infra-red trap configuration to receive infra-red energy beams at an input portion and to allow essentially none of them to re-emerge; the reflector being interposed across the beam path and adapted to divert only infra-red energy to the dissipation unit; these blade surfaces comprising opposed sets of parallel blades, disposed obliquely to the direction of the infra-red beams, the blades being arrayed to converge upon the infra-red beams and block them, thus forming a convergent, infra-red trap preventing reflection back of any significant portion of an entering infra-red beam.
Abstract:
The disclosed invention is a method for generating code in a maintainable form and in performing needed maintenance for the same. This method is useful in a computing system having at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto by means of a network. The server includes a CPU executing legacy programs and at least one storage device for storing forms of the legacy program. The generated code implements the host forms while allowing for additional logic to be added. The method of this invention operates in at least one of the clients for generating code for modifying existing event routines for controls on the forms. Moreover, the code generated by the method of this invention is separated from additional logic added by a programmer, and this programmer-added logic is retained even as the generated code is revised.
Abstract:
The present invention is an apparatus for adapting transmissions between an industry standard data bus of a host computer having a host memory and a fiber channel coupled between said host computer and a peripheral storage subsystem having at least one disk drive, which apparatus comprises an interface logic coupled between the industry standard bus and a local bus of the apparatus; a buffer memory coupled to the local bus; a multiplexor/control device coupled to the local bus and being disposed for transmitting therethrough address and data; a fiber channel controller disposed for formatting header and data structures that meet fiber channel protocol, which controller is coupled to the multiplexor/control; a gigabit link module disposed for converting the header and data structures from a parallel format to a serial format and being coupled between the fiber channel controller and the fiber channel; a microprocessor disposed for providing service requests from the host to read and write data from the host memory to and from the peripheral storage subsystem via the buffer memory, the microprocessor is coupled to a processor bus; and, a bus control device coupled between the processor bus and the local bus for providing service requests of the interface logic, the fiber channel controller and the microprocessor, and for arbitrating control of the local bus.
Abstract:
In accordance with the disclosed invention there is provided a method in a system server for storing and retrieving messages of various formats in an object database coupled to a network including a multiplicity of clients also coupled to the network. The server includes a CPU and at least one storage device coupled thereto for storing objects of the database. The method includes steps for driving a database that solves the problem of transforming incoming messages into objects for storage in the database and organizing the transformed messages into a hierarchy of objects in accordance with the purpose and destination of such incoming messages for storage in the database.