1168 results about "Information center" patented technology

In a mobile communicating system, a mobile terminal has a position information detecting unit for detecting position information, a position information transmitting unit for transmitting the position information to an information center, an up-load data transmitting unit for transmitting up-load data to the information center and an information / service utilizing unit for utilizing information / service from the information center, whereas the information center has an accumulating unit for accumulating information / services, a retrieving unit for receiving the position information from the mobile terminal to retrieve the information / services in the accumulating unit, an accumulation controlling unit for accumulating the up-load data in the accumulating unit, and an information / service transmitting unit for taking out the information / service retrieved by the retrieving unit from the accumulating unit and transmitting it to the mobile terminal, thereby providing not only map information showing the current position of the mobile terminal but also information of facilities on the map to the mobile terminal.

A scalable and reliable collaborative software application that provides an information hub that serves as a single portal to using applications in an aggregated, collaborative manner, thereby eliminating the need for constant transmission / reception of information to achieve collaboration, is presented. The present invention creates a portal for all entities, and enables access, storage, sharing, and response to related information from anywhere at anytime on any access unit in a collaborative and collective methodology. The present invention also provides object-based security and object-based threaded discussion sessions for all objects generated by the various applications.

Unpossessed road data is added to possessed road data stored in a road contour database of an information center. An on-vehicle terminal apparatus first compares a current position of a vehicle detected by a D-GPS unit against the road data stored in a storage section for storing road contour data of possessed roads. If the current position deviates from a known existing road, it is determined that the vehicle travels on an unpossessed road. Road data of the unpossessed road is then obtained based on a travel locus of the vehicle and sent to the information center together with a reliability index of the road data. The information center collects unpossessed road data from a plurality of sources, evaluates the reliability index for each data, and adds sufficiently reliable road data to the possessed road data. Thus, the information center can quickly obtain and utilize new and reliable road data.

A navigation system includes: an information center; a navigation device of a vehicle communicating with the information center; a communication unit transmitting information of a destination to the information center; a center side transmission unit searching positional information of the destination in a database of the information center and transmitting the positional information to the navigation device; a calculation unit of the navigation device calculating a first route to the destination; a navigation side transmission unit transmitting first route calculation result to the information center; and a determination unit of the information center calculating a second route to the destination, comparing second route calculation result with the first route calculation result, and determining whether the navigation device guides a route to the destination based on the first or second route calculation result.

When information regarding position of a facility, such as a parking lot, is requested from a terminal (22), an information center (10) supplies position information to the terminal (22) as a relative position using a landmark, such as a neighboring road. The terminal (22) computes a shift from a position of a landmark in a local map database (24) and a position of a received landmark in a map matching processor (34), and corrects the facility position. If the landmark has not been stored in the map database (24) at the terminal (22), relative data based on another road is resent.

A novel device for remote information download and transfer for downloading a secure, permanent record of criminal activity and / or accident evidence relating to a vehicle for evidentiary purposes which may be directly transferred to an information center and / or the authorities through a transmission link which is preferably a satellite up / link-down / link or saved directly onto the downloading device. The remote downloading device may be activated automatically or upon a trigger signal and comprises an interface, an information capturing storage device, a video monitor display and preferably a transceiver. The interface communicates with an information storage device, downloads the information saved therein and transmits it to the capture storage device, transceiver or both. The information may be displayed on the visual display monitor or transmitted via the transceiver to an off site location.

An apparatus and method for a navigation system including an information center and a mobile terminal is disclosed. The information center stores node image information on topographic features of a node. The node image information includes partial image information according to a direction of movement of the mobile terminal. The information center includes a database for storing a node message having the partial image information and a database for storing map data. The information center generates the node message for guiding the next node point whenever the mobile terminal reaches a node point, and transmits partial image information of the node image information corresponding to the direction of movement of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal displays the image information of the node received at each node point and confirms a movement path.

An information center provides a control program which is usable by a vehicle within its effective area. The control program may be transmitted to a vehicle in conjunction with the effective area through a broadcast antenna. According to the detected result of the current location, a control apparatus on a vehicle applies a control program to device control when the current location sites within the effective area. The vehicle can take possession of a control program fits to a region at any places to which it moves and can utilize those. It is possible to substitute an effective period for the effective area.

A novel device for remote information download and transfer for downloading a secure, permanent record of criminal activity and / or accident evidence relating to a vehicle for evidentiary purposes which may be directly transferred to an information center and / or the authorities through a transmission link which is preferably a satellite up / link-down / link or saved directly onto the downloading device. The remote downloading device may be activated automatically or upon a trigger signal and comprises an interface, an information capturing storage device, a video monitor display and preferably a transceiver. The interface communicates with an information storage device, downloads the information saved therein and transmits it to the capture storage device, transceiver or both. The information may be displayed on the visual display monitor or transmitted via the transceiver to an off site location.

A navigation system includes an information center and a navigation device installed in a probe vehicle. The information center stores limiting information for specifying a content of probe information in accordance with predefined factors, specifies a predefined factor corresponding to a navigation device, selects the limiting information based on the specified predefined factor, transmits the selected limiting information to the navigation device, and receives the corresponding probe information transmitted from a navigation device. The navigation device receives the limiting information from the information center, collects probe information, selects only the probe information specified by the received limiting information for transmission to the information center, and transmits the selected probe information to the information center.

A cabinet frame enclosure is provided having a first side wall, a second side wall, a first opening and a second opening each in combination defining an interior space for accommodating a plurality of equipment, the equipment being removable through the first opening. A plurality of functional modules are provided such as: an asset tracking module for detecting the presence or absence of the equipment from the interior space of the cabinet frame enclosure, the asset tracking module disposed in the first side wall adjacent the first opening; an access control module for providing electronic locking and access control to the interior space of the cabinet frame enclosure; an environmental management module for monitoring and controlling environmental conditions within the interior space of the cabinet frame enclosure; a power management module for monitoring and controlling power distribution to equipment located in the interior space of the cabinet frame enclosure, the power management module disposed in one of the first side wall or second side wall and adjacent the second opening; and a cabinet control module (CCM) for providing consolidated connectivity to the plurality of functional modules, wherein the CCM presents a single network connection for managing the equipment located in the cabinet frame enclosure.

A device and method for permanently and securely storing incident information, relating to a vehicle, from remote download to create a secure non-tamperable, permanent database of criminal activity and / or accident evidence for evidentiary purposes. The information may be directly transferred to an information center and / or the authorities through a transmission link, which is preferably a satellite up / link-down / link or saved directly onto the downloading device for transfer to the secure device. The remote downloading device may be activated automatically or upon a trigger signal and comprises an interface, an information capturing storage device, a video monitor display and preferably a transceiver. The interface communicates with an information storage device, downloads the information saved therein and transmits it to the capture storage device, transceiver or both. The received information is reproduced, integrated into an indexed database and transferred to the secure device as part of a secure, indexed database for non-tamperable permanent storage as evidence.

In the present invention a traffic information providing apparatus makes a vehicle location and a running date a starting point, and predicts arrival time to each link included in a designated area, based on current traffic information provided by a traffic information center; meteorological forecast information provided by a meteorological information center; and statistical traffic information acquired from a traffic information data base where past traffic information is stored, thereby produces meteorological consideration traffic prediction information of the link, and sends the produced meteorological consideration traffic prediction information to a car navigation device. Then the car navigation device is configured to receive the produced meteorological consideration traffic prediction information and to search a guidance route, based on the produced meteorological consideration traffic prediction information.

There is provided a navigation system using a wireless communication system and a route guidance method thereof. In the navigation system, an information center searches out an optimum route between a present vehicle position and a destination referring to map data in its map database and generates route guidance data. A navigation terminal inside the vehicle calculates the present position of the vehicle, transmits the vehicle's current position information to the information center, receives the route guidance data, and announces a notification message. A wireless communication network connects the information center to the navigation terminal wirelessly.

A route search location determining section (12d) of a mobile body (10) decides whether to conduct a route search at the mobile body (10) or to request the route search to an information center (30) based on various conditions such as priorities and how old the map data version is. In this manner, effective search can be conducted using two distinct route searching devices. Also, a current position calculating section (12a) can execute map matching by adding route data obtained from the information center (30) as a map matching candidate.

Systems and methods for displaying data modification may include a user interface displaying a timeline with one or more items, which may include their own item timeline, corresponding to the same time period. A change made in item values may be reflected in the timeline. The invention may be applied to payroll or human capital management software, which may provide means for displaying payroll or human capital management information and how it is modified. Similarly, the timeline may also function as an information center that may display events and documents.

A communication system, method, and apparatus are described for synchronously sharing online documents within a wireless telecommunications network. The system allows a main information center and a mobile terminal to regularly and mutually update important data in synchrony. It also allows real time online document sharing for a mobile terminal with a wireless connection to other terminals. Furthermore, it allows real time online calendar sharing and group calendar sessions.

The invention relates to an automobile renting method and provides an automobile renting system and method convenient for returning an automobile. An information center is communicated with an onboard terminal and a mobile phone in real time, the information center loads parking data of the automobile to be rented to a GPS navigation map of the mobile phone of a user to guide the user to find a standby automobile nearby, the user to use the automobile only needs to close a non-contact radio-frequency card integrated with the mobile phone to an automobile door, and the automobile door is unlocked automatically. The legal user gets on the automobile and inputs a user ignition code into a GPS display of the onboard terminal, and then the automobile can be ignited and started after the code is certified as authentic, thus achieving convenient automobile taking at a parking space. In the driving process, the user can inquire a destination and available conditions of the parking spaces nearby along the line on an onboard GPS navigation instrument so as to park in the parking space in time. After parking and switching off a motor, the user can conveniently select returning and keeping of the automobile, and after the user leaves the rented automobile for certain distance, the automobile door is locked automatically.

A device and method for permanently and securely storing incident information, relating to a vehicle, from remote download to create a secure non-tamperable, permanent database of criminal activity and / or accident evidence for evidentiary purposes. The information may be directly transferred to an information center and / or the authorities through a transmission link, which is preferably a satellite up / link-down / link or saved directly onto the downloading device for transfer to the secure device. The remote downloading device may be activated automatically or upon a trigger signal and comprises an interface, an information capturing storage device, a video monitor display and preferably a transceiver. The interface communicates with an information storage device, downloads the information saved therein and transmits it to the capture storage device, transceiver or both. The received information is reproduced, integrated into an indexed database and transferred to the secure device as part of a secure, indexed database for non-tamperable permanent storage as evidence.

There is provided an apparatus and method capable of providing location information of the other party's moving object in a form of map information. The method for guiding the location of the other party's moving object in the navigation system includes the steps of: selecting an identification information of the other party's navigation system in a user's navigation system, and transmitting a location information request message on the other party's moving object; receiving the location information request message of the other party's moving object at a traffic information center, tracking a location information of the other party's moving object, and transmitting the tracked location information message of the other party's moving object; and receiving the location information message of the other party's moving object at the user's navigation system, matching the location of the other party's moving object with a map information, and display the matched information.

A wireless network that broadcasts a message from a telecommunication system to mobile stations associated with the wireless network is provided. The wireless network includes one or more mobile switching centers, one or more base stations, and one or more mobile stations. In various embodiments, the telecommunication system may include an emergency alert system and / or a public switched telephone network along with the wireless network. The message may include a presidential message, a local area message, a state message, a national information center message, a weather news report, a headline news report, a traffic news reports, or a promotional advertisement. Several methods for broadcasting the message in a wireless network are provided.

The invention discloses a fingerprint identifying system which comprises three large parts of a fingerprint database, a central server and a client terminal; the fingerprint database is mainly used for memorizing the fingerprint characteristic information after digital coding; the central server is mainly responsible for validating the validity of the client terminal, receiving the fingerprint characteristic data, comparing the characteristics and returning the fingerprint identifying result; the client terminal is mainly responsible for collecting the fingerprint, extracting and uploading the fingerprint characteristic data. The system overcomes the defects of the prior art, can provide an online / offline fingerprint identifying system the basic algorithm library of which can be seamlessly expanded and the functions of which can be selected and matched. The fingerprint identifying system can lead a user to obtain the ID identification and authentication services with high quality under the situation of not needing a great amount of capital investment.

The invention discloses a reservation system and a method for sharing automobile lease, relating to a reservation system and a method for carrying out the automobile lease conveniently and fast by using a GPS map of a mobile phone. The method comprises the following steps: an information center carries out real-time communication with a vehicle-mounted terminal and the mobile phone; the information center processes to-be-used positional information of a leased automobile and then loads the positional information to a GPS navigation map of the mobile phone of a user with an icon according to places; the user selects the icon of an automobile to be used at a specified place on the map; an internal program of the mobile phone transmits a selection action to the information center; the information center transmits user registration data to the vehicle-mounted terminal of the automatable to be used; the vehicle-mounted terminal assigns values on a door lock controller and an ignition controller; and simultaneously, the information center sends a short message to the mobile phone and the short message provides an automobile number of a reserved automobile to be used at the place as confirmation information. A user only needs to put a non-contact radio frequency card integrated with the mobile phone to be close to the vehicle door of the reserved automobile to be used, the vehicle door is automatically unlocked. The convenient and fast reservation operation of leasing the automobile is achieved.

The invention is to solve the high cost problems in the current health care system and to increase efficiency and quality of medical care service by using an integrated medical information management system. The invention allows users or patients to manage their own medical information worldwide in a portable device to enhance medication adherence and self-management of personalized health care. A multi-functional medical information center is developed to manage medical information received from various resources to satisfy stakeholders by improving the efficacy, accuracy, and quality of health care information, but simultaneously operated at a cost-effective manner for stakeholders. In addition, the quality control of medical data management will be guarded by a side-by-side comparison technology to warn inconsistent information in medical billing history to prevent medical insurance fraudulent claims. The invention also makes the medical billing system more transparent and patients can find their desired medical doctors, preferred insurance policy, and price comparison of medical products at ease.

An information center generates packets of route guidance information, each corresponding to a prescribed road length of a recommended route. The information center may generate major guide point information and guidance information and transmit both to a vehicular apparatus. The vehicular apparatus provides guidance only for major guide points based on the received major guide point information if it cannot receive the guidance information. According to another aspect of the invention, if the end of a route segment which was the subject of the preceding route guidance information is on an expressway or toll road, guidance information for a preliminary route from that end to an escape position ahead on the expressway or toll road is first transmitted and then information for a remaining route, that is a segment of the recommended route having the prescribed road length minus the preliminary route, is then transmitted. If communication with the information center is lost, the vehicular apparatus performs guidance for the preliminary route to an interchange, for example, of the expressway using the preliminary route guidance information.

An apparatus and methods are provided for sharing cell coverage information among devices in a cell network. Cell coverage information includes bitmap models of signal strength to enable intelligent handover decisions. Mobile terminals are able to receive cell coverage information over a broadband unidirectional broadcast network, such as a digital video broadcast network. They are also able to receive cell coverage information from other mobile terminals via ad hoc wireless signalling. Mobile terminals are also able to store and upload raw signal measurements to a cell coverage information center.

A toolbar for WHOIS searching and interacting with a domain name registrar. The toolbar may include buttons, form fields and drop down menus, and performs WHOIS searches, WHOIS wildcard searches, provides domain registration services. Queries include WHOIS domain searches by domain, by IP address, and by Network Information Center (NIC) Handle searches. Domain registrations can be created, transferred and renewed.

An anti-phishing method includes the steps of establishing an information center having a blacklist database, wherein the information center is liaising with at least an Internet service provider (ISP) through a communication network; collecting a plurality of phishing sources to be stored in the blacklist database to form a plurality of blacklist items therein; and sending the blacklist sources to the Internet service provider such that when a user of the Internet service provider tries to access a website source which matches with one of the blacklist items, the user receives a warning signal to inform the user that the website address is the phishing source.

The present invention relates to an electrical safety diagnosis system and apparatus, which are configured to enable sensed data on user surroundings in a U-city environment, such as electrical safety data for switchboards and distribution boards, and water leakages, faulty outlet connections, etc., to be managed remotely by a server at a U-city integrated information center. In particular, the present invention relates to an electrical safety diagnosis system and apparatus which use a U-city integrated information network to preemptively perform checking and analyses for potential electrically-induced disasters that can occur in public facilities, stores, buildings, and homes within a U-city, by means of a U-city integrated information center, and prevent electrical fires or shocks at the electrical equipment of switchboards or distribution boards, and dangerous conditions (such as water leakages, abnormal temperatures, gas, and faulty outlet connections) in facilities used by users. The remote electrical safety diagnosis system of the present invention comprises: a digital switchboard including the functions of checking electrical equipment in a switchboard room using a contactless arc sensor and a partial discharge sensor on a power line, to diagnose the safety of the electrical equipment, diagnosing an arc or partial discharge in a detected waveform and storing the diagnosed data, and transmitting the diagnosed data to a higher level server; and a digital distribution board including a main circuit breaker and a partial circuit breaker, for checking an AC voltage or current input through the power line, storing the checked data, and transmitting the diagnosed data to the higher level server.

The invention discloses a traffic-road condition information processing method based on a vehicle wireless sensor network. The method is characterized in that: firstly, a wireless communication network is established and the network includes an information center, a vehicle wireless sensor network sub-system formed by limited vehicle mobile knots and an information publishing sub-system based on a broadcasting network; the information center is fixed in a traffic hub in a city as the center of the wireless communication network; secondly, each vehicle mobile knot collects the timely road condition information and integrates data through the vehicle wireless sensor network sub-system according to the instruction of the information center; then the timely road condition information from the information collection and data integration of each road section is reported to the information center through the vehicle wireless sensor network sub-system; finally, the processed traffic road condition information and network control instructions are published by the information center through the information issuing sub-system to each vehicle mobile knot for the road choosing by drivers.