International Business Machines Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jiangsu University

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology, LLC

Jing Luo

Ying Li

Zhong Su

Xiao Xun Zhang

Lin Luo

Jie Qiu

Xin Hui Li

John Arthur Pershing, Jr

Tian Cheng Liu

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Harigovind Venkatraj Ramasamy

Yun Zhang

Nan Li

Norbert George Vogl

Nikolai A Joukov

Robert Filepp

Brian L Peterson

Eric James Barkie

Kamal Bhattacharya

An Yan

Lili Dong

Colm V Malone

Kevin David Galloway

Kewei Sun

Li Ma

Karen Cheng

Yi Luo

Quan Long

Yuanji Wang

James R S Barros, Ii

David L Westerman

Christopher C Young

Jia Yin Mao

Cheng Wei Wang

Junyi He

The present invention provides a pot seedling feeding system for a transplanter, including a conveyor unit, a detection sensor, a controller, a seedling separation unit, side plates, and support stands. The conveyor unit includes a step motor, a transmission shaft, a conveyor belt, a tensioning shaft, and bearings. The seedling separation unit includes a seedling separation rod, a reset spring, a guide post, and a support seat. The controller is used to control the step motor which drives the conveyor belt in order to move the pot seedling. When a seedling receiving barrel of the planter rises to a seedling receiving position, the planter is controlled by using a brake cable, the seedling separation rod is then ejected which in turn drives the step motor to carry a pot seedling to move forward. The pot seedling is then dropped in a seedling receiving cup of the planter. In order to improve the quality of pot seedling planting, the seedling separation rod corrects a feeding posture of the pot seedling at the moment when the pot seedling drops. The present invention is about a mechanical seedling feeding system adopting the conveyor unit and the seedling separation unit that move intermittently, where multiple pot seedlings can be placed at a time, so that the operation is simple and fast, labor is saved and the cost is reduced. Stress from missing seedlings and excessive fatigue from repetitive movement are also eliminated from the implementation of this device.

Pot seedling feeding system for transplanter

Techniques are disclosed for workflow based high availability analysis in computing systems. For example, a computer-implemented method for analyzing an information network infrastructure to identify one or more availability weak points includes the following steps. A workflow specification is provided based on one or more user-visible processes and an application topology. Service workflows associated with the specification are mapped from the application topology to the infrastructure to generate a workflow data structure. An availability weak point analysis is performed in accordance with the workflow data structure to determine one or more optimal high availability parameters for one or more deployed components of the infrastructure. The one or more optimal high availability parameters are applied in the infrastructure so as to substantially eliminate the one or more availability weak points.

Method and apparatus for workflow based high availability analysis

Methods are provided for improving the ability to apply modeling techniques similar to relational algebra to an expanded number of workflows. By allowing a relational algebra type modeling technique to be applied to an expanded number of workflows, an increased number of data processing workflows can be more readily improved, such as by automatic modification of the sequence of tasks in a workflow, to reduce the execution costs for a workflow. The relational algebra type modeling technique can also allow for identification of portions of data processing workflows or queries that share a common input and output.

Extending relational algebra for data management

A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing authorization control in a cloud storage system. The method comprises: receiving an access request to a file block, wherein the file block is embedded with tag data comprising at least file block authorization information; retrieving the file block; extracting the file block authorization information from the tag data; determining whether the access request matches the file block authorization information; and performing the access request if the access request matches the file block authorization information. Effective authorization control may be performed in a cloud storage system.

Performing authorization control in a cloud storage system

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of automatic testing of a graphical user interface in the technical field of software testing. Embodiments of the invention provide a method for automatically generating a test script for a graphical user interface. This method comprises defining information of each component in a tested graphical user interface, writing a test case file, and generating a file of combined values of components, and adding an operation type to each component in each file of combined values. The method further comprises determining a sequence of operations in each of the files of combined values, and generating a test script. This method reduces the tester's workload when manually programming test scripts and facilitates maintenance of test scripts.

Method and apparatus for automatically generating a test script for a graphical user interface

A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing authorization control in a cloud storage system. The method comprises: receiving an access request to a file block, wherein the file block is embedded with tag data comprising at least file block authorization information; retrieving the file block; extracting the file block authorization information from the tag data; determining whether the access request matches the file block authorization information; and performing the access request if the access request matches the file block authorization information. ,Effective authorization control may be performed in a cloud storage system.

A method and apparatus for recommending a short message recipient. The method includes parsing history short messages of a user to generate data associated with contacts, constructing a semantic association database by using the data, identifying a critical object in a new short message text of the user, analyzing an association between the critical object and the contacts by using the semantic association database, and recommending a short message recipient to the user according to a strength of association.

Mobile terminal to recommend a short message recipient

The present invention describes a method and system for preparing a migration and consolidation of at least one source application to be migrated to or consolidated in at least one heterogeneous server device. A computing system selects at least one prospective target platform component based on an evaluation of at least one source platform component, a requirement of the at least one source application, and a compatibility and an affinity of the at least one prospective target platform component. The computing system collects first metadata of the at least one source platform component and the at least one prospective target platform component. The computing system collects second metadata associated with the migration and consolidation. The computing system groups the first metadata and the second metadata into a RFM (Request For Migration). The computing system prepares and configures a final target platform in accordance with the RFM.

Assisting server migration

A method and navigation helper for generating constraint language codes for navigation in a constraint language editor. The constraint language editor generates model/instance-related constraint expressions according to the loaded model/instance and related constraints. The navigation is a path implementing the constraints. The method includes parsing the loaded model/instance; calculating a possible association related to the element through the type of the navigation-related element in the model/instance; and calculating a possible navigation path according to the association. A method for generating constraint language codes in a constraint language editor and the constraint language editor includes loading the model/instance; loading constraint patterns for storing parameters and a constraint code template; invoking corresponding helpers, according to the types of parameters stored in the constraint patterns; and generating constraint codes according to the generated parameters and the constraint code template.

Determining a navigation path for a constraint language editor

Method and apparatus for recommending a short message recipient

A method and apparatus for locating a memory leak in a program code by a computer device using a combination of dynamic analysis and static analysis approaches. The method includes dynamically analyzing the program to determine a memory leak characteristic; filtering out items which do not match the determined memory leak characteristic of the program to reduce a static analysis range to certain suspicious parts of a source code; and statically analyzing the suspicious parts of the program to locate the memory leak in the program. The apparatus includes a dynamic analyzer device to determine memory leak characteristics; and a static analyzer device to filter out items which do not match the determined memory leak characteristic to reduce a static analysis range to certain suspicious parts of a source code and locate the memory leak in the program.

Method and apparatus for locating memory leak in a program

A method, device and system for generating an HA group according to a user's HA requirement by retrieving an applicable HA pattern, according to a result of HA requirement analysis on the user's HA requirement; generating an initial HA group based on the retrieved HA pattern; performing context rebuilding on a member unit in the initial HA group to obtain a preliminarily configured HA group; generating a member unit based HA group variant for the preliminarily configured HA group according to an HA group redundancy obtained from the user's HA requirement; and performing structure configuration and attribute configuration on a member unit in the generated HA group variant to obtain an HA group that meets the user's HA requirement.

Method and apparatus to simplify HA solution configuration in deployment model

An image search method and system using face detection, begins with receiving a query submitted by a user. Next a query word is searched in the query from an image resource using an image search engine to obtain an initial image collection. Any faces are detected in each image in the initial image collection which has been searched. A search for the query word in a text surrounding each image having the face in the initial image collection is performed. A determination is made whether the query word indicates at least one person's name in the surrounding text matching the query word. An image an image in the initial image collection is returned to a user in which the face is included and the query word in the surrounding text indicates the person's name.

Image search using face detection

A method and device for performing a constraint failure analysis on an instance model. The present invention provides a convenient tool to bridge between a model-constraint designer and a model user, reduce load for model/constraint usability, simplify the learning curve, and assist to make a model correction for the model user.

Constraint failure analysis using constraint evaluation tree of constraint patterns

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