Abstract:
A solution is proposed for an integrated system which tries to prevent and manage power break down in home electrical system with an interaction between the appliances or the electricity points within the house and a server controlling the system. A server (105) is connected to the meter (201) and to a plurality of agents (110). In a state of the art home electrical system the device (105) provides a new functionality which can range from a mere alerting service to a proper control and management of the electricity consumption within the house. Server (105) could be located anywhere between the main meter/switch, normally provided by the electrical distribution company, and the household appliances or, more in general, the electrical devices to be managed. Its preferred location is however inside the apartment itself, near the remainder of the main internal switches. Connected to the Server (105) there are several clients which are associated to one or more switches or plugs.
Abstract:
A method, computer program and system to automatically install, update and remove a software application distributed as a virtual appliance, in a virtual machine system running on top of a virtual machine monitor in a computer. The software application virtual appliance comprises one virtual disk which is automatically detected and installed or removed at the customer by the Virtual Disk Activation Manager (VDAM) program which executes scripts including commands through the API to the virtual machine monitor. The virtual appliance virtual disk is also created automatically by the software manufacturing using VDAM program. The virtual appliance virtual disk stores the binaries of the software application, a software package created by the software manufacturer using a software package tool, an installer to execute the software package, installation and desinsatallation scripts and a unique identifier which is a signature for the virtual machine virtual disk.
Abstract:
A solution (A1-A11) is proposed for distributing software products in a data processing system. For this purpose, there is provided a set of models of each software product to be distributed (for example, of the UML type); each model includes an indication of relationships among a plurality of available logical items (representing functions provided by the software product, such as use cases) and a plurality of available distribution artifacts (used to distribute the software product). A set of logical items is then selected (A2-A3) among the available ones. The process continues by identifying (A4-A7) a set of distribution artifacts required to implement the selected logical items (among the available distribution artifacts); the required distribution artifacts are identified according to the corresponding relationships in the models. A software package is built (A8-A9) including the required distribution artifacts. The software package is then distributed (A10) to a set of data processing entities of the system (i.e., endpoints), so as to cause each entity to install (A11) the required distribution artifacts on the entity.
Abstract:
A solution forcontrolling and managing the usage of domestic electrical power in order to avoid undesired interruption of the service. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a removable device is proposed which can be interposed between any appliance and the meter to prevent and manage power break down in a home electrical system. The device interacts with a server which monitors and controls the total electrical power usage of the system; the server authorisesnew requests of power consumption by any of the appliances only if such requests can be satisfied without exceeding a predetermined maximum allowed load of the system.
Abstract:
A solution is proposed for an integrated system which tries to prevent and manage power break down in home electrical system with an interaction between the appliances or the electricity points within the house and a server controlling the system. A server (105) is connected to the meter (201) and to a plurality of agents (110). In a state of the art home electrical system the device (105) provides a new functionality which can range from a mere alerting service to a proper control and management of the electricity consumption within the house. Server (105) could be located anywhere between the main meter/switch, normally provided by the electrical distribution company, and the household appliances or, more in general, the electrical devices to be managed. Its preferred location is however inside the apartment itself, near the remainder of the main internal switches. Connected to the Server (105) there are several clients which are associated to one or more switches or plugs.
Abstract:
An arrangement permitting a user for example in a internet point or using a different profile in the same machine can connect to a web server to download and install local client software such as a java application or a browser plug-in the first time he accesses to this service from that browser in order to customize his environment. Once authenticated, he can choose the personalization to be performed in whatever application installed and eligible to be user customizable. For example he can replicate in the system his browser settings (favorites, cookies, forms etc) or word templates as a clone of environment setting of his personal machine. The customization can depend on pre-defined profiles to allow the user customization of a subset of settings, for example only browser settings. Models of different operating environements are defined and called upon to enable interactions with different client devices.
Abstract:
A resource management method (300) and a corresponding system are proposed. In the solution of the invention, an authority publishes (324) multiple rules, each one defining a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (without any information about their dependencies). Each subject retrieves (320-322, 326) the rules corresponding to its category in a random order. The rules are then applied (427-439) on the subject according to a trial-and-fail approach. Particularly, the application of any failed rule is continually repeated (427-448), until all the rules are successfully applied (463) or a deadlock condition is detected (451). In this way, any dependency is automatically resolved on the subject at run time. Moreover, as soon as all the rules have been successfully applied the compliance of the subject to the rules is verified (455-57) again; should the subject be not compliant to one or more rules any longer, an infinite loop condition is detected (466).
Abstract:
A resource management method (300) and a corresponding system are proposed. In the solution of the invention, an authority publishes (324) multiple rules, each one defining a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (without any information about their dependencies). Each subject retrieves (320-322, 326) the rules corresponding to its category in a random order. The rules are then applied (427-439) on the subject according to a trial-and-fail approach. Particularly, the application of any failed rule is continually repeated (427-448), until all the rules are successfully applied (463) or a deadlock condition is detected (451). In this way, any dependency is automatically resolved on the subject at run time. Moreover, as soon as all the rules have been successfully applied the compliance of the subject to the rules is verified (455-57) again; should the subject be not compliant to one or more rules any longer, an infinite loop condition is detected (466).
Abstract:
A solution for navigating UML diagrams (200) is proposed. For this purpose, a graphical interface is implemented for defining multiple navigation paths (NAVk) along corresponding sequences of diagrams (DIAiI-DIA55) . The definition of those navigation paths is stored into a dedicated file (without modifying the definition of the diagrams) . A home bar for invoking the navigation paths is then added to the graphical representation of the diagrams . Once a reader has selected a specific navigation path, its first diagram (DIAn; DIAi5) is retrieved and displayed. At the same time, a navigation bar for moving throughout the sequence is dynamically generated and added to the graphical representation of each diagram that is traversed.