Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for building a video mosaic from a sequence of video images. Advantageously, the present invention can quickly and easily align each image by performing an image registration. The image registration includes detecting edges of structures and determining regions of interest. Once regions of interest are determined, then the distance from the center of the video image to the region of interest can be determined and from that determined data, the video images can be aligned.

Abstract: Disclosed is a Security Indications and Warning (SI&W) Engine usable in conjunction with an audit agent. The audit agent forwards normalized audits to the SI&W Engine. The SI&W Engine groups the normalized audits into related groupings. Gauges are used to count the number of occurrences of audited events. A statistical engine provides statistical representations of the number of events per user, per session and per node. A predetermined number of criteria are defined a particular gauge or gauge pair. There may be many criteria for a particular network. When a predetermined number of criteria within a criteria set are triggered, an indicator is triggered. More complex indicators can use combinations of lower level indicators to provide further indications of potential security threads. Thus, a hierarchical system of gauges, criteria and indicators is used to measure boundary violations and breaches of different barriers.

Abstract: Optical correlation (OC) technology, previously used with great success to detect tanks and other weaponry in aerial imagery, is used in the present invention with imaged pages which are stored as image templates. An image template of a search word, a classification, an agency seal or a particular individual's signature becomes the basis of a user query. The target to be detected can be text as image (a search word, a classification) or image as image (an agency seal, a signature). The result is a faster (not one or two, but hundreds of times faster), flexible method of automatically identifying documents that match a target image template.

Abstract: An accurate position of a mobile receiver is determined using a received positional signal having relatively low and high frequency noise components corrupting the positional accuracy of the positional signal. A low frequency error associated with a detected turn of the mobile receiver is derived and applied as a low frequency correction factor to positions of the receiver derived after the turn is detected. Resulting corrected positions are applied along with associated high frequency correction factors representative of the high frequency noise component to a predictive filter to derive predicted positions substantially free of the low and high frequency noise components.

Abstract: A smart interrogator can communicate with RF tags on multiple frequencies and bandwidths and can communicate with tags from various manufacturers and thus permits assets if to be tracked even if the assets are being tracked using tags from different manufacturers. The smart interrogators communicate with a logistics server via the Internet using transferable agents that forward tag information from the interrogator to the logistics server via a Java data base connection (JDBC). The logistics server communicates with a logistic server database where transaction information from the tags is logged. The information from the interrogator is forwarded to appropriate external server and networks over the Internet. A client can query the logistics server to determine the whereabouts and status of a particular asset. The logistics server can spawn a transferable agent to locate the asset.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to automatic vehicle navigational systems, and more particularly, to an automatic vehicle routing and recommendation system. Even more particularly, the present invention is directed to a system for choosing one of a plurality of potential vehicles in a fleet for routing the fleet vehicle over the shortest distance and/or time from a current location to a target point such as a fire or a passenger for a taxicab.

Abstract: A memory is provided for storing data for access by a database program being executed on a computer system for evaluating an enterprise architecture. A data structure is stored in the memory with the data structure including information resident in a database used by the database program. The data structure includes a work flow model, an information model; and a technology model. Each model includes a plurality of entities linking the models together. The computer system executes the database program for evaluating linkages between entities and how architectural changes to the enterprise affect the enterprise architecture by accessing the memory storing the data structure, and generates a result indicative of the linkages between entities.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus which includes a security computer system capable of deploying and monitoring software agents on one or more nodes of a network of computers. The agents on each node include a framework agent and either a misdirection mission or a defensive mission. Upon an intrusion detection mission sending information to the security computer system indicative of an actual or suspected misuse or intrusion, the security computer system can automatically take countermeasures against the suspected or actual intrusion or misuse. Automatic countermeasures include using a defensive countermeasure to increase an auditing level conducted by the intrusion detection mission. A misdirection countermeasure mission is used to misdirect requests of the suspected or actual intruder or misuser. An offensive countermeasure is used to send a chase mission to the suspected or actual intruder. The offensive chase mission can either be automatically dispatched or dispatched with human intervention.

Abstract: An antenna assembly for forming and directing a transmit beam, and for controlling receive and transmit beam tracking of a spacecraft in the presence of planetary aberration. The assembly includes a main reflector, a sub-reflector centered along an optical axis of the main reflector, and a moveable transmit feed for directing electromagnetic radiation along a longitudinal axis thereof. The assembly also includes an intermediate beam waveguide assembly arranged between the moveable transmit feed and the main reflector, wherein the intermediate beam waveguide assembly includes fixed and moveable optical components for guiding electromagnetic beam energy between the moveable transmit feed and the main reflector. A beam steering mechanism is coupled with the moveable transmit feed for angularly displacing the transmit beam from the optical axis by displacing the moveable transmit feed in a direction substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the transmit feed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical fiber displacement connector and method used with a fiber optic cable as an optical tap. The fiber optic cable includes a light carrying center, a cladding and a buffer. The cladding displacement connector has surfaces which can be used for displacing the buffer and cladding to expose the light carrying center. The cladding displacement connector at least partially surrounds the light carrying center of the fiber optic cable. The cladding displacement connectors are formed of an optically conductive material and is insertable into a printed circuit board or an integrated circuit chip. The connector can carry bi-directional and multi-wavelength light signals. The optical signal carried by the light carrying center of the fiber optic cable can be caused to exit the fiber optic cable by displacing the cladding, abrading the cladding, dissolving the cladding, and carving a groove into the light carrying center.

Abstract: An antenna assembly for forming and directing a transmit beam, and for controlling receive and transmit beam tracking of a spacecraft in the presence of planetary aberration. The assembly includes a main reflector, a sub-reflector centered along an optical axis of the main reflector, and a moveable transmit feed for directing electromagnetic radiation along a longitudinal axis thereof. The assembly also includes an intermediate beam waveguide assembly arranged between the moveable transmit feed and the main reflector, wherein the intermediate beam waveguide assembly includes fixed and moveable optical components for guiding electromagnetic beam energy between the moveable transmit feed and the main reflector. A beam steering mechanism is coupled with the moveable transmit feed for angularly displacing the transmit beam from the optical axis by displacing the moveable transmit feed in a direction substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the transmit feed.

Abstract: An antenna assembly for forming and directing a transmit beam, and for controlling receive and transmit beam tracking of a spacecraft in the presence of planetary aberration. The assembly includes a main reflector, a sub-reflector centered along an optical axis of the main reflector, and a moveable transmit feed for directing electromagnetic radiation along a longitudinal axis thereof. The assembly also includes an intermediate beam waveguide assembly arranged between the moveable transmit feed and the main reflector, wherein the intermediate beam waveguide assembly includes fixed and moveable optical components for guiding electromagnetic beam energy between the moveable transmit feed and the main reflector. A beam steering mechanism is coupled with the moveable transmit feed for angularly displacing the transmit beam from the optical axis by displacing the moveable transmit feed in a direction substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the transmit feed.

Abstract: A method of reducing the volume of native audit data from further analysis by a misuse and intrusion detection engine is disclosed. Typically, more than ninety percent of the volume of audit information received from heterogeneous operating systems does not need to be analyzed by a misuse and intrusion detection engine because this audit information can be filtered out as not posing a security threat. Advantageously, by reducing (eliminating) the volume of audit information, a misuse and intrusion engine can more quickly determine whether a security threat exists because the volume of data that the engine must consider is drastically reduced. Also, advantageously, the audit information that is forwarded to the engine is normalized to a standard format, thereby reducing the computational requirements of the engine. The method of reducing the volume of native audit data includes comparing each of the native audits against at least one template and against at least one native audit.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for transmitting musical performances over the Internet from a single point such as a piano Internet web site to multipoint such as player pianos located within subscriber's homes. A subscription service associated with the web site would offer monthly subscription services where a subscriber can access any one of millions of prerecorded performances at any time of day and have a signal transmitted to the subscriber's computer. A transmitted signal is received at the subscriber's computer and a musical instrument, such as a player piano, can perform the prerecorded performance. The web site would also offer a mix of live performances as part of the basic subscription at additional cost, at a pay-per-performance basis. The musical performance would be either a live performance which would be transmitted from point to multipoint or prerecorded performance which would be more typically sent from a storage device associated with the web site directly to a single customer.

Abstract: These and other objects of the present invention are provided by an ambient load waveguide switch mounted between a feed horn and a low noise amplifier in a ground based antenna. The ambient load waveguide switch includes a housing assembly having a through path. A shuttle assembly is positioned within the housing assembly and moves linearly within the housing assembly on a guide assembly between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the shuttle assembly has a waveguide alignable with the through path of the housing assembly. In a second position, the shuttle assembly has an ambient load element alignable with the through path of the housing assembly. A motor assembly moves the shuttle assembly in a first direction and compresses a first spring to bias the shuttle assembly into the first position. The motor assembly moves the shuttle assembly in a second direction and compresses a second spring to bias the shuttle assembly into the second position.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling and monitoring remote distributed processing systems from one or more control processing systems by downloading agent-application programs from the control processing systems to remote control middleware modules on the distributed processing systems, where the control processing systems have a library of available agent-application(s). The agent-application(s) are compiled by or at the direction of the remote control middleware and executed within operational parameters determined by the control processing systems.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for verifying, analyzing and optimizing a distributed simulation conducted on one or more simulation components from one or more control computers where the present invention may be overlaid onto a distributed simulation as may be conducted by technologies now known for conducting such simulations, where each simulation component has simulator middleware which is operatively connected to a control computer and where the control computer has agent-applications which it may send to the simulator middleware of one or more selected simulation components to perform a task such as gathering data about a simulation entity and return that data to the control computer for subsequent analysis such as calculating average characteristics or effectiveness of simulation components and having tools for optimizing the distributed simulation by modifying or creating agent-applications to send to selected simulators which change the parameters of the distributed simulation and re-run the distributed simu

Abstract: A machine readable passport document contains an unbound data page mounted in the document in a secure and tamper-resistant manner. The data page is printed as a separate sheet and contains a photographic image, bearer identification data and machine readable data, all imprinted on a single paper surface. The data page is mounted within the document by means of a heat activatable adhesive and is covered by a transparent sheet.An improved method of assembling a passport document includes the use of a folder having a transparent sheet and a dry adhesive sheet. The data page is placed in the folder which is inserted into a bound passport booklet. The booklet is then heated and compressed to mount the data page in the document. Visa data pages are mounted in the same manner.