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An apparatus and method for measurement, analysis, and optimization of content delivery over a communications network is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus detects data packets en route over a communications network. The detected data packets are read by the apparatus, combined into application messages, and further combined into user centric events. The events are analyzed to identify metrics and statistics relating to the delivery of content over a communications network and the experience of the end user. The metrics and statistics are saved in a data storage area. When the metrics exceed a configurable threshold, the apparatus provides real-time notification of content delivery problems or end user experience problems. Alternatively, the system can take action to proactively prevent anticipated content delivery problems or end user experience problems.

A portable battery charger with inductive charging has a housing, an output inductive coil beneath the surface of the housing to transmit power to a portable device also having a coil therein, and a battery within the housing connected to the output coil, wherein the output coil operates at the battery voltage and transmits power from the battery to the portable device. The charger may also have an input inductive coil beneath the surface of the housing to receive power from a source, and transmit the power to the battery, and the output coil and the input coil may be the same coil. A method of charging the battery of a portable device comprises the steps of aligning the input coil of a portable device adjacent to with an output coil of a charger using magnets positioned near the respective coils, and inductively charging the device battery without connecting the device to the charger.

The efficiency of an irrigation system on a property is determined as a difference between the actual water usage at a property and the irrigation water need of the plant on the property. Data for the property are received including at least the location and irrigation area of the property. A reference evapotranspiration value for the property is determined using the solar radiation data derived from the location of the property. The irrigation water need of the property is then calculated from the reference evapotranspiration value and area. The irrigation water need is compared to the actual water use at the property to determined the efficiency of the irrigation system operating thereon.

A method of analyzing and practicing golf strokes, such as putting strokes, is provided. A surface is provided, wherein a golfer can practice one or more strokes in an environment simulating components of a golf course, such as a green. A club movement detector embedded in the surface and comprising a plurality of photodetectors and associated circuitry determines the position and velocity of the club face A head movement sensor detects rotational movement of the golfer's head during the golf stroke. An eye movement sensor detects movement of the eyes of the golfer during the golf stroke. A processor connected to the club movement sensor, eye movement sensor, and head movements sensor gathers movement data during the golf stroke and produces measurements corresponding to the golf stroke, such as eye, head, and club movement of the golfer. The invention includes measuring head movement data and wirelessly transmitting same for remote analysis during a golf stroke. Club head movement is sensed by an infrared ranger placed along a line perpendicular to the face of the clubhead. Eye, head, and club movement data can be combined into one or more serialized data streams, and transmitted wirelessly over one or more RF channels for remote reception and processing. Finger, wrist, and elbow movements can also be measured and analyzed during a golf stroke or a free throw setting.

The present invention provides automated systems and methods for monitoring column performance in process chromatography, and applications thereof. In an embodiment, column performance is monitored by generating a plurality of process values such as, for example, conductivity values or pH values with a detector during a chromatography step transition between a first mobile phase liquid and a second mobile phase liquid. The process values are transformed to form transformed process values in which noise present in the process values is suppressed. Column performance parameters are calculated based on the transformed process values and displayed during movement of the second mobile phase liquid through the chromatography column. The displayed performance parameters enable an operator to make a determination, for example, regarding the quality of the chromatography column packing and whether to continue the chromatography process or stop the chromatography process until the chromatography column can be repacked or replaced.

A method for measuring physician efficiency and patient health risk stratification is disclosed. Episodes of care are formed from medical claims data and an output process is performed. Physicians are assigned to report groups, and eligible physicians and episode assignments are determined. Condition-specific episode statistics and weighted episode statistics are calculated, from which physician efficiency scores are determined.

The method for elliptic curve scalar multiplication is a method for fast, efficient multiplication of a point on an elliptic curve by a scalar. Two different parameters are used to assign separate projective coordinates to the x-coordinate and the y-coordinate. The x- and y-coordinates are projected by Z^{L<sub2>x </sub2>}and Z^{L<sub2>y</sub2>}, where L_x and L_y are exponential functions having a common base, i.e., L_x=g^{n<sub2>x </sub2>}and L_y=g^{n<sub2>y</sub2>}, respectively. The use of projective coordinates reduces the number of inversions in scalar multiplication, thereby speeding processing time. Furthermore, since the parameters L_x and L_y are exponential functions, and since the base g is invariant, g⁻¹ can be precomputed and stored. This practically eliminates any further inversions, since L_x⁻¹=(g⁻¹)^{n<sub2>x </sub2>}and L_x=(g⁻¹)^{n<sub2>x </sub2>}so that inversions are simplified to exponentiation by substitution, further speeding processing time and reducing storage requirements.

In order to address the above noted problems, embodiments of the present invention use distributed acoustic sensing to monitor the fluid level in an ESP activated well so as to monitor the condition and performance of the ESP. Embodiments of the invention use the ESP as an acoustic source in order to monitor the annulus fluid level within the well and to monitor the frequency of the ESP. Additionally, embodiments of the present invention may use distributed acoustic sensing to monitor the flow rates of the production fluid above and below the ESP to determine the pump's efficiency. In particular, some embodiments utilise one or more optical fibers to measure the acoustic waves generated by the ESP, wherein the fiber cabling has already been deployed along the length of the well. As such, the present invention is a non-invasive, in-situ method for monitoring the condition and performance of an ESP.

The invention for the operative monitoring of track brakes, according to which an electric current passes through a winding of a brake magnet, measures the electric current (i2, i4) and compares the temporal progression of the measured current (i2, i4) with a saved temporal progression of a reference current (i1, i3). In particular, the comparison is achieved by claculating the difference between the measured current and the reference current. Preferably, the difference between the measured current and the reference current is temporally integrated and compared with a threshold value. To determine a magnetic coupling between the track brake and the track, a calculation is made as to whether the measured current has local minima (e min) and/or local maxima (e max) during the activation of the track brake, only the temporal progression of the measured current as said current increases being subjected to a comparison with the reference current. The current is preferably activated in pulses, with the comparison of the measured current and the reference current being restarted with each pulse.

The present invention relates to an operational monitoring system that collects information in real-time from a work-site with a personnel tracking system, an equipment tracking system. The collected information is sent to a server, which is received and presented on an interactive display system that uses information capture by a site rendering system to render a 3D model of the work-site. A task management system allows an end-user to assign work profiles, tasks, and zones for workers and equipment operating on-site, which is thereafter monitored in real-time.

A method for determining the efficiency of an electric energy system of a hybrid vehicle includes determining a measure representative of a relation between the electrical, brake energy and the mechanical brake energy, by determining a requested brake energy for a first vehicle retardation, and by determining an actual electrical brake energy and the actual mechanical brake energy during the vehicle retardation, determining a new measure representative of a relation between the electrical brake energy and the mechanical brake energy at a subsequent second similar vehicle retardation, comparing the determined measures representative of a relation between the electrical brake energy and the mechanical brake energy of the first and second vehicle retardations, where the actual efficiency of the energy system is obtained from the change in the measure representative of a relation between the electrical brake energy and the mechanical brake energy of the first and second vehicle retardations.

A method for determining the degradation and/or efficiency of a laser unit (2, 3) having a plurality of laser modules (4-7) connected in series, wherein a bypass system (10-13) by which the associated laser module (4-7) can be bypassed is connected in parallel to each laser module (4-7), comprises the following steps: a. determining a first laser power for a first number of laser modules (4-7); b. activating the bypass system (10-13) of at least one laser module (4-7) of the first number of laser modules (4-7) such that at least one laser module (4-7) is bypassed; c. determining a second laser power for a second number of laser modules (4-7), wherein the second number equals the first number without the bypassed laser modules (4-7); d. determining the difference between the first and second laser power.

A method for determining the existence of duplexes of oligonucleotide complementary molecules is provided whereby a plurality of immobilized oligonucleotide molecules, each of a specific length and each having a specific base sequence, is contacted with complementary, single stranded oligonucleotide molecules to form a duplex so as to facilitate intercalation of a fluorescent dye between the base planes of the duplex. The invention also provides for a method for constructing oligonucleotide matrices comprising confining light sensitive fluid to a surface, exposing said light-sensitive fluid to a light pattern so as to cause the fluid exposed to the light to polymerize into discrete units and adhere to the surface; and contacting each of the units with a set of different oligonucleotide molecules so as to allow the molecules to disperse into the units.

The embodiment of the invention provides a satellite information transmission method and device, equipment, a medium and a product. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring an initial ground station node and a target ground station node corresponding to target information transmission in a low-orbit satellite network; determining a corresponding transmission path of target information in the low-orbit satellite network according to the initial ground station node, the target ground station node and a preset satellite network routing algorithm; and transmitting the target information from the initial ground station node to the target ground station node according to the transmission path. According to the satellite information transmission method provided by the embodiment of the invention, when the initial ground station node and the target ground station node are combined with the preset satellite network routing algorithm, the corresponding transmission path of the target information in the low-orbit satellite network can be determined more efficiently; therefore, the efficiency of transmitting the target information from the initial ground station node to the target ground station node is improved.

A method for decolorizing and stabilizing alkylphenyl esters of phosphoric acid which comprises contacting the esters with an effective amount of a benzofuranone (e.g., is 5,7-di-t-butyl-3-(3,4 di-methylphenyl)3H-benzofuran-2-one) for a sufficient length of time to decolorize and stabilize the esters against subsequent color formation.

The invention relates to a system that enables real-time monitoring of wear and tear occurring in rubber liners and lifter bars used in the internal structure of the ore grinding mills employed in the mining sector, in addition to obtaining estimations as to the replacement times of worn parts.

The invention relates to a three-stage XML (X Extensible Markup Language) twig matching algorithm Twig3Version based on version trees, comprising the execution process which can be divided into three stages: the stage 1, structural matching: a proposed XML twig matching algorithm (TwigStack) executable on an original document is utilized to execute the structural matching of query twigs on a compressed index structure (version tree) in order to obtain sub-trees of all the version trees satisfying query twig structure constraint; the stage 2, version filtration: version numbers which do not satisfy the query twig structure constraint in the matched sub-trees returned in the stage 1 are filtered through the version numbers; and the stage 3, merger connection: the final matching twig is obtained by merging XML document elements corresponding to the version numbers returned in the stage 2. The algorithm utilizes the advantages of a simplified version tree structure, TwigStack algorithm and TJFast algorithm in a comprehensive way, and structural matching is executed on the simplified version trees and an efficient and simple version filtration module is executed on a simplified intermediate result, so the performance of a query algorithm is greatly enhanced. Extracting useful information from XML, which is a data form used extensively day by day, becomes an unavoidable problem. The method in the invention can help users rapidly extract user-interested information from a larger number of XML data sources.