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A subscriber or other user is provided with access to a subscription service of a signal distribution system at a roaming location remote from a home location of the user. The subscription service comprises a plurality of selectable channels available to the user at the home location. In one aspect of the invention, a request for initiation of a roaming session is received, and responsive to initiation of the roaming session, at least one user interface is generated for presentation on a device at the remote location. The generated user interface is configured to provide access at the remote location to one or more of the channels available to the user at the home location, and represents an at least partial alteration of a normal user interface that would otherwise be presented on the device at the remote location in the absence of the roaming session.

A method and a system for performing financial transactions between parties having clients (15a, 15b) with an electronic messaging facility and a banking account facility with a financial institution. Each party has an electronic messaging address (CIN) associated with the electronic messaging facility and a banking account number (CAN) associated with the banking account facility (27) thereof.

A financial service provider server (13) is interfaced with the electronic messaging facility to handle communications between the clients (15a, 15b) of the parties and is also interfaced with the banking account facilities (27) of the parties to perform the financial transaction. The electronic messaging address (CIN) of each party is linked with the banking account facility therefor, and thus the banking account number(s) (CAN) thereof, within a database (45) associated with the server (13) to facilitate the financial transaction.

The server (13) undertakes an authentication process within one and/or the other party using the electronic messaging facility requiring confirmation of a PIN also stored in the database (45). The authentication process is characterised by the server (13) providing the client (15a) of the one party instigating the financial transaction with a different electronic messaging address to “reply to” when requesting the PIN, from the original electronic messaging address of the server (13) used by that same party to initiate the financial transaction, to enhance the security of the transaction.

A system and method for collecting and correlating information about development of a computer software, including software tools reports. The system and method provides overview of entire software development lifecycle, provides decision support engine for project management, allows estimation of project timelines based upon empirical data, allows evaluation of project quality based upon empirical data, and correlates information from previous projects to estimate progress of current project (confidence factors). The system and method for collecting and correlating information about development of a computer software include collecting data from a plurality of software tools during each point in lifecycle of the computer software; storing the collected data in a database; and correlating the stored collected data to monitor the development of the computer software.

A method for building a classification model for classifying unclassified documents based on the classification of a plurality of documents which respectively have been classified as belonging to one of a plurality of classes, said documents being digitally represented in a computer, said documents respectively comprising a plurality of terms which respectively comprise one or more symbols of a finite set of symbols, and said method comprising the following steps: representing each of said plurality of documents by a vector of n dimensions, said n dimensions forming a vector space, whereas the value of each dimension of said vector corresponds to the frequency of occurrence of a certain term in the document corresponding to said vector, so that said n dimensions span up a vector space; representing the classification of said already classified documents into classes by separating said vector space into a plurality of subspaces by one or more hyperplanes, such that each subspace comprises one or more documents as represented by their corresponding vectors in said vector space, so that said each subspace corresponds to a class.

A method of selecting players for a fantasy sports league team before and during a fantasy sport league draft, comprising the steps of selecting a player, assigning a logic rule to the player, the logic rule defining at least one condition that governs if and when the player will be drafted during the fantasy sports league draft; and repeating the steps of selecting a player and assigning a logic rule for additional players.

In a multi-channel encoder generating several different parameter sets for reconstructing a multi-channel output signal using at least one transmission channel, the data stream is written such that the two parameter sets are decodable independently of each other. Thus, a multi-channel decoder is enabled to skip a parameter set which is marked as optional and/or has a higher version number when reading the data stream and still to perform a valid multi-channel reconstruction using a data set marked as mandatory or a data set having a sufficiently low version number. This achieves a flexible encoder/decoder concept suitable for future updates characterized by backward compatibility and reliability.

An apparatus for providing a visual search interface may include a processing element configured to receive indications of an image including an object, receive location information indicative of a location associated with a user providing the indications of the image, and enable performance of a visual search based on the location information and features of the image to identify candidate search results by comparing the image to source images stored in association with a location within a predetermined distance from the location associated with the user.

There is described an improved multi-piece anchor body for use with masonry over stud back-up walls, the anchor body made up of an inner anchor body for connection to a back-up wall, a separate outer anchor body for connection to a masonry wall, and a separate intermediate membrane flange attachable to and between the outer anchor body and the inner anchor body.

A method and a device for contactless inspection of objects on a substrate, by means of an inspection device during relative motion between the substrate and the inspection device, wherein the following steps are performed by the method;generating a first image comprising object height information by illuminating at least a portion of the substrate comprising one or more objects by means of first radiator and imaging at least one of said one or more objects illuminated by said first radiator onto a two-dimensional matrix sensor having a portionwise addressable matrix of pixel elements;generating a second image comprising object area information by illuminating at least a portion of the substrate comprising one Or more objects by means of second radiator and imaging at least one of said one or more objects illuminated by said second radiator onto said sensor;extracting the object height information, by means of said sensor, from said first image; andextracting the object area information, by means of said sensor, from said second image.

A timeslot selection method is provided. The timeslot selection method includes the steps of: obtaining a propagation loss; receiving an occupation state and an interference amount of an uplink timeslot; obtaining a desired wave power from the propagation loss; obtaining a ratio between the desired wave power and the propagation loss for the uplink timeslot in which the occupation state is idle; and selecting the transmitting timeslot by using the ratio. In addition, a timeslot assignment method in which there are a plurality of TDD boundaries each of which is a boundary between at least an uplink timeslot and at least a downlink timeslot in a frame is provided. Furthermore, a timeslot assignment method is provided, in which assignment is carried out according to a service class included in a QoS request.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling a communication link that interconnects communication nodes through a relay node in a communication system. To this end, a relay connection configuration between at least one first communication node and at least one second communication node is determined, and communication between the at least one first communication node and the at least one second communication node is provided by the determined connection configuration. Here, the relay connection configuration includes a backhaul network connection configuration that interconnects the at least one first communication node and the relay node, an access network connection configuration that interconnects the at least one second communication node and the relay node, a direct access connection configuration that interconnects the at least one first communication node and the at least one second communication node, and/or an internal connection configuration that interconnects a backhaul network interface bank connected to the at least one first communication node and an access network interface bank connected to the at least one second communication node within the relay node.

The present invention allows a user to select media content for delivery via the Internet to a digital media recorder from any number of media content servers, which may support an unlimited amount of media content. To afford such control, a computing terminal, which is separate from the digital media recorder, runs a browser application that allows the user to access the media content server or an associated media access server, browse available media content, and select media content for delivery to the digital media recorder. Once selected, the media content is delivered from the media content server to the digital media recorder, which will store the media content for subsequent playback.

A network (4) includes optical routers (19), which route information in fibers (10). Each fiber carries a plurality of data channels (16), carrying data in data bursts (28) and a control channel, carrying control information in burst header packets (32). A burst header packet includes routing information for an associated data burst (28) and precedes its associated data burst. Information on the data channels and control channel is organized in synchronized slots. Multiple burst header packets occupy portions of a slot, referred to as micro-slots. When the burst header packets are received, an egress processor (52) schedules the routing of their associated bursts. The egress processor (52) determines a time at which a data burst can be scheduled for passing through an optical matrix (40) to the desired output channel group (the burst can be delayed via fiber delay lines (46) if necessary).

The present invention provides efficient ways to implement scan conversion and matrix transpose operations using vector multiplex operations in a SIMD processor. The present method provides a very fast and flexible way to implement different scan conversions, such as zigzag conversion, and matrix transpose for 2×2, 4×4, 8×8 blocks commonly used by all video compression and decompression algorithms.

A production line and a method for carrying out machining and cleaning operations on rectangular framework, such as window frames, is provided. Initially, elongate plastic frame members are welded together in a plastic frame welding machine, thereby forming two rectangular frameworks located one above the other. These are moved to a framework processing machine along separate predetermined paths where the first path being located above the second path. The paths are provided by horizontally extending guide arrangements on the machine which has at least one power tool for carrying out machining operations, this tool being supported by a transporting mechanism capable of moving the tool both horizontally and vertically. Machining steps are carried out on the two frame works while they are held one above the other in the processing machine. The frameworks are then moved to a weld cleaning machine along respective upper and lower paths and further processing operations including weld cleaning steps are carried out in this machine.

A method for controlling an operation of a wind turbine with at least one structural component is provided. A fatigue life time consumption of the structural component is scheduled. A current velocity of a wind which is driving the wind turbine is determined. A current set point value for the fatigue life time consumption of the structural component based on the scheduled fatigue life time consumption of the structural component is specified and a maximum set point value for the fatigue life time consumption of the structural component based on the determined current wind velocity is specified. The wind turbine is operated depending on the specified current set point value and/or on the specified maximum set point value such that a mechanical load acting on the structural component is controlled. A machine load control system and a wind turbine are also provided.

The present invention relates to triggering, in a terminal of a communication system, channel quality feedback reporting for at least one of plural component carriers of the communication system available for downlink transmission. The at least one component carrier is selected based on the downlink traffic of the terminal. Reporting of the channel quality information is triggered by dedicated control information received by the terminal.

The invention relates to the control of networked lighting systems, particularly large scale networked lighting systems, and more specifically to an efficient transmission of messages to control luminaries of a networked lighting system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an efficient and flexible multicast, particularly group cast message that addresses several or a group of luminaires, and that can control the addressed luminaries in an efficient way by compressing the distributed light settings using a function in order to reduce the communicational overhead. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for controlling a networked lighting system comprising the steps of—selecting several controllable luminaries of the networked lighting system (S10), —combining control information for each one of the selected luminaries to a set of information control information (S12), —selecting at least one predetermined function for compressing the set of control information by associating an input related to a selected controllable luminary to the control information for the selected controllable luminary from the set of control information (S14), —creating a multicast message addressed to the selected luminaries and comprising information regarding the selected predetermined function (S16), and—transmitting the created multicast message (S18).