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The present invention relates to a method of generating a multi-factor encryption key using a simple password in order to access control over information stored at a second entity from a first entity via at least one communication network. In one embodiment this is accomplished by, requesting to receive an application at the first entity from the second entity via the communication network, activating the first entity to generate a shared secret key, wherein the shared secret key is computed from a first entity specific ID and a random number generated at the first and second entity and allowing the user to register with the application of the second entity by the first entity, wherein the registration include entry of a personal PIN (personal identification number), a personal message etc.

Provided is a day-ahead load reduction system based on a customer baseline load for inducing a user to efficiently manage energy consumption by applying an incentive (user compensation according to load reduction) to achieve load reduction and load decentralization. The day-ahead load reduction system based on a customer baseline load operates in connection with a provider terminal and a user terminal through a network to induce a reduction in the load of a user and includes an AMI/AMR translator collecting load profile data of the user in real time, converting the load profile data and storing the load profile data in a meter data warehouse; a meter data management system monitoring and analyzing the load profile data stored in the meter data warehouse in real time; a demand response operation system managing the demand of the user by using the load profile data and performing overall management, analysis and verification of a day-ahead load reduction event; a customer energy management system operating in connection with the demand response operation system and providing information on the load to the user through the user terminal in real time to allow the user to control the load; and an account system operating in connection with the demand response operation system and the customer energy management system, calculating an incentive for the day-ahead load reduction event and notifying a provider and the user of the incentive through the provider terminal and the user terminal.

An encoder for encoding a video signal, wherein the encoder is configured to generate an encoded scalable data stream comprising a base layer and at least one enhancement layer, wherein the encoder is further configured to generate information associated with each of the base layer and the at least one enhancement layer.

This system is for efficient consumption of a consumable or resource such as electricity, gas or the like. Each consumer site, such as a household or business, has a consumer node. The consumer node gathers consumption data from one or more consumer devices consuming the consumable. A central node is in communication with the consumer nodes and determines a collective consumption of the consumable across the plurality of consumer sites. The central node participates in live markets in order to secure delivery of the consumable as required collectively across the plurality of consumer sites. The central node communicates market data conveying substantially live market effects to the consumer nodes, and the consumer nodes process the market data in a manner to influence consumption of the consumable, for example by deactivating devices during market peaks.

Water is generated onboard of a craft such as an aircraft or in a self-contained stationary system by partially or completely integrating a water generating unit into a power plant of the craft or system. The water generating unit includes one or more high temperature fuel cells which partially or completely replace the combustion chamber or chambers of the power plant. A reformer process is integrated into the high temperature fuel cell which is arranged between, on the one hand, a fan (30) and power plant compressor stages (31, 32) and, on the other hand, power plant turbine stages (33, 34). These power plant stages may be provided in such redundant numbers that safety and redundancy requirements are satisfied.

A running control device for a watercraft controls propulsion force and tilt angle of a propulsion device relative to the hull of the watercraft. The running control device also sets an optimum trim angle automatically. The running control device includes a propulsion force control section that controls the propulsion force of the propulsion device. The running control device also includes a tilt angle control section that controls the tilt angle of the propulsion device. A target propulsion force calculation module responds to first input information (e.g., watercraft velocity) to calculate a target propulsion force. An amount-of-operation calculation module responds to second input information to calculate an amount of operation of the propulsion device to produce the target propulsion force. The tilt angle control section includes a tilt angle calculation module that determines the tilt angle based on the propulsion force.

A broadband broadcasting system and method that leverages existing commercial-off-the-shelf technologies and service providers to deliver video streaming content to viewers worldwide. First an event is acquired or captured by a digital media broadcast service provider (DMBSP) as “raw” content that is transmitted to an ingest and operations center. The content can be edited prior to ingestion. The ingest and operations center encodes the content for subsequent distribution through a content delivery network, according to the infrastructure of the target network that will ultimately be used to reach end-viewers. Access to the encoded content is available to end-viewers, access is made available to computer-based end-viewers through an interactive and secure portal. The display presented to end viewers is divided into separate frames for main content (the event) and collateral content.

A process and apparatus for the continuous production of masa and whole-corn flour for grain-based foods, includes a preconditioning of clean corn, grinding the moisturized corn to produce fine and coarse grind fractions, sieving the fine grind and aspirating from both fractions a light-bran fraction as animal feed, remilling the coarse grind for further bran extraction and admixing the sifted fine grind with lime to produce a limed grind, low-moisture precooking of a stream of limed corn particles in another stream of saturated steam to obtain a partial starch pregelatinization and protein denaturation degree, venting and separating the moist-heated corn particles, conditioning the segregated fine grind to soften and swell the endosperm, germ and bran fractions, hot-air drying the tempered fine grind and stabilizing for extended shelf-life, cooling the dried fine grind with clean air; grinding the agglomerated particles, classifying and separating the fine grind produced from the coarse grind.

The present invention relates to a management system for in-house power consumption, more particularly to a management system for in-house power consumption efficiently performing in-house power consumption by means of estimating power consumption of each operation of in-house electric devices. The present invention provides a management system for in-house power consumption comprising: at least one or more electric devices (30, 40, 50, 60) which comprise a communication means and transmit current operation information via the communication means on a given network; an power sensor module (20) that measures an instantaneous power consumption of the total electric devices and transmit it on the network; and a power consumption controller (70) that saves a previously received the operation information and the instantaneous power consumption and estimates the power consumption of each electric device (30, 40, 50, 60) on the basis of the saved operation information and instantaneous power consumption and the currently received operation information and instantaneous power consumption.

The present invention enables a user of a portable electronic communications device such as a cell phone to view information on a larger remote reflective cholesteric display. The portable communications device may connect with the remote display by wire or wirelessly. The remote display is separate from the portable communications device but can interact with it. The remote display receives and/or receives and sends information relative to the portable communications device. This information can include e-mail text and graphics. The remote display, being a bistable cholesteric liquid crystal display, possesses low power requirements unmatched by other display technologies. Moreover, the remote display can serve a dual purpose of displaying images and collecting solar power whereby a photovoltaic material behind the display generates electrical energy from light incident on the cholesteric liquid crystal material, which may be used not only to power the remote display but also the portable communications device. This may result in a completely self-powered remote display and associated portable communications device. The solar cell itself can be a component of the display. A display having only a single substrate may employ the solar cell as the substrate. A dispersion layer comprised of cholesteric liquid crystal material dispersed in a polymer matrix, may be disposed over the substrate. Another aspect of the invention features a drapable remote bistable cholesteric display.

There is provided a discharge controller for a multiple cell battery that has a plurality of storage cells connected in series with each other. A discharge path from the storage cell is connected a load. The discharge controller includes: cell voltage detection units for detecting respective cell voltages of the storage cells; a switch group comprising a plurality of switches each connected between the storage cells; and a control unit for performing ON/OFF control on the respective switches individually in response to detection results detected by the cell voltage detection units so as to form the discharge path from the storage cell to the load.

An electric vehicle employs an oil commonly used as a lubricating oil for gears and a coolant for a motor and is propelled by transmitting the rotational torque of the motor to wheels through the gears, the motor being partly immersed in the oil. It is determined whether the motor is in a state prior to being started or not. If it is judged that the motor is in the state prior to being started, coils of the motor are energized alternately with a first current supplied to the motor at an advanced angle for no torque to generate a magnetic flux, and a second current supplied to the motor at another advanced angle for no torque to generate a magnetic flux in a direction opposite to the magnetic flux generated by the first current, thereby heating the oil.

A method and system for defining and optimizing demand response events is disclosed where at least one initial input parameter is received for selection of a demand response event, a power demand forecast is retrieved, a demand response event is automatically calculated based on the at least one initial input parameter and the power demand forecast, and an interactive user interface, the interactive user interface is generated and includes the power demand forecast, an expected power capacity forecast, and the demand response event.

A normalization engine, system and method provide normalization of and access to data between heterogeneous data sources and heterogeneous computing devices. The engine includes connectors for heterogeneous data sources, and conduits for gathering a customized subset of data from the data sources, as required by a software application with which the conduit is compatible. Working together, the connector and conduit may gather large amounts of data from multiple data sources and prepare a subset of the data that includes only that data required by the application, which is particularly advantageous for mobile computing devices. Further, the conduit may process the subset data in various formats to provide normalized data in a single format, such as a JSON-formatted REST web service communication compatible with heterogeneous devices. As an intermediary, the normalization engine may further provide caching, authentication, discovery and targeted advertising to mobile computing and other computing devices.

Provided are a data storage device using magnetic domain wall movement and a method of operating the same. The data storage device includes a magnetic layer having a plurality of magnetic domains, a write head provided at an end portion of the magnetic layer, a read head to read data written to the magnetic layer, and a current controller connected to the write head and the read head. The method of operating the data storage device includes reading data of an end portion of the magnetic layer using a read head provided at the end portion of the magnetic layer in which a write head is provided at the other end portion thereof, moving a magnetic domain wall of the magnetic layer by a distance corresponding to the length of one magnetic domain toward the end portion, and writing the read data to the other end portion of the magnetic layer using the write head and a current controller provided between the write head and the read head.

For optionally changing food menus at a user side, for reducing leftover food materials, and for promptly providing new food menus, the food menu providing system according to the instant invention provides food menus applicable for a predetermined period; a cooking recipe for each of the food menus; and a food material list having food material data such as quantity of all food materials necessary to the food menus applicable for the predetermined period, to the user through the communication network.

An assimilation lamp device (1) for stimulating plant and crop growth comprises a central lamp unit (10), comprising a body (14) and a plurality of LEDs (12) mounted to an under surface of the body (14), wherein the body (14) is made of a thermally well conducting material, for instance aluminum, and acts as a heat sink for the heat generated by the LEDs. The body (14) is provided with cooling fins or lamellae (41). The assimilation lamp device further comprises air stream generating means (42) such as a fan for generating a downward air stream (43) in heat exchanging contact with the cooling fins or lamellae, so that heat is removed from the respective cooling block and used to increase the temperature of said downward air stream (43).

A system and method monitor the emotional content of human voice signals after the signals have been compressed by standard telecommunication equipment. By analyzing voice signals after compression and decompression, less information is processed, saving power and reducing the amount of equipment used. During conversation, a user of the disclosed methodology may obtain information in visual format regarding the emotional state of the other party. The user may then assess the veracity, composure, and stress level of the other party. The user may also view the emotional content of his own transmitted speech.

The invention provides a chip and method for achieving sleep mode wake-up through an edge detection circuit. A central processing unit is used for sending a low-power-consumption application to a clock controller; the clock controller is used for closing a clock circuit according to the lower-power-consumption application, temporarily stopping providing a system clock for the edge detection circuit and the central processing unit and triggering entering a sleep mode; in the sleep mode, the edge detection circuit is used for detecting a signal to be detected and generating a wake-up signal according to the signal to be detected; the clock controller is used for switching on the clock circuit according to the wake-up signal, renewedly providing the system clock for the edge detection circuit and the central processing unit and sending a sleep mode signal to the edge detection circuit to trigger entering a common mode. The chip can shut down all clock networks and all clock generation circuits and wake up the sleep mode without affecting functions. In this way, the power consumption of the chip is lowered to the lowest degree.

A controller, in electrical communication with the one or more of the injectors and a high-pressure fuel pump, generates a first signal responsive to which the valve in the injector opens or closes and a second signal responsive to which the high-pressure fuel pump increases or decreases the pressure level in the fuel accumulator. The system may also include one or more sensors to detect a pressure within the air manifold and to detect the pressure within the fuel accumulator. The controller is programmed to calculate an in-cylinder gas pressure. When the engine is operating at a maximum engine load and the in-cylinder gas pressure reaches or exceeds a maximum pressure limit, the controller transmits one or more signals to adjust the fuel injection timing and/or adjust the pressure in the fuel accumulator to maintain NO_x and fuel consumption within acceptable limits.

A controller, in electrical communication with the one or more of the injectors and a high-pressure fuel pump, generates a first signal responsive to which the valve in the injector opens or closes and a second signal responsive to which the high-pressure fuel pump increases or decreases the pressure level in the fuel accumulator. The system may also include one or more sensors for detecting a temperature of air in an air manifold, a pressure within the air manifold and a barometric pressure. The controller is programmed to estimate an in-cylinder gas density using data received from the sensors. The controller accesses a database having data representative of one or predetermined in-cylinder gas densities that are associated with one or more predetermined fuel injection parameters. The controller then generates one or more commands indicative of the fuel injection parameters that are associated with a predetermined in-cylinder gas density.