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A system for enforcing policy in a communication network includes a policy server which is operable to receive a request to invoke an application, receive a policy profile for a network user, and decide a proper allocation of network users based on the policy profile, the application, and available network resources. The policy server is further operable to communicate with a non-SIP application. The system also includes a network resource manager operably associated with the policy server and operable to monitor available network in the resources in the communication network. In addition, the network resource manager is functional to allocate network resource amongst a plurality of network users. The system also contains an application control point which is operably associated with the policy server and operable to communicate with a SIP application. The system is operable to use policy peering between the home and visited network to enable user-specific policies to be enforced while roaming.

A decision support system for supply chain management is disclosed. In one embodiment, an organizational structure of an enterprise value chain is mock-constructed as a framework model and solutions are logically distributed through the organization in accordance with the model. Product management, demand management and inventory management are performed on an exception basis and these processes are implemented incrementally and organizationally such that enterprise activities may be tracked and monitored, by exception, at multiple levels of granularity. In a general aspect, the invention enables collaborative ordering, forecasting, inventory and replenishment management by implementing such systems through an enterprise organizational model.

A system and method for replaying a predefined path through a set of web pages. The system and method comprises selecting in chronological order a saved request in a request history. The saved requests correspond to a set of user requests made at a web page from the set of web pages. Furthermore, the present invention comprises determining whether the saved request is a form request, and if so finding a best fit form on the web page from the set of web pages and sending a replay request to the best-fit form. If the saved request is not a form request, making the replay request to a best-fit URL.

A communication system includes communications equipment having a voice input device, an acoustic output device, and a visual display device. The communications equipment receives voice information from a user using the voice input device, converts the voice information into text, and communicates packets encoding the voice information and the text to a remote location. The communications equipment also receives packets encoding voice and text information from the remote location, outputs the voice information using the acoustic output device, and outputs the text information using the visual display device.

An implantable stimulation system including epidural lead for spinal cord stimulation that includes a paddle having a curved proximal end and lateral winged tips and an array of electrodes coupled to conductors within a lead body. The conductors couple to a pulse generator or other stimulation device. The curved and winged paddle provides more complete electrical stimulation coverage to targeted human tissue by minimizing the potential gap between electrodes and targeted fibers.

A system is disclosed that provides computer-aided processing of a rebate on a product. The system includes a rebate processing center communicating over a network with a manufacturer, a distributor, and a consumer. The rebate processing center maintains a promotion table and a transaction table in order to facilitate processing of product rebates and to offer the consumer a choice of disbursement options.

A system is disclosed that provides computer-aided processing of a rebate on a product. The system includes a rebate processing center communicating over a network with a manufacturer, a distributor, and a consumer. The rebate processing center maintains a promotion table and a transaction table in order to facilitate processing of product rebates and to offer the consumer a choice of disbursement options.

A communication system utilizes an activity monitor that is operable to collect data, convert data, display data, and communicate data. Web portal and activity monitor are operable to communicate data between one another. Web portal enables a user to monitor an individual or population's activity data. Activity monitor enables user to toggle through one or more activity modes to be displayed. Activity monitor constantly measures a user's activity. Auxiliary mode enables user to track data that can be unrelated to activity data. Special event mode on activity monitor enables a user or machine to begin and to end a special event, while the activity monitor measures activity data during the special event.

A communication network is provided that includes a unicast telephony device, and a plurality of multicast telephony devices operable to receive multicast media streaming transmitted to a multicast group address. The communication network further includes a multicast intermediary operable to receive multicast media streaming sent to the multicast group address. The multicast intermediary is further operable to communicate the media streaming to the unicast telephony device to enable the unicast telephony device to participate in the multicast communication with the multicast telephony devices.

A method reliably communicates content for multiple subscriber lines via a single physical transmission medium between a telecommunication gateway and equipment at a customer location. In that method, content for two or more subscriber lines of the customer location is received and converted into packetized data for network communications and / or multiplexed to form an added-main-line (AML) signal that includes power. The packetized data or the AML signal is communicated between the customer location and the telecommunication gateway via the single physical transmission medium. External power can be used to extract the content for the two or more subscriber lines from the packetized data in a primary mode of operation, and the power from the AML signal can be used to extract the content for the two or more subscriber lines from the AML signal in a backup mode of operation.

An atomic layer deposition (ALD) process deposits thin films for microelectronic structures, such as advanced gap and tunnel junction applications, by plasma annealing at varying film thicknesses to obtain desired intrinsic film stress and breakdown film strength. The primary advantage of the ALD process is the near 100% step coverage with properties that are uniform along sidewalls. The process provides smooth (Ra˜2 Å), pure (impurities<1 at. %), AlOx films with improved breakdown strength (9–10 MV / cm) with a commercially feasible throughput.

A system is disclosed that provides computer-aided processing of a rebate on a product. The system includes a rebate processing center communicating over a network with a manufacturer, a distributor, and a consumer. The rebate processing center maintains a promotion table and a transaction table in order to facilitate processing of product rebates and to offer the consumer a choice of disbursement options.

A method for integrating and managing data is provided that includes interacting with an end user via a health and entertainment device, the device including: an accelerometer that is operable to track activity data by the user and a music module operable to play music for the user. The device further includes a memory and a processor operable to convert data from the accelerometer into one or more metrics based on data received from the memory.

A communication system includes a controller for managing a number of communications devices. The controller receives registration requests from the devices and selectively registers the devices based on various factors. The controller may support a token registration process by which a device requests a token and, in response to the controller granting a token, registers with the controller using a token registration request.

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for drilling wellbores includes drilling a main wellbore, disposing a casing string having a deflecting member at a lower end thereof in the main wellbore, disposing a drill string having a drill bit at a lower end thereof in the casing string, and drilling, with the drill bit, a first lateral wellbore at a first depth in the main wellbore. The method further includes transferring the casing string to a second depth in the main wellbore that is less than the first depth, disposing a first temporary plug in the main wellbore at the second depth to prevent gas from flowing up the main wellbore past the second depth, transferring the casing string to a third depth in the main wellbore that is less than the second depth, and drilling, with the drill bit, a second lateral wellbore at the third depth.

A guide tube bundle includes two or more guide tubes. Each guide tube includes a first aperture at a first end and a second aperture at a second end. The longitudinal axis of the first aperture of each guide tube is offset from the longitudinal axis of the second aperture of the guide tube Furthermore, the guide tubes are configured longitudinally adjacent to each other and are twisted around one another.

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for drilling wellbores includes drilling a main wellbore and disposing a casing string in the main wellbore. The casing string has a deflecting member and a sealing member coupled thereto. The method further includes disposing a drill string having a drill bit coupled at a lower end thereof in the casing string and drilling, from the main wellbore, a first lateral wellbore at a first depth with the drill bit. The method further includes removing the drill bit from the first lateral wellbore, transferring the casing string and the drill bit to a second depth that is higher than the first depth, drilling, from the main wellbore, a second lateral wellbore at the second depth with the drill bit, and preventing, using the sealing member, a fluid from the first lateral wellbore from flowing above approximately the second depth while drilling the second lateral wellbore.

A generic revenue management data model is provided for expressing revenue management problems. The generic revenue management data model includes a first data structure containing a representation of a set of network demands, a second data structure containing a representation of a set of network resources, a third data structure containing a representation of a set of resource bundles and a fourth data structure containing a representation of a set of resource bundle to demand links. The generic revenue management data model can also include a fifth data structure containing a representation of a set of resource demands.

A semiconductor template having a top surface aligned along a (100) crystallographic orientation plane and an inverted pyramidal cavity defined by a plurality of walls aligned along a (111) crystallographic orientation plane. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor template by selectively removing silicon material from a silicon template to form a top surface aligned along a (100) crystallographic plane of the silicon template and a plurality of walls defining an inverted pyramidal cavity each aligned along a (111) crystallographic plane of the silicon template.

An ophthalmic endoilluminator is provided. The ophthalmic endoilluminator includes a light source, a first optical assembly, an optical coupling element, and an optical fiber having an optical grating located distally on the optical fiber, the optical fiber optically coupled to the optical coupling element. The first optical assembly receives and substantially collimates the white light. The optical coupling element receives the substantially collimated white light from the first optical assembly and directs the light to an optical fiber. The optical grating couples to the distal end of the optical fiber, the optical grating having a surface relief grating, and an overlayer optically coupled to the surface relief grating. The optical grating is operable to substantially diffract incident light into N diffraction orders, the N diffraction orders having a substantially uniform intensity.

Packets are classified by content across a packet flow by sequencing packets according to packet flows through a content engine. A sequencer tracks packet flows, sending and buffering out-of-order packets to have missing packets resent. A regular expression engine determines matches of regular expressions and subexpressions with regular expressions encoded as non-deterministic finite automata with field programmable gate arrays and subexpression matches computed with a hash and determined by a hash look-up table. A tag module establishes a classification tag for a packet based on the packet's content by matching the tag with the regular expression and subexpressions of the packet.

A method of routing calls using dialing partitions includes receiving a call request at a first call manager from a first device coupled to a packet-based network. The call request includes a telephone number that is associated with a second device coupled to the packet-based network. The method also includes accessing a dialing partition table based on a partition search space associated with the first device. The method further includes determining a routing target that is associated with one or more telephone numbers in the dialing partition table that match the telephone number in the call request. In addition, the method also includes communicating the call request to the routing target.

An electrical contact to electrically couple epidural stimulation leads to a tissue stimulation device. This electrical contact includes a conductive disc having an inner aperture that is electrically and operably coupled to the tissue stimulation device. A number of conducted projections extend inward from the inner aperture of the disc and flex elastically to receive an epidural stimulation lead. These conductive projections electrically couple with a number of terminals within the epidural stimulation lead. Tension exerted by flexing the conducted projections maintains the epidural stimulation lead in a relatively fixed position relative to the electrical contact. A number of projections at the outer perimeter of the conductive disc electrically and operably couple the conductive disc to a conductive housing wherein the conductive housing is electrically and operably coupled to the tissue stimulation device.

Access privileges for a user are provided in a performance evaluation system by storing an organizational structure for an enterprise, a view and a class of services for the user. The organizational structure includes a plurality of levels and a plurality of members assigned to the levels. The view specifies the levels and the members of the organizational structure to which the user is allowed access. The class of services specify services of the performance evaluation system that the user is allowed to perform. The user has access privileges to perform services within the class of services for levels and members within the view.

The present invention provides functional client side data cache coherence distributed across database servers and clients. This system includes an application resident on a client operable to request access to data, and wherein the client is coupled to a local memory cache operable to store requested date. The client is coupled to a remote memory storage system, such as disk storage or network resources by a communication pathway. This remote memory storage system is operable to store data, process requests for specified data, retrieve the specified data from within the remote memory storage system, and transmit the requested data to the client with annotated version information. The data received by the client is verified as being coherent with any downstream linked information stored in the client's local memory cache. Otherwise, updated coherent data is requested, received and verified prior to being used by the client and its resident applications.