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A variety of tools and techniques are disclosed for managing, viewing, publishing, searching, clustering, and otherwise manipulating data streams. Data streams such as RSS data feeds may be searched, aggregated, and filtered into a processed feed. The processed feed, along with rules used to process the feed may be shared in a number of ways. A data feed management system may provide an integrated user interface through which a user may manage feeds, including searching for new feeds, managing and filtering current feeds, modifying a user profile, and sharing feeds and feed configuration data with other users. A server may provide a complementary search engine to locate new feeds and to store and/or index items or posts in known feeds. Together, these technologies may provide a richly-functioned feed management system and greater ease of use for individuals in managing large numbers of feeds and large amounts of data in feeds. Additional functional layers may provide for authentication, security, and privacy, metadata creation and management, and social networking features. Using the management tools and additional functionality, a syndicated data stream system may provide a platform for a wide array of useful consumer and business applications.

QoS is built into a peer network within existing Internet infrastructure itself lacking QoS, by enabling a network peer to continuously discern the network's ability to deliver to that peer a particular Content Object (distributed in groups of component Packages among neighboring VOD peers) within predetermined times. Content Objects are divided into groups of component Packages and distributed to Clusters of neighboring network peers, enhancing QoS upon subsequent retrieval. Tracking Files (lists of network peers storing Package groups) and Tracking Indexes (lists of network peers storing Tracking Files) are generated to facilitate “on demand” Content Objects retrieval. Dynamically monitoring network traffic (including VOD functionality, bandwidth and reliability) creates “distributed closed-loop feedback,” and in response, attributes of individual network peers (e.g., Trust Level and membership within a particular Cluster) are modified, and “content balancing” functions performed (e.g., redistribution of Package groups among network peers) enables maintaining high QoS.

An electronic media distribution system which facilitates the distribution of media to consumers over a network, such as the Internet, while achieving commercial business objectives and protecting the intellectual property rights associated with the media being distributed. The system provides the infrastructure and support for various market participants to engage in buying, selling, finding and distributing music. The system provides an interface for consumers to locate, access and receive musical content over the Internet. The system facilitates continued control over the musical content sent to consumers by dynamically enforcing retailer agreements and restrictions governing the purchase, use, and distribution of the content. The system also provides a service to retailers and distributors in assisting with the management of sales and distribution of music over the Internet. Specifically, the system certifies and distributes retail offers for the content where the offers are dynamically updated by electronic contracts between the retailers and distributors of the music.

A method and system for automatically summarizing a video document. The video document is decomposed into scenes, shots and frames, and an importance value is assigned to each scene, shot and frame. Keyframes are allocated among the shots based on the importance value of each shot. The allocated number of keyframes are then selected from each shot. The number of keyframes may be altered for greater or lesser detail in response to user input.

A system and method that converts the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing. A “smart file and device-specific application” approach maintains the “look and feel” (design) of the source document used for print publication while typesetting for a specific device. Although this approach requires considerably more resources to create a smart file for each device-specific format, the smart file retains the unique typesetting characteristics of the printed book, is more aesthetically pleasing, and is easier to read. Furthermore, the device-specific application can render the smart file more quickly thereby eliminating any latency.

The invention relates to systems and methods for navigating display items on a computing device in response to certain navigational inputs entered by the user of the computing device. The invention also provides for dynamically zooming and rearranging display items in response the navigational inputs.

The present invention relates to managing media items in data processing terminals. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method, a device and a computer program product for arranging, viewing and querying media items organized in hierarchical multidimensional clusters in mobile terminals. Media items are arranged by clustering with multiple dimensions, wherein they are queried by defining the first entry for one dimension, wherein the next entry is based on the other dimension from the media items fulfilling the first entry.

The invention relates to a centrifuge apparatus with a built-in sample tube reader and methods for rapidly obtaining measurements of creamatocrit, fat content and/or energy (caloric) content from low-volume fresh and frozen milk specimens.

A method for use with an electronic reading device comprising automatically fetching electronic media content and automatically and dynamically sequencing portions of the electronic media content for display on an electronic reading device. Optionally, the electronic media content can be automatically and dynamically divided into the portions that are then sequenced. Optionally, the electronic media content can be re-sequenced to reflect user preferences and needs. Various methods for recognizing and altering the display of the electronic reading device quickly and efficiently are disclosed.

A content distribution method includes sending, by a client apparatus, distribution requests to server apparatuses via a network, the distribution requests requesting distribution of content data in a distributed manner on a packet basis; distributing, by the server apparatuses, the content data to the client apparatus in response to the distribution requests; and playing back, by the client apparatus, the content data by assembling packets distributed from the server apparatuses. The distribution requesting step includes assigning areas of each block of the content data to the server apparatuses, and sending distribution requests for the respective areas to the server apparatuses. The distributing step includes dividing the content data into blocks when distribution of the content data is requested, and distributing the areas of each block in response to the distribution requests. The playback step includes the step of reconstructing the blocks on the basis of the areas distributed from the server apparatuses.

A first aid kit organized with pockets containing first aid and emergency preparedness supplies and equipment and a system for refilling. Each pocket in the kit contains supplies and equipment useful in providing initial care for a particular illness or injury and is quickly identified through textual labels and transparent elements. The pockets are connected into a strip of pockets which is folded to fit within a case. The strip of pockets is easily deployed from the case facilitating rapid and accurate identification, selection, and acquisition of items appropriate for initial care of a particular illness or injury by comprehensive visual presentation of the organizational scheme and the supplies and pieces of equipment themselves.

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit for saving content data, a communication unit for communicating with one or more external storage devices, and a content management unit for, when receiving from the external storage device through the communication unit a notification indicating that new content data is saved in the external storage device, acquiring the new content data from the storage device through the communication unit with the notification as a trigger, and saving the new content data in the storage unit.

A method and a storage medium, that includes instructions for causing a computer to implement the method, for document categorization is presented. The method includes identifying terms occurring in a collection of documents, and determining a cohesion score for each of the terms. The cohesion score is a function of a cosine difference between each of the documents containing the term and a centroid of all the documents containing the term. The method further includes sorting the terms based on the cohesion scores. The method also includes creating categories based on the cohesion scores of the terms, wherein each of the categories includes only documents (i) containing a selected one of the terms and (ii) that have not already been assigned to a category. The method still further includes moving each of the documents to a category of a nearest centroid, thereby refining the categories.

Implementing website navigation includes deriving a confidence level for at least one leaf node of a website navigation category diagram using historical user operation data; generating one or more navigation hierarchical structure diagrams based on the website navigation category diagram; determining a searching cost associated with each of the one or more navigation hierarchical structure diagrams; determining the navigation hierarchical structure diagram associated with the lowest searching cost; and implementing at least in part a website navigation mode using the navigation hierarchical structure diagram associated with the lowest searching cost.

The invention discloses a method for preparing mineral organic fertilizer by using surplus sludge in municipal sewage plants. The method mainly comprises the following three steps: firstly reducing sludge in a sludge thickening tank, dehydrating the reduced sludge by adopting a catalytic ozonation method, carrying out subcritical water reaction on the dehydrated sludge, and discharging solids subjected to harmless treatment; finally mixing modified attapulgite clay with the sludge subjected to harmless treatment, chicken manure and microorganism beneficial microbial agents, and fermenting the mixture to obtain the mineral ecological organic fertilizer. The method is green and environment-friendly and realizes the harmless and resourceful treatment of the sludge; the obtained mineral organic fertilizer is capable of obviously improving the structure of soil, enabling the volume-weight of soil to be reduced, the holes of soil to be increased and the ventilation and water permeability of the soil to become good and adjusting the uniform growth of crops and has a good controlled release effect, thus the quality of the crops is improved.

Disclosed is a method for providing contents in a mobile communication system and apparatus thereof. The apparatus comprises a contents provider access unit for responding to an inquiry request related to a service provision using contents providing terminal connected through a communication network and managing a rule related to the contents providing terminal and a connection and an inquiry request of the contents providing terminal; a central management unit for managing a predetermined service, a subscriber affiliated with the service, apparatus information of a subscriber terminal and an operation and an authentication of the service based on a data inputted from a contents providing terminal connected through the contents provider access unit; a transmission unit for receiving terminal information of a subscriber affiliated with the service and transmitting a menu of the service and contents in accordance with an apparatus of many piece of the terminal information of a subscriber affiliated with the service; and an interface unit for performing an interface with an external server interlocked with the service, providing the service and the contents and managing a rule to the external server.

A reusable perforated steel cylinder device with detachable lid that may be filled with pecan nutshells or other natural food-grade organic substances that become volatized through a pyrolitic action induced by heated air to create a flavoring smoke plume within a gas grill chamber that adsorbs onto target food items is disclosed. This design improves generation of flavoring smoke in a grill chamber due to its universal distribution of perforations, and cylindrical shape which allows the ease of smoke passage from any orientation, eases handling with standard barbecue utensils for adjustment and placement, allows rapid pyrolization initiation for improved performance and convenience at standard grill cooking temperatures, and has enhanced oxygen regulation properties through the design selection of the percentage of open surface area (at least 40%) of the assembly and allows rapid soak and drain of contents without loss.

A method and related interface system for facilitating manual detection of advertising sections within a video signal. The method includes sampling frames from every N1 frames to be reference frames in the video signal, and showing the reference frames to a user. If the user finds that a given reference frame is an advertising frame, setting N2 to be smaller than N1, sampling frames from every N2 frames between the given reference frame and its adjacent reference frame to be second layer reference frames, showing the second layer reference frames to the user such that the user can further detail selection of advertising frames, and locating advertising frames more precisely.

A method including the steps of receiving payment from a user, assigning an user identification to the user, detecting a user identification, and capturing multimedia information related to the user identification. Then, the multimedia information is transferred to a remote location; a reduced version (thumbnail) of the multimedia information is displayed; and, the multimedia information is produced onto a removable storage media. A system and apparatus is also disclosed for performing the described method.