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In some embodiments, a comprehensive computer system and method (See FIGS. 1, 1a, 2) for automating and facilitating the performing and processing of tasks, information transfer, and information storage associated with the home sale (See FIG. 3a), mortgage origination (See FIG. 3b), and settlement process (See FIG. 3c), and the home mortgage refinancing origination and settlement process (See FIGS. 1b, 1c, 2a) (or performing other business processes), over a distributed computing network are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is a greatly simplified process for a home buyer to search for a home and simultaneously receive accurate and competitive bids for mortgages and services from multiple lenders and service providers. The process includes an automated underwriting process which generates complete, accurate information on the costs of buying and owning a home at very beginning of the home buying process. Another aspect of the invention is greatly automating the entire sale, loan and settlement process.

A dual round robin arbitration technique for a switch in which input ports include virtual output queues. A first arbitration selects, for each of the input ports, one cell from among head of line cells of the virtual output queues to generate a first arbitration winning cell. Then, for each of the output ports, a second arbitration selects one cell from among the first arbitration winning cells requesting the output port.

A system and method for automatically determining if a computer user is a human or an automated script. Human interactive proofs (HIPs) are currently used to deter automated registration for web services by automated computer scripts. Unfortunately, HIPs entail multiple steps (request service, receive challenge, respond to challenge) that can be burdensome. The system and method of the invention in one embodiment provides a “black-box” to potential users consisting of a challenge generator and a secret key. The challenge is generated for the user and the response can be provided as part of the service request, eliminating the need for a separate challenge from a service provider and response to the challenge.

New methods and systems for manufacturing a three-dimensional form, comprising steps of providing a plurality of particulates; contacting the particulates with an activation agent; contacting particulates having the activation agent with a binder material that is activatable by the activation agent; at least partially hardening the binder for forming a layer of the three-dimensional form; and repeating these steps to form the remainder of the three-dimensional form. Following sequential application of all required layers and binder material to make the form, the unbound particles are appropriately removed (and optionally re-used), to result in the desired three-dimensional form. The invention also contemplates a novel method for preparing a form, where unbound particulates free of binder material are re-claimed.

In some embodiments, a comprehensive computer system and method (See FIGS. 1, 1a, 2) for automating and facilitating the performing and processing of tasks, information transfer, and information storage associated with the home sale (See FIG. 3a), mortgage origination (See FIG. 3b), and settlement process (See FIG. 3c), and the home mortgage refinancing origination and settlement process (See FIGS. 1b, 1c, 2a) (or performing other business processes), over a distributed computing network are disclosed.

New methods and systems for manufacturing a three-dimensional form, comprising steps of providing a plurality of particulates; contacting the particulates with an activation agent; contacting particulates having the activation agent with a binder material that is activatable by the activation agent; at least partially hardening the binder for forming a layer of the three-dimensional form; and repeating these steps to form the remainder of the three-dimensional form. Following sequential application of all required layers and binder material to make the form, the unbound particles are appropriately removed (and optionally re-used), to result in the desired three-dimensional form. The invention also contemplates a novel method for preparing a form, where unbound particulates free of binder material are re-claimed.

A voltage source converter having a plurality of cell modules connected in series, each cell module including a converter unit having an ac-side and a dc-side, and the voltage source converter includes a control unit adapted to control the converter units, where at least one of the cell modules includes a second redundant converter unit having an ac-side which is connected in parallel with the ac-side of the first converter unit and the control unit is configured to substantially synchronously control the first and the second converter units.

Techniques are provided to allow a jitter buffer to automatically reach a quiescent number of packets in the jitter buffer, based on current network conditions. Generally, no explicit jitter buffer delay is assumed, and a current packet is repeat played if no new packets are available in the jitter buffer. If there are too many packets in the jitter buffer, a newly received packet is discarded. When a packet is replayed, the delay associated with a jitter buffer is effectively increased. This is not an explicit jitter buffer delay, but, instead, there is an implicit delay associated with the jitter buffer. When a packet is discarded, the delay associated with a jitter buffer is effectively decreased. Again, this is an implicit jitter buffer delay. By repeat playing packets and discarding packets when the jitter buffer is full, an appropriate level of packets may be determined and maintained in the jitter buffer.

A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.

Reference markers are attached to rails and / or other dynamically moving components of railroad tracks, and / or located at fixed and stationary positions adjacent to the track. When images of railway rolling stock are obtained, the reference marker(s) appear in the image. Accordingly, measurements of various aspects and parameters of various components of the railway rolling stock can be obtained at high precision and / or accuracy relative to the railroad track component to which the reference marker is attached and / or relative to the stationary position. The reference markers allow one or more images, obtained at some intervening time interval, to be accurately and precisely aligned relative to the reference marker(s) regardless of the dynamic motion of the railroad track component(s) and / or of the rolling stock that occurred as the images were captured. The reference markers can include optical, thermal or other indicia. The indicia have known dimensions and / or known distances from an image capture device.

A vehicle control method for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine coupled to a torque converter is described. In one embodiment, the engine air flow and spark are adjusted to control torque converter operation. The method can improve vehicle response to driver accelerator commands

There is disclosed a method of managing a database of positioning data, the positioning data including electromagnetic signal source data for use by a positioning system, and the method comprising: receiving signal data relating to signals received from a plurality of electromagnetic signal sources; associating an appropriate one of a plurality of zone identifiers with each of the electromagnetic signal sources, each zone identifier being associated with a respective geographical zone; selecting a subset of the plurality of electromagnetic signal sources in dependence on their associated zone identifiers; processing the signal data relating to the subset of the plurality of electromagnetic signal sources to compute position estimates of the electromagnetic signal sources; and updating the database of electromagnetic signal source data in dependence on the computed position estimates.

A vehicle control method for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine coupled to a torque converter, the torque converter having an input speed and an output speed, the torque converter coupled to a transmission, the transmission coupled to wheels on a road, the method comprising in response to a driver tip-out during at least some conditions, decreasing powertrain output so that positive torque is not transmitted to the wheels, and after said tip-out and in response to a driver tip-in, and at least during transitioning to transmission of positive powertrain torque to the wheels, retarding ignition timing while adjusting engine airflow until torque converter input speed is greater than torque converter output speed, and then advancing spark angle to rapidly provide output torque.

A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.

Jitter buffer arrangements for video and audio communications networks include a plurality of jitter buffers each of which is designated to buffer a particular layer scalably coded data streams, and coupled decoder to decode the received scalably coded data stream layer-by-layer.

This invention discloses an interactive acknowledge system and method based on internet communications and streaming media live broadcast, wherein the interactive acknowledge system based on internet communications and streaming media live broadcast includes: an interactive acknowledge publishing client comprising a streaming media data reading module, an interactive acknowledge editing and initiating module and a publishing module, an interactive acknowledge server comprising an interactive acknowledge delivery processing module, an interactive acknowledge delivery strategy judging module and a client delivery module, and an interactive acknowledge client comprising an interactive acknowledge processing module and an interactive acknowledge display and data collection module. The system edits and delivers interactive acknowledge logic or sends out a real-time interactive acknowledge request, is triggered according to a triggering condition, collects and reports acknowledge data, thus realizing a good interaction with audience. Comparing the delivery time axis with the reporting time axis can better control the delay.

The present disclosure relates to a gateway, base station and method for window-based content synchronization technology. The gateway according the present invention comprises; a receiving unit for receiving a data packet; a window counting unit for counting the data packet, such that a predetermined number of packets forms a window, the number being a window size; a sequence number counting unit for generating a sequence number of the packet; a timestamp setting unit for setting a timestamp for the packet; and a processing unit for including the generated sequence number, the timestamp and a byte count in the packet to be transmitted. The base station according to the present invention comprises: a receiving unit for receiving a data packet; an information extracting unit for extracting a sequence number, a timestamp and byte count information from the data packet; a window counting unit for counting the received packets based on the extracted sequence number so as to form a window; and a processing unit for setting an anticipated air interface transmission time for the packets in the current window based on the extracted timestamp. The gateway or base station according to the present invention operates well with statistical multiplexing and has an improved overall performance in terms of synchronization processing delay and control packets load.

In one aspect, the invention provides a body comprising particles containing an insulating aerogel material intermingled with particles containing a phase change material, and a binder forming a matrix retaining the intermingled particles. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of forming an insulating body comprised by applying first and second streams onto a substrate; the first stream comprising a binder and the second stream comprising particles containing aerogel material; and simultaneously applying a phase change material onto the substrate.

A method, computer program product, and data processing system for automatically designing routing paths in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The present invention allows for the design of paths that are optimal in terms of the signal delay in circuits that may require registers for signal to travel over multiple clock cycles or in circuits that may contain multiple clock domains.An integrated circuit die is modeled as a weighted grid graph in which the edges represent wire segments and the weights represent the delays associated with those wire segments. Designing for optimum delay involves finding a shortest path between two vertices in the grid graph using a modified single-source shortest path algorithm. Registers, buffers, and dual-clock domain synchronizers are modeled according to a labeling function that assigns components to selected vertices in the routing path for optimal results.

In magnetic resonance data acquisition, decoupling between the transmit and receive coils is achieved by using a transmit array system wherein induced currents from the transmit coils cancel each other, resulting in a total of zero current in the receive coil. Forward and reversed polarized transmit coil pairs are set to cancel the individual currents of each other, or of a receive coil. Linearly polarized fields can also be used to effect the decoupling. The decoupling allows the magnetic resonance data acquisition system to be operated for concurrent excitation of the nuclear spins and reception of the resulting magnetic resonance signals.

A power gating circuit includes a first current switch, a second current switch, and a switching controller. The first current switch is connected between a power rail and a circuit block operated by an operating supply voltage, and provides a first current when turned on. The second current switch is connected between the power rail and circuit block, and provides a second current larger than the first current when turned on. The switching controller turns on first current switch when transitioned from a sleep mode to an active mode to change the operating supply voltage using the first current, generates a reference voltage based on the operating supply voltage that changes more slowly than the operating supply voltage, and turns on the second current switch based on the reference voltage to provide the second current to the circuit block.

Provided are a node device and a method for deciding a shortest path using a spanning tree. The node device includes: a node division unit dividing the node device into sub-nodes as many as the number of nodes connected to the node device when the node device operates an edge node that is located at an end of a backbone network and is in charge of reformatting and routing frames; a spanning tree generation unit generating as many spanning trees as the number of sub-nodes, wherein each of the spanning trees comprises a shortest path to reach the other edge nodes constructing the backbone network from each of the sub-nodes; and a first path decision unit deciding a shortest path from a source node to a predetermined destination node, as a path to be used, based on the spanning trees that are generated by the spanning tree generation unit. The shortest path that is obtained based on the plurality of spanning trees is used as a path to be used such that throughput of traffic is 3 times and 1.5 times larger than in existing STP and SPB, respectively, and the transmission delay is smaller than in existing STP and SPB. In addition, packet loss is smaller than in STP and SPB, and the node device and the method for deciding a shortest path using a spanning tree are robust to the unbalanced traffic.

Destaging activities in a data storage system are controlled by providing a write pending list of elements, where each element is defined to store information related to a cache memory data element for which a write to storage is pending, and maintaining the write pending list so that destaging of a data element can be based on the maturity of the pending write.

A method and apparatus for improving the performance of Universal Serial Bus mass storage devices is provided wherein a local extender located adjacent to a host computer is used in combination with a remote extender located adjacent to a peripheral device. The local extender and remote extender units jointly implement a protocol that enables bulk data to be transferred efficiently between said units even when the transmission delay between the units exceeds 1 microsecond. No alterations to said host computer or said USB mass storage device are required to achieve the improved performance. An improved method for connecting USB mass storage devices to a host controller is provided.

A light source device includes: a light source unit including an arc tube that emits a light between a pair of electrodes, and a reflector that reflects the light coming from the arc tube for emission of a source light; and a drive control section that drives the light source unit by a predetermined driving power. In the device, the drive control section performs power regulation control of reducing the driving power of the light source unit at a predetermined timing by a predetermined amount.

Scheduling methods and apparatus for use with optical switches with hybrid architectures are provided. An exemplary distributed scheduling process achieves 100% throughput for any admissible Bernoulli arrival traffic. The exemplary distributed scheduling process may be easily adapted to work for any finite round trip time, without sacrificing any throughput. Simulation results also showed that this distributed scheduling process can provide very good delay performance for different traffic patterns and for different round trip times associated with current switches.

A flexible organic light emitting display apparatus comprising a flexible encapsulation layer comprising at least one aluminum oxide layer configured to cover an area having a plurality of pixels, a flexible barrier film comprising a flexible barrier film body and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on the flexible encapsulation layer and an adhesion supporter directly contacting the aluminum oxide layer and the pressure sensitive adhesive layer.

A method for computing a sum or difference and a carry-out of numbers in product-term based programmable logic comprising the steps of: (A) generating (i) a portion of the sum or difference and (ii) a lookahead carry output in each of a plurality of logic blocks; (B) communicating the lookahead carry output of each of the logic blocks to a carry input of a next logic block; (C) presenting the lookahead carry output of a last logic block as the carry-out.

A vehicle control method for transitioning through transmission lash regions is described using a variety of information, such as, for example, gear ratio, clutch slippage, etc. Further, different adjustment of spark and throttle angle is used to provide a rapid torque response while still reducing effects of the lash. Finally, transitions taking into account both slipping and non-slipping transmissions are described.