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A method of and system for setting and switching user preferences between system operators, to provide a higher return on investment (ROI) and a more satisfying work environment. The system allows operators to easily select and implement particular customizable system configuration parameters (SCPs) in a code symbol reading system, based on personal preferences of the system operator, which can lead to more effective scanning performance. A different set of customizable SCPs are programmably stored in system memory (e.g. EPROM) for each system operator/user registered to use the system, to improve the quality of the working environment and increase worker productivity.

A method of developing a computer application by coding a markup document in an XML markup language, coding a business logic component using any programming language, compiling the business logic component into a specific executable code, converting the XML document into a specific markup language document and deploying the converted markup document and the executable code to a client machine running a specific operating system via a network connection. The XML markup document can be converted in any markup language including XUL, SVG, Xforms, XML related languages, HTML, HTML related languages, text, and combinations thereof. The business logic component can be written using any programming language including Java, JavaScript, J#, C#, C, C++, Visual Basic, ActionScript, XSL, XQuery, and XPath, among others. The computer application can run in any operating system including next generation Windows Longhorn, Windows 2000, Linux, Unix, Apple or Palm operating systems, among others.

The present invention provides a method to broker consumer data for the purpose of marketing activities and to compensate consumers for the use of their data. The method provides mechanisms and processes for consumer information brokers to allow providers of real-time advertisement platforms or any static advertisement platform to offer advertisers the opportunity to dynamically bid on individual direct to consumer advertisement opportunities and to adapt individual advertisements according to the profile of each consumer. Furthermore the method allows consumer information brokers to offer marketers targeted direct to consumer marketing measures based on well-defined target profiles. Consumers have the opportunity to allow advertisers to convey advertisements to them and be compensated for viewing them. They may also opt out and forego the opportunity. Furthermore consumers have the opportunity to participate in direct to consumer marketing measures and be compensated for participating. This will lead to significantly improved return on investment for businesses and help them to develop products and services that consumers really want.

A cloud broker and procurement system and method is closed. In particular embodiments, the method includes receiving an offer of a computing resource from each of a plurality of providers. The method further includes receiving, from each of the plurality of providers, a service level agreement associated with each respective offered computing resource. Additionally, the method includes normalizing each of the service level agreements associated with the offered computing resources. The method further includes receiving a request from a requesting computer for a computing resource and selecting, based at least in part on the normalized service level agreements, one of the providers to provide the requested computing resource. The method also includes transmitting a service match indicator to the client, wherein the service match indicator indicates a time at which the offered computing resource will be utilized, and utilizing the computing resource on the selected provider.

Disclosed is a multi-user, multi-tasking, state-of-the-art computer-based package for providing real-time distributed processing and control of a variety of system functions and capabilities. The invention provides an integrated security suite architecture and system software/hardware combination for security operations. The suite employs a Digital Media System (DMS) to provide live and recorded closed circuit TV (CCTV) capability and audio surveillance. The suite blends a host of modular software/hardware plug-ins that provide seamless integration of intrusion detection systems (IDS), access control systems (ACS), and management reporting systems (MRS) for efficient and effective security management plans for new or existing operations. Also provided is an open architecture system design and configuration which provides maximum reliability, interoperability, flexibility, and operational efficiency. Various Ethernet technologies are employed and comprise IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.11b, and Home Plug (HP) and use standard TCP/IP protocols to allow for building-wide, metropolitan, and global communications.

An image pickup apparatus having two image sensors includes two solid state image pickup devices and a prism group that includes a color separation coating that reflects green light. Red and blue transmitting “on chip” color filters are supported on one of the two solid state image pickup devices. The image pickup apparatus has a spectral design to control color shading in changing environments, and is also designed for easy assembly. The spectral design requires that the spectral transmission characteristics of the color separation coating, the red and blue transmitting color filters, and the spectral sensitivity characteristics of pixels of the solid state image pickup devices satisfy certain conditions that pertain to boundaries between the red, blue, and green light. Image readout is provided by combining two adjacent pixels of the image field. A method of manufacturing such an image pickup apparatus is also disclosed.

The invention relates to a lightweight energy-saving insulating concrete, belonging to building materials. The invention comprises the master batches and accessories in accordance with the following parts by weight: master batches: 30-70 parts of cementing materials, 25-60 parts of fillers, 5-10 parts of strength activators, and accessories: 1-3 parts of waterproof agents, 2.0-3.0 parts of bleeding agents, 2.0-5.0 parts of suspending agents, 0.1-0.5 part of foam stabilizer, 38-60 parts of honeycomb agents, 0.5-1.5 parts of rusty retardant agents, 0.02-10 parts of reinforcing agents, 1.2-4.2 parts of early strength agents and expanding agents and 0.6-1.4 parts of acid and alkali resistant fibers. The concrete has the advantages of high early tensile and compressive strength, no decrease and crack of later strength and simple manufacturing process. According to the requirement of the building structure, the technical target of the concrete can be realized by regulating the mixing proportion. The concrete can be used for manufacturing various products at normal temperature and is widely applied to insulating and self-waterproof building engineering.

Embodiments disclosed herein can leverage dynamic data, fields and implied information from arbitrary web sites, mobile apps and other forms of online media to create a universal variable map and automatically generate deep-linked ads utilizing the universal variable map, linking any arbitrary web site, mobile app, network, Internet TV channel, and other forms of online media to any other such arbitrary web site, mobile app, network, Internet TV channel, and other forms of online media. The automatically generated deep-linked ads can be inserted into any ad server and served out from there in real-time. A deep-linked ad thus presented to a user can take the user from a starting page on one site or application where the ad is displayed directly to a resulting page such as a checkout page on another site or mobile application, with pertinent information already pre-populated, and action already initiated for the user.

The invention discloses a pulping and papermaking process through a multiple-composition biological enzyme method. The method is a biopulping method, which adopts a production process for preparing paper pulp through pulping and fermenting by using a multiple-composition biological enzyme method (phanerochaete, phanerochaete chrysosporium, xylanase, glucoamylase, yeast), adopts agricultural straws, rice and wheat straws, cotton stalks, rape stalks, reeds, bamboo, wood and the like as main raw materials, and comprises treatments of glass cutting, impurity removing, puffing, fermenting through multiple-composition biological enzyme, pulp washing, pulp selecting, defibrination and separation to form the pulp. According to the present invention, no black liquid is generated during the pulping process, the water from fermenting and pulping is recycled so as to achieve zero discharge of wastewater.

The invention relates to a preparation method of paper pulp, and further relates to a method for preparing the paper pulp through a biological enzyme method. The technical scheme is that the method comprises the following steps of: one, segment cutting; two, puffing; three, heat preservation fermentation; four, shoving; five, pulp washing; six, pulp selecting, wherein screened out coarse residues are put into the step three for fermentation again; seven, pulp grinding; and eight, screening, wherein the screened out pulp residues are put into the step seven for pulp grinding again. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the pulping and papermaking through the biological enzyme method has the characteristics of 'three highs and three lows' compared with the conventional process technology.

An apparatus and method for recovering wastewater from laundry operations. A substantially closed loop series of tanks, conduits and pumps hold and transfer water output from a wash machine through a series of filters, including a lint pulloff filter, a multimedia pressure filter, a clay filter, and a carbon filter. The water is ozonated to coagulate suspended solids and to disinfect and is subjected to ultraviolet light to disinfect and to reduce residual ozone.

An integrated and modular air and lighting plenum that is the primary directional lighting mounting apparatus and laminar flow diffuser of an HVAC system in a healthcare setting. The plenum provides laminar air flow from the ceiling to the room in which it is located in accordance with HVAC requirements for healthcare environment settings, by using a plurality of cylindrical airflow outlets. The use of cylindrical airflow outlets promotes laminar airflow by reducing sharp boundaries that induce turbulence (e.g., the corners of rectangular or square outlets) and creates a highly sterile environment around the patient and staff in the operating room. The surgical lights used in the integrated air and lighting plenum allow the beam direction, spot size, focal point, brightness, and color temperature of the emitted light to be controlled.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus, and a system for placing an advertisement. The method includes: after receiving an advertisement placement request, selecting, by an advertisement client or an application server according to the advertisement placement request, advertisement information to be placed; judging validity of the advertisement information according to advertisement metadata that is generated by an advertisement server and associated with the selected advertisement information; and judging, according to the validity of the advertisement information, whether to place the advertisement information. In the embodiments of the present invention, capping of the total exposure frequency on a terminal side and a network side can be implemented in an accurate and controllable manner, so that an advertisement platform can avoid an invalid advertisement placement, a cost of an advertiser is reduced, and a return on an investment in the advertisement is improved.

An online marketplace for real-time investment data is disclosed. The system comprises a network, such as the Internet, wherein users may manage, and publish a Virtual Securities Portfolio (“VSP”) and to sell/license access to the VSP to other users who pay to see the VSP. VSPs are analyzed, ranked and charted according to various customizable methods and made available, via a user interface, to other users according to the users' sell/license agreements. The system further allows the users to access their investment accounts on other networks, such as the TD-Ameritrade and Charles Schwab networks, and couple their VSPs with such accounts.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, in real-time, user information associated with a user of a client computing device. One or more user features are derived from the user information associated with the user. The one or more user features include one or more user intents. The one or more user intents are matched with one or more of a plurality of advertiser intents. The user information is determined to be accepted. In response to accepting the user information, an advertisement is generated based on the matching of the one or more user intents and the one or more of the plurality of advertiser intents.

The invention discloses a processing granular-form green tea, a stripe bud-type green tea and a circulated stir frying-type green tea multifunctional production line. According to the tea raw materials and different requirements, the production line can control the system to select different types of processing parameters, three types of the tea leaves can be processed; wherein a granular-form green tea processing technology comprises the following steps: 1) tedding; 2) deactivating enzymes; 3) cooling by spreading for moisture regaining, 4) rolling; 5) deblocking with hot air; 6) cooling; 7) processing of shaping by curves, 8) cooling by spreading for moisture regaining, 9) processing of shaping by curves, 10) drying, and 11) winnowing; a stripe bud-type green tea processing technology comprises the following steps: 1) tedding; 2) deactivating enzymes; 3) cooling; 4) continuous carding; 5) cooling; 6) continuous carding and flattening; 7) cooling; 8) completely drying; and 9) winnowing; and a circulated stir frying-type green tea processing technology comprises the following steps: 1) tedding; 2) deactivating enzymes; 3) cooling by spreading for moisture regaining, 4) rolling; 5) deblocking with hot air; 6) cooling; 7) performing stir-frying, 8) cooling by spreading for moisture regaining, 9) continuously drying; 10) completely drying; and 11) winnowing.

An embodiment consistent with the present invention is a high strength proppant comprising an electrofused pellet. In another embodiment, a high strength proppant comprises a substantially solid and substantially spherical pellet produced by electrofusion of at least one metal oxide. A method of making a proppant is also provided, with that method comprising melting at least one metal oxide in an electrical arc furnace, pouring the molten metal oxide to create a pour stream, and separating the pour stream to form at least one electrofused pellet. A method of fracturing subterranean formations is also provided, with that method comprising injecting a fluid containing at least one electrofused pellet.

A system method for a computer-implemented automated calculation of category-based scores for social influence, comprising scoring calculator that receives category information for a plurality of users with social activity metrics, and calculates a user score based on algorithmically analyzing received metrics; an identification and segmentation calculator that identifies a plurality of user-related categories and segments users into user-related categories; and a suggestion engine that presents opportunities to users based on a user categories.

The invention provides an archive management system based on blue light storage and an ant colony search algorithm thereof, comprising an archive collection system, an archive storage server, an optical disk library management server and an optical disk library. Specifically, electronic archive files are assembled, compressed and indexed by the archive collection system in the form of data streams. The ant colony search algorithm has the following specific steps: 1. Constructing a file retrieval path; 2. Updating that pheromone of archives retrieval; 3. Optimizing evaporation factor of searchpath. The algorithm can automatically adjust the information volatility factor, analyze the keywords, and call the relevant persistence layer data through the algorithm. The archives management systemadopts the optimized retrieval arithmetic, According to the characteristics of archives, ACA algorithm is used, its process and algorithm are analyzed, by combining the pheromone volatility, the effect of the pheromone volatility factor on the efficiency of algorithm retrieval is improved, and by combining differential evolution processing, efficient retrieval efficiency of massive data is realized.