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The invention provides an off-the-shelf product solution to target the specific needs of commercial users with naturally parallel applications. A top-level, public API provides a simple “compute server” or “task farm” model that dramatically accelerates integration and deployment. A number of described and claimed adaptive scheduling and caching techniques provide for efficient resource and/or network utilization of intermittently-available and interruptible computing resource in distributed computing systems.

Anchoring or docking devices configured to be positioned at a native valve of a human heart and to provide structural support for docking a prosthetic valve therein. The docking devices can have coiled structures that define an inner space in which the prosthetic valve can be held. The docking devices can have enlarged end regions with circular or non-circular shapes, for example, to facilitate implantation of the docking device or to better hold the docking device in position once deployed. The docking devices can be laser-cut tubes with locking wires to assist in better maintaining a shape of the docking device. The docking devices can include various features to promote friction, such as frictional cover layers. Such docking devices can have ends configured to more securely attach the cover layers to cores of the docking devices.

The invention is directed to a delivery system for delivering a medical device. The delivery system includes an inner member having a proximal end and a distal end. The inner member defines a longitudinal axis between the proximal end and the distal end. A tip is formed at the distal end of the inner member. A bumper is freely disposed on the inner member. The bumper has a proximal end and a distal end. A seat is defined between the tip and the distal end of the bumper. Additionally, a sheath is disposed about the inner member, the sheath having a proximal end and a distal end. The sheath is movable from a first sheath position substantially covering the seat, and a second sheath position axially offset to expose the seat. The invention also includes a handle in contact with the proximal end of the inner member.

The invention is directed to a delivery system for delivering a medical device. The delivery system includes an inner member having a proximal end and a distal end. The inner member defines a longitudinal axis between the proximal end and the distal end. A tip is formed at the distal end of the inner member. A bumper is freely disposed on the inner member. The bumper has a proximal end and a distal end. A seat is defined between the tip and the distal end of the bumper. Additionally, a sheath is disposed about the inner member, the sheath having a proximal end and a distal end. The sheath is movable from a first sheath position substantially covering the seat, and a second sheath position axially offset to expose the seat. The invention also includes a handle in contact with the proximal end of the inner member.

Platforms, systems, software, and methods for deploying and maintaining distributed computing, networking and storage comprising a configuration of dedicated service meshes. The invention further comprising a module for dynamically managing physical nodes; a module for dynamically managing nodes on physical nodes; a module for dynamically managing services/workers on nodes; a module for governing communication within the system and with the system; a plurality of communication endpoints; a plurality of services, wherein each service is associated with one or more endpoints, wherein services communicate by message exchange via their endpoints; a module for grouping nodes into clusters; a module for grouping endpoints into meshes such that all member services of a mesh can be addressed as a whole or as pertinent subsets thereof; and a module for dynamically effecting topology changes.

The invention is directed to a delivery system for delivering a medical device. The delivery system includes an inner member having a proximal end and a distal end. The inner member defines a longitudinal axis between the proximal end and the distal end. A tip is formed at the distal end of the inner member. A bumper is freely disposed on the inner member. The bumper has a proximal end and a distal end. A seat is defined between the tip and the distal end of the bumper. Additionally, a sheath is disposed about the inner member, the sheath having a proximal end and a distal end. The sheath is movable from a first sheath position substantially covering the seat, and a second sheath position axially offset to expose the seat. The invention also includes a handle in contact with the proximal end of the inner member.

The current system can include user-initiated, system-prompted and sometimes human-assisted consumer access to specific filters within the automated system. These filters can direct the consumers/patient to a rank ordered list of various health and wellness providers that are relatively available. This list can be segmented by various criteria that are ranked however the consumer chooses. These can include providers that are within the specific health plan or under the insurance coverage or previous pay arrangement of the consumer, or by geographical or zip code locations, and various other optional criteria, including, but not limited to, ethnicity, language, proficiency, gender, experience level, specialization, and the like. The consumer can schedule a consultation/appointment/visit on the appointment schedule of the provider of the consumer's choice after reviewing the options available.

The invention provides system and method for deployment and maintenance of lightweight local databases on the Occasionally Connected Devices (OCD) and synchronization of data between the local database and the remote global database (RGDb). The database to be accessed by the user is generally located on at least one remote server. As the OCDs are intended for offline use, a module for local data handling is provided. This module for local data handling is a lightweight non-relational database. The data is stored in the form of objects on the OCD. Each such stored object is captured in the form of a screen instance disposed at the OCD when the user is online. The present invention provides screen based non-relational data sharing, wherein screens are means to capture and display the data shared in an online mode and invoke the data from the stored objects in an offline mode.

An occupant knee protection system for a vehicle (10) has an airbag (11), which is folded and stored in a part of a vehicle, inflate and deploy in front of the occupant's knees by gas supplied from an inflator (12), so as to protect the occupant's knees. The airbag (11) has in its inside a tether (11c) (gas flow dividing portion whose front and rear end portions are connected to front and rear walls (11a, 11b) of the airbag (11), both walls being arranged in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, so as to appropriately regulate a longitudinal thickness (D) of the airbag (11) for dividing a gas flow from the inflator (12) in right and left directions of the vehicle.

An architecture for facilitating wavelength-specific and packet-switched routing comprises a primary metropolitan fiber ring, a primary distribution/aggregation node in the primary metropolitan fiber ring and a local service domain further comprising a secondary aggregation node in communication with the primary distribution/aggregation node. A network to provide local metropolitan switching and routing and broadband local access distribution described in terms of its component layers comprises a distribution/aggregation routing layer that interfaces with a primary fiber metropolitan ring and a local customer primary distribution/aggregation node via transport branches of a mesh architecture, a local distribution and routing layer that routes specific wavelengths and newly assigned wavelengths to and from a customer's premises and a cross-connect layer that handles customer specific wavelength and packet routing via one of fiber, millimeter wave radio and free space optical communications.

According to one embodiment, providing identity authentication can comprise registering, by an identity server, Proof Of Identity (POI) information in an identity record for a user of a Rich Communications Services (RCS) network in a secure store and a hash of an identity claim token for the user in an identity management blockchain. The identity server can receive a request to authenticate the user and, in response to the request, provide an encrypted identity claim token for the user. The encrypted identity claim token can comprise a attestation of a certifying authority and, when decrypted and hashed can match the hash of identity claim token in the identity management blockchain when the user is authentic. An authentication score indicating a degree to which received biometric data of the user and device data matches a set of baseline biometric and device date can also be provided in response to the request.

The invention discloses a method and system for establishing a service chain in a software-defined network. The method comprises the steps of configuring virtual machines in an operating server, and configuring service function applications in the virtual machines; importing network traffic into each virtual machine and processing the network traffic via the service function applications; and starting an expansion server when no virtual machine is idle and importing the network traffic into virtual machines in the expansion server for processing. The method and system for establishing the service chain in the software-defined network can ensure the network traffic in the service chain to be controllable and identifiable, achieve efficient service pipelining processing and resource pool load balancing capabilities through function pre-installation, traffic scheduling modularization and load level extension, greatly improve service chain functions and deployment, operation and maintenance capabilities of the network, and can provide a technical scheme for large network carriers and cloud service providers to deploy various new types of network service functions flexibly at the edge of an IP network.

A horizontal augmented thrust system includes at least one wing. The wing includes a wing outer envelope, a trailing edge and a flap. At least one pulse jet engine is positioned entirely within the wing outer envelope. The pulse jet engine produces a pulsating thrust dischargeable adjacent the trailing edge of the wing and onto the flap.

There is proposed a mechanism for controlling and conducting a discovery procedure of small cells or secondary cells located in a macro cell or primary cell. The discovery procedure is based on a discovery signal communicated via PDCH and based on a positioning reference signal (PRS). For configuring the signaling of the discovery signal, frequency domain multiplexing for splitting resources of the PRS in the frequency domain for increasing capacity, and/or usage of reserved communication resources for the signaling of the discovery signal are employed. Assistance information is provided to the UE for supporting the discovery of small cells.

The invention provides a method for constructing a multi-level three-dimensional terrain model through multi-source data fusion. The method sequentially comprises the steps of image control point measurement and setting, unmanned aerial vehicle flight and data processing, three-dimensional laser scanning data acquisition and processing, terrain design and satellite terrain processing, multi-sourceimage data fusion, multi-source point cloud data fusion and multi-source DEM fusion. Finally, a three-dimensional terrain model is constructed, a single-source DOM + single-source DEM fusion mode, amulti-DOM + single-source DEM fusion mode and a multi-DOM + multi-DEM fusion mode are established, and a multi-level and multi-precision three-dimensional real terrain model is constructed. The problems that an existing three-dimensional terrain model is low in precision, single in obtaining mode, poor in expression effect, poor in construction guidance and the like are solved. The invention belongs to the field of constructional engineering.

The wireless PDT of the present invention employs a "display-on bottom" design which places the unit perfectly centered in the hand of the operator, allowing for the best possible viewing as well as providing comfortable single-handed operation. The high-resolution LCD display allows the PCT to show sharp, clear bitmap images while supporting all Windows-recognized font types and sizes. With the auto back-lit feature, the brightness adjusts automatically making the screen easy to read in all light conditions. The PDT is designed for support within the download/charger cradle of a base station which interfaces with a host system using either USB or RS232 interface. Two standard 'AA' or rechargeable Li-Ion batteries provide more than 100 hours of operation. In addition, the PDT comes standard with 2MB of RAM providing enough memory to store over 100,000 records. Applications for the PDT can be developed using a novel integrated development and deployment environment (IDE) which contains an easy-to-use Windows-based application generator and download utilities. For advanced programming, developers can choose to write software using an advanced application generator or 'C' programming application generator which provides the developer with simple programming and fast setup. Further enhancements available in the application generator include drag and drop icons, time/datestamp, battery level indicator and variable fonts, giving the developer the ability to create custom screen layouts.

A method and apparatus are described including accepting a first and a second stereoscopic eye frame line image, determining a coarse image shift between the first stereoscopic eye frame line image and the second stereoscopic eye frame line image, determining a fine image shift responsive to the coarse image shift, forwarding one of the first stereoscopic eye frame line image and the second stereoscopic eye frame line image and forwarding data corresponding to the fine image shift and metadata for further processing. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a transmitted first full stereoscopic eye frame line image, extracting a difference between a first stereoscopic eye frame line image and a second stereoscopic image, subtracting the extracted difference from the first stereoscopic eye frame line image, storing the second stereoscopic eye frame line image, extracting a shift line value from metadata included in the first full stereoscopic eye frame line image and shifting the second stereoscopic eye frame line image to its original position responsive to the shift value.

One embodiment of the invention is a financial services information service that allows financial service customers to securely post their financial needs and to impart instructions pertaining to suppliers of financial services reviewing said needs. Intending to identify new transactions and acquire new customers, financial service providers review needs posted by costumers in the customer database. Providers select the entries of interest and can purchase the legal names of customers associated with specific needs. Business method intends fee charges to be attractive to providers of financial services in view of typical customer acquisition costs and to promote selectivity and to avoid abuses by providers. For additional fees providers can also send high customized messages to potential customers in order to maximize attractiveness of initial contact. Invention also creates a ratings and review method intended to differentiate providers and reward financial services providers worldwide committed to excellent service. Customers remain empowered during the process by selecting and excluding providers accessing information about their posted needs and ultimately deciding which providers will obtain their contact information. The system provides a method for the customers and providers to communicate and for third parties to advertise.