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Methods and systems for viewing aggregated financial obligations utilizing a mobile device such as a mobile telephone (cellphone) or wireless connected personal digital assistant (PDA). A mobile financial transaction system (MFTS) is coupled for wireless communications with a mobile device of a user. The MFTS is also coupled for electronic communications with an aggregator that collects information from a plurality of payees with whom a user has a financial relationship. The MFTS receives payment to make information from the aggregator corresponding to a payment to be made by the user to a payee. The MFTS generates summarized payment to make information comprising a predetermined selected subset of the payment to make information received from the aggregator. The MFTS wireless communicates the summarized payment to make information to the user's mobile device. The summarized payment information is then displayed on a user's mobile device.

A system and method for managing perceived response time includes transmitting a request or response. If the request or response is dropped, response time is managed by providing a retransmission from a response time manager, without the response time manager satisfying the request or response. The response time manager is located between a client and a server.

The present invention relates to an endoscope shaft comprising a movable distal end portion which is bendable by means of an operating device, the distal end portion having at least one decentralized hose member extending along the distal end portion, said hose member being integrally formed of a plurality of directly superimposed expansion bellows and forming a continuous pressure chamber so as to expand in the longitudinal direction when pressure is applied.

A mobile branch exchange (MBX) allows a user of a mobile telephone to exploit the functionality of a private branch exchange (PBX) as if the user were using a PBX-connected wire line telephone in an office setting. A server is placed on corporate premises and the server is configured to communicate with corresponding client software programmed into a programmable mobile telephone. The server directly interfaces with the PBX to control call placement and connectivity and operates as an intermediary proxy for the mobile telephone. In a preferred embodiment, the server establishes a data pathway to the mobile telephone that is, from a network point of view, independent of a parallel voice pathway established between the PBX and mobile telephone.

A system for communicating digital data between a first and second device through audio input/output ports encodes the digital data into a series of audio frequency tones. The audio frequency tones are transferred between the devices as audio inputs. Audio decoding software residing on the devices monitors the audio inputs of the devices for audio signals representing digital data and decodes the audio signals into digital data when they are detected. The audio decoding and encoding software is preferably aftermarket software that is downloaded to the device through a digital data port and executed by the device's operating system software. The system can be used to provide a low cost accessory that can communicate digital data to a device without using the device's digital input/output port or requiring any expensive digital communication circuitry in the accessory.

The invention concerns the device, on board an aircraft, of data received or exchanged without any audio communication with the ground or with other aircraft by means of a data management device provided with display means showing, in a dedicated area of an interactive multi-purpose screen, shared with the flight primary instruments and the flight management computer, a set of different windows, one (LOGON) assigned to the management of an air-ground link designed to run messages with the ground, and each of the others (CPDLC, ADS, FIS, AOC, APC) being assigned to different specialized services and a selection system (a) with constantly visible tabs in the foreground, enabling any one of the management windows to be selected and focused by means of a pointing and inputting device.

Methods, systems and devices are described for operating an electronic system which includes a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a first layer and configured to detect input objects at an input surface of the input device, the first plurality of sensor electrodes including a first subset of transmitter electrodes; a second plurality of sensor electrodes configured to detect a force imparted to the input surface and configured for capacitive coupling with the first subset of transmitter electrodes; and a compressible dielectric configured to compress in response to force applied to the input surface. The capacitive coupling between the transmitter electrodes and the second plurality of sensor electrodes is configured to vary in response to the applied force.

A light emitting assembly is described. In one embodiment, one or more light emitting diode (LED) devices and one or more microcontrollers are bonded to a same side of a substrate, with the one or more microcontrollers to switch and drive the one or more LED devices.

The present disclosure provides a mobile machine including a laser diode based lighting system having an integrated package holding at least a gallium and nitrogen containing laser diode and a wavelength conversion member. The gallium and nitrogen containing laser diode is configured to emit a first laser beam with a first peak wavelength. The wavelength conversion member is configured to receive at least partially the first laser beam with the first peak wavelength to excite an emission with a second peak wavelength that is longer than the first peak wavelength and to generate the white light mixed with the second peak wavelength and the first peak wavelength. The mobile machine further includes a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system configured to generate a second laser beam and manipulate the second laser beam to sense a spatial map of target objects in a remote distance.

Photonic interconnect reconfigurably couples integrated circuits such as microprocessor, memory or other logic components. Detector, modulator, broad-band coupler and waveguide elements provide transmit and receive capability on CMOS substrate. Computer-implemented design software and reusable component library automate photonic and circuit design and simulation for manufacturability.

A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the functionality of the existing core root of trust measurement (CRTM). The CRTM is extended to allow platform manufacturer controlled and certified code to be incorporated into the function of the CRTM, wherein the manufacturer may define the policy for accepting a new function into the CRTM. When a firmware or software module image is compiled, the build process generates a hash value of the compiled firmware or software image, wherein the hash value reflects a fingerprint (or short hand) representation of the compiled image. A determination is made as to whether the hash value of the firmware or software image is to be a CRTM extension. If so, a digital signature of the module is created using the CRTM extension private key. This signature value is added to the firmware or software module.

A method and apparatus are provided for improving the functionality of a remote input device while allowing for the input device to perform a number of roles. This is achieved by providing a detachable keyboard within a portable computer capable of functioning as both a hardwired, internal input device and as a remote, wireless input device. The input device of the invention is capable of being housed within a portable computer and performs as a typical on-board input device. In addition, the input device may be removed from the base of the computer and used as an internally-powered wireless control device. In the latter mode the communication between the input device and the computer takes place through a wireless link existing between the input device and the computer.

The invention provdes a system and a method used for controlling a movable object in an environment.The method comprises following steps: utilizijng at least one sensor of multiple sensors carried by the movable object to determine the initial position of the movable object; generating a first signal in order to navigate the movable object in the environment; utilizing at least one sensor of the multiple sensors to receive sensing A data of the environment; generating an environment map of at least one part of the environment based on sensing data; receving an instruction for nagtaivation to the initial position; and generating a second signal in order to negative the movable object to the initial poisution based on the environment map.

A contextual keyboard allows users to bring in information not normally found on a keyboard, as though that information had been typed in afresh. It also allows users to take information entered on the keyboard, or simply available on the screen, or implicit in information on the screen, and perform actions on it, such as calling a phone number, entering contact or calendar information into a local database on the device, or using the information as search terms in an online query. The central novelty of this invention is moving the functionality into the keyboard layer, so as to be universally accessible on the device.

A method for improving display functionality comprising: (A) detecting movement of a portable display over a physical area by using a motion detector; (B) obtaining a set of data related to the physical area by using an image device; (C) processing the set of data related to the physical area; and (D) displaying the set of data related to the physical area on the portable display, wherein a mode of display is based on a mode of movement of the portable display.

A hand-held electronic device for use in accessing and displaying data that includes a series of words. The hand-held electronic device includes a display, processor, and memory. Stored in the memory are tokenized data, and word and phrase dictionaries. The tokenized data comprises word and phrase tokens. Each word token represents a unique word in the data. Each phrase token represents a unique sequence of the word tokens and is associated to the unique sequence in response to locating repeated unique sequences in the tokenized data. The word dictionary comprises the word tokens and their corresponding unique words, and the phrase dictionary comprises the phrase tokens and their corresponding word tokens. A data access routine stored in the memory and executable by the processor is operable to display a portion of the data by decompressing the tokenized data using the word and phrase dictionaries.

A modified gaming machine includes a plurality of gaming machine peripheral devices for use in implementing one or more games to a player, and a master gaming controller configured to implement primary gaming machine functionality, including generating and transmitting information to the plurality of gaming machine peripherals. The modified gaming machine further comprises a secondary controller interposed between one or more of the plurality of gaming machine peripheral devices and the master gaming controller, whereby the secondary controller may forward information generated by the master gaming controller to the gaming machine peripheral devices and transmit secondary information to the peripheral devices.

A system and method of forming a patterned conformal structure for an electrical system is disclosed. The conformal structure includes a dielectric coating shaped to conform to a surface of an electrical system, with the dielectric coating having a plurality of openings therein positioned over contact pads on the surface of the electrical system. The conformal structure also includes a patterned conductive coating layered on the dielectric coating and on the contact pads such that an electrical connection is formed between the patterned conductive coating and the contact pads. The patterned conductive coating comprises at least one of an interconnect system, a shielding structure, and a thermal path.

A system and method are disclosed for providing additional features in an enhanced version of the portable application program interface, Java Swing. The enhanced API can replace the first generation heavyweight abstract windowing toolkit used by legacy Java application programs, with no changes required to those programs. Thus, legacy applications running on various platforms can benefit from the improved functionality. Among the added features are a consistent, platform neutral GUI look and feel, Unicode font encoding for all text controls, and improved text drawing (based on the use of a high performance Java font rasterizer). The enhanced version of Swing is referred to herein as AWTSwing.

The vibrating device for fitness equipment includes a control unit mounted onto a preset location of the fitness equipment; and a vibrating body assembled into a space within the fitness equipment. The vibrating body allows signal transmission with the control unit. The vibrating body has a vibrating source, vibrating seat and massager, the vibrating seat with an exposed part being mounted over the vibrating source. The massager is mounted onto the vibrating seat for human contact. When the control unit transmits an active signal to the vibrating body, the vibrating source is activated, and the vibrating seat is driven synchronously to generate vibration for the desired massage effect.

The invention relates to a composite interior material for a motor car and a preparation method thereof. The composite interior material comprises 60-80% of high performance fibers, 10-20% of flame retardant fibers and 10-20% of hot-melt fibers; and the preparation method comprises the following specific steps of: 1) opening the high performance fibers, the flame retardant fibers and the hot-melt fibers by a bale opener; reopening the high performance fibers, the flame retardant fibers and the hot-melt fibers by using a rough opener; and then mixing the high performance fibers, the flame retardant fibers and the hot-melt fibers by using a cotton blending machine; finely opening the mixture by using a fine opener; and combing the mixture by using a carding machine; 2) by using a nonwoven needle-punched machining technology, lapping the combed fibers in a cross way by a lapping machine; and then carrying out needle punching on the fibers by using a needle machine; and processing the fibers by using a singeing machine and a glazing calendar; and 3) carrying out composite hot pressing on a fiber felt which is a needle-punched, singed and calendared semi-finished product; and finally, forming the composite interior material together with a thermoplastic resin.

A bicycle shift controller is provided with two independently operable levers that are operatively coupled to a cable take up member disposed in a base member configured to be mounted to a handlebar. The cable take up member rotates about a rotational axis for winding and releasing a control cable in response to pivotal movement of the levers. A first one of the levers has a first operating portion with a first operating surface and a second operating portion with a second operating surface. The second operating surface is angularly offset from the first operating surface about a first lever pivot axis of the first lever. The first and second levers pivot from a rest position to a shift position for rotating the cable take up member in opposite directions.

A technique for implementing Special Call Services (SCS) to extend wireless system functionality to include private emergency or other types of service-specific special calls in a private network. In a preferred embodiment, the capability is implemented by taking advantage of certain service type elements that may be coded in the Radio Resource Management (RR) functional layer channel request message and/or the Mobility Management (MM) functional layer call request messages in a Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication system. Specifically, an establishment cause field in a RR channel request message and/or a service type field in a MM request message is used to request such services from the network. These establishment causes and service types can be defined, but not limited to, using those codes currently defined as reserved by GSM Version 4.08, Section 9.1.8 and Section 10.5.3.3. Thus, these newly added codes do not require any re-programming of the deployed GSM equipment and impact on their current operation, either. A GSM system that implements the invention preferably contain a Radio Resource (RR) functional entity that watches for a newly added SCS causes and takes them into account when granting physical resources to the requesting unit. Such actions may include, but are not limited to, dropping a normal call-in-process in order to accommodate the SCS call if there are no free physical resources left, prioritizing SCS calls in progress, or other techniques for allocating a physical channel to the SCS channel request. Such techniques may include allocating radio resources which are reserved in advance for the SCS cause.

The invention relates to system conceived and designed to identify pieces of fruit, especially citrus fruits, affected by any amount of rot and to determine the automatic expulsion of these pieces from the conveyor moving them through the installation. The system comprises illuminating the fruits with UV-A band light in a computer vision unit, and capturing images of the illuminated fruits by means of a camera to send them to a general control member in order to detect fluorescences associated to the rot effect. The identified fruit is automatically expelled from the conveyor in an expulsion unit, the position of the defective fruit being determined with the aid of an encoder associated to the conveyor. The general control member is a PC type computer, equipped with specific application software.

A system extension for a billing system adapted to generate customer bills associated with the delivery of telecommunications products and services, wherein the billing system includes software instructions adapted to be executed on a computer server platform, a database for storing product configuration data for a plurality of product offerings and charging tariffs attached to the product offerings, and a user interface allowing a user to interact with and configure portions of the system, the system extension comprising: an editable derived attributes table that identifies a unit charge rate for tariffs attached to product offerings; and a charge calculation function for calculating a charge for a tariff attached to a particular product offering based on the unit charge rate identified in the derived attributes table for the tariff.

Systems and methods for improving operation of a power take off are presented. In one example, the power take off may be rotated in two different directions. The approaches may improve operation of a power take off device.

The present invention relates to a nano-diamond dispersion solution and a method of preparing the same. The method of preparing a nano-diamond dispersion solution comprises the following steps: providing a nano-diamond aggregation; mixing the nano-diamond aggregation with a metal hydroxide solution and stirring the mixture such that the nano-diamond aggregation is separated, to obtain a mixture solution; stabilizing the mixture solution such that the mixture solution is separated into a supernatant and precipitates; and extracting the supernatant and precipitates.

The invention discloses a method and device for fast starting an application program and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method comprises the steps that a triggering signal for fast staring the application program is detected and received; according to the triggering signal, a key value corresponding to the triggering signal and the response grade of the key value are analyzed; according to the key value corresponding to the triggering signal and the response grade of the key value, a preset triggering signal mapping table is searched, and the corresponding application program is started. By means of the method and device for fast starting the application program, a user can start the corresponding application program simply by operating the triggering key with multi-grade responses, and function switching of shortcut keys can be conducted according to using habits and current needs; meanwhile, due to the fact that the response grade of current pressing of the user can be prompted, the user can fast, conveniently, simply and clearly start and switch needed application programs, and the functionality of the mobile phone and the degree of satisfaction of the using of the user are greatly improved.

An SAS domain map is automatically generated at an SAS concentrator switch by a virtual mapping device that presents itself as a target for discovery by SAS devices interfaced with the concentrator, such as information handling systems and storage devices. During the SAS protocol discovery process, the virtual mapping device generates the SAS domain map by acquiring the device name and the device port for each concentrator port that interfaces with a device. A management application running on the concentrator applies the SAS domain map to provide network functions, such as zoning or diagnostics.

A sensor includes one or more sensor transducers coupled with a signal conditioning IC incorporating signal conditioning circuitry and memory devoted to storing end-user downloadable coefficients. In a preferred embodiment, the IC is an ASIC and the end-user downloadable coefficients are pre-selected by the end-user based on its needs, and the coefficients are pre-stored in the ASIC when the sensor is calibrated. This results in a more cost-effective and space-efficient sensor device with improved functionality over that available in the prior art.