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The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving an audio signal and initiating speech recognition tasks by a plurality of speech recognition systems (SRS's). Each SRS is configured to generate a recognition result specifying possible speech included in the audio signal and a confidence value indicating a confidence in a correctness of the speech result. The method also includes completing a portion of the speech recognition tasks including generating one or more recognition results and one or more confidence values for the one or more recognition results, determining whether the one or more confidence values meets a confidence threshold, aborting a remaining portion of the speech recognition tasks for SRS's that have not completed generating a recognition result, and outputting a final recognition result based on at least one of the generated one or more speech results.

A multi-protocol personality module enabling load / store from remote memory, remote DMA transactions, and remote interrupts, which permits enhanced performance, power utilization and functionality. In one form, the module is used as a node in a network fabric and adds a routing header to packets entering the fabric, maintains the routing header for efficient node-to-node transport, and strips the header when the packet leaves the fabric. In particular, a remote bus personality component is described. Several use cases of the Remote Bus Fabric Personality Module are disclosed: 1) memory sharing across a fabric connected set of servers; 2) the ability to access physically remote I / O devices across this fabric of connected servers; and 3) the sharing of such physically remote I / O devices, such as storage peripherals, by multiple fabric connected servers.

A system for uploading content includes a sender capable of sending an upload request, where the upload request comprises a request to upload content from the sender to a recipient. The system also includes a network entity, such as the recipient, capable of operating an upload agent. The upload agent, in turn, is capable of receiving the upload request, and thereafter determining an upload schedule relating to the time and / or manner of uploading the content. The sender can then be capable of uploading the content to the recipient in accordance with the upload schedule. The network entity can be further capable of recovering an upload session that has encountered an interruption.

A multilayered ball sealer having a deformable layer. The multilayered ball sealer has an outer or intermediate layer that is deformable under pressure. In the former, the deformable layer may be water-soluble or hydrolysable. In the latter, the outer layer is a sheath that contains the deformable layer and adapts to its shape. A multilayered ball sealer may be used as a diversion agent by being suspended in a fluid injected into a wellbore and applying pressure to deform the shape of the intermediate layer such that the multilayered ball sealer adapts to the shape of a perforation opening on which the multilayered ball sealer has seated.

The link exchange system and method 100 automatically creates links between web sites. Specifically, the method of creating links includes providing an account Owner the opportunity to create and manage whitelists 111 and blacklists 116 which are used as filters to automatically accept or decline a proposed link according to criteria set forth in the respective lists. If the link request is accepted, the link is created on the account Owner's link page(s).

A reporting method by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: measuring at least one cell; detecting whether or not interference is occurred during the measurement; and transmitting a report message to a network. When it is detected that interference occurs during the measurement, information regarding the interference generated during the measurement is included in the report message and transmitted.

A mesh generation tool that is programmatically integrated with a system-level design and simulation environment, thereby enabling the direct generation of PDE solver input from a system-level design and simulation environment and a method for using the mesh generation tool are disclosed. Automatic mesh generation and optimization is improved by making available additional information about the nature and purpose of certain design components to the mesh generation tool. Specifically, the parameters of the components in the device schematic, which represent a user-defined decomposition of a larger MEMS design into smaller entities of clear physical purpose, are made available to the mesh generation tool. The link established between the system-level design and PDE analyses allows the user to move between the two levels of abstraction. The mesh generation tool retrieves information from the components and connectors of a schematic of a MEMS device, and produces a discrete element model suitable for numerical PDE analysis by the finite element (FEM) and boundary element (BEM) methods. A direct link from a schematic model to a mesh model helps the user to produce an optimal mesh for PDE analysis, thereby avoiding considerable unnecessary computation.

A method and apparatus for use with a resource scheduling system that includes a schedule that associates resource time slots with scheduled client matters and associates scheduled recall procedures with schedule times, each scheduled recall procedure for generating at least one recall notice at a corresponding schedule time indicating a possible client matter to be scheduled, each of the scheduled client matters and scheduled recall procedures being a scheduled item, the schedule including scheduled item information associated with each of the scheduled items, the method for facilitating schedule management and comprising the steps of receiving recall information for a possible recall procedure that may be scheduled, comparing the received recall information with at least a subset of the scheduled item information to identify at least one scheduled item that may be related to the possible recall procedure and performing a scheduling process as a function of the at least one identified scheduled item.

A control system for a hydrocarbon well is also disclosed. A control valve system is used to control the flow of fluid being produced by the well. A real time sensor is provided downhole and is used to make real time measurements of phase characteristics of the fluid. A controller is used to control the valve system so as to reduce the risk of undesirable phase transitions in the fluid based on the real time measurements made by the sensor. The sensor includes an acoustic transducer configured to emit acoustic energy into the fluid at a level which causes a phase transition in the fluid. The controller determines the level of acoustic energy emitted into the fluid, and also determines the pressure associated with a phase transition using the level of emitted acoustic energy.

A mesh generation tool that is programmatically integrated with a system-level design and simulation environment, thereby enabling the direct generation of PDE solver input from a system-level design and simulation environment and a method for using the mesh generation tool are disclosed. Automatic mesh generation and optimization is improved by making available additional information about the nature and purpose of certain design components to the mesh generation tool. Specifically, the parameters of the components in the device schematic, which represent a user-defined decomposition of a larger MEMS design into smaller entities of clear physical purpose, are made available to the mesh generation tool. The link established between the system-level design and PDE analyses allows the user to move between the two levels of abstraction. The mesh generation tool retrieves information from the components and connectors of a schematic of a MEMS device, and produces a discrete element model suitable for numerical PDE analysis by the finite element (FEM) and boundary element (BEM) methods. A direct link from a schematic model to a mesh model helps the user to produce an optimal mesh for PDE analysis, thereby avoiding considerable unnecessary computation.

A system and method for determining an optimal antenna position of a directional antenna in a wireless communication system are described. The optimal antenna position is determined by calculating a steering metric value for possible antenna positions and the antenna position with the highest steering metric value is selected as the optimal antenna position.

A managed communication system is disclosed. The system includes a network having a plurality of layers, such as layers 1, 2, 3, through layer n. Each layer requests and receives services from the layer directly below it. A control module is provided that interacts with the components of each layer. Preferably, each layer exposes one or more flexibility attributes, e.g., route control, bandwidth control, QoS control, or other attributes. A monitoring module is also provided that measures network traffic on ingress to each layer and accepts requirements associated with such traffic

A controlled release preparation of insulin and its method are provided. The controlled release preparation of insulin contains microparticles obtained by microencapsulation of uniform microcystals of insulin using biodegradable polymeric materials. Since the denaturation of insulin that may occur during microencapsulation is reduced, the stability of the preparation can be increased. Also, the ratio of insulin to a polymer carrier is increased, which is suitable for pulmonary delivery. Further, the controlled release preparation of insulin can continuously exhibit pharmaceutical efficacy in vivo in a stable manner for an extended period of time.

A method of determining when to stop pumping proppant during hydraulic fracturing in a wellbore is described. By accurately detecting tip screen-out with a bottom hole pressure gauge mounted to a perforating gun, the optimal amount of proppant can be supplied to a fracture while avoiding the risks associated with wellbore screen-out.

The objective of the invention is to provide an optical sheet for liquid crystal display apparatus and a backlight unit suing the same. The optical sheet for liquid crystal display apparatus has excellent optical functions, specifically optical diffusion function; the backlight unit optimizes visual field angle, removes lamp source images, becomes thinner, and also hoists the like qualities. The invention is an optical sheet for liquid crystal display apparatus, which has a transparent substrate layer and a microlens array, wherein the microlens array is composed of a plurality of microlens formed by the substrate surface and back face, wherein the back microlens can be a concave lens, the back microlens array is preferably composed of a plurality of microlens with random diameter, the average radius of the surface microlens can be from 3[mu]m to 90[mu]m. In addition, the average radius of the back microlens is from 2[mu]m to 10[mu], and is about 1 / 12 to 1 of the average radius of thesurface microlens.

A light emitting diode (LED) lighting system for producing white light is disclosed. The system comprises sets of LEDs arranged to emit light with different wavelength ranges and associated with different sets of characteristics, and a driving circuit arranged to drive the LEDs. The driving circuit comprises an input for desired light intensity, color rendering index, and color temperature, an input for signals for LED temperature, a model for determining driving currents for said sets of LEDs from said parameters, signals, and characteristics for each of said sets of LEDs; and a current driver for the LEDs. At least one of the sets of LEDs comprises a first subset of LEDs with a first wavelength sub-range and a first set of characteristics, and a second subset of LEDs with a second wavelength sub-range and a second set of characteristics. A lumped wavelength range of the set of LEDs is a range of said first and second wavelength sub-ranges, and the set of characteristics of the set of LEDs is a function of said first and second sets of characteristics. A method for controlling the sets of LEDs is also disclosed.

A computer aided system includes a method of improving the accuracy, optimization, and minimization for the synthesis and mapping of logical functions into the logical structures of a target technology, such as the logic cells (e.g., look-up tables) of a programmable logic integrated circuit. In a specific implementation, the invention incorporates late-stage synthesis operations, such as found during a technology mapping operation, into earlier stage synthesis procedures. These late-stage synthesis operations are used to provide better estimates of delay and area of a final compiled design in order to guide optimization operations.

A method and a system for scheduling parallel machines based on hybrid shuffled frog leaping algorithm and variable neighborhood search algorithm are provided to solve collaborative production and processing of jobs on a plurality of unrelated batch processing machines. The jobs are distributed to machines based on the normal processing time and deterioration situation of the jobs on different machines and are arranged. An effective multi-machine heuristic rule is designed according to the structural properties of an optimal solution for the single-machine problem, and the improved rule is applied to the improved shuffled frog leaping algorithm to solve this problem. The improvement strategy for the traditional shuffled frog leaping algorithm is to improve the local search procedure of the traditional frog leaping algorithm by introducing the variable neighborhood search algorithm. The convergence rate and optimization capacity of the original algorithm are thus improved.

A system, method and computer program product are provided for delivering media content. The system includes at least one recipient that may be associated with at least one recipient rule. The system also includes a sending entity capable of transmitting a multimedia message addressed to the recipients. The sending entity can also specify delivery rules in the message. In this regard, the multimedia message includes media content. The system further includes a network entity capable of receiving the multimedia message and identifying any recipient rules, sending entity rules and / or network rules associated with the multimedia message. The network entity can then deliver the media content to the recipients based upon respective rules. The network entity can also be capable of processing the media content based upon the rules before delivering the media content, such as by transcoding or truncating at least a portion of the media content prior to delivery.

A method for predicting mineralogical, textural, petrophysical and / or elastic properties at locations without rock samples based on well log data is provided. The method includes obtaining well log data and values of a target property measured by analyzing rock samples at rock sample locations. The method further includes building and calibrating a prediction model using machine learning algorithms, the well log data and the values of the target property at the rock sample locations. The method then estimates values of the target property at one or more locations without rock samples using the prediction model.

The invention discloses a loading method of system static resources. The loading method comprises the following steps: after a page access request is received, obtaining static resource data which is compiled in advance; extracting the static resources corresponding to access data from the obtained static resource data; and loading the extracted static resources to finish accessing the page data corresponding to the access request through the extracted static resources. The invention also discloses a loading system of the system static resources. By use of the loading method and device, the optimization degree of the static resources can be improved.

A cutter chatter monitoring method comprises the steps of capturing a cutting vibration acceleration signal; dividing the cutting vibration acceleration signal in each predetermined time period into a plurality of segments; determining whether the vibration acceleration signal of each segment is increased by a multiple greater than a threshold value; performing a Fast Fourier Transform of the cutting vibration acceleration signal in each predetermined time period; calculating a vibration frequency; determining whether the vibration frequency of the cutting vibration acceleration signal is a multiple of a cutter passing frequency; and increasing a main shaft rotating speed of a cutter to avoid cutter chatters if both aforementioned conditions are satisfied.

A intelligentized making method for office data and a intelligentized making system for office data, including a collecting service step: automatically collecting data according to different data acquiring requirements, storing it into designated directory; when collecting is failure, writing corresponding collecting failure record; data service step which mainly complete access protocol translation, access service and data collection function: scanning designated direction by crontab function provided in UNIX; analyzing data files, processing them before storing them into database by different procedure; completing storage management of the data; application service step: carrying out corresponding processing based on different functions the user requires; responding processing result to client by application service layer after mentioned processing; user feedback step: transmitting feedback of operations user requires by TUXEDO middle ware, responding operation result accurately and in time to GUI terminal.

An embodiment of the invention provides a method and a system for planning a riding route, and relates to the technical field of traffic. The method comprises the following steps: departure place forriding and riding destination sent by a terminal are obtained; according to departure place for riding and riding destination, whether the condition that the destination can be reached by walking is satisfied is determined; if the condition that the destination can be reached by walking is not satisfied, at least one riding route is planned and route information corresponding to the riding route is obtained; route score corresponding to each riding route is respectively calculated according to corresponding route information; target riding route is sent by a terminal according to route scores.The system is used for executing the method. The method and the system of the embodiment calculate the route score corresponding to each riding route according to route information; target riding route is sent to the terminal according to the route score, and an optimal route is recommended for users according to synthesis score of multiple parameters.

The invention discloses construction machinery, a control system and a control method thereof. The control system comprise an input device, a control device and an output device, wherein the input device acquires preset parameters; the control device obtains preset operation parameters according to the preset parameters and generates control signals according to the preset operation parameters which comprise a preset operation parameter of a prime mover and a preset operation parameter of a hydraulic system; the output device outputs the control signals generated by the control device; and the control signals comprise a control signal of the prime mover and a control signal of the hydraulic system. because of preset operation parameters obtained by the control device from the whole construction machinery according to the preset parameters, the power match among the prime mover, a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic execute component can be realized, the energy consumption of the whole construction machinery is lowered and the operation efficiency of the construction machinery is improved.