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An method for billing a wireless subscriber for fixed location service is disclosed where the rating of a call is determined in part by the location of the subscriber as indicated using call detail record information recorded in the switch and information in a rating profile, typically stored in a billing system. The rating profile maintains a defined billing rate that is applied for calls associated with the subscriber occurring in the defined serving location as typically identified by an antenna and antenna sector.

A set top box (“STB”) apparatus configurable for handling broadcast, cable television and Internet protocol television (“IPTV”) formats by multiple operators via a single flexible operating system is provided. The set top box is enabled to receive and run different operating systems from multiple providers or operators. In another aspect, a dual mode display feature enables viewing of digital content via a first display device while enabling browsing and e-commerce functionality via an associated remote device.

A communication system (10) supports the provision of a plurality of dedicated communication resources (50–64), such as copper drops, RF links and optical fibers, to dedicated home-gateway devices (44–48) or distribution points (124). The communication resources (50–64) support broadband interconnection (104) between the dedicated home-gateway devices (44–48) or distribution points (124) and an access multiplexor (30) in a network (12). Each gateway device (44–48) or distribution point (124) generally includes a local RF transceiver (84) and associated control logic (80–82) that allows local communication (86) between gateway devices (44–48) and hence statistically multiplexed access (60–64, 89) to multiple communication resources, thereby providing increased bandwidth in uplink and/or downlink directions. With the control logic (80) operable to provide a routing and prioritisation/arbitration function, each gateway (44–48) is able to selectively engage use of supplemental, non-reserved communication resources usually associated with a dedicated ono-to-one connection between the access network (12) and at least one secondary gateway. Physical layer access to information routed via a secondary gateway within a virtual neighborhood network (90–92) comprising several gateways is restricted through an end-to-end encryption algorithm between an originating gateway and, at least, the access multilpexor (30).

The relevancy of ads may be increased, and opportunities to serve an ad that might otherwise be missed may be exploited by (i) accepting broad targeting information, to be used for serving an ad, from an advertiser, (ii) serving the ad using the broad targeting information, (iii) logging search query terms (or some other information, such as concepts, concept keywords, etc.) associated with the serving of the ad, and (iv) generating one or more candidate targeting keywords or phrases for the ad using the logged search query terms. At least one of the candidate targeting keywords or phrases may be provided as targeting information for the ad. Alternatively, at least one of the candidate targeting keywords or phrases may be presented to the advertiser. Advertiser input with respect to the candidate targeting keyword(s) or phrase(s) presented may then be accepted. Zero or more of the candidate targeting keyword(s) or phrase(s) may be provided as targeting information for the ad, in accordance with the accepted advertiser input. Cost information (e.g., average cost per selection, average cost per conversion, total costs, etc.) may be presented in association with the candidate targeting information.

The present invention relates to a ‘smart parking system’ comprising of 1) ‘smart parking meter’ containing a radiofrequency reader (RF reader); 2) radiofrequency tag (RF tag) containing vehicle identification information, that is mounted on vehicles; 3) a central control station communicating with a multitude of ‘smart parking meters’ to form a network; 4) the said central control station having a central computer system programmed with parking enforcement instructions. RF reader is provided with means to interrogate the RF tag of a vehicle parked in the corresponding parking stall; and transmit information obtained thereby to a central control station. The central control station has means to identify the said vehicle and determine whether or not the said vehicle is legally parked. If a parking violation is detected, the central computer system remotely instructs the corresponding ‘smart parking meter’ to issue a parking ticket. Means are also provided in the ‘smart parking system’ to determine if a vehicle parked in a parking stall has previous unpaid parking tickets. The ‘smart parking system’ also has means to determine if a vehicle wanted by law enforcement personnel is present in a parking stall within its network. According to yet another aspect, the ‘smart parking system’ has means to determine if a parking stall in its network is vacant and to reserve the said vacant stall for an authorized driver. Further, means are provided in the ‘smart parking meter’ to accept multiple forms of payment.

A method and apparatus enables identification of customer characteristics and behavior, and predicts the customer's intent. Such prediction can be used to adopt various business strategies to increase the chances of conversion of customer interaction to a sale, and thereby can increase revenue, and/or enhance the customer's experience.

Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to digital downloading jukebox systems of the type that typically include a central server and remote jukebox devices that communicate with the central server for royalty accounting and/or content updates. More particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that have revenue-enhancing features such as for example, music recommendation engines and bartender loyalty programs. Such innovative techniques help to both increase per jukebox revenue as well as keep jukebox patrons engaged with the jukebox.

Described are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for context-adaptive content distribution to handheld devices. Context data associated with the user is retrieved and a relevancy function is determined based on the context. A list of content available to the user is obtained. The list of available content is dynamically sorted based on the relevancy function. At least a portion of the list is transmitted to the handheld device according to the sorted order.

A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. A system is provided that allows users to group players into teams that may perform various gaming activities and share in prizes earned by those activities. Further the system may require that players visit a gambling location to perform various acts, including activating electronic game play requests. A method is provided by which players have additional incentive to visit gambling establishments with more regularity.

Apparatus and methods for providing enhanced consumer access to information sources and controllable entities. An Access device can be a stand alone device such as a DVD player in which the DVD disk contains the back-end information network. Other Access devices obtain the back-end information network from remote sources. By way of a specific example, the consumer can then view a game and interactively select every television camera located at the game venue.

The invention provides a resource allocation method for multicarrier system, which comprises: network side carries out an admission control judge to users according to the resource condition in cell, and allocates wireless resources according to the reported access capacity for the successive admission user and informs the terminal to carry out chain establishment operation through channel configuration command. The technical scheme in the invention fully considers the compatibility to all types of terminals, solves the problem of the reduction of network access ratio and capacity exists in current technology caused by that user terminal does not support the wireless resource allocation scheme when the network side allocates resources to user terminals. The execution of the invention can reduce lost call rate efficiently, and improves the network quality and the revenue of operators.

A system and method for ranking items is disclosed. In one embodiment, the items constitute offerings offered by at least one on-line vendor. The system includes a ranking module that estimates the likelihood that a user will select the offerings and the likelihood that the user will purchase the items offered in the offerings. Based on this information, the ranking module calculates the expected revenue to be generated by the offerings. The ranking module then ranks the offerings relative to one another so as to increase income received by the system administrator.

A user-defined channel, comprising content specified by a system user, is provided as one of a plurality of channels of a subscription service in a signal distribution system. At least a portion of the content specified by the system user is obtained from a network external to the subscription service provider network. At least one media stream comprising the content is generated, and delivered via an interface device associated with the system user in conjunction with the subscription service. In one embodiment, the user-defined channel comprises a tracking channel, and the specified content comprises location information that is obtained from the external network and identifies a location of at least one entity specified by the system user.

A method comprises the steps of: providing an opportunity for prospective event ticket purchasers to pre-purchase one or more copies of a recording of at least a portion of a live event; conducting said live event; recording at least a portion of said live event; determining a number of copies of said recording pre-purchased; calculating a desirable number of copies of said recording to be manufactured; manufacturing said desirable number of copies of said recording; and distributing at least some of the manufactured copies of said recording to those that pre-purchased them. The opportunity for pre-purchasing copies of the recording occurs at a point of sale of tickets for the live event to be recorded before the live event occurs.

The invention belongs to the technical field of multimedia and in particular relates to a method and a system for recommending music. The method comprises the following steps of: a, accessing a page server through a mobile terminal, browsing page information, and requesting a resource server to acquire page data which is required, wherein the page data comprises music resources and music recommending data; b, recording behaviors of users on accessing of the page server, and recording music acquisition behaviors of the users on the resource server and music resource information which is acquired; c, acquiring behavior records of the users, and classifying the users according to the behavior records; and d, classifying songs in a song classification mode, and generating corresponding song recommending lists according to different user types. By adoption of the invention, the users can more quickly and more effectively listen to favorite songs, so that personalization requirements of the users are met, and a contradiction between mass of the songs and the personalization of user favor is solved.

A system and method that enables a user to configure a customizable product for purchase in an e-commerce system. A user may launch a web browser on a client computer system to access a vendor's web site to purchase a customizable product. The user may customize the product for purchase by selecting one or more customizable components of the product. A user may select one or more customizable components of the product by using a forms/menu interface or a visual graphical user interface. The vendor's web site may receive the one or more user selections for the customized product and may, in response, send data and information to client computer system to visually depict the ‘as purchased’ customized product for user verification and product checkout.

The invention relates to a nutrient healthcare product and a method for preparing the same, in particular to a compound vegetable healthcare product and a method for preparing the same. The compound vegetable nutrient powder of the invention consists of the following components in part by weight: 0.1 to 100 parts of dried vegetable powder, 0 to 10 parts of alga-type plant regulating powder, 0 to 96 parts of auxiliary component, 0 to 5 parts of natural flavoring agent and 0 to 5 parts of food additive. The preparation method adopts a simple production process and is suitable for industrialized production, and the product prepared by the method is rich in nutrition and stable in quality, meets the demands of people on various nutrients, regulates the intestines and stomach, improves enterogastric peristalsis, enhances in vivo metabolism of sulfur-contained substances, avoids the adverse effects of human body caused by malnutrition and unbalanced nutrition and prevents and helps to treat diseases such as ulcerative stomatitis, diabetes and constipation. The product has also the advantages of convenience for carrying and long storage period.

The current invention creates a financial structure has two distinct components. The first component of the structure is that it allows an investor to pay for, or exchange for, partnership interests with something other than cash, including low basis securities, defined as any security that has large unrealized capital gains, and/or Restricted Stock, as defined by Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933/34, as amended. The second component of the structure is that the partnership operates under a “Preservation of Principal” concept in which some or all of the investor's capital contribution to the partnership is protected from financial risk. This mitigation of risk is created using a portion of contributed funds, before the application of proceeds. The manner of protection is accomplished at the time the partnership either monitizes or uses the contributed securities as collateral. The techniques of Preservation of Principal may include, but are not limited to, the use of sophisticated option strategies, combination positions that may include shorting stock “against the box” coupled with the purchase of discounted securities, or other hedged, or arbitraged positions that provide protection to the investor's capital contribution in the event of project failure.

A media system comprising an encoder, a storage device, a user interface, and a publishing portal. The encoder is adapted to generate one or more digital files from media comprising at least one of a video source and an audio source. The storage device is adapted to store the one or more digital files. The user interface is adapted to enable a user to select at least a portion of the one or more digital files and create metadata. The publishing portal is adapted to associate the metadata with the at least a portion of the one or more digital files, enable the delivery of the at least a portion of the one or more digital files across one or more network types to one or more device types, implement a publishing schedule for the at least a portion of the one or more digital files, and provide advertising.

The invention provides a taxi calling method, platform and system. Due to the fact that price raising information, namely extra charge information, underwritten by users, besides specified taking cost, is added in order requests edited by the users, taxi drivers can obtain reasonable remunerations during passenger taking, and earnings are increased; meanwhile, the no-load ratios of taxis can be lowered, and the taxi calling success rates of the users can be improved. Meanwhile, due to the execution modes that priority processing is carried out on the order requests of the users, searching is carried out on loaded taxis, and taxi sharing request information is added in the order requests, the no-load ratios of the taxis are further lowered, the searching ranges for the taxis are further expanded, the taxi calling success rates of the users are improved, multiple users can take one taxi at the same time, and the taxi calling success probabilities of the users in the taking peek period are improved; meanwhile, the taking cost of the users can be reduced, the use ratios of the taxis can be improved, and the urban traffic pressure can be relieved.

Systems and methods for the dissemination of information from a controlled environment facility employ facility information management functionality managing resident information and facility information, and call manager functionality selectively providing at least a portion of the resident information and/or the facility information to an outside party in an automated manner. The invention may employ outgoing IVR functionality to provide select portions of the resident information in response to the call manager recognizing that a call is a first call by a resident, or a first call to a particular telephone number by a resident. The invention may manage information related to providers of services or goods for residents of a facility, provide an outside party this information, and notify a selected provider of selection of that provider by the outside party to provide goods or services for a resident.

The invention relates to a biotechnology dealing agricultural discard stem with an highly effective stem decomposing composite bacterial, which dissolves the problem of single species of applying microbiological bacterial, weak breaking up, low total degradability rate of cellulose, long developmental cycle. The composite bacterial comprises the following parts: yellow archespore wool bacterium leather bacterial, mushroom bacterial, haci trichoderma, green trichoderma, coninic trichoderma, aspergillus niger, bacillus subtilis, feed bacillus, bacillus megaterium, candida, distillery yeast, food-yeast, brown sphere azotobacter, thermoactinomyces, and so on. The composite bacterial can overall degrade lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose and other organic material in the stem, has a more than 80% degrading rate, a 10-15 days short cycle, keeps a long time for providing a solid bacteria.

A system and method for selling and/or dispensing consumer products from a vending or transactional-based machine is disclosed. The vending or transactional-based machine comprises an aerial display device that displays an aerial image designed to attract the attention of potential consumers and sell advertising, special promotions or certain products. Once a consumer begins to interact with the vending machine, demographic data is collected or correlated with the product purchased or dispensed. The consumer can initiate and conclude a purchase by merely pointing at the desired product. A mechanism is provided that accepts payment by currency, credit card or electronically.

This invention discloses an adaptive image sooming system and a method in mobile terminals, in which, a mobile terminal can adaptively adjust the size and resolution of a played flow media image and the resolution of the image can match with that of the display screen under the situation for guaranteeing the image is not distorted, the zoomed multiple is computed according to the resolution of the input image and the adaptively zoomed image is displayed full of the screen as much as possible, besides, the actual values of the zoom multiple are scattered several limit values, when the theoretica lmultiple is between two adjacent scattered vlues, the smaller one is taken as the actual value.

The invention provides a system and a method for a real-time ultrashort-term financing system so as to settle problems on poor liquidity of client capital in the prior art caused by no real-time communication between a bank fund distribution server and a fund transaction server of a fund corporation. A client sends a service request via a service handling terminal; a service processing device receives the service request in bank network; the service processing device inquires the data bases of a data storing device positioned at the same bank network, calculates in real time the service data related to the client and the bank, and processes the service request of the client. The invention has the advantages that the purchase and the redemption request of cliental financing products from the client can be responded in real time; the product sale condition can be monitored in real time via the system so as to prevent liquidity risk of product operation; and subsequent redemption operation can be stopped in time when a big amount of redemption occurrence so as to prevent the damage to benefits of the client and the bank.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for generating an optimized marketing strategy for improving sales. The process parses event data to identify patterns of events associated with a selection of a selected item by each customer in a plurality of customers and selection of at least one item in a set of items related to the selected item. The process identifies events in the patterns of events that result in a purchase of at least one item in the set of related items by the customers to form optimized events. The process then generates a marketing strategy using the optimized events. The marketing strategy comprises a set of strategies for increasing purchases of items in the set of related items by the customers.

The invention discloses a low-temperature cold-pressing and bivariate continuous refining and processing method for oiltea camellia seed oil, which mainly comprises the following technical steps of squeezing, leaching, degumming, deacidifying, decoloring, deodorizing, winterizing, dewaxing and the like. In the method, the technology of low-temperature drying and low-temperature squeezing and the bivariate mixed decoloring technology of activated carbon and activated clay are adopted to adsorb and decolor oil, thereby preventing from generating harmful substances, such as benzopyrene, coking objects, carbide and the like, and improving the quality and the grade of the product. The method has good economic benefit and social benefit.

The invention is directed to novel cellular factor-containing solution compositions (referred to herein as “CFS” compositions), including novel sustained-release cellular factor-containing solution compositions (referred to herein as “SR-CFS” compositions), methods of making such novel compositions and uses thereof.

The invention discloses a method for preparing super absorbent resin with a cross-linked structure by using potato starch as the raw material, which comprises the following main processes: carrying out neutralization reaction between a sodium hydroxide solution and acrylic acid from which polymerization inhibitor is removed under the cooling of ice-water bath; mixing potato starch with de-ionizedwater and pasting the mixture; mixing the neutralized acrylic acid and the sodium salt solution thereof with the pasted potato starch; adding an evocating agent persulfate and a cross-linking agent N,N'- methylene-bisacrylamide; uniformly stirring the mixture under the protection of nitrogen; heating the mixture by water bath to rise the temperature so as to ensure that the potato starch and the acrylic acid and the sodium salt thereof generate graft copolymerization reaction under the protection of nitrogen; keeping the temperature of the reaction; and baking and crashing to obtain the superabsorbent resin with a cross-linked structure. Compared with similar products, the water absorption of the super absorbent resin is greatly enhanced and the super absorbent resin can absorb a certainamount of heavy metal ion. The super absorbent resin has great effect on the water conservation, the desert control, the environmental improvement and the like of soil in dry regions.

The invention relates to the technical field of taxi transporting capacity scheduling and particularly discloses a method for mining driver frequent parking points based on a driver track. The method comprises the steps that driver track information is obtained in a preset time cycle, and a driver information collection is formed; the frequent parking points of a certain driver in the time cycle are worked out according to the driver information collection. According to the technical scheme, the frequent parking points of the driver can be automatically identified according to the driving track of the driver, and the positioning accuracy is improved.