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A digital watermark (DWM) content identifier is steganographically embedded in content. The DWM content identifier provides a link to a rights registry storing usage rights associated with the content. In some implementations the rights registry provides an association between the DWM content identifier and a digital rights management (DRM) content identifier. The DRM content identifier is used to find associated usage rights. The DWM content identifier can also be used to transfer content from a first DRM system to a second DRM system.

A method for marketing, assessing, underwriting, insuring and managing loans comprising marketing information and training for financial institutions, criteria for employment, credit history, and loan property type, insurance for loss limited by a predetermined amount, and tracking and servicing of a loan including collection and liquidation in the event of default. The invention further comprises status reporting, and liquidation of loans prior to expiration of the term of a loan.

A system for managing customer involvement with a contact center involves one or more monitoring applications executing on one or more computerized servers associated with the contact center, the applications monitoring communications between individual customers and the center; and a rules engine executing on the one or more computerized servers, the rules engine accessible to the monitoring application, the rules engine enabled to generate and implement business rules. Upon detection by one of the monitoring applications of an instance of unsuccessful or incomplete interaction between a customer and the contact center, session data determined during monitoring is used by the rules engine to determine contact center-initiated activity to be implemented to establish new communication with the customer to resolve issues related to the unsuccessful or incomplete interaction.

A card game combines the play of Blackjack (“21”) with a 5-card Poker wager or side bet (“21+5”). Each player places a basic Blackjack wager for each of two hands and an optional side wager before the cards are dealt. Each player is then dealt a card for each hand with the dealer receiving a face-up card. Each player is dealt a second card for each hand. At this point, the outcome of each 5-card hand is determined, where a 5-card hand consists of the two 2-card hands dealt to that player and the dealer's face-up card. After settling the 5-card wagers, the game of Blackjack continues in a typical fashion. The invention advantageously retains all the features and advantages of Blackjack as well as provides the dynamics of a proposition game, without interfering with the card sequence, for enhanced player anticipation and enjoyment.

Methods and systems are provided for managing non-beef livestock subjects in order to maximize their individual potential performance and the value of a product from the non-beef livestock subjects, and to maximize profits obtained in marketing the non-beef livestock subjects. The methods and systems draw an inference of a trait of a non-beef livestock subject by determining the nucleotide occurrence of at least one non-beef livestock SNP that is determined to be associated with the trait. The inference is used in methods of the present invention to establish the economic value of a non-beef livestock subject, to improve profits related to selling beef from a non-beef livestock subject; to manage non-beef livestock subjects, to sort non-beef livestock subjects; to improve the genetics of a non-beef livestock population by selecting and breeding of non-beef livestock subjects, to clone a non-beef livestock subject with a specific trait, to track meat or another commercial product of a non-beef livestock subject; and to diagnose a health condition of a non-beef livestock subject. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and kits are directed to inferences of a trait related to milk or a dairy product in a livestock subject.

This application describes methods and systems of performing digital asset management. In one implementation a method of determining whether content should be encrypted when the content is found in an unencrypted form is provided. The unencrypted form of the content includes a digital watermark embedded therein including a message. The method recites: decoding the digital watermark from the encrypted form of the content to obtain the message; based at least in part on the message, determining whether the unencrypted form of the content should be encrypted; and if so decided by the determination, encrypting the unencrypted form of the content. Other implementations and embodiments are provided as well.

This invention relates to computerized methods and systems for evaluating employee benefit plans. In one embodiment, a computerized method for determining improvement actions for an employee benefit plan includes uniquely associating an improvement action for one or more attributes of an employee benefit plan; receiving the status of one or more of the attributes for a first employee benefit plan; identifying the attributes of the first employee benefit plan which have a different status than a set of other employee benefit plans, and providing an action plan to improve the first employee benefit plan, the action plan comprising one or more actions associated with the identified attributes.

The invention provides a new method for simultaneously extracting tea polyphenol, tea polysaccharide and caffeine from tea leaves. The method comprises the following steps: extracting by enzymolysis, ultrafiltering, adsorbing the tea polyphenol and the caffeine with resin, obtaining the caffeine and the tea polyphenol by elution, and obtaining the tea polysaccharide by reverse osmosis. The method organically combines a new concept of enzymolysis extraction, membrane separation and resin adsorption, does not use any organic solvent (including ethanol), only uses water for precipitation and elution, and has the advantages of pollution-free, safe and reliable production, low cost, high product purity and high yield.

Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for managing bovine subjects in order to maximize their individual potential performance and edible meat value, and to maximize profits obtained in marketing the bovine subjects. The methods and systems draw an inference of a trait of a bovine subject by determining the nucleotide occurrence of at least one bovine SNP that is identified herein as being associated with the trait. The inference is used in methods of the present invention to establish the economic value of a bovine subject, to improve profits related to selling beef from a bovine subject; to manage bovine subjects, to sort bovine subjects; to improve the genetics of a bovine population by selecting and breeding of bovine subjects, to clone a bovine subject with a specific trait, to track meat or another commercial product of a bovine subject; and to diagnose a health condition of a bovine subject. Methods are also disclosed for identifying additional SNPs associated with a trait, by using the associated SNPs identified herein.

Card games that combine the play of Blackjack (“21”) with a 3-card Poker wager or side bet (“21+3”). Each player places a basic Blackjack wager and an optional 3-card Poker wager before the cards are dealt. Each player is then dealt a card with the dealer receiving a face-up card. Each player is dealt a second card. At this point, the outcome of each 3-card Poker hand is determined, where a 3-card Poker hand consists of the 2-card hand dealt to that player and the dealer's face-up card. After settling the Poker wagers, the game of Blackjack continues in a typical fashion. The invention advantageously retains all the features and advantages of Blackjack as well as provides the dynamics of 3-card Poker, without interfering with the card sequence, for enhanced player anticipation and enjoyment.

A method and system for supplementing the taxes owed by gaming participant winners such that winners of games of chance, including lotteries, are able to collect more of the advertised jackpots. Included is a method for conducting a game of chance with a tax supplement component such that participants are permitted to purchase a game ticket with a tax supplement component. A first portion of the ticket price is allocated to a tax supplement pool representing a tax supplement for at least a portion of applicable taxes on respective prizes. A second portion of the ticket price is allocated to a prize pool. Winners who purchased the tax supplement ticket are provided a tax supplement payment. The method and system also provide for the purchase of a tax supplement option, making the purchasers of the option eligible to receive a tax supplement payment in the event they win the prize.

The invention discloses an intelligent judgment method for fruit freshness based on coordination of visual information and olfactory information, and belongs to the technical field of non-destructive testing of foods and agricultural products. The intelligent judgment method comprises the following steps: using a computer vision system to monitor the change of surface characteristics of a fruit; using an olfactory information imaging system to monitor the change of smell of the fruit; establishing a relationship between fruit appearance information, such as surface color and texture, and each of fruit smell characteristic information and fresh freshness at the same time; simulating a human identification method; and performing intelligent judgment on the freshness of fruits at a storage stage based on visual information, olfactory information, in particular coordination of the visual information and the olfactory information. The intelligent judgment method adopts the judgment process not destructive to a detection object, has higher detection accuracy and reliability relative to the single visual or olfactory detection method, can perform intelligent management on the fruits according to the freshness in the storage process, can effectively reduce the post-harvest loss of the fruits, and achieves agricultural income increase.

Disclosed is a method for optimizing internet traffic flow through a web network including the steps of collecting content data corresponding to the content elements, determining a revenue value for each content element, calculating an overall content value for each content element based on the corresponding revenue value and revenue generated from subsequent traffic flow of a user during a visit to the web network, and modifying the web network based on the overall content value and the content data, so as to maximize the value of the web network. Also disclosed is a system for determining overall content values for a plurality of content elements including an analytic server for receiving content data corresponding to the content elements, and a processor for determining a revenue value for each content element, and to calculate an overall content value for each content element based on the corresponding revenue value and revenue generated from subsequent traffic flow of a user during a visit to the web network.

Search engines and sponsored search auctions are provided that enable the use of different reserve prices corresponding to different advertisement slots on a search results page. In one implementation, a search engine includes a query processor and a sponsored search auction. The query processor is configured to receive a query from an electronic device associated with a user, to determine a plurality of reserve prices corresponding to a plurality of advertisement slots of a search results page, and to determine a plurality of bid prices for the advertisement slots of the search results page corresponding to a plurality of bidders. The sponsored search auction is configured to allocate a bidder or a null (e.g., no advertisement) to each advertisement slot of the search results page, taking into account the plurality of reserve prices associated with the advertisement slots of the search results page.

The present invention discloses an instant millet vermicelli and its processing method, It uses millet and rice as the raw materials and is formed according to a special method, and the weight ratio of millet to rice is 4:1-10:1, and the water content of said instant millet vermicelli's final product is less than or equal to 12%. The method includes following steps: mixing and soaking, slurry and separating, dewatering, regulating pH value, extruding and braising vermicelli firstly, forming and braising vermicelli secondly, aging and water washing, cutting and drying. The present invention solves the technical problems of deep-processing the millet into vermicelli, and meets the people's desire for conveniently eating the little miscellaneous cereals millet. During the whole processing of present invention, it need not add any additives, not only ensuring natural property and pure taste of the product, but also bringing the eaters with health guarantee, and it's a type of environmental protection food.

The invention relates to a silt and sewage treatment method, and belongs to the technical field of mine sewage treatment. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing silt separation, namely performing primary separation on the silt and the sewage, and separating sand out; (2) performing sedimentation treatment, namely adding 0.2 to 0.4 mass percent solution of anionic polyacrylamide into the sewage, then adding 0.1 to 0.3 mass percent solution of anionic polyacrylamide into the sewage after sediment is generated, and separating the sediment out; and (3) performing sediment filter pressing, namely filter-pressing the sediment separated out by the step (2). The method of the invention effectively solves the mine sewage treatment problem, and separates three useful substances out comprising coarse sand, fine sand and sludge so as to increase the creation income of the enterprise.

The invention discloses an online classroom intelligent interaction device which comprises a classroom end interaction device, a teacher end interaction device, an intelligent processing device, a signal acquisition module, an artificial intelligence processing module, a structured data output module, a face recognition unit, a hand-up recognition unit and a standing recognition unit. The classroom end interaction device is connected to the teacher end interaction device through a network, respective sound and visual sensing signals are collected, a multimedia stream is formed through encodingand composite processing and is sent to an opposite end to be played and displayed, and the intelligent processing device establishes a network connection with the classroom end interaction device and the teacher end interaction device. In an online classroom of distance teaching, in the condition that a teacher and students are unfamiliar with each other or the teacher cannot remember the name of the students, the teacher can know the name of a student who raises a hand or stands up according to the online classroom intelligent interaction device, and therefore, the teacher can further interact with the student in real time to close the gap and let the distance be no longer a distance.

The invention belongs to the methods for producing 12-hydroxystearic acid by using castor oil as raw material, and particularly relates to a separation method of by-product sodium sulfate and glycerine. The separation method of the sodium sulfate and the glycerine uses a production process of connecting dual-effect evaporation and single-effect evaporation in series and carries out the separation of the sodium sulfate after saponification and the acidolysis and glycerinated water, the glycerinated water is firstly evaporated by a dual-effect evaporator and then evaporated by a single-effect evaporator, then crude glycerine and bottom materials with very high solid content are obtained, and the bottom materials are centrifugalized and dried to obtain the sodium sulfate. The separation method has the advantages that the separation method can fully recover and utilize the glycerine, the sodium sulfate and other useful chemical substances which are contained in the glycerinated water, water and heat energy during the separation process can be repeatedly utilized, thereby greatly reducing the discharge amount of sewage.

The present disclosure provides a monetization channel exchange system for selecting and implementing a monetization channel for an application. The monetization channel exchange system may identify a plurality of monetization channels and determine a projected revenue for an application based on each of the plurality of monetization channels. A score may be generated for each channel of the plurality of monetization channels based on the projected revenue for the channel. Next, a first monetization channel of the plurality of monetization channels may be selected based on the score of the first monetization channel. As a result, the first monetization channel may be implemented for the application.