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A virtual security appliance is provided for disposition in a virtual network having at least one other virtual network device, the virtual network residing on a host data processing machine. The virtual security appliance comprises an interface configured for receiving a data communication directed to the at least one other virtual network device and a security function module adapted for initiating a security function responsive to said data communication meeting predetermined criteria.

A system and method of managing virtual documents is described. These virtual documents have associated with them an attribute file having known header and field information. By using the attribute file information, a network-connected computer can categorize and store virtual documents in a database corresponding to a particular user of the system. According to one aspect, the system is designed so that it can interface with an interactive television computer system so that a user can select virtual documents that he wishes to retain while viewing a television program. The selected virtual documents are then categorized and stored in the database corresponding to the user. According to another aspect, virtual documents can be downloaded from network-connected computer to a user's computer and then transferred to a smart card device. Specifically, a merchant coupon may be downloaded to the smart card device so that it may be redeemed at a merchant's store.

A portable rebound (or deflecting) sports training device having at least a first rebound panel or surface adapted to rebound a ball away from the device, and a support structure adapted to hold the panel in a first, operational condition in which the panel is held generally upright; the panel and the support structure having a second, transport or storage, configuration relative to each other such that the panel and support structure lie flatter (or generally flat) relative to each other in the direction transverse to the rebound panel such that the device occupies less space.

The present invention resides in a method of modifying games content of a mobile phone, the games content comprising gaming parameters, the method comprising sending one or more selected gaming parameters from the mobile phone to a server, at the server, applying training data to the one or more selected gaming parameters to provide a modified parameter set in which one or more of the one or more selected gaming parameters is modified, sending said modified parameter set to the mobile phone, wherein the modified parameter set is used to modify the games content of the mobile phone. By means of the invention, selected aspects or parameters of the games content of a phone can be modified remotely in a server, and the modified game parameters returned to the phone and used to reconfigure the games content to provide for new gameplay. Accordingly, whilst broadly allowing a user an element of control in how a game is to be changed, this invention provides a way of introducing new unpredictable factors into selected aspects of the gameplay. This consequently increases the variety of gameplay and elevates the challenge of the game to the user.

The invention discloses a dangerous goods leakage simulation system, a construction method and a use method thereof, and belongs to the field of virtual technology. It includes rescue equipment module, drill communication module, drill evaluation module and process playback module, as well as scene management module, dangerous goods leakage accident simulation module, user role management module, drill monitoring management module and data service module. The role management module logs in to the system. The user role management module extracts data from the dangerous goods leakage accident simulation module, data service module, scene management module and rescue equipment module to perform rescue operations. The data service module provides the relevant data of rescue operations to the monitoring management module. , the monitoring and management module writes the rescue operation data into the exercise real-time database through the data service module. It can simulate different dangerous goods leakage scenarios, and provide role drills for the handling of dangerous goods leakage accidents, so as to improve the collaborative ability of processing personnel.

The invention discloses an interactive learning system and a method thereof, in particular an online interactive teaching system and a method thereof through combining game contents with teaching contents. The interactive teaching system comprises a user platform, a theme database, a file format conversion unit, a game module, a user database and a setting module. The method comprises the following steps: different game sets and a theme electronic file are selected according to a user to modularize the game contents and the teaching contents, both of the game content and the teaching content can be compatible to each other through the file format conversion unit so that the user can achieve the learning effect through various games. In addition, the interactive teaching method comprises a verification setting program, an interactive game program and an integral statistic program. The user has different integral results in each test through the combination of modules of different game contents and teaching contents so as to increase the interest and the challenge of the learning.

A method for modified dialing behavior includes capturing a dialing stream in a virtual input buffer, comparing the dialing stream of the calling party to a history of dialing streams stored in a database, analyzing the history of dialing streams to determine a desired dialing behavior of the calling party, and passing a modified dialing stream to a mobile operating system based on the determined desired dialing behavior of a calling party.

The motor and cognitive skills development system includes a series of exercise mats having various instructional patterns thereon in increasing degrees or levels of physical and mental difficulty from very basic to more advanced moves and instructions. Each mat includes a complete series of exercise instructions thereon, with the exercises ranging from a relatively simple series of progressive jumps along the mat, to more complex jumps requiring only one foot, lateral or backward jumps, jump turns, etc. The instructions may range from simple representations of foot patterns through representations of various objects, colors, alphanumeric indicators, caricatures, etc. The development system thus challenges students both physically and mentally, with the instructor determining the exercise(s) to be performed and the corresponding mats according to the needs of the student(s) and/or curriculum. The system is adaptable to very young children, autistic students, adults and younger people with special training or rehabilitation needs, etc.

A system and method of managing virtual documents is described. In this approach, a user database is set up on a network-connected computer. There are a number of virtual documents that are created by on other network-connected computers. These virtual documents have associated with them an attribute file having known header and field information. The virtual documents and their associated attribute files are sent from the other network-connected computers to the network-connected computer, which then categorizes and stores information from the virtual documents according to the contents of the attribute file.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an exercise realization method, a client and a server, and is to enhance enjoyment and enthusiasm of a user when the user does physical exercises alone. The method comprises the following steps: the client receives pair exercise request information, initiated by the user, of a target pair exercise item; the client sends the pair exercise request information to the server to enable the server to judge whether a preset pair exercise condition is met according to the pair exercise request information; if the preset pair exercise condition is met, the client receives a pair exercise response message sent by the server; the client starts a pair exercise function according to the pair exercise response message and obtains real-time exercise data of a target body part of the user collected by an intelligent wearable device, wherein the intelligent wearable device is in communication connection with the client; the client sends the real-time exercise data to the server; and the client receives real-time pair exercise information fed back by the server according to the real-time exercise data, and outputs the real-time pair exercise information in a target pair exercise scene to enable the user to adjust the real-time exercise data according to the real-time pair exercise information.

An apparatus and method for improving functioning of at least a portion of a subject's nervous pathway system includes a garment or device worn or disposed on the subject; and at least one stimulator disposed on, in or within the garment or device capable of providing at least one corrective non-weight stimulus to the subject's nervous pathway system. The kind of nonweight stimulus provided by the stimulator to the subject's nervous pathway system, the amount, degree or intensity of the stimulus provided by the stimulator to the subject's nervous pathway system, and/or the body location of non-weight stimulus provided by the stimulator to the subject's nervous pathway system is determined by a reiterative diagnostic method leading to an optimal response for the treated subject.

The disclosure provides a method and system for installing components for an offshore wind turbine assembly independent of cranes and derricks. The components are stored in an offshore structure, such as a Spar. After transporting the offshore structure horizontally to a site, the structure can be uprighted to a vertical orientation. A variable ballast component coupled to a tower of the wind turbine assembly can reciprocally retract the tower into the offshore structure to lower the tower, and extend the tower away from the offshore structure to raise the tower until the full quantity of blades are assembled to a turbine coupled to the tower. When the blades are stored in a peripheral fashion around the tower, the method and system provides for automatic rotational indexing of the tower as the tower and turbine retract and extend, so the turbine is progressively aligned with each blade to be installed.

An educational ball has a body and multiple operating sets. The body is a square block and has six outer surfaces, six mounting recesses respectively formed in the outer surfaces, and six engaging holes respectively formed through the mounting recesses. The operating sets are connected to the body, are respectively and rotatably mounted in the mounting recesses, and each one of the operating sets has a rotating mount, two covering plates, a sliding groove, and multiple sliding sheets. The rotating mount is rotatably mounted in a corresponding mounting recess, and has an engaging jacket and two inserting holes. The covering plates are connected to the rotating mount, and each covering plate has a connecting pipe, multiple track grooves, and a guiding channel. The sliding sheets are movably mounted in the track grooves of the covering plates and the sliding groove of the operating set to cover the rotating mount.

The present invention relates to an oral care composition with a high water content which has improved robustness towards microbial challenge. The oral care composition includes compositions comprising from 0.125 wt % to 0.75 wt % of a water soluble source of stannous ions, wherein the composition comprises at least 50 wt % water and wherein the source of stannous ions is selected from the group consisting of stannous chloride, stannous pyrophosphate, stannous formate, stannous acetate, stannous gluconate, stannous lactate, stannous tartrate, stannous oxalate, stannous malonate, stannous citrate, stannous ethylene glyoxide, and mixtures thereof.

An inflatable device designed as a martial arts training and/or educational device.

The invention relates to copper surface treatment liquid and a copper surface treatment method for multilayer printed circuit board manufacturing, and belongs to the technical field of printed circuits. According to the copper surface treatment liquid and the copper surface treatment method, copper surface roughening and medium layer performance optimization for improving interlayer bonding forceare carried out in two stages, wherein the treatment liquid used for the copper surface roughening comprises alkali metal peroxide, alkali metal hydroxide, alkali metal silicate, polyhydroxylated polymer, a metal complexing agent, a copper metal corrosion inhibitor and a molybdate additive with mass concentrations being 20-50g/L, 30-60g/L, 30-60g/L, 3.5-10g/L, 30-60g/L, 3-8g/L and 6-30g/L respectively; and the treatment liquid used for the medium layer optimization comprises alkali metal sulfide, alkali metal phosphate and a silane coupling agent with the mass concentrations being 10-30g/L, 40-160g/L and 7.5-30g/L respectively. The copper surface treatment liquid has better compatibility with the prior art, the low roughness modification of the copper surface can reach the IPC standard, and the copper surface treatment liquid and the copper surface treatment method are favorable for a multilayer board manufacturing technology to meet the challenge brought by the high frequency of transmission signals of a printed circuit board.

A method and apparatus are described that provide a mini golf course on a single, configurable platform comprised by at least one obstacle, hazard, hole position, tee position, manually placed add-ins, and a control panel. On one embodiment, a player uses the control panel to arrange a combination of options to provide a unique mini golf hole. A player may create one or more mini golf holes to comprise a complete mini golf game.