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The present invention comprises methods and compositions for repelling insects. The compositions and methods comprise combinations of essential oils or materials that can be extracted from essential oils to repel insects. The essential oil blends can be combined with various gellants and used in devices that actively disperse the volatiles throughout an area to prevent or reduce the incidence of annoyance from insects.

An architecture and method for dynamic resource allocation and scheduling in a communication device is disclosed herein. The method of controlling hardware resources in a communication device having a processor, a computer readable memory, and at least one hardware resource coupled to each other includes several steps. The first step locates a memory address in the computer readable memory that is associated with a first hardware resource. In the next step, control information associated with the first memory address is transmitted to the first hardware resource for it to be operated. In the last step, a pointer associated with the first address that locates a subsequent address for a subsequent hardware resource, is read.

A system and method detecting fissile material. According to one embodiment, a detector includes an array of active pixel sensors wherein each active pixel sensor operable to integrate a charge generated by radiation that is incident upon the active pixel sensor by using a charge-sensing element during an integration phase. Then, a voltage signal is generated that is based upon the integrated charge intensity during a readout phase. After reading out the voltage signal during the readout phase, the active pixel sensor is reset ready to integrate again. The integration phase is typically set to a time interval that is optimal for detecting radiation from fissile material, and the system is typically able to count individual events occurring in an integration period, and to digitally sum these event counts to measure rate of radiation events.

A Virtual Soft Handover (VSHO) process for high data rate (HDR) applications is disclosed that considers the total number packets remaining to be transmitted prior to initiating the VSHO. An HDR mobile terminal maintains data transmission information relating to an amount of data to be transmitted during a data transfer in progress during a data session. The data transmission information may include, for example, the total packet size of a data transmission and the data transmission status (i.e., the number of packets remaining to be transmitted). The decision of whether to perform a VSHO is made according to the data transmission information. In one embodiment, a VSHO may be deactivated when the number of packets remaining to be transmitted is less than a certain threshold. In other embodiments, a VSHO may not be performed if the total packet size is smaller than a certain threshold.

An inductive power transfer transmitter that includes an enclosure for accommodating devices to be energised. The enclosure has one or more side walls and one or more coils for generating an alternating magnetic field within the enclosure. The density of the one or more coils varies with distance from an end of the one or more sidewalls. There is also disclosed an inductive power transmitter that includes one or more magnetically permeable layers wherein the combined thickness or the permeability of the one or more magnetically permeable layers varies.

System and method for providing a messaging service, such as a voice mail service over a digital subscriber loop are presented. An incoming call is first routed to a service processor. The incoming call is to be delivered over the digital subscriber loop to a receiving device. A determination is made as to whether or not the incoming call is answered by the receiving device. The incoming call is routed to a message processor if the incoming call is not answered by the receiving device. The incoming call is stored at the message processor for later retrieval.

A thermal energy management system for a vehicle is provided that is configured to supply thermal energy to a passenger compartment of the vehicle. The thermal energy management system may include three thermal fluid loops. The first thermal fluid loop may include a coolant pump circulating a coolant through at least a vehicle battery, a transmission oil cooler of the vehicle, and a chiller such that the coolant is configured to selectively transfer thermal energy from the vehicle battery, the transmission oil cooler, and the chiller. The second thermal fluid loop may circulate oil through the transmission oil cooler. The third thermal fluid loop may circulate a refrigerant through at least the chiller and at least one condenser such that the third thermal fluid loop is configured to transfer thermal energy to the passenger compartment.

A system and method is provided for performing processing in a test system. A flexible platform may be provided for developing test programs for performing automated testing. In one such platform, the tester and its instruments are isolated from the tester operating system, permitting any tester operating system to be used. In another example implementation, a user layer of the platform is isolated from the physical layer of the architecture, permitting hardware-independent test programs that can be created and used among different testers having different test hardware and software. In yet another implementation, execution of a test program is isolated from a tester platform operating system, permitting the test program to function independent from the tester platform. In another embodiment, functionality is implemented on the platform such that functions are only added, and that existing links to functions are not broken, ensuring continued test system operation when new software, hardware and / or features are added to the platform. The test system may include a non-deterministic computer system. In one example test system, the system forces execution of one or more computer instructions performed by the non-deterministic computer system to execute within a constant execution time. A deterministic engine, if necessary, waits a variable amount of time to ensure that the execution of the computer instructions is performed over the constant execution time. Because the execution time is constant, the execution is deterministic and therefore may be used in applications requiring deterministic behavior. For example, such a deterministic engine may be used in automated test equipment (ATE) applications.

An architecture and method for dynamic resource allocation and scheduling in a communication device is disclosed herein. The method of controlling hardware resources in a communication device having a processor, a computer readable memory, and at least one hardware resource coupled to each other includes several steps. The first step locates a memory address in the computer readable memory that is associated with a first hardware resource. In the next step, control information associated with the first memory address is transmitted to the first hardware resource for it to be operated. In the last step, a pointer associated with the first address that locates a subsequent address for a subsequent hardware resource, is read.

The present inventions provide a system and method for a wide angle camera capable of high resolution peripheral vision. A wide angle lens system distorts the image and conveys it to an image sensor, which converts the image to an electronic signal and conveys it to image processing circuitry. The image processing circuitry corrects the distortion or transforms it to human recognizable image forms. In preferred embodiments, the distortion provides greater resolution of regions of interest and more efficient use of the area of the image sensor.

The present invention provides a solution wherein the underlying data network characteristics are detected by a mail client, which may then select the most efficient and effective use of the underlying data channel. In an embodiment of the present invention, the use of the data channel may be made more efficient by selecting a synchronization strategy based on the underlying data network characteristics. For example, in a high-bandwidth data network, full synchronization may be used, but in a low-bandwidth network, only partial and / or select synchronization may be used. This prevents the email user from having to reconfigure the mail client to ensure the most efficient synchronization process when the portable device is attached to a different network. This also reduces the possibility of inefficient usage of low-bandwidth data networks, thus improving network capacity and scalability.

A speed-change mode is changed from a stepless speed-change mode to a fixed speed-change mode while limiting or controlling the torque variation of an output member.An ECU 100 performs speed-change control. In the speed-change control, if a request is provided to change the speed-change mode from the stepless speed-change mode to the fixed speed-change mode, the ECU 100 engages the clutch mechanism 350 after the rotational synchronization and the phase synchronization of the clutch mechanism 350. After engaging the clutch mechanism 350, the ECU 100 gradually reduces the output torque of a motor generator MG1 and gradually changes a reaction element from a sun gear 331 to a sun gear 341. At this time, the output torque of a motor generator MG2 is also gradually reduced. The output torque of the motor generator MG2 is corrected to limit or control a change in the output torque of a drive shaft 320, on the basis of the gear ratio between the rotational elements of a power dividing mechanism 300 and the reduction amount of the output torque of the motor generator MG1.

The present invention provides a pulse detonation insert that induces flow obstructions within the pulse detonation chambers, wherein the flow obstructions are operable to induce turbulence within a primary fluid flow passing over the obstructions. This turbulence may take the form of vortices that enhance the mixing of the oxidizer and fuel within the primary flow. Additionally, supports couple to the pulse detonation chamber walls and flow obstructions to hold the flow obstructions in place within the pulse detonation chamber. The combustion / Detonation of the mixed oxidizing fuel results in an increased velocity of the primary flow exiting the pulse detonation chamber and reduced the amount of unburnt fuel within the exhaust.

A Virtual Soft Handover (VSHO) process for high data rate (HDR) applications is disclosed that considers the total number packets remaining to be transmitted prior to initiating the VSHO. An HDR mobile terminal maintains data transmission information relating to an amount of data to be transmitted during a data transfer in progress during a data session. The data transmission information may include, for example, the total packet size of a data transmission and the data transmission status (i.e., the number of packets remaining to be transmitted). The decision of whether to perform a VSHO is made according to the data transmission information. In one embodiment, a VSHO may be deactivated when the number of packets remaining to be transmitted is less than a certain threshold. In other embodiments, a VSHO may not be performed if the total packet size is smaller than a certain threshold.

A vehicular data recording apparatus includes crash detection means (12) for detecting a crash of a vehicle, and recording process means (14) for recording and retaining output data of various vehicle-mounted sensors (20, 30, 40, 50) mounted in the vehicle, in a non-volatile memory (70), wherein if a crash is detected by the crash detection means (12), a data recording / retaining process relevant to the crash is performed by the recording process means. If a plurality of crashes different in the crash form are detected continually in a short time by the crash detection means, the recording process means performs the data recording / retaining process relevant to each crash in accordance with a predetermined order of priority based on the crash form of each crash.

Each mobile station is accommodated in a base station through a radio transmission path. A base station control device controls each base station. A mobile station is accommodated in a first base station. Each of the base stations notifies the mobile station of the condition of the communication resources of the base station, respectively. If the mobile station judges that it is advantageous to be accommodated in a second base station instead of the first base station, the mobile station makes a request for hand-off to the base station control device. The base station control device issues a hand-off command to both of the first and second base stations. Then, the mobile station is accommodated in the second base station.

Methods and systems are provided for improving control of high dilution EGR. An intake plenum is divided so that fresh intake air and EGR can be delivered to engine cylinders via dedicated plenum portions. Distinct sets of throttles are provided in the cylinder intake ports coupled the different plenum portions so that a ratio of intake air flow and EGR flow to the engine cylinders can be rapidly adjusted in response to sudden changes (e.g., increase or decrease) in EGR demand.

A method for continuously managing thermal energy in a motor vehicle includes initializing a continuous thermal energy management control loop within a controller disposed in the motor vehicle, calculating a quantity of stored energy in a thermal management system equipped to the motor vehicle, calculating a quantity of thermal energy waste in the thermal management system, determining if thermal energy is needed within a component of the thermal management system, selectively generating thermal energy, selectively transporting thermal energy to the component of the thermal management system, determining a thermal storage capacity of the thermal management system, determining if a thermal energy deficit exists within the thermal management system, and directing a flow of a thermal energy carrying liquid to a thermal energy reservoir.

A system and method is provided for performing processing in a test system. A flexible platform may be provided for developing test programs for performing automated testing. In one such platform, the tester and its instruments are isolated from the tester operating system, permitting any tester operating system to be used. In another example implementation, a user layer of the platform is isolated from the physical layer of the architecture, permitting hardware-independent test programs that can be created and used among different testers having different test hardware and software. In yet another implementation, execution of a test program is isolated from a tester platform operating system, permitting the test program to function independent from the tester platform. In another embodiment, functionality is implemented on the platform such that functions are only added, and that existing links to functions are not broken, ensuring continued test system operation when new software, hardware and / or features are added to the platform. The test system may include a non-deterministic computer system. In one example test system, the system forces execution of one or more computer instructions performed by the non-deterministic computer system to execute within a constant execution time. A deterministic engine, if necessary, waits a variable amount of time to ensure that the execution of the computer instructions is performed over the constant execution time. Because the execution time is constant, the execution is deterministic and therefore may be used in applications requiring deterministic behavior. For example, such a deterministic engine may be used in automated test equipment (ATE) applications.

A dispatch and notification system that can adjust resources to meet and accommodate real time changes in demand or load is disclosed. The system provides an automated assembly that includes provisions that provide an effective and low cost arrangement that notifies technicians of real time changes in their scheduled work. The system can determine if a real time intervention in a technician's schedule is necessary and can notify the technician in near real time of changes in assigned tasks.

A fishing lure comprised of a jighead and a barbed hook movably coupled to the jighead. The jighead fixedly carries a first jighead eye for attaching the jighead to a fishing line and the barbed hook is movably coupled in several degrees of freedom to the jighead, and the plane defined by the barbed hook is shiftable around a position where it is aligned with the first eye plane. The barbed hook is shiftable, in several degrees of freedom, around the plane defined by a eye.

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.

Methods and apparatuses for improving processor performance in a multi-processor system by optimizing accesses to memory. Processors can track the state of a memory such that the memory can be efficiently utilized in a multi-processor system including the ability to decode incoming snoop addresses from other processors, comparing them to contents of a memory tracking register(s), and updating tracking register(s) appropriately. Likewise, the transactions from other non-processor bus agents and / or bus mastering devices, such as a bus bridge, memory controller, Input / output (I / O), and graphics could also be tracked.

A multi-terminal multilayer capacitor reducing an equivalent series inductance (ESL), whose design flexibility is high, in which cost of electrode material is low, and in which a structural defect hardly occurs includes lead portions of first and second internal electrodes and lead portions of third and fourth internal electrodes that are disposed along the length of each of two side surfaces so as to be alternately exposed. Preferably, the first and third internal electrodes, and the second and fourth internal electrodes are disposed so as to be arranged along the length of each side surface in a coplanar manner, with a predetermined distance provided between two internal electrodes. When viewed in a laminating direction of dielectric layers, a capacitor-forming portion of the first internal electrode does not overlap with a capacitor-forming portion of the fourth internal electrode, and a capacitor-forming portion of the second internal electrode does not overlap with a capacitor-forming portion of the third internal electrode.

A fishing lure comprised of a jighead and a barbed hook movably coupled to the jighead. The jighead fixedly carries a first jighead eye for attaching the jighead to a fishing line and the barbed hook is movably coupled in several degrees of freedom to the jighead, and the plane defined by the barbed hook is shiftable around a position where it is aligned with the first eye plane. The barbed hook is shiftable, in several degrees of freedom, around the plane defined by a eye.

The present invention provides a pulse detonation insert that induces flow obstructions within the pulse detonation chambers, wherein the flow obstructions are operable to induce turbulence within a primary fluid flow passing over the obstructions. This turbulence may take the form of vortices that enhance the mixing of the oxidizer and fuel within the primary flow. Additionally, supports couple to the pulse detonation chamber walls and flow obstructions to hold the flow obstructions in place within the pulse detonation chamber. The combustion / Detonation of the mixed oxidizing fuel results in an increased velocity of the primary flow exiting the pulse detonation chamber and reduced the amount of unburnt fuel within the exhaust.

The invention provides a radiation grill unit (1) comprising (i) a food support unit (100), for instance with bars (110), (ii) a radiation unit (200) comprising a reflector (210) (with reflector opening (223)) hosting an (electrical) IR radiation heater (220), wherein the radiation unit (200) is optionally configured to provide IR radiation (201) in a direction of the food support unit (100), and (iii) a radiation grill unit cavity (3) configured to host a drip tray (300) (with edge (311)).

A video data processing apparatus is provided comprising processing circuitry for performing video processing operations requiring access to video reference frames, and a memory management unit configured to translate virtual addresses into physical addresses. Translation circuitry is provided responsive to a memory access request for reference frame pixel data issued by the processing circuitry to perform a translation process on video reference frame information such that the set of input values for at least one hash function in the memory management unit comprises video reference frame identifier bits contained with the video reference frame information. This approach has been found to reduce the frequency of aliasing in the memory management unit when retrieving video reference frames.