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An Integrated Routing/Mapping Information System (IRMIS) links desktop personal computer cartographic applications to one or more handheld organizer, personal digital assistant (PDA) or "palmtop" devices. Such devices may be optionally equipped with, or connected to, portable Global Positioning System (GPS) or equivalent position sensing device. Desktop application facilitates user selection of areas, starts, stops, destinations, maps and/or point and/or route information. It optionally includes supplemental online information, preferably for transfer to the PDA or equivalent device. Users' options include route information, area, and route maps. Maps and related route information are configured with differential detail and levels of magnitude. Used in the field, in conjunction with GPS receiver, the PDA device is configured to display directions, text and map formats, the user's current position, heading, speed, elevation, and so forth. Audible signals identifying the next turn along the user's planned route are also provided. The user can pan across maps and zoom between two or more map scales, levels of detail, or magnitudes. The IRMIS also provides for "automatic zooming," e.g., to show greater detail or closer detail as the user approaches a destination, or to larger scale and lower resolution to show the user's overall planned route between points of interest. The IRMIS also enables the user to mark or record specific locations and/or log actual travel routes, using GPS position information. These annotated location marks and/or "breadcrumb" or GPS log data can be saved, uploaded, displayed, or otherwise processed on the user's desktop geographic information or cartographic system. The IRMIS application and data may be distributed online and/or in tangible media in limited and advanced manipulation formats.

The systems, methods and related software products which enable users to temporarily store and subsequently retrieve information are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of input devices, client computers (each having a user-specific personal finance application) and a web-site server with a database. The input devices, client computers and server are communicatively linked via a communication network so that a plurality of users can temporarily store and/or manipulate financial transaction information on the server from any of the input devices. Each user can also transmit financial profile information to the server. This information enables the server to replicate the unique profile characteristics for each of the finance applications. This, in turn, simplifies remote entry of information, subsequent download of that information and integration of such information into each user's personal finance application.

A system comprising templates for entering and displaying information/data, such as in a Web page or browser, or in the interface for software or an operating system is disclosed. The screen is divided into an array of grids filling the entire area of the template. At least one, and preferably a majority of the grids are dimensioned based on the proportions of traditional Japanese tatami mats. The grids guide design decisions made by the interface designer or graphics designer in carving up and organizing a page, creating an underlying structure and framework for laying out and displaying the information/data. A primary application of the template is in interface and website design, in which the template automatically divides the screen into frames, each frame being used to enter, edit and/or display information on the computer screen or Web page. The system optionally allows an end-user to reposition the grids within the template, reorganizing the information/data to suit specific needs. The system also has application to the control of the directional flow of language, wherein repositionable grids are oriented to facilitate vertical or horizontal flow of text positioned within said grids.

A method and architecture is described that discovers software application metadata and generates data access applications based on the discovered software application metadata. The discovered metadata along with handcrafted metadata goes through a discovery process and is converted into common, generic abstract metadata objects. The abstract metadata objects then go through an instantiation process to be translated into concrete metadata objects that represent the unique configuration, context and terminology of the source software application. The concrete metadata objects can be generated into numerous forms for the purposes of data access and information sharing. The system also has upgrade protection.

An electronic controller having at least one microprocessor controls the solenoid operated valve adding oxygen to the breathing loop of a closed circuit mixed gas rebreather with carbon dioxide scrubbing in maintenance of an oxygen set point in the rage of 0.13-0.50 without any need for monitoring or interpretation of signal data by the operator. The controller receives signals from at least one oxygen sensor located in the breathing loop and sends signals to an indicator: visual, aural, or tactile; during operation providing only intuitively understood normal functioning, limited time remaining, and bail out indications. Automatic diagnosis including oxygen sensor calibration, indication of actions required such as scrubber replacement, and confirmation of an action taken with signals from an action sensor are provided.

A method and a device for reordering data in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The method comprises: receiving correctly decoded transmission blocks and transmitting the blocks to a link control entity by a receiving-end MAC entity; decapsulating the transmission blocks and reordering and reassembling the resulting upper-layer PDUs by the receiving-end link control entity to obtain SDUs. The device includes: a first retransmitting unit which is adapted to transmit received transmission blocks to the second retransmitting unit; and a second retransmitting unit connected to the first retransmitting unit, which is adapted to receive and decapsulate the transmission blocks from the first retransmitting unit to obtain upper-layer PDUs, reorder and reassemble the PDUs to obtain SDUs, and transmit the SDUs to the upper layers. By reducing the number of data reorderings between protocol layers and simplifying data header information, the present invention reduces data transmission delay and data overhead.

The invention uses pair-wise relations such as dissimilarity, similarity or correlation to identify related items by translating the relations into a set of points in a geometric space, where each point in the set of points represents an item, and where the distance between any two points directly corresponds to the dissimilarity value of the two items represented by the two points. A family of graphs is computed from the Voronoï diagram for the set of points. This family of graphs may be used for a variety of applications, including recommendation systems. For some applications, clustering may be used to assist in visualizing and identifying relations among items. In the case of recommendation systems, graphs reflecting customer preferences are clustered to identify customers with similar tastes.

A safety relay system includes one or more additional input units each for sending safety input from a safety component, a master unit for receiving the safety input from the additional input unit and providing safety output to operate a safety relay based on the safety input, a safety information line for transferring safety information between the units, a non-safety information line for transferring non-safety information separate from the safety input, the non-safety information being information concerning an operation state of each safety component or each unit, and a non-safety information output section for outputting the non-safety information transferred on the non-safety information line.

Transmitting apparatus (10) for transmitting a transmission signal to a receiving apparatus (12) is described. The transmitting apparatus (10) comprises means (30, 32, 34) for transmitting to the receiving apparatus a plurality of transmission beams in accordance with a transmission beam pattern, at least one of the beams carrying the transmission signal, each beam being distinguishable from the or each other beam, means (38, 40) for receiving from the receiving apparatus a feedback signal based on measures of the quality of the transmission beams received at the receiving apparatus, and means (36) for adjusting the transmission beam pattern in dependence on the feedback signal. Corresponding receiving apparatus, and corresponding methods are also described.

A display apparatus having a first storage section for storing configuration information to perform network connection, and a display section, includes a communications section for performing communications via a network, a second storage section comprised of a non-volatile storage medium and is loadable into an information terminal apparatus connected to the display apparatus by network connection via the communications section for storing configuration information corresponding to the configuration information stored in the first storage section, and a control section for performing configuration so as to enable communications via the network by reading the configuration information from the first storage section, and for controlling to output to the display section information transmitted from the information terminal apparatus and received via the communications section.

A network and method of routing a call between communication networks includes a first step of establishing a reverse ENUM DNS server containing a table of NAPTR records that associate E.164 telephone numbers with identifiers. A next step includes routing a call from an originating PSTN system to a first gateway. A next step includes sending an ENUM query containing an E.164 telephone number to an ENUM DNS server, which returns an identifier associated with the E.164 telephone number. A next step includes routing the call to a second gateway. A next step includes launching a reverse ENUM query containing the identifier to the reverse ENUM DNS server, which looks up an E.164 telephone number associated with the identifier, and returns it to the second gateway. A next step includes routing the call from the second gateway to the returned E.164 telephone number in the terminating PSTN system

Methods and apparatus for providing automated call back requests are provided. In one method a signaling link in a telecommunications system is monitored for a transaction including a connection request containing a called address followed by a disconnection request within a first predetermined time period. Responsive to the transaction, the method determines if a trigger condition exists, and if so, communicates a call back request to a called party through a separate network.

System state indicator in particular for a vehicle dashboard, the system having a given use potential and comprising evaluation means such that, on the basis of measurements related to the conditions of use of the vehicle and/or the physical characteristics of the system and/or the vehicle and/or the vehicle environment conditions, the evaluation means calculate at a time t parameters characteristic of the state of the system, characterized in that the state indicator simultaneously displays at time t at least three different parameters characteristic of the state of the system and its range.

A method for monitoring and securing interprogram communications between a plurality of business applications in a network includes gathering, using a computing device, information regarding communications between the plurality of business applications, the gathering step including steps of reading information from a log file in which information regarding each communication into and out of the business application is recorded, reading information from internal files of the business application and recording information obtained from data messages entering and leaving the business application, simplifying the gathered information, the simplifying step including normalizing the information into a common format based on a shared parameter value; and merging the normalized information together, classifying the information based on desired parameters, the classifying step including steps of designating a classification of the information based on content of the communication and designating certain information as sensitive; and analyzing the classified information to provide a report on the information to be presented to a user via a user interface based on a user provided query, the analyzing step further including a step of generating the report based at least in part on the classification of the information designated in the classifying step.

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a memory configured to store a material texture assigned to a type of an application executed on the mobile terminal; a display unit configured to display screen information having the material texture assigned to the type of the application executed on the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to receive an input on the displayed screen information, and apply a visually changing textural effect to the displayed screen information that corresponds to the material texture assigned to the type of the application.

A network communication system sends identical information from a source node to a plurality of destination nodes by first sending the information from the source node to a predetermined relay node, then sending the information from the relay node to the destination nodes over predetermined communication paths. The predetermined communication paths connect the destination nodes to the relay node in a star topology. The star topology greatly simplifies the routing of the information, while automatically avoiding looped paths, and enables the identical information to arrive at all destination nodes in real time, substantially simultaneously.

Provided is a method and apparatus for providing information through a network. The method of providing information through a network includes: setting correspondence relations between first information, that is provided in a network site and a user wants to acquire through the network, and the appearance of an application; requesting a server for the first information and receiving a response; analyzing second information included in the response; and displaying the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, according to the correspondence relations without visiting the network site or activating another application.

The present invention provides a method and system to append information to an image file containing a stored graphical image. The appended information relates to the contents of the graphical image. In the process of the present invention, there is an initial graphical file containing a stored image. During the creation of the graphical file (such as a PowerPoint file or Freelance Graphics file), the user can insert images, other objects or text onto the file. Some of the objects can be hyperlinks (referred to as “Hotspots”) to other files or other system resources. The graphical software stores information related to every object on the graphical file. During the process of converting a graphical image to a graphical image file format such as a JPEG file, the present invention takes the information concerning ‘Hotspot’ or other objects on the file on the graphical file and generates an appendix to the created graphical image file containing this ‘Hotspots’ information. In this process, the method of the present invention first reads the original length of the JPEG file. The present invention then attaches the appendix containing the ‘Hotspots’ information to the JPEG file. By this the length of the JPEG file is modified to show the addition of the attached information.

A system, method, and computer program product may be provided for providing parking recommendations to a user. A system may include a memory configured to store computer program code instructions; and a processor configured to execute the computer program code instructions to determine relative positions between shared vehicles in vicinity of a parking location and cluster at least two shared vehicles into one or more mobility hubs based on a predefined criteria and the determined relative positions between the shared vehicles, rank the mobility hubs based on one or more hub rating parameters, and control an output interface to output parking recommendation data based on the ranking of the mobility hubs. The processor may be further configured to compute and render one or more intermodal navigation routes between the ranked mobility hubs and a destination of the user based on the parking recommendation data, on the output interface.

The present claim enables a breathing system to be assessed with a minimum of attention or experience regardless of type of breathing system. This is achieved by creating an electronic control system for the breathing system which converts all available parameters which affect the ongoing use of the breathing system and converting those parameters in a common basis of time remaining of practical use on the breathing system. The electronic system then combines the common parameters in time and combines as appropriate to produce a single time remaining parameter pertaining to the breathing machine operation. This approach is applied across rebreather and open circuit, land and water based systems such that an operator may use similar skills to interpret the output indications of different types of machines.