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A method for preparing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene comprising (a) providing a starting composition comprising at least one compound having a structure selected from Formulae I, II and III:CX2═CCl—CH2X  (Formula I)CX3—CCl═CH2  (Formula II)CX3—CHCl—CH2X  (Formula III)wherein X is independently selected from F, Cl, Br, and I, provided that at least one X is not fluorine;(b) contacting said starting composition with a first fluorinating agent to produce a first intermediate composition comprising 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene and a first chlorine-containing byproduct; (c) contacting said first intermediate composition with a second fluorinating agent to produce a second intermediate composition comprising 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane and a second chlorine-containing byproduct; and (d) catalytically dehydrochlorinating at least a portion of said 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane to produce a reaction product comprising 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoroprop-1-ene.

A sensor is used to detect movement of a mobile device. For example, data received from an accelerometer may be averaged together and compared to a threshold value. If the average of the data is greater than a threshold value, the mobile device may be assumed to be moving. This information may be used to control the frequency of data collection by, for example, a GPS receiver in order to maximize utility and minimize power use.

An apparatus, program product and method incorporate embedded alias information into a document for use in automatically generating aliases (e.g., bookmarks, favorites, shortcuts, etc.) in a computer environment. The embedded alias information may incorporate both an identification of a predetermined storage location and an alias description to be associated therewith, such that, during generation of an alias, both the location and the description for the alias are obtained from the embedded alias information. The embedded alias information may also incorporate a condition associated with a predetermined storage location, in addition to or in lieu of an identification of the actual predetermined storage location, such that, during generation of an alias, the condition may be tested so that the alias will be generated only upon the condition being met. The embedded alias information may also incorporate an executable program to further customize or enhance the generation of aliases.

A concentrating photovoltaic module is provided which provides a concentration in the range of about 500 to over 1,000 suns and a power range of a few kW to 50 kW. A plurality of such modules may be combined to form a power plant capable of generating over several hundred megaWatts. The concentrating photovoltaic module is based on a Photovoltaic Cavity Converter (PVCC) as an enabling technology for very high solar-to-electricity conversions. The use of a cavity containing a plurality of single junction solar cells of different energy bandgaps and simultaneous spectral splitting of the solar spectrum employs a lateral geometry in the spherical cavity (where the cell strings made of the single junction cells operate next to each other without mutual interference). The purpose of the cavity with a small aperture for the pre-focused solar radiation is to confine (trap) the photons so that they can be recycled effectively and used by the proper cells. Passive or active cooling mechanisms may be employed to cool the solar cells.

A network system and method include a wireless base station integrated at a central office of a service provider. The wireless base station is configured to provide portable and fixed services to customers. A passive optical network is coupled to the wireless base station at the central office to provide a link to extend an antenna for wireless operations of the wireless base station to a remote site such that a wireless signal from the wireless base station is transmitted in parallel with a passive fiber network signal through the link.

A system is described which allows buyers to define their preferences and sellers to define their capabilities, then determines which trading points maximize the utility of the buyer. The system suggests trades by exploiting the flexibilities and tradeoffs encoded by both parties, thus providing win-win trades. A second level of optimization ranks the trades with all suppliers, allowing the buyer to rapidly determine the best alternatives. The system allows for rich negotiation spaces and supports continuous, discrete, and range or interval decision factors.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly relates to a method for transmitting a small-sized control signal (also known as “small data”) using a control plane in a MTC (machine-type communication) service in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, MTC data is encapsulated in an existing control procedure or control message or the like, on a control signal, without performing packet data bearer setup, and the control signal having the encapsulated MTC data is sent between a network and a terminal, thereby optimizing network resource efficiency and reducing the wireless channel load.

A diesel engine exhaust treatment system and method is provided which utilizes a diesel particulate filter positioned in the exhaust gas stream of a vehicle which includes an SCR catalyst, an ammonia oxidation catalyst, and / or a diesel oxidation catalyst. The system is capable of performing multiple functions including converting NOx to N2, converting HC and CO to H2O and CO2, trapping particulates, and minimizing ammonia emissions. The system is more compact and efficient than prior systems utilizing separate catalyst units, and minimizes backpressure while maximizing catalyst performance.

A file system that balances the loading of filers and the capacity of drives that are associated with the filers is described. The file system includes a first disk drive that includes a first unused capacity and a second disk drive that includes a second unused capacity, wherein the second unused capacity is smaller than the first unused capacity. The file system further includes a first filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the first disk drive. The file system further includes a second filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the second disk drive. The second filer is configured to select an infrequently accessed file from the second disk drive and to push the infrequently accessed files to the first disk drive, thereby improving a balance of unused capacity between the first and second disk drives without substantially affecting a loading for each of the first and second filers.

A concentrating photovoltaic module is provided which provides a concentration in the range of about 500 to over 1,000 suns and a power range of a few kW to 50 kW. A plurality of such modules may be combined to form a power plant capable of generating over several hundred megawatts. The concentrating photovoltaic module is based on a Photovoltaic Cavity Converter (PVCC) as an enabling technology for very high solar-to-electricity conversions. The use of a cavity containing a plurality of single junction solar cells of different energy bandgaps and simultaneous spectral splitting of the solar spectrum employs a lateral geometry in the spherical cavity (where the cell strings made of the single junction cells operate next to each other without mutual interference). The purpose of the cavity with a small aperture for the pre-focused solar radiation is to confine (trap) the photons so that they can be recycled effectively and used by the proper cells. Passive or active cooling mechanisms may be employed to cool the solar cells.

A system and method for identifying and establishing preferred modalities or channels for communications based on participants' preferences and capabilities is provided. In one approach, the system attempts to optimize the inferred or directly accessed preferences of a contactee given the accessed or inferred preferences, capabilities and goals of the contactor while keeping the rationale and context of the contactee private. Such optimization can be achieved using preferences and policies concerning handling the attempted contact based on a deterministic specification or through inferring context, content and task under uncertainty by employing decision-theoretic inferences to attempt to maximize the expected utility of the communication to the contactee. The methods may include a consideration of metadata within a standard schema that is transmitted along with a communication attempt, representing information about such attributes as the identity of the contactor, the task at hand, the overall context of the contactor, and the communication capabilities available to the contactor. The invocation of the communication service may be performed in a variety of ways, including single button invocations, and via a communication service that is more deeply integrated with other applications and functionalities. The service can also include automated rescheduling of communications based on a consideration of forecasts of availability of both the contactor and contactee.

The disclosed invention is a software license management system (SLMS) utilizing a web-based interactive database to automate a software management process (SWMP) for managing software assets, measuring compliance requirements, and tracking / reporting status as necessary to assure proficiency and adherence to implementation requirements of the software management process. The SWMP is a process consisting of five different phases. The five steps of the SWMP involve identification of various solution alternatives, acquisition, deployment, maintenance and software retirement. The SWMP establishes high-level software management process to avoid litigation and penalties, maximize software asset utilization through tighter inventory control, and capitalize on the software procurement process.

A method and system for detecting a wireless network includes receiving at a mobile device a signal having data indicative of a location of the mobile device. A determination is made whether the mobile device is within the coverage area of a specified network based on the data. The mobile device scans for the specified network in response to at least determining that it is within the coverage area of the specified network.

The invention relates to the technical field of calculation acceleration and discloses a calculation engine and electronic equipment to increase the utilization rate of data, reduce bandwidth requirement and improve calculation performance. The calculation engine comprises a cache management module, a matching and distributing module and at least L calculation modules, wherein the cache management module is used for reading L element values in an M-dimensional input vector and conducting caching, reading L-dimensional row vectors in submatrixes corresponding to the L element values in an M*N parameter matrix in sequence and transmitting the L-dimensional row vectors to the matching and distributing module, and the matching and distributing module is used for taking out a corresponding element value from the cache management module every time an L-dimensional row vector is received, matching the element value taken out with values in the L-dimensional row vectors, and sending matching results to the corresponding calculation modules in the at least L calculation modules; any one calculation module is used for calculating the matching results.

A system and method for identifying and establishing preferred modalities or channels for communications based on participants' preferences and capabilities is provided. In one approach, the system attempts to optimize the inferred or directly accessed preferences of a contactee given the accessed or inferred preferences, capabilities and goals of the contactor while keeping the rationale and context of the contactee private. Such optimization can be achieved using preferences and policies concerning handling the attempted contact based on a deterministic specification or through inferring context, content and task under uncertainty by employing decision-theoretic inferences to attempt to maximize the expected utility of the communication to the contactee. The methods may include a consideration of metadata within a standard schema that is transmitted along with a communication attempt, representing information about such attributes as the identity of the contactor, the task at hand, the overall context of the contactor, and the communication capabilities available to the contactor. The invocation of the communication service may be performed in a variety of ways, including single button invocations, and via a communication service that is more deeply integrated with other applications and functionalities. The service can also include automated rescheduling of communications based on a consideration of forecasts of availability of both the contactor and contactee.

A sliding / swing-type portable digital communication apparatus is disclosed. A first housing extends in a longitudinal direction and includes a camera lens housing mounted on its bottom surface and at least one speaker unit positioned adjacent to the camera lens housing. A second housing is adapted to slide / swing while continuously facing a top surface of the first housing and is disposed parallel to the first housing along the longitudinal direction. A cover is coupled to a portion of the bottom surface of the first housing and is adapted to slide along the longitudinal direction. An opening is formed on the cover to selectively expose or hide the camera lens housing or the first speaker units according to whether or not the cover has been slid.

A system for optimizing the value of communications between communicating parties is provided. The system includes a communication group manager that facilitates specifying policies, preferences and / or automated analysis of ideal communication channels, routing and / or scheduling in terms of communicating party groups that can be pre-populated clusters of communicating parties, assembled based on relationships (e.g., organizational), and / or assembled based on satisfying inclusion criteria (e.g., age, location, competence, communication history, meeting history). The communication group manager maps communicating parties into predefined and / or dynamically created groups that facilitate specifying and / or automatically computing ideal communication actions like selecting a channel, displaying lists of potential channels sorted by communicating party preferences, and (re)scheduling communications to different channels and / or times. Ideal communication actions can be identified by maximizing a measure of expected communication utility, where groups provide simplifying abstractions to facilitate assessment of outcome utilities. The method can employ representations of preferences of the contactor and contactee that allow for group-specific preference considerations that weight differentially contactor and / or contactee preference considerations in communication action optimization. The system includes a group wise communication coordinator that identifies optimal group communication sets. The method facilitates a recipient communicating with a group member where the communication utility is optimized based on a preference, and a context associated with the group to which the member belongs.

A D / A converter range calibration system in an A / D converter structure including a set of comparators with associated calibrating D / A converters includes means (RCC) for determining the offset error range for the entire set of comparators and means (R-DAC) for adjusting the dynamic range of each calibrating D / A converter to this offset error range.

A system and method for integrating air and ground transportation of passengers and cargo. The system comprises a plurality of universal passenger containers. The system further comprises a plurality of universal cargo containers. An airplane is provided with a hollow fuselage adapted to be loaded with a plurality of passenger and / or cargo containers. A flatbed trailer can be provided to carry a passenger or a cargo container. A tractor vehicle can be provided to transport flatbed trailers between airplanes, locations within the airport, and points of origin and destination outside the airport complex. A system can be provided to load and unload passenger and cargo containers into and out of airplanes at the airport. A system is provided comprised of an airport complex including take-off and landing runways, taxiways, airplane staging areas, apparatus for detection of weapons in passenger and cargo containers, and air terminals with arrival and departure gates and baggage handling conveyors. A system is also provided comprised of remote air terminals at strategic locations a distance from the airport complex.

An image display apparatus and method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes connecting an image display apparatus to a mobile terminal; displaying, on a screen of the image display apparatus, an indication that the image display apparatus is connected to the mobile terminal; displaying, on the screen, a request to a user whether or not an image from the mobile terminal is to be displayed on the screen; and displaying, on the screen, the image from the mobile terminal, according to a response to the request.

The invention is directed to core / shell type catalyst particles comprising a Mcore / Mshell structure with Mcore=inner particle core and Mshell=outer particle shell, wherein the medium diameter of the catalyst particle (dcore+shell) is in the range of 20 to 100 nm, 5 preferably in the range of 20 to 50 nm. The thickness of the outer shell (tshell) is about 5 to 20% of the diamet the inner particle core of said catalyst particle, preferably comprising at least 3 atomic layers. The inner particle core (Mcore) of the particles comprises metal or ceramic materials, whereas the material of the outer shell (Mshell) comprises precious metals and / or alloys thereof. The core / shell type catalyst particles are preferably supported on suitable support materials such as carbon black and can be used as electrocatalysts for fuel cells and for other catalytic applications.

Methods and system for managing demand for an object includes capturing information about the object through a mobile device associated with a user. The mobile device is configured to capture information about the object that include one or more of a spatial, temporal, topical and social attributes of the object. The identity of the object is verified and validated using this metadata captured by the user through the device from the real world object or its proxy. Upon successful verification and validation, the object and its metadata are automatically added to a wish list of the user. An aggregate list is generated using the attributes and metadata of the object from a plurality of users. The aggregate list defines a source of demand for the object. The object is tracked as it progresses through various phases of ownership cycle using dynamic demand calculations based on the information associated with the objects, the users and the aggregate lists.

The invention discloses a network slice manager and a management method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The manager comprises a creation module, an expansion module, a deletion module, a user request table, a network slice parameter table, a network slice state table and a plurality of external interfaces, wherein the creation module is respectively connected with the user request table and the network slice parameter table; both the expansion module and the deletion module are respectively connected with the network slice parameter table and the network slice state table; the creation module is connected with a core network, an access network, a physical resource pool and a user by the external interfaces; the expansion module is connected with an existing network slice and the physical resource pool by the external interfaces; and the deletion module is connected with the existing network slice by the external interface. The management method of the manager comprises three parts of creation, expansion and deletion of the network slice. According to the network slice manager and the management method thereof, which are disclosed by the invention, the network slice which meets requirements can be created according to user demands, and a utilization rate of the network slice is effectively maximized, so that a utilization rate of network resources is improved.

A method for evaluating statistical congruence of an existing or putative portfolio with a target portfolio, both the current portfolio and the target portfolio having a plurality of assets. A mean-variance efficient portfolio is computed for a plurality of simulations of input data statistically consistent with an expected return and expected standard deviation of return, and each such portfolio is associated, by means of an index, with a specified portfolio on the mean variance efficient frontier. The number of simulations and the number of simulations periods is specified on the basis of a specified information correlation value. A statistical mean of the index-associated mean-variance efficient portfolios is used for evaluating a portfolio, in accordance with a specified balancing test, for statistical consistency with a specified risk objective and, additionally, for defining investment-relevant allocation ranges of portfolio weights.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a passive optical network system and a downlink transmission method thereof. The passive optical network system comprises an optical line terminal, an optical distribution network and a plurality of optical network units. The optical line terminal is used to send a downlink multi-wavelength optical signal composed of a plurality of downlink optical signal wavelength division multiplexing having different wavelengths, and the optical distribution network comprises a first-stage optical splitter, a plurality of second-stage optical splitters and a plurality of filter modules. The first-stage optical splitter is used to divide a downlink multi-wavelength signal sent by the optical line terminal into a plurality of downlink multi-wavelength signals, the plurality of filter modules are used to carry out filter processing on the plurality of downlink multi-wavelength signals to obtain a downlink single wavelength optical signal of which the wavelength corresponds to a channel central wavelength; wherein, the channel central wavelengths of the plurality of filter modules respectively correspond to the plurality of downlink optical signals having different wavelengths, the second-stage optical splitters are used to carry out spectral processing on the downlink single wavelength signal and then provide the downlink single wavelength signal to the optical network unit.

A dataflow instruction set architecture and execution model, referred to as WaveScalar, which is designed for scalable, low-complexity / high-performance processors, while efficiently providing traditional memory semantics through a mechanism called wave-ordered memory. Wave-ordered memory enables “real-world” programs, written in any language, to be run on the WaveScalar architecture, as well as any out-of-order execution unit. Because it is software-controlled, wave-ordered memory can be disabled to obtain greater parallelism. Wavescalar also includes a software-controlled tag management system.