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An online Gift Registry Service provides registration of information for a gift registrant and allows access to the registry by potential gift giver users. In addition, users can tag items of interest at participating Service Provider (SP) sites and the SP sites will register these items with the Gift Registry Service on the user's behalf. It further provides a streamlined checkout process for purchasing these gift items with the registered SP sites (e.g. World Wide Web sites) over a distributed public network. Users and Service Providers (SP) initially register with the Gift Registry Service and are provided additional functionality. For users, a reminder service is provided to notify individuals automatically upon the trigger of certain events, such as important dates or product sales from online merchants. In addition, there are various occasion planning services available such as distribution lists, discussion groups, and other related resources for multiple events including weddings, baby showers, etc. These other resources include sending out announcements, reserving halls, and contracting services of related businesses for the occasion. A distinct advantage of this system is that users can perform all the planning for the event online in the comfort of their home or office. Service Providers on the other hand, can register system notification messages to be triggered on pre-determined events. In addition, Service Providers can obtain marketing information to tailor their products and services.

The present invention provides an innovative technique for rapidly and accurately determining whether two audio samples match, as well as being immune to various kinds of transformations, such as playback speed variation. The relationship between the two audio samples is characterized by first matching certain fingerprint objects derived from the respective samples. A set (230) of fingerprint objects (231,232), each occurring at a particular location (242), is generated for each audio sample (210). Each location (242) is determined in dependence upon the content of the respective audio sample (210) and each fingerprint object (232) characterizes one or more local features (222) at or near the respective particular location (242). A relative value is next determined for each pair of matched fingerprint objects. A histogram of the relative values is then generated. If a statistically significant peak is found, the two audio samples can be characterized as substantially matching.

An integrated management system having at least one air conditioner group including a plurality of air conditioners, and a remote integrated management system connected to the at least one air conditioner group and configured to analyze operation state information related to the plurality of air conditioners in the at least one air conditioner group and to generate an alarm signal based on the analyzed operation state information.

A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in the display. Errors in the selection of certain selected components for the communications network are identified by their attributes or frequency characteristics as well as by their interconnection compatability for a particular design. The effects of changes in frequency on component performance are modeled and the results are displayed to the design engineer. A bill of materials is automatically checked for faults and generated for the design system and provided to the design engineer. For ease of design, the design engineer can cluster several different preferred components into component kits, and then select these component kits for use in the design or deployment process.

A step-design cannula and delivery system for chronic delivery of therapeutic substances into the brain using convention-enhanced delivery of therapeutic substances and which effectively prevents reflux in vivo and maximizes distribution in the brain.

A method and apparatus for designing or deploying a communications network is disclosed. A computerized model which represents a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed is provided. System components which may be used in the physical network as a part of the network having electrical characteristics or frequency specific information are identified. At least one component kit composed of at least two system components, wherein interconnectivity of the at least two system components without a fault is assured, is also identified. Using the computerized model, at least one performance characteristic for a part of the communications network is determined. At least one component kit in a part of the communications network together with a representation of a part of the physical environment is represented.

An efficient method and system is provided for computing lithographic images that takes into account vector effects such as lens birefringence, resist stack effects and tailored source polarizations, and may also include blur effects of the mask and the resist. These effects are included by forming a generalized bilinear kernel, which is independent of the mask transmission function, which can then be treated using a decomposition to allow rapid computation of an image that includes such non-scalar effects. Dominant eigenfunctions of the generalized bilinear kernel can be used to pre-compute convolutions with possible polygon sectors. A mask transmission function can then be decomposed into polygon sectors, and weighted pre-images may be formed from a coherent sum of the pre-computed convolutions for the appropriate mask polygon sectors. The image at a point may be formed from the incoherent sum of the weighted pre-images over all of the dominant eigenfunctions of the generalized bilinear kernel. The resulting image can then be used to perform model-based optical proximity correction (MBOPC).

A method and system is provided for computing lithographic images that may take into account non-scalar effects such as lens birefringence, resist stack effects, tailored source polarizations, and blur effects of the mask and the resist. A generalized bilinear kernel is formed, which is independent of the mask transmission function, and which may then be treated using a decomposition to allow rapid computation of an image that includes such non-scalar effects. Weighted pre-images may be formed from a coherent sum of pre-computed convolutions of the dominant eigenfunctions of the generalized bilinear kernel with the appropriate mask polygon sectors. The image at a point may be formed from the incoherent sum of the weighted pre-images over all of the dominant eigenfunctions of the generalized bilinear kernel. The resulting image can then be used to perform model-based optical proximity correction (MBOPC).

A system for, method of and computer program product captures performance-characteristic data from the execution of a program and models system performance based on that data. Performance-characterization data based on easily captured reuse distance metrics is targeted, defined as the total number of memory references between two accesses to the same piece of data. Methods for efficiently capturing this kind of metrics are described. These data can be refined into easily interpreted performance metrics, such as performance data related to caches with LRU replacement and random replacement strategies in combination with fully associative as well as limited associativity cache organizations. Methods for assessing cache utilization as well as parallel execution are covered.

A method and a system for extracting information from a natural language text corpus based on a natural language query are disclosed. In the method the natural language text corpus is analyzed with respect to surface structure of word tokens and surface syntactic roles of constituents, and the analyzed natural language text corpus is then indexed and stored. Furthermore a natural language query is analyzed with respect to surface structure of word tokens and surface syntactic roles of constituents. From the analyzed natural language query one or more surface variants are then created, where these surface variants are equivalent to the natural language query with respect to lexical meaning of word tokens and surface syntactic roles of constituents. The surface variants are then compared with the indexed and stored analyzed natural language text corpus, and each portion of text comprising a string of word tokens that matches the any one of the surface variants or the natural language query is extracted from the indexed and stored analyzed natural language text corpus.

The invention discloses a vibration and audio signal-based high-speed train track damage detecting method, belongs to the field of signal detection and processing as well as safety monitoring, and solves the problems of low detection speed and single detection method in the conventional train track damage detection. The method comprises the following steps: 1, acquiring vibration signals and audio signals of a train track through sensors arranged at train track detection points; 2, respectively extracting information characteristics included in the vibration signals and the audio signals; 3, respectively obtaining a nonlinear correlation curve of the vibration signals and a nonlinear correlation curve of the audio signals by using a nonlinear correlation analysis method; 4, respectively analyzing the information of the two nonlinear correlation curves obtained in the step 3 so as to respectively obtain minimum values of the two nonlinear correlation curves; and 5, carrying out data fusion on the two minimum values and corresponding information thereof so as to obtain a damage coefficient, and looking up a table to obtain the damage degree according to the coefficient. The method is suitable for detecting the damage on railway train tracks and monitoring the safety operation of trains.

The present invention pertains inter alia to a method for analysing a sample comprising biomolecules, which comprises the following steps:Aa) lysing the sample to provide a lysed sample and optionally clearing the lysed sample;b) contacting at least a portion of the lysed sample with a dry composition comprising reagents for performing the analytical method, thereby providing a reconstituted composition;c) performing an analytical method using the reconstituted composition;orBa) contacting the sample with a lysis solution thereby providing a lysis mixture;b) using the lysis mixture to reconstitute a dry composition comprising reagents for performing the analytical method, thereby providing a reconstituted composition;c) performing an analytical method using the reconstituted composition,wherein the reconstituted composition is optionally cleared and wherein subsequent to step b) at least one step is performed which supports the lysis of the sample.Furthermore, specifically adapted processing cartridges and systems are provided.

A novel compression method uses bitmaps to reduce the memory storage requirement of routing table information to about 3 MB. The data structure can be used for both route lookup and update. It does not require a separate data structure to be used for route update. A fast route lookup method is also disclosed. An efficient update method supports incremental route update. Through configuring a processor properly and developing a few customized instructions specifically for route lookup, the system can achieve more than 10 million lookups per second (MLPS) at 200 MHz. Using a configurable processor for route lookup / update provides more flexibility and extensibility which supports different data structures and lookup / update methods to meet application specific needs. The data structure and lookup method can be implemented in pure hardware in a pipelined fashion to achieve approximately 100 MLPS.

A method for quantitative hemoglobin determination in undiluted, unhemolyzed whole blood is provided which comprises: acquiring a sample of unaltered whole blood into a capillary cuvette, presenting the cuvette to a set-up for an absorption measurement, delaying absorption measurement for a determined period of time, performing a first absorption measurement at a first wavelength in the range 490-520 nm directly on the sample in the cuvette, further conducting a second absorption measurement at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength and at which the absorption is substantially smaller than at the first wavelength, and processing results of the first and second absorption measurements to determine the concentration of hemoglobin in the sample. A system for implementing the method also is provided.

A method and apparatus are provided for measuring a parameter such as capillary pressure in porous media such as rock samples. The method comprises mounting a sample in a centrifuge such that different portions of the sample are spaced at different distances from the centrifuge axis, rotating the sample about the axis, measuring a first parameter in the different portions of the sample, and determining the value of a second parameter related to the force to which each portion is subjected due to rotation of the sample. In one embodiment, the first parameter is relative saturation of the sample as measured by MRI techniques, and the second parameter is capillary pressure.

In an operating method for a display device in a vehicle, the display device includes a touch-sensitive surface. A first output is displayed in an area of the display device. A first movement and a second movement by an operator relative to the touch-sensitive surface are detected simultaneously. The area is divided automatically along a first direction into a first subarea and a second subarea, if the first movement and the second movement proceed substantially in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and away from each other. The first output is displayed in the first subarea and a second output is displayed in the second subarea.

Disclosed is a method for fast handover in a wireless security data communication environment. The fast handover method for a mobile node connected to a network via an access point to perform a data communication in a wireless communication environment according to the present invention includes: performing an authentication while communicating with an authentication server having registration information about the mobile node via an uncontrolled port of the access point so as to make the mobile node connected to the network; performing a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) registration for binding a Care-of-Address (CoA) to a home agent and a correspondent node (CN) via the access point in parallel with performing the authentication; and opening a control port of the access point and relaying data transceived at the mobile node using the CoA when the authentication and the registration being successfully completed. Accordingly, a fast handover of the mobile node can be supported.

Disclosed is a fast and automatic deployment method for a cluster system by using a ramdisk. A master node is provided for sending a kernel and a system image file after pre-booting at least one worker node in a cluster system via a network. The worker node claims segments of installed RAM to form a ramdisk and buffer the system image file, and after the kernel is executed to install the system image file, a register signal is sent to the master node to request a configuration profile, and related service setup and OS installation are completed by self-setting. Therefore, the fast reading property of the RAM expedites the effect of building and automatically deploying the entire cluster system to simplify the construction complexity and maintenance effort and operation costs.

A method of extracting the dominant colors from a set of target images and storing those colors in a database is described. A method of comparing colors stored in a database with a set of colors extracted from a query image. Also, a method of comparing colors stored in the database with a set of colors defined by a user using a color picker. The user defined colors may or may not include a wildcard color. The list of matching database images may or may no be filtered using metadata.

In order to clustering documents, document vectors are formed for each of a plurality of documents of a corpus and plurality of reference vectors is generated. The document vectors are then compared to the reference vectors to generate similarity values for each of the document vectors. The document vectors are then sorted based on the similarity values for the document vectors to form a sorted list. Clusters are then formed based on the similarity between adjacent document vectors in the sorted list.

A method for isolating, from a mixture, a virus having a surface protein with a binding site for sialic acid is provided. The method involves contacting the mixture with mucin which has been linked to a solid support and washing the solid support to remove material from the mixture is non-specifically bound to the mucin-linked support. Thereafter, the specifically bound virus (e.g., AAV4 or AAV5) may be removed in a further washing step utilizing a concentrated slat or solution with low pH. Also described are pharmaceutical kits containing solid supports linked to mucin for use in isolating virus having a surface protein with a binding site for sialic acid, or detecting the presence of the virus in a biological sample.

An investment chart based interactive trade simulation and game system is provided. The system uses a computer or other computing device, real historical data, and a computer program to dynamically recreate the investment charts of any moment back to any date in the history, as long as the historical data exists. It interacts with players to dynamically recreate the real market environment in the history, and allows them to make investment decisions as though the market were today's market. The system can simulate any market, such as stock, bond, currency, and commodity markets, and any investment vehicle, such as options and futures.

The invention provides methods and related products for extracting nucleic acids such as DNA from prokaryotic spores. The invention also encompasses methods for identifying the source of such spores via analysis of the isolated nucleic acids.

A method for the rapid analysis of the fatty acid components present in a fat and / or oil-containing material is provided wherein the levels and types of fatty acids present in a sample are determined using Fourier Transform Near Infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy. The FT-NIR technique is developed by preparing a calibration matrix based on FT-NIR and Gas Chromatography (GC) analysis of known standards, and subsequently using the calibration matrix to analyze the FT-NIR spectral data obtained from a sample to be tested.

This invention provides a joint user clustering and power allocation method and a base station using the same. They are applicable to cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. The method includes: sorting K user equipment devices (UEs) according to the K channel gains between the base station and the K UEs, and then establishing a strong user candidate group of K / 2 UEs and a weak user candidate group of K / 2 UEs; pairing each of the UEs in the strong user candidate group with each of the UEs in the weak user candidate group so as to divide the K UEs into K / 2 clusters, where the power allocation coefficients for each pair of UEs are also calculated during the paring process; and transmitting messages to the K UEs based on the calculated power allocation coefficients of the K / 2 clusters.

A method of fabricating a substrate includes forming a first conductive layer on a dielectric layer, forming a resist layer on the first conductive layer, and forming laser-ablated artifacts through the first resist layer, through the first conductive layer, and at least partially into the dielectric layer. A second conductive layer is formed within the laser-ablated artifacts. The laser-ablated artifacts are filled to form an overfilled circuit pattern. The resist layer and the first conductive layer are removed. Further, a portion of the overfilled circuit pattern is removed to form an embedded circuit pattern embedded within the dielectric layer.

Methods and kits for isolating RNA are provided that enable rapid RNA preparation from biological sources. In one aspect, RNA is isolated from difficult plant tissues and cells that contain high levels of secondary metabolites, without employing organic extraction or salt precipitation procedures. This method employs novel lysing and binding conditions to allow preparation of RNA free from secondary metabolites.