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The invention concerns a system for transmitting an electronic recommendation to members of a social network, the system having a user activity monitor (304) adapted to determine when a set of friends of a member in the social network accesses an item of media content or activity associated with at least one category and finds it of interest; a register arranged to store interest scores indicating an interest to the member of one or more items of media content or activities previously recommended to the member; and a recommendation manager (306) adapted to transmit an electronic recommendation relating to the item of media content or activity to the member based on the interest scores stored by the register relating to items of media content or activities of the at least one category previously recommended to the member by one or more of the set of friends.

A building automation system (BAS) architecture is disclosed. The BAS comprises, in one embodiment, an architecture comprising a communication network and having a dynamic extensibility capability and an automatic configuration capability; an engine communicatively coupled to the communication network; and at least one control device communicatively coupled to the communication network, the control device being known or unknown to the engine. The engine can be adapted to selectively implement the dynamic extensibility capability to establish communications with and to control both known and unknown control devices. The engine can be further adapted to selectively implement the automatic configuration capability to determine at least one characteristic of both known and unknown control devices. A method of adding a control device to a building automation system (BAS) by dynamically extending and automatically configuring an architecture of the BAS is also disclosed.

In embodiments, a one-to-one association is established between a client and a host in a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network or a wireless personal communication network. The client may be a display device. The host may be a cellular telephone. Active association corresponds to the host exclusively using a shared resource of the client. When the association is solid, requests from other hosts to establish an active association are denied. When the association is fragile, such requests are granted. In the case of a semi-solid association, a request from another host to establish an active association causes the client to generate a query to the host currently owning the active association. If the host currently owning the association grants a release, a new active association is established between the requesting host and the client. Otherwise, the request from the other host is denied.

A method for selecting a target list of customers for making cross sell offers to, for a financial product is provided. The method includes obtaining customer-level information related to one or more members from a historical database. The method then includes building one or more response models and one or more profit models for one or more subsets of members, using the customer-level information. Then, the method includes generating one or more response scores and one or more profit scores for one or more members from a target population, using the one or more response models and the one or more profit models. Finally, the method includes determining a target list of customers for making cross-sell offers to, based on the one or more response scores and the one or more profit scores using an optimization methodology.

A stack of a vertical fin and a planar semiconductor portion are formed on a buried insulator layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate. A hybrid field effect transistor (FET) is formed which incorporates a finFET located on the vertical fin and a planar FET located on the planar semiconductor portion. The planar FET enables a continuous spectrum of on-current. The surfaces of the vertical fin and the planar semiconductor portion may be set to coincide with crystallographic orientations. Further, different crystallographic orientations may be selected for the surfaces of the vertical fin and the surfaces of the planar semiconductor portion to tailor the characteristics of the hybrid FET.

A first gate stack comprising two stacked gate electrodes in a first device region, a second gate stack comprising a metal gate electrode in a second device region, and a third gate stack comprising a semiconductor gate electrode in a third device region are formed by forming and removing portions of a silicon-oxide based gate dielectric layer, a first doped semiconductor layer, an interfacial dielectric layer, a high-k gate dielectric layer, a metal gate layer, and an optional semiconductor material layer in various device regions. The first gate stack may be employed to form a flash memory, and the second and third gate stacks may be employed to form a pair of p-type and n-type field effect transistors.

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a dataset representing a plurality of users, a plurality of items, and a plurality of ratings given to items by users; clustering the plurality of users into a plurality of user-groups such that at least one user belongs to more than one user-group; clustering the plurality of items into a plurality of item-groups such that at least one item belongs to more than one item-group; inducing a model describing a probabilistic relationship between the plurality of users, items, ratings, user-groups, and item-groups, the induced model defined by a plurality of model parameters; and predicting a rating of a user for an item using the induced model.

An apparatus and method for integrating the delivery of data from a multiplicity of sources to a set of user electronic devices that present audio, video and digital information to the user is implemented. These devices may include conventional television displays, personal computers, and other conventional audio and video equipment. Information may be received from a multiplicity of sources which may include may include digital television via terrestrial or satellite broadcast, terrestrial analog radio, and digital data exchanged via a public network, such as the Internet. The mechanism of the present invention receives the multiplicity of data streams, processes them in accordance with each stream's formatting protocols (whether an analog stream, an MPEG Transport Stream, or TCP / IP stream, for example), including any conditional access protocols, and streams the processed data, in multiplexed transport stream to the user's presentation devices via a “fat” pipe, such as a FireWire™ bus. A thin client interface decodes the streamed data addressed to its corresponding presentation device.

A multirotor flying vehicle including at least one rotor support frame organized on a geometric grid, with a plurality of rotor assemblies coupled to the at least one rotor support frame. At least one power supply is coupled to and powers the rotor assemblies. A control system is coupled to the rotor assemblies and is configured to operate the vehicle.

The medication administration accuracy of a number of hospitals is compared and reports are produced. Data is received from each of the reporting hospitals including dosage error information and matching characteristics on which the hospitals can be compared. The received data is merged to provide a medication accuracy comparison database, and comparison groups are established based on a predetermined characteristic of each hospital. An accuracy rate is calculated for each hospital, and a report is produced comparing the medication administration accuracy of each reporting hospital with other hospitals in the associated comparison group.

A method and apparatus for estimating fiber dispersion in an optical communication system including transmitting an optical signal carrying a unique word along an optical communication path, receiving the optical signal carrying the unique word from the optical communication path, producing an electrical signal corresponding to the received unique word, and processing the electrical signal corresponding to the received unique word to produce an estimate of the fiber dispersion in the optical communication system.

A technique for optimizing the archiving and management of data stored as XML documents is capable of handling mixed data including highly structured data and unstructured data. The technique maps the structured data to a relational database while storing the unstructured data in its native XML format. The data is updated using a rules database that maps updating rules against attributes and classes of elements within the documents. A document checking / validation engine performs the updates based on rule verification.

An apparatus and method of integrating a wireless telephone and a multiple handset cordless telephone system is taught. A docking station is used which receives a wireless telephone and electrically interfaces with in, including power, audio and data interfaces. A controller manages the interface to a transceiver, and speakerphone. The transceiver operates in compliance with a multiple handset cordless telephone system to enable communications therebetween.

A system for collecting and storing performance data for an engine is provided. The system includes one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data signals representative of one or more engine data performance parameters. The system further includes a data sampling component, a data quantizing component, a data storage sampling rate component, a data encoding component and a data storage component. The data sampling component is configured to sample the sensor data signals at a data sampling rate. The data quantizing component is configured to generate quantized data samples corresponding to the sampled sensor data signals. The data storage sampling rate component is configured to determine a data storage sampling rate for the quantized data samples, based on an analysis of at least a subset of the quantized data samples. The data encoding component is configured to encode the quantized data samples according to the data storage sampling rate, and the data storage component is configured to store the encoded data samples from the encoding component.

Embodiments of the invention can provide systems, methods, and apparatus for operating a power converter. According to one embodiment, a system for operating a power converter can be provided. The system can include a direct current (DC) power source with an output electrically coupled to an input of the power converter. The system can also include a controller operable to modify the performance of the DC power source through the power converter. As part of this modification, the controller can determine whether a low voltage ride (LVRT) event exists in a load and can adjust the DC power source when a LVRT event occurs.

The present invention provides an apparatus for use in sitting on a vehicle and a method for use in manufacturing a seat. The apparatus can include a base, a back secured with the base and a seat pan secured with the base. The seat pan can further include a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is configured to pivot relative to the second portion, such that the first portion of the seat pan pivots allowing a distal end to pivot so that the distal end can be moved out of a relative alignment with the second portion. The seat pan can be movably secured with the base allowing the seat pan to move generally horizontally. The back can also be pivotably secured at with the base allowing a lower portion of the back proximate the seat pan to pivot.

In a processor, when a conditional branch instruction is encountered, a software prediction for the conditional branch is made as a function of the specific condition register field used to store the branch condition for the conditional branch instruction. If a specified condition register field is not used, the software prediction may be made dependent upon the specific address at which the branch instruction is located.

A retractable safety syringe may comprise a needle, needle holder, syringe body, and a plunger. A proximal portion of the body and a piston of the plunger may define a variable vacuum compartment. A through hole pneumatically connecting ambient air and the variable vacuum compartment may be formed through a thumb platform and rigid shaft of the plunger for allowing air to escape out of the variable vacuum compartment when a piston of the plunger is traversed toward the retracted position and allow air to be introduced into the variable vacuum compartment when the piston is traversed toward the engaged position. A retraction force may be created by the variable vacuum compartment by covering an entrance of the through hole and traversing the piston to the engaged position. At the engaged position, the piston may engage the needle holder and the retraction force may retract the piston, needle holder and needle into the syringe body to prevent accidental needle pricking and needle reuse.

An apparatus and method for authenticating users on a data processing system is implemented. The present invention provides for aggregating authenticated identities and related authorization information. A security context created in response to a first user logon is saved in response to a second logon. A composite or aggregate security context is created based on the identity passed in the second logon. Access may then be granted (or denied) based on the current, aggregated security context. Upon logout of the user based on the second identity, the aggregate security context is destroyed, and the security context reverts to the context previously saved.

Systems and methods for facilitating point of sale transactions. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method can be provided. The method can include collecting, by a mobile device at a merchant point of sale, merchant contextual information associated with a merchant station at a merchant location. The method can also include identifying payment information stored on the mobile device. Further, the method can also include providing the merchant contextual information and the payment information to a merchant device in order to complete a point of sale transaction.

Methods and systems for modeling turbine operation are disclosed. In one embodiment a method for modeling turbine operation may include: determining current performance parameters of a turbine; providing at least one external factor for current or future operation of the turbine; and modeling, by a predictive model, at least one operating characteristic of the turbine based at least in part on the current performance parameters of the turbine and the at least one external factor.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a power source equipment (PSE) network device operable to provide a network signal that may include both power and data. This PSE network device includes a network connector and an integrated circuit. The network connector physically couples the PSE network device to the network. The integrated circuit further includes a power feed circuit. This power feed circuit is operable to draw and balance a plurality of power signals from an isolated power supply. Then the power feed circuit may combine and pass the received data signals and power signal as a single network signal. A PSE controller electrically couples to the integrated circuit but is not necessarily part of the integrated circuit. The PSE controller is operable to govern the production and distribution of the power portion of the network signal.

An oral care implement (1) comprising: an electrode pair with an impedance formed therebetween when electrified; a frequency generator, electrically connected to the electrode pair, for applying a voltage with at least two different frequencies between the electrode pair; an impedance measurement unit, electrically coupled to the electrode pair, for measuring impedance values between the electrode pair at least at the different frequencies; and a contact determination unit, in communication with the impedance measurement unit, wherein the contact determination unit comprises a memory for storing a function, wherein the function correlates impedance values of a defined oral area at the different frequencies, and wherein the contact determination unit comprises a processor for processing the measured impedance values to the stored function so as to determine contact information of the electrode pair with the defined oral area.

Systems and methods for real-time collaborative computing and collective intelligence are disclosed. A collaborative application runs on a collaborative server connected to a plurality of computing devices. Collaborative sessions are run wherein a group of independent users, networked over the internet, collaboratively answer questions in real-time, thereby harnessing their collective intelligence. Methods for collaborative selection of a target point on an image displayed on the computing devices. Methods for collaborative zooming and panning of an image displayed on the computing devices.

A soldier platform system and method includes a soldier platform system in a vehicle. In an embodiment, the soldier platform system includes a seat assembly. The seat assembly includes a seat and straps. The soldier platform system also includes a restraint harness belt. The restraint harness belt is secured to the seat assembly. In addition, the soldier platform system includes mounting assemblies. The straps attach the seat to the mounting assemblies. The soldier platform system further includes a ratchet platform that has a platform upper assembly and a platform lower assembly.

A method for reconstructing image data acquired by a computed tomography system is provided. The method comprises selecting a portion of image data to be reconstructed and determining a corresponding portion of projection data. An adaptive filter is computed and applied to the portion of projection data to generate a portion of adaptively-filtered projection data. The adaptive filter is computed based upon desired quality properties of the portion of image data. Finally, the portion of image data is reconstructed based upon the portion of adaptively-filtered projection data. The step of selecting, computing and reconstructing is repeated for every pixel or group of pixels comprising the image data.

An optical fiber jumper cable includes a single tracing conductor for tracing the jumper cable through a fiber cross-connect facility such as a central office. An electrical locating tone is impressed on the conductor so that the conductor radiates an electromagnetic field along the length of the fiber jumper cable. A locating tone detector is used to trace the fiber jumper cable along its length by monitoring a presence-indicating signal emitted by the locating tone detector.

A virtual personalized animated product selection and customer information gathering method and system includes providing a product presentation to a user by retrieving personalization data for the user from a database, assembling display data that is configured to render a three-dimensional display area on a video display with the display area including images of one or more products that are selected based on the personalization data, sending the display data through a computer network for display on a client computer video display, receiving a communication from the client computer through the computer network with the communication resulting from interactions with the display area, and updating the personalization data for the particular user in the database based on the communication.

A nozzle for depositing fiber-reinforced polymer having a radiative chamber comprising an outer structure of a nozzle end; a cooling chamber coupled to the outer structure; and a filament guide tube extending into the cooling chamber.