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A method and system for distributing electronic coupons offered by businesses via the wireless devices operated by potential customers in a region. The invention includes a wireless communication device and a central server capable of communicating via a wireless communication network The central server is connected to a search engine, a business database containing the names and locations of businesses located in the region offering discounted coupons for goods and services to its potential customers. Connected to the central server is a discount coupon database and a map database that contains coupon information, a graphic file of the coupon, and the businesses location information. When the potential customer desires a discount coupon for a particular service or goods in the region, the potential customer contacts the central server, which instructs the search engine to conduct a search based on the criteria submitted by the potential customer. The search engine produces a list of businesses currently offering discount coupons that is then transmitted to the potential customer.

A system that builds a network using a document collection wherein the documents are collected and represented as a plurality of nodes in a network matrix. The documents that are to be analyzed are bound to the network (corpus) at a discrete node corresponding to the document. The documents are then analyzed to determine term frequency within each document and the overall term frequency of the same term throughout the entire document grouping. This creates a weighting value that determines the relevancy of each document as compared to the entire network of documents. Finally, weighting values are normalized with relative weighting values so that the sum of the weights of all edges connected to a given node equals 1. User queries then proceed through the network from node to node using the algorithm of the present invention to locate documents relevant to the search.

A characteristic mass spectral fingerprint setting method and a rapid identification method for Chinese herbal medicines or prescriptions are provided, which comprise directly injecting extracts of Chinese herbal medicines or prescriptions into a mass spectrometer with an electrospray ionization interface via an autosampler of a liquid chromatograph without going through a separation column to make a mass spectrum analysis; performing a series of mass spectrum analyses for various Chinese herbal medicines or prescription extracts; picking out the mass spectrum peaks representing the features of each of the Chinese herbal medicines or prescriptions as respective characteristic mass spectral fingerprints to establish a characteristic mass spectral fingerprint database of the Chinese herbal medicine or prescription; directly injecting an extract of the Chinese herbal medicines or prescription to be tested into a mass spectrometer with an electrospray ionization interface to make a mass spectrum analysis; and comparing and analyzing the obtained mass spectrum data with the characteristic mass spectral fingerprint database so as to rapidly identify the Chinese herbal medicine or prescription to be tested.

The invention describes a method of performing automatic commissioning of a network (N) comprising a plurality of network devices (10, 11, 12, 13), wherein each device (10, 11, 12, 13) is characterised by a device identifier (14) and wherein the devices (10, 11, 12, 13) are realised to exchange data packets (2), which method comprises the steps of obtaining a computer-readable installation plan (3) for the network (N), which installation plan (3) comprises a physical location descriptor (31) for devices (10, 11, 12, 13) of the network (N); deducing the network topology (T) of the network (N) from network descriptive information (40, 41, 42, 43) provided by the devices (10, 11, 12, 13) on the basis of data packets (2) exchanged between the devices (10, 11, 12, 13); and comparing the deduced network topology (T) to the installation plan (3) to allocate a physical location descriptor (31) to a device identifier (11). The invention further describes a commissioning system (1) for automatically commissioning a network (N) comprising a plurality of network devices (10, 11, 12, 13), wherein each device (10, 11, 12, 13) is characterised by a device identifier (14) and wherein each device (10, 11, 12, 13) is realised to transmit and receive data packets (2), which commissioning system (5) comprises a source (50) of a computer-readable installation plan (3) for the network (N), which installation plan (3) comprises a physical location descriptor (31) for each device (10, 11, 12, 13) of the network (N); a device control interface (55) realised to collect network descriptive information (40, 41, 42, 43) provided by the devices (10, 11, 12, 13); a topology discovery unit (53) realised to derive the network topology (T) of the network (N) from the provided network descriptive information (40, 41, 42, 43); and a commissioning unit (54) realised to compare the derived network topology (T) to the installation plan (3) to allocate a physical location descriptor (31) to a device identifier (14).

The present invention reveals a sorting system for use in manual sorting, which presents a detached ephemeral display moving in a manner corresponding to the movement of the article, by which an article to be sorted can be quickly and easily identified. To accomplish its purpose, the device comprises: feed conveyors; a switching unit; optical readers positioned to capture destination indicia affixed to each article; a detached moving display which remains close to the article to be sorted and presents information representative of the article's destination location; a destination location which signals when a related article is approaching; and a controller capable of assigning destination locations and controlling display devices.

A system for consolidating multiple discrete machines and applications into a single rack mounted server system. Dedicated application servers maintain the discrete machines as virtual machines accessible by thin clients through secure hardwire or wireless connections and through client management servers. The system polls the application servers to compile lists of available and active applications. The list of available applications is displayed to users via an application navigation graphical user interface. The graphical user interface presents a menu from which users can point and click to select the application they wish to access.

In some embodiments of the invention, an access device can be provided. Advantageously, the access device can enhance the detection of the device's access into a desired body space. For example, the access device may have portions with enhanced visibility to a naked human eye, or an imaging device such as a medical imaging device. Where an imaging device is used, the imaging device can image the access device in a space that usually would not be visible to an operator, such as within a medical patient's body. Where the access device is directly viewed by a human eye, the access device can provide some form of feedback that allows an operator to more quickly discern if the access device has entered a desired space. For example, if the access device is to enter a blood-filled body space, the access device can allow blood to flow up and into the device, and the device can make the blood's presence more immediately apparent. One method of making the blood's (or another fluid) presence more immediately apparent is using a portion with contrasting optical properties.

According to an embodiment of the present invention jamming energy is allocated to a plurality of emitters based on a three-dimensional (3-D) emitter geolocation technique that determines the geolocation of radio frequency (RF) emitters based on energy or received signal strength (RSS) and / or time differences of arrival (TDOAs) of transmitted signals. The three-dimensional (3-D) emitter geolocations are used to rank emitters of interest according to distance and available radio frequency (RF) jamming energy is allocated to the emitters in rank order. The techniques may be employed with small unmanned air vehicles (UAV), and obtains efficient use of jamming energy when applied to radio frequency (RF) emitters of interest.

The invention discloses a method for quickly identifying and distinguishing the variety of corn, which belongs to the technical field of the detection of agricultural products. The method identifies the variety of the corn by an image processing technology quickly. Seed image information is obtained by a scanner, corn seeds are identified by a corn variety identification system on a computer, original image information is read, the image information of each pixel in each corn is stored as a 24-bit bmp format file, and the variety of the corn is distinguished by a trained neural network classifier after image processing and feature extraction are completed. The variety distinguishing rate of the model to an unknown sample is greater than 90%, which shows that a condition that the variety of the corn seeds is distinguished by image feature information is feasible. The invention has the characteristics of high automatization degree and quick, simple and convenient operation.

Apparatus and methods for use by a customer for trading assets, such as foreign exchange instruments, using a variety of trading protocols on an interconnected computer network, such as the Internet. The invention generates and displays easy-to-use, context-sensitive and meaningfully organized panels or windows containing visibly distinctive, user-activatible selectors and input controls the customer can manipulate to select and execute trades against the best available quotes as they are supplied by multiple providers. In a single-bank execution mode, the invention automatically determines the best quotes received from a multiplicity of providers and helps the customer submit a single-bank order to one of those providers. In a multi-bank execution mode, the invention automatically identifies and helps customers submit a best multi-bank order, which may comprise a combination single-bank orders split up among multiple providers who have each submitted quotes having insufficient sizes. The user also may specify other trading terms, such as trading accounts and order sizes, for the assets to be traded.

A traceable patch cable (3) used to transmit signals from one receptacle (10) to another comprises a cable (32) and two connectors (31, 33) attached to opposite ends of the cable. The cable comprises at least one electrical wire (35) for transmitting signals and an optical fiber (36). The connectors each terminate an end of the electrical wire so that the electrical wire can be electrically connected to terminals in receptacles. Each connector forms an illuminating member (334) thereon with a passage (335) being defined in the illuminating member. Ends of the optical fiber are respectively terminated in the connectors under the illuminating members. Using a light beam shining through the passage at a first end of the cable, the light beam travels through the optical fiber to illuminates the illuminating member at a second end of the cable, thus making it easy to identify from among many cables.

The present invention provides a per-flow dynamic buffer management scheme for a data communications device. With per-flow dynamic buffer limiting, the header information for each packet is mapped into an entry in a flow table, with a separate flow table provided for each output queue. Each flow table entry maintains a buffer count for the packets currently in the queue for each flow. On each packet enqueuing action, a dynamic buffer limit is computed for the flow and compared against the buffer count already used by the flow to make a mark, drop, or enqueue decision. A packet in a flow is dropped or marked if the buffer count is above the limit. Otherwise, the packet is enqueued and the buffer count incremented by the amount used by the newly-enqueued packet. The scheme operates independently of packet data rate and flow behavior, providing means for rapidly discriminating well-behaved flows from non-well-behaved flows in order to manage buffer allocation accordingly. Additionally, the present invention adapts to changing flow requirements by fairly sharing buffer resources among both well-behaved and non-well-behaved flows.

The present invention provides a mail status notification system including a software application, at least one item of mail, a colour-coded identification means and at least one functional feature whereby the mail status notification system provides a means of enabling a user to quickly and easily identify the status of said mail including whether it has been sent, received, read or the like.

Provided is a method for rapid, 3D, dynamic, projection reconstruction bilateral breast imaging using simultaneous multi-slab volume excitation and radial acquisition of a contrast enhanced bilateral image, in conjunction with SENSE processing, using k-Space Weighted Image Contrast (“KWIC”) filtering and multi-coil arrays for signal separation in an interleaved bilateral MR bilateral breast scan that uses conventional Cartesian sampling without parallel imaging. Software was developed for the reconstruction, modeling contrast kinetics using a heuristic model, display by parametric mapping and viewer / analysis of the multidimensional, high frame-rate bilateral breast images.

An electrical pressure washer includes a diagnostic circuit for detecting operation conditions that may affect the normal operation of the pressure washer, and a plurality of indicators indicating the detected operation conditions, such as ground fault, low pressure, overheating, etc. A voltage drop across the power cord of the pressure washer is monitored and used to identify several of the operating conditions. A way of connecting and controlling light-emitting diodes used as indicator lights is provided to allow energy-efficient operation of the indicator lights.

The invention relates to an improved paging procedure for mobile nodes in a mobile communication system. A UE in idle mode is paged by a network entity via a selectable frequency subband of the system bandwidth. For every resource block, comprising part of the paging message or a diversity repetition thereof, a respective frequency subband is selected based on various parameters. These parameters may include: load in the subbands, UE capability in the tracking area and / or importance of paging information within the resource block. Furthermore, additional parity bits may be transmitted instead of the diversity repetition of the paging message, wherein the resource blocks, comprising the additional parity bits, are also transmitted via selectable frequency subbands. Thereby, the delay for changing from the idle to the active state of a mobile node may be reduced by increasing reliability of paging message transmission and resources may be utilized more efficiently.

Contemplated systems and methods allow for computational genomic analysis using paired-end sequence analysis and split read refinement to thereby identify high-confidence breakpoints associated with high copy numbers and orientation of rearrangements, which is then the basis for full reconstruction of double minutes (DM). In especially preferred aspects, the DM will also include an oncogene or tumor suppressor gene, and / or may be found in blood or blood derived fluids.

A foldable carrying medical pack made of flexible material, adapted to store medical emergency supplies and equipment. Clear storage pouches which contain the medical supplies and equipment are attached by Velcro, for easy removal, to the interior side of the medical pack. This arrangement allows for immediate visible access to every item stored in each pouch / compartment. Each pouch has a clear sewn-in compartment in the front of same, to insert labels therein providing a list of the contents. The label is inserted in the compartment to allow the contents of the pouch to be easily determined. The removable pouches can be replaced with additional pouches that contain medical supplies or equipment oriented toward a variety of different medical emergencies.

Briefly, an intelligent label is associated with a good, and includes one or more permanent and irreversible electrochromic indicators that are used to report the condition of that good at selected points in the movement or usage of that good. These electrochromic indicators provide immediate visual information regarding the status of the good without need to interrogate or communicate with the electronics or processor on the intelligent label. In this way, anyone in the shipping or use chain for the good, including the end user consumer, can quickly understand whether the product is meeting shipping and quality standards. If a product fails to meet shipping or quality standards, the particular point where the product failed can be quickly and easily identified, and information can be used to assure the consumer remains safe, while providing essential information for improving the shipping process. It will be understood that the label may take many forms, such as a tag attached to the good, integrated into the packaging for the good, integrated into the good itself, or may even be an information area on a prepaid card for example. The label may also include, for example, print information regarding the good, usage or shipping rules, or address and coded information.

The invention discloses an intelligent parking lot management method, and belongs to the technical field of parking lot management. The intelligent parking lot management method is characterized by comprising the following steps: dividing the physical space of a parking lot into a plurality of parking areas, and sequentially performing serial numbering on all the parking areas with Arabic numerals, and arranging a parking spot display screen; driving cars to enter the parking areas by drivers according to the green ray prompt of the parking spot display screen and a direction guide display screen, inputting license numbers on a reverse car searching terminal, performing information matching by a management server, feeding pictures of cars and the information of the parking areas where the cars are placed back to the reverse car searching terminal after the matching is completed, and generating the indicating diagrams of the routes from departure points to the packing areas. According to the invention, the systematic framework is greatly simplified, the system construction cost is reduced, the system stability is improved, the rapid parking and reverse car searching are realized, and the method has the characteristics of being high in reverse car searching accuracy, and rapid and convenient in parking.

An access node of a communication system comprises a plurality of transmitters adapted for communication with at least one receiver. The access node is operative to simultaneously estimate channel coefficients between multiple ones of the transmitters and the receiver, and to utilize the estimated channel coefficients to control at least one data signal sent by at least one of the multiple transmitters to the receiver. In the process of simultaneously estimating the channel coefficients, the access node transmits a plurality of distinct probing signals generated based on respective ones of a plurality of different frequency expansions. For example, each of the distinct probing signals may be generated based on a distinct combination of a common probing sequence and a selected one of the plurality of different frequency expansions.

The invention provides a switch reluctance motor double master switch power converter master switch fault diagnosis method. A current sensor LEM1 is arranged on the master switch current circuit (DC)busand and is used for testing the total current of the main switch on the DC bus, a current sensor LEM2 is arranged on the free-wheeling diode DC bus and is used for testing the total current feedback by the free-wheeling diode on the DC bus, the wires of the two current sensors are connected with a receiver to obtain the total current signal of the master switch and the total current signal fedback by the free-wheeling diode. The invention can be used for judging that short trouble occurs to both the upper master switch tube and the lower master switch tube and open fault occurs to both theupper main switch tube and the lower main switch tube, and can be used for carrying out fault location, thus having convenient fault-tolerant control, and wide application prospects.

To enable easy and quick identification of the location of a fault in a virtualized environment, a physical server 20 is communicatively connected with a management server 10 accumulating and storing a first event history of a history of events having occurred in the virtual server 212 and a second event history of a history of events having occurred in the physical server 20. On receiving an event relating to a fault of a business process 2122 operating in the virtual server 212, the management server 10 searches the event histories as accumulated and stored for the second event history on the virtual server 212 having transmitted the same event and the first event history obtained from the table as stored on the physical server 20 implementing the virtual server 212 having transmitted the event, and identifies a cause of the fault based on a result of the search.

The invention relates to a fault diagnosis method for a power converter of a switch reluctance motor; current spectrum of the power converter phase of the switch reluctance motor is tested and used asfault characteristic quantity; and the proportion coefficient Lambada of relative spectrums ratio of the phase current is defined as the ratio of the amplitude of fundamental component of the phase current and the amplitude of direct current component of the phase current. If the coefficient of the relative spectrum ratio of all phase current is basically constant, the power converter does not occur fault; if the amplitudes of the direct current component and the fundamental component of a certain phase current are near to zero respectively, the phase occurs open fault; and compared with thecoefficient of the relative spectrum ratio of the phase current without fault, if the coefficient of the relative spectrum ratio of a certain phase current occurs obvious change, the phase occurs short fault. The method not only can be used for fault detection, discrimination for types of faults and positioning of fault phases when one phase of the power converter of the switch reluctance motor occurs fault, but also can be used for fault detection, discrimination for types of faults and positioning of fault phases when two or more than two phases of the power converter of the switch reluctance motor occur fault.

Briefly, an intelligent label is associated with a good, and includes one or more permanent and irreversible electrochromic indicators that are used to report the condition of that good at selected points in the movement or usage of that good. These electrochromic indicators provide immediate visual information regarding the status of the good without need to interrogate or communicate with the electronics or processor on the intelligent label. In this way, anyone in the shipping or use chain for the good, including the end user consumer, can quickly understand whether the product is meeting shipping and quality standards. If a product fails to meet shipping or quality standards, the particular point where the product failed can be quickly and easily identified, and information can be used to assure the consumer remains safe, while providing essential information for improving the shipping process. It will be understood that the label may take many forms, such as a tag attached to the good, integrated into the packaging for the good, integrated into the good itself, or may even be an information area on a prepaid card for example. The label may also include, for example, print information regarding the good, usage or shipping rules, or address and coded information.

The invention discloses a method for preventing and distinguishing fake products by using the internet and two-dimension codes. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) randomly setting a set of unique two-dimension codes for each product by a manufacturer; 2) logging on an official database of the manufacturer through the internet to realize butting, wherein each time the two-dimension codes are scanned, a two-dimension code counter automatically accumulates a count; 3) scanning and logging on to verify the two-dimensional codes; and 4) judging whether a product is genuine by displaying the counting numerical value of the two-dimension code counter and the related identity information of a two-dimension code recognizer on the two-dimension code recognizer which scans the two-dimension codes at the same time. The method has the beneficial technical effect that the two-dimension code recognizer is combined with the internet to quickly identify the authenticity of the product on the spot through simple scanning, so that the aims of identifying and cracking down on fake products by the entire population of a country and ensuring that the fake products have no place to hide and disappear from the scene are achieved.

A graphical user interface displays a plurality of sections of information. Each section has a heading which comprises a link. The links can be selected by a user to collapse or expand information in the section. In addition, automatic scrolling takes place to scroll expanded information substantially into view. When a section is collapsed or expanded the associated heading is marked for a pre-specified time to aid the user in returning his or her attention to the appropriate region of the display, despite the use of the automatic scrolling. In addition, marks are used to indicate regions of the display where user entered information needs to be added or corrected.

The present invention is a method for assigning a qualitative importance of relevant genetic phenotypes to the use of specific drugs for individual patients based on genetic test results. The invention provides a drug-centric integration of pharmacogenetic test information across multiple genes relevant to an individual drug. The invention then assigns a color designation for each drug reported and groups the drugs together on a report according to drug class / therapeutic area, thus allowing the physician to easily and quickly identify a drug from a specific drug class that would be best for that patient according to their entire pharmacogenetic test results. The outputs of the method can be added to existing pharmacogenetic test reports as a quick guide for the physician. Such integration of pharmacogenetic information from multiple genes and drug-centric organization of the outputs should allow physicians to more easily utilize and incorporate pharmacogenetic testing into their practice.