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The present invention relates to perfume delivery systems, products comprising such systems and the use of same. Unfortunately current perfume delivery systems do not always provide the most preferred or ideal sensory experience. Thus there is a need for one or more perfume delivery systems that obviate the short comings of the current perfume delivery technologies. The systems of the present invention meet the aforementioned need as they employ symbiotic combinations.

A light emitting diode (LED) based light engine that can replace a conventional PAR type bulb with no modifications to a host lighting fixture is provided. The light engine includes a thermally conductive housing including a generally cylindrical wall defining a cavity, an outer surface of the wall includes a plurality of axially radiating fins and disposed on an inner surface of the wall is an annular center wall dividing the cavity into a first, upper cavity and a second, lower cavity; a light module including at least one LED is disposed in the first, upper cavity and configured to contact the annular center wall, wherein heat generated by the at least one LED is conducted to the housing; and a current driver circuit arranged on a substrate is disposed in the second, lower cavity and electrically coupled to the light module.

A system and method for managing a permit-based parking environment governed by a parking program. The permit-based parking environment includes a number of parking permits each including a unique RFID tag and tag number. One or more RFID readers are used to scan the vehicles parked in the parking environment to determine if a RFID tag is associated with the parked vehicle. The results of the scan along with information related to the parked vehicle are provided to a permit management system to determine if the vehicle is parked within the scope of privileges pre-defined for that vehicle, pursuant to the parking program governing the parking environment. The permit management system stores, manages, and monitors data related to the permits controlled under the parking program.

Techniques to create, generate, and deliver customized interactive program guide (custom-IPG). In one method, selections indicative of a set of channels to be included in the custom-IPG are received. In response, one or more custom-IPG screens having included therein the set of selected channels are rendered at a head end. The custom-IPG screens can be formed as subsets of the regular IPG screens, or as new screens. The rendered custom-IPG screens are provided from the head end to a set top terminal upon receiving a viewer request for the custom-IPG. Command indicative of a particular location at which to overlay the custom-IPG screens may also be received. In this case, the custom-IPG screens are re-rendered at the indicated location. The custom-IPG screens can be overlaid on a video sequence provided on a particular channel, which can be the channel currently being viewed, the channel used to carry regular program guide, or a channel that is independent of the channels used to carry regular programming and program guide. For example, either the custom or regular IPG can be provided on the program guide channel, depending on the viewer's selection.

The invention relates to a network safety attacking and defending method for a state attacking and defending map model, and belongs to the technical field of network safety attacking and defending. The method comprises the following steps of modeling an attacking and defending scene of a network system by a state attacking and defending map, then calculating the cost and income of atomic attacking, further calculating utility matrixes of different attacking and defending strategies adopted by an attacking party and a defending party under different network safety states, and finally solving a Mash balance on the basis of a non-cooperated type non-zero-sum game model, so as to obtain an optimum attacking and defending strategy. The method has the significant advantages that 1, the attacking scene is modeled by the state attacking and defending map, and the attacking and defending strategies of the network system under different network safety states are visually and clearly described; 2, the calculation of the cost and income of the attacking and defending is converted into the calculation of the attacking and defending success probability and the hazard index, and the calculation of the attacking and defending utilities is simplified; and 3, in the attacking and defending process of the network system, the costs and the incomes of the attacking party and the defending party are considered, the rational decision is made for a network management person, and the maximum income is realized for the network management.

A computer-implemented method for integrating data output from a relationship between a customer and a service or product provider. The method includes receiving one or more customer vehicle attributes from two or more computer systems selected from the group consisting of: a service appointment system, a dealer management system, a marketing offer system, an accessory system, a vehicle inspection system, a follow-up system, and a concern resolution system; storing the one or more customer vehicle attributes into a data warehouse; and transmitting the one or more customer vehicle attributes stored in the data warehouse based upon an electronic request. Advantageously, the one or more customer vehicle attributes are integrated across the two or more computer systems to facilitate management of an after vehicle sales delivery relationship between a customer and a service or product provider.

Systems and methods for managing cached content are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention may allow cached content to be updated (e.g. regenerated or replaced) based on newly added or changed content. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention may allow cached content to be regenerated, replaced or updated based on newly added or changed content associated with the cached content allowing cached content to be updated substantially immediately when pertinent new content is added or content from which the cached content was generated is altered.

A keyboard of reduced size is provided in which multiple characters are assigned to each of the primary keys. The selection of the characters to be assigned to each specific primary key is based on the touch typing rules associated with a specific standardized keyboard, preferably allowing at least three rows of keys to be reduced to a single row of keys. A disambiguating system is used to interpret which of the characters and/or symbols assigned to a particular key is intended, typically by applying a set of disambiguating rules to generated input sequences.

A system and method for dual-band detection of incoming threats using an initial passive detection system and a selectively activated active detection system. Advantages include improved threat detection accuracy, reduction of false alarms, and reduced radiation emission from the active system, thereby making the active system more difficult to detect and reducing irradiation levels of users and bystanders. Variations include systems employing passive optical or electro-optical detectors, systems employing active RADAR or LADAR detectors, and systems connected to alarm signal/threat mitigation systems. The system may be configured for use on ground vehicles or small watercraft. Variations of the system may be specifically configured to detect incoming munitions launches.

A method for enhanced exercise training or performance utilizing intentional controlled tachypnea and somatic sensory alkalosis biofeedback training to maintain an essentially non-acidic state during exercise. A trainee is instructed to decrease measured transcutaneous CO₂ levels by increased ventilation and to correlate measured transcutaneous CO₂ levels with subjective somatic symptoms. Studies under exercise conditions measure the intensity of exercise correlating to an onset in blood lactate accumulation in the trainee and such level of intensity is in turn correlated with a predetermined heart rate. The trainee is then instructed to use heart rate as a guide to the need for increased ventilation to lower blood CO₂. In another embodiment, the method of the instant invention utilizes intentional controlled tachypnea to increase maximum breath holding time.

The present invention is a solution for problems associated with batching, analyzing and viewing data from computerized and process control systems used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. Utilizing the hardware and software networking standards already implemented by a corporate IS/IT group as a platform, the present invention automatically captures (via 3^rd party software), processes, archives, reports on and distributes data for any computerized equipment at a facility. Data formats for all equipment regardless of manufacturer, plant location, or hardware/software platform used, are standardized. A single data repository is provide so that any authorized user connected to the company/facility network will have the ability to query this secure data and can generate any number of different reports. Once data is collected, it is batched or grouped according to user defined rules. A batch is given a distinct number, which will then be used to identify the data. Within seconds of batching, data is automatically analyzed using process macro code. This code can be simple or complex as needed to provide only the most important details about a batch. Such analyzation eliminates the manual processing of data, which is usually complex, time-consuming and prone to error. Via the Intranet or Internet, authorized users can view or trend data and access reports including adding electronic signatures. Additional process information such as standard operating procedures, and cycle descriptions may be uploaded and attached to a batch. Any action a user performs that creates, modifies or deletes data in the data repository will be audited.

Disclosed are tools and related methods for business organizations to quickly obtain, preserve and exploit new or improved assets, skills or capabilities that are important to growth and success. The tools and processes disclosed are adapted to preserve one or more target elements of an acquired target business organization by outsourcing those target elements during the integration period that follows the merger or acquisition. This outsourcing of one or more target elements during the integration period that necessarily follows a merger or acquisition deal creates various inherent advantages over the traditional merger, acquisition, or outsourcing approaches as described herein, and these advantages help to deliver benefits of the target element in speedy fashion and with undiminished quality.

Internal combustion engines operate by igniting a mixture of liquid fuel and air inside its combustion chamber. The energy from the ignition is converted to mechanical energy that is used to power a vehicle. Research indicates that adding hydrogen gas into the combustion chamber improves the efficiency of the engine. The present invention is an electrolysis system that produces hydrogen and oxygen gases and injects them into the fuel line of the engine to create a mixture of the gases and the liquid fuel that is subsequently introduced into the combustion chamber for ignition. The operating temperature of the engine is lower if the gases are injected into the fuel line rather than directly into the combustion chamber.

Where a flexible tool includes a tool body with a flexible portion, a distal end and a first optical fiber within the flexible portion, shape sensing can be achieved with increased accuracy by inserting or otherwise including a second optical fiber within the flexible portion. The increased accuracy can be achieved when the second optical fiber has a diameter larger than that of the first optical fiber. Once the shape of the flexible tool has been determined using at least the second optical fiber, the first optical fiber can be used for subsequent shape sensing. This may be particularly applicable where the tool includes an instrument such as an optical imaging device inserted in a channel of the tool, where not all of the width of the channel is occupied by functional components behind the operable end of the instrument.

A network for providing a telecommunications service with automatic speech recognition to a telecommunications user, including a switch in communication with a telecommunications device used by the telecommunications user for detecting a trigger specific to the telecommunications service in response to a communication from the telecommunications device, and an intelligent resource server in communication with the switch for receiving the communication from the telecommunications device via the switch, for playing an audible message for the telecommunications user in response to receiving the communication, the message prompting the telecommunications user to modify a call forwarding profile associated with the telecommunications user, and for automatically recognizing a predetermined keyword spoken by the telecommunications user in response to the message.

A metallic alloy made of metallic constituent elements is fabricated and utilized by first furnishing a mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds of the metallic constituent elements, and thereafter chemically reducing the mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds to produce a metallic alloy as a metallic alloy powder, without melting the metallic alloy. The metallic alloy powder is applied to a surface of a substrate article, preferably in a coating, joining, or deposition application.

An engine system having a coolant control valve may include a cylinder block configured with cylinders, a cylinder head sitting on top of the cylinder block and comprising exhaust ports and intake ports configured to lead to the cylinders, an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) cooler, a heater core, an oil cooler, or a radiator through which coolant circulates, and a coolant control valve configured to control a coolant supplied to the cylinder block, a coolant discharged from the cylinder block through the cylinder head, and a coolant supplied to the EGR cooler, the heater core, the oil cooler, or the radiator.