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A method is disclosed involving acquiring a plurality of charge accounts. The accounts are of a type normally issued with an associated physically producible card which may be presented as evidence of an existing charge account, the physically producible cards bearing human readable account numbers and expiration dates. The plurality of charge accounts are capable of being gifted to a party, after acquisition. A request is received from a first party to gift a charge account to a second party having a name, without both the issuance and provision of a physical card for the charge account to the second party. The first party and the second party are different from each other. The charge account is usable in the name of the second party at any merchant who is capable of seeking authorization, using an authorization infrastructure, for purchases involving charge accounts for which the physically producible cards are issued, whether or not the physical cards evidencing the accounts are presented by purchasers when a purchase is made. An account parameter, selected by the first party, is accepted. The second party is informed of the account, by sending an e-mail to the second party. The e-mail contains a greeting selected by the first party and directs the second party to perform a specified action in order to cause an activation of the account. The account is activated for usage by the second party according to the account parameter. An indication that the second party has made a purchase from a merchant using the account is received and a settling transaction involving the account is undertaken after the usage by the second party. A system is also disclosed having a database with at least one table and a processor coupled to the database. The database is configured to, under control of the processor, maintain a record of a payment card account registered to a first person at the request of a second person, and for which, at no time at or before a time the second person buys from a merchant and provides payment by referencing the payment card account, no physical card for the payment card account will have been provided to the second person.

An automated method and system for identifying date-sensitive entries in a database wherein an obligation must be satisfied relative to the entry according to instructions provided by the beneficiary of the obligation. The method and system of the invention can be practiced from a location remote from the database and are particularly useful in a number of situations and particularly those wherein unticketed reservations are maintained in a storage medium for a time prior to issuance of a ticket to “firm up” the reservation to a ticketed status. The present system and methodology finds particular utility enforcing ticketing time limit rules on travel agency or other reservation and ticket issuers involved in the reserving and ticketing of airline bookings and the like and results in the reduction of no-shows and overbooking while increasing onboard load factors on sold-out flights in particular. The automated system of the invention is capable of operating essentially continually throughout seven days a week and twenty-four hours each day to constantly “firm” all or selected flights of a given carrier. Enforcement of ticket time limit rules can extend at the option of a user to booking class, market, point of sale and the like or any combination thereof.

The present invention relates to arrangements for charging in a packet switched network. Packets are charged differently dependent on which service flow the packets belong to. The charging system comprises a control system and a serving element residing in a packet forwarding system wherein said control system comprises an account function adapted to manage an account of at least one user and a charging policy decision point arranged to calculate a charging policy for allowed services for the at least one user. Moreover, said serving element comprises a token bucket per user adapted to store reservations received from the account function of the user associated with the token bucket and a charging policy enforcement point arranged to perform charging for a plurality of the allowed services by reducing the stored reservation of the token bucket according to the calculated charging policy.

A network node (10) controls resources (22) in a network. The node (10) includes processing units (12) and assigns, for each set of resources (22), to a unit (12) a master role consisting in reserving and releasing resources (22) and to two processing units (12), named controllers, the role of controlling resources (22). A controller (12c) operates in a first mode when a master role is assigned to a processing unit (12m) and the unit (12m) is available to reserve and release resources (22). A controller (12c) operates in a second mode when no master role is assigned or when a master role is assigned to a unit (12m) which is not available to reserve and release resources (22). In the second mode, a controller (12c) maintains a list (14) of resources (22) to be released and selects a resource (22) from the list (14) to reserve a resource (22).

A method for implementing an energy management of a vehicle which is movable via an electric drive, the electric drive being able to be driven by electrical energy stored in an electrical energy store, the method including: inputting a destination; and searching for a route to the destination, on which an available electrical energy source able to be used to recharge the electrical energy store is available within a minimum distance; the minimum distance corresponding to a path along which the vehicle is minimally still able to drive using the energy stored in the electrical energy store.

A resource reservation method with guaranteed service in terms of minimum bit rate and maximum access time at radio network nodes using time slots each associated with an individual bit rate for sending and transmitting data. A node includes a protocol layer that sends a reservation request to a MAC layer. The source node introduces into the format of the Path and Resv messages of the RSVP protocol fields corresponding to the maximum duration of the time slot observed on the current path in the Adspec reservation request of the Path message, the number of radio nodes crossed in the object of the Path message, and the maximum waiting time for the time slot in the Rspec object of the Resv message corresponding to the response to the reservation request. The MAC layer reserves the number of time slots needed to satisfy the service guarantee recorded in the reservation request.

A method and an associated apparatus manage log records during rollback of a group of changes within a unit of work in a database system, by distinguishing between temporary and permanent objects when creating log records. Log records associated with temporary objects are limited to those records that are required to support the rollback of changes made to the temporary table objects. Advantageously, log space consumption and reservation may be reduced, and performance may be improved by reducing the number of and content of log records written to a log.

The invention relates to the field of tunnel shield construction, in particular to a parallel construction method for a shield arrival tunnel portal ring beam and a shield crossing station. According to the parallel construction method for the shield arrival tunnel portal ring beam and the shield crossing station, the problems of long construction period and high cost because tunnel portal ring beam construction is carried out after the shield tunnel of the traditional station is finished are solved. The parallel construction method for the shield arrival tunnel portal ring beam and the shield crossing station comprises the following steps of: reserving a pump pipe on a middle plate and a top plate of the station; during shield arrival, carrying out secondary after-grouting to the back of a pipe piece by polyurethane; cancelling zero ring pipe piece splicing; after a shield tail leaves the tunnel portal ring beam, overlaying I steel on tunnel portal ring steel; welding a steel plate on the I steel; erecting a groined type rack platform on the tunnel portal steel ring; binding the tunnel portal ring beam reinforcing steel bar; installing an annular template and an end tip template; and directly pouring tunnel portal ring beam concrete by a station embedded pump pipe. Tunnel portal ring beam and shield tunneling can be synchronously carried out, and the influence on the shield tunneling by the tunnel portal ring beam construction is avoided. The parallel construction method for the shield arrival tunnel portal ring beam and the shield crossing station has the advantages of simple technology, advanced technology, flexible working procedure regulation, no construction interference and favorable economic benefit and social benefit.

A data network comprises proxy-call session control functions (P-CSCFs) serving user equipments. Each P-CSCF can request resource reservation from an associated policy manager. A serving-call session control function receives a first call session setup message and determines a set of terminating user equipments associated with a terminating user identity of the setup message. It then transmits a call session initialization message to each identified terminating user equipment via an associated P-CSCF. This message includes a session identity indication and a forking indication which indicates if the first call session is a forked call session. The P-CSCFs and/or the policy managers then restrict the resource reservation for two or more user equipments having the same session identity and forking indications indicative of a forked call session setup to the resource requirement for only one of the user equipments. This may reduce resource usage for forked call sessions.

The invention discloses a spiral bone plate for use on the outer side of the proximally middle section of a humerus. The head part of a plate body is provided with a plate-shaped part(1), and the tail part is a strip-shaped part(2); and a plurality of connecting holes(3) are distributed on the plate-shaped part(1), a plurality of fixed holes(4) are distributed on the strip-shaped part(2), the plate-shaped part(1) is wider than the strip-shaped part(2), and a spiral part(5) used for transition between the plate-shaped part(1) and the strip-shaped part(2) is arranged between the plate-shaped part(1) and the strip-shaped part(2). The bone plate has the advantages of narrowing a stripping range of a dead point of the deltoid muscle, reducing the influences of the long head tendon of the biceps brachii, avoiding affecting the slide of the tendon, reducing operative wound and operation time and facilitating the functional rehabilitation after the operation.

The invention discloses a ribonucleic acid (RNA) extraction kit without deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) residues and an RNA extraction method. The RNA extraction kit without the DNA residues comprises RNA eluent, DNA eluent, at least one DNA adsorption column which is matched with the RNA eluent and at least one RNA adsorption column which is matched with the DNA eluent. The RNA extraction method at least comprises the following two steps of: (A), eluting RNA on the DNA adsorption column by using the RNA eluent; and (B), eluting DNA on the RNA adsorption column by using the DNA eluent. The RNA extraction method is simple and quick; and the extracted RNA is high in purity, DNA residues are a few and cannot be seen by naked eyes under a common ultraviolet lamp.

The invention discloses a network slice reliability mapping algorithm based on a service type, and aims to solve the problems that a plurality of network slices fail due to a single link fault in an underlying network, slice reliability is guaranteed and resource utilization rate is reduced. According to the invention, the method comprises the steps: distinguishing services carried by network slices, introducing maximum spanning tree link protection into a high-reliability low-delay slice request for backup in advance, and when a link has a fault, directly switching a slice fault link of thiskind to a backup link; for the high-bandwidth service type fault link, employing a shortest path algorithm to select a link with high reliability from surrounding proper links for remapping. Accordingto the algorithm, the corresponding recovery method is adopted by distinguishing the service types of the failure slices, so the reliability is improved, the recovery time delay is shortened, and unnecessary resource waste is reduced.

Without performing a channel reservation, an arbitrary radio communication with other surrounding radio communication devices may be carried out by setting up a receiving slot according to the amount of receiving data. Each radio communication device may only manage the number of its own receiving slots so as to secure the channel required for communication by its own determination, without needing a process which is accurately synchronous with other radio communication devices. The radio communication device on the data transmission side monitors, by receiving the beacon, the increase in the number of the receiving slots of the radio communication device on the reception side, so as to transmit the data immediately when the number of the receiving slots increases. The reception acknowledgement (ACK) information from the reception side radio communication device is written in the beacon and returned.

The invention provides a continuously cast bloom shape control method and a crystallizer. The continuously cast bloom shape control method comprises the following steps: feeding molten steel into the crystallizer so as to form a cast bloom; enabling the cast bloom to be initially solidified into a negative bulge shape in a first pair of side walls of the crystallizer, namely enabling the cast bloom to bulge towards the center line of the crystallizer in the first pair of side walls of the crystallizer. The crystallizer comprises the first pair of side walls, a second pair of side walls, a first group of lateral support rolls positioned at the down streams of the first pair of side walls and a second group of lateral support rolls positioned at the down streams of the second pair of side walls; on the cross section of the crystallizer, the inside surfaces of the first pair of side walls are in a smoothly-transitional curve shape; the curve is of a shape which gradually keeping away from a vertical plane passing through the center line from the middle part to two end edges; the distances between the inside surfaces of the first pair of side walls in the middle part and the vertical plane passing through the center line are smaller than those between the inside surfaces of the first pair of side walls in the edge parts and the vertical plane passing through the center line.

The present invention discloses a method for fermenting purple sweet potato pulp by using plant probiotics and solves problems of poor flavor, high processing cost and serious nutrient loss in processing of purple sweet potato pulp products. The method specifically comprises steps of pretreatment, crushing, softening, cooking, enzymolysis, pulping, blending, primary sterilization and cooling, fermentation, centrifugation, degassing, homogenization, secondary sterilization and cooling, aseptic cold filling, etc. A probiotics fermentation technology is used, so that the purple sweet potato pulpproduces lactic acid and salt substances thereof with a fresh-keeping effect, produces better fermentation flavored and micro-organism-inhibiting substances, and the method improves fragrance and mouthfeel of the purple sweet potato pulp, at the same time effectively reduces sterilization conditions of the purple sweet potato pulp, saves costs, at the same time preserves nutrient components of purple sweet potatoes, increases nutrition of a fermentation product and also prolongs shelf life of purple sweet potato product raw materials.

The invention relates to a heating and filtering integrated device for a water cooling system. The heating and filtering integrated device for the water cooling system comprises a cavity and a filterelement arranged in the cavity, wherein an electric heater is detachably arranged at one end of the cavity, a heating core body of the electric heater is arranged in the cavity, a cooling medium of the water cooling system flows to the outside of the filter element from the inside of the filter element, an end cover is detachably arranged at one end of the cavity, a water inlet cavity is integrally arranged at the other end of the cavity, the electric heater is arranged on the end cover, and the heating core body penetrates through the cavity and extends into the water inlet cavity. Accordingto the heating and filtering integrated device for the water cooling system, the electric heater is installed in a cavity of a filter, so that the structure of the water cooling system is simplified,the reservation of a maintenance space is correspondingly reduced, the occupied space of the water cooling system is reduced, the design difficulty of the water cooling system in a narrow space is reduced, and the application range of the water cooling system is increased.

The invention provides a server serial port debugging method and apparatus. The method comprises the following steps: connecting apparatus to be debugged in a server to a serial port extension module with a Bluetooth module; pairing a Bluetooth apparatus with the Bluetooth module, scanning each to-be-debugged apparatus connected with the serial port expansion module, and setting the Baud rate of the serial port according to the scanned apparatus; in response to completion of Baud rate setting of the serial port, the Bluetooth apparatus selects the apparatus to be debugged from the scannedapparatus and enables an address selection port of the apparatus to be debugged; and the Bluetooth apparatus marks the to-be-sent data based on the apparatus to be debugged, and the marked data is sent to the corresponding apparatus to be debugged so as to debug the corresponding apparatus port. By using the scheme of the invention, the reservation of a multi-chip serial port in hardware design can be omitted, the layout space on a circuit board is saved, and the debugging efficiency and the later server operation and maintenance efficiency in the research and development process are improved.