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The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing real-time position information of one party to another party by utilizing a conventional telecommunication network system such as the convention telephone network, a mobile telecommunications network, a computer network, or the Internet. More specifically, the preferred embodiments of the present invention allow a caller and a receiver of a telephone call to provide to and receive from each other position information related to the caller and/or receiver's physical location, including address information, GPS coordinates, nearby fixed locations such as a parking structure, etc. Additionally, the preferred embodiments of the present invention allow a caller and receiver to retrieve routing instructions or maps for traveling to or from each other. In another embodiment of the present invention, a party may locate the position of another party via the entry of the other party's unique identifier such as a phone number of the other party's mobile phone. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the position information of a party may be concurrently delivered to another party's computer terminal whereby the other party can process the information in further detail.

A method for providing customized interactive voice response menus can include monitoring user interactions with an interactive voice response system. Data concerning the user interactions can be stored. A request to initiate an interactive voice response session can be received. The interactive voice response system can determine an identity for a user making the request. The interactive voice response system can generate a customized menu for the user. At least a portion of the customized menu can be based upon the usage data. The customized menu can be presented to the user.

An apparatus for interspinous spinal fixation is disclosed, which includes a main body having an end thereof as a distal end, and another end thereof as a proximal end, a cross section of the main body being of an annular or quasi-annular structure. A first joining point and a second joining point are provided at the distal end that are symmetric to each other relative to an opening of the annular or quasi-annular structure, while a third joining point and a fourth joining point are provided at the proximal end that that are symmetric to each other relative to the opening of the annular or quasi-annular structure. A first lateral piece, a second lateral piece, a third lateral piece, and a fourth lateral piece are joined with the first, the second, the third, and the fourth joining points of the main body, such that the first and the second lateral pieces can rotate axially about the first and the second joining points, thereby rotating from a folded position on the main body to an extended position; and the third and the fourth lateral pieces can rotate axially about the third and the fourth joining points, thereby rotating from a folded position on the main body to an extended position.

A system and method for imaging of a sample, e.g., biological sample, are provided. In particular, at least one source electro-magnetic radiation forwarded to the sample and a reference may be generated. A plurality of detectors may be used, at least one of the detectors capable of detecting a signal associated with a combination of at least one first electro-magnetic radiation received from the sample and at least one second electro-magnetic radiation received from the reference. At least one particular detector may have a particular electrical integration time, and can receive at least a portion of the signal for a time duration which has a first portion with a first power level greater than a predetermined threshold and a second portion immediately preceding or following the first portion. The second portion may have a second power level that is less than the predetermined threshold, and extends for a time period which may be, e.g., approximately more than 10% of the particular electrical integration time.

A method of path planning, comprising providing a dataset representing a cavity and a boundary; providing a plurality of points in said dataset, including at least a starting point and an ending point; and automatically determining a path between the starting point and the ending point, responsive to a penalty associated with passing through points in the cavity. Preferably, the penalty value associated with a point depends on a distance between the point and the boundary.

A card game wherein a player has the choice of playing the player's initial hand of cards as either a poker hand or a modified blackjack hand. If the player elects to play the hand as a poker hand, the player will win if he or she acquires a poker hand that matches one of a plurality of predetermined poker hands. If the player elects to play the hand as modified blackjack hand, the player wins if the player acquires a hand that qualifies as a winning hand. If the player wins, the player has the option of playing the dealer in a second type of card game wherein the player has the option of wagering all of his or her winnings (“Double Down”) or wagering only half of his or her own winnings (“Half Down”).

Disclosed are therapeutic methods for the treatment of disease material involving administration of a thermotherapeutic magnetic composition, which contains single-domain magnetic particles attached to a target-specific ligand, to a patient and application of an alternating magnetic field to inductively heat the thermotherapeutic magnetic composition. Also disclosed are methods of administering the thermotherapeutic magnetic material composition. The thermotherapeutic methods may be used where the predetermined target is associated with diseases, such as cancer, diseases of the immune system, and pathogen-borne diseases, and undesirable targets, such as toxins, reactions associated with organ transplants, hormone-related diseases, and non-cancerous diseased cells or tissue.

A system and method provides an electronic content to a vehicle from access point(s) within a network using a controller. The controller divides the electronic content into one or more files wherein each file contains at least one packet, and generates two or more random linear combinations of the packets within each file. For each file, each random linear combination of the packets is replicated to a different access point within the network. The electronic content is provided to the vehicle using at least one of the different access points. The controller can also determine a set of nearest trajectories for the vehicle in a location database that match a recent location history for the vehicle. For each determined nearest trajectory, one or more mobility trajectories are determined for the vehicle, and a set of access points are determined that correspond to the determined mobility trajectories for the vehicle.

Disclosed are thermotherapeutic compositions for treating disease material, and methods of targeted therapy utilizing such compositions. These compositions comprise a) stable single domain magnetic particles; b) magnetic nanoparticles comprising aggregates of superparamagnetic grains; or c) magnetic nanoparticles comprising aggregates of stable single magnetic domain crystals and superparamagnetic grains. These compositions may also comprise a radio isotope, potential radioactive isotope, chemotherapeutic agent. These methods comprise the administration to a patient's body, body part, body fluid, or tissue of bioprobes (energy susceptive materials attached to a target-specific ligand), and the application of energy to the bioprobes so as to destroy, rupture, or inactivate the target in the patient. Energy forms, such as AMF, are utilized to provide the energy. The disclosed methods may be useful in the treatment of a variety of indications, including cancers, diseases of the immune system, central nervous system and vascular system, and pathogen-borne diseases.

Systems and methods for determining an active cam profile from a plurality of cam profiles is disclosed. The systems and methods may be used to determine how to operate an engine torque actuator or provide an indication of cam profile switching degradation.

The present invention relates to glass-ceramic materials, processes for making the same and articles comprising the same. The glass-ceramic material has a composition, by weight of the total composition, comprising 55-68% SiO₂; 18-24% Al₂O₃; 3.3-4.1% Li₂O; 1.5-4.0% ZnO; 1.5-5.0% MgO; 2-5% TiO₂; 0-2% ZrO₂; 0-5% B₂O₃; 0-8% P₂O₅; 0-2% Na₂O, 0-2% K₂O; and at least one component resulting from an effective amount of at least one fining agent; wherein: the total of B₂O₃ and P₂O₅ is at least 1.5% by weight, the total of MgO and ZnO is at least about 3.5% by weight, the total of Na₂O and K₂O is less than about 3.0% by weight, the total of P₂O₅, B₂O₃, Na₂O and K₂O is less than about 11% by weight, the weight ratio of the sum total of Na₂O+K₂O to the sum total of P₂O₅+B₂O₃

is less than about 0.5; advantageously the total of P₂O₅, B₂O₃, Na₂O and K₂O is less than about 9% by weight and the total of Na₂O ad K₂O is less than about 2% by weight; and more advantageously the total of P₂O₅, B₂O₃, Na₂O and K₂O is less than about 7% by weight and the total of Na₂O ad K₂O is less than about 1% by weight. The glass-ceramic material comprises β-spodumene solid solution as the predominant crystalline phase.

A device for processing a wire having an outer surface and moving along a given path in a give direction. The device comprises a conductive contact tube surrounding said path and electrically engageable with the wire as it moves along the path and through the tue and a dielectric sleeve adjacent the contact tube and extending in the given direction from the contact tube and around the path to define an annular gas passage between the dielectric sleeve ad the wire. An inlet for processing gas is adjacent the contact tube in and a conductive electrode sleeve is around the dielectric sleeve so a high frequency, high voltage signal between said electrode sleeve ad the contact tube creates a dielectric barrier discharge plasma of the progressing gas in the annular passage.

A system and method are provided for delivery of broadcast data over an augmented tree network that includes a content server, a tree server, an augmentation server and at least one node. The content server streams a fraction of the broadcast data to the tree server, and streams a complement to the fraction of the broadcast data to the augmentation server. A node connects to the tree server, thereby receiving the fraction of the broadcast data, the fraction having a positive value less than one. The node connects to the augmentation server, thereby receiving the complement to the fraction of the broadcast data from the augmentation server. The node assembles the fraction of the broadcast data with the complement to the fraction of the broadcast data to reassemble the broadcast data, whereby broadcast data is delivered to the node.

Flash memory devices and associated methods are described for controlling data errors in the devices through various forms of decoding, error correction, and wear concentration. To this end, a flash memory device may be partitioned into a plurality of sectors. Data may then be received from, for example, a host processor for storage within the flash memory device. Storage durations of the data are then estimated and the data is stored in the data sectors based on those estimated storage durations.

A catheter tubing (2) consists of a composite comprising a first material (54) which mainly consists of a hydrophilic plastic material which absorbs moisture and which therefore swells in contact with e.g. blood, and a second material which essentially does not absorb moist but which forms reinforcing longitudinal strands (55) in the catheter tubing, which counteract that the catheter tubing is extended or becomes thicker because of the swelling capacity of the first polymeric material, such that the volume increase of the hydrophilic, first plastic material substantially results in an increase of the circumference of the tubing and hence of its diameter and flow area. A catheter is made of a catheter tubing of that type and can be included in an assembly (1) comprising a hub (4) having a front portion (11) provided with a pair of wings (29) extending outwards from the hub. The wings can be folded against one another in order to serve as a gripping member (7) provided adjacent to the catheter when the catheter is being inserted into a fistula (40), whereupon they can be brought to contact and be releasably adhered to the skin of a patient.

An apparatus for performing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy comprises a handheld unit with a pump laser and a controller. A combination of a solid laser medium and a Q-switch receive a laser beam from said pump laser. Focusing optics focus laser pulses from said combination to a focal spot at a sample. Light collection optics collect light from plasma induced of sample material by focused laser pulses. A spectrometer receives collected light and produces information describing its spectral distribution. A power source delivers electric power to other parts of the apparatus. The pump laser, combination, focusing optics, light collection optics, spectrometer and power source are parts of said handheld unit.