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A multilayer printed circuit board (“PCB”) coil that simulates a coil formed from litz wire. The PCB includes a plurality of alternating conductor and insulating layers interconnected to cooperatively form the coil. Each conductor layer includes a trace that follows the desired coil shape and is divided into a plurality of discrete conductor segments. The segments are electrically connected across layers to provide a plurality of current flow paths (or filaments) that undulate between the layers in a regular, repeating pattern. The coil may be configured so that each filament spends a substantially equal amount of time in proximity to the paired coil and therefore contributes substantially equally to the self or mutual inductance of the coil. Each conductor layer may include a plurality of associated traces and intralayer connector that interconnected so that each filament undulates not only upwardly/downwardly, but also inwardly/outwardly in a regular, repeating pattern.

A mechanism is provided for making information about the virtual disk image file and/or its associated virtual image configuration file more readily available to a user. The virtual disk image file format is expanded to include fields in which information about the data in the file can be stored. Extensible information on file content, compatible HW configurations, compatible host OSes, timeout status, DRM status, patch state, and network topology, tag data for indexing, configuration files, saved state files, operation history data, and the like is stored in a location within a virtual disk image file that can be read without executing the virtual machine. This information can then be used to search the contents of the virtual disk image, to enforce usage policies, to provide extensibility for vendors, and the like.

The present invention provides content providing apparatus and method and a content providing system which maintains a compatibility with an IP network and deliver a content with a complete distributed architecture excluding the content synchronizing process and the request routing process which delivers the content.

The subject invention pertains to a centralized key performance indicator (KPI) framework and systems and methods of utilization. In particular, KPIs can be defined and centrally stored as data or metadata in a data store. Systems and methods are provided to enable, among other things, KPI definition, storage, identification of defined or available KPIs, and interaction with the KPIs. For instance, an interface is provided to allow KPI data to be requested and retrieved from a source such as a database. A generic application program or users thereof can then interact with and display KPI data without knowing anything a priori about the stored data or the structure thereof.

Apparatus for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in a user, the apparatus comprising:

• • a housing;
  • stimulation means for electrically stimulating at least one nerve;
  • an electrode releasably mounted to the housing and connectable to the stimulation means for electrical stimulation of the at least one nerve;
  • monitoring means for monitoring the user's body orientation and movement;
  • analysis means for analyzing said orientation and movement; and
  • control means for controlling the output of the stimulation means in response to said analysis of said orientation and movement.

A method of aiding creation of a service offer associated with a Service Delivery Framework (SDF) includes providing a plurality of reusable Application Objects (AOs) that may be associated with an Interactive Development Environment (IDE). The AOs are prototype customer facing service offers that include standardized functions supporting ordering, billing, management and monitoring. The AOs also include standardized event formats and configurable attributes that affect the behavior and pricing of service offers derived from the AOs. A Services Marketplace facilitates reuse of AOs and supports relationships between customers, application creators, service providers and OSS/BSS providers. A computer-readable medium includes instructions that when executed by a computing device aids in creation of a service offer associated with a SDF by providing a plurality of reusable Application Objects (AOs) in the context of a services marketplace.

An integrated product data environment for system design and optimization, e.g., a Collaborative Engineering Environment (CEE). The CEE provides a multi-disciplinary engineering team with immediate access to all relevant product information. It is an enterprise system at the program as well as the company levels, managing product information as a program and corporate asset. Product-centric collaborative capabilities for the CEE are provided by extending the functionality of a commercial Product Data Management (PDM) System. Emerging web-centric commercial-off-tho-shelf (COTS) PDM capabilities, object-oriented technologies, associated rapid application development environments, sophisticated engineering toolsets, and COTS computing and communications technologies have been leveraged to establish the CEE for the complex electronic systems integration domain. The CEE offers substantial improvements in productivity, cost savings, cycle time reductions, product integrity and lifetime support of a system.

An apparatus for signaling information in a network environment is provided that includes an access gateway operable to establish one or more packet data protocol (PDP) links on behalf of an end user. The access gateway is operable to communicate a message associated with a change in quality of service, locale, or policy enforcement relating to a selected one of the PDP links to a client services packet gateway (CSPG). The CSPG responds to the message by providing an accounting command for the selected PDP link such that synchronization is achieved between accounting information and a state associated with the selected PDP link.

This invention presents an innovative framework for the application of machine learning for identification of alloys or composites with desired properties of interest. For each output property of interest, we identify the corresponding driving (input) factors. These input factors may include the material composition, heat treatment, process, microstructure, temperature, strain rate, environment or testing mode. Our framework assumes selection of optimization technique suitable for the application at hand and data available, starting with simple linear, or quadratic, regression analysis. We present a physics-based model for predicting the ultimate tensile strength, a model that accounts for physical dependencies, and factors in the underlying physics as a priori information. In case an artificial neural network is deemed suitable, we suggest employing custom kernel functions consistent with the underlying physics, for the purpose of attaining tighter coupling, better prediction, and extracting the most out of the—usually limited—input data available.

The system is a database-driven web-application system that includes a task-based data-driven language that provides:

• • strict naming rules for objects in the system
  • specifically designed SQL views of database tables
  • a view-maintenance executable that maintains all of said SQL views and is executed after each change to the databases
  • software functions that implement all accesses to the databases following strict rules and audit procedures
  • executables to perform jobs requested by end-users or on schedules
  • a task system and database for centralizing all user interactions from any source
  • web application that translates the task database into a web-based user interface
  • a set of executables that use the task system to export and import relationally sound data to disconnected formats such as spreadsheets
  • meta-function databases that enable the addition of various functions to each row in the database on an as-needed basis

A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a create request from an end user for a communications link provided by a network node and communicating a response to the end user in order to establish a communication session. The method further includes identifying a selected one of a plurality of network nodes to facilitate the communication session. The identification of the selected network node is achieved through binding of a session identifier associated with the end user to the selected network node.

A power conversion circuit improves lamp operating life and lamp efficiency by driving a fluorescent lamp with a square wave signal. The square wave signal is an alternating current signal with relatively fast transition times. The square wave signal advantageously reduces lamp current crest factor for more efficient operation of the fluorescent lamp.

An enhanced computer telephony integration system that facilitates the interaction and integration of a private branch exchange (PBX) with a client computer on a computer network. An enhanced telephony (ET) server connects to the PBX and to all running instances of an ET client on a user's computers. The ET server acts as a proxy between the ET clients and the PBX. The ET clients register with the ET server for a certain telephone extension. The ET server then can forward telephone action requests (such as placing a telephone call) from the registered ET clients to the PBX servicing the telephone extension. Moreover, the ET server can relay telephone events (such as an incoming call) from the PBX to all registered clients. The ET server facilitates seamless integration of telephone and personal computer features to provide a rich user-controlled computer-telephone integration for a user.

The invention discloses a drought evaluation method for coupling a distributed hydrological model and combining water deficit indexes. The method aims to overcome defects of a physical mechanism and the defect that time and space comparability is weak in Palmer drought indexes, and carry out standardization on the Palmer drought indexes. By means of a Capra function, a multivariate combined distribution is achieved, a multivariable combined water deficit index fusing multi-time scale information is built to serve as a comprehensive index for monitoring and evaluating regional droughts. A variable infiltration capability distributed hydrological model based on a river basin grid unit is coupled to achieve comprehensive continuous monitoring and stimulation of the droughts. The method has advantages in presenting area distribution features of the droughts and change situations along with time, meanwhile, further changes of disaster situations can be forecasted and predicted according to meteorological information and river basin social and economic data.

The invention discloses a protecting, fixing and retracting integration device of an acoustic emission deep hole monitoring sensor. The device consists of a sensor protecting sleeve, a fixing device of the sensor protecting sleeve, a guider, a mounting rod, a directional ring and a rotary disc. The front end of the sensor protecting sleeve is connected with the fixing device of the sensor protecting sleeve by counterclockwise screws. The tail part of the sensor protecting sleeve is connected with the guider by clockwise screws, and is connected with the mounting rod through a pin and a unidirectional clamping groove. The directional ring is fixed at the front end of the mounting rod. The rotary disc is mounted on the tail part of the mounting rod. During retracting, the rotary disc facilitates the mounting rod to screw the sensor protecting sleeve off the fixing device of the sensor protecting sleeve. The device can better overcome the defects of insufficient protection, simple mounting angle and large absence or deflection of the monitored data due to untight coupling of the sensor and the rock existing in the traditional sensor, solves the problem of difficult retracting of the sensor in deep hole mounting, can be widely applied to rock engineering of tunnels, underground chambers, mine underground stopes, roadways and the like, and has great economical benefit.

A media control approach that supports transmission of data streams with QoS requirements, such as minimum throughput or maximum delay, while adapting to the changing characteristics of the transmission medium. The media control approach includes use of a polling manager and a resource manager. The resource manager provides an admission control procedure that prevents admission of sessions that cannot be supported by the system and allocates network resources needed to support admitted sessions. The polling manager uses an efficient “just in time” polling of stations based on their allocated bandwidth or communication rates. Stations that do not use their allocated rates are polled less often than those which use their allocation, thereby increasing the total throughput of the system and providing proper quality of service support for real-time applications.