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A carousel used in a restocking system is comprised of a drive track. A plurality of bins are arranged into rows, with the rows being driven by said drive track. A drive mechanism, e.g. an electric motor, drives the drive track. A sensor is provided to sense the position of the rows of bins. A processor is responsive to the sensor and data representative of a plurality of picks for more than one order for controlling the drive mechanism. By combining picks from different orders into a batch, the time spent driving the rows and time between picks is minimized. The carousel may be divided into a plurality of columns, each with its own drive track, drive mechanism, and sensor, to enable several rows to be brought into a pick position simultaneously.

A method and system for communicating between a calling party and a called party, includes a dialer for dialing a communication device of a called party, a sensor for sensing whether a voice menu file is associated with the communication device of the called party, and an interactive display for displaying the voice menu file when the sensor senses the voice menu file.

The method of presenting concurrent information about the electrical and mechanical activity of the heart using non-invasively obtained electrical and mechanical cardiac activity data from the chest or thorax of a patient comprises the steps of: placing at least three active Laplacian ECG sensors at locations on the chest or thorax of the patient; where each sensor has at least one outer ring element and an inner solid circle element, placing at least one ultrasonic sensor on the thorax where there is no underlying bone structure, only tissue, and utilizing available ultrasound technology to produce two or three-dimensional displays of the moving surface of the heart and making direct measurements of the exact sites of the sensors on the chest surface to determine the position and distance from the center of each sensor to the heart along a line orthogonal to the plane of the sensor and create a virtual heart surface; updating the measurements at a rate to show the movement of the heart's surface; monitoring at each ultrasonic sensor site and each Laplacian ECG sensor site the position and movement of the heart and the passage of depolarization wave-fronts in the vicinity; treating those depolarization wave-fronts as moving dipoles at those sites to create images of their movement on the image of the beating heart's surface; and, displaying the heart's electrical activity on the dynamically changing image of the heart's surface with the goal to display an approximation of the activation sequence on the beating virtual surface of the heart

A system for maximal gathering of fresh information added to a network such as the as the Internet and for processing the gathered fresh information. A link server (2) sends a batch of links to check (3) to a crawler (1B). Crawler (1B) them executes its crawling assignment by filtering the encountered content and extracting only that which is new or changed (4). Crawler (1B) then returns this content (4) to at least one data center and any interested web mining application (5). By using the crawlers (1A-E) to filter the data and only return or notify regarding, the fresh content, less bandwidth is needed to get the information to the web mining application (5).

The present invention provides a method of profiling institutional investors. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, the pseudo portfolio is created to see how an investor has behaved given a choice between a value and a growth stock. The investor's historical portfolio is filtered through the pseudo portfolio and the aggregate on the style and sector dimensions are sliced. This helps determine the value-growth preference of the investor and can be quantified as well in percentage terms.

Disclosed are a device and method for searching and connecting to Bluetooth devices. A Host Device restricts the Bluetooth transmit power below a preset level, so as to limit the transmission range of an HCI inquiry signal output from the Host Device. When two or more Bluetooth devices are detected within the restricted transmit range, the Host Device compares the intensities of response signals received from the Bluetooth devices, and then selects a Bluetooth device having the response signal with the greatest intensity. Next, the Host Device attempts to connect to the selected Bluetooth device and starts to provide Bluetooth services. Thus, it is possible to restrict the Bluetooth devices detected according to the restricted transmission power. Further, the Host Device can connect to the Bluetooth device located at the nearest position, thereby making it possible for a user to easily and conveniently start a Bluetooth device service.

An access and data management method using parallel tracks comprising a plurality of flash memory cells, a plurality of independent USB ports for transferring sets of data from and within said flash memory cells, wherein when a target set of data is a plurality of sectors, then a controller uses a plurality of pages as a single unit to process reading and writing so that a plurality of pages can be read and written into the flash memory cells simultaneously each time. Further the parallel tracks of flash memory cells may be combined with an interleaving method, a mother and child conceptual structure and a copy back method for further enhancing the data processing speed and also extending the life of the flash memory cells.

The present invention relates to a method and system for presenting targeted advertising to a patient in need of a therapeutic treatment plan. By providing an electronic device such as a PDA or the like a series of questions can be asked of the patient to come to a diagnosis or condition in need of treatment. Then appropriate targeted advertising can be given to the patient by the device in order to encourage choosing a particular product for treatment or the like.

A dependency network is created from a training data set utilizing a scalable method. A statistical model (or pattern), such as for example a Bayesian network, is then constructed to allow more convenient inferencing. The model (or pattern) is employed in lieu of the training data set for data access. The computational complexity of the method that produces the model (or pattern) is independent of the size of the original data set. The dependency network directly returns explicitly encoded data in the conditional probability distributions of the dependency network. Non-explicitly encoded data is generated via Gibbs sampling, approximated, or ignored.

Methods and systems for seamless adjustment of treatment are disclosed. A determination is made as to whether to intervene with a patient's treatment. Implanted device memory data is acquired over a pre-specified time period. Risk status is determined from the device memory data. Another external device memory data is acquired over a pre-specified time period. A determination is made as to whether to adjust treatment of the patient in response to the risk status, the data acquired from the implanted device memory and the external device memory data.

A submersible pump drop pipe and casing assembly and method of manufacture is disclosed. The drop pipe/casing has a seated connector and base. The seated connector has a first and second cylinder section, the first cylinder section being used to align and direct the base into the seated connector and to provide lateral strength to the pipe.

Containers are mounted in rows on a display rack having shelves inclined upwardly so that articles on the shelf tend to slide forwardly. The containers arranged in rows located side by side across the width of the shelf are formed of board or as transparent plastic jars. Each container has a base on the shelf, upstanding front and rear walls and upstanding side walls with the front and rear walls inclined at a wall angle to a plane at right angles to the base the base so that with the base sitting on the inclined shelf the front and rear walls stand substantially upright. The front wall is higher than the rear wall to provide an exposed strip of each container of the row so that all strips can be seen in front elevation. The strip can be marked with a bar code.

There is described a method of balancing a multi-cell battery. An alignment distance for each cell of the multi-cell battery is determined. The alignment distance defines a change in charge quantity required to achieve a target alignment point, based on a current charge quantity of the cell. Based on the determined alignment distances, one or more unbalanced cells are identified. Each unbalanced cell is then balanced by adjusting its current charge quantity according to the alignment distances. In one embodiment, the target alignment point is a target state of charge. In another embodiment, the target alignment point is a target charge quantity.

Disclosed herein is a program listing display control apparatus including: a program listing picture storage block configured to store a program listing picture in which are disposed program time slots to which a plurality of broadcast programs are allocated; a display control block configured to control a display apparatus to display the program listing picture; a control information input block configured to input control information for controlling the acquisition of additional information to be added to the program listing picture; and an information acquisition block configured to acquire program identification information for identifying the programs to which the additional information is added and the additional information regarding the programs identified by the program identification information, on the basis of the control information input through the control information input block.

The present invention relates to a method for song searching by voice, especially the method with which users can complete settings and then start searching, so that the users' voices of search conditions will be acquired to make voice recognition, and the recognition results will be compared with the instruction data and song attribute data in the voice recognition database to obtain comparison data. If the comparison data do not correspond with the preset conditions, the next search condition generated from the comparison data will be broadcast with voice, and the users are allowed to speak out the next search condition to make comparisons of search conditions in the next process. If the comparison data correspond with the preset conditions, one or more song files will be read according to the comparison data and will be given a preview. With this method in hand, the users will not touch buttons or knobs by mistake, do not need to spend time in searching for song files one by one, and do not need to free one or both of their hands to press the buttons or knobs, either. Besides, the users can decide on such matters as search conditions, initial position of previews, whether to play immediately after choices are made, preview period, sequential or shuffle play, etc, thus promoting convenience for users in searching for songs and meeting preferences and needs of different users.

Various embodiments of a mesh or implant system are provided. In certain embodiments, a tissue fixation device is included. The tissue fixation device can include an eyelet structure having an opening and one or more teeth adapted to grasp tissue to secure the implant in place.

A system and method for sorting fish where the system comprises;—a trawl (2) consisting of at least one trawl bag (3,3′, 3″), and where the at least one trawl bag (3, 3′, 3″) has an opening which covers a part of an inflow area in the trawl (2),—at least one monitoring device (6) arranged in connection with the inflow area and where signals can be transmitted to a processing unit from the at least one monitoring device (6), and—where a device, based on data from the processing unit, can move the opening in the at least one trawl bag (3, 3′, 3″) to a position where fish flow through the inflow area but on the outside of the at least one trawl bag (3, 3′, 3″).

The present invention is a system and method of performing operations related to payment process such as performing parties' identification, transaction authorization and other in parallel to trade and other non-payment processes. This allows to significantly reduce and in some embodiments even eliminate time spent on processing payments. In some embodiments pattern recognition technologies allow to significantly automate process of obtaining user information, needed for transaction formation, while in other embodiments principles of continuous processing of transactions allow to eliminate times spent on waiting for transaction authorization.

A computing device-based system and method are described for generating a medical procedure description recorded into the system by a physician. The system and method manipulate a set of database records comprising medical content which is naturally descriptive of clinical procedures and clinically accurate diagrams which are naturally descriptive to document a medical procedure. To support the generation of a set of said medical procedure descriptions, the system and method provide interchangeable, connected, ontologically-based medical procedure database cartridges of medical content terms, rules, and diagrams that naturally describe constrained procedure representations for clinical procedure descriptions.

An air treatment apparatus, system and method for removal of health threatening airborne pollutants from an airflow is provided. The air treatment apparatus includes a ducting section having an inactivation zone created by either a plasma-generating flexible electrode alone, a UV light source alone, or a combination of a plasma-generating flexible electrode and a UV light source disposed within the interior of the ducting section, wherein the airflow and airborne pollutants are urged into the inactivation zone ensuring multiple exposures of airborne pollutant material into the inactivation zone resulting in purified air exiting from the apparatus.

A shopping basket washer and sanitizer includes an enclosure fitted with components that facilitate the entry and exit of shopping baskets and related or similar items for the purpose of washing, rinsing, disinfecting and/or drying. Within the apparatus, the baskets are washed, rinsed, disinfected and dried. The apparatus is intended primarily for use inside retail establishments so as to provide a continuous supply of clean and sanitary shopping baskets to customers.

The invention relates to an automatic device for performing skin biopsies, comprising a casing (2) housing a rod (3) on the distal end (3a) of which there is a circular blade (4), and means for causing simultaneous rotation and longitudinal advancement of the rod (3) from a first retracted position wherein the blade (4) of the rod (3) does not project via the distal end (2a) of the casing (2), to a second extended position wherein the blade (4) of the rod (3) projects via the distal end (2a) of the casing, followed by simultaneous rotation and longitudinal retraction of said rod (3) from said second extended position to said first retracted position.

A transmission electron microscope has a means for inputting a spatial size or distance d desired to be observed by the operator, calculates high contrast of an image based on this value and an observing condition which can reduce the influence of a false image superimposed, and desirably modulates an accelerating voltage of the electron microscope based thereon.

The invention relates to a tracking system and method comprising: a first and second tracking units comprising a satellite signal receiver, a microprocessor, a radio frequency (RF) transmitter and receiver; and an indicator means; and in which upon activation of the first unit, the first unit satellite signal receiver is arranged to receive satellite signals and to determine a location of the first unit. The first unit microprocessor is arranged in operation to receive the location from the first unit satellite signal receiver and generate a first unit location signal in dependence upon said location; and the first unit RF transmitter is arranged to transmit said signal; the second unit is arranged to receive satellite signals and calculate a second unit location; the second unit microprocessor is arranged in operation to receive the second unit location from the second unit satellite receiver. The second unit RF receiver is arranged to receive said first unit location signal; and the second unit microprocessor is arranged upon receipt of said first unit location signal to determine the first unit location; and determine a bearing and distance in dependence upon the first unit location and the second unit location; and indicate said bearing and distance on said second unit indicator means. The first tracking unit also includes a line of sight obstruction detecting means for detecting the presence of nearby obstructions, a height position determining means for determining the relative height of the first tracking unit, wherein the microprocessor includes means of calculating, with reference to a time source, an optimum communications window to transmit and receive an RF signal in the future, based on the detected nearby obstructions, if any, the height position data, and calculated predicted values for the wave height and period, and sends an instruction to the RF transmitter to transmit a signal in the optimum communications window.

A method for controlling the time which a user spends connected to a data communication network, comprising the steps of:

• • upon connection of a user to a data communication network, determining a profile of the user by determining the age group to which the user belongs;
  • calculating a time that the user has spent connected to the data communication network and comparing the connection time with a table which contains connection times which are predefined according to the different age groups of the user;
  • if the connection time is greater than the maximum allowable time for the age group of the user, automatically interrupting the connection to the data communication network.