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A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient describing how important certain characteristics of the broadcast video program, movie or other data are to each customer. From these profiles, an "agreement matrix" is calculated by comparing the recipient's profiles to the actual profiles of the characteristics of the available video programs, movies, or other data. The agreement matrix thus characterizes the attractiveness of each video program, movie, or other data to each prospective customer. "Virtual" channels are generated from the agreement matrix to produce a series of video or data programming which will provide the greatest satisfaction to each customer. Feedback paths are also provided so that the customer's profiles and/or the profiles of the video programs or other data may be modified to reflect actual usage. Kiosks are also developed which assist customers in the selection of videos, music, books, and the like in accordance with the customer's objective profiles.

In an exemplary embodiment, a battery conditioning system monitors battery conditioning and includes a memory for storing data based thereon; for example, data may be stored representative of available battery capacity as measured during a deep discharge cycle. With a microprocessor monitoring battery operation of a portable unit, a measure of remaining battery capacity can be calculated and displayed. Where the microprocessor and battery conditioning system memory are permanently secured to the battery so as to receive operating power therefrom during storage and handling, the performance of a given battery in actual use can be accurately judged since the battery system can itself maintain a count of accumulated hours of use and other relevant parameters. In the case of a nonportable conditioning system, two-way communication may be established with a memory associated with the portable unit so that the portable unit can transmit to the conditioning system information concerning battery parameters (e.g. rated battery capacity) and/or battery usage (e.g. numbers of shallow discharge and recharge cycles), and after a conditioning operation, the conditioning system can transmit to the portable unit a measured value of battery capacity, for example. A battery pack having memory stores battery history and identifying data to be retrieved by a portable battery powered device. Battery status information may be utilized in conjunction with characteristic battery history data in order to optimize charging and discharging functions and to maximize the useful life of a battery pack.

A method and system for visualizing actual and predicted usage patterns through a web site is provided. A plurality of web pages may be represented as a node and visualized on a dome tree. The dome tree is a three-dimensional image of a dome, with a portion of the outer wall removed, displayed on a two-dimensional monitor. Paths into and out of each node are displayed using a variety of colors and patterns and information relating to the nodes and paths may also be accessed. By designating a web page as the root node each of the associated pages are laid out within the dome tree radially based on actual usage information. Predicted information for each node is displayed as a bar near the node, thereby assisting a user in understanding the relationship between actual and predicted usage patterns.

The present invention relates generally to mill blank constructions to facilitate the manufacture of dental restorations. A given mill blank is formed in a shape (i.e. with a given geometry) that has been predetermined to reduce material waste when the mill blank is machined into the final part. A set of two or more blanks each having such characteristics comprise a smart blank “library.” In one embodiment, a smart blank library includes a sufficient number of unique blanks such that, when the geometry of the designed restoration is known, the smart blank with a highest yield can be selected for use in milling the restoration. The “yield” of a given smart blank represents the amount of material of the smart blank that is actually used in the final restoration. Automated processes for smart blank inventory management and smart blank selection are also described.

A method and a computer program product for measuring and monitoring performance in a computer network environment that includes multiple clients and one or more servers providing one or more services is disclosed. The method includes monitoring the performance at each client based on true requests send to the servers over a network connection. The performance at each client is collected at a performance monitor database, where the collected performance data can be extracted to yield the performance of e.g. specific servers or services towards a specific client or a group of clients or the performance of a connection between a server and a client. The system performance is thereby measured at the clients where the system performance is actually utilized. The present invention thereby provides a more realistic scenario of the actual system performance than prior art systems based on monitoring server performance at the servers or through simulated clients.

Controlling access to a specific resource on a mobile telephone comprises the steps of (a) associating an identity with a permission state, in which an identity is a label applicable to one of several entities on whose behalf the resource could potentially be used and the permission state defines whether or not the resource can actually be used; and (b) allowing use of the resource solely to an entity or entities labelled with an identity associated with a permission state that does permit such use.

An apparatus, program product and method track the location of a vehicle during at least a portion of a period of the time associated with an economic transaction so that risks associated with the actual usage of the vehicle can be accommodated in the costs for the transaction. In particular, a determination is made during a time period associated with an economic transaction as to whether the vehicle is located at a location having an increased level of risk. Costs for the economic transaction are then adjusted based at least in part on the presence of the vehicle in a location with an increased level of risk. In one exemplary environment, car rental rates are adjusted based upon the actual usage of a rented vehicle. In another exemplary environment, insurance premiums are adjusted based upon the actual usage of an insured vehicle. In either event, usage that results in a vehicle being located in areas of comparatively higher risk can be accounted for in additional transactional costs, resulting in improved allocation of risk and minimization of economic inefficiencies.

Method and system for managing a plurality of remote assets, such as a fleet mobile assets is provided. The method allows for collecting data regarding each of a plurality of remote assets. The collected data is used to develop historical information regarding actual usage of each remote asset. The information is distributed via a global information network.

The invention discloses an adjustable multi-band antenna system which is applicable to a mobile terminal with a metal frame structure. The antenna system comprises a metal frame, a PCB (printed circuit board) and an antenna portion. The metal frame is designed to be one portion of an antenna radiator, a loop is formed by the metal frame and the antenna radiator together, a single-stage branch portion is used for debugging low-frequency and high-frequency resonances, and a low-frequency coupling portion and a high-frequency coupling portion can be added according to requirements of working bands. The adjustable multi-band antenna system has the advantages that gaps of the metal frame are formed at the bottom, users are avoided from touching the gaps as much as possible in actual use, and poor antenna performance is avoided during actual handholding; the working bands of the adjustable multi-band antenna system are 704MHz-960MHz and 1710MHz-2700MHz, and a multi-frequency broadband is realized; compared with traditional common antennas, the adjustable multi-band antenna system has the advantages of multiple bands and wide bandwidth.

Dynamically and intelligently identifying used parts and automatically locating actual used parts. A programmed computer system receiving an electronic vehicle repair estimate with a new part, type cross referencing a type of the new part in the estimate with a type of a used part, according to a used part type database, cross referencing the type of the used part with a used part identifier, according to a used part identifier database, identifying actual used parts corresponding to the new part by searching a used parts database based on the used parts identifier.

A method for setting a safe work area and a rated load in a swing type work machine, as well as a swing type work machine which utilizes the said method, are disclosed. An area where a strength-based safe work area which is established taking the strength of a swing member into account and a stability-based safe work area which is established taking the stability of the work machine into account overlap each other, is set as a safe work area to be used actually. Likewise, out of a strength-based rated load which is set taking the strength of the swing member into consideration and a stability-based rated load which is set taking the stability of the work machine into consideration, the lower one is set as a rated load to be used actually. Using the safe work area and rated load thus obtained, there are made a safety control and an appropriate display. According to this method, in a swing type work machine such as a crane, it is possible to establish a safe work area and a rated load both matching the actual hoisting capacity of the work machine.

The invention discloses an electric drive fracturing semi-trailer of a frequency conversion integrated machine. The optimization and integration of the traditional power supply semi-trailer and the fracturing semi-trailer realize the functions of power supply and fracturing of one semi-trailer without using the complete set of the power supply semi-trailer and the fracturing semi-trailer, the electric drive fracturing semi-trailer is more flexible in actual use, and the well field layout of oil and gas fields is greatly optimized; the transportation is convenient; only a set of high-voltage cables can be connected with the high-voltage power supply to reach a working state, and the wiring installation is faster; compared with diesel-driven fracturing, and the noise of the electric drive fracturing is low without exhaust emission pollution; the driving source is power, which has lower cost than the diesel; the electric drive fracturing semi-trailer adopts an integrated design of a motorand a frequency converter (namely, the frequency conversion integrated machine), the space occupied by the electric motor and the inverter in the prior art is reduced effectively, so the installing part of the electric drive fracturing semi-trailer has smaller volume and the transportation is more convenient, and can also provide space guarantee for installing other equipment on the semi-trailerbody.

A system and method for testing at least one application is provided. The system comprises a test plan or script creation module for enabling a user to create at least one test plan or script for use in testing the at least one application. The system also comprises a test results module for initiating and determining test results associated with testing of the at least one application according to the at least one test plan or script. In some embodiments, the test results module determines: (1) baseline test results achieved by resolving the at least one test plan or script against the at least one application prior to the application being put to actual use, and (2) dynamic test results achieved by resolving the at least one test plan or script against the at least one application after the at least one application has been put to actual use. The system may also include a comparison module for comparing the dynamic test results with the baseline test results.

The underlying invention generally relates to the field of mobile computing in a wireless mobile networking environment with distributed multimedia applications (130). More specifically, it is directed to the field of Quality-of-Service (QOS) management for adaptive real-time services running on mobile devices and an End-to-End Negotiation Protocol (E2ENP) based on a novel usage of a session-layer protocol (SIP) in conjunction with extensions of a session description protocol implementation (SDP, SDPng) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for defining user profile and terminal capability information which allow to enforce and use hierarchical QOS Contract specifications. Thereby, said End-to-End Negotiation Protocol (E2ENP) is applied to derive negotiable information, which enables a prenegotiation, fast negotiation and a fast, dynamic re-negotiation of the end-to-end quality and capabilities for a telecommunication session, for multiple configurations of two or a multiplicity of end peers and/or middleware in a consistent, reliable, and incremental way by enabling the mobile applications to efficiently and timely react to QoS violations. Furthermore, the invention pertains to the concept and realization of a novel E2ENP User Agent (128) which encapsulates the signaling part of E2ENP and expresses the information to be negotiated in an interchangeable format in such a way that heterogeneous applications (130) can easily agree on a reference model applied to orchestrate local, peer, and network resources according to the preferences and profiles of the respective user in a coordinated manner. According to one embodiment of the invention, the employed E2ENP sessionlayer protocol Application Programming Interfaces (101a-e) are independent of the actually used session-layer protocol and session description protocol implementations.

A system, program product, and method for monitoring and managing a plurality of marine riser assets is provided. The system can include one or more floating vessels each carrying a shipboard computer, a plurality of riser assets to be tracked and monitored, a riser asset identification sensor positioned to identify select riser assets being deployed to establish a riser string, one or more riser joint instrument modules positioned along the length of the riser string to provide riser asset load data, a centralized data warehouse to store riser asset identification and loading data for riser assets deployed at multiple remote vessel locations, and a riser lifecycle management server and riser lifecycle management program product adapted to monitor riser asset conditions, issue automated service alerts based on actual use information, maintain routine and non-routine maintenance records, manipulate and categorize riser assets, and automatically generate an accurate riser system configuration as was actually deployed for any particular drilling/completion operation.

A shower head structure includes a showerhead made up of a main body adjustably mounted to a water outlet coupling tube and rotated in any angles wherein the main body has a limiting separation board properly preset at one side thereof to divide a water-collecting space and a concaved space at both sides thereby, and a plurality of tubular water guiding conduits protruding at preset positions of the limiting separation board thereon to communicate with both the water-collecting space and the water outlet coupling tube thereof. Each of the water guiding conduits is securely registered with a universal connector to which a water outlet spray head with various types of water outlet apertures such as net-like, tubular, or misty water outlet apertures disposed thereon is mounted thereby. Therefore, the water outlet spray heads can be individually and freely adjusted in any angles, permitting the showerhead to deliver water from various angles and in versatile patterns simultaneously for showering purpose, efficiently boosting the interest and function of the present invention in practical use.

The present invention provides a three-dimensional digital entity magnifying glass technique-assisting and training/educational distribution system incorporating three-dimensional visual training functions by means of image composition that enables a three-dimensional visual instruction containing a depth when giving visual instructions to an HMD worn by a medical practitioner to thereby display only images of a pointing device or various kinds of instruments among image information of the instructor's CCD camera and synchronously and compositely displaying a three-dimensional visual training image output from an image-processing apparatus that can display an after-image of the image for an arbitrary time setting into image information of the CCD camera, thereby providing equal-scaling display of image information to which an instruction and a comment by use of a visual display/instruction image are added three-dimensionally as well as an instrument actually used by the instructors (groups of lecturers) on the three-dimensional HMD of the medical practitioner.

Computer-implemented methods and systems for estimating liability for a vehicle accident are provided. In one embodiment, an actual speed of a vehicle involved in an accident may be estimated. At least one specified speed of a vehicle involved in the accident may be provided to a computer system. In an embodiment, the specified speed may be a speed limit. In other embodiments, the specified speed may be a safe speed of the vehicle involved in an accident. The actual speed may be compared to at least one specified speed. In some embodiments, an effect on liability may be estimated based on the comparison.

Example methods and systems provide for the provisioning of virtual machines on a physical infrastructure based on actual past resource usage of a plurality of virtual machines currently deployed on the physical infrastructure. Upon receiving a request for a new virtual machine based on specified resource requirements, actual usage data that indicate past resource usage of the plurality of current virtual machines are accessed, and provisioning parameters for the new virtual machine are calculated based at least in part on the actual usage data and the specified resource requirements.

A light emission apparatus that can restrict deterioration of resin used for the light emission apparatus, and that has a reasonable structure fit for actual use is provided, in which a light reflective layer is provided to cover the side surfaces of the chips 26 provided in the concave 2a. According to this, excitation light reflected by the phosphor layer 32, such as ultraviolet light, is reflected again by the light reflective layer 27. Therefore, the excitation light will not reach the resin layer 21, thereby restraining the deterioration of the resin. Moreover, the light reflective layer 27 covers the side surfaces of the chips 26, thereby efficiently conducting the heat emitted from the chips 26 to the metal substrate 20 via the resin layer 21. This improves the heat-dissipation efficiency of the chips 26.

A flag logic circuit is provided for use in a multi-queue memory device having a plurality of queues. A first stage memory stores a flag value for each of the queues in the multi-queue memory device. Flag values are routed from the first stage memory to a flag status bus having a width N in the manner described below. A status bus control circuit receives a signal that identifies the number of queues M actually used by the multi-queue memory device, and in response, generates a repeating pattern of X control values, wherein X is equal to (M−(M mod N))/N+1. A selector circuit sequentially routes X sets of N flag values from the first stage memory to the flag status bus in response to the repeating pattern of X control values. The X sets of N flag values include the flag values associated with the queues actually used.

A radio receiver is described that processes multiple wireless standards using a single antenna according to embodiments of the invention. The radio receiver includes a single antenna, and a low noise amplifier that is connected to the antenna, without an intervening power divider or power splitter. The output of the low noise amplifier feeds multiple wireless receivers in a parallel arrangement that are operating according to different communications standards, including for example a Bluetooth and a WLAN 802.11. Additional wireless standards and their corresponding receivers could be added as well. The input impedance of the low noise amplifier defines the impedance seen by the antenna, regardless of which operational standard is actually in use. Each signal path includes an additional low noise amplifier having a gain that can be customized for the particular signal path and receiver in use, and which also improves the reverse isolation between signal paths. Further, a switch can be added to one or more of the signal paths so as to further improve isolation when a particular path is not being used.

The invention discloses a prediction method for a life cycle of a battery. The prediction method comprises the following steps: drawing a curve of the number of discharge and capacity fading rate; determining a function model of the capacity fading rate Qloss of the battery and the number of discharge N of the battery; substituting data of a certain impact factor impacting the life of the battery into the function model, wherein Qloss is 50-80 percent of the nominal capacity of the battery; calculating to obtain the expected cycle period N of the battery. According to the prediction method disclosed by the invention, as long as little cyclic test is performed on the battery, the residual life of the battery can be judged, and therefore, the test time is greatly shortened and the test cost is greatly reduced; the objective condition of capacity fading during the actual use process of the battery can be truly and comprehensively described, the life and the residual life of the battery can be obtained, the performance of the battery can be helped to be determined, and the life of the battery is prolonged. As the established model is universal, the prediction method disclosed by the invention is suitable for establishing life fading models of various storage batteries.

The invention discloses a multi-frequency antenna system applicable to a mobile terminal with a metal frame structure. The multi-frequency antenna system comprises a metal frame, a PCB and an antenna part. The metal frame is designed to be part of an antenna radiation body, two gaps are formed in the bottom portion of the metal frame, a feeding wiring part and the metal frame together form a T-shaped monopole antenna or an IFA antenna so that the metal frame itself can be used for producing low frequency and high frequency resonance, and other coupling parts can be additionally arranged to be used for adjusting the low frequency and high frequency resonance according to the needs of working frequency bands. The multi-frequency antenna system has the advantages that due to the fact that the gaps of the metal frame are formed in the bottom portion, a user can be prevented from touching the gaps during the actual use process, and the phenomenon that the performance of the antenna is poor when the antenna is held by a hand is avoided; the working frequency bands of the multi-frequency antenna system are 704Mhz-960Mhz and 1710Mhz-2700Mhz, and multi-frequency broadband is realized; compared with a traditional general antenna, the multi-frequency antenna system is multiple in frequency band and broad in frequency width; the antenna structure of the multi-frequency antenna system is small in occupied space, and mutual influence cannot be generated between the antenna structure and surrounding environments.

Improved approaches to matching sensitivities of microphones in multi-microphone directional processing systems. These approaches operate to adaptively match microphone sensitivities so that directional noise suppression is robust. As a result, microphone sensitivities remain matched not only over time but also while in actual use. These approaches are particularly useful for hearing aid applications in which directional noise suppression is important.

Provided is an ink set including a plurality of inks each of which contains a water-insoluble coloring material and enabling ink-jet record images to be stably formed. The ink set includes first to nth aqueous inks for ink-jet recording, each of the aqueous inks containing a water-insoluble coloring material, an aqueous medium and a dispersant for dispersing the pigment in the aqueous medium, and a water-soluble organic compound, wherein the first to the nth aqueous inks are different from each other in pigment concentration based on the total weight of the each ink; and the first to the nth aqueous inks have the same or substantially the same viscosity at an actual usage temperature (T1).