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An improved method and apparatus for organizing, sorting, navigating and selecting for use, one or more multimedia content items available from one or more varied types of multimedia content sources, based on a multimedia content user's characteristics, preferences and entitlements, and multimedia content item attributes and characteristics. In a first aspect of the invention, a method and architecture (FIG. 11) are disclosed which uses an information structure hierarchy of parameter sets and included parameters and their associated information fields contained therein to facilitate identification, description, location and characterization of multimedia content items, multimedia content sources, and user characterizing information. In a second aspect of the invention, a method and architecture are disclosed for sorting multimedia content items by applying sorting criteria expressed in the type and format of the multimedia content item, multimedia content source and user identification, description, location and characteristics information (FIGS. 9, 10), at the time of content creation, distribution and delivery through a multimedia content source and at the time multimedia content is selected by a multimedia content user (FIG. 8), for the purposes of identifying and presenting those items appropriate for a particular multimedia content user. In a third aspect of the invention, a method and architecture are disclosed for displaying on a television or computer screen connected to a multimedia terminal, a plurality of video windows containing a menu and visual rendering (FIG. 12) of only those multimedia content items identified as appropriate for the particular multimedia content user, based on the sorting criteria. In a fourth aspect of the invention, a method and architecture are disclosed for navigating the plurality of display windows (FIGS. 14 through 19) for the purposes of selecting a multimedia content for use by the particular multimedia content user.

A laser diode, grown on a miscut nonpolar or semipolar substrate, with lower threshold current density and longer stimulated emission wavelength, compared to conventional laser diode structures, wherein the laser diode's (1) n-type layers are grown in a nitrogen carrier gas, (2) quantum well layers and barrier layers are grown at a slower growth rate as compared to other device layers (enabling growth of the p-type layers at higher temperature), (3) high Al content electron blocking layer enables growth of layers above the active region at a higher temperature, and (4) asymmetric AlGaN SPSLS allowed growth of high Al containing p-AlGaN layers. Various other techniques were used to improve the conductivity of the p-type layers and minimize the contact resistance of the contact layer.

In one embodiment, an application integration system receives business application information and generates certain business flow and state information for the application, users based on the shared business content within the system. The content driven routing process facilitates the routing of application processes and user communication on the basis of the business content. The content-based routing process establishes integration connections on demand among users and or applications based on the business content utilized by their respective applications. Content data is encapsulated within a content table that consists of a number of tags that describe various parameters related to the content, such as user profiles, application that use the content, and data types within the content, so that it can be properly routed within the hub and processed by the integrated applications. The routing process of the collaboration hub routes the content or task to the appropriate user in the system and provides the hooks to invoke the appropriate application or otherwise process the content.

The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and / or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content—the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.

A biosensor with multi-channel A / D conversion and a method thereof are provided. The present biosensor includes a chip generating a time-dependent analog signal in response to a content of a specific component of a specimen provided thereon, a multi-channel A / D converter, and a microprocessor. The multi-channel A / D converter has multiple channels simultaneously receiving the time-dependent analog signal in each sampling interval to convert the time-dependent analog signal to a set of digital signals. The microprocessor receives the sets of digital signals in a period of sampling time and determines the content of the specific component based on the sets of digital signals. The present biosensor provides a multi-channel A / D conversion for the time-dependent analog signal to improve the resolution of the determination of the content of the specific component.

A method is provided for associating content objects with a database wherein the content objects are accessible over a network communication medium by a user. The method includes: receiving a suggestion for a new content object for addition to the database; approving the suggested content object; generating a list of information users desiring the approved content object; compelling an information provider to provide the desired content object based at least in part on demand identified by the generated list; and making the generated content object available to the database.

A process and method for separating CO2 from a gaseous stream such as natural gas. An ionic liquid comprising an anion having a carboxylate function is used as an adsorbent to selectively complex the CO2 yielding a gaseous stream with a greatly reduced CO2 content. The ionic liquid can then be readily be regenerated and recycled.

An aspect of the present invention relates to a hexagonal barium ferrite magnetic particle, wherein, relative to 100 atom percent of a Fe content, an Al content ranges from 1.5 to 15 atom percent, a combined content of a divalent element and a pentavalent element ranges from 1.0 to 10 atom percent, an atomic ratio of a content of the divalent element to a content of the pentavalent element is greater than 2.0 but less than 4.0, and an activation volume ranges from 1,300 to 1,800 nm3.

A flip chip-type nitride semiconductor light emitting diode includes a light transmittance substrate, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer and a mesh-type DBR reflecting layer. The mesh-type DBR reflecting layer has a plurality of open regions. The mesh-type DBR reflecting layer is composed of first and second nitride layers having different Al content. The first and second nitride layers are alternately stacked several times to form the mesh-type DBR reflecting layer. An ohmic contact layer is formed on the mesh-type DBR reflecting layer and on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer.

Embodiments of the present invention provide services that enable individuals to rent and / or purchase content over the Internet and to receive it electronically, referred to below as “EZTakes.” This content may include movies, TV shows, music, games and other information typically distributed on CD / DVD. EZTakes leverages high-speed broadband Internet connections, peer-to-peer networking, digital rights management (DRM) and the growing prevalence of home computers that now typically feature large hard drives (e.g. 180+gigabytes) and have the capability to “burn” (i.e. create) DVDs and / or CDs. EZTakes bridges the gap between the home computer and the living room by using standard technologies that consumers already own and are already familiar with: home computers, DVD media, DVD players and the Internet. EZTakes also promotes the interests of content owners (e.g. movie production companies) by expanding their revenue opportunities through enabling them to distribute their content assets over the Internet. EZTakes also includes technical control mechanisms, such as digital watermarking, that could not easily be exploited when using physical DVD / CD distribution channels.

The present invention provides a flip chip-type nitride semiconductor light emitting diode. The nitride semiconductor light emitting diode comprises a light transmittance substrate, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer and a mesh-type DBR reflecting layer. The mesh-type DBR reflecting layer has a plurality of open regions. The mesh-type DBR reflecting layer is composed of first and second nitride layers having different Al content. The first and second nitride layers are alternately stacked several times to form the mesh-type DBR reflecting layer. An ohmic contact layer is formed on the mesh-type DBR reflecting layer and on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer.

A multimedia content distribution method including a) storing an item of a multimedia content, b) firstly transcoding the content for playback on a first multimedia device, c) generating a content ID of the firstly transcoded content, d) storing the content ID of the firstly transcoded content in association with the stored content, e) accessing the stored content using the content ID of the firstly transcoded content, and f) secondly transcoding the stored content for playback on a second multimedia device.

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for management and rendering of RSS content, including receiving aggregated RSS content in native form, synthesizing the items of the aggregated native form RSS content into synthesized RSS content, and presenting the synthesized RSS content. Synthesizing items of the aggregated native form RSS content into synthesized RSS content may also include translating aspects of the items of the aggregated native form RSS content into uniform text and markup. Management and rendering of RSS content may also include receiving RSS preferences from a user and creating prioritization rules in dependence upon the RSS preferences for synthesizing RSS content.

An optical semiconductor device such as a light emitting diode is formed on a transparent substrate having formed thereon a template layer, such as AlN, which is transparent to the wavelength of emission of the optical device. A variable period variable composition superlattice strain relief region is provided over the template layer such that the composition of the strain relief region approaches or matches the composition of the regions contiguous thereto. For example, the Al content of the strain relief region may be tailored to provide a stepped or gradual Aluminum content from template to active layer. Strain-induced cracking and defect density are reduced or eliminated.

A light-emitting element using GaN. On a substrate (10), formed are an SiN buffer layer (12), a GaN buffer layer (14), an undoped GaN layer (16), an Si-doped n-GaN layer (18), an SLS layer (20), an undoped GaN layer (22), an MQW light-emitting layer (24), an SLS layer (26), and a p-GaN layer (28), forming a p electrode (30) and an n electrode (32). The MQW light-emitting layer (24) has a structure in which InGaN well layers and AlGaN barrier layers are alternated. The Al content ratios of the SLS layers (20, and 26) are more than 5% and less than 24%. The In content ratio of the well layer in the MQW light-emitting layer (24) is more than 3% and less than 20%. The Al content ratio of the barrier layer is more than 1% and less than 30%. By adjusting the content ratio and film thickness of each layer to a desired value, the light luminous efficiency for wavelength of less than 400 nm is improved.

Techniques are disclosed for enabling end users to selectively subscribe to information content, without requiring the content provider to provide a subscription interface. A user preferably views a content source (such as a Web page) in a Web clipper, and selects content of interest. In preferred embodiments, the user's selection are then communicated to a component which transcodes them into a markup language document, and this document is used to create a set of one or more conditions to use when evaluating whether a subsequent version of the original content is of interest to this subscribing user. The conditions are preferably registered with a content matching component, and one or more actions to be taken upon a successful match are also stored for use at the time of the subsequent content evaluation.

A computer system provides access to a corpus of social media content; extracts from the corpus of social media content one or more ratings of an item of media content; identifies the author of each of the one or more ratings; analyzes the content of each of the one or more ratings of an item of media content and assigns a value to each of the one or more ratings; analyzes the corpus of social media content and assigns an impact coefficient to the author of each of the one or more ratings; aggregates the values of the one or more ratings, weighted by the assigned impact coefficients of the author of each of the one or more ratings, and determines therefrom an aggregated value; and based on the aggregated value, assigns an emotional impact value to the item of media content.

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for publishing content. Embodiments include aggregating, for a user, content of disparate data types from disparate data sources; synthesizing the aggregated content of disparate data types into synthesized content including data of a data type for delivery to a particular RSS rendering device; and publishing the synthesized content through an RSS feed.

The invention is directed to a device that carries out secure distribution of a license particularly necessary for using a digital content in a copyrighted digital content distribution system. By a method of distributing a license according to the invention, a license encryption key for distribution is produced by a license distribution server based on a seed produced on the user terminal side according to a prescribed function F and the user terminal transmits a license based on the same seed and the same function F by a common-key method in a tamper resistant module. On the user terminal side, the stored seed is deleted once the license is decrypted.

A method and apparatus for protecting digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system are provided. The method includes: determining a usage bind of content based on usage constraint information of the content; and generating a license of the content for each usage bind. According to the method and apparatus, by generating the license of the content with respect to each usage bind, the content can be protected in a variety of ways with respect to the usage bind of the content, in addition to the conventional content protection by usage constraint information.

A ferrite magnetic material and ferrite sintered magnet composed thereof have a ferrite having a hexagonal crystal structure as a main component. A composition ratio of a metallic element included in the main component is represented by: RxA1-x(Fe12-yCoy)z. R is at least one element selected from La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm and at least includes La. A is at least two elements selected from Ca, Sr and Ba and at least includes Ca and Sr. Si component and either or both of Al component and Cr component are included as a sub-component. When a sum of Al content and a value obtained by dividing Cr content by four and a value obtained by calculating the formula [(R+A)−(Fe+Co) / 12] / Si where R, A, Fe, Co and Si indicate values of each atom % thereof are defined as L and G, respectively, L and G have to be values within a predetermined region.

An AlGaInP layer is formed on a substrate made of GaAs, and an AlGaAs layer is formed on the AlGaInP layer via a buffer layer therebetween. The buffer layer has a thickness of about 1.1 nm and is made of AlGaInP whose Ga content is smaller than that of the AlGaInP layer. The buffer layer may alternatively be made of AlGaAs whose Al content is smaller than that of the AlGaAs layer.

A computer-implemented system and method for obtaining information related to media content is disclosed. The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method including: inspecting a user dataset to obtain a list of media content items, extracting characteristic information and metadata from media content items, optionally enhancing metadata by obtaining more metadata based on the characteristic information, optionally obtaining filtering preferences from the user; and using at least a portion of the content metadata and the filtering preferences to obtain related event information from an external source.

A flux-cored wire for gas-shielded arc welding comprises a steel sheath, and a flux filled in the steel sheath. The flux-cored wire has a C content of 0.20% by mass or below, a Si content in the range of 0.06 to 1.10% by mass, a Mn content in the range of 0.55 to 1.60% by mass, a Cr content of 2.60% by mass or below, a Mo content in the range of 0.30 to 1.50% by mass, a Mg content in the range of 0.20 to 1.50% by mass, a N content in the range of 0.005 to 0.035% by mass and a B content in the range of 0.001 to 0.020% by mass on the basis of the total mass of the flux-cored wire. The flux has a TiO2 content in the range of 4.2 to 8.2% by mass and a fluorine compound content in terms of F content in the range of 0.025 to 0.55% by mass on the basis of the total mass of the flux-cored wire, and the flux-cored wire has an Al content of 0.50% by mass or below, a Nb content of 0.015% by mass or below, and a V content of 0.015% by mass or below on the basis of the total mass of the flux-cored wire. The flux-cored wire forms a weld metal that is resistant to ferrite band maintains proper tensile strength and excellent toughness even if the weld metal is processed at high temperatures for a long time for PWHT. The flux-cored wire has satisfactory usability

Techniques for rendering content natively on a local operating system, by executing a local executive as a native application on the target operating system. In some embodiments, a content emitter such as a portlet preferably invokes, by its normal inclusion mechanism, a markup emitter directed toward the native user interface environment. The markup streams created by locally-executing portlets are collected by the local executive, but instead of being combined into a browser-based markup stream as in the prior art, one or more windows represented by the markup streams is / are created for rendering with the native operating system. An association is maintained between the created window and the portlet(s) emitting content for that window, and controls can be created and valued for the window using this association. In other embodiments, the content emitters execute remotely and deliver content that is adapted for native rendering.

Methods and apparatus for batch loading and self-registration of digital media files is provided. The system provides numerous methods of interfacing with a content outlet. The methods further include comparing attributes of content to be downloaded with attributes of content in a media database. The methods also includes providing restrictions based on a result of the comparing. The methods further include monetizing the methods between both retailers and right-holders using the system. Additionally, the method may include providing retail analysis, resolving disputes, and distributing royalty payments to rights-holders of content.

A web content adaptation process and system is described which allows for the automated production of different versions of web content with reference to a set of intended display device characteristics, and for the adapted content versions to be saved such that they can then be provided to a requesting user at a later date if required. Adaptation is performed by analysing the content of the original web content, and then applying a sequence of transformations in order to the content. After each transformation has been applied an evaluation is undertaken to determine if the transformed content is suitable for the intended display device.