34 results about "Repurposing" patented technology

Conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) in digital media delivery, processing, and storage systems. Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing digital rights under the protection of multiple CA and/or DRM systems. Some embodiments provide secure and robust methods for bridging multiple DRM systems in the digital media content distribution and playback systems. The present invention simplifies content repurposing, after it has been bridged to a secondary DRM system, but still under the control of the original DRM system.

A content summary is generated by determining a relevance of each of a plurality of scenes, removing at least one of the plurality of scenes based on the determined relevance, and creating a scene summary based on the plurality of scenes. The scene summary is output to a graphical user interface, which may be a three-dimensional interface. The plurality of scenes is automatically detected in a source video and a scene summary is created with user input to modify the scene summary. A synthetic frame representation is formed by determining a sentiment of at least one frame object in a plurality of frame objects and creating a synthetic representation of the at least one frame object based at least in part on the determined sentiment. The relevance of the frame object may be determined and the synthetic representation is then created based on the determined relevance and the determined sentiment.

A system and method for connection labeling for use with connection pools, including support for cloud-based multi-tenant environments using connection labeling. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a connection pool, including a plurality of connection objects which provide connections that software applications can use to make requests to access the database, wherein each of the connections can be labeled according to the configuration of particular applications; and a connection pool logic that identifies connections labeled as high-cost connections, and controls the creation or repurposing of high-cost connections to serve requests from the multiple tenants or tenant applications.

The disclosed invention provides a system and apparatus for monitoring battery status and usage to facilitate battery protection, battery repurposing and battery maintenance. Wireless interrogation of a battery's location and key attributes provides efficiencies to manage the total lifecycle of an electric vehicle battery, whether installed in a vehicle or in an environment external to the vehicle environment. A wireless battery tether, combined with a wireless battery reader, a wireless battery gateway and a centralized battery monitoring server allows management of the high-voltage battery through its lifecycle.

A system and method to quickly and efficiently transfer data over a network to a processing system during a pre-boot runtime of the processing system. During a pre-boot runtime of the processing system, a plurality of data packets is received via a network. Each of the plurality of data packets contains one of a corresponding plurality of data segments. The plurality of data packets are parsed using a network protocol stack to extract the plurality of data segments during the pre-boot runtime. A portion of the network protocol stack is executed in a hardware entity of the processing system. The plurality of data segments is transferred into system memory of the processing system during the pre-boot runtime.

Described herein are methods of predicting drug-target interactions and method of using the information for drug repurposing. The methods described herein combine different descriptors including, for example, shape, topology and chemical signatures, physico-chemical functional descriptors, contact points of the ligand and the target protein, chemical similarity, and docking score.

Robots and methods implemented therein implement an active repurposing of temporal-spatial information. A robot can be configured to analyze the information to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the primary service function that generated the information originally. A robot can be configured to use the information to create a three dimensional (3D) model of the facility, which can be used for a number of functions such as creating virtual tours of the environment, or porting the environment into video games. A robot can be configured to use the information to recognize and classify objects in the facility so that the ensuing catalog can be used to locate selected objects later, or to provide a global catalog of all items, such as is needed for insurance documentation of facility effects.

A computing system automatically analyzes various drug or other compound targets using biologic activity data for cellular proteins, and develops a target/anti-target matrix identifying pharmacologically responsive targets intended for drug engagement, and pharmacologically responsive anti-targets intended for avoidance of drug engagement. The system separates compounds into subsets based on biological threshold data and groups proteins through pharmacological similarity. The system ranks protein groupings in generating the matrix and uses the rankings to recommend compounds and compound groupings for testing to treat a pathology. The system compares new compounds against the matrix to recommend new compounds for testing.

Comprehensive multimedia content re-purposing relating to wireless communications employs content constructs that are compact representations of the content information. For video content, the constructs are content operators that represent 2D image regions and/or 3D volumetric regions for objects within the sequence and characterized by various visual attributes, and are extracted from the video sequence by segmentation utilizing video processing techniques. The constructs are employed for intra- and inter-modality transformation to accommodate resource constraints of the mobile device.

Systems and methods for managing enterprise-level interrelated content items used in Web sites. In accordance with the present disclosure, site objects, channel objects and content objects are associated with each other to form a hierarchical site structure. The content objects are linked to corresponding content items in a content repository, and are grouped together by association with channel objects in the site structure. Each of the objects in the site structure has an associated set of content services and can be deployed individually or in combination, while maintaining references to the related objects in the hierarchical site structure.

A cosmetic repurposing system and associated apparatuses to enable the extraction and reuse of cosmetic materials that otherwise would be wasted. The compact and portable nature of the cosmetic repurposing system allows for ease of use. Further, the standardization of sizes enable the specific application of the system for use within a variety of compacts, makeup kits and in association with a variety of other cosmetic containment vessels.

This invention provides that Ropinirole (4-[2-(Dipropylamino)ethyl]-1,3-dihydro-2H-indol-2-one) possess potent urease inhibitory potential (in vitro) with 97.3% inhibition and IC₅₀=11.7+0.46 μM, when compared to the standard inhibitors i.e. acetohydroxamic acid (IC₅₀=41.5+1.50 μM), and thiourea (IC₅₀=21.0+0.50 μM).

This invention pertains to the use of the ingredients for the purpose of removing nasal strip adhesive from the nose after the nasal strip has been removed.

Above mentioned invention consists of the repurposing of an existing product (Carbamide peroxide 6.5%) and/or (Hydrogen peroxide 3%).

The Carbamide peroxide and/or the Hydrogen peroxide releases, upon application onto the nose, oxygen and helps soften, loosen and remove the sticky adhesive to allow the consumer to more easily wipe it from the nose.

The invention discloses application of a Xiyanping injection for preparation of drugs for treating and/or preventing the neurodegenerative disease. Through experimental data, it can be known that the Xiyanping injection better improves the learning and memory capability of AD mice, in conclusion, the good improving effect is achieved on the mouse Parkinson's disease, and compared with the levodopa, side effects are avoided; and thus, the new application and action mechanisms are provided for drug repurposing of the Xiyanping injection, new prospects are developed for clinical application of the Xiyanping injection, and the Xiyanping injection is capable of achieving mass production in industry, capable of being applied to clinic and is remarkable in effect. Under the precondition that medical and pharmaceutical researchers do not perform relevant experiments, the medical and pharmaceutical researchers cannot know that the Xiyanping injection has good application in preparation of the drugs for treating and/or preventing the neurodegenerative disease in advance.

Recycling spent hydrophobic polymeric media can beneficially utilize waste oil to dissolve the media. The method employs simple equipment and materials, many or all of which are already on location in various industrial operations such as fracking operations or food production factories. The method does not call for landfilling spent media, thus reducing the environmental impact and reducing expense. Transport costs for spent media and disposal fees can likely decrease. The resulting product can be sold to refineries for further processing and repurposing, thus generating additional revenue.