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20100185671 | PERSONALIZED MEDIA RECOMMENDATION - Systems and methods for personalized media recommendation are provided. One example system may include a media server including a media database containing a plurality of media tracks and a database schema defining multiple media styles. The media server may further include a media delivery engine configured to transmit media tracks to each of a plurality of media clients. The system may further include a feedback module configured to receive history data from each of the media clients. Further still, the system may include a recommendation engine configured to compute a plurality of user-specific style weights, and to select one or more recommended media tracks for each user, The recommendation engine may be further configured to send a recommendation message to the media client including media links to the recommended media tracks on the media server, to cause the media client to display the media links to a user. | 07-22-2010 |
20110314030 | PERSONALIZED MEDIA CHARTS - Personalized media charts are described. In embodiments, a request can be received for a personalized media chart that lists media assets as recommendations in a relevant order for a user. The media assets are initially ordered in the personalized media chart according to a chart rank for each media asset. A relevance factor is then determined for each of the media assets, where the relevance factor for a media asset indicates a relevance of the media asset to the user. A chart rank adjustment is calculated for each of the media assets based on the relevance factors for each of the media assets, and the media assets are then reordered in the personalized media chart according to the chart rank adjustments for each of the media assets. | 12-22-2011 |
20140114990 | BUFFER ORDERING BASED ON CONTENT ACCESS TRACKING - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to buffering portions of a digital content item in different orders for different users. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of providing a buffer ordering for a digital content item. The method includes tracking content access information for each user of a plurality of users, the content access information for each user comprising information regarding how content portions of each of one or more digital content items were accessed by the user. The method further comprises providing a different buffer ordering for a first user of a selected digital content item than for a second user based upon the content access information. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115096 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT BASED ON CONTENT ACCESS TRACKING - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to generating digital content recommendations for a user based upon how the user accesses the assets of a digital content item. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method including receiving from a remote computing device content access information regarding an order in which content portions of a selected digital content item were accessed by the user, and, storing the content access information. The method further includes comparing the content access information for the user to content access information for other users that consumed the selected digital content item to determine other users with similar content access patterns, and sending digital content recommendations to the user based upon content consumption information for the other users. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115157 | MULTIPLE BUFFERING ORDERS FOR DIGITAL CONTENT ITEM - Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to buffering digital content items in different orders for different user experiences. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides, on a computing device, a method for providing a buffering order for a digital content item. The method includes receiving from a remote computing device a request to access a selected digital content item, the selected digital content item comprising a plurality of content portions consumable in a plurality of different orders, the plurality of different orders corresponding to a plurality of user experiences for the selected digital content item, and in response, providing a selected content provision schema selected from a plurality of content provision schemas for the selected digital content item, each content provision schema defining a buffering order of the plurality of content portions of the selected digital content item for a corresponding user experience of the selected digital content item. | 04-24-2014 |
20140149636 | INTEGRATED ARCHIVAL SYSTEM - Embodiments are disclosed for presenting a digital content item comprising a plurality of content portions. One example embodiment includes a computing device comprising a primary content storage machine, where the primary content storage machine is configured to selectively store one or more content portions of a digital content item. The computing device is configured to determine a dynamically changing content access window including one or more content portions useable to provide an above-threshold user experience based on a current access position of the digital content item. The computing device is configured to dynamically load the primary content storage machine with the content portions of the digital content item corresponding to the content access window and dynamically unload the content portions of the digital content item outside of the content access window from the primary content storage machine. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164627 | PEER-TO-PEER PERFORMANCE - Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to improving distribution of digital content in a peer-to-peer network. For example, future snapshots of a peer-to-peer network are predicted and used to determine that a computing device may be better off waiting until a future point in time to download specific digital content. For another example, computing devices are mapped into different groups based on location information, and inter-group information is used to identify other computing devices for a computing device to send download requests for digital content. For a further example, information indicative of scarcity associated with different digital content units is used to prioritize distribution of the digital content units. For still another example, computing devices are grouped into clusters and different computing devices within the same cluster download different digital content units so that the computing devices within the same cluster collectively obtain all of the different digital content units. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172968 | PEER-TO-PEER DOWNLOAD THROUGHPUT - Certain embodiments relate to use of aggressive peering requests, which enable a peer computing device to obtain desired digital content more quickly than typically possible in a P2P network. In certain embodiments, an aggressive peering request comprises a request that another peer computing device, to which the aggressive peering request is sent, dedicates substantially all of, or a disproportionately large amount of, its P2P resources to servicing a specific peer computing device. Other embodiments relate to identifying, based on accessed information, peer computing devices that are predicted to be available as an uninterrupted seed, and thus, can be used to increase download throughput in a P2P network. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172971 | CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF A P2P NETWORK - Telemetry data from a plurality of peer computers of a peer-to-peer network is aggregated via a computer network. Each of the plurality of peer computers sends telemetry data relating to transfer of a digital content item within the peer-to-peer network. A mitigation operation that modifies transfer of a digital content item between peer computers of the peer-to-peer network is performed according to one or more health metrics of the peer-to-peer network. The one or more health metrics are derived from the telemetry data aggregated from the plurality of peer computers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172972 | CONTENT SOURCE SELECTION IN A P2P NETWORK - Telemetry data from a plurality of peer computers of a peer-to-peer network is aggregated via a computer network. Each of the plurality of peer computers sends telemetry data related to transfer of a digital content item within the peer-to-peer network. A content-acquisition request querying for a recommended content source to provide a first digital content item is received from a first peer computer of the peer-to-peer network via the computer network. A response to the content-acquisition request is sent to the first peer computer via the computer network. The response identifies a second peer computer of the peer-to-peer network that has the first digital content item as the recommended content source. The second peer computer is selected according to a peer selection metric derived from the telemetry data aggregated from the plurality of peer computers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173022 | MANAGED P2P NETWORK WITH CONTENT-DELIVERY NETWORK - A content-acquisition request is sent to a centralized management service computer via a computer network. The content-acquisition request may query the centralized management service computer for a recommended content source to provide a first digital content item. If a response to the content-acquisition request is received via the computer network and identifies a recommended peer computer of a peer-to-peer network as the recommended content source, a request to download the first digital content item is sent to the recommended peer computer via the computer network. If a response to the content-acquisition request is not received, a fallback request to download the first digital content item is automatically sent to a content-delivery network computer via the computer network. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173024 | CONTENT-ACQUISITION SOURCE SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT - A plurality of sources storing portions of a digital content item that includes a plurality of pieces is identified. The plurality of sources includes one or more local storage machines of a computer and one or more peer computers of a peer-to-peer network. For each piece of the plurality of pieces of the digital content item, that piece is downloaded from a source. The source is selected from the plurality of sources according to one or more download metrics. The plurality of pieces is organized for installation on the computer as the digital content item. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173070 | UPDATING OF DIGITAL CONTENT BUFFERING ORDER - Embodiments for dynamically varying a buffering order of a digital content item are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a computing device configured to receive content access information for a plurality of client devices, the content access information describing consumption of a digital content item provided according to a buffering order previously sent to each client device of the plurality of client devices. The computing device is further to dynamically update the buffering order based on the content access information to produce an updated buffering order and to send the updated buffering order to one or more client devices. | 06-19-2014 |
20140221084 | DYNAMIC BUFFER - Buffering an interactive digital content item includes downloading the interactive digital content item, and beginning execution of the interactive digital content item with a buffer after enough of the interactive digital content item is downloaded to fill the buffer and before the interactive digital content item is completely downloaded. The size of the buffer is dynamically set as a function of one or more experience parameters. | 08-07-2014 |
20150032810 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION USING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - Embodiments of the present invention enable users to allocate resources on their client devices according to relationships with other users. Resources include content such as games or movies. In one embodiment, a content provider directs a requesting device to a peer device that has access to the requested content. When users are in a social relationship, the users' devices are said to be socially affiliated. A user's social network is a collection of the user's electronic relationships with other people. Embodiments of the present invention allow users to establish sharing preferences for one or more client devices. In general, a sharing preference gives an individual preferential access to a user's computing resources on the one or more client devices. The access is preferential when compared to access given to nonsocially affiliated computing devices. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110054803 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Gas Flux - Disclosed embodiments of the present invention provide means to obtain correct gas density and flux measurements using (i) gas analyzer (open-path, or closed-path gas analyzers with short intake tube, for example 1 m long, or any combination of the two); (ii) fast temperature or sensible heat flux measurement device (such as, fine-wire thermocouple, sonic anemometer, or any other device providing fast accurate gas temperature measurements); (iii) fast air water content or latent heat flux measurement device (such as, hygrometer, NDIR analyzer, any other device providing fast accurate gas water content measurements); (iv) vertical wind or sampling device (such as sonic anemometer, scintillometer, or fast solenoid valve, etc.) and (v) algorithms in accordance with the present invention to compute the corrected gas flux, compensated for T-P effects. In case when water factor in T-P effects is negligible, the fast air water content or latent heat flux measurement device (item iii in last paragraph) can be excluded. | 03-03-2011 |
20110270534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING GAS FLUX - Disclosed embodiments of the present invention provide means to obtain correct gas density and flux measurements using (i) gas analyzer (open-path, or closed-path gas analyzers with short intake tube, for example 1 m long, or any combination of the two); (ii) fast temperature or sensible heat flux measurement device (such as, fine-wire thermocouple, sonic anemometer, or any other device providing fast accurate gas temperature measurements); (iii) fast air water content or latent heat flux measurement device (such as, hygrometer, NDIR analyzer, any other device providing fast accurate gas water content measurements); (iv) vertical wind or sampling device (such as sonic anemometer, scintillometer, or fast solenoid valve, etc.) and (v) algorithms in accordance with the present invention to compute the corrected gas flux, compensated for T-P effects. In case when water factor in T-P effects is negligible, the fast air water content or latent heat flux measurement device (item iii in last paragraph) can be excluded. | 11-03-2011 |
20110273704 | Direct, Diffuse, and Total Radiation Sensor - A solar radiation detector comprises a shading element that casts a shadow over one of a number of sensors disposed about the shading element. The shading element and the sensors are spaced in relation to each other that the shadow cast by the shading element always falls on one of the sensors, completely shading that one sensor, while at the same time leaves at least another one of the sensor completely exposed to direct solar radiation. The completely shaded sensor measures substantially only diffuse solar radiation. | 11-10-2011 |
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20130250304 | SEMI-OPEN-PATH GAS ANALYSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A gas analyzer includes a detector section including a detector, a source section including a light source, and a support structure coupling the detector section with the source section and forming a flow channel defining an optical path measuring region. The gas analyzer also includes an air flow device configured to pull air through the flow channel from an intake region in the support structure to an exhaust region. Sampling is done by pulling air into the sampling cell via an intake opening or tube of wide diameter and short to medium at very fast flow rates (e.g., 10-3000 lpm or more) enabling rapid gas sampling. Fast flow rates enable the use of large volume cell for rapid gas sampling, which in turn, enables rapid measurements of many low-concentration trace gases and sticky/reactive gases (e.g., methane, ammonia, isotopes of CO | 09-26-2013 |
20130268208 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING GAS FLUX - Systems and methods for measuring turbulent gas flux using high-speed vertical wind speed measurements (e.g., on the order of 5-10 Hz or more frequently) and low-speed gas content measurements (e.g., on the order of 5 Hz or less frequently), without the need for the sophisticated and expensive high-speed hardware to separate gas samples (e.g., into accumulation bags) according to updrafts and downdrafts. A time series of high-speed vertical wind speed data is used as a guide to distinguish between updrafts and downdrafts. When vertical wind speed is upward (updraft), the low-speed gas content is recorded into a data structure in one location, or marked with one flag. When vertical wind speed is downward (downdraft), the low-speed gas content is recorded into a different location, or marked with a different flag. Eddy Accumulation or Relaxed Eddy Accumulation computations can be performed using the stored gas content data to determine gas flux. | 10-10-2013 |
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20100155330 | TARGET MATERIAL REMOVAL USING RARE EARTH METALS - The present invention is directed to the removal of one or more selected target materials from various streams using a rare earth metal-containing fixing agent. | 06-24-2010 |
20120074071 | PROCESS FOR TREATING WATERS AND WATER HANDLING SYSTEMS TO REMOVE SCALES AND REDUCE THE SCALING TENDENCY - The present disclosure includes an embodiment to a method for treating water and/or a water handling system to decrease deposit formation and/or to remove a deposit. More particularly, to a method for treating water and/or a water handling system with one or more rare earths to decrease deposit formation and/or to remove a deposit. Struvite is an example of deposit material that can be removed and/or deposition inhibited by treating a water and/or water handling system with one or more earths. | 03-29-2012 |
20120103909 | PARTICULATE CERIUM DIOXIDE AND AN IN SITU METHOD FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME - This disclosure relates generally to methods and compositions for removing contaminants from streams and is particularly concerned with methods and compositions for removing contaminants from municipal wastewaters, municipal drinking waters and recreational waters. The present disclosure is to particulate cerium, more particularly to particulate cerium (IV) formed by an in situ oxidative process and to a method for removing target materials from a target material-containing stream using particulate cerium formed in situ. | 05-03-2012 |
20120187047 | RARE EARTH REMOVAL OF HYDRATED AND HYDROXYL SPECIES - This disclosure relates generally to methods and rare earth-containing additives for removing target materials in the form of hydroxides, carbonates, hydrates, or oxyhydroxyls from, a typically aqueous, liquid medium. | 07-26-2012 |
20120187337 | RARE EARTH REMOVAL OF PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING MATERIALS - This disclosure relates generally to methods and rare earth-containing additives for removing inorganic and organic phosphorus-containing target materials. | 07-26-2012 |
20120223022 | CONTAMINANT REMOVAL FROM WATERS USING RARE EARTHS - The present disclosure is directed to the use of rare earth-containing additives, particularly rare earth-containing additives comprising rare earths of plural oxidation states, to remove, particularly from recreational waters, various target materials, such as disinfectant by-products and precursors thereof, phosphates, and organophosphates. | 09-06-2012 |
20120238683 | COMPOSITION AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE COMPOSITION - An aggregate composition and process for making the aggregate composition. The aggregate composition includes an insoluble rare earth-containing compound and a polymer binder. The insoluble rare earth-containing compound can include one or more of cerium, lanthanum, or praseodymium. A suitable insoluble cerium-containing compound can be derived from cerium carbonate or a cerium salt. In a specific embodiment, the aggregate composition consists essentially of one or more cerium oxides, the polymer binder and optionally a flow aid. A process for making the composition includes mixing the insoluble rare earth-containing compound with a polymer binder to form a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to mechanical, chemical and/or thermal treatment to adhere the rare earth compound to the polymer binder. The aggregate composition can be used in a variety of fluid treatment applications to remove one or more chemical and biological contaminants in a fluid. | 09-20-2012 |
20120261345 | RARE EARTH REMOVAL OF HYDRATED AND HYDROXYL SPECIES - This disclosure relates generally to methods and rare earth-containing additives for removing target materials in the form of hydroxides, carbonates, hydrates, or oxyhydroxyls from, a typically aqueous, liquid medium. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261347 | NON-METAL-CONTAINING OXYANION REMOVAL FROM WATERS USING RARE EARTHS - The present disclosure is directed to the use of rare earth-containing additives, particularly rare earth-containing additives comprising rare earths of plural oxidation states, to remove non-metal-containing oxyanions. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261611 | RARE EARTH REMOVAL OF PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING MATERIALS - This disclosure relates generally to methods and rare earth-containing additives for removing inorganic and organic phosphorus-containing target materials. | 10-18-2012 |
20130001094 | Lanthanide-Mediated Water Splitting Process for Hydrogen and Oxygen Generation - The application generally relates to a process for generating hydrogen, oxygen or both from water. More particularly, the application generally relates to a lanthanide-mediated electrochemical and/or photoelectrochemical process for generating hydrogen, oxygen or both from water. | 01-03-2013 |
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20110002971 | CERIA FOR USE AS AN ANTIMICROBIAL BARRIER AND DISINFECTANT IN A WOUND DRESSING - The present invention relates to protecting a human from an infection using a disinfecting agent as described herein and a method for use thereof, more particularly to a rare earth-containing device for protecting a wound and a method for use thereof. | 01-06-2011 |
20110303871 | REMEDIATION OF PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM WASTE WATER - The present invention is directed to the removal of one or more selected target materials, in particular a physiologically active compound contaminant, from various streams using a rare earth fixing agent. | 12-15-2011 |
20120031827 | AGGLOMERATION OF HIGH SURFACE AREA RARE EARTHS - The subject invention relates generally to friable metal oxide agglomerates and specifically to agglomerates containing high surface area rare earth-containing materials and a polymeric binder. | 02-09-2012 |
20120328681 | CERIA FOR USE AS AN ANTIMICROBIAL BARRIER AND DISINFECTANT IN A WOUND DRESSING - The present invention relates to protecting a human from an infection using a disinfecting agent as described herein and a method for use thereof, more particularly to a rare earth-containing device for protecting a wound and a method for use thereof. | 12-27-2012 |
20140007773 | COMPOSITION AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE COMPOSITION - An aggregate composition and process for making the aggregate composition. The aggregate composition includes an insoluble rare earth-containing compound and a polymer binder. The insoluble rare earth-containing compound can include one or more of cerium, lanthanum, or praseodymium. A suitable insoluble cerium-containing compound can be derived from cerium carbonate or a cerium salt. In a specific embodiment, the aggregate composition consists essentially of one or more cerium oxides, the polymer binder and optionally a flow aid. A process for making the composition includes mixing the insoluble rare earth-containing compound with a polymer binder to form a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to mechanical, chemical and/or thermal treatment to adhere the rare earth compound to the polymer binder. The aggregate composition can be used in a variety of fluid treatment applications to remove one or more chemical and biological contaminants in a fluid. | 01-09-2014 |
20140239224 | Sorbent for Lithium Extraction - This invention relates to a method for preparing a lithium aluminate intercalate (LAI) matrix solid and methods for the selective extraction and recovery of lithium from lithium containing solutions, including brines. The method for preparing the LAI matrix solid includes reacting aluminum hydroxide and a lithium salt for form the lithium aluminate intercalate, which can then be mixed with up to about 25% by weight of a polymer to form the LAI matrix. | 08-28-2014 |