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20140026678 | Device Intended For Measuring Pressure From A Flexible, Foldable, And/Or Extendable Object Made Of A Textile Material And Comprising A Measurement Device - The present invention relates to a device for measuring the pressure and/or the tension exerted at different points of a flexible, foldable and/or extensible textile material capable of being used as a garment, lapel, or the like; said device is remarkable in that it includes, on the one hand, at least one sensor obtained from a single layer (1), formed of an arrangement of at least three types of fibers, piezoresistive fibers forming piezoresistive areas (2), conductive fibers forming electrically-conductive areas (3), and insulating fibers forming electrically-insulating areas (4) and, on the other hand, an electronic circuit (5) capable of measuring the electric resistance variation of the piezoresistive areas submitted to one or several forces. | 01-30-2014 |
20140150573 | Device for Measuring Pressure from a Flexible, Pliable, and/or Extensible Object Made from a Textile Material Comprising a Measurement Device - A device and method for measuring the pressure exerted at different points of a flexible, pliable and/or extensible fabric capable of being worn as a garment, lapel, or the like, which provides three stacked layers including a first insulating layer comprising an arrangement of insulating fibers and at least one row of at least one conductive yarn in contact with a first surface of a piezoresistive layer of fibers of a piezoresistive material, and a second insulating layer comprising an arrangement of insulating fibers, including at least one row of at least one conductive yarn, in contact with a second surface of the piezoresistive layer, and an electronic circuit capable of measuring the electric resistance variation when a pressure is exerted on the fabric, the pressure being a function of the resistance variation. | 06-05-2014 |
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| 05-28-2009 |
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| 03-11-2010 |
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20100274760 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO CONTENTS BY USERS - A control device belongs to a network equipment connected to a communication network to which are coupled communication equipments of users capable of storing contents. This control device comprises i) a first analyzing means arranged for determining respective popularities of contents of a collection from at least user information, and for determining a number of replicas for each content of this collection from at least its determined content popularity, and/or ii) a second analyzing means arranged for determining content preference(s) of users from content ratings, and iii) a computation means arranged for determining location(s) for storing the replica(s) of each content, from the determined content replica numbers and/or the determined user's content preferences, in order to optimize the access to these contents by the users. | 10-28-2010 |
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20110255429 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING LINK COST METRICS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method for measuring link cost metrics and evaluating their accuracy with respect to reference measure of link quality in a communication network, said method comprising the steps of: during a given time interval, simultaneously transmitting several types of probe packets and data traffic, and estimating a plurality of link cost metrics (metricA, metricB, . . . , metricN) and a reference measure of link quality for a set of communication links; evaluating the accuracy of the estimated link cost metrics (metricA, metricB, . . . , metricN) by computing their correlation with the reference measure of link quality; and collecting cross-layer information for each probe packet. | 10-20-2011 |
20120179784 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONFIRMATIONS OF DATA TRANSFERS BETWEEN COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENTS, BY DATA COMPARISON - A method is intended for generating confirmations of data transfers between communication equipments connected to a communication network. This method consists, when an application running in a first communication equipment wants to transfer data packets to at least one second communication equipment, i) in transmitting a request, comprising communication identifiers of the first and second communication equipments and requesting a data transfer control, to first and second auxiliary communication equipments acting as interfaces between the communication network and the first and second communication equipments, respectively, and ii) in storing auxiliary data representative of these data packets transferred through the first and second auxiliary communication equipments, these stored auxiliary data constituting proofs of transmission of the data packets by the first communication equipment and of reception of at least some of these data packets by the second communication equipment. | 07-12-2012 |
20120271933 | METHOD TO MANAGE AN OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATION NETWORK - This relates to message propagation in an opportunistic communication network. Nodes of the network each have a ranking which is compared when the nodes connect, and message is transferred from one node to the other in dependence on the relative values of their respective rankings. The ranking is dependent on a plurality of parameters. One parameter is a social parameter determined by the social contacts of a user associate with a node, for example determined from the contact directory of that person either locally or from a central database such that located on a Face book servicer. Another parameter is the number of physical connections established by a node. The ranking values of connecting nodes is updated when they connect. By combining both parameters, a more efficient forwarding path for messages is obtained. | 10-25-2012 |
20130173920 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY VERIFYING STORAGE OF REDUNDANT CONTENTS INTO COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENTS, BY DATA COMPARISON - A method is intended for verifying storage of contents into communication equipments connected to at least one communication network. This method consists, when a first communication equipment stores a content and wants to verify that this content is still stored into a second communication equipment: i) in transmitting a first request, comprising at least an identifier of this content and first data representative of this content and requiring verification of the storage of this content into the second communication equipment, to an auxiliary communication equipment acting as an interface between the communication network and the second communication equipment, ii) in transmitting a second request, comprising at least the content identifier, to the second communication equipment, to require transmission of second data representative of the content to the auxiliary communication equipment, and in triggering a timeout having a chosen duration, and iii) if the auxiliary communication equipment has received the second data before expiration of this timeout, in comparing these received second data, possibly after having processed them, to the received first data, and in transmitting a message representative of the result of this comparison to the first communication equipment. | 07-04-2013 |
20140379516 | CONTEXT BASED RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - A method and system for a context based search recommendations is provided. A context based search can be facilitated for the construction of cold start recommender systems. Contextual information can be mined from review texts from sources such as websites, and analyzed for common traits per context group. From this context information the most applicable reviews for the user can be provided. One embodiment provides a method for providing recommendations. The method includes the steps of preprocessing one or more reviews based on features of the one or more reviews, obtaining context information about user; and determining score for user based on obtained user context information and features of the one or more reviews. | 12-25-2014 |
20150177292 | TRACKING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE USAGE - A system for tracking usage patterns of electrical appliances is disclosed. The system comprises a central database configured to receive and store information; a plurality of energy sensors each of the plurality of sensors being configured to measure a change in electrical energy use by a corresponding one of a plurality of electrical appliances; at least one presence sensor configured to determine when at least one user is proximate to the plurality of electrical appliances and send presence information to the central database; and a processor configured to extract features from such information and create at least one user profile corresponding to the at least one user and a pattern of electrical energy use associated with the at least one user based on said features. | 06-25-2015 |
20150332705 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MICROPHONE ARRAY CALIBRATION - A method, apparatus and system for microphone array calibration include recording audio using at least two microphones, which comprise an array of microphones, using a target microphone of the array of microphones, determining an attenuation factor for audio originating from respective locations of other microphones of the array of microphones, using a target microphone of the array of microphones, determining a delay factor for audio originating from respective locations of other microphones of the array of microphones and implementing the determined attenuation factor and delay factor for removing audio originating from respective locations of the other microphones of the array of microphones from an audio signal captured by the target microphone. The method, apparatus and system then further include removing audio originating from respective locations of the other microphones of the array of microphones from an audio signal captured by the target microphone using beam-forming techniques. | 11-19-2015 |
20160049163 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ISOLATING MICROPHONE AUDIO - A method, apparatus and system for isolating microphone audio include recording audio using at least two microphones using a target microphone of the array of microphones, determining an attenuation factor for audio originating from respective locations of other microphones using a target microphone of the array of microphones, determining a delay factor for audio originating from respective locations of other microphones of the array of microphones, and implementing the determined attenuation factor and delay factor for removing audio originating from respective locations of the other microphones from an audio signal captured by the target microphone to isolate the audio signal captured by the target microphone. The method, apparatus and system further include processing the isolated audio signal of the target microphone to determine audio attributes of the isolated audio signal of the target microphone and determining using the audio attributes, respective sources of audio in the isolated audio signal. | 02-18-2016 |