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20090188055 | SULFONATED ESTOLIDES AND OTHER DERIVATIVES OF FATTY ACIDS, METHODS OF MAKING THEM, AND COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES EMPLOYING THEM - Sulfo-estolides and methods of making them are described. Useful methods include acid side bleaching, partial hydrogenation of the fatty acid, pretreatment of the fatty acid to provide color inhibition, acid side hydrolysis of the sulfo-estolides, or conversion of SHP to an essentially fully hydrolyzed product (HSHP) or a partially hydrolyzed product (PHSHP). Detergent formulations, such as laundry detergents, softeners, and other materials, containing any of these materials are disclosed. Laundry methods employing these formulations are also disclosed. These formulations are useful as laundry detergents and can be biodegradable, heavy duty liquids, 2× or 3× and up to 6× concentrates, low foaming, and/or effective in a high efficiency washing machine. Methods for laundering fabrics with the compositions are also disclosed. | 07-30-2009 |
20100016198 | Compositions Comprising Sulfonated Estolides And Alkyl Ester Sulfonates, Methods Of Making Them, And Compositions And Processes Employing Them - Compositions comprising sulfo-estolides and alkyl ester sulfonates are described. Detergent formulations, such as laundry detergents, softeners, and other materials, containing any of these materials are disclosed, as well as personal care formulations, hard surface cleaner formulations, and automatic dishwasher detergent formulations. Laundry methods employing these formulations are also disclosed. These formulations are useful as laundry detergents and can be biodegradable, heavy duty liquids, 2× or 3× and up to 6× concentrates, low foaming, and/or effective in a high efficiency washing machine. Methods for laundering fabrics with the compositions are also disclosed. | 01-21-2010 |
20110028381 | Low Solids, High Viscosity Fabric Softener Compositions and Process for Making the Same - Disclosed are low solids and high viscosity fabric softener compositions and processes for preparing them. The composition contains from about 0.05% to about 10% by weight of a rheology modifying fabric softening active comprising at least one long chain amine of the present technology, a derivative thereof, or a mixture thereof, and from about 1% to 10% by weight of an additional fabric softening active dispersed in water. | 02-03-2011 |
20120015864 | Low Solids, High Viscosity Fabric Softener Compositions and Process for Making the Same - Disclosed are low solids and high viscosity fabric softener compositions and processes for preparing them. The composition contains from about 0.05% to about 10% by weight of a rheology modifying fabric softening active comprising at least one long chain amine of the present technology, a derivative thereof, or a mixture thereof, and from about 1% to 10% by weight of an additional fabric softening active dispersed in water. | 01-19-2012 |
20120129955 | Compositions Comprising Sulfonated Estolides And Alkyl Ester Sulfonates, Methods Of Making Them, And Compositions And Processes Employing Them - Compositions comprising sulfo-estolides and alkyl ester sulfonates are described. Detergent formulations, such as laundry detergents, softeners, and other materials, containing any of these materials are disclosed, as well as personal care formulations, hard surface cleaner formulations, and automatic dishwasher detergent formulations. Laundry methods employing these formulations are also disclosed. These formulations are useful as laundry detergents and can be biodegradable, heavy duty liquids, 2× or 3× and up to 6× concentrates, low foaming, and/or effective in a high efficiency washing machine. | 05-24-2012 |
20140038874 | MULTI-ARM HYDROPHILIC URETHANE POLYMERS, METHODS OF MAKING THEM, AND COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES EMPLOYING THEM - Hydrophilic, multi-arm urethane polymers are described that are dispersible and/or soluble in water, and provide wetting, foaming and cleaning benefits for aqueous cleaning products, including hard surface cleaners, machine dishwash, and liquid hand dishwash compositions. | 02-06-2014 |
20140249068 | Concentrated Alkyl Ether Sulfate Amine Salt Compositions - Phase stable, concentrated liquid detergent compositions containing from 21% to 74% by weight of at least one alkyl ether sulfate amine salt anionic surfactant are disclosed. The concentrated liquid detergent compositions also include from 2% to 50% by weight nonionic surfactants and contain less than 50% by weight water. A concentrated surfactant composition containing from 70% to 99% of one or more alkyl ether sulfate amine salts and from 1% to 30% water is also disclosed for use in formulating the concentrated liquid detergent compositions. | 09-04-2014 |
20140366282 | Fabric Softener Compositions - Low-viscosity liquid fabric softening compositions are disclosed that comprise a fabric softener active system that contains at least one ammonium fabric softener compound and less than 8% added solvent. The fabric softening compositions have a Dispersion Parameter that is less than 100, provided the fabric softening active system has a viscosity of less than 2000 cP at 80° C. and the fabric softening composition has an initial viscosity of less than 400 cP. A method of preparing the liquid fabric softening composition and a method of softening fabric articles with the liquid fabric softening composition are also disclosed. | 12-18-2014 |
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20080275993 | Web service for user and subscription data storage - A data service that manages user and subscription data for multiple services. The data service maintains a database of the user and subscription data and provides an interface that allows the other services, that act as clients to the data service, to access that data. The data service avoids the need for the client services to implement a framework to manage the storage of user and subscription data. The data service also allows user profile data to be updated by one client service and used by all others. Further, data, such as usage history or information on policy violations, may be shared by multiple services. | 11-06-2008 |
20090327063 | Online Services Offer Management - Online services offer modeling is provided. A system for managing online offers for products and services includes a components module, an offer module, a subscription module, a billing module and a change management module. The component module defines the properties of components that may be included in an offer. The offer module defines the features of the offer, including one or more components. The components may be a base component or an add-on component. The subscription module processes the provisioning of an offer. The market module specifies countries or regions in which offers are made available. The billing module processes billing and payment actions for an offer. The change management module processes alterations to a provisioned offer, inserting the properties of an add-on component into the properties of a base component. | 12-31-2009 |
20120290627 | WRITE AGENT DELAYED WRITE TO DATA STORES - The reliable writing of data to multiple data stores using a write agent. The overall write operation is managed by a write manager that is communicatively coupled to the write agent and to a certain data store. Upon determined that multiple data stores are to be written to, the write manager first instructs the write agent to perform a delay write to other data store(s). The delay write means that the write agents waits a delay time before performing the write unless instructed in the meantime to more immediately perform the write, and if a delay passes, does not perform the write without first checking that the write has been made to the certain data store. After instructing the write agent to delay write, the write manager attempts to write to the certain data store. Upon successfully writing to the certain data store, the write manager may instruct the write agent to proceed immediately. | 11-15-2012 |
20130185253 | WEB SERVICE FOR USER AND SUBSCRIPTION DATA STORAGE - A data service that manages user and subscription data for multiple services. The data service maintains a database of the user and subscription data and provides an interface that allows the other services, that act as clients to the data service, to access that data. The data service avoids the need for the client services to implement a framework to manage the storage of user and subscription data. The data service also allows user profile data to be updated by one client service and used by all others. Further, data, such as usage history or information on policy violations, may be shared by multiple services. | 07-18-2013 |
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20100129074 | IN-BAND OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO DETERMINATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - There is provided a method for determining the in-band noise in agile multichannel Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical systems, where the interchannel noise is not representative of the in-band noise in the optical channel. The method relies on the analysis of two observations of the same input optical signal. In the two observations, the linear relationship between the optical signal contribution and the optical noise contribution (i.e. the observed OSNR) is different, which allows the discrimination of the signal and noise contributions in the input optical signal. In a first approach, the two observations are provided by polarization analysis of the input optical signal. In a second, the input optical signal is obtained using two different integration widths. | 05-27-2010 |
20110091206 | IN-BAND OPTICAL NOISE MEASUREMENT USING DIFFERENTIAL POLARIZATION RESPONSE - A method comprises: acquiring, for a number nSOP of varied State-Of-Polarization analysis conditions of the input optical signal, nSOP polarization-analyzed optical spectrum traces; mathematically discriminating said signal contribution from said noise contribution within said optical signal bandwidth using said polarization-analyzed optical spectrum traces, said mathematically discriminating comprising: obtaining a differential polarization response that is related to the optical spectrum of said signal contribution by a constant of proportionality; estimating the constant of proportionality of a differential polarization response to the optical spectrum of said signal contribution; estimating the optical spectrum of said noise contribution from said input optical signal, within said optical signal bandwidth using said constant of proportionality and said differential polarization response; and determining said in-band noise parameter on said input optical signal from the mathematically discriminated noise contribution. | 04-21-2011 |
20120201533 | Reference-Based In-Band OSNR Measurement on Polarization-Multiplexed Signals - There is provided a method for determining an in-band noise parameter, such as the Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (OSNR), on an optical signal-under-test (SUT) propagating along an optical communication link and comprising a data-carrying signal contribution of any arbitrary degree of polarization and a noise contribution. A spectral shape trace of signal contribution in the SUT is estimated using a reference optical spectrum trace of a reference signal which comprises a signal contribution that is spectrally representative of the signal contribution of the SUT and a noise contribution which is at least approximately known. The signal contribution is mathematically discriminated from said noise contribution in the SUT using the spectral shape trace and the test optical spectrum trace. The in-band noise parameter is then determined at least from the mathematically discriminated noise contribution. | 08-09-2012 |
20130163987 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING IN-BAND OPTICAL NOISE - There is provided a method for determining the in-band noise in agile multichannel Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical systems, where the interchannel noise is not representative of the in-band noise in the optical channel. The method relies on the analysis of two observations of the same input optical signal. In the two observations, the linear relationship between the optical signal contribution and the optical noise contribution (e.g. the observed OSNR) is different, which allows the discrimination of the signal and noise contributions in the input optical signal. In a first approach, the two observations are provided by polarization analysis of the input optical signal. In a second, the input optical signal is obtained using two different integration widths. | 06-27-2013 |
20130330071 | CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-ASE NOISE ON OPTICAL SIGNALS - There is provided a method for determining a noise parameter characterizing an optical Signal-Under-Test (SUT) having a signal contribution, an Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise contribution and a non-ASE optical noise contribution, such as a carrier-leakage contribution or a depolarized-signal contribution, within an optical-signal bandwidth. The method comprises acquiring optical spectrum trace(s) of the SUT, discriminating at least the non-ASE optical noise contribution from the ASE-noise contribution using the optical spectrum trace(s) and/or a trace obtained from the optical spectrum trace(s); and determining the noise parameter using discriminated non-ASE optical noise contribution and/or the discriminated ASE-noise contribution. | 12-12-2013 |
20140086574 | CHARACTERIZATION OF LINEAR CROSSTALK ON MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL SIGNALS - There is provided a method of determining at least one linear-crosstalk-related parameter of an optical signal-under-test having, within an optical channel bandwidth, at least a data-carrying signal contribution and a wavelength-dependent linear-crosstalk contribution arising from a data-carrying signal contribution of an adjacent optical signal associated with an adjacent channel to the optical signal-under-test, the method comprising: acquiring at least one optical spectrum trace encompassing a quasi-continuum of closely-spaced wavelengths over a spectral range extending to at least part of both the signal under test and the adjacent optical signal; and estimating said linear-crosstalk contribution using at least spectral properties of said at least one optical spectrum trace; wherein one of said at least one linear-crosstalk-related parameter is the linear-crosstalk contribution and is determined from said estimating. | 03-27-2014 |
20140328586 | SIGNAL DEFORMATION MEASUREMENT ON POLARIZATION-MULTIPLEXED SIGNALS - There is provided a method and an apparatus for determining quality parameters on a polarization-multiplexed optical signal based on an analysis of the power spectral density of the Signal-Under-Test (SUT). The method is predicated upon knowledge of the spectral shape of the signal in the absence of significant noise or spectral deformation. This knowledge is provided by a reference optical spectrum trace. Based on this knowledge and under the assumption that ASE noise level is approximately constant in wavelength over a given spectral range, the spectral deformation of the signal contribution of the SUT may be estimated using a comparison of the spectral variations of the optical spectrum trace of the SUT with that of the reference optical spectrum trace. | 11-06-2014 |
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20090164575 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPLEX NETWORK TELEPRESENCE CONFERENCE - A system and a method for dynamic establishment of telepresence conferences using standard protocol, such as SIP, for communications are provided. The method provides for negotiation of profiles of each location participating at the telepresence conference. The profiles provide information on the connectivity, positioning and configuration of the audiovisual elements, number of participating sites and number of participants at each location. These profiles are derived from the set of sites participating into the telepresence conference and their capabilities which are acquired through a dynamic scheme during the telepresence conference initiation. | 06-25-2009 |
20140281559 | Systems and Methods for Distributing, Displaying, Viewing, and Controlling Digital Art and Imaging - System and method for displaying digital content on a display device comprising at least one digital content item, configured to be displayed on the display device, a service cloud, comprising a server, memory, and processor, configured to store the digital content item as one or more encrypted slices, and a crypto controller, running on the service cloud server, configured to download a cypher key stored in the service cloud memory. The cypher key is configured to be encoded with a unique identification corresponding to the display device and lock the digital content item to that display device. The service cloud processor is configured to retrieve the encrypted slices, assemble the slices into one or more encrypted particles, and send the encrypted particles and the cypher key to the display device for assembly by the cypher key into the digital content item using an activation code provided by the crypto controller. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281579 | Systems and Methods for Decrypting Digital Art and Imaging for Display of the Same - System and method for securing digital content comprising one or more display devices, each comprising a processing controller, a first memory, and a display screen, and configured to display digital content, an application, configured to run on a computer with a second memory and second processor, and configured to communicate via the internet with the processing controller of each display device, and a service cloud, comprising a server, a third memory, and a third processor, configured to store and manage digital content to be displayed on the display devices. The processing controller is configured to segment at least one digital content item into a plurality of segments, encrypt one or more of the segments, send a small portion of each of the encrypted segments to the third memory in the service cloud for storage, and store the remainder of the encrypted segments in the first memory. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282071 | Systems and Methods for Distributing, Viewing, and Controlling Digital Art and Imaging - System and method for displaying digital content on a display device, comprising at least one digital content item configured to be displayed on the display device, a service cloud, comprising a server, first memory, and first processor, configured to store and manage digital content, and an application, configured to run on a computer with second memory, second processor, and user input device, and configured to communicate via the Internet with the display device and service cloud. In response to a signal from the user input device, the application detects a display of a digital content item on the application's interface, selects the digital content item display from a virtual representation of a digital library on the interface, and moves the digital content item display to a virtual representation of the display device on the interface. In response, the service cloud processor sends the digital content item to the display device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140313659 | Smart Frame for a Mobile Display Device - A frame for a mobile device with a memory and a processor running an application and a system for displaying digital content, comprising a frame assembly for the mobile device, comprising a processor, a media storage memory, a first body with a recess configured for receipt of a mobile device in the frame assembly, and a second body, configured to connect to the first body to enclose the mobile device. Preferably, at least one of the two sides comprises a connector, configured to connect with a corresponding connector of the mobile device, so that the processor of the frame is configured to communicate, through said connector, with the memory and processor of the mobile device. In an alternate embodiment, at least one of the two sides comprises a communication means, configured to communicate with the memory and processor of the mobile device through WiFi, Bluetooth, or the Internet. | 10-23-2014 |
20140340330 | Systems and Methods for Displaying, Distributing, Viewing, and Controlling Digital Art and Imaging - System and method for displaying digital content on a display device, comprising a display screen, a structural assembly, secured to the rear face of the display screen, and a processing controller within the structural assembly, comprising a memory, display processor, and power distribution and adaptation module. An external power assembly configured to connect to an external power supply, a connector cord configured to connect the power assembly and the power distribution and adaptation module, and a case for the display device, configured to couple to the display screen to provide structural rigidity during shipping, are also presented. An application is provided, configured to run on a computer with memory, processor, and user input device, and configured to communicate via the internet with the processing controller of the display device and a service cloud comprising a server, memory, and processor, to control the display of digital content on the display screen. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344334 | Systems and Methods for Controlling the Distribution and Viewing of Digital Art and Imaging Via the Internet - System and method for storing digital content for display on a display device, comprising at least one digital content item, configured to be displayed on the display device, and a service cloud comprising a secure storage system, configured to store digital content, a communication controller, configured to communicate with the display device, a provisioning engine, configured to control the provisioning of digital content on the display device, a service management system, configured to collect data reflecting operational status of the display device, a server, configured to interface with an application running on a computer with memory and processor for selection and control of digital content for display, an ingestion engine, configured to control importation of digital content, an external content gateway, configured to transfer digital content from outside the service cloud to the display device, and a live data feed gateway, configured to provide over-the-top content to the display devices. | 11-20-2014 |
20150070340 | Display Device for Displaying Digital Imaging - A system for displaying digital content comprising a display screen, comprising a processor, adapted to display digital content, a structural assembly, secured to the rear face of the display screen, configured to mount the display screen on a vertical surface, and a processing controller within the structural assembly configured to communicate with the display screen processor. The system also comprises power assembly, external to the display screen, configured to connect to an external power supply to power the display screen, a connector cord configured to connect the display screen and the power assembly, and a wall mounting device configured to matingly secure to the structural assembly to hang the display screen on a vertical surface. Finally, the system includes an application, configured to run on a computer with memory and processor, and configured to communicate with the processing controller to control the display of images on the display screen. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070594 | Case for a Display Device Displaying Digital Imaging - A display device system comprising a display screen, adapted to display digital content, a structural assembly, secured to the rear face of the display screen, configured to mount the display screen on a vertical surface, and a case for the display screen comprising a main body, one or more handles connected to the main body, and a locking mechanism, configured to releasably secure to the display screen. The main body is configured to couple and decouple from the display screen to provide structural rigidity during transportation, and is configured to surround at least the perimeter of the display screen. The rear side of said structural assembly comprises a recessed mounting mechanism configured to mate with a mounting device on a vertical surface, and the handles of the case are configured to position the display screen on the mounting device and be decoupled from the display screen thereafter. | 03-12-2015 |