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20090037430 | Unwired enterprise platform - Systems, methods and computer program products for inherently integrating mobility with an enterprise are described herein. Enterprise data is accessed from one or more data sources data sources, wherein such data sources may comprise structured and unstructured data sources. The data is transferred from the enterprise to a plurality of mobile devices over a plurality of diverse networks. In an embodiment, such transfer takes into consideration characteristics of the diverse networks. The enterprise receives data generated by mobile devices while performing enterprise-related operations at the wireless edge. The enterprise responds to environmental changes using the received data. | 02-05-2009 |
20110154287 | Visual Generation of Mobile Applications Based on Data Models - Systems, methods and computer program products for mobile device application design are described herein. The method accesses a data model corresponding to a selected mobile platform. The data model is used by a device application designer to generate, model, and debug a mobile application. The data model is used to take into consideration characteristics of the selected platform and a selected mobile device as the application is designed. The application is structured and generated for a selected platform that is independent of the data model, but is cognizant of the selected platform. A simulator models the application user interface (UI) as it will appear on the selected platform. The method performs platform-specific validation and allows for correction of various aspects of a generated application including platform-specific features. The tool generates a graphical image that can guide a developer to either generated code or help files corresponding to framework libraries. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161983 | Dynamic Data Binding for MBOS for Container Based Application - Systems, methods and computer program products for dynamically binding data from a remote data source in a container-based mobile application are described herein. The method includes the steps of: 1) defining a metadata source that references both a mobile business object (MBO) and the mobile application, the MBO being connected to the remote data store; 2) binding an attribute from the MBO to the mobile application using the metadata source; and 3) changing, dynamically, the binding of the attribute while the mobile application is executing. | 06-30-2011 |
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20110263989 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A CENTRAL AORTIC PRESSURE WAVEFORM FROM A PERIPHERAL ARTERY PRESSURE WAVEFORM - A method is provided for determining a central aortic pressure (AP) wave-form for a subject. The method includes measuring a peripheral artery pressure (PAP) waveform from the subject, employing a distributed model to define a pressure-to-pressure transfer function relating PAP to AP and a pressure-to-flow transfer function relating PAP to a central arterial flow in terms of the same unknown parameters, estimating the unknown parameters by finding the pressure-to-flow transfer function, which when applied to the measured PAP waveform, minimizes the magnitude of the central arterial flow waveform during diastole, and applying the pressure-to-pressure transfer function with the estimated parameters to determine an AP waveform for the subject. | 10-27-2011 |
20130184595 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ARTERIAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY - Methods are presented for determining pulse transit time (PTT) and/or pulse wave velocity (PWV) of a subject by application of parametric system identification to proximal and distal arterial waveforms. The two waveforms are measured from the subject. A system is defined that relates the proximal arterial waveform to the distal arterial waveform (or vice versa) in terms of the unknown parameters of a parametric mathematical model. The model parameters are determined from the measured waveforms using system identification. PTT between the proximal and distal arterial sites is then determined from the system model. PWV may also be determined by dividing the distance between measurement sites (D) by PTT. | 07-18-2013 |
20140066788 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PULSE TRANSIT TIME AS A FUNCTION OF BLOOD PRESSURE - A method is provided for determining pulse transit time of a subject as a function of blood pressure. The method includes: measuring a proximal waveform indicative of the arterial pulse at a proximal site of the subject; measuring a distal waveform indicative of the arterial pulse at a distal site of the subject; defining a relationship between the proximal waveform and the distal waveform in terms of unknown parameters of a nonlinear model; determining the unknown parameters of the nonlinear model from the measured proximal waveform and the measured distal waveform; and determining pulse transit time for the subject as a function of blood pressure from the parameters of the nonlinear model. The nonlinear model can account for arterial compliance and peripheral wave reflection, where the arterial compliance depends on blood pressure. | 03-06-2014 |
20140066793 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CUFF BLOOD PRESSURE - A method is provided for determining blood pressure for a subject using a sphygmomanometer. The method includes: measuring an oscillometric cuff pressure waveform of the subject using the sphygmomanometer; representing the measured waveform with a physical model accounting for mechanics of the cuff, an artery and coupling between the cuff and the artery; determining the model unknowns from the measured waveform; and determining blood pressure for the subject using the determined model. | 03-06-2014 |
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20090112113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING EJECTION FRACTION - A method is provided for determining ejection fraction. The method includes: measuring a physiologic signal indicative of blood pressure; analyzing the physiologic signal at more than one time instance so as to extract information present in its temporal variations; and determining ejection fraction based in part on the extracted information | 04-30-2009 |
20090131804 | Method And Apparatus For Determining Central Aortic Pressure Waveform - A method is provided for determining a central aortic pressure waveform. The method includes: measuring two or more peripheral artery pressure waveforms; analyzing the signals so as to extract common features in the measured waveforms; and determining an absolute central aortic pressure waveform based on the common features. | 05-21-2009 |
20100099993 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CARDIAC OUTPUT AND LEFT ATRIAL PRESSURE - Method and apparatus are introduced for determining proportional cardiac output (CO), absolute left atrial pressure (LAP), and/or other important hemodynamic variables from a contour of a circulatory pressure waveform or related signal. Certain embodiments of the invention provided herein include the mathematical analysis of a pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) waveform or a right ventricular pressure (RVP) waveform in order to determine beat-to-beat or time-averaged proportional CO, proportional pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), and/or LAP. The invention permits continuous and automatic monitoring of critical hemodynamic variables with a level of invasiveness suitable for routine clinical application. The invention may be utilized, for example, to continuously monitor critically ill patients with pulmonary artery catheters installed and chronically monitor heart failure patients instrumented with implanted devices for measuring RVP. | 04-22-2010 |
20110034813 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CARDIAC OUTPUT - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining a dynamical property of the systemic or pulmonary arterial tree using long time scale information, i.e., information obtained from measurements over time scales greater than a single cardiac cycle. In one aspect, the invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring cardiac output (CO) from a single blood pressure signal measurement obtained at any site in the systemic or pulmonary arterial tree or from any related measurement including, for example, fingertip photoplethysmography. | 02-10-2011 |
20130102909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A CENTRAL AORTIC PRESSURE WAVEFORM - A method is provided for determining a central aortic pressure waveform. The method includes: measuring two or more peripheral artery pressure waveforms; analyzing the signals so as to extract common features in the measured waveforms; and determining an absolute central aortic pressure waveform based on the common features. | 04-25-2013 |
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20100087315 | Composite particles - In the present invention a composite particle including: a first polymeric particle having a diameter of from 100 nm to 3.5 microns including a core and a shell: the core including, when dry, at least one void; and the shell polymer having a calculated glass transition temperature(“Tg”) greater than 50° C.; and a second polymeric particle disposed on the surface of the first polymeric particle, the second polymeric particle having a minimum film-forming temperature of greater than 20° C.; wherein the ratio of the diameter of the first polymeric particle to the diameter of the second polymeric particle is from 1 to 50; and wherein the ratio of the weight of the first polymeric particle to the weight of the second polymeric particle is from 0.1 to 40, is provided. In certain embodiments the composite particle further includes pigment particles having a diameter of from 10 nm to 5 microns disposed on the surface of the composite particle, wherein the ratio of the weight of the pigment particles to the weight of the composite particle is from 0.1 to 10. Also provided is a method for forming the composite particles, a thermosensitive recording material including the composite particles and a method for providing the thermosensitive recording material | 04-08-2010 |
20120277098 | COMPOSITE PARTICLES - In the present invention a composite particle including: a first polymeric particle having a diameter of from 100 nm to 3.5 microns including a core and a shell: the core including, when dry, at least one void; and the shell polymer having a calculated glass transition temperature (“Tg”) greater than 50° C.; and a second polymeric particle disposed on the surface of the first polymeric particle, the second polymeric particle having a minimum film-forming temperature of greater than 20° C.; wherein the ratio of the diameter of the first polymeric particle to the diameter of the second polymeric particle is from 1 to 50; and wherein the ratio of the weight of the first polymeric particle to the weight of the second polymeric particle is from 0.1 to 40, is provided. | 11-01-2012 |
20140256871 | NEW AND STABLE AQUEOUS HYBRID BINDER - The present invention provides a new and simple processed stable colloidal silica containing polymeric binders, without modification, and to get to a novel coating composition, especially, aqueous coating composition that has more efficient stain resistance/removal function and also under a reasonable and controllable cost. | 09-11-2014 |