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20120138528 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING ARSENIC FROM AN ARSENIC BEARING MATERIAL - A method and apparatus for removing arsenic from an arsenic-bearing material. The method includes the steps of contracting an arsenic-bearing material with an arsenic leaching agent to form an arsenic-containing solution and arsenic-depleted solids. The leaching agent can be an inorganic salt, an inorganic acid, an organic acid, and/or an alkaline agent. The arsenic-depleted solids are separated from the arsenic-containing solution, which is contacted with a fixing agent to produce an arsenic-depleted solution and an arsenic-laden fixing agent. The fixing agent comprises a rare earth-containing compound that can include cerium, lanthanum, or praseodymium. The fixing agent is then separated from the arsenic-depleted solution. A recoverable metal in the arsenic-depleted solids, arsenic-containing solution or arsenic-depleted solution can be separated and recovered. Recoverable metals can include metal from Group IA, Group IIA, Group VIII and the transition metals. | 06-07-2012 |
20120138529 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING A METAL AND SEPARATING ARSENIC FROM AN ARSENIC CONTAINING SOLUTION - A method and apparatus for recovering a metal and separating arsenic from an arsenic-containing solution. The method includes contacting the arsenic-containing solution with a fixing agent that comprises a rare earth compound to produce an arsenic-depleted solution and an arsenic-laden fixing agent. The fixing agent comprises a rare earth-containing compound that can include cerium, lanthanum, or praseodymium. The fixing agent is separated from the arsenic-depleted solution and a recoverable metal is separated from one or more of the arsenic-containing solution and the arsenic-depleted solution. Recoverable metals can include metal from Group IA, Group IIA, Group VIII and the transition metals. The arsenic-containing solution can be formed by contacting an arsenic-containing material with a leaching agent. Arsenic-depleted solids formed during the leach can also be separated and recovered. An apparatus of the invention can include two or more arsenic fixing units configured to conduct the method on a continuous basis. | 06-07-2012 |
20120138530 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING ARSENIC FROM A SOLUTION - A method and apparatus for separating arsenic from an aqueous solution containing arsenic. The method includes the steps of contacting an arsenic-containing solution with a first portion of fixing agent to remove at least a portion of the arsenic. An arsenic-laden fixing agent is separated from the solution and the partially depleted solution is contacted with a second portion of fixing agent. The fixing agent can include a high surface area insoluble compound containing one or more of cerium, lanthanum, or praseodymium. Following removal of the arsenic, the arsenic-depleted solution can be further processed to separate a recoverable metal through metal refining. The arsenic-laden fixing agent can be filtered to recover and recycle a filtrate to the solution for additional treatment, as well as using a partially saturated fixing agent to remove arsenic from fresh solution. An arsenic-containing solution can be formed from arsenic-containing solids such as contaminated soils, industrial byproducts and waste materials. | 06-07-2012 |
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20090012852 | DATA MARKETPLACE AND BROKER FEES - In an advertising serving exchange or network, in one aspect, the invention features a computer-implemented method that includes enabling a data provider to provide a content-request tracking token that associates cookie information with a user when the user visits a website. The method also includes allowing, by the data provider, at least one business entity transacting in a common domain to perform an action based on the cookie information when the user subsequently accesses the webpage. The method can also include selecting an advertisement from one of a plurality of advertisers to be placed on a webpage based on the action. In some arrangements, the data provider passes a share of the proceeds back to the website that supplied the information (e.g., the website on which the pixel was placed). | 01-08-2009 |
20090018907 | MANAGING IMPRESSION DEFAULTS - There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for receiving an ad call from a client computing system, determining whether an instance of the ad call was previously-received, and if so, designating a first ad creative supplier associated with the previous instance of the ad call as ineligible to participate in an auction in which a second ad creative supplier is selected to serve an ad creative responsive to the ad call. | 01-15-2009 |
20100262498 | Advertising Platform Transaction Management - A computer-implemented method includes generating, using a transaction management computing subsystem of an advertising platform, a set of primary bid requests responsive to receipt of an advertising call. Each primary bid request includes information sufficient to characterize an impression consumer and information sufficient to characterize each of one or more impressions identified in the advertising call. The method also includes sending the set of primary bid requests from the transaction management computing subsystem to a first set of decisioning computing subsystems of the advertising platform. Each decisioning computing subsystem of the first set being operable to generate a bid response based on the information included in a primary bid request. The method further includes selecting, using the transaction management computing subsystem, a first bid response from among the bid responses generated by the first set of decisioning computing subsystems; and taking, by the transaction management computing subsystem, an action on the first bid response. | 10-14-2010 |
20100268603 | ADVERTISING PLATFORM USER DATA STORE MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a transaction management computing subsystem of an advertising platform, a call for an advertisement creative to be served to an impression consumer; generating, using the transaction management computing subsystem, a set of bid requests, at least two bid requests of the set including respective subsets of user data store information associated with the impression consumer; and sending, by the transaction management computing subsystem, the set of bid requests to a set of bidding computing subsystems, each bidding computing subsystems being operable to generate a bid response based on the information included in its bid request. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268609 | Advertising Platform Creative Approval - A system that provides an advertising platform includes a creative auditing computing subsystem including a processor that is coupled to computer readable media having computer readable instructions recorded thereon, wherein the processor is operable to execute the computer readable instructions to enable impression seller members to review and approve creatives to be served on impression inventory associated with respective impression seller members. | 10-21-2010 |
20110231264 | ADVERTISING BID PRICE MODIFIERS - Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer program products for receiving, at a transaction management computing subsystem of an advertising platform, a set of original bid responses from a set of decisioning computing subsystems of the advertising platform, each original bid response including an original bid price, generating, by the transaction management computing subsystem, a set of adjusted bid responses according to a yield management criterion, each adjusted bid response including an adjusted bid price; and selecting a winning bid response from among the set of bid responses based on the adjusted bid prices. | 09-22-2011 |
20140095301 | REVENUE ADJUSTMENT PROCESSES - In a system that provides an open exchange environment to connect business entities through a network, methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for performing a revenue adjustment process to distribute one of a revenue surplus or a revenue deficit amongst business entities involved in one or more transactions from which the one of the revenue surplus or the revenue deficit originates over a predefined time interval, the performing including identifying a set of business entities involved in the one or more transactions to which the one of the revenue surplus or the revenue deficit is to be distributed; and determining a proportion of the one of the revenue surplus or the revenue deficit to which each business entity of the set is distributed. | 04-03-2014 |
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20110196513 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEMAND COORDINATION NETWORK - An apparatus for controlling peak demand of a resource. The apparatus includes a plurality of devices and a plurality of control nodes. Each of the plurality of devices consumes a portion of the resource when turned on, and the each are capable of performing a corresponding function within an acceptable operational margin by cycling on and off. Each of the plurality of control nodes is coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of devices, where the plurality of control nodes is coupled together via a demand coordination network, and where the plurality of control nodes coordinates run times for the each of the plurality of devices to reduce the peak demand of the resource, and where one or more of the run times start prior to when otherwise required to maintain corresponding local environments, but which still operate within the acceptable operating margin for the corresponding local environments. | 08-11-2011 |
20120019395 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NETWORK-BASED GRID MANAGEMENT - An apparatus for providing automatic metering capabilities to a resource grid is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of existing automatic meter reading (AMR) meters and a plurality of interface devices. Each of the plurality of existing automatic meter reading (AMR) meters is coupled to a resource consumption point, the each is configured to periodically broadcast respective meter readings. Each of the plurality of interface devices is coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of existing AMR meters, and each of the plurality of interface devices is configured to receive one or more of the respective meter readings, and is configured to provide the one or more of the respective meter readings over an existing communications infrastructure. | 01-26-2012 |
20130297091 | DEMAND COORDINATION NETWORK CONTROL NODE - An apparatus for controlling peak demand of a system of energy consuming devices, including a first control node coupled to a second control node via a demand coordination network. The first control node has a node processor and a global schedule module. The node processor is coupled to a first energy consuming device, and operates the first energy consuming device within an acceptable operating margin to maintain a first local environment by cycling on and off. The global schedule module is coupled to the first node processor, and coordinates run times for the first energy consuming device and a second energy consuming device, where the coordination is based on a replica copy of a global run time schedule disposed within the first and second control nodes, an adjusted first descriptor set characterizing the first local environment, and an adjusted second descriptor set characterizing a second local environment. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297092 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PEAK ENERGY DEMAND - An apparatus including a monitor node and a first control node. The monitor node determines and broadcasts whether a non-system device is consuming an energy resource over a network. The first control node coupled to the monitor node and a second control node via the network. The first control node has a node processor and a global schedule module. The node processor operates a first energy consuming device to maintain a first local environment. The global schedule module is coupled to the first node processor, and coordinates run times for the first energy consuming device and a second energy consuming device based on a replica copy of a global run time schedule disposed within the first and second control nodes, an adjusted first descriptor set characterizing the first local environment, an adjusted second descriptor set characterizing a second local environment, and energy consumption data broadcast by the monitor node. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304273 | CONFIGURABLE DEMAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An apparatus including a network operations center and a first control node. The network operations center provides configuration data to the system of energy consuming devices. The first control node coupled to the network operations center and a second control node via a network. The first control node has a node processor and a global schedule module. The node processor operates a first energy consuming device to maintain a first local environment. The global schedule module is coupled to the first node processor, and coordinates run times for the first energy consuming device and a second energy consuming device based on a replica copy of a global run time schedule disposed within the first and second control nodes, an adjusted first descriptor set characterizing the first local environment, an adjusted second descriptor set characterizing a second local environment, and the configuration data provided by the network operations center. | 11-14-2013 |
20140023335 | VIDEO APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND COMMISSIONING DEVICES - An apparatus for concurrently identifying and commissioning a plurality of devices is provided. The apparatus includes a video recording device and a gateway device. The video recording device is configured to record and process a plurality of video images of the plurality of devices, and is configured to determine identification information corresponding to each of the plurality of devices, where the plurality of video images comprises unique encoded luminous transmissions simultaneously transmitted from the each of the plurality of devices. The gateway device is coupled to the video recording device and the plurality of devices, and is configured to receive the identification information, and is configured to commission the each of the plurality of devices onto a network. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023336 | CONCURRENT COMMISSIONING AND GEOLOCATION SYSTEM - An apparatus including a geolocation device, a video recording device, and a gateway device. The geolocation device provides a positional datum indicating a position of the geolocation device. The video recording device coupled to the geolocation device, and is configured receive the positional datum, and is configured to record and process a plurality of video images of the plurality of devices, and is configured to determine identification and location information corresponding to each of the plurality of devices, wherein the location information is determined based upon the positional datum, and wherein the plurality of video images comprises unique encoded luminous transmissions simultaneously transmitted from the each of the plurality of devices. The gateway device is coupled to the video recording device and the plurality of devices, and is configured to receive the identification information, and is configured to commission the each of the plurality of devices onto a network. | 01-23-2014 |
20150061638 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC POWER METERING - An apparatus for automatic power metering within a device is provided. The apparatus includes a metering element and communication elements. The metering element is coupled to a power factor correction circuit at one or more nodes within the device, and is configured to measure and process values on the nodes to generate one or more metering metrics for the device. The metering data includes input power consumed by the device, output power transferred to a load of the device, and power factor corresponding to the device. The communication elements are configured to receive the one or more metering metrics, and are configured to transmit the one or more metering metrics over a communications channel. | 03-05-2015 |