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20080268853 | METHOD OF SHARING MOBILE UNIT STATE INFORMATION BETWEEN BASE STATION ROUTERS - The present invention provides a method of operating a first base station router. The method may include transmitting state information associated with at least one inactive mobile unit to at least one second base station router. The state information is usable to initiate an active session with the at least one inactive mobile unit. The first base station router retains the state information for initiating an active session with the at least one inactive mobile unit and the least one second base station router is capable of initiating an active session with the at least one inactive mobile unit based on the state information when the state information is unavailable to the first base station router | 10-30-2008 |
20090147859 | Method and apparatus for performing multiple bit rate video encoding and video stream switching - A Multiple Bit Rate (MBR) video coding method and apparatus for performing video encodings at multiple bit rates and for performing advantageous switching therebetween. Frequent switching points and high video coding efficiency are achieved with use of a plurality of video encodings at each of a plurality of bit rates, wherein the switching points between multiple encodings at a given bit rate are shifted with respect to one another so that the frequency of available switching points is significantly improved without a corresponding loss of coding quality. In addition, one or more “high quality” encodings may be provided at each bit rate, wherein the “high quality” encodings employ infrequent switching points, providing a very high quality encoding at the given bit rate which may be used (or switched to) whenever possible. | 06-11-2009 |
20090197572 | Accessing networks for limited purposes - One method includes setting up an authenticated communication session between a mobile terminal and a first core data network. The method includes acquiring, at the first core data network, supplementary access data usable by the mobile terminal to set up a non-authenticated communication session with a second data network and then, transmitting the supplementary access data from the first core data network to the mobile terminal. The second data network is accessible to the mobile terminal. | 08-06-2009 |
20100029275 | Migration of TCP connections with layer 2 support in wireless environments - Example embodiments provide methods of transparently migrating a reliable transport layer connection between a user and a first base station and a second base station in a wireless network. The method includes receiving at least one transport layer connection state information parameter from the first base station at the second base station. The second base station then determines at least one new transport layer connection parameter based on the at least one transferred transport layer connection state information parameter and at least one network condition at the second base station. | 02-04-2010 |
20100081459 | Wireless communication system for distributing paging messages and method thereof - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing paging messages in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system may include a paging controller configured to distribute the paging messages in a paging area, a paging group including a plurality of base stations within the paging area configured to receive the paging message, and a paging interface between the paging controller and the paging group configured to support transmission of only the paging messages to all the plurality of base stations through a single transmission of the paging message from the paging controller. The method may include distributing a paging message to all of a plurality of base stations through a single transmission of a paging message from a paging controller over a secured IP-multicast group. | 04-01-2010 |
20110026424 | Triggering Migration of a Network Access Agent Associated with an Access Terminal - A method is provided for triggering migration of call session state information. The method includes determining whether to migrate a network access agent associated with an access terminal in a wireless communication system based on at least one of mobility information associated with the access terminal and status information associated with the wireless communication system. | 02-03-2011 |
20150117413 | SELECTING A COMMAND NODE IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method involving at least one mobile node and a heterogeneous network comprising a plurality of access nodes. One embodiment of the method includes providing at least one first message including information indicative of a selected access node. The access node is selected to provide command services to the at least one mobile node. | 04-30-2015 |
20150304901 | Event Context Transfer in a Heterogeneous Communication System - The present invention provides a method involving at least one mobile node and a heterogeneous network comprising a plurality of access nodes. The method includes transferring event context information associated with a mobile node from a first access node to a second access node. | 10-22-2015 |
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20120294737 | AUTONOMOUS SELF-POWERED SYSTEM FOR REMOVING THERMAL ENERGY FROM POOLS OF LIQUID HEATED BY RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, AND METHOD OF THE SAME - An autonomous self-powered system for cooling radioactive materials comprising: a pool of liquid; a closed-loop fluid circuit comprising a working fluid having a boiling temperature that is less than a boiling temperature of the liquid of the pool, the closed-loop fluid circuit comprising, in operable fluid coupling, an evaporative heat exchanger at least partially immersed in the liquid of the pool, a turbogenerator, and a condenser; one or more forced flow units operably coupled to the closed-loop fluid circuit to induce flow of the working fluid through the closed-loop fluid circuit; and the closed-loop fluid circuit converting thermal energy extracted from the liquid of the pool into electrical energy in accordance with the Rankine Cycle, the electrical energy powering the one or more forced flow units. | 11-22-2012 |
20140150994 | AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGER AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME TO REMOVE WASTE THERMAL ENERGY FROM RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS - A system for removing thermal energy generated by radioactive materials is provided. The system comprises an air-cooled shell-and- tube heat exchanger, comprising a shell and plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged in a substantially vertical orientation within the shell, the heat exchange tubes comprising interior cavities that collectively form a tube-side fluid path, the shell forming a shell-side fluid path that extends from an air inlet of the shell to an air outlet of the shell, the air inlet at a lower elevation than the air outlet; a heat rejection closed-loop fluid circuit comprising the tube-side fluid path, a coolant fluid flowing through the heat rejection closed-loop fluid circuit, the heat rejection closed-loop fluid circuit thermally coupled to the radioactive materials; and the air-cooled shell-and-tube heat exchanger transferring thermal energy from the coolant fluid flowing through the tube-side fluid path to air flowing through the shell-side fluid path. | 06-05-2014 |
20140321596 | PASSIVE REACTOR COOLING SYSTEM - A nuclear reactor cooling system with passive cooling capabilities operable during a reactor shutdown event without available electric power. In one embodiment, the system includes a reactor vessel with nuclear fuel core and a steam generator fluidly coupled thereto. Primary coolant circulates in a flow loop between the reactor vessel and steam generator to heat secondary coolant in the steam generator producing steam. The steam flows to a heat exchanger containing an inventory of cooling water in which a submerged tube bundle is immersed. The steam is condensed in the heat exchanger and returned to the steam generator forming a closed flow loop in which the secondary coolant flow is driven by natural gravity via changes in density from the heating and cooling cycles. In other embodiments, the cooling system is configured to extract and cool the primary coolant directly using the submerged tube bundle heat exchanger. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321597 | LOSS-OF-COOLANT ACCIDENT REACTOR COOLING SYSTEM - A nuclear reactor cooling system with passive cooling capabilities operable during a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) without available electric power. The system includes a reactor vessel with nuclear fuel core located in a reactor well. An in-containment water storage tank is fluidly coupled to the reactor well and holds an inventory of cooling water. During a LOCA event, the tank floods the reactor well with water. Eventually, the water heated by decay heat from the reactor vaporizes producing steam. The steam flows to an in-containment heat exchanger and condenses. The condensate is returned to the reactor well in a closed flow loop system in which flow may circulate solely via gravity from changes in phase and density of the water. In one embodiment, the heat exchanger may be an array of heat dissipater ducts mounted on the wall of the inner containment vessel surrounded by a heat sink. | 10-30-2014 |
20150085965 | SPACE SAVER FLANGED JOINT FOR A NUCLEAR REACTOR VESSEL - A nuclear steam supply system includes an elongated reactor vessel having an internal cavity with a central axis, a reactor core having nuclear fuel disposed within the internal cavity, and a steam generating vessel having at least one heat exchanger section, the steam generating vessel being fluidicly coupled to the reactor vessel. The reactor vessel includes a shell having an upper flange portion and a head having a head flange portion. The upper flange portion is coupled to the head flange portion, wherein the upper flange portion extends into the internal cavity, and the head flange portion extends outward from the internal cavity. | 03-26-2015 |
20150110236 | NUCLEAR STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM - A nuclear steam supply system utilizing gravity-driven natural circulation for primary coolant flow through a fluidly interconnected reactor vessel and a steam generating vessel. In one embodiment, the steam generating vessel includes a plurality of vertically stacked heat exchangers operable to convert a secondary coolant from a saturated liquid to superheated steam by utilizing heat gained by the primary coolant from a nuclear fuel core in the reactor vessel. The secondary coolant may be working fluid associated with a Rankine power cycle turbine-generator set in some embodiments. The steam generating vessel and reactor vessel may each be comprised of vertically elongated shells, which in one embodiment are arranged in lateral adjacent relationship. In one embodiment, the reactor vessel and steam generating vessel are physically discrete self-supporting structures which may be physically located in the same containment vessel. | 04-23-2015 |
20150243385 | PASSIVELY-COOLED SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL POOL SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A passively-cooled spent nuclear fuel pool system and method therefor. In one embodiment, the invention can be a passively-cooled spent nuclear fuel pool system comprising: a spent nuclear fuel pool comprising a body of liquid water having a surface level, at least one spent nuclear fuel rod submerged in the body of liquid water that heats the body of liquid water; a lid covering the spent nuclear fuel pool to create a hermetically sealed vapor space between the surface level of the body of liquid water and the lid; and a passive heat exchange sub-system fluidly coupled to the vapor space, the passive heat exchange sub-system configured to: (1) receive water vapor from the vapor space; (2) remove thermal energy from the received water vapor, thereby condensing the water vapor to form a condensed water vapor; and (3) return the condensed water vapor to the body of liquid water. | 08-27-2015 |
20150243388 | NUCLEAR STEAM SUPPLY SYSTEM - A nuclear steam supply system having a start-up sub-system for heating a primary coolant. In one embodiment, the invention can be a nuclear steam supply system comprising: a reactor vessel having an internal cavity, a reactor core comprising nuclear fuel disposed within the internal cavity; a steam generating vessel fluidly coupled to the reactor vessel; a primary coolant loop formed within the reactor vessel and the steam generating vessel, a primary coolant in the primary coolant loop; and a start-up sub-system fluidly coupled to the primary coolant loop, the start-up sub-system configured to: (1) receive a portion of the primary coolant from the primary coolant loop; (2) heat the portion of the primary coolant to form a heated portion of the primary coolant; and (3) inject the heated portion of the primary coolant into the primary coolant loop. | 08-27-2015 |
20150287483 | PASSIVELY-COOLED SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL POOL SYSTEM - A passively-cooled spent nuclear fuel pool system in one embodiment includes a containment vessel comprising a thermally conductive shell and an annular reservoir surrounding the shell that holds a liquid coolant forming a heat sink. A spent fuel pool is disposed inside the containment vessel and includes a body of water in contact with a first peripheral sidewall of the fuel pool. At least one spent nuclear fuel rod submerged in the body of water heats the water. The first peripheral sidewall of the spent fuel pool is formed by a portion of the shell of the containment vessel adjacent to the fuel pool, thereby defining a shared common heat transfer wall. The heat transfer wall operates to transfer heat from the body of water in the spent fuel pool to the heat sink to cool the body of water. The heat transfer wall comprises metal in one embodiment. | 10-08-2015 |
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20090187564 | Processor for Fast Phrase Searching - Phrases in a corpus of documents including stopwords are found using a data processor arranged to execute phrase queries. Memory stores an index structure which maps entries in the index structure to documents in the corpus. Entries in the index structure represent words and other entries represent stopwords found in the corpus coalesced with prefixes of respective adjacent words adjacent to the stopwords. The prefixes comprise one or more leading characters of the respective adjacent words. A query processor forms a modified query by substituting a stopword with a search token representing the stopword coalesced with a prefix of the next word in the query. The processor executes the modified query. Also, index structures including coalesced stopwords are created and maintained. | 07-23-2009 |
20090193005 | Processor for Fast Contextual Matching - Words having selected characteristics in a corpus of documents are found using a data processor arranged to execute queries. Memory stores an index structure in which entries in the index structure map words and marks for words having the selected characteristics to locations within documents in the corpus. Entries in the index structure represent words and other entries represent marks with the location information of a marked word. The entries for the marks can be tokens coalesced with prefixes of respective marked words or adjacent. A query processor forms a modified query by adding a mark for a word to the query. The processor executes the modified query. | 07-30-2009 |
20120317271 | Video and Site Analytics - Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. Integrating web page interaction data and video performance metrics provide a user with a more accurate description of how visitors interact with content presented using the one or more web pages. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317272 | Video Aware Paths - Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. For example, the effect of video data on navigation between web pages within a website is described by one or more navigation paths accounting for interaction with video data. | 12-13-2012 |
20130104024 | OPTIMIZATION OF WEB PAGE CONTENT INCLUDING VIDEO - A system and method for optimizing content of a web page is disclosed. The system comprises a configuration analysis module, a request analysis module, an analytics module and an optimization module that are communicatively coupled to each other. The configuration analysis module receives first and second sets of web interaction data associated with a web page and determines first and second content configurations for the first and second sets of web interaction data, respectively. The request analysis module receives first and second requests for the first and second content configurations, respectively, and extracts a first set of event data from the first request and a second set of event data from the second request. The analytics module generates a first set and a second set of video-aware analytics data. The optimization module optimizes the content of the web page based at least in part on video-aware analytics data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130238745 | PROVIDING CONTENT TO A USER ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing content. The method comprises receiving a first login request from a first device used by a user, the request being associated with a first anonymous identifier associated with the first device, and determining a user tag for the user, that does not include any personally identifiable information associated with the user. The method further comprises receiving a second login request from a second different device used by the user, the request being associated with a second different anonymous identifier associated with the second different device, and storing an association between the user tag, the first anonymous identifier and the second different anonymous identifier. The method further comprises receiving a request for content from either the first or second different device and providing content in response to the request using the association. | 09-12-2013 |
20130290503 | FREQUENCY CAPPING OF CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for delivering content. The method comprises identifying impressions of content to a user accessing resources using different requesting sources. The method further comprises storing impression data for the identified impressions in association with the user and requesting source. The method further comprises storing requesting source characteristic information with the impression data and identifying parameters that require limits on a number of impressions that are to occur in a time period and type of requesting source. The method further comprises receiving a request for content from a particular requesting source associated with the user, and determining when impressions available for that type of requesting source have been satisfied, and when not, enabling delivery of a content item associated with a campaign to the requesting source responsive to the received request. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290711 | PROVIDING CONTENT TO A USER ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing content. The method comprises receiving a first login associated with a first anonymous identifier and first device, creating an associated first private-public key pair, storing a first private key locally in the first device, and publishing a first public key. The method further comprises receiving a second login from a second different device, creating a second private-public key pair, storing a second private key, publishing the second public key, creating a secret key using the first public key, and associating a second anonymous identifier with the secret key. The method further comprises subsequently receiving a login the first device, creating the secret key using the second public key, associating the first anonymous identifier with the secret key, receiving a request for content from either device, and providing content using the association. | 10-31-2013 |
20130291123 | PRIVACY MANAGEMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for managing privacy rights of a user related to the delivery of content. The method comprises providing a global privacy management interface that presents a selection tool for enabling a user to review privacy options and interests. The privacy options and interests include controls for presenting a list of identifiers that are associated with the user and interests associated with those identifiers. Each identifier is associated with a requesting source having been used by the user to access content. The interface enables de-selection of individual interests on a per-identifier or global basis. The method further comprises determining, in a server system, content to deliver to the user in view of the privacy selections. | 10-31-2013 |
20130298034 | DELAYED COMMAND SERVICING IN AN APPLICATION EXECUTED ON A NETWORK ACCESSIBLE DEVICE - Apparatus and method for managing applications in a network accessible device. In accordance with some embodiments, an application stored in a local memory of a network accessible device is executed to provide an interactive display for a user of the device. An interactive content item is presented to the user on the display during the execution of the application. An interaction command is cached in a memory responsive to selection of the interactive content item by the user. The stored command is thereafter executed responsive to receipt of an indication that the user has terminated execution of the application. | 11-07-2013 |
20140257923 | VIDEO AWARE PAGES - A method is provided that includes retrieving user interface (UI) analytics data describing interactions with a UI provided by an online service, and retrieving media player state information describing interactions with video data included in the UI. The method further includes generating, based on the UI analytics data and the media player state information, UI data describing how the video data affects usage of the online service and how one or more elements within the UI affect user access to the video data, and presenting a comparison between a first subset of the UI data where the video data is not viewed and a second subset of the UI data where the video data is viewed to facilitate evaluation of how viewing the video data on the UI affects navigation to and from the UI. | 09-11-2014 |
20150242896 | PRIVACY MANAGEMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for managing privacy rights of a user related to the delivery of content. The method comprises providing a global privacy management interface that presents a selection tool for enabling a user to review privacy options and interests. The privacy options and interests include controls for presenting a list of identifiers that are associated with the user and interests associated with those identifiers. Each identifier is associated with a requesting source having been used by the user to access content. The interface enables de-selection of individual interests on a per-identifier or global basis. The method further comprises determining, in a server system, content to deliver to the user in view of the privacy selections. | 08-27-2015 |
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20090089250 | CONTRACT TEXT SEARCH SUMMARIZED BY CONTRACT - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching one or more business objects and presenting the results organized by business object. According to one embodiment, searching one or more business objects can comprise receiving a set of criteria for searching the business objects. A search can be performed for one or more documents associated with each of the business objects based on the criteria for searching the business objects. A first view of results of said searching organized by business object can be presented. The first view of the results of said searching can comprise, for example, a list of contracts having one or more associated documents with content matching the search criteria. Additional views of the search results providing additional details of the results can be present based on user selections. | 04-02-2009 |
20090216545 | CONTRACT AUTHORING TEMPLATE CREATION - A system allows a contract administrator to define the attributes of a contract template, and then generate a user interface. The contract administrator can modify the contract template user interface attributes, and the system then creates and stores a modified contract template. The modified contract template is subsequently rendered into a modified deal sheet user interface that is used by an end user to author a contract. | 08-27-2009 |
20090234662 | Unified Enterprise Contract Management Architecture - An enterprise contract management system allows users to define different types of contracts that will support different types of lines. A common contract management infrastructure supports basic contracting capabilities common to a number of types of contracts (or every contract type handled by the system). These capabilities include defining basic attributes about a contract like number and description, defining contract parties, contract printing, versioning, status management, change control, and security. These common capabilities will be available for any type of contract handled by the system. When a user defines a contract of a particular type, the system allows the user to add lines to a contract that represent different types of agreements with a customer. Lines can describe a sale of goods, a sale of an extended warranty or support, a sale of simple service, a sale of complex service, a long-term sales agreement, a lease or rental, or any other type of customer agreement. | 09-17-2009 |
20140068422 | INSERTING RULES-DRIVEN PARAGRAPHS INTO USER-DESIGNATED LOCATIONS IN A DOCUMENT IRRESPECTIVE OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE DOCUMENT - A computer implemented method commences by receiving document construction rules, then selecting a document template from a template library. The document template comprises a plurality of paragraphs that are associated with document construction rules. The method evaluates the construction rules and applies visibility to any of the associated paragraphs. Low latency processing of the visibility is accomplished in part by forming a document graph formed of conditional nodes, where the nodes have a paragraph label and a respective visibility flag. Further, a mapping datastructure serves to map from a paragraph label to a location of the corresponding conditional node within the document graph. A processor evaluates the document construction rules and, using the mapping datastructure, determines the location of the conditional node in order to modify the value of the visibility flag. In some cases, the document graph is a tree structure, and the mapping datastructure is a hash table. | 03-06-2014 |