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20150283316 | MICRO-PILLAR ARRAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - A micro-pillar array assembly including an inlet for receiving a biological fluid including components of the biological fluid, an outlet, and a cavity formed between the inlet and the outlet, the cavity further comprising a plurality of micro-pillar arrays positioned to remove cellular components of the biological fluid to produce a resulting fluid. Another assembly, a method and a system are also disclosed. | 10-08-2015 |
20150306597 | REDUNDANT MICROFLUIDIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES - Techniques for redundant microfluidic measurements include a substrate in which is formed a microchannel in fluid communication between an entry port and an exit port. The microchannel includes a redundant portion that has multiple sub-channels. A first sub-channel is configured to pass a first fraction of a total flow passing through the entry port. The apparatus also includes a sensor configured to detect separate signals emitted from within the first sub-channel and from within a different sub-channel in the redundant portion of the microchannel. | 10-29-2015 |
20150320348 | DISPOSABLE SAMPLE COLLECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A micro-fluidic device is defined including a channel for conveying blood fluid. A container is defined within the channel for capturing debris generated from the puncture of skin. | 11-12-2015 |
20150338401 | MULTIPLEXED BIOASSAY TECHNIQUES - Techniques for multiplexed bioassays include a substrate in which is formed a microchannel in fluid communication between an entry port and an exit port. A first portion of the microchannel is configured to supply multiple different labeled probes, each selected to complex with one of a corresponding plurality of different analytes. A second portion of the microchannel comprises multiple corresponding different supplementary probes covalently bound to the substrate. A supplementary probe is selected to bind to a part of a corresponding analyte, which part is exposed when the corresponding analyte is complexed with a corresponding labeled probe. The techniques include a sensor configured to detect signals emitted from the labeled probes in the second portion of the microchannel. | 11-26-2015 |
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20140289638 | BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Business Service Management system for controlling a layout of resources, the system comprising: a DBMS (Database Management System), being a database having manipulation tools thereof; at least two data items, stored in the DBMS, each encapsulated within an encapsulating data item, wherein each of the encapsulated data items being associated with one of a plurality of resources of the layout, each encapsulated data item comprising different characteristics of at least the resource; an infographic user interface comprising a plurality of icons, each associated with the data items, each icon presenting information related to an operation of the controlled resource thereof; the user interface further comprising data flow and operational dependency between the encapsulating data items regarding the encapsulated data items; wherein each of the icons being adapted to allow a user to change, by manipulating the icon, an operation of a resource associated with the icon. | 09-25-2014 |
20140324508 | BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Business Service Management system for controlling a layout of resources, in real time, the system comprises: a DBMS; at least one data item, stored in the DBMS, wherein each of the data items being associated with a resource of the layout; an infographic user interface for defining the layout on a control display, the user interface comprises a plurality of icons, each associated with a controlled resource of the layout, each icon presents information related to an operation of the controlled resource thereof! arrow(s) connecting at least two of the icons, for presenting data flow between resources associated with the icons, and operational dependency between resources connected by the at least one arrow! the system is adapted for automatic analyzing an operation of the resources of the layout according to the operational dependency, and changing automatically an indication thereof. | 10-30-2014 |
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20140278957 | NORMALIZATION OF MEDIA OBJECT METADATA - Disclosed is the technology for normalizing media object metadata. The technology receives a plurality of web documents from web servers. The web documents reference one or more media objects. Then the technology extracts content tags from the web documents, wherein the content tags relate to contents of the media objects. The technology determines a set of media object metadata based on the content tags. The set of media object metadata provides a consistent way of describing the contents of the media objects. For at least some of the media objects, the technology stores the set of media object metadata and the values associated with the media object metadata in a media content database. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279751 | AGGREGATION AND ANALYSIS OF MEDIA CONTENT INFORMATION - Disclosed are the method and apparatus for collecting and analyzing media content metadata. The technology retrieves web documents referencing media objects from web servers. Metadata of the media objects such as global tags and category weight values are generated from the web documents. Affinity values between user identities and the media objects are generated based on online behaviors of the users interacting with the media objects. Based on the affinity values and metadata of the media objects, the technology can provide recommendations of media objects. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280223 | MEDIA RECOMMENDATION BASED ON MEDIA CONTENT INFORMATION - Disclosed are the method and apparatus for recommending media objects based on media object metadata. The technology generates media content metadata that relate to contents of a plurality of media objects from a plurality of web documents. The web documents reference one or more of the media objects. The technology further determines feature vectors of the media objects. The elements of the feature vectors comprise values of the media content metadata. The technology then calculates a distance in a feature vector space between a first feature vector of a first media object of the media objects and a second feature vector of a second media object of the media objects, and transmits a recommendation of the second media object based on the distance between the first and second feature vectors. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280513 | PRO-BUFFERING PROXY FOR SEAMLESS MEDIA OBJECT NAVIGATION - Disclosed are the method and apparatus for pre-caching contents of online media objects. A proxy running on a computing device determines a first media object that a media navigation application running on the computing device is playing and one or more second media objects that relates to the first media object. The proxy retrieves from one or more content servers data of the first media object and the one or more second media objects on behalf of the media navigation application. The proxy stores the data of the first media object and the one or more second media objects in a buffer of the computing device, and satisfy a data request for the first media object or the one or more second media objects from the media navigation application by supplying the data stored in the buffer to the media navigation application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282281 | SEAMLESS MEDIA NAVIGATION - Disclosed are the technology for seamless media navigation. A computing device according to the technology includes a processor, a network interface, a input device (e.g. touch screen) and a media navigation module. The network interface communicates with multiple media servers. The input device generates user input signals of swipe motions. The media navigation module configured, when executed by the processor, to perform a process. The process includes playing a first media object, gradually switching from playing the first media object to playing multiple media objects including the first media object based on a first swipe motion; and gradually switching from playing the multiple media objects to playing one individual media object of the media objects based on a second swipe motion subsequent to the first swipe motion. | 09-18-2014 |
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20080222447 | PREVENTION OF FRAME DUPLICATION IN INTERCONNECTED RING NETWORKS - A method for communication includes, in a communication network that includes multiple ring nodes arranged in at least first and second ring networks that are connected by two or more of the ring nodes serving as interconnect nodes, accepting at the two or more interconnect nodes respective copies of a data packet, which is sent from a source user node connected to the first ring network. | 09-11-2008 |
20100110906 | EFFICIENT FULL MESH LOAD TESTING OF NETWORK ELEMENTS - A method for testing a network element that includes multiple ports includes assigning one or more of the ports to serve as input and output test ports. One or more of the ports other than the test ports are terminated with respective loopback connections. The network element is configured to forward packets entering the network element at the input test port, so as to cause the packets to be distributed among the terminated ports and to exit the network element, after re-entering the network element at one or more of the terminated ports, at the output test port. | 05-06-2010 |
20100135297 | UNICAST STREAMING OF MULTICAST CONTENT - A method for communication includes receiving an Internet Protocol Multicast (IPMC) packet for delivery to multiple subscribing hosts. The IPMC packet is encapsulated in a plurality of unicast frames that are respectively addressed to the subscribing hosts for transmission via a Layer 2 network to the subscribing hosts. | 06-03-2010 |
20100172242 | RING NETWORK AGGREGATE RATES - A functionality and method for determining aggregate data transit bandwidth requirements for the nodes of an Ethernet ring network for traffic management and to improve the operation, efficiency, and Quality of Service. An aggregate bandwidth database is produced, based on a priori knowledge of the ring network, including topology, path utilization, bandwidth sharing, and failure protection scenarios. Aggregate bandwidth requirements are determined independent of the actual real-time data traffic rates, and without requiring any actual real-time data traffic rate information. Aggregate bandwidth is automatically determined upon configuration or reconfiguration of the ring network. | 07-08-2010 |
20100202452 | HIGH-SPEED PROCESSING OF MULTICAST CONTENT REQUESTS - A method for communication includes operating a network element, which includes multiple ports and multiple interconnected processing units, such that each processing unit is assigned to process packets that are communicated over a respective set of one or more of the ports. Each processing unit stores a respective list, which indicates one or more multicast packet streams that are permitted for forwarding by the network element, and further indicates a respective subset of the ports over which each of the multicast packet streams is permitted for forwarding. | 08-12-2010 |
20120263453 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SNCP OVER PACKET NETWORK - A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while avoiding bandwidth duplication. | 10-18-2012 |
20120327762 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MPLS TRANSPORT PATH RECOVERY WITH MULTIPLE PROTECTION ENTITIES - A system and method for selecting MPLS network transport entities between a first endpoint and a second endpoint are presented. Working and protection entities are selected from a set of available entities based upon minimizing the probability of simultaneous failure and/or minimizing a cost function base upon one or more metrics. | 12-27-2012 |
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20110194587 | Adaptive Spreading, Modulation, and Coding - This invention presents methods for transmitting and receiving data via a satellite and satellite communication systems thereof. A transmitted signal may include a stream of transmission blocks, whereas each transmission block may differ from a previous transmission block by any of a spreading characteristic, an error correction code-rate characteristic and a modulation characteristic. In addition, any of the spreading, error correction code-rate and modulation characteristics may be changed in accordance with momentary reception conditions at a receiving station. | 08-11-2011 |
20130177061 | Fast Acquisition Of Frame Timing And Frequency - Modern digital signals include framing. A known sequence of transmission symbols (Unique Word (UW)) included in the transmitted signal may be used by a receiver for framing synchronization. A receiver configured to receive such a signal may be configured to detect the UW even when the signal is received with some frequency uncertainty (e.g. offset or error). A method is presented for fast acquisition of symbol and/or frame timing of a signal, including in the presence of frequency uncertainty. In some embodiments, the presented method may be used for determining a frequency offset of the received signal and a location of a unique word (UW) within a frame of the received signal, wherein said determining is based on a two-dimensional search map. | 07-11-2013 |
20140146859 | EFFICIENT FREQUENCY ESTIMATION - Methods are presented herein for estimating at least a frequency (offset) for a block of received symbols using two or more estimation stages. These methods may allow reducing the computational complexity of a frequency estimator while maintaining large frequency offset coverage and high frequency estimation accuracy. Also are presented satellite communication systems employing any of burst transmission and continuous transmission. Said systems may be configured to estimate at least a frequency (offset) for any of a received burst or a block of received symbols using two or more estimation stages. In some embodiments, said burst or said block of symbols may include a Unique Word located at or about the center of the block of symbols. | 05-29-2014 |
20140328378 | EFFICIENT DE-SPREADING - Satellite communication systems utilize spreading by repetition techniques, including block repetition, to enable operation at low signal to noise conditions. A carrier frequency offset between a transmitter and a receiver results in phase offsets between repetitions. Thus, combining the repetitions requires estimation of the phase offset between the repetitions before coherent de-spreading can be performed. Disclosed herein are methods for estimating a phase offset between successive block repetitions. The methods may utilize more than two repetitions for determining a common phase offset between any two successive repetitions. In some embodiments, these methods may allow summation of repetitions with better coherency and/or with a lower de-spreading loss. | 11-06-2014 |
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20090208422 | Composition for improving efficiency of drug delivery - Method and composition suitable for administering by direct convective interstitial infusion are disclosed. The method comprises: placing at least one direct convective interstitial infusion catheter in contact with the tissue, and pressuring the composition through the catheter. The composition is in a liquefied form having a viscosity above a predetermined value. The predetermined value is selected so as to improve infusion of the compositions into interstitial volumes of the tissue, while minimizing backflow of the compositions along an outer wall of the catheter or leakage into low resistance paths. It is demonstrated that high viscosity results in higher treatment efficiency. | 08-20-2009 |
20100189750 | METHODS OF TREATING TUMORS IN IMMUNE-PRIVILEGED SITES - A method of treating cancer in an immune-privileged site of a subject in need thereof is provided. The method comprises systemically administering to an area outside the immune-privileged site of the subject, a therapeutically effective amount of naive, viable cells of a tumor of the subject, the tumor being in the immune-privileged site so as to generate an immune response in the subject, thereby treating the cancer in the immune-privileged site of the subject. | 07-29-2010 |
20110098554 | Monitoring of convection enhanced drug delivery - A method for determining a response of a tissue to a destructive treatment is disclosed. The method comprises providing magnetic resonance images of the tissue, and using the magnetic resonance images for determining the response of the tissue to the destructive treatment. Also disclosed is a method for monitoring convection during direct convective interstitial infusion using a pharmaceutical composition which comprises a therapeutic agent and an MRI contrast agent. | 04-28-2011 |