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| 20110094267 | METHODS OF PRODUCING GLASS SHEETS - A method of producing glass sheets includes the step of fusion drawing a glass ribbon along a draw direction into a viscous zone downstream from a root of a forming wedge. The method further includes the step of drawing the glass ribbon into a setting zone downstream from the viscous zone, wherein the glass ribbon is set from a viscous state to an elastic state. The method further includes the steps of drawing the glass ribbon into an elastic zone downstream from the setting zone and stabilizing a region of the glass ribbon in the elastic zone along a width of the glass ribbon extending transverse with respect to the draw direction. A predetermined pressure differential between a first side and a second side of the glass ribbon is used to create the stabilized region. The method further includes the step of cutting a glass sheet from the glass ribbon, wherein the stabilized region inhibits shape instabilities from propagating upstream through the glass ribbon to the setting zone. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20140138420 | Methods Of Cutting A Laminate Strengthened Glass Substrate - Methods of cutting laminate strengthened glass substrates are disclosed. A method is disclosed which includes providing a laminate strengthened glass substrate having a glass core layer with first and second surface portions, and at least one glass cladding layer fused to the first surface portion or the second surface portion of the glass core layer. The glass core layer has a core coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than a cladding coefficient of thermal expansion. The method further includes forming an edge defect on the laminate strengthened glass substrate, heating first and second regions of the laminate strengthened glass substrate on the at least one glass cladding layer. The first and second regions are offset from first and second sides of a desired line of separation, respectively. The method further includes propagating a crack imitated at the edge defect between the first and second regions. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20150041435 | METHODS OF POST PROCESSING A GLASS SHEET - Methods provide for post processing at least one flexible glass sheet with the step of providing the glass sheet with an initial shape. The method then further includes the step of flexing the glass sheet into a secondary shape from the initial shape. The method then further includes the step of post processing the glass sheet while biasing the glass sheet into the secondary shape. The method then still further includes the step of releasing the glass sheet to at least partially return to the initial shape. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20160075589 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING A GLASS RIBBON - Methods of conveying a glass ribbon are provided that each includes the step of conveying the glass ribbon over a support device with a cushion of fluid supporting the glass ribbon over the support device. Each method further includes the step of monitoring a physical contact event between the glass ribbon and the support device by detecting an acoustic signal associated with the physical contact event. In further examples, glass ribbon conveying apparatus are provided that each includes a support device configured to support a glass ribbon over the support device with a cushion of fluid. Each apparatus further includes an acoustic sensor configured to monitor a physical contact event between the glass ribbon and the support device by detecting an acoustic signal associated with the physical contact event. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160102008 | THERMAL BARRIERS TO GUIDE GLASS CUTTING AND PREVENT CRACKOUT - A method of forming a glass article includes drawing a glass ribbon from a draw housing in a downstream direction, heating portions of only a bead of the glass ribbon to form compressive stress regions in the bead, scoring the glass ribbon to form a score line on which the glass ribbon is broken. The bead is heated at a position upstream from the score line. An apparatus for manufacturing a glass article includes a draw housing for forming a glass ribbon having a bead, a heating apparatus with a heat source for forming compressive stress regions in portions of only the bead of the glass ribbon, and a scoring apparatus that forms a score line on which the glass ribbon is broken to form the glass article. The heat source moves downstream simultaneously with the glass ribbon. | 04-14-2016 |
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| 20080269336 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090318332 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100004470 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR delta modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100069496 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR delta modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100331406 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110294875 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR delta modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120302610 | PICOLINAMIDO-PROPANOIC ACID DERIVATIVES USEFUL AS GLUCAGON RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS - The present invention is directed to picolanmido-propanoic acid derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment and/or prevention of disorders and conditions ameliorated by antagonizing one or more glucagon receptors, including for example metabolic diseases such as Type II diabetes mellitus and obesity. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120302641 | BIPHENYL DERIVATIVES USEFUL AS GLUCAGON RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS - The present invention is directed to biphenyl derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment and/or prevention of disorders and conditions ameliorated by antagonizing one or more glucagon receptors, including for example metabolic diseases such as Type II diabetes mellitus and obesity. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120322875 | 4-((PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR delta modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130331453 | 4-(PHENOXYALKYL)THIO)-PHENOXYACETIC ACIDS AND ANALOGS - The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR delta modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia. | 12-12-2013 |
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| 20090086715 | Method and system for implementing dynamic signaling routing - A method for implementing dynamic signaling routing includes: A. sending a register request from a Terminal Element (TE) to Service Elements (SEs) via a Network Element (NE); B. upon receiving the register request, determining one of the SEs which will provide signaling service for the TE in accordance with association information recorded in the NE. Further, a system for implementing dynamic signaling routing, comprising: Service Elements (SEs), for providing signaling service; Terminal Elements (TEs), for sending register requests to the SEs; and Network Elements (NEs), between the TEs and the SEs, for determining one of the SEs which has provided signaling service for the TE in accordance with association information recorded in the NEs upon receiving the register request. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090291230 | INK AND METHOD OF FORMING ELECTRICAL TRACES USING THE SAME - A silver-containing ink includes an aqueous carrier medium having both a silver salt and an amine sensitizer for the silver salt dissolved therein, and a light sensitive reducing agent dispersed in the aqueous carrier medium. The amine sensitizer includes at one or more amine group; and the light sensitive reducing agent is capable of reducing the silver in the silver-containing ink to silver particles when irradiated. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100021652 | METHOD OF FORMING ELECTRICAL TRACES - A method of forming electrical traces includes the steps of: providing a substrate; printing an ink pattern using a silver containing ink on the substrate, the ink comprising an aqueous carrier medium having dissolved therein a water-soluble light sensitive silver salt; irradiating the ink pattern to reduce silver salt therein to silver particles thereby forming an underlayer; and electroless plating a metal overcoat layer on the underlayer thereby obtaining electrical traces. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100124343 | CONDENSER MICROPHONE - A condenser microphone is disclosed. The condenser microphone includes a substrate having a cavity, a supporting member connected to the substrate, and a diaphragm isolated to the supporting member. The supporting member has a periphery portion and a plurality of stationary electrodes extending from the periphery portion to a center of the supporting member. The diaphragm has a vibrating member and a sustaining member connected to the vibrating member and the vibrating member defines a plurality of movable electrodes protruding from a periphery of the vibrating member. Each of the movable electrodes is located between two adjacent stationary electrodes and each of the stationary electrodes is located between two adjacent two movable electrodes. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100166235 | SILICON CONDENSER MICROPHONE - A silicon condenser microphone includes a silicon substrate defining an opening, a diaphragm supported above the substrate, a backplate opposite to the diaphragm for forming a capacitor together with the diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a central vibrating portion and a plurality of arms extending from an edge of the vibrating portion. Each of the arms includes a first end connecting to the edge of the vibrating portion and a linking portion extending along a path having the same outline as that of the vibrating portion. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100290648 | Condenser Microphone - A condenser microphone is disclosed. The condenser microphone includes a substrate having a cavity, a backplate connected to the substrate, a diaphragm facing to the backplate, and an anchor supporting the diaphragm. A first gap is formed between the diaphragm and the backplate. A groove is arranged on the anchor and the diaphragm partially covers the groove. The diaphragm and the groove forms a second gap communicating with the first gap. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110216922 | SILICON CONDENSER MICROPHONE - Disclosed is a silicon condenser microphone including a backplate having a plurality of perforations therethrough, a diaphragm opposed from the backplate for forming a capacitor. The diaphragm includes a first part and a second part received in the first part, the second part being capable of vibrating relative to the backplate. The first part is connected to the ground and the second part is connected to a bias voltage. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110235829 | DIAPHRAGM AND SILICON CONDENSER MICROPHONE USING SAME - Disclosed is a diaphragm includes a vibrating member, a plurality of supporting members extending from a periphery of the vibrating member along a direction away from a center of the diaphragm, and a plurality of separating portions each located between two adjacent supporting members. Each of the supporting members defines a first beam, a second beam, and at least one slit between the first and second beams. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110255716 | DIAPHRAGM AND CONDENSER MICROPHONE USING SAME - A diaphragm is disclosed. A diaphragm includes a vibrating member capable of vibrating relative to the backplate and suspended by the supporting member extending from the vibrating member. The supporting member extends from a periphery of the vibrating member along a direction away from the centre of the diaphragm. The supporting member defines a first surface, a second surface facing to the first surface, a side wall connecting the first surface and the second surface. And the side wall defines a first side wall and a second side wall facing to the first side wall. The supporting member defines a first groove, a second groove. Along a direction parallel to the vibrating member, the first groove extends from the second side wall to the first side wall, with a first placket in the first side wall, and the second groove extends from the first side wall to the second side wall, with a second placket in the second side wall. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110261979 | DIAPHRAGM AND CONDENSER MICROPHONE USING SAME - A diaphragm is disclosed. The diaphragm includes a vibrating member, a projection extruding from a periphery of the vibrating member, a supporting member surrounding the vibrating member. A first gap is formed between the vibrating member and the supporting member. The supporting member includes a supporting girder surrounding and separated from the projection. A torsion girder is connected to the projection and a fixing girder is parallel to the torsion girder. A second gap is defined between the fixing girder and the torsion girder. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110296916 | ACCELEROMETER - A accelerometer includes a substrate define a stationary electrode thereon, a first moveable mass defining a conductive-layer thereon facing the stationary electrode, a plurality of first elastic elements coupled with a peripheral side of the first moveable mass, a first fixed element surrounding the first moveable mass and fixedly attached to the substrate, a plurality of first fixed electrodes extending outwardly from the first fixed element, a second moveable mass surrounding the first fixed electrodes, a plurality of first moveable electrodes extending inwardly from the second moveable mass toward the first fixed to element and parallel to the first fixed electrodes, respectively, a plurality of second elastic elements coupled with a peripheral side of the second moveable mass, and a second fixed element surrounding the second moveable mass and fixedly attached to the substrate. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110303009 | TRI-AXIS ACCELEROMETER - An tri-axis accelerometer is disclosed. The tri-axis accelerometer includes a mass, a first group of capacitance, a third group of capacitance being neighbor to the first group of capacitance. The mass defines an upper surface, a lower surface parallel to the upper surface and a side wall connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The first group of capacitance includes a first movable electrode and the third group of capacitance includes a third movable electrode. The first movable electrode is perpendicular to the third movable electrode. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120043964 | Method and system for simulating magnetic resonance imaging signals - A method for simulating magnetic resonance signals is proposed. A lattice array where each point in the array has several magnetic resonance sensitive particles is provided. Statistic property of each point is set. A raw magnetic resonance imaging data is calculated based on statistic property of each point and a magnetic resonance imaging sequence to be applied. A system for simulating magnetic resonance signals is further proposed. By considering statistic property of each point, it can distinguish every part of the object to be scanned and really reflect the structure of object without using a real magnetic resonance imaging device. It saves time and costs for avoiding several scanning by the real a magnetic resonance imaging device. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120294464 | MEMS Microphone - A MEMS microphone includes a silicon substrate, a diaphragm connected to the silicon substrate, a backplate opposed from the diaphragm for forming an air gap. The backplate defines a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes surrounded by the first through holes, each of the first through holes being formed by a straight boundary and an arc boundary, the radius of the second boundary being greater than half the width of the first boundary. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20150189217 | TELEVISION AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING AND DISPLAYING CC MODE OF TELEVISION - The present disclosure provides a method and a device for identifying and displaying a CC mode of a television. The method includes: decoding received CC program signals to obtain decoding information; obtaining a CC mode corresponding to the CC program signals according to the decoding information; and performing corresponding display according to a preset rule based on the obtained CC mode. Compared with the existed technology, the embodiment of the present disclosure decodes the CC program signals, identifies the corresponding CC mode according to the decoding information, and displays the CC contents according to the identified CC mode, which simplifies the choosing of the mode and thus is convenient for the user. | 07-02-2015 |
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| 20100104025 | TECHNIQUE TO ENABLE EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE STREAMING AND TRANSCODING OF VIDEO AND OTHER SIGNALS - A method is described for efficiently determining total end-to-end distortion of a pre-compressed data stream, such as video streams or other media streams, at the time of delivery over a lossy-network, and for providing adaptive error-resilient delivery schemes based on distortion estimates. The methods can be utilized with single or multilayer packet streams and are particularly well suited for video streams. By way of example, distortion estimates are performed by generating side-information at the time of data stream compression, wherein the side-information is used in conjunction with information about the network status to determine an estimated distortion for the group of packets when the data stream is transported over the network to a destination end. This estimation may be utilized within described resiliency techniques in which the error correction mechanism is selected in response to the estimated distortion, which may be additionally refined in reference to cost factors. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100160201 | Natural Disinfecting Cleaners - A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contain a hydrophobic syndetic, a hydrophilic syndetic, and a biguanide or a cationic quaternary ammonium salt. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100195741 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATE CONTROL IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving video data and gathering statistics associated with the video data. At least some of the video data is broken into slices, each of the slices representing a partition in a video frame within the video data. Each frame is encoded with one or more quality layers based on an outgoing rate and based on a number of central processing unit (CPU) cycles, wherein one or more quality layers of the frames are dropped in the encoding process. In more specific embodiments, the statistics relate to how many bits are used for encoding the quality layers of the video data and how much complexity is required for encoding the quality layers of the video data. After the statistics gathering, adjustments to a network rate are executed. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100208825 | REDUCED BANDWIDTH OFF-LOADING OF ENTROPY CODING/DECODING - Techniques are provided herein to produce encoded video bitstreams and to similarly decode encoded video bitstreams according to a coding standard not supported by an on-chip encoder/decoder. For purposes of encoding, a video sequence is received at a first device. A first bitstream is generated at the first device by encoding the video sequence according to a first coding standard and information associated with the video sequence is generated at the first device according to a second coding standard. The first bitstream and the information are then transmitted to a second device. At the second device the first bitstream is decoded to produce a second bitstream. The second bitstream and the information are combined by removing syntax elements associated with the first coding standard from the second bitstream and adding the information to produce a third bitstream according to the second coding standard. Similar techniques are provided for decoding an encoded bitstream to recover a video sequence. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110236582 | Polyelectrolyte Complexes - The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of associative polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), optionally containing surfactants, biocidal agents and/or oxidants, which can provide surface protection to treated articles including reduced soiling tendency, reduced cleaning effort and improved soil repellancy, as well as providing bacteriostatic properties to treated surfaces that thereby gain resistance to water, environmental exposure and microbial challenge. Treatment means and compositions are provided that employ associative polyelectrolyte complexes formed by combining a water soluble cationic first polyelectrolyte with a water soluble second polyelectrolyte bearing groups of opposite charge to the first polyelectrolyte under suitable mixing conditions where the one polyelectrolyte present in molar excess is added in the form of a first aqueous solution during a mixing step to a second aqueous solution comprising the oppositely charged polyelectrolyte present in molar deficiency. Also provided are means to form stable associative polyelectrolyte complexes in aqueous solutions having R values from about 0.10 to 20, including near stoichiometric R values approaching 1, being the ratio of charged groups present on the component polyelectrolytes employed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110249127 | Estimating Video Quality Corruption in Lossy Networks - Techniques are provided herein for estimating video quality corruption at a device in a network from a data stream encapsulating a video transport stream comprising one or more video frames. The video transport stream is decoded to produce a current video frame. A current loss affected region map is generated comprising values configured to indicate a level of quality for each macroblock in the current video frame, and a decoder based or deterministic quality corruption metric is generated based on the values in the current loss affected region map. When the network device does not have video decoding capability, techniques are further provided for computing a statistics-based video quality corruption metric based on a data loss rate for the current video frame and other statistics. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20140116917 | CATIONIC MICELLES WITH ANIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS SYSTEMS THEREOF - The invention relates to polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a positively charged micelle selected from the group consisting of a monomeric quaternary ammonium compound, a monomeric biguanide compound, and mixtures thereof. The positively charged micelle is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a negative charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140116918 | ANIONIC MICELLES WITH CATIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS SYSTEMS THEREOF - The invention relates to a polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a negatively charged micelle that is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a positive charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140120054 | CATIONIC MICELLES WITH ANIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The invention relates to polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a positively charged micelle selected from the group consisting of a monomeric quaternary ammonium compound, a monomeric biguanide compound, and mixtures thereof. The positively charged micelle is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a negative charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140120055 | ANIONIC MICELLES WITH CATIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The invention relates to a polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a negatively charged micelle that is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a positive charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140121281 | CATIONIC MICELLES WITH ANIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS METHODS THEREOF - The invention relates to polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a positively charged micelle selected from the group consisting of a monomeric quaternary ammonium compound, a monomeric biguanide compound, and mixtures thereof. The positively charged micelle is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a negative charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20150038392 | ANIONIC MICELLES WITH CATIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS SYSTEMS THEREOF - The invention relates to a polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a negatively charged micelle that is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a positive charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150312370 | Screen Sharing Cache Management - In one embodiment, a managed cache system, includes a cache memory to receive storage units via an uplink from a transmitting client, each storage unit including a decodable video unit, each storage unit having a priority, and enable downloading of the storage units via a plurality of downlinks to receiving clients, and a controller processor to purge the cache memory of one of the storage units when all of the following conditions are satisfied: the one storage unit is not being downloaded to any of the receiving clients, the one storage unit is not currently subject to a purging exclusion, and another one of the storage units now residing in the cache, having a higher priority than the priority of the one storage unit, arrived in the cache after the one storage unit. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 10-29-2015 |
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| 20090048246 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING LIPID LEVELS - Compositions comprising extracts or isolated or purified compounds from plants of the genus | 02-19-2009 |
| 20100029880 | FUNCTIONAL POLYMER FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY - The present invention relates compositions and methods for enhanced oil recovery. The method is directed to employing a water-soluble The present invention relates compositions and methods for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The method is directed to employing a water-soluble functional polymeric surfactant (FPS), with a medium IFT value, preferably ranged from about 0.1 to about 15 dyne/cm between water phase containing polymeric surfactant and hydrocarbon phase, for recovery of hydrocarbons from subterranean formations. The FPS solution demonstrates a strong interaction with oil and the great potential to increase both volumetric sweep efficiency and microscopic displacement efficiency in EOR. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20110261584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING BACKLIGHT OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS - A backlight includes a light source and one or more light recycling films. The light source generates light that exits the light source with an angular exit distribution. The light recycling films are oriented in relation to the light source so that the prism peaks of the recycling films are oriented away from the light source. The recycling films have a range of optimal incident angles that allow light to pass through the recycling films without recycling. The components of the light source, the characteristics of the recycling films, or both, are configured to control the overlap between the exit distribution of the light source and the optimal incident angle range of the recycling films. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110269754 | COMPOUNDS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING LIPID LEVELS - Compositions comprising extracts or isolated or purified compounds from plants of the genus | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120234521 | SILICON CARBIDE CLADDING SLAB BASED LASER COOLING DEVICE - A silicon carbide cladding slab based laser cooling device is disclosed. The cooling device includes two silicon carbide slabs, two heat sinks and two fans. The first and the second silicon carbide slabs are respectively diffusion bonded to both sides of a Nd:YVO | 09-20-2012 |
| 20140126592 | AIR-COOLED LASER DEVICE - Air-cooled laser devices and formation methods are provided. An exemplary air-cooled laser device can include at least a laser active slab, a first silicon carbide clad, a second silicon carbide clad, a first laser diode array, and a first cylindrical lens. The first and second silicon carbide clads can be symmetrically bonded to the laser active slab and can have a surface area greater than the laser active slab to form an air duct surrounding side surfaces of the laser active slab and between the silicon carbide clads. The first laser diode array can emit first input pump laser beams to be collimated by the first cylindrical lens to provide parallel and quasi-parallel pump laser beams that are guided by the air duct to enter into the laser active slab from at least a first side surface of the laser active slab. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140163130 | OPTICAL TRANSPARENT DUAL CORE ADHESIVES COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to an optical transparent dual cure adhesive, and process for preparing this dual cure adhesive, and uses thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to optical transparent adhesive, which is both capable of being UV-light cured and thermal cured, for example, it can be used for the bonding of touch screen of an electronic device and substrate. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140238580 | DUAL-CURABLE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION, USE THEREOF, AND PROCESS FOR BONDING SUBSTRATES - The present invention provides a dual-curable adhesive composition, comprising: component (a): an epoxy resin; at least one selected from component (b) and component (c), wherein component (b) is a (meth)acrylate monomer, and component (c) is an oligomer containing a (meth)acryloxy group; component (d): a thermal polymerization catalyst which catalyzes the thermal polymerization reaction of component (a); and component (e): a photo polymerization initiator which initiates the photo polymerization reaction of component (a) and at least one selected from component (b) and component (c), wherein component (e) is a mixture of a cationic photo polymerization initiator and a radical photo polymerization initiator. The dual-curable adhesive composition of the present invention is used for bonding or laminating a transparent substrate with another transparent substrate, or bonding or laminating a transparent substrate with a non-transparent substrate. The present invention also provides a process for bonding substrates. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140303272 | AN ULTRA-VIOLET-CURABLE AND MOISTURE-CURABLE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - Disclosed is an adhesive composition, comprising: (A) a silane terminated oligomer; (B) a (meth)acrylate monomer; (C) optionally a (meth)acrylate oligomer; (D) a photoinitiator; and (E) optionally an organometallic catalyst. The adhesive composition is both ultraviolet curable and moisture curable. Also disclosed is a method of applying the adhesive composition, comprising: (i) coating the adhesive onto the substrate to be bonded; (ii) laminating or stacking the substrate to be bonded to form an assembly; (iii) irradiating the assembly by ultraviolet irradiation; and (iv) placing the assembly under the room temperature. The adhesive composition is useful in display panels, touch panels and optical devices. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20150159059 | OPTICAL TRANSPARENT DUAL CURE ADHESIVES COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to an optical transparent dual cure adhesive, and process for preparing this dual cure adhesive, and uses thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to optical transparent adhesive, which is both capable of being UV-light cured and thermal cured, for example, it can be used for the bonding of touch screen of an electronic device and substrate. | 06-11-2015 |
| 20160024357 | Optical Transparent Dual Cure Adhesives Composition - The present invention relates to an optical transparent dual cure adhesive, and process for preparing this dual cure adhesive, and uses thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to optical transparent adhesive, which is both capable of being UV-light cured and thermal cured, for example, it can be used for the bonding of touch screen of an electronic device and substrate. | 01-28-2016 |
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| 20090078578 | PRE-PLATING SOLUTIONS FOR MAKING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS AND METHODS FOR PREPARING THE SAME - A pre-plating solution for making a printed circuit board includes carbon nanotubes of 0.01-3 wt %, a surfactant of 0.01-4 wt %, an alkaline substance of 0.01-l wt % and a solvent. A method for preparing a pre-plating solution comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of carbon nanotubes; purifying the carbon nanotubes; treating the purified carbon nanotubes with an acid; mixing the treated carbon nanotubes, an alkaline substance and a solvent to form suspension; and adding surfactant into suspension. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090159452 | ELECTROPLATING METHOD - An electroplating method includes steps of: providing a substrate having a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion; forming a metallic layer on a surface of the second portion; immersing the first portion of the substrate in an electrolyte solution, applying a current to the metallic layer to electroplate the first portion of the substrate with a metal layer; and moving the substrate in a direction away from the electrolyte solution during electroplating the first portion of the substrate. The method can improve a uniformity of the obtained plating layer. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090301763 | INK, METHOD OF FORMING ELECTRICAL TRACES USING THE SAME AND CIRCUIT BOARD - An exemplary ink for forming electrical traces includes a plurality of noble-metal-coated diacetylene vesicles formed by combining a noble-metal-ions-containing aqueous solution with diacetylenic monomers each including a hydrophilic group and a lipophilic group. The noble metal ions are attracted to an external surface of each of the diacetylene vesicles. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100021653 | METHOD OF FORMING ELECTRICAL TRACES ON SUBSTRATE - An exemplary method for forming electrical traces on a substrate includes flowing steps. Firstly, a circuit pattern is formed on the substrate by printing a silver ions-containing ink. The ink comprises an aqueous carrier medium, and a silver halide emulsion soluble in the aqueous carrier medium. Secondly, an irradiation ray irradiates the circuit pattern to reduce the silver ions into silver to form a silver particle circuit pattern comprised of silver particles. Thirdly, a metal overcoat layer is electroless-plated on the silver particle circuit pattern thereby obtaining electrical traces. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20130044638 | MOBILE TERMINAL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REALIZING ACCESS POINT NAME SETTING - A system for implementing an access point name setting is disclosed, including: a mobile terminal and an access point name server, wherein, the mobile terminal is configured to: when access point name information is required to be set, send an access point name inquiry request to the access point name server; the access point name server is configured to: after receiving the access point name inquiry request of the mobile terminal, carry the access point name information corresponding to the mobile terminal in an access point name inquiry response to return to the mobile terminal. A mobile terminal and method for implementing the access point name setting are also disclosed. The mobile terminal is enabled to perform automatic setting for an APN conveniently, bringing great convenience to a mobile terminal user. | 02-21-2013 |
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| 20080201551 | Virtual disk router system and virtual disk access system and method therefor - A virtual disk (VD) router system, a VD access system, and a method therefor, applied to a dual-controller system including a first controller and a second controller, are provided. First, a mapping virtual block device (VBD) corresponding to a VD of the second controller and/or the first controller is established in the first controller and/or the second controller, and a mapping relation list and a data transmission channel of the VD and the corresponding VBD thereof are established. When the first controller/the second controller issues an access request to the VD of the second controller/the first controller, the data transmission channel is used to transmit the access request to the VD and transmit the response data to the access request from the VD. Therefore, the overall access to all the VDs in the dual-controller system can be achieved. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090186350 | Muitiforms suspension microgranular bioreactor and methods of use - A Multiform Suspension Microgranular Bioreactor (MSMB) is used to detect nucleic acids or peptides/proteins in molecular and biological samples. Polymer-based microgranules, coupled with biomass molecule probes, are constructed with different features. The biomass molecule probes include cDNA probes, oligonucleic acid probes, peptide or protein probes. These microgranules are differentiated according to their features including shape, size, color, fluorescence intensity, magnetic property, gravity, chemical luminal intensity, radioactivity, and other labels. The above microgranules are suspended in a sample solution and are used collectively as a microarray-like bioreactor device. Such MSMB-based microarrays are particularly useful in complicated biological detection assays with flow cytometry. | 07-23-2009 |
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| 20110205151 | Methods and Systems for Position Detection - A computing device, such as a desktop, laptop, tablet computer, a mobile device, or a computing device integrated into another device (e.g., an entertainment device for gaming, a television, an appliance, kiosk, vehicle, tool, etc.) is configured to determine user input commands from the location and/or movement of one or more objects in a space. The object(s) can be imaged using one or more optical sensors and the resulting position data can be interpreted in any number of ways to determine a command, including 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional movements with or without touch. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205155 | Methods and Systems for Position Detection Using an Interactive Volume - A computing device, such as a desktop, laptop, tablet computer, a mobile device, or a computing device integrated into another device (e.g., an entertainment device for gaming, a television, an appliance, kiosk, vehicle, tool, etc.) is configured to determine user input commands from the location and/or movement of one or more objects in a space. The object(s) can be imaged using one or more optical sensors and the resulting position data can be interpreted in any number of ways to determine a command. An interactive volume can be defined and adjusted so that the same movement at different locations within the volume may result in different corresponding movement of a cursor or other interpretations of input. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205185 | Sensor Methods and Systems for Position Detection - A computing device, such as a desktop, laptop, tablet computer, a mobile device, or a computing device integrated into another device (e.g., an entertainment device for gaming, a television, an appliance, kiosk, vehicle, tool, etc.) is configured to determine user input commands from the location and/or movement of one or more objects in a space. The object(s) can be imaged using one or more optical sensors and the resulting position data can be interpreted in any number of ways to determine a command. Signal conditioning logic (or a programmable CPU) can be used to facilitate detection by performing at least some image processing in hardware before the image is provided by the imaging device, such as by a hardware-implemented ambient subtraction, infinite impulse response (IIR) or finite impulse response (FIR) filtering, background-tracker-based touch detection, or the like. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205186 | Imaging Methods and Systems for Position Detection - A computing device, such as a desktop, laptop, tablet computer, a mobile device, or a computing device integrated into another device (e.g., an entertainment device for gaming, a television, an appliance, kiosk, vehicle, tool, etc.) is configured to determine user input commands from the location and/or movement of one or more objects in a space. The object(s) can be imaged using one or more optical sensors and the resulting position data can be interpreted in any number of ways to determine a command. During a first sampling iteration, a range of pixels can be identified from a location of a feature of the object, with the range used in sampling from the at least one imaging device during a second iteration based on the data sampled during the first iteration. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120101717 | Customizable exercise routes for a user of a personal navigation device - A method of creating a customizable exercise route for a user of a personal navigation device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a selection of terrain type or difficulty level from the user, receiving a selection of a length of an exercise route to be generated, generating an exercise route for the user according to a current position of the personal navigation device, the selected terrain type or difficulty level, and the selected length of the exercise route, and providing routing instructions for the user to follow the generated exercise route. | 04-26-2012 |
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| 20120159759 | METHOD FOR REVAMPING AN HF OR SULPHURIC ACID ALKYLATION UNIT - The present invention provides a method for revamping an HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit to an ionic liquid alkylation unit, wherein the HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit comprise at least: a reactor unit for contacting catalyst and hydrocarbon reactants; a separator unit for separating a reactor effluent into a catalyst phase and an alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase; a fractionator unit for fractionating the alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase into at least one stream comprising alkylate; and which method includes: providing one or more cyclone units downstream of the reactor unit to separate at least part of the reactor effluent in a catalyst phase and a alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120165592 | METHOD FOR REVAMPING AN HF OR SULPHURIC ACID ALKYLATION UNIT - The present invention provides a method for revamping an HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit to an ionic liquid alkylation unit, wherein the HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit comprise at least: a reactor unit for contacting catalyst and hydrocarbon reactants; a separator unit for separating a reactor effluent into a catalyst phase and an alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase; a fractionator unit for fractionating the alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase into at least one stream comprising alkylate; and which method includes: providing a second separator unit suitable for the separation of solids from liquids downstream of the reactor unit suitable to reduce the solids content in at least part of the reactor effluent. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120172646 | METHOD FOR REVAMPING AN HF OR SULPHURIC ACID ALKYLATION UNIT AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ALKYLATE - The present invention provides a method for revamping an HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit to an ionic liquid alkylation unit, wherein the HF or sulphuric acid alkylation unit comprise at least: -a reactor unit for contacting catalyst and hydrocarbon reactants; -a separator unit for separating a reactor effluent into a catalyst phase and an alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase; -a fractionator unit for fractionating the alkylate-comprising hydrocarbon phase into at least one stream comprising alkylate; -a catalyst phase recycle means to recycle at least part of the catalyst phase from the separator unit to the reactor unit; which method includes: -adapting the catalyst phase recycle means by providing a means for acid injection and/or a means for halohydrocarbon injection into the catalyst recycle means. The invention further provides a method for the production of alkylate. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120172647 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING AN ALKYLATE - The present invention provides process for preparing an alkylate comprising contacting in a reactor a hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least an isoparaffin and an olefin with an acidic ionic liquid catalyst under alkylation conditions to obtain an alkylate, which process further comprises: -withdrawing an alkylate-comprising reactor effluent from the reactor, wherein the reactor effluent comprises an ionic liquid phase and a hydrocarbon phase; -separating at least part the reactor effluent into a hydrocarbon phase effluent and a multiple-phase effluent in a centrifugal separation unit; -fractionating at least part of said hydrocarbon phase effluent into at least a stream comprising alkylate and a stream comprising isoparaffin. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20150315094 | SOLIDS CONTENT CONTROL IN IONIC LIQUID ALKYLATION PROCESS - The present invention relates to a continuous or non-continuous ionic liquid alkylation process comprising a step for solids removal, the process further comprising the steps (a) measuring the solids content in the ionic liquid alkylation process stream by on line (in situ) or off line sampling; (b) in response to the solids measurement signal, regulating the flow of the ionic liquid side stream to be sent to the solids removal device; (c) regulating the flow of the fresh ionic liquid inlet stream, for controlling the solids content in the ionic liquid alkylation process to a pre-defined level. The process of the invention provides a means to more efficiently run an ionic liquid alkylation process. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150315103 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING ALKYLATE COMPRISING AN IMPROVED SOLIDS REMOVAL STEP - The present invention relates to a process for preparing alkylate comprising the subsequent steps (a), (b) and (c):
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| 20130007755 | METHODS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND PHYSICAL COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA FOR MANAGING RESOURCES OF A STORAGE SERVER - For managing a storage server having improving overall system performance, a first input/output (I/O) request is received. A first priority level is dynamically assigned to the first I/O request, the first I/O request associated with a performance level for an application residing on a host in communication with the storage server. A second I/O request of a second priority level is throttled to allow at least a portion of a predetermined amount of resources previously designated for performing the second I/O request to be re-allocated to performing the first I/O request. The second priority level is different than the first priority level. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007757 | METHODS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND PHYSICAL COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA FOR MANAGING RESOURCES OF A STORAGE SERVER - For managing a storage server having improving overall system performance, a first input/output (I/O) request is received. A first priority level is dynamically assigned to the first I/O request, the first I/O request associated with a performance level for an application residing on a host in communication with the storage server. A second I/O request of a second priority level is throttled to allow at least a portion of a predetermined amount of resources previously designated for performing the second I/O request to be re-allocated to performing the first I/O request. The second priority level is different than the first priority level. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130218825 | AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGERING PREDICTIONS IN RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS BASED ON AN ACTIVITY-PROBABILITY THRESHOLD - A recommender system determines a probability threshold for an activity-prediction model, and uses the probability threshold to predict whether a user is performing a target activity. To determine the probability threshold, the system computes a set of activity probabilities based on contextual information for a set of historical activities, and based on an activity-prediction model for a target activity. The system then compares a set of probability thresholds with the set of activity probabilities to determine a prediction success rate for each probability threshold. The system computes a utility score for each probability threshold based on the prediction success rates and a utility function, and selects a probability threshold whose utility score is optimal amongst the utility scores of the set of thresholds and greater than or equal to a baseline utility score. The system then assigns the probability threshold to the activity-prediction model. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130226856 | PERFORMANCE-EFFICIENT SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING USER ACTIVITIES BASED ON TIME-RELATED FEATURES - A recommender system uses an activity decision tree to model the changes in a user's behavior according to a plurality of time-related features. The system determines historical activities for the user, and generates a decision tree for the user's historical activities. Each leaf node of the decision tree is associated with an activity-prediction model that computes a probability for a corresponding activity. The system selects a path of the decision tree from a root node to a leaf node of the decision tree based on a target time. The selected path traverses two or more non-leaf nodes that are each associated with a temporal decision model that compares the target time against a temporal classifier. The system then determines a probability for a user activity based on an activity-prediction model of the selected path. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130254152 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MODELING POPULATION-CENTRIC ACTIVITIES - A client device can receive information about a population to which a user belongs. During operation, the client device determines information about a user, determines a group identifier for the user, and communicates the determined information about the local user and the group identifier to a group-modeling server. The client device then receives a group-activity model that corresponds to the group identifier, and generates a user-activity model for the local user based on the group-activity model and the determined information about the local user. The client device uses the user-activity model to compute an activity probability for a corresponding target activity. The group-modeling server receives user information from a plurality of client devices of a group, and generates a group-activity model for the group based on the user information. The server then sends the group-activity model to users of the identified group. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130262216 | PERFORMANCE-EFFICIENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLING USERS FOR POPULATION-CENTRIC ACTIVITY MODELING - A performance-efficient activity-modeling system generates a group-activity model for a population group using information from an optimal subset of users of the population group. During operation, the system computes utility scores for a set of users based on a utility-scoring function, such that a respective utility score indicates a usefulness or penalty of collecting a corresponding user's contextual information. The system then selects, from the set of users, a subset of users with highest utility scores, and receives user information from each of the selected users. The system generates the group-activity model based on the user information received from the selected users. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140067455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING USER ACTIVITIES USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - An automatic calendar-managing system automatically updates a user's schedule in response to schedule-modifying events. During operation, the system can detect a schedule-modifying event, which can include an event that is likely to require the user to modify a set of scheduled activities. The system then generates a schedule modification, which includes at least one change to the user's set of scheduled activities, to account for the schedule-modifying event. The system can reschedule the user's set of scheduled activities to accommodate the schedule modification. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140100952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING MESSAGE DELIVERY IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for optimizing the performance of a recommendation engine by generating an optimal recommendation time window. During operation, the system receives user click-through behavior on past recommendations and current user information, such as demographics and location. The system also receives information on one or more offers. The system determines the appropriate user-group for each user, and appropriate offer-group for each offer. The system then generates an optimal time period for a given recommendation for a given user and offer, wherein the optimal recommendation time window is the period when the offer is most likely to be accepted. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140122483 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DURATION FOR USER ACTIVITIES BASED ON SOCIAL-NETWORK EVENTS - An activity-modeling system computes an amount of time that a user is expected to spend when performing activities of a certain type. During operation, the system can obtain a plurality of location events associated with the user, such that a respective location event indicates a time at which a user logged his location while performed an activity related to the activity type. The system selects, from the plurality of location events, a set of location events associated with the activity type. The system determines an activity start-time and an activity end-time for the activity type from the set of location events, and computes an activity-duration time for the activity type based on the determined activity start-time and the activity end-time. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140163934 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN AVERAGE WAIT TIME FOR USER ACTIVITIES BASED ON CONTEXTUAL SENSORS - A wait-queue modeling system facilitates computing a wait time for an activity type. During operation, the system obtains user-behavior events associated with one or more users waiting to perform an activity of a target activity type. The system can determine, based on the user-behavior events, activity-waiting attributes associated with users entering or leaving a waiting queue for an activity of the target activity type. The system then computes a wait time for the activity type based on the determined activity-waiting attributes. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140372753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED PRIVACY-PRESERVING COMPUTATIONS ON USER LOCATIONS - A location-trace comparison system can perform privacy-preserving computations on locations traces for two or more users, for example, to determine a location-visit overlap for these users. During operation, the system obtains location-event descriptions for locations that a local user has visited and/or is likely to visit, such that a respective location-event description indicates a location identifier and a time-interval identifier. The system encrypts the location-event descriptions to generate a corresponding set of encrypted local-user events, and receives encrypted remote-user events from a remote device, for at least one remote user. The system compares the encrypted location events to determine an overlap between the set of encrypted local-user events and the set of encrypted remote-user events. The system then determines, from the encrypted-event overlap, location-event descriptions for locations that the local and remote users have both visited and/or are both likely to visit during the same time interval. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150039672 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING APPLICATION-SPECIFIC CONSISTENCY OF CHECK-IN-BASED USER LOCATION DATA STREAMS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for ensuring quality of a check-in stream for an application. During operation, the system initially receives a check-in stream metric for the application. The system also receives a threshold metric value for the check-in stream metric. Next, the system calculates a metric value based on the check-in stream and the received check-in stream metric for the application. The system determines whether the calculated metric value satisfies the received threshold metric value, and in response to the calculated metric value satisfying the received threshold metric value, executes the application using the check-in stream. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150206222 | METHOD TO CONSTRUCT CONDITIONING VARIABLES BASED ON PERSONAL PHOTOS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating one or more recommendations for a customer. During operation, the system obtains transaction and image data for a plurality of existing customers. The system then trains one or more parameters of conditioning variables associated with one or more clusters based on image data as part of a predictive model. Next, the system determines a list of recommendable items for each cluster, based on the transaction data. The system obtains transaction and image data for a customer. The system then determines that the customer is a member of a cluster associated with the predictive model, based on the obtained transaction and image data. The system generates a recommendation for one or more recommendable items for the customer based on the determined cluster membership. | 07-23-2015 |
| 20160062795 | MULTI-LAYER QOS MANAGEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A technique for multi-layer quality of service (QoS) management in a distributed computing environment includes: receiving a workload to run in a distributed computing environment; identifying a workload quality of service (QoS) class for the workload; translating the workload QoS class to a storage level QoS class; scheduling the workload to run on a compute node of the environment; communicating the storage level QoS class to a workload execution manager of the compute node; communicating the storage level QoS class to one or more storage managers of the environment, the storage managers managing storage resources in the environment; and extending, by the storage managers, the storage level QoS class to the storage resources to support the workload QoS class. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065492 | MULTI-LAYER QOS MANAGEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system for multi-layer quality of service (QoS) management in a distributed computing environment includes: a management node hosting a workload scheduler operable to receive a workload and identify a workload QoS class for the workload; and a plurality of distributed compute nodes, the workload scheduler operable to schedule running of the workload on the compute nodes. The workload scheduler is operable to: translate the workload QoS class to a storage level QoS class; communicate the storage level QoS class to a workload execution manager of the compute nodes; and communicate the storage level QoS class to one or more storage managers, the storage managers managing storage resources. The storage managers are operable to extend the storage level QoS class to the storage resources to support the workload QoS class. | 03-03-2016 |
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| 20130273174 | POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES - The present invention relates to aqueous compositions of associative polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), optionally containing surfactants, biocidal agents and/or oxidants, which can provide surface protection to treated articles including reduced soiling tendency, reduced cleaning effort and improved soil repellancy, as well as providing bacteriostatic properties to treated surfaces that thereby gain resistance to water, environmental exposure and microbial challenge. Treatment means and compositions are provided that employ associative polyelectrolyte complexes formed by combining a water soluble cationic first polyelectrolyte with a water soluble second polyelectrolyte bearing groups of opposite charge to the first polyelectrolyte under suitable mixing conditions where the one polyelectrolyte present in molar excess is added in the form of a first aqueous solution during a mixing step to a second aqueous solution comprising the oppositely charged polyelectrolyte present in molar deficiency. Also provided are means to form stable associative polyelectrolyte complexes in aqueous solutions having R values from about 0.10 to 20, including near stoichiometric R values approaching 1, being the ratio of charged groups present on the component polyelectrolytes employed. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20140296126 | CATIONIC MICELLES WITH ANIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The invention relates to polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a positively charged micelle selected from the group consisting of a monomeric quaternary ammonium compound, a monomeric biguanide compound, and mixtures thereof. The positively charged micelle is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a negative charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150264922 | CATIONIC MICELLES WITH ANIONIC POLYMERIC COUNTERIONS METHODS THEREOF - The invention relates to polymer-micelle complex. The polymer-micelle complexes include a positively charged micelle selected from the group consisting of a monomeric quaternary ammonium compound, a monomeric biguanide compound, and mixtures thereof. The positively charged micelle is electrostatically bound to a water-soluble polymer bearing a negative charge. The polymer does not comprise block copolymer, latex particles, polymer nanoparticles, cross-linked polymers, silicone copolymer, fluorosurfactant, or amphoteric copolymer. The compositions do not form a coacervate, and do not form a film when applied to a surface. | 09-24-2015 |
