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This invention relates generally to electronic commerce (e-commerce) methods for the use of systems and media platforms, for use with both mobile and non-mobile systems, to deploy virtual advertising and promotion via the use of electronic coupons, and more particularly a method and system for creating, deploying, transferring, clearing, managing, redeeming and reporting on the use of electronic coupons or virtual electronic rebates (VeeBates) and permitting individuals and groups within one or more social communications networks to participate in and transmit information to others about their activities related to the virtual advertising, incentives, redemption and promotion.

A sensor network provides the ability to detect, classify and identify a diverse range of agents over a large area, such as a geographical region or building. The network possesses speed of detection, sensitivity, and specificity for the diverse range of agents. Different functional level types of sensors are employed in the network to perform early warning, broadband detection and highly specific and sensitive detection. A high probability of detection with low probability of false alarm is provided by the processing of information provided from multiple sensors. A Bayesian net is utilized to combine probabilities from the multiple sensors in the network to reach a decision regarding the presence or absence of a threat. The network is field portable and capable of autonomous operation. It also is capable of providing automated output decisions.

A method and apparatus for transporting an object from one workstation to another, or for manipulating an object within a workstation, where the object or workstations may be contaminated with unwanted dirt or dust particles, are disclosed. The object is gripped at one work station with a movable transfer arm a movable transfer arm having an end effector composed of an array of nano-scale projections, where each projection provides one or more distal contact ends, the density of contact ends is such as to grip a surface of the object with an intermolecular force sufficient to hold the object for movement, where the relative sizes of the object and particles are such that the object makes contact with severalfold times of the number of contact ends than contacted by such particles. After moving the gripped object to the other workstation, the end effector is manipulated to release the gripped object at the other workstation. Before, during or after transport of the object, the arm's end effector is brought into contact with a cleaning surface having a surface energy interaction with particles carried on said effector as great or greater than the surface energy interaction between particles and effector, thereby to transfer such particles to the cleaning surface. Also disclosed is an apparatus for transporting small elements or objects in a nano- or micro-fabrication assembly or in printing, and a self-cleaning adhesive tape.

In relation to a system which effects one-to-many authentication using biometric information; e.g., a fingerprint, an iris, voice, a facial image, a vascular pattern, a dynamic signature, or a keystroke, in order to significantly shorten the time required to verify registered feature information against input feature information, there is performed extraction of verification-purpose feature information and a plurality of types of verification-purpose attribute information from the biometric information about an object of authentication; computation of verification priority levels of a plurality of registration-purpose feature information items on the basis of registration-purpose attribute information and the verification-purpose attribute information, both being associated with the registration-purpose feature information items; and sequential verification of the verification-purpose feature information against registration-purpose feature information in accordance with a computed verification priority level, thereby specifying registration-purpose feature information matching said verification-purpose feature information from said plurality of registration-purpose feature information items.

A system and / or method for relaying messages in a network (e.g. a mobile network) are provided. Certain portable communications nodes are instrumented with omni-directional antennas. Certain static communications nodes are network cluster-head nodes with directional antennas, and, for example, achieve much of the gain possible when all nodes have directional antennas. Cluster-head communications preferably are used when the nodes are separable by the directional antennas. Preferably, there is a transition to mesh communications when the nodes cannot take advantage of the directional antennas. One feature of certain exemplary embodiments is that only one side of a communication link requires a directional antennal to enable spatial frequency reuse.

The disclosure relates to a method of generating a diverse set of variants to screen improved and novel properties within the variant population, a system for creating the diverse set of variants, and the variant peptides.

The present invention provides methods and compositions related to genomic profiling, and in particular, to assigning probabilistic measure of clinical outcome for a patient having a disease or a tumor using segmented genomic profiles such as those produced by representational oligonucleotide microarray analysis (ROMA).

A method and system are presented for merging a first family tree to a second family tree. The method comprises: providing a plurality of first matrices associated with the first family tree and a plurality of second matrices associated with the second family tree, each matrix comprising attributes on individuals that are linked to one another by a predetermined link; identifying substantially identical first and second matrices in said pluralities of first and second matrices; and generating data indicative of a merge of the family trees to one another if a number of the substantially identical matrices exceeds a predefined number.

A found-item information management server is able to hand a lost item over to the owner early with a high probability. When the finder of a found item sends found-item information to the found-item information management server using a first terminal, a found-item reporting unit registers the found-item information, partly as secret particular information, in a found-item information database. Thereafter, the owner of the found item sends a request to refer to the found-item information registered in the found-item information database using a second terminal. An information disclosing unit sends the found-item information registered in the found-item information database, except for the particular information, to the second terminal. When the owner sends lost-item information to the found-item information management server using the second terminal, a match determining unit determines a match between the lost-item information and the particular information stored in the found-item information database, and sends a determined result to the second terminal.

Provided are a device capable of properly controlling the operation of a steering gear or the like from the viewpoint of support to the stable traveling of a vehicle even in an inappropriate situation for the demarcation of both right and left sides of a travel area by right and left lane marks, and the like. In a vehicle travel support device (10), a virtual travel area can be set as a travel area when a first condition is satisfied, that is, when the space between the right and left lane marks in a road width direction increases to an inappropriate extent from the viewpoint of demarcation of the travel area because the space therebetween gradually increases as the distance from the vehicle increases. The operation of a steering gear (14) or the like is so controlled that the vehicle does not get out of the virtual travel area set as the travel area.

A method of determining directionality of radiation is disclosed which comprises dividing the tensioned metastable fluid liquid volume adjacent to a radioactive source into a plurality of sectors, determining the opposing sector ratio of the respective sector and determining the direction of the radiation based on the opposing sector ratios of the plurality of sectors. The method further comprising determining directionality of incoming radiation from the tension pressure assisted elongation of bubble shapes pointing towards direction of radiation particles that interacted with nuclei of tensioned metastable fluid detector system. A device capable of carrying out these methods is also disclosed.

A method for use in automatic speech recognition corrects erroneous recognition elements within a recognition hypothesis. A user input is recognized as a correction hypothesis which contains various recognition elements. A non-deterministic alignment is performed to align at least a portion of the correction hypothesis with an earlier recognition hypothesis which also contains various recognition elements such that the recognition elements in the aligned portion of the correction hypothesis are determined to most likely, correspond to a range of recognition elements in the earlier recognition hypotheses. The recognition elements in the range of recognition elements in the earlier recognition hypothesis are replaced with the recognition elements in the aligned portion of the correction hypothesis.

In the context of tracking systems, it is difficult to ensure that an organization has a complete, accurate database of contacts stored in its tracking system. When tracking systems users are required to manage exporting and importing of contacts from their desktop mail clients and handheld devices, it is almost certain that contact information will not be kept up-to-date and that confidence in the accuracy of the contact information will not be high. By enabling a remote directory access portal in the tracking system, all users can be assured that they have available the latest contact information for the organizations' contacts. In addition to providing directory access, the tracking system can authenticate users and, based on the users' entitlements, authorize users' access to specific contacts.

A network-based apparatus for imposing a minimum transmit latency on data packets of a prescribed data type on a network includes at least one processor. The processor is operative: (i) to receive a data packet of the prescribed data type; (ii) to determine an elapsed time since an arrival of the received data packet at the apparatus; (iii) when the elapsed time is equal to or greater than the minimum transmit latency, to transmit the data packet; and (iv) when the elapsed time is less than the minimum transmit latency, to wait an amount of time at least equal to a difference between the elapsed time and the minimum transmit latency and then to transmit the data packet. The apparatus further includes memory coupled to the processor, the memory being configurable for storing data utilized by the processor.

This invention provides a composition comprising the following polynucleotide probes: IL7R (AA485865), NDRG1 (AA486403), EST1 (H50345), TRPC1 (AA017132), GFRA1 (AA512935), EST2 (AA454543), CLDN10 (R54559), DNALI1 (R93087), RBP5 (AA453198), EST3 (AA621761), EST4 (N63706), PCOLCE (AA670200), TDO2 (T72398), EST5 (T47454), HIST1H2BD (N33927), PXMP2 (N70714), ACAS2 (AA455146), ANAPC7 (T68445), EST6 (AA576580), RBP5 (N92148), ANXA1 (H63077), CKB (AA894557), ITGBL1 (N52533), KPNA2 (AA676460), EST7 (W90740) and MEG3 (W85841). This invention further provides methods for determining the likelihood of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a subject afflicted with HCC, for determining the likelihood of death of a subject afflicted with HCC or for determining whether to administer adjuvant therapy.

A method, system, and computer program product for saving the state of at least one open application on a data processing system when an event forces open applications to close. The method preferably includes a step of monitoring data processing system activities to detect an event indicative of a forthcoming system shutdown action, the system shutdown action including a command which forces closing of running applications. Responsive to detecting the event, execution of said shutdown action is suspended and the state of the at least one open application is recorded. An indication that a state of the at least one running application has been recorded for reuse is stored and, following the recording and storing steps, execution of said shutdown action is restored.

A hollow golf club head has: a moment of inertia Ix around a vertical axis of 4500 to 5900 g sq·cm; and a moment of inertia Iy around an inclined axis of 5300 to 6800 g sq·cm, which satisfy Iy=<1.071 I×Ix+482 g sq·cm. The vertical axis passes through the center of gravity of the head under a standard state in which the head is set on a horizontal plane so that a shaft center line is inclined at a lie angle of 60 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane within a vertical plane and a club face lies at the loft angle. The inclined axis passes through the center of gravity of the head and is inclined downwardly toward the toe from the heel at 62 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane within a plane parallel with the above-mentioned vertical plane.

The expansion joint reliability fatigue life assessment method comprises the following specific steps that 1, determining weak links of the fatigue life of an expansion joint product, corresponding failure mechanisms and sensitive factors influencing the fatigue life; step 2, performing nonlinear simulation analysis and fatigue life analysis, and establishing a finite element model of the expansion joint; step 3, determining key parameters influencing the fatigue life of the expansion joint according to the sensitive factors determined in the step 1; carrying out statistical distribution fitting on each key parameter by applying an actual measurement value, and finishing multiple random sampling of the key parameters by adopting a Monte Carlo important sampling method; and 4, evaluating the reliability fatigue life of the expansion joint, inputting sample parameters obtained after multiple times of random sampling into the established expansion joint finite element model, carrying outstatistical distribution fitting on a fatigue life analysis result, and obtaining the reliability fatigue life of the expansion joint under a given confidence coefficient.

The invention provides an image saliency detection method based on edge non-similarity comparison, belonging to the field of image recognition. The invention aims to provide the image saliency detection method based on edge non-similarity comparison such that a significant object can be highlighted and has good integrity and consistency. The method comprises a step of carrying out pre-segmentation of a detected image, extracting a series of characteristic values of super pixel blocks after the pre-segmentation, calculating the edge non-similarity of each super pixel value and the shortest path between a super pixel pair, calculating the probability that each super pixel belongs to a background area, optimizing a saliency probability value, and obtain a final super pixel saliency value; and a step of giving the values of super pixels to corresponding pixels and obtaining a final saliency map. The method is robust to noise, the error of a result is small, and the significant target extraction processing of subsequent image segmentation and other applications is facilitated.

An implementation of a technology is described herein for recognizing the perceptual similarity of the content of digital goods. At least one implementation, described herein, introduces a new hashing technique. More particularly, this hashing technique produces hash values for digital goods that are proximally near each other, when the digital goods contain perceptually similar content. In other words, if the content of digital goods are perceptually similar, then their hash values are, likewise, similar. The hash values are proximally near each other. This is unlike conventional hashing techniques where the hash values of goods with perceptually similar content are far apart with high probability in some distance sense (e.g., Hamming). This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.

A control apparatus and method for a hybrid vehicle that searches for and determines a scheduled travel route and a downhill section included in the scheduled travel route on the basis of positional information of the vehicle and road information. The control apparatus determines a section from a downhill control start point to an end point of a target downhill section as a controlled target section. The downhill control start point is located a predetermined first distance before a start point of the target downhill section. When the vehicle travels on the controlled target section, the control apparatus executes downhill control. Even in a situation in which a target downhill section is newly determined during execution of the downhill control, the control apparatus continues the downhill control until the vehicle reaches an end point of the controlled target section for which the downhill control is started.

A method for reconfiguring a storage system communicating with a host, consisting of the steps of formulating a proposed reconfiguration of the storage system from an original configuration, and generating a record of operations of the storage system during an evaluation period in the original configuration. In response to the record, the method further consists of making a determination whether data accessed by the host in the original configuration during the evaluation period would have been unavailable to the host if the proposed reconfiguration had been implemented prior to the evaluation period. In response to the determination, a decision is made whether to implement the proposed reconfiguration.

Microbial fuel cells generate an electrical signal when microbes enter the cells through a semipermeable membrane. By reading and analyzing the signal from one or more such fuel cells can indicate infection in people or animals, indicate pathogens growing in food or show mold growth. Insofar as different microbes have specific metabolisms, the signal may be used to determine which microbe is present.

A method for predicting and preventing uncorrectable errors that may occur while accessing memory in a computer system. The method involves detecting two or more correctable errors from two or more different physical addresses on each of two or more different bit positions from the same DIMM within a specified period of time, with all of the correctable errors occurring within the same checkword. The method also involves detecting two or more correctable errors from two or more different physical addresses on each of three or more different outputs from the same DRAM within a specified period of time, as long as the three outputs do not all correspond to the same relative bit position in their respective checkwords. This allows a computer system which encounters correctable errors to continue to reliably operate without the unnecessary replacement of functioning memory systems.

A shadow area in a lung-field area of a subject is detected from tomographic images constituting a three-dimensional image representing the subject. A hilum-of-lung area in the lung-field area of the subject is detected from the tomographic images. Further, a slice image that passes through a first point that is a predetermined point in the detected shadow area, a second point that is a predetermined point in the detected hilum-of-lung area, and an arbitrary point that has been set in advance is generated. The generated slice image is displayed.

An RFID system that is capable of increasing the probability of a spare channel being detected and reducing the influence of interference between reader / writers comprises: a reader / writer which has a reader / writer main body section and an antenna capable of polarization switching, and which sends a continuous carrier wave; and a tag which uses tag information to modulate the continuous carrier wave and sends back a response signal to the reader / writer. The reader / writer main body section judges the level of a received interference signal and determines a channel and polarization direction for which the level of the interference signal is equal to or less than a threshold value, and receives a response signal from the tag on the determined channel and in the polarization direction.

Method and system for reduction of time variance of packets received from bonded communication links. Embodiments of present inventions can be applied to bonded communication links, including wireless connection, Ethernet connection, Internet Protocol connection, asynchronous transfer mode, virtual private network, WiFi, high-speed downlink packet access, GPRS, LTE, X.25 and etc. The present invention presents methods comprising the steps of determining latency difference among bonded communication links, receiving one or more packets from the bonded communication links, and delivering the one or more packets according to the latency difference. The present invention also present systems comprising one or more network interfaces for receiving one or more packets from the bonded communication links communication network and one or more control modules configured for determining latency difference among a bonded communication links communication network, and for delivering the one or more packets according to the latency difference.