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The present invention provides a method for a roaming user to establish security association with the application server in the visited network. When receiving the service request from the roaming user, the application server in the visited network establishes security association with the roaming user by making use of the authentication results of the generic authentication architecture in the home network via the BSF in the local network, or the generic authentication architecture proxy in the local network, or the AAA server in the local network and the AAA server in the roaming user's home network, so as to achieve the object that the roaming user is able to use the services of the visited network after authentication of the generic authentication architecture in his home network.

A computer-implemented method of providing users with contextually relevant data associates metadata tags with data items extracted from a variety of data sources that summarize the data items in searchable form using a common format. Contextual data is collected from the users indicative of their current situation. This data is then correlated with the metadata tags to identify data items of potential interest to the users taking into account their current situation. The identified data items are pushed to the relevant receiving devices in real time over a communications network to provide the identified users with information relevant to their current situation.

A wireless terminal includes a data transmitting / receiving function and a handover control section. The handover control section scans channels to detect the existence or non-existence of the handover destination candidate on all available wireless channels. The handover control section acquires the handover destination candidate, by scanning the existence or non-existence of the handover destination in advance before handover execution. The verification scan is carried out to check whether or not the candidate is in a communicable area with the terminal. Then, based on the execution result of the verification scan, it performs a handover.

A hub apparatus is disclosed that includes plural input ports; a policer unit that monitors the input bandwidth of the input ports and controls acquisition and discarding of input packet data input via the input ports, the policer unit including plural policers assigned to the input ports that have input token buckets for accumulating input tokens; a packet multiplexer that multiplexes the input packet data acquired by the policer unit; a shaper that transmits the multiplexed packet data at equal intervals according to an output bandwidth, the shaper including an output token bucket that accumulates output tokens up to a predetermined amount; and a surplus token recycling unit that recycles surplus tokens exceeding the predetermined amount that are generated at the output token bucket of the shaper by distributing the surplus tokens to the input token buckets of the policers of the policer unit.

A computer-implemented method of providing users with contextually relevant data associates metadata tags with data items extracted from a variety of data sources that summarize the data items in searchable form using a common format. Contextual data is collected from the users indicative of their current situation. This data is then correlated with the metadata tags to identify data items of potential interest to the users taking into account their current situation. The identified data items are pushed to the relevant receiving devices in real time over a communications network to provide the identified users with information relevant to their current situation.

Disclosed is a system and methods for gathering, analyzing, querying, and providing food safety and risk profile information to end-users via a central or distributed database across a variety of communications modes. It is a computer based system providing the ability for the user to remotely query the database of food safety information and deliver a risk profile and analysis of the food items to the user via a mobile handset such as a Smartphone, Digital Personal Assistant (PDA), tablet, or computer. The database content on food safety is developed through intelligence gathering around the world, historical analysis of food borne pathogen and illness cases and their origins and provenance, and criteria and analytic processes to characterize and rate food risk. The invention also includes analytic techniques to derive predictive indicators of potential food safety threats and risks, and techniques for gathering and analyzing historical query information for system learning.

For improving durability of a wiring harness of a power supply system used in a sliding structure, a power supply system includes a casing; a wiring harness; a harness supporter arranged along a base of the casing so as to move freely back-and-forth in the casing; and a constant force spring arranged along the base of the casing. The wiring harness is bent and wired along an outer surface of the harness supporter, and the harness supporter is biased with a spring force by the constant force spring so as to absorb an extra length of the wiring harness. A winding part of the constant force spring is separated from a harness receiving space of the casing, and an end of the constant force spring led from the winding part is connected and fixed to the harness supporter at an outside of the casing.

A charging processing unit calculates a pre-charged amount of money based on print conditions and charges the calculated pre-charged amount of money to a card through a card reader. A job control unit starts a print job to print until a penultimate page, when pre-charging is finished. Further, when an accumulated amount of money is specified by generating image data of the final page and the accumulated amount of money is smaller than the pre-charged amount of money, the printing is stopped before the final page is printed. The charging processing unit causes an UI control unit to display a message requesting to place the card again. When the card is placed in response to the message and pieces of the card information matches each other, a refunding process is carried out. The job control unit restarts printing the final page after a refunding process.

An apparatus and method for interpreting a Korean keyword search phrase is provided. The apparatus for interpreting the Korean keyword search phrase may include an interface to receive a search phrase and to extract keywords from the search phrase, and a processor to classify the extracted keywords into at least one of a class, an instance, a property, and an attribute, based on a Korean sentence structure, and to obtain semantic information associated with the search phrase from a database, based on a result of the classifying.

The invention provides, in some aspects, methods and systems for cultivating and providing guest feedback on rental accommodations that comprise a plurality of modules that execute on a digital data processor, including, a first module that obtains email addresses, a second module that validates those e-mail addresses, a third module that generates and delivers invitations to authorized email addresses, a fourth module that authenticates users that respond to those invitations, a fifth module that validates content entered by users in response to the invitations, a sixth module that stores the validated content, and a seventh module that accepts input from managers in regard to that content. Method and systems according to the invention cultivate user feedback and reviews to substantiate accurate vacation home rental and alternative lodging (refers to small lodging services, such as bed and breakfasts, cabins, etc.) accommodations through a closed cultivation system.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional life size model of a child's skull, a kit comprising several such models, and methods using said model.

[PROBLEMS] To efficiently switch frequencies of communication between a mobile station and a base station.[MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] There are included a mobile station (B6) that switches frequencies between base stations (B1-B5) to perform communication; and a base station control apparatus (B7) that controls the base stations and the mobile station (B6). The mobile station (B6) has a level measuring part (A7) that measures the communication quality information, while the base station control apparatus (B7) has a control part (F3) that performs, based on the foregoing quality information, a determination as to the foregoing frequency switching. This determination as to the foregoing frequency switching is performed based on the communication quality information measured by the mobile station (B6) that switches frequencies between the base stations to perform communication. The determination as to the foregoing frequency switching is performed by either the mobile station (B6) or the base station control apparatus (B7). This can improve the stability of the communication quality and further reduce the activations of unnecessary monitoring of different frequencies.

A casing includes a holding member for holding an adsorption member for adsorbing moisture, and a heating medium circuit for heating or cooling an adsorbent of the adsorption member. The holding member is configured to be drawn out of the casing, while holding the adsorption member and the heating medium circuit together.

An antenna apparatus is assembled into an electronic apparatus and made communicatable upon receipt of a magnetic field transmitted from a transmitter. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna substrate having an antenna coil inductively coupled to the transmitter formed thereon and a magnetic sheet for use in drawing the magnetic field transmitted from the transmitter to the antenna coil. The magnetic sheet is inserted into a center portion of the antenna coil such that two ends of the magnetic sheet are positioned closer to the center portion than two ends of the antenna coil in an inserting direction thereof.

The invention provides a driving circuit for a liquid crystal device having a reduced number of transistor elements by sharing transistors having identical logics among adjacent decoders. The driving circuit for a liquid crystal device capable of carrying out gradation display by applying gradation voltage corresponding to a display data to a liquid crystal element comprises a decoder circuit portion composed of a dynamic circuit for selecting the gradation voltage, the decoder circuit portion having a number of transistor elements 4 reduced by sharing transistors with identical logics constituting adjacent decoders. The voltage level corresponding to the display data causes all the analog switches to be set to an off status, so as to prevent overlap of output voltage during a timing of transition of the analog switch to the off status and a timing by which the analog switch is turned on according to a subsequent display data.

A liquid atomization device includes a nozzle body. The nozzle body includes: a first gas spray portion and a second gas spray portion for spraying two gas flows; a liquid passage having a passage through which liquid flows by formation of the two gas flows sprayed by the first gas spray portion and the second gas spray portion; a gas-liquid mixture area where the gas flow sprayed from the first gas spray portion and the gas flow sprayed from the second gas spray portion are made to collide against liquid which flows from the liquid passage to atomize the liquid; and a spray outlet for spraying mist atomized in the gas-liquid mixture area to outside.

A method for implementing a CMOS input buffer that consumes very low current even when input levels are less than full swing. An additional optional stage enables conversion to very low voltage swing. The circuit can be manufactured with a standard CMOS processing technology and with high immunity to variation of process parameters. The circuit provides some hysteresis response, enhancing the input voltage margin.

The invention provides, in some aspects, methods and systems for cultivating and providing guest feedback on rental accommodations that comprise a plurality of modules that execute on a digital data processor, including, a first module that obtains email addresses, a second module that validates those e-mail addresses, a third module that generates and delivers invitations to authorized email addresses, a fourth module that authenticates users that respond to those invitations, a fifth module that validates content entered by users in response to the invitations, a sixth module that stores the validated content, and a seventh module that accepts input from managers in regard to that content. Method and systems according to the invention cultivate user feedback and reviews to substantiate accurate vacation home rental and alternative lodging (refers to small lodging services, such as bed and breakfasts, cabins, etc.) accommodations through a closed cultivation system.

A delivery management system includes a client user terminal, a lock / unlock device, a delivery user terminal, and a processor. The client user terminal is used by a client user who submits a request to deliver the package to a predetermined compartment of a vehicle. The processor makes an electronic payment for a fee when a request to pay for the fee associated with a package has been made from the client user terminal. The processor issues authentication information to a delivery user terminal when the processor has made the electronic payment in a case where there is specification that the client user pays for the fee at the time of delivery of the package. The delivery user terminal makes a request of a lock / unlock device to lock or unlock the predetermined compartment with the authentication information. The lock / unlock device locks or unlocks the predetermined compartment.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store a computer executable instructions; and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions to: determine a text corresponding to a received command, provide response information on the command based on a first artificial intelligence model classifying the text as a text corresponding to one of a plurality of pre-stored texts, and provide error information on the command based on the first artificial intelligence model classifying the text as an error, wherein the first artificial intelligence model is configured to classify the text as the error based on the text corresponding to the command being a similar text having one of an entity and an intent different from at least one of the plurality of pre-stored texts.

The invention relates to a power generation system, comprising a synchronous generator (3) for converting mechanical power into electrical power at an output side configured for connecting an AC power grid (1), a first rectifier (12) and a second rectifier (13) each having an AC side (14) connected to the output side of the generator (3) and a DC side (15), an exciter (9) configured for exciting the, and a selector device (18) having an input side (17) and an output side (19), the input side (17) connected to the DC side (15) of the first rectifier (12) and to the DC side (15) of the second rectifier (13) and the output side (19) connected to the exciter (9), whereby the selector device (18) is configured for switching the DC sides (15) in series or in parallel or for transmitting DC power from the first rectifier (12) and the second rectifier (13) corresponding to an arbitrary split ratio to the output side (19).

An object of the present invention is to provide a dental polishing instrument that causes no clogging, that prevents occurrence of any secondary flaw, that is excellent in the polishing property, and that can provide high gloss in a short time period, for a dental prosthetic appliance difficult to polish. Another object thereof is to provide a dental polishing instrument that enables easy discharge of polishing sludge while that simultaneously shows sufficient strength. A dental polishing instrument according to the present invention can suppress clogging and occurrence of any secondary flaw due to the polishing sludge and can efficiently polish by forming a polishing abrasive grain layer including polishing abrasive grains and a resin material, into protrusions on the surface of a base material thereof and by disposing the protrusions on the base material.

A sound output apparatus includes a touchscreen, a vibrator and a controller. The vibrator produces sound by causing vibration of the touchscreen based on a sound signal. The controller (a) performs a predetermined control of the sound signal while contact of an operation body with the touchscreen is being detected by the touchscreen, and (b) does not perform the predetermined control of the sound signal while contact of an operation body with the touchscreen is not detected by the touchscreen.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional life size model of a child's skull, a kit comprising several such models, and methods using said model.

An imaging part 120 receives the light that is reflected from the measurement target, and a plurality of pieces of pattern image data are generated. Height data is generated on the basis of the plurality of pieces of the pattern image data. Green light, blue light, and red light are successively emitted from the light sources 111 to 113, and are reflected from the pattern generating part 118, and uniform light of the green light, uniform light of the blue light, and uniform light of the red light are successively projected onto the measurement target. The imaging part 120 receives the uniform light reflected by the measurement target, and a plurality of pieces of texture image data are successively generated. The plurality of pieces of the texture image data are synthesized, whereby color texture image data is generated.