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Systems and methods for delivering application media content to multiple social media systems (SMSs) for display to SMS members. The method includes the steps of providing initial application media content to respective SMSs. Once a respective SMS member interacts with the initial content, a social relationship management system (SRMS) receives indication from an SMS of such interaction, and retrieves a unique application media file relating to application media content. The unique application media file is then applied to an application media container file that overcomes certain formatting protocols and requirements of the SMS and enables transmission and delivery of the application media content to the SMS. The application media content is then delivered to the SMS member on the SMS through the application media container file.

A method and system for presenting interactive and non-interactive media content to a client computer over a computer network. The system can combine discrete, continuous and interactive media into a single scene that is presented to the client computer. The system allows the presentation to be highly configurable and may therefore customize the presentation for a specific user. User profile information may be stored in an repository associated with the system. This information may be used to customize the presentation to suit the specific needs of a user or to notify the user when a presentation of interest to the user is available. Furthermore, information about a user's interaction with a particular presentation may be stored in the repository so that a presentation can adapt “on-the-fly” to suit the specific needs of a user. In addition, information regarding web services that are available on the Internet may be integrated with other interactive content in a presentation that is provided to a user. The system and method may also utilize an open-source computing platform so that presentations can be transmitted and displayed on a wide variety of client terminals.

A method and apparatus is provided of handling modified packets containing additional information regarding source and data type for efficient processing within a mixed network. Incoming and outgoing packets are sent via a dynamic protocol which adapts to circumstances, including the type of network being used, the type of packet being transmitted and the network guidelines.

In accordance with the invention, the disclosure presents a flat panel displaying and sounding system integrating a flat panel display with a flat panel sounding unit array. Generally, the flat panel displaying and sounding system comprises a panel surface for both displaying picture and emanating audible sound, a flat panel display means for said displaying picture and a flat panel sounding unit array means for said emanating audible sound. The flat panel system may be made by attaching a flat panel displaying layer with a flat panel sounding unit array. Furthermore, the flat panel system may be made by disposing a flat panel displaying layer inside layers of a flat panel sounding unit array. Furthermore, layer level integration may be used to implement function needed for displaying and function necessary for sounding on one integrated layer.

A dialog with a conversational virtual assistant includes a sequence of user queries and systems responses. Queries are received and interpreted by a natural language understanding system. Dialog context information gathered from user queries and system responses is stored in a layered context data structure. Incomplete queries, which do not have sufficient information to result in an actionable interpretation, become actionable with use of context data. The system recognizes the need to access context data, and retrieves from context layers information required to transform the query into an executable one. The system may then act on the query and provide an appropriate response to the user. Context data buffers forget information, perhaps selectively, with the passage of time, and after a sufficient number and type of intervening queries.

A gaming headset adapted for precise delivery of chemical substances capable of olfactory stimulation, such as odorants, fragrances, pheromones, etc. The headset includes at least one earpiece containing a speaker, a feature for securing the earpiece to the person's head while positioning the speaker over one of the person's ears when the headset is worn, an armature disposed relative to the earpiece so as to extend toward the person's mouth, a microphone located on the armature so as to be located in front of the person's mouth, and a feature supported by and extending along the armature for delivering at least one chemical substance to the person's nostril's when the headset is worn.

A program for rewarding players for gaming at a casino establishment provides a player with real-time incentives while the player is playing at a gaming machine in the casino. Information about the player and / or the player's gaming activity is collected while the player is at a gaming machine in a casino. This information is used by a marketing system to select an incentive to provide to the player. The incentive is then delivered to the player, for example manually by a casino employee or automatically using a printer or other mechanism at the gaming machine. Various types of incentives can be provided to a player, including incentives designed to provide the player with an experience that is favorable to the casino and incentives designed to keep the player gaming in a casino for a longer amount of time.

A method and a system are described for directing a client to the most optimal, most available Web site or to the most optimal content in a distributed content environment, using an Internet Site Selector, which is an Internet appliance that optimizes the performance of domains hosted on mirrored, geographically distributed Web sites. The system includes various components including the Internet Site Selectors which co-locate with each Web site. The method comprises a number of steps including sending client requests to a primary or main site, redirecting by an Internet Site Selector coupled to the primary or main site the modified client requests to all other participating Internet Site Selectors. Several modes and deployments of the Internet Site Selectors, including geographic site selection, multiple Internet Site Selectors at each Web site, Internet Site Selector grouping, Internet Site Selectors in content routing are described.

A method of registering a mobile device with an access point, is provided in which the mobile device preregisters with access points nearby in order to accelerate the registration process when roaming is initiated. Roaming may be initiated when the SNR is increasing relative to the current access point and decreasing relative to another access point.

A navigation method and navigation system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method has the following actions: a.) receiving position data from a position determining device; b.) when approaching a junction with the navigation system, displaying the junction view on a display, the junction view showing data as to a real-life view of the junction inclusive of an image of each signpost present on the junction as visible to a user of the navigation system; c.) receiving route information from route planning software indicating a route to be followed by the user; and d.) highlighting on the display a signpost related to a road segment to be followed by the user relative to all other signposts as shown on the display.

The present invention provides an electronic cigarette and a soft power source stem thereof. The power source stem includes a power source stem sleeve with a built-in battery. One end of the power source stem sleeve is closed, while the other end thereof is provided with an absorption stem connector for connecting with an absorption stem of the electronic cigarette. Herein, the power source stem sleeve is made of soft material; and an outer wall of the power source stem sleeve is sleeved with a holding member for clamping the absorption stem connector and power source stem sleeve. The electronic cigarette and a soft power source stem have good experience when held in hand, are able to reduce production cost, have stable construction and are convenient to attach a paper layer thereon.

A training device is provided to assist medical, dental and veterinary students in the surgical procedure of suturing wounds having a multiple structures that permit the practicing of tying sutures in a variety of situations and conditions and having an artificial tissue that can be tensioned or compressed into various states of resistance against the drawing closed of a wound with sutures.

A shampoo composition is disclosed that has from about 5 to about 40 weight % of one or more detersive surfactants and an aqueous carrier comprising water and one or more polyols, wherein the weight ratio of one or more polyols to water is higher than or equal to about 0.4, and the water content is higher than or equal to about 9% by weight of the composition. The composition delivers thorough hair cleansing, good lather, good conditioning wet feel, clean rinse feel during use, leaving hair with very low residue on the hair surface. The use of the shampoo composition also provides high hair volume, smooth dry hair feel, and bouncy hair that is easy to style.

The present invention relates to an electronic hookah, comprising a smoking rod and a control switch configured on the smoking rod. The smoking rod further has a transparent liquid reservoir and a sound playing module, the sound playing module comprises a sound storage unit pre-stored with sound files, a speaker and a central controller which brings up the pre-stored sound files from the sound storage unit and plays the sound files through the speaker according to a controlling command of the control switch. The electronic hookah has a sound playing module on its smoking rod, to make kinds of sounds to help enhance experience of simulated smoking, for example: making the sound of running water to form the feeling of smoking hookah, and making the sound of a birdcall or airflow and so on, to provide better experience of simulated smoking, and allow users to have the feeling of smoking

A method of providing service performance information to a carrier for an application over a network is provided, wherein parameters relating to the application are transmitted to a mobile device, and the mobile device stores information relating to packets transmitted for the application. Should the information stored exceed the parameters, an alert is sent to the network.

A navigation method and navigation system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method has the following actions: a.) receiving position data from a position determining device; b.) when approaching a junction with the navigation system, displaying the junction view on a display, the junction view showing data as to a real-life view of the junction inclusive of an image of each signpost present on the junction as visible to a user of the navigation system; c.) receiving route information from route planning software indicating a route to be followed by the user; and d.) highlighting on the display a signpost related to a road segment to be followed by the user relative to all other signposts as shown on the display.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio fix, in particular to a millimetre wave time-division random code phase modulation multi-passage automobile anti-collision radar. The radar of the invention is provided with a time-division and time-sequence asynchronous control to receive / emit signal, and a receive / emit a dual-purpose quasi-light integrated medium lens antenna array, and scans the objects possible to be collided on the warning road surfaces by DSP according to lane scanning wave beam; the road situation photographing, the vehicle speed sensing and satellite positioning GPS data MCU control time-division n-passage random code millimetre wave phase modulation; emission is carried out sequentially by upper frequency conversion, R / T3, frequency doubling and power amplification, R / T2, a circulator, a wave beam switch and the antenna array; echo passes through the antenna array, the wave beam switch, the circulator, the R / T1, low noise high amplifier, subharmonic mixing, middle amplifier and extracts the multi-passage signal DSP which is processed and controlled by MCU; the driving of multi-automobile of adjacent lanes is not disturbed by each other and can be completed simultaneously; the high-performance environment electromagnetic compatible EMC is provided; when a plurality of road barriers are encountered, the orientation, distance and relative speed are determined by DSP restriction virtual warning; three-dimensional panoramic images are displayed by a CRT; the closer the distance of the object is, the higher the resolution is; the object which is closest to the vehicle is recognized; sound and light alarm are carried out when the distance is less than safety distance; when the distance is near to the dangerous distance, the vehicle can intelligently avoid the barrier or reduce the speed or brake; the radar of the invention can make a choice according to the control reference road situation, the vehicle speed and the GPS data.

The present invention provides an electronic cigarette soft enclosure holding device, including an electronic cigarette enclosure of a barrel shape and with an opened end and a closure component engaged and pressed against the opened end of the enclosure for closing the opened end; the closure component and enclosure are independent components individually manufactured and then assembled together; the closure component is no less than the enclosure in hardness, the electronic cigarette soft enclosure holding device further includes a holding mechanism disposed at the connection location between the closure component and enclosure and engaged and pressed against the enclosure such that the closure component and enclosure are firmly pressed against each other. The holding mechanism enhances the connection stability between the enclosure and closure.

A shampoo composition is disclosed that has from about 5 to about 40 weight % of one or more detersive surfactants and an aqueous carrier comprising water and one or more polyols, wherein the weight ratio of one or more polyols to water is higher than or equal to about 0.4, and the water content is higher than or equal to about 9% by weight of the composition. The composition delivers thorough hair cleansing, good lather, good conditioning wet feel, clean rinse feel during use, leaving hair with very low residue on the hair surface. The use of the shampoo composition also provides high hair volume, smooth dry hair feel, and bouncy hair that is easy to style.

The integrated network optimization as a comprehensive framework for a multi-variable optimization across all seven layers of the OSI model, of the network resources and their allocations to optimally enable services to the end-users based on their service level agreements (SLAs), in particular but not limited to wireless networks.This approach is real-time and thus dynamically in an integrated fashion allocates the resources of the network in an optimal manner to the many users on the network simultaneously such that the nature and requirements of each application, each user is using are addressed.This invention optimizes the utilization of resources & spectrum of the network, the quality of the experience of the users of the network, the quality of the applications and services delivered by the network to the users, the economics of the network & its operation by optimal utilization of the resources for wireless networks.

A control device with a touch screen and motion sensors is held in one hand with the screen facing the user. Preferably, thumb motion of the hand holding the control device on the touch screen sensor of the control device is the input to control the motion and animations of an avatar, wherein the avatar motion is displayed on the control device touch screen or, in an embodiment, on an external display device. An important aspect of the present invention is tilting the control device, causing an angular rotation velocity, which can trigger a game event such as throwing, kicking, shooting or other action of the game.

A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for security validation of a user input in a computer network application. The method includes: providing a subset of security rules of a server-side protection means to a pre-validation component deployed at a client side, so as to enable security validation of a user input on the client side by the pre-validation component; validating the user input based on at least one of the security rules; determining, in response to detecting a user input violation and that a violated security rule has not been provided to the pre-validation component, the user as a first class of users; determining, in response to detecting the user input violation and that the violated security rule has been provided to the pre-validation component, the user as a second class of users; and performing different security protection actions to the first and second class of users.

In this invention, if an end-user has not interacted with a displayed webpage (the “Original”) displayed on a device for more than a defined time (i.e. a period of inactivity, called the “Delay”), then the device browser is automatically forwarded or pointed to a replacement webpage (the “Destination”) designated by the user or a third party. Hence, the Original will no longer remain displayed, long after it has been read, but will dynamically forward to a new Destination.

A method for handoff between cells in a communication system includes the network sends a cell individual offset preset for a cell in the active set relative to each of its neighboring cells respectively to a terminal; after measuring the cell in the active set and its neighboring cells, the terminal evaluates the measurement in accordance with the measurement result and the cell individual offset for the cell in the active set relative to its each neighboring cell; the terminal then submits a measurement report to the network in accordance with the measurement evaluation result; the network instructs the terminal to perform a handoff between cells in accordance with the measurement report. The invention also discloses a network controller and a terminal corresponding to the method. With the invention, the cell individual offset for a cell is set relative to its each neighboring cell so that the handoff between cells can be more accurate. As a result, user of the terminal can obtain better experience.

An on-line tournament management process includes a team substitution feature suitable when one tournament team loses a player to a disconnection or other unforeseen circumstance. The process may include maintaining roster information for first and second teams. Responsive to detecting a lost connection corresponding to a first player of the first team, performing substitution operations that may include: accessing skill level attributes of the first player, performing a search for a replacement player for replacing the first player in accordance with the skill level attributes and offering at least some eligible standby players, determined in accordance with criteria for matching the skill level attributes of the first player, a substitution spot corresponding to the open roster spot. After monitoring for an acceptance from an eligible player and not receiving an acceptance, additional eligible standby players may be offered the substitution spot. Additional eligible players may be identified by relaxing the degree of matching criteria.