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A method and apparatus are provided for matching ready-to-act consumers and pre-qualified service providers. According to one aspect of the present invention, the Internet is used to attempt to solve communications problems and to achieve efficiency in Consumer-to-Business commerce transactions. Initially, a database of pre-qualified service providers is established. Then, a description of the consumer's needs may be extracted from a consumer using decision trees appropriate for the desired task. Subsequently, the consumer needs are packaged and presented to multiple service providers that meet a set of predetermined qualifications. The consumer needs may be presented, for example, by way of a set of heterogeneous communication devices depending upon preferences supplied by the service providers. For example, the set of heterogeneous communication devices may include facsimile, pager, mobile phone, home phone, office phone, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) unit, email, etc. The service providers may choose to submit a response for the consumer's needs or reject the task. After a sufficient number of responses have been received from the pre-qualified service providers, they are presented to the consumer. The consumer may then select from the pre-qualified service providers based upon one or more objective and / or subjective factors associated with the pre-qualified service providers. For example, objective service provider qualification information may be presented to the consumer along with the service provider responses. In addition, a database of consumer-generated service provider ratings and / or reviews may be maintained and made available for consumer queries.

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for dynamic user interface customization. A set of functions for a user interface is stored, each function comprising a function that can be added to the user interface. A first set of data is transmitted to a remote device that causes the user interface to be displayed on the remote device with a predetermined set of functions from the set of functions. Interaction data is received indicative of a user's interactions with the user interface. A second set of data is transmitted to the remote device that causes the user interface to dynamically add a new function from the set of functions to the user interface based on the interaction data, wherein the new function is displayed as a selectable item in the user interface that the user can select to use a function associated with the new function.

A method for bounded model checking of arbitrary Linear Time Logic temporal properties. The method comprises translating properties associated with temporal operators F(p), G(p), U(p, q) and X(p) into property checking schemas comprising Boolean satisfiability checks, wherein F represents an eventuality operator, G represents a globally operator, U represents an until operator and X represents a next-time operator. The overall property is checked in a customized manner by repeated invocations of the property checking schemas for F(p), G(p), U(p, q), X(p) operators and standard handling of atomic propositions and Boolean operators.

The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences / characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility.

A method and system for traffic performance analysis, network reconfiguration, and real-time traffic monitoring and surveillance is described. Traffic performance analysis and congestion detection is achieved through discrete event simulation. The road network is translated to a graph. The translation is the result of the processing of a high resolution satellite or aerial image consisting of road extraction. In the resulting graph, road intersections are represented by vertices and road sections by edges. Edges have several properties such as the capacity of the section, presence of traffic signs and traffic lights, rate of generation (vehicles leaving parking), and rate of absorption (vehicles going to parking) Temporal simulation allows detecting congestions as well as congestion propagation. Real-time traffic monitoring consists of detecting abnormal traffic slowdowns. This is achieved by observing traffic with a camera. The video is processed to compute the optical flow which allows the computation of the traffic speed. Individual vehicle speed is also computed to detect speeding vehicles by comparing their speed to the nominal speed limit in the road section. The whole system can be grouped in a traffic control room or a traffic information system.

A structured document signature device includes an adaptation policy associator configured to associate each element forming a structured document with an adaptation policy indicating an action which can be adapted to a child element of the element or a value of the element; a hash tree constructor configured to insert a hash value of the child element of the element or a hash value of the value of the element into the structured document as an attribute value of the element, and to construct a hash tree including the hash value; a digital signature adder configured to add a digital signature to a root of the hash tree and the adaptation policy; and an output configured to output the structured document and the digital signature.

A planning method of EV fast charging stations on the expressway, comprising the following steps: Step 1: forecasting the spatial and temporal distribution of EV charging load, that is to determine the time and location of each EV needing charging on the expressway; Step 2: based on the forecast result achieved by Step 1, determining the locations of the fast charging stations on the expressway by the nearest neighbor clustering algorithm; Step 3: according to the spatial and temporal forecast result of the EV charging load and the locations of the fast charging stations, determining the number c of the chargers in each fast charging station by queuing theory. Due to battery characteristics, traditional gas stations do not completely match the fast charging stations. In the planning method, the locations and times for charging of the EVs are considered to determine the capacities and locations of the fast charging stations, which can meet the charging needs of the EVs more than the traditional gas station, and thus promote the development of EVs.

A collapsible lighting device including a plurality of light panel sections, each light panel section comprising a plurality of light emitting elements, at least one connection element constructed and arranged to connect one or more light panel sections of the plurality of light panel sections to one another, and an electronic control system configured to distribute electrical power to the plurality of light emitting elements.

The present invention is a system for reliably and efficiently transmitting data shared among several computers simultaneously. The system makes use of concurrent multicast and unicast connections following a server-controlled session-oriented protocol. By using the system support for late-joining is available, and repairs after long connectivity losses can be made. Additionally, the system can limit transmission of repair data to intended recipients of that particular information.

A low cost roll dispenser includes a housing with an interior and a feeding mechanism. The housing has an interior with a shape, which may be a ramp or series of ramps, that biases a roll of sheet material forward so that it is in constant contact with the shape and the feeding mechanism while the roll is stationary and while the roll is being unwound. The low cost roll dispenser may have a cover and an integrated handle that drives the feeding mechanism that attach to the housing without the use of any tools.

An adaptive error recovery routine allows for the recovery from errors in read data of a disk drive. In one embodiment, a disk drive is provided which has an error memory having error memory elements used to record an error type and recovery step for each error recovered from the disk drive. If another error is detected that is of the same type and which is in a location close to a recorded error, the error recovery step used for the previous error is performed for the new error. If the previous error recovery step is not successful, the disk drive performs error recovery using an existing error recovery table, and omits the previous error recovery step.

A heat-dissipating device with heat pipe includes a base having a plurality of pipe spaces therein; a plurality of heat pipes vertically mounted on the base and connected to the pipe spaces respectively; a working fluid filled in the pipe spaces; and a plurality of heat-dissipating fins attached to the plurality of heat pipes and spaced from each other by a predetermined distance. This heat-dissipating device can achieve heat dissipation without bending the heat pipes.

An object of the present invention is to provide a polyamide resin composition from which the solvent is easily removed during film formation and which gives a film or adhesive layer reduced in residual solvent content. It is suitable for use especially as vanish. The composition and vanish are characterized by comprising as essential ingredients a phenolic hydroxyl group-having aromatic polyamide resin and a cycloalkanone as a solvent and preferably further containing a curable resin.

A method and storage and picking system for progressive picking of articles in accordance with new orders which define ordered articles with regard to a respectively ordered article type including an associated quantity, characterized by a picking warehouse in which a plurality of different article types are stored, the different article types forming an article assortment, wherein the picking warehouse has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of several days; a picking station for conventionally picking articles stored in the picking warehouse; a buffer warehouse in which selected article types are stored in storage units, and which has a storage capacity ensuring a picking range of a few days, wherein the buffer warehouse is filled by the selected article types, which substantially originate from the picking warehouse, in accordance with a filling order which is redetermined based on data of old orders representing completed picking orders, and which defines the selected article types including associated quantities thereof, wherein the data of the old orders comprise ordered article types including associated quantities as well as associated order times thereof; a picking control; and at least one work station and a consolidation-buffer device, wherein the work station is connected to the buffer warehouse, and wherein, at the work station, the ordered articles are taken from the storage units, and are packed, or are taken and delivered to the consolidation-buffer device; wherein the picking control is configured for cyclic generation of the filling order, wherein the generation comprises the following steps: selecting the article types, which have been ordered frequently and in greater amounts in the past, for the buffer warehouse from the data of the old orders; determining article-type-specific buffer quantities for each of the selected article types; and generating the filling order, which defines the selected article types including the associated buffer quantities thereof.

The present invention relates to a gas pressure regulator including an electrochemical cell (4) having a first electrode (1) for decomposing gas into ions, a second electrode (2) for converting the ions generated in the first electrode (1) into the gas again and an ion conductor (3) sandwiched in between both the electrodes (1) and (2); and a high pressure vessel (5) disposed in one side of the electrochemical cell (4). In this device, the gas is decomposed into the ions in the first electrode (1). The decomposed ions are allowed to pass through the ion conductor (3) sandwiched in between the first electrode (1) and the second electrode (2) and conducted to the second electrode (2) side. The conducted ions are reconverted into the gas in the second electrode (2).

One disclosure of the present specification provides a method in which a user equipment (UE) performs an attach request procedure. The method comprises a step of transmitting an attach request message to a second system when an intersystem change from a first system to the second system is required in a state where a back-off timer associated with a data network name (DNN) based congestion control is running. The attach request message may include information on a packet data unit (PDU) session used by the UE in the first system. The information on the PDU session may be used so as not for the attach request message to be rejected by a second network, even if the back-off timer associated with the DNN-based congestion control is running.

A method of dividing a wafer having devices which are composed of a laminate formed on the front surface of a substrate, along a plurality of streets for sectioning the devices, comprising: a laminate dividing step for dividing the laminate formed at the streets of the wafer along the streets; a deteriorated layer forming step for forming a deteriorated layer in the inside of the substrate along the streets by applying a laser beam of a wavelength having permeability for the substrate of the wafer to the rear surface of the wafer along the streets; and a dividing step for dividing the wafer along the streets by exerting external force to the wafer where the deteriorated layers have been formed.

A network-application association method comprises: performing corresponding operations for applications according to instructions of users; sending out association information according to users' relationship chains of the users and relations among the applications; judging whether the users respond to the association information; if the users respond to the association information, updating the users' relationship chains of the users or performing corresponding operations for the applications, according to operations for the users responding to the association information. In addition, the present invention further provides a network-application association system. In the above network-application association technology analyzes the users' relationship chains of the users and the relations among the applications, to find out the implicit relations among the users of the different applications, so as to use the association information to built the association among the different application and inform the users, such that the different applications are combined together, to enrich network service.

A cyanine compound is represented by formula (I):A1: benzene or naphthalene ring. A3: 5- or 6-membered ring. R1, R2: hydrogen atom and the like. R7: an alkyl group and the like. R12: a substituent by formula (II) or (II′). R20: a hydrogen atom and the like. Anq-: a q-valent anion. q: 1 or 2; p: a coefficient for neutral charge. In formula (II): bond between L and T is a double, conjugated double, or triple bond. L: carbon atom. T: carbon, oxygen, sulfur, or nitrogen atom. x, y, z: 0 or 1. s: 0-4. R13: hydrogen atom and the like. R14, R15, and R16: hydrogen atom and the like. In formula (II′), the bond between L′ and T′ is a double or conjugated double bond. L′: carbon atom. T′:carbon, oxygen, nitrogen atom. s′: 0-4. Ring containing L′ and T′: 5-membered ring, may contain a heteroatom.

A rewritable recording medium including: a base material; and an image recording layer enclosed by the base material, wherein the image recording layer contains: electrophoretic particles, magnetophoretic particles, or both of the electrophoretic particles and the magnetophoretic particles; a dispersion medium; and a thermoreversible gelling agent, and wherein the dispersion medium is in contact with the base material, and wherein image recording and image erasing can be repeatedly performed on the rewritable recording medium by an external image recording device.

A disclosure of this specification provides a method performed by a wireless device for determining a transport block size (TBS). The method may include the steps of determining a number of resource elements (REs) within a slot, calculating a value related to the TBS, based on the determined number of REs and a code rate, comparing the calculated value with a pre-determined threshold value, determining the TBS according to the comparison, wherein, if the calculated value is smaller than or equal to the pre-determined threshold value, the TBS may be determined using a predetermined table.

A multimode network communication system includes first equipment based on a first mode and second equipment based on a second mode, and the second equipment includes a local device and a remote device, the local device being arranged in the first equipment and the remote device being independent of the first equipment. Further, according to the present invention the first and the second equipment may be wired or wireless equipment respectively. Therefore, in the situation that the first equipment is communication equipment in the original mode network and the second equipment is communication equipment in a new mode, the site for the first equipment may be configured to be shared by the remote device of the second equipment for the purpose of resources share, and the remote device of the second equipment may be arranged in an optimal site corresponding to the new mode.

An electronic device 10 includes a layered piezoelectric element 20 and a driven member 30. The driven member 30 is bonded to the top surface 20a of the layered piezoelectric element 20 by means of an epoxy resin adhesive S. The piezoelectric element 20 includes a side electrode 24 on one side surface of the element, which is one of the outer surfaces of the element 20. The piezoelectric element 20 includes, in the vicinity of the upper end portion of the side surface, a dam portion 28 formed of a material for preventing epoxy bleed out of the adhesive S. Therefore, even when the epoxy bleed out of the adhesive S occurs, a bled-out portion of the components of the adhesive S does not reach the side electrode 24. Thus, when the side electrode is connected to an external circuit by, for example, soldering, reduction in the connection strength or similar problems can be avoided.

A projector includes: a projection lens which includes a zoom mechanism capable of controlling a projection view angle; a zoom drive unit which drives the zoom mechanism; a zoom amount storing unit which stores a zoom amount provided by the zoom drive unit; an operation signal receiving unit which receives a predetermined operation signal; and a zoom control unit which controls the zoom drive unit in such a manner as to set an initial zoom condition determined based on the zoom amount stored in the zoom amount storing unit when the operation signal receiving unit receives the predetermined operation signal.

Provided is a toner having good endurance stability and good low-temperature fixability in high-speed printing, and having good resistance to the adhesion of printed paper. The toner is a magnetic toner having, on the surface of toner particle containing a binder resin and an ester compound as a releasing agent, inorganic fine particle “a” and organic-inorganic composite fine particle having a volumetric specific heat of from 2,900 kJ / (m3·° C.) to 4,200 kJ / (m3·° C.), in which a coverage A of the surface of the toner particle with the inorganic fine particle “a” is 45.0% or more and 70.0% or less.

The invention provides an Ethernet-based data transmission method, which is applied to a control system with a plurality of nodes. The method comprises: a first node caches the data needed to be sent (S101); if the current communication macro-cycle comprises the time segment for the first node to send data, the first node sends the cached data in the time segment for the first node to send data within the current communication macro-cycle; if the current communication macro-cycle does not comprise the time segment for the first node to send data, the first node does not send the cached data in the current communication macro-cycle; wherein other nodes do not send data in the time segment for the first node to send data within the current communication macro-cycle, and the communication macro-cycles have same durations and each communication macro-cycle consists of a plurality of time segments with a fixed length (S102). The invention further provides Ethernet nodes and a control system.

A method and system for configuring a complex network and a server resource configuration and management module are provided. The method comprises: obtaining an access record of each cloud computing server in a cloud server pool in a network; constructing a complex network model according to the access record(s); performing a community division process to the complex network model to obtain a community structure and memberships of members in each community; and configuring a structure of the network according to the community structure and the memberships of the members in each community. The provided technical scheme is applicable to a cloud computing network. The method and system for configuring a complex network and the server resource configuration and management module, realize configuring the network according to the usage of each cloud computing server in the current network, solve the problem of no mechanism for configuring a cloud computing network reasonably.

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining the new sample points of the location determination system in a wireless environment. In the training phase, after knowing the distribution of the observed radio signal of a location for a target device, the uncertainty of the probability distribution of the received radio signal is analyzed by a location probability distribution model. The radio signal distribution differences are calculated, and the penalties between the location in question and its nearby locations are also calculated, thereby determining whether a location is the candidate of new sample points or the recalibration points. This invention has nothing to do with decision rules and will not undergo the problems of choosing inappropriate decision rules. It also provides a penalty model for generating penalty of error prediction from one location to another location, which can as well easily mitigate the problem on the sample points with the double-role attribute of the border line.

A merchandise security hook, comprising a base, a backboard, an upper iron wire, a lower iron wire, a lock sleeve, a key, a rotary core and an example merchandise, wherein a short hook is arranged between the lower iron wire and the backboard, the base is arranged between the upper iron wire and the backboard and is connected with the upper iron wire through a pressing piece and a pressing screw, a base spring is sleeved on the lower iron wire, a lock sleeve is arranged at an end of the lower iron wire, a plastic stop block is arranged between the lock sleeve and the upper iron wire, a label and a return spring are arranged at an end of the upper iron wire. The merchandise security hook is designed reasonable and easy to use.