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Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and / or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and / or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and / or select people and / or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and / or other qualitative and / or parameter data indicating and / or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and / or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and / or assign persons, things, and / or groups of persons and / or things to at least one class.

A method and apparatus for indexing and searching content in a hardcopy document utilizes a searching assistant computing device (402) with an index table (420) stored in memory (412). The index table (420) is created in memory by scanning a 2-D barcode from a hardcopy document or alternatively by downloading indexing information from a web page via the Internet (430). A search engine (410) in the searching assistant (402) searches the index table (420) to locate a data element found in the content of the hardcopy document. The indexing information corresponding to the data element is displayed to a user as part of the search results to indicate the location of the data element in the hardcopy document.

Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and / or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and / or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and / or select people and / or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and / or other qualitative and / or parameter data indicating and / or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and / or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and / or assign persons, things, and / or groups of persons and / or things to at least one class.

Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and / or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and / or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and / or select people and / or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and / or other qualitative and / or parameter data indicating and / or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and / or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and / or assign persons, things, and / or groups of persons and / or things to at least one class.

Electronic content is filtered to identify spam using image and linguistic processing. A plurality of information type gatherers assimilate and output different message attributes relating to message content associated with an information type. A categorizer may have a plurality of decision makers for providing as output a message class for classifying the message data. A history processor records the message attributes and the class decision as part of the prior history information and / or modifies the prior history information to reflect changes to fixed data and / or probability data. A categorizer coalescer assesses the message class output by the set of decision makers together with optional user input for producing a class decision identifying whether the message data is spam.

Embodiments of systems and methods for efficient hand-off in a wireless network employ a neighbor report which may include, in addition to more convention information about neighboring access point, search thresholds, target beacon transmission time of neighboring access points, and execution thresholds. The present systems and methods also provide a mechanism of updating neighbor report and its elements. A faster and lower spectrum cost active search scheme based on sending a null packet may also be used by the systems and methods.

A framework and method of programming web-based interfaces using management classes for the management of behavior regarding specific web elements wherein said code relating to said management classes is loaded into a user's browser and primarily executed within the client-side browser environment.

A method for determining whether the relative position of electrodes used by a neurostimulation system has changed within a patient comprises determining the amplitude of a field potential at each of at least one of the electrodes, determining if a change in each of the determined electric field amplitudes has occurred, and analyzing the change in each of the determined electric field amplitudes to determine whether a change in the relative position of the electrodes has occurred. Another method comprises measuring a first monopolar impedance between a first electrode and a reference electrode, measuring a second monopolar impedance between second electrode and the reference electrode, measuring a bipolar impedance between the first and second electrodes, and estimating an amplitude of a field potential at the second electrode based on the first and second monopolar impedances and the bipolar impedance.

A method and a system for re-ranking an existing result set of documents. A user starts a search by entering search term(s). The search term(s) is (are) transferred to a search engine which generates a result set ranked by the search term(s). The search engine, in parallel, automatically retrieves context information from returned result set which is related to the original set of documents. The search engine presents the context information to the user and asks for a feedback. The user performs a weighting of the presented context information in a range from “important” to “non-important”. The result set is then re-ranked with the user-weighted context information to increase the “rank distance” of important and non important documents. The documents that are on top of the list (highest context-weighted ranking value) represent the desired information.

A multi-band receiver in which characteristics including a tracking error are improved is provided with a variable frequency oscillator circuit, a variable divider circuit (39) for dividing an oscillation signal (SVCO) of the variable frequency oscillator circuit, and mixer circuits (15I) and (15Q) for subjecting a received signal SRX to frequency conversion into an intermediate frequency signal (SIF) by a local oscillation signal (SLO). A divided output of the variable divider circuit (39) is supplied as the local oscillation signal (SLO) to each of the mixer circuits (15I) and (15Q). When a signal in a first frequency band is received, the division ratio n of the variable divider circuit (39) and the oscillation frequency of the variable frequency oscillator are changed to change the reception frequency in the first frequency band. When a signal in a second frequency band is received, at least the oscillation frequency of the variable frequency oscillator circuit is changed to change the reception frequency in the second frequency band.

An orthotic insole assembly including a semi-rigid cradle extending forward from the metatarsal region of the foot to the heel, wherein medial and lateral sidewalls extend upward from the cradle. The cradle includes an aperture in the area of heel impact wherein a heel plug is disposed within the aperture. A resilient, foam, cushioning layer overlies the cradle and the heel plug. A riser is connected to the cushioning layer to provide an elevated region in the area of the first metatarsal.

A system and method are provided for aggregating Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) Medium Access Control (MAC) frames. The method sends a Multiframe Reservation Request (MRR) requesting a transmission time slot, and receives a grant in response to the MRR. Subsequent to sending the MRR, a plurality of MoCA MAC frames are accepted and assembled into a physical layer (PHY) burst packet that is transmitted in the granted time slot. A method is also provided for bundling client data packets into a MoCA MAC frame. The method sends a Bundledpacket Reservation Request (BRR) requesting a transmission time slot, and receives a grant in response to the BRR. Subsequent to sending the BRR, a plurality of client data packets are accepted and concatenated into a bundled MoCA MAC frame. The bundled MoCA MAC frame is transmitted in a PHY packet in the granted time slot.

A processor reduces wasted cycle time resulting from stalling and idling, and increases the proportion of execution time, by supporting and implementing both vertical multithreading and horizontal multithreading. Vertical multithreading permits overlapping or “hiding” of cache miss wait times. In vertical multithreading, multiple hardware threads share the same processor pipeline. A hardware thread is typically a process, a lightweight process, a native thread, or the like in an operating system that supports multithreading. Horizontal multithreading increases parallelism within the processor circuit structure, for example within a single integrated circuit die that makes up a single-chip processor. To further increase system parallelism in some processor embodiments, multiple processor cores are formed in a single die. Advances in on-chip multiprocessor horizontal threading are gained as processor core sizes are reduced through technological advancements.

A method and system for random access control is disclosed. A backoff counter is used to determine the start time of a contended allocation for a device. The backoff counter is set to an integer randomly drawn from the interval [1, CW], where CW is a contention window value selected based upon the priority of the traffic to be transmitted. The backoff counter is decremented for each idle contention slot detected. When the backoff counter reaches zero, the device attempts to transmit in the next contention slot. If the device receives no acknowledgement or an incorrect acknowledgment, then the transmission has failed. After a failed transmission, CW is set by alternately doubling the CW value up to a CWmax value for the user priority. CW is unchanged, if it was doubled in the last setting; and CW is doubled, if it was unchanged in the last setting.

A first identifier for identifying each flow belonging to a first group relating to a sequencing, a first sequential number, said first sequential number being unique within each flow of the first group flow, a second identifier for identifying a flow relating to a retransmitting control, and a second sequential number, said second sequential number being unique within each flow belonging to the second group flow, are affixed to a transmission packet to transmit it. A receiving node makes a request for retransmission based upon the second identifier and the second sequential number, and a transmitting node retransmits its packet. Also, in the sequencing of the packets, the receiving node takes a sequencing of the packet based upon the first identifier and the first sequential number.

The present invention relates to network traffic improvements and proposes a mechanism for server-side performance optimization which is based on conditional in-advance content delivery to browsers associated with content requesting end-users, whereby the condition is determined preferably by evaluating the current load of the content server. One or a pair of dedicated server computer systems may contribute to that.

A method for dynamically determining web resource to be loaded and saving space is provided which determines whether to download a network resource according to a current network bandwidth and available memory space. When a user uses an embedded device in a wireless network environment to download a web-page, the browser only downloads a small part of the network resource to present, and if the user desires to download all network resources, he or she can select to download all network resources, so as to save the download time.

A suture anchor apparatus and method for anchoring a length of suture with respect to a target tissue has an anchor body with an anchoring structure for fixing the anchor body within the target tissue and a suture locking member. The moveable suture locking member is disposed at least partially within an anchor body lumen while a portion of the length of suture is looped around the suture locking member such that a first and second limb of suture exits the lumen. A suture locking member includes at least two elongate arms, and each arm has an extension dimension respectively, such that the first arm extension dimension is substantially greater than the second arm extension dimension.

A method is provided for memory management in a communications system using a HARQ error control mechanism, in which a transmitter establishes a plurality of HARQ channels with a receiver. The method includes determining whether each received encoded HARQ packet needs to be combined with an encoded HARQ packet already stored in HARQ memory. In case a received encoded HARQ packet does not need to be combined, the method determines whether there is a free memory space available in the HARQ memory for storing that received encoded HARQ packet, and if so, allocating that free memory space for storage of that received encoded HARQ packet. If not, the method determines whether a certain amount of memory space can be forced to be freed, and if so, de-allocates it and then allocates it for storage of that received encoded HARQ packet, that packet is sent to an FEC decoder.

An improved method for retrieving documents from the web and other databases that uses a process of continuous improvement to converge towards near-perfect results for search queries. The method is very highly scalable, yet delivers very relevant search results.

The present invention may be an apparatus, method and / or system related to a playback device, playback media, and a network service utilizing retail information specifying where the playback media was purchased to allow development of media content that changes behavior based on certain conditions (e.g., a priority list based on the retail information specifying where the playback media was purchased), network service availability, and / or user selections. Accordingly, content providers may author or provide a single version of the playback media which may be sold to consumers via different retailers, while simultaneously providing business and / or advertising opportunities specific to the retailer that sold the particular media.

A mobile terminal having a bookmark function for a contents service include a controller for bookmarking a particular time point of currently reproduced contents, a storage unit for storing information on the bookmarked particular time point of the contents, and a reproducing unit for reproducing the contents starting from the particular time point based on the stored particular time point information.

A server device includes a server rack and at least one server unit having a first sliding tray, a second sliding tray, a storage array module and a motherboard module. The server rack includes a first opening and a second opening which are opposite with each other. The first sliding tray is slidably disposed in the server rack. The second sliding tray is slidably disposed in the first sliding tray. The storage array module is disposed on the second sliding tray. The motherboard module is disposed on the first sliding tray and electrically connected to the storage array module.

A microcomputer includes a memory such as a flash memory; a logical circuit such as a CPU; a test ROM storing a test program for testing at least the logical circuit; and recording means capable of storing, as a flag, the result of testing at least one of the memory and logical circuit. The memory and the logical circuit are tested simultaneously to shorten test time. The test-result flag is checked upon being stored. When the flag indicates failure of the logical circuit, testing of the memory is aborted, and vice versa.

A system for forcing e-mail addresses into the Bcc: field of transmitted messages in order to enforce user privacy. A user interface enables a user to indicate that their e-mail address is not to be included in a “To:” or “Cc:” field of an e-mail message from another user when the number of e-mail addresses contained in those fields exceeds a threshold size. The user's e-mail address and the associated threshold are stored for future reference when new messages are sent by the other user. Subsequently, when a new message is generated by the other user in which the number of e-mail addresses contained in the “To:” and / or “Cc:” field exceeds the threshold, then the disclosed system moves the user's e-mail address from the “To:” or “Cc:” field to the “Bcc:” field of the message before the message is transmitted to its recipients. Privacy messages may either be sent individually to specific users, or may be automatically generated as a result of a general privacy setting being indicated by the user.